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__label__wiki	0.944474	0.944474	M33: Spiral Galaxy in Triangulum Credit & Copyright: Thomas V. Davis (tvdavisastropix.com) Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other's grand spiral star systems. As for the view from planet Earth, this detailed, wide field image nicely shows off M33's blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions which trace the galaxy's loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 1 o'clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33's population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe. Tomorrow's picture: long trails < \| Archive \| Index \| Search \| Calendar \| Glossary \| Education \| About APOD \| Discuss \| > NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line819
__label__wiki	0.853102	0.853102	The Adventures of Macon Dead By REYNOLDS PRICE By Toni Morrison. ONI MORRISON'S first two books -- ''The Bluest Eye'' with the purity of its terrors and ''Sula'' with its dense poetry and the depth of its probing into a small circle of lives -- were strong novels. Yet, firm as they both were in achievement and promise, they didn't fully forecast her new book, ''Song of Solomon.'' Here the depths of the younger work are still evident, but now they thrust outward, into wider fields, for longer intervals, encompassing many more lives. The result is a long prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges upon a single family. In short, this is a full novel -- rich, slow enough to impress itself upon us like a love affair or a sickness -- not the two-hour penny dreadful which is again in vogue nor one of the airless cat's cradles custom-woven for the delight and job-assistance of graduate students of all ages. ''Song of Solomon'' isn't, however, cast in the basically realistic mode of most family novels. In fact, its negotiations with fantasy, fable, song and allegory are so organic, continuous and unpredictable as to make any summary of its plot sound absurd; but absurdity is neither Morrison's strategy nor purpose. The purpose seems to be communication of painfully discovered and powerfully held convictions about the possibility of transcendence within human life, on the time-scale of a single life. The strategies are multiple and depend upon the actions of a large cast of black Americans, most of them related by blood. But after the loving, comical and demanding polyphony of the early chapters (set in Michigan in the early 1930's), the theme begins to settle on one character and to develop around and out of him. His name is Macon Dead, called ''Milkman'' because his mother nursed him well past infancy. He is the son of an upper middle-class Northern black mother and a father with obscure working-class Southern origins. These origins, which Milkman's father is intent on concealing, fuel him in a merciless drive toward money and safety -- over and past the happiness of wife and daughters and son. So the son grows up into chaos and genuine danger -- the homicidal intentions of a woman he spurned after years of love, and an accidental involvement with a secret ring of lifelong acquaintances who are sworn to avenge white violence, eye for eye. Near midpoint in the book -- when we may begin to wonder if the spectacle of Milkman's apparently thwarted life is sufficient to hold our attention much longer -- there is an abrupt shift. Through his involvement with his father's sister, the bizarre and anarchic Pilate (whose dedication to life and feeling is directly opposed to her brother's methodical acquisition of things), and with Guitar, one of the black avengers, Milkman is flung out of his private maelstrom. He is forced to discover, explore, comprehend and accept a world more dangerous than the Blood Bank (the ghetto neighborhood of idle eccentrics, whores, bullies and lunatics, which he visited as a boy). But this world is also rewarding, as it opens into the larger, freer sphere of time and human contingency and reveals the possibility of knowing one's origins and of realizing the potential found in the lives, failures and victories of one's ancestors. Although it begins as a hungry hunt for a cache of gold that his father and Pilate left in a cave in Virginia, Milkman's search is finally a search for family history. As he travels through Pennsylvania and Virginia, acquiring the jagged pieces of a story that he slowly assembles into a long pattern of courage and literal transcendence of tragedy, he is strengthened to face the mortal threat that rises from his own careless past to meet him at the end. THE end is unresolved. Does Milkman survive to use his new knowledge, or does he die at the hands of a hateful friend? The hint is that he lives -- in which case Toni Morrison has her next novel ready and waiting: Milkman's real manhood, the means he invents for transmitting or squandering the legacy he has discovered. But that very uncertainty is one more sign of the book's larger truthfulness (no big, good novel has ever really ended; and none can, until it authoritatively describes the extinction from the universe of all human life); and while there are problems (occasional abortive pursuits of a character who vanishes, occasional luxuriant pauses on detail and the understandable but weakening omission of active white characters), ''Song of Solomon'' easily lifts above them on the wide slow wings of human sympathy, well-informed wit and the rare plain power to speak wisdom to other human beings. A long story, then, and better than good. Toni Morrison has earned attention and praise. Few Americans know, and can say, more than she has in this wise and spacious novel. 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__label__cc	0.613333	0.386667	A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data Jacobus J Barnard, Vlad Cardei, Brian Funt We introduce a context for testing computational color constancy, specify our approach to the implementation of a number of the leading algorithms, and report the results of three experiments using synthesized data. Experiments using synthesized data are important because the ground truth is known, possible confounds due to camera characterization and pre-processing are absent, and various factors affecting color constancy can be efficiently investigated because they can be manipulated individual and precisely. The algorithms chosen for close study include two gray world methods, a limiting case of a version of the Retinex method, a number of variants of Forsyth's gamut-mapping method, Cardei et al.'s neural net method, and Finlayson et al.'s Color by Correlation method. We investigate the ability of these algorithms to make estimates of three different color constancy quantities: the chromaticity of the scene illuminant, the overall magnitude of that illuminant, and a corrected, illumination invariant, image. We consider algorithm performance as a function of the number of surfaces in scenes generated from reflectance spectra, the relative effect on the algorithms of added specularities, and the effect of subsequent clipping of the data. All data is available on-line at http://www.cs.sfu.ca/∼color/data, and implementations for most of the algorithms are also available (http://www.cs.sfu.ca/∼color/code). IEEE Transactions on Image Processing https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2002.802531 Color Constancy Neural Nets Correlation methods Color by correlation Gamut constraint Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Barnard, J. J., Cardei, V., & Funt, B. (2002). A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 11(9), 972-984. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2002.802531 A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I : Methodology and experiments with synthesized data. / Barnard, Jacobus J; Cardei, Vlad; Funt, Brian. In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 9, 09.2002, p. 972-984. Barnard, JJ, Cardei, V & Funt, B 2002, 'A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 972-984. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2002.802531 Barnard JJ, Cardei V, Funt B. A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2002 Sep;11(9):972-984. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2002.802531 Barnard, Jacobus J ; Cardei, Vlad ; Funt, Brian. / A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I : Methodology and experiments with synthesized data. In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2002 ; Vol. 11, No. 9. pp. 972-984. @article{b4e3e8f6eaea4aca92798385d937457d, title = "A comparison of computational color constancy algorithms - Part I: Methodology and experiments with synthesized data", abstract = "We introduce a context for testing computational color constancy, specify our approach to the implementation of a number of the leading algorithms, and report the results of three experiments using synthesized data. 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__label__cc	0.645983	0.354017	Makkaur fyrstasjon (Makkaur Light Station) Makkaur Makkaur Light Station is situated at the very northeastern end of the fjord Båtsfjord, facing the Barents Sea, and has been in use since 1928 signaling the coastal shipping lane. The lighthouse stands on a bluff in the rugged, rocky terrain away from the other station buildings, and it is a white rectangular concrete building with an arched roof. The red circular lantern room sits on top of an octagonal tower. Makkaur Lighthouse has a most unusual design and there are only two other similar ones along the Norwegian coast: Geitungen Light Station in the county of Rogaland and Sletringen Light Station in the county of Sør-Trøndelag. The other buildings of the light station are situated on flatter and partly grass-covered land southwest of the lighthouse and the two locations are connected by a stone and concreted path which also includes a bridge. In 1998 Makkaur Light Station was given protected status in accordance with the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Act. The listing includes the lighthouse, the keeper's cottage, outbuildings and a boathouse as well as some of the surrounding land. The Norwegian Coastal Administration Bjørkhaug, Birger og Poulsson, Sven: Norges fyr. Fra Stad til Grense Jakobselv (bind 2), Oslo 1987. Monrad-Krohn, Danckert: Norske fyr. Nasjonal verneplan for fyrstasjoner, Riksantikvarens rapporter nr. 24, Oslo 1997. I.H.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line828
__label__wiki	0.709888	0.709888	Witches are individuals with special powers like ESP, telekinesis, mind control, etc. (not the typical hogwart and newt potions). Robin, a craft user, arrives from Italy to Japan to work for an organization named STN Japan Division (STN-J) as a replacement for one of STN-J's witch hunters who was recently killed. Unlike other divisions of STN, STN-J tries to capture the witches alive in order to learn why and how they became witches in the first place. (Source: ANN) Amidst a popular online role playing game in the near future, characters try to play out the goals they set for entertainment and passing of time. The World as the RPG is called is one with a setting of monsters, player characters and dungeons. Tsukasa is a detached and introverted character that has a number of mysteries about his player character. Many weird happenings seem to suround Tsukasa and his involvement in a rare item called 'The Key Of The Twilight' sparks Tsukasa'a meeting with different online characters and the befriending of their real life counterparts; All without ever meeting face to face in reality. What is strange about Tsukasa is that he can't seem to log out of The World. Subaru and Silver Knight of The Crimson Knights continue to look for proof of why Tsukasa can not log out or the existance of The Key Of The Twilight. Meanwhile Bear, Mimiru, and BT as Tsukasa's friends try to help him understand who he really is and how he can return to the real world. (Source: ANN) Aa! Megami-sama! TV Keiichi Morisato is looking forward to university life. But in reality, he has no luck in anything, and he has trouble with clubs, love, etc. The truth is that he has an unlucky star above his head. One day, Keiichi is stuck watching the dorm while his senpai are away, and has a mountain of chores to do to boot. But Keiichi is a good-natured person, and is set about doing his duties. As he is about to finish his final chore, he makes a phone call to his senpai. But the words that came through the receiver are, 'Goddess Help Line.' Shortly afterwards, a beautiful goddess named Belldandy appears in front of him from the mirror of his room. (Source: ANN) D.N.Angel Niwa Daisuke is your average teenager, until his fourteenth birthday. He tries to declare his love to the girl of his dreams, but fails. Suddenly, whenever he thinks about this girl he turns into the legendary phantom thief known as Dark Mousy. Daisuke's mother, very much aware of this, makes him turn into Dark and steal valuable works of art for a purpose unknown to Daisuke. As the story unfolds, he learns why, and about his classmate who seems to have the same ability. (Source: ANN) Every year the flowers bloom. Mysterious Cherry Blossoms blooming all over a crescent shaped island. That island is the island of Hatsune... The main character who goes to Kazami Academy, Asakura Junnichi, has the power to see the dreams of other people in his sleep. He was also taught magic by an old lady that allows him to create sweets. One day, Junnichi seems to have seen someone's dream again while he was sleeping. Inside that dream, a girl who was a childhood friend of his appeared. But, he was woken up by his sister Asakura Nemu, forcing him to come back to his regular life. Nemu doesn't actually have any blood relation to Junnichi but their bond is deeper than other real brothers and sisters. So deep that it gives the illusion that they're lovers. It was another peaceful normal day waking up early in the morning and going to Kazami Academy. Together with childhood friend Amakase Miharu, the academy idol Shirakawa Kotori, the two sisters Mizukoshi Moe and Mako who prefer eating nabe on the school roof for lunch. Going through their day as usual, their childhood friend, Yoshino Sakura, who they thought had moved to America suddenly appears. It was a surprise for Junnichi and Nemu. Sakura tells them, "I came to finish the promise we made during our childhood"... (Source: AnimeNfo and AniDB) Gakuen Alice Sakura Mikan and Imai Hotaru are best friends, and Mikan is shocked to find that Hotaru is transferring to a school in Tokyo for gifted students like her - Alice Academy. Mikan hears rumors that the students are like prisoners there, and worried what would happen to Hotaru, she runs away to head to the school herself. She finds out all the wonderful things about this school. And she heads into a great adventure!! Sakurada Jun spends his days online, ordering whatever he takes a liking to, only to return it before the payment is due. Due to psychological trauma from school, Jun generally keeps contact with people as little as possible. One day he finds instructions online that tell him to put his order into his desk drawer. Rubbing it off as a joke, Jun mindlessly does so only to find that his order instantly disappears from his drawer. A package suddenly appears, containing a beautiful antique doll. When wound up, this doll comes to life. Sadly for Jun, this doll Shinku views Jun as an equivalent for a servant. Despite the constant demands Jun now receives from Shinku, she slowly helps him overcome his fears of human contact as well as protect him from the deadly battles that come into his life due to her appearance. Based on the manga by PEACH-PIT. Rozen Maiden: Träumend As summer break arrives for the students, Jun Sakurada is busily studying on his own in the library, making up for time lost while he had confined himself to his home. Meanwhile, his Rozen Maiden doll, Shinku, has been having troubling dreams of late. The pain and sadness of defeating Suigintou was overwhelming, despite the inevitable battle they waged. After waking suddenly from a nightmare, she finds Suigintou's companion spirit wandering; upon giving chase, she discovers that the seventh Doll-- Barasuishou-- has awakened. She now realizes that Suigintou's fate may very well befall the other Dolls, for the appearance of the last Doll signals the beginning of the end of the Alice Games. (Source: ANN) 3rd grader Takamachi Nanoha stumbled upon an injured talking ferret after hearing his telepathic cries for help. The ferret turned out to be Yuuno, an archeologist and mage from another world who had accidentally scattered the dangerous Jewel Seeds throughout Earth. Without the strength to collect the Jewel Seeds, Yuuno had resumed a ferret form and needed someone else to take on the task for him. He gave a red jewel to Nanoha explaining to her with this she could transform and use magic to combat the monsters that threatened them due to the Jewel Seeds. But the monsters are the least of their worries, as Yuuno and Nanoha are not the only ones out to collect the Jewel Seeds. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's After the events of the Lost Logia case, Nanoha waits patiently for the day she can reunite with her newfound friend, Fate. Although being an exceptionally powerful mage, Nanoha spends her days normally with her friends on Earth. But peace is once again suddenly shattered, as Nanoha is without warning attacked by a powerful mage. A group of violent mages have been attacking anything with magic power for their own goals. Nanoha and Fate, along with their friends Yuuno, Arf, Chrono and the Space/Time Administration Bureau must once more band together to stop these renegade mages from hurting anyone or anything else. Takes place after the first season of Lyrical Nanoha. In present times, Gods and Demons coexist together with Humans after the door between each of these worlds had opened. Tsuchimi Rin is a normal young high school student attending Verbena Academy, spending his days living peacefully with his childhood friend Kaede. Unexpectedly, one day the King of Gods, the King of Demons and their families move into be Rin's next door neighbors. Apparently the daughter of the Gods, Sia, and the daughter of the demons, Nerine, are both deeply in love with Rin after having met him the past. Along with his playful friendship with upperclassmen Asa and his encounter with the silent but cute Primula, Rin has much on his hands dealing with the affections of each of these girls. Based on the eroge by Navel. Mai-HiME Thirteen girls, each with the ability to materialize "Elements" and summon metallic guardians called "Childs" have been brought to Fuuka Academy to battle mysterious creatures called Orphans. Each with a different personality and background, they must decide who they truly care about and why they fight. Mai-Otome Arika Yumemiya has traveled far in search of her goal: the prestigious Gualderobe Academy. This is the school where young girls are trained to become Otomes, protectors of royal leaders throughout the lands. Here, Arika makes plenty of friends, but some enemies know something about her past that she does not. Nevertheless, her spirit and determination will keep pushing her forward. --- Adapted from its predecessor, Mai-HiME, this series is not a direct sequel, but an alternate universe setting featuring some of the Mai-HiME cast (though with different personalities). (Source: ANN) Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Pretear A sixteen year old girl is struggling to adjust to a new step-family when seven guys appear on the scene revealing that she possesses a special magical power. Shying away from the strange group, she later joins them when a monster places her friend's life in jeopardy. Without training, she must prove herself capable to take up the sacred duty of the Pretear. They must resolve their differences and work together to defeat the evil princess intent on destruction. (Source: FUNimation) Akazukin Chacha Akazukin Chacha is the story of a young magical girl (Mahō Shōjo) named Chacha. Living with her guardian in a cottage on Mochi-mochi mountain is Seravi, who is her teacher and also the fictional world's greatest magician. Chacha is clumsy in casting her spells because, throughout the anime, when she summons something, it often turns out to be something that she didn't mean to cast, for example, spiders (kumo) instead of a cloud (also kumo). At times in the anime when she and her friends are in trouble, however, her spells do work. Living on the same mountain is a boy gifted with enormous strength named Riiya. It is described that Riiya came from a family of werewolves who can instantly change into a wolf whenever they want. Quite far from Mochi-mochi mountain lies Urizuri mountain. Dorothy, also a well known magician in her land, lives in a castle on Urizuri mountain. Living with her is Shiine, her student. Shiine is adept when it comes to casting spells. He is a young wizard and most of his knowledge about magic was taught to him by Dorothy. The first 2 seasons were originally created by the anime team. Most of the stories in season 3 are based on the manga. (Source: Wikipedia) Corrector Yui Yui is an average schoolgirl who lives in a future where all computers are supported by a single global network known as COMNET. Yui is a computer-illiterate girl who after a computer-lab accident is approached by IR, a raccoon looking corrector computer program, which tells her she must save COMNET. She must stop the rogue A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) computer program known as Grosser and his hench-programs from taking over the world. Grosser was originally designed to be that manager of all of COMNET. At first she's very reluctant to play the heroine because of her complete lack of knowledge and ability with computers. To save COMNET she must find and gain the trust of the other seven wayward corrector programs. They must also find the creator or COMNET Professor Inukai, to help stop Grosser for good. (Source: ANN) Cosprayers Koto unknowingly seals away the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, and now she is in a different world and can't return. Meeting priestesses who combat the evil in this strange place she learns that Black Towers throughout the land keep Amatersu sealed away and are guarded by evil monsters. Koto must now find a way to help defeat these monsters and return the world to the way it was. (Source: ANN) The rules of alchemy state that to gain something, one must lose something of equal value. Alchemy is the process of taking apart and reconstructing an object into a different entity, with the rules of alchemy to govern this procedure. However, there exists an object that can bring any alchemist above these rules, the object known as the Philosopher's Stone. The young Edward Elric is a particularly talented alchemist who through an accident years back lost his younger brother Alphonse and one of his legs. Sacrificing one of his arms as well, he used alchemy to bind his brother's soul to a suit of armor. This lead to the beginning of their journey to restore their bodies, in search for the legendary Philosopher's Stone. Miaka Yuuki, an average middle school student caught up in studying for exams, is sucked into an ancient Chinese novel titled "The Universe of Four Gods". There she discovers that she is in an ancient country in what is now China, Konan, and is to be the Priestess of one of the four gods, Suzaku. As the priestess, her duty is to gather the Seven Seishi of Suzaku, who are to be her protectors. Once they are gathered, the priestess will summon the god Suzaku and bring peace between the warring lands, Konan and Kutou. But it's harder than it seems. Along the road, many hardships are faced, as Miaka's best friend Yui Hongo enters the book and becomes her rival, the priestess of Seiryuu in the land of Kutou. Who summons their god first is up to the courage and skill of the priestesses and their seishi, as they meet triumphs and tragedies along the way. (Source: ANN) A normal looking high school girl on the outside, Kusakabe Maron is actually the reincarnation of Jeanne d' Arc. With the help of the angel, Fin Fish, Maron works as the thief Jeanne at night to seal the demons that reside in pieces of artwork, preying upon the weak hearts of the owners. She is branded as a thief due to the fact that the artworks disappear after she seals the demons. One day, a new neighbor and classmate appears, as well as a rival in her night job, the thief Sinbad. With her own best friend being the detective's daughter, out to capture her and the appearance of her new rival, Maron's work is anything but easy. The highborn Himemiya Chikane is cool and aloof, the perfect young lady of good breeding. Kurusegawa Himeko is devoted to her, and secretly her friend. Their lives are undisturbed in their school, until an ancient evil suddenly rears its head. To combat it, Chikane and Himeko must take on the roles of shrine maidens of the Moon and Sun. Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai High school student Takeru Takemoto works part time as a (motor)bike courier. During one of his deliveries, he saw a mysterious light passing him and fell into a forest. What he had found was a beautiful girl coming out from a glowing cocoon, calling herself "Hikari." While Takeru was quite embarrassed because of Hikari's nudity, a strange monster suddenly showed up and immediately attacked the two. Both Takeru and Hikari demonstrated the power of their other selves before Takeru had a clue of what's going on. (Source: ANN) Juuni Kokuki Nakajima Youko is your average somewhat timid high school student. One day, a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing allegiance. Before she could properly register what was happening, demon-like creatures attack Youko and her friends, after which they are pulled into a different world. A world unlike what she has ever known. Separated from Keiki, Youko and her friends must do whatever they can if they wish to survive in this new world. At the millennial edge, the concluding battle for humanity's future is staged. Kamui Shirou's destiny has been decided as he returns to Tokyo to face his ultimate challenge. The Dragon of Heaven, defenders of the Earth, stand ready to protect the world from the Dragon of Earth, the seven angels of legend, who embrace the devastation of the planet to bring about its purification. Now Kamui must decide which side to fight for although he finds the idea utterly unappealing. It isn't until realizing that his two childhood friends, Fuma and Kotori Monou, are in grievous peril that Kamui decides to step into his fated position in the climactic struggle of the Year of Destiny: 1999. (Source: AnimeNfo) His destiny has finally arrived as the young Shirou Kamui returns to Tokyo after 6 years. A powerful psychic, Kamui vows to protect the happiness of his childhood friends Fuuma and Kotori, even if it means avoiding them. But fate is cruel, whether or not Kamui wants to be involved; he holds the future of the world in his hands, given the choice of becoming a Dragon of Heaven or a Dragon of Earth. The Seven Seals gather, and so do the Seven Angels; all individuals who have their destiny carved out as one who would battle for the fate of the world. What future will Kamui choose to become reality? Mahou Sensei Negima! 10-year old Negi Springfield is a wizard-in-training, and needs only to pass one more test in order to become a Master Wizard. Unfortunately, his final task is a bizarre one- to become a English teacher at an all-females boarding school. As soon as he arrives, he completely embarasses one of his students, Asuna Kagurazaka, and replaces the teacher she loves, which garners her hatred. To make matters worse, Asuna learns that Negi is a wizard,and promises to tell unless he helps her out. But, unfortunately, circumstances force them to work together to do many things, from fighting evil wizards to helping the class pass their final exam, with a lot of humor, magic, and romances thrown in. (Source: ANN) Tsubasa Chronicle During an excavation at the mysterious ruins in Clow Country, Syaoran discovers his childhood friend Princess Sakura appear on the site with wings that disperse into many feathers. As the feather's disappear to different dimensions, so does Sakura's memory. In attempts to save Sakura's life and restore her memory, Syaoran travels through to another world to find a solution. There's only one thing left he can do. Travel through to different dimensions to collect Sakura's feathers. Helping out with the quest is Kurogane, an exiled ninja from Japan Country who wishes to return to his world, the runaway magician, Fay, who desires to jump between each world never to return to his own and the white meat-bun shaped creature, Mokona. Hideo Middle School eighth-grader Ayu Tateishi, as a member of the tennis club, is of course a cool girl who is popular among the girls in the school. Actually, she`s an ordinary girl pretending to be cool, because Kachi-kun of the baseball team likes her. She is adored by the transfer student Nina Sakura. Nina actually has a huge secret!? Because she is a young witch who transferred from the magic kingdom. She`s a real witch which a magic computer and a magical treasure box. But this magic always causes big problems!! Now back to the boys. Of course there`s Tetsushi Kachi, the up and coming ace of the baseball team, who is very popular among the girls, and his best friend, the calm and quiet member of the tennis club, Hiroki Tsujiai, and many others. This story is a school love comedy set at Hideo Middle School, starring the cool beauty Ayu, the young witch Nina, the baseball team`s Kachi-kun, and the tennis team`s Tsujiai-kun. Also, there are original characters that Yoshizumi-sensei designed specifically for the anime, so please look forward to it! (Source: AnimeNfo) Ultra Maniac OVA Ayu is one of the coolest students at her school. She is smart, studious, sporty and has just the right amount of untouchable quality to make her a friend of everybody. Her male counterpart is Kaji-kun: warm, happy, friendly and a member of the baseball club. No wonder Ayu`s got a crush on him! One day, Ayu sees a new student, Nina, crying and looking for something. After Ayu helps her find it, Nina decides to show her gratitude in the best way she knows, magic! Nina turns out to be a student from the Magic Kingdom and is currently "studying aboard" in Ayu`s school! (Source: AniDB) Maburaho His name is Kazuki Shikimori,17 years old.He attends Aoi Academy,a school for elite magicians.Each magician has a set limit of spells,and performing more spells than the limit allows will cause the user to turn into dust.In this case,the number of magic Kazuki can use is far below the average in his school.Then one day,all of a sudden,three girls:Yuuna Miyama,Kuriko Kazetsubaki and Rin Kamishiro,appear before him.But of all the things that they are after,it is his genes.And for Kazuki,the girls'appearances may also spell his doom,as he soon realizes that his magic count is decreasing ever steadily due to the fact that he can't resist using magic to help them. (Source:ANN) Tenshi na Konamaiki Megumi-chan is a girl with a secret past. She used to be a boy until she met a person she thought was a magic user. This person gave him/her a magical book from which a genie appears to grant one wish when blood is applied to it. Megumi made the wish to be a man in a man's body but the genie has a twist: he grants wishes backwards so he turns Megumi-kun aged 9 to Megumi-chan. Years pass and Megumi enters High School where she immediately beats up the school bully who of course falls in love with her. She is looking for that book again to be able to reverse the spell placed upon her. (Source: ANN) Words Worth The legend has survived for generation. The Words Worth tablet, which will unlock the secrets of the Universe for the one who can decipher it, has been shattered. The warring tribes of Light and Shadow blame each other, and their accusations lead to all out war! Astral, the undisciplined heir to the throne of the Shadow Forces, lusts for his bride-to-be, Sharon. But Sharon, an accomplished warrior herself, feels her body drawn toward Caesar, the Shadow Tribe`s bravest swordsman. Sharon battles alongside Caesar during an assault by the Light Forces, and her ferocious beauty captivates Sir Fabris, the leader of the Tribe of Light. Fabris` army loses the battle, but he vows that he will one day get Sharon into his bed, the hard way, if necessary. Meanwhile, Astral takes his sexual frustrations out on Maria, a Light Tribe sorceress who has been taken captive. As Astral penetrates Maria, Sir Fabris prepares to launch a penetration of his own: a full-scale attack on the Tribe of Shadow! (Source: AnimeNfo) Lodoss-tou Senki: Eiyuu Kishi Den Five years after the death of the Emperor of Marmo in the War of Heroes, Parn is now the Free Knight of Lodoss, he and his old allies now famous through the land. However, the Emperor's right-hand-man, Ashram, seeks the scepter of domination to re-unify Lodoss under his former leader's banner. Meanwhile, beyond his attempts at conquest lies a more sinister force beginning to set the stage for the resurrection of the goddess of death and destruction... (Source: ANN) Lodoss-tou Senki Created from the aftermath of the last great battle of the gods, Lodoss and its kingdoms have been plagued by war for thousands of years. As a quiet peace and unity finally become foreseeable over the land, an unknown evil begins to stir. An ancient witch has awakened, bent on preserving the island of Lodoss by creating political unbalance throughout the many kingdoms and keeping any one from maintaining central control. Only a mixed-race party of six young champions, led by the young warrior Parn, stand between this new threat and Lodoss' descent back into the darkness of war and destruction. (Source: ANN) R.O.D OVA Yomiko Readman is a lovable, near-sighted bibliomaniac working as a substitute teacher at a Japanese high school. Her real identity, however, is that of a secret agent for the British Library Special Operations Division. Her codename: "The Paper." The moniker denotes her supernatural ability to freely manipulate paper into any object she can imagine, including tools and weapons in her fight against the powerful and self-serving IJIN (Great Historical Figure) Army! Along with her partner, the enigmatic "Ms. Deep," Yomiko travels across the world in attempt to solve the mystery behind the reincarnation of historical figures and their attempt to control the world. (Source: RightStuf) Goku, the hero who destroyed the evil of Frieza, Cell, and Buu in DBZ, learns that an old foe, Emperor Pilaf from DB has captured the 7 magical Black Star Dragon Balls, which, at the cost of the planet the balls are on, can grant any wish. Pilaf wishes that Goku is a child, and Goku becomes a child. In order to save both the planet and restore Goku to adulthood, Goku must allign himself with Trunks and his granddaughter Pan to find all 7 Balls all over the universe. Over time, they encounter foes like Baby, Super 17, and the invincible Shadow Dragons. Taking place 10 years after the final Dragonball Z story, Pilaf finally manages to get all 7 dragonballs and makes a wish. Unfortunately for Pilaf, he gets flustered by the presence of Goku and wishes for Goku to be a child again so that Pilaf could "teach him a lesson." Pilaf gets his wish, and Goku is off on an interstellar trip to gather the 7 "Black Star Dragonballs" that can reverse the wish and return him to adulthood. (Source: ANN) Asagiri no Miko Since childhood, Tadahiro Amatsu has two different-colored eyes - one brown and one light hazel. But because of a dark secret behind his left eye, he's become a target for the masked sorcerer Ayatara Miramune and his band of demons. To combat the demons appearing all over town, Yuzu Hieda, a priestess in training, recruits four other girls from her high school. Under the supervision of Yuzu's elder sister Kurako, the five young priestesses must undergo months of training to master their abilities. (Source: ANN) One day, Kinomoto Sakura, a 4th grader stumbles upon the mysterious book of Clow. Upon opening it and reading the name of The Windy aloud, Sakura scatters the cards to the winds. Sakura is elected and appointed by Keroberos, Guardian of the Cards to capture the remaining cards. With her friend Tomoyo and rival Syaoran, Sakura begins an adventure that will forever change her. Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Hachiyou Shou Akane Motomiya and her friends Tenma and Shimon are pulled by a demon into another world, where Akane becomes the Priestess of the Dragon God. The people of this world tell her that she is the only one who can stop the demons from taking over; meanwhile, the demons want to use her power for their own ends. Luckily, Akane has the Hachiyou, eight men with powers of their own who are sworn to protect the Dragon Priestess. (Source: ANN) Higurashi Kagome, after being pulled down a well by a demon, finds herself in Feudal Japan, where she learns that a powerful jewel has been reborn inside her body. After the jewel shatters in an attempt to retrieve it from one of the many demons who was after its power, Kagome must join forces with the half-demon Inu Yasha (also after the jewel's power) to track down the shards of the jewel before its power falls into the wrong hands. (Source: ANN) Takamine Kiyomaro, a depressed don't-care-about-the-world guy, was suddenly given a little demon named Gash Bell to take care of. Little does he know that Gash is embroiled into an intense fight to see who is the ruler of the demon world. All of the demons have to pick a master on Earth and duke it out with other demons until one survives. Needless to say, Kiyomaro becomes Gash's master, and through their many battles, Kiyomaro learns the importance of friendship and courage. In the country of Gazth-Sonika, civil war rages. There, a mercenary called Madlax plies her trade, with almost supernatural skill. In the seemingly peaceful country of Nafrece, Margaret Burton lives a tranquil life. As separate as their lives may seem, the two are connected by ties of mystery, and by a holy book that is also sought by the shadowy organisation, Anfan. As Margaret and Madlax follow the path of their destiny, they come ever closer to uncovering the truth - with no guarantee that it is a truth they can bear to learn. (Source: ANN) Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto Yume Kikuchi, a girl who can use magic, goes to Tokyo to be an apprentice mage to the handsome Masami Oyamada (a professional mage). In Tokyo, Yume learns about magic, helping people, and various other things on her way to being a mage. But she soon also finds out that even just magic alone isn't enough to make someone truly happy... (Source: ANN) Aa! Megami-sama!: Chichaitte Koto wa Benri da ne A large collection consisting of the adventures of the Goddesses featured in the anime and manga series Ah My Goddess. Parodies of other works, and a large number of jokes pervade this series of shorts in which the Goddesses torture and hang out with their friend Gan the rat. Puchi Puri Yuushi Petite Princess Yucie follows the adventures of country-girl Yucie as she is admitted by chance to the prestigious Princess Academy, where the daughters of royalty and nobles attend to learn magic, dance, etiquette, defense, art and music. There, she experiences many things in her quest to collect the "fragments" of the Eternal Tiara in hopes that she may become the legendary Platinum Princess, who is chosen every 1,000 years. Yucie, along with the four other Princess candidates who are initially her rivals but are won over by her offer of friendship, must grow in heart--if not in height--to become worthy of the Tiara. Yucie is a spunky heroine who is a genius of smiles, and who, despite her common lifestyle, is actually the daughter of a noble and former hero who has retreated from courtly life and lives in the countryside. (Source: Wikipedia) Doki Doki Densetsu: Mahoujin Guru Guru Join the new legend of Guru Guru, where Nike, the reluctant hero, and Kukuri, the innocent heroine, return to save the world. The magical adventure that unfolds, with its unique monsters and eccentric characters, is sure to draw you into this curious and exciting realm. To save the world from evil King Giri, Kukuri must locate the monsters in each territory and win them, one by one, over to her side. Meanwhile Nike`s task is to be recognized by the Four Kings of Nature and collect their swords. These swords are known as the "Sword of Wind", the "Sword of Water", the "Sword of Earth" and the "Sword of Fire". Can Nike and Kukuri truly become hero and heroine? Follow their journey and find out! (Source: AniDB) Matantei Loki Ragnarok Loki, the Norse god of mischief, has been exiled to the human world for what was apparently a bad joke. Along with being exiled, he's forced to take the form of a child. He's told the only way he can get back to the world of the gods is if he can collect auras of evil that take over human hearts, and so to do this he runs a detective agency. Loki is soon joined by a human girl named Mayura who is a maniac for mysteries, and she soon helps out in her own way. However, soon other Norse gods begin to appear, and most have the intent to assassinate Loki for reasons unclear. (Source: ANN) Wild Arms: Twilight Venom This anime is based on a playstation game under the same title. The story is about four people who travel the desolated land of Filgaea and carve themselves a legendary story while they`re at it. These adventurers are Sheyenne Rainstorm, a gunslinger who holds the legendary weapon called ARMs; Kiel Aromax, a scientist who looks like he should be carrying a sword; Roleta Oratorio the Crest Sorceress, a magic-user who uses cards called Crests to cast spells; and Mirabelle Graceland, one of the Noble Red, which are a family of vampiric creatures who live alongside human beings They also travel with cute little intelligent furry things, from the Popepi Pipepo Tribe, named Isaac and Jerusha. (Source: AniDB) Binzume Yousei Kururu, Chiriri, Sarara, and Hororo are four little fairies that live inside bottles on their “Sensei”’s desk. Together, they have misadventures trying to understand the human world, seeking advice from the totally misinformed grade schooler next door. (Source: ANN) Magical Canan Five dangerous "seeds" have been stolen from their vault in the world of Evergreen and taken to Earth. Natsuki, an agent of the Queen, has been sent to retrieve them. However, he cannot do this alone and enlists the aid of Chihaya, a middle school student, who is "the only one" who can help him. With his aid she transforms into Magical Warrior Carmine in order to save the humans possessed by the seeds. Questions abound though, such as why Chihaya's mother appears to know all about this secret activity, why Chihaya remembers her father who reportedly died before her birth, and why she dreams of Evergreen, which she has never seen. (Source: ANN) Ojamajo Doremi Doremi refers to herself as the "unluckiest bishoujo in the world". Her little sister that treats her like a child, her parents that fight almost every day and her crush is in love with another girl. Doremi aspires to become a witch, hoping that magic can solve all her problems. Doremi then finds a real witch, but after calling the witch out the witch is transformed into a green blob incapable of using magic. Blaming Doremi for the incident, the witch takes Doremi as an apprentice, hoping that despite Doremi's constant misuse of magic Doremi will become a witch someday. Doremi then recruits her two best friends as witch apprentices, and together they aim to pass the witch exams and become full fledged witches. (Source: ANN) Ojamajo Doremi Sharp At the end of the first season, Doremi and her friends all had to give up their witch powers and be normal girls again. This also meant that they couldn't see Majorika, Lala, and the fairies again. The MAHO-Dou was also deserted and the door to the Majokai was locked. The Queen, having seen all this through her crystal ball, secretly makes it so that Doremi and co. all end up heading into the Majokai again, with the excuse to return Majorika's hair dryer. However they end up stumbling into a garden, and one of the roses reveals a baby! The Queen tells the girls that they must raise the baby for a whole year. To help them, they receive newer and stronger witch powers than before! The adventure isn't over yet! Motto! Ojamajo Doremi After the losing of magical ability to become witches, they once again become them. But, now they have to go through tests from the Witches of the Witch World. They also meet a new member, from New York, U.S. comes Momoko (the yellow Ojamajo). (Source: ANN) Ojamajo Doremi Dokkaan! Hana now becomes a peer of the Ojamajo. When Majotourbillon's spirit revives, the witches now have to break her curse. From the help from Pao-chan, Doremi, Hana, and the other witches are able to defeat the curses. (Source: ANN) Ultimate Girls During a monster attack on the city, which is something that happens quite often, Silk and her two friends try get close to the attacking monster for a better view. An unfortunate choice of location to watch from leads to UFO-man, the city's giant protector, to land on the girls crushing them to death. Feeling sorry, UFO-man blames their death on the monster and promises to bring Silk and her friends back to life by lending them his power but the catch is that they now have to become the city's protector as well. (Source: ANN) Raised by a mysterious sorcerer after the horrific death of his parents, Shiro Emiya has only just begun to help others using the small tidbits of magic that he's learned. However, when he's suddenly caught in a battle between two more powerful Magus, Shiro finds himself performing a spell above his expected ability, summoning the beautiful spirit warrior Saber to protect him! But safety is only momentary as Shiro and Saber now find themselves thrust into in a secret world of dark magic and deadly challenges: a no-holds barred duel to the death known as the Holy Grail War! At stake: a prize of unimaginable power. But can the inexperienced Shiro and Saber survive long enough to even enter the contest? First they'll have to withstand waves of treachery and assassination, even as Shiro scrambles to learn everything he'll need to know to stay alive as seven teams of Magus and Spirit Servants face off in mortal combat! (Source: Sentai Filmworks) In the future, a junior high student, Kusakabe Sakura, will offend God by inventing immortality so that women will stop aging after they turn twelve. Dokuro-chan is an angel from the future sent to kill him. However, Dokuro-chan thinks that Sakura can be spared, so her idea is to constantly occupy Sakura so that he will never be able to invent the technology. Sometimes the angel will go crazy and kill him with her bat, Excalibolg, but she can revive him easily. "Pi-piru-piru-piru-pi-piru-pi!" Akazukin Chacha OVA Following the original TV series, the story tells the efforts of Momiji Gakuen, Chacha's rival school principal, to discover what is so special about Urara Gakuen students and what she could do to "produce" the best students. Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie It's winter vacation and Sakura wins a trip to Hong Kong. Kero, skeptic of her luck in lotteries, questions whether she was merely lucky or was she summoned to Hong Kong upon inevitability. As Sakura strolls through Hong Kong's Bird Street, she senses an evil force calling to her. On chasing two strange birds, she is lead to a phantom world where she learns she was actually made to come to Hong Kong by a woman, Madoushi, who apparently wants revenge on Clow Reed. With Syaoran's mother, Yelan's help and the guidance from Clow Reed's voice, she must fight Madoushi and rescue her friends and loved ones, who have been captured. Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card During the summer holidays, Sakura and her class are preparing to present a play at the annual Nadeshiko Festival. The unexpected arrival of Syaoran (and Meiling) give Sakura the courage to finally reciprocate her feelings. But as the cards begin to disappear one by one, Sakura discovers a single cards still remains. One with power equal to all hers... It is during this summer that Sakura faces her final battle. Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume When Ryunosuke's pet cat dies in an accident, his inventor father "resurrects" the cat by placing its brain in an android body made in the form of a young girl. The Android, Nukunuku, has the dual purposes of being a companion/sister for Ryunosuke as well as being a bodyguard for his father. Nukunuku's extreme strength and feline agility are regularly needed to protect Ryunosuke and his father from Ryunusuke's mother who seeks to kidnap them both following her divorce from his father. Her motives towards Ryunusuke are simple motherly love, however her genius-inventor-ex-husband she wants to put to work designing weapons of mass destruction for her weapons company. (Source: ANN) Otogi-Jushi Akazukin OVA Long, long time ago there where both science and magic in the human world. But God became afraid of the Human`s unlimited potential, so he divided the world into two and sealed them apart. One world with magic and the other one with science. Suzukaze Sota is a normal boy except that he has the Key in his body to break the Seal. The evil witch Cendrillon want that power and tries to take it. Akazukin and Val, a silver wolf, came from the magic-world to prevent her from that. A grand story of a boy who will lead a checkered life and girls in fairly lands has just begun. (Source: AniDB) A great evil is sweeping over the realm; an evil that the young swordsman Roan and his life-long companion, the acolyte Yufa, must face head on! For these two travel toward their destiny, from the highest towers to the depths of the underworld, through forest and desert alike. With an ever-growing cast of fellow heroes, fate will grasp these travelers by their very souls and propel the band of skilled adventurers towards a noble end. Or ignoble, if they don't watch their step! Monsters are afoot and the way rife with danger and magic, the path forward may be unclear... But where will is strong, there is a way! Lessons wait in the depths of darkness, and good must prevail. The journey starts now! (Source: FUNimation Entertainment) Three young girls, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, are transported to a magical world called Cephiro during a field trip to Tokyo Tower. They are soon greeted by Master Mage Clef, who explains to them that they have been summoned to become the Legendary Magic Knights and save Cephiro. The girls are less than enthusiastic about this idea, and only want to return home. Clef further explains that they must seek out the three Rune Gods to help them fight. He bestows armor and magical powers to each of them. They learn from Clef that High Priest Zagato has kidnapped the Pillar of Cephiro, Princess Emeraude. The Pillar of Cephiro has the sole responsibility of keeping Cephiro alive and in balance with her prayers. Without Princess Emeraude, Cephiro would fall into ruin. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu must fight off Zagato's henchman and find the Rune Gods if they ever want to get back home. They soon learn that friendship and loyalty are the only things they can rely on in the crumbling Cephiro. (Source: ANN) Buttobi!! CPU For three years Akira has been saving up for a computer. When a model 9821 goes on sale he runs to the store only to find it sold out in five minutes. Discouraged, walking home he discovers a man in an alley who happens to have the computer he was looking for. Excited he buys the computer and runs home only to find that he didn’t purchase a 9821 but a 2198, a super advanced biomechanical computer girl named Mimi. Bakuretsu Hunters OVA On the "Spooner Continent", a valiant group of Sorcerer Hunters are the people's last line of defense against the evil dark magiks unleashed periodically by those who can't control it. Saving the world and looking sexy while doing it! (Source: AniDB) Hatsuki is a highschool student living with her sister, Hatsumi, who she has a huge crush on. On Hatsumi's 16th birthday, she is suddenly surrounded by a green light and disappears in front of Hatsuki. She manages to follow Hatsumi with the help of a being resembling a fat baby chick (literally), ending up in a place called "The Great Library", which is full of different worlds stored in books. Hatsumi wasn't there, though, so the search for Hatsuki's great love begins and involves traveling from book to book. (Source: AniDB) Fushigiboshi no Futagohime Gyu! Fine and Rein are sent to the Royal Wonder Academy on the Royal Wonder Planet in order to study to become better princesses. They plan to make many friends, but unfortunately, the competition and cold nature of the students and teachers make things impossible. The twins also become Universal Princesses when touching the legendary Soleil Bell, releasing two angels named Pyupyu and Kyukyu to help aid them. Unfortunately, an evil force manifested in a painting doesn't seem to be satisfied about the Universal Princesses... (Source: ANN) Kiki is an enterprising young girl who must follow tradition to become a full-fledged witch.Venturing out with only her chatty black cat,Jiji,Kiki flies off for the adventure of a lifetime.Landing in a far-off city,she sets up a high-flying delivery service and begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world. (Source:Disney) Le Portrait de Petit Cossette The anime is about art student Eiri Kurahashi, who works in an antique shop. One day, he sees the image of a girl in an antique glass. To his shock, she appears to be moving and living out her life before his eyes. He becomes infatuated with the girl, and one night at midnight, somehow makes contact with her. He learns her name is Cossette, and that she was an aristocrat's daughter during the 18th century. She reveals to him that her spirit has been entrapped within the glass by her murder, which was perpetrated by her betrothed, the artist Marcelo Orlando. To set her free, she tells Eiri, a man must be willing to take upon himself punishment for the sins Marcelo committed. (Source: Wikipedia) Hajimari no Boukenshatachi: Legend of Crystania Ashram, desperate to find a home for his people, is tricked into selling his soul. 300 years later, Pirotesse's devotion to her king remains unshaken. In the sacred world of Crystania, amidst a civil war waged by shape-changing warriors, she searches for her beloved Ashram. She meets Redon, a young prince obsessed with avenging his murdered parents. Together, they confront Ashram's captor -- the bloodthirsty Barbas, who aspires to rule Crystania as "The God's King". (Source: ANN) Mahou no Princess Minky Momo There are 2 TV series for the same anime. The second one was aired in 1991-1992. Momo is a little girl who lives with her parents. She is from the land of dreams sent to earth to help people not lose their dreams. Momo and her parents own and run a hotel. Momo lives in Fenarinarsa which is near earth's space to help people who lost dreams. She uses her ability to change herself or something into various things. In the second series another Momo-chan lives with her human parents who run a hotel. Premise is the same as the first series, except that this Momo has more general use of her magic—being able to cast spells as well as transform. Minky Momo comes from Marinenarsa which sits at the bottom of the sea. Note that the first Minky Momo (now human) has also appeared in this series. (Source: ANN) As the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (one of the seven mermaid kingdoms), Lucia entrusts a magical pearl to a boy who falls overboard a ship one night. Lucia must travel to the human world to reclaim her pearl and protect the mermaid kingdoms. Using the power of music Lucia is able to protect herself and the mermaid kingdoms from a growing evil force. Tsukino Usagi is a 14-year old girl in junior high. She's ditzy, whiny, and a crybaby. She often flunks her tests, and she is always scolded by her family. However after a bad day, Usagi is surprised to encounter a black cat that can talk! The cat, Luna, grants Usagi the power to transform into Sailor Moon, a fighter who is to save the world against the Dark Kingdom and its evil ruler, Queen Beryl. Of course, Usagi can't do it alone, and there are others who will help her on the way... Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R: The Movie When Mamoru was little he gave a rose to a little boy named Fiore. Fiore promised that one day he would bring Mamoru lots of flowers. Now Fiore has come back to earth but his intentions are not merely to fulfil a promise... (Source: ANN) Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S This season makes a turning point in the Sailor Moon story. The Sailor Senshi are confronted by a new enemy, the Death Busters. Rei had a premonition that this enemy would rule the world in an era called the Silence. To do this, the Death Busters need to find the three Talismans that would summon the Holy Grail. However, two mysterious Sailor Senshi, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, plan to find the Talismans before them... but without Sailor Moon's help. Lina Inverse, a wandering sorceress and bandit-killer, joins forces with roving swordsman Gourry Gabriev in what's supposed to be a quick union of convenience. Instead, an artifact Lina "liberated" from a gang of thieves turns out to be the key to the resurrection of the demon lord Shabranigdo. Urged on by the mysterious Red Priest Rezo, the pair has no choice but to fight the dark lord and his servants, accumulating new allies and enemies along the way. (Source: ANN) Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, and Amelia coincidently meet up again and begin to search for the Clair Bible. During their search they run into a mysterious priest named Xelloss who seems to know a thing or two about the passages they're looking for, but he tends to get them into more trouble instead of out of it. Furthermore, they discover that the Monster race has plans of their own, and as it turns out, Lina and Company just might be a big part of their evil intentions. (Source: ANN) Slayers: The Motion Picture In this prequel movie to the Slayers televison series, Lina Inverse travels to Mipross Island with her rival/traveling companion Naga the Serpent. While they originally came for the hot springs, they soon find them selves mixed up in a conspiracy involving a mazoku named Joyrock. Years ago, he killed all of the elves that inhabited the island and absorbed their power. They are soon joined by an old mage named Rowdy Gabriev, who was in love with one of the elves slaughtered and also wants to defeat Joyrock. (Source: ANN) Poemi Watanabe (a.k.a. Kobayashi) is a 10-year-old girl with aspirations of being a famous voice actress. Unfortunately, her school grades are bad and her voice acting is even worse. But when a mysterious alien kills her parents and wreaks havoc all over Tokyo, Poemi grabs a talking fish, skins it into a wand and becomes the magical girl Puni Puni Poemi to save the day. (Source: ANN) Even after death, life is full of paperwork and criminals. Tsuzuki Asato is a 26 year old, happy-go-lucky, and dorky shinigami (god of death) whose job is to makes sure that those who are dead remain dead and stay in their proper realms. Even though he's had this job for over 70 years, he is in the worst division with horrible pay. He also has a knack for not keeping partners (since shinigami work in pairs), but now he seems to have one that will stick around; stubborn, smart-mouthed, serious and defensive 16 year old, Kurosaki Hisoka. With each case they investigate, they come closer to the conspiracies of the serial killer Dr. Muraki Kazutaka. Tsuzuki's relationship with Hisoka is growing stronger and closer...but there is a dark past to how Tsuzuki died that will not give him peace. (Source: ANN) Denshin Mamotte Shugogetten In the peaceful life of modern Japan, Shaorin and Tasuke explore their relationship amid familiar interventions and new challenges. Shaorin begins to discover why she chose to stay with Tasuke, and Tasuke begins to learn the depth of his love toward Shaorin. (Source: ANN) Moldiver Hiroshi Ozora invents the Mol Unit, a device that makes its user invincible. His plans of becoming a super hero are short lived however when his sister, Mirai, accidently modifies the suit configuration. Now she is forced to save Tokyo by herself from the evil Machinegal and his gang of all-female androids. (Source: ANN) Magikano Ayumi Mamiya is a witch cursed to lose her powers and only one boy can break the spell. Haruo Yoshikawa thinks he is a normal boy but unknown to him his three sisters have magical powers and keep him protected and ignorant about the exsistence of magic. Now Ayumi must wake up Haruo's latent powers to save herself but his sisters will have none of that. (Source: ANN) Kagihime Monogatari Eikyuu Alice Rinbukyoku Kirihara Aruto loves the stories of Alice, so much so that he begins to write one. One night while writing, he sees a girl out his window who he thinks is Alice. He follows her, and discovers that she is called a Seeker of Alice, and with the powers granted to her she fights other Seekers of Alice to take their eternal story, in order to find the part that belongs to the Eternal Alice. Throughout Aruto's adventures with Arisugawa Arisu, his little sister Kirihara Kiraha and their various friends they discover more about the land of Alice, about the novels, the man who wrote them, and their own powers. Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro couldn't be more different. Nagisa is sporty and Honoka bookish, and while they attend the same school, they have very little in common - until one day, a shower of shooting stars brings two very unlikely visitors into their lives: Mipple and Mepple, refugees from the Garden of Light, which has been conquered by Darkness. Endowed with new and startling powers, Nagisa and Honoka become Cure Black and Cure White, magical defenders of the light - together, they are Pretty Cure. (Source: ANN) Fancy Lala Miho Shinohara is a care-free third-grader and an aspiring manga artist. One day, she encounters Mogu and Pigu - two lost fairies disguised as stuffed animals. In exchange for staying at her home until they find a way to return to their own world, the fairies give Miho a special sketch pad and pencil that enable her to magical create real objects from what she draws. With the pen, Miho can also transform into Lala, a beautiful teenage girl created from her manga art. As Lala, she is discovered by a talent agency, and so begins her adventures from an ordinary school girl to a model to an idol singer. (Source: ANN) Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo Ureshiko Asaba, 26 years old, married. Few people know the fact that she is a magical girl named "Agnes", and she is actually the guardian of the town where she lives. One day she meets Sayaka Kurenai, aka "Cruje", another magical girl appointed by the magic realm as the legitimate sucessor to her position, but Agnes is reluctant in letting her assume because she knows that Cruje has orders to erase the whole place, including its human inhabitants with the purpose of creating a new one. To complicate matters, Ureshiko must deal with the growing distance between her and her husband, Tamotsu, her crescent feelings for Tatsumi Kagura, a young man who is now living as a tenant in her home, and the fact that in the moment she ever kisses a common human, she would lose her powers forever. (Source: ANN) Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Ungrar, the King of Viruses, has escaped from his prison cell in Vaccine World. Maya, the Goddess of Vaccine World sends Mugimaru down to Earth to find a human to accept the powers of Vaccine World and become the Magical Nurse. He finds the best (and the only willing) person for the job when he meets Komugi Nakahara. Komugi is a playful, lazy, and easily distracted (typical) teenager whose dream is to become a cosplay idol. Balancing her career with the Kiri-Pro Promotion Company and her new job battling Ungrar's loyal henchman, the Magical Maid Koyori, Komugi delights audiences in this parody anime series. (Source: ANN) Nurse Angel Ririka SOS The Evil Forces of Dark Joker are closing in on our planet after having destroyed the beautiful planet of Queen Earth. Now, 10 year old Moriya Ririka, with the help of her childhood friend Seiya and the mysterious Kanon, must transform into the Nurse Angel and find the elusive Flower of Life, the only way to defeat the evil forces. The Flower of Life, that once bloomed all over the Earth, is where no one thought it ever would be. And Ririka must make the hardest decision of her life in order to acquire it and rid the universe of evil once and for all. (Source: ANN) Juubee Ninpuuchou: Ryuuhougyoku-hen Fourteen years after defeating the immortal warrior Himuro Genma and thwarting the Shogun of the Dark's evil plans, Kibagami Jubei continues to roam all over Japan as a masterless swordsman. During his journey, he meets Shigure, a priestess who has never seen the world outside her village. But when a group of demons destroys the village and kills everyone, Jubei becomes a prime target after acquiring the Dragon Jewel - a stone with an unknown origin. Meanwhile, Shigure - along with the monk Dakuan and a young thief named Tsubute - travels to the village of Yagyu. And with two demon clans now hunting down Shigure, Dakuan must once again acquire the services of Jubei to protect the Priestess of Light. (Source: ANN) Shichinin no Nana Nana Suzuki winds up being split into seven copies of herself. Besides the original Nana, there's also a smart Nana, a happy Nana, an angry Nana, a sensitive Nana, a sad Nana, and a slow Nana. (Source: ANN) Mamotte Shugogetten! Tasuke Shichiri is the envy of his friends because since his parents are always traveling he can do as he pleases. It's a surprise present from his father that keeps him from being lonely: an odd ring known as the shitenrin. From it comes a moon goddess named Shaorin, dedicated to protecting her "master" -- no matter how much of a mess she makes doing it! Mahou Tsukai Tai! OVA One sunny day invaders came from space. They weren't little green men or funny girls wearing school uniforms, though. They were ugly robots which defeated the UN forces in seconds. After that the invaders(known as "eyeballs") roamed around and observed human society. In fact, they were peaceful unless attacked. They were polite and followed all the traffic laws, too. Still, they were aliens and the people of Earth wanted them to go home. The Kitanohashi High School Magic Club took it on themselves to defeat these foul robots and free the world. (Source: ANN) Mahou Tsukai Tai! The aliens have been defeated, and the Bell has been transformed into a gigantic cherry tree. Now, the brave Magic User's Club must reconvene to deal with a new problem. Apparently, some inconsiderate persons left a skyscraper sized cherry tree in the middle of Tokyo, and it's become a major inconvenience to everyone in the city. Even though they have no idea who could have done such a thing, the Club feels strangely responsible and springs into action. Meanwhile, a mysterious person is spying on the magic club in the form of a small boy. (Source: ANN) Tenbatsu Angel Rabbie Long years after a war destroys most of the earth, Lasty Farson is one of the "angels" sent to points in history to set things right. Lasty is hopelessly clumsy and inept, but once she transforms into Angel Rabbie, she's the best there is. On her first day as a debut angel, she's late, but she is sent to earth and ends up battling old robots from the war--a tall order for a rookie angel. (Source: ANN) Tenshi no Shippo Goro's down on his luck. He keeps losing jobs and has little money. One day he meets a fortune-teller outside of a pet store who predicts that his luck will change. That night three girls appear in his appartment claiming to be his guardian angels. Soon a total of twelve girls appear to help him, each one a reincarnation of a deceased pet once owned by Goro. (Source: ANN) Tenshi no Shippo Specials Episodes 5.5 and 13. Tenshi no Shippo Chu! Somewhere, there was a young man. A kind hearted young man who loved animals but, the most unfortunate things happen to him. The place where he works going bankrupt, bumping into a signboard as he walks in the streets. He is just completely burdened with bad luck. However, his life completely changes when he meets a fortune teller. With the power of the fortune teller, "Guardian Angels" are called through a mobile phone and a group of cute girls appear. These Guardian Angels, who came from the other world, were actually reincarnations of the pets that the young man had once taken care of before. They are now back to repay his kindness. This sequel takes place a year after the last series. We go back to the time when the 12 Guardian Angels goes to Goro Mutsume. Once again, we have the voice talents of Nogawa Sakura, Chiba Saeko, Kawasumi Ayako and a whole extravanganza of other voice actors / actresses. Lets see how the Guardian Angels grow up! (Source: AnimeNfo) On her first date with the cutest boy in school, Ichigo is zapped by a mysterious ray that scrambles her DNA with that of the endangered Iriomote wildcat. The next day, Ichigo discovers that she has developed the agility (and occasionally the ears and tail) of a cat, as well as the power to transform into a pink-haired superheroine, Mew Ichigo. She and four other girls, each endowed with the genes of a different "Red Data" animal, have been selected for the top-secret Mew Project, which aims to protect the Earth from an alien menace known as Deep Blue. (Source: ANN)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line830
__label__wiki	0.884739	0.884739	Work, Pages with broken file links, Seinen, YMMV • Radar • Quotes • ( File:Sennen joyu 6884.jpg A 2001 Anime film by Satoshi Kon, the director of Perfect Blue (1998) and Paprika (2006), Millennium Actress explores the relationship between art, life, love, and memory. Satoshi Kon co-wrote with his long-time collaborator Sadayuki Murai. Director Genya Tachibana, who has been making a documentary about reclusive (and retired) movie star Chiyoko Fujiwara, manages to secure a rare interview with her. The informal and deeply impassioned interview covers her career from her first movie, made a few years after the Japanese invaded Manchuria, to her retirement in the mid-sixties -- along with her love life, including her marriage to (and divorce from) her most prominent director. Much of the story is told using episodes and scenes from her movies, the settings of which span a millennium -- from the Heian period (794-1185) to a futuristic space age, with the various scene and era changes lampshaded by Kyouji Ida, Genya's snarky but seemingly imperturbable cameraman. Along the way Kyouji and Chiyoko discover that Genya has much deeper connections to Chiyoko than either of the latter would have any way of knowing. Millennium Actress won a slew of Anime awards both in Japan and abroad, some of them shared (or split) with Spirited Away. The movie Millennium Actress contains examples of: Action Girl: See Lady of War. Anachronic Order: Skips around from the present to flashbacks of Chiyoko's past; also, from one time period to another, each time period reflecting on Chiyoko's mental state at the time. (See also Empathic Environment and Time Travel, below.) Animal Motifs: There are a lot of cranes around if you keep an eye out for them. Possibly a symbol for a deep wish, or immortality. The Atoner: The cop Chiyoko first encounters chasing a rebel artist is last seen making his way across Japan apologizing to people he's wronged. Author Appeal: A lot of motifs recur throughout the works of Satoshi Kon; similar music (often by the same composer); Mind Screw; the female lead often looks similar; surrealism and Genre Busting. Beauty Mark: Chiyoko has the classic tragic Anime mole just below her left eye. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Why hello there Eiko. Bittersweet Ending: After a strong earthquake strikes Chiyoko's villa, she collapses (possibly from a heart attack) in Genya's arms and is taken to the hospital. She dies there, but not before telling Genya that she will find the man she was searching for in the afterlife, and even if she doesn't -- chasing him is more fun, anyway. Book Ends: Chiyoko taking off in a spaceship. Earthquakes are Book Ends in Chiyoko's life. Christmas Cake: Brutally played in the world of movies; Eiko Shimao is barely a decade older than Chiyoko, and undeniably beautiful, but after Chiyoko becomes a star, Eiko is only ever cast as the scheming older woman opposing her. Averted with Chiyoko, who reaches the pinnacle of her stardom in the 1950s, when she is in her thirties, and who is still a wildly popular star in her early forties when she abruptly quits. Contrived Coincidence: An Invoked Trope and a Discussed Trope. Crash Into Hello: Chiyoko meets the man with the key twice this way. When, as an adult, she bumps into a random stranger on the street, she half-expects it to be him. To drive home the irony of the situation, she's standing in front of a billboard with her face a dozen feet high, but the stranger doesn't recognize her. (Then again, she's wearing dark sunglasses.) Deadpan Snarker: Kyouji Ida (the cameraman). Deliberately Monochrome: Parts of the film, specifically to contrast with the more vivid colors of things Chiyoko remembers with fiery intensity. Determinator: Chiyoko. Made explicit with her stubborn journey to Hokkaido. Genya, with his feelings towards Chiyoko. The Dulcinea Effect: Both Genya's reverence for Chiyoko and Chiyoko's devotion to the man of her dreams. Empathic Environment: Up to Eleven: not just the weather, but the historical era itself reflects Chiyoko's emotional state. A Justified Trope, in a sense, in that much of what we see is a mix of Chiyoko's movies with her memories and the imaginations of her and Genya; that is, the "environment" in question really is Chiyoko's emotional state, not a real place that just happens to mirror it. See also Time Travel. ~Everything's Better With Princesses~: Chiyoko is/plays a Fujiwara princess. See also Lady of War. Expy: Chiyoko, especially in her twenties, looks a lot like the young actress Mima from Perfect Blue. (They have the same nose.) However, their personalities are not especially similar. The Faceless: We never get a good look at the face of the man with the key -- in part because the "reality" we see in the "flashbacks" is subjective, and Chiyoko no longer remembers what he looked like. Fan Boy: Genya's main reason for doing the interview. Arguably a Subverted Trope. As it turns out, Genya knew and loved Chiyoko in real life, and worked with her back at the studio, from about the second quarter of her career not long after the end of World War II. Although he knew and loved her she didn't know he existed; she had been a movie star for nearly a decade, whereas he was just some lowly member of the crew. (Not that she was by any means a snob; but he was too timid to dare intrude into her world.) Then one day during an earthquake he saved her life, and perhaps she would have noticed him after that -- but that was the day she fled the movie industry forever, and became a recluse. Besides, she was already In Love with Love. Flash Back: Most of the movie consists of flashbacks, although few of them are to be taken literally: they freely mix Chiyoko's memories with her film roles, and also with her present-day imagination, and the imagination of Genya (and his cameraman Kyouji Ida). See also Anachronic Order, Empathic Environment, Pensieve Flashback, Time Travel. Fortune Teller: A Subverted Trope: the fortune teller was bribed, and given personal information, by Chiyoko's rival Eiko, specifically to get Chiyoko off the set and thus fired and possibly blackballed from the movie industry. (Given the political situation in that time and place, it could easily have gotten her killed.) For whatever reason, the plot failed in its larger purpose: Chiyoko did not get fired, although she did land in plenty of trouble. Framing Device: The documentary. Freak-Out: Chiyoko has a few. Perhaps the most fateful is the one that drives her forever from the movie business and into her life as a recluse: after an earthquake that nearly kills her, she abruptly decides/realizes that she is now middle-aged, and thus no longer the girl the artist who gave her the key would be looking for. She quits the movie business, not wanting the man to see her as anything other than a girl. Unfortunately for all involved by that time the man is already long dead. Generic Cuteness: An Averted Trope. With a few exceptions, only the in-universe actresses and actors are beautiful (and by no means all of them, especially if they play minor characters); the members of the crew and other minor characters tend to be average-looking. A notable exception is Chiyoko's Love Interest, the mysterious artist who gives her the key. But we never see him all that clearly, and to the extent we do, we still mostly see him through Chiyoko's eyes.) Genre Busting Girly Run: An Averted Trope, although Chiyoko spends a lot of the movie running. In the interview section of the DVD, the director says he shot footage of a girl running specifically for the animators to study, so they could depict Chiyoko running in a realistic -- and elegant -- manner. The Gump: The film takes us on a tour of Japanese history/Historical Fiction with the actress and the film crew turning up as characters chasing after her. I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Genya. In the Show Within a Show movies, he (fused with whichever in-universe movie character he happens to be "playing") keeps sacrificing himself, over and over, in order to give Chiyoko (fused with the in-universe movie character she's playing) another chance to pursue the ever-elusive man she loves (fused with Love Interest of said character). Also, as it turns out, more than three decades before the Framing Device documentary takes place, Genya saved Chiyoko's life during an earthquake; thus his role as perennial savior is to some extent justified. Imperial Japan: The police officer who persecutes Chiyoko is from the Kempetai, Imperial Japan's near-equivalent of the Gestapo. In Love with Love: Chiyoko. Interrupted Suicide: Chiyoko, as a princess, in one of her film roles. The demonic spirit who interrupts her suicide and curses her turns out to be her own self as an old hag. I Will Find You: A running theme of the movie. Jidai Geki: Many of Chiyoko's old movies; the cameraman points out that Genya is dressed for the wrong era after one scene change. Lady of War: One of Chiyoko's roles is as a Fujiwara princess during the Heian period. She's also an Action Girl. See also Everything's Better with Princesses. Loving a Shadow: Perhaps she loves the chase more than the man. Genya for Chiyoko, almost certainly. Meaningful Echo: The movie is saturated with them, some of them verbal, but most of them visual or situational. Meaningful Name: Chiyoko's surname is Fujiwara. The Fujiwara clan was a powerful political entity during the Asuka (538-710) and Nara (710-794) periods, and they went on to become the dominant political power in Japan during the Heian era (794–1185), freely intermarrying with (and often presiding over) the Imperial House itself. Furthermore, Chiyoko's own name means "Child of a thousand generations" - a thousand Reincarnations? Genya's surname name is Tachibana. Tachibana was another powerful clan during the Nara and Heian eras. Meet Cute: See Crash Into Hello. In some ways a Subverted Trope, in that it doesn't lead to a real, flesh-and-blood romance -- but see also In Love with Love. Memento MacGuffin: The key. Mind Screw: A given for director Satoshi Kon. Mood Whiplash: several, but especially when Chiyoko walks off a movie set into the devastation of firebombed Tokyo. No Name Given: The mysterious man who gives Chiyoko the key. Only Sane Man: Kyouji Ida (the cameraman). The Ojou: Chiyoko is from a well-to-do family that doesn't approve of actresses. Chiyoko doesn't necessarily fit the personality -- although her mother certainly does -- but she has the semi-aristocratic bearing and manners. Chiyoko is called "ojou-sama" even before she becomes an actress. She plays (or is) a princess in the Fujiwara clan in a movie set the Heian era. See also Meaningful Name. Pensieve Flashback: Mostly in the form of movie scenes, but we get a few real ones. Posthumous Character: The artist Chiyoko loves died in prison during the war. Until the end of the movie, neither she nor the audience is aware of his fate. The Reveal: A bunch of them. For example, the fate of the man who gave Chiyoko the key. Scenery Porn Show Within a Show: Chiyoko's movies, although they blur with her memories and indeed the "present day" in Millennium Actress. Spiritual Successor: To Perfect Blue (according to Word of God, in the interview section of the DVD). Time Travel: Not literally, but the characters do skip around from one era to another -- or at least those time periods as depicted in Chiyoko's films. See also Anachronic Order and Empathic Environment. Tomato in the Mirror: Rather, the creepy old woman with the spinning wheel in the mirror -- eep. Those Two Actors: Chiyoko and Eiko Shimao, no matter how much the latter hates it. Time Compression Montage: Combined with Good Times Montage to illustrate the heady early days of Chiyoko's career in the gloriously animated "Rickshaw Montage" scene. Train Station Goodbye: Chiyoko chases that artist to the train station but arrives just as the train departs. Unrequited Love: Genya for Chiyoko. Perhaps also Otaki for Chiyoko. Although he does manipulate her into marrying him, for a time -- until she finds his Idiot Ball. (On the other hand, there are hints that he views her more as a fine jewel to be collected than as a person to love as an equal.) Wanting Is Better Than Having Wasted Song: Most of the soundtrack's musical cues develop into amazing pieces only after the point where the movie cuts them off. White Dwarf Starlet: For the most part, an Averted Trope. Chiyoko wasn't abandoned by the movie business; she abandoned it. Furthermore, she harbors no illusions about returning to her former glory. Moreover, she was never drawn to the glamor of the movie business; she became an actress in hopes to meeting the artist who gave her the key; she stayed an actress after the war to keep food on the table during Japan post-war devastation, and she chose to accept her role as a star because she hoped it would lead to a reunion with the artist who gave her the key. When she realized she was no longer the girl he had known, she had a Freak-Out and quit, because she wanted him to remember her as he had known her. Too bad he was long dead by that time. Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Millennium_Actress?oldid=50405"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line840
__label__wiki	0.508533	0.508533	Oh Crap Playing With Animated Film Web Original "It's that moment of dawning comprehension I live for." —Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes The moment at which a character realizes that they are completely and totally screwed. They may not always say anything in particular, but even if they don't, their faces are usually priceless (and in a manga, it tends to include a black, cracked-like background). This moment often features stronger language. This is the moment when they truly realize that the solid organic waste is about to collide with the Rotational Air Circulation Device.[1] Sometimes the first few notes of Chopin's Funeral march is used as background music to highlight how grim the situation. They may feel that This Is Gonna Suck, and often exclaim, "You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!" or perhaps "I Want My Mommy!" or sometimes even "This Cannot Be!" Other characters might emit a Loud Gulp instead. The effectiveness of this moment can be affected by the difference between their usual competence and confidence levels and how completely they are boned. Characters with low self-esteem or who are constantly crying out in terror are difficult (but not impossible) to make this trope work with. But that arrogant, so far unbeatable supervillain suddenly realizing he's about to have his ass royally kicked? It's easy to make that one work. Can occur if one protagonist has been luring the other one into a trap, or if they just have some shiny new skill. Or they may simply be a lower-level villain who's just had the very bad luck to be confronted with a hero impossibly out of his league. On occasion, they will be discussing the situation when they realize the full import of it. Related to This Cannot Be!, and the polar opposite of Obi-Wan Moment, when despite the bad situation someone still manages to look composed. May result in a Heroic BSOD for a heroic character, or even a Villainous Breakdown for a villainous character. Nine times out of ten, this will immediately follow "What does this button do?". The remaining tenth follow some other temptation of fate. Also a very common reaction when a villain, normally a Chessmaster, Villain with Good Publicity, or Manipulative Bastard, realizes he's just been the victim of an Engineered Public Confession. Some characters react with less despair and more apathy; others look to their equipment for a solution. And for some, it is the crowning moment of despair. Not related to Bring My Brown Pants, though it may very well cause such a moment—as Bill Cosby once said, "first you say it, then you do it!" May also be a Precision F-Strike for the person in question. When most of the cast available in the scene does this expression, it's a Mass "Oh Crap" moment. If someone tries to explain the situation to someone else, and realizes half-way through their own explanation they're in real trouble, it's Explain, Explain, Oh Crap. See also Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises. Say Your Prayers may be involved as part of this reaction. Contrast "Hell Yes!" Moment, the exact inverse. Note: This trope is for In-Universe examples only. If you arrived here via a Pothole that treated it as an audience reaction, please remove it. Warning: High risk of spoilers. Examples go in subpages: Live Action TV ↑ Shit hits the fan. Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Oh_Crap&oldid=1656495" Character Reaction Index Comedy Tropes Pothole Magnet Surprise Tropes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line841
__label__wiki	0.874894	0.874894	Headscratchers Crowners Cast in series 3-5. Clockwise from bottom right: Rimmer, Lister, Holly, Cat and Kryten "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a Godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?" —Holly, perfectly summing up the series. British Fantastic Comedy (1988-1993; 1997-1999; 2009; 2012) and book series about an enormous interstellar mining ship (the eponymous Red Dwarf), the crew of which has been almost completely wiped out by a radiation leak. One man remains alive: a chicken-soup-machine repairman from Liverpool named David Lister. Lister was sentenced to be put in suspended animation for eighteen months as punishment for bringing a pregnant cat on board illegally. The ship's AI, Holly, sends the ship immediately out of the solar system, until the radiation reaches safe levels and Lister can be safely released from stasis three million years later. To keep Lister sane, the ship Holly creates a hologram of the despised (and now deceased) Second Technician Arnold J. Rimmer, the only person annoying enough to keep Lister sane(possibly by making him happy to be the last human being alive). The pair discover the Cat, the last known member of his race Felis sapiens, which evolved from the pregnant cat that got Lister put in suspended animation in the first place. Lister decides that he wants to return to Earth, despite the fact that no-one aboard knows if the human race still exists, and despite the problem that the journey back will take another three million years at sub-light speed (even turning the ship around at near lightspeed will take 4000 years according to Holly [1]). Despite what it sounds like, this was essentially just another British comedy about amusing characters bickering amongst themselves, similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but with a fair amount of monsters, Time Travel and the like thrown in. After series VIII finished, a three-part, Post Modern, movie-length sequel Back To Earth aired across the Easter Weekend of 2009 on digital channel Dave, putting an end to the complete lack of any new TV or book output since 1999. Dave has since commissioned a six-part "tenth" series, to air in September 2012. Two failed Pilots for an American version were made in the 1990s (one with Terry Farrell as The Cat); sadly, the only result from these was an improved costume for Kryten, which was given to the British production by the American production team. (And bootleg video tapes.) Also with four tie-in novels. Tropes used in Red Dwarf include: 1 Tropes A-D 2 Tropes E-H 3 Tropes I-L 4 Tropes M-P 5 Tropes Q-T 6 Tropes U-Z Tropes A-D[edit \| hide \| hide all] Abnormal Ammo: The heatseeker setting on the bazookoids. Also, the improvised garbage cannon in Psirens. Aborted Arc: Lister's pregnancy at the end of Series 2 was tossed out when the writers realized they couldn't make it funny or not-sexist. It comes up in unreadably fast text in the opening crawl for "Backwards" about what happened to them. The twins (very) rapidly aged to their late teens and (somehow) returned to their native universe. Absent Aliens: All lifeforms encountered in the universe are ultimately Earth-derived. The alternative is mainly used as a gag at Rimmer's expense. Abusive Parents: Rimmer. See Characters page for details Accidental Pervert: Polymorph. When you're writhing on the floor, begging an android with a large tube attached to its crotch to pull off your underwear, it's kind of easy for people to get the wrong idea. The Ace: Ace Rimmer. What a guy! Actor Allusion: Back to Earth does it. The crew meet Craig Charles, who plays Lister, and Rimmer asks for his own sitcom (Chris Barrie starred in The Brittas Empire). Cat's 'Do I dance?' from Parallel Universe might be an example. Adapted Out: A Captain Kirk (her named being a Shout-Out to the other Captain Kirk) was replaced by Captain Hollister. A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Holly's IQ is, purportedly, 6000. Then again, s/he is 3,000,000 years old and gone a bit... peculiar. Air Vent Passageway: "Duct Soup" takes place primarily within the absurdly spacious vents of the Starbug. They're large enough for the Dwarfers to crawl around two abreast. Aliens and Monsters: Appear somewhat frequently beginning in Series 3. Well monsters do at any rate. There are no actual aliens in Red Dwarf, all the creatures they meet are mutated or genetically engineered from Earth organisms, or are mechanoids. All Just a Dream: Sort of the plot of Back to Reality and Back to Earth. All There in the Manual: According to the booklet with one of the DVD boxsets, Rimmer's brothers were fathered by his uncle Frank. Kill Crazy's real name is only revealed on the official website. Almost Out of Oxygen: In "Quarantine". Alternate Universe: The crew are transported to one in the episode Parallel Universe and meet their female counterparts. Ace Rimmer comes from one in Dimension Jump. Kochanski comes from one in Ouroboros. And I Must Scream: In Rimmerworld, Rimmer's clones turn on him for having small amounts of the un-Rimmerlike traits they believe are evil and throw him in a small prison. As he's a hologram, he doesn't die and, as everyone on the planet is an even less likeable and more treacherous copy of Rimmer, he knows they'll turn him in if he escapes. He ends up imprisoned among these reminders of what a mess of a human being he is for 557 years. And then we have this charming moment from DNA, when Lister gets turned into a chicken, and then a hamster. Cat: What was it like being a hamster? Lister: Better than being a chicken! You've seen the size of an egg, you've seen the size of a chicken's bum. I was trying to say in chicken-talk, "For God's sake, give me an epidural" And Then I Said: Rimmer pulls this out in Better Than Life but can't come up with something he might have said and is forced to admit he "doesn't remember". Since it's his fantasy, his dinnermates laugh anyway. Arbitrary Skepticism: Rimmer is an atheist but believes in aliens This is played with momentarily in Back to Reality, when Andy, the "real world" game technician, claims that Lister's destiny is to "jump-start the second Big Bang," making Lister, "the ultimate atheist" (despite being a pantheist), actually God, and Rimmer, equally atheist, God's bunkmate. Rimmer claims during The Last Day that he wouldn't knock someone's religious beliefs, even if he didn't agree with them. Especially given that his parents were Seventh Day Advent Hopists. (Their bible had a misprint) Archived Army: The waxdroids in Meltdown form less literal versions of this. Armchair Military: Rimmer. Ascended Extra: Kryten appears in the premiere of Series 2 and becomes a regular in Series 3. Kochanski appears twice in Series 1, once in Series 2 and once in Series 6 (actually a GELF in disguise) and becomes a regular in Series 7. Captain Hollister appears but twice in Series 1 and again in "Stasis Leak" before returning as a regular in Series 8. Notably, despite the fact that Captain Hollister went the most time between his last appearance as a guest and his debut as a regular (11 years), his is the only case in which the actor who played him ascended as well. David Ross declined the opportunity to join the main cast due to his distaste for the Kryten makeup and was replaced by Robert Llewellyn, and Clare Grogan was replaced by Chloe Annett as Kochanski due to the fact Grogan had retired from acting in favor of becoming a TV host. It's a well known in-joke amongst the cast, during the DVD commentaries for series 8, about one of the 'extras'. A hugely built intimidating man, referred to as Chopper. It's about him starting off as simply a background extra, and allegedly persuading the producers to get some lines. To the point where each episode following, he always received some lines, almost close enough to rival Holly. Armor-Piercing Question: Kryten delivers one to the Inquisitor when making his case for existence. The Inquisitor: "In a human, this behaviour might be considered stubborn." Kryten: "But I am not human. And neither are you. And it is not our place to judge them...I wonder why you do." Ass Shove: In the episode Backwards, the crew accidentally time-travels to a version of Earth in which time runs backwards, to the effect that the natives speak backwards, walk backwards, wars are happy occasions on which millions of dead people come back to life, pub brawls end up cleaning up the pub ("Unrumble!"), food gets un-eaten, beer goes from your mouth back into the mug and from the mug back into the tap, and so on. Unfortunately, just before the Dwarfers leave, the Cat decides to take a crap in the bushes, and the other can't warn him in time... Cat appears from the bushes with a horrified expression and his hair standing on end and walks stiff-legged into the shuttlecraft, avoiding the others' eyes. Cat: Don't ask!! Back In The Red sees Starbug fly up the rectum of a giant rat in an enormous air vent. Asymmetric Dilemma: Kryten's favorite way of pointing out the flaws in the Cat's plans. Kryten: A superlative suggestion, sir, with just two minor flaws. One, we don't have any defensive shields, and two, we don't have any defensive shields. Now, I realize that, technically speaking, that's only one flaw, but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice. Attending Your Own Funeral: George MacIntyre has a "Welcome Back" party immediately after his funeral, and thanks the Captain for his eulogy while joking that he doesn't understand why the Captain didn't use the one MacIntyre had written. Rimmer, on several occasions. Back from the Dead: The entire crew of Red Dwarf in Series 8. Backported Development: Lots. For a visual example, when Series VII flashed back to shortly after Lister's revival, the H on Rimmer's head and his uniform were the ones used for Series VII rather than the one in Series I. Back to Front: The episode "Backwards" is partly set in a universe where time runs backward, so although the story is told from front to back it has elements of the trope, particularly with respect to the injuries Lister mysteriously acquires near the beginning of the episode as a result of events near the end. Bad Liar: Kryten has to fight his original programming to lie at all, and even then, he (usually) announces that he's switching to "Lie Mode" first. Baleful Polymorph: The Cat after becoming Duane "Duke of Dork" Dibbley as part of a series of Involuntary Transformation scenes of the appropriately named Emohawk: Polymorph II. Subverted and inverted with Rimmer; Ace is brave and selfless by contrast to normal Rimmer. Lister is turned into a chicken, then a hamster in "DNA". Bar Brawl: Backwards. Except it's a "bar room tidy". Unrumble! Also, the real bar room brawl in Gunmen of the Apocalypse Barrier-Busting Blow: Low Kryten hits Lister with one in Demons and Angels. Batman Gambit: Kochanski, of all people, in "Beyond a Joke". When Kryten is kidnapped by the rogue Simulant aboard the S.S. Centauri, she instructs Cat to turn Starbug so it flies away from the Centauri at top speed. The Simulant, after realising they're not giving chase and actually fleeing, assumes they've planted a bomb on his own vessel and starts chasing after them. Cat and Lister are fooled too. This is also how Lister beats the Inquisitor. Battle Butler: Kryten, in later seasons, although he is programmed never to take a human life. When he is forced to shoot a man to save a child, his guilt chip goes into overdrive and he attempts to commit suicide. Be Careful What You Wish For: Rimmer spends the first few minutes of Only the Good... complaining that Hollister doesn't see him as officer material. He has a run-in with a vending machine which states that one day they'll meet again and it will destroy him, and Rimmer snarks that on that day, he'll be ship's captain. By the end of the episode, everyone higher ranked than him had been evacuated making him the highest ranked person on the ship, and as he tries to figure out how to save himself, the machine attacks. It's not certain how he fared. Better Than Sex: When Rimmer copies himself and moves in together, he describes his new life of discipline as "better than sex". Of course, he's soon proven wrong when it turns out even he doesn't like himself. Big Damn Heroes: Ace Rimmer would have nothing to live for without this trope. Black Comedy Rape: Rimmer reveals in the Series 2 episode Thanks For The Memory that he lost his virginity to (and whose only sexual liaison while alive the first time around was with) Yvonne McGruder, the ship's boxing champion. Who seemed to be suffering from a concussion because she kept calling him "Norman". This is given a slightly less squicky Retcon in the books. The shenanigans with the Sexual Magnetism Virus in "Back in the Red". After Rimmer takes a dose of the virus all the women at the Captain's supper find him irresistible, and one by one they all go to "get coffee" with him in the galley. Played with in that by the end of the night Rimmer has clearly had enough and is visibly in pain. Also in "Back In The Red", Lister comments that two years in prison means two years without sex, to which Rimmer flippantly replies, "You hope.". Also also in "Back In The Red" and related to the previous example, after the main characters are locked up in the prison Lister applies a bit of the Sexual Magnetism Virus to Rimmer. We are left to imagine the outcome, but it's clearly the reason Rimmer wasn't speaking to Lister at the start of the episode. And Polymorph II: "Change of plan... leg it!" Blue and Orange Morality: Primarily The Cat. Elaborated on in the novels, where they emphasise that being descended from cats, he can't be properly judged by human standards. By cat standards he's a perfectly regular cat - which makes him vain, self-centered, egotistical and sex-crazed, with a tendency to jump out at things, hiss, and make yowling cat noises and dance when he just walks down corridors. Bolivian Army Ending: The end of 'Only The Good' where it is undetermined whether Rimmer or the rest of the crew survived for that matter. Bond One-Liner: Played for Laughs with Ace Rimmer. Bottle Episode: There have been several of these over the course of the series, such as Marooned, Out Of Time, and The Last Day. Many of the bottle episodes are considered to be some of the best - but then there are exceptions such as Duct Soup, which is rated as one of the worst. Brain In a Jar: Lister's evil, corrupt future self from Out of Time; the jar has his dreadlocks Sellotaped to the glass. Lister implies that his uncle was also a brain in a jar in Balance of Power. Brain Uploading: All holograms, and also the episodes Thanks for the Memory and Bodyswap. Breaking the Fourth Wall: A possible example. It's not clear when Cat surmises that the Dog wants to eat him (Parallel Universe) whether he's addressing the camera or not. But then, in the first two series, the Cat had a habit of speaking his thoughts out loud in an un-self-conscious manner. Apparently, that's what the Cat's people did. Also, in Me2 Lister brings a picture to Arnold and Arnold's quarters and reads the nameplate. 'Second Technician, Arnold J. Rimmer, and Second Technician, Arnold J. Rimmer?!' and looks at the camera in a smirking fashion before shaking his head. Brick Joke: Used quite a few times, but is taken Up to Eleven by Back to Earth, where the ENTIRE plot is caused by the ending sequence of an episode aired well over a decade ago, well before the hiatus began! "I'm going to eat you, little fishy..." Hillariously used in Stoke Me a Clipper. Where the pet crocodile of a Nazi Captain that Ace used to surf out of an exploding plane winds up landing on two soldiers heads after Ace escapes a base. Was für ein Kerl indeed. Brilliant but Lazy: Lister. See character page. Rimmer, however, is the complete opposite, being Dim But Driven: he has somewhat more knowledge than Lister and very much wants to improve his lot, but has next to no planning skills and is ultimately fairly stupid. Britain is Only Nodnol: Averted; London is never seen or even mentioned in a major way prior to Back to Earth. The only time it really gets mentioned prior to that is on a roadsign in "Backwards," and even then it's flipped, rendering the city's name as "Nodnol"—contrary to popular belief, the backwards universe stuff in that episode is actually set in the city of Retsehcnam (Manchester) rather that Nodnol, as indicated by a barely visible sign in one shot. Grimsby is also mentioned, as are several other places. Brother-Sister Incest: Rimmer theorizes this is why Lister's parents abandoned him. He's closer on the mark than you'd think. In Rimmerworld, Rimmer realises that the female clone he's trying to create would technically be his sister. He decides she doesn't need to know, and follows the original plan. Of course, in Series VII, we find out that Rimmer wasn't completely wrong. It's actually mother-son incest. Or rather, mother-self incest, because Lister is his own father. Which doesn't come close to making any kind of sense, but never mind. Building of Adventure: The ship is city-sized and the primary setting. But He Sounds Handsome: Holly appears on a recording Holly doesn't remember making (the crew's memories were erased). Initially, he comments, "Nice-looking bloke," and then when the recorded Holly tells them to pause the recording, he does so, because he "Knows what he's talking about, that dude." Captain's Log: Holly would start the episodes of the first two series with a sort-of Captain's Log introduction. Captain Hollister also keeps a diary of some kind. The first episode of Season 7, "Tikka to Ride", opens with Lister recording a captain's log (he even parodies the Star Trek format). The Cast Showoff: Rimmer's impressions and parroting while he malfunctions in "Queeg". Chris Barrie is a trained impersonator who had already starred in Spitting Image. Similarly, Danny John-Jules is a trained dancer, and dance sequences for Cat appear in several episodes. He also got to sing in a dream sequence. The song, Tongue Tied, became a respectable hit and was on the Top 20 in the UK. Catapult Nightmare: Lister in Blue, after he and Rimmer kiss in the dream. Holly: Depending on the episode, 'All right, dudes?' or "What's 'appenin', dudes?" Ace Rimmer: "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast." Don't forget Cat: Aaaaaaoooooughhh! Eeeeeyaaayaaah! Note: That's not Cat screaming in fear or anything. That's just him... walking down corridors. Catfolk: The ship's cats evolved over the eons into a species of humanoids, one of whom is a main character. Cattle Punk: Second half of Gunmen of the Apocalypse. Censorship by Spelling: In "Parallel Universe", when the Cat meets the Dog, the Dog insists that he spell out "bath"... and then doesn't understand him when he does. Chicken Walker: Blue Midget, post-retcon. Cliffhanger Copout: More common than actual cliffhanger resolutions. The Series 2 finale, of course, ended with Lister becoming pregnant, this was quickly explained away in the Series III premiere as part of a wall of Unreadably Fast Text. Series VI ended with the entire crew aboard Starbug as it was destroyed by their future selves. A quick gag at the beginning of Series VII reveals that this caused a paradox that hit the Reset Button. Finally, the Series VIII finale "Only the Good..." ends with the ship doomed. "Back to Earth" starts with an intact ship and the words "Nine Years Later", and otherwise does not reference "Only the Good..." in any way (though Rimmer is dead and a hologram again). Cluster Smeg Bomb: Lister and Rimmer, one each. Lister (in Bodyswap, while in Rimmer's body): Oh, smeg! What the smeggin' smeg's he smeggin' done?! He's smeggin' killed me!! Cold Opening: Stoke Me a Clipper had an opening scene four or five minutes long before finally kicking into the opening sequence. Due to the episodes running long, two back-to-back episodes from Series VII aired with no opening credits: "Ouroboros" and "Duct Soup" (extended versions released to DVD restored the openings for both). Contemplate Our Navels: Either played straight or as a parody of science fiction in general being wont to do this, much of the show was taken up by philosophical ideas via sci-fi trappings, i.e. the manifestation of Lister's Confidence and Paranoia, or the Inquisitor. Cool Cat: Cat obviously, although he's humanoid. Couch Gag: The final line or two of Holly's show-opening distress calls in the first two series. Couldn't Find a Pen: In Psirens, the crew find a message left by a man who, lacking a pen, used his own blood and intestines. They were torn as to whether he used his kidney as a full stop (period) or whether it had just "plopped out". Courtroom Episode: "Justice". Cowboy Episode: The episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" involves the characters entering a virtual Western town that serves as a metaphor for Kryten's struggles with computer virus. The episode even end with Starbug flying off into the sunset. Cranial Processing Unit: Kryten even has spare heads which have their own personalities. Creator Cameo: Rob Grant appears in Backwards as a man un-smoking a cigarette. Credits Gag: In Waiting for God, the credits stop as Rimmer comes to his horrible realization. Rimmer and the skutters play the end theme on a Hammond organ in Dimension Jump, a Western-style theme is played for "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", while Elvis sings it in Meltdown. In the remastered version of Backwards, the credits are indeed shown backwards. Cuckoo Nest: Back to Reality tries to convince the crew that they were really immersed in a Red Dwarf video game, a prospect all the more demoralizing when they discover the kinds of people they "really" are and the world they inhabit. Cultural Stereotypes: Death is apparently "like being on holiday with a group of Germans." Three million years without sex is a long time for an Albanian shepherd who's allergic to wool. A deleted scene reveals the line to originally about a Welsh shephard. Lister's response to Jean Paul Satre's philosophy that "Hell is being trapped for all eternity in a room with your friends" with "All his mates were French". Curse Cut Short: Possible example in Rimmerworld. As Rimmer falls toward the wormhole, he launches into a tirade which cuts off after several adjectives. Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: Played with. Lister carefully measures out a spoonful of curry powder, throws the rest of the can into his mix, and dumps the spoonful back into the can. Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: One of the recurring jokes on the show is characters threatening very unusual and elaborate acts of violence against each other; i.e., "rip out his windpipe and beat him to death with the tonsil end," "shove my fist so far down his gob, I'll be able to pull the label off his underpants..." Darker and Edgier: Season V had much darker and creepier atmosphere than the previous seasons. One of the criticisms leveled against Season VII by some fans. Back To Earth has shades of this at points, such as the Garden of Remembrance scene which is played pretty much straight down the line until Cat shows up. In fact, really any scene involving Lister and Kochanski. Dark World: The low Red Dwarf in 'Demons And Angels', complete with a Red Dwarf crew of evil doppelgangers. A Date with Rosie Palms: A lot of the comedy revolves around the build up of sexual frustration in a small group of males trapped alone with no female companionship. Rachel the inflatable sex doll, naturally. And Inflatable Ingrid. Lister broke the groinal attachment on the Artificial Reality machine. In three weeks. It had a lifetime warranty... Lister's libido nearly causes a drought due to the endless cold showers he was taking Dead All Along: Ace Rimmer, the second time he visits the crew. Deader Than Disco: Cat is fond in-universe of comparing themselves to extremely unfashionable things to get the point about how dead they are just about to become across. Deadpan Snarker: All of the main characters to varying degrees. Dead Baby Comedy: Happens on a number of occasions, but in a relatively subtle way. Compared to typical expressions of this trope. Take, for example, this exchange from the opening of "Legion"... Cat: What the hell is all this down the back of my chair? ...Peanuts? Lister: No, I've been trimming my verrucas. Cat: ...You have personal habits that would make a monkey blush! Lister: You really think I'm psychotically disgusting, don'tcha? They're peanuts, alright? Cat: Real peanuts? Lister: Yeah. Cat: Where'd you get them? Lister: That derelict a couple of months back. Found them in the dead captain's old donkey jacket. Don't look at me like that! You enjoyed that Mint Imperial, didn't ya? Cat: And where didja get that? Lister: He was sucking that when he got shot! I had to prise his jaws open with a car jack. Deep-Immersion Gaming: The titular video game in episode "Better Than Life". The premise of "Back to Reality". The Series VII episode "Duct Soup" contains a scene cut from the original broadcast but restored for the extended DVD release in which Kochanski mentions spending years hooked up to a computer (the actual term "Better Than Life" is not mentioned, but the premise sounds similar) during her school years. After returning to the real world, she confesses to "going off the rails" for a while and becoming a "retro-punk". Deflector Shields: While shields are stated to exist, they are distressingly lacking on Starbug. So much so that in "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", the simulants gave their shields an upgrade so they would be more of a challenge. Development Hell: The movie is infamous for being stuck here. Originally planned to go into production after Series VII, it got as far as having a script reading by the cast, filming dates announced and a prosthetic test for Robert Llwellyn. Unfortunately, thanks to continuing issues with funding, it never got any further than that. The series itself was originally supposed to be filmed and aired in 1987, but was delayed by an electricians' strike. Diabolus Ex Machina: Used for comedic effect in Timeslides. Used seriously in Only the Good. Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: Cat: So, what is it? Lister: Oh, someone punch him out! Dinner Order Flub: Gazpacho Soup Day! Distracted by My Own Sexy: The Cat, repeatedly. Double Vision: And how. Almost every season has an episode which utilizes this effect. Stasis Leak utilizes it the most impressively: The characters travel to before the accident, and concludes with three Listers and three Rimmers, plus Kochanski and the Cat bickering in Lister and Rimmer's bunk, leading that time period's Rimmer to have a complete mental breakdown: "Three Listers! Splendid! Perhaps Lister here would like to go over to the fridge and open a bottle of wine for Lister and Lister! Rimmer here doesn't drink, because he's dead, but I wouldn't mind a glass!" Drill Sergeant Nasty: Queeg in Queeg. Dropped a Bridge on Him: The offscreen death of Kochanski in Back to Earth is a subversion, as she is given a memorial scene in Part One, and in Part Two it is revealed she is still alive and Kryten lied about it to Lister. Dub-Induced Plot Hole: In the Czech dub of the second episode, Lister says that he's never eaten chicken vindaloo before (prawn vindaloo in the original), when in a flashback in the next episode he says that he'd dropped Rimmer's revision timetable into one (he spilled goat vindaloo on it in the original). Tropes E-H[edit \| hide] Early Installment Weirdness: The soundtrack in series one. Eldritch Location: The crew come across several 'alternate universes' where normal laws of physics and reason are skewed or don't exist at all. The inverted gender universe in 'Parallel Universe' The backwards running time period in 'Backwards' The living photographs in 'Timeslides' Red Dwarf itself becomes a bit of an Eldritch Location in 'White Hole' Though "scientifically" explained, the justice zone in 'Justice' The psi moon in 'Terrorform' The effects of the despair squid and it's cousin in both 'Back To Reality' and 'Back To Earth' The crew enter a subspace passage surrounded in an infinite void in 'Ouroboros' The unreality bubbles in 'Out Of Time' The stasis leak from 'Stasis Leak' Embarrassing Middle Name: Kryten-2X4B-523P—apparently mechanoids consider "2X4B" to be an embarrassing middle name. But at least it's not "2Q4B"... Arnold Judas Rimmer Empathic Environment: The psi-moon in Terrorform". Enhance Button: Parodied mercilessly in Back To Earth. Uncrop! For the record, it serves as a Shout-Out / Take That at the Enhance Button scene from Blade Runner. Enemy Without: The crew (and ship) are split into "High" and "Low" copies in Demons and Angels; the Highs don't survive very long when they encounter the Lows. In Terrorform, the entire planet is literally Rimmer's self-hatred attacking him. Enthralling Siren: Psirens are sirens In Space! Esperanto, the Universal Language: Most of the ship's labels are in both English and Esperanto. Rimmer spends much of the first two seasons failing to learn the language. And Lister actually seems to have a grasp of it, most likely due to Rimmer's constant use of language tapes. Even the Guys Want Him: Cat thinks he's this - "Face it, buddy, I have a body that makes men wet!" - but no-one that isn't illusory ever shows any interest in him. Space Corps Special Service Test Pilot Arnold "Ace" Rimmer, on the other hand... Bongo: If you're interested, I'll be in my quarters at lunchtime, covered in taramasalata. Ace: I didn't know your bread was buttered that side, Bongo. Bongo: It isn't. I've been happily married for 35 years. It's just, a chap like you can turn a guy's head. Everybody's Dead, Dave: The core premise. Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Cat does not have a name, and is simply called The Cat or Cat throughout the show. The reason for this, according to the books, is that all cats think that they're the center of the universe and the idea that someone might not know who they are is beyond their comprehension. Everything's Better with Bob: ...as in Bob the Skutter. Everything Trying to Kill You: In the book version of Better Than Life, when Lister crashes on a planet which turns out to be Earth, the planet itself seems to be out to get him. Evil Twin: The Low counterparts in Demons and Angels. An evil imitation of Lister shows up in Psirens. Evolutionary Levels: The evolution of the Cat race stopped once they reached humanoid, plus or minus a few nipples. Possibly justified in that they evolved in an environment created by humans, with the convenience of humans in mind. Stands to reason that the perfectly adapted form for such an environment would be human-like. Exotic Entree: The evil future selves in "Out of Time" spend their lives traveling through time so they can eat exotic delicacies like dolphin sweetmeats and baby seal hearts with hosts such as Louis XVI and Adolph Hitler. Explosive Instrumentation: A couple times early on, more frequent in the later series. Lister, the Cat and Kryten all die to exploding instrument panels in Out of Time. Explosive Overclocking: In White Hole, the crew overclocks Holly, who's been descending deeper and deeper into computer senility, hoping to bring her intelligence back. They get her to an IQ of 12,000, but it drops her lifespan down to less than four minutes. Exposition of Immortality: Given that the titular space vessel has been travelling away from inhabited human space for three million years, many of the remnants they encounter are at least that old or older; The Inquisitor is a self-repairing simulant who Kryten tells of as "living until the end of time." Hudzen 10 was the replacement model for Kryten. And his delivery pod followed the Series 4000 mechanoid through deep space until it found him on the Dwarf; and all that time alone did nothing for his sanity chip. Many of the simulants encountered have been around since they originally rebelled against humanity, too. Legion formed as a gestalt during a series of experiments in shared consciousness by a group of human scientists; he tells us when they died he had to hang around as a "mindless essence" for several million years until the Red Dwarf crew showed up. Extremely Overdue Library Book: After when Lister was informed that he was in the stasis for three million years, he exclaimed, "Three million years?! I've still got that library book!" Failure Is the Only Option: Getting back to Earth. Faster-Than-Light Travel: Explicitly done in Future Echoes. In the first novel, it's more of an accident; Holly didn't intend to make the ship go faster than light, and everyone's in agreement that it's not at all possible. But Red Dwarf has been accelerating for three million years. Something's got to give. It was inadvertent in Future Echoes, also... it happened after Lister ordered Holly to turn the ship around, and Holly was scared to death of traveling faster than light: Holly: Look, we're travelling faster than the speed of light. That means, by the time we see something, we've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown trousers time. The teleporter apparently works based on 'subspace', allowing for instant transportation. Fat and Skinny: Baxter and Kill Crazy in Series VIII. Fee Fi Faux Pas: Rimmer's last words were "Gazpacho soup", which Lister eventually discovers is because, when he'd been with the Space Corps for 13 years, he got invited to have dinner with the Captain and, being arrogant and ignorant, he had no idea that the Gazpacho soup starter was meant to be served cold and so he demanded it be taken away and heated. He considers this perhaps the biggest reason why he never went anywhere in the ranks, going on an anguished rant about how he could have been somebody if it had ever been mentioned to him that Gazpacho soup is drunk cold while he was in training. Lister kindly refrains from pointing out that it is more likely that Rimmer never got anywhere because he is an unlikeable incompetent with more ego than skill. Fictional Document: The Space Corps Directives. Finger-Licking Poison: In Back in the Red, with a (non-lethal) drug in the seal of an envelope. Five-Man Band: Configuration One: The Hero: Lister. Probably one of the least straightforward examples of this trope in history, but he fills the role far more effectively than Rimmer does. The Lancer: Rimmer. He actually has more characteristics that you would traditionally associate with The Hero than Lister does, but is consigned to being the Lancer due to his sheer smegheadedness. The Smart Guy: Holly, who despite being senile was much smarter than he looked. The Chick: The Cat. He's hilariously useless and only interested in food and fashion. Configuration Two: The Hero: Lister. The Lancer: Rimmer. The Big Guy: The Cat, who Took a Level in Badass and became an Ace Pilot. The Smart Guy: Kryten, who often took on the role of Mr. Exposition. The Chick: Holly, who in addition to being played by a woman had most of her role taken over by Kryten. Sixth Ranger: Kochanski, starting in Series VII. Also something of a Team Mom. It's worth noting that the Red Dwarf USA pilot plays these tropes far more straight (mainly in regard to Lister and Rimmer) than the UK original did. Fix It in Post: In a smeg-up from Meltdown, Lister knocks on an obviously-wooden-sounding wall and says, matter-of-factly, "Stone," causing the audience to start laughing. Their laughter set off Danny John-Jules, further ruining the take, at which point Craig Charles shouted at the audience "They were gonna sort that out in the dub!" For Want of a Nail: One little split in the destiny line created Ace Rimmer. However, it turns out that it's not getting a break and passing a test that created Ace - it's being held back a year and humiliated that made him finally fight back, which makes our Rimmer's "it's not my fault, I just had a bad childhood" line doubly hollow. Flanderization: The Cat goes from being a rather ditzy guy who acts like a cat and likes his clothes to a guy who's obsessed with fashion and sometimes says stupid things to just being really, really stupid, having virtually no lines that don't have to do with clothes, and few to no feline tendencies at all. On the other hand, he also goes from being completely self-absorbed (as in, he cares more about his lunch than a dying Lister) and absolutely unhelpful to being Lister's buddy who will even sometime go out of his way for him. He also becomes rather more helpful to the crew in general. While Cat's initial traits DID get exaggerated, it also came with more screentime and him becoming more than a random wandering gag. He's also become a good pilot as of Season VI. While Lister's song writing skills prior to Series VI were less than ideal, he was still capable of playing guitar without causing pain and suffering to those around him. Lister also suffers despite having grown a fair bit during the first six series. Season VII sees him acting like a complete idiot, it's hard to believe this was the same guy who was 'faulted' by the clones in Rimmerworld for being brave, selfless and charismatic. Freaky Friday: Bodyswap. Fun with Acronyms: "The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society." Furry Confusion: Even though The Cat is on the 'almost human' of the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism, his mannerisms and habits are still very much cat like, more so than most actual cat furries with fur and a tail. Future Imperfect: The Cat race took Lister and his dream of retiring to Fiji and turned them into the Cat god Cloister the Stupid and the promised land of Fuschal. Lister, Rimmer and even Holly make historical inaccuracies, but it's tough to tell whether they're owed to widespread historical distortion or to the many varied failings of the characters. Future Me Scares Me: Played for laughs in Stasis Leak, played straight in Out of Time. Gagging on Your Words: Kryten's attempts to lie in "Camille". Gag Penis: Kryten's "groin attachment." Archie could perhaps qualify as well. In Only the Good..., Rimmer gets one (not seen) in the universe where everything's opposite. In "DNA", when Kryten becomes human, he hands Lister two polaroids of his 'groinal attachment' which have to be held together to get the whole thing in. Fun fact: if Craig Charles looks genuinely appalled at that moment it's because he was handed an actual Polaroid of a penis, which he hadn't been informed was going to happen beforehand. Gainax Ending: Back To Earth has retroactively turned Only the Good... into this. The End? The smeg it was... Gargle Blaster: Several. Holly's "android home brew" in The Last Day is lethal to humans, and probably to androids as well. In Gunmen of the Apocalypse, Sheriff Kryten asks for the stuff that guarantees you'll get your eyesight back in three days. Baxter's hooch in Only the Good... is "about 300% proof," according to Rimmer. Gender Bender: Holly. Genre Savvy: The little girl on the bus in Back to Earth is well aware of the Never Found the Body trope and points out to Lister this means that Kochanski must be alive. She's got that trope down. To say nothing of humanity forestalling a Robot War by hard-coding all sentient robots with religion. Ghost City: Tikka To Ride. The Red Dwarf itself qualifies. Gilded Cage: Legion imprisons the Red Dwarf crew in one. A Glass in the Hand: Once Rimmer became a Hard Light hologram, he could vent his frustration on inanimate objects. Godly Sidestep: In "White Hole", Holly gains an IQ of over 12,000 and professes to know the meaning of the universe. The only being present to ask her is a toast-obsessed kitchen appliance, and any questions it puts forward end up being about bread. Before anyone else can ask, she realises she has three minutes to live and refuses to communicate with anyone. Averted in the novels, however, where the toaster actually does think to ask Holly about God. It's Lister. Now, ask a hard one! God Test: Lister's comments have been misinterpreted over the years as the promises of a god, leading to this hilarious exchange: Lister: "I am your god." Cat: "If you're god, turn this into a woman." Lister: "I'm serious." Cat: "So am I!" Gone Horribly Right: The Despair Squid was the result of compressing 5 billion years of evolution into 3 years. It killed just about everything in the ocean. Good Angel, Bad Angel: Confidence and Paranoia in, unsurprisingly, Confidence and Paranoia. Also the episode "Demons and Angels". Arguably, in "Terrorform," Rimmer's resurrected self-confidence versus, well, everything else in his mind. Groin Attack: Rimmer does this to the Grim Reaper in Only the Good..., has it done to him (in a way) by Lister in Back to Earth, and gets it from Petersen's arm in Balance of Power after he thinks he's outsmarted it. It had previously been aiming much higher. Cat is implied to have done this to Lister (in self-defense, since Lister was being remote-controlled into strangling him) in Demons and Angels. And what is Cat more dismayed about? The creases in the collar of his suit, of course. Cat: Look what you did to my neckline! This stuff never springs back! Inverted in The Last Day by Hudzen 10. His promotional video shows him breaking a brick in half with his groinal attachment. Halfway Plot Switch: Used in quite a few episodes. "Justice" subverts this by starting off as a story about Red Dwarf finding an escape pod and needing to find out who its occupant is, then switching halfway through to being about Rimmer being put on trial for his role in the accident that killed the ship's crew, before switching back to the original plot near the end. Hand or Object Underwear: Done with pieces of paper that say "Top Secret." The Heartless: "Terrorform" is a planet without even the vestiges of a heart that Rimmer has. Head Desk: While Rimmer is explaining to Lister that the latter has accidentally signed himself (and, unbeknownest to Rimmer, the other main characters) into a suicide squad, partway through the explanation, Lister starts banging his head on a table. Rimmer in Stoke Me A Clipper when Ace makes contact with Starbug. Helping Hands: Kryten's hand is able to return to the ship and get help in "Terrorform", though it scares the hell out of Lister and Cat first. We learn in series 8 that it's not Kryten's only fully-functional detachable part. Heroic BSOD: Kochanski is sent into this state by the squeelookle-ing sewer pipes in "Duct Soup". Also, Kryten in "Beyond A Joke" after an incident involving lobster and ketchup. Heroic Sacrifice JFK assassinating himself in "Tikka to Ride". Able in "Beyond a Joke". Kryten in The Inquisitor: Kryten: "Well I've got to go back in time now and sacrifice myself so that we can get into this mess we're in now in the first place." Hey, It's That Guy!: Lister's Confidence? Craig Ferguson. Also, the guy who revives the crew in Back to Reality was Wormtail. Speaking of Harry Potter, Arthur Weasley was Lister's best mate before the accident. Hidden Depths: Lister and Rimmer are surprisingly complex characters, and despite their generally low positions in life, can show great competence. Averted with the Cat, who can barely be said to be a one dimensional character...a one dimensional character with a great ass! High on Catnip: Cat comments on how the unreality pockets in "Out of Time" are worse/weirder than triple strength catnip. Hippie Jesus: Referenced when Rimmer dismisses their "High" selves as hippies. Kryten: Sir, you think Jesus was a hippy. Rimmer: He had long hair and didn't have a job! What more do you want? Historical In-Joke Lister: (talking to a crowd listening to Hitler) "Don't listen to him, he's a complete nutter! And he's only got one testicle!" And the Who Shot JFK? spoof (Tikka to Ride), in which Kennedy ended up shooting his own past self because it turned out the timeline in which he survived became a Crapsack World. Lister: "It'll drive the conspiracy nuts crazy! They'll never work it out!" Hoist by His Own Petard: Lister tricks the Inquisitor into erasing himself from history. Holodeck Malfunction: "Gunmen of the Apocalypse". Kryten and Lister fake one in "Stoke me a Clipper" to encourage Rimmer to do something brave. Homoerotic Dream: One of Lister's dreams after Arnold Rimmer left Red Dwarf to become the next Ace involves a kiss between Lister and Rimmer which Lister wakes up from quite shocked. Humanity Is Infectious: The Cat and Kryten both become more "human" as the series goes along. In the case of Kryten, this actually becomes potentially dangerous in Series VII. Humans Are the Real Monsters: Lister posits the theory that humans are a planetary disease in "Waiting for God". (Incidently, predating The Matrix by about a decade.) Kryten (not so) subtly compares humanity to the Despair Squid in "Back to Reality". Humans created GELFs for all manner of unsavoury reasons, and programmed androids to believe in an afterlife where people would serve them to keep them subservient. Humongous Mecha: Blue Midget's redraw could count as one. Hypocrite: Rimmer. To take one example, in "Kryten", Rimmer makes several snide put-downs about the obvious lengths Lister has gone to spruce himself up when the possibility that they might be meeting women has suddenly arisen. When Lister points out that Rimmer, who is wearing a ludicrously pretentious officer's uniform complete with medals, hasn't exactly dressed down for the occasion either, Rimmer's response is to start whining about how Lister always starts putting him down whenever it looks like they might be meeting women. Tropes I-L[edit \| hide] I Always Wanted to Say That: Subverted in Rimmerworld: Lister: This might sound like a bit of a corny line, but... can't even bring myself to say it... Rimmerguard: Say what? Lister: [visibly wincing] "Take us to your leader?" Kryten: Oh, sir, how could you? I Am Legion: In, er, Legion. I Banged Your Mom: In Polymorph, the shapeshifter took on the likeness of Rimmer's mother and tells Rimmer than Lister has had her "five times, he was like a wild stallion" to make Rimmer angry. With ALPHABETTI SPAGGETI! I Call Him "Mister Happy": Archie. I Cannot Self-Terminate: Averted. Kryten is often quite willing to shoot himself when feeling especially guilty. I Choose to Stay: Lister, briefly in Back to Earth. I Hate Past Me: The Dwarfers go back in time to meet 17 year old Lister back when he was the lead singer for Smeg and the Heads. Even the Cat thinks that Past-Lister is an idiot. Identical Grandson: Lister. He's the child of the second Kochanski and himself. Also, one of Lister's other sons seems to be identical to him, or at least similar enough to fool Lister's bunkmate without trying. Logical one, perhaps, as their mother father is a female version of Lister. Even more likely when you consider that, since Lister is his own father (and presumably the female Lister is her own mother) The twins really don't have a whole lot of a gene pool since both of their parents and half of their grandparents are the same person! I'm a Humanitarian: Lister and Cat, entirely unintentionally. Cat: Chicken's good. Lister: Yeah, really good. Kryten: That's not chicken, sir. Cat: Oh, what is it? Kryten: It's that man we found. It just seemed such a waste to leave him lying there when he'd barbeque so beautifully. Rimmer: (sadistic laughing) And one of Lister's old schoolmates achieved fame by eating his wife. Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Lampshaded in Quarantine, as they run away from danger. Lister: Why do we never meet anyone nice? Cat: Why do we never meet anyone who can shoot straight? Innocently Insensitive: While none of the boys (or even Kochanski) are going to win any awards for empathy, it's not usually malice that gets them into trouble with each other - Lister is too straightforward to sympathise with Rimmer's authority complex, Rimmer is so emotionally screwed up that he thinks being "empathic" is something that'll land you in quarantine, Cat has a Blue and Orange Morality that encourages him to think only of himself, and Kryten is still getting the hang of having emotions. Kochanski is just generally neurotic. In the Future We Still Have Roombas: The Skutters. Inventor of the Mundane: Fred "Thicky" Holden, inventor of the "tension sheet", in "Timeslides". I Say What I Say: The two Listers in "The Inquisitor". It Came From the Fridge: The curry monster in DNA. Journey to the Center of the Mind: Terrorform. Sort of. More 'Journey to a Planet that Has Shaped itself to Represent Someone's Mind.' Jumping on a Grenade: Ace does this in Emohawk: Polymorph II. Since he's Hard Light and virtually indestructible, he's none the worse for wear. Killed Mid-Sentence: Kryten, twice. Of course, he turns out to be Not Quite Dead in both. And Ace Rimmer. Kissing Warm Up: Referenced in "Confidence and Paranoia", when Paranoia starts dredging up Lister's embarrassing adolescent memories. Klingon Promotion: Rimmer wanted to join the crew of a hologramatic ship. The ship already had a full compliment, so the only way in was "dead man's boots", defeating an existing member of the crew in an intelligence test. The losing crew member would be switched off and Rimmer would take their place. Doesn't quite work out like that, of course. Large Ham: Kill Crazy. Kill Crazy: LET'S GO KILL SOMETHING! YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH! The Last Man Heard a Knock: Lister's the last human being alive for most of the show, but he's never alone. Last of His Kind: The Cat and Lister at least until the arrival of first Kochanski and later the whole crew of Red Dwarf). Of course, the cat race still exists somewhere Out There, and one of the "lost episodes" that exists only as storyboard (see the DVD extras) would have featured a visit to a planet of Cat's people, as a spoof of the Star Trek TOS episode "Amok Time". Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The pub owner's reverse rant in Backwards, ostensibly informing Kryten and Rimmer they're fired, actually criticises "the one prat in the country who's bothered to get hold of this recording, turn it round and actually work out the rubbish that [the pub owner's] saying." Of course, when the episode was filmed, reversing the recording was a complicated process. Leeroy Jenkins: Kill Crazy, who is so trigger happy, he doesn't even make it out of the submarine because he charges into battle so eagerly, he knocks himself out. At one point, it does prove to be an advantage as a mutated creature takes one look at him and runs away. Legacy Immortality: Ace Rimmer. Let Me Get This Straight...: A classic example when Rimmer picks up a hologrammatic virus. Rimmer: So let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King Of The Potato People, and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane?! Locked in a Freezer: Lister and Rimmer in Marooned, though Rimmer's in no danger. Logic Bomb: Kryten deactivates Hudzen-10 with one. Hudzen mentions a Silicon Heaven, which Kryten exclaims doesn't exist. Kryten and Holly persuade Hudzen they're telling the truth, and Hudzen, having been programmed to believe in Silicon Heaven, shuts down. Kryten did believe in Silicon Heaven, but was able to lie due to Lister having previously messed with his programming. After all, where would all the calculators go? Lotus Eater Machine: Several episodes. For details, see the Red Dwarf entries for that trope. Love Makes You Crazy: Lister's GELF wife in Emohawk: Polymorph II. Lyrical Dissonance: The end theme is an upbeat number that starts with the words, "it's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere; I'm all alone, more or less." Tongue Tied is an upbeat love song which describes the metaphorical reactions of a person when they're pleased to see someone they love in gory detail. Tropes M-P[edit \| hide] The Mad Hatter: Dr. Langstrom in Quarantine. Mad Libs Catchphrase: Perilous situations would often result in the Cat exclaiming, "That's it, we're deader than [long-outmoded item of clothing]!" Mayor of a Ghost Town: They've got the run of the ship; with a few exceptions, they've got the run of the universe, really. Medium Blending: The claymation episode. Memory Gambit: Thanks for the Memory. Merlin Sickness: Backwards. Mind Screw: Quite a few examples, but "Back to Earth" took it Up to Eleven. Misery Builds Character: Ace Rimmer is this all over. He is different to normal Rimmer because their shared timeline split off when they were children. One of them got held back a year in school, the other didn't. It turns out it's actually Ace that was held back a year, and so he suffered for it (ie by being bullied and suffering the humilation of it all), and decided to fight back, and continued to fight back ever since, building his character and becoming awesome. Normal Rimmer, on the over hand, was never held back a year, and therefore spent the rest of his life making excuses for himself. Mistaken for Exhibit: Rimmer mistakes a light switch for an art installation in "Legion". Mix and Match: Sitcom combined with sci-fi spaceship adventure. Mobile Factory: Presumably the Red Dwarf is supposed to be one, since it's described as a "mining ship". We never actually see it do any mining, though... Money Fetish: "Now that's the kind of cash that opens anybody's legs" More Teeth Than the Osmond Family: Many of the GELFs could qualify. Mr. Exposition: Holly, and later Kryten. Ms. Fanservice: Kochanski in Series VII. This was largely abandoned in Series VIII, which she spent the vast majority of dressed up in the bulky prison jumpsuit and Canaries uniforms, though Cassandra was a notable exception. Murder Arson and Jaywalking: The Cat, at any point where Starbug gets damaged. In Back to Reality: "I'm on the run with a murderer and a mass-murderer and a guy in a bri-nylon shirt!" My Future Self and Me / Time Travel Tense Trouble: The ludicrous temporal shenanigans of Stasis Leak in Season 2. Lister attempts to re-kindle a relationship with his former girlfriend and in doing so encounters a future version of himself who has already married her. And Rimmer runs into the original him, who he went into the past to try and save, and thus runs into a future version of himself who has an unconvincing moustache. Past Rimmer (In the process of having a mental breakdown yelling at present and future Listers, Cat, Kochanski and present Rimmer, all of whom he thinks are hallucinations brought on by a breakfast of space mushrooms. It Makes Sense in Context) : Perhaps Lister here would like to go over to the fridge and open a bottle of wine for Lister and Lister. Rimmer here doesn't drink, because he's dead, but I wouldn't mind a glass. Future Rimmer (after appearing unexpectedly through a solid object): I don't want anyone to get into a flap here, but I'm from the Rimmer from the double double future. I'm the Rimmer who's with the Lister who married Kochanski. Now from this point on things get a liiiiiittle bit confusing. In Future Echoes Rimmer is gloating over having apparently seen Lister die in the future: Lister: Hey, it hasn't happened, has it? It has 'will have going to have happened' happened, but it hasn't actually 'happened' happened yet, actually. Rimmer: Poppycock! It will be happened; it shall be going to be happening; it will be was an event that could will have been taken place in the future. Simple as that. Your bucket's been kicked, baby. My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Rimmer's attempts at Esperanto in Kryten. Nanomachines: Nanobots are responsible for rebuilding the whole of Red Dwarf, crew included, at the end of series 7. A Nazi by Any Other Name: Lister as Voter-Colonel Sebastian Doyle in Back To Reality. "Vote Fascist for another glorious decade of total law enforcement!" Necro Non Sequitur: Cassandra's demise. Negative Space Wedgie: The crew have encounted their share of them, including a time hole (AKA an orange swirly thing), a white hole, a stasis leak, and a minefield of alternate reality pockets. Nerds Are Sexy: Averted and kicked to the floor by Duane Dibbley. Only to be picked right back up again with how Kochanski is characterized in Series VII. Nested Mouths: The Polymorph. Never Say That Again: Kryten can't handle being called "tetchy" in Quarantine. Never Smile At a Crocodile: Ace Rimmer's Nazi enemy has a crocodile for a pet, keeping it on his lap and stroking it affectionately, parodying Blofeld's Right-Hand-Cat. He throws it at Ace and jumps out of the plane they're on, but Ace overpowers it and proceeds to "surf" on it in free fall. Never Trust a Trailer: The intro that made it look like an action-heavy adventure show, rather than an irreverent comedy with a sci-fi backdrop. Nietzsche Wannabe: The Inquisitor; subverted by his attempts to populate the universe with meaningful humans. No Budget: Whilst no solid figure has ever been made public, Back To Earth apparently had a very small budget in comparison with previous series. As an example, the final corridor was achieved using a perspective trick, rather than wasting budget on CGI. Non Sequitur Thud: Happens to Kryten after he's used as a battering ram, and briefly starts calling Lister "Susan." And also in Quarantine when the insane Rimmer telekinetically attacks him with a fire axe. Not Quite Saved Enough: Rimmer in Timeslides. No Periods, Period: Lampshaded and averted. It's briefly mentioned in Balance of Power when Kochanski (really (and clearly) Rimmer) claims to be "having a woman's period." In Only the Good..., Lister explains to Kryten why the second Kochanski has said it's the wrong time of the month. Kryten is shocked that television and film have so successfully avoided this. Kryten, armed with this new knowledge of the female body, hilariously averts the trope. Not-So-Innocent Whistle: In Back to Earth, Kryten demonstrates his "Innocent Whistle Mode" after being caught conspiring with Rimmer. No Waterproofing in the Future: Kryten, and all the other Series 4000 mechanoids of his type. Now Do It Again Backwards: It's how Red Dwarf is reconstituted from its High and Low counterparts in Demons and Angels. Obfuscating Stupidity: Holly in Queeg Male Holly in general, arguably. Obsessed Are the Listmakers: The first novel described Arnold Rimmer doing this repeatedly when he tried to take the officers' exams: he would meticulously create his study plan in such great detail that he ended up spending most of his time on it, then had to revise it for the time left, with the same effects until he had no time left for the actual studying. Offscreen Crash: Rimmer in the pilot. Somehow. Oh Crap: Rimmer has this reaction in the "Inquisitor" episode. Rimmer thinks he's found a way out of being judged by the inquisitor because of the legitimate point that he might not get a fair hearing. The Inquisitor then explains that to make the hearing as fair as possible, every person's judge will be... [The Inquisitor opens his helmet, revealing Rimmer's face underneath] Rimmer!Inquisitor: ...Yourself! Rimmer: Oh, smeg! Rimmer!Inquisitor: "Oh smeg!" indeed, matey. Older Than They Look: Kryten. In Back in the Red: Part 1 he tells Dr McLaren that he was created in 2340. Since the events of The End take place in around 2190, and Lister is in stasis for around three million years, that means that when the crew first meet him in Kryten, the eponymous character is roughly two million, nine-hundred and ninty-nine thousand, eight-hundred and fifty years old. Even in a show that hardly prides itself on its consistency and continuity, that's a staggering figure. Once a Season: A Time episode. One-Man Army: Ace Rimmer. In Stoke Me a Clipper, he downs a Luftwaffe plane, takes out a whole squad of Nazi soldiers apart from one and simultaneously rescues a princess. What a guy. One-Scene Wonder: Mr Flibble, despite having only a few minutes of screen time and no recognisable speaking lines, has fans, real hand puppet merchandise and is one of the most memorable examples of Consulting Mister Puppet. The Talkie Toaster. "Would you like some toast?" Opposite Gender Clone: Well, opposite sex dimension in Parallel Universe. Rimmer eventually, after several failures breeds an actual opposite sex clone of himself in the episode Rimmerworld, which even has his face. The Other Darrin: Several: Holly, the ship's computer and most notable example, was played by Norman Lovett for Series I-II and was replaced by Hattie Hayridge for Series III-V before being Put on a Bus in Series VI. When the character returned for Series VIII (and the Series VII finale), Holly was once again played by Norman Lovett. Kryten, the mechanoid, was a one-off character in Series II played by David Ross. When he became a regular in Series III, Ross was unavailable and Robert Llewellyn replaced him for the rest of the show's run. Talkie Toaster (Exactly What It Says on the Tin) was voiced by John Lenahan in Series I and II (although his scenes were cut for the latter.) When the character resurfaced briefly in a Series IV episode (White Hole), not only was he voiced by David Ross (the original Kryten) but the original prop had been replaced as well. Kristine Kochanski was a guest character in Series I, II and VI, and played by Clare Grogan. When the character became a main character in Series VII, Grogan was unavailable and Chloë Annett replaced her. Other Me Annoys Me Overly Long Gag: The aforementioned Everybody's Dead, Dave. Cat: Fish! Food Dispenser: Today's fish is trout a la creme. Enjoy your meal! Cat: So what is it? (in more than one episode) Paint It Black: Evil Holly and Evil Lister in Demons and Angels. Palette-Swapped Alien Food: All over the table in Legion. Parental Incest: Averted in the show, played straight in one of the books. Lister attempts to get off with Kochanski's second incarnation knowing full well she's his mother (via IVF; he's his father). In one of the books, it's suggested he actually does. Given the circumstances, it's kind of too late for him to worry about this. Pass the Popcorn: Watching the black box recording in Thanks for the Memory. Also, in Terrorform, when Rimmer is about to be tortured and Lister explains they can either rescue him or sit and watch, Cat asks if anyone has any opera glasses. Parrot Expo-What?: The Cat does this on occasion, usually having it explained by Kryten. Paying Their Dues: Of the four original main characters, only one was played by an experienced actor. Craig Charles (Lister) was a poet, Danny John-Jules (The Cat) was a dancer, and Norman Lovett (Holly) was a stand-up comic. Phrase Catcher: Ace Rimmer, "What a guy!" Pinball Projectile: In the famous "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" episode. The ultimate example of this is White Hole where multiple planets are crashed into one another in order to plug up the Negative Space Wedgie. Pointy-Haired Boss: Captain Frank Hollister is revealed to have only reached his rank through blackmail (from the lowly position of Doughnut Boy, no less), implying that he is only marginally more qualified than Rimmer or Lister, though clearly more clever and/or more ambitious. Plot Hole: Lister's attempt to make a "gift" of the memories of one his love affairs to Rimmer introduces several of these into Rimmer's life. Rimmer: That's why I was an orphan when both my parents were still alive. That's why I had my appendix out twice. Interestingly, Lister also had his appendix removed twice, as Legion removes his appendix when he realises it's about to kill Lister. Last Human handwaves this by stating that by freak of nature, Lister had two appendices. Some fans claim that this plothole might be explained in the episode DNA. When Lister turns back into a human, it is possible that the DNA machine rebuilt his appendix along with the rest of him. Popular Saying, But...: "Stasis Leak" has: Holly: What I'm saying, Dave, is that it's better to have loved and to have lost... than to listen to an album by Olivia Newton-John. Cat: Why's that? Holly: Anything's better than listening to an album by Olivia Newton-John. Pound of Flesh Twist: Used against the heroes in the final season. Having been imprisoned for stealing and destroying a Starbug, their attempt to escape and prove their innocence demonstrates to the captain that their story is true, exonerating them regarding the theft. But it also demonstrates that they had improperly accessed classified personnel files, a crime carrying exactly the same penalty. (The files would have revealed the Captain bribed his way up the career ladder, which explains why he was looking for the loophole.) Power of Friendship: Inverted. The rest of the crew use this with Rimmer to escape the Psi-Moon in Terrorform. Rimmer is suspicious right from the start, and even when it does work long enough to get them off the moon, Rimmer immediately realizes that it was all tot, and that they meant not a word of it. Much to his displeasure, by that point they're only too happy to confirm his suspicions. Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: "Go for yer guns, ye scum-sucking molluscs!" Precision F-Strike: Rimmer gets to say 'bastard' on four occasions and "bitch" once, all of which count. The show also has precisely one instance of an actual swear word (Cat says "shit" in Emohawk: Polymorph II). Precursors: Subverted: all life in the universe originated on Earth, which makes us the Precursors. Prophetic Fallacy: In Cassandra, Cassandra predicts Rimmer will die in 20 minutes, but doesn't know who Rimmer is. Rimmer gives his jacket and nametag to another crewmember, who does die in 20 minutes, apparently "Rimmer" to any onlooker. Psychic Radar: During the episode "Quarantine," both Lanstrom and Rimmer, under the effects of the Holovirus, are able to home in on the location of the rest of the crew by sensing their thoughts. "Unfortunately she has already found you! Twinkle, twinkle, little eye, now it's time for you to die!" —Dr. Hildegard Lanstrom, Red Dwarf "Qurantine." Put on a Bus: Holly, once in Series VI and VII, and again in the Dave specials Back to Earth (he's fine, just temporarily out of commission for the duration of the episodes). Tropes Q-T[edit \| hide] Ranked by IQ: The crew of the Enlightenment in Holoship not only use this to suggest intelligence, but seem to have a rank structure based around IQ. Reality Subtext: Derailed by large hiatus at peak of UK popularity. Also completely changed the course of Series VIII. Originally, it was going to end with a two-parter, culminating in the crew finally returning to Earth but obliterating civilisation as they arrive. However, circumstances meant the hour-long series opener had to become a three-parter, another episode had to become a two-parter and the series had to finish on a cliffhanger. Meltdown was intended to be the opening episode of Series IV. However it was moved to the sixth and last episode because of concerns that viewers would consider it insensitive due to the Gulf War. If hostilities had continued, it might not have been shown at all. Real Is Grey: The first two series. The interior of the Red Dwarf is almost entirely grey, to the point where Craig Charles noted that his memories of filming the first two series are of grey. An early plot point involved the paint on the walls being changed from ocean grey to military grey. Even the outside of the ship itself had far more of a reddish-grey look in the first series than it did in the others. After the Re-tool of the third series the grey palette was toned down. Real Life Relative: Craig Charles's younger brother Emile plays Lister's 17-year-old younger self in "Timeslides". Robert Llewellyn's wife Judy Pascoe plays the titular love interest's mechanoid form in "Camille". Alexander John-Jules (Danny's nephew) as Baby Lister in Ouroboros. Rash Equilibrium: The climax of "Justice". Reality Warping Is Not a Toy "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "Time Slides," a distraught and disillusioned Lister blasts through a list of reasons he's sick of his fellow crew members—the vast majority aimed at and said to Rimmer, including, "... the fact that you always smile when you're being insulted." In "Terrorform", Kryten gives a long, in-depth list on why Rimmer would have such a strong sense of self-loathing. Kryten goes on for over a minute, and when interrupted by Rimmer, Kryten points out that he is only halfway through. Ironically, Kryten was being polite and informative, rather than condescending. Rimmer's worst moment came when he was being tried for the deaths of everyone aboard the Red Dwarf. Kryten argued that Rimmer was not responsible, as it was his commanding office who gave such an obvious incompetant such an important job. As Kryten said, "Sir, my entire argument relies on proving that you are a dork!", and concludes that the only thing foolish enough to actually appoint Rimmer any job of important was, "Only a yogurt!" And the fact that Rimmer kept whining "Objection!" throughout it all only helped Kryten's case had to have grated as well. Kryten: He is only guilty of being Arnold Rimmer. That is his crime. It is also his punishment. A Ret-Gone Lister proves he does know Rimmer by giving an awesome summation of Rimmer's sheer fail-itude. The Cat grinned at Rimmer and said "He's got you there!" Rimmer gets them back in "Out Of Time" when he appoints himself Morale Officer, in charge of boosting the spirits of the crewmembers. This appears to involve walking up to each of them and yelling a lengthy list of all the things about them that irritate him at them. Recycled in Space: Literally - cast and crew have repeatedly described the Canaries as 'The Dirty Dozen in space.' The original pitch of the show relied on convincing the Beeb that it wasn't a sci-fi epic, but more like "Steptoe and Son in space". Red Alert: An alert status in Star Bug one step up from Blue Alert, although it does mean changing the bulb. Red Eyes, Take Warning: Doctor Lanstrom and later Rimmer in Quarantine. Refugee From TV Land: The crew - or so they initially think in Back To Earth. Replacement Goldfish: Averted when Kryten defeats Hudzen. Referenced when Rimmer becomes the next Ace. Reset Button: White Hole (although a later episode implies it wasn't quite a total reset) and the beginning of Tikka to Ride after everyone aboard Starbug had been killed and the craft exploded at the end of Out of Time. Retcon: Originally, Lister merely had an unrequited and unacted-upon crush on Kochanski; however, the writers gradually decided that his constant yearning for someone he'd never had anything meaningful with made him a little bit pathetic, and so quietly adjusted this to make Kochanski an ex-girlfriend he'd never gotten over being dumped by following a short-lived romance. Ret-Gone: What the Inquisitor does to people who fail to justify themselves. Retool: The writers were always willing to pick quality over continuity, no matter how drastic the change. Revival - Two of them: Series VII was broadcast after a four-year hiatus, and the three-part Back to Earth was broadcast after a ten-year hiatus. Rewrite: Too many to count. The creators always maintained that if altering the Backstory could improve the show, then they should alter it. Although some of it makes sense. Whose idea was it to give Rimmer a job that could endanger the entire crew? Then they used Rule of Funny and rewrote the Rewrite, implying that the job was so easy that anyone that could mess it up must have the brains the size of a newt's testicle. Ridiculous Future Sequelisation: There is a passing mention of Friday the 13th: Part 3,721. Right Hand Crocodile: The Big Bad in the opening for Stoke Me A Clipper has one. It's even credited as "Alison the Crocodile", despite being made of rubber. Right Behind Me: Rimmer realizes, too late, that's where Captain Hollister is standing. Robo Cam: Hudzen in The Last Day, Kryten in Terrorform. Robo-Family: Kryten has a brother, Able, who was created by the same woman. Robot Religion: The Electronic Bible (with version numbers) and Silicon Heaven, concepts created by humanity and installed in every artificially intelligent device that could possibly pose a threat if it Turned Against Its Masters in order to keep them under control with a belief that if they accept a lifetime of slavery they will get their eternal reward in the next life. Very cheap and simple machines that couldn't possible pose any threat such as talking toasters don't get installed with belief chips so most kitchen appliances are atheists. Rule of Funny: The writers have no problem tossing the show's conventions aside if they can get a better laugh without them. Notable examples include Kryten's lies; they normally had to be preceded by Kryten declaring himself to be in "Lie Mode" (obviously undermining the believability of his lie), except when they didn't. Kryten: You won't feel a thing. I'll render you unconcious using the Ionian nerve grip. Rimmer closes his eyes and braces himself as Kryten grabs his neck... and then breaks a vase over his head. Rimmer: That's not an Ionian nerve grip! That's smashing me over the head with a vase! Kryten: There's no such thing as an Ionian nerve grip. Now stand still while I hit you. Which is actually a bit of Fridge Brilliance, as Lister was working with Kryten to become a better liar. Rule Number One: The Space Corps Directives. Running Gag: Many in the later seasons, including Rimmer's inability to correctly quote Space Corps directives, Cat's repeated bemoaning that "we're deader than (insert bygone fashion trend here)!", Kryten describing Cat's (typically ridiculous) plans as "excellent, with just two minor drawbacks", and exchanges like these regarding Starbug's performance: Lister: The Centauri can travel at speeds that we can only dream of! Cat: Most ice cream vans can travel at speeds we can only dream of! Kryten: Sir, a class A enforcement orb can easily outrun us. Lister: Kryten, the Eastbourne Zimmer frame relay team can easily outrun us. Kryten: It's impossible to tell at this range, whatever it is, they clearly have a technology way in advance of our own. Lister: So do the Albanian state washing machine company. Sacrificial Lamb: The Red Dwarf crew in the first episode. Several of them reappeared in flashbacks, and the entire crew were resurrected for series 8. Sapient Ship: Holly is pretty well alive and aware. Satire, Parody, Pastiche: Many over the years, including Casablanca in Camille and Blade Runner in Back to Earth. Save the Princess: In the Ace Rimmer segment which opens Stoke Me a Clipper, this is what he does. While fighting the Nazis. And an alligator. Scaled Up: The first Polymorph turns into a snake, but not for combat reasons - being an Emotion Eater, it drives Lister to the height of his fear (as Lister is scared of snakes, according to this episode), before sucking it out. Scary Black Man: Queeg. Screw Yourself: Dave Lister has drunken sex with his gender opposite, Deb Lister, in the Opposite Sex dimension, which leads to him actually getting pregnant despite his protestations of "But I can't be pregnant! I'm a guy! I don't have the... equipment!" (see also entry on the trope page) Cat plans to have sex with himself (the only person he could ever love), but his opposite is actually a male dog. Arlene Rimmer also comes on to Arnold rather strongly, despite the mutual Rimmers' apparent disgust towards Deb and Dave doing the deed, but then hypocrisy is hardly out of character for Rimmer. Second Face Smoke: Lister and Rimmer are in the movie theater, all alone, and Rimmer insists that Lister, who is smoking, move three seats over to be in the smoking section. Lister blows smoke right through Rimmer's face. Second Law, My Ass: Abel. Even though he comes from the same model as Kryten, who is logical, intelligent and usually doing the cleaning, Abel's addicted to Otrazone, lives in squalor, and doesn't appear to have enough brain left to tell right from wrong. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Cassandra claims that a character will die of a heart attack after being told he's going to die of a heart attack. Similarly, she prophesies that she will be killed by one Dave Lister; Lister's conscious attempt not to harm her leads to her accidental demise. In "Future Echoes", Rimmer sees an echo of Dave dying at a computer console. To prove the future isn't set in stone, he tries to prevent another echo, Cat breaking a tooth. Bet you can't guess what happens next. "I'm gonna get you little fishy..." Sequel Hook: At the end of the Polymorph, after the crew defeats the eponymous creature, it is revealed that a second one has made it on board. Subverted in the remastered version, in which on-screen text reveals that this one, much less intelligent than the first, took up residence harmlessly in Lister's underwear drawer and eventually died of old age. Doubly subverted by Emohawk: Polymorph II three series later in which they meet another one. Share the Male Pain: Referenced and explained in the episode "Legion", where the titular Legion explains that any pain he feels is conveyed to the rest of the crew. He stabs his hand to show them, and then... Legion: "The next hint of insurrection, and the scalpel ends up... here." Kryten: "That kind of tough talk doesn't scare us." Lister, Rimmer and Cat: "Yes it does!" Shirtless Scene: Three of the four main cast (even Kryten), except, oddly, for the Cat, who is supposed to be the most sexy. May have to do with the fact that the Cat mentions he perms his leg hair and that he once mentioned six of his nipples tingling. Lister: You perm your leg hairs?! Cat: Only as an aid to the natural curl! Shoot the Bullet: The Riviera Kid demonstrates this ability in the VR episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse. Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The entire Felix Sapien (Felis sapiens) Civil Wars. They fought over the colour the hats should be (red or blue). Not only would Lister not have approved, but they both were wrong (he wanted green). Leads into Silly Reason for War. In the books, they also disagreed on the direction of the planet, which made a bit more sense, what with the one ship. This happened in the series also. Two arks were built with one crashing into an asteroid. Show Stopper: Usually unplanned, as the actors have to stand awkwardly in place waiting for the laughs to die down so they can continue. On one occasion the laugh was so long it had to be edited down. Inverted for Series VII, which was not shot in front of a live audience, but the episodes were later played for an audience and their recorded responses dubbed over the episodes for broadcast. This resulted in some jokes and lines of dialogue being submerged under the laughter, since the cast would not know to pause for laughter. Some DVD and VHS releases of the series have the laugh track removed. Shrine to the Fallen: Back To Earth implies that an extra bit of the ship has been built (or at least cleaned up specially, which is a pretty big deal for Lister) just to house a commemorative gravestone to Kochanski. Shout-Out: The first two series' title music is very reminiscent of Also Sprach Zarathustra, and the sequence is in line with scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey that utilise said music. The name Holly is a Shout-Out to 2001's HAL, too, as is the fact that Holly, or "Hol" as Lister sometimes calls him, refers to David Lister as "Dave." (In the radio sketch series Dave Hollins, Space Cadet on which the series is based, the computer was known as 'Hab'.) Speaking of music, Ace "What a guy!" Rimmer's theme in Dimension Jump could very well be a shout out to "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun. A different theme was used in Stoke Me A Clipper. There's a Shout-Out to Die Hard 2: Die Harder in "DNA"; Lister exclaims "How can the same smeg happen to the same guy twice?" after he is attacked yet again by his favorite foods. The Cat responds "Last time it was hors d'oeuvres, this time it's lunch!" referencing the film poster tagline for Aliens. Queeg's name (and most of his episode's plot) is a shout out to The Caine Mutiny. The episode "Backwards" mentions a mysterious bankrobber named Michael Ellis. The in-universe TV show "Androids" has a theme song that sounds suspiciously like the long-running Australian soap drama, Neighbours. "Androids, everybody needs good Androids...." Shown Their Work: In the DVD Commentary for the pilot episode, Danny John-Jules mentions researching cats and their behavior for his role. Silly Reason for War: The conflict which almost wiped out the Cat race was fought over their different interpretations of Lister's favourite colour for the hats at the hot dog and donut stand in Fiji. They were both wrong. Smart People Play Chess: Used by Queeg after being challenged to a duel by Holly. An earlier Season II episode had Holly engaged in a game of postal chess with Gordon, the A.I on another JMC vessel. They only managed one move, though. Smart People Wear Glasses: Geeky genius-Rimmer wears glasses after his mind patching in Holoship. Similarly in Polymorph, after the chameleonic lifeform has drained away all of Rimmer's anger, he turns into an ultra-pacifist liberal sporting hornrimmed glasses and a goatee and proposes to hit the monster with "a major leaflet campaign". Also, in White Hole, they were originally going to make Holly bald with tea-shades, after her IQ goes to 12,000. Snap Back: Episodes frequently end with the crew in weird situations (trapped in a parallel universe, trapped in virtual reality, menaced by a shapeshifting monster, etc.) that have been tacitly resolved by the beginning of the next episode. One exception is the final episode of the first season, which picks up where the previous episode ended, pretty much just because the writers had been able to think of an episode's worth of more jokes to get out of the closing gag. Sound to Screen Adaptation: Red Dwarf was born as a short serial in the radio comedy show Son of Cliche, also written by Grant/Naylor. The parent "series" on radio was called Dave Hollis: Space Cadet and contained sketches and ideas later recycled for the TV series. Spaceship Girl: Holly starts off as a male AI interface, but undergoes a sex change after the second season. Note: Holly in either incarnation was attracted to other AI (and sometimes even humans) of the opposite gender. The series never calls attention to the inherent questions this raises, and it's probably best not to think about it too much. It's not at all hard to understand; when Holly appeared female, the man she was attracted to was Ace "Even the Guys Want Him" Rimmer. Spiritual Successor: To Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, a radio series written as a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAB was renamed Holly in order to change the character from a HAL expy and Dave Hollins became Dave Lister, as there was a footballer by the name of Dave Hollins at the time. Rimmer and the Cat were added and the rest is history. Spot the Imposter: In Psirens. The real Lister couldn't play guitar to save his life, but since he thinks he can play guitar like a pro, the Psiren that had taken Lister's form read his mind and played guitar accordingly. And was promptly shot. The 'imposter' Lister's hands are played by Phil Manzanera. Apparently the writers wanted Brian May of Queen for that part, but he wasn't available - but his wife, actress Anita Dobson, got the part of Captain Tau. Sorry I Fell on Your Fist: The "Good" or "High" version of the crew members from Demons and Angels. With knives and bullets from the "Low" Dwarfers. "I appear to have stained your knife-end with my blood. Forgive me, brother." dies "He has just shot me four times in the chest! Oh, how I love him!" "Brother; there is a grievous fault with thine weapon. It keepeth shooting people." blam "You see? There it goes again!" Stealth Parody: Kryten and the whole 4000 series of mechanoids are a parody of Prof. Mamet's fiancee. None of the 4000s know this until they are given the code to unlock the file. Stop Trick: For the purpose of grabbing hologrammatic items from the air. Studio Audience: Had one until the end of series 8. More special effects heavy episodes ("Backwards", "Bodyswap") and the more filmic seventh series had the audience response to a preview tape rather than a Laugh Track. If there's ever a series 9 then it will likely go back to having an audience, as both Chris Barrie and Craig Charles have said that unless the scripts are awesome beyond belief, they will only sign on if at least a majority of the filming is done in front of an audience. Subverted Trope: Several. Swirly Energy Thingy: The source of many entertaining quotes on the matter. Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: Rimmer manages to somehow return to life in Timeslides. In celebration, he goes around feeling objects, something he was unable to do for three million years. Unfortunately, he accidentally strikes some volatile explosives. Take That, Audience!: "The Cat's looking so geeky he couldn't get into a science fiction convention!" Done in a much more direct manner in the Smeg Ups and Smeg Outs videos, where Kryten reads out fan mail criticising the continuity and logic errors in the show, and then berates the people who wrote the letters, accusing them of having no life. Tanks for The Memories: Fittingly, in "Thanks for the Memory." Temporal Paradox: Lister is the son of his future self and the alternate Kochanski. The whole thing is neatly sewn up by the word "Ouroboros", implying it's a cycle, a temporal loop. Also, the battle between Starbug and future Starbug in Out of Time. The evil crew win with their advanced weapons systems, but because they destroyed their previous selves, they didn't exist to fight Starbug. Lister, in the next episode, tried to explain why they weren't dead, but the camera he was talking to exploded. Terraform: Terrorform somewhat, Back to Reality, Rimmerworld. Technology Marches On: Lampshaded in Back to Earth when Kryten and Lister discuss how 21st century DVDs were later replaced by "superior" technology—video tapes—because those were too large to lose, whereas it was scientifically proven that humans are incapable of putting DVDs back into their box... neatly explaining why the early series has the characters using VHS tapes despite the series being set in the future. This Explains So Much: The crew's reaction when Queeg reveals that Holly's astronavigational charts are really a children's astronomy book. That Makes Me Feel Angry: Invoked after Kryten is ordered into a waste compactor by a Psiren and crushed into a cube. Kryten: I'm almost annoyed. The Caligula: In 'Rimmerworld', Rimmer genetically engineers an entire society made of clones of himself. He becomes The Caligula of his own society only to be overthrown by his underlings, much like the historical figure this trope is based on. Caligula himself appears in 'Meltdown', though he's a mere mook to higher ranking dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Herman Goering. This Is a Work of Fiction: In the episode "Better Than Life", a newsreader reports having found the page like this for The Bible. This Is Not a Drill: In "Marooned"; "This is not a drill. This is a drill." [sound of a jackhammer] And in a later episode when Holly's grammar chip is damaged... "Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil. Repeat, this is not a daffodil!" "Three Laws"-Compliant: Most androids are programmed with something pretty close. Mechanoid characters can take "Asimov's Law" as a flaw in the RPG. This Is Sparta: In "DNA", Cat is fiddling with the DNA machine trying to get Lister out, but with little success. Lister responds with, "Do. Nothing! Press. Nothing! GET! KRYTEN!" Time Travel: "Stasis Leak", "Backwards", "Timeslides", "Out of Time", "Tikka to Ride" and probably more. Particularly hilarious towards the middle of "Out of Time", where they come into possession of a "time drive" and play with it a bit before realizing it's completely, utterly useless while they're still physically located 3 million years away from Earth. It doesn't do space, just time. But they did get to experience the heady medieval atmosphere of pre-Renaissance deep-space. The Fridge Brilliance never hit the characters: if they have a Time Drive, they can go back in time to 3 million years before they departed Earth (give a few for margin of error,) set course for home, head back into stasis, and arrive home around the time Red Dwarf was departing. Timey-Wimey Ball: Several: White Hole, Timeslides, The Inquisitor, Out of Time... In fact, due to the Boys from the dwarfs Once a Season romp through history, this can be said for the timeline In-Universe Title Drop: "Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas!". "Only the good die young!" Beyond a Joke, Back to Reality, the last one even getting an Ironic Echo. Title Sequence Replacement: After the second series, the following episodes contained clips from specific to the series it was in. Tomato in the Mirror: Rimmer in "Rimmerworld". Also parodied in "Out of Time" with "robo"-Lister. Rimmer, Captain Hollister and the rest of the Red Dwarf crew who died in the first episode get resurrected as clones in Season VIII unaware they are all clones. Too Soon: The running order of Series IV was changed because of the Gulf War. Transformation Ray: The DNA machine in "DNA". Trash of the Titans Traveling Pipe Bulge: In "Polymorph". Treacherous Spirit Chase: "Psirens" is one long exploration of this trope: the Psirens are able to read the minds of their prey and create a personalized hallucination to lure them to their doom. Lister, for instance, sees an image of his beloved Kochanski and their two sons in mortal danger on the planetoid below. Kryten recognizes the Psiren as such but is unable to disobey his programming when the Psiren imitates his creator and orders him to climb into the waste disposal unit. Trojan Prisoner: Lister, with the help of the Cat and Kochanski. True Companions: The crew aren't the closest-knit bunch, but this gets them out of the trap of Rimmer's mind in "Terrorform". Once they're safe, they immediately and unanimously confirm to Rimmer that they didn't mean any of it. Tyrant Takes the Helm: Queeg taking over from Holly. Holly plays out the trope, pretending to be Queeg to make the crew appreciate him. Tropes U-Z[edit \| hide] Uncanny Valley: Invoked in Out of Time, where Kryten claims this is why he looks less human than previous droids. Although this doesn't explain why his successor, Hudzen-10, looks more human. Also, Holly's forgotten command scene from Demons and Angels. Un Installment: Back to Earth pretends to be set after a fictional Series IX and X during which, among other Noodle Incidents, hologram Rimmer returned and Kochanski died (or did she?). Unreliable Narrator: The Rimmer ride from Blue, while programmed by Kryten, was based on entries from Rimmer's journal. Unusual Euphemism: Smeg. At least, it was supposed to be a thoroughly fictional profanity. Rimmer: Why don't you smegging well smeg off, you annoying little smeggy smegging smegger? In the earlier seasons, goit and gimboid appeared. Earlier episodes also featured the fictional insult "you're being a total Gwenlan", apparently named after a producer who turned down the original pilot. Turns out a smeghead is actually a pretty nasty thing to call someone. (NSFW) Used Future: From Series III onwards, when Mel Bibby became the set designer. The first two series were meant to have a grey submarine feel, but really just looked like plywood walls painted grey. Use Your Head: Kryten, in White Hole. Villain Song: Blue's Rimmer could perhaps be a subversion. It's not actually Rimmer (it's a simulation created from Rimmer's logbook). Although he's not technically a villain, it proves to Lister that Rimmer was an antagonist. Virtual Ghost: Rimmer. Voluntary Shapeshifter: The two Polymorphs. Waif Prophet: Subverted. Weapon for Intimidation: In Rimmerworld, the characters have a bazookoid they can't actually fire, because it'd damage the ship and cause it to fall apart. It's for psychological purposes only. We Need a Distraction: Played embarrassingly straight by Kryten in The Inquisitor. Kryten: "Excuse me, could I just distract you for just a brief second?" What's a Henway?: Rimmer practicing his "wormdo" pickup line in "Parallel Universe". Rimmer: Look, you're not giving me the right reply! Lister: What is the right reply? Rimmer: I come to you, saying "Would you like to join me at a cocktail?", you say "Yes", I say "Would you like a wormdo", you say "What's a wormdo?" And I say... Lister: Oh, it wriggles along the ground like that? Rimmer: You know it? Whole-Plot Reference: "The Last Day" is based on the Jack Nicholson film The Last Detail. Who Shot JFK?: He shot himself. Wig, Dress, Accent: Rimmer disguises himself as Ace in Stoke Me a Clipper using this technique. Only Lister is in on the act; it works on the others. In fact, this is essentially how Aces are made. Wine Is Classy: Discussed when Lister complains about "total smegheads" who always drink wine. "It's never beer, is it? It's always wine. 'What do you want on your cornflakes, darling?' Oh, I'll have some WINE, please!" A Wizard Did It: In one of the Smeg Ups specials, Kryten used this as an explanation. You Look Familiar: Tony Hawks, who plays the in-game guide to Better than Life later appears in Backwards, introducing the Sensational Reverse Brothers. He had also previously been the voice of the vending machines in the first series and later played Caligula in the fourth. He reprised the vending machine role in Only The Good.... The cast referred to him as "The Fifth Dwarfer" during the first two seasons. The show also contains a deliberate example; between Series II and III, the change in actor for Holly is explained away as him having fallen in love with his mirror universe counterpart Hilly, to the extent that he decided he wanted to become her. You Need to Get Laid: The all-male cast's massive sexual frustration is something of a Running Gag in the early seasons, though this tapers off after the rest of the crew are brought back... with one unsurprising exception: Kochanski: "...Rimmer?" Rimmer: "Yes, ma'am?" Kochanski: "Have sex with someone, and that's an order." Rimmer: "Yes, ma'am. Right away, ma'am." Lister: (hands Rimmer a business card) "Here -- ring this number, say I sent you. Tell them it's an emergency." Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: When the crew is confronted by brain-eating monsters, Rimmer deadpans that there's "barely a snack onboard." You Will Be Beethoven: See Who Shot JFK?. Zany Scheme: The jailbreak in Rimmerworld. Immediately followed by A Simple Plan. Zero-G Spot: Referenced, if not seen. ↑ This is later contradicted by the series 2 episode "Better than Life", where the ship has already turned around and started heading towards Earth Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Dwarf&oldid=1665885" Science Fiction Series Science Fiction Tabletop Games Fantastic Comedy Britcom Trope Overdosed Britain's Best Sitcom	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line842
__label__cc	0.710418	0.289582	Many are not familiar with a lot of the angels that I discuss. I have in my own experience, known the angels above, and saw of those who fell below. I gave a thorough explanation of the rebellions in the introduction to this section, and now I wish to give more information on who was involved in each one, but this will be about the First Rebellion itself. The angels known on Earth, Good or Bad, are all known as a part of teachings being retaught or revisited just new faces and new methods. No one gives new information, and that is because they do not go deeper. I will. The angels of the first rebellion were many. 27 commanders, and 200 under each. 27, yes.. Many say only 20. In the book of Enoch only 20 are listed but there were actually 27. They will not give you all truths. Not like me, Alura Cein. Who only wants for everyone to have great wisdom. The angels responsible for the fall in the first rebellion are: Semjaza the leader was in the atmosphere in those days, and his co-commander, Azazel, moved him to want to manifest. Semjaza said “If we do this here, I will be blamed”, Azazel told him ” If you proceed, we will all go down with you, for the fault, not you alone.” Semjaza saw a woman beautiful, and his heart became enarmored. He agreed. Upon coming to the earthly abode, he saw men and their on coming changes which brought illness, so he taught the secrets of enchantments and root-cutting. In this, medicine could be made, to make up for the imperfections and disease which he had caused.Azazel was the one responsible for teaching mankind metal work, mining, and making weapons. This was for warfare that he knew, would take place as the world changed around them.. Many others came with these two… Araqiel taught humans the seasons, he knew the turns of the earth and the weather which came with it, even though weather was different then. Araqiel had part in the rotations of earth, as a throne working in the turn of the axis. His power and wisdom makes the seasons, but also revealed them. Armaros , he taught sorcery, wizardry, and how to scry to the people, to help then in rituals taught to them, to use with the seasons. Baraqijal taught with his brother Kokabiel, astrology and the movements of the constellations. Sariel helped them give the directions and phases of the moon, while Shamsiel revealed the secrets of the sun.. The things the angels were teaching humans, were actually helping them, through magic and ritual, to build the grid entrapping souls in this world. The seasons, astrological movements, and ceremonies, and ritual along with the natural energies. This is why many ancient teachings surround magic. Ezequeel taught the secrets of clouds, weather, and meteorology .To keep records of these things, to document them and have them passed down to generations, the Angel Penemue taught the humans,writing with ink and paper. And so, the history of the world and the teachings of angels, were written and passed down. There were many others of importance involved too. many commanders under them of other angels in all. Arakiba, Baraqijal, Danel, Ezeqeel, Kokabiel, Ramiel, and Rameel. These are the Angelic Leaders who lead the 200 angels to choose human wives. They all did.. Including the higher commanders Samjaza, and Azazel. Others invoked included: Ananel taught sacred geometry. Armaros, he taught the process of baking brick. Asael, he taught the filtering of minerals from water. Batarel, taught how to make love, in all of its many ways. Jomjael, showed men to be lovers with one another. Sariel, taught embalming, suicide, and the art of mummification, burial, and proper preperation of the corpse for death rituals. Samsapeel, he taught women makeup, painting of the body, and lesbianism. Satariel, is attributed to teaching body piercing and tribal art. He liked seeing the decorative bodies, wearing symbols of Earth and fealty to these commanders. Angel Tamiel taught a reverse wisdom to the truths of the matrix Metatron tried to teach. She went forth and taught humanity how to read the stars along side of Kokabiel and Baraqiel. Turiel, taught abortion and the prevention of fertility and Zaquiel taught how to enhance conception and fertility. All of these angels giving secrets, maybe some of them, humans should not have known. The Creator was angry as humans now were altered. Samjaza offered to them an ability to forget spirit as it is truly known, and focus totally on being physical, in this reality. There was no going back. But, they would be sorry, only because they could not return home to the high heavens ever again.. This is when the found the descendant of Noah much later, as they had known the Creator took delight in this family line for their true love and purity in their souls. They called on Enoch to bare witness, and plead on their behalf, but instead of redemption, punishment was issued. DNA of humans would be altered as well. The angels in this rebellion changed the face of earth forever. War would not occur in heaven until the second rebellion.. For now, the fallen angels would be confined to their punishment for 70 generations.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line843
__label__wiki	0.883884	0.883884	Home News Daily Discovery NewsDaily DiscoveryHome Featured Post Daily Discovery: Maude Latour Mixes Electro with Emotion Singer/songwriter Maude Latour is a wild blend of ridiculous intelligence and self aware fun. Her interest in metaphysics, modern-day politics, and the layered facets of spirituality juxtapose curiously with a fizzy, space pop soundscape. Her songs have an energy that is shot through a canon and come back down to earth inside of a landscape of alt, electro, and indie pop. It is a mix of Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift — weighty, yes, but listen below. Her new single, Lovesick is the sixth track, but the best track, on her new EP, ‘Starsick’. It is an exploration of the anguish and physical wear and tear related to heartache. “Lovesick makes me cry for a lot of reasons. I learned about lovesickness from a college class. We read so many texts like Sappho, or Virgil’s Aeneid where love is treated like a disease. It used to be diagnosed by doctors. The thing is, lovesickness truly is so physical and all consuming,” she told American Songwriter. “It affects my immune system, my clarity and the way I’m operating. It’s insane how powerful heartache is, it is the stuff of life. This song is about these feelings; acknowledging their power, letting it go and being grateful for how lucky we are to feel any sort of connection between people despite how much space there is in the world. “The chorus here is truly a choir. I was feeling so fed up with hooks and song structure and insisted on writing a choir of different parts overlapping to make an angelic symphony. This is ‘Lovesick.’” The EP also features her hit single “Shoot and Run,” that’s brimming with striking melodies, pristine synth-pop inflections, and Maude’s velvety vocals. The teenage love anthem copes with the personal tussles of repairing a relationship that appears to have gone awry somewhere along the way. “Ride My Bike” finds Maude crooning through vocal harmonies and lilting melodies. The EP culminates with the latest single, “Lovesick.” The pacing of the EP was born of her view of current music trends. Both positive and negative. “I was getting so sick of the formats of songs today, all I wanted was to be back in choir and have millions of parts as a symphony of sound, words overlapped, just creating a total lucic soundscape,” Latour said. “I’m so glad that lovesick is the result of that dream. I started writing it on my piano, it was the symphonic strings that really pushed the tone of the song into a reality. This song has increased in meaning for me since I wrote it, I honestly can barely listen to it now, it makes me cry.” Maude Latour Daily Discovery: Victoria Bigelow Discusses New Single, “To Everyone I’ve Loved Before” Macie Bennett - January 17, 2020 In an industry where it is easy to over produce and turn a once unstripped piece of art into a polished piece... Daily Discovery: Brooklyn’s Surf Rock is Dead Raises Genre From The Grave On New Track, “Diabolik” Joe Vitagliano - January 17, 2020 Surf Rock is Dead — an on-the-rise indie group from Brooklyn — unveiled their newest single, “Diabolik.” The song is the third...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line847
__label__cc	0.742911	0.257089	5 Speed Bumps on the road to innovation When you’re in the early stages of creating an innovative product, success comes from running many small, high-learning experiments. When these experiments slow down or stall out, it’s often due to well-meaning people who don’t understand the nature of early product development. As you’re building and developing your innovative product, watch out for these speedbumps along your path. Speedbump #1: The Mass Market Visionary Mass Market Visionaries are focused on where their product is headed, and what it could be — not where it is RIGHT NOW. They’re uncomfortable focusing on a small early market of customers who don’t necessarily fit their big vision of a mass-market product. Problem is — if you’re building something innovative and you don’t capture and delight your micro-vertical, you won’t get the chance to HAVE a mass market to worry about. Teams that stumble often go broad FIRST, and skip over the crucial stage of finding and delighting their micro-vertical. A few years back, we worked on an innovative, high-profile ARG (Alternate Reality Game) that was designed for a casual, mass-market audience — and guess what? The enthusiastic (and technically adept) early adopters got in there first, chewed through the content ahead of schedule, gleefully shared “secrets” and spoilers on their favorite geeky forums, posted scathing reviews, and ruined the party for everyone. That ambitious game never reached its intended audience — in part because the team skipped the early adopters in its customer development. We re-learned this lesson painfully with a recent client who built a fantastic, innovative educational gaming system — but couldn’t find that crucial early enthusiast market, went broad to lackluster sales, and subsequently folded. If your product is mainstream-friendly and easy to understand, go ahead and target the masses. But if you’re building something innovative,mainstream consumers won’t be able to understand or value your creation — or give you the feedback you need to evolve. Speedbump #2: The Passionate Believer It takes superhuman self-control to listen dispassionately while early customers rip apart your beloved ideas. Entrepreneurs who believe deeply in their idea will be sorely tempted to focus on results that confirm their beliefs. Passionate Believers tend to dismiss or derail customer insights that don’t support the outcome they want to see. Sometimes they’ll partner up with Data Nazis (see below) to bolster their case for ignoring the results of subjective customer research. The simplest way to manage this is to remove the entrepreneur from the face-to-face customer interviews. Instead, have a dispassionate third party (internal or external) collect the data. I went through this recently with a startup founder with a background in consumer research. Naturally, he was eager to conduct the early customer interviews, and sure that he’s be an impartial interviewer. Yet during those sessions, his entrepreneurial passion and belief took over — he just couldn’t resist asking leading questions about the product, and trying to talk people out of their reactions. To counteract this natural tendency, we decided to train a more junior person to conduct the interviews, and use the entrepreneur’s oversight and guidance to refine the interview script and lead the data analysis. This setup allowed us to get the honest feedback we needed to shape the product into a service that today has thousands of paying subscribers. Speedbump #3: The Data Nazi Some people worship at the altar of Analytics, and believe that actionable research ALWAYS involves A/B testing and thousands of data points. That’s great if you’re optimizing an existing product, but a total FAIL for bringing something new and innovative to life. Data Nazis don’t have much hands-on experience bringing innovative products to life. They set themselves up as the champions of TRUTH, and dismiss any qualitative research as “unscientific” to push their own agenda. I once worked with an inspiring, fast-growing startup to upgrade their website design and internal processes. We interview early customers, mocked up and tested several variations on the core functionality, found a winning design that met our product goals and got high subjective ratings from carefully selected early customers. One project manager hated the new design, which was going to be challenging to implement. Along with a branding firm (that wanted to redesign the site themselves), an internal team dismissed our prototyping and user feedback results as “too small and subjective to count” without analytics on thousands of testers. That startup now has a re-branded website with a fresh new logo and colors and… largely the same layout and functionality as before. A few months later, my former client’s key competitor launched an ALMOST IDENTICAL version of the design we’d come up with via iterative prototyping and testing. It looks and works GREAT. That was a complex, bittersweet moment for me. Innovation comes from iterative prototyping and testing. Analytics come later. Know when to use both. Speedbump #4: The Cautious Thinker Every successful, high-performing MVP team I’ve worked with is empowered to do fast, iterative decision-making. If your team is weighed down by fearful, cautious thinkers, your speed and agility will be severely hampered. Cautious Thinkers don’t like to be wrong. They feel uncomfortable making decisions without enough data to feel confident. If a key leader takes this approach to MVP development, your progress and learning will slow to a crawl. The most effective MVP teams make lots of small, revocable decisions to keep moving – and use Lean tactics to recover quickly and learn from mistakes. Speedbump #5: The High-Gloss Champion Whenever I see entrepreneurs focus on polished visuals before working out their core activities and systems, my confidence in their success plummets. Visual quality is important at some stages of product development — you don’t want to ship an ugly, hard-to-use product. During the fast-iteration stages of early customer discovery, focusing on polished visuals is a major speedbump. High-gloss champions are deeply attached to polished visuals, and have a hard time imagining how sketches and wireframes might evolve into something wonderful. These same people can be fooled by hi-res visuals into thinking something is further along than it is (AKA “The Clinkle Effect”) Recently, I worked with a brilliant young CEO — a product marketer by background — who came to me with beautiful, hi-res mockups of an innovative product concept. Unfortunately, he was convinced that these mockups were “close to final product” (they weren’t) — and pushed to see that level of visual polish in everything we showed to early customers during our needs-finding research. Guess what happened? Our MVP progress slowed to a crawl. Even worse, the team became attached to the visuals we’d so carefully crafted — even when customer testing showed us that the value proposition wasn’t right. The more polished the visuals, the harder they are to change — both emotionally and technically.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line851
__label__cc	0.65687	0.34313	Grace for Single Parents By Jen Smith Encouragement for single parents in their current season with practical tips and advice with grace and hope. Where your single parenting journey and God's grace collide! How to Declutter When You Hate to Clean As a single parent, all cleaning and decluttering come down to me doing the work and two kids to clutter the house up. Plus, I find decluttering tedious. Sound familiar? I'll discuss how I declutter my house using areas. Get your free printable to declutter along with me this year from the resource library. Grab show notes from this episode along with more tips and links to other decluttering ideas here. Bonus Interview: Get Bossy with Your Budget Julie from the Bossy House joins the podcast to discuss why everyone needs to get bossy with their budget. Show notes can be found here as well as more about Julie and the Bossy House. Download Julie's free templates here. Personal Goal Setting for Single Parents After a significant life shift, like divorce or separation, taking the time to re-evaluate your life with simple goals can reinvigorate you. Goals don't have to be long and complicated. Goal Setting can be simple and even fun. Grab your simple goal setting sheets from the resource library for free here. Show notes for this episode can be found here. Single Parent Tips for Spending Holidays Alone For lots of single parents, being alone on the holidays is a reality. How you cope on the holiday without your kids and when you're by yourself on an emotional day can be tricky. I asked my community to help me come up with this list of single-parent tips for spending the holidays alone. Show notes can be found here. Joining the free 5-day positivity challenge for Single Parents here. Bonus Interview: How to Stop Bad Mouthing Your Ex Please welcome my first guest, Chere Williams! Chere brings so much wisdom to the conversation today from her own experience and from speaking to single moms over the course of her ministry. Chere walks us through 3 steps of how to find healing from pasts hurts that lead you to bad mouth your ex. Mentioned in today's episode: Read the Chapter How to Stop Bad-Mouthing Your Ex from Chere's eBook of 15 Tips to Single Mom Burnout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rQlPuZ8JTwZoBVjNRI-VeE98QbW0zso6/view Show Notes from Today's Episode Which Includes Free Downloads to do Your Own Prayer Challenge From Chere!: https://sunflowermom.com/how-to-stop-bad-mouthing-your-ex/ Check out Chere's New Blog: Faith, Coffee, and Kid: https://www.faithcoffeeandakid.com/ 12 days of Christmas gift ideas We're doing something different on the show today. I'm sharing my favorite Christmas tradition with you. Each year my kids and I prepare 12 days of Christmas gifts for various people in our lives: teachers, neighbors, family members. I hope it inspires you to give to others this season! Mentioned in this episode: 12 Days of Christmas worksheet from the resource library to plan out your gifts and delivery. 12 Days of Christmas Ornaments from Amazon For the full transcript click here. Promising Ways Single Parents Can Enjoy Thanksgiving With Thanksgiving coming up we'll discuss different ways single parents can enjoy the holiday. Whether you're alone or if you have the kids. Being a single parent during Thanksgiving can be challenging. But finding new traditions for your family and letting go of expectations is critical. Mentioned in today's episode: Join the 5-day single mom positivity email challenge for free. Transcript for today's episode can be found here. What Your Kids Need From You After Divorce In today's episode we're talking about how to help your child through your divorce. As a divorced mother of two and a child of divorce, I've compiled the good and bad parenting advice after divorce. Whether you're on the cusp of divorce or a few years post-divorce or even separated, these tips can help your child through this tough time. Mentioned in today's episode: Download the overview of tips to keep handy throughout your first couple of years after a divorce from the resource library at SunflowerMom. Transcript for today's episode can be found here. How to find peace with your strong willed child Today we'll talk about my number one tip for parenting my strong-willed child. If you struggle with raising a strong-willed child check out how using this strategy will bring peace back to your home and reverse the struggles that come with parenting a strong-willed child. Mentioned in today's episode: If I Have to Tell You One More Time…” by Amy McCready Free Printable Coupons for Single Parents: Contains 36 coupons including a page of blank ones for you to fill out your own. You can hang on to them or give them to your child to turn in as you go. Most coupons are ideas that you and your child can do together in 10 minutes. Transcript for today's episode can be found here. Strategies on How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids It's something we all do but few of us admit - yell at our kids. We all know we shouldn't but how do you quit? Yelling at our kids is an especially touchy topic for single parents because we don't have any other adults in the house to step in and give us a break when things get heated. In this episode we'll explore some strategies that have worked for other parents to stop screaming at their children. Books mentioned in this episode: Yell Less, Love More: How the Orange Rhino Mom Stopped Yelling at Her Kids Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool Transcript for today's episode can be found here. 7 Ways to Make Amazing Friendships as a Single Mom Finding friends as a single mom takes work, intention, and patience. But knowing where to look helps too. We're all craving for connection. Here are 7 ways to find friends when you're a single mother. Today's transcript can be found here. Why It's Okay to Stay a Single Parent If you’re a single parent, it’s okay to stay single when you're in the thick of parenting your children if that’s your desire. We'll discuss 8 reasons you don't need to be married or dating. It's okay to be a single parent! Transcript for today's episode is available here. How to be more positive If its a struggle for you to stay positive in our ever-increasing negative world as a single parent, we'll discuss 20 positive thinking techniques you can implement today. Mentioned in today's episode: Join the 5 day positivity challenge. Transcript for today's episode is available here. Morning Routine for Single Parents Finding a morning routine as a single parent comes with its unique challenges. If you’re a single working parent, who has to get children out the door to school and your butt to work each morning, this one’s for you. Mentioned in this episode: download your free morning routine from the resource library at sunflowermom.com Transcript for today's episode is available here. Being the Best Single Parent You Can Be Single parents have their own unique challenges and stresses when it comes to parenting. Let's get out of the comparison game and focus on how we can be the best parents we can be in this current season. Mentioned in this episode: Free resources available for you to download in the resource library at sunflowermom.com. Join the 5-day positivity challenge for single moms. Full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Trailer: Grace for Single Parenting Welcome to Grace for Single Parenting. This is where single parents can get ideas and encouragement for every step of the parenting journey. No judgement – just grace.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line852
__label__cc	0.682384	0.317616	← Travel: Washington DC, USA Highlights! Musings: The Right to Believe → Travel: The Best of New York City! January 19, 2017 by angelalimaq I’ll be honest. I never thought I’d fall head over heels for a place like New York City. I mean, I get it. There’s a reason they call it the “greatest city in the world”. The towering skyscrapers, the glittering constellation of lights and billboards; the cosmopolitan, fast-paced, no-bullshit culture. But I’ve always been more of an European soul. And yet, I stand corrected. It took me seven days to peel through the hard, gritty exterior of the city. And what I discovered at its core was a surprising warmth, resilience and a bold creative energy you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. So buckle up, it’s going to be a wild ride! The Highline The Highline Park is one of the best ways to put your finger on the pulse of the city. In the golden glow of the sunset, even a concrete jungle glittered like a cave of jewels. The 2.3-kilometre park is built on an unused portion of the West Side Line running to the Lower West Side of Manhattan. It’s an elevated trail that winds through apartment blocks, skyscrapers, and across bustling roads amid lush greenery (or what was left of it for winter). It was fascinating to see some of the old buildings up close, peer into the homes of New Yorkers (hehe), and even enjoy the colourful burst of graffiti and street art that surprised us at every corner. My suggestion? Go have some amazing lobsters, oysters and sushi at Chelsea Market before taking a nice long stroll at sunset. A visit to NYC would not be complete without immersing yourself in one of the most filmed locations in the world. It’s a National Historic Landmark sprawling 843 acres, and receives close to 40 million visitors a year! And no wonder. Just look at this gorgeous view. There were horse carriage tours and joggers running even in the cold, but we held hands and strolled a good hour from Trump Tower across white bridges, reflective lakes and trees burning a fiery crimson. If you need to get anywhere in the city, I recommend a scenic walk through Central Park. It’s wonderfully invigorating. Plus, if you’re dog lovers like we are, there’s plenty of furry eye candy. One of the most iconic meeting places in the world lies in the belly of what is more famously known as Grand Central Station. Opened in 1871 by the illustrious shipping and then rail moguls the Vanderbilts, Grand Central Station has become synonymous with American development and prosperity in its early years. The giant star-spangled banner you see here was hung just a few days after the September 11 attacks. The astronomical ceiling painted with (an inaccurate) depiction of Orion, Pisces and Gemini. And it was said to be so covered with coal and diesel smoke that it was almost completely obscured until after a 12-year restoration project in the 1980s. This four-faced clock here marks the famous meeting point right in the centre of all the bustling activity. It’s made of opal glass, and has an estimated value of more than $20 million. Damn. I loved the details in the ornate ceilings, the shiny marble that covers most of the main hall and these elegant chandeliers that cast everything in a golden warmth. There are also many food options with locally-owned brands, fast food and even one of the oldest oyster bars in the city. The terminal holds many secrets too. It was believed there were hidden passageways, lifts that took Presidents to special carriages and rooms. And it was all very fascinating to learn about the history of such a critical part of American economic growth from a passionate local guide. Do sign up for these free walking tours here. The guides are friendly, well-trained and you pay as you like for a wonderful history lesson. Another scenic albeit smaller park in the city is Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The arch is the centrepiece of the open space which celebrates non-conformity. And speaking of which, we ran into some very friendly furry friends there. It was so amazing to see huge squirrels with bushy tails scamper right up to us as kind elderly ladies fed them with pecans and peanuts. Even the kids joined in! And apart from enjoying beautiful nature in the middle of the city, there was also a busker playing a beautiful saxophone. The whole atmosphere was just so peaceful and sublime. We had a great time just passing through. Nature aside, New York City is home to some of the most celebrated museums in the world. If you’re a dinosaur lover or anthropology buff, you absolutely have to visit the Natural History Museum. We could spend hours in there not just ogling the preserved remains of prehistoric creatures but also understanding the development of our species and the rise and fall of ancient civilisations. Superbly fascinating. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) We were in two minds about MoMA. In general, I’m a little irreverent about some interpretations of modern art. Sometimes, I think the artists just create pieces like framing a white piece of paper, or crap in a can and write a complicated description just to pull a fast one on pretentious art critics. But the museum space is beautiful. Ceiling-to-floor glass that lets in natural light, some pretty interesting trippy exhibits. Don’t miss out on some Van Gogh and Monet pieces hidden at the top floors. And P.S. the slow drip coffee there is a glorious pick-me-up, especially if you’re suffering from a food coma. On the hand, I can completely relate to the masters. The Met left me mind boggled as to how one building could house so much beauty and so many celebrated, precious works of art. There were an array of artists featured like Picasso, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and one of my personal favourites, Claude Monet. I could get lost in his pieces for hours. And then there was this beautiful exhibition of a traditional Christmas tree. The intricate details make the tree come to life! I wish they still did them up this way. How pretty. From religious artefacts, to famous sculptures, to delicate ornaments like this beautiful painted fan, there is definitely something at the Met that will take your breath away. Rockefeller Centre/ Christmas Tree And since it was Christmas, we had to see the tallest Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Centre. There was so much Christmas cheer in the air. Everyone was laughing, taking photos and even bursting into spontaneous carols. We also happened to come across someone proposing to his lover on the skating rink there. How sweet! I’m not a big fan of musicals in general. But I do enjoy the tragedies like the Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and maybe Avenue Q. But Jersey Boys has always been something Sean and I enjoyed together. In large part because of the music of Frankie Valli. And also because it was about to be discontinued on Broadway. So how could we miss it? It was thoroughly enjoyable, and wonderfully entertaining. Perhaps it was knowing that we’d be one of the last to see it performed again that made it all the more poignant. And now, for a quick look at some of the more defining skyscrapers of the Manhattan landscape starting with this one. Flat Iron Building A triangular 22-story steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan. It was considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper, the tallest at a time. Shaped like a clothes iron, it’s a very unique part of the skyline. And then, there was my favourite skyscraper built in a distinctive Art Deco style. It’s gorgeous spire once made it the tallest building in New York, now of course overtaken by that made famous by King Kong’s infamous climb. Which brings us nicely to… Curiously enough, despite being the city’s tallest, we were told by our guide that the building initially had a lot of trouble filling its floors. People weren’t impressed by the architecture, there was heavy competition at the time, and its timely saving grace came in the form of its appearance in the movie that made it a cultural icon. I’d initially thought it would be a bit of a tourist trap. But Sean convinced me that the trip would not be complete without that panoramic view of the city. And of course, he was right. He took me up two elevators to the 86th floor and we pushed past the glass doors into the cold, windy night. All around us, in all directions the city sparkled. Sean took out his earphones, placed them gently in my ears as the cold air whipped around us amid the countless galaxies of lights from skyscrapers miles around. Frank Sinatra’s smooth voice of gold flowed like warm honey into my soul. I couldn’t help it, I felt the tears well up in my eyes. It was incredibly overwhelming. The city was so beautiful. It glittered like a lake of stars, and I felt so thankful to be there. I hugged him close and smiled at the thought of how we will always remember moments like these when we’re old and grey. Words couldn’t describe how much I felt right then and there. Right in that magical moment, I finally fell in love with New York, and even more so with my best bud in the whole world. Just a short subway ride away from the mad rush of the city centre, is a welcome change of pace. Brooklyn had a more relaxed feel, a somewhat creative energy bubbling beneath the surface. Apart from an unparalleled view of the city, there was also Sweet Chick which we both loved. Nothing like hearty Southern food for a cold winter. There were other things I loved about the city. How people were so passionate and willing to fight for causes they believed in. These activists were braving the cold to protest outside Canadian Goose for allegedly being cruel to animals. And the subways were some of my favourite places to people watch. There was so much talent showcased from artists, to solo musicians and singers. It was just always full of colour and life. No trip was forgettable. People always surprised me here. Sadly, there were also a big number of people who were homeless. But more on that another time. And finally, the place that defines New York as the city that never sleeps. Even at 3am in the morning when we’d just finished a late-night party, it was still swarming with people. Food joints and restaurants opening till late and it was amazing just strolling arm in arm in the cold air, the flickering lights of the giant billboards reflecting off of our smiling faces. New York City is truly incredible. Much has been said about the decline of US. But with its rich history, its people and its roots, I still sense a great hope in the land of the free and the home of the brave. God bless America. This entry was posted in food and tagged broadway, brooklyn, central park, empire state building, food, grand central station, highlights, MoMA, must-visit, new york, the highline, the met, times square, travel, USA, washington square park, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 26 thoughts on “Travel: The Best of New York City!” fingknitcoolgal says: I was in NYC during the summer too! I’d love visiting the city during autumn / winter too. Thank you for reminding me😍 Jaimie Jacklin says: I would love to see NYC! 😍 http://www.jaimiejacklin.wordpress.com Michael Quigley says: Thank you for this it was fantastic! I’m hoping to visit soon too! 😁👍🏻 Your photographs are lovely. My daughter and her husband spent a week in New York in 2014 and they loved it. They hired bicycles and rode around Central Park. They are now planning another trip as one week was not enough to see everything. GwendlynD says: Wow you have some great photos of New York here, the romantic walk through these sights sounds amazing Loewe Chan says: Cute photos! doctorinspe says: * New york is such a beautiful place! andysoddworld says: alwaysdessert1st says: Super awesome! I think New York City would be a very cool place to see 🙂 Pingback: Seeing the Many Faces of Manhattan (for cheap!) – CHLOHEMIAN: Adventures in Bohemia, Moravia, and Other Sites Abroad Beautiful pictures mn interesting’ post. Diane Frisch says: So glad you enjoyed this beautiful city. We just moved away last year and your article and photos brought me right back. Nice job! noahwaxman says: Really beautiful shots of the city! If you’re ever in the West Village again, we have some great recommendations. New York.. the city 🌃 of wonder.. I need to visit Joamar-John says: OH NEW YORK! One day! =) soulfood101blog says: I’ve never been to New York, so thank you for the tour. You look so happy in the photos! What terrific photos! Jurgen says: Looks like you had a great time! Do try Bryant Park next time (have your breakfast at LPQ for example)! 😉 nomadatheart85 says: as a fellow newyorker you did a great job and the christmas tree was harvested not 30 miles away from me check out my post on Seattle I think you would enjoy visiting there just as much Rony-New York City says: I live in this city Beautiful post Angela…..loved to see such varied and different sights of New York……with such lively images and you and the city….all blending in perfect harmony……nice clicks once again. peachesgourmet says: Reblogged this on Peaches Gourmet and commented: I am a New Yorker and reading about a co-blogger ‘s fascinating thoughts like this, just amazing and so much to be thankful for and ,angelalimaq, your positive note at the end of your blog shows you are very beautiful inside out, Congratulations on your fascinating blog, 1st time for me to re-blog. angelalimaq says: thank you so much for your kind words, Peaches! you’ve led such a colourful life. enjoying reading about your travels and fascinating stories. lots of love from Singapore. x Angela Angelalimaq, you are truly an inspiration for all New Yorker, are you back in the States or are you in your country? But you mentioned that you travel a lot. Once again, you did a wonderful job, make you continue to make this fascinating piece, you and your habibi, looks happy & connected & very in love, sweet saccharin sweet, you’re also both good looking & thanks for reading and liking my humble blog. futurepunjabidoctor says: When I visit New York, I’ll be sure to check out these places 😊. Follow angelalimaq on WordPress.com Follow Angela on Facebook: Travel: A Beautiful Day in Zürich, Switzerland Musings: I Left My Heart in Siem Reap, Cambodia Musings: Camera Goggles Travel: Finding Peace in Pokhara - The Himalayas, Nepal Travel: The Little Black Forest Town of Gengenbach, Germany Travel: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Travel: Jewel of the Black Forest - Freiburg, Germany Review: Tae Woo Korean Restaurant, Clarke Quay	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line855
__label__wiki	0.844166	0.844166	Featured Hot Listing Baltimost Baltimore Fishbowl On site of razed mill homes, property owner pushes forward with plans for 52 apartments Share the News A rendering of the revised project from JP2 Architects on a slide presentation. Woodberry residents on Thursday evening got their first look at some revised, if familiar-looking plans for a new apartment building where two 1840s stone mill houses were demolished in May against the community’s wishes. It’s really only one site, technically; the five-story, 52-unit building designed by Canton-based JP2 Architects would go up at 3511 Clipper Road. The adjacent property at 3523 Clipper Road would be left largely undeveloped, aside from a small green amenity space for tenants that would potentially incorporate some of the stones from the demolished mill homes. Gordan Godat, co-principal of the architecture firm, shared early renderings with Woodberry Community Association members at a meeting on Thursday night. The images suggested a similar design to the one Baltimore’s Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel, or UDAAP, approved for the controversial project’s former developer-architect team in January, namely the incorporation of grey fiber cement board throughout. Beyond giving residents a glimpse, Godat was there to gather community feedback to pass on to the property owner, Woodberry Station LLC, whose resident agent, Katherine Jennings, was not in attendance. The same firm is now doubling as the developer on the resurrected project, he said. Seven weeks ago, a demolition crew tore down two stone houses, both more than 170 years old, that residents had been promised would be preserved as part of a 55-unit apartment building. Christopher Mfume’s CLD Partners was the developer on the project at the time. But he resigned after the surprise demolition, saying he had nothing to do with it. The hired architecture firm, PI.KL Studio, and development consultant Al Barry also left, leaving Woodberry Station LLC to start anew. The owner and the demolition contractor were hit with some fines as a result. Godat said Jennings approached him about three weeks ago to work on the revived project. Woodberry Station LLC now wants to construct the apartments without any parking, a departure from the former plans that’s nevertheless permitted under the property’s transit-oriented development zoning designation. There would be some temporary bicycle parking out front, Godat said. Several neighbors were less than pleased to hear about the lack of parking spaces, noting that there will be delivery drivers, cabs, visitors and other traffic brought to the area—not to mention tenants’ cars—that would share already-limited spots on Woodberry’s narrow roads. Others protested the height, saying it will obscure picturesque views of the neighborhood, where residents are now weighing if they want to live in a designated a local historic district. A few asked Godat if the developer would consider removing one or two stories from the design. “You’re saying the zoning says that you don’t have to have parking, but that’s not what this area requires,” protested Christy Bergland, who lives directly across the street from the planned building. “This area requires parking if you’re gonna have another building. And it has to work within the context of what is already here.” JP2 Architects co-principal Gordon Godat (right) speaks with Woodberry Community Association members. Photo by Ethan McLeod. Godat described the design of the units themselves as “fairly straightforward and simplified.” A small number of the studios would have Juliet balconies, and the one-bedrooms situated on one of the corners of the structure would have walk-out balconies. He said Woodberry Station LLC is open to having a local artist paint a mural on the building’s south side. While Godat said the developer is offering to reincorporate some of the historic stone from the lost houses into the outdoor amenities, as well as indoor spaces if there’s enough left over, some weren’t thrilled by the idea. Sheri Higgins, president of the Woodberry Community Association, said she’d rather see the neighborhood’s characteristic stone made visible on the exterior of the building. “I don’t know why it would be used in an amenity for the residents when we’re the ones that suffered that.” Others are still dealing with trust issues, wary of working with the same property owner who presided over the project when the homes were demolished. Brennen Jensen said residents have already seen that the owner (and now the developer) is “dishonest,” and “just wants to make money off these units.” He referenced the failed plan they crafted with the former team on the project over the better part of a year: “This whole dog and pony show, we thought we had something, and bam.” Woodberry Station LLC “betrayed the developer, betrayed the architect, and completely betrayed the community,” said Nathan Dennies of the Greater Hampden Heritage Alliance, which had helped negotiate with PI.KL and CLD Partners on retaining the stone mill homes in the first level of the old plan. “When we go to these meetings, we care about this project. And we’re thinking, Is this all a complete waste of time?” Godat was there to listen, he repeated multiple times to neighbors. “I completely understand,” he told Dennies. “I will share that with the owner and will see what can be done.” Woodberry Station LLC plans to submit its design plans for city approval sometime in the fall, after collecting more community feedback, Godat said. “The owner would like to move as quickly as possible,” he noted. Higgins said residents now await the developer’s next move. “Right now we don’t really have a plan,” she said after the meeting. “We have the conversation, but until we hear from the owners what their reaction to our reaction is, we still don’t have anything.” Follow Ethan Senior Editor at Baltimore Fishbowl Ethan has been editing and reporting for Baltimore Fishbowl since fall of 2016. His previous stops include Fox 45, CQ Researcher and Connection Newspapers in Virginia. 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__label__cc	0.538943	0.461057	Japan doubles investment in Catalonia in five years The profitability of the tourism sector increased in 2019. Green light to the decree-law of urgent measures for the climatic emergency and the promotion of renewable energies in Catalonia. Catalonia, pioneer in Europe in ecotourism The Permanent Low Emission Zone from January 1 in Barcelona will result in a 15% decrease in air pollution in 2024. Catalonia is one of the most dynamic environments in Europe for startups, multinationals and videogames studios. Good prospects for foreign investment in Spain The Port of Barcelona moves 57.6 million tons of goods in 10 months New tool to digitize mobility and transport in Catalonia Catalonia, at the pinnacle of world cuisine Google bets on Barcelona as a center of innovation Barcelona stands out in the European comparisons of attracting foreign investment projects The most sustainable offices in the world are in Barcelona Catalonia becomes an open laboratory in 5G connection Talent, innovation and a sustainable urban-planning model position Barcelona, its metropolitan area and Catalonia at Expo Real 2019 Tourists’ spending in Catalonia increases: 12,348 million up until July The multinational King opens a new office in Barcelona with over 600 employees in 22@ Catalonia now makes up for 27% of exports out of Spain Container traffic in the Port of Barcelona rises by 1.3% up until August Barcelona, ranked fourth among world cities in attracting talent Catalonia leads foreign productive investment in Spain, with 22.5% of the total Interview: Sergi Vilar E-commerce to take logistics investment in Catalonia to record high El Prat posts 35.6 million passengers through August, up 5.2% from 2018 Catalonia led public investment in technology, with nearly €500 million in the first half of the year Japanese group Bandai Namco sets up new mobile-games development company in Barcelona Barcelona closes second semester with more than 251,000 m2 of offices leased, a new record Catalonia receives €704.5 million, doubling foreign investment in first quarter Connected-vehicle sector posts €4.15 billion in annual revenue in Catalonia 22@ district leads demand for offices in 2018 with 128,000 square metres	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line863
__label__cc	0.549692	0.450308	How You Can Help Eliminate Dental Mercury San Francisco Becomes Ground Zero in Gadget Radiation Battle Deadly and Dangerous Shampoos, Toothpastes, and Detergents: Could 16,000 Studies Be Wrong About SLS? Grassroots activism counts -- even with the usually tone-deaf U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA's abysmal 2009 amalgam rule -- allowing a cover-up of the very existence of the mercury, and not even protecting children and unborn children from this unnecessary mercury exposure -- triggered a massive response from grassroots America. "Unprecedented consumer-level pressure," according to the respected independent publication FDA Webview, meant that "no final rule in FDA's modern history, or perhaps ever, has attracted this kind of organized opposition." With a myriad of consumers repeatedly phoning and e-mailing FDA, the agency had to seriously consider a series of excellent petitions for reconsideration, one filed by Washington lawyer Jim Turner for Citizens for Health, another by IAOMT lawyers Jim Love and Bob Reeves (which I joined), and a third by University of Virginia medical school professor emeritus Richard Edlich. Then in June, 2010 the heat went from national to international. The United Nations convened the nations to negotiate a treaty on mercury, where the cause of mercury-free dentistry was well-represented. Charlie Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice founded the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry and brought a delegation from seven nations to the conference. As the chief protector of dental mercury, FDA was exposed for the pariah that it has become on protecting consumer health and safety. On the fifth day of the United Nations conference, FDA caved. FDA announced it will convene hearings this December before its Dental Products Panel to determine whether to stop amalgam use for children and pregnant women. To the consumers of America and around the world, the Mercola Newsletter salutes you. You did it! FDA has agreed to re-examine its pro-mercury fillings position, and to consider protecting those whose brains are still developing, children and the unborn. But FDA has pulled out the rug from consumers before on dental mercury. In 2008, settling a court case filed by Charlie Brown, FDA posted stark warnings that amalgam can injure the developing brains of children and fetuses. In 2009, FDA buried the warnings, placing them where they hoped parents wouldn't see them. If any agency requires continued vigilance, it is FDA. The issue now is who will sit on the FDA panel that will determine the safety of dental mercury. FDA has a history of stacking the deck of its panels, so that the pro-industry staff position gets ratified. I ask you to write Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and ask that he convene a balanced panel -- that he not pack it with dental school deans and others with ties to the pro-mercury American Dental Association. If the FDA panel is to have any credibility whatsoever, Dr. Shuren needs all sides fairly represented on it. So I recommend you write Dr. Shuren at [email protected]; ask him for a balanced dental products panel to review the FDA dental mercury rule -- a humane panel of people dedicated to protecting children and unborn babies from exposure to toxic products. Let him know that the public will not tolerate a panel biased in favor of the American Dental Association's pro-mercury position -- not when our children's health is at stake. To the consumers of America and around the world, the Mercola Newsletter salutes you. The FDA has agreed to re-examine its pro-mercury fillings position, and to consider protecting those whose brains are still developing -- children and the unborn. Continued Vigilance is Still Needed to Ban Dental Mercury … The FDA has pulled out the rug from consumers before on dental mercury, and if history is any indication of what’s to come, then we could still be in for a bumpy ride. In 2008, settling a court case filed by Charlie Brown, who is the leading consumer protection attorney in the United States with respect to mercury, FDA posted stark warnings that amalgam can injure the developing brains of children and fetuses. Briefly, the FDA’s Web site even stated that: "Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses." But in 2009, the FDA buried the warnings, placing them where they hoped parents wouldn't see them. The Agency pulled the warning from its Web site, saying there would be no warnings to patients, not even young women and parents of young children, that the mercury from the amalgam fillings is a reproductive toxin and a neurotoxin. The FDA even gave the amalgam industry the green light to sell and place amalgam without disclosing to consumers that the fillings are mainly mercury, even though the agency is aware of the industry’s long-time deceptive practice of marketing amalgam as “silver fillings,” when in reality they’re composed of about 50 percent mercury. So if any agency requires continued vigilance, it is the FDA. How is Toxic Mercury Still Allowed in Modern-Day Dentistry? Mercury amalgam fillings are primitive 19th-century devices, but they are still widely used in the United States where they’re even endorsed by the American Dental Association. It’s an ironic fact that the metallic mercury used by dentists to manufacture dental amalgam is shipped as a hazardous material to the dental office. Any amalgam leftover is also treated as hazardous and requires special precautions to dispose of. Yet you can have those same toxic fillings put directly into your mouth just by asking (and paying the price, of course)! But when you do, you’re introducing mercury, a potent toxin that can damage your brain, central nervous system and kidneys, into your body. Children and fetuses, whose brains are still developing, are most at risk, and that is why it’s especially dangerous for pregnant women to get an amalgam … but really anyone can be impacted. Again, those most at risk include: Pregnant and nursing women People with already high levels of mercury bioburden Those who are sensitive to mercury exposure So why has the FDA been so reluctant to issue a ban, even after acknowledging the steep risks? There is evidence that FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg’s relationship with the nation’s top amalgam seller, Henry Schein, may have played a role in this dismal result. Dr. Hamburg served on the board of dental products colossus Henry Schein Inc., drawing an annual income of a quarter million dollars a year, according to the Wall Street Journal. In May 2009, when she took office as Commissioner, she was still holding Henry Schein stock options, which she did not cash until July, the month the amalgam rule issued. In fact, she was still holding Schein stock options until July 27, the day before the FDA rule was announced. The FDA agreed that Margaret Hamburg had an ethical problem that led to her recusal, but neither she nor anyone else at the FDA would say what work she did on the rule or when she stopped working on it. As it stands, the resulting rule was and is a bonanza for Henry Schein, who can sell amalgam to anyone and everyone without even disclosing that it is mainly mercury -- but hopefully come December, that will all change. The New FDA Hearing Could Change the Future of Mercury in Dentistry Come December, the FDA will convene hearings before its Dental Products Panel to determine whether to stop amalgam use for children and pregnant women. The issue now is who will sit on this FDA panel that will determine the safety of dental mercury. FDA has a history of stacking the deck of its panels, so that the pro-industry staff position gets ratified. They also have a history of ignoring their panelists’ advice if it is not pro-industry. In fact, the FDA’s 2009 ruling was in direct contradiction to the conclusions of their own 2006 Joint Panel of FDA scientific experts, as well as the International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Scientific Advisory Board members who reviewed the same papers. The ruling was even contradictory to the FDA’s own advisories that pregnant women should limit their intake of certain fish due to mercury content, even though, as IAOMT reported, mercury dental fillings contribute two to three times as much mercury to the human body than do dietary and environmental sources combined. Come this December, the FDA panel will make a ruling that will make or break whether children and unborn children continue to be harmed by dental mercury … and you can still play a part in making sure it’s a fair fight. Embed this infographic on your website: Discover more about mercury and how you can get this toxic, bioaccumulative substance from your dentist through our infographic "Mercury Dental Fillings: By the Numbers." Use the embed code to share it on your website. Click on the code area and press CTRL + C (for Windows) / CMD + C (for Macintosh) to copy the code. Voice Your Opinion: A FAIR, Unbiased Panel is Needed I ask you to write Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and ask that he convene a balanced panel -- that he not pack it with dental school deans and others with ties to the pro-mercury American Dental Association. If the FDA panel is to have any credibility whatsoever, Dr. Shuren needs all sides fairly represented on it. This is incredibly important, as there is well-publicized corruption at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Last year, former Center for Devices Director Dan Schultz (part of the group that has given carte blanche to amalgam sales with no disclosure) resigned “by mutual agreement” with Dr. Hamburg, amidst complaints that he pressured staff to approve devices that they did not think were safe in order to benefit industry. Now that the Center is under a new director, I recommend you write Dr. Shuren at [email protected]; ask him for a balanced dental products panel to review the FDA dental mercury rule -- a humane panel of people dedicated to protecting children and unborn babies from exposure to toxic products. Let him know that the public will not tolerate a panel biased in favor of the American Dental Association's pro-mercury position -- not when our children's health is at stake. For the last 10 years, Charlie Brown has been working tirelessly with the Consumers for Dental Choice to eliminate the use of mercury in U.S. dentistry. Now you, too, can join the fight, and many of you already have! Because so many of you voiced your opposition and outrage at the FDA’s 2009 ruling, the FDA Webview stated that: “No final rule in FDA’s modern history, or perhaps ever, has attracted this kind of organized opposition.” Grassroots activism is making a difference, and it will continue to do so because of dedicated readers like you! It nearly brings tears to my eyes to see that we can make a difference and start to save children and adults from brain damage by limiting their exposure to this toxic poison. So let’s keep the pressure on the FDA and not let them off the hook this time! Please write Dr. Shuren at [email protected] and ask that he convene a balanced panel for this December’s FDA amalgam hearing. Previous Article San Francisco Becomes Ground Zero in Gadget Radiation Battle Next Article Deadly and Dangerous Shampoos, Toothpastes, and Detergents: Could 16,000 Studies Be Wrong About SLS? 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__label__wiki	0.518627	0.518627	E05: Eastwatch Game of Thrones: The HBO TV Series Show!Rhaegar: You're Not Really Meant to Look That Deeply into Him. By Pigeon Pie, August 15, 2017 in E05: Eastwatch Pigeon Pie 11 hours ago, princess_snow said: Exceptionally well said RhaenysB. I'm not hearing any bitching over the fact Robert B was possibly going to divorce/annul Cersei for Margery. Also its interesting to note that Lyanna and Rhaegar were married in Dorne, she was kept hidden in Dorne and protected by Ser Arthur Dayne - a Dornish man. We really have no other info about how Elia felt about all of this tho do we ? You never hear any "bitching" over that because it never actually happened lol, it was just something that Renly was plotting and never actually saw the light. (Oh and by the way, isn't this a book-only thing? Isn't this the forum where we discuss the show? And this post is about show!Rhaegar, so your point about comparing show!Rhaegar's actions to something that never even took place in the books is invalid? I'm just saying) Yeah, let me try to imagine how Elia, the daughter of a great house, felt being set aside by her husband (and thereby humiliated in front of the entire country) basically telling everyone that she isn't good enough to be his wife anymore because she isn't as healthy as Lyanna Stark, after she had risked her life to secure him a male heir, with the very real possibility that said male heir and his sister could become bastards now, and they're all left on an island that is too close for comfort to her husband's crazy father who thinks they're all conspiring against him. I'm sure she felt positively? You? And Rhaegar married Lyanna in Dorne because Dorne could provide the most remote and secure location, i.e. a tower in the middle of the desert, not because Elia's family was soooo welcoming of a decision that humiliates them and their daughter. And Arthur would have gone with Rhaegar anywhere, he's the KG in charge of guarding him. (and btw, I'm not the only one "bitching", anyone who doesn't just eat up every stupid decision that the showmakers make and accepts it as entirely logically possible has been angry about this decision, including Elio and Linda, see the link I posted above) falcotron Illegally Modified Hubot 12 hours ago, Pigeon Pie said: Even though I'm pretty sure this will be handled differently in the books, I think people's overreactions to the annulment are pretty silly. In the books, most likely it'll turn out to be a bigamous marriage rather than an annulment and a marriage. Or maybe there will be a will from Rhaegar naming Jon his heir or something. Whatever. Let's compare. You're angry on behalf of poor show!Elia that nasty show!Rhaegar set her aside and abandoned her with his crazy dad just because she couldn't produce another son. OK, that's fair. But do you think book!Elia would be ecstatic over the fact that book!Rhaegar abandoned her with his crazy dad and went off and got a second wife because she couldn't produce another son? It's almost the same thing emotionally and pragmatically. Sure, she still gets to call herself Princess instead of being given some lesser Diana-style title, and she can try to console herself with the fact that there's a long tradition of Targaryen bigamy so she always knew this might happen, but none of that changes the fact that her husband decided she was useless and went off to find a better wife who could give him a son. The show changed it from bigamy to annulment because, for casual viewers, it'll be easier to understand, because it's something historical European monarchs did a lot more often. That may seem like a stupid difference when they could have easily just thrown in a couple scenes to remind us of the Targaryen bigamy tradition, but it's really not that big a difference in any practical narrative sense, so it's not worth getting so worked up over. princess_snow Location:Themyscira 16 hours ago, RhaenysB said: Yes, that's (or used to be though probably still is) a huge chunk of the whole R+L debate. Why would the Dornish cooperate? There's a "theory" or idea or not sure what's the right term here that Elia was on board with the whole PTWP prophecy obsession and helped Rhaegar get the third head of the dragon in any way should, and gave her blessing that's rhagear kidnap Lyanna And rape and hold her hostage in Dorne just so there's a third baby. Yeah sure... my take is that Elia knew about the prophecy and she liked Rhaegar enough to give her blessing to the Lyanna business (and the annulment - if we believe the show). Liked and not loved because the latter is exactly why she would sign up for R+L. And if she didn't know and didn't give her blessing I don't see why Rhaegar would be stupid enough to set up everything in Dorne or why Oberyn wouldn't march up there and tear down his tower of joy (this is of course contradicted by the show in which Oberyn has some level of resentment for Rhaegar - I'm actually not sure that it was the same in the books). As for Arthur Dayne, he was best pals with Rhaegar so I can see him helping even if Elia didn't know/agree. No. we know very little about Elia and close to nothing about her relationship with Rhaegar. Elia was intelligent, nice and they were" fond of "each other is all I think. And her frail health which is why it was said that she couldn't have another baby after Aegon. Yeah Im inclined to believe that too; she liked him and new about the PTWP prophesy. I'm not sure if this applies to both show and books, but I think Oberyn stated : he loved Elia like Jaime loves Cersei. I could be wrong but it could be a little nod that all was not as it seemed with Oberyn and Elia, maybe they were lovers too ? Who knows. Just find it interesting that he phrased it that way. Woah. I wasn't actually having a go, it was just my wording. A lot of ppl complain about this annulment. I don't think it was actually just a book thing, I'm fairly certain Jaime and Cersei had a conversation about this in S1 before Bran is exposed spying on them. I have no response to your comments about how Elia felt. I have no idea how she felt no one does. I'm not willing to speculate because we are not given enough information about her are we ? Yeah I understand why he married her in Dorne. Maybe that tells us that Elia had no issue with this marriage if he married her in her homeland? I agree with @falcotron above. Thanks for that reply you said everything I wanted to say. RhaenysBee That's one possibility. though if everybody is in love with their sibling the whole issue kinda loses its mojo and the occurrence of incest gets a little over- represented. But it's interesting why this isn't theorized and debated a lot. I guess because we know so little about Elia. The Sunland Lord Not really meant to look deeply into anyone, not in any show, book, everywhere in life and world. 9 hours ago, RhaenysB said: People always want a complete story, because that's the way our minds work, so we try to build something up around the skeleton we're given, no matter how bare it is, if there's anything even slightly interesting. But this series has reminded us time and again how misleading that can be. Think about all the conflicting PoVs we had on Rhaegar. Trying to build a picture from just one of those would lead us to something easy to believe, but completely wrong. So the picture we build of Elia is likely pretty wrong as well. So, if people are declining to debate things like this about her, I think we're (maybe accidentally) being smart for once. Of course I've wandered off into the books here, but on TV, we know even less than in the books, so… Liver and Onions Landed Knight Eh, in my opinion, the TV show has gone off the rails for other characters who actually get screentime and performers who show their motivations and emotions and stuff. No surprise Rhaegar gets the shaft, especially since the writers kinda forgot about him for a few seasons. Show Rhaegar isn't book Rhaegar, so I'll wait for the real thing. 9 hours ago, falcotron said: Nah, I'm not saying we should have a thread for bloodshed over the question whether Elia loved another too or loved Rhaegar. You're right, that's definitely not something we need. It's enough that we have those threads about Rhaegar. I'm just surprised we don't have it because there are vast theories for less important and less interesting points of the story too. (Though what's interesting to whom is very relative) Noneofyourbusiness On 8/15/2017 at 7:48 PM, theMADdestScientist_ said: Since he needed more children, Rhaegar chose Lyanna as his new wife because he probably loved her. That's why we are told the tale of the Knight of the Laughing Tree, to know how they fell in love. Also because a milkmaid or so on wouldn't be an acceptable choice of wife. He would want all three children to be legitimate. Which is why, in the books, he would most likely have married Lyanna without annulling his marriage to Elia, drawing on the precedent of polygamous Targaryens in the past. And yes, his marriage will be annuled in the books as well, that's why George talks about Elia's health here and there. That's the only reason Rhaegar could give to annul his marriage and have a legitimate child with Lyanna. Also, George himself talked with a fan about Sansa having an annulment in her marriage with Tyrion back in 2000(it was mentioned on Reddid yesterday i think), and George said that any of the partners can annul the marriage, both Sansa and Tyrion. Those where George R.R. Martin's own words, you clearly don't need to be a king to annul a marriage. That is only because Sansa and Tyrion's marriage was unconsummated. You need a pretext to annul a marriage. While Elia now being barren would be the closest to a reasonable reason Rhaegar could come up with, it's still not really one. He can't claim to "need" more children for any political reason that Westeros would understand. He and Elia already had two. Annulment is for marriages that fail to produce them. Go To Topic Listing E05: Eastwatch	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line879
__label__cc	0.698817	0.301183	Cancelled Favorites Watching just about everything RT @zaffuto234: Fall tv officially kicks off next week!!! Who's excited?! #tvreturns #falltv #tv #premiereweek 4 years ago #MrRobot season finale postponed until next Wednesday due to the tragic shooting today. 4 years ago Follow @TVAddict_Blog Agent's Of S.H.I.E.L.D. "Making Friends and Influencing People" Agent’s Of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Making Friends and Influencing People” TV Saturday: New AMC’s Hell on Wheels Our Picks Thursday: Scandal Returns, How to Get Away With Murder, Parenthood Final Season TV Tonight: Wednesday SVU, Red Band Society, Chicago PD, Nashville Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2 premiere Anna Hall Rookie Blue 3×09 “Out Of Time” 8/9/12 Rookie Blue 3×07 “The Girlfriend Experience” 7/26/12 Ivy Marie Dexter, Season 7, Episode 5 Homeland Episode 5 Scott R. Aaron M Zaffuto ChuckTV Awake Fan Central ABC (Always Bet on Cancellations) Save Breaking In A TV Addict – Facebook Page Save Jericho Thanksgiving: What to watch? Posted: November 22, 2012 by Aaron M Zaffuto in ABC, USA Tags: ABC, country singers, entertainment, last resort, Nashville, netflix, quality tv, scandal, suits, tv, usa network It’s that day of the year to spend time with friends and family some who may not watch much tv. If you can get away from Football and holiday themed TV here’s some quality shows to force feed them. USA’s Suits- All 22 episodes are available to watch on demand until the 2nd half of season 2 begins in January. Best of all its already been renewed for season 3. ABC’s Last Resort– Though canceled the creator has promised some closure in the final episodes. The show is a good example of quality tv and your grandpa or uncle who was in military might be able to relate to the show. All 7 hours are available on Hulu. ABC’s Scandal– The suspenseful, drama filled show will keep you on the edge of your seat every episode. The show has had mediocre ratings so get them hooked on the short 7 episode first season on Netflix. ABC’s Nashville– The rookie show following the lives of two fictional country singers is full of drama and music. You dan’t have to like county to watch but if you do that’s a plus. Just like Scandal the show has had mediocre ratings so get them hooked on the first 6 episodes on Hulu What will you be watching today? Share your thoughts & opinions Cancel reply Shows to: Catch, Commit or Drop Categories Select Category 30 Rock (13) A&E (16) ABC (75) Apt 23 (11) Awake (13) Common Law (9) Community (13) Episode Notes (126) Falling Skies (11) Fox (54) Friday Night (4) Last Resort (4) Longmire (10) Monday Night (26) NBC (140) News (22) Parks and Recreation (10) Poll (12) Raising Hope (7) Ratings (4) Revenge (17) Rookie Blue (8) Suits (8) Sunday Night (55) TBS (15) The Client List (16) The Firm (15) The Killing (27) The Walking Dead (2) Thursday Night (82) TNT (24) Tuesday Night (10) Uncategorized (49) USA (40) Wednesday Night (10) Archives Select Month October 2014 (1) September 2014 (5) May 2014 (3) June 2013 (1) May 2013 (1) April 2013 (2) January 2013 (8) December 2012 (5) November 2012 (8) October 2012 (25) September 2012 (54) August 2012 (48) July 2012 (42) June 2012 (62) May 2012 (81) April 2012 (91) March 2012 (2)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line882
__label__cc	0.693457	0.306543	Trang chủ > Thương hiệu > NORMA The NORMA brand is property of OPAL ELECTRONICS, a company that designs, engineers, and builds Electronic Devices in the measuring instruments field. From the union of the technical know-how acquired in time and the passion for Quality Listening, NORMA products were born, a synthesis between Technology and Love for Music. The NORMA Company Norma is based in Cremona, a place where music has always played an important role. Cremona is the home of Monteverdi, Ponchielli, Stradivari, Amati and many other artists. For more than 20 years Norma has been involved in the study and implementation of sophisticated audio amplifiers. Technical skill and musical sensitivity must be merged together, in the same way in which the best musical instruments are made. In Norma we are convinced that the influence of audio electronics on the outcome of audio reproduction is much greater than commonly assumed. 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__label__cc	0.738107	0.261893	Home • Girl Boner • Booty Calls 101: Tips for a Safe and Satisfying Experience Booty Calls 101: Tips for a Safe and Satisfying Experience Cristina Royale grew up in a conservative, Catholic community where marriage with a man and parenting ranked high for all women. During college, she became active in LGBTQ activism, where she learned a great deal about herself and her sexuality. “Particularly gay men tend to be very sexually liberated,” she told me during our Girl Boner® Radio chat, “That was not comfortable for me at first, but I wanted to be comfortable with it.” Find Cristina on Instagram here: @cristinaroyale Through many conversations she says were probably terrible for them, Cristina learned a great deal. She also credits a few understanding boyfriends early on for allowing her space to experiment. “For me, practice makes perfect,” she said. “I really got to explore what I’m into, what I’m not into, what kind of people I click with and what kind of people I don’t, and what I look for in a sex partner to have a sexual experience. Nothing got me there faster than having a lot of experience.” Now an activist, writer, YouTuber, and outspoken feminist, Cristina infuses the world with sex-positive hilarity. And while you may watch one of her videos for kicks and giggles (they are so, so funny), there’s a good chance you’ll walk away inspired. Even her Booty Call Diaries—my FAVES—hold valuable insight that go beyond sexy fun. “I would like the booty call to become a bit more commonplace in terms of things that we think about [and] talk about,” she said of her motivation to start the series. “I talk to a lot of women who say, ‘I don’t know if I could do that. What does that look like?’ and I’m like, ‘Well I can show you what that looks like!’” To see what I mean, stream our full chat on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio or below! In the meantime, here are a few highlights from just one of the topics we explored: Booty Call Tips: How to Have a Safe and Satisfying First Experience 1. Don’t booty call your friend or friends of friends. “Just don’t,” said Cristina. “It’s always messy—and that’s a first-timer mistake, speaking from experience.” 2. Make plans to meet in a public place. If you meet someone on Tinder as a booty call newbie, Cristina suggests meeting the person in a public place that’s convenient for you, such as a coffee shop, lounge or restaurant you feel comfortable in. “Anywhere you can say, ‘okay, there are no obvious signs that this guy will murder me,’” she added, having noted earlier that stranger dates are actually statistically safer than intimate partnerships. But even so, safety precautions are important. “I would tell them, ‘let’s meet for coffee or let’s meet for a drink and see how it goes — see if we vibe, and then if so, come back to my place.’” Choose a place you feel super comfortable in, she said, “because at the end of the day, if you’re not comfortable, you’re probably not going to get off and then why in the hell are you doing a booty call?” RIGHT? 3. Know that you can change your mind any time. Consent is an ongoing thing, so if at any point you or your date/sex partner don’t feel comfortable, hit the ‘pause’ or ‘stop button.’ Express your feelings, use clear body language or make up an excuse, if that’s easier for you. Not everyone has the agency to stand up for themselves, but hopefully you can start honing these skills before dipping into Booty Call Bliss. When I asked Cristina about stopping a booty call once it’s begun, she said she has absolutely done it. “It’s uncomfortable for them, but it’s fine,” she said. “They’ll live.” 4. Stock up on supplies. If you think you may end up going back to your place, take time to stock it up with whatever supplies you might need in advance. Cristina has a stash of condoms in various sizes, for example, and a special glass for drinks you’ll definitely want to hear her talk about! “I would have everything set up to where you know where it is,” Cristina suggested. “You can get yourself water so you don’t have to take any beverages from him. I honestly feel more comfortable in my own space. Also, I feel comfortable kicking people out of my place if I need to.” 5. Express your desires. I asked Cristina how folks can ensure a pleasurable booty call experience—whether there’s much communication or if she tends to just go for it. “That’s my favorite scenario, when this is not their first rodeo either,” she said. “They understand that they can listen to the female body and understand it easily. To be honest, I don’t let them do things I don’t like anymore.” Otherwise, she’ll offer a clear “no” or “don’t do that,” as needed, and her partners generally take that really well. She recommends more caution with less experienced partners, though, who could benefit from gentler feedback. 6. Get clear about what you hope for after. Cristina’s partners occasionally attempt to sleep over, which isn’t her cup of sexy tea — so she has a system: “After it’s over, I always straight away get up to pee, so that I won’t get a UTI — tip for a first time: always do that. Then I start to put my clothes on, and 90 percent of the time, they get it and they start to put their clothes on. When they’re almost done, I say, ‘Great, I’ll walk you out.’ Then I walk them out and close and lock the door.” If they plead to stay over anyway, she tells them she’s not comfortable with it, and you can, too. If you want them to stay over, of course, you can request or accept that. What matters most is clarity around your desires, with yourself first and foremost. Eager for more? Hit play below to hear the full episode. It also features fabulous insight from Dr. Megan Fleming for a listener who wonders if she’s become asexual in her 30s, Cristina’s thoughts on knowing your sexual self-worth, a bit about mainstream and feminist porn and more. Have a sex-positive tale or tips of your own you’d like to share? Registration for my 7th annual Beauty of a Woman BlogFest is underway—and there’s a Girl Boner category! (Whoop whoop!) Learn more and sign up here. I don’t know why I like this photo—maybe because it looks like I’m talking more about my crazy yoni egg experience and made a hilarious performer laugh. Girl Boner, Humor, Sexuality 3 Comments « The Beauty of a Woman BlogFest VII REGISTRATION! Sex Addiction and Self-Acceptance: An Interview with Erica Garza » Kitt Crescendo says I remember the bootie calls of my youth with fondness and humor. It was what helped me know when I was ready to get serious and commit, but man we’re those times fun! Totally agree about the friends/friends of friends thing, too. Bad idea. I love that, Kitt. Keeper memories, for sure! Scott Vannatter says Thanks. I needed to hear a lot of this. I am/have been considering my own “booty call” of sorts. I would like to invite a woman to a motel or whatever after dinner or talking over drinks. It is difficult to do this and not feel wrong, based on the time I grew up in. I see nothing wrong with it, but hear it all the time from those around me. I will make it work. I am getting more and more up to it. Thanks again, certainly helped.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line886
__label__cc	0.700409	0.299591	Paul sails for Rome “1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto [one] named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band. 2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; [one] Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. 3 And the next [day] we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave [him] liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself. 4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. 5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, [a city] of Lycia. 6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein. 7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; 8 And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city [of] Lasea. 9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished [them], 10 And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. 11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.” “12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, [and there] to winter; [which is] an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained [their] purpose, loosing [thence], they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let [her] drive. 16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: 17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. 18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next [day] they lightened the ship; 19 And the third [day] we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. 20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on [us], all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.” “21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of [any man’s] life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. 25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. 26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. 27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; 28 And sounded, and found [it] twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found [it] fifteen fathoms. 29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. 30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, 31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. 32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. 33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought [them] all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. 34 Wherefore I pray you to take [some] meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. 35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken [it], he began to eat. 36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took [some] meat. 37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. 38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. 39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. 40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed [themselves] unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. 41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. 42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from [their] purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast [themselves] first [into the sea], and get to land: 44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on [broken pieces] of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.” (Acts 27:1-44 AV)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line891
__label__cc	0.500844	0.499156	The ramblings of a hockey-mad medievalist Hockey Writing Utah Grizzles: From Bad to Worse From start to finish, it was a bizarre affair. To begin with, Utah came out sluggishly on Friday night, but still managed to score a trio of goals against Rapid City, the first an excellent jam-in from Jon Puskar, the second from Ryan Olsen, and the third also from Puskar. It wasn’t so much that they played well, as that they were opportunistic, and Adam Vey struggled. Former Grizz Peter Sivak also scored, but the luck seemed to be tipped entirely in the Grizzlies’ favor. Then, just when it seemed that the second period was about to get underway, they discovered issues with the ice in front of the Grizzlies’ bench and also behind the net. After a lengthy delay in which they attempted to repair the ice, it was decided that the best course of action was to postpone the end of the game. So the game was re-scheduled for Sunday, Utah leading 3-1, and outshooting the Rush 13-8. The second pass at the second period saw Brendan Harms, Ryan Olsen and Rob Mann out for Austin Ortega, James Melindy and Zach Saar. The team looked decent at the start, Ortega looking more comfortable and making a few nice moves, while Puskar made an early bid for the hat trick. Unfortunately, Charley Graaskamp went hard into the boards shortly thereafter, had to be helped off the ice, and did not return (he was later placed on injured reserve). That’s more or less when the issues started. The Grizzlies gave up a number of breakaways on defensive breakdowns, most of which Kevin Carr turned aside until just after the seven-minute mark. Utah gave up an unassisted goal to Tyler Deresky on a bad turn over. Utah had a few decent shifts afterwards, sparked by a strong one from Puskar, together with Erik Higby and Travis Howe. Their work eventually led to a power play at the half-way mark of the period. However, Michael Pelech took a roughing call a minute or so later, and despite some strong shifts from Utah, and Ryan Misiak especially, the various penalties came to an end. Despite a strong effort from Garrett Haar, and Mitch Jones, the next goal went to the Rush with five minutes left, followed less than a minute later by the go-ahead goal. When the second period came to a merciful end, Utah had been utterly out-played their top line an abysmal -3, and a two-goal lead squandered. The third period did not begin any more auspiciously, Jones taking a penalty less than two minutes in. That was killed off, but then first Saar and then Pelech went to the box, and Rapid City scored on both the five-on-three and five-on-four to give them the 6-3 lead. That was the end of Carr’s night. His departure seemed to serve as a wake-up call the Grizzlies needed, and their play improved. It seemed like it was destined to be derailed, however, after Melindy went down to a spear. At first it seemed that Melindy alone was going to go off for unsportsmanlike conduct, but in the end he got two and ten, while Pavel Jenys got five for spearing, and a game misconduct. Pelech made it 6-4 at 16:10 on the power play, giving Ortega his first point in a Utah jersey, and Ortega followed that up with a power play goal of his own at 18:37 with the net empty, and the Grizzlies playing with the extra skater. Unfortunately, that’s as close as they got, and Sivak capped off his hat trick into the empty net with ten seconds to spare. “I think it’s a classic example of not coming ready to play.” Tim Branham said after the game, “Built a 3-1 lead there on Friday, maybe thought, once again, that it was going to be easy, and didn’t have that killer instinct. Too little too late at the end, and gave up too many scoring chances.” Of the struggles the Grizzlies had in the second, he said, “Your best players have to be your best players. You can’t have that top line be -3, they’re the ones that dug us into that hole, whether it was their fault or not, they were on the ice for it. I think a lot of different guys were at fault for those goals in the second period, but we just, not enough time to get ourselves out of that one. Learn from it, get out on the road here, and have a good road trip.” So what do they need to work on besides being more prepared? “Our power play needs to improve, we’ve been saying that all season, it’s tough to defend there that five on three. I thought our penalty kill was doing pretty good, the two power play goals that they got, one’s a five-on-three, one’s just a bad, broken play. Our five on five play, it was disappointing that we couldn’t take more advantage of Rapid City five-on-five. I think that was the story of the weekend, and we’ve got a little bit of a tough hill to climb.” Photo courtesy of Tim Broussard/Jess Fleming & staff Posted on January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018 by Namiko HitotsubashiPosted in ECHL, Hockey, Utah GrizzliesTagged Austin Ortega, Jon Puskar, Michael Pelech, Ryan Olsen, Utah Grizzlies. Previous Previous post: Utah Grizzlies: Far From Ideal Next Next post: Utah Grizzlies: Bring on the Thunder Namiko Hitotsubashi I'm a hockey obsessed New Yorker and Montreal Canadiens fan, currently living in Salt Lake City. I have a B.A. and M.A. in Medieval Studies, but have decided academia is not for me. I write for Habs Eyes on the Prize, and am the publicist for the Utah Grizzlies' booster club. 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__label__wiki	0.731302	0.731302	William Farel, and the story of the Swiss reform Por William Maxwell Blackburn which he was very fond. It was sporting in his bosom as he walked on in contempt of his enemies. An officer, who knew of these morning walks, had placed some soldiers outside the walls, while he remained within to make certain the arrest. Just as the good citizen was about to pass the gates, the troop came forward. He thought not of going back to arouse the young men of the league; he turned not from the road; but went on caressing his little favourite, and 'walked straight toward the armed men, as proudly as if he were going to take them,' wrote Bonivard. Thus 'one of the founders of modern liberty' was arrested, and was to suffer the vengeance of his tyrant foes. He was thrust into prison, where his little weasel still played in his bosom, and at the least noise would stiffen its ears and look into the eyes of its master. He had holier means of lightening his cares; he quoted the Psalms, and, perhaps, cast all his burdens on the Lord. On the wall he wrote a sentence, which some think refers to the Saviour's resurrection. His foes were trying to frighten him with threats of death, when he wrote, 'I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.' He became the martyr of liberty; but though dead, he yet spake of freedom for Geneva. 'Three great movements were carried out in this city,' says D'Aubigne. 'The first was the conquest of independence; the second, the conquest of faith; the third, the renovation and organization of the Church. Berthelier, Farel, and Calvin are the three heroes of these three epics.' This leader of the league left much work to be done. A new man came to bear his part in it. This was Baudichon de la Maison-Neuve, a man of noble family, exalted character, bold measures, welcome everywhere, and serving to clear the way for the Reformation. But God was removing out of the world the bishop, who was assuredly not fit to remain in power; and, unless there was deep repentance for his personal sins and shames, not fit to be taken away by death. John lay at Pignerol, dying of diseases which charity would leave untold. At his bed-side stood Peter de la Baume, who was trying to console the bishop. The poor man had some remorse for his crimes. A crucifix was held before his eyes. His mind was upon the man whose death he had caused, and he imagined that he saw the features of Berthelier. With a wild look he asked, 'Who has done that?' Blasphemy and insult were mingled with the foam that whitened his lips. At length his heart softened a little. Giving to Peter a last look, he said, 'I wished to give the principality of Geneva to Savoy. To attain that object I have put many innocent persons to death. ... If you obtain this bishopric, I entreat you not to tread in my footsteps. Defend the franchises of the city.' He said more, closing with the words, ' In purgatory God will pardon me.' He breathed his last, and Peter rose up from his prayer the Bishop of Geneva. Worse and worse trials came. The bishop kept none of his promises. The duke entered the city with Portuguese fashions and theatrical plays. The people were expected to attend dramas, dances, games, and sports in the open air, even in spite of the April rains. There were some good qualities about Peter, the bishop; and he proved the scope of his imagination, or his power to insult with flattery, when he told the Genevans of 'the great love and affection which John had felt, while alive, for them and for all his good subjects,' and that he 'had made as holy an end as ever prelate did!' CHAPTER XIV. LA YMEN IN THE FIELD. (i523-i532-) sgjgHE Huguenots were demanding that the Genevans should be free; others, mostly laymen, were coming with a little book in their hands, to say,' The truth shall make you free indeed.' One class spoke in the name of humanity, the other in the name of Christianity. The two great forces were soon at work; but they did not work unitedly. Many of these political Huguenots were still Romanists. They were afraid of the Bible. Like many now in Europe, they wished to throw off the temporal power of the Pope, but yet let the Pope have his spiritual power. The patriot Hugues hoped for a free but not a Protestant Geneva. It was the state, not the Church that he wished to see reformed. The same mind was in Bonivard, who, like Erasmus, dealt his satires upon all parties. If these Huguenots had all been athirst for the Bible, and if they had made that the corner-stone of their liberties, there would have been less battle and a speedier victory. Farel would have found the reformation already there when he entered the city. Calvin would have had far less trouble in fulfilling his mission. Had these patriots all been Protestants, Geneva might have received her form of doctrine and polity from Wittemberg. Luther was known there in 1520. A few Huguenots had rejoiced at his resistance to the Papal power. They wished to treat the bulls of the Vatican as Luther had done—burn them. His writings seem to have found their way into the city. Bonivard says, in his chronicle, 'Luther had already given instruction at this time to many in Geneva and elsewhere.' The duke's party heard the great monk's name, and took alarm. They thought it worth while to make a splendid parade, and march out of the city with the image of St. Peter, and cry down Luther and his doctrines. The Huguenots noticed the procession of canons, priests, monks, scholars, and white clerks marching beyond the walls. 'All the priests have gone out,' said they; 'let us shut the gates and prevent them from returning.' Had they done so, it would have been nothing more than a rough joke. But they lacked the courage. The idea got wind; the startled priests and monks hurried back to their nests, and had only a good fright. There was a fair better way to exclude these haters of Luther, had these Huguenots been willing to learn it. They were to have the opportunity. The Bible was coming. The deeds of men outlast their names. We know not who were the humble missionaries that came to Geneva about the year 1524; but we know what they carried. It was Lefevre's French Testament. It was borne on the waves of that missionary movement, which was started at Basle, Montbeliard, and Lyons. Not in vain did the Chevalier Anemond oversee the printing of these Testaments and religious books; not in vain did the merchants, Vaugris and Du Blet, send them into those regions which swell the Rhone with their streams. The book-hawkers came to Geneva, and some of the citizens 'talked with them and bought their books.' One of the first to welcome these Bible-colporteurs was Baudichon, who read the Scriptures with astonishment, because he could find in them no Romanism, no images, no mass, no Pope, no purgatory; but could find a new religion, a new authority, a new life, a new church; and all these new things were just what the Lord and His apostles taught . Robert Vandel also read with delight; for he thought that here was the power to make Geneva a republic, independent in religion and politics. Such men saw with disgust the snares laid by the duke's party in the amusements which pretended to be in honour of Charles and the new bishop. Among other displays was a theatrical performance called * The Finding of the Cross.' It was a lame attempt at a 'mystery-play.' It represented the Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena going to Jerusalem to find the cross, so that the precious relic might be of use Xo the Church. Three crosses were dug up on the Calvary represented upon the stage. A miracle would decide the true one from those of the two thieves. A dead body (so feigned) was brought. Helena says— To this corpse we will apply These three crosses carefully, And, if I be not mistaken, At the touch it will awaken. The three crosses are applied, and when the third one touches the corpse it is restored to life. Wonderful miracle! The Mamelukes were delighted. Charles fancied such tricks were acting like a charm. 'The flies are caught by the honey,' said he; 'yet a few more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line931
__label__cc	0.6002	0.3998	Google and Facebook’s Latest Updates Control Publishers’ Fate Posted on April 27, 2015 in Industry by Emily E. Steck. Publishers went into a frenzy last week thanks to the recent changes made by tech giants Google and Facebook, following a precedent we’ve all known for a long time: publishers are beholden to tech companies. Tech companies hold all the power for publishers. Those fears are now considered fact—for better or worse. If content is king, then Google and Facebook are the king’s hands, the ones with the real power. Google has updated its algorithm to rank “mobile-friendly” sites higher in mobile search results, and publishers and internet-ers are right to panic—as much as 60% of websites on the internet could be impacted—even if the event dubbed as “Mobilegeddon” is a terrible portmanteau. For many publishers and websites, you’ll need to check if your site is “mobile-friendly.” Aka: you’ll need to check if it’s mobile-friendly and then makeover your site, accordingly, for the new mobile age. Across the internet last week, a sense of bitterness united the community, bemoans over having to redesign their perfectly good websites because the most powerful internet company in the world decided to adapt. The message is clear: if Google says jump this high, publishers have to jump this high just to be seen. To give Google some credit, an update to mobile was inevitable. The majority of digital consumption occurs on mobile, according to this TechCrunch article in 2014. Of course, Google was going to update their SEO policy to reflect the changing nature of internet consumption habits. It’s a necessary update, but one that makes it clear: Google still controls content, and thus publishers. Just as Google controls all searches (and almost everything else), Facebook shapes the lives of publishers, for better or worse. Last week, Facebook announced some vague updates to its Newsfeed—and everywhere, you could hear the collective sighs of publishers everywhere. Adjustments to the Newsfeed algorithm include relaxing their no-multiple posts from users and publishers, nearly eliminating seeing what your friends like or comment and balancing the “right amount of content for each individual.” Aka: Facebook will display more of your friends’ posts while determining what news users see (i.e. removing the “bad news” in favor of content that will keep them on the site longer). As this piece in Fortune wisely states: “All of this is frustrating enough for news companies, but what’s even more frustrating is that Facebook continues to pretend that it doesn’t influence the discovery of news or how it is consumed, even though that’s exactly what it does (as it admits in the announcement about its latest update). And that kind of influence can have a profound impact on how users see the world.” The recent updates to Facebook’s Newsfeed come in light of recent talks with big publishers like The New York Times to have content live on Facebook, instead of just referral traffic. Facebook knows it needs to be on good terms with publishers, but also gets to dictate those terms. Simply put, it has all the power, no matter how much they like to deny it. Is it defeatist to say that Google and Facebook run the lives of publishers? Yes, but it’s also just a fact of life now. Publishers have always relied on big tech companies because they miscalculated the importance the internet would play in our culture (that’s why back in the day publishers made their online content for free because they thought print would prevail). In many ways, publishers are still paying for the mistakes they made twenty years ago by underestimating the power of tech companies and for that, publishers’ fate will always be left in the hands of tech companies. The world runs on the internet, the internet runs on content and tech companies control which of that content we see. Content remains to be king, but tech holds the real power, the silent king’s hand who makes the real decisions. 5 Reasons Why SEO Matters By Emily E. Steck People have been proclaiming the death of SEO for years, but it's still alive and kicking your website to the top of the page results. Here's why it still matters. 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__label__cc	0.680205	0.319795	Small and medium business owners rely on digital solutions to deliver brand messages and eye-catching content that informs and engages customers from the very first moment. Designed to overcome layout limitations, BenQ’s Bar-Type Displays, with their unique stretched structure, can fit into even the narrowest of spaces. The all-in-one Smart Signage is ready to operate out of the box. With the included X-Sign Content Management Software, business owners can create and distribute content at minimal cost of manpower and resources. Moreover, a 2x2 Smart Signage installation can provide a video wall viewing experience that delivers breathtaking 4K video. See How BenQ Display Can Fight for Customers’ Attention Enable seamless customer communication regardless of space limitations with the wide-stretched Bar-Type Display. Significantly reduce manpower and resources by adopting BenQ’s all-in-one Smart Signage. The display not only can support X-Sign for easy content creation but also can flawlessly present images and video in both portrait and landscape orientations. Bar-Type Display Make the Most of Store Space with Wide-Stretched Digital Displays 24/7 Operation Unique Wide-Stretched Design BenQ Bar-Type Displays can match any business’s needs with their stylish long-and-narrow design. These unique proportions allow Bar-Type Displays to be seamlessly integrated into uncommon areas like store shelves or cash counters, displaying information right beside the product. 24/7 Non-Stop Operation Engineered to work continuously all day long, BenQ Bar-Type Displays can remain in operation 24/7 for several years. Low to zero maintenance is required, the Bar-Type Displays not only allow business owners to significantly lower operation cost but also ensure all promotional content will run flawlessly. High Brightness Bar-Type Displays can support brightness up to 1000 nits, delivering brilliant colors and a crystal clarity that can be seen even in the brightest environments. This enables business owners to freely utilize display for indoor and semi-outdoor applications and broadcast content wherever they see fit. Flawless Display in Portrait and Landscape View Bar-Type Displays are engineered to deliver the same stunning picture in both horizontal and vertical orientations. This provides business owners with the ultimate freedom to make the promotional content fit space requirements and store decorations. Recommended Bar-Type Display for Small and Medium Business Design and specification are subject to change without prior notice. The image in this pics are simulated. An All-in-One Smart Solution for Small Business Owners Built-In X-Sign Content Management Software Customize, edit, and manage content through X-Sign to engage customers at the right moment. Packed with over 100 templates that are professionally designed, X-Sign allows business owners to create new content with minimal cost and effort. Moreover, X-Sign also enables business owners to create fixed display schedules and play content via USB or BenQ cloud service so they can easily update information and reach target customers at the right time. Boasting an amazing life of 50,000 hours, BenQ’s Smart Signage is designed to deliver years of round-the-clock, industrial-class performance. Business owners will appreciate robust reliability that allows pertinent information to remain on display non-stop all year round. Flawless Display in Landscape and Portrait Modes BenQ’s Smart Signage is engineered to provide the same robust performance in both landscape and portrait orientations. Business owners not only can utilize landscape mode to display multimedia entertainment, but also can create stylish entryway information boards by combining the portrait-oriented display with BenQ’s exclusive Easy-to-Go stand. Easy-to-Go Stand Optimized for mobility and versatility, the BenQ Easy-to-Go stand is designed to provide a flexible solution for Smart Signage deployment. Supporting both landscape and portrait modes, the stand allows Smart Signage to be orientated for optimal viewing. Removable wheels allow operators to easily move the stand from one place to another and insert messages in high-traffic areas such as entryways or beside counters. The stand also comes with a portable flyer holder and allows for height adjustment so store proprietors can display their business in a sophisticated and hassle-free manner. Recommended Smart Signage for Small and Medium Business	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line949
__label__wiki	0.81077	0.81077	Donald Trump has paved the way for our leaders to try to influence the Bank of Canada Kevin Carmichael: Central bankers could be made more accountable to legislatures, not the presidents and prime ministers who appoint them Donald Trump must be having "some sort of psychological effect" on central bankers, Nobel economist Robert Shiller said this week.Bloomberg file photo The Washington Post published an interesting bit of trivia this week. As of Sept. 18, Donald Trump had tweeted or retweeted nasty things about the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, an astonishing 43 times since the end of July. The 43rd came about 25 minutes after Powell and the rest of the Fed’s policy committee voted to cut interest rates a quarter point, even though the unemployment rate is the lowest in five decades. “Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve Fail Again,” the president said in a message that had been retweeted 15,000 times and liked by some 57,000 Twitter users. “No ‘guts,’ no sense, no vision! A terrible communicator!” To put Trump’s abuse into perspective, he commented on the central bank 43 more times in a six-week stretch than his two immediate predecessors did in the entire 16 years they occupied the White House. Canadians’ average net worth shrinks for first time in almost a decade amid Bank of Canada rate hikes An annotated guide to a mashup of fiscal policy sound bites Donald Trump quick to jab Fed after ECB cuts rates for first time since 2016 Rookie executives make mistakes. After the Bank of Canada raised interest rates in July 2017, unnamed “officials” from Team Trudeau, which still was new at running a Group of Seven economy, told a Bloomberg News reporter that the government was worried that governor Stephen Poloz had made a mistake. There have been no reports of that nature since, suggesting those officials were told to shut up, less they undermine the public’s belief that the central bank is indifferent to the election calendar. No one has been able to silence Trump, and it’s getting harder to shrug off his Fed bashing as mere entertainment. Robert Shiller, the Nobel economist, said this week that the president must be having “some sort of psychological effect” on central bankers. Powell insists he is unmoved by political pressure. Most believe him, but not everyone does. “I wonder at what point this rising degree of political pressure/interference will weigh on markets,” Phil Suttle, a former Bank of England and New York Fed economist who now runs his own consultancy, said earlier this month after Trump declared that interest rates should be zero, or even negative. “Countries that do this type of interference generally are not rated AAA.” Countries that do this type of interference generally are not rated AAA Phil Suttle, a former Bank of England and New York Fed economist Based on our election campaign so far, you might think the biggest thing the next finance minister will do in her or his first year will be to make life cheaper for the lucky members of some strategic vote banks. Small beer, actually. The main event will be choosing a new central bank governor. Stephen Poloz’s seven-year tenure ends in June, so Bill Morneau, or whoever replaces Morneau, will have a rare opportunity to directly influence monetary policy by installing the only person who has the statutory power to raise and lower interest rates. The governor is traditionally chosen by a translucent hiring process that obscures the extent to which politics can interfere. The next government should protect the Bank of Canada’s independence by choosing Poloz’s successor in the daylight rather than the shadows. The trouble with Trump’s presidency is he provides cover for other leaders who would be tempted by their worst instincts. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who adopted the novel view that his country’s inflation problem was the result of high interest rates, sacked his central bank chief in July for refusing to abandon economic orthodoxy. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his third central bank governor, as the first two proved to be too protective of the Reserve Bank of India’s independence. Canada is nothing like Turkey or India. But it has a lot in common with the United Kingdom, where members of the governing Conservative party have turned Bank of England governor Mark Carney into an enemy of the people because he was forthright and said the central bank’s forecasts showed Brexit could cause a recession. Some might find it hard to imagine Canada’s genteel political class would see fit to use of the Bank of Canada governor as pawn or punching bag. Alas, the previous government already has opened the door. The Bank of Canada governor, currently Stephen Poloz, and even the deputies, should face parliamentary scrutiny so their appointments could be rescinded if they were found wanting, Kevin Carmichael writes. Darren Brown file photo Technically, it’s the central bank’s board of directors that chooses the governor, although the cabinet must approve the choice. However, Jim Flaherty, the finance minister who selected Poloz, issued a press release to announce that he would be interviewing the shortlist, and Stephen Harper, the prime minister, summoned the new central bank governor to his office for a photo-op. There was no purpose to any of this publicity other than to remind everyone who was in charge. So the contemporary precedent for politicizing the Bank of Canada has been set, and Trump has shown any Canadian politician so inclined that they needn’t be so subtle when they belittle the central bank governor for partisan gain. There are ways to guard against further erosion. In 2016, the Trudeau government introduced a new process for selecting Supreme Court justices that could serve as a guide for choosing the central bank’s leaders. The Bank of Canada isn’t a fourth branch of government, but it’s close enough to one that the governor, and even the deputies, should face parliamentary scrutiny so their appointments could be rescinded if they were found wanting. Central bankers may loathe the idea of more interviews, but a layer of public accountability would protect them from overzealous prime ministers and finance ministers. For such a process to work, members of Parliament would have to see their jobs as bigger than repeating questions given them by the Prime Minister’s Office or using every opportunity to embarrass their political opponents. I’ve observed the House finance committee for most of the past two decades and it has all but crushed my faith in Canadian parliamentary democracy. The committees I’ve observed would have been incapable of providing true accountability. But who knows what might happen if backbenchers were given a chance to be parliamentarians instead of partisan hacks. The next group should demand it, especially since most who win seats in this election will have done so despite their leaders, not because of them. •Email: kcarmichael@postmedia.com \| CarmichaelKevin WatchConservatives savage 'disastrous' Liberal policy over cancelled Energy East pipeline Latest Economy WatchBeware the pitfalls and perils of the gig economy U.S. Senate approves new NAFTA deal, handing Trump a major political win WatchCanadian farmers left with more questions after U.S. and China sign long-awaited trade deal Watch'Signing the deal is the easy part': The $95-billion centrepiece of the U.S.-China trade pact is already in doubt FINANCIAL POST TOOLS Calculate your monthly mortgage payments Compare payments and other costs associated with getting a new mortgage Begin the process of finding out how much you can borrow Home Budget Calculator See how much you have left to save and where your money is being spent See how much your investment savings could be worth What will it take to help reach your savings goals Compare currencies from across the globe How to be a Millionaire Calculate what it will take you to save one million dollars WatchTrump’s ‘big beautiful monster’ deal with China set to ease trade war that has roiled markets and stunted global growth Watch'Canada should be worried': Canadian exporters may become collateral damage of U.S-China trade deal With a few tweets, Michael McCain shows that running a corporation isn't just about profit Businesses more upbeat as trade tensions ease, Bank of Canada finds WatchGlobal debt-to-GDP ratio has now hit an all-time high of 322% Bill Morneau says environment, protecting economy to be key focus of 2020 budget Statistics Canada is planning to move its data over to the cloud — and is bracing for public outcry WatchOil remains a pillar of Canada's economy, but it's the digital economy that's driving growth White House considering changes to law banning U.S. companies from paying bribes overseas 'It's just so unfair that American companies aren't allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas,' President Trump said in a forthcoming book	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line950
__label__cc	0.711903	0.288097	In this section: Masters International equivalents International study tour masters@lubs.leeds.ac.uk Student and alumni profiles Ettore Bassignani Postgraduate student, Alumni Course: MSc International Business Year of graduation: 2015 Job title: Consultant Tell us about your degree - why did you choose it? What elements of the degree inspired you to study it? I studied on the MSc International Business (IB) programme in 2013/2014. I chose this degree mainly because of its reputation as one of the best Master-level courses worldwide for learning international business. Aside from its reputation, I was also inspired to join the degree because of the chance it offered to network and make friends with people from all over the world. Finally, the last motive was the option to extend my MSc to include a three-month period studying a specialisation at a partner university overseas (called Masters Beyond Borders (MBB)). What was the best part of your studies here? What did you enjoy the most? The two best parts of my time on the MSc IB were the great, close-knit network of friends I made in Leeds and my experiences studying abroad. During my MSc, I got the opportunity to study in China at Zhejiang University for a summer entrepreneurship course and in Spain at IE Business School for my MBB three-month specialisation in Sales and Marketing. I have to say that these two experiences abroad, where I was accompanied by a couple of close friends from my cohort, were my favourite parts of my course. Studying abroad complemented my Leeds-based MSc IB with education from two other world-class Universities with completely different cultures and teaching styles. This really made my course stand out in terms of learning, networking and impact on my CV. Do you think the experience and skills you gained here will help/helped you in your future career plans? In what way? My entire experience on the MSc IB greatly benefited me, as I was able to learn a great variety of soft skills (i.e. teamwork, communication, presentation and leadership) alongside all the theoretical and practical international business knowledge. Also, both my experiences abroad and those with my very international cohort on the MSc helped me deeply understand more about other people’s cultures and way of doing business. All of these skills and experiences will be invaluable in my future career as a consultant, where I will need to mix all the soft skills I gained and my technical knowledge. Also, my international exposure will also help me work more efficiently for both foreign clients and international companies. How do you think the Business School improved your employability? Leeds University Business School has improved my employability by helping me better understand how to match my skills with what employers want mainly thanks to the Career Centre and our MSc career development modules. Also, the Business School provides students with many chances to understand your weaknesses and then help you build on them and improve them. For example, I visited Spark to learn more about becoming an entrepreneur and to start gaining transferable skills that are important for running my own business in the future. Where are you currently working, and what is your role? I am currently finishing my MBB at IE Business School in Madrid, however I will shortly return to the UK and start working in PwC’s consulting department. What are your ambitions for the future? My ambitions for the future lie mainly in completing my initial training period at PwC and then continuing my consulting career for a few years. After that, I plan to decide whether to continue pursuing a career in consulting or whether to move into industry. However, after gaining corporate experience, I would also like to open and develop my own business. What would you say is your defining memory of studying here? My defining memory on the MSc IB course is, perhaps surprisingly, my cohort’s weekly football matches. We would meet at the Edge every weekend (or sometimes twice a week) and play friendly matches. It was during these games that I actually built most of the closest and longest lasting friendships I made with any of my course mates. We also had the great opportunity to organise and play a game against our professors towards the end of Semester 2, where a large part of our circa 160 course mates came to watch making the event one of the most popular on Facebook in the Leeds area that weekend! I will always remember beating them after a long and grueling Semester 2!! To conclude, I would greatly recommend both Leeds University Business School and the MSc IB course in particular to anyone wanting a course that goes far beyond the simple syllabus and really prepares you for your future career.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line951
__label__cc	0.583181	0.416819	Why Ransomware Continues to Be an Immensely Profitable Business for Bad Actors By Filip Truta on Apr 16, 2019 \| 0 Comments Ransomware, arguably the most efficient malware used by cybercrooks in recent years, continues to wreak havoc on a global scale, affecting everyone and everything, from regular Internet users to enterprises to critical infrastructures. So why do hackers still win? Ransomware operators have learned in recent years that attacks tightly targeting large corporations and national infrastructures yield much more profit than the en masse attacks on random endpoints. At the same time, many of these large infrastructures still rely on unpatched, or even unpatchable, legacy systems that are highly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. When victims are left without a choice In the last couple of years, ransomware families like WannaCry, GoldenEye/NotPetya, GandCrab, Ryuk, SamSam and, more recently, LockerGoga, have inflicted tens of billions of dollars of damage worldwide, crippling businesses and critical infrastructures alike. A recent example is the attack on Garfield County in Utah, where officials resorted to paying ransom in Bitcoin to regain access to their systems and data. The type of ransomware used in the attack is unknown and it is believed operators encrypted not just the county’s live data but also the backups, leaving them no choice but to pay and hope to get back what was theirs. In this instance, the attackers stuck to their end of the deal, so Garfield County was lucky. However, paying the ransom doesn’t always yield the decryption keys from the attacker, either because: the attack was only meant to disrupt (state-sponsored) the command & control server is under investigation by law enforcement or the attacker is in prison the communication channel between the victim and the attacker become severed the crypto-wallet address in the ransom note is incorrect coding errors in the encryption routine that irreversibly corrupts the encrypted file …and the list could go on. Big business and national infrastructures in the crosshairs The Garfield County attack is just one example where a ransomware campaign leaves the victim with a hard choice, caving in to the attackers’ demands. Last year, GandCrab operators reportedly demanded as much as $700,000 per server to decrypt their victims’ data. Some paid, while others didn’t. However, the potential profits of a ransomware campaign so outweigh the costs that only a handful of victims need pay up for the operators to generate millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency overnight. Refusing to pay the ransom doesn’t deter attackers either. They know they stand a good chance of getting paid. If not, the damages are still high for the victim – as evidenced by the City of Atlanta last year, when it got struck by SamSam, or by Norsk Hydro this year, when LockerGoga operators crippled its aluminum smelting facilities and power plants. Both victims incurred losses in the tens of millions of dollars, making one wonder what the outcome would have been had they paid? These attacks make headlines that future victims will read and ponder, increasing their anxiety – and the likelihood that one or two will cave in and pay. By targeting healthcare facilities – another emerging trend in recent years – attackers again press management and IT administrators hard to consider paying ransom. The reason is simple: freezing a medical center’s operations puts lives at risk and patient health history could be lost forever. The most recent example comes from the United States, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where a doctor’s office closed shop after a ransomware incident. A concerned mother was left scrambling for options to ensure her daughter got the necessary treatment, when it was discovered she required a follow-up intervention after an infection post-surgery. While this medical practice chose not to pay the ransom (for reasons still not entirely clear), many others have, to avoid further damages and maybe even bankruptcy. How to thwart attacks (by avoiding infection in the first place) At the end of the day, attackers know that systematically hitting big targets will yield some who pay. With their insatiable demands, ransomware operators are giving themselves a huge leg up in the business. This is why today, more than ever, it is important that organizations in the hackers’ crosshairs equip themselves with the knowledge and technology to detect and prevent a ransomware attack from unfolding. Sometimes all it takes is a good round of personnel training. Most cyber-attacks start with a phishing email, as was the case in Garfield County. The incident could have been entirely avoided had the employee known to spot the intentions behind the suspicious message in their inbox. On the technology side, administrators must make it their top mission to ensure that data is regularly backed up and kept offline, away from prying eyes, in case a breach occurs. Next, administrators need a solid intrusion detection system that stops malicious traffic before it reaches endpoints. For enterprises, a layered security solution becomes a must. Modern security solutions integrate layered next-gen endpoint protection and endpoint detection & response (EDR) to accurately protect enterprises against even the most elusive cyber threats, including ransomware, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and fileless malware.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line955
__label__wiki	0.542757	0.542757	Happy Living WIN PRIZES! But First, Joy MERCH Pinterest Template Bundle Inspiring ordinary women to find joy in everyday things. Get My Newsletter But First, Joy A wellness blog inspiring ordinary women to find joy in everyday things. 40 Shows You Should Already Be Binge Watching This post may contain affiliate links. Read my full disclosure. Are you looking for new shows to binge watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or HBO Go? I’ve got an incredible list of over 35 binge-worthy shows! Let’s begin by saying that I do have a life. I promise I do. I’m a stay-at-home mother who also works from home. I’m just one of those people who loves to have the TV on 24/7. It’s okay, you can judge me. I probably would too. I watch television as I play with my sweet boy and I keep it on as I work on my laptop. You call it an obsession, I call it multitasking. What more can I say? I’m passionate about television and movies. It’s kind of my thing. I digress. My binge watching game is strong. I somehow manage to binge multiple series a month. I always wondered what my special talent was. Now I know! That being said, I thought it would be nice to share the love with all of you because I know you’re looking to binge something great right about now. So, these are my favorite shows that are available to watch for hours upon hours RIGHT NOW! 40 Shows to Binge Watch TODAY! These are the best shows to binge watch on Netflix, HBO Go, and Amazon Prime Video. I hope you enjoy it! The majority of these shows can be watched on Netflix, but a select few can be streamed from Amazon Prime Video, which is free to all Amazon Prime head account holders! 1. Ozark (Netflix) This show can be a bit slow at times but it’s very intense! The story is a bit crazy but so intriguing. Jason Bateman does great in this serious role! A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss. 2 seasons – 20 episodes (2019 season is in progress) 2. Homecoming (Amazon Prime Video) Honestly, I started watching simply because of Julia Roberts. I personally love her and trust her judgement on the roles she takes on. This show will have you questioning everything. It’s full of twists and turns. It doesn’t disappoint. Good intentions. Erratic bosses. Mounting paranoia. Unforeseen consequences spiraling out of control. Heidi (Julia Roberts) works at Homecoming, a facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, when the Department of Defense questions why she left Homecoming. Heidi realizes there’s a whole other story behind the one she’s been telling herself. 1 season – 11 episodes 3. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video) One of my dear friends recommended this show to me on multiple occasions. Honestly, I didn’t expect to like it. In fact, I thought I’d give up on it after 1 episode. Well, clearly that wasn’t the case because here I am recommending it to you. It’s full of laughs, witty humor, and great storytelling! It’s the late 1950s and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she has ever wanted — the perfect husband, two kids and an elegant apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. Her seemingly idyllic life takes a surprising turn when she discovers a hidden talent she didn’t previously know she had — stand-up comedy. This revelation changes her life forever as she begins a journey that takes her from her comfortable life on the Upper West Side through the cafes and nightclubs of Greenwich Village as she makes her way through the city’s comedy industry on a path that could ultimately lead her to a spot on the “Tonight Show” couch. 4. Good Girls (Netflix) LOVE this show so much! I remember wanting to see it was it aired on TV but I completely forgot about it until I saw it on Netflix. Apparently, Netflix has picked it up so another season is coming soon! I can’t get enough of it. It’s hilarious, relatable, and just purely entertaining. Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back. 1 season – 10 episodes (Season 2 coming in March 2019) 5. You (Netflix) I am so happy to see the world finally hyping up “You”. I watched it as it aired on Lifetime and could barely wait for a new episode every week. It gets real, REALLY fast. Stalker is taken to an entirely new level in this show. Suspenseful, and thrilling just begins to explain it! A clever bookstore manager relies on his savvy Internet know-how to make the woman of his dreams fall in love with him. 1 season – 10 episodes (Rumor has is that Season 2 is coming this year) 6. Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix) Dare I say that this show changed my life? It’s not a declutter challenge like many think. In fact, it’s a lifestyle change and it has brought immense amount of joy to my life, family, and home! I highly recommend it! Author Marie Kondo offers tips on the art of keeping your home and workspace tidy and organized. 1 season – 8 episodes (As of now, no additional seasons or episodes have been announced) 7. The Good Place (Netflix) The Good Place is something I watch when I want to laugh at silly puns. “The Good Place” refers to heaven but this isn’t a religious show. It’s a fun look at what we think heaven might be like, with a few crazy twists and an epic cast! Four people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good. 2 seasons – 25 episodes (Season 3 is airing on television now!) 8. Black Mirror (Netflix) THIS SHOW IS WEIRD! That’s the first thing I tell anyone before I recommend Black Mirror. It’s strange and unique. The show explores social and technological experiments but is so damn worth the watch that I might go binge it all over again. The fun thing is that every single episode is a new story. Basically, if you begin to watch and think, “this isn’t for me,” just skip to the next episode because it is something new and different. This is one of my all-time favorite shows to watch on Netflix. I can barely wait for the next season! An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech world where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide. 4 seasons – 25 episodes (Season 5 is coming in 2019) 9. Shameless (Netflix) If you like vulgar, sexual humor then you’ll love Shameless! This family is as dysfunctional as it gets but it’s realistic! Drugs, sex, poverty, violence – all of those words describe Shameless so don’t let the kids watch! This is another all-time favorite for me. Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy stars as Frank Gallagher, a single father of six who spends much of his free time drinking at bars. The Gallagher children — led by oldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum), who takes on much of the child-rearing responsibility due to her mother’s absence — manage to raise themselves in spite of Frank’s lack of parenting and unusual parenting style when he does choose to act like a father. 8 seasons – 110 episodes (Season 9 now airing on Showtime) 10. Bates Motel (Netflix) Bates Motel is a fantastic watch! It gets strange at times but it’s difficult to stop watching. You’ll be questioning what’s real and what isn’t. It’s an easy binge! A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates’ psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is. 5 seasons – 5 episodes (The series has ended) 11. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Netflix) If you appreciate comedy like I do, then you’ll love Jerry Seinfeld’s show, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. It’s basically a talk show but in cars and coffee shows, with comedians and celebrities. Jerry is always the driver and host. I find myself binging these episodes for hours upon hours! You can skip through to the celebrities you’d like to watch or watch from beginning to end, like I did. You’d be surprised at how entertaining it can be! Jerry Seinfeld is joined by friends for a cup of coffee and a drive in a classic car, sharing stories all along the way. 10 seasons – 73 episodes (no word on if the series will continue into 2019) 12. Mindhunter (Netflix) Are serial killers your thing? Do you watch Investigation Discovery on the reg? Then this show is for you. It may be fictional but man, it’s a good one that you’ll really want to pay attention to! Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases. 1 season – 18 episodes (new season coming in 2019) 13. Making a Murderer (Netflix) Wait, you haven’t seen the most controversial documentary of all time? Making a Murder is a fantastic documentary to watch with family. This case has everyone in America divided on the guilt or innocence of a man who is accused of killing a woman. The catch? He was wrongfully convicted in the past. Could it be a setup… again? Filmed over a 10-year period, Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime. 14. Gilmore Girls (Netflix) This is a show that I never imagined I’d be watching. Something about it had a “Dawson’s Creek” feel to it, at first glance. It took me about 4 times to get into Gilmore Girls. I watched the first two episodes over and over again until one day, I made myself sit through another. It was weeks of binge-watching from that point forward. It was literally all I watched for weeks. Now, I am like the biggest Gilmore Girls fan on the planet. A story of a small town, a mother/daughter with a dreamy relationship, and coffee… LOTS of coffee. How could any of this be wrong? It’s just so perfect. A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. 7 seasons – 154 episodes – Followed up by the 4 episode mini-series “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life” which is also on Netflix. 15. The Sinner (Netflix) Holy TWISTS! The Sinner will have you guessing up until the very last second. This show is probably my favorite thriller of all time. It’s brutal and confusing, but so damn enthralling. This is one you’ll want to pay close attention to. Anthology series that examines how and why ordinary people commit brutal crimes. 2 seasons – 16 episodes 16. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix) I was a huge Sabrina The Teenage Witch fan, so I most expected this to be exactly like that show. Which, didn’t excite me as much as you’d think it would. I was happy to discover that this Netflix Orignal was much different. The dark, serious, and mysterious tone is actually really interesting. This was a fun watch at Halloween time! As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic. 1 season – 11 episodes (3 additional seasons are already in the making!) 17. Evil Genius (Netflix) If someone asked me about the craziest true crime documentary I’ve ever seen, it would be Evil Genius. You can’t make this stuff up, folks. A man had a bomb strapped to his neck and was sent to rob a bank. But, was he really sent or did he make the choice himself? Most importantly, who was involved? Definitely a must-see! The extraordinary story of the “pizza bomber heist” and the FBI’s investigation into a bizarre collection of suspects. 4 episodes (docu-mini-series) 18. Schitt’s Creek (Netflix) I am currently binging Schitt’s Creek and surprisingly, I’m loving it. The humor isn’t as silly as I expected it to be. I actually really enjoy the story and the characters are so charming in their own weird ways. It’s an easy watch while you’re going about your day! When rich video-store magnate Johnny Rose and his family suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup in Schitt’s Creek. 4 seasons – 55 episodes (Season 5 just aired) 19. American Crime (Netflix) Much like, American Horror Story, American Crime has an entirely different storyline each season, but the same actors as different characters. I personally loved the American Crime series and I’m sad it was cancelled. It’s definitely worth the watch. It’s slow at times and touches on very controversial topics. It’s a great show to watch alone or with your significant other. American Crime is an American anthology crime drama television series. The series was created by John Ridley, and stars Felicity Huffman, Regina King and Timothy Hutton. The first season centers on race, class, and gender politics as it follows the lives of the participants in a trial who are forever changed during the legal process. 3 seasons – 29 episodes (the series was canceled, but it’s worth the watch) 20. Fuller House (Netflix) I grew up in the 90s, so Full House has a special place in my heart. That being said, I didn’t know whether to be excited or worried about Fuller House. I gave it a chance anyways and this Netflix Original did not disappoint! It’s even better than Full House, in my opinion! I liked it so much that I wrote a whole review about it! In a continuation of Full House (1987), D.J. Fuller is a mother of three young boys and is a recent widow. D.J.’s sister Stephanie, her best friend Kimmy and Kimmy’s teenage daughter all move in to help raise her sons. The house is now a lot fuller. 4 Seasons – 57 episodes (no word on another season yet) 21. Dear White People (Netflix) I watched this is on a whim one night as I was organizing my room. I had heard great things so I thought I’d give it a try. I literally binged the entire 1st season in one night! Literally, as I write this, I just realized there is another season. I will be watching that ASAP! At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination. 2 Seasons – 20 episodes (Season 3 coming in 2019) 22. Follow This (Netflix) Oh, what has our world come to? That’s what you’ll ask as you watch Follow This. This show follows reporters as they cover some of the weirdest and craziest trends in our world. A lot of this is really interesting and it’s hard not to keep watching! Every episode is a new topic. Follow the reporters at Buzzfeed as they probe topics ranging from quirky internet crazes to safe injection spaces for opoid users. 1 Season – 20 episodes (no word on another season yet) 23. Manhunt: Unabomber (Netflix) I watched this show as it aired on television so I had to wait for each episode, but man it was a great one! It’s based on the true events of the Unabomber and it will have you gasping for air as you see the terrible things this man did! What a twisted, yet intelligent individual! Definitely an easy binge! An in-depth look at how an FBI profiler helped track down the terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. 1 Season – 8 Episodes 24. Gossip Girl (Netflix) This is an oldie but a goodie. I say to watch a few episodes before dismissing the idea of watching a show so girly. I was personally hooked after watching the first episode. I’ve watched the series twice over! High school is over for the privileged former students at an exclusive prep school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, but Gossip Girl still shares text-messaged scoops on scandals and heartache. As the graduates embark on their futures, with some attending college and others focusing on burgeoning careers, Gossip Girl continues to stir the pot and feed any potential scandals. And still the identity of Gossip Girl remains a mystery. 6 Seasons – 121 Episodes (a reboot is in talks!) 25. Parenthood (Netflix) I cried and cried and cried as I watched Parenthood. This is by far one of the best shows ever made. I highly recommend watching this one with the entire family, especially if your family is touched by Autism in some way! The four grown Braverman siblings — Adam, Sarah, Crosby and Julia — share the joys, heartaches and headaches of parenthood in their California hometown. As their parents deal with life and marital issues, the four lean on one another while tackling the challenges of modern family life in an updated reimagining of the 1989 film by the same name. 6 Seasons – 103 Episodes (the series ended) 26. Switched at Birth (Netflix) I was surprised by how much I loved Switched at Birth. It seemed to be geared towards teens and tweens but I thought the idea of two daughters being switched at birth was really interesting! The family struggles of them made it even more intriguing. It’s a good family show! Bay Kennish is a teenager who grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother. Fellow teen Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age, was raised by a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. One day in her high-school chemistry class, Bay discovers that her blood type doesn’t match either of her parents’. Official tests confirm that Bay is not her parents’ birth child. When the Kennish family meets Daphne and her mom, Regina, they realize that the girls were switched at birth. The news prompts the Kennishes to allow Regina — who is experiencing financial difficulties — Daphne and Daphne’s grandmother to live in their guest house. The two polar-opposite families struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls, who try to keep their footing in both the world they know and the new one into which they are thrown. 27. The Fosters (Netflix) This is another easy one to binge with the family! We can only hope our children are as strong as Callie! Stef, a dedicated police officer, is in a relationship with Lena. The two have built a close-knit family with Stef’s biological son, Brandon, and adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. When Lena meets Callie — hardened from being in and out of foster homes — the couple welcome her into their home, thinking it is temporary. Callie’s blunt commentary about the atypical family hits a nerve with the twins, who struggle with their own identities. Then the girl discovers a secret that could land Mariana in trouble. Brandon helps Callie navigate the social scene at high school, but she skips school to meet up with an old friend. Her behavior makes Stef and Lena second-guess their decision to help her. 5 Seasons – 104 Episodes (the series ended but there’s a spin-off now airing on Freeform called “Good Trouble”) 28. 13 Reasons Why (Netflix) I read the 13 Reasons Why book as a teenager, so the thought of a show was really exciting to me! The show was even better than the book, which never happens. Heavy topics such as rape, abuse, and suicide are talked about in this show, so please keep that in mind before watching. It’s a dramatic series that really touched my heart! Newcomer Katherine Langford plays the role of Hannah, a young woman who takes her own life. Two weeks after her tragic death, a classmate named Clay finds a mysterious box on his porch. Inside the box are recordings made by Hannah — on whom Clay had a crush — in which she explains the 13 reasons why she chose to commit suicide. If Clay decides to listen to the recordings, he will find out if and how he made the list. This intricate and heart-wrenching tale is told through Clay and Hannah’s dual narratives. 29. Orange is the New Black (Netflix) This used to be my favorite show of all time. I can’t really explain why OITNB is so good. It’s full of drugs, sex, and violence. Maybe that’s why? Either way, I love it so so much. The last season lost me a little bit but it’s still worth watching! Convicted of a decade old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend, normally law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to a year and a half behind bars to face the reality of how life-changing prison can really be. 30. New Girl (Netflix) I want Jess to be my bff and I want Nick to be my boyfriends. This goofy, comedy is something that makes me laugh so hard that I cry. It’s goofy, quirky, and down-right joyous to watch! After a bad break-up, Jess, an offbeat young woman, moves into an apartment loft with three single men. Although they find her behavior very unusual, the men support her – most of the time. 7 Seasons – 146 Episodes (the series has ended) 31. American Horror Story (Netflix) I’m sure you’ve heard the hype of AHS. It’s the best horror show ever made! Each season is a different story, with different characters, but the same actors. You can watch the seasons in order (which I recommend) or you can hop around. Don’t watch while eating because it can be gruesome at times, haha! An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a possessed farmhouse, a cult, and the apocalypse. 8 Seasons – 89 Episodes (new season coming in 2019) – this is what we know about it so far 32. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Okay, this show is down right goofy and silly but I find it charming. I love watching this as I work or clean. It’s not a serious show that needs your full attention. Rescued after 15 years in a cult, Kimmy Schmidt decides to reclaim her life by venturing to New York, where she experiences everyday life with wide-eyed enthusiasm. On a whim, she rents a room from Titus, a gay wannabe Broadway actor, who makes ends meet as a street performer in Times Square. The unlikely pair find they’re well-suited to help each other out, with Titus reintroducing Kimmy to modern life, and her providing him with the inspiration that you should never give up. Together they’ll make it through whatever life throws at them. 4 Seasons – 52 Episodes (new season coming in 1-25-2019) 33. Breaking Bad (Netflix) Okay, the hype is over. I get it. But, if you haven’t seen Breaking Bad then who are you and what have you really done with your life? This is one of the wildest shows I’ve ever seen! I love how they ended the series! It didn’t drag on for too long. It’s well-written! A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family’s future. 5 Seasons – 62 Episodes (the series has ended) 34. Mad Men (Netflix) This was the first show that I binged with my husband when we started dating. It wasn’t something I would have watched on my own because it’s very slow but I truly enjoyed it and recommend it! The characters are easy to like and some are relatable! A drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm’s most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper. 35. Dexter (Netflix) Best serial-killer show of all time! life before I watched Dexter was way too ordinary. He’s the killer you hate to love, but you love him anyways. He’s the “bad guy” you’re always rooting for. Wait, is he really the bad guy? Watch it and find out! Either way, he’s a fantastic killer and blood-spatter analyst! If you need me, I’ll be binging Dexter again. By day, mild-mannered Dexter is a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But at night, he is a serial killer who only targets other murderers. 36. Big Little Lies (HBO Go) I didn’t expect to love this show as much as I did but boy was I hooked after episode 1. This is a show full of secrets, lies, and betrayal! The apparently perfect lives of upper-class mothers, at a prestigious elementary school, unravel to the point of murder when a single-mother moves to their quaint Californian beach town. 37. In The Dark (Netflix) This is definitely my biggest obsession right now. I cannot stop watching In The Dark on Netflix. Every episode ends with a MAJOR reveal that keeps you up for hours. It’s the easiest show to bingewatch. An irreverent blind woman in her twenties, Murphy drifts through life in a drunken haze. She has only two friends—Jess, her understanding roommate, and Tyson, a teenage drug-dealer who saved her from a violent mugging. Out for a walk with her guide dog, Pretzel, she stumbles upon a corpse that must be Tyson’s, but it disappears before the police arrive. When they do not seem inclined to investigate, Murphy clings onto the only thing that can keep her together: figuring out what happened to her friend. She resolves to solve the murder herself, while also managing her colorful dating life and the job she hates at “Guiding Hope”, a school for training guide animals. 1 season, 13 episodes – Renewed for Season 2 (according to Twitter) 38. Workin’ Moms (Netflix) If you love quirky, blunt humor – this show is for you. Workin’ Moms is a show that all moms will relate to. Also, women will find these ladies incredibly funny. As far as shows to binge watch on Netflix go – this is a must-see! Four very different thirty-something working mothers and friends try to balance their jobs, family life and love life in modern day Toronto, Canada. 39. When They See Us (Netflix) This true story is absolutely heartbreaking. Sadly, it’s also eye opening. This limited series tells the story of abuse, betrayal, racism, and fear. I highly recommend watching it and researching the case. Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they’re falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story. Limited Series – 4 Episodes 40. Girls Incarcerated (Netflix) This docu-series is definitely one that got me hooked right away. I’m a reality tv queen so this is right up my alley. It follows the stories of teenage girls who are incarcerated for a variety of reasons. Some are young mothers and all are girls who made serious mistakes. A documentary show about troubled girls who are are juvenile delinquents in Madison Juvenile Center What series have you binged this year? Tell me in the comments below and I might add it to this list! Also, check out these 6 must-see documentaries on Netflix! This post may contain affiliate links and/or promotional products, all opinions expressed are that of But First, Joy only. Read my full disclosure. You'll Also Love: 20 Gifts For Women In Their 20s: Trendy & Fun For Her How to Financially Prepare for a child's future Tips for Enjoying The Holidays with Depression Wentworth!!! It is a must see on Netflix!! It’s one of those shows that I wish I could go back & watch again for the first time! Muri Wilson says Resurrection Ertugrul a Turkish series on the Ottoman war. It’s slow at first but after 3 episodes I love it and the characters. Some you can’t stand but that’s great acting. Lots of fight scenes and no sex scenes. Over the top often times but it’s kept me gripped series after series. Handsome men beautiful woman and lots of action. Not for everyone but kinda over all the obvious American ‘ best Netflix series’ There are so many better foreign shows out there. Of course lack of money shows in the scenes and props this is no Game of Thrones with millions of production dollars thrown at it but I love this Turkish series . Helped me understand the Muslim religion a bit too. Pity more people watched it. Silly sometimes but you don’t care after awhile it’s great! Oops I meant 3 series not episodes Banshee on Amazon prime, is a must watch. Meet Joyce! Joyce Santos is the sole owner and blogger at But First, Joy. Her passion is to inspire women to be hands-on in their lives by encouraging them to make their mental, physical, and emotional health a priority. Let's Work Together! Inspiring ordinary women to find joy in everyday things. Follow on Instagram (ad) Eating healthy isn't always convenient. That' Daily walks with my son are like therapy and hones Oh my sweet boy wins my heart everyday. He picked I’ve finally had some time to reflect on 2019 an #ad Your New Year’s Resolutions shouldn’t feel 2019 was another great year. Here were my top nine His big boy room is Marvel themed 🙂 We’ve bee But First, Joy! Joyce D. Santos is an Orlando wellness blogger and influencer. She is the founder of But First, Joy Reach Out. 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__label__cc	0.564075	0.435925	Day: 13 Feb 2018 Oil prices firm as global stock markets rebound 13 Feb 2018 — Leave a comment Oil prices rose on Tuesday, lifted by a rebound in global stock markets that followed sharp falls last week. Jonathan Alcorn \| Reuters Oil jack pumps are pictured in the Kern River oil field in Bakersfield, Calif. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $59.44 a barrel at 0103 GMT. That was up 15 cents, or 0.25 percent, from their last settlement. Brent crude futures were at $62.78 per barrel, up 19 cents, or 0.3 percent, from the previous close. “Oil markets attempted a half-hearted recovery overnight on little more than an equity market correlated bounce,” said Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia-Pacific at futures brokerage Oanda in Singapore. Stock markets were roiled last week by some of the sharpest falls on record, shaking confidence across markets. With markets seemingly returning to calmer waters, oil traders said attention was turning to inventory levels to gauge crude supply levels. “The change in inventories this week will be crucial for determining whether further declines in the oil price are on the cards,” said William O’Loughlin, investment analyst at Australia’s Rivkin Securities. Russia won’t flood the oil market, says OPEC secretary general 9 Hours Ago \| 02:29 The private American Petroleum Institute (API) is due to publish crude inventory estimates on Tuesday, while the government U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is set to release its fuel storage and crude production data on Wednesday. On the demand side, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said on Monday it expected world oil demand to climb by 1.59 million barrels per day (bpd) this year, an increase of 60,000 bpd from the previous forecast, reaching 98.6 million bpd. The rising consumption is being met by increased output from outside OPEC, the Middle East dominated producer club said. OPEC said the United States and other outside producers would boost supply by 1.4 million bpd this year, up 250,000 bpd from last month and the third consecutive rise from 870,000 bpd in November. OPEC said because of non-OPEC production growth, oil markets would only return to a supply and demand balance “towards the end of this year.” In an effort to tighten markets and prop up prices, OPEC and a group of other producer including Russia have been withholding supplies since 2017. The cuts are scheduled to last through 2018. EIA data shows that world oil markets were in a supply deficit in 2017, due in large part to the OPEC-led supply cuts, but the data shows an expected return of a surplus for large parts of this year. This entry was tagged brent crude futures, oil prices, OPEC, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. West Texas Intermediate Crude. Bookmark the permalink. Wall St at record levels after strong U.S., China data After India's Amazon snub, Modi's party slams Bezos-owned Washington Post Mexican autoparts firms eye fast lane after U.S. backs trade deal The yield curve's still weird. Fed's Bullard is okay with that	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line957
__label__wiki	0.583017	0.583017	In Security Technology On June 18, 2019 0 742 0 CGE Newsletter Senior Writers David Zussman (19) dzussman@ottawa.ca Howard Dawson is a writer and tech enthusiast at Strictly Digital. Government appointments and the Trudeau Government George Ross (9) george@promotivemedia.ca Leadership challenges for public servants Jeffrey Roy (71) jeff@dal.ca The Socialization of Big Tech read_err:http://www.cbc.ca/cmlink/rss-politics read_err:http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/feeds/verticals/canada-politics/index.xml read_err:http://www.macleans.ca/politics/feed/ Days after a number of Albertans took notice of a billboard campaign that too... CTVNews.ca - Politics - Public RSS:: 20/01/16 22:07 20h The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an attempt by British Columbia to a... : Politics::Canada 20/01/16 21:05 21h The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously dismissed British Columbia's appe... Canada's health minister says talk about decriminalizing drugs to deal with t... Canadian military program seeking help to find and take out waste in space The Canadian military is looking for help taking out the trash in space. Over... Trump’s impeachment trial officially underway in U.S. Senate The events will be a test not only of his presidency but also of the nation’s... : Politics::Politics 20/01/16 18:54 24h The Republican-led U.S. Senate finally passed North America's long-delayed ne... CTVNews.ca - Politics - Public RSS:: 20/01/16 17:06 1d As past Tory party players step up, Harper appears to step to the side Former prime minister Stephen Harper has left his role with the chief fundrai... The co-chair of the Conservative Party of Canada's leadership campaign thinks... Sen. Mike Duffy begins appeal of ruling blocking him from suing Senate The Senate forfeited any claim to immunity from lawsuits over its suspension ... Multi RSS Reader AI and data in government: 2019’s 5 biggest trends	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line959
__label__wiki	0.981716	0.981716	Scheer says he'd 'absolutely' review Canada's new Food Guide Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising another review of Canada's recently updated Food Guide should the Tories come to power this fall, saying the latest guide is the result of a flawed and biased process. Scheer made the comment at the Dairy Farmers of Canada's annual general meeting in Saskatoon on Wednesday, after being asked by a young farmer about the Conservatives' food policies. "The process was flawed," Scheer said of the new guide. "Complete lack of consultation. Seems to be ideologically driven by people who have a philosophical perspective and a bias against certain types of healthy food products. "So absolutely we want to get that right." Scheer added his party wants the guide to "actually reflect what we know, what the science tells us." "The work that you have done as a group to prove the science behind the product that you produce has been incredible and that went completely unused during the development of the new food guide," he said. The federal health minister called Sheer's attacks "ridiculous." "Andrew Scheer [is] spreading lies about a Food Guide that was enthusiastically welcomed by Canadians and celebrated as a world leader," Ginette Petitpas Taylor said in an email to CBC News. "These totally inaccurate comments are hardly surprising coming from the same Conservative Party that muzzled government scientists and blatantly ignored evidence. Health policy should be based on evidence, not industry, and meet the needs of all Canadians. That's exactly the approach our government took in crafting Canada's new Food Guide." The Liberal government unveiled its new, simplified Food Guide this past January. It had been updated previously in 2007. The word "dairy" appears nowhere in the text-only version of the Food Guide snapshot, while a glass of water is shown in the main diagram as "your drink of choice." It's a stark contrast to 1992, when Health Canada increased the recommended servings of meat and dairy foods in response to industry pressure. Don Somers/CBC 'Chocolate milk saved my son's life' Scheer also vowed that a Conservative-led government would abandon the Liberals' plan for front-of-package nutrition labelling. "I can make all those decisions myself," Scheer said of the currently proposed labels, which Ottawa already has confirmed would not apply to milk. Scheer nevertheless spoke of his own son's past "picky" eating habits in defending the importance of milk as a source of calcium. "I truly do believe that chocolate milk saved my son's life," Scheer said in jest. He went on to speak about the years when his son was aged two to six. "He was eating toast, would eat bacon, he would eat very plain grilled meats and we couldn't get him to eat much else. And so [we] were really worried about it. Where was he gonna get his calcium and other vitamins? And he loved chocolate milk and he would drink chocolate milk by the tumbler-full," Scheer said. He added: "The idea that these types of products that we've been drinking as human beings and eating as human beings for millennia — that now all of a sudden they're unhealthy — it's ridiculous." CBC News has reached out to Health Canada for comment. Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO), Métis Nation of Alberta, and Métis Nation - Saskatchewan (MNS) moving forward with historic meeting of three provincial Métis governments CNW Group Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Stock Price: Should You Buy the Bounce? 3 Must-Own REITs to Buy and Hold for the Next Decade Sea Moss May Actually Be Able to Help Boost Your Mood The Wiggles' Greg Page Recovering After Suffering Cardiac Arrest During Australian Relief Concert	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line965
__label__cc	0.618653	0.381347	Nieman: Trust in facts over fear when considering HPV vaccination Dr. Peter Nieman The vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV, is given to prevent a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cancer. Joe Raedle / Getty Images In the past year much has been written on people who attack vaccines. The debate between doctors and those who oppose vaccines has become boring by now. Perhaps it is time to approach this controversy by considering the tug of war between the brain and the heart. To me, it has become clearer than ever that the biggest issue in this ongoing controversy of vaccine safety and effectiveness centres around one single word: trust. We live in a culture where priests, pastors and rabbis are trusted less often; politicians certainly have lost a lot of trust, and many professionals are increasingly discovering that they cannot assume automatic trust any longer; they have to earn it. And earning trust does not depend on how many years one went to medical school. It depends on how well one can compete with skeptics who also earned trust … but did it via websites, books, podcasts and others forums which are well-suited to disseminate articulate ideas. Sociologists are correct when they observe many humans tend to make decisions based on feelings (perceptions) more than logical facts. When it comes to facts, there are two possibilities. The first group of vaccine-opponents may have made up their mind and refuse to consider any more facts; they have the attitude of don’t-confuse-me-with facts. The second group may look at the facts and still, after all the research, land at a place of this-does-not-feel-right. I remember clearly what happened more than 10 years ago when the HPV vaccine was launched. There was a lot of fear and misinformation. (HPV stands for the human papilloma virus. This virus is spread via secretions during sex.) Another major objection 10 years ago, and skilfully used to fuel fear, was that the HPV vaccine did not exist long enough to be trusted. In the February 2019 edition of Pediatrics, a landmark study appeared. The authors of this study followed close to 2,000 young patients for more than 10 years and simply asked two questions: How well does this vaccine work over the long-term? Is there any herd community; meaning is it possible that vaccinating the majority of women will protect some who were never vaccinated? There are many strains of HPV — at least nine that matter the most. The original vaccine covers four strains and thus is known as a quadrivalent vaccine. (There is now a newer HPV vaccine which covers nine strains, but the study involved the original vaccine for safety and effectiveness.) For those who want facts, the research shows that the HPV vaccine is 90 per cent effective. In an editorial in Pediatrics 2019, Dr. Amanda Dempsey makes the point that when the HPV vaccine was launched it was launched after clinical trials. What makes this landmark study noteworthy is that it reflects what happened in the real world. She added that many of the women who were vaccinated also did not get the recommended course of three vaccines. Some only had two shots instead of the recommended three and yet had significant protection. In addition to the high effectiveness of the vaccine it was also discovered that not only did it cover the four strains it intended to cover, but it provided crossover coverage also for five other strains. Having said that, more research is needed to show that the vaccine which covers nine strains must be given once women already received a vaccine which covers four strains. There are two ways to look at herd immunity — one positive and one negative. The positive is that people who get vaccines also protect those who don’t get vaccines. The negative is to define those who refuse to get vaccines as freeloaders. They are at the table always, but never pay for the meal and shamelessly sponge off others. The HPV vaccine indeed offers herd immunity in that women who were vaccinated helped unvaccinated women to have some degree of protection. The latest research offers lots of good news, but once again it is unclear if facts will triumph over emotions. Doctors, being driven by facts and evidence often assume that more education is what is needed. I think that is naive. Facts may tell, but stories sell. And stories sell because they create emotion. And emotion is what ultimately drives decisions. In the same edition of Pediatrics, there is also an article which looked at the best ways to communicate the HPV story to parents. Not surprisingly parents are like teens — both get their back up when they are told to do something. They prefer to be in control and dislike authorities and experts lecturing them in paternalistic ways. The study clearly shows that parents appreciate explanations about how the vaccine reduces the risk of cancer, but they are uneasy when clinicians frame this as a vaccine that is urgently needed. Dr. Nieman continues to enjoy working as a pediatrician after 32 years of caring for kids. He will run his 109th marathon soon. See more at drnieman.com Brooks: Vehicles and Violins celebrates 20th anniversary Brooks: CUPS Moonlight Gala raises more than $200,000 Business of Health This section was created by Content Works, Postmedia’s commercial content division, on behalf of an Innovative Medicines Canada company. 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__label__cc	0.706125	0.293875	2 men missing on Pine Ridge Reservation feared dead By: Associated Press - Updated: 1 week ago RAPID CITY (AP) – Officials say they fear the two men missing on the Pine Ridge Reservation may have died of exposure. Robert “RJ” Kills Enemy Jr., 23, and Vincent Steve Little Dog, 25, are presumed dead, according to Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Emergency Management director Steve Wilson. The men have not had any contact with family or friends since they disappeared Dec. 27 north of Manderson, Wilson said. Police say the two fled from an officer who tried to speak with them following a report of two intoxicated men walking around. Multiple searches have been conducted with help from volunteers, tribal agencies, the Oglala Lakota County Sheriff's Office, the Martin Volunteer Fire Department and Pennington County Search and Rescue, the Rapid City Journal reported. Searches have looked for the men by foot, horseback and with ATVs. They've also used drones and tracking and cadaver dogs, Wilson said. The search began in the area where the men were last seen and is making its way south toward Manderson. "It's a lot of area to cover" and the snow left over from the blizzard is "not helping us in any way," Wilson said. “It's hard on our search crews, hard on our equipment.” Legislation proposed to help state’s tribes High anxiety: Proposed U.S. hemp rules worry industry	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line978
__label__wiki	0.683304	0.683304	Carthage Central School District Black River Elementary Carthage High School Carthage Middle School West Carthage Elementary Business Office/Financial Office Diginity for All Students Act (DASA) Hall of Achievement New York State Report Cards Shared Decision Making CCSD Central Registration Human Resources/Employment Library Media Pages Sports/Events Calendar NYSPHSAA Athletics Highlights College Recruiting Information Documents & Handbooks Sportsmanship Matters Team Web Pages Practice/Facility/Bus Schedules Information for Military Families Offender Registry Public Access Station - Channel 99 SACC - Student Age Child Care Carthage Central School District » District Welcome to the Carthage Central School District website. For more information on our district, please click on the links in the left-hand navigation. The Carthage Central School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions; and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies: Jennifer Premo, compliance officer/coordinator, at jpremo@carthagecsd.org, 25059 Woolworth Street, Carthage, New York 13619. Inquiries concerning the application of the Carthage Central School District non-discrimination policies may also be referred to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), 32 Old Slip, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10005, telephone (646) 428-3800 (voice) or (800) 877-8339 (TTY). In accordance with Policy 5571, Allegations of Fraud Any individual who has reason to believe that financial improprieties or wrongful conduct is occurring within the School System is to disclose such information according to the reporting procedures established by the District. The reporting procedures will follow the chain of command as established within the department or school building or as enumerated in the District's Organizational Chart. The Acting Superintendent of Schools, Jennifer L. Premo may be reached at 315-493-5120 or by e-mail. In the event that the allegations of financial improprieties/fraud and/or wrongful conduct concern the investigating official, the report shall be made to the next level of supervisory authority. If the chain of supervisory command is not sufficient to ensure an impartial, independent investigation, allegations of financial improprieties/fraud and/or wrongful conduct will be reported as applicable, to the Internal Auditor (if available), or the External (Independent) Auditor, or the School Attorney, or the Board of Education. For more information regarding Allegations of Fraud, please click on the links below. Policy 5571 Allegations of Fraud http://www.carthagecsd.org/policies.cfm?pid=1088&searchwords= Office of the State Comptroller Report Government Fraud http://osc.state.ny.us/investigations/ Interim Superintendent - Jennifer L. Premo 25059 Woolworth Street, Carthage, NY 13619 \| Phone: 315-493-5000 \| Fax: 315-493-7036	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line982
__label__wiki	0.677283	0.677283	photo courtesy of the author Alexis Cheung Keane Shum Sour Water Bassey Ikpi Borders of the Past: On Europe and the Berlin Wall Places \| Migrations My Father Is More Than a Model Minority What makes immigrant parents like mine worthy of love, respect, and admiration in our country? Before leaving Hong Kong for Hawaii, my father’s family posed for a studio portrait. They sit and stand shoulder to shoulder, a sweeping panorama of China’s countryside visible behind them. Against the opulent background, they appear like cutouts, almost fake. My popo is there, as are my two aunts and my uncle. My gunggung is still alive. And then there is my father, age seven, on the far left, standing stiff and still like a soldier called to attention. His hands are rigid, his hair flat, his gaze focused—perhaps on the camera, or perhaps even further, into a dawning horizon of possibility, just beyond his view. In that moment, his future remains unclear. He’s unaware that his father will soon die from lung cancer; that his mother, alone and unable to speak English, will work two jobs—making noodles in the morning, waiting tables in the evening—to support her children while he watches his baby sister. When he starts school, he’ll quickly advance in math and struggle through English with students two years his junior. But once he gains fluency, he’ll excel, eventually graduating as high school valedictorian. He’ll study biology at the University of Hawaii on scholarship, shoveling popcorn into paper bags at the movie theater and cleaning bedpans during night shifts at St. Francis Hospital between classes. He’ll be accepted to all but one of twelve medical schools to which he applies, and graduate from Harvard. On call one evening at Harborview Hospital in Seattle, a nurse will invite him to a movie that she doesn’t have tickets to, and they’ll eat Mexican food instead. On their wedding night, they’ll laugh and dance and be thrown into a swimming pool, still dressed in their suit and gown. They’ll move to Minnesota, then back to Hawaii, where they’ll raise their family. Their son will come second, bright and mischievous. Their daughter will arrive first and become thoughtful and defiant. It will be years until they fully understand her—the unexpected surprises she will bring—but she’ll view him as her brilliant father, the embodiment of the American dream. I can’t remember where I found the photograph. I can recall its inky colors, its smoothness in my hands, my own disbelief that the people in the photograph were my father’s family members. It looks so ancient, I thought to myself. Everyone looks so young. The portrait, taken for their US immigration application, is one of a family I have never known—which is to say, a complete one. For years, I knew my gungung only from the framed wedding photos in my popo’s apartment and his smooth granite tombstone in the Manoa graveyard, where we lit incense and burned paper money near his grassy mound during Bisan. My father and his family say so little about him, even about themselves, before America; before he died. I know so little about him. I am far more familiar with my father’s achievements: the scholarships, the 4.0 GPAs, Harvard Medical School, an MBA. His positions as chief of surgery, professor of medicine, Vice President of Medical Affairs. As a general and transplant surgeon, my father remains always on call. When I was a child, he’d leave early in the morning for rounds. In the evening, the steady thrum of his pager would often draw him back to the emergency room. “Hello, Dr. Alan Cheung,” he would say, retreating from dinner into another room to return the call. “Did somebody page?” Growing up, my brother and I knew he was home when the garage door would lift and a sonic “aiyayayai” would echo through our halls. He was imitating the battle cry in Xena: Warrior Princess , our favorite TV show at the time, making us laugh with delight. In those days, our mother worked long evenings as a professor of nursing. After our babysitter went home, our father would read to us before bed. He’d often fall asleep while doing so, an open book always resting on his chest. My father tells me that the Chinese once called Hawaii tahn heung sahn, or fragrant mountain , after the sandalwood trees that sprouted there. Those towering, golden gods, which his countrymen hacked and harvested, were shipped and whittled into incense sticks and lit, their whisper-thin smoke curling gently in the air. America, my father tells me, they called gam sahn, or golden mountain , after the precious metal that filled the hidden veins of California’s hillsides, which his countrymen mined during the state’s fevered gold rush. I find these Cantonese endearments striking for their similarities, their underlying assumptions about America: its abundance, its prosperity, its generosity, all somehow inherent, which allows outsiders to claim these riches as their own. Yet in response to the Chinese immigrants who entered the country in the 1800s, the government instituted its first immigration ban, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which restricted their entry and ability to become naturalized citizens. In the 1890s, the federal government mandated a Chinese registry. Later came the Magnuson Act of 1943, which established immigration quotas based on national origin and permitted only 105 Chinese immigrants per year. Before the “model minority,” Asians were the “yellow peril.” My father immigrated one year after the Immigration Act of 1965, which allowed unfettered Chinese immigration for the first time in over eighty years. My father came by boat, on the USS Elizabeth II: “a big passenger ship, like the Titanic .” He tells me of the berths full of bunk beds, men in one room and women in another. How my gunggung, whose lung cancer had been diagnosed in Hong Kong, lay inert most days, only rising for meals. My popo was constantly seasick. When they arrived in Honolulu Harbor, he remembers seeing Aloha Tower. My aunt, gunggung’s sister, picked them up from the pier. For three months, his family lived in her small, spare bedroom in the back. She had two bunk beds and one full-size mattress for the six of them to share. My gungung, whose cancer had worsened, was taken to the hospital. “We came in June,” my father says. “He died that September.” When my father comes to visit me, he wears a crimson polar fleece with “Harvard” emblazoned over his heart. In his thin shell and washed jeans and running sneakers, his choice feels both pragmatic (it’s cold) and proud (he’s an alum), but also preemptive: The jacket, intentional or not, indicates some form of belonging. In Hawaii, my father had played alongside kids of all kinds: Hawaiian, hapa, Portuguese, Pacific Islander, Filipino, Japanese, Korean. B ecause of the plantations, immigrants from across Asia settled in the islands, creating an imperfect but inclusive culture of their own. On his first day of medical school, during his first lecture, my father noticed that the students had separated themselves. Black students sat together, Latino students sat together. “Being from Hawaii, I didn’t know where to sit,” he said. “So I sat in the back with the jocks.” Boston in the ’80s was notoriously racist. In 1989, after my father had decamped for Seattle, Charles Stuart—a white man who had murdered his wife—lied and described the assailant as a black man to the police. The city upended black communities in pursuit of a man to fit his description. During medical school, my father encountered the police only once. One sunny day, he rode his bike across the Charlestown bridge, onto Commonwealth Avenue, when a patrol car hit him. My father was unhurt, but his bike was badly bent. The officer, who was a black man, apologized. Then he drove my father home and paid to fix his broken tires. My father’s experiences with racism are mostly limited. Or they’re uneventful. When recalling how the chairman of surgery often confused him with the only other Asian resident at the University of Washington—a Japanese man named Tom—he laughs. It’s only when he remembers the psychiatrist that his mood changes. The psychiatrist was a white man who was admitted into the hospital late one evening when my father was still a nurse’s aide. He was drunk and surly, and as my father cleaned the blood and vomit from his body, the white man spat, “Your kind will never amount to anything,” into his ear. As my father tells me this, his voice changes, turns tense—like a loosely curled fist, suddenly gripping itself. In the book The Racial Imaginary , Beth Loffreda and Claudia Rankine discuss the role of race in creation, as well as the illusion that the stories we tell are somehow untethered to reality, to history, to the slight or dangerous discriminations we inflict on one another daily. “Our imaginations are creatures as limited as we ourselves are,” they write. They explain that our feelings, our thoughts, are not wholly ours—they proceed from the past, germinate and grow, take root in our minds, nourishing the racial imaginary. By filling my father’s life only with his achievements, I engaged with the racial imaginary. I gave him those “certain predictable performances of race,” as Rankine and Loffreda write, then felt a swelling of pride in him for sustaining that performance. In so doing, I failed to consider any alternatives to his experience, denying him a range of nuance and emotions—like failure, fear, wanting—that all of us share. But before the “model minority,” Asians were the “yellow peril.” “Fu Manchus.” “Orientals.” “Coolies.” Criminals. Rapists. Terrorists. Animals. Aliens. Staccato stereotypes that feel so familiar today, even if they are applied to East Asians less often than they are to other groups. “The Chinese must go,” chanted the Workingmen’s Party in California. In the 1800s, Asians were viewed as threatening, exotic, degenerate. For my father, a Chinese immigrant, work was all he had to prove his worth, to demonstrate that he belonged. By the 1960s, they were viewed as industrious and law-abiding. Quiet and persevering. Some “exemplary,” like my father. This change didn’t occur because white Americans suddenly believed Asians were fully human, deserving of the same rights and freedoms white people enjoyed. Instead, it allowed some to believe that America was a racial democracy, even as the model minority myth was weaponized against other races—especially Black Americans—and used to dismiss their experiences of discrimination. Projecting the model minority stereotype on an entire group of people also undermines their humanity, ascribing rules for individuals to follow; conditions they must clear in order to belong. “We are all, no matter how little we like it, the bearers of unwanted and often shunned memory, of a history whose infiltrations are at times so stealthy we can pretend otherwise, and at times so loud we can’t hear much of anything else,” write Loffreda and Rankine. In the months since the election—since swastikas have appeared on college campuses, since visitors from many Muslim-majority countries have been banned, since immigrants have been deported and children taken from their parents—I’ve realized how true this is. As children of immigrants, we’re often forced to wonder: What makes our families worthy of love or respect in our own country? For my father, a Chinese immigrant, work was salvation. Work was the salve. Work was all he had to prove his worth, to demonstrate that he belonged. Although I love my father for more than his achievements, they are hard to overlook. And I am his daughter. I know so much more than what people see, what some people perceive him to be: alien, overachiever, indistinguishable Asian, chink. Yet when I look at my father, I remember early Saturday mornings when he’d brush my hair into buns before ballet class. I recall that hot summer day when jellyfish wrapped around my arms and legs like ivy strangling slender branches, and how he rushed my small body home, coating my welting skin with meat tenderizer to soothe the sting. I think of the evenings when he would come home to find me sulking, wooden splinters from our deck burrowed into my toes; how he’d attempt to remove them with tweezers, but I’d scream so loudly that he’d place the sticky side of a Band-Aid over the tiny wound instead. He would wait beside my bed until I fell asleep, and by morning, both splinters and bandages would be gone. Growing up, my father often took my pulse in place of holding my hand. He never mentioned what he was doing. Instead he simply grabbed hold, wrapping his hand around my wrist, letting his fingers sink into my skin until my pulse, at first hard for him to sense, suddenly fluttered. He once taught me how to find that soft, tender spot where the radial artery beats beneath the skin, undetected until pressed. How to place my fingers away from the tendon that neatly tunnels and divides the forearm into two planes. How to take hold until the silent thrum comes, then count quickly and quietly— 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 —before releasing. He still does this, even though I’m grown. He doesn’t ask, but I see it coming—in the car, while we’re walking, waiting in line. It’s a subtle gesture, almost unremarkable. But his grasp holds so much: It cradles an ocean crossing; his father’s death; everything he learned and everything he achieved—the entire messy, surprising story that brought us both here. I feel my father’s hand, how it wraps around my wrist. And together we silently feel the gentle drum, drum, drum of history pulsing between us. Alexis Cheung is nonfiction writer. Her essays and reporting have appeared in The New York Times, T, New York, The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Originally from Hawaii, she currently lives in New York. Enter your email address to receive notifications for author Alexis Cheung You have been added to the notification list for author Alexis Cheung Things \| Books What I Learned from Maxine Hong Kingston I told Kingston how much her book meant to me as a half-Chinese woman, as a writer. It showed me my own life was worthy of examination, even exaltation. Integration Class: On Immigrating to Germany “Welcome to Germany. Take a number. Have a seat.” Courtney Tenz Refugees of Extraordinary Ability: A Mythology Whether fleeing the Russian Revolution or running from martial law-era Taiwan, my families have made some narrow escapes. Kim Liao Walter Benjamin’s Last Hike The day we hiked Benjamin’s last trail, hundreds of thousands of refugees were desperate to get into Europe. Gwen Strauss	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line986
__label__wiki	0.805468	0.805468	Liberty Leg has been around since 1999, first in Iowa City, and then New Orleans and now Iowa City again. It's a 2 piece plus vocals band, like White Stripes, but White Stripes sounds like complete wimps by comparison. This recording is kind of distorted for reasons i don't entirely understand but I think I need to adjust the gain & limiter on the H4 when I record loud music this close. I still think the set sounds great, though. It was absolutely blistering being there. Ethan (the lead singer) has a distinctive voice and by the end of the set he looked liked he needed oxygen -- he gives everything he's got for every song.", "url": "https://chaircrusher.livejournal.com/284208.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Okrzyki, przyjaciel!", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/91298078/514724" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal chaircrusher", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://chaircrusher.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/91298078/514724" } } } Liberty Leg Liberty Leg Live at the Hall Mall This recording is kind of distorted for reasons i don't entirely understand but I think I need to adjust the gain & limiter on the H4 when I record loud music this close. I still think the set sounds great, though. It was absolutely blistering being there. Ethan (the lead singer) has a distinctive voice and by the end of the set he looked liked he needed oxygen -- he gives everything he's got for every song.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line991
__label__cc	0.573019	0.426981	Champions for Cetaceans A site where supporters of whales, dolphins, and porpoises can network, share information, and join forces to help save Cetaceans Bloggers for Cetaceans Japanese Whalers Have No Compassion For The Minke Whale Posted on May 18, 2011 by Kirsten Massebeau By Kirsten Massebeau The Deep and Sensitive Minke Whale How can you not see the sensitivity and depth in the eyes of the minke whales. The minke is shy, and rather elusive weighing up to 14 tons. As the smallest of the baleen whales, the minke is a filter feeder dining on krill, and small schooling fish like cod, and pollock. They are fast swimmers,swimming up to speeds of 24 mph. They reach maturity at 7 or 8 years of age. The females carry their babies for 10-11 months, and their babies nurse for 6 months much like humans. The females swim closer to the shore than the males. The minke’s travel in small groups or alone. They have complex family bonds, and communities. They speak a complex dialect and are famous for vocalizing the “boing”. Unfortunately for the minke whales of 2011, they are a target of commercial whaling, “Only in recent decades have minke whales been taken by whalers to any extent; they were thought to be too small to be a worthwhile catch. But as the larger whale species became depleted, the whalers began to hunt the minke as a replacement. Since the late 1960s and 1970s, Japan, Russia (which has now ceased whaling), and (to some extent) Norway have focused their whaling efforts on minke whales”, “American Cetacean Society http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/MinkeWhale.htm. ” Because they had already driven the huge whales like the sperm whale to the brink of extinction, the whalers switched their focus to the smaller minke whale where it remains today. North Pacific whaling in Japan -- they use smaller harpoon boats (two have their home ports in Taiji), and kill whales within 50 km of the port they're whaling out of. No "mother ship" here, they just drag the poor soul by it's tail to the port, load it onto the dock via crane and start cutting.(Brian Barnes, Save Japan Dolphins.org, May 13,2011) http://mainichi.jp/photo/graph/20110505/14.jp On April 26, 2011 three so called, “research” whaling ships left the ports of Kushiro and Hokkaido. The thirty member crew had received a permit to harvest sixty minke whales for research purposes. In the name of research the Japanese will end up with approximately six hundred tons of minke whale meat. This Minke Whale sashimi was slaughtered in the name of research. The hunted whale has a violent awakening from its quiet life.”Even using ‘modern’ methods – which have changed little in 100 years – whale hunts often involve prolonged and intense suffering. The hunt often begins with a pursuit lasting hours, until the whale slows from exhaustion.Once in range, hunters fire an exploding harpoon. This is intended to pierce the whale’s body to a depth of 12 inches before detonation.Sea swells and movement of the boat and whale make a single lethal shot almost impossible.Even if on target, the harpoon rarely kills instantly. Instead it causes massive shock and injury. Inaccurate shots are followed by secondary harpoons and rifle fire.Hunters winch the injured animal onto their boat. At this point, it can be unclear whether the whale is dead – they can store vast amounts of oxygen and shut down all but their essential organs.The whalers’ criteria for judging when a whale is dead are considered inadequate by theInternational Whaling Commission. This means whales may still be in pain even when recorded as dead. Whalers frequently claim that a whale dies within two minutes. WSPA has proof that the death throes can last over an hour.”http://www.wspa-international.org/wspaswork/whaling/aninhumaneend.aspx Until Japan voluntarily ends their insatiable desire for whale meat the minke whales future is bleak. Contact the Japanese Embassy in Washington DC and urge them to stop killing whales and dolphins. Be polite, and urge them to protect Japanese consumers from mercury poisoning from eating dangerous whale and dolphin meat. Ambassador Ichiro FUJISAKI 2520 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Japan Information and Culture Center E-mail: jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp Email the Prime Minister of Japan Nato Kan. Let him know you will not support Japan if they won’t stop murdering cetaceans. By Law the Japanese government must respond to all emails. This is a direct link to his comment page. https://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment_ssl.html Please Support the Sea Shepherds, The Cove Guardians, Save Japan Dolphins, and Wdsf/Prowal. Together we can make a difference. This entry was posted in Baleen Whales (Mysticeti), Cetaceans and tagged Antarctic Whaling, Baleen Whale, Japanese whaling, minke whale by Kirsten Massebeau. Bookmark the permalink. 3 thoughts on “Japanese Whalers Have No Compassion For The Minke Whale” Jeff Jameson on May 19, 2011 at 12:10 am said: Good post, the minke whales needs protection NOW! Ed Johnson and Kirsten Massebeau on May 19, 2011 at 8:12 am said: Thanks for the thumbs up Jeff! I agree we need to protect the minke today. I believe in the future the baleen whales is somewhat compromised because they are filter feeders and eat krill. The krill market is exploding, for the fish oil. Overfishing of krill and other small schooling fish is a huge problem. So the minke has to live a depletion of food supply, and the threat of Japanese, Icelandic, and Norwegian whalers. Lily Betrand on May 18, 2011 at 11:36 pm said: Thank-you so much for this post Kirsten. After reading your post I quickly scanned the internet for information on the minke whale. Apparently, their brains are just huge. How will the Japanese, Nowegians, Icelanders and Faroe’s feel when scientists enable us to speak with cetaceans. The poor minke whale in the picture above. He looks just so sad and weak in that sling. His quiet life was taken forever.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line993
__label__cc	0.628578	0.371422	Bookstr Awkwafina To Star And Produce ‘Last Adventure’ Fantasy Film by Sage Negron Share Bookstr via: Actress and rapper Awkwafina has recently found a boom in her career thanks to a string of successful films. After starring in comedies like Crazy Rich Asians and Ocean’s 8, she recently garnered critical acclaim in the family drama The Farewell and is set to voice Scuttle in the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Her next project, a fantasy film, has just been announced. Awkwafina acting in ‘Crazy, Rich, Asians’. \| Image via Rolling Stone First reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Awkwafina will star and produce The Last Adventure of Constance Verity for Legendary Pictures. The actress will play the title character, an adventurer who has been given the mark of “chosen one” her whole life. As she saves the world from countless disasters, she longs for a normal life and begins work on completing her “last” adventure. Image Via Amazon The Last Adventure of Constance Verity was written by A. Lee Martinez and published in 2017. A sequel was later released in 2018. There is no word yet on other casting news or filming dates, but the script has already been written. Featured Image Via Vanity Fair Can You Resist Bookstores? No? Then These Memes Are For You! Barack Obama Unveils Summer Reading List The Chaos of Chaos Walking Christopher Tolkien dead at 95 Bookstr’s Three to Read This Week 01/17/20 Birthday Girl’s Best Reads! More Than A First Lady For latest book giveaways and updates QUIZ: Which ‘Witcher’ Character Are You? posted on August 17, 2018 10 Most Savage Quotes From ‘The Princess Bride’ posted on September 27, 2019 6 Steamy Sex Scenes That You Should Absolutely Avoid Reading posted on January 5, 2018 Readers of the World posted on January 6, 2020 Top Ten H.P. Lovecraft Monsters (Who Aren’t Cthulhu) posted on August 21, 2019 © Copyright 2020 by Bookstr GET WEEKLY UPDATES & A CHANCE TO WIN AN TOTE BAG FULL OF AMAZING WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR BOOKSTR’S EMAIL NEWSLETTER	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line998
__label__cc	0.747089	0.252911	CIBSE Podcast CIBSE Blogs GDPR Updates Home > News and Policy > Get Housing off the Gas Grid, says CCC Report Get Housing off the Gas Grid, says CCC Report Posted: 26 February 2019 UK homes are unfit for the challenges of climate change. This view, long-held by experts at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), is starkly spelt out in the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) report UK Housing: Fit for the Future? published last week. The report pulls no punches, stating unambiguously that there is no way the UK can meet its legally binding climate change targets unless the performance of housing is addressed as a matter of urgency. CIBSE President Stephen Lisk summarised the view of the Institution: “There is no magical single bullet that can solve this issue. Buildings are complex engineering structures. The ability to design and operate buildings efficiently comes from a holistic understanding of engineering, environment and the people who occupy them. For too long we have left the task of designing many of our homes to people without that understanding, controlled by blunt regulations that are both inadequate and poorly enforced.” The report highlights failings across the board, but the headline issue is that energy use in homes actually increased between 2016 and 2017 and that even the performance of new homes is falling behind expectation. Current building practice is not producing the reductions anticipated both because of failures in build quality and because building regulations are not sufficiently prescriptive. The CCC echoes the finding of the Hackitt Review of Building Regulations, that better and widespread inspection and enforcement of building standards is a starting point, while retrofitting of existing homes must also be an urgent national priority. The report highlights the critical need for training within the notoriously skill-poor construction sector underpinned with a consistent policy within which training can be delivered. However, perhaps the most radical solution proposed in the report is that no new homes should be connected to the gas grid after 2025: a move that would force the pace in the development of alternative energy sources. “It’s a hard-hitting report, and it needs to be” Stephen Lisk continued. “CIBSE has observed a widening gap between the potential performance of buildings and the reality on the ground. It is hugely frustrating that we have the knowledge and the technical solutions to address all of the issues outlined in this report but apparently no will to implement them. We very much hope that this report signals the start of a change in direction for government policy.” CIBSE publishes Guidance and Codes which provide best practice advice and are internationally recognised as authoritative design guidance for building services. The CIBSE Knowledge Portal, which makes Guidance available online to all CIBSE members, is the leading systematic engineering resource for the building services sector. For more information about the Institution please visit www.cibse.org For further press information please contact Anna Hern at Ridgemount PR on 020 8392 0500 or anna.hern@ridgemountpr.co.uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1002
__label__cc	0.719405	0.280595	Art & Literature, Author, Blog, Blog Styles, Blog Subjects, Criticism, Editorial, Editors, HOME PAGE MINI SLIDER, Lewis Levenberg, Poetics, Society & Politics, Technology On Movement \| Between Art and Capital Remember to Check Your Shoes for Spiders Only With Myself by lewis levenberg A few words, this week, on the vagaries of hanging out our shingle once more. We’ve encountered setbacks, delays, challenges, and so on. But we’re still dogging this startup—this conglomeration of our assets into publication, incubation, and focused curation—and it’s time to share what we’ve learned so far. Here’s to the phoenix, in all its flaming feathered courage. You know where to find us with your response—or leave them here, below. Let us assume, for the moment, that the great movement of twentieth-century art (modernism and its codicils) comprises a vast coming-to-terms with capital. I will not stress this assumption other than to demonstrate its plausibility. The differences in encountering works of art from 1912 or 2012 remain both vast and mundane, and I do not seek to oversimplify them here. Aesthetic changes over time scarcely deserve more attention, but I wish to point to the development of the production, distribution, institutionalization, reception, and—oh, hell yes—definition of art and its works today. So, for the moment, let us agree that art now enjoys an uneasy truce with capital. We turn to their systemic interaction. Capital affects the work of (making) art in ugly and definite ways. It defines and structures art’s possible conditions of production, for one thing. In other words, one cannot produce art unless one can afford to. If a person has the time, skills, and resources to engage with art’s materials and practices, whether sanctified or otherwise, they can make some—this is basic stuff. And I’m not suggesting, here that one’s self-naming as “artist,” or the sources of time, materials, training/practice, etc. are fixed. No, but there are some recognizable patterns at play. This leads me to art’s effect on capital. As work—as labor, if you want—art moves and generates and changes the very forms of capital. Invested in products, the work of art gives artworks part of their value. Invested in their institutional trappings, the artist and the agent and the dealer and the gallerist and the curator and the critic and the teacher and the visitor and the collector and the goddamn subway sweeper pass their judgments, shake their hands and cry the value of authenticity, originality, impact. But as expression, art maintains space to critique capital’s patterns, none the less. How does our art move now? It moves unashamedly in concert with the capital that sustains it, even when dissonant. Our art does not divorce from business: as the poet says, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man…”, and if we learn nothing else from hip-hop we must learn how hard to hustle. If we want others to see, hear, read, smell, feel our works of art, then we must also work to bring that work to them. Art was never a pastime, or a hobby. To create regularly takes deep investment, and sacrifice. As practice and craft, our art stands unflinchingly before the spectral horrors of income, expenses, cash flows, taxes, and the rest. Fuck bohemian pretension. We’ll stay irrevocably interesting and powerful and affective and beautiful despite our fiscal constraints. Indeed, we’ll stay this way because of those constraints. Our need to sustain art through art means we forsake banal insistence on the authenticity (and thereby value) assigned to the romantic ideal of the lonely genius artist creating masterpieces out of vacuum, inspiration, and sacred truths. Our art does not grow in vacuums. Collaborative work, open source processes and licenses, freemix and converged cultures swing swords. Some art dilutes into Content, into mediocrity ensconced in echo chambers and relegated to the dustbin of Twitter. But networks, institutions, habits deep entrenched in tradition and canon still all quake when other ways to bring art and artists together arise. So we cut to quick: the Circus Book demands art in and despite capital. This is art as craft, the choice of both our necessary and persistent beauties. When we publish writing, we publish across reading platforms. When we nurture artists’ growth and development, we do so inclusive of the businesses of art. When we root and establish creative communities, we adopt the conventions of the commons, though we do not bind ourselves to commonality. In short, we recognize this movement for its own truths. Between art and capital, we stand together to thrive and create. Tags: Art History, Capital, Craft, Identity, Modernism, Movement	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1003
__label__wiki	0.536846	0.536846	Ebola Ethics: Bedside and Boardroom Considerations Ryan R. Nash CBHD's Healthcare Ethics Council Webinar 12:00 (noon) - 12:45pm (CST) Speaker: Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM The Ebola outbreak of 2014 has caught our society’s attention. Fear, anxiety, and speculation spread as a contagion during a seemingly fleeting media blitz. Though the media has calmed its coverage, clinics, hospitals, and health systems must prepare for the real possibility of caring for persons with the deadly disease. This brief webinar will cover some of the practical ethical considerations that healthcare ethics advisors, clinical ethics consultants, ethics committee members, and administrators may wrestle with in preparing to care for patients with Ebola. The webinar was sponsored by CBHD's Healthcare Ethics Council - a community of healthcare professionals in affiliation with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity that recognizes and engages in dignified medical healthcare and professional education in the Judeo-Christian Hippocratic tradition. Facts about Ebola & Ethical Issues The Advisory Board Company: Basic Facts The British Medical Journal: Guidance for Healthcare Workers The Center for Disease & Control: General Information The New England Journal of Medicine: Clinical Reports & Commentary Commentary & Resources from Bioethics Centers The Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins The Kennedy Institute at Georgetown News, Journal Articles, and Other Online Resources Bioethics.com: News, Journal Articles, & Commentaries related to the Ebola Outbreak Bioethics.com: “Ebola Timeline” compiled by Heather Zeiger Bioethics.net: “The Ethics of Ebola and Scarce Experimental Drugs” by J.S. Blumenthal-Barby Boston University Today: “Battling Ebola : The Ethical Issues” by Lisa Chedekel The Christian Post: “Running Toward the Plague: Christians and Ebola” by Eric Metaxis The Health Care Blog: “Why the WHO Ethics Advisory Group Is a Start but Hardly Sufficient” by Art Caplan Journal of Global Infectious Diseases: “The Emergence of Ebola as a Global Health Security Threat: From ‘Lessons Learned’ to Coordinated Multilateral Containment Efforts” by Sarathi Kalra et al., Vol. 6, no. 4 (2014): 164-177. Medscape: “We Need to Bend Privacy Rules to Stop the Ebola Outbreak” by Art Caplan NBC News: Ebola Virus Outbreak Storyline – Continuing Coverage Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: “Ebola, Epidemics, and Ethics: What We Have Learned” by G. Kevin Donovan, Vol. 9, no. 15 (2014), doi:10.1186/1747-5341-9-15. Reuters: “Scientists Grapple with Ethics in Rush to Release Ebola Vaccines” by Kate Kelland U.S. News: “Ebola Quarantine Questioned” by Andrew Soergel Opportunities for Personal Engagement Christian Medical & Dental Associations: End Ebola Project Special Resource Types:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1010
__label__cc	0.522961	0.477039	This growing list of resources brings new ideas into focus for educators, and highlights the Provincial Centre’s orientations and pedagogical commitments. The ideas pointed to here, in the form of articles, audio recordings, reports, websites and video, can be filtered around pedagogical approaches. The resources hold the potential to inform, enhance, challenge or complexify early childhood education practices, setting in motion a collaborative reimagining of early childhood education as spaces for democratic possibilities. Pedagogical Documentation Critical reflection Land:Place Online / Web Resources Achieving the Best for London’s Children, Youth and Families - Supporting Children’s Literacy in Community Settings What is literacy in the early years? Educator and librarian, Rosamund Stooke was commissioned by the Child and Youth Network in 2010 to conduct a literature review of literacy in family and community settings. Now, over a decade later, this review is still used to help educators and others make sense of the various ways that literacy is defined and supported. Beyond Professionalism: Interrogating the Idea and Ideals Taking up the early childhood tertiary classroom as a microcosm of the field, this paper engages with questions meant to problematize narrow understandings of professionalism and views of the educator that circulate in the field. Written by Randa Khattar and Karyn Callaghan and published in Canadian Children (now the Journal of Childhood Studies) in 2015, the paper offers up a conversation meant to rethink the work of early childhood in intellectually liberating and democratic ways. Encounters with a pedagogista This 2016 article in Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, written by pedagogista Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, documents the author’s work with a group of educators on the west coast of Canada. The article retraces the complexities and vulnerabilities of such encounters and presents them as generative, rich conversations that were carried along by, not despite, their difficulty. The educators and pedagogista followed a practice of putting-into-question that helped to keep open possibilities, not only to reconceptualize children’s and educators’ ideas, but also to make education and curriculum into something more than the organization of materials and activities for children or the application of a particular pedagogical approach. This article engages with and contributes to the broader ongoing and stimulating research in the field of childhood, curriculum, and pedagogy. Pedagogical Narration: What’s It All About? What is pedagogical documentation? Why is it important? How is it used? Educator and pedagogist Kim Atkinson offers an introduction to the process of using pedagogical documentation in practice. In this article in The Early Childhood Educator, she draws on her experience of engaging in pedagogical documentation in her preschool program and of delivering seminars with her colleague Danielle Davis through the Images of Learning. Pedagogical Narrations and Leadership in Early Childhood Education as Thinking in Moments of Not Knowing In this article published in the Journal of Childhood Studies in 2015, Iris Berger, coordinator of the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research in UBC’s Faculty of Education, draws from a research project that examined how a reconceptualized notion of leadership in ECE was enacted through the practice of pedagogical narration (documentation). She presents a particular dimension of leadership enactment associated with the practice of pedagogical narration, which she relates to thinking in moments of not knowing. By providing an example of how leadership was enacted, Berger illuminates the potential of the practice of pedagogical narration to orient educators toward complexity and thinking that is triggered by encounters with unexpected pedagogical situations. Such encounters, she believes, invite thinking beyond generalizations and clichés and orient future (more) responsive and ethically rich pedagogical ventures in ECE contexts. Rethinking Nature-Based Approaches in Early Childhood Education: Common Worlding Practices This paper by Narda Nelson, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, and Fikile Nxumalo introduces common worlding approaches in early childhood education as possibilities for situating educational practices within current times of environmental precarity. Particularly, it offers new questions to early childhood nature education practices that reinscribe settler colonial and Euro-Western binary logics. In her acclaimed 2009 TED Talk, novelist Chimamanda Adichie addresses stereotypes. The problem with stereotypes, she says, “is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” Recounting the powerful impression that stories told by the colonial mainstream made on her as a child growing up in Nigeria, she describes how she found her authentic cultural voice—and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. The truth about stories: a native narrative The 2003 Massey Lecture series by author and scholar Thomas King inaugurates the orientation process for all new pedagogists. These five lectures (also available in print format) explore how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. Storytelling carries with it moral, social, and political responsibilities on personal and collective levels. Toward Reconciliation: What do the Calls to Action Mean for Early Childhood Education? This 2017 article in the Journal of Childhood Studies, written by educator Briony Taylor when she was a student in a postsecondary ECCE diploma program, focuses on how the TRC’s calls to action pertain to early childhood education. The author traced her understanding of reconciliation within early childhood spaces by considering the TRC call to develop culturally appropriate Aboriginal early childhood education programs. Incorporating her learning in her program of study, she explored curriculum, language, parents, community, and treaty relationships. She questioned her own previously held assumptions around dominant discourses of success and reflected on new understandings of reconciliation gained in her studies. What we have learned: Principles of Truth and Reconciliation This 200-page report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada outlines the TRC’s central conclusions about the history and legacy of residential schools. With an extensive, highly useful bibliography, the report identifies barriers to reconciliation and opportunities for constructive action. 1 \| 2 \| >	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1012
__label__wiki	0.535841	0.535841	Sign-Up for the CBL Email Newsletter CBL Staff CBL Interns and Volunteers Sponsors, Supporters and Partners NBWC 15th NBWC Program Schedule March 2020 Participant & Panelist’s Bios – NBWC 2020 NBWC 2020 Conference Overview Calling all Performers! Audition for the 15th NBWC Poetry Cafe! Would you like to be a Panelist? Respond to our Call for Papers- NBWC 2020 Early Registration – NBWC 2020 Sponsoring the 15th NBWC: We need YOU! Vending at the 2020 NBWC- Apply NOW! Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about NBWC Programs + Press Dr. Edith Rock Elders Writing Workshop Introduction to Fiction Wild Seeds Writers Retreat Deadline Extended: 1/24/20- Wild Seeds Writers Retreat (Winter 2020) R.O.L.L. 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App.: Coates Media Alert final2 10 28_mkl Press_Cred App_T Coates_mkl – required for all outlets. 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Skylight Cafe, 2nd FL (Cafeteria) Medgar Evers College, CUNY 1638 Bedford Ave. (AB1) Limited Space. FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED We recommend that you arrive early. RSVP’s will be given priority seating as of 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., as long as seats are available. However, seats will not be held for individuals nor are guaranteed. ACCESS CODE REQUIRED – MEC Employees & Students please check your e-mail from 10/21/15 for this information or students ask your professor. THIS EVENT IS CLOSED AND HAS BEEN RESERVED BEYOND CAPACITY. SEATING IS FIRST SERVED WITH RSVP. Books will be available for purchase. Due to a rigorous schedule, the author will not be available to sign copies on-site. Raffle for Signed Copies of “Between the World and Me” Recommended Reading for all attendees (shared with permission): TaNehisi_Coates_Between the World and Me Excerpt From the Book BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Copyright © 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Reprinted by arrangement with Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book Between the World and Me is written in the form of a letter to the author’s teenage son, Samori. In 160 pages, it moves from Baltimore to Howard University to New York City to Paris, France, addressing what it means to be Black in America. Slate calls it, “A book destined to remain on store shelves, bedside tables, and high school and college syllabi long after its author or any of us have left this Earth.” An Atlantic National Correspondent, Coates has written many influential articles, including “The Case for Reparations,” which reignited the long-dormant conversation of how to repay African-Americans for a system of institutional racism that’s robbed them of wealth and success for generations. New York called the George Polk Award-winning cover story “probably the most discussed magazine piece of the Obama era.” Coates’s debut book, “The Beautiful Struggle,” is a tough and touching memoir of growing up in Baltimore during the age of crack. In 2012, Coates was awarded the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. Judge Hendrik Hertzberg, of The New Yorker, wrote, “Coates is one of the most elegant and sharp observers of race in America. He is an upholder of universal values, a brave and compassionate writer who challenges his readers to transcend narrow self-definitions and focus on shared humanity.” A former Village Voice writer, Coates is the journalist-in-residence at the School of Journalism at CUNY. He was previously the Martin Luther King Visiting Associate Professor at MIT, and has been awarded the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. He is the winner of a 2015 MacArthur Fellowship. This event sponsored by the Center for Black Literature (CBL), and supported by the Office of Communications, the Department of English, the Department of Public Administration, the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, the Male Development Empowerment Center (MDEC) and the Office of Student Affairs. 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__label__wiki	0.551632	0.551632	How Non-CEO Inside Directors Add Value After an Unplanned CEO Exit By Laurie Krigman and Mia Li Rivolta June 18, 2018 by renholding The CEO-firm match theory posits that the CEO labor market is efficient and competitive and that the matching between CEOs and firms is optimal. However, both anecdotal and empirical evidence show that CEO departures, particularly unplanned CEO departures, can be disruptive, create friction (i.e., costs associated with appointing a non-optimal CEO replacement), and significantly and negatively affect shareholder value. In a new paper, we demonstrate that the presence of non-CEO inside directors (NCIDs) can help firms reduce friction costs and improve performance during unplanned CEO transitions. Using a comprehensive, manually collected data set of unplanned CEO departures from 1993 to 2012, we find evidence that firms with non-CEO inside directors incur lower costs and have stronger operating and stock performance after an unplanned CEO departure. The impact of NCIDs is particularly important when the firm hires an outsider as the new CEO. Arguably, NCIDs possess superior firm-specific knowledge relative to other board members. As such, they can be a source of insightful guidance in both the selection of the new CEO and the operation of the firm following the leadership transition. Inside directors can also be high-quality internal candidates for the CEO position. If the NCID is not a candidate for the permanent CEO position, he could provide continuity and stability while the firm performs a comprehensive search for a new permanent CEO. Following the selection of the new CEO, NCID guidance and firm-specific knowledge should be most helpful if the board decides to hire an outsider as the new CEO. Outsiders presumably have experience with CEO-level responsibilities, but they may take a while to assimilate and transition to the corporate culture. NCIDs could serve as a guide. The literature has predominantly focused on the downside of inside directors, finding that having too many can lead to ineffective boards and entrenchment. We focus, however, on a potential benefit of having inside directors. Unplanned CEO departures can arise due to death and illness, unexpected forced departures due to lawsuits and criminal investigations, and poor performance or disagreements with the board. It is under these circumstances that immediate CEO succession becomes a primary board responsibility and the departing CEO is not available for consultation. We examine whether the presence of non-CEO inside directors on the board improves a firm’s ability to weather the loss in executive leadership. We find that the likelihood of firms identifying an internal CEO replacement is significantly greater when firms have at least one NCID on the board. We demonstrate that inside directors often become the new CEO after the sudden loss of the CEO. However, even when an NCID does not assume the role of either permanent or interim CEO, we show that NCIDs are still beneficial when there is CEO turnover. We demonstrate that newly appointed CEOs last longer when there is an NCID on the board. We also show that the longer the NCID stays on the board following the transition, the longer the tenure of the new CEO. This is consistent with the NCID providing continued assistance and guidance to help assure the success of the new CEO following the transition. Literature has focused on the valuation effect of outside CEO replacements in isolation and ignored the potential role inside directors can play in smoothing the leadership transition. We fill this gap by examining the valuation and performance implications of inside versus outside CEO replacements while also considering board composition. In isolation, firms that replace CEOs with outsiders have worse operating performance following a leadership change. We also find that the presence of an NCID makes no difference in the operating performance of firms following an unplanned CEO transition. However, when firms hire CEOs from outside the firm and they have at least one NCID on the board, they perform significantly better. Industry-and-performance adjusted operating performance from one year before to three years after the CEO departure is 8 percent higher for NCID firms that hire outside CEOs. Finally, we show that the stock performance of firms with an NCID and that hire a new CEO from outside the firm is significantly better than for comparable firms with no NCID for up to three years following the appointment of the new CEO. Our paper sheds light on the important role directors, particularly non-CEO inside directors, play in mitigating the costs of unexpectedly losing a CEO. Given the importance of NCIDs, the findings in our paper help inform the debate on uniform mandates for boards. Despite the importance of CEO succession planning, empirical evidence on its necessity and the planning process has been scarce, possibly because firms are hesitant to disclose detailed succession planning information. For instance, when Ford Motor Co. announced that Mark Field would succeed Allan Mulally as CEO, Ford’s spokeswoman mentioned that the “company takes succession planning very seriously and has succession plans in place for each of the key leadership positions. However, for competitive reasons, Ford does not discuss succession plans externally.” We overcome the lack of publicly available detail in succession planning by using a comprehensive and hand-collected dataset with unplanned CEO departures and offer a glimpse of the role board members can play in facilitating successful succession. This post comes to us from professors Laurie Krigman at Babson College and Mia Li Rivolta at Xavier University. It is based on their recent paper, “Can Non-CEO Inside Directors Add Value? Evidence from Unplanned CEO Turnovers,” available here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1020
__label__cc	0.646116	0.353884	Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act, H.R. 4822, S. 2681 About Cogswell-Macy 2019-2020 Legislative Sponsors How to Advocate and Show Your Support Visual Impairment and Blindness Education and Advocacy Summit Want to know how you can help? Anytime: Call on Your Members of Congress to Support the Cogswell-Macy Act Tweet Your Support for #CogswellMacyAct Spread the Word About the Cogswell-Macy Act on Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube Show Your Organization’s Support for the Cogswell-Macy Act Organize and Share Your Own Cogswell-Macy Act Advocacy Activities! Call Your Senator or Representative to Support the Cogswell-Macy Act: H.R. 4822, S. 2681 How to Make the Call in Four Simple Steps 1. Be sure you know who are your 2 senators and one representative by following the links below: Senators: Look for your Senators by state at https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Representatives: Look for your Representative by zip code at http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep 2. Call the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to be connected to your Senator or Representative 3. Identify yourself and let them know that you are a constituent. 4. Ask your member of Congress, or their staff, to support the Cogswell-Macy Act, and ask for their position on this legislation. If you know that your member of Congress is already a sponsor, please thank them for their support! Here are two suggested scripts, but feel free to improvise! If you are calling a Representative’s office, you can say: “Hello. My name is ________ and I’m a resident of _________ (city), __________ (state). I’m calling to ask Representative _________ (name of Representative) to co-sponsor the Cogswell-Macy Act – H.R. 4822. I support this bill because it will improve access to important and necessary education and services for children who are blind or visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, or deafblind. I am hoping I can count on Representative _________’s support. Please let me know (his or her) position on this bill.” If you are calling a Senator’s office, you can say: “Hello. My name is ________ and I’m a resident of _________ (city), __________ (state). I’m calling to ask Senator _________ (name of Senator) to cosponsor the Cogswell-Macy Act, bipartisan legislation which was introduced in the Senate as S. 2681. I support this bill because it will improve access to important and necessary education and services for children who are blind or visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, or deafblind. I am hoping I can count on Senator _________’s support. Please let me know (his or her) position on this bill.” If you’re leaving a message on an answering machine, provide your phone number or email address so that the office can get back to you. Don’t be disappointed if you only talk to a receptionist or if you get your legislator’s voicemail; the fact that you are their constituent and are taking the time to bring the Cogswell-Macy Act to their attention is what it’s all about. If you like, you can ask to speak to the staffer in the office who works on special education issues. Tweet Your Support Let’s spread our support across the Twitter-verse! Most congress members are now on Twitter and actively monitor feedback sent their way. Plus, by including the hashtag #CogswellMacyAct, you and all the other Cogswell-Macy Act supporters can track the “Twitter storm” of support! Visit https://twitter.com/cspan/lists/members-of-congress/members to search for your congressional Twitter handles. From your Twitter account (mobile or web), send a tweet beginning with the Twitter handle (remember to include the “@” sign before the Twitter handle) and including the URL www.CogswellMacyAct.org and the hashtag #CogswellMacyAct From Twitter, search/follow #CogswellMacyAct to see who else is tweeting their support Retweet! Sample Tweets (Feel Free to Write Your Own!) Insert the Twitter handle for your own Representative and the abbreviation for your own state in place of the example provided here: (State) #blind & #lowvision students want @MyCongressman to sponsor #CogswellMacyAct. All students deserve truly appropriate education! CogswellMacyAct.org 350K students have hearing impairments, 100K have vision loss, but current law protects <1/3 of those populations. #CogswellMacyAct @MyCongressman Get creative! Tweet photos of yourself with a sign supporting the Cogswell-Macy Act! Spread the Word on Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube Post your support on Facebook, Pinterest, or Google+ with a link to www.CogswellMacyAct.org. You can now use the hashtag #CogswellMacyAct on Facebook as well as Twitter to post about the Cogswell-Macy Act and track friends’ Cogswell-Macy Act posts. Cogswell-Macy Act on Facebook Also like or follow www.facebook.com/CogswellMacyAct for more posts to share about the Cogswell-Macy Act. Make a video! Making a video of Cogswell-Macy Act supporters helps draw attention to the act and provides an exciting way of conveying your message. See this short video created at the Illinois AER conference on youtube.com. Has your organization endorsed the Cogswell-Macy Act? Read a list of organizations that endorse the Cogswell-Macy Act and find out how to add your organization to the list! Connect your website’s readers to www.CogswellMacyAct.org Invite readers to explore the full text of the Cogswell/Macy Act Let us know you’re helping spread the word by sharing your activities on our Facebook page! Use the social media links below to share this page Set Up Your Own Call-In Day Activities! What ideas do you have to promote the Cogswell-Macy Act? Send, Tweet, and share photos if you host an information table or engage students, families, and parents in exciting ways. Resources for Hosting a Call-In Table or Event: If you are hosting a table, we can offer you some resources to get started. Feel free to be creative and attract attention in your own unique way. You could print out a map of your congressional districts to help people find out who to call. Through nationalmap.gov, the US Geological Survey offers state maps of congressional districts. Provide the Cogswell-Macy Act talking points to familiarize callers with the Act. The talking points are available for the House and the Senate, in English and Spanish. Thank you in advance for your support! In making these important calls and tweets and sharing the Cogswell-Macy Act with your friends and colleagues, you are joining families, professionals, and consumers from all across America who are as concerned as you are about the readiness of kids with vision loss for college and career.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1029
__label__wiki	0.718768	0.718768	❧ What Makes a Family Nestled in the Chesapeake Bay, Brodie Island is charming, remote, and slow to change. For three hundred years, Abby Brodie’s farming family has prospered there. Now, years after leaving to make her way on her own terms, Abby is coming home to see her ailing grandmother, with her teenage daughter and a wealth of memories in tow. Yet as family members gather at the old farmhouse, Abby realizes this visit offers more than a chance to say goodbye. After decades of feeling she was a disappointment as a daughter, Abby is beginning to see that her mother, too, has struggled to feel a sense of belonging within the Brodie family. Celeste, Abby’s self-centered sister, is far from the successful actress she pretends to be, and needs help that only Abby and their half-brother, Joseph, can give. But most surprising of all is the secret that Grandmother Brodie has been carrying—one that will make each woman question her identity and the sacrifices she’s willing to make to gain acceptance. With her trademark emotional honesty and insight, Colleen Faulkner lays bare the challenges at the heart of a family—learning how to forgive, connect, and let ourselves be truly known at last. Julia’s Daughters As Close As Sisters Just Like Other Daughters © 2020 Colleen Faulkner Novels	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1031
__label__wiki	0.612264	0.612264	Come Live With Me Living the History of a Ballad Moving On: From Manuscript to Movable Type About the Poem Printing History The Broadside Ballad About the Broadside The Tune Broadside Illustrations Literary References Replies & Parodies Broadside Ballad, detail of the Title1 The Broadside Ballad: This page is a brief introduction to broadside ballads. What is a broadside ballad? Figure 1: British Library, Roxburghe 1.150, EBBA 300953 In the first half of the 17th century, a broadside ballad was a single, large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple eye-catching illustrations, an interesting title, and an alluring lyrical poem, in black or white letter font, to be sung to a popular tune. The themes of broadside ballads ranged among those of politics, romance, conduct, and even news and crime. Broadside ballads were seen as low-literature in the period but were still extremely popular and important not only as works of literature but also for their social functions. Broadside ballads decorated walls, “the woodcuts of lords and ladies, shepherds, milkmaids, murderers, lovers, and even murderous lovers vying for . . . attention,”2 and those walking along the streets would hear the ballad-mongers singing the ballads and see the sheets the sellers held the air to catch their customers’ eyes. Popular drinking, or “Good-fellow,” ballads (Figure 1) were sung in alehouses, they were sung by workers and farmers, even in the workplace. Popular and familiar tunes were recycled to make the ballads more salable, as were the woodcuts that served as advertisements for the ballads as well as artistic accompaniment. Broadside ballads are a combination of art, music, and poetry, and were widely disseminated in England from the 16th to the 18th century. Want to explore some ballads? Check out EBBA’s extensive digital archive. Black and White Letter Font: Broadside ballads were mostly printed with two fonts: black letter and white letter. Black letter was used for a majority of the broadside ballads while white letter was mostly reserved for titles, refrains, and sometimes the license. However, the use of black letter or white letter was really up to the printer – there are many broadside ballads printed entirely in white letter. At the end of the 17th century, black letter ballads more than quadrupled in number compared to white letter ballads.4 When reading broadside ballads it is important to remember that printing mistakes were common. The complicated process involved placing the letter types face down and backwards, compounding the potential for error. Below are some examples of the black letter (Figure 2) and white letter (Figure 3) font. To view the caption, scroll over the image: Figure 2: (Black Letter) Houghton Library, 25242.67, EBBA 35252 Figure 3: (White Letter) Houghton Library, EB65, EBBA 34389 As you can see, the black letter font is much more ornate compared to the white letter font. If you are interested in reading more detailed information about the history and popularity of black letter and the broadside ballad, “Black Letter and the Broadside Ballad” is a great place to start. Tunes & Music Notations: The tune was the main selling point of the broadside ballad. Regardless of whether the ballad itself was familiar to the viewer, many tunes were popular and those were recycled for ballads. For the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) the tune imprint refers to the actual tune printed on the ballad, and the “standard tune” is the more well-known tune associated with the tune imprint. In his book, The British Broadside Ballad and its Music, Claude Simpson arranged ballad tunes alphabetically, using standardized titles, with an index that cross-references tunes with multiple titles. It is from Simpson that EBBA get’s the standardized titles. Figure 4: Music notation movable type printing7 Many broadside ballads featured a musical or music notation. These were sometimes printed with the first stanza set to the tune; however, not all music notations were accurate tunes and a majority of the notations printed on ballads (a good number were not made by music printers) were only for decoration. There were also some music notations printed on ballads that were coherent tunes yet did not work with the lyrics of the particular ballad with which they were printed. Music notation involved an entirely different printing process, and most of the music notations printed were by people who did not really know anything about musical notation. While some notations were simple enough to be printed with movable type (Figure 4), others were far more complex. In cases when an entire page of notation was being printed, a printing block or engraved copper would be used. This is the case for William Corkine’s composition you will read about in The Tune. Woodcuts: Figure 5: Magdalene College, Pepys 1.228-229, EBBA 20103 Figure 6:Magdalene College, Pepys 2.36, EBBA 20660 Figure 7: British Library, Roxburghe 1.488-489, EBBA 30326 Most broadside ballads featured one or two woodcuts at the top of the page, near the title. The woodcut, like the title, would work as a selling point—an attention getter—for bards to use as they tried to sell broadsides on the street. Woodcuts were recycled, and very few were made specifically for a ballad. Unlike engravings, which had subtle details and featured shades of gray, and etchings which used freer techniques and more regular, even, and wiry lines, Woodcuts generally had bolder lines which were more suitable for larger images and were often, beginning in the sixteenth century, glued together to produce prints of extraordinary size.12 The woodcuts were a representation of the major theme of a particular broadside ballad. And for those who were not well-read or even literate, the woodcut would serve as a powerful tool of communication between the medium and the customer. Take the woodcuts above for example (scroll over to see their captions). Similar to the attention given to book covers today, the woodcuts were very much a major part of the broadside ballad whole. 1 National Library of Scotland, Crawford 452, EBBA 32876. 2 Nebeker, Eric. “The Heyday of the Broadside Ballad.”English Broadside Ballad Archive, 2007. 3 Figure 1: British Library, Roxburghe 1.150, EBBA 30095. 4 Fumerton, Patricia. “Black Letter vs. White Letter.” English Broadside Ballad Archive. 5 Figure 2: Houghton Library, 25242.67, EBBA 35252 6 Figure 3: Houghton Library, EB65, EBBA 34389 7 Figure 4: Reyna, Rosendo. Printing Forme – Assembled music type with a printing. Digital image, Music Printing History, N.p., 2007. 8 Figure 5: Magdalene College, Pepys 1.228-229, EBBA 20103 9 Figure 6: Magdalene College, Pepys 2.36, EBBA 20660 10 Figure 7: British Library, Roxburghe 1.488-489, EBBA 30326 12 Stewart, Alison. “The Birth of Mass Media: Printmaking in Early Modern Europe.” A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art, 2013, p. 254. ←RETURN TO VERSIONS \| GO TO ABOUT THE BROADSIDE→ Written by Jessica Sparks, with contributions by Erik Bell, and edited by Jonathan Buck. Moving On: from Manuscript to Movable Print Christopher Marlowe The Poem Versions The Broadside Ballad Broadside Illustrations Responses Replies & Parodies Project Background All content property of Jessica Sparks. Supplementary material cited is property of individual authors. Please cite appropriately. 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__label__cc	0.533978	0.466022	Peverelli on Chinese food and culture Chinese food beverage ingredients industry China’s halal food Posted on January 22, 2016 by eurasiaconsult With a considerable native Muslim population, in particular in the West China region, Halal food has always been part of Chinese cuisine. Halal restaurants can be found in cities all over China. Look at this entertaining video on hand pulled noodles. Other dishes from China’s Western region that are now available nationwide include; cooked mutton (shouzhua yangrou), mutton buns (yangrou paomo) and shaslik (yangrouchuan). Many Chinese manufacturers of food ingredients are actively advertising their products as Halal certified, as is shown by this photo taken during the influential Food Ingredients China trade fair. Halal food manufacturers in Northwest China want to become household names around the world. Eager for the economic rewards that breaking into the global market of 1.6 billion Muslims will bring, these firms want to be trusted by Muslim consumers around the world, especially in the holy city of Mecca. According to Wang Guoliang, Deputy Secretary General of China Islamic Association, the global halal sector is expected to reach US$ 6.4 trillion in 2018. China should have the ability to become a major halal player. While the country is a net food importer, it’s competitive in niche food markets. In the late 2000s, China was the fastest-growing exporter of kosher products in the world. With more than 500 kosher-certified factories around China, fully half of China’s food exports to the United States, the world’s largest kosher market, are kosher. It is a remarkable accomplishment given that China has no indigenous Jewish communities. But China has a flourishing domestic halal industry of its own, valued at USD 20 billion, to serve its own Muslims, of whom there are about 23 mln. Chinese Muslims have become more vocative about lack of respect for Halal regulations. In Xi’an (Shaanxi), Muslim residents took to the streets in 2015 to protest the sale of alcohol in Halal restaurants. In Xining (Qinghai) a riot erupted in the same year after residents discovered pork products inside a halal bakery’s delivery van. During the Party Congress of March 2016, delegates from Muslim regions called for a National Standard (Guobiao) for Halal food. Zhang Hongyi is an ambitious man. As the general manager of the Jingyitai Halal Food Company, located in Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Zhang has plans to build a halal food factory in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). If his plans are a success, Jingyitai would become the first Chinese halal food manufacturer to make a direct investment in an Arab country. According to Zhang Hongyi, “Mecca is the center of the Muslim world, if we can tap into the market in Mecca, we would become trusted by Muslims all across the world, making it easier to enter other Muslim markets.” China has a Muslim population of 23 mln, a tiny fraction of the 1.6 billion Muslims living around the world. With the support of the local authorities, halal food manufacturers in Ningxia have started to eye the world’s growing market for halal food and are eager to expand their businesses overseas to reach this potentially huge market. Another Ningxia-based company, Bofeng Beef Group, has established a subsidiary, Bogong Halal Food Co. Ltd., with a capacity to process 100,000 cows p.a. into halal beef products, in 2015. An example of a non-Muslim Han Entrepreneur moving into Halal beverages is Sun He, the manager of Qiye Qing (Wuzhong, Ningxia), a company that turns Ningxia’s iconic gouji berries, known in traditional Chinese medicine for their health benefits, into a cloudy orange-colored bottled beverage. The drink is certified halal under Chinese certification, meaning it contains zero percent alcohol — a surprisingly difficult technological achievement for factory-processed juices, which usually contain alcohol in trace amounts. The manager, Mr. He Jun, believes this move is a great opportunity to cash in on the Middle Eastern and Central Asian markets. The picture shows an ad of this beverage. The ingredients as listed on the label are: Purified water, fresh goji juice, sugar, citric acid, goji honey. However, how to gain acceptance from Muslim nations for halal food made in China is a major problem. Observers have said that China’s halal food manufacturers, who are mostly small- or medium-sized enterprises, face many difficulties in overcoming ideological and economic barriers to this kind of international trade. Gansu province is also the home of a considerable Muslim population. A Chinese-Malaysian halal food laboratory has been officially set up in that region in 2015. China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has launched a halal food programme with Malaysia, under which Gansu Province will lead its implementation, giving full play to the province’s strength in Muslim culture, science and technology, location, trade, industry and other aspects. Gansu will work closely with the Malaysian side in halal food processing and biological material research and certification in order to build an international-level halal food testing laboratory. With the laboratory construction seen as the turning point, Gansu will lead the establishment of China’s halal food industry technology innovation alliance, to build a platform for technical co-operation between China and Muslim countries. It is peculiar to note that these innovative programs in the field of Halal food in China are concentrated in Ningxia and Gansu and not so much in Xinjiang, which has China’s largest Muslim community. Late 2018, the Gansu authorities announced that the Gansu Provincial Administration for Market Regulation stated on its official website it will abolish four local regulations on halal foods and related producers. The four regulations include guidelines of general principles of halal food certification, halal dinning enterprises, halal dairy producers and halal wheat food producers. “The guidelines were published in March 2013 according to the uniform standards set by the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Yunnan and Ningxia Hui autonomous region,” said Wang Xueren, director of the Policy and Regulations Department of the Gansu Ethnic Affairs Commission. “Last year, Ningxia abolished the regulations.” The guidelines were published in 2013, which aimed to set nationwide uniform standards for halal foods, according to Xinhua’s report in 2013. However, it doesn’t seem to work well. “After five years’ enforcement, we didn’t find its great significance to the market,” Wang said. “Furthermore, the current market has changed greatly over the past years, which created disparities from the policies.” For instance, halal foods mainly refer to meat-sourced edibles, but the halal foods regulated in the guidelines published in 2013 also include soy sauce and vinegar, he said. This measure follows the trend within the central government that Halal certification is a matter of (local) religious organisations and not a function of the secular administration. Influence in the capital Beijing is known for its wide range of local snacks. Many have been introduced by migrants from other regions settling down in the capital. One group became a major if unexpected influence on what Beijingers ate: the Muslim community, mainly Uygurs from Xinjiang who had traveled to the capital along the Silk Road with other merchants of West Asian origin. Muslims have a long history in Beijing. Uygur chefs brought their food with them because they couldn’t eat at non-Muslim restaurants. Soon, they established their own eateries – the famous mutton hotpot restaurants like Donglaishun. Their snack shops offered a variety of fried and baked pastries. Many adopted local ingredients and flavors, and again, over time, they became part of the city’s epicurean traditions. No national household names Beijing hopes to create national champions out of the hundreds of Chinese halal food companies already in operation. The industry is highly decentralized, with local companies, mostly without nationally recognized brands, serving pockets of Muslims thinly dispersed across the vast country. China lacks national halal standards – most certification occurs on the local or provincial level – and obtaining internationally recognised halal certification has posed a challenge. Malaysian halal certification is the gold standard, but globally, halal certification is still a new phenomenon. Many Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have poorly developed industrial sectors, and many halal consumers continue to rely on locally made products that they recognise and trust. For Chinese halal food manufacturers looking to expand their businesses, going abroad has become a necessity. According to Li Ziran, the director of the Institute of the Halal Industry at Ningxia University, most halal food companies in China supply only the local market. Their scale is limited. According to statistics issued by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, 97.3% of the 2,400 cities and counties in China surveyed have halal food industries, but the structure of the industry is atomized, lacking nationwide household names and leading companies. The halal food market in Ningxia is typical of this trend. Statistics issued by Ningxia’s Bureau of Commerce show that there are 192 halal food manufacturers in Yinchuan, most of which have fewer than 100 employees. The majority of halal food manufacturers in Ningxia need to modernize their production facilities to be able to compete with Muslim food companies in other parts of the world, but cannot afford to do so. Zhang Hongyi realised that this was necessary and in 2009 he transformed his company from a traditional pastry maker into a comprehensive halal food company that provides staple foods as well as frozen products. The introduction of new technologies was key to this transformation, and since 2010 Zhang has cooperated with the China Agricultural University (Beijing) on research into methods to prolong the shelf life of frozen noodles, dumplings and rice while maintaining their flavour. Distrust and doubt Analysts have said that the cultural differences between Chinese Muslims and Muslims from other countries, caused by many years of isolation, including ritual and customary differences, might make it harder for Chinese halal food manufacturers to be seen as “authentic.” Ideological differences between the Chinese government and the Muslim world is another hurdle that Chinese companies that wish to sell food in Muslim countries have to get over. According to Zhang Hongyi: “The truth is that China is a non-Muslim country and its ruling party promotes atheism. Despite our assurances that we are a Muslim company and that we closely follow the doctrines of the Koran during our manufacturing process, [foreigners] distrust us and doubt our piety.” However, the difficulty of adapting your product to a different kind of customer is still one of the largest problems for companies which expand abroad, halal or not. One halal food manufacturer that attempted to go abroad, Hongshanhe, produces chillies and hotpot ingredients in Wuzhong, and started to sell their products in Malaysia last year. But his attempts have not been met with much success. “How to localize the food to cater to the tastes and consumption habits of the local customers was our main task,” Ma Zhanjiang, owner of the Hongshanhe, told the Global Times. Wuzhong has 726,000 Muslims, 53% of the city’s total population. The city is planning to build China’s biggest domestic and international industrial zone for buying, processing and selling halal products. The road to Mecca Mecca has become the market of choice for Chinese halal food manufacturers looking to expand abroad. Wang Guoqiang, author of the book The Halal Industry and Certification, agreed with Zhang and said that an effective way for Chinese halal food companies to open up the worldwide Muslim food market to their goods would be to gain recognition and be purchased by the Saudi Arabian government. Every year, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj buys food and gives to pilgrims coming to the country. If a Chinese brand could become part of this, then they could gain the trust of Muslims around the world. Last year, over 4 mln Muslim people gathered in Saudi Arabia to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holidays. Of the pilgrims, most of the were from Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt, as well as around 12,000 Chinese Muslims. Each year, billions of dollars are spent in Mecca during the Eid al-Fitr holidays, according to statistics issued by the Saudi Arabian Chamber of Commerce. Saudi Arabia, a wealthy nation with little agricultural resources, needs foreign companies to supply food for the people that come to its cities on pilgrimage. But, it remains very difficult for Chinese firms to enter this market. Despite China being known as the world’s factory, its halal food exports only make up 0.1% of the world’s halal food market, according to statistics issued by the China Council For the Promotion of International Trade. The lack of a nationwide halal food certification system, similar to what other Muslim countries have, has become a major hurdle for Chinese halal food companies looking to go global. Most Muslim countries have had a sound certification system for halal food since the 1970s, and most Muslim countries recognize each other’s certification standards, while China has yet to lay out a nationwide halal food certification system. Ningxia established China’s first halal food certification centre – the Ningxia Halal Food International Trade Certification Centre in 2009. As of this month, the centre has offered certification to over 100 companies and established a mutual recognition of halal food standards with seven countries, including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Help to jump hurdles “Some countries have used the certification system as a trade barrier to prevented Chinese companies entering their markets,” Ma Bing, director of the Ningxia certification centre, told the Global Times. The authorities in Australia have allowed local social organizations and certification companies to control the criteria for halal certification, which has made it more difficult for Chinese companies to know who to go to for certification, Ma said. Sometimes, despite inter-governmental recognition of halal standards, civil groups still reject Chinese halal foods. To help overcome these barriers, the authorities in Yinchuan have introduced measures to help its halal food manufacturers go global. In addition to setting up the Desheng Industrial Zone, which aims to be the centre of Islamic industries in Ningxia, it has launched preferential policies such as tax breaks for halal food manufacturers looking to expand abroad. Zhang Hongyi’s plan is in line with President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt and One Road” development strategy that aims to encourage Chinese companies to expand abroad, especially into central and western parts of Eurasia. Eurasia Consult Food knows the Chinese food industry since 1985. Follow us on Twitter. Eurasia Consult Consulting can help you embed your business in Chinese society. Peter Peverelli is active in and with China since 1975 and regularly travels to the remotest corners of that vast nation. Posted in Uncategorized \| Tagged Halal, Hongshanhe, Jingyitai \| 4 Replies China’s breakfast revolution Posted on January 8, 2016 by eurasiaconsult The meal that most people find hardest to change is breakfast. Most people are willing to experiment with different foods during lunch or dinner, but when you are still waking up, you prefer to do so with those familiar breakfast items. However, diets in China, including breakfast, are moving to incorporate more western-style foods, driven by economic growth, urbanization, and market liberation. Yet, few studies use microeconomic data to identify the factors driving the trends, particularly to link the rapidly changing demographics to specific western-style foods. Research jointly conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Washington State University, North Dakota State University, University of Florida, and Economic Research Service at USDA used household-level data that were collected in Beijing, Nanjing, and Chengdu in recent years to provide new insights on this issue. The data were collected through a week-long food diary approach, asking the selected households to record all the detailed food consumption by meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), including each ingredient prepared or eaten in the meal, no matter the meal occurred at home or away from home. The tracked food items includes each item’s name, price, purchase venue, and amount consumed for that meal, which allow us easily to identify and distinguish the western-style items from traditional Chinese diets. A full list of western style breakfasts and the observed frequency for each item are presented in Table 1. Table 1 Observed Western style breakfast items Western-style Foods Have Gained Significant Popularity Most of Western-style breakfast menu items can be found on Chinese dining tables for breakfast, and they have become increasingly popular in urban areas. In Table 1, all observed western breakfasts are grouped into three categories, including bread and cake, milk, and other western foods. Each category further includes several kinds of specific western foods. Clearly, 83% of surveyed households consumed at least one kind of the listed food in Table 1 during the survey week. Of which, fluid cow milk is the most popular, with 564 households reported consumption, accounting for over 70% of the entire sample. Following fluid cow milk are the bread and cake categories, with 47.3% and 16.1% of surveyed households reported consumption, respectively. Although less frequently consumed, it is notable that sausage, cheese, and coffee, three very western items, have been incorporated in Chinese breakfast menus. Urban households more frequently incorporate the western-style foods in breakfast as income rises Table 2 Frequency of the Western Foods to Be Consumed In Breakfast in the Survey Week On average, there were about four breakfasts out of seven (in the survey week) where at least one kind of western food was consumed for each household. Income, as expected, has a significantly positive effect. The number of breakfasts included at least one kind of western-style food is 3.83 for the lowest income group, while it increases to 4.63 for the highest income group. Similar trends can be found for bread, milk, and other western foods consumption in terms of meal number. For bread, the weekly consumption frequency for the highest income group is 2.42 breakfasts, which is one breakfast more than that for the lowest income group. The positive income effect can also be seen in terms of per capita consumption (Figure 1). Fig. 1: Per Capita Consumption of the Western-Style Foods in Survey Week Although cereals are still restricted as breakfast item to a small number of Chinese households, the market is growing. Major players, including Cereal Partners Worldwide, General Mills, Kellogg, and PepsiCo, have all targeted the market in some way. Breakfast cereals are predicted to see 6% value CAGR. Manufacturers will take their inspiration from traditional Chinese medication by offering products containing Chinese ingredients such as red dates, goji berries, and black sesame. Sugar-free products are also a huge rising trend. In 2015 the revenue of general cereal sales amounted to RMB 2.805 billion, whereas in 2022 the market is expected to more than double, reaching RMB 6.2 billion. A domestic player to watch is Guilin Sea Mild (Ximai) Biology Technology Development. With its brand Sea Mild it accounted for a value share of 18% in 2016 as well as the year before. Guilin Sea Mild specializes in hot cereals, which require the addition of hot water or milk. The company built the overall leadership mainly through its well-established brands and strong distribution network. Guilin Sea Mild is also positioned as mid-priced and thus benefits from a broad potential customer base. The company mainly targets elderly consumers with products such as Seamild Nutrition Cereal for the Elderly, High Iron Red Dates Cereal, and High Calcium Walnut Cereal. Sea Mild got listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in June 2019. Women in command Women (mothers) play an important role in deciding the ingredients on a Chinese breakfast table.The western food consumption varies by demographics, including the characteristics of the female head of household (FHH). In Figure 2, we can see that families with wives who hold college or advanced degrees more frequently incorporate western foods in breakfast than other families. It is also the case for per capita western food consumption, with 1.26kg for families with a highly-educated FHH versus 0.98kg for others. Fig. 2: Wife’s Education Effect on the Western-Food Choice Is Positive Younger Generations leading the Westernization of Chinese Breakfast Family composition also matters, but the effect differs across food types. For instance, families with children tend to consume more bread at breakfast than other families, but the difference is not that remarkable for milk and other western foods. Also, families with adolescents or young adults more frequently consume bread at breakfast than their counterparts, but families with seniors consume bread less frequently, but more frequently consume other western food products. Families with dual-career parents do not present consistent differences from single-career families. Table 3 Effects of Family Composition on the Western Food Consumption Regional Effects Are Significant Western food consumption differs remarkably across cities. Beijing is leading in consuming western foods in terms of the number of breakfasts consuming western foods. On average, there are 4.42 breakfasts including at least one type of western-style food, which leads Chengdu by 0.42 breakfast meals and Nanjing by 1.23. Similar comparisons can be found if we focus on bread, milk, and other western foods. In terms of consumption quantity, however, Chengdu takes over the leading position with per person consumption of1.53kg, nearly double the level of Beijing (0.85kg) and Nanjing (0.79kg). It is noted that the differences across cities may not exactly reflect the regional difference as these surveys in three cities were not conducted at the same time. Figure 3: Western Food Consumption by City Entrepreneurial activities A number of companies have already started cashing in the above mentioned trends by launching foods and beverages specifically formulated for breakfast. Several dairy companies have launched breakfast milk, like Yili’s Oat Milk introduced in an earlier post. In my post on public nutrition in China, I selected a fortified bread from Oishi that is also marketed as a breakfast food. The common element in all these products is: get all the nutrients you need from one single sip or bite. New policy = new opportunities In 2016, many roadside breakfast stands disappeared in several Chinese cities, as the nation set out to improve city appearance and food security management. However, that also meant fewer breakfast locations for local residents, opening the door wider for higher-quality ones. Choices used to be mainly limited to international giants, such KFC and McDonalds, but not anymore. Local companies such as Doujiang Ai Youtiao, a Shanghai-based start-up focusing on data-management and freshly-made breakfast, have created a “second breakfast table” for consumers (see photo). The Shanghai-based start-up has many stores in residential communities, offering Shanghai-style local foods and traditional Chinese breakfast, including youtiao (fried bread sticks). Sales are monitored for adjusting taste and service. Moreover, it also boasts a system that can analyse customers’ eating habits and offer suggestions based on previous purchases. By 2021, sales of breakfast foods at convenience stores is expected to exceed RMB 840 billion in China, while the total sales of breakfast foods in the country will reach RMB 1.94 trillion, data from a 2016 survey showed. Now, many Chinese start-ups have set their eyes on the breakfast market, trying to woo more customers seeking high-quality king-like meals with advanced technology and more convenient services, including Baoxiaotuan, a start-up founded by the founder of Steamed Stuffed Bun Restaurant, Qing Feng. The western-style foods, in particular bread and milk, have gained popularity in China and become an important part of urban Chinese breakfasts. In the future, with further income growth, the demand for the western foods will continue to grow remarkably. This finding has important implications for agricultural production and food processing industry. Since making bread requires higher protein wheat flour relative to making noodles, fried dough (youtiao), and steamed buns (mantou). The increasing demand for bread herein is challenging China’s wheat breeding and high-protein wheat production. A potential to rely on imports might be a solution considering China’s limited land for high-protein wheat production such as hard red winter and hard red spring, and its relatively logged wheat breeding technologies. Regarding milk, it is well known that the recent milk safety incidents such as melamine-contaminated baby formula have terribly damaged consumers’ confidence in consuming domestic produced milk and shocked milk production in China. The fact that Chinese consumers are demanding more milk with the growing income and health desire, however, is unchanged according to our findings from this study. Therefore, how to supply sufficient and safe milk becomes a critical question for policymakers and milk industry to pay enough attention. The western-style food consumption is also significantly related the female head of household’s education achievement and family composition. Particularly, the researchers found that younger generations in urban household are leading the trend for westernization of Chinese breakfasts. Since people often formed their food preferences at young and will stick on when aging, the findings thereby suggests that western-style foods will be included in all age groups in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, the FHH’s education is found to have a significantly positive effect on western food consumption, both in frequency and in consumption level. This result suggests that any effort to promote western-style foods in China’s market can increase returns by targeting the FHH. The other direction: the sophistication of traditional Chinese breakfast Against the background of growing nationalism in China, it will be no surprise that the opposite of the westernisation of Chinese breakfast, the sophistication of traditional breakfast foods, can also be observed. A good example is a recently opened fast-food outlet of the famous Goubuli Baozi (steamed fill buns) restaurant in Beijing. Apart from its steamed buns, the menu also features typical breakfast items like jianbing and doufunao. Jianbing resemble French crêpes and are sold on almost every corner of the street in Beijing during breakfast time. The ones sold in Goubuli include Peking duck jianbing cooked with cucumber, sliced Peking duck, pickles and the sweet paste of flour. Three other varieties of jianbing are available: traditional Tianjin-style; bacon; and seafood. The pictures compare a jianbing as sold by street vendors and Goubuli’s Peking Duck jianbing. Doufunao literally means bean curd brains and is made of soft silken bean curd with sauces and garnishes usually served sweet in southern China, and salty in northern China. At Goubuli it is topped with crumbs of mahua (fried dough twist, Tianjin’s most famous snack), rousong (meat floss), and furu (fermented bean curd). This combination makes each spoonful of doufunao tasty and complex thanks to the savory furu and soybean paste, crispy mahua, and silken bean curd. Posted in Uncategorized \| Tagged bread, cake, Chinese breakfast, mantou, milk, youtiao \| 14 Replies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1042
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__label__cc	0.553007	0.446993	Dream-casting The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman: Freedonia Set in Freedonia – author Milton Davis’ world, brought to life in the Steamfunk! anthology and fully realized in the Steamfunk novel, From Here to Timbuktu – Harriet Tubman and her friend and rival, “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, chase agents of the vengeful Alchemist out of their world and into another, in which Frederick Douglass and a quite different Harriet Tubman govern a country of former enslaved Africans that rivals – and often bests – the United States, England and France in power and technology. Harriet must fight to stop a powerful alliance of British and American soldiers and the elite and fearsome Hwarang warriors of Joseon (“Korea”) from invading Freedonia. But a wicked force from Harriet’s world has come to destroy Freedonia and all it stands for. Will Harriet and her allies be able to stand against it? This is the premise of my latest novel, The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman: Freedonia, the final installment in the Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman epic adventure. I was recently asked to consider developing the Chronicles of Harriet epic Steamfunk series into a feature film franchise. That initiated my dream-casting of the latest book. I would like to share it with you here. Harriet Tubman: Erika Alexander Freedom fighter. Psychic. Soldier. Spy. Something…more. Much more. Harriet possesses fearsome skills and extraordinary powers – “brushed by the hand of God” she calls it – that she uses to combat her enemies and the enemies of her beloved friend and teacher, Baas Bello. When Baas Bello falls into trouble that can cost his life, Harriet travels to another reality to save him. “Stagecoach” Mary Fields aka “Black Mary”: Aisha Tyler Whiskey drinking, cigar smoking, anti-hero with enhanced senses, a hide as tough as granite and strength beyond nearly any beast or man, Mary Fields once had a standing bet at her local saloon: Five bucks and a glass of whiskey said she could knock out any cowboy – or cow – in Cascade, Montana with a single punch. After the second bull and the third fool tried to take her up on it, nobody ever had the nerve to do it again. Black Mary – who joined Harriet in Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman in her fight against the Alchemist, Edwin Stanton, the Ghul King, Caleb Butler and other natural and supernatural enemies – joins forces with her again in The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman: Freedonia. Caleb Butler: Chris Wood The Ghul King; he is a crazed cowboy with the power to infect humans, turning them into flesh-eating, form-bending ghuls. Caleb is bent on infecting the world’s populace and turning them into servants in his ghul kingdom. George Washington Carver: Samuel L. Jackson The most intelligent and inventive mind in the Freedonia reality. From his laboratories at Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Carver designs and builds the weapons, vehicles and other creations that have helped to make Freedonia one of the wealthiest, powerful and technologically advanced nations in the world. John Brown: Andrew Lincoln A man obsessed with creating a utopia in which Black people are free, fearless and under his rule. John Brown feels Harriet Tubman betrayed him when she did not show at Harper’s Ferry and he loathes her for that. Baas Bello: Idris Elba The most intelligent and inventive mind in Harriet’s reality. Baas is an immortal and a super-genius who is skilled in most known arts and sciences as well as several African spiritual and magical traditions. Harriet’s long-time teacher, friend and lover. Frederick Douglass: Morgan Freeman President of Freedonia. Along with Vice President Harriet Tubman, he led Freedonia to victory over the United States of America during the Reunion War. The Alchemist / Professor Kleinhopper: Chiwetel Ejiofor The Alchemist, genius engineer and showman was once a student of Baas Bello. His greed led him to betray Baas and as payback, Baas crippled him permanently, leaving him a quadriplegic. The Alchemist wants Baas Bello dead and will pay any price to bring about his demise. Colonel Kim: Lee Byung-hun Colonel Kim Kang-min (“Kim” is his surname) is leader of the elite Joseon warriors, the Hwarang and commander of a mighty Geobukseon, or ‘turtle ship’, a heavily armored, submersible warship. Colonel Kim is a master seaman, martial artist and swordsman. Connor: Rob Terry Colin: Rob Terry Colin and Connor are identical twins from Whitechapel, a district in the East End of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. These hulking twins are bouncers in a brothel until Caleb turns them and then employs them as his personal security. There you have it! My choices for the big budget summer Blockbuster, The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman. Who would your choices for each starring role be? Unfamiliar with the characters? Then, what are you waiting for? Order your copies of Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman and The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman: Freedonia and immerse yourself in some great Steamfunk for a while. Posted by Balogun on November 19, 2015 in Adventure, Afrofuturism, Fantasy, Film, Harriet Tubman, Steamfunk, Steampunk, Uncategorized and tagged Freedonia, steamfunk, steampunk, The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman. Fujimoto says: Looks like a great dream cast assembled! While reading I loved imagining Chiwetel Ejiofor speaking in a muffled wheeze through his plague doctor mask, eyes alight with evil brilliance darting feverishly around behind glass lenses. It would be a beautifully twisted visual to see a glowering Andrew Lincoln tearing open his coat to reveal Chris Wood’s motion-captured face emerging from the chest, laughing maniacally. Erika Alexander and Aisha Tyler doing their things and knocking henchmen and monsters around would be so much fun to see. Any casting ideas for Pei Pei Ming? She seems rather young compared to some of the other characters so I’m trying to think of a younger Chinese actress who can pull off being a dignified rookie. Balogun says: I wrote Pei Pei Ming with the actress Danni Wang in mind. She is the star of the feature films “Misfits” and “Always.” Looks like a good choice. Thanks for answering! GREAT BLACK AUTHORS OF SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY: Past & Present \| Chronicles of Harriet says: […] long-time admirer of Harriet Tubman, in Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman and The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman: Freedonia, Balogun elevates this already heroic icon to super-heroic status when he pits her against the […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1051
__label__wiki	0.761968	0.761968	Boeing unveils 737 Max fixes, says planes are safer admin 10 months ago No Comments Boeing previewed its software fix, cockpit alerts and additional pilot training for its 737 Max planes on Wednesday, saying the changes improve the safety of the aircraft which has been involved in two deadly crashes since October. “We’re working with customers and regulators around the world to restore faith in our industry and also to reaffirm our commitment to safety and to earning the trust for the flying public,” Mike Sinnett, Boeing vice president, said in previewing the changes to pilots, reporters and regulators at its facilities in Renton, Washington. The company’s shares jumped after releasing the fixes at 2 p.m. ET, rising by more than 1 percent in afternoon trading. Many of the details behind Boeing’s plan to fix the Max have come out over the last two weeks. Among the notable changes to the MAX flight controls: The plane’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS automated flight control system, will now receive data from both angle of attack sensors, instead of just one. If those disagree by more than 5.5 degrees, the MCAS system will be disabled and will not push the nose of the plane lower. Boeing will be adding an indicator to the flight control display so pilots are aware when the angle of attack sensors disagree. There will also be enhanced training required for all 737 pilots so they are more fully aware of how the MCAS system works and how to disable it if they encounter an issue. “We’re working with pilots and industry officials,” said Sinnett. “We have two hundred of them today in our Renton facility and we’ll be spending time with the today to explain the updates we’re making to the 737 max, to get their input and to earn their trust.” By the end of this week, Boeing plans to send the software updates and plan for enhanced pilot training to the Federal Aviation Administration for certification approval. The FAA’s approval process has raised questions in the industry and is the subject of a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon. Industry officials believe it could take the FAA up to two weeks to certify the changes. After the FAA approves the fix, Boeing said it will send the software update to customers. It takes a few days install and more time for training and testing, the company said. Still, the FAA and other regulators around the world need to sign off on the safety of the 737 Max before they approve the planes to once again fly and carry passengers. Some analysts believe that will take a minimum of six weeks and up to 12 weeks before the grounded jets are airborne again. Boeing previously charged customers to add a feature in Boeing 737 Max cockpit displays that shows the plane’s angle of attack as well as a light when angle of attack indicators disagree but said Wednesday it would make those displays complimentary. Customers who have already received 737 Max planes can retrofit the planes with that feature for free. “Not all customers wish to include this feature on their primary flight display, so it is offered as a customer-selected option,” Boeing said in a statement. Southwest Airlines, which has 34 of the Boeing 737 Max planes in its fleet, more than any other U.S. airline, said it was “encouraged” by Boeing’s proposal on Wednesday. “Boeing’s software update appears to add yet another layer of safety to the operation of the MAX aircraft,” said Bob Waltz, Southwest’s chief pilot. “We look forward to the FAA’s final guidance and will fully comply with any modifications and additional training requirements to strengthen the reliability of the 737 Max.” CNBC’s Leslie Josephs contributed to this report. Rite Aid posts a mixed fourth quarter, gives weak full-year forecast Goldman's Main Street transformation including the upcoming Apple card is costing it big money Look out Chick-fil-A and Popeyes, McDonald's new chicken sandwich is 'really good,' analyst says This earnings season will pack big surprises, and that may be good, according to one market bull Cashin: Traders wary of positive trade reports after getting their 'heart broken time and time again' Disney pops 4% as streaming hopes trump earnings decline: Market 'sensing big things are brewing' By signing up above you will receive the DailyMarketAlerts newsletter and 3rd party advertisements. Expect up to 5 messages per week from us. You can unsubscribe at any time at the bottom of any of our emails. Daily Market Alerts Copyright © 2020.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1053
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Damon on Hawaii County Displays Portable Shelter to Raise Awareness of Need to Help Homeless An Update on Zoe the “Blonde Zebra” on the Big Island of Hawaii Posted on November 18, 2013 by Damon So there has been a lot of chatter on Facebook and Twitter about “blonde zebras” in the past few weeks. Here is what we know. Up until Zoe was 10 (she now is about to be 14) she was the only one alive on earth. There is now a related animal, caught by the same animal broker, in Ohio at a roadside safari park. Zoe the “Blonde Zebra”. Click to enlarge There are 5 more at a private park in South Africa near Kenya. This is the same are where the Hunt brothers caught Zoe’s mother years ago. The private park was started by the same Hunt family. The zebra herd (about 50 animals) is very inbred and they are deliberately breeding the same line to get blonds. Many are pinker muzzled and with very watered down pale eyes. Unlike Zoe who has bold gold stripes and really blue eyes. Anyway that is the scoop on all we know and can verify. Thanks everyone for your input. Come visit Zoe and all the rest of the gang. Please share her image but post that she lives at Three Ring Ranch in Kona HI. Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Environment, Hawaii, Kona, Rumors, Unexplained Phenomenon \| Tagged: Blonde Zebra, Three Ring Ranch, Zoe \| Leave a comment » Big Island Wildlife Club Invites the Public to It’s First Meetup Big Island Wildlife Club will be holding it’s first meetup on December 7th from 12 noon until 2pm. Meeting will be held at the Coconut Island Pavilion, meeting to start at noon with a picnic potluck to follow. All ages welcome, especially keiki! We will be doing a couple activities including a chance to draw/color your favorite animal. “Like” us on fb to stay up to date on all our activities : https://www.facebook.com/BigIslandWildlifeClub, this event is FREE just bring smiles and good vibes! For more information email stacey.hwf@gmail.com. Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Community, Environment, Hawaii, Hilo \| Tagged: Big Island Wildlife Club \| Leave a comment » Public Invited to Opening Ceremony of Mountain View Gym and Park’s New Children’s Playground Mayor Billy Kenoi, Puna Councilman Zendo Kern, the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Friends of Mountain View Gym and Park invite the public to an opening ceremony for the new children’s playground at A.J. Watt Gym in Mountain View. Mt. View Gym and Park new playground equipment Festivities will start at 2 p.m. Friday, November 22, at the Nā Wai Ola Public Charter School campus located next to the gym. Friends of Mountain View Gym and Park will hold drawings for donated prizes. Covering 2,300 square feet, the new playground is comprised of two modular-design play areas designed for children between the ages of 5 and 12 years old. A climbing wall, stairs, platforms, a protective roof and five slides, including a tunnel slide, are among the features. A special synthetic turf and impact-absorbing layer comprise the safety surface installed under the playground. For more information, please contact Jason Armstrong, Public Information Officer, at 345-9105, or jarmstrong@co.hawaii.hi.us. Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Community, Hawaii, Kenoi, Kids \| Tagged: Mountain View Gym and Park \| 1 Comment » MADD Awards Five Big Island Officers At their annual Law Enforcement Awards, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaiʻi and Big Island Toyota honored Big Island police officers Monday (November 18) for their outstanding efforts and dedication to preventing impaired driving and reducing underage drinking. The awards were presented at a ceremony at The Luau House in Hilo. Left to right: Officers Keith Nacis, Nicholas McDaniel, Christopher Kapua-Allison, Shea Nactor and Sergeant Christopher Gali. During the presentation, the following officers were honored for the following number of arrests during 2012: Officer Keith Nacis, Traffic Enforcement Unit, Area I, 76 Officer Shea Nactor, Puna patrol, 27 Officer Nicholas McDaniel, Kona patrol, 21 The “Top Cop” award went to Officer Christopher Kapua-Allison of South Hilo patrol with 104 arrests. Additionally, Sergeant Christopher Gali of the Traffic Enforcement Unit, Area I, was awarded the Big Island Outstanding Volunteer Award. Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Community, Hawaii, Legal \| Tagged: Christopher Kapua-Allison, Keith Nacis, MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Nicholas McDaniel, Shea Nactor and Sergeant Christopher Gali \| Leave a comment » Vessel Missing Since October Located Adrift in Pacific, Unmanned The Coast Guard located and boarded a derelict sailing vessel Friday nearly 1,600 miles west of Oahu that was first reported missing from Honolulu in early October. The Coast Guard has found the “C:Drive: last seen departing Ala Wai boat harbor in October.” Greg Stephanoff departed Ala Wai boat harbor on a possible voyage to Hanalei Bay on the island of Kauai Oct. 2, 2013. A concerned friend notified the Coast Guard Oct. 4 of Stephanoff’s departure from the harbor and that he hadn’t heard from him for two days. Greg Stephanoff The Coast Guard broadcast a notice to mariners via VHF Channel 16, contacted harbor masters, marinas and other known locations Stephanoff frequented requesting information on his whereabouts. Without any new information, the Coast Guard suspended the search Oct. 15 pending further developments. On Nov. 7, crewmembers aboard the container ship Manukai notified the Coast Guard that they had come across what appeared to be a derelict sailing vessel named the C:Drive approximately 1,300 miles west of Oahu. The container ship attempted to communicate with the vessel on VHF channel 16 and made several blasts on the ship’s whistle in an attempt to contact anyone aboard. No one was observed aboard and the Manukai continued its course having no means of boarding. An HC-130 Hercules aircraft crew was launched from Air Station Barbers Point and the fishing vessel Wakatake Maru was redirected to rendezvous with C:Drive. The Wakatake Maru crewmembers located the C:Drive, but weather conditions made boarding the vessel unsafe. The Coast Guard Cutter Kukui, a 225-foot buoy tender home ported in Honolulu, was dispatched to locate and board the sailing vessel. The transit from Honolulu to C:Drive’s last know position took four days. The crew of the Kukui located the C:Drive and conducted a boarding at 3:30 p.m. Friday. They discovered no one aboard and no indication of what may have happened. The vessel was marked with paint by the boarding team and remains adrift. A GPS and personal effects were removed from the vessel to possibly assertain what transpired during the month the vessel was adrift. For the previous release and images regarding C:Drive, visit: http://www.d14.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1924025/. For more information contact the 14th Coast Guard District public affairs office at (808) 535-3230. Public’s Help Sought in Locating Missing Oahu Mariner (damontucker.com) Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Surfer Kirk Passmore (damontucker.com) Coast Guard Searching the North Shore for Missing Surfer Kirk Passmore (damontucker.com) Filed under: Announcements, Environment, Hawaii, Military, Missing, Oahu, Transportation \| Tagged: C: Drive, Coast Guard, Greg Stephanoff \| Leave a comment » Critical Time at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park for Nēnē Visitors to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park now through April could get lucky and spot pairs of the endemic Hawaiian goose, or nēnē, flying overhead or grazing with goslings. Click to view PSA While nēnē are present in the park year-round, this seasonal window is their breeding and nesting time, and is vital for their survival. Currently, female nēnē are focused on building up their fat reserves in order to lay eggs and survive the 30-day incubation period. A few females have already started to nest in the park, and their mates are dutifully standing guard. Because visitors can unknowingly disturb nesting nēnē, the park may temporarily close certain areas to give nēnē families a break from human interference. “Nēnē are most vulnerable to vehicles this time of year. They are focused on eating and could be out foraging from dawn to dusk. They blend in with their surroundings, and in low-light periods, they are especially hard for motorists to spot,” said Kathleen Misajon, Nēnē Recovery Project manager. The park has posted nēnē crossing signs that highlight key roadside areas that nēnē use. These include sections of Highway 11, Crater Rim Drive, and Chain of Craters Road. Motorists are urged to use extra caution in signed nēnē crossing areas, and to obey posted speed limits. Nēnē are endangered, and in the mid-1940s, only 50 birds remained. Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park began efforts to recover the species in the 1970s. The Nēnē Recovery Program continues today, and more than 200 birds thrive in the park from sea level to around 8,000 feet. As many as 2,000 or more nēnē exist statewide. “We’ve had a great deal of success protecting nēnē and maintaining the population in the park,” said Misajon. “But it is imperative that humans keep a respectful distance from the geese, especially during this sensitive time.” Visit http://www.nps.gov/havo/photosmultimedia/nene_psa.htm for more information. To report nēnē on the road in the park, call 808-985-6001. Outside the park, call 808-974-4221. Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Environment, Hawaii, Legal, State Affairs \| Tagged: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Nene \| Leave a comment » EPA Awards Over $30 Million to the Pacific Territories for Environmental Protection The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded over $30 million as part of a yearly program that provides grants to Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa for use in continuing environmental protection work and for improvements to drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. “EPA’s funding enables the islands to advance their goals in the pursuit of clean air, water and land,” said Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “As one example, the investment made in leak detection projects in all three territories has dramatically reduced drinking water losses, and saved over $1 million in energy costs.” Guam EPA will be receiving $3.2 million, CNMI DEQ will be receiving $1.7 million, and the American Samoa EPA $1.8 million to support the operations of each environmental agency. The work done by the agencies include inspections, monitoring the safety of beaches and drinking water, permit writing, enforcement and other facets of their environmental protection programs. Additionally, EPA provides drinking water and wastewater construction grants to improve the water supplies in each of the territories. The Guam Waterworks Authority will be receiving $8.2 million, CNMI’s Commonwealth Utilities Corp. will be receiving $6.9 million, and the American Samoa Power Authority $8.3 million. Accomplishment highlights from previous funding include: Improvements to the drinking water system in all three territories, including improved chlorination in Guam, increased water storage in CNMI, and an ongoing extension of the central system in American Samoa to remote villages. EPA funding has contributed to the increased drinking water availability in Saipan, where 95% of the population now has access to 24-hour water (up from 75% in 2009). Improvements to the wastewater collection and treatment systems in all three territories, including rehabilitation of a treatment plant in Saipan, improvements to the collection infrastructure in Guam, and ongoing extension of sewer lines in American Samoa. EPA has funded the replacement of older wastewater pumps with newer energy efficient pumps and controls, saving the utilities hundreds of thousands of dollars in power bills in all three territories. Filed under: Announcements, Environment, Food & Drink, Health, National Affairs, Sustainable Living \| Tagged: American Samoa, American Samoa Power Authority, Drinking water, EPA, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan, United States Environmental Protection Agency \| Leave a comment » Big Island Police Identify Trucker Who Died Friday in Tractor/Tanker Crash A 41-year-old man died Friday afternoon (November 15), in a single tractor/tanker crash in South Kohala. He was identified as Amos K. Agliam of Hilo. Amos Agliam Around 2:04 p.m., a 2003 Kenworth tractor pulling a tanker trailer, which was loaded with 8,402 gallons of No. 2 diesel fuel, was traveling west down a steep grade on Highway 19 (Kawaihae Road) near the 64-mile marker when it pulled onto the right paved shoulder, continued onto the unpaved shoulder and collided with a large mound of dirt and debris. (It was reported that the vehicle’s brakes were smoking.) The trailer broke loose, crushing the cab and rolling onto its right side. The tanker was punctured, spilling between 1,500 and 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Agliam died at the scene. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death. Alcohol and speed are not considered factors in this collision. Kawaihae Road was closed to all traffic at 2: 26 p.m. It reopened at 8:42 p.m. Police ask that anyone who witnessed the collision call Officer Thomas Koyangi at 326-4646, extension 229. This is the 24th fatality this year compared with 36 at this time last year. 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__label__cc	0.705601	0.294399	Heraclitus, Fragment 55 (D 78) March 26, 2017 / Heraclitus / 0 comment / By Darrell Arnold “Unlike divine nature, human nature lacks sound judgements.” (here Waterfield 2; cp. DK B78, W 61, K 55) “Human character has no purpose, the divine, however, has.” (Sweet 78) “Human nature has no set purpose but the divine has.” (K 55) There is a god’s eye point of view, but it is not ours. Heraclitus seems to equate sound judgments with perfect judgments. How would the divine nature grasp reality? All at once, outside of time (as Parmenides or later Spinoza appear to want to have it), or only as all-encompassing of what exists at a given time (more akin to Bergson’s or Whitehead’s views)? Can we humans, given our limited perspective, even answer the question that I have posed? Would we have to have divine natures to know what reality is from the perspective of a divine nature? How would Heraclitus know that the divine nature does have sound judgments? How might any human, lacking sound judgments, know that? In other words, how can we know what a divine nature is when all we have is our own limited understanding to know anything–and this limited understanding apparently does not admit fully sound judgment? One thing is clear: we lack sound judgments. Yet this statement is paradoxical: Do we have at least sound judgment about our lacking of sound judgments? Apparently. Fragment two might be viewed as foreshadowing the Socratic view of wisdom. Socrates is famously wise for at least knowing what he does not know. Does wisdom perhaps start with a sound judgment about the lack of completeness of the individual perspective? We then have an opportunity to build upon that to achieve if not comprehensive sound judgment then at least better judgement? Throughout the Fragments, Heraclitus shows himself to view multiple perspectives, even those that might be viewed as contradictory, as combining to form a more comprehensive perspective. But taken together (minus the dogmatic view that each partial perspective is whole) would we end up with a divine sound judgment–or at least a more adequate perspective? Is something like the complementary perspective of multiple incomplete and unsound perspectives if not itself a sound perspective then at least reaching toward a more sound perspective? But this alone would be insufficient surely. For if one is hallucinating, and another not, how might those two judgments be combined for a fuller, more complete one? Perhaps a dialogical model, an openness to rational deliberation with a clear awareness of the partiality of the perspective of the individual would though eventually lead us to greater clarity, to a more sound set of judgments. In later texts, Heraclitus speaks of wisdom. He also speaks of the universe for the awake as held in common. A starting point toward understanding the world as held in common appears here to be that one recognizes the partiality of the individual perspective. This appears to be a first step toward waking up. In contrast, those who are asleep will not come to hold the world in common, but will live as if in a dream with nothing available to them but their own individual imaginings.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1062
__label__wiki	0.845507	0.845507	The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2016/04/17/cornell-student-elected-trustee-candidates-debate-platforms/) DARA BROWN, AMY MOLITORIS, NATHANIEL ROGERS, TIFFANY ST. BERNARD Cornell Student Elected Trustee Candidates Debate Platforms By Chloe Rippe \| April 17, 2016 More on board of trustees Subscribe to board of trustees Graduate and professional student candidates for the position of student elected trustee met Thursday to participate in debate held by The Cornell Daily Sun in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. In their responses to three questions from debate moderator and Sun editor-in-chief Sofia Hu ’17 and several questions from the audience, candidates utilized the forum to elaborate on their respective platforms. The first question prompted the candidates to share their perspectives on the Cornell Graduate Students United — a union founded to ameliorate graduate student working conditions. In response to the recent denial of graduate students’ employee status, candidate Nathaniel Rogers grad said that a “key factor” in the union’s discussion is how the CGSU chooses to define its bargaining unit. “T.A.’s might be a good bet, but if you try to open it up to all graduate students in general, such as myself, I think it’s a little tricky to argue that we are employees,” he said. Dara Brown grad said that as trustee she would seek to mediate the concerns of faculty, the Board of Trustees and graduate students. “I definitely support the cause — I find that as a representative of the graduate students we have to hear them out, and [these students] do deserve some sort of increase in recognition for what they give to the University,” she said. “A lot of them are giving an equal amount of their service and time as faculty members who do receive full benefits.” Amy Molitoris grad said she would like to pursue further communication with graduate students to gauge their needs within the CGSU, and if possible settle employment issues within respective departments before consulting the union. Tiffany St. Bernard grad praised the organization’s “diverse membership.” When asked about their positions regarding the 2012 budget model reform, the candidates expressed differing viewpoints. Molitoris emphasized the need to balance money and “educational components vital to the culture of the university as a whole”, including smaller and less lucrative educational programs, but said that she prioritized fiduciary concerns. Rogers disagreed with Molitoris’s outlook, calling an attendance based financial model “shortsighted.” He argued that while departments of popular undergraduate classes benefit from increased funding, this funding must be dispersed among the varied educational programs that students encounter throughout their academic careers. Brown and Tiffany St. Bernard voiced their agreement with Rogers’ view on this matter. Brown cited the DREAM organization as an example of a small program that that “makes more substantial changes than groups with many participants” and would benefit from changes in the method of fund allocation. She proposed that “funds could be allocated to overhead organizations to retain the contributions of such organizations.” Brown also expanded on one of the tenets of her platform — the preservation of the programs comprising new College of Business. She said that where schools or programs essential to the University are financially endangered, the revenue model may be beneficial in allowing the reallocation of funds to larger organizations that can better sustain these programs. Otherwise we should be cautious of how the model could affect smaller but impactful programs. However, St. Bernard expressed concern for this proposed reform’s effects on smaller arts programs. “I believe that this model could put some restraint on smaller programs,” she said. “As a trustee voting in funding situations, it’s a balancing act to make sure that the whole University is supported, but that the smaller programs are well funded and that students are happy.” Multiple questions allowed the candidates to discuss the campus’s current climate in respect to diversity and inclusion. St. Bernard and Rogers both said that they support initiatives encouraging the University to diversify its faculty. Calling it a priority for both of their campaigns, St. Bernard and Brown shared ways in which they have promoted and plan to promote diversity on campus. “In forming my diversity international committee, I made sure that it had diverse mindsets and backgrounds, including people of majority groups, different ethnic backgrounds, the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities, because I wanted it to be representative of Cornell,” St. Bernard said. “The way we’re going to be able to make the most impact is by being able to relate with the diverse community that exists here.” Brown said her current focus is on limiting unconscious bias and encouraging inclusion at the student level. “We should encourage students to limit unconscious biases through orientation programs similar to those used on the faculty level, and enhance graduate-undergraduate and undergraduate-high school mentorship programs to make sure we attract and retain underrepresented minorities on our campus,” she said. In reference to attendance at diversity programs she proposed holding more informal events that “students would feel comfortable bringing their friends to” and creating a need amongst students to “feel that they would benefit from the programs by ”showing them how interacting, working and learning about diverse cultures will be useful in their life and careers”. Other topics discussed included carbon neutrality, regarding which all candidates shared a desire to increase campus wide understanding and commitment, and expectations from the future president. Candidates shared their political desires for the future president, as well as their shared insistence that the president be attentive to the needs of a diverse student body. “I would love for the president to be innovative in terms of policies,” Molitoris said. “I would also like for them to be aware of the mental health crisis, the changing view of mental health should be addressed.” After answering the final audience question, the candidates finished the debate with a brief overview of their platforms and strengths. Elections for the candidates will be held from April 18 to 20. About Chloe Rippe Chloe Rippe is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a staff writer for the News department and can be reached at crippe@cornellsun.com. More by Chloe As Unionization Vote Approaches, Graduate Students Tackle Remaining Concerns By Anna Delwiche March 23, 2017 “I am not confident in [CGSU’s] ability to perform the duty that they’re saying that they’re going to do,” Bollu said. LETTER TO THE EDITOR \| Division and Solidarity in the Unionization Discussion By Anna Fore Waymack and Aravind Natarajan December 12, 2016 The socio-political climate recently has been emotionally taxing, taking a toll on our graduate student body. Locally, this has been exacerbated by the vitriolic nature of discussions on the union, with accusations flying on both sides.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1066
__label__cc	0.638017	0.361983	Coronation Street actors Bryan Hulme Bryan Hulme appeared on Coronation Street in January and March 1961 as Teddy Boy Bryan. He also appeared as Dennis Tanner in the second of the programme's two dry runs. He also played several small parts at about this time, including a minor role in the Oscar-nominated film Tunes of Glory and the television serials Captain Moonlight: Man of Mystery, The Secret Kingdom and the BBC play Girl on a Roof. Retrieved from "https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Bryan_Hulme?oldid=335659"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1067
__label__cc	0.70952	0.29048	by Judith Okongo November 18, 2019 0150 (From Left) DTB General Manager Asset Finance Ken Nyakomitta and Toyota Kenya General Manager, Operations Joshua Anya ink the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as DTB Head of Products and Marketing Farouk Khimji and Toyota Kenya General Manager Sales and Marketing Andrew Omolo look on. Dubbed ‘Beba Leo; the partnership will enable Small and Medium Enterprises buy new vehicles with 100 percent financing from the bank. By Catherine Muema You will now be able to acquire a car at 100 percent financing after Diamond Trust Bank and Toyota Kenya unveiled a partnership to enable Small and Medium Enterprises buy new vehicles. Dubbed ‘Beba Leo’ the Motor Vehicle Financing Scheme is meant for SMEs, who will get financing to acquire either the Toyota Hilux or Toyota Rush, with a flexible repayment period. The deal is set to spur the economy further, noting the country’s 6 percent growth during the third quarter of 2018. According to the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics, this growth has been supported mostly by increased activity in the sectors of agriculture, manufacturing and construction. Kennedy Nyakomitta, General Manager in charge of Asset Finance at DTB, said the scheme was developed after assessments of their customers’ pressing needs. “We have worked with SMEs for a long time and over the years, we have mastered the art of adopting to our customers’ needs to be able to deliver value. SMEs and households will not have to outlay any cash to get these vehicles, they simply need the approval from DTB after which they can collect the desired vehicle from Toyota Kenya,” said Mr Nyakomitta. Mr Nyakomitta said the scheme is one of several arrangements that the bank has to support its SME customers, who are evaluated on the basis of their financial track record and cash flow. ‘‘It is in this spirit that we continue to ensure we offer consumers easier options to purchase top quality, durable and reliable vehicles at an affordable price. The Hilux model has got its reputation for offering unrivaled toughness and can be used for personal commuting and commercial purposes” said Joshua Anya General Manager Operations. “On the other hand, the Rush is an affordable full feature SUV that meets aspiration at the fraction of the cost of importing a used SUV” He added. The SMEs will, in addition, receive a one-year free Comprehensive insurance cover and enjoy aftersales service from over 29 outlets across the country. They are assured of genuine parts from Toyota Kenya. Co-Operative Bank Declared Winner In 2019 Banking Awards Safaricom Investment Co-operative: Setting standards on matters investment Catherine Muema January 31, 2018 February 15, 2018 Cytonn Asset Managers to boost pensions penetration in Kenya with launch of 3 products Judith Okongo September 23, 2019 Liquid Telecom delivers telemedicine to Dadaab refugee camp CW Correspondent February 22, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1068
__label__wiki	0.663956	0.663956	Coal, nuclear will have 'almost disappeared' from US power mix by 2050 ceo_energemsier June 21, 2019 in Oil (General) coal extinct Opinions differ on validity of conclusions Clean Power Plan replacement 'not relevant' Bloomberg's New Energy Outlook 2019 concludes that US coal and nuclear resources are expected to have "almost disappeared from the electricity mix" by 2050, largely as a result of "age and economics," while renewables penetration reaches 43%. The report drew mixed reactions Wednesday from power industry observers. "Many coal plants in the US are old and are thus not competitive economically," Ethan Zindler, head of Americas for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said Wednesday. "Same story for many nuclear plants, which are due to retire over the next several decades and are also in many cases not competitive." The report, released Tuesday, states that "cheap renewable energy and batteries fundamentally reshape the electricity system," and projected that solar will rise from supplying about 2% of current world electricity supply to about 22% by 2050. Such a scenario is likely to result in long periods with extremely low prices punctuated by other periods of high volatility, said Morris Greenberg, Platts Analytics managing director of North American power. "A system with substantial zero variable cost generation would likely see many hours with zero prices and large seasonal surpluses," Greenberg said Wednesday in an email. "There would also be periods of very high prices (summer and winter evenings) or high capacity prices to incentivize storage additions." However, Gary Ackerman, president of Foothill Services Nevada and former executive director of the Western Power Trading Forum, questioned the NEO 2019 generation mix conclusions. "[The] unbridled enthusiasm for renewable growth echoes a previous time in our industry when the very same statements were being made in the 1970s regarding nuclear power," Ackerman said Wednesday. "Funny, none of those forecasts turned out to be correct. The same will be said about the much anticipated renewable and battery storage explosion. I am always amazed by the substitution of intelligent reasoning with straight-edge rulers plotting lines on log-linear paper." Nevertheless, Bloomberg NEF is not alone in its forecast for dwindling coal and nuclear output and surging renewables and natural gas generation. S&P Global Platts Analytics' latest North America Electricity Long Term Forecast, which only extends to 2040, shows average monthly coal output, as a share of total generation, falling to less than 6% in 2040 from about 29% in 2018, and it shows nuclear power's share falling to less than 11% in 2040 from about 20% in 2018. "Some nuclear operators are likely to attempt to extend operating licenses to 80 years, which would support nuclear generation to some extent, although it would still decline from current levels," Platts Analytics' Greenberg said. BNEF's forecast for 2040 shows coal's share falling to about 3.8% in 2040 and nuclear's share falling to about 6.2%. In contrast, BNEF forecast renewables' share jumping to 43% in 2050, up from its forecast of about 35% in 2040 and 26% in 2030. BNEF includes conventional hydro in its renewables forecasts. Platts Analytics forecast renewables to total about 28% of the generation mix in 2030 and about 34% in 2040. These numbers would represent big jumps from the US Energy Information Administration's estimate of 15% in 2018. NEW RULE 'NOT RELEVANT' Asked whether the Affordable Clean Energy rule, the Clean Power Plan replacement newly finalized by the US Environmental Protection Agency, might alter BNEF's outlook for fossil fuels versus renewables, Zindler said such rules are "not relevant." "We have long said that even the more aggressive goals of Obama's Clean Power Plan would have been met well ahead of schedule," Zindler said. "This apparently less-aggressive plan is also irrelevant." Jeff Schroeter, managing director of Plano, Texas-based Genova Power Advisors, a power project developer and consultancy, said, "economics will still drive more generation additions than governmental policy." "Baseload central stations were economy-of-scale plays of the past," Schroeter said Wednesday in an email. "Variable, but predictable, resources (wind and solar) are teaming with all methods of demand shifting (storage, active load management, price signals) to match load shape. Gas-fired peaking and ultra-efficient gas combined-cycle plants will only be financed as backstops to renewables, shifting and resource gap fillers." Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, agreed that "the demise of coal is likely, but for economic reasons, not ideology." "Nuclear is a bit more nuanced, with many of today's plants still operating in 30 years from now in 2050," Smith said in an email Wednesday. "Plus I expect some additions to the nuclear fleet based on newer, smaller, standardized units with more competitive operating costs."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1070
__label__cc	0.719727	0.280273	Posts Tagged inquisition Psychology of Generations —The Changing of the Generational Guard: Why There Is Less Violence but More Depression…. And What’s Good About That Posted by sillymickel in activism, authenticity, being yourself, Class, Culture, economics, Generations, globalrevolution, History, individualism, life, meaning, nonconform, occupywallstreet, philosophy, Politics, psychology, spirituality on February 23, 2013 Consciousness Evolution from the WWII to the Millennial Generations: A Hierarchy of Healing, a Global Healing Crisis, and the Unseen Revolution Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Fourteen: Psychological History of Today’s Generations and Changing of the Guard Healing Crisis Means Needing to Get “Sicker” Before We Can Be “Weller” and Making It When You DON’T Fake It: Centaurs, Wounded Deer, and the Consciousness Revolution, Untold What’s in Your Head, Zombie? Being Really Sick, But Denying It — WWII Generation, Nazis, KKK, Right Wing, Tea Party Birth Woes ~ World Wars and Can’t Know What You Don’t Know … What’s in Your Head, Zombie? Getting Sick In Order to Get Well What does this all mean? What does this portend? What might be the outcome of this emerging perinatal unconscious? In other words, consciousness evolution or apocalypse? And what is the meaning of this change in consciousness and of these wounded deer and centaurs? Is there hope in this development? To answer what is the portent of these wounded deer and centaurs and what the emerging perinatal unconscious might mean on a macrocosmic or societal-global scale, it is helpful to look at what an emerging perinatal unconscious portends on the individual or microcosmic level. What we have learned from the experiential modalities—holotropic breathwork™, primal therapy, rebirthing, vivation, and others like them—is that unerringly people need to get “sicker” before they can get well. This should not be news to psychoanalysts or any of the other mainstream psychotherapists or counselors either. Healing Crisis Basically, the underlying repressed material must come to the “surface,” must become more conscious…and obviously when it becomes more conscious its accompanying symptoms are exacerbated. This can be called a healing crisis in that the symptoms get worse, more obvious, more blatant; and there is a period of acting them out before integration and resolution happens. One Must “Die” to One’s Sickness Before One Can Be “Born” Well When Grof talks about birth/death scenarios in the perinatal unconscious, he is including these sorts of healings, where one must “die” to one’s sickness before one can be “reborn” into another way of being, without those sick patterns or symptoms. Degrees of Disease Dissociation – Completely Split Off It’s YOU! YOU’re the f&^$#r! We see a progression over the last century in which there was complete dissociation from the perinatal unconscious by those of the Fifties, the World-War-Two, and previous generations—hence complete projection of it on The Other—to lesser dissociations from it by the generations since, baby-boomer and afterward, which involve more awareness of it as being a part of oneself and less projection of it on The Other. Wounded Deer In this latter instance, there is more suffering from it and more individual acting out of it, so that in a sense one appears “sicker”—the perinatal is more obvious in one’s behavior, taking more individual forms, and it is more easily recognized and seen to be a personal problem…a “sickness.” Earlier I described this consciousness as being the way of the centaur, for it reflects Chiron, in ancient myths, having an ongoing wound but eventually becoming a teacher and healer. To understand the ways the perinatal manifests depending upon one’s “closeness” to it, let us contrast the two extremes of being split off from it and being close to it. Being Really Sick, But Denying It: WWII Generation, Nazis, KKK, Right Wing, Tea Party Can’t Know That You Don’t Know First let us take a look at what the perinatal appears like when it is completely split off from one’s conscious personality. This complete splitting off from the perinatal entails a complete repression and denial of it. Consequently, one has absolutely no access to it, and thus one is in total ignorance of the underlying motivations of one’s actions. One unconsciously acts out perinatal elements and traumas and manifests them in one’s behavior, rationalizing all the while that one has really good—non-perinatal, “real world”—reasons for why one is doing the things one is doing. What”s in Your Head, Zombie? Psychohistorians deem this state to be such an oblivious one that they use the term trance-state for it, fully intending all the implications and connotations that term engenders. That is, they are saying that people who are this repressed and split off do their acting zombie-like and out of motivations completely hidden from themselves. [Footnote 1] Birth Woes ~ World Wars In such total ignorance, and of course being totally ignorant that one is in ignorance, people in the past century have been able to act out their perinatal underbellies in ways to make such hideous and all-encompassing wars as World War I and World War II possible. Leaving aside for a moment the myriad ways the perinatal has unconsciously been acted out in this century in creating the current situation in which we are on the brink of extinction—which can be considered the most serious consequences of this splitting off imaginable—simply focusing on this century’s major wars as evidence of perinatal acting-out alone is instructive. The Nazis, in particular, were extreme in their dissociation from their perinatal, in their projection of it onto the Jews, and their consequent ability to act it out in horrific ways on them and others. Alice Miller and Lloyd deMause have each detailed the psychodynamics of this projection of primal pain—both perinatal and childhood—in the creation of the people that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis became in their adulthood. [Footnote 2] The Nazis present us with the patterns of these processes of dissociation and projection in blatant and obvious relief. The way Nazis, especially in concentration camps, acted out perinatal trauma on their prisoners has been described in great detail by Grof as well. [Footnote 3] Wounded Deer and Centaurs – Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker – Perinatal Awareness of Boomers and Beyond Perinatal Boomers and Beyond—We Know THAT We Don’t Know…We Could Be Wrong.… But You Certainly Are Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker—Generations Since As I said, contrasted with being completely split off — dissociated — from one’s perinatal unconscious, as the Fifties and WWII Generation are predominantly, is being less cut off from it and having some access to its energies. This means that rather than being totally and blindly driven by these forces, which are acting on one indirectly, one actually feels them somewhat: One has a sense of their being a part of one’s experience as opposed to living within them so thoroughly that one has not a clue of their existence. This means that one has more options than to act them out, but it also means they make one aware of one’s perinatal sickness. One feels them, suffers from them, struggles with them. On the other hand, one does not suffer or struggle from unconscious energies that one is compliant with and that are completely manifest and supported in one’s social and cultural environments (for example, the worlds of the WWII and previous generations), however destructive that makes one’s actions. Trancing Vs. Suffering This difference may be likened to the difference between being a fish in water and totally oblivious to that fact versus living out of water and experiencing a downpour. When one is in less of a trance state, one is aware of alternative ways of being; in the example, that would be being dry. Consequently, one suffers and struggles amidst these forces and options…and one has at least some ability to choose one’s actions. I do not believe it is simply coincidence that we are currently going from the Piscean Age — symbolized by fish in water — to the Aquarian Age — symbolized by a water bearer. This change was a big part of the consciousness during the Sixties, and I think we are beginning to see why: Going from a state where one is oblivious to the forces around one to a state where one can see the things one is dealing with (carrying the water) is no small thing. It seems everything about evolution in humans has something to do with being between two mediums and the advance/the added perspective that comes with that, going all the way back to being the only ape to take to the water so much as to become partly aquatic—placing our species between water and land, halfway between a dolphin and a chimpanzee. I think we are heading toward being like the fairies and angels we imagine—halfway between land and air—but that is a whole other post. Another analogy I’ve heard of this difference between the two modes of being completely oblivious and somewhat aware of one’s unconscious is that between living full-time in an arctic environment where one has to wear a heavy coat versus living in a milder climate. In the warmer climes, one is both aware of what it is like to not have a coat—one has capacity to feel better ways of being—as well as how bulky, obstructing, and uncomfortable it is to have the coat on—suffering more from it, suffering from one’s perinatal memories. Finally one is better able to decide when to have it on and not—one has more options. At some point I will discuss what this has to do with the increase of bipolar disorders, but not now. One analogy I find especially provocative is the difference between watching a movie and being fully engrossed in it so that one does not know it is a movie, which is equivalent to acting out unconsciously from one’s early imprints. Compare this to watching the same movie with equal interest, but being aware that one is in a theater. You can see where in the second instance one would feel there are more options; and one would feel that one could step back before finding oneself caught up in horrific actions. However, being aware of one’s discomfort (having “more access” to the perinatal), one suffers like the wounded deer—the innocent who feels things and so struggles with society’s sickness that many others are unconsciously perpetrating. But, with time and success in handling this pain, one can become the wounded healer—the Centaur. Now, why and how would this occur? As I’ve said, some access to the perinatal and more blatant and direct acting it out is exhibited by many of the baby-boomer generation. This is in large part due to their having been raised in a way that required less in the way of ego defenses to keep their primal pain suppressed. Psychohistorians like Glen Davis and Lloyd deMause have detailed a slow advance of child-caring techniques, with generations since the WWII Generation being raised with more attention to their needs and less harshness and cruelty…increasingly more love. “What the World Needs Now, Is…” Before anyone begins thinking “permissive” or “spare the rod, spoil the child,” let me point out that I will be continually stressing how this development is not only a good thing (why wouldn’t love be good?) but is one of the few sources of hope for our future we really do have. For less childhood pain and trauma means one is stronger and more able to face the even deeper perinatal pain. Choosing Lesser Evils At any rate, the extreme acting-out and total dissociation from the perinatal exhibited by the World-War-Two Generation was followed, in the generations coming after, by less relative dissociation and less horrific forms of acting it out. Quite simply, generations as a whole had better ability to refrain from the more blatantly evil act outs—wholesale murders and world wars, pogroms and genocide, inquisitions and witch-burning, racism and slavery. They were more able to choose seemingly milder forms of suffering and self-destruction — polluting the atmosphere, water, and food; population explosions and crowding of cities; and traffic jams. The common everyday traffic jam is especially instructive of perinatal dynamics as traffic congestions replicate asphalt birth tunnels where one not only breathes exhaust fumes from trucks and other autos—fetal malnutrition—but also can become gridlock at any moment, thus re-creating the intense frustration and no-exit hopelessness, and rage, of BPM II. Baby-Boomer Perinatal Awareness Other examples of the scenery of modern times where the perinatal is manifesting but is less projected onto another: We Know THAT We Don’t Know…We Could Be Wrong. Many baby-boomers had enough access to their perinatal underbellies to question the absolute rightness of the Vietnam War and so they campaigned against it. This is indicative of closeness to the perinatal because it shows an ability to doubt one’s egocentric defenses—as given by society and family of origin—and to look at situations from the eyes of the Other. So much was this evident in boomers that some were even able to see the Vietnam War through the eyes of the enemy—exemplified by Jane Fonda’s trip to Hanoi, the waving of North Vietnamese flags at demonstrations, and the carrying of little red books of the sayings of Chairman Mao tse Tung. But It’s Clear You’re Wrong. The baby-boomer—or Sixties—generation also indicate their closeness to their perinatal in their campaigns against some of the act-outs of the perinatal mentioned above: These include actions against pollution; a rejection of city life, with its gridlocks, pollution, and crowding , and a return to the country, in communes or otherwise; an awareness and rejection of polluted foods and creation of a natural and organic foods movement; and actions against global overpopulation including support for birth control, a pro-choice stance on abortion, and delaying of baby-making on their own parts along with a reduction in the size of their families. The sexual excess that is characteristic of the perinatal, specifically BPM III, was evident in boomers’ free love and promiscuous sexual behavior. Many more examples could be given. But the proof of their closeness to their unconscious dynamics lies not only in their actions—as mentioned above, in their more blatant acting them out or in their actual actions against the blatant acting out, both of which indicate closer access—but also in the study of their unconscious dynamics. As mentioned in Chapter Twelve, Kenneth Keniston found in his study of the psychodynamics of the Sixties generation when they were in their youth an unusual amount of perinatal symbolism and self-analysis. (See “Raging to Reenter, Digging Under Ground.”) Boomer Rage, Perinatally So We Shall Overcome. We also see perinatal feelings in the focus of the baby-boomers on empowerment. This word appears to come up in every area of their lives. It can be seen as the natural focus of a generation that feels itself inside to be a helpless fetus facing an overpowering obstruction of a womb. Hence baby-boomers are of course also closer to the frustration, rebellion, and yes, rage, that is part of the perinatal complex. We saw it exhibited by them in their anger at authority in the Sixties, their rebellion against the Vietnam War. “Get the &%$ OFF Me!” Keep in mind that a huge aspect of the perinatal is feelings of restriction, thus frustration, and, consequently rage against large entities of obstruction—like the womb was in relation to the small and helpless fetus. In doing so, we see that the reason for their rage is simple and understandable. Baby-boomers, characterized as being closer to their unconscious, especially the perinatal, have more access to their anger: This means they feel their anger and are less likely to act it out in more hidden, disguised, and dire ways such as war-making, racism, and anti-Semitism. This does not mean their rage would not be troublesome. The perinatal lets no one get off scot free. We see lots of pre- and perinatal anger coming out in the last few decades in the phenomenon of the “angry electorate.” Let’s look at that next. You Didn’t Really Believe Elections Had Anything to Do With Issues, Did You? Biting the Feeding Hand … Perinatal Rage and Panicky Electorate Seriously? You Actually Think Elections Have Something to Do With Issues? Biting the Feeding Hand … Perinatal Rage and Panicky Electorate More recently these baby-boomers have been coming into the triumphant phase of their lives. They make up the largest sector of the electorate, and their influence is reflected more as they come into positions of power in the media and elsewhere. The Angry Electorate and Boomers But their influence has been diffused and confused because of the anger of some of them. Their irrational rage—combined with the reactionary consciousness of the Fifties Generation, many of the Fifties Gen children of Yuppies-Gen Xers, and the remaining WWII folks—has most often skewed election results against the Boomers interests and their true desires. Though not the majority of boomers, enough of them expressed their rage to swing election results in favor of the other side. 1992 – “Mad as Hell” Beginning in the 1992 and 1994 national elections, these baby-boomers exhibited their perinatal influences in contributing to the totally unexpected phenomenon of the “angry electorate.” At the time, pundits and media analysts were at a total loss to explain the rage of the electorate that was affecting these elections. In 1992, they were totally surprised by the showing of three men in particular—Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan, and Ross Perot—who seemed to have one thing in common: the angry tones and rebelliousness that characterized their speeches, as compared to others. [Footnote 4] The demeanor of these candidates was at such odds with the other candidates that when Bill Clinton one night responded angrily to a comment by Jerry Brown about Hillary, Clinton’s wife, it was that part of the debate—of Clinton being angry, all issues aside—that made the news that night! Though the rage of the electorate in 1992 caused the Brown, Perot, and Buchanan phenomena, it was split among them, so Clinton ended up winning. This of course was also OK with the baby-boomers in that (1) Clinton and Gore were baby-boomers like themselves and (2) in the race against Bush, Clinton was the challenger, and thus the rebel; and Bush was the “bum to be thrown out.” However, this rage did not go away after the election, which highlights its having perinatal origins. In fact, after the shortest “honeymoon period” in history, by some accounts, it became directed at the most likely target/center—the President, Bill Clinton, himself. We all know how despite the successes and progress of Clinton’s first year, he was especially singled out for ridicule and denigration by the media. He could not seem to do anything right, and the most incredibly outrageous behaviors were attributed to him. 1994 – “Throw the Bums Out … Again.” This rage spilled over into the next year and, sure enough, during the midterm election—the issues be damned—the angry electorate was in a mood to “throw the bums out” again. It did not matter the party….I do not claim that all those of my generation are always as politically astute as they are angry. The Republicans called it a “revolution.” It was simply the acting out of an electorate in the throes of perinatal feelings—that is, feelings of frustration, being “tied up” by red tape, an inability to go forward…that is, up the economic ladder—wages had been stagnating since the early 80s…being overcontrolled and pushed around by regulations…big government being the big mother womb keeping the fetus locked in and unable to move…and out of all this, the consequent anger and rage. 1996 and 1998 — “To Hell With You!” At any rate, succeeding elections bear out this analysis of an angry electorate. In 1996, despite the much ballyhooed “Republican Revolution,” sure enough, the electorate was spoiling to “throw the bums out” again—only this time it was the Republican Congress. So there were Democratic gains at the time. And in 1998, when everything pointed to a huge Republican landslide because of the Lewinsky scandal, the electorate again showed their rebellion and anger toward both the pundits and the Republicans who had been lambasting them with details of the scandal for nearly a year by giving the Democrats gains again! [Footnote 4] 2006, 2008, and 2010 — Panicky Electorate In 2006, 2008, and 2010, it was an angry electorate reeling against oppression; and in the case of 2010, doing it mindlessly, against their own interests. If there were not perinatal charge to all this, Americans would not be so irrational about their choices. Perinatal Rage People have had good reasons to feel oppressed since the Eighties when Reagan began the giveaways to the rich and the budget cutbacks, continuing to this day, that have caused the masses to feel constricted and oppressed. Yet, if this did not result in their being perinatally overloaded so that they cannot reason, they would not have been able to be led to fight their own interests as they were in 2010 and in an ongoing way as exemplified by the Tea Party and the success of right-wing agendas. Reacting, Too Angry and Confused to Think Another aspect of this irrationality on both sides of the political spectrum has to do with this idea that there is no difference between the two major parties. Feeling oppressed perinatally is characterized by a pressure from all sides simultaneously. There is an inability to distinguish or discriminate between forces that are helpful and those that are dire, as any and all developments seem threatening in situations of crisis. In a situation of overwhelm, further, there is an inability to think clearly. One just fights back, explodes, reacts. It’s no coincidence that righties are called reactionaries. Biting the Feeding Hand The upshot is an inability, under the pressure of perinatal feelings, provoked endlessly by actual oppression economically, environmentally, socially, and culturally, to rail against any authority, to bite the hand that feeds one. This is exactly like the panicked swimmer who in danger of drowning fights off his or her rescuer. Can anyone at this point still maintain that the politics of the last few decades had anything at all to do with ideology or issues? Millennials and Their Opposites – Fifties Generation Tea Partyers … How OWS and Tea Party Movements Are Generationally and Perinatally Different Millennial Gen Occupiers and Eisenhower Gen Tea Partyers Are Perinatally As Well As Generationally Opposed Right-Wing “Hate Groups,” the Tea Party, and the Fifties Generation: Perinatally Oblivious One might also note the rise of “hate groups” occurring at the same time as the phenomenon of the angry electorate. Hate groups fill their ranks from folks on the extreme right and their actions are exemplified in the Oklahoma bombing tragedy and more recently in the Tea Party. Perinatally Clueless But notice again then that these hate groups are always on the extreme right of the political spectrum and thus exemplify a World-War-Two mindset in relation to their perinatal unconscious: Specifically, the mindset is one of being completely cut off from one’s unconscious dynamics and being in total denial of unconscious motivations so that one can have the complete certitude—lacking any access to the unconscious which would give rise to doubts—that makes violent actions possible. However the reason for bringing up the hate groups is to show how much their actions as well are dominated by perinatal—in their case, totally unconscious—dynamics. For without exception their reasons for rising up against the government—representing the overwhelming womb—has to do with frustrations, like the trapped fetus feels, in regards to “oppressive” taxes, governmental red tape, laws, and other regulations that they feel restrict their freedom…to move freely, as one wanted to but couldn’t, in the womb. Tea Party and hate group ranks are prevalent with Fifties Generation folks. The Eisenhower Generation — after the WWII Gen and before Boomers — were born just before or during WWII. They are mired in prenatal fears coming from the fact that their parents were living through such distressing times as WWII and the Great Depression when they were inside their mothers. They were “marinated” in the womb with fear and insecurity. They also were not brought up with the societal advance in child-rearing the next generation of boomers, and those afterward, would be granted. So it is understandable they would be both cut off from perinatal access yet full of perinatal pushes and pulls to act out in confused and self-destructive ways. Perinatal Access of Millennials Being Boomer Kids, Wouldn’t You Kind of Expect That? Now on the other end of this perinatal spectrum we have the most recent generational cohort to be making a mark. The Millennial, or Baby-Boomer Echo generation, show the same inner access as their Boomer parents. They demonstrate as well their parents’ consequent refusal to act it out on a larger scale: It has been said that the greatest concerns of those in this generation, now in their twenties and thirties, are the environment and racism-bigotry. Activist, Progressive They show the progressive bent of their parents, also, in their having a lot to do with giving America its first African-American president. And to the environment and minority rights, we need to add classism, economic fairness, and human rights because of their phenomenal outpouring of support in the past year for Occupy Wall Street and for union rights in Wisconsin and other states. They are showing global strength in opposing fascism, economic injustice, political oppression, and human rights abuses in Occupy and Arab Spring movements. They’ve filled massive demonstrations against the draconian economic policies of Republicans in Wisconsin. Climate Change and The Environment We know how pollution and action against pollution indicates a closeness to one’s perinatal. To put it another way, it is clear that only a total denial and disconnect between one’s consciousness and one’s unconscious perinatal dynamics would allow one to act it out unconsciously in the creation of pollution and in the denial of it as a problem or a mindless neglect of it. So the fact that these Baby-Boomer children, the Millennials, are so cognizant, concerned, and active in relation to global pollution and climate change shows their lack of denial of this perinatal act-out. Multicultural, Resisting Racism and Oppression But what of racism and bigotry? How is this an indication of a closeness to the perinatal. There are several ways in which this is so. As mentioned, a closeness to the perinatal allows one to doubt one’s given defenses and to glimpse alternate perspectives—in particular to look at things from the eyes of The Other. In this way, the baby-boomer echo generation are able to see oppression, injustice, and unfairness as it is played out in the lives of minorities who don’t share their (predominantly) middle-class advantages. They simply don’t “get” racism, sexism, or bigotry of any kind; it is incomprehensible to them. They strongly oppose imperialism, colonialism, or oppression of any kind. Relatedly, they support animal rights and oppose animal abuse and cruelty. They don’t understand torture and violence against fellow planetmates. Naturally they were helped in that awareness by the gains of previous decades, beginning in the Sixties, which had them growing up with diversity of racial and ethnic heritages—seeing things multiculturally not narrowly—in their schools and in the omnipresent media. They grew up with the environmental awareness that was set in motion in the Sixties; they don’t know of a world before recycling and energy conservation. Activism, demonstrations, and political action have been a part of their lives since they were born, unlike the several generations that preceded them and even their Boomer parents who grew up in a politically castrated Fifties. But there is another, stronger element. This is the factor of oppression and unfairness itself. We experience compression (oppression), and frustration at our attempts to go forward, and what feels like hopeless unfairness and injustice, when in the throes of BPM II birth trauma. To see these facets of the fates of minorities, as in racism, or gender or sexual bias, points to this echo generation’s closeness to their own perinatal oppression; hence their ability to empathize with oppressed minorities. This ability to realistically sense and respond to oppression is also the reason they would throw themselves in heartily in defense of unions, an increasingly oppressed middle class, and public sector employees. Of Goths, Gen X, Anti-Abortionists, Pacifiers, and a Hierarchy of Healing … You Make It When You DON’T Fake It Flaunting One’s Sickness Is Healthier Than Hiding It … Gen X, Goths, Pacifiers, and The Hierarchy of Healing A Hierarchy of Healing? This idea that those close to their unconscious conflicts are more likely to act them out blatantly goes completely against one of DeMause’s tenets. He wrote, “The higher the psychogenic mode of the psychoclass, the less it is necessary for it to act out its conflicts.” [Footnote 5] However this is exactly the crux of my difference with his theory and is a central point I am making. For from my perspective, the higher the mode of child-caring equals the less the defenses. Hence, the more it is likely that that generation’s conflicts will be close to the surface, seeking resolution … like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. We might want to call it a hierarchy of healing theory. [Footnote 6] In other words, our observing the supposed “acting out” of an underlying trauma does not mean that the group or person in question is actually or, at least completely, “acting it out” and defending against it. It may be that that group is resolving, healing, or integrating it—taking it inward rather than acting it out…in the world, on others…whether to a small or great extent. Using the analogy of Pandora’s Jar, described earlier, they are opening the jar, at least a little. And I disagree with deMause in that I wish to stress that it is healthier by far to do that. Let me explain: The difference between acting out and resolving is whether the actions are done in total dissociation from the unconscious dynamics, that is to say, in a trance state—as explained earlier in regard to the World War Two generation and the Tea Party—or whether there is at least a modicum of insight into it occurring as a result of things inside of oneself, not completely projected onto the outside. The attitude that leads to total dissociation and acting out was expressed in a recent 2012 military movie, Act of Valor, which depicted Navy Seals engaged in anti-terrorism activity. At the end, the manner of dealing with pain recommended for these American soldiers and “men of valor” was to (paraphrasing) put all the pain in a box, shut it tight, press it down till it is smaller and smaller, and never, under any circumstances, let it out! However, in non-acting-out—“acting inward” or taking back the projection—there is a tad of insight, as, for example, in the “overexamined life” of the “uncommitted” and the “self-analysis” of the young radicals of the Sixties generation. Similarly, the rock concert revivication of all current generations except the Fifties and WWII ones, as I’ve mentioned, is about personal experience and growth, and it is not about acting out on another; whereas an example of the extreme other end of that would be engaging, trance-like, in a mass killing against a perceived political enemy, as Loughner did, and as we do as nations in wars. Another example of complete dissociation are the anti-abortion folks. They don’t have a clue of the connection between their own unconscious prenatal pain and the feelings they have about unborn others. They are not wrestling with their feelings, they are trying to change the world to conform to their defenses around those feelings—that is, they want the world to suppress that womb time out of existence like they have done to it in their own minds. The proof that it is acting out is that it is all about changing others’ behavior, and it involves imposing one’s inner pain on others forcefully and aggressively—which we have seen in its extreme form with the murders of physicians committed by anti-abortionists Flaunting One’s Sickness Beats Hiding It—Generation X The self-analysis of the Sixties Generation was followed by a different mode of struggling with perinatal pain by Generation X, which continues in abated form with the Millennial Generation. It was manifest rather strikingly with the Goth phenomenon and the vampire fascination that began in the Eighties, coincident with Gen X’s coming of age. Goth and vampirism show blatant perinatal dynamics that are not unfelt and completely repressed as in dissociation with its trance-state aggression against others. An example of Gen X perinatal acting out of these dynamics in total dissociation and trance state was given above in the anti-abortionists. But Goth and vampire culture show folks feeling and immersed consciously in these pushes and pulls and wrestling with them, trying to work them out as opposed to act them out. Hey, It Was Tough! This is rather clearly shown in looking at the “regression” in Europe, described by psychohistorians, which occurred in the Nineties. This behavior showed a bit of insight…and resolution happening…in that the baby song being hummed was about the very real hardships of being a baby. Therefore, an actual truth about their own lives was being faced there by those singing along with it. The song was not being used to deny or defend against those traumas. One might suspect that as well in carrying around such blatant examples of regression as a pacifier. For someone in a more defended mode would be highly threatened by such an obvious symbol that they are really needy children inside. More defended folks would be terrified such overt behavior would make them look wussy or sissified—that is, look like that vulnerable, frightened baby that they really feel themselves to be but are doing their damnedest to hide from everyone. Imagine how those Navy Seals described above would feel walking around sucking on a pacifier, for example. So in actually carrying around a pacifier these youth were not only displaying an insight into their feelings of sometimes being needy babies, on the inside, but are actually flaunting this awareness, as if to shame, or slap the face of, or be “in the face” of a generation of their parents—the Fifties Generation for the most part—who did not see their needs when they were babies—however effortfully and obviously they sought to demonstrate them. Thus the symbols needed to become more and more shocking and obvious. Look at What You Did to Me! For example: the jeans with requisite holes around the knees was screaming out, “You did not take care of me; you made me feel like a poor, orphaned, ragamuffin child.” The piercing of mouths, nose, ears, and even tongues shouted, “ I am in pain, dammit! Can’t you see that when you stick needles in me as a little baby that I hurt? How can you be so insensitive? Can’t you see that when you refuse to breastfeed and thus nurture me orally that I am forever damaged there, ever painful there? What does it take, my sticking pins—safety pins make the point even more that it was when I was in diapers—in myself to make you see that I hurt there?” And, of course, the black clothes, the hideous macabre makeup, and depressed, sullen expressions was exclaiming, “Look, you might think we’re a wonderful family and everything is hunky-dory here; but I wish I were dead! I’ve felt so much pain, from in the womb, at birth, and right after birth, that I wish I’d never been born. “Also, somehow in courting death, I have the feeling that I might somehow be reborn again into a good life, not like this place of torture and tears, right from the beginning, where my welcome into the world consisted of being drugged, handled like an object or piece of meat, blasted by bright lights, scrubbed by rough cloths, having needles and suctions stuck in me, blasted with noise, made to lie on cold stainless steel surfaces, and then bundled like a tamale so that I could not move…making me feel again like I was back in the hellish womb where in the later stages, for a time that felt like an eternity, I felt unable to move and was suffocating for lack of sufficient oxygen…and the only action that was possible was for me to scream my bloody head off for long periods of time or go into a stupor—which is what I did, alternating between them. “Can’t you see that I’d rather be dead than live in such a world of insensitive zombies like you. Hell, in fact, to further drive the point home, I’ll even look and act like a zombie, I’ll try to appear as unfeeling and morose as you all seemed to me, especially at my birth. And I’ll go a step further and mirror yourselves back to you by becoming enamored of vampires…. “Can’t you see that you sucked my very life force, my blood, and turned me into an unfeeling vampire like you, by suffocating me in the womb, poisoning me with your toxic blood which you both sucked from me and then forced down my throat!” The Consciousness Revolution They Don’t Want You to Notice. It’s Inconvenient for Them, Initially Hard for Us, and Hopefully Not Too Late The “Inconvenient” Revolution – Unacknowledged Consciousness Evolution from the WWII Generation to the Millennials … More Suffering, Less Killing Different Levels, Different Defenses It is instructive at this time to note that Arthur Janov once compared the defenses that characterized the youth of the time—the late Sixties, early Seventies—with those of their parents and older people in general and came up with findings that amplify my own assertions here. “Mind’s Made Up, Don’t Confuse Me With the Facts!” Specifically, Janov found that older people—clients of his as well as others of whom he was aware—were characteristically more repressed, more split off, more prone to dissociation, more defended and, most importantly for our uses here, tended to use defenses of denial and obfuscation against inner information and impulses. Correspondingly, they tended to use drugs that repressed and blotted out reality, such as alcohol and nicotine; and they tended to be sexually repressed. They were also more compulsive. They tended to suppress their tension and hold it in for all their worth. “How Can You Have Any Pudding if You Don’t Eat Your Meat?” Truth was greatly feared, and all attempts were made to fend off incoming information that might threaten the delusional reality set of the conscious mind. This left them open to the characterization: “My mind’s made up! Don’t confuse me with the facts!” which was leveled at them by anti-Vietnam War protesters. In more recent years, it is no wonder they have engaged in a war against education and against Hollywood, as really they are at war with new information. Consequently, Janov found that the dominant mode of reaction, when threatened, was to act out aggressively against the supposed “oppressor.” Like prenates up against an overpowering womb, they are in constant war with overwhelm. “Peace, Out.” On the other hand, he found that his youthful clients—under 30—tended to use defenses of excess, release, and addiction, or to be unusually lacking in defense mechanisms. They were more impulsive. They tended to have weak barriers to incoming information, to be open to negative unconscious content, even at the expense of their self-esteem, and to be tension expressers. They were therefore more likely sexually promiscuous than repressed, and they tended to drugs that opened them to information and unconscious knowledge – such as marijuana and LSD. Consequently they were less split off from their unconscious truth…though it made them uncomfortable…were less repressed, and, if anything, used defenses of masochism, self-denial, and self-inflicted aggression or depression. Truth was more important to them than emotional comfort. They tended to go out of their way to dig up negative information about themselves, and they accepted the low self-esteem and sense of self-worth that came with that kind of openness to truth. Their delusional reality set — if it could be called that — entailed taking on the worries and cares of the world as their own, since their openness to their own cares and worries allowed them to empathize with others in obviously similar situations. When triggered into their pain, their dominant reaction was to take it inward and to take it out on themselves causing depression. In doing so they showed they would rather hurt themselves than hurt another. Generation Gaps … Again I don’t believe you need to be a rocket scientist to see that Janov was discovering an historical — one might say millennial — ”changing of the guard” as regards access to the unconscious, openness to personal truth, and lessening of the tendency to act out early trauma in violent or belligerent ways. The older generation had more tendencies to blame others, to find scapegoats for their ills, and to act out violently on them. The younger generation had more tendencies to look inward and to blame and punish themselves … and to prefer to hurt themselves before hurting another. They would more likely cut themselves than cut another; they would more likely commit suicide than kill. The youthful generation might also become alcoholic, addicted to drugs, or do something else to injure themselves…rather than act it out on another. Less Wars, More Suicides And this “acting in,” as opposed to acting out, is indicated as well in the rise of teen suicides in recent decades. So you might say that the tradeoff we are currently getting is a reduction in the use of wars and racism to solve problems—that is, a reduction in the tendency to act out one’s Pain on others and to scapegoat. But, since the perinatal trauma is still there, and one is even more conscious of it, we have increased suicides. We have not had a world war or dropped a nuclear weapon on people since World War II; but we suffer unceasingly from relatively less loss of life in regional conflicts and the self-inflicted harm of air, water, and food contamination and from radiation poisoning from nuclear power plants. We have not had millions killed in genocides or purges since World War II, but we have suffered lesser loss of life in uprisings for democracy in China, Iran, Syria, Southeast Asia, and the Arab world. We have not had lynchings and racial riots have ceased, but we have suffered less lethal damage from culture and class wars, increased incarceration, creeping fascism, and struggles for economic justice. Overall then, less death, more suffering. Less killing in wars, more suicides. Less large scale atrocities, more depression. On a collective level, we are taking our conflicts increasingly inward. As deMause pointed out, Those considered ‘neurotic’ in each age may often be a higher psychogenic mode than those considered ‘normal,’ only they must stand the anxiety of not sharing the group-fantasies of the age. [Footnote 7] Away From Hubris: Nature Balances HerSelf In this part on healing crisis, we have seen how perinatal acting out can be of two kinds: totally unconscious and trance-like, or semi-conscious with at least some access. We have looked at how a progression to more access to one’s perinatal underbellies has led to more acting in than acting out. We have seen how it has led to less violence and more depression. Suffering Beats Dying. At this point, one could make the point that the tradeoff is worth it: That individuals suffering more emotional pain and trauma is preferable to the horrors of world war and nuclear or genocidal holocaust…put bluntly, suffering beats dying. But we are still looking at the situation from the microcosmic scale. We are talking and acting here like we are the only ones on Earth that matter. This is natural of course, in that this is always the way we have thought of things—that is to say, as if all things were to be considered around the concerns of humans. This is called anthropocentrism—a form of species-centrism—in which Homo sapiens is considered the reason for the existence of the rest of the Universe. With the Universe as awesomely and unimaginably large as it is, one might wonder at our hubris in our considering things in only this way—that is, from our perspective. Likewise, with a mind-boggling number of species living or having lived on this planet alone—species numbering in the hundreds of millions, if not trillions—again one might question the validity of choosing the perspective of our species alone in making our analyses. How ‘Bout We Step Outside? Yet this is the way we have always done it. And this is the way I have been slanting my perspective so far in this book. But now let us do something radically different. Let us walk out of ourselves — figuratively speaking — and seek to stand upon that Archimedean point from which we might view the events currently transpiring. From such an attempted non-species-centric viewpoint let us view this emerging perinatal unconscious, with its wounded deer and centaurs, as it is currently manifesting in humans. However tenuous our attempt, let us at least try such a new-paradigm viewpoint. For certainly all old-paradigm ones—containing all the hubris of anthropocentrism that they do—have failed in their attempts to save our species and indeed have contributed to such a likelihood. Let us attempt to see through the eyes of Gaia, now—from the viewpoint of Earth itself—as we look at how the current human predicament may in fact be an example of Nature balancing HerSelf. With both perspectives in mind, we can have a complete picture. We will return then to look at where there is cause for hope, what we are doing wrong as well as where there are positive trends and forces at work, and how we might let go of the self-defeating and instead apply ourselves to fostering the forces of good going on in global consciousness and the globe itself. Continue with Eden Arise and a Message to All Wounded Deer and Centaurs: It’s a Consciousness Revolution, Aided by Gaia We Are Rediscovering Our Natural Self Return to We Have Manifested a World That Mirrors and Re-Creates Our Traumatic Human Births: Life or Death Matters We Need to Face to Survive 1. “Zombie” by the Cranberries lyrics: Another head hangs lowly Time is slowly taken And the violence causes silence Who are we mistaken? Let he see, it’s not me It’s not my family In your head, in your head They are fightin! With their tanks, and their bombs And their bombs, and their guns They are cryin! In your head! In your head! Zombie! Zombie! Zombie! Whats in your head, in your head? Another mother’s breaking Heart is taken over. When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken. It’s the same old theme They’re still fightin! In your head, in your head! They are dyin! 2. Alice Miller, For Your Own Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984; and Lloyd deMause, “Restaging Early Traumas in War and Social Violence.” The Journal of Psychohistory 23 (1995): 344-391. Reprinted, with permission, on Primal Spirit site as “Restaging Prenatal and Birth Traumas in War and Social Violence”) 3. Stanislav Grof, “Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed.” Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology 2(1): 3-26, p. 23. (Article reprinted, with permission, on this Primal Spirit website). 4. See “It’s the Attack on Privacy, Stupid! What Republicans and Pundits Don’t Get About Clinton’s Support,” on the Primal Spirit site, for more on the angry electorate and how it played out in the 1996 election. 5. Lloyd deMause, The Foundations of Psychohistory. New York: Creative Roots, 1982, p. 139. See also “Are Some ‘Sick’ People More Healthy Than Normals?” 6. See also “Are Some ‘Sick’ People More Healthy Than Normals?” on the Primal Spirit site. 7. Lloyd deMause, The Foundations of Psychohistory. 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zombie apocalypse Wounded Deer and Centaurs: The Hierarchy of Healing, An Inconvenient Revolution, and Flaunting One’s Sickness Is Healthier Than Hiding It Posted by sillymickel in activism, allegory, authenticity, being yourself, Class, Culture, economics, Generations, globalrevolution, History, individualism, life, meaning, nonconform, occupywallstreet, philosophy, Politics, psychology, spirituality on September 20, 2012 Apocalypse No! Chapter Eleven: Healing Crisis – Getting “Sick” To Be Well What does this all mean? What does this portend? What might be the outcome of this emerging perinatal unconscious? In other words, consciousness evolution or apocalypse? To answer what an emerging perinatal unconscious might mean on a macrocosmic or societal-global scale, it is helpful to look at what an emerging perinatal unconscious portends on the individual or microcosmic level. Psychohistorians deem this state to be such an oblivious one that they use the term trance-state for it, fully intending all the implications and connotations that term engenders. That is, they are saying that people who are this repressed and split off do their acting zombie-like and out of motivations completely hidden to themselves. [Footnote 1] Many more examples could be given. But the proof of their closeness to their unconscious dynamics lies not only in their actions—as mentioned above, in their more blatant acting them out or in their actual actions against the blatant acting out, both of which indicate closer access—but also in the study of their unconscious dynamics. As mentioned in Chapter Nine, Kenneth Keniston found in his study of the psychodynamics of the Sixties generation when they were in their youth an unusual amount of perinatal symbolism and self-analysis. (See “Raging to Reenter, Digging Under Ground.”) From such an attempted non-species-centric viewpoint let us view this emerging perinatal unconscious as it is currently manifesting in humans. However tenuous our attempt, let us at least try such a new-paradigm viewpoint. For certainly all old-paradigm ones—containing all the hubris of anthropocentrism that they do—have failed in their attempts to save our species and indeed have contributed to such a likelihood. 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and Centaurs – Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker – Perinatal Awareness of Boomers and Beyond: Healing Crisis, Part 2 Posted by sillymickel in activism, allegory, authenticity, being yourself, Culture, Generations, globalrevolution, History, individualism, meaning, nonconform, occupywallstreet, philosophy, Politics, psychology, spirituality, US on July 16, 2012 Continue with You Didn’t Really Believe Elections Had Anything to Do With Issues, Did You? 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__label__wiki	0.510172	0.510172	2020 Multilingual Fair Demographics and Equity Report DC Immersion in the news Narrow Achievement Gap Broaden Job Opportunities Meet Parental Demand Increase Diversity and Integration DC Immersion Turns 5! “Since 2014, we have been hard at work to allow all DC children to communicate with more friends, to make the world a smaller place, while increasing equitable access to opportunity. Thank you to all of our partners, volunteers and donors – you make this work possible!” Jimell Sanders Board Chair and Co-Founder, DC Language Immersion Project Some of our accomplishments of the past 5 years: Created the Multilingual Education Fair of DC, an aggregator of multilingual schools, products, and services connecting over 1500 educators, employers and families from the DC region yearly Engaged low-income communities to empower them to advocate for multilingual education – 17 Community Forums, 15,000 Residents, 40 Public Testimonies Partnered with DC Public Schools and DC public charter schools, and their communities, to systemically support the creation and replication of dual language programs Delivered professional development to educators from 9 DC area school districts who rate us as excellent. Our free online educational resources have been viewed by 90,000 visitors around the globe Were instrumental in the opening of the first two dual language programs east of the river – 700+ dual language seats in low-income, African American neighborhoods Researched with universities and think tanks the need, demand, and state of dual language programs and published the seminal report “Demographics and Equity in Dual Language Programs in Washington, DC” Led the effort to create and fund the new Office of Multilingual Education tasked with formulating a vision for multilingual education for all students, and to fund a $200k Language Roadmap for DC Been invited to present at major educational conferences, sat on 3 taskforces, and consulted for other states, including Rhode Island and California Been quoted in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, American Educator, El Tiempo Latino, French Morning, US News and World Reports, The Hechinger Report, and Univision Noticias, among others x4 by 2030 Your support is key to quadrupling the number of seats in quality dual language immersion programs by 2030 with a focus on low-income and at-risk communities. “One of the things that I’ve been truly excited about to see in my two and a half years on the Council, is really the work of Vanessa and the Language Immersion Project starting to come to life at a pace that I don’t think that many of us would have imagined just five years ago.” Robert C. White, Jr. At-Large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia Let us know how we're doing! Please send your feedback DCLanguageImmersionFollow Nonprofit working to improve opportunity through equitable access to #duallanguage programs and linguistic and cultural competence skills in #all8wards of DC DCLanguageImmersion@DCImmersion· Get a jumpstart on that new year’s resolution to learn a new language! Join us and learn about all the ways you can finally check that off your bucket list! Saturday 1/25 10am-3pm. https://www.mefdc.org/register/ #MultilingualDC #MEF20 Multilingual All-Star Lineup! And You Are invited! Register for the 2020 Multilingual Education Fair of DC on 1/25 from 10am-3pm here http://www.mefdc.org/register It's free! - https://mailchi.mp/dcimmersion/program-2020-multilingual-education-fair-of-dc Calling all DMV educators! The Multilingual Education Fair of DC has tons of resources in 18 languages for you and your students - apps, books, summer camps, travel and more! Register now https://www.mefdc.org/register/ #MEF20 Bring your family to the 2020 Multilingual Education Fair of DC to explore resources by 150 exhibitors and participate in a free workshop for monolinguals raising multilingual kids Sat 1/25 10am-3pm. https://www.mefdc.org/register/ #MEF20 © DC Language Immersion Project 2019 \| 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW WDC 20036 \| 202.876-2988	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1091
__label__wiki	0.60547	0.60547	Dublin based Communications + Public Affairs Consultant & Speechwriter As she heads towards the political exit, @theresa_may is leaderless to the end #Brexit March 13, 2019 by dsmooney, posted in Brexit, DUP, Politics, UK politics My take on the various Brexit votes in the House of Commons this week. This appeared on Broadsheet earlier today (March 13, 2019) Over the past few weeks we have seen a parade of British pro-Brexit talking-heads confidently telling us that the EU/UK Brexit negotiations “will go down to the wire” and that Brussels will do, what they claim it always does, and make a deal at the very last minute. David Davis was at it before he became Brexit Secretary and has continued at it since quitting the job. Ian Paisley Jr MP was at it on Newsnight last night, asserting that the EU “…are the kings of the last-minute fudge.” How I wish that trite political phrases such as “going down to the wire” could be expunged from every politician’s lexicon. It is an empty, meaningless phrase. It is on a par with someone watching you looking for your lost keys or credit cards and declaring: “it’ll be in the last place you look”. D’uh, yeah. It obviously will be in the last place you look… you are hardly going to keep looking after you find it, are you? So it is with negotiations. They end when they end. It is hardly surprising that most negotiations go right on to the deadline you set. It is called a deadline for a reason, both sides knew it was the time framework they work within it. There is even less depth to the phrase when it comes out of the mouths of Brexiteers because it only confirms that they haven’t (i.) realised that Brexit is not a negotiation and (ii.) bothered to find out how Article 50 works. In a classic negotiation two parties enter talks with the mutual intention of finding a deal that will be better than their current situation. They will argue where that balance lies, but their aim is mutually benefit. This is not the case with Brexit. It is a damage limitation exercise. The EU knows that the UK leaving cannot be beneficial to either party. It increases costs and sunders relationships built over 46 years, relationships that have been hugely beneficial to people across this island. There is no outcome whatsoever which can leave the UK having the same advantages, benefits and market access outside the EU as it had inside it. This is why Britain has no leverage. It has had no leverage since the moment Article 50 was triggered, but the leadership of the Tory party, and regrettably the Labour party have stubbornly failed to grasp this fact. Similarly, British political leaders never stopped to read the EU treaties and learn how the exit process works. Even to this day serious political players and pundits in Britain fail to understand that there is a two-stage sequence. First, comes the divorce arrangement, i.e. legally binding terms of for the withdrawal, which is followed the framework for the future relationship between the UK and the EU. This may help explain why with just two weeks to go and after two years of talks, we are still arguing over one of the three key elements of the divorce: citizens’ rights, UK’s financial obligations and the Irish Border. Yet countless British politicians keep asking about why they can’t have a discussion on the future relationship. Did none of them bother to read the rules set out in Article 50 of the EU treaties before triggering it, not to mention before having a Brexit referendum. So, after a day of shuttle diplomacy… no, scrub that… a day of political theatrics, following by a day of Westminster shadow boxing, we move on to today’s House of Commons vote on eliminating a no-deal. Not that the British Prime Minister intends to show any leadership on it. Within moments of her second big defeat last night Mrs May was on her feet to tell MPs that while she would be tabling a motion to rule out a No-Deal Brexit she would be giving her Ministers and MPs a free vote on it. With this move she eschewed her responsibility to lead (and whip) as many Tory MPs as possible to vote to rule out a no Deal Brexit. Instead she will wander in alone and wait to see who meanders in after her. She is putting the pretence of Cabinet and Tory party unity before national interest, a move that could see the scale of the predicted majority slide, though not enough to scupper it. By not imposing a whip she has removed the protection of the whip from MPs who know ruing out a no-deal is right, but who fear the wrath of their hard-line activists back home – especially with an election looming. This may allow these MPs, who would otherwise have followed her as a whipped act of party loyalty, to instead head for the pro-no-deal lobby along with the couple of dozen hard-line Tory Brexiteers who still believe a no Deal Brexit is a good outcome. There they will also find the DUP – again voting against the interests of their Northern Ireland constituents – along with an assortment of Tory ministers and ex ministers, including Boris Johnson who yesterday urged his colleagues to back a no-deal Brexit claiming it was “…the only safe route out of this and the only safe path to self-respect”. While this is vapid jingoistic claptrap, it may yet be the type of claptrap that sees him installed as the next Tory leader. Also, in that No-deal lobby will be another, slightly larger cohort of Tory Brexiteers who think that voting to take no deal off the table injure Britain’s supposed negotiating position with Brussels, believing that the no-deal threat must be kept alive in order to win even more concessions from the EU27. This is the cohort that most loudly chants the “down to the wire line” while ignoring what Barnier, Tusk, Juncker and others have told them over the past 24 hours. This group potentially includes Cabinet Ministers, like Andrea Leadsom, Sajid Javid or even Michael Gove. Is keeping these folks in a Cabinet that is already beyond being merely dysfunctional really a price worth paying? Theresa May thinks so, but as we have seen over the past two years, her judgement on any of these matters is not to be trusted anymore. British politics is truly broken. Tagged Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, No deal Brexit, Theresa may, Tories, Withdrawal Agreement Published by dsmooney Public affairs and political communications consultant. Speech-writer. Former Irish Govt Adviser (2004-10). Occasional columnist and commentator: Broadsheet.ie, RTÉ. View all posts by dsmooney Previous postI admire Durkan, but he won’t get my vote in #EP2019 #EE19 Next postTime to Revoke #Article50 and avoid a Johnson with an extension #Brexit RT @ianmolloy1: This is brilliant. #SwingGate #AnIrelandForAll 45 minutes ago RT @NiallColbert1: "I won't claim" Micheal Martin says when owner of The Bike Shop in Wexford town pleads "don't fall". https://t.co/Tk8YDE… 45 minutes ago RT @fiannafailparty: Rebuilding Ireland has failed. It's time for An Ireland for all #TodaySOR #GE2020 https://t.co/ABQAXfMMNh 1 hour ago RT @OCallaghanJim: It’s been a long time since FG were the party of law & order. 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__label__cc	0.587529	0.412471	jachapman@cmu.edu Jonathan Chapman Professor, Director of Doctoral Studies I am a Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design; an award-winning educator, author, consultant, and speaker, described by the New Scientist as "a new breed of sustainable design thinker." I run the PhD in Transition Design—a research program for designers committed to making a positive change in the world. Through this role, I develop future design leaders with the capacities to “envision” and “realize” systems-level change. I also deliver courses in “design that lasts,” “design for the circular economy,” “sustainable design process,” “design and emotion,” and “design writing.” I hold a PhD Sustainable Design (2008), MA Design Futures (2001), and BA (Hons) Product Design (1997). In 2013, aged just 38, I became the youngest person in England to be awarded a Full Professorship in Design. I have written four books on design, with a fifth on the way. These range from hefty, academic tomes (not for the faint-hearted) to provocative, uplifting works that energize the most unlikely of readers: Meaningful Stuff: Design that Lasts (MIT Press, forthcoming 2020) Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design (Routledge, 2017) Emotionally Durable Design (Expanded Second Edition) (Routledge, 2015) Designers, Visionaries & Other Stories (Earthscan, 2007) Emotionally Durable Design (First Edition) (Earthscan, 2005) Together, my books explore design’s immense capacity to leverage positive change in the world and provide tools and methods for designers to enable the transition to a sustainable future. My research consultancy helps businesses design products that last, and accelerate their transition to a circular economy. Whether building skills and capabilities in design teams, or shaping product strategy with leadership groups, my work helps move businesses toward an economy of "better," not "more.” I have helped over 50 businesses, non-profits, and governments drive sustainable change, whilst enhancing resource efficiency and competitive advantage. This includes working closely with global brands like The Body Shop, Puma, and Philips, and advising governmental bodies like The House of Lords, The House of Commons, and the United Nations. A good talk should be both “interesting” and "relevant.” Sure, the social and environmental crises we face are overwhelming and terrible; no question. But they are also fascinating and laden with opportunities to reimagine how we design our world differently. With a topic as compelling as this, there's no excuse to be boring! I’ve delivered well over 100 talks at conferences, trade events, corporate HQ’s, and policy institutions. Most recently: a keynote at H&M’s ChangeMakersLab in Stockholm; a lecture and two-day deep-dive with GSK’s Global Design Team; and, a series of talks and creative workshops with design, retail, and brand teams at COS HQ, London. People really do say the nicest things; some of which I share below: Jonathan takes part in the sustainable transition we are currently realizing throughout the H&M group—helping us in our quest to become climate positive by 2040. Emelie Olbrink, Sustainability Lead, H&M Chapman’s lectures, master classes, and workshops have helped to move our sustainability story forward by shaping the attitude and approach of our designers and management teams. Reiner Hengstmann, Global Director, Puma Chapman analyses patterns of consumption and waste, and successfully offers strategies and tools as an alternative to our throwaway society; creating designs people love and cherish, instead of simply making products to be thrown away. Marcel Wanders, Designer and Director, Marcel Wanders Studio Chapman’s research plays a key role in helping address problems of e-waste and product obsolescence; enabling us to look at the challenge of weaning people off their desire for the new. Emily Nicoll, General Manager of Sustainability, SONY Europe Applying Chapman’s philosophy of emotional durability helps our team rethink not only the type of products that can be developed in the future but also the role they can play in our ever-changing world. Jon Mason, Experience Lead, Philips Experience Design Chapman’s books provide an essential point of reference for scholars and practitioners at the intersection of design and sustainability.\| John Thackara, Founder, Doors of Perception Chapman suggests a more powerful, sustainable “story of stuff”—one where design delights and is cherished once again. Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder, Futerra The case against mindless design has never been made more effectively. Conny Bakker, Professor, TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering Chapman's intriguing and extensive multi-angled journey shows how design lies at the core of the errors in our system, and how it can only be solved by rethinking it all from the start! Michael Braungart, CEO EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung, Co-founder Cradle to Cradle Design is at a crossroads. Chapman’s book gives the discerning reader the opportunity to make an informed decision on the most appropriate path design and designing should take. Tony Fry, Professor, and Director, Studio at the Edge of the World	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1099
__label__cc	0.667781	0.332219	How we workOur business modelOur productsThe team How we workOur business model Our productsThe team Everyone should understand their own health. Acetrack® Acetrack® is a handheld device with which the user can monitor its own metabolic health status. By measuring the concentration of acetone in exhaled breath and compare it with a measured base line, it is possible to determine whether a person is found to be in ketosis or not. Ketosis is a metabolic state where fat, instead of glucose, is decomposed in the liver. This is of particular interest for elite athletes and individuals on a low-carb diet, but also for anyone that wishes to understand their own metabolism better. Diverse product portfolio: We develop and commercialize mobile electronic devices to monitor biomarkers for individual health and chronic diseases. Contrary to many other start-ups, we are a multi product firm from the outset and every product will contribute with its own revenue stream. B2B relations and market access: By building relationships with clients and through product license agreements, we gain access to relevant markets. This reduces costs in time and investment, and accelerates firm growth for both parties. Agile and lean: We develop products using carefully selected technology partners balancing agility and cost-control hand-in-hand with high usability and cool design. Strong demand in mHealth: mHealth is an emerging market which attracts both new entries and venture capital thereby creating opportunities for profits. Benchmarking versus relevant competitors with similar, but inferior, products show that these companies have steady sales at high volumes. Scalable: The products can be used by mHealth users monitoring various indications of well-being in any geographical market. We start in the Nordic countries and in the US and aim for other international markets. Intellectual property: We believe in, and encourage, an open scientific community and a collaborative technology scene. Deversify’s main assets are the products and the data they produce which are protected by patents and maintained ownership of core technologies. Deversify detects ideas and innovations in the mHealth domain which are analysed and evaluated with respect to the technical and commercial feasibility. Prototypes of a device, app and service are developed which is then offered, through licence agreements, to relevant market actors B2B who distributes the product to healthcare providers and individual health consumers. For example, Deversify develop Product X which Client 1 includes in their product portfolio. A license agreement of future revenue streams is signed including exclusivity to Market A. Deversify will have the right to further license the product to Client 2 entering Market B which will not be a competitive market to Client 1. Client revenue streams are visualized with black arrows whereas Deversify’s revenue streams are symbolized with grey arrows. Deversify selected to join Katapult Accelerator´s latest cohort Deversify AB, a Swedish mobile health tech startup, has been selected for Katapult Accelerator´s latest cohort. Having been part of an extensive interview process, which screened 1800 companies from 98 countries, Deversify was… Acetrack available for local purchase in the US on Amazon.com Amazon's logistics service has just received the first shipment of 100 Acetrack units to its Fulfillment by Amazon warehouse in Illinois. This means that our US customers now can purchase Acetrack locally from… First Acetrack campaign live on Facebook It has been a long time coming, but now Acetrack's first Facebook marketing campaign is live! Acetrack launched at CDON.COM At last, we are happy to announce that Acetrack is not only possible to pre-order, but actually purchase, at CDON.COM. Their inventory has been filled with Acetrack units and will be continuously replenished… Deversify is awarded Bona Postulata 2018! At a ceremony at Relationsdagen in Uppsala, we were awarded this local business prize. Crowd-funding campaign on FundedByMe During the spring of 2018, Deversify shares will be offered to FundedByMe's members. Amazon's logistics service has just received the first shipment of 100 Acetrack units to its Fulfillment by Amazon warehouse in Illinois. This means that our… At last, we are happy to announce that Acetrack is not only possible to pre-order, but actually purchase, at CDON.COM. Their inventory has been filled… A health care trend in Sweden is the change of attitude among care givers, both public and private, towards monitoring of chronic diseases by primary care. To rationalize the patient visits and optimize scarce treatment resources, clinical professional actively promote the use of various sensor technologies in patient’s homes. The patient becomes a consumer of health monitoring. Medical indications where mHealth solutions already are implemented include, for example, high blood pressure and blood sugar. In the future, medical fields such as cardiology, epilepsy, obesity and smoke cessation will also benefit from mHealth innovations. A goal for Deversify is to do a market introduction of the first product Acetrack®, a ketosis breathalyzer, during 2018. The second product, a smoke breathalyzer, is being developed with the intention of market introduction in 2019. For Deversify’s third product, an ECG patch, a proof-of-concept will be developed during 2019. Acetrack is a registered trademark and receives brand protection through the Amazon Exclusives program. We have a highly academic profile, in the management team and in the board, with long experience within med-tech and business administration academia world-wide. Deversify’s current owners are all experienced investors in Swedish tech startups. A key feature of Deversify is the aim of building deepened relationship with key stakeholders affiliated to the firm. The relationship extends beyond traditional supplier-customer relationship since the suppliers of products and services to Deversify are encouraged to actively take initiatives in various development processes. Hence, becoming an active part of the development of Deversify and the success of its products. Partnerships include all walks of business life, such as hardware and software engineering, medical expertise, legal and patent counselling, digital communication and finance. Chairman of the board and CRO. Åsa is also a PhD candidate, in Business Administration at Mid Sweden University, focusing on conditions for competition and firm growth in Swedish retailing. She has also ten years of business experience including seven years in senior positions. +46 72 200 31 61 asa@deversify.com Founder of Deversify and CEO. Have worked 25 years in med-tech in Sweden and California, in leading positions at companies such as RaySearch, Aerocrine and Pharmacolog, all of which are listed publicly today. +46 70 546 50 62 anders@deversify.com Deversify is a Swedish development company founded 2016. Deversify identifies, develops and commercializes smart products, for individualized health monitoring in the home or within health care, through license agreements with incumbent market actors. Deversify’s strategic destination and goal is to become the leading provider of individualized knowledge-based wellbeing to empower the mHealth consumers. Åsa & Anders	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1100
__label__cc	0.591456	0.408544	By Sarah White Most people know that they should eat more complex carbs, but a lot of people don't know what that really means or what the right kind of carbs do for a person's diet. What are Complex Carbs? Complex carbs, also known as complex carbohydrates, are a particular class of carbohydrates distinguished from simple carbs. Carbohydrates are classified as simple or complex based on how quickly they are digested and absorbed as sugar by the body. List of Good Carbs and Bad Carbs 10 Best Foods for Your Brain High Protein and Low Carb Dog Foods Simple carbs include things like fruit, vegetables and dairy products. These items have simple sugar compounds that are digested and absorbed by the body quickly. Simple carbs are also found in the refined sugars in table sugar, candy, baked goods, non-diet carbonated beverages and other sugary substances. White foods like white bread and white rice are popular examples of simple or refined carbs as well. Complex carbs, on the other hand, take longer to break down into sugar in the body. Examples of this kind of carbohydrate are whole grain breads and grains, starchy vegetables and legumes. Why Pay Attention to Carbs? Simple carbs, at least the ones from fruits, vegetables and dairy, are not necessarily bad for you, at least not by themselves. The trouble is that a lot of people get too many simple carbs in the form of sugary treats, sodas and refined grains and not enough complex carbohydrates from whole grains. Low-carb diets usually focus on the complete elimination of simple carbs, while complex carbs are allowed back into the diet after an initial period of abstention. Carbohydrates fuel the body and are vital to its proper functioning. But eating the right balance of carbs (meaning more complex and fewer simple) is key to getting to and maintaining a healthy weight. Eating too many carbs, especially too many simple carbs, can lead to weight gain because excess carbs are stored as fat, just like any other excess calories. Examples of Complex Carbohydrates So which carbs should you be getting more of? There are a variety of different kinds of complex carbs, including: Whole grain breads Other whole grains such as brown rice and oatmeal Potatoes (both white and sweet) Whole grain cereals Many experts say that carbohydrates should make up 50 to 60 percent of calories in a healthy diet. Complex carbs should make up the majority of your carbohydrate intake through the day, though it's certainly fine to eat simple carbs when they are in the form of fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products. The problem with carbs comes when you're eating too much simple sugar and refined products like cakes, cookies and sodas. Then the weight gain can happen quickly and be difficult to control because your body begins to crave sugar. Complex carbohydrates don't cause this problem because the unprocessed form of grains contain fiber that makes you feel full longer and helps move waste from the body. Eating more fiber is a great strategy when you're trying to lose weight. How to Eat More Complex Carbohydrates If you're trying to get more complex carbohydrates into your diet, it's really pretty easy. More and more products are being made with whole grains or with some whole grains instead of processed grains, meaning when you add them to your diet you get fewer simple carbs by making easy changes: Try whole-wheat bread instead of white bread. Some companies even make whole-wheat white bread that looks like the unhealthy stuff but has plenty of fiber. Replace plain white pasta and rice with whole grain pasta and brown rice. You can pick whole wheat pasta or pasta made from other whole grains such as kamut, spelt or even corn. Start your day with a high-fiber cereal. Look for whole grains on the ingredients list, or go for oatmeal. Adding a bit of fruit, which is a simple carb, still ups your fiber intake and gets your day off to a good start. Incorporating a little more complexity into your diet can be a very good thing for optimal nutrition and weight control. Diet for a Pear Shape What Are the Best Fruits to Eat While Dieting? 1,200-Calorie, Low-Carb Diet Meal Plan By Karen Frazier Suggested Diet for Gallstones By Annette McDermott	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1104
__label__cc	0.729276	0.270724	Creator Bohning, James J. ✖Remove constraint Creator: Bohning, James J. Department Center for Oral History ✖Remove constraint Department: Center for Oral History Genre Oral histories ✖Remove constraint Genre: Oral histories Place Michigan--Midland ✖Remove constraint Place: Michigan--Midland Rights In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted ✖Remove constraint Rights: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted Oral history interview with Earl L. Warrick Earl L. Warrick begins the interview with a description of his parents and childhood, which involved frequent moves between cities. He tells of his undergraduate years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where the… Interviewee Warrick, Earl L., 1911-2002 Subject Dow Corning Corporation, Chemists, Chemists--Biography, Warrick, Earl L., 1911-2002, Mellon Institute Oral history interview with Louis C. Rubens Louis Rubens begins the interview by discussing his family background and early education. Rubens grew up in Escanaba, Michigan, where his parents ran a tourist park. He attended parochial school, and he credits his… Interviewee Rubens, Louis C., 1919-2013 Subject Polymers, Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Rubens, Louis C., 1919-2013, Chemists--Biography Oral history interview with Malcolm E. Pruitt In this interview Mac Pruitt discusses his early upbringing in a rural area of Texas and his struggles to complete undergraduate education during the Depression. After starting as a control chemist on the graveyard… Interviewee Pruitt, M. E. (Malcolm E.), 1915-2003 Subject Dow Chemical USA, Council for Chemical Research (U.S.), Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Chemists--Biography, Pruitt, M. E. (Malcolm E.), 1915-2003 This short interview with Mac Pruitt is concerned with the Council for Chemical Research and starts with an account of the foundation meeting at Midland and its origins in Pruitt's fear that U.S. chemical technology was… Oral history interview with William C. Goggin William Goggin begins the interview with a description of his family and his childhood years in Michigan. After attending grade school and high school in Alma, Michigan, he attended Alma College. He received his B.S. in… Interviewee Goggin, William C., 1911- 1988 Subject Chemical engineering, Electrical engineers, Dow Corning Corporation, Boundy, Ray H., 1903-, Dow Chemical Company, Electrical engineering, Goggin, William C., 1911- 1988 Oral history interview with E.N. (Ned) Brandt E.N. (Ned) Brandt, company historian of The Dow Chemical Company and a major figure in Dow's public relations activities for over three decades, begins the interview by touching on his family background and early… Interviewee Brandt, E. N. (Ned), 1922- Subject Journalists--Interviews, Journalists--Biography, Dow Chemical Company, Brandt, E. N. (Ned), 1922-, Corporations--Public relations, Doan, Herbert Dow, Corporate image Council for Chemical Research (U.S.)2 Dow Chemical USA2 Bohning, James J.✖[remove]6 Pruitt, M. E. (Malcolm E.), 1915-20032 Brandt, E. N. (Ned), 1922-1 Goggin, William C., 1911- 19881 Rubens, Louis C., 1919-20131 Michigan--Midland✖[remove]6 Center for Oral History✖[remove]6	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1106
__label__cc	0.729939	0.270061	INVESTIGATION OF APPARENT PARASITISM OF BIPALIUM KEWENSE BY AN UNKNOWN NEMATODE SPECIES** C. Adam Slaton, Valdosta State UniversityFollow Eric W. Chambers, Valdsota State UniversityFollow Two specimens of the terrestrial flatworm, Bipalium kewense, were initially collected for teaching purposes in Monroe, Georgia. Upon closer examination, both planarians were found to be internally inhabited by nematodes of an unknown species. Light microscopy revealed that these nematodes were sexually dimorphic and ovoviviparous, but the difficult nature of nematode identification from morphological characteristics necessitates the use of molecular genetics for species identification. In the current study, putative nematodes were collected, subjected to DNA extraction and underwent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with primers for the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. Sequencing will be performed on the PCR products, and sequencing analysis using BLASTn software may allow for accurate species identification. Parasitism of platyhelminths by nematodes is poorly understood; thus, these observations may constitute a previously undescribed phenomenon with implications for control of invasive Bipalium species. Valdsota State University Department of Biology Slaton, C. Adam and Chambers, Eric W. (2020) "INVESTIGATION OF APPARENT PARASITISM OF BIPALIUM KEWENSE BY AN UNKNOWN NEMATODE SPECIES**," Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 78, No. 1, Article 17.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1107
__label__wiki	0.980434	0.980434	Latest in Jonathan Goldstein ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Film Has Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley In Sights To Direct EXCLUSIVE: The long awaited screen adaptation of the massive role playing game hit Dungeons & Dragons is one step closer to happening. Sources said that Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley are in discussions to direct the film for Paramount and Hasbro’s AllSpark Pictures banner. Goldstein & Daley most recently… By Mike Fleming Jr Universal Nabs ‘The Creeps’ Horror Pitch From ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Scribes Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has picked up The Creeps, a horror film based on a pitch from Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Bones alum). Goldstein and Daley are on board to write, direct and produce the pic through their GoldDay banner. Details on the… The Flash Movie: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein In Talks To Direct Warner Bros has just entered into negotiations with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to direct Flashpoint, the studio’s DC stand-alone movie centered on The Flash. Ezra Miler stars as the speedy one after playing the role in last summer’s franchise mashup Justice League. The potential tie-up signals a comedic… By Patrick Hipes Paramount Players Lands First Project: ‘Vacation Guide To The Solar System’ Paramount Players has acquired its first project. In competitive bidding, the division hatched by Brian Robbins acquired the book Vacation Guide To The Solar System, which will be adapted by Spider-Man: Homecoming scribes Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. It’s based on the book by Olivia Koski, head of… ‘Spider-Man’ Homecoming’ Scribes On Board For ‘Game Night’ At New Line Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are game to reunite with New Line Cinema. The Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters have been hired to rewrite Game Night, the pic being produced by Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films. Goldstein and Daley, who made their directorial debut on last summer’s Vacation reboot for New… John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein Comedy Lands At Fox With Penalty Hot feature writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) are venturing into television with a single-camera comedy project for Fox, which has received a script commitment plus penalty. The project hails from 20th Century Fox TV and Chernin Entertainment. Written by the Daley and Goldstein… By Nellie Andreeva Sep 3, 2015 6:20 pm ‘Spider-Man’ And ‘Vacation’ Tales From Writer-Helmers John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein After a fast rise up the comedy writing ranks, John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein make their directorial debut on the sequel to Vacation. And they can finally admit they’ll write the new iteration of Spider-Man for Sony and producers Amy Pascal and Marvel’s Kevin Feige. DEADLINE: The web is on fire today with all… CBS Nabs Comedy From ‘Horrible Bosses’ Writers As Put Pilot Based On Movie In a very competitive situation with all four networks buying the project in the room, CBS has landed a single-camera comedy from Horrible Bosses writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein with a big put pilot commitment. The project, titled Punching Out, from 20th TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment, is… ‘Horrible Bosses’ Scribes Make 7-Figure Pitch Deal At New Line EXCLUSIVE: Horrible Bosses scribes Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley have gone back to the well at New Line, selling the comic pitch The Bus Driver for 7-figures. The duo will begin writing the screenplay right away. The comedy is about an ex-con who gets a job as a school bus driver and doesn’t prove to be a…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1119
__label__wiki	0.59652	0.59652	Ramakrishna Middle School Ramakrishna Middle School - Viluppuram, Viluppuram - Reviews, Fee Structure, Admission Form, Address, Contact, Rating Viluppuram, Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu Description of Ramakrishna Middle School, Viluppuram, Viluppuram Ramakrishna Middle School is located in Viluppuram, Viluppuram. 8 dedicated and professional teachers ensure that the children get the maximum out of their eduaction in this Other Board school. Ramakrishna Middle School was started in the year 1934. The primary medium of instruction is Tamil and the student teacher ratio is 33:1. The school tries to provide best learning environment. Students from 1 to 8 are taught in this school. The current student strength of the school is approximately 267. The library in this school has 723 books. The school has given exceptional results in the academic sphere and its students have excelled in extra co-curricular activities too. This school has 100% of students qualifying the examination and out of these 80% scored first grade. Facilities in Ramakrishna Middle School, Viluppuram, Viluppuram Teacher's Details of Ramakrishna Middle School, Viluppuram, Viluppuram C.SADHANA Academic : Secondary N. KALAISELVAN P.JAMUNA Academic : Hr. Sec P.RAVI P.USHA R.INDRA R.RAVICHANDRAN S.SELVAKUMAR Contact Details of Ramakrishna Middle School Mms Poonthottam, Viluppuram, Ward 27, 605602, Tamil Nadu, India REVIEW on Ramakrishna Middle School on 2020-01-17 19:16:21 Schools around Ramakrishna Middle School Jawahar Nursery And Primary School Moovendar Nagar Sri Venkateswara Matriculation School Tagore Matriculation School Mandhakarai Mahathma Gandhi Primary School Mahathma Gandhi High School New John Dewey Matriculation School	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1122
__label__wiki	0.971479	0.971479	Seeking Unity on Impeachment, Democrats Decided Against Mueller Charges Joaquin Phoenix films new movie amid ‘Joker’ awards buzz in Politics, U.S. WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants huddled in her office last week as Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, who oversees the Judiciary Committee, made the case that the House should take up three articles of impeachment against President Trump. Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, countered that there should only be two. A vigorous debate unfolded, and in the end Ms. Pelosi made the call: There would be only two articles of impeachment, on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, narrowly focused on the investigation into Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine. A third, on obstruction of justice tied to the president’s attempts to thwart the inquiry of Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, was too much of a reach. On Tuesday, the Democrats unveiled those two articles, pushing forward with their carefully managed plans to impeach Mr. Trump before Christmas. But the last-minute dispute over how broad a case to bring reflects the competing demands on Democrats from within their own party, and their determination to appear as unified as possible in a hyper-polarized environment. Now, Democrats will see whether their decision has its intended effect of keeping the party united behind impeaching Mr. Trump, protecting moderate lawmakers who face steep re-election challenges in conservative-leaning districts, and persuading the public — and the Senate, where a trial will play out — of the seriousness of their case. Many of the moderates had resisted impeaching Mr. Trump for months, convinced that Mr. Mueller’s report was not sufficient grounds to proceed, as public polling showed that voters did not see a clear case. Representative Max Rose, a freshman Democrat from a Staten Island swing district, for instance, told his constituents that it was better for the country to simply move on from the Russia episode than impeach Mr. Trump over it. He changed course and embraced the impeachment inquiry only after allegations surfaced that the president tried to pressure Ukraine to help him in the 2020 election. Even now, some centrist Democrats are worried about the process. A group of them met behind closed doors on Monday to discuss the possibility of opposing the articles of impeachment and instead trying to build bipartisan support for a resolution to formally censure the president. They quickly dismissed the idea, which seemed destined to fail. But their conversations reflected the eagerness of some Democrats to avoid the spectacle of a highly partisan impeachment of Mr. Trump in the House. The debate that unfolded in Ms. Pelosi’s personal office took place only hours after she announced to the nation on Thursday that she had directed her lieutenants to draft articles of impeachment. Sitting around a large wooden table already decorated for Christmas, the visage of Abraham Lincoln staring down from a portrait on the wall, she and the senior Democrats hashed out their disagreement. Mr. Nadler, who had spent months trying to build an impeachment case from Mr. Mueller’s findings, argued that it was not enough just to charge Mr. Trump with abusing his power and obstructing Congress. We should go broader, he asserted, laying out a pattern of behavior by Mr. Trump. What message would it send if the House gave Mr. Trump a pass for such egregious misconduct? Three of Mr. Nadler’s fellow committee leaders in the room concurred: Eliot L. Engel of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Carolyn B. Maloney of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Maxine Waters of the Financial Services Committee. But Mr. Neal warned that if Democrats put forward anything but their strongest, most agreed-upon case, they risked repeating the mistakes Republicans made in 1998 when they proposed four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, only to see two defeated in votes that split their party. And Representative Adam B. Schiff, the influential Intelligence Committee chairman, said the facts his panel collected showing that Mr. Trump had solicited Ukraine’s assistance in his re-election campaign carried special urgency, and should not get bogged down by a months-old fight. The debate, described by lawmakers and aides familiar with its contours who insisted on anonymity, mirrored a larger argument running through the Democratic caucus in recent weeks as it became increasingly clear the House was destined to draw up formal charges against the 45th president. The final decision, agreed to by all six committee leaders, came down to this: The vast majority of Democrats agree that the allegations of wrongdoing toward Ukraine are overwhelming and pressing as well as a continuing threat to the nation. The same could not be said of attempts by Mr. Trump to interfere with Mr. Mueller’s work. People close to her said Ms. Pelosi always remained reluctant to move based on obstruction of justice. The case dealt with events in the past, failed to excite public opinion, and far from uniting her caucus, it made moderate freshman lawmakers who had delivered Democrats the majority deeply uncomfortable. “You make choices and people have different opinions and at the end you come up with a recommendation,” Mr. Engel said on Tuesday. “When you come to consensus it doesn’t mean that initially everybody had the same idea.” Even after Thursday’s meeting, though, some lawmakers and officials in favor of including an obstruction of justice article worked through the weekend to try to persuade their colleagues otherwise. The Judiciary Committee went as far as sketching out what a possible obstruction of justice charge might look like, according to one official familiar with its work. The idea had powerful proponents. Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 House Democrat, told McClatchy in an interview last week that obstruction of justice belonged in the articles. “Obstruction of justice, I think, is too clear not to include,” he said. Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, agreed. Some lawmakers floated the idea that obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress could be combined into a single article of impeachment claiming a broad-based pattern of conduct over more than two years. But that almost certainly would not have appealed to moderates. They did manage to incorporate at least one key aspect of their argument in the final articles. Even without mentioning obstruction of justice, Democratic leaders included a paragraph in each tightly scripted article alluding to a pattern of behavior. “These actions were consistent with President Trump’s previous efforts to undermine United States government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections,” they wrote in Article I. Mr. Mueller dedicated a full volume of his lengthy report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to Mr. Trump’s attempts to undercut his inquiry. It included nearly a dozen episodes of possible obstruction of justice. Among them were his dismissal of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, attempts to fire Mr. Mueller, efforts to pressure the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, not to recuse himself from the inquiry and then to reverse that decision and retake control of the inquiry, issuing a misleading statement about a meeting with Russians and potentially trying to influence witness testimony. But the report was far from clear cut. Mr. Mueller himself said he could not decide whether the conduct constituted illegal obstruction because of a Justice Department policy prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president. Attorney General William P. Barr showed no such reluctance, stepping in before the public ever saw Mr. Mueller’s report to clear the president of wrongdoing. Even House Democrats were not convinced; for months, less than half of the lawmakers in their ranks supported impeaching Mr. Trump. Mr. Rose was emblematic. He made himself freely available to reporters last week to remind them that he had not supported proceeding with an impeachment inquiry based on the Mueller report, but because he saw something more menacing in the Ukraine allegations. Another vulnerable moderate, Representative Elaine Luria, Democrat of Virginia, said on Tuesday that she would probably support the articles as introduced. She helped remove any last opposition to an impeachment inquiry in September when she and six other freshman Democrats with national security backgrounds published an op-ed in The Washington Post saying the accusations of Mr. Trump were a threat to national security. “I wanted to see that they would be narrow, that was my desire, so I am satisfied,” Ms. Luria told reporters. Privately, some progressives and members of the Judiciary Committee lamented that months of earlier work would go unused. Representative Lloyd Doggett, a liberal Democrat from Texas, conceded that as bad as Mr. Trump’s attempts to impede Mr. Mueller were, there was too much murkiness around the special counsel’s report to make it a clear case for impeachment. “Going back to pick that up would just give Republicans more talking points and excuses to delay,” he said. Mr. Barr’s pre-emptive statements clearing the president of any wrongdoing “set the stage for some confusion out there about what was in the Mueller report,” Mr. Doggett said. “I’m not sure we ever fully recovered.” The post Seeking Unity on Impeachment, Democrats Decided Against Mueller Charges appeared first on New York Times.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1127
__label__wiki	0.814801	0.814801	The Guy Credited With Starting the “Milkshaking” Trend Feels Kind of Weird About it Now As Powers Jostle for Influence in Libya, Europe Finally Pays Attention Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is retiring from the runway Home Lifestyle Food In mid-November, a 35-year-old Florida woman was sentenced to 15 days in prison for assaulting U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz at a campaign event in June. Amanda Kondrat’yev pleaded guilty to the charge, and admitted that yes, she did throw a red slushie at Gaetz as he left the Brew Ha Ha restaurant. Gaetz attended Kondrat’yev’s hearing, and gave a statement asking the judge to send her to prison for dousing his shirt sleeve with a frozen drink. “Only incarceration allows me to reinforce to my supporters and opponents alike that Free Speech is welcomed—but assault will not be tolerated,” he said. In addition to the 15-day stint in prison, Kondrat’yev will also have to serve one year of supervised probation and pay a $500 fine. Although Kondrat’yev’s weapon of choice was dairy-free, there’s a good chance that she was inspired by the efforts of Danyaal Mahmud, the 23-year-old British man who has been credited, for better or for worse, with starting the trend of “milkshaking” shitty politicians. In May, Mahmud was caught on camera as he covered far-right anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson with a milkshake. It was the second time that Robinson had been milkshaked that week, but the first milkshaking didn’t have the impact of Mahmud’s point-blank version. (At the time, Mahmud said the drink “slipped out of [his] hand.”) “At first I was like: wow, I’m actually standing in front of this guy,” Mahmud told The Guardian. “But then, after it sank in, when he started with his racist, abusive comments and threatening behavior, the rest obviously was all on the news—and all over Facebook and Instagram and social media … It was a massive thing.” The milkshaking was a massive thing too, as other politicians were either ‘shaked or so terrified of flying frozen beverages that they changed their plans. Brexit party leader Nigel Farage was hit with a banana and salted caramel milkshake and, several days later, when his team saw three men wearing balaclavas and carrying milkshakes, they led him back to his bus and made him stay there. “Eventually he did come off but he only stepped about a meter away and chatted to some supporters,” KentLive reported. “He got back on the bus very quickly. In all the other places he stopped off and walked down the high street.” Other milkshakings followed: A Trump supporter took one to the face while protesting a protest to the President’s visit to Britain. Far-right politicians in Ireland were doused. And fast food restaurants that were located near political rallies or campaign events were encouraged to temporarily suspend their milkshake sales. But as milkshaking became A Thing, Mahmud didn’t quite know how to respond—not to the phenomenon, and not to the attention it brought him. “I had people coming over to me, taking selfies wherever I went. I was getting thousands of messages, literally thousands. I’ve still not read through them all,” he said. Dessert bars was offering me to come over, saying: ‘Have a dessert on us and do promotions for us,’ and stuff like that. People were offering me limousines, car-hiring firms were saying: ‘Come hire a car from us for free.’” He told The Guardian that if he could do it all over again, he’s not sure he would’ve dumped that now-infamous milkshake all over Robinson. Back in the United States, Kondrat’yev’s prison sentence was scheduled to begin on December 2, which means that she has several more days to go. Her Twitter bio still reads “Matt Gaetz thinks cups are deadly weapons but guns are cool for school,” a statement that is punctuated with an eye-roll emoji… and a cup with a straw. The post The Guy Credited With Starting the “Milkshaking” Trend Feels Kind of Weird About it Now appeared first on VICE. US stocks close in on the biggest bull run ever Eminem Tries to Fight Gun Violence While Glorifying It World Economic Forum launches toolkit to help corporate boards build AI-first companies ‘Everybody who’s hit me is out’: Biden touts durability against 2020 Democratic rival attacks	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1128
__label__wiki	0.740189	0.740189	Hallmark Channel’s Straights-Only Advertising Decision Creates Blowback ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Won’t Be Delayed Again, Multiplayer Release Due After 2021, CD Projekt Says Elon Musk Has Outlined His Plan to Get 1 Million People to Mars on SpaceX Rockets Ken Starr Returns to the Impeachment Fray, This Time for the Defense Ken Starr Is On Trump’s Impeachment Defense Team And Monica Lewinsky Has Thoughts Everyone has Hallmark Channel on their mind this holiday season, but for all the wrong reasons. The network most known for its cheesily benign, low-budget romantic comedies is now getting attention for its obsolescent and damaging view toward marriage equality. Zola, the online wedding planner and registry, submitted six ads to Hallmark Channel to run during their peak season. Four of them featured a same-sex narrative, and were pulled after complaints from the backward and reality-denying group known as One Million Moms. The group stated on their website that after speaking with Crown Media CEO Bill Abbott they were able to “confirm the Hallmark Channel will continue to be a safe and family friendly network.” The group also implied that it was Abbott who called them after they launched their campaign. Zola withdrew the remaining two ads that did not feature stories about same-sex relationships. The “unsafe” 30 second commercial is embedded above. Hallmark Channel’s ludicrous capitulation to the One Million Moms (though has anyone counted yet?) drew the ire not just of individuals, but of other brands. Netflix tweeted shout-outs to two of its own properties involving lesbians and Christmas. https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1206012403126657024 Ellen DeGeneres seemed too deflated to come up with a joke, and merely asked the network (and Abbott) what they were thinking. https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/1206009735167672320 William Shatner and Monica Lewinsky also weighed in. https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/1206232626790449158 https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1206200175083040768 Finally, Saturday Night Live made sure to include a final zing in a game show-themed Hallmark Channel sketch starring Scarlett Johansson. As Aidy Bryant’s character Emily Cringle signs off she reminds us to “stay straight out there.” The post Hallmark Channel’s Straights-Only Advertising Decision Creates Blowback appeared first on Vanity Fair.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1129
__label__wiki	0.792941	0.792941	39 novels in translation on the 2019 longlist Media Release 19th November 2018 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award announced #DUBLITAWARD 39 novels in translation are among 141 titles nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Nominations include works by authors from 36 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, the US & Canada, South America and Australia & New Zealand. Organised by Dublin City Council, the 2019 Award was launched today [19th November] by Lord Mayor, Nial Ring, Patron of the Award, who commended the Award for its promotion of excellence in world literature as well as for the opportunity to promote Irish writing internationally. ‘Dublin is a UNESCO City of Literature and cultural tourism is a vital part of the City’s economy’ he said: ‘this prestigious Award enhances the City’s worldwide reputation as a literary destination’. Mike McCormack, on winning the 2018 prize in June commented: ‘It speaks something generous, eloquent and enquiring that Dublin City Council, for so many years have put their resources, their weight, all their expertise behind this prize, it has huge international standing, it has a unique reach and a unique generosity and long may it live, it’s one of the shining jewels in this country’s crown’. Among the 39 translated books are novels originally published in Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Korean, Māori, Serbian and Slovenian. Translated authors include Fredrik Backman, Jean Echenoz, Peter Stamm, Maria Duenas, Zoran Zivkovic and Han Yujoo. The 39 novels were translated from 15 languages in to English. 9 of the 23 previous winners of the award have been novels in translation. The author received €75,000 and the translator received €25,000. 2017: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn 2014: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from Spanish by Anne McLean 2010: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker translated from Dutch by David Colmer 2007: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson translated from Norwegian by Anne Born 2004: This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun translated from French by Linda Coverdale 2003: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk translated from Turkish by Erdag M. Göknar 2002: Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, translated from French by Frank Wynne 1998: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller , translated from German by Michael Hofmann 1997: A Heart So White by Javier Marías translated from Spanishby Margaret Jull Costa The International DUBLIN Literary Award is managed by Dublin City Council’s library service. Brendan Teeling, Acting Dublin City Librarian, announced that the 141 books eligible for the 2019 award were nominated by libraries in 115 cities and 41 countries worldwide; noting that 39 are titles in translation, spanning 16 languages and 48 are first novels. Speaking of the global interest in the Award, the City Librarian remarked ‘This great prize affirms Dublin’s commitment to international writers and translators, to literature and creativity. Through this award Dublin, a UNESCO City of Literature, brings the worldwide community of readers together to read the works of contemporary writers from all corners of the world’. Other novels nominated for the 2019 Award include Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, winner of the Man Booker Prize, In the Distance by Hernan Díaz, finalist of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser, winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award. The book that received most nominations this year is Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, chosen by 9 libraries in Barbados, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Spain and the USA. The 2019 Judging Panel comprises Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, bi-lingual Irish novelist and story writer; Martin Middeke, Professor of English at the University of Augsburg, Germany; Hans Christian Oeser, translator, editor and travel writer; Evie Wyld, novelist and bookseller, and Ge Yan, author and Ph.D candidate in Comparative Literature. The non-voting Chairperson is Eugene R. Sullivan. All of the novels nominated for the Award are available for readers to borrow from Dublin’s public libraries. The full list of 141 titles is available on www.dublinliteraryaward.ie. The shortlist will be published on 4th April 2019 and the Lord Mayor will announce the winner on 12th June 2019. The International DUBLIN Literary Award is a Dublin City Council initiative. The International DUBLIN Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English. Nominations are made by library systems in major cities throughout the world. Established in 1994 in partnership with the company IMPAC, the Award is now in its 24th year and is wholly funded by Dublin City Council. The Award aims to promote excellence in world literature. Designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2010, Dublin’s literary heritage is a significant driver of cultural tourism for the City. ‘I think this is a major prize, it’s such an interesting prize, because of the way it’s set up, because of the way the nominations come, because of the fact that it is funded by Dublin City Library Service, all of this marks it out as being very different. It’s not a corporate sponsor, it’s a different kind of prize based to honour reading, and I think that’s kind of extraordinary, it’s not about marketing, its not about anything else, it’s about honouring good writing and good reading and I think that is exemplary and I think the whole way the prize is set up is wonderful, the scope of it, the way it includes translation in the way that it does, the way it creates different contexts in which you can consider books. So if you’re reading the Man Booker, you’re reading in the context of books that are published in the UK and America, but if you’re reading for this prize, the Dublin Literary prize, you’re reading in the context of books that are published across the world, so I think it is extraordinary that way and I think the winner of this prize, that’s a major achievement.’ Vona Groarke, 2018 judging panel. Full list of novels in translation on the 2019 Longlist: ENGLISH TITLE AUTHOR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR Beartown Fredrik Backman Swedish Neil Smith The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao Martha Batalha Portuguese Eric M. B. Becker The 7th Function of Language Laurent Binet French Sam Taylor The Vineyard Maria Dueñas Spanish Nick Caistor & Lorenza García Special Envoy Jean Echenoz French Sam Taylor Compass Mathiaqs Énard French Charlotte Mandell Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck German Susan Bernofsky The Invented Part Rodrigo Fresán Spanish Will Vanderhyden Return to the Dark Valley Santiago Gamboa Spanish Howard Curtis A House in Norway Vigdis Hjorth Norwegian Charlotte Barslund Sleeps Standing Moetū Witi Ihimaera Maori Hemi Kelly You Should Have Left Daniel Kehlmann German Ross Benjamin Of Darkness Josefine Klougart Danish Martin Aitken The Harvest of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej Slovenian Rawley Grau Ferocity Nicola Lagioia Italian Antony Shugaar A Poison Apple Michel Laub Portuguese Daniel Hahn Escape From Sunset Grove Minna Lindgren Finnish Kristian London The End of Eddy Édouard Louis French Michael Lucey The History of Bees Maja Lunde Norwegian Diane Oatley The Temptation to be Happy Lorenzo Marone Italian Shaun Whiteside Like a Fading Shadow Antonio Muñoz Molina Spanish Camilo A. Ramirez The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Lars Mytting Norwegian Paul Russell Garrett Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Dorthe Nors Danish Misha Hoekstra Heretics Leonardo Padura Spanish Anna Kushner The Death of the Perfect Sentence Rein Raud Estonian Matthew Hyde To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann German Shaun Whiteside Adua Igiaba Scego Italian Jamie Richards Tench Inge Schilperoord Dutch David Colmer Fever Dream Samantha Schweblin Spanish Megan McDowell Kruso Lutz Seiler German Tess Lewis To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm German Michael Hofmann My Cat Yugoslavia Pajtim Statovci Finnish David Hackston Monte Carlo Peter Terrin Dutch David Doherty Naondel ; the Red Abbey Chronicles Maria Turtschaninoff Swedish A.A. Prime They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen Finnish Kristian London Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine French Jeffrey Zuckerman The Consequences Niña Weijers Dutch Hester Velmans The Impossible Fairytale Han Yujoo Korean Janet Hong The Image Interpreter Zoran Živković Serbian Randall A. Major Dublin City Council Media Relations Office T. (01) 222 2170, M. 087 740 0277 https://twitter.com/DubCityCouncil www.facebook.com/DublinCityCouncil Newer 40 American novels on the 2019 longist Older 18 British novels on the 2019 longlist	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1133
__label__cc	0.620647	0.379353	Earnings news gives stocks boost By Stan Choe and Matthew Craft AP Business Writers Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:01 PM NEW YORK Stronger corporate earnings and signs of a stronger job market lifted stocks Thursday. Software company Red Hat Inc., chip maker Micron Technology Inc. and Chef Boyardee maker ConAgra Foods Inc. all reported profits that beat expectations. Earnings growth has been strong across U.S. companies, which are benefiting from lower costs and higher revenue overseas. The government also said fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, evidence that layoffs are slowing. The average number of unemployment filings during the last four weeks has dropped to its lowest level since July 2008. Corporate earnings continue to be exceptionally strong, said Oliver Pursche, president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services. I think the markets continue to focus on the underlying recovery of the U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 84.54 points, or 0.7 percent, to close at 12,170.56. The Standard & Poors 500 index rose 12.12, or 0.9 percent, to 1,309.66. The Nasdaq composite index rose 38.12 points, or 1.4 percent, to 2,736.42. Investors turned their attention away from a long list of recent worries including high oil prices, violence in Libya and Japans nuclear crisis. Portugal also looked closer to needing bailout funds from the European Union. Portugals government resigned late Wednesday after lawmakers rejected a plan to cut the countrys debts. All three major indexes have gained more than 2 percent this week as Japan appeared to make progress on getting a leaking nuclear plant under control. Among active stocks, Red Hat Inc. jumped 18 percent to $47.26, and Micron Technology Inc. rose 8 percent to $11.50 on their earnings results. ConAgra Foods Inc. rose 2 percent to $23.40. Scholastic Corp., a publisher of childrens books, fell 11 percent to $27.74. Weaker sales pushed it to a wider loss last quarter. The company also cut its forecast for full-year earnings, citing tighter budgets for schools. Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry mobile devices, sank 10 percent in after-hours trading after issuing a forecast for earnings in the current quarter that was well below what analysts were expecting. Two shares rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated trading volume was 3.9 billion shares. Recent Business Labor Dept. rule clarifies ‘joint employer’ standard Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs Chosen to Participate in 2020 Rural Innovation Initiative New executive director announced at La Plata County Economic Development Alliance	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1135
__label__wiki	0.601939	0.601939	Datadog runs twice monthly code reviews and office hours to assist community members who are contributing to Datadog open source projects. Office hours will be held in #integrations in the Datadog Community Slack (get an invitation), in conjunction with a Zoom videoconference. 2nd Wednesday of each month at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (New York). 4th Wednesday of each month at 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York). Guidelines and Caveats Review and feedback during office hours is offered on a first come, first served basis. We may not get to every review each week. We appreciate your patience and understanding. We welcome everyone from the community to join us and provide respectful and constructive feedback to their fellow members of the Datadog community. These sessions are not intended as a channel for general Datadog support. We are primarily focused on discussing and reviewing datadog-agent integrations, and contributions to other Datadog open source projects. For product support we encourage you to reach out to our support team directly. Sometimes a given PR may be complex and require further offline review before we can provide feedback. List of open source projects Discover the full list of Datadog open-source projects at GitHub.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1139
__label__cc	0.509954	0.490046	Dorothea Coffee is a micro-roastery in Seattle dedicated to roasting good coffee. We strive to build strong relationships with our partners and patrons. We proudly source beans from a select few importers that reliably bring in the best coffees the world has to offer, seek out under-appreciated producers and build relationships that strengthen with every season. Dorothea’s name comes from the city Dorothea in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: “. . . but now I know this path is only one of the many that opened before me on that morning in Dorothea.” Chophouse Row in Seattle's Capitol Hill (Amandine Bakeshop & Marmite) Convoy Coffee's spot in Seattle's Pioneer Square or on their carts at farmer's markets around town. Little Lago in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood Juicebox Cafe in Seattle's Capitol Hill Goodkind Coffee in Lakewood, OH Elbe Junction in Elbe, WA (great stop on the way to Mt. Rainier!) Conor Mahoney Conor started making coffee at 16 in a grocery store deli before moving into the specialty coffee realm at Stickman Coffee and then Zoka Coffee and then a long detour at Theo Chocolate. Ashley Sirls Ashley is the steady hand that keeps Dorothea focused. Foremost an educator and doula, she is intently focused on Dorothea’s place in the community: a space where neighbors come together and strong relationships are built. http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2016/09/small-coffee-is-the-best-coffee-tiny-dorothea-goes-full-time-in-the-central-district/ https://www.zagat.com/b/seattle/seattles-hottest-coffee-shops http://seattle.eater.com/2016/5/6/11609672/seattle-restaurant-recommendations-may-2016 conor@dorotheacoffee.com ashley@dorotheacoffee.com Copyright © 2020, Dorothea Coffee. Powered by Shopify	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1141
__label__cc	0.564751	0.435249	Dottie Rambo & The Rambos Name of Album: Collection, Vol 2 Highlighting The Songs Of Dottie Rambo Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing Dottie Rambo 3:00 Sheltered In The Arms Of God Dottie Rambo & Jimmie Davis 3:17 * SEE NOTE Lyrics Link At DottieRambo.net Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome Wiords By Dottie Rambo Music By Dottie Rambo & David Huntsinger 3:57 Queen Of Paradise Dottie Rambo 2:28 Remind Me Dear Lord Dottie Rambo 2:45 Tears Will Never Stain The Streets Of That City Dottie Rambo 4:08 Perfect Rose, The Dottie Rambo & Dony McGuire 5:45 I Will Glory In The Cross Dottie Rambo 4:20 When I Lift Up My Head Dottie Rambo 2:34 I Go To The Rock Dottie Rambo 3:44 Unseen Hand A J Sims 4:34 Behold The Lamb Dottie Rambo 4:27 Build My Mansion (Next Door To Jesus) Dottie Rambo 3:18 * Sheltered In The Arms Of God was written as Dottie Rambo walked along a Florida beach after a storm. Jimmie Davis received a writer’s credit for publishing many early Dottie Rambo songs which gave Dottie her first big break in the music business. Dottie Rambo and Jimmie Davis (the writer of the classic song You Are My Sunshine), were friends until Jimmie Davis’ death at age 102. **** Singing News Fan Award for Song Of The Year in 1970.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1143
__label__wiki	0.674064	0.674064	Eskimos Game Day Send Letter to the Editor Sex Files Alberta Travel Sunshine Girls Today’s Sunshine Girl Become a Sunshine Girl Edmonton Motorshow Homes Sections Western Sentinel On Canoe.com Promising road trip helps bring Oilers back to life Robert TychkowskiMore from Robert Tychkowski Updated: December 13, 2017 6:20 AM MST Edmonton Sun Leafs need a win before break Perreault walks back comments threatening violence over cheap shots Still a need for muscle in today's fast-paced NHL COLUMBUS — It’s tempting to suggest the Edmonton Oilers turned in a strong rebound game Tuesday after that crushing 1-0 loss in Toronto Sunday, but they totally disagree. They say there was nothing to rebound from. “We didn’t get the result we wanted but it was maybe the best game of the trip, to be honest,” Oilers centre Mark Letestu said of a 41-shot assault in the Air Canada Centre that absolutely would have gone their way if life was fair. “We just have to stick with it now.” Calling it the best game of the trip is saying something, given Edmonton laid down some pretty impressive bookends on that Leafs robbery, opening the three-gamer with a 6-2 win in Montreal and closing it with a 7-2 decision in Columbus. But however you want categorize things, know this: The Oilers are coming to life. “Three solid games in a row now, we can definitely feel good about that,” said Connor McDavid, who had six points on the trip, including a four-point night against the Blue Jackets that was almost lost in the fireworks. “We just played a solid game, consistent, up and down the linuep. We were able to roll four lines and special teams got it going.” Head coach Todd McLellan was worried his team might have been gutted by what happened in Toronto, that it might have sucked the fight out of them. Instead, they turned in a complete and dominating performance against one of the better teams in the NHL. “I was concerned because we didn’t get the reward in Toronto and sometimes a team that hasn’t won enough can sag,” said McLellan. “But we responded emotionally and were prepared to play.” This is the best stretch they’ve had all season, having won six of their last 10, knowing it could have been 8-2 if not for a pair of freakish losses to Toronto. It might not sound like much, but after the way they started the season, it means a lot to the Oilers. “You hope it confirms that they’re turning a corner and putting some things together,” said McLellan. “Stringing good games together has been a goal of ours for a while and I think we did that on the trip. “It’s coming together a little bit more for us offensively; the power play (four goals) woke up on this trip. Lines seem to be clicking a little more. We’re prepared to shoot and grind it out where at times before we were getting cute. “Maybe it’s just our time right now. You go through dry spells and sometimes you score a lot. We’re finding the net.” Whatever is happening, it is happening just in the nick of time. Had things gone the other way on this trip, the Oilers might have been done. Now, they’re telling themselves that if this is for real, and they can keep playing like this, 51 games is plenty of time to undo the damage. “We’ve had streaks where we’ve been all right, we need to see it more, string four or five or six together,” said McDavid. “We don’t have many games to give away anymore.” Keep playing like this, said Letestu, and they won’t be giving away anything. “We’re finding ourselves,” he said. “Earlier in the year, we didn’t have a lot throughout the lineup but now we’re deep. Special teams has come around the last little bit here. The penalty kill is providing some goals and the power play is getting it going. I think we’re just finding ourselves.” Interesting to note that the 13 goals on the trip came from 11 different scorers. To Letestu, that might be the most important sign of all. “Last year, we had that throughout the lineup, a lot of different points from different places,” he said. “It’s starting to come around again. And we knew it was going to happen. “Things tend to revert to the mean at some some point and now we’re getting the secondary scoring that we needed.” Follow me on twitter.com/rob_tychkowski rtychkowski@postmedia.com 12:00 PM PT1:00 PM MT2:00 PM CT3:00 PM ET20:00 GMT4:00 1:00 PM MST2:00 PM CST3:00 PM EST0:00 UAE (+1)15:00 ET18:00 BRT FSAZ+/RSN1 Arizona (26-18-5) Edmonton (25-18-5) Caleb Jones excited to know Edmonton Oilers believe in him Smith beats Rinne in a strong Oilers home win over Predators Man who pleaded guilty in deadly crash fires second lawyer, seeks to withdraw plea B.C. NDP out of tools to stop Trans Mountain pipeline expansion GUNTER: Life doesn't stop when it gets cold outside Edmonton weather: Is it over yet? Passenger plane’s front tire burst while landing at Edmonton airport: TSB report Connect with Edmonton Sun	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1151
__label__wiki	0.525684	0.525684	ESCAPE-NET European Sudden Cardiac Arrest network towards Prevention, Education, New Effective Treatment. BC Platforms Catalyze Helmholtz Zentrum IMIM Istituto Auxologico Istituto “Mario Negri” PANAXEA BV Universita Pavia Stichting VUMC Univ. Paris Descartes EMS Hradec Kralove Press Releases & Publications Mission & Aims The Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” (IRFMN) is a not-for-profit biomedical research organization. It was founded in 1961 and started work in Milan, Italy, in 1963. There are now research units in Bergamo and near Chieti, Italy. The Institute‘s research programs span from the molecular level to the whole human being, and the findings help build up the basis for developing new therapeutic approaches and drugs, and making existing ones more effective. The main research themes are the battle against cardiovascular diseases, cancer, nervous and mental illnesses, kidney and rare diseases and the toxic effects of environmental contaminants, mother and child‘s health. The Laboratory of Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology is within the Department of Cardiovascular Research at IRFMN. The areas of interest of the Department of Cardiovascular Research include the experimental, clinical, genetic, epidemiological aspects of cardiovascular diseases (acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes) as well as the clinical and epidemiological investigation of cardiovascular prevention, hypertension and stroke. The activity in clinical research includes the clinical assessment of therapeutic strategies and of phenotypic and genetic biomarkers of cardiovascular risk with large scale clinical trials in the field of acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and atrial fibrillation and the genetic epidemiology of myocardial infarction and heart failure. The Department of Cardiovascular research of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research has a recognized expertise in several fields: design, management, coordination and monitoring of large-scale, national and international, phases II and III, randomized clinical trials (i.e. GISSI trials); design and coordination of biological substudies and biobanking facilities in large-scale clinical studies; clinical evaluation of genotypic and phenotypic biomarkers; statistical expertise in the planning and analysis of clinical trials, genetics of association studies, and biomarkers; design and management of experimental studies in small and large animals in the field of myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest. www.marionegri.it/en_US/home Ristagno G, Mauri T, Cesana G, Li Y, Finzi A, Fumagalli F, Rossi G, Grieco N, Migliori M, Andreassi A, Latini R, Fornari C, Pesenti A; Azienda Regionale Emergenza Urgenza (AREU) Research Group. Amplitude Spectrum Area to Guide Defibrillation: A Validation on 1617 Ventricular Fibrillation Patients. Circulation 2015;131(5):478-87 Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25466976 Summary: This study sought to validate the ability of amplitude spectrum area (AMSA) to predict defibrillation success and long-term survival in a large population of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. ECGs recorded by automated external defibrillators from different manufacturers were obtained from patients with cardiac arrests occurring in 8 city areas. A database, including 2447 defibrillations from 1050 patients, was used as the derivation group, and an additional database, including 1381 defibrillations from 567 patients, served as validation. A 2-second ECG window before defibrillation was analyzed, and AMSA was calculated. Among the 2447 defibrillations of the derivation database, 26.2% were successful. AMSA was significantly higher before a successful defibrillation than a failing one (13 ± 5 versus 6.8 ± 3.5 mV-Hz) and was an independent predictor of defibrillation success (odds ratio, 1.33; 95% confidence interval, 1.20-1.37) and sustained return of spontaneous circulation (odds ratio, 1.22; 95% confidence interval, 1.17-1.26). Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for defibrillation success prediction was 0.86 (95% confidence interval, 0.85-0.88). AMSA was also significantly associated with long-term survival. The following AMSA thresholds were identified: 15.5 mV-Hz for defibrillation success and 6.5 mV-Hz for defibrillation failure. In the validation database, AMSA ≥ 15.5 mV-Hz had a positive predictive value of 84%, whereas AMSA ≤ 6.5 mV-Hz had a negative predictive value of 98%. In this large derivation-validation study, AMSA was validated as an accurate predictor of defibrillation success. AMSA also appeared as a predictor of long-term survival. Ristagno G, Latini R, Vaahersalo J, Masson S, Kurola J, Varpula T, Lucchetti J, Fracasso C, Guiso G, Montanelli A, Barlera S, Gobbi M, Tiainen M, Pettilä V, Skrifvars MB; FINNRESUSCI Investigators. Early Activation of the Kynurenine Pathway Predicts Early Death and Long-term Outcome in Patients Resuscitated From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Aug 4;3(4). pii: e001094 Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25092787 Summary: The kynurenine pathway (KP) is the major route of tryptophan (TRP) catabolism and is activated by inflammation and after cardiac arrest in animals. We hypothesized that the KP activation level correlates with severity of post-cardiac arrest shock, early death, and long-term outcome. Plasma was obtained from 245 patients enrolled in a prospective multicenter observational study in 21 intensive care units in Finland. Time to return of spontaneous circulation, lowest systolic arterial pressure, and bicarbonate during the first 24 hours were collected. A cerebral performance category of 3 to 5 defined 12-month poor outcome. Plasma TRP and KP metabolites, kynurenine (KYN), kynurenic acid, 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid, and the ratio of KYN to TRP were measured by liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. All KP metabolites at intensive care unit admission were significantly higher in cardiac arrest patients with a nonshockable rhythm compared to those with a shockable rhythm, and kynurenic acid and 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid correlated with time to return of spontaneous circulation. Patients with higher levels of KYN, KYN to TRP, kynurenic acid, and 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid had lower 24-hour systolic arterial pressure and bicarbonate. All KP metabolites and the ratio of KYN to TRP, but not TRP, were significantly higher in patients who died in the intensive care unit in comparison to those who survived. Multivariable logistic regression showed that high kynurenic acid (odds ratio: 1.004; 95% confidence interval: 1.001 to 1.008; P=0.014), and 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (odds ratio: 1.011; 95% confidence interval: 1.001 to 1.022; P=0.03) were independently associated with 12-month poor outcome and significantly improved risk reclassification. Ristagno G, Li Y, Fumagalli F, Finzi A, Quan W. Amplitude spectrum area to guide resuscitation – A retrospective analysis during out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation in 609 patients with ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2013; 84(12):1697-703 Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24005007 Summary: The capability of amplitude spectrum area (AMSA) to predict the success of defibrillation (DF) was retrospectively evaluated in a large database of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Electrocardiographic data, including 1260 DFs, were obtained from 609 cardiac arrest patients due to ventricular fibrillation. AMSA sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) for predicting DF success were calculated, together with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. In 303 patients with chest compression (CC) depth data collected with an accelerometer, changes in AMSA were analyzed in relationship to CC depth. AMSA was significantly higher prior to a successful DF than prior to an unsuccessful DF (15.6±0.6 vs. 7.97±0.2mV-Hz, p<0.0001). Intersection of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy curves identified a threshold AMSA of 10mV-Hz to predict DF success with a balanced sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of almost 80%. Higher AMSA thresholds were associated with further increases in accuracy, specificity and PPV. AMSA of 17mV-Hz predicted DF success in two third of instances (PPV of 67%). Low AMSA, instead, predicted unsuccessful DFs with high sensitivity and NPV >97%. Area under the ROC curve was 0.84. CC depth affected AMSA value. When depth was <1.75in., AMSA decreased for consecutive DFs, while it increased when the depth was >1.75in. (p<0.05). ESCAPE-NET Important Dates 21 – 22 January 2020 – ESCAPE-NET Consortium Meeting, Amsterdam 29-31 March 2020 – EHRA, Vienna 25-27 May 2020 – EMS, Glasgow 29 August – 2 September 2020 – ESC Congress, Amsterdam 22 – 24 October 2020 – ERC Congress, Manchester 14-16 November 2020 – AHA, Dallas Tweets by ESCAPE_NET ESCAPE-NET is funded by: ESCAPE-NET is a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 733381	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1152
__label__wiki	0.650227	0.650227	Hyde says the Bills now know how to contain Lamar Jackson Bills Breaking News The Bills are now 9-4 following their loss to the Baltimore Ravens, who many consider to be the best team in the NFL. The Buffalo defense played tremendous against Baltimore's #1 ranked offense. Furthering the talk about the Bills being one of the best defenses in football. Bills safety Micah Hyde, who's obviously apart of that defense, joins Schopp & the Bulldog as part of Buffalo Bills Football Monday, every Monday at four o'clock. Here's some of Micah's thoughts during his visit with the guys. On preparing for the Ravens: "I probably watched more film leading up to this game than any ever. The good thing is we limited Lamar on big plays. We limited him to a few 7-yd runs, but not much more. They keep it simple for Jackson." On Cole Beasley drawing pass interference on the final drive: "If I was a DB, I'd for sure say something. Going against Gronk a few times, he's a push-off guy. One time in NE it got called, Brady was yelling, I was like 'c'mon guys this is ridiculous'... The good WRs in the league know how to draw pass interference. They'll draw you in & wrap their hands around to make it look like they're going for the ball." On Baltimore blitzing Josh Allen all day: "It makes it tougher on corners, but it also makes it easier because you know the ball is coming out right away... They were comfortable with the matchups. That's why you saw them do that." On playing Pittsburgh on Sunday Night Football: "Anytime you get into a primetime slot, that means you're doing well. Huge game for us & them... December football. Sunday night. That's what you dream about. We had the same situation vs. DEN, a guy that didn't have too many starts. They've been winning, have to give (Develin Hodges) credit for that." You can listen to the full segment with Micah Hyde below. Locker Room Newsletter Signup By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1154
__label__cc	0.745209	0.254791	The End of EleCtions and Dictatorship and the Beginning of Free and Fair Elections and Democracy in Ethiopia (Part I) [Zehabesha - Ethiopia] - 13/01/2020 Reading Time: 11 minutes By Alemayehu G. Mariam Author’s Note: As the 2020 Ethiopian general election looms, I am filled with hope and expectation that Ethiopia for the first time in its millennia-long history... The post The End of EleCtions and Dictatorship and the Beginning of Free and Fair (...) ... Article published by "Zehabesha" (Ethiopia), read the rest of the news Final round of Nile dam talks conclude with no agreement Reading Time: 2 minutes BY ELIAS MESERET, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The fourth and final round of (...) President Trump’s case should go to the Nobel Prize Committee, not to Ethiopia. – PM Abiy Ahmed Reading Time: < 1 minute President Trump’s case should go to the Nobel Prize Committee, not to Ethiopia. – PM (...) Feature: Addressing Ethiopians in Lebanon a Foreign Ministry official threatens to sue Addis Standard “Addis Standard lies, steals your money, collaborates with Egypt!”, Ambassador Shamebo Fitamo, Foreign Ministry (...) Ethiopia’s Armino retains Xiamen Marathon title Ethiopia’s Medina Deme Armino waited patiently until the last 500 metres to launched her powerful charge, (...) [Ethiosports] - 5/01/2020 President Essaias and Eritreans sanguinity Reading Time: 5 minutes By yilma gebru In the first place, peace is something president Essaias hates. Look, this (...)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1155
__label__cc	0.658854	0.341146	Ensayo y Crítica, Estados Unidos Luis Moreno Caballud reviews Jeff Lawrence’s ‘Anxieties of Experience’ (USA/Latin America) Jeffrey T. Lawrence. Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Withman to Bolaño. Oxford University Press, 2018. [Editor’s note: This text was presented at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, on March 2018] There is a moment in Jeff Lawrence’s book Anxieties of Experience in which Hemingway, maximum exponent of the figure of the “experienced writer”, exposes in a letter to Ezra Pound his first steps in the art of bullfighting. Interestingly, Hemingway offers a series of numbers to account for this experience: “I appeared in the bull ring on 5 different mornings –was cogida 3 times- accomplished 4 veronicas in good form and 1 natural with the muleta” (133). As Lawrence says, Hemingway is doing this in order to gain his right to write about bullfighting, because, of course, he believes that you have to experience first what you write about. But why the numbers? One could ask: how much is enough? How many times does Hemingway have to be hurt by the bulls in order to be a legitimate bullfighting writer? Should he even kill some bulls himself? How many? In the paradigm of experience, enumerations abound. Famously, in Whitman. Lawrence quotes Dos Passos saying about the novelist that he seeks to “register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer all the wantads, take up the jobs, live in the boardinghouse, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough” (129). Many pages and years later, when discussing the novel Leaving the Atocha Station (2010), Lawrence encounters a particularly problematic version of this thirst for always more experience. Some friends of the main character made a trip to Mexico to “acquire experience” and witnessed the accidental death of a young Mexican girl. “Jane, an aspiring writer, ‘seemed excited’ by the tragedy because it certified that she ‘had had a real experience’” (77). How many experiences are necessary for a life to be worth of narration? How many people or animals have to get hurt or die for a life to be worth? And then, is it that different in the paradigm of the writer-reader? Why this voracity of the voracious reader? How many books are enough to demonstrate that life is never that interesting? Borges is not satisfied with pointing out that Whitman didn’t really experience everything he wrote; as Lawrence explains, he needs to falsely pretend that Whitman never had any experience worth writing about. Adam, the main character of Leaving the Atocha Station “hates new experience”, and doesn’t bother learning Spanish language or about Spanish culture when he travels to Spain. In parallel, Ben Lerner, the author of this novel, fails to “deliver on its implicit promise to give us some insight into the Atocha bombings themselves” (Lawrence, 231). In this, he reminds us of the Kenneth Goldsmith who choses to put Salvador Allende’s last words in his mouth in a performance, while at the same time unapologetically displaying his ignorance of Spanish language and Latin American culture. They seem to be reading the lives (and deaths) of others almost as a way of showing that is not even possible to try to approach their experiences. In Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos the narrator reads everything, but avoids making of this reading an experience, because she could then be assimilated with the fashionable market phenomenon of Bolaño. So, on the one hand we have a necessity for always more experience -and more “real”-, and on the other hand we have skepticism towards the possibility of any experience being valuable, being worth living or even being worth trying to understand. Are these not too sides of the same coin? I will now go ahead and add the type of categorical statement that doesn’t have any place in Jeff Lawrence’s nuanced and rigorous book: I believe that what causes the anxieties of experience that the book describes is the profound contempt of life at the core of Western civilization. For a life to be of value, in the modern version of this paradigm, it has to enrich itself with experiences (before modernity the achievement of value was through religious virtue). Life is thus the work of transforming life into something worth, through the consumption of experiences. Life in modern Western capitalist and colonial patriarchy is work and consumption. But the paradox is that, since the point of departure is a profound nihilism, a profound contempt for life in its materiality and vulnerability, no experience -or reading of experience- will ever be enough to give value to life, for this type of subjectivity. This way of life, our freedom to choose what we want in the supermarket of experiences and narrations in order to always insufficiently attempt to give value to our lives, is our prison, our Prisión perpetua. Hence the anxieties. In the extreme neoliberal version of this, everything is instrumentalized, and life becomes constant calculation and competition. But there are ways of escaping this prison. Literature, sometimes, can be a way of changing our way of inhabiting language and the world. It breaks the slavery of work and consumption, it breaks with nihilism, and it happily recreates life in playful, creative ways. Yes, I think it’s that simple. And literature can do this both from the paradigm of the writer-experiencer and from that of the writer-reader, as well as from the synthesis of both. That is why these paradigms are ambiguous, as Lawrence shows beautifully. Hemingway can often appear to be the grossest epitome of the colonizing existential tourist macho. But at other times, his monotonous insistence on experiencing things first hand, can be a deterrent to other, worse, illusions –as when against Dos Passos’ dismissal of the Spanish Republic for being “communist”, he simply insists that “the thing is that you don’t find out the truth in ten days or three weeks and this hasn’t been a communist run war for a long time” (152). Borges, on the other hand, exaggerates his dismissal of lived experience, stays in his comfortable skepticism, and tends to close the doors of the library, but at the same time, by putting so much faith in our ability to read, he unleashes an immense capacity of resistance against the powers of normalization and codification that want to monopolize reality. The defense of experience can sometimes bring the patience and openness that makes the world appear in its immanent abundance. The defense of reading can be sometimes a desire of resisting authoritarian control over that abundance. Jeff Lawrence ends his book with a reflection on the politicization of some writers in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008 and the rebellions of 2011. If these politicizations, or the ones we encounter in the literature of Bolaño, or in that of our beloved Piglia, become so many other experiences ready for consumption, we are doomed, I think. There is no politicization just by choosing political themes or motives. Politicization today can only mean transforming our way of life, getting rid of our deep nihilism and our existential consumerism. How do we do this? No idea. But I know that Jeff Lawrence’s Anxieties of Experience beautifully fuels the desire for another way of experiencing and reading, for another way of inhabiting the world. Thanks, Jeff, for this. Luis Moreno-Caballud (Spain) is the author of the novel Temblor de un día and the study Cultures of anyone: Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis (UK: Liverpool, 2015) recently published in Spanish as Culturas de cualquiera: Estudios sobre democratización cultural en la crisis del neoliberalismo español (España: Acuarela, 2017). He lives in NYC and is an associate professor of Romance Languages at UPenn. 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__label__cc	0.731262	0.268738	Early Rotten Tomatoes Rating Revealed For Aquaman By Damian Seeto Aquaman's review embargo has lifted and now we will know how good the movie is. From the looks of things, Aquaman is getting much better reviews than most other DCEU movies. While the movie is not getting universal praise like Wonder Woman, the reviews so far have generally be positive. The reception is better than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and Justice League. Anyway the early Rotten Tomatoes rating for Aquaman shows that the movie has a score of 77% so far. 37 reviews are positive while only 11 of them have been negative. The average score given to the movie is 6.2/10 meaning you are looking at a lot of 3 star reviews. You can read the Critics Consensus posted down below. "Aquaman swims with its entertainingly ludicrous tide, offering up CGI superhero spectacle that delivers energetic action with an emphasis on good old-fashioned fun." Bear in mind this is just an early version of the Rotten Tomatoes rating. Aquaman could swing up or down when more people have a chance to review the film in the coming days. Aquaman doesn't come out until December 21st, 2018 so we will have to wait a few more days to see what the general audience thinks of the movie. We saw the movie and liked it. A review for it will be posted later this week. You can read the synopsis for the movie below if you are unfamiliar with Aquaman. "From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an acition-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be… a king." Wanna read more on this? Check these out: Rotten Tomatoes Rating Revealed For Pokemon Detective Pikachu (more); Aquaman Blu-ray And DVD Release Dates Revealed (more); Hot Toys Reveals Brand New Aquaman Figurine (more); Box Office: Aquaman Makes A Huge Splash Over In China (more). And here are some more related articles: Aquaman Already Opens Decently In China (more); Box Office Tracking Revealed For The Aquaman Movie (more); First Reactions For The Aquaman Movie Sound Really Positive (more). A few more: The Final Trailer Released For DC's Aquaman (more); Early Aquaman Reactions Point Out It Will Be An Enjoyable Movie (more).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1168
__label__wiki	0.678234	0.678234	14.01.2020 15:42 News >> UN Urges Libyan Rivals To Abide By Cease-Fire UN Urges Libyan Rivals To Abide By Cease-Fire Cease fire took effect at midnight local time Sunday. By Mahmoud Barakat The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Tuesday called on warring sides in the country to continue to abide by the cease-fire announced recently. "For the sake of civilians in Tripoli, hundreds of thousands who have fled their homes and 116,000 children unable to attend their classrooms, the United Nations urges the parties to continue to abide by the declared ceasefire," UNSMIL said on Twitter. Renegade commander Khalifa Haftar and Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the UN-recognized government, accepted a joint call by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a cease-fire late Saturday. The cease-fire took effect at midnight local time (2200GMT) on Sunday, and the decision was celebrated with fireworks in Tripoli. UNSMIL urged the warring sides "to give ongoing diplomatic efforts an opportunity to reach a permanent cessation of military operations and a return to the political process". On Tuesday, Haftar left Russia without signing a cease-fire deal with al-Sarraj, amid reports of amassing his forces to resume attacks on Tripoli. In April, Haftar launched an offensive to capture Tripoli from the UN-recognized government. According to the UN, more than 1,000 people have been killed since the start of the operation and more than 5,000 others injured. Since the ouster of late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, two seats of power have emerged in Libya: one in eastern Libya supported mainly by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates and the other in Tripoli, which enjoys UN and international recognition. - Canada To Give $25,000 To 57 Families Of Plane Victims -24 minutes ago... US Sanctioning Iranian IRGC Brigadier General -24 minutes ago... Mexico Offers 4,000 Jobs To Migrant Caravan -24 minutes ago... Management Board Of Turkey's Rating Agency Announced -24 minutes ago... UN: 2.5% Global Economic Growth Best Scenario For 2020 Borsa Istanbul Up At Friday's Open Mali: 15 Civilians Killed In Fulani Village UN Reports On Brutality Of Syrian War On Children Body Of Missing Man Found In Southern Turkey Turkey's Borsa Istanbul Up At Opening Session Media Body Decries Egypt's Raid On Anadolu Agency Colombia: Ex-FARC Leader Thanks Police For Saving Life	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1170
__label__cc	0.699838	0.300162	Dinner Party Chapter One May 31, 2010 July 24, 2014 / dougstuber / Leave a comment Monica Corcoran, Jerry Garcia, Bob Marley and Katherine B. were sitting next to James Rodgers, Jack, J.R.R. Tolkien and Ashley Martin at a dinner party. They had been invited by Corcoran, to sit in a ganohses (longhouse) halfway down the east side of Canandaigua Lake. The year was 1622. Blue Lake stories pervaded as Virginia Woolf walked in with a subdued Nostradamus, Catherine the Great and Wassily Kandinsky. Tad Stuber and “Stephanie” lounged in with Jessica, Jeanne Larsen and Duane Allman. The pow-wow was set to see who could do the most to stop Europeans from coming across the ganyodeowaneh. Or, at least insert the native culture deep within the collective psyche of the oncoming tribes of explorers. News of men from the ocean arrived before this party. Scouts on the eastern edge of the Haudenosaunee nations had already heard of the Puritans landing in a place they named Plymouth. Corcoran was amazed that no natives were around to greet them. She decided to explain a little more about her intentions for the dinner party. “I can’t believe this party is happening, but you should listen up. My friend and I decided to have this party in order to help the natives fend off the Europeans. We’re here to save this place for them,” she said. A few invitees started to grumble. James, Ashley and Tad in particular were anxious about their surroundings. “I was just sitting around my dorm room one day when this crazy bass player asked if we had ever played the game ‘dinner party’ before. I told him I never heard of it. Anyway, the game is simple: we invited some of our favorite people here so we could get to know them. The thing is, we got to invite anyone from history that we wanted to.” “So why on earth did you invite me?” Stephanie asked. “I don’t know. I thought you were one of his better choices actually,” Corcoran responded. “Well, at least we came with the stuff we had on us. I think the whole thing is bullshit. I’m going outside to play, anyone interested,” Jack said as he waived a lemon-sized sack of bean-bag beans in the air. A few followed him our the door. Jack rested the hacky-sack on his forehead then started a round with Jessica, Katherine B., Kandinsky and Allman. Amidst errant volleys, Jack suggested a conspiracy. “Pirates, only equipped with cigarette boats and huge chains. Just turn them away.” “A peaceful thought but it won’t work,” Katherine B. interjected. “Maybe a war would keep them away,” Tad said. “We could borrow some toys from the Pentagon and keep this place safe forever.” “Unless you’re better at time jumping than I am, I don’t think that will work out,” Allman said. “Who are you anyway?” “Tad’s the name, and I say that the only way to conserve this space is to bomb the heck out of the invaders. The technology will blow them back into the dark ages.” Bob Marley overhears from behind a birch branch in the house. He’s unimpressed. “Look, it’s not the people, it’s the greed, and the technology itself that stink!” “We need to make sure the continent remains agrarian,” Martin said, peering over smashed beans and corn meal. (Not knowing Martin, the author assumes she knows what she’s talking about. But she said it, so that’s that.) The ganohses they have landed in is one set up for special meetings. Highly decorated mats make sitting on the ground a little more comfortable for the 20th century visitors. Nostradamus sat in a corner meditating. No mat needed. Now Duane Allman was not a good hacky player. The poor boy tried, and after being teased by Kandinsky, quit. Wassily quit too, opting to take Stephanie and Jessica behind the bushes for an artist/model strategy session. Because he was so used to painting abstracts, Kandinsky had to remember how to instruct the Russian methods of posing before teaching it. He hadn’t used a model in years, but their figures were compelling. He only had a few colors and two canvasses, so he knew each stroke would have to count. The session didn’t last long. Catherine the Great, now free to ponder the fate of America, suggested: “A new poverty. That’s what this continent needs. Mindless serfs with pure loyalty to our ideals. The natural resources should only be in the hands of those who know how to use them.” “How obvious,” Marley quipped. “There has to be a way to get to the heart of the problem. We need to meet with these people and get them motivated as soon as possible,” C. the G. suggests. “Motivated to do what?” Woolf asked. “To fight to save their homeland!” “It doesn’t matter what they do. The enslaving tactics of the Europeans will either wipe them out, or use them like they used the Africans. I don’t think our little band of do-gooders is going to be able to win a war against all of Europe,” Marley said. Tad, overhearing all this added: “Look, around here I think it was the French who came in first. We wouldn’t have to hold off all of Europe.” Marley, not wanting to stay involved in war talk, meandered over to Allman. He recognized Duane from the album cover of “Live at Fillmore East”. It was one of the albums Marley cherished. “Aren’t you Duane Allman?” “Sure am.” “What do you think about all of this?” “I can’t believe I’m in the middle of some ancient times. Why did I show up with my motorcycle and electric guitar, when they are useless?” “Don’t know, but I’d trade ten cups of this tea for just one cup of coffee,” Marley said, trying to tip off his identity. “‘One Cup of Coffee,’ wasn’t that an obscure Bob Marley side from the early sixties?” “Guess so. Who do you think you’re talking to?” “Oh my God! I’m sorry man, I didn’t recognize you. Your hair should have given it away,” Allman said. “This is great, we can have a serious jam.” “I saw a teenager with a guitar walking around too,” Allman said. “He’s got an old Martin, a real beauty. Maybe we should get together.” “Sounds good to me, let’s go find the guy with the guitar,” Marley said, smiling. While the two musicians went in search of Garcia, Tolkien was holding court with Mr. Rodgers and Ashley Martin. “To limit the free choice of America’s inhabitants is unfair, yet allowing Europeans to wipe out the Indians is also unfair. It seems to me that the Indians could have lived here indefinitely without spoiling the place. We need to find a way to let them have it,” he said in a rather thick French accent. Martin and Rodgers were speechless. Jessica and Stephanie, accompanied by Kandinsky, returned to the ganohses and interrupted Nostradamus’ meditation. “Hi, I’m Stephanie, what’s your name?” “Excuse us for interrupting your meditation, but we were wondering why you weren’t introducing yourself,” Jessica said. “My name is Nostradamus.” “Nostradamus!?” Kandinsky exclaimed. “Not the guy Orson Welles went on and on about?” Stephanie asked. “Excuse me, but I am simply a French monk. I have studied the stars and meditated about the future. Apparently, I am now in the future.” “The future? What century do you come from?” Stephanie asked. “Not even one-hundred years ago, by my guess. This must be some type of second life, but I do not recognize the way you dress, or the area we are in.” “My name is Jessica. I was a housewife living on the outskirts of a city called Charlottesville, Virginia in the 20th Century before I died. “I was a model,” Stephanie said. “No doubt about that,” Kandinsky confirmed. Nostradamus, struck by their beauty, pondered cashing vows for a four-way. This type of kinky thought rarely infected the brain waves of Nostradamus, but everything was weird to him at this point. He had predicted he would return in the future, but hadn’t thought it would be so soon after his death. Wassily, looking at fate from the monk’s perspective, wondered if it was worth it to try to help, as he was invited to do, or whether painting and living life to the fullest were a valid response to the place he had been put into. At the main meeting table, Garcia, a 20th century minstrel ponders the situation. He had lived an entire life in the 20th Century. He can almost remember that, but he feels and acts much younger now. All he can distinctly remember about the 20th century was taking a trip with a friend to attend a bluegrass festival in Galax, Virginia. They had started out in a broken down car from California. His friend got more and more disgruntled as they drove through the desert, blew the transmission and had to start hitch-hiking. Somewhere around Las Vegas, his friend had given up. Undaunted, Garcia continued the trek, guitar in hand. He remembered arriving a day late, but instantly started jamming around a huge tent with Doc Watson, the blind bluegrass legend who was the most legitimate incarnation of the music that had been transported to the hills of West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky from Ireland in the 18th Century. Garcia realized the importance of the occasion. It was as a teenager, with guitar in hand that he arrived in Ganandauguay. Garcia: “People will follow their hearts no matter what we do. Earth is here to respond to those needs. It will make the adjustments as necessary. If humans waste their chance here, earth will dispatch them.” “Dispatch, dispatch, the question here is what to do with Europeans,” Woolf clarifies. “It’s not fair for me because the people from my island escaped injustice and followed their hearts. Then they wiped out the Indians, as if that was what God wanted.” This statement caused a stir in Nostradamus, so he walked over to the table. “God!” Nostradamus screamed, “what you know of God is minimal, but listen to this theory: planets around the universe go through relatively the same cycle. First, the animal life finds a way to use up the resources. When and if the inhabitants escape, they try to warn the next planet. Thus, the bible, me, and the inevitable. About 10% of the idiot planets don’t develop far enough before they’re used up. You can count on earth being one of these, and it all started with the greed of the United States, dear Virginia.” {I saw an Eskimo walking with a huge pack in an ethereal fog the other day, right here in Roanoke, Virginia, Virginia.} (1991) Meanwhile, Duane began to shape extra guitar-like instruments from cat-gut and crafted sticks he borrowed from newfound Indian friends. Duane’s own guitar, a red hollow-body 1956 Gibson was meant to be played through an amplifier, but the hollow body made it almost loud enough to hear over the loud singing blues of Garcia and Bob Marley. Larsen sat in on a homemade bass, with Corcoran on drums. Larsen’s playing could be described as rhythmic. The correct pitch was hard to come by, as her instrument was less effective than the old washtub-broomhandle-string set-up made famous in bluegrass jug bands. Corcoran’s “drumming” made reggae out of the question, but she at least kept up. She was using three ceremonial drums borrowed from the back of the meeting room. Garcia lead the singing of the ad-libbed first song, with Marley harmonizing with a vocal howl a third above in the verse and a third or fifth below in the chorus. Garcia played rhythm guitar on Allman’s Gibson, while Allman used Garcia’s 1952 Martin to play lead slide guitar. Ganandauguay There’s a special chosen place that’s caused some nasty wars. We dropped in from all over, this place isn’t like before. And if you love your good neighbor, We’ll let you stay here some more. Chorus: I’m going to get back to the Ganandauguay blues. I’m going to jump back in to the Ganandauguay blue. My mind is blown by the beauty, Won’t you come and join me too? We got pretty little ladies, such wonderful sights to see. We got nature in our souls and our minds are finally free. And if you think you’re happy now, Wait until you come in swimming with me. (Here Duane took a major lead, drawing looks of awe from some natives who had just emerged from the woods.) We got to keep the place as clean as it was before. It’s been so long since this place has seen a war. So why don’t you join me, And we’ll find a way to even the score. We got people from all over we never met before. The song ended, with natives apparently howling their approval. They had snuck in unnoticed. They didn’t understand a word of the lyrics, but the primitive music fit their style. The reason the natives were howling had nothing to do with the music. They were screaming to drive these white ghosts away. Two bows are drawn before Darting Sparrow, an up and coming young fighter, stepped in to stop what would have been an instant massacre of the invitees. “Enihe!” Darting Sparrow shouted. {It means “stop”.} The evening is setting in, which makes the tension between the two groups increase with each passing firefly. Larsen starts to work out a sign language with Darting Sparrow. “Look, I think he understands that we have come from the future,” she said to Virginia Woolf. “As long as what you are saying keeps him from turning on us, we’ll be all right,” Woolf responded. “He’s too young to have any authority,” Kandinsky pointed out. “But if he’s a scout, we need to convince him we’re on his side, or we could all get killed before we even know what year it is, no less where the heck we are,” Larsen said. Larsen pulled out a handkerchief and made it into the shape of a heart. She opened her hand and closed it on the hanky to make the representation of a beating heart. She then held the beating heart to her chest and made a motion like she was pulling her own heart out of her chest. She danced around with bent knees and showed the heart to all the natives. Again they howled. “He eh ni ye” Darting Sparrow said. {Loosely translated – don’t do that.} It really was scaring some scouts, other were just mad that she was able to one-up Darting Sparrow. He had to get her back, but then Larsen offered him the hanky. Again the crowd howled. Larsen bent on her knee, kept the heart throbbing, and again offered it to Darting Sparrow. Darting Sparrow smiled and accepted the heart. He even showed the cloth to his companions, and pretended to keep the heart beating. This display lasted long enough for more natives to arrive. The meeting house was the destination of the Turtle clan. The Turtle clan ran through the Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Mohawk and Onodowaga. Even though they had previously had wars with these other tribes, the members of the Onodowaga, Turtle clan had a closer relationship with other Turtle clan members from the other tribe, than most of the members of other clans in their own tribe. Since Larsen and her friends had arrived in the Snipe clan’s meeting house, it was going to be up to the Turtle clan to accept them, banish them, torture them or kill them. Darting Sparrow repeated the heart demonstration to the elders of his clan. Larsen again tried to explain in sign language that they were from the future. The clan decided to take their discovery to the entire meeting that night. Jessica, Stephanie and Katherine B. were already getting some attention from their native hosts. The men were smiling at them. The women were pawing at their clothes. “Agwas do ges ogethae henoyo goh ganoohgwa sha,” Darting Sparrow said. {It’s really true, I talked [to them] they come in love.} The elders talked about their guests and seemed to trust Darting Sparrow’s faith in their peaceful intentions. Jack almost ruined it for everybody when coming inside from his hacky-sack game. “What’s going on here, for Christ’s sakes,” Jack said in a rough sarcastic tone. “Cool it Jack, Jeanne went through a pantomime that convinced the Indians we were coming in peace. I don’t think they like your tone,” Jessica said. “Tone!? They’re the ones howling all the time! Here we are stuck out in the middle of the woods in God knows which century and you’re going to knit-pick about tone? You’re more uptight than your hoity-toity Charlottesville neighbors!” “Look Jack,” Katherine B. interjected, “first of all, don’t get on the Shenandoah valley, I live there too. Secondly, keep it down. If the natives get the idea that we’re not united then they won’t treat us all the same. the way I see it, we have the upper hand. They may even treat us as special guests as long as we remain calm and act like mature adults.” “All right then, it’s starting to get dark, who’s going to sleep where, and with whom?” “You’re a pig, Jack,” Katherine B. said. The argument humored the natives. Jeanne walked over to the combatants. “Look, we’ve got to be a little more civil. These people are now laughing at you. We have a chance to impress them with our knowledge. Our first goal has to be to communicate with them. If we can’t impress them, we’ll be dead.” “We don’t have to impress anybody. This is like a second life for me. I’m going to have fun at it. I don’t give a rat’s ass about why we were “invited” here by some sophomore. I mean she’s fairly cute, but I don’t have to date the hostess. You seem like you’ve got your head on straight. What do you say we blow this meeting house and go out by the fire?” “No thanks.” “Fine,” Jack said as he turned to Jessica and the others. “Anybody up for a little sing around the campfire?” ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’ At the second ask, ‘Is it necessary?’ At the third gate ask ‘Is it kind? Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks “The Dinner Party,” a novella in 11 chapters plus endnotes, copyright, Doug Stuber, 1992. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given, and with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. We’ve Woven a Web May 28, 2010 April 26, 2014 / dougstuber / 4 Comments We’ve woven a web, you and I, attached to the world, for no matter how long, inscribed, though poorly, for scant eyes, still, as bright a love aura as has ever glowed, tightly wound around our hearts, yet soaring miles above Moodeung’s fog to warm cold February. Sparks fly off a round-rock fire rarely seen in these parts. We laugh, it feels like we shouldn’t be here on a cold winter night, just a few meters from trails so packed during the day. This charge will never leave. We’ve marked this space but must go to where the stars shine, deer run, art springs. Keep my heart in your brain, words in your hair. Matched lifelong yearning bursts in my hand, fluorescent. Quick, pack what you need, let’s flee! live life in the positive zone, expand what we enjoy together, bound by the luck that brought us this far. Where to next? Copyright, Doug Stuber, 2009. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given, and with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Tiger Woods Valentine May 28, 2010 April 26, 2014 / dougstuber / Leave a comment Tiger Woods (The Valentine Poem that Could have been) You bring a light that shines so bright I have to wear sunglasses You hold me close and make life right it’s like taking ten love classes And isn’t love a silly word unless you’re the one in it? Our time is short, so it is absurd to waste a single minute Most turn to flowers others gifts because they don’t know how to rhyme Just your luck, your man can shift from golf to poetry any time Our secret life shall exist no matter where we are Because a love this strong persists even from afar We may not be hand-in-hand walking down the street But isn’t life just as grand when lovers are discreet? Copyright, Doug Stuber, 2009. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given, and with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. poem #1 Unnamed University, Unnamed City, Unnamed Woman She lies back, angel wings spread, feet flat, but arched back allowing head to inhabit old-school gas oven. Mouth open, nostrils flared, deep inhale is more than photo-op, it’s real, she’s forever shamed her family by laying drunk as 18 fellow classmen raped her. Every person in this town knows what happened, but she is the one who must take her life to balance family sadness, apply guilt to those who just avoided jail time conventionally. Here, where rules so outdated they make the Catholics look hip, her family will not pursue the raging animals who committed this atrocity, instead they’ll be consoled by funeral guests, and their money. According to the Confucian beliefs (held more dear in Korea than China these days by a long shot) it would be harder for her family to go on if she was alive to tell the story. You don’t have to cry about this, many already have. These “men” walk free to start university life, having completed “Membership Training,” the custom in which families pay extra for weekend retreats and the school sanctions and organizes: alcohol, food, pajamas, rape? 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__label__wiki	0.987065	0.987065	New Streaming Services for 2019 and 2020: The 6 Biggest Launches AT&T’s New Streaming Service Viacom’s Revamped Pluto TV Discovery’s BBC-based Streaming Service NBCUniversal’s New Streaming Service Poor Netflix. Everyone in the media business seems to be going after the streaming company by launching their own service. Last year, we saw a number of niche players, like DC Universe and Epix Now, hit the market. Over the next twelve months, we’re going to see true giants in the industry launch streaming services based on their own content catalogs. To help you start planning which streaming subscriptions to keep and which to cancel, Flixed has reviewed six of the biggest newcomers in the streaming business. Source: Disney+ Earlier this year, details finally emerged about Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Disney+. The new subscription-based service will feature family-friendly content from the company’s many studios. Besides nearly a century of Disney animation, Disney+ will be the home to content produced by Pixar and National Geographic. You will also be able to watch every movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Star Wars franchise. When does it launch: November 12, 2019 Where does it launch: United States with global expansion by 2021. How much will it cost: $7 per month in the US. What content will it have: In addition to content from Disney’s various assets, Disney+ will release 25 original series and 10 original feature-length titles within its first year. What else should I know: Disney-owned Fox will contribute all episodes of The Simpsons and family-friendly movies like The Princess Bride. Apple has had an on-again-off-again approach to original content. However, with hardware sales slowing, Apple sees streaming services as the key to future growth. Earlier this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook provided a sneak-peak at Apple TV+. The new service will focus on original content rather than competing with Netflix’s huge catalog. When does it launch: Fall 2019 Where does it launch: United States with global expansion. How much will it cost: Apple isn’t saying. What content will it have: A who’s who of Hollywood celebrities are producing content for Apple+. Steven Spielberg will produce science fiction anthology series Amazing Stories and Oprah Winfrey will produce documentaries. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon will star in a series about a morning news show and Jason Momoa has been cast in a scifi epic. What else should I know: According to The Verge, the Apple TV app will no longer be Apple-exclusive. Apps are in development for Roku as well as smart TVs from Samsung and other brands. Source: HBO AT&T purchased Warner Bros., Turner and HBO last year in hopes that content production will help it survive the wave of cord cutting that has decimated its pay-TV business. The telecom giant’s new WarnerMedia subsidiary has a huge back catalog of content that will anchor the company’s upcoming and unnamed streaming service. When does it launch: Q4 2019 Where does it launch: United States How much will it cost: Unclear. According to PC Magazine, AT&T executives said it will be priced higher than HBO Now’s $15 per month. However, Deadline reported that AT&T will have Hulu-like ad-supported pricing and premium, ad-free pricing. What content will it have: Also unclear, but will draw heavily from Warner Bros. and HBO. What else should I know: AT&T is planning a three-tiered service. At the entry level, you get mid-grade movies. Step up to the middle tier and you get better movies and original content. At the highest tier, you get the best movies from the Warner and Turner archives. Source: Pluto TV Pluto TV made a name for itself by offering a free, streaming version of the cable experience. “Free” is also the reason why media giant Viacom bought Pluto TV in early 2019. Viacom has already started Pluto TV’s transformation into a new kind of streaming service. When does it launch: Changes are rolling out now. Where does it launch: United States with global expansion starting in Latin America. How much will it cost: Free because of the ads. What content will it have: The ad-supported TV channels will feature content from MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central as well as Viacom’s film catalog. However, none of the content will be original or less than 18 months old. The freshest content will air first on Viacom’s cable channels. What else should I know: According to Adweek, Viacom will create “pop-up channels” to promote new shows on its cable channels. Source: Discovery Last month, Discovery and the BBC announced they will create a new way to stream fact-based content. The deal includes “hundreds of hours” of BBC documentaries and the companies will co-develop new, original content. When does it launch: By 2020. Where does it launch: Worldwide except in the UK, Ireland and China. The BBC retains all rights for those markets. How much will it cost: Unspecified, but insiders told Variety it would be “under $5”. What content will it have: Nature documentaries like Blue Planet, history series like Dynasties and science series like Walking With Dinosaurs. What else should I know: BBC News was told this ten-year, $390 million deal will let the BBC produce more science and nature content for its domestic television license fee payers. Eight years ago, Comcast bought NBCUniversal for much the same reason AT&T bought Time Warner. The cable company has suffered the same subscriber losses due to cord cutting and now wants to make NBCUniversal the cornerstone of a new direct-to-consumer streaming service. When does it launch: Early 2020 Where does it launch: United States and then globally through Sky How much will it cost: Free to some, but not to others. What content will it have: Unclear, but NBCUniversal’s TV channels include Syfy, Bravo, Oxygen, USA in addition to NBC itself. The company’s movie arm is Universal Studios which also distributes content for Dreamworks, Amblin Partners and United International Pictures. What else should I know: This will be a very cable-centric player, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Comcast will give the ad-supported service free to its subscribers and those of any other cable company it partners with. Cord cutters will have to pay a monthly fee.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1180
__label__wiki	0.967982	0.967982	Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 5.djvu/213 TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 34. 1837. 177 of Alabama, the eastern district of Louisiana, the district of Mississippi, and the district of Arkansas, shall form and be called the ninth circuit. mh circuit. Sm:. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sessions of said circuit p;,,,;,,,,;,, courts shall be held twice in each year in the following districts, to wif: which said commencing in the eastern district of Louisiana, at New Orleans, on §°‘f5'” "¥h°“ b' the third Monday of May and on the third Monday of November, y:,,,.m:;,,¤,,,d annually; in the district of Mississippi, at Jackson, on the first Monday qlncés of sesof May and on the first Monday of November, annually; in the southern °‘°“· district of Alabama, at Mobile, on the second Monday of April and the second Monday of October, annually; in the western district of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, on the third Mondays of May and November, annually; in the district of Delaware, at Newcastle on the Tuesday next following the fourth Monday of May, and at Dover cm the Tucs— day next following the third Monday of October, annually; and in the district of Maryland, at Baltimore, on the first Monday of April and the iirst Monday of October, annually; in the northern district of New York, at Albany, on the second Tuesday of June and the third Tuesday of October, annually; and there shall be holden a term of said circuit courts, annually, ut Lewisburg, in the western district of Virginia, And dish commencing on the first Monday of August; at Huntsville, in the in Whigrh ¤¤¤¤ northern district of Alabama, commencing on the first Monday of “¥!;;;‘;‘;.‘;:'fa J unc; (a) at St. Louis, in the district of Missouri, commencing on the sign ` first Monday of April; and at Little Rock, in the district of Arkansas, on the fourth Monday of March; and that no process, rccognizancc, or bail bond, returnable to the next term of either of said courts, shall be avoided or impaired, or affected by this change, as to the commencement of said term; but that all process, bail bonds, and rccognizanccs Proccss,rocogreturnable to the next term of either of said courts, shall be returnable ¤i¤¤¤<=¢· &·¢·» and returned to the court next held, according to this act, in the same Q'? manner as if so made returnable on the face thereof, and shall have full said coun:. effect accordingly; and that all continuanccs in either of said courts shall be from the last term to the court appointed by this act, and the day herein appointed for the commencement of the next session thereof: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the judge of the Pmviuc. northern district of New York from holding the courts at Utica, not the judge of the western district of Pennsylvania from holding the courts at Williamsport, at the same time and with the same power and jurisdiction as heretofore. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of any act or acts Sq mug}; of of Congress as vests in the district courts of the United States for the my Mt 01* Mts districts of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, the eastern district ;;:;:°:n3h%&S_ of Louisiana, the district of Mississippi, the northern district of New diction gfégycuig York, the western district of Virginia, and the western district of Penn- ¤9¤r§¤i¤¤ér¤¤i¤ sylvania, and the districts of Alabama, or either of them, the power and jurisdiction of circuit courts, bc, and the same is hereby, repealed; mm ggugggtg bg and there shall hereafter be circuit courts held for said districts by the b¤lgé8&·¢· 46 chief or associate justices of the Supreme Court, assigned or allotted I '°h' ' to the circuit to which such districts may respectively belong, and the district judges of such districts severally and respectively; either of whom shall constitute a quorum; which circuit courts, and the judge thereof, shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as other circuit courts and the judges thereof; and the said district courts, gud the judges thereof, shall have like powers and exercise like gunsdncqon as the district courts, and the judges thereof, in the other circuits. From all judgments and decrees, rendered in the district courts of the Judgments United States for the western district of Louisiana, wnts of error and &,(,_,.,,,d°,€é;, appeals shall lic to the circuit court in the other district in said State, disuict courts (ez) Act of March 3, 1839, chap. Sl ; act of March 4, 1844, chap. 4; act of April 12, 1844, chap. 12; uct of March 1, 1845, chap. 39. Vox.. V.—23 Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:United_States_Statutes_at_Large_Volume_5.djvu/213&oldid=8679751"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1192
__label__wiki	0.804444	0.804444	Difference between revisions of "Hilarion the New" Wsk (talk \| contribs) Revision as of 01:39, December 3, 2009 (view source) The monk deeply venerated his God-bearing patron St. [[Hilarion the Great]] ([[October 21]]), and he strove to imitate his life, so he came to be called Hilarion the New. At the Dalmatus monastery, he was ordained [[presbyter]]. After the death of the [[igumen]] the brethren wanted to elect St Hilarion to this position, but learning of this, he secretly fled to Constantinople. Then the monks of Dalmatus monastery sent a petition to [[Patriarch Nicephorus]], asking that St Hilarion be assigned as igumen. The Patriarch summoned the saint and persuaded him to give his assent. St Hilarion submitted out of holy obedience. For eight years he peacefully guided the monastery, but in the year 813 the iconoclast Leo the Armenian (813-820) occupied the imperial throne. The saint refused to dishonor the holy [[icon\|icons]], and he boldly accused the emperor of [[heresy]], for which he endured many torments. They locked him up in prison for awhile, and vexed him with hunger and thirst. Then the monks of Dalmatus monastery sent a petition to [[Nicephorus I of Constantinople\|Patriarch Nicephorus]], asking that St Hilarion be assigned as igumen. The Patriarch summoned the saint and persuaded him to give his assent. St Hilarion submitted out of holy obedience. For eight years he peacefully guided the monastery, but in the year 813 the iconoclast Leo the Armenian (813-820) occupied the imperial throne. The saint refused to dishonor the holy [[icon\|icons]], and he boldly accused the emperor of [[heresy]], for which he endured many torments. They locked him up in prison for awhile, and vexed him with hunger and thirst. The impious Patriarch Theodotus, who replaced the exiled [[Patriarch Nicephorus]], caused the monk much suffering in demanding that he abandon Orthodoxy. The monks of the Dalmatus monastery went to the emperor and asked him to release the saint, promising to submit to the imperial will. After they returned to the monastery, however, St Hilarion and the monks continued to venerate the holy icons. The enraged emperor again threw the monk into prison. He gave the saint over to torture with all the means at his disposal, hoping to change his mind. The impious Patriarch Theodotus, who replaced the exiled Patriarch Nicephorus, caused the monk much suffering in demanding that he abandon Orthodoxy. The monks of the Dalmatus monastery went to the emperor and asked him to release the saint, promising to submit to the imperial will. After they returned to the monastery, however, St Hilarion and the monks continued to venerate the holy icons. The enraged emperor again threw the monk into prison. He gave the saint over to torture with all the means at his disposal, hoping to change his mind. The wrath of God soon overtook the wicked emperor. He was cut down by his own soldiers in church at the very spot where he had once thrown down a holy icon. The new emperor Michael II (820-829) freed St Hilarion from his imprisonment, and the saint settled into a monastic cell. Upon the death of St [[Theodore the Studite]] ([[November 11]]), who also suffered for the holy icons, St Hilarion beheld holy angels taking the soul of St Theodore to Heaven. Revision as of 01:39, December 3, 2009 St. Hilarion the New, Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery Saint Hilarion the New (June 6) was born of pious parents, Peter and Theodosia, who raised him in the virtues and instructed him in Holy Scripture. At twelve years of age St Hilarion was tonsured as a monk at the Hesychius monastery near Constantinople, and from there he transferred to the Dalmatus monastery, where he received the Great Schema and became a disciple of St Gregory the Dekapolite (November 20). The monk deeply venerated his God-bearing patron St. Hilarion the Great (October 21), and he strove to imitate his life, so he came to be called Hilarion the New. At the Dalmatus monastery, he was ordained presbyter. After the death of the igumen the brethren wanted to elect St Hilarion to this position, but learning of this, he secretly fled to Constantinople. Then the monks of Dalmatus monastery sent a petition to Patriarch Nicephorus, asking that St Hilarion be assigned as igumen. The Patriarch summoned the saint and persuaded him to give his assent. St Hilarion submitted out of holy obedience. For eight years he peacefully guided the monastery, but in the year 813 the iconoclast Leo the Armenian (813-820) occupied the imperial throne. The saint refused to dishonor the holy icons, and he boldly accused the emperor of heresy, for which he endured many torments. They locked him up in prison for awhile, and vexed him with hunger and thirst. The wrath of God soon overtook the wicked emperor. He was cut down by his own soldiers in church at the very spot where he had once thrown down a holy icon. The new emperor Michael II (820-829) freed St Hilarion from his imprisonment, and the saint settled into a monastic cell. Upon the death of St Theodore the Studite (November 11), who also suffered for the holy icons, St Hilarion beheld holy angels taking the soul of St Theodore to Heaven. Under the iconoclast emperor Theophilus (829-842), St Hilarion was again put under guard and beaten terribly, then they confined him on the island of Aphousia. After the death of Theophilus, the holy empress St Theodora (February 11) gave orders to recall the confessors from exile. St Hilarion returned to the Dalmatus monastery, again agreeing to be igumen. He departed peacefully in the year 845. Retrieved from "https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Hilarion_the_New&oldid=89256" Monastics Categories > People > Monastics Categories > People > Saints > Byzantine Saints	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1193
__label__wiki	0.585756	0.585756	Lebanon caretaker PM Hariri sends aid appeal to ‘friendly’ states before meeting Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri speaks after meeting with President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda. (File photo: Reuters) Al Arabiya English, Reuters Friday, 6 December 2019 Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri has sent an aid appeal to “friendly” countries in a statement from his office on Friday. Hariri appealed for aid to secure food and raw materials for Lebanon in the statement, as the country suffers from an economic crisis including a shortage of dollars. Hariri said he was directing his appeal to Saudi Arabia, France, Russia, Turkey, the United States, China, and Egypt. The appeal comes ahead of a meeting of an international support group for Lebanon, due to meet in Paris on December 11, according to Reuters. According to a Lebanese official cited by Reuters, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were expected to be invited. Last Update: Friday, 6 December 2019 KSA 14:32 - GMT 11:32 France’s Le Drian: Lebanon needs to form a government quickly Lebanon needs to quickly form a government that can push necessary reforms, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ... Macron: France remains committed to helping Lebanon's economic reforms France remains committed to helping Lebanon in its plans for economic reforms, French President Emmanuel Macron said on ... Lebanon’s Aoun hopes government will be formed quickly Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Thursday he hoped a new government would be formed quickly to carry out essential ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1197
__label__cc	0.513615	0.486385	How to translate the Romanian word “decrețel”? Romanian language has the term "decreţel" coined after the 1967 communist regime decree. The Wikipedia argues that the word means decree, but word morphology suggests the "a small thing born out of a decree" (the word contains a diminutive suffix). This meaning is emphasized by its pejorative/ironic usage: unwanted children born due do lack of access to contraceptive methods following the aforementioned decree. I am thinking of something like "decreeling" (analogy to earthlings), but it sounds strange. Question: How to translate in English the Romanian word "decrețel"? AlexeiAlexei We'd probably use a hypernym like 'fallout'. DIY candidate neologisms are unacceptable on ELU. – Edwin Ashworth Apr 19 '18 at 9:15 English has a famous poem called "For want of a nail", which captures this concept nicely. Basically, because it lost a nail, the horseshoe came off, so the horse could not run, so the messenger could not deliver the message, so the general did not get critical information, so he lost the battle, and then the war. So a war was lost for lack of a nail. I don't know we have a single word for this concept. – Dan Bron Apr 19 '18 at 12:22 An English equivalent probably should not some until needed. So far, it dosen't seem needed – J. Taylor Apr 19 '18 at 14:15 I'm not sure there is a need to translate. "Decretel" could be used after its meaning is explained. Imported words are used in English frequently. Paparazzi and wunderkind are just two examples. The point is that even if you used an English term like Decree-child or Decree-children there would be a need to explain what the term meant. So, "decretel" would work just as well. Making up a word that still had to be explained does not seem efficient. It is quite acceptable in English to use an imported word. The enormous number of words in English dictionaries testifies to that. "Decretel" would not be used as much as glasnost maybe, but still would be useful. J. TaylorJ. Taylor ...In fact, "decretal" is a preexisting English word that means something very different from Romanian decrețel /dekreˈt͡sel/. – herisson Apr 19 '18 at 18:14 @sumelic I actually thought about all this before writing the answer. I am not suggesting the use of "decretal"...and, I could be backward in this matter, but I think the use of such a letter as "ţ" is unusual in imported words. I would certainly accept a better solution. – J. Taylor Apr 19 '18 at 18:26 (Oops, I suppose the spelling of "decretel" and "decretal" is actually different even if you use "t" in both--I had ignored the different vowel letters in the last syllable.) I don't know of a better solution; I just wanted to point out one possible downside of using the spelling "decretel" because you say in this answer that it would "work just as well" as an English paraphrase like "decree-child". – herisson Apr 19 '18 at 19:32 @sumelic... I agree,, but, sometimes perfection is the enemy of progress. – J. Taylor Apr 19 '18 at 19:44 The more typical formation would be decree baby, given the emphasis is on the circumstances of conception; cf. urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blackout%20baby – Nick Nicholas Jul 20 '18 at 3:20 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged translation or ask your own question. How to translate: university application sentences How does one translate 'mast' into English How to translate these kind of phrases? How do I translate “Zwangsrouter”? How to translate the german word “Motiv” (= Beweggrund) How to translate “original democracy” (= democraţie originală) (pejorative)? How to translate “for cough decades”? How to translate FIAT into English?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1198
__label__cc	0.744517	0.255483	All posts by Chris Knox The Knox Update Obama Going After Gunsmiths August 10, 2016 Chris Knox By Jeff Knox (August 4, 2016) The Obama administration has announced new regulatory guidelines that will drive thousands of small gunsmiths out of business. This reinterpretation of existing regulations lowers the bar for what constitutes “manufacturing” of firearms, and will require that any gunsmith who performs any service more involved than simply cleaning or replacing old parts with functionally identical new parts register as a firearm manufacturer and pay a $2250 annual registration fee. Continue reading Obama Going After Gunsmiths → Another Gun-Free Mass Murder (July 28, 2016) Democrats have declared gun control as one of their top campaign issues this year (though they call it “gun safety,” “gun reform,” or “gun violence prevention” instead of gun control – those terms poll better). They are betting that GunVoters are not really the political powerhouse that we have been reputed to be, and that after atrocities like the San Bernardino and Orlando terror attacks, Americans will reward them for trying to restrict rights. They use mass murders – at home and abroad – as emotional launch-pads for their anti-rights rhetoric, but for all of their posturing about saving lives, they refuse to directly address the core problems: our broken mental health system, and fundamentalist Islam. They also ignore the fact that none of the atrocities would have been prevented, or even mitigated, by the “solutions” they offer. They are also ignoring the two most recent deadly attacks, because guns didn’t play any significant role in either of them. Continue reading Another Gun-Free Mass Murder → To Defend Gun Rights, It’s Trump (July 20, 2016) The stage is set for a head-to-head battle between the two most widely disliked presidential candidates in modern history. There is still significant enmity between Trump supporters and fans of Senator Ted Cruz, just as there is a rift between Hillary followers and Berners. Hillary has the advantage that Bernie Sanders has officially endorsed her – something Ted Cruz has refused to do for Trump – but his supporters still aren’t happy about the outcome. The big difference is that Hillary has the Democratic Party establishment firmly in her pocket, while the GOP establishment is swallowing bile not to actively oppose Trump. Continue reading To Defend Gun Rights, It’s Trump → Court Right – for Now July 12, 2016 Chris Knox Second Amendment Protects “Assault Weapons” Fourth Circuit Court says “Strict Scrutiny” applies. (February 10, 2016) Earlier this month, the Federal Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit handed a stunning, but well-deserved, rebuke to the gun control zealots leading the state of Maryland. In a 2-1 decision, a 3-judge panel rejected the conclusion of the Maryland District Court that said Maryland’s bans on so-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines are permissible under the Second Amendment. The case, Kolbe v. Hogan, was remanded back to the District Court for reconsideration using “strict scrutiny” instead of the looser standard, “intermediate scrutiny” that the lower court used in its original determination. Continue reading Court Right – for Now → Comey’s Gift and NRA’s Gaff Comey’s Gift and NRA’s Mistake (July 6, 2016) FBI Director, James Comey has come under serious fire since he announced that the FBI is not recommending prosecution of Hillary Clinton over her willful negligence in handling classified material on her unauthorized, private email server. While there is plenty of grumbling about the decision in Republican circles, Comey’s decision, and his statement of facts during his announcement, is much better for Republicans than if he had chosen to seek an indictment. Continue reading Comey’s Gift and NRA’s Gaff → The FBI’s Illegal Activity The FBI’s Illegal Activities (June 30, 2016) The FBI and Justice Department have routinely been engaged in illegal practices regarding lawful gun purchases for over a decade, and now some members of Congress want to reward this criminal behavior with expanded powers and increased secrecy. Continue reading The FBI’s Illegal Activity → Dear Stupid Republicans (June 22, 2016) Dear stupid Republicans: What the hell are you thinking? What possible benefit is there in avoiding votes on gun control bills? In what world is using the power of the gavel to block attacks on our right to arms, a sound political strategy? Why would you be afraid to debate and get clear votes on legislation that will not hurt you at the polls – so long as you stand firm with the Constitution – and which will give GunVoters the ammunition we need to fire numerous gun control supporters from Congress? Continue reading Dear Stupid Republicans → Magical Gun Control Faith in Gun Bans: Magical Thinking (June 14, 2016) My brother Chris and I were once again asked to offer up a rebuttal to an editorial in USA Today newspaper after the terrorist attack in Orlando. Unfortunately the paper rescinded the offer when Chris Cox, Executive Director of NRA-ILA, offered to do the job. Here’s what we didn’t get to tell USA Today readers. Continue reading Magical Gun Control → California’s Gun Control Freaks (June 8, 2016) Two years ago I wrote about an idiot politician publicly making a fool of himself at his own scripted press conference. The politician was California State Senator Kevin de León, and his topic was “Ghost Guns.” Continue reading California’s Gun Control Freaks → Katie Couric’s Deception Katie’s Deception Nothing New (June 1, 2016) Katie Couric’s unethical editing in her “documentary,” Under the Gun, a heavily biased propaganda film promoting gun control, attracted some harsh criticism, but the deceit involved is nothing new to rights activists. We’ve seen media distort, misrepresent, and outright lie about guns, gun laws, and gun owners for decades. The deception in the Couric film is just the latest in a long string of lies. For those who might not have heard about the Couric flap, it boiled down to the director splicing in an awkward silence after Couric asks a group of rights advocates in Virginia how they propose we prevent felons and terrorists from buying guns without background checks. In the film, Couric asks the question and we then see video of participants looking uncomfortable, looking at the floor and scuffing their toes, with no response, for 8 full seconds before a dramatic cut to a new topic. The impression is that the group has been stumped by the question and simply doesn’t have an answer. In reality, members of the group responded almost immediately with a variety of comments. The awkward silence shown in the film was apparently shot while participants were waiting for the interview to begin. After criticism of the unethical editing started popping up on FOX News and in print media (the other major television networks ignored the story), the director, Stephanie Soechtig, issued a statement saying the silence was just a way of giving the audience a moment to think about the significance of the question. Couric, who was the executive producer of the film and has repeatedly insisted that her objective was to give a balanced look at the gun issue from all sides, first backed up Soechtig, but later took “responsibility” for the “misleading” edit, saying she should have been more vigorous in her objections to the segment. Continue reading Katie Couric’s Deception →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1202
__label__wiki	0.87702	0.87702	Tutu: Nhleko's Nkandla report has humiliated SA Nhleko’s report exonerated Zuma of any wrongdoing in relation to spending on his Nkandla homestead. FILE: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN. Nkandla ad hoc committee Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko Archbishop Desmond Tutu Minister of Police Nkosinathi Nhleko Nkosinathi Nhleko Nkandla police report Nkandla debate Monique Mortlock \| 1693 days ago JOHANNESBURG - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko's report on Nkandla, in which he found President Jacob Zuma does not have to pay for the R246 million upgrades to his KwaZulu-Natal homestead, has humiliated South Africa and its people. Nhleko's report exonerated Zuma of any wrongdoing in relation to spending on his Nkandla homestead. Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, whose initial report found Zuma liable to pay back a portion of the money says her findings cannot be ignored. The public protector says she never asked Nhleko to comment on her Nkandla report but rather wanted him to determine the amount the president had to pay for non-security upgrades at his private home in Nkandla. In a statement released by the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, Archbishop Tutu expressed his sadness and embarrassment at this week's developments. Tutu said this week, Zuma laughed at South Africans who are trying to hold him accountable for spending hundreds of millions of tax payers' money on Nkandla. He said he has been trying to maintain a low public profile but that this development has forced him to express his anger and embarrassment. He adds that South Africa's public representatives have this week humiliated themselves, the country and its people by ignoring the public protector's report. A judgment handed down by the Western Cape High Court last year, found the public protector's remedial actions were not binding and enforceable. But a decision to reject them must be rational. Madonsela says while clarity is still needed on the extent of her powers, the court was clear that her findings can't simply be overlooked. "The second thing the court said was that should that competent authority have any issues with the report, they must engage with me. And that's one of the problems with this report, is that no one has engaged with me." For a full breakdown of Nhleko's Nkandla report _ click here_. Royal treats: Harry, Meghan show CT their dance moves, Archie meets the Tutus [LISTEN] Has the ANC made a U-turn on the Nkandla matter? Various activities planned to celebrate Desmond Tutu's birthday Mantashe: ANC hopes to win back the trust of South Africans	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1209
__label__wiki	0.596184	0.596184	"The Mirrored Heavens" by David J. Williams Winners of the Andrzej Sapkowski / The Last Wish G... "Mind the Gap" by Christopher Golden + Tim Lebbon "Severance Package" by Duane Swierczynski “The Hounds of Ash and Other Tales of Fool Wolf” Interview with Greg Keyes "The Wolfman" by Nicholas Pekearo "The Digital Plague" by Jeff Somers "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk “Kéthani” by Eric Brown “Napoleon's Pyramids” & “The Rosetta Key” by Willi... "The Year of Disappearances" by Susan Hubbard w/Bo... "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer Winners of the Stephen Hunt Giveaway!!! Plus, Misc... "The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" by Stephen Hunt w/B... "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski "In the Small" by Michael Hague Winners of the Stephenie Meyer/The Host giveaway!!... "The Queen's Bastard" by C.E. Murphy Winners of the Alan Campbell/Deepgate Code and Pam... Interview with Chris Evans SPOTLIGHT: Books of May 2008 "The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" by Stephen Hunt w/Bonus Q&A Official Stephen Hunt Website Order “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” HERE Read Fantasy Book Critic’s REVIEW of “The Court of the Air” Read Fantasy Book Critic’s INTERVIEW with Stephen Hunt AUTHOR INFORMATION: After attaining a BA in Marketing, Stephen Hunt pursued a career in publishing, which included employment by various newspapers and magazines. Stephen now writes part-time while working for an investment banking house. His bibliography includes several short stories, the out-of-print novel “For the Crown and the Dragon”—winner of the WH Smith New Talent Award—and “The Court of the Air”, which shares the same setting as the author’s new book “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves”. Stephen is also the founder of the fan-run science fiction & fantasy website SF Crowsnest. PLOT SUMMARY: Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilization of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war and disease with the creation of a perfect pacifist society. But when she returns home to Jackals from her latest archaeological misadventure she finds that the university council has stripped her of her position in retaliation for her heretical research. Without official funding, Amelia has no choice but to accept the offer of patronage from the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide: Abraham Quest, said to be the cleverest and richest person in all of Middlesteel. Quest has found evidence that suggests the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli. So with the help of her old friend Commodore Black, an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of fiercesome female mercenaries, and a lunatic steamman safari hunter acting as their guide, Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into the dark heart of the jungle. Meanwhile, Furnace-breath Nick—the scourge of Quatérshift—and his manservant, the exiled lashlite Septimoth, are diverted from their mission of revenge against the Commonshare by an intriguing mystery involving the world’s greatest mechomancer Jules Robur, steammen grave-robbing, the Court of the Air, Abraham Quest, and lashlite prophecy. But what they discover is more horrific than anyone could imagine, for Amelia’s quest for utopia will mean the destruction of the world… CLASSIFICATION: “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” is set in the same Victorian-influenced world as its predecessor, but where “The Court of the Air” strongly evoked Charles Dickens, the new novel seems inspired more by Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs and such contemporary heroes as Indiana Jones and Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame. In addition, steampunk remains a prominent element of the book as well as blending together magic, technology and pulp-like adventure, and is recommended for fans of science fiction/fantasy amalgamations, pulp magazines, and Final Fantasy… FORMAT/INFO: Page count is 560 pages, divided over 24 chapters. Narration is in the third-person and alternates via a large cast of characters including the two protagonists Amelia Harsh and Furnace-breath Nick as well as various supporting players: Abraham Quest, Jared Black, Septimoth, Damson Beeton, etc. Plot is self-contained like “The Court of the Air”, but chronologically takes place a few years later and is riddled with references to the first book. Namely Molly Templar, Coppertracks, Benjamin Carl, Harry Stave, a Hexmachina, the Commonshare uprising, and Jared Black who plays a much bigger role in “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves”. And let’s not forget that Amelia was briefly mentioned in “The Court of the Air” :) May 6, 2008 marks the UK-only (HarperVoyager) hardcover publication for “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves”, followed by the paperback release October 2008. As of now, US publication is TBD, but with “The Court of the Air” scheduled for US release June 10, 2008 thanks to Tor, I expect “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” to hit stateside stores sometime in 2009. ANALYSIS: One of the main reasons why I loved “The Court of the Air” so much was the setting, which reimagines the classic Victorian/steampunk milieu—and various science fiction/fantasy tropes—into a world that is at once familiar, yet astonishingly original. Like for instance Steammen, a race of robots that are not only sentient, but possess their own feelings, souls, and gods that they worship. In “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves”, that wild imagination is alive and kicking, as Stephen takes readers far beyond the Kingdom of Jackals into unexplored lands and inhabitants. Of particular interest is Camlantis—an obvious nod to Atlantis—a perfect society of pacifism and super-science that was lost to history so long ago that its ruins, a floating city in the sky, is considered nothing more but myth. Liongeli meanwhile, a cross between the Lost World and the Congo, is not only home to such prehistoric terrors as tauntoraptors and the mighty kilasaurus max, but also the Daggish—an ancient hive mind that assimilates all animals and vegetation within its reach into a single symbiosis known as the greenmesh—and the siltempters, corrupted steammen. Additionally, readers will also learn about Catosians, free company fighters who revere the drug shine that stimulates muscle-growth; lashlites—flying reptilian creatures that consume their dead and possess a third eye that helps them see the future—and many other strange & wonderful concepts. A warning though. While much of the world is a reimagining of recognizable tropes and ideas, there is so much information to process, that at times it can be a little overwhelming. Characterization in “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” is about the same as it was in “The Court of the Air”, meaning the characters aren’t blessed with great depth: Amelia’s passion for discovering Camlantis stems from her father; Furnace-breath Nick’s need for vengeance is because of the loss of his family; the same with Septimoth; and Abraham Quest’s desire for a utopian society dates back to his wretched childhood. In other words, there’s not much more to the characters that what readers are given initially, but it’s not like Amelia and company are one-dimensional stick-figures. They possess personalities and motives, sometimes conflicting; are likeable—enough so that you care when someone is killed, which happens quite often; and do a capable job of driving the story. Plus, the secondary players are once again fascinating including Ironflanks, Billy Snow, Damson Beeton, and my personal favorite, Commodore Black :) Story-wise, “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” is even more exciting and entertaining than its predecessor. Part of it is the plot itself which is more ambitious weaving together an archeological quest with royalist / parliamentary / Commonshare politics, intrigue, philosophy, and a doomsday subplot, but much of the improvement has to be attributed to the author. Basically, Stephen has just written a better book, including dynamic pacing and firm plotting to go with an already excellent imagination and a deft ability for composing heart-pounding action. I will say though that the story suffers a bit when the different plotlines converge into one and the novel heads into the home stretch, not unlike “The Court of the Air”, but otherwise, “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” is just immense fun. CONCLUSION: In my mind, “The Court of the Air” was one of the best speculative fiction novels released in 2007, and even though my expectations were exceedingly high, “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” exceeded them. The writing was stronger, the story delivered even greater thrills and adventure, and the characters—while lacking in certain areas—were still more compelling than the protagonists from “The Court of the Air”, all this while retaining the magic, creativity and novelty of the first book… BONUS FEATURE — Stephen Hunt Author Q&A: Q: Personally, I thought “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” was better written, more exciting, and just more fun to read than its predecessor “The Court of the Air”. Was writing the new book easier or harder than the first Jackelian novel, and how do you think “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” compares to “The Court of the Air”? Stephen: Well, "The Court of the Air" is a more epic, sweeping work, whereas "The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" is a more self-contained book, and probably all the tighter for it. I didn't notice much difference between either book in terms of author experience, however. They both flowed well and were a joy to write. I've never really subscribed to the writing as painful art theory, though. I tend to try to write what I prefer to read - cracking good page-turners. Q: One of the major themes in “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” is the quest for a perfect society. In your opinion, why is this such a popular concept in fiction, and will our world ever be ready for a utopia? Stephen: Would that it were just fiction. One of the problems with the world is that rulers keep on trying to impose their one-size-fits-all, year-zero crackpot models on society - whether it be communism, fascism, some fanatical religious movement or a survivalist retreat. Utopias are a popular concept in literature because the writer can impose their perfect little order on their created world, without any of the myriad difficulties of doing it in real life - like difficult people and their many differences. Readers like them because we love the fiction that such a thing might be possible. But caveat emptor, dear reader. Whenever true believers are coming at you with an 'ism' they're taking far too seriously, you know the slaughter of heretics is following close in their shadow. Q: Like “The Court of the Air”, many of the characters, places and ideas in “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” are derived from the Victorian/steampunk era or other recognizable science fiction/fantasy tropes. What kind of research did you put into the novel, and how much of it is imagination? Stephen: I would say 60% imagination, 40% research. I've blended Georgian and Victorian society for the Kingdom of Jackals. A lot of the slang used in both books is genuine period. Assassins really were called 'toppers', policemen really were called 'crushers'. My Jackelian capital's underground transport system using vacuum tunnels - 'the Middlesteel atmospheric' - was based on a prototype that was being tested in the 1840s, but never actually made it into full production. There was also a real patent for rubber pneumatic high-rise towers with a water-based skeleton. There's a lot of fantasy in history, just begging to be mined, and I've got my trusty pickaxe handy. Q: Interesting. As far as the characters, “The Kingdom Beyond the Waves” features a healthy mix of new and returning faces. Of the new characters, who were your favorites? Stephen: I think that would have to be Cornelius and Septimoth. After all, a clockwork cyborg vigilante and his half-lizard man sidekick, escaped from a foreign concentration camp and both functioning only for revenge. What's not to like? Q: Recently you signed a second Three-Book deal with HarperCollins Voyager for more novels set in the Jackelian milieu. Obviously the publisher must have a lot of confidence in you and this world that you’ve created, but what do you find appealing about the Kingdom of the Jackals? Also, could you give us an update on the next Jackelian adventures? Stephen: For me, the Jackelian world is my 'Trigan Empire' - Don Lawrence's classic science fiction/fantasy adventures that appeared in the mid-1960s in comic-book form in the UK. An infinitely expandable world where you paint great multi-coloured panoramas of adventure and squeeze just about any story, people or narrative into a coherent nearly-believable whole. It's one of the reasons why I've avoided that old fantasy trope, 'the map', at the start of the book. As soon as you fix your world in size, you diminish it. I've handed in my third Jackelian world book and just received it back with minor edits from HarperCollins for me to clean up. There's no title agreed yet, but it features the invasion of the Kingdom of Jackals from the north by a mysterious enemy called the Army of Shadows, who everyone mistakes at first for a very successful bunch of polar barbarians. If there's a deeper message than just a stonking good adventure story to the book, it's asking the question, how much can we consume before we harm our world and ourselves? That bloke what tried to become US President last time around did some slides on it, or something. Molly and Oliver are back in this novel, along with most of the original crew that survived the first book! I'm currently working on book four, too, about a fifth of the book in. It's a murder mystery set on the volcanic island of Jago, slap-bang in the middle of the Fire Sea. Jago is an underground civilization that used flash steam-powered systems to survive the ice age, having been colonised by Jackelian refugees from the continent about a thousand years prior. They still have a form of electricity working, and their transaction engine rooms (computers) are valve-based, so are orders of power above the steam-powered ones back in the kingdom. They're a dying society, though...as Jago is really only the kind of place you'd want to live if you had to hole up to survive an ice age. Now the rest of the world has returned back to springtime, they've been suffering population fall from emigration for centuries. Once Jago was the last shining light of civilization, now they're a faded, sad nation, running to ruin. Book five is a war story between the Kingdom of Jackals and their neighbours to the south, Cassarabia. It's been brewing over the last few books and it's time to sort out who's top dog. There should be some good airship-on-airship action in this one, let me tell you! Fans of Hornblower and the like should be very pleased. Book six is a tale of intrigue which will feature the native Jackelian secret service, a rather dowdy, cheap, dirty-fighting organisation which has long laboured in the shadows of the far more glamorous Court of the Air. Unfortunately, they find themselves having to save Jackals with only their wits and a very poorly funded pension scheme backing their efforts. All six novels are self-contained, and the one common character who will appear in all of them is Commodore Black. Q: On June 10, 2008, “The Court of the Air” will finally hit US shelves. Are you excited/anxious about this release and how it will do in the United States, and what do you think about Tor publishing your novel? Stephen: I'm very happy to be hitting the USA, and even happier to be in the hands of Tor. They really understand the SFF market and - in the argot of the US military - Tor seems to have established full-spectrum dominance over the theatre of operations out there in the home market for my chosen genre. As to how I feel, kind of like the Beatles before arriving in JFK. I've had nothing but badgering for the last twelve months from US readers unhappy they haven't been able to buy the book locally. Now's their chance! Q: Back in February, “The Court of the Air” was one of only ten novels—and the only one of speculative fiction—to be presented at the Berlin International Film Festival. What kind of experience was that and did anything come out of it? Stephen: I'm sworn to secrecy on this one. Suffice it to say that Hollywood moves at its own pace and on its own terms, and there's many a slip twix a cup and a lip on the journey. Even being optioned by a Spielberg, Lucas or a Jackson doesn't mean a whole lot until the popcorn is actually being served and the unfeasibly tall bloke annoyingly plonks himself down in front of your seat. It was very flattering to be the only fantasy novel pitched to the great and the good at the world's largest film festival, though. Sean Connery would make a very good king of Jackals. Sean, you listening? Come to think of it, how about Harrison Ford as Harry Stave? Q: Lastly, Richard Morgan’s article HERE about science fiction/fantasy readership/criticisms created quite a furor. What are your thoughts on the subject? Stephen: Ah, Richard, Richard, we feel your pain. It's an interesting, intelligent piece and Richard makes some valid points, plus I think many a professional SFF author will privately wince and, in our dark times, understand exactly how he feels. I suspect part of his muscularity of feeling comes from arriving late to the fan with a capital 'F' party, though. The fandom he describes and is reacting against has been acting pretty much exactly as described since the 1930s. Fans come up and agree with you by disagreeing with you, it's like shaking hands and slapping backs. They're a very vocal minority, but they shouldn't be confused with your real readership - an author's sales numbers come from fans with a small 'f'. People who kind of dig SFF novels and movies, who play Halo on their Xbox, but will never go to a Con, and probably think Filk is a really bad bovine illness. A Hugo can be swung by an actively voting population of less people than can squeeze into my local McDonalds, and the people who really vote for my work do so with little slips of paper bearing Her Majesty's head on them (shortly, said ballot to be widened to include illustrations of US Presidents). I have to say, though, I do possess very catholic reading tastes - and I have never understood the mentality of fans who say they'll only ever read SF but never fantasy, or vice versa. Dude, it's the same beast. Science fiction is a root sub-genre of fantasy, after all. After the Emperor's clothes have been ripped off, science fiction is usually just fantasy with some cribbed notes from Nature magazine and Scientific American on quantum tunnelling and genetic engineering thrown into the mix. I used to work for Nature magazine - having set up Nature.com for them - I know these things, trust me. There. All genre arguments settled! The King of the Jackelians has spoken. NOTE: As you can see, I've changed up the format for my book reviews a little bit. The goal is to present a book review that is more organized and informational, while catering to a wider audience. Of course, this is only a trial run, so please feel free to leave any comments, including yays, nays, advice and whatnot. Thanks for your time and much love & respect :D Robert -- Fantasy Book Critic I posted my thoughts on sff world on this one and I have to say that it is an excellent book and it will be in my top five for this year despite stiff competition. Right now is number 1, with House of Suns number 2, Line War 3, LAOK 4 and Matter 5, but there are several blockbuster books for me to come so things can change. This year I will be hard pressed to make a top 5 or even top 15 book list since there are already so many excellent books that came out. TKBtW is much closer to pure-adventure sf than the first one and tighter. It's a non-stop ride and the last 60 pages before the epilogue are just unbelievable action. Regarding the review here - I love the new format since it's very informative and it would make me much more to pick a book. I still shudder to think of the work you put in to write this much about a book, but I appreciate it a lot all the same. The q&a and especially the hints about the future books are excellent too - any new Jackelian book is a buy/read on publication for me. I dig the new format also. best : ) Liviu, I haven't been by SFFWorld for a while now, so I'll need to make a pit stop later today :) "The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" will definitely be one of my favorite books of the year, but it's going to be hard to rate with so many great books out there and so many more yet to come... Yeah, I thought the interview was great and really appreciated that Stephen was so forthcoming about his future Jackelian books, which sound like must-reading :D Also, I'm glad that you and Reanimanted like the new format :) Excellent interview and review! :) I have this on my shelf, and I'll probably start it tonight properly. "[T]he people who really vote for my work do so with little slips of paper bearing Her Majesty's head on them..." I really like that; I'll have to remember it ;) Mihai A. said... Very interesting change, Robert, it is a nice idea, I like it. Where do you get so much resources to do all this things :)? Chris, thanks! I hope you enjoy "The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" more than you did "The Host" :D Mihai, the idea just came to me suddenly. I felt my reviews were getting stale so I wanted to change things up and this format was the first thing that popped into my head. So we'll see how it goes... It's not that I'm not enjoying it, generally, it's just that I'm having difficulty with the meandery middle passage, and I'm having a bit of problem with actual time to devote to getting past that section! ;) I know one of my guest reviewers is a huge fan of the author, and considering my time problems, I may forward it onto them :) I like the new format! Very good. There are a few small changes I'll be making to things, too. I've gone back to including the page count and the release date as I used to; I may reintroduce the rating system, not too sure. My problem is that I don't keep it consistent. There are certain things I do most of the time, but forget on some reviews. I may do a huge trawl, adding things like that to my old reviews. Honestly, I really didn't notice any slowdowns. For me at least, the book went by really quickly... I'm glad you like the new format. I'll probably be tweaking things for a bit. Like just recently, I realized I should be adding the cover art information as well :) I doubt I'll ever go back and reformat my old reviews. Not enough time and I'm too lazy ;) I've been thinking about a rating system, but what I have in mind is pretty complicated and would take up a lot of time & effort, so I'm holding off for now... I like the changes you bring to your blog. Keeps things fresh :) Jasper Brownrigg said... I have only just come across this blog when looking for info on the "sequel" to 'The Court of the Air', but I found it to be very indepth and useful read. Probably the most comprehensive review I've ever come across of a book (maybe shows how frequently I read book reviews, i.e. not at all). It is nicely laid out with well defined headings so you can just skip the information you do not want and the Q&A always adds an unbeatable personal touch. I suspect that I will end up bookmarking this and coming back to look at what you have to say on other books. jasper -- random SF reader :P Caius Caligula said... I agree with you on Commodore Black. He's awesome, though more so if you read Court of the Air, and more so in Court of the Air I found a little more depth to the characters than you did, but that might just be me and my own lack of taste. :D All in all, liked the review, and I like the book even more. It's part of what I call my "private collection"-- the books I won't give away or sell at all. mar said... I won these books over two years ago and they were never received even though I followed through with an email. 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__label__wiki	0.583154	0.583154	High School DxD Hero Fanservice Review Episode 06 wizardofecchi •May 23, 2018High School DxD, High School DxD Hero, TV fanservice review The battle concludes allowing the story (and service) to move on. Rias provides some boobage and Kunou (!) gets an eyecatch. Starting where last week left off, Rias appears after Issei enacts his “Oppai summon.” Her new bra just magically comes unfastened and falls off as if the laws of the universe demand Rias’s oppai be shown. Wow, anyone else getting 7 Sins flashbacks? Excellent boob and nipple design marred by ridiculous lighting. You can barely even see the nipples at times. Nothing a little movie magic can’t handle later I suppose. Sadly, Elsha bids Issei farewell, at least for now. I guess one can hope that she randomly appears in a BD special a couple seasons down the line like Grayfia once did. Wow, Kunou nipples. Even if it is only an eyecatch, I honestly did not see this coming. I’ve read some accounts that still place Kunou in Elementary School (6th grade) and others that say first year Junior High (7th grade). Basically, about the same age roughly as Mikan. Not that there haven’t been even younger girls shown topless in anime before, but in the past several years there seems to have been an unspoken cutoff point around the age of 14 or so. Add to this that Kunou was very childlike and innocent in the show, I just figured she would be left out of the harem equation (at least on the anime side of things). This is an interesting development. I certainly commend Passione’s courage as even in Japan this is not an easy decision in the current environment. Will be interesting to see how the US release handles this. Most of the episode is focused on Issei’s new powers, which basically just amount to a temporary boost in strength/mobility and not much else. Even when giving Cao Cao his best shot, it’s clear that Issei just isn’t strong enough to win. Thankfully a plot contrivance appears in the form of one of the five Dragon Kings (Yu-Long) appearing out of nowhere to save the day. Yu-Long is so powerful that he stops Cao Cao’s legendary spear with just one finger. And it doesn’t even draw blood. As Issei begins one last ranged attack at Cao Cao, Yu-Long touches Issei’s arm. This subtly suggests he is empowering Issei’s attack, and the effect is that Cao Cao is caught off guard by its strength and takes damage to his right eye. Cao Cao is enraged and about to unleash his ultimate weapon before this comrades calm him down and talk him into retreat. The good guys win, yay. And here is the sad part of the episode. Our heroes catch a train to return home right after the battle ends. Meaning we never get to see that Kyoto bathhouse scene that was teased in previous episodes. Issei also laments that he should have asked Yasaka to show him her tits in thanks for being rescued. Which knowing this anime, she very likely would have done. Our heroes return home, leading to a fun little scene. Azazel speculates that one day Kunou will be as well endowed as her mother Yasaka, prompting Issei to voice boisterously that he doesn’t have any interest in little girls. Koneko gut punches Issei on the spot, and is moody for the rest of the scene. Also in this scene, Issei learns that Ravel will soon be joining the academy to study along with everyone else (yesss). In the final scene of this episode, we see Sairaorg training as he is approached by an attractive (yet nameless?) woman who informs him of Issei’s growth in power. More future harem fun? Let’s hope. Webms webm album To be sure, the shonen aspect of this show has been done before- and done better- by countless other anime. Which isn’t to say the shonen aspects are bad here, they are solid. It’s just, veteran anime fans have seen this play out a million times before and seen it done at really high levels. With that said, in previous DxD seasons it felt like the show was only pretending to be shonen to act as a cover. This time, the shonen aspect feels genuine, and actually makes this show watchable even for people who are put off by boobs in anime. And while I realize the service level of this season is easily below the previous ones, if embracing the normies helps this show go on for many more seasons, then I’ll happily take that trade. As sad as it is, I think we are in an era now where purist ecchi anime tend to be one and done. If you want to last, you need at least half your dedicated fanbase to be Type A. The last three episodes have been pretty dry, which I guess explains why the two episodes before them splurged on service. Hopefully the next few episodes will do the same before an inevitable plot heavy closure in the final episodes. I’m still really enjoying these episodes and I like that they seem to be utilizing a greater variety of characters than past seasons did. There’s still a chance that some of the service scenes we hoped to get but didn’t see will pop up on BD, but as of yet there’s no concrete indication of added scenes or specials on BD just yet. I really hope we get them because I can already think of a few specials I’d really like to see and the series still has six episodes to go. Hentai OVA release schedule May 2018 Tachibanakan Triangle fanservice review episode 8	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1217
__label__wiki	0.965437	0.965437	FashionBehindtheScene ESPN eyeing David Cone with Jessica Mendoza’s Sunday night spot in limbo Emmerdale spoilers: Beloved resident final victim of Graham Foster in secret exit plot? What Is Jerry Harris Doing After ‘Cheer’? Fans Can’t Get Enough Of Him Directors Describe Their Key Scenes in the Past Year’s Top Documentary Films Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds Reunite in Birthday Video for Betty White Home » Celebrities » Why Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Are Feuding Again Why Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Are Feuding Again Fans could not have been happier to see Nicki Minaj and Cardi B make up last year after their infamous fight during New York Fashion Week. However, that ceasefire might be over, as the two femcees have seemingly been shading each other during the week of Aug. 11. So, what happened? Why are they reportedly going at each other again? Here’s what’s going on between Minaj and Cardi B. It all started with comments Nicki Minaj made So, Minaj hasn’t gotten over all that drama surrounding “MotorSport,” which featured Cardi B and caused their first fall out. Fans will remember how Cardi B made comments about the collaboration that Minaj said “hurt” her feelings. In a new interview on the Joe Budden Podcast, Minaj accused media figures, like Budden, of instigating the drama around the track and spreading lies in an alleged attempt to ruin her career. She then reminded him of her “authentic come-up,” explaining that she became famous solely on the strength of her musical talents. “I still had to go through these things because of people like you who made a sport out of tearing down a young, black woman who’s done nothing but come in this game with an authentic come-up, writing raps, and doing what the f*** was really necessary,” she said (via Complex). “No Instagram, no reality shows, no sucking DJs’ dcks.” https://www.instagram.com/p/ButhSmSnA46/ Cue the record scratch Listeners interpreted the last line as shade toward Cardi B, who became famous through Instagram, as well as her spot on Love & Hip Hop: New York, where she worked with (and allegedly dated) DJ Self. Cardi B has also admitted to using ghostwriters on her critically-acclaimed debut album, Invasion of Privacy (2018). But Minaj didn’t stop there. She went on to talk about how social media users have recently been sharing their top 50 rappers and seemed to throw more shade toward a certain, unnamed person. “I would feel so fcking crazy if I had No. 1s and Grammys and ain’t on nobody’s top 50 list,” she said in an apparent reference to Cardi B, who has several No. 1 singles and a Grammy Award. If you’ve seen any of the lists floating around on social media, you know that while Minaj landed on a handful of them, the “I Like It” rapper was noticeably missing from almost all of them. Shady, right? Cardi B’s alleged response to Nicki Minaj was even shadier Shortly after Minaj’s comments, Cardi B took to Twitter to share a list of some of the world’s most successful albums, which included Invasion of Privacy. “Only list I give a f*** about,” she tweeted. She later used Mariah Carey’s 2009 hit, “Obsessed,” to call out one of her haters. “Have you ever had somebody sooo obsessed with you?” she wrote on Instagram. “Sh*t starts to feel a little creepy … truly spooky.” https://www.instagram.com/p/B1M3fjJAfIN/ Minaj did not respond to the comments, but her fans did. They unearthed an old video of Cardi B allegedly staring at and scrolling past one of Minaj’s Instagram photos, suggesting she’s actually the one who is “obsessed” with the “MEGATRON” rapper. Later, Minaj changed both her Twitter and Instagram avatars to the same photo. As of writing, that’s the latest in this drama. But knowing them, it won’t be the last. Stay tuned. Dog The Bounty Hunter admits he’s ‘broke’ and fears he’ll lose his home as family bashes new girlfriend – The Sun ‘The Climb’ Screening and Q&A Will Be Broadcast to Theaters Nationwide from Sundance Grieving father of Molly Russell says tech giants must be forced to hand over data – The Sun Meghan Markle and Prince Harry ‘clash with Palace over big-money deals’ and talks could drag on for six months – The Sun Stop all this silly hysteria…Brits aren’t sexist and Bafta isn’t racist – The Sun Copyright © 2020 FashionBehindtheScene	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1220
__label__wiki	0.548615	0.548615	Suscribe now FE Week Why the delay for Learndirect inspection report? Alix Robertson Fri 28th Apr 2017, 10.00 Ofsted’s eagerly awaited inspection report on the nation’s largest FE provider has been delayed by six weeks, with the “silence period” before the election given as the reason. Learndirect was visited by the education watchdog a month ago, and speculation has been mounting over the grade it will receive. However, in an unusual move Ofsted told FE Week on April 27 that it would be withholding the report for another six weeks until the general election is over. “Ofsted, like other government departments, is subject to certain limitations on activity during election silence periods under guidance set out by the Cabinet Office,” said a spokesperson. “In line with the guidance, we will not publish the inspection report at this time because of the provider’s significance as a national provider of FE training.” He confirmed Ofsted had “inspected this learning provider in late March 2017” and planned “to publish the inspection report after the general election on June 8”. The delay will mean around a 10-week gap between the Sheffield-based provider’s inspection and the announcement of its new Ofsted rating. The usual time period between the end of an inspection and publication of the resulting report is generally four to six weeks, meaning the treatment of Learndirect is highly irregular. The provider itself blamed data issues for the hold-up, apparently contradicting Ofsted’s explanation that election purdah was behind the hold-up. A spokesperson told FE Week that the delay was to allow more time for the provider to hand over relevant data due to its size. “We have recently been inspected and due to the scope of Learndirect’s provision we are still providing Ofsted with data,” she said. “While this process continues, we have received notification from Ofsted that our report will not be published for at least the next six weeks.” When FE Week challenged Ofsted to explain the contradiction between its account of the delay and that provided by Learndirect, we were told to take it up with the provider. A spokesperson did however admit that some exchange of data was still taking place, because the average period of “26 working days” between inspection and publication had been disrupted by the Easter holidays. Learndirect has hit the headlines a number of times in recent years, chiefly due to the size of its topslices – a process in which lead providers retain government funding as management fees, before paying a subcontractor to do the training for the remaining sum. It retained almost £20 million in management fees from its 64 subcontractors in 2015/16 – amounting to 36 per cent of the £55.3 million it received in funding from the Skills Funding Agency. Learndirect was awarded the largest adult education budget in the country from the SFA for 2016/17 (£60,199,994), and had the second largest allocations for both adult apprenticeships and advanced learning loans (£30,868,330 and £5,116,184). It also came out on top this February in the race to win European Social Fund contracts, securing 26 deals worth almost £49.5 million, according to FE Week analysis. More on this theme Ofsted watch: Troubled college and Williamson’s alma mater among swathe of positive results Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels Grade 4 provider to close after losing Ofsted appeal Gender pay gap doubles for apprentices Skills advisory panels set to influence which FE courses receive funding ‘I’ve never experienced anything like this’: Shrewsbury College in grade 4 battle Investigation: Highest principals’ pay plummets FE is a ‘ticking time bomb’, says college chief I wonder if providers who get the ‘call’ for notice of inspection in the run up to election, can use the election as an excuse ‘sorry you can’t come in and inspect us, we are under purdah” Colin Cartmell-Browne Any possible doubt that OFSTED is a political tool has just been removed. Carolyn Tone Interesting times eh? 10 comments posted, but only 2 visible. It’s now touching on 7 weeks. The Minister is in place, the Government is in place. Let’s hope it is published soon. 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__label__cc	0.533944	0.466056	General Discussion: Catholicism The interpretation of Vatican II and its connection with the current crisis of the Church Richard Mix July 2017 Real Judeochristians have no truck with al-jabr either, and leave all astronomical speculation to the Islamo-hellenists as well. Thanked by 1JL CharlesW July 2017 Actually, the Judaeo-Christian culture (pace the AltRight's fevered yappings) is the foundational culture of Europe--all of it--and the Americas--ALL of them. Oh Lord, Europe is even more messed up than we are. Catholicism has been heading toward the rocks for centuries there and here. That has accelerated in more recent times. I would like to see that change, but there isn't a snowball's chance with our current leadership, either political or religious. tomjaw July 2017 Oh Lord, Europe is even more messed up than we are. Yes, this is true but this is only because the Church has not been able (partially due to incompetence) to point out that the infamous 'Enlightenment' is akin to the Emperor's new clothes, and secondly that the worship of Demos (democracy) is not really a good idea i.e. Two wolves and a sheep voting what to have for dinner, or two sheep and a wolf. If steam locomotives were still around in regular daily use they'd be gritty and sooty and oily and filthy; Did you know that French Engineers (Steam Locomotive drivers) traditionally wore white gloves? Did you know that British Steam Locomotive Drivers and Firemen (stokers) wore white shirts... How many railway staff wore white jackets? Have a look at Railway photographs, take note of the glass train shed roof, the brightly painted Locomotives and Carriages... in most of the photographs you will see they were spotless. For obvious reasons photographs taken in WWII, and some of those taken in the 50's and 60's show plenty of dirt and dust... Not all of it the cause of Steam Locomotives, Diesels can be just as dirty. We should not take memories of the last few years of Steam, when everything was being run down, to be the rule. francis July 2017 On priests and bishops who won't allow Gregorian chant, Latin, or act weird at the mention of the EF - I would love to see someone stand straight up, look them square in the eye, and say 'father, you haven't the authority to forbid chant - the Second Vatican Council ordered that it be preserved and cultivated'. It would almost be worth losing one's 'job' for. I believe this actually happens on a regular basis. Thanked by 2ClergetKubisz StimsonInRehab Which again highlights the anti-Catholic agenda that wars against itself from within. We should not take memories of the last few years of Steam, when everything was being run down, to be the rule. True. Train buff here. They were beautiful machines meticulously maintained. Passenger service was excellent. Toward the end of steam when diesels were taking over, that changed and the "steamies" were let go. The diesels proved cheaper, needed fewer stops for fuel, and did not require the heavy maintenance steam engines needed. Standardized controls meant diesels of different manufacture could be used together. All this time the airlines were chipping away at passenger revenue. The church has been saturated with all the errors and trends followed by the secular society. I think Europe tends toward socialism more than to democracy. Seems like our current church leadership is doing the same. Thanked by 1tomjaw dad29 July 2017 I used the formula [that] Judaeo-Christian culture is the FOUNDATIONAL culture [of the West] for a reason. Do not confuse "foundation" with "building above the foundation"--which building is, indeed, crumbling. For some, that crumbling is because of the OF Mass. Hmmmm/ MatthewRoth July 2017 I’m frustrated with all of the talk of the need for reform. Why not just dump the bad reforms to the Roman Office (pretty much all reforms have been bad ones!), dump the Holy Week of 1955, restore folded chasubles, dump feasts from the general calendar, drop most remaining feasts to semidouble and simplex, restore most but not all of the pre–1955 Octaves & eliminate the rules of 1911, privilege the Lenten ferial days, eliminate (or at least fix down) the feast of the Holy Family, and call it a day? I would also restore the rubrics of the Mass to their pre–1962 state. I realize the Council Fathers were likely happy that the Sacred Congregation of Rites had already dropped doubling the readings, but when you do it regularly, it makes so much sense. There was no need to revise the baptism of infants or the supplying of rites, based on the council’s justification. Catechesis would suffice. It’s ironic that the catechumenate is restored but the Lenten liturgy which preserved the remnants was trashed. I’ll write more about this elsewhere, but my gut reaction is that the Fathers of Vatican II wrote a document and signed it with fingers crossed behind their backs. StimsonInRehab July 2017 Okay, Christopher the Hyphenated (And Potentially English Tory Peer), here's my chiming in!: First, although I am no poster boy for the SSPX (or for Catholicism, to be frank) I will say there is an interesting argument going around that Cardinal Muller is actually trying to save the Society by placing the roadblocks in regularization. As in, a sort of subtle backhanded way of the Cardinal keeping the Society out of the fine mess the mainstream Church has gotten itself into. I'm not sure how much I buy into it but it is the most charitable interpretation of the Cardinal's stipulations. more addressing and opposing the things some have put forth above: http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/3306-the-revolution-of-vatican-ii-was-misinterpreted rich_enough July 2017 I never quite understood the argument that since the old rite was so often celebrated sloppily back in the day, we're better off with a new rite ( . . . often celebrated sloppily). Thanked by 3tomjaw francis eft94530 often celebrated with sloppiness and often abuse. Chris Garton-Zavesky July 2017 I've just started reading (for the 3rd time) The Reform of the Liturgy 1948-1975. I failed to finish it the first two times. Thanked by 1eft94530 I don't think I could bear to read it at all. Periodically, I take up a project of reading stuff I expect to disagree with, on the grounds that I shouldn't just read digests of their positions by people who already disagree. So, I've read Barack Obama, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and -- relevant to CMMA questions, Laslo Dobzsay and Annibale Bugnini. Thanked by 3a_f_hawkins francis Elmar Know Thine Enemy. I have over a period of ten years (in the 90's) read numerous things on other spiritualities. Creation Spirituality, Masonry, Paganism, Witchcraft, Wicca, Aztec Culture, Luthernism, Protestantism, New Age (including deformed angelology and Harry Potter phenomenon), AMORC, Rossecrucianism, Charismatic Movement, Ascended Masters, Buddah, Vishnu, Hindu, Ying-Yang, Black and White Magic, Reike, Theosophy, christian Science, Scientology, Mormonism, Jehovas Witness, Ecumenism, Satanism and others. Also studies on heretical sects. Guess I owe it to myself to read the Bugnini too. M. Jackson Osborn July 2017 Francis and Chris - For your very catholic (note the lower case 'c') reading regimen you might truly profit from the Caroline divines. These were some very Catholic-leaning, 'via media', Anglicans during the time of Charles II. They include Jeremy Taylor, Lancelot Andrewes, Archbishop Laud, and others. (A 'divine', for those who may be unfamiliar with that usage, is a theologian - hence, St John the Divine.) Thanked by 3CharlesW francis CHGiffen o.. i forgot one of my studies... Americanism https://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/l13teste.htm From the foregoing it is manifest, beloved son, that we are not able to give approval to those views which, in their collective sense, are called by some "Americanism." But if by this name are to be understood certain endowments of mind which belong to the American people, just as other characteristics belong to various other nations, and if, moreover, by it is designated your political condition and the laws and customs by which you are governed, there is no reason to take exception to the name. But if this is to be so understood that the doctrines which have been adverted to above are not only indicated, but exalted, there can be no manner of doubt that our venerable brethren, the bishops of America, would be the first to repudiate and condemn it as being most injurious to themselves and to their country. For it would give rise to the suspicion that there are among you some who conceive and would have the Church in America to be different from what it is in the rest of the world. But the true church is one, as by unity of doctrine, so by unity of government, and she is catholic also. Since God has placed the center and foundation of unity in the chair of Blessed Peter, she is rightly called the Roman Church, for "where Peter is, there is the church." Wherefore, if anybody wishes to be considered a real Catholic, he ought to be able to say from his heart the selfsame words which Jerome addressed to Pope Damasus: "I, acknowledging no other leader than Christ, am bound in fellowship with Your Holiness; that is, with the chair of Peter. I know that the church was built upon him as its rock, and that whosoever gathereth not with you, scattereth." We having thought it fitting, beloved son, in view of your high office, that this letter should be addressed specially to you. It will also be our care to see that copies are sent to the bishops of the United States, testifying again that love by which we embrace your whole country, a country which in past times has done so much for the cause of religion, and which will by the Divine assistance continue to do still greater things. To you, and to all the faithful of America, we grant most lovingly, as a pledge of Divine assistance, our apostolic benediction. mmeladirectress July 2017 >> A 'divine', for those who may be unfamiliar with that usage, is a theologian now really, this is taking post V II feminist progressivism too far. Bette Midler, a theologian?! Thanked by 2CharlesW MarkS now really... I can only imagine that 'post V II feminist progressivism' (or, for that matter, any sort of feminism) and 'divine' in the same sentence would be an utter oxymoron, and that the equation of them in anyone's mind would be symptomatic of grievous mental disorder. 'Now really', indeed! By what philological wizardry could anyone have connected the one with the other? (And, who is Bette Midler???) >> who is Bette Midler??? a nobody of a show biz person who calls herself the divine Miss M MJO no offense was intended! it was just a little straight line for you folks.... but even so I dare to guess, her theology (if she had any) might not be worse than some I've heard in the last 30 years, lol Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn Bette Midler is Jewish. is she? I didn't know that. I have an idea of her politics though. cough Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a painter. Her parents, originally from New Jersey, were both from Jewish immigrant families (from Russia, Poland, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Also studies on heretical sects. Guess I owe it to myself to read the Bugnini too. Couldn't be much worse, I suppose. ClergetKubisz July 2017 Oh, yes it could. Read Jungmann or de Chardin. He refers to himself in the 3rd person, calling himself "the secretariat". It can be mildly distracting, like listening to a Bob Dole campaign speech. http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/newmass/roman.html "The most influential of the new liturgists, the great architect of the post-Vatican II liturgical revolution, was Father Annibale Bugnini. Father Bonneterre recounts a visit by Father Bugnini to a liturgical convention held at Thieulin near Chartres at which forty religious superiors and seminary rectors were present, making clear the extent of the influence of the liturgical Bolsheviks on the Church establishment in France. He cites a Father Duployé as stating: Some days before the reunion at Thieulin, I had a visit from an Italian Lazarist, Fr. Bugnini, who had asked me to obtain an invitation for him. The Father listened very attentively, without saying a word, for four days. During our return journey to Paris, as the train was passing along the Swiss Lake at Versailles, he said to me: "I admire what you are doing, but the greatest service I can render you is never to say a word in Rome about all that I have just heard." Father Bonneterre comments: This revealing text shows us one of the first appearances of the "gravedigger of the Mass," a revolutionary more clever than the others, he who killed the Catholic liturgy before disappearing from the official scene. So it was at this date that the "Counter-Church" completely pervaded the Liturgical Movement. Until then it had been occupied by the modernist and ecumenical forces: after the war it was rotten enough for Freemasonry to take direct control of the reins: Satan got into the Trojan Horse. The reference to Freemasonry is based on the fact that in 1975 Pope Paul VI removed Bugnini, an Archbishop by then, from his position as Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, dissolved the entire Congregation, and in 1976 exiled him as Nuncio to Iran. Pope Paul did this because he had been given documentation which convinced him that the Archbishop was a freemason. Bugnini denied that he was a mason, but accepted that he was dismissed because the Pope believed him to be a member of the Brotherhood. All the relevant documentation is contained in Chapter 24 of my book Pope Paul’s New Mass. Father Bonneterre explains that: Although the reforms of Pius XII had given some satisfaction to the leaders of the Movement, the implacable orthodoxy that the Pope had maintained throughout had not been to their taste. New and more daring reforms were called for, and they needed a pope who understood the problem of ecumenism and who was a wholehearted supporter of the Movement. He claims that “The news of the death of the Angelic Pastor was received with almost delirious joy by the deviated Liturgical Movement.” The aged Dom Lambert Beauduin had not the least doubt as to the cardinal he hoped would be elected, and confided his hopes to Father Bouyer: If they elect Roncalli," he said "all will be saved. He will be capable of calling a Council and canonizing ecumenism..." Silence fell; then, with a return of his old mischievousness, he said with flashing eyes, "I believe we have a good chance. Most of the cardinals are not sure what to do. They are capable of voting for him. To consecrate ecumenism, yes, indeed, but also to consecrate the Liturgical Movement, such would be the task of the long-awaited Council. For more than forty years the new liturgists had been spreading their errors, they had succeeded in influencing a considerable portion of the Catholic hierarchy, and they had won some encouraging reforms from the Holy See. All this patient underground work was about to bear fruit. The liturgical revolutionaries took advantage of the Constitution on the Liturgy to get their ideas accepted. Then, when they were appointed members of the Consilium, they only had to draw the extreme conclusions from the principles of Vatican II. Father Bonneterre insists that: This new rite carries on in its turn all the errors which have come forth since the beginning of the deviations of the "Movement." This rite is ecumenical, antiquarian, community-based, democratic, and almost totally desacralized; it also echoes the theological deviations of the modernists and the Protestants: toning down the sense of the Real Presence and diminution of the ministerial role of the priesthood, of the sacrificial character of the Mass, and especially of its propitiatory character. The Eucharist becomes much more a communal love feast than the renewal of the Sacrifice of the Cross. It is thus with the New Mass that the Liturgical Movement which had started so well ended so badly. The 1959 liturgy of the Protestant Taizé community is printed as an appendix to the book, and shows some disturbing similarities to the New Mass. Father Bonneterre does not, however, refer to the alarming correspondence of the changes, principally omissions, made to the Order of Mass in the Missal of St. Pius V in the concoction of the order of Mass in the 1970 Missal and the almost identical omissions from the Sarum Missal made by Thomas Cranmer in concocting his 1549 Communion Service. These are documented in great detail in my book Pope Paul’s New Mass. Nor does he refer to the equally alarming correspondence between the liturgical principles permeating the Mass of Paul VI and those of the pseudo-synod of Pistoia condemned as pernicious by Pope Pius VI in his encyclical Auctorem Fidei of 1794. I would also say that, in places, Father Bonneterre seems to presume that the rite of Mass concocted by Father Bugnini’s Consilium represents what the leading members of the Liturgical Movement were aiming at. This might be true in the case of the “young wolves” who took over the movement, but is certainly not true of priests such as Beauduin, Casel, Parsch, or Bouyer. The principal aim of these men was to use the existing liturgy to achieve their pastoral aims, and not to impose a radical reform which made the liturgy that they knew, loved, and celebrated daily unrecognizable. In fairness to Father Bonneterre he does state that the leading figures of the original movement were frightened by the thinking of the young wolves. I have quoted him to this effect in this review. It would have been useful had he quoted the reaction of a priest such as Father Louis Bouyer, whom he cites quite often, to the actual reform that has been foisted upon us. He stated in 1969 that "We must speak plainly: there is practically no liturgy worthy of the name today in the Catholic Church"[12]; and "Perhaps in no other area is there a greater distance (and even formal opposition) between what the Council worked out and what we actually have”[13]; and that, in practice, “those who took it upon themselves to apply [?] the Council’s directives on this point have turned their backs deliberately on what Beauduin, Casel, and Pius Parsch had set out to do, and to which I had tried vainly to add some small contribution of my own.”[14] In 1975, Father Bouyer stated: "The Catholic liturgy has been overthrown under the pretext of rendering it more acceptable to the secularised masses, but in reality to conform it with the buffooneries that the religious orders were induced to impose, whether they liked it or not, upon the other clergy. We do not have to wait for the results: a sudden decline in religious practice, varying between twenty and forty per cent among those who were practising Catholics.... Those who were not have not displayed a trace of interest in this pseudo-missionary liturgy, particularly the young whom they had deluded themselves into thinking that they would win over with their clowning.[15] (cont'd...) The value of Father Bonneterre’s book would have been enhanced considerably had he been asked to adapt and update it by researching the wealth of documentation published since he wrote it in 1980, the most important item in this respect being the posthumous memoirs or Archbishop Bugnini, which provide the most valuable source available for researching the actual concoction of Pope Paul’s New Mass.[16] There are frequent references in this book to figures included in that of Father Bonneterre, and to many of the experts who are not. One of these, Father Joseph Gelineau, is described by Archbishop Bugnini as one of the "great masters of the international liturgical world".[17] This “great master tells us, with commendable honesty, but no a trace of regret: Let those who like myself have known and sung a Latin-Gregorian High Mass remember it if they can. Let them compare it with the Mass that we now have. Not only the words, the melodies, and some of the gestures are different. To tell the truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This needs to be said without ambiguity: the Roman Rite as we knew it no longer exists (le rite romain tel que nous l'avons connu n'existe plus). It has been destroyed (il est détruit).” [18] Despite these reservations, The Liturgical Movement—Guéranger to Beauduin to Bugnini is a book which, like Msgr. Gamber’s Reform of the Roman Rite, no Catholic can afford to be without if he wishes to understand the post-Vatican II liturgical revolution. It is profusely illustrated and has an excellent index. " eft94530 July 2017 The reference to Freemasonry is based on the fact that in 1975 Pope Paul VI removed Bugnini, an Archbishop by then, from his position as Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, dissolved the entire Congregation, and in 1976 exiled him as Nuncio to Iran. This seems sloppy. In 1969 the Consilium was dissolved and folded into the SCDWS. Did the SCDWS disappear or get renamed .. and when? Sacra Rituum Congregatio http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19690508_sacra-rituum-congregatio_lt.html http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19690508_sacra-rituum-congregatio_it.html francis August 2017 everything posted on the Vatican website after 1969 I take with the grain of salt... and actually a few documents before 1969 including musicam sacram in fact why aren't all the earlier encyclicals before 1969 on the Vatican website? that to me is very suspicious. if there are any encyclicals before 1969, it's only those that do not conflict with the documents after 1969. I could be wrong correct me if I am. as per your question, your guess is as good as mine, and who is going to tell us where we can get a more reputable answer? I am truly all ears and would love to hear your comments Chris Garton-Zavesky August 2017 EVERYTHING on the Vatican website was put there after 1969. everything posted on the Vatican website after 1969 CGZ I understand the fact that the web is a new phenomenon, however, why aren't all the previous documents of the magesterium residing there? Has church teaching and theology prior to 1969 been relegated to the category of non-relevance? Thanked by 2ClergetKubisz eft94530 CharlesW August 2017 It could just be the economics of going back and scanning all those documents. Other organizations, such as newspapers and historical archives have run into the same. No, it's true and very costly. As a former librarian, I am well aware of the costs of gathering materials, deciding what is even relevant and worth digitizing, buying equipment, hiring people and also the significant costs of indexing so you can even find anything when you want it. Perhaps someone has made the decision that the older documents are not as relevant or worth the cost. I think you meant you mistrust every document written after 1969, not posted after 1969? In any event, I don't use the Vatican website much because I find it easier to locate the material I want to find -- elsewhere. Charles, Could Francis have a point, given what the present Bishop of Rome has as his spending priorities? His Holiness has demonstrated an allergy to the traditional modes of operating, and an utter disdain for people who are attached to the traditional modes of thinking, teaching and worshipping. Who knows, or better yet, how could we possibly know? It is entirely possible. tomjaw August 2017 The Vatican website, runs just like the rest ... Without rhyme nor reason. Never attribute to conspiracy what can ably caused by incompetence. Thanked by 2CharlesW CHGiffen ClergetKubisz August 2017 And never confuse education with competence either. Sometimes, they don't come in the same package. Thanked by 1CharlesW Liam August 2017 Likewise don't confuse competence with wisdom. Thanked by 2M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen M. Jackson Osborn August 2017 Nor knowledge with wisdom. (Nor being smart with being wise.) francis September 2017 another interesting nugget while Bugnini was in the mention: ...which we faced then and yet still face, the problem of archeologism. The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness - which, of course, though it contains some good or at least intelligible motives, is mistaken and indeed vain. Because 'primitive Christianity' is now and in spite of all 'research' will ever remain largely unknown; because 'primitiveness' is no guarantee of value, and is, and was in great a reflection of ignorance. Grave abuses were as much an element in Christian liturgical behaviour from the beginning as now. (St Paul's strictures on Eucharistic behaviour are sufficient to show this!) Still more because 'my church' was not intended by Our Lord to be static or remain in perpetual childhood; but to be a living organism (likened to a plant), which develops and changes in externals by the interaction of its bequeathed divine life and history - the particular circumstances of the world into which it is set. There is no resemblance between the 'mustard-seed' and the full-grown tree. For those living in the days of its branching growth, the Tree is the thing, for the history of a living thing is part of its life, and the history of a divine thing is sacred. The wise may know that it began with a seed, but it is vain to try and dig it up, for it no longer exists, and the virtue and powers that it had now reside in the Tree. Very good: but in husbandry the authorities, the keepers of the Tree, must look after it, according to such wisdom as they possess, prune it, remove cankers, rid it of parasites and so forth. (With trepidation, knowing how little their knowledge of growth is!) But they will certainly do harm if they are obsessed with the desire of going back to the seed or even to the first youth when it was (as they imagine) pretty and unafflicted by evils. The other motive (now so confused with the primitivist one, even in the mind with any one of the reformers): aggiornamento: bringing up to date: that has its own grave dangers, as has been apparent throughout history. With this, 'ecumenicalness' has also become confused. (The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien, no. 306.) Thanked by 1mmeladirectress francis October 2017 well... that didn't take long... https://onepeterfive.com/italian-liturgist-alleged-to-be-working-on-ecumenical-mass-transubstantiation-is-not-a-dogma mmeladirectress October 2017 someone should email that guy the documents of Trent! here we go, just as I was saying a few weeks ago. people will think (or maybe they don't even care anymore) that they will be receiving communion when all they will really be doing is having some crackers and a sip of wine. eft94530 October 2017 I say come home or stay away. I have zero interest in wallowing in a foreign pig stye. dad29 October 2017 That won't be "foreign" for long, my friend. M. Jackson Osborn October 2017 LIke a bee, he gathered honey from many flowers. - Pindar only since WW2 Don't care when the term originated. Clearly, the Church (and most of her heretical offspring) have not abrogated, nor obrogated, the 10 Commandments which are about as "Judaeo" as they can be.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1228
__label__cc	0.604039	0.395961	Engineering Dept. Sign In or Create my Account to gain full access to our forums. By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of our community. Discussion Departments My Adventure up Black Mountain By n925tv, August 18, 2018 in Engineering Dept. n925tv 125 Primary Anchor Good evening everyone, (if this is in the wrong thread please feel free to move)... Took a hike up Black Mountain earlier today, located in Northern San Diego County near Rancho Penasquitos for those of you familiar with the area. While I went for the adventure and views, the various microwave towers and satellite dishes up there sparked my interest. As I explored around, I noticed most of the microwave towers (if that's what you call them), were owned by the telecommunications companies, even with former companies such as Cingular there, now taken over by AT&T. As for the satellite dishes seen in the photos here, there were no markings whatsoever about who owned them or even if they are used anymore. They are located in large compound on the summit located behind a gate which shows AT&T emergency contact info, but would that company have any use for 5 dishes up there? What kind of use would they be for on such a remote summit? The only other mountain top that I can recall here locally that has dishes on it, is Mt. San Miguel in South County, home of KNSD's transmitter and dishes. I would highly doubt these ones specifically on Black Mountain are for that use. More importantly, any locals around here in the SAN area know of any local TV stations using this peak for their services? I'm planning on going back up there again, so if there's any transmitter or receivers to look for, let me know and I'll try to pay more attention to them. I've also posted a few random pics of the dishes and whatnot up on the tower, for those of you who enjoy that kind of stuff. CaptainNews 268 Graphics Specialist I want to say it is cell service and transmission for military and emergency services. This mountain is quite similar to that of Santiago Peak in the Cleveland National Forest of Orange and Riverside counties. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) PTVNews 66 AM Anchor If anyone can annotate those images to describe what the various equipment is and what it's used for, I'd love to see. I've always wondered what the various things are. Weeters 682 I can't say for sure, but Black Mountain is an old AT&T Long Lines site (the big tower with square platforms around it) and my guess would be those satellites are old and part of AT&T's satellite communication network. Everything else looks like microwave relay, cellular service, and two-way radio (i.e. the City of San Diego, CHP, and at some point up until 2001, Home Depot). I spy some Ubiquiti AirFiber units in one of the pictures. A partial list of other services using the tower can be found here: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?action=fccProx&lat=32.9811953&lon=-117.1165775&r=1 You can see they're mostly emergency services and state/local agencies. If you click around in that Radio Reference link, you can see a lot of the licenses have several locations listed, and my guess would be all those dishes are redundant links to connect them all together. I poked around in the FCC database, but couldn't find any records showing that Black Mountain is used for any sort of TV service (even microwave relay.) rkolsen 1,585 A Member of Sinclair Broadcast Group I was trying to look but it kept crashing when I search on the FCC site with ASN and Lat/Long. Aren’t a lot of TV microwave receivers in domes that are steerable? If they're for ENG receive, yes. Those antennas usually look like short white cylinders facing upwards. You can see them clearly in this photo of the roof of 30 Rock that I borrowed from Flickr user Anthony Quintano. But a fixed relay between two fixed points would just be a standard microwave antenna similar to those in n925tv's photos and elsewhere in that 30 Rock photo. Eat News 4,700 KBEX-TV As for the satellite dishes seen in the photos here, there were no markings whatsoever about who owned them or even if they are used anymore. They are located in large compound on the summit located behind a gate which shows AT&T emergency contact info, but would that company have any use for 5 dishes up there? What kind of use would they be for on such a remote summit? The only other mountain top that I can recall here locally that has dishes on it, is Mt. San Miguel in South County, home of KNSD's transmitter and dishes. I would highly doubt these ones specifically on Black Mountain are for that use.. The dishes were cable TV "head-end" for Southwestern or Time Warner (COX head-end was on Cowles) cable (way back when)... They had receivers for all the LA tv stations, and it made sense to place the C-band HBO and CNN sat dishes up there also. The dishes are abandon, but who wants to pay someone to haul them down the mountain when nobody is complaining. ATT has always had bunch of Telco stuff up there like long lines and microwave multiplexers. Local broadcaster had other choices like Mt.Soledad, and Mt. Miguel When you mix very high powered broadcast transmitters with telephone and cable -tv stuff you can get major interference problems on the site. it's best to have those high powered items seperated from the local telco system. ATT was happy with Black Mountain because the location was pretty "clean" from problems. Plus ATT was there first. The longlines linked to the ATT building in San Diego (Hillcrest) at 6th st and Robinson. Cable TV was welcome on the site because they just needed a good path for the reception of L.A. broadcast TV...because that's what cable TV delivered in the 60's and 1970 to San Diego...more L.A. channels...and that new fangled 'HBO". Nowdays you can place the cable tv head-end anywhere you wish because of satellites, but in the olden days you placed the cable tv stuff on the mountain. As far as Two-way radio... There is some state and federal microwave ...but the 2-way transmitters are mostly on other peaks for the same reason...interference. SFTV 184 Why am I just seeing this post?! You just brought back memories. I used to hike that mountain a lot when I was younger. The views are amazing and it’s crazy you can see Downtown from up there. Since ive relocated north, ive been so busy I’ve yet to climb up San Bruno Mountain which is home to KNTV and some iHeartRadio and Entercom stations and not that far from where I stay. Edited December 22, 2018 by SFTV On 12/22/2018 at 2:07 AM, SFTV said: Was there nearly as much equipment up there back in the day? Must've been crazy to be in the middle of nowhere as well, with no residential development around! I've gotta try the Mt. San Miguel hike one day with all the transmitters up there. 1 hour ago, n925tv said: Still looks the same. i remember in elementary school during recess, we saw a large spark. Unfortunately one of the paragliders got electrocuted. We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. By using TVNewsTalk you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1235
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__label__cc	0.724918	0.275082	Author: perfectfrozentreat June 15, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment Five Fascinating Facts About Vanilla May 30, 2016 June 2, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment You know vanilla is oh-so-delicious, and you could probably guess that it’s the world’s most popular flavor and scent. From desserts to perfumes to bug repellents, its uses are far-reaching and not at all…vanilla. No surprise here: sales of our Frostline® Vanilla Soft Serve Mix far exceed our second most popular flavor – Chocolate – so we feel a particular affinity for this fabulous flavor. Just like the Mesoamericans who originally cultivated vanilla, we searched the land (cough, the internet) to gather and share these lesser-known facts about this popular spice. 1. It’s Ancient Just like chocolate, vanilla was first discovered in the region that is now Central America. It appears to have been discovered in the 15th century. However, 75% of today’s vanilla comes from Madagascar and the island of Réunion, where a vanilla vine was smuggled in the 1700s. On the island, the plant grew beautiful blossoms but infrequent and unpredictable pods (a.k.a. vanilla beans). The problem was that the region lacked the Melipone bee – found only in Mexico – to pollinate the flower. It took almost 50 years to develop a hand-pollination method for the plant. 2. It’s Part of History Thomas Jefferson introduced the U.S. to vanilla after tasting it in France, where he was serving as Ambassador to King Louis XVI. He wrote down the recipe for vanilla ice cream and was known to have served it alongside pastries during his term at the President’s House (now known as the White House). His hand-written note, dating back to the 1780s, is considered to be the first known recipe recorded by an American. It now lives in the Library of Congress. 3. It’s Expensive After saffron, vanilla is the most expensive spice in the world because it is so time-consuming and labor-intensive to produce. The plant, surprisingly from the orchid family, grows as a vine that can take years to mature. The plant produces a flower that makes the vanilla bean, and it only blooms for 24 hours. It must be pollinated during that time, or it will die. Outside of Central America, the flowers must be pollinated by hand with teeny-tiny tools. And after the beans are harvested, they can take six to nine months to cure. Not to mention, vanilla only grows between 10 to 20 degrees north or south of the Equator. Talk about a stubborn spice. 4. It’s Useful Beyond its uses as a flavor, vanilla has many other around-the-home applications, like freshening up your fridge (or microwave) and concealing the strong smell of paint. The next time you find yourself painting a bedroom, add a tablespoon of vanilla extract to the can to save your nostrils. In the kitchen, vanilla can be used (with water) to wipe down the fridge and microwave, eliminating any stale/stingy/sour odors that may be lingering. It can also be used to repel spiders and mosquitoes, neither of which can stand the vanilla scent we love! To create a safe DIY mosquito repellent, simply combine equal parts water and vanilla extract, spray it on your skin, and say sayonara to itchy bug bites. To repel spiders, place a bowl of vanilla beans (that have been preserved in vodka or vinegar) on any surface that you’d like to keep a spider-free zone. 5. It’s Popular Internationally, vanilla continues to rank as the most popular flavor of ice cream. But what’s the scoop on all the different varieties? Generally, anything labeled straight-up vanilla is made with vanilla extract or a substitute. Vanilla bean ice cream uses unprocessed beans from a vanilla pod, which appear as black specks. French vanilla does not use vanilla from France but a classic French method of making ice cream from an egg-custard base, accounting for its yellowish hue. “Vanilla” may have become a synonym for boring, but it’s obviously anything but. And while it’s expensive and labor-intensive in its original form, vanilla can be affordable and convenient as a soft serve. Contact us for a starter kit, including Frostline Vanilla Soft Serve Mix, to carry on the tradition of this popular treat. Ice Cream Sandwiches for Any Operation May 16, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / 2 Comments According to the Huffington Post, ice cream sandwiches are the new cupcake. Luckily, you don’t have to rethink your operation to get in on the trend before it goes the way of the cronut. Macro trends like nostalgia and extreme dining have influenced the resurgence of the ice cream sandwich. Customers love treats that remind them of their childhood, and they’re craving indulgent desserts as a reward for eating healthy the rest of the day. Restaurants around the globe are capitalizing on this trend, with recipes as simple as the original or as exotic as the S’mores Burger, made with Nutella spread, brûlée marshmallow, vanilla ice cream and Maldon sea salt on mini brioche. It’s easier than you think to offer your own twist on this classic treat, especially if you’re one of these types of operations: For Bakeries or Coffee Shops: You’re already known for fresh-baked goodies, so delicious ice cream sandwiches are only one step away. Adding a soft serve machine to your back of house will open up infinite flavor combinations that will take your most popular baked items to the next level. Try any of our recipes (or invent your own) and sandwich cool, creamy soft serve between cookies, brownies, cake slices and more. Cut a cake donut in half, fill the middle with coffee soft serve and add maple bacon crumbles to the center for a sweet and savory breakfast-turned-dessert combo to die for. For Frozen Yogurt Shops: The DIY trend continues to dominate in the foodservice space, especially when it comes to ice cream. As competition continues to grow, you need to continue to find new ways to get customers to choose your shop, rather than the store just down the street. Signature products and experiences could take your shop over the top. Partner with a local bakery to offer the fresh-baked brownies or other options to serve as the “bread” (see above). Invite your customers to create their own ice cream sandwiches in the wackiest flavor combinations available. You could even hold a contest for the most indulgent treat, complete with mix-ins and toppings. For Recreation Destinations: Unique food items are part of an amusement park’s DNA. Classics like caramel apples and cotton candy will always draw a crowd, but nothing drives return business better than a concoction that’s only available at your place. Using either hard-packed ice cream or soft serve, experiment with customer favorites to create an ice cream sandwich that’s unique to your location. Try funnel cake waffles as the vehicle for Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Soft Serve and watch the customers line up! See? Ice cream sandwiches are practical for any size or type of operation, and the sky’s the limit when it comes to flavor combinations. Your business just got a whole lot cooler. How To Engage Brokers to Drive Innovation April 29, 2016 April 29, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment As you may know, Frostline® Frozen Treats is manufactured and marketed by Kent Precision Foods Group. We want to share an exciting company-wide initiative that furthers our commitment to serving the needs of not only our customers, but our customers’ customers. At Kent Precision Foods Group, we regularly gather insights from leading foodservice research groups and organizations to stay ahead of flavor, consumer and industry trends. A focus on what’s coming next has helped us evolve our business with more innovative products and processes that benefit everyone who interacts with our company and brands. That’s why we have formed the KPFG Insights Foodservice Broker Advisory Board. The board includes a regional cross section of industry leaders with extensive experience, drawn from the country’s top brokers, including: Al McGarity – Gilbert Foods Phil Schmidt – Floyd B. Case Inc. Elizabeth Klingman – Acosta Ed Brink – Herspring-Gibbs Kyle Moen – Synergy Enterprises Dori Bilbrey – Menu Marketing By more directly engaging with the broker community, we hope to gather industry insights, learn more about competition, discover cross-merchandising opportunities, test promotion ideas, identify product gaps, ideate on new products, and collect operator feedback, including overall business insights and trend impact. KPFG will use this information to serve as a source of market intelligence for the entire foodservice industry and to create future product and marketing plans for our brands. The KPFG Insighters Foodservice Broker Advisory Board meets every six weeks via conference calls and at least twice a year face to face. Input from the first meeting, held in November, is already being incorporated into the KPFG Foodservice plan for 2016. For more information about the Broker Advisory Board or about KPFG, please visit precisionfoods.com. Chocolate: From Inaccessible to Everywhere April 14, 2016 April 27, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / 1 Comment When most of us hear the word “chocolate,” we think of candy, cookies, and other mouthwatering sweets. Of course, everyone loves a decadent dessert. But did you know that for 90% of chocolate’s existence, it was neither sweet nor easily accessible? As a modern treat defying that past, Frostline® Chocolate Soft Serve Mix brings you the history of its famed flavor. The ancient Mesoamericans discovered chocolate, probably around 1900 B.C. If you thought your cup of cocoa was a modern phenomenon, groups like the Olmec, Maya and Aztec had you beat 4,000 years ago. They drank chocolate as a bitter, frothy beverage. It might not sound as good as your classic hot chocolate, but its ingredients, which included chili peppers and other spices, were certainly “original.” Even in its unsweetened state, ancient chocolate was so popular that its availability was limited to society’s most elite. This begs the question: if the Mesoamericans weren’t in it for the sugar, what was the appeal? Watch out romantics, because history tells us they found chocolate to be a mood enhancer and aphrodisiac. They may have been on to something 3,500 years before Valentine’s Day was even invented. Due to its…interesting effects, people used to think chocolate had spiritual and mystical powers. They reserved it for rulers, warriors, priests and nobles at sacred ceremonies. In fact, the Spanish explorers who brought chocolate back to Europe only had the privilege of trying the stuff because the Aztec king mistook their leader for an incarnated deity. Europeans sweetened chocolate with cane sugar and cinnamon in the 1500s, but one thing remained unchanged: it was still only available to the rich and royal. Thank goodness for the invention of the steam engine in the 1700s, which made mass production possible. Today, the word “chocolate” has expanded to include a range of sweet and accessible treats, like Frostline Chocolate Soft Serve Mix. Unlike ancient chocolate, it’s refreshingly delicious, surprisingly affordable, and even available to customers with dietary restrictions. Frostline Vanilla Soft Serve Mix is also available for customers who prefer the classic cone. Sweet New Stamps March 30, 2016 April 27, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment The U.S. Postal Service has announced a new set of ice cream-themed stamps[1] that look good enough to eat. Designed by Ethel Kessler with illustrations by Nancy Stahl, they feature five classic soda fountain treats that are sure to inspire appetites. You’re probably familiar with most of them, but here’s a run down: Double-Scoop Ice Cream Cone: You guessed it—this is a classic, cone-shaped pastry stacked with two scoops of ice cream. Egg Cream: Oddly enough, this contains neither eggs nor cream. It’s a classic beverage consisting of milk, carbonated water, and chocolate syrup. Banana Split: Variations of this classic dessert are a dime a dozen, but it’s traditionally made with a split banana, ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, nuts, and cherries. Root Beer Float: A simple but stand-alone treat consisting of ice cream in root beer. Hot Fudge Sundae: Again, variations of this treat are endless, but it’s typically made with vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, nuts, sprinkles, and a cherry on top. Why the emphasis on soda fountain treats? According to USPS, soda fountains were important gathering places in U.S. history, especially when Prohibition banned alcohol sales[2]. During World War II, soda fountains popped up at military bases in the U.S. and abroad, because drinking a soda or indulging in a sundae reminded soldiers of simple pleasures at home[3]. Today soda fountain culture lives on in homes, restaurants, and frozen treat operations. Did you know Frostline® can help create the classic favorites featured on USPS’s new stamps? Ones you can actually eat? We offer soft serve mixes, frozen yogurt mixes, and frozen beverage mixes that can be substituted for traditional, hard-scoop ice cream. Because Frostline is economical to ship, convenient to store and easy to prep, you can offer a fresher product and make more money. Plus, many of our products are free of lactose, cholesterol, gluten, and dairy, so you can bring back childhood treats with a better for you twist. [1] https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2015/pr15_069.htm [2] http://www.dairyfoods.com/articles/91535-heres-one-stamp-you-wont-mind-licking [3] http://flicksandfood.com/postal-service-to-issue-weight-control-stamps-in-2016/ How To Embrace The Extreme Dining Trend March 17, 2016 April 27, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / 1 Comment If you own or operate a restaurant, you may have noticed that your customers’ orders seem erratic. It may seem like diners are undecided or confused about what they want to eat or drink. But according to Mintel’s 2016 Foodservice Trends report, that’s not the case. In a world full of never-ending choices, consumers are balancing their diets (and lives) by ordering extremes. To keep up, today’s food and beverage outlets have to cater to both ends of the dining spectrum – and Frostline can help. Splurge and Steal Most customers are finding reasons to dine across the entire price continuum. Busy professionals might grab fast food for lunch on a busy day, only to meet friends at a premium dining hot spot for an indulgent (and expensive) dinner. To balance the higher-priced items on your menu, consider offering an incredibly low-cost dessert. Frostline Soft Serve Mix is so affordable that you can even offer it as a complimentary treat to customers. Perfectly Prepared and DIY The level of choice customers want to make changes daily…even hourly. Overwhelmed by the options for customization, a customer may order a signature menu item exactly how you recommend it. They trust your chef to provide a delicious and well-balanced dish. But if you make it easy, the same customer will be delighted by the opportunity to DIY their dessert. With a soft serve machine and Frostline Soft Serve mix, you can offer endless customizable frozen treats – from a sundae bar with delicious toppings to a build-your-own milkshake station. Health and Indulgence While Millennials continue to clamor for healthier foods, they are most likely to choose foods based on their mood. If they feel like eating something indulgent, they’re going to go for it, even if they make healthy choices most of the time. Luckily for Millennials and all the others they influence, Frostline offers the best of both worlds. Both vanilla and chocolate flavors are lactose-free, gluten-free and low-fat, but they taste so rich and indulgent that customers can’t get enough. In 2016, foodservice is all about helping customers make easy choices to find balance. To do so, operators must embrace the “and” – even when it seems incongruous. With the help of Frostline® Soft Serve, you can make this extreme dining trend work for you. What’s Hot in Desserts February 25, 2016 April 27, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment With the start of 2016, you may be wondering what dessert trends will emerge this year. One category gaining traction is unexpected pairings, like exotic or even spicy flavors in sweet desserts[1]. “Operators are going to put a bit more thought into how they are incorporating chilies, cayenne and roasted garlic into unconventional ways of baking,” said Corporate Chef for Dawn Food Products, Kami R. Smith. She noted that cookies, brownies and mousse are great menu items for chocolate and spice[2]. Unexpected flavors are also finding their way into ice cream and soft serve. Sweet and salty, heat paired with sweet, and exotic flavor combinations are just a few of the trends showing up in freezers and soft serve machines. Olive oil and sea salt were big in 2015, but another savory ingredient that may emerge on the scene in 2016 is ground black pepper[3]. As we shake off winter, it’s easy to heat up your offerings with unusual creations that will keep customers guessing. With dozens of recipes and flavor combination ideas, Frostline® makes it easy to spice up your soft serve. [1] http://nrn.com/sweet-solutions/sweet-spicy-savory-horizon-2016-desserts [3] https://www.specialtyfood.com/news/article/ground-black-pepper-may-be-next-trendy-ice-cream-flavor/ 5 Things You Don’t Know About Frozen Yogurt February 5, 2016 April 27, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment February 6 is National Frozen Yogurt Day[1]. Let’s dig in spoon first and celebrate this ice-cold treat! Frozen yogurt is eaten almost as much as ice cream nowadays[2], and it’s easy to see why. Served in an infinite number of flavors and styles, it’s a delicious, healthier alternative to ice cream.[3] But it wasn’t always seen so favorably. The health-conscious trend of the 1970s spurred the creation of frozen yogurt. It didn’t go over very well because many people did not like the taste. It finally gained widespread popularity in the 1980s, after recipes improved to create the frozen yogurt we know and love.[4] Dying to know more? Here are 5 things you might not know about frozen yogurt: Plain flavored yogurt has been around for more than 4,000 years; however, it wasn’t until the 1970s that anyone thought to freeze it.[5] The key to frozen yogurt’s popularity is sugar. In the 80s, frozen yogurt franchises added sugar to balance the tart flavor, and it was a hit. By the 90s, frozen yogurt had a 10% share of the frozen dessert market.[6] FroYo has become a very trendy treat, and unique flavor creations are constantly in the works. In 2015 the world’s first black frozen yogurt was released in a flavor called Black Sakura. The color is due to the addition of naturally activated charcoal, which is said to contain healthy antioxidants and can also help remove toxins from the body.[7] As if you needed further convincing to enjoy this treat, frozen yogurt also contains protein, calcium, vitamins and potassium. These healthy qualities among others can help boost a person’s immune system, lower cholesterol, and aid the digestive system.[8] Like traditional ice cream, frozen yogurt is now available in many different forms. In addition to traditional soft-serve styles, you can also find parlors that feature options like hand-scooped froyo, smoothies that blend froyo with fresh fruit and juice, as well as frozen yogurt filled cakes and pies.[9] While frozen yogurt may have taken a while to gain traction, it can now be found in just about every style and flavor imaginable. Now go out and share your newfound frozen yogurt knowledge as you celebrate this sweet holiday. If you’re looking for a delicious, fat-free frozen yogurt for your operation, Frostline® offers mixes in vanilla and chocolate. Contact us for more information or to place an order. [1] http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/national-frozen-yogurt-day [4] http://www.spacemanusa.com/more-fun-facts-about-frozen-yogurt/ [6] http://thefuzzypeach.com/self-serve-frozen-yogurt-franchise-history [7] http://internationalfrozenyogurt.com/news/black-new-white-2016/ [9] https://www.franchisehelp.com/industry-reports/frozen-yogurt-industry-report/ Breakfast Gets Cool January 27, 2016 / perfectfrozentreat / Leave a comment Consumer demand for breakfast all day is at an all-time high. McDonald’s started the era of all-day breakfast in October, after receiving tens of thousands of demands for all-day breakfast on social media[1]. Three months later McDonald’s still says all-day breakfast is the number one request they get from customers, so it’s not going away anytime soon[2]. Other brands are showing signs of innovation in their breakfast offerings too, like Taco Bell’s Waffle Taco or Sonic’s French Toaster. Whether or not businesses see a complete overhaul of their breakfast daypart in the future, many are finding a way to capitalize on some aspect of the trend. According to the National Restaurant Association’s (NRA) 2015 Restaurant Industry Forecast, seven out of ten consumers say they want restaurants to serve breakfast throughout the day. Millennials are more interested in breakfast for dinner than any other age group before them[3]. Have you thought about bringing breakfast flavors to your shop? You can transform Frostline® vanilla and chocolate soft serve into trendy new breakfast creations with one or two on-hand ingredients. Offer maple bacon syrup soft serve, coffee flavors, or waffle cones to take advantage of the fad, and turn your operation into a delicious dessert destination. For breakfast inspired recipes and more, check out our recipe sheet! [1] http://time.com/money/4062667/mcdonalds-all-day-breakfast/ [2] http://www.eater.com/2015/10/16/9553041/mcdonalds-all-day-breakfast-disaster-franchisees-upset [3] https://www.qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/dawn-daylong-breakfast	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0067.json.gz/line1242

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