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__label__cc	0.568176	0.431824	Salud, belleza & amor \| pashley.es ¿Admiras a belleza? ¿Admiras a salud? Ralentizar el proceso de envejecimiento! En el sitio pashley.es encontrarás la respuesta! Theodora Meza Lovato noviembre 5, 2019 Privacy policy2019-11-05T16:14:38+01:00 We understand how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of our site and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully. Information Collected About You At registration and at various times as you use the Site, you will be given the option of providing us with personal information in order to receive informational/promotional newsletters – such as a newsletter relating to a specific health condition – via email. 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Please exit the Site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. 3 CONSEJOS PARA BAJAR DE PESO ESTE AÑO SIN MORIR EN EL INTENTO 3 PLATOS TÍPICOS DE ALEMANIA QUE DEBES PROBAR EN TU PRÓXIMO VIAJE ¿TIENES ANEMIA? 7 ALIMENTOS QUE TE AYUDARÁN A COMBATIRLA CÓMO ABLANDAR CARNE SIN OLLA DE PRESIÓN DIETA DE LA FRESA PARA BAJAR DE PESO Copyright ©2019. Salud, belleza & amor \| pashley.es	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1734
__label__cc	0.714825	0.285175	And it's about time. After all, "she" is 26. First known use courtesy of Merriam-Webster's extensive citation files. To which I contributed through my "reading and marking" assignments during my period of employment from April until August 1978. By far, the best part of the job. The Scrunchie Grows Up. (The New York Times, 7/16/2014) I counted just one scrunchie in the trailer. Labels: Heathers, scrunchie What's In Your Little Free Library? (Charter #571... On the Agenda for the Dane County City-County Liai... Excerpt: Key Sub-populations Experiencing Homeles... Welcome to Todd Grayson's Alice-in-Wonderland Worl... Mission Not Accomplished Sean Seems to Get Around The Isthmus from Olbrich Park "Oh my god, look at that huge bird!" The Towering Isthmus. That Was Then, This is Now... It's Not a Pretty Picture for Kansas Governor Sam ... Scott Walker Looks to Iowa and Wonders...... Once Upon a Time in Atlantic City E-cigarette Industry Proclaims, "Hey, baby, they'r... Hypothetical Questions: Did Scott Walker get a jo... Outbreaks of Unchristian Behavior in U.S. Timeline: Centrally Located Permanent Day Resourc... Wisconsin State Assembly District 75: Who's on the... In the News: Capital Area Regional Planning Commi... I remember the days when having reference and circ... About Chris Christie's "ability to interact sponta... ...oath of office....defend the Constitution....th... Pauline Haass Library Dispute Continues XXXIX 8-inch Worms Infest UW Arboretum Soil Door County Hail "A Storm That Left Its Mark:" In FY2011-12, It Cost Wisconsin Taxpayers $33,414 ... All It Took for Me was 10 Seconds into "Ace of Spa... My Fast Starts in 35 Minutes "Coveted" Award Given to 76 Recipients Best States for Beer-Drinkin', Softball-Playin' Wo... Charles Grinnen III (1942-2014) Warren Area High S... In a Fiercely Partisan Political Atmosphere, Quinn... Point/Counterpoint: Scott Walker and Chris Christ... Scott Walker's Fantasy World Quick Question: How many people can name, without... Fortunately, this woman missed the pet rock fad Fewer Magazines Titles on the Display Shelves of W... Fond du Lac on the Verge of Losing Another Link to... Remembering Freedom Summer Here's where all the honeybees have gone Do you think they're going overboard with this pol... What Walker Hath Wrought Asher, Asher bo basher bonana fanna fo fasher, fee... Who Said This? Scott Walker: "Try not to talk about 2016 right n... New Hampshire Republicans to Chris Christie: "C'm... Scott Walker Gets No Love from New Hampshire Repub...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1738
__label__cc	0.740966	0.259034	Practical tips to reduce farm energy costs Up to $10 million has been allocated to eligible dairy farms in recognition of the impact high electricity costs have on a sector that must milk and then chill its product. A new guide offers 51 practical things Australian farmers can do to reduce on-farm energy use, operating costs and carbon emissions. With the current crippling drought putting significant financial and emotional strain on farming families across large parts of Australia the Morrison McCormack Government is focused on providing practical assistance. Transforming Australian Agriculture with Clean Energy, provides advice around the likely cost of investing in technologies including energy storage, building insulation, pump upgrades, and solar PV to improve on-farm productivity and address environmental management challenges. Australian agriculture is a $60 billion sector with many farm businesses heavily reliant on affordable and reliable energy in order to remain competitive. Many farmers will be eligible to access $50 million in energy efficient communities program grants in early 2020 to help with the cost of improving energy efficiency practices and technologies in the ways outlined in the guide. Our Government also supports farmers and land managers to take practical action to reduce emissions and improve the environment through the Climate Solutions Fund. Landowners and farmers can generate Australian Carbon Credit Units which can be sold, providing an additional income stream. Over 770 projects have been registered under many eligible activities, including revegetation, livestock management and savanna fire management. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the National Farmers Federation partnered to develop the guide that was prepared by the Centre for Agricultural Engineering at the University of Southern Queensland. A full copy of the guide is available at cefc.com.au. UPCOMING SALES / EVENTS Keeping you up to date with the latest seedstock industry news SSC TV OGA Creative Agency	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1740
__label__cc	0.683898	0.316102	Scala Debugger Sbt Plugin What Is A Debugger Available Debugger Connections Event Pipelines Working With Breakpoints Stepping Through Code Watching Class Variables What Is The Profile System What Is The Low Level Api Using Extra Arguments For Requests Making Requests Early Creating A Launching Debugger Creating An Attaching Debugger Creating A Listening Debugger Creating A Breakpoint Stepping Over A Line Of Code Watching Modification Of A Class Variable Scaladoc Scala 2.10 What is a debugger? In this section, you will get a brief overview of what a debugger is and the features that it typically offers. You will also learn how the Scala debugger API is related to the Eclipse debugger (described below). In a nutshell, a debugger is a program written to aid in testing and debugging another computer program. For those unfamiliar, debugging is the process of finding and removing defects (bugs) in a computer program and can be accomplished in a variety of ways including examining log files for oddities, monitoring the memory of an application or system, profiling for performance bottlenecks, utilizing test code to discover inconsistencies, and using interactive debugging to examine the running state of your program. Debuggers come in quite a few different packages and, most likely, you have encountered at least one. Several more well-known debuggers include GDB, commonly used to interactively debug C and C++ programs from the command line, and the Eclipse Debug Project, which is part of the Eclipse IDE and available for a variety of languages although most-specifically targeted towards Java. If you have done any web-based frontend development, you have probably used your browser's debugger such as Google Chrome's DevTools or Mozilla Firefox's Debugger. While debuggers themselves are an old concept, the latest debuggers are continuing to demonstrate new, clever ideas to make the everyday programmer's life a little easier. If interested in modern developments in the debugger space, check out Elm's time traveling debugger or Scala IDE's new async debugger. A debugger can offer a wide range of features to aid the programmer in discovering and fixing defects. The most common features found in modern debuggers are the ability to step through a program, stop (break) a program to examine its state, and track the values of variables in a program. Running a program step-by-step This involves running a target program one "line" at a time, breaking at each next "line" to observe the state of the program such as the values of variables in the stack frame. While line-by-line stepping is one of the most common and useful forms of stepping through your program, some debuggers offer other step increments such as frame-by-frame. Newer debuggers like Scala IDE's async debugger offer the ability to step through your program even when the code execution path is not straightforward (in this case when running distributed, message-driven programs using the Akka toolkit and runtime). Breaking a program to examine its state This involves setting what is known as a breakpoint, a marker in a program indicating that you want to stop execution temporarily, to be able to examine the running state of a program. Often, breakpoints are placed on specific source lines of a program indicating that the developer wishes to stop the program when executing a specific line to examine the current state. Earlier breakpoints would be placed on specific instructions (assembly). Other forms of breakpoints can also exist including setting a conditional breakpoint that triggers when reading/writing memory (watchpoints) or the evaluation of an expression yields true. Watching variables in a program When debugging a program, a common scenario is that a developer wants to know when a variable's value is accessed or changed. This typically involves the temporary suspension of the program allowing the developer to inspect the current stack frame to understand what led to the access/modification of the variable. Furthermore, more restrictions might be placed on the modification of a variable such that a developer is only notified when a variable is changed to a certain value, allowing more accurate understanding of specific problems such as when a variable unexpectedly becomes null. Evaluating expressions A useful feature in many debuggers is the ability to evaluate an expression (snippet of code) in the target program while it is suspended due to a breakpoint. This allows developers to quickly test functions and perform modifications to the state of the program using the same language as the program itself. More about Eclipse and how it relates to this project The Eclipse Debug Project offers two subprojects for debugging with the Eclipse tooling: platform debug and JDT debug. Platform debug focuses on defining language-independent debugging capabilities including defining breakpoints (see features for more info), launching programs, and notification of events from target programs. JDT debug is more specific as it implements the Java debugging support to launch or attach to a JVM, evaluate expressions in the context of a stack frame, and dynamically reload classes into the target JVM. The underlying API driving Eclipse's debugging framework for Java (and other JVM-based languages) is the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). The JDPA is a collection of APIs to debug Java code and includes the Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) defining communication between the debugger and target JVMs, the Java Virtual Machine Tools Interface (JVMTI) providing a native interface (C++) to inspect state and control execution of programs running in a JVM, and the Java Debugger Interface (JDI) that defines a high-level API in Java to debug remote JVMs. The Scala debugger API is built on top of the JDI, wrapping existing JDI functionality in Scala-friendly wrappers and providing higher-level abstractions to aid Scala developers in writing debugger tooling and utilize debugger functionality in their own applications. Site contents Chip Senkbeil, 2015-2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1748
__label__cc	0.568558	0.431442	DanBIF and GBIF The Natural History Museum of Denmark wants its collections to be as accessible as possible to both experts and ordinary citizens. We seek to realize this in the coming years through digitalization and more accessible web-based systems. We are currently adopting Specify as the standard collections management system across all natural history collections in Denmark. The Natural History Museum of Denmark is providing the necessary infrastructure, setup, and support and, with financial support from the Danish Agency for Culture, has migrated data from legacy database systems during 2015 and 2016 in cooperation with Natural History Museum Aarhus, The Fisheries and Maritime Museum, Naturama, Østsjællands Museum, Museum Salling, Museum Mors and Museum Sønderjylland. We are currently migrating our own collections to Specify. This is work in progress. Contact Nikolaj Scharff for general enquiries: nscharff@snm.ku.dk and Martin Stein for technical questions: martin.stein@snm.ku.dk Ongoing digitalization Digitization of selected zoological collections started a few years ago, funded by the Danish Agency for Culture. Digitization of the botanical type collections were completed in 2015, co-funded by the American Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More than 21,500 species of flowering plants have now been registered, scanned and made available both nationally and internationally. Thanks to a grant from the 15th of June Foundation, Danish botanist Martin Vahls (1749-1804) manuscript of 26,000 notecards containing an update of Linnaeus’Species Plantarum was digitised and made available for researchers and the general public in 2019. The museums biocultural collection was digitised and databased in 2019 thanks to a grant from Apothecary Povl. M. Assens Foundation and is available through GBIF. The collection of 30.000 Danish grasses has been digitised and will be publicly available through www.gbif.org in 2019 thanks to a private donation. Additional botanical digitisation projects are described in the subpages of the herbarium. DanBIF is part of the museum’s digital unit and makes Danish, Faroese and Greenlandic resources of biodiversity data internationally accessible. DanBIF stewards Danish participation in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), which is the global network of biodiversity data. The Coordinating Secretariat of GBIF is hosted by The Natural History Museum of Denmark. The core services of DanBIF are: Making Danish, Faroese and Greenlandic biodiversity data accessible through GBIF Collect and maintain an inventory of every species in Denmark: Allearter.dk Help data contributors and -stewards treat and prepare data for publication in GBIF Read more about DanBIF and GBIF or contact Isabel Calabuig: icalabuig@snm.ku.dk Existing databases While we work to provide a unified data portal for our Specify based collections, you can access the existing, publicly available databases here: Danish desmids Flora Agaricina Danica Algae of the Faroe Islands Danish Liverworts and Hornworts Seidenfaden Orchid Collection African vertebrates Would you like to know about... Zoological type collections Botanical type collection DanBIF	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1752
__label__wiki	0.843285	0.843285	Integrity in Public Life Traditional English Tea Tin Set How to Read London Westminster Abbey Cord Cross Necklace Angel Pewter Pilgrim Badge The Quire Looking West by Alexander Creswell Magnetic Bookmark Westminster Abbey Clotted Cream Shortbread Westminster Abbey Rosemary Seeds Westminster Abbey Kings & Queens Children's T-shirt Blue From£9.95 When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain's longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived, and the story of her life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson's exhaustively researched and definitive biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources, to show us Queen Victoria as she's never been seen before. It explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria's coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage, Prince Albert's pivotal influence, her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with John Brown, all set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch in Britain - and Europe's - history. Victoria is a towering achievement; a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height of his powers. Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions Queen Victoria China Six Cup Tea Set Queen Victoria China Four Cup Tea Set	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1757
__label__wiki	0.924059	0.924059	Genesis Chapter 36 Darby English Bible And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, and Basmath Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel. And Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau that were born to him in the land of Canaan. And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob. For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle. Thus Esau dwelt in mount Seir; Esau is Edom. And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir. These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basmath the wife of Esau. -- And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah Esau's wife. -- And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basmath Esau's wife. -- And these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basmath Esau's wife. -- And these are the sons of Oholibamah Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these are the chiefs of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is Edom. These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitant of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. -- And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. -- And these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. -- And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. -- And these are the sons of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. -- And these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. -- These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. -- These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. These are the chiefs of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a king over the children of Israel. And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. And Jobab died; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields of Moab, reigned in his stead. And the name of his city was Avith. And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead. And Saul died; and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died; and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred daughter of Mezahab. And these are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, after their places, with their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1772
__label__cc	0.538681	0.461319	In the 2018-2019 school year, we had eleven members competing in STAR competition. Miranda and Addison received Silver, Izzy and Hannah also received silver, and Stephana also recieved Silver and Thomas, Rylee, and McKenna received bronze at the State Leadership Conference. We had five competitors advance to Nationals. Maddy for Chapter Website, Elissa and Jillian for Digital Stories for Change, and Miranda and Addison for Chapter in Review. In the 2017-2018 school year, we had thirteen members competing in STAR competition. Madi and Sidney receiving Silver, Sydney also receiving Silver, Kristal and DesiRae receiving Bronze, Nia receiving Silver, Jillian also receiving Silver, and Miranda receiving Silver in STAR at the State Leadership Conference. We had one competitor, Maddy, make it to Nationals, competing in the Chapter Website. After competing at the National Leadership Conference Maddy received Gold at the Nebraska State Recognition Session. In the 2016-2017 school year, we had a number of members participate in STAR. Five of these groups advanced from the District to the State Leadership Conference; Madi, Sidney, Maddy, Sydney, Shelby, and Damon. After SLC only one group advanced to National Leadership Conference, Maddy and Sydney, in Nashville, TN, receiving State Runner-Up at State. These two competed in Chapter Service Project Electronic Portfolio Jr. and received silver at Nationals. In the 2015-2016 school year, eight members participated in STAR. All of the members that participated advanced from STAR Districts to STAR State Competition; Jamie, Madi, Maddy, Sydney, Nia, Aleesha, and Madiline. Out of all these participants one, Jamie, advanced to the National STAR Competition in San Diego, CA. In the 2014-2015 school year, five members participated in STAR. All five of the members that participated advanced from STAR Districts to STAR State Competition; Makayla, Megan, Jamie, Madi, and Sidney. Two of the State STAR competitors, Megan and Makayla, advanced to Nationals in Washington, D.C.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1777
__label__cc	0.642988	0.357012	Vol. 4 Chapter 62: Crisis in the Imperial City On the airship, the atmosphere was really subtle. Princess Michelle, Aliyah and Irlin were sitting on a sofa at one end, while looking at the other end with narrow eyes. On the other end was Bai Yueguang’s party, Oyado, Gabriel, Dale, and that Lois who shamelessly tagged along. While I was sitting at the center of the two groups, as I helplessly looked at them. “… Umm, aren’t you guys going to introduce yourselves?” “There’s no need for that sort of thing!” Princess Michelle said with a pout. “Those people over there come from the Eastern Continent, and are Bai Yueguang, Tai Shixi, and Hei Luoli respectively. They do not have any bad records. ‘Demonic Hand of Light’ Gabriel Lancette, ‘Homunculus’ Oyado, ‘Blinding Lightning User’ Dale Lester, and Oryados Mercenary Guild’s Lois. I have already read through the intel on you guys while I was on my way here. Although some of you are rather suspicious individuals, since you’re friends of Fir, I will put those things aside… But as for you, Fir! According to my investigation, you returned a couple of days ago! Why haven’t you contacted us till now!?” “Didn’t you say you have already investigated my whereabouts…” “Are you talking about your new identity as Fel?” Because I changed my name and disguised myself, you guys didn’t realize it was me till now? Well, wasn’t preventing myself from being recognized the purpose of all that in the first place? “Well~ Sorry.” “This isn’t something that can be settled with just a simply sorry, you idiot! What were you thinking!?” “Big brother, who is this big sister?” Oyado tugged onto my shirt and asked. “Big brother… So you’re actually into something like that…” This time, it was Aliyah who spoke up. Although she did not say anything earlier, I could understand from her piercing gaze. She’s thoroughly irritated. But currently, she did not have an angry expression, rather… She looked as if she found something interesting to play with! Really. She’s definitely thinking of how to make the situation even more interesting, rather than settling it. I must definitely not fall into her traps. “Oyado is the only person who can call him big brother!” Oyado looked at me and continued. “Big brother, you don’t have that sort of crazy-looking sister, right!?” Well spoken. I gave a silent thumbs up to Oyado in my heart. “Cra… Crazy!?” Aliyah furrowed her brows, and immediately charged out with her dual swords. But at the same time, Oyado stretched out her two hands, and in a flash, the shadow of two daggers collided with Aliyah’s swords. She actually hid daggers under her sleeves? But these two people are really incredible. With just the collision of their weapons, the entire airship actually shook for a moment! “Why did you attack me? I was only speaking the truth.” “‘Truth’, my ass!” Aliyah made a slight retreat, and then fiercely leaped into the sky. She twisted her body, and the two swords once again came thrusting down. “Arcane – Dual Splitter!” Two swords immediately slashed towards Oyado, but the moment they were about to reach her, Oyado’s figure suddenly blurred, and the two swords pierced through the air, and stabbed into the floor. “You lost.” A dagger was pointed at Aliyah’s neck, while the other was pointed at her heart. Oyado, who appeared behind Aliyah had then declared her victory. “Alright alright, stop fooling around. Are you two trying to dismantle the entire airship?” The floor doesn’t seem to be single layered, and the crack isn’t that big, so there shouldn’t be any problems. But if they were to go on, they will definitely destroy the entire place. After all, I personally witnessed Aliyah’s deed of slicing an entire house into pieces in the past. “Hmph! Whatever the case, you will be punished, so wait for it!” Princess Michelle declared. “Hey hey, I haven’t done anything at all. And didn’t I contact you guys because of the nation’s safety?” “Oh right, you even killed the gryphon that we spent a great deal of effort and money to train up, didn’t you?” “If I did not kill it, I would have died!” As expected of ‘Icy Arrogant’, you’re really unreasonable, huh. “Haah, really. In any case, we can talk about this next time. Compared to this, we have to first deal with the problem regarding the trespassers.” After that, I turned to look at the three from the Eastern Continent. “Alright, you guys should have the general idea of what’s going on, right? In regards to the trespassers, what are your thoughts?” Bai Yueguang pondered for a moment. “To tell you the truth, other than the city we started out in, we have never went to the other cities in the Eastern Continent. Tai Shixi…” “I have never went out as well. But, truthfully, that sort of thing isn’t something from my country, but something that comes from your side, Little Bai.” Tai Shixi shook her head. ”“Even if you say that, our side is also split into various countries. And there are mostly only internal conflicts. I have never heard or people planning to attack the Western Continent…” “Lorsande Kingdom…” I suddenly recalled something, and hurriedly asked. “Do you guys know of anything regarding the Lorsande Kingdom?” “Oh, that? It’s really close to the Country of Ye, and is isolated from the concept of war. But it has deep relationships with both the Eastern and Western Continent, after all, it’s a country situated at the center of the two…” Hei Luoli seems to be rather knowledgeable of this matter. But, that’s reasonable, after all, she’s a princess. “In other words, it acts a corridor for both countries? Well, I believe it has quite a strong economical power, right? So, is it planning to increase its land size? But why does it have to choose the farthest Ice Empire… Do they want to take over a coastal country or something? But your country is a coastal country as well, right?” “The Navy, I guess.” The moment Bai Yueguang suggested this, Princess Michelle spoke up as well. “Because of the constant years of internal conflict, the Eastern Continent’s countries basically do not have a single Navy division. On the other hand, our Ice Empire have been expanding our Navy in the recent years, and our long-distance fleets have increased by three times because of the expansion. They must be targeting this.” “Is that so… That’s really easy to understand, huh.” I nodded, and then looked towards Hei Luoli. “Alright, since that’s the case, is there any way to discern an Onmyouji? Those Shikigamis can either be controlled by an Onmyouji himself, or be semi-automated. If it’s semi-automated, there’s a need to summon the Shikigamis from the talismans in advance, right?” “Un, it’s a must for an Onmyouji to carry out the summoning.” “I see, if that’s the case… our opponent could have simply entered the city before summoning them, so why…” Why do they have to purposefully summon them in advance, and have people transport them over? And in the end, they actually fled, and even used a teleportation magic formation. Why would they go to so much trouble… “They did it on purpose!?” “Un, what are you trying to say?” “I’m telling you, they did all these with a purpose in mind!” I explained the earlier situation, and continued from there. ”“They purposefully summoned the Shikigamis and placed them in the carriages. Then, they had people to escort these carriages. No matter how dumb your intelligence unit is, something like that would obviously be detected, right? Then, after you guys attacked, they brought the Shikigamis to another city. First, it would cause you guys to dispatch more people to investigate. Second, have the Shikigamis appear at the surrounding cities and cause chaos. And while they’re wrecking havoc in the various places…” I paused for a moment. “At this time, they will make use of the opportunity when you guys aren’t paying attention to your surroundings, and initiate their attack.” “Eh? At this time?” “Princess!” Suddenly, the broadcast system in the airship rang. “What happened!?” Princess Michelle picked up the receiver and asked. “There’s smoke being emitted from the direction of the imperial city! Currently, we’re going to turn and head towards the evacuation point.” “As I thought…” I turned and looked towards Dale. “How many gliders do you have?” “Tons of them. Because their production costs were cheap.” I walked over to Princess Michelle’s side, and took the receiver off her hands. “Captain, is it alright if I open the airship’s hatch when we’re close to the imperial city?” Vol. 4 Chapter 61: Report Vol. 4 Chapter 63: Airborne Assault 7 thoughts on “Vol. 4 Chapter 62: Crisis in the Imperial City” Pingback: Vol. 4 Chapter 61: Report \| Pingback: Vol. 4 Chapter 63: Airborne Assault \| Navi Nay says: shocked Ty for chapter~ Dang the capital under attack Felipe De Sene says: yes! party reunited! now we just have to find mrs. snow and that metal golem wind wizard antowibowo says: Wohoo halo attack please! Thanks for the chap Why does the MC, who has wings and can fly, need a glider? Aint that some stupid stuff? Also, that little loli, Oyado, is getting pretty annoying. Is a 7 year old Loli really required for the story/harem? Making me sick~	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1778
__label__cc	0.614109	0.385891	By Sofiah Shariman 1 day, 13 hours Australia is on fire and your sex life could be too. People everywhere have been doing everything in their power to raise funds upon learning about the bushfire crisis occurring in Australia. As the country continues to be ravaged by the rapid bushfires, one Australian adult toy company decided to release 'The Down-Under Donation Dildo'. Our country has been devastated by bushfires & we need your help! 🔥 So that's why we're proud to announce The Down-Under Donation Dildo! 🍆 A new toy where 100% of the profits will be donated directly to the relief efforts 🇦🇺 🐨 https://t.co/CO2z1GIgSa #BushFireCrisisAustralia pic.twitter.com/ZZmcgNqgQj — Geeky Sex Toys (@Geeky_Sex_Toys) January 9, 2020 All the proceeds from the sales of the cheekily-named dildos will be donated to local Australian bushfire relief charities. I bet you'll never find this much pleasure in giving back to the community! What a time to be alive, truly. The product itself is handmade using 100 percent body-safe silicone, that also promises to be waterproof. To get into more detail, the toy has an insertable length of 5.5 inches and a circumference of 4.25 inches. And of course, it's US$47.67 (AUS$69). The sex toy comes in Australia's official colours, green and gold. The best part? It has the map of the Australian continent at the base of the dildo and the design of a Koala on the shaft. Here's how some folks on Twitter reacted: no amount of sci-fi media could’ve prepared me for this aspect of the climate apocalypse https://t.co/Pv6spn1r9l — soft bottom spring (@FeelingFisky) January 12, 2020 vivid images of koalas being rescued from wildfires and nursed back to health flash through my mind as I reach fulfillment with the down-under donation dildo https://t.co/K02Pk5fo1c — benign cold piss (@rocnation_man) January 12, 2020 In case you have nosy housemates or family members, not to worry! When you purchase the toy, rest assured that it will come delivered to you in what would otherwise look like a regular delivery box. So you need not worry about the possibility of anyone curious enough to pry open your seemingly 'boring' package. As of January 15, they have managed to raise US$15,196 (AUS$22,000). Hey naughty nerds! 👋 Can you believe we've now raised over $22,000?! 😍 We know you've all been curious about where exactly the money will be going & after much consideration we've decided to split it up across 4 groups! Check out all the info here: https://t.co/0kXHIW8F5h 🐨🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/pWsyeUKwUF — Geeky Sex Toys (@Geeky_Sex_Toys) January 15, 2020 Previously, the Australian homegrown brand came out with an Aquaman-inspired sex toy aptly named the Aquamoan that was sold in limited quantities. The silicone dildo had scales and curves incorporated into its design that were reminiscent of the popular DC Comics character. This isn't the first NSFW initiative created to raise funds for the Australian bushfires though. Earlier this month, American online sex worker Kaylen Ward, also known as "The Naked Philanthropist" made waves on the Internet for offering her naked pictures to those who sent proof that they have donated to any Australian bushfire charity of their choosing. She succeeded in raising an estimated US$1,000,000 in donations. TOPICS: Australia, Twitter, Social Good, Social Good, dildo, donations, activism, Climate & Environment, sex toys, Bushfires	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1779
__label__wiki	0.586196	0.586196	SubTopic Security management Information security policies and practices for CIOs The right information security policies and practices can keep your company's IT network secure and safe from the seemingly infinite number of threats via the Internet. The right information security policies and practices can keep your company's IT network secure, safe from the seemingly infinite number of threats via the Internet. This CIO Briefing offers guidance and support for CIOs on setting policies to address three of the most pressing information security issues of the day: mobile device management, social media risk and cloud computing. This CIO Briefing is part of the SearchCIO.com CIO Briefing series, which is designed to give IT leaders strategic guidance and advice that addresses the management and decision-making aspects of timely topics. For a complete list of topics covered to date visit the CIO Briefing section. Mobile device security policies Social media security concerns Cloud computing security issues Whether IT departments like it or not, employees are bringing their iPhones and iPads, Android-based devices and BlackBerrys into the enterprise. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- the onus is on IT to establish mobile phone security policies to control the proliferation of smart mobile devices. "Execs are gadget geeks," said Wes Baker, virtualization architect at Jewelry Television Inc. in Knoxville, Tenn. While executives have been after their IT departments for years to provide mobile devices, rogue rank-and-file employees increasingly are transferring work data onto a portable format that frees them from the office, he said. And who can blame them, when the Internet and its satellites make it possible to tick off to-do lists on the run? Or on the walk to work? Or while walking the dog? "People want to be productive," said James Ainslie, chief technology officer at SMMT Online (Pty) Ltd. in Johannesburg, South Africa. "In today's economic climate, people can't afford to be separated from their information." Learn more in "Mobile phone security policies give IT some control over the influx." Also: Mobile data security spans policies, budgets and backups A proliferation of mobile devices in the enterprise forces CIOs to reassess policies, budgets and backups for mobile data security. Mobile device management in the workplace: A guide for CIOs Mobile devices enable flexibility previously unimaginable in the workplace, but they carry concerns about security and compliance. Learn more in our mobile device management guide. Boston Medical Center (BMC), a private hospital center affiliated with Boston University, blocks access to all social media websites using security software from Websense Inc. Users who attempt to use such sites as Facebook, YouTube or Twitter are shown a page indicating that their destination is off-limits. Nevertheless, the debate about whether to open up access to such sites or to keep blocking them remains contentious. In fact, the discussion comes up "practically on a daily basis," said Brad Blake, director of IT at BMC. "As you can imagine, we have a lot of users who want access to these sites, but for a variety of reasons we do not feel comfortable opening them." If BMC created a Facebook account and asked its patients to be friends, "that would constitute a security breach," Blake said. "Our senior management has felt it easier just to block these sites rather than trying to police and manage them." Learn more in "CIOs weigh use of social media against security concerns." Also: Cost and content of social media policies vary widely by industry Setting social media policies is a tricky and potentially costly process that varies widely based on an industry's regulatory requirements. Enterprise social media policies and strategies: A guide for CIOs Enterprise social media policies and strategies are evolving as organizations recognize the benefits, risks and functions that social networks like Facebook and Twitter provide. Public cloud computing risks are numerous enough to field a top 10 -- or even more. Professional organizations and CIOs are developing threat lists to help them come to grips with the public cloud, an entity that will continue to seep into the enterprise IT environment whether they like it or not. Some lists of top public cloud computing risks are sweeping and philosophical, such as the Top Threats to Cloud Computing, v.1.0, developed by the Cloud Security Alliance. Most include some combination of 10 items. Get the list in "Advice for dealing with the top 10 risks in public cloud computing." Also: Can you trust your public cloud provider? Secure public cloud services aren't a pipe dream; service providers just have to connect some of the dots. How close are we to regulatory compliance in the cloud? Maintaining security after a cloud computing implementation You've just migrated your organization's applications and data in the cloud. Michael Cobb reviews how to work with your cloud provider to ensure ongoing security. Resource center: Data security and privacy (SearchCIO.com) Resource center: Security and risk management (SearchCIO-Midmarket.com) Website: SearchSecurity.com Dig Deeper on Enterprise information security management Skipping the BYOD security policy A CIO's guide to SMAC strategy and governance Snowden talks encryption drawbacks; experts dish app consolidation tips Security, cloud tied as top priorities for 2015 in CIO salary survey By: Nicole Laskowski Top 10 compliance and security articles for midmarket... – SearchCompliance Mobile device management in the workplace: A guide ... – SearchCIO Enterprise risk management strategies guide for CIOs – SearchCIO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1781
__label__cc	0.51119	0.48881	SubTopic GRC Regulatory compliance management guide for CIOs Compliance regulations require CIOs to be more familiar with the law than ever before. This Executive Guide offers tips, news and resources to make the job easier. Regulatory compliance management issues, information privacy rules and data security initiatives have presented today's IT executives with more legal issues than ever before. This Executive Guide provides resources to help CIOs learn more about the technology solutions needed to combat the growing number of legal issues affecting organizations. This guide is part of SearchCIO.com's CIO Briefing series, which is designed to give IT leaders strategic guidance and advice that addresses the management and decision-making aspects of timely topics. For a complete list of topics covered to date visit the CIO Briefing section. Sarbanes-Oxley advice for smaller public firms Putting your finger on federal data security law IBM vows solution to identity theft outbreak Remote backup: Making the case to your CEO Email archiving: Four steps to ensuring success More compliance resources for CIOs Up to now, smaller public companies -- usually those with just less than $75 million in public equity -- have not been required to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That section requires that a public company's management file a report on its assessment of the company's internal control over financial reporting -- including the financial work that passes through IT. It also requires the company's auditors attest to the quality of the company's internal control over financial reporting in the auditor's annual report. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) itself has recognized the regulatory compliance management challenges for smaller companies: Smaller companies typically don't have full-time financial controllers; managers in smaller companies have a broad span of control, and this could lead to management override of financial controls; and smaller companies are more dynamic and don't have well-documented processes. Your company may have a lot of work to do to produce a report that makes investors feel confident about your numbers -- even if you are the most honest company. The SEC has given smaller companies and their auditors more time to prepare -- but time is almost up. Companies with fiscal years ending on or after Dec. 15 will have to start complying. IT is an integral part of compliance, especially for processes and systems that touch financial controls and reporting. Learn more in the full column, "Sarbanes-Oxley advice for smaller public companies." Also: Steps to institutionalizing compliance CIOs can successfully handle the many pressures of compliance by shifting from a reactive to a proactive mode, according to industry experts. In a previous column, I discussed several of the state security breach notification laws. Generally, state security breach notification laws require that organizations that collect, own or license personal information about a state's residents notify these individuals and, in some cases, other entities, such as consumer reporting and law enforcement agencies when unencrypted personal information has been lost or compromised. Since my column was published, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reported no fewer than 65 incidents of lost or compromised personal information in the U.S. affecting more than 3.5 million people. In December 2006, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse also reported that security breaches had resulted in 100 million records being lost or compromised. Learn more in the column "Putting your finger on federal data security law." Also: Mobile device encryption: A best practice that no one uses Experts and IT executives agree that encryption is the best way to protect data on mobile devices. But too few companies are actually deploying this critical technology. Content monitoring tags questionable email activity You've spent thousands to keep malware and hackers out, but what are you doing to keep your data inside? Encryption can lock things down, but you need visibility to make sure the data is truly safe. The TJX Cos.' Ben Cammarata is not the only retailer pulling out his hair over identity theft. There are countless ways customers' personal information can be compromised. For companies and organizations desperate to get out of the business of authenticating, digging up and holding information on customers they do business with online, Big Blue might have an escape hatch. New technology developed by IBM and released last week to the open source community promises to let consumers do business online without disclosing personal information. Developed by IBM's laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, the software puts identity management in the hands of consumers, the company said, and could help merchants as well by limiting their liability. Identity Mixer, as it's called, uses sophisticated cryptographic algorithms to ensure that sensitive information -- a person's date of birth, Social Security number, bank balance or real credit card numbers -- is never disclosed to the inquiring online party. Find out more in "IBM vows solution to identity theft outbreak." Also: Top IT execs could take heat for TJX breach Experts say senior IT executives at TJX are most likely on the hot seat today after the retail giant revealed Wednesday a massive computer security breach. Acquisition bolsters IBM's compliance, security portfolio IBM's purchase of Dutch software firm Consul gives it a security and compliance auditing product that runs on both distributed and mainframe systems. Remote backup of data, applications and operating systems is becoming more important for companies of all sizes as they struggle to cope with a growing number of remote workers and a mountain of regulatory compliance management and legal mandates. It is also becoming more important as companies realize that a tape backup plan is not enough to provide business continuity in the event of a disaster. Most tape backups involve transferring data each day to a local disk or tape before shipping the data to a central office and perhaps to an off-site tape storage facility. But what happens if a disaster destroys the remote office? The raw data is useless without the applications and properly configured hardware. Striving to solve that scenario, vendors created remote backup solutions using high throughput and affordable Internet data transmission that back up data and -- in some cases -- applications and operating systems to a distant location. Essentially, there are two options: do-it-yourself software and managed services, to which companies outsource their remote backup functions. Learn more about backups in "Remote backup: Making the case to your CEO." Also: Data center management for CIOs A successful data center management strategy should address compliance, consolidation, migration and business continuity. Learn more about setting up and managing your data center. Monitoring technologies making headway with CIOs Catching unscrupulous employees gambling online isn't the only reason to monitor Web activity. Employee monitoring can also help CIOs make better use of network resources. According to Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active Archiving, 2006" report, "The growing size of email data stores, coupled with the requirement to retain email records for regulatory compliance and legal discovery, has created a market for email active-archiving tools." Moreover, the overwhelming use of technology to create and disseminate documents has heightened the need for email management, said Mark Diamond, president and CEO of Contoural Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based consultancy that specializes in email and record retention strategies. "The majority of documents companies get are electronic -- the latest figure is 96%," Diamond said. "And even hard-copy documents are usually copies of electronic ones." With data retention issues touching a number of factions within a company, smart CIOs will accommodate all the intersecting interests, from legal to compliance officers, to the business units that create the emailed information. The trouble is, many companies' solutions, as well as the underlying retention policies that govern them, are created without such input. Building an email archiving policy while not taking into consideration business drivers such as compliance, privacy, business productivity and trends in litigation and discovery can put a company at risk, said Dick Benton, a principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies Inc., a consulting firm in Framingham, Mass. "Take email discovery," Benton said. "If you are hit by a Iawsuit, it can cost about five to seven bucks an email in legal discovery, and millions of emails in discovery is not unusual." Going the opposite direction and letting the legal or compliance staff draft these policies unchecked can also be disastrous. Find out more in "Email archiving: Four steps to ensuring success." Also: The evidence is in the email What can email archiving technology do for you? Get you more storage space, improve system performance -- and make your auditors happy. Resource center: Compliance strategies and best practices Dig Deeper on Risk and compliance strategies and best practices Big data's influence on meeting regulatory compliance requirements Creating a HIPAA-compliant backup in the cloud Data archiving methods and best practices for small businesses Best and worst practices for email archiving in Exchange Server For CIOs, email deletion scandal shows need for email... – SearchCIO CIOs choked by storage costs, complexity – ComputerWeekly.com Email archiving solutions and strategies for ... – SearchCIO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1782
__label__wiki	0.529372	0.529372	Gartner's Magic Quadrant for customer service contact centers finds best-of-breed market Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for customer service contact centers but finds that no single vendor has it all. For all the change confronting customer service programs, Gartner's annual ranking of the contact center customer service software vendors remains remarkably similar to prior years. The Stamford, Conn.-based research firm recently released its Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers, and while last year's rankings focused on what the vendors were doing with social networks, not a lot changed in that area. For more CRM software rankings See how Gartner ranks the enterprise marketing management market Read Forrester's rankings of the CRM suite vendors "Most gave it lip service as opposed to really doing anything about it, if you looked at it from the customer service side," said Michael Maoz, distinguished analyst and author of the report. Some new features, like Salesforce.com's new Chatter collaboration tool, still focus mostly on sales, Maoz said. "The only one that made a true move was RightNow with their purchase of HiveLive," he said. In fact, integrating social CRM data will be one of the major customer service initiatives through the next several years, according to the report. Maoz predicts that by 2013 at least 35% of customer service centers will integrate some form of community/social capabilities as part of the contact center application. In fact, a new generation of customers who are beginning to resist telephone-based interactions is further complicating service requirements for contact centers and forcing them to expand into more and more channels. These customers turn instead to online self-service, customer communities or social networks. Gartner predicts that by 2017 all contact centers will provide access to mobile users and community views. However, organizations that have launched multichannel customer service operations often find difficulty maintaining consistency across the channels and focusing on the customer versus their own processes. "Most websites are not that user-centric; they're more internally focused," Maoz said. "You have to do a better job of having escalations to the contact center -- this whole idea of a context-based interaction becomes more important: 'You were doing this; how may I help you?' As opposed to, 'What do you need?'" Tying together the service channels is another initiative that will dominate customer service strategy over the next four years, according to the report -- as is analyzing the customer experience and applying business rules and knowledge in real time. For now, no single vendor is able to offer all these capabilities, forcing customers to assemble applications from different niche providers. "On the knowledge management front, like the social front, we've been telling clients it’s a best-of-breed market, and we tell them to go in that direction," Maoz said. "If they see something from OpenText or Jive, they should go in that direction. They shouldn't let the lack of a formal suite get in their way." The customer service contact center software leaders, challengers and niche players Gartner places vendors in one of four quadrants -- challengers, leaders, niche players, and visionaries -- based on a number of factors, including viability, functionality, market responsiveness, customer support, vision, and customer experience. Oracle's Siebel application maintained its top position in the leaders quadrant, joined by Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com, RightNow and Pegasystems, (which recently acquired Chordiant, though that was not included in the evaluation). SAP and Amdocs were listed as challengers; and Sword Ciboodle, Oracle E-Business Suite, Portrait Software, Jacada, eglue, Neocase Software, Astute Solutions and Chordiant Software were listed as niche players. Oracle maintains two products in the Magic Quadrant, despite the fact that Maoz saw very little of Siebel this year and the few companies launching the E-Business Suite product were mostly running EBS on the back end. "More and more, you see them migrating to Oracle On Demand as an alternative," Maoz said. "There's still the TeleService, but for whatever reason, Oracle seems to be actively -- though not in a stated way -- advising their Oracle EBS clients to take Oracle on Demand rather than TeleService products." There were no companies in the visionary quadrant. "It's a tough market," Maoz explained. "It's very difficult for someone new to emerge. This is not the small enterprise. This is not where investors are putting their money. You look at the big deals -- customer service is not the area where a new company is likely to get a big chunk of venture capital money." The innovation that is being done around customer service is coming via mobile and self-service, Maoz said. There have also been gains in contact center infrastructure, which Gartner measures in another report. In addition, although the concept of social CRM has received a great deal of hype, most social CRM products tend to focus on connecting with customers versus collaboration between individuals within a company, sometimes referred to as Enterprise 2.0. Maoz sees potential for the latter in CRM settings as well. "This is a very vital area. The challenge is going to be how not to just create another island,” he said. “I've managed to connect the people in my enterprise, but how do I capture what I've been working on? Who knows about the customer? That's all stuff that would classically be sitting in a CRM system. No one vendor to date has really figured out how we bridge the gap between communication systems and the systems that help with the life of the customer. That's the next frontier." CRM Initiatives for Improved Customer Experience –SearchCRM CW Buyer's Guide: Customer Relations (CRM) –ComputerWeekly.com Gartner: Deriving value from Big Data for CRM –ComputerWeekly.com SearchCRM.com E-Guide: Optimizing the customer experience with CRM –SearchCRM Dig Deeper on Customer relationship management (CRM) Enterprise social network software: Integrate with business applications By: Gina Narcisi Gartner: Marketing, customer service must merge Gartner Magic Quadrant reveals fragmented social CRM market Gartner customer service Magic Quadrant tackles social media, cloud 5 ways to accelerate time-to-value with data –DellEMC Web 2.0, multichannel tools found lacking in latest ... – SearchCustomerExperience Gartner customer service Magic Quadrant tackles ... – SearchCustomerExperience Gartner ranks customer service software – SearchCustomerExperience	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1783
__label__cc	0.561837	0.438163	Link Building Does Not Equal Content Marketing – But Here’s How They Fit Together Link building has gone through a lot in the past 18 months — and when content marketing became the buzzword of the day, there were troves of articles saying that content marketing is the new link building or that content marketing has replaced link building. That couldn’t be more false. Content marketing can build links. […] Erin Everhart on May 6, 2014 at 9:30 am Link building has gone through a lot in the past 18 months — and when content marketing became the buzzword of the day, there were troves of articles saying that content marketing is the new link building or that content marketing has replaced link building. That couldn’t be more false. Content marketing can build links. Link building efforts can result in some great content. They’re not the same thing, but the two can work together to produce some seriously amazing results. But, first, let’s get on the same page about what’s what: Link Building is acquiring links to improve your search rankings. It involves performing keyword research to determine what you want to target, finding sources related to those keywords (or identifying sites that are linking to your competitors), and then doing one-to-one outreach with those sources to obtain a link. Content Marketing is creating content to move your users through your marketing funnel. It involves creating buyer personas to determine who your buyers are, finding what they currently use to get content, and delivering content in their preferred medium to help them make a purchasing decision. So, how do they fit together? What People Want Is Typically What They Search For Most people are saying that SEO can’t exist without content marketing, and that’s true; but, it’s also goes the other way: content marketing shouldn’t exist without SEO. When we’re building links, we think keywords. Those keywords should still be factored into your content marketing strategy. While, yes, they need to be supplemented with buyer personas and deeper analysis into what’s really driving your users to making a purchasing decision, keywords are still vitally important because they show user intent. People search for what they want. It’s gotten easier to rank for long-tail keywords; most people will first find your content through a long-tail keyword search, and when you create a content piece centered around a keyword, you’re able to find sources willing to link to that topic. People Still Link To Extensive Content Pieces In link building, this looked a lot like a Google Search with [keyword + intitle:resources], finding URLs with followed links to outdated resources, updating said outdated content on your site with new, better content, and contacting the webmaster to link to you instead. There’s no reason why that wouldn’t work for content marketing, too. The only adage is before you go off and create this content piece, determine if this topic is something your users are even interested in. If so, in what medium do they prefer it? E-book? Webinar? Infographic? Blog post? Create the content in the medium they use most and use that as bait for the link source. The kicker is that typically in content marketing, these extensive resources are tied behind a form submission. Most resource listings won’t link to a piece of content that isn’t outright free, so you will have to balance between your biggest objectives. There are times when locking these behind a form are right, and there are other times when giving away all the goods for free works. Promote Additional Content At The End of A Blog Post The biggest way to get writers to cover and link to your content while you still providing a gateway to capture names and email addresses from your users for future lead nurturing is to provide both. Write a substantial blog post about something trending in your industry, and at the end of that blog post, promote a larger piece of content that’s related to that topic. You’re giving away enough information for free to still attract links, and you’re giving users an easy way to sign up for more. Don’t have an e-book or whitepaper already written? No problem. Schedule a webinar and use the form submission at the bottom of a blog post to encourage people to register for that. A subscribe form on your blog is another easy way to get people in your funnel with minimal obligation from them. Pro tip: Have the subscribe area follow them as they scroll down your blog posts so they don’t have to scroll back up when they’re ready to subscribe. Leverage Influencers For Inclusion, Sharing & Coverage One of the easiest ways to make link building and content marketing work together is by including the sources you want to link to you in your content. This isn’t a particularly new tactic. We’ve been using egobait for years. If someone is included in a content piece, they’re more likely to share and link to said content — even if it’s behind a submission form. This tactic can include things like: Interviews, quotes and advice Including data (with permission) from a study someone has done Promote Your Content To Niche Writers In content marketing, you’re writing content specific for your users; but, that doesn’t mean they’re the only ones who will find it interesting. With any content piece you create for your users — webinar, e-book, whitepaper, graphic, some new thing we’ve never heard of — do your due diligence, and send it out to niche writers in the industry who may also find it interesting. Followerwonk is a great tool to help you do that. Search Twitter bios with “industry + writer, journalist, blogger or editor,” and start building relationships with these people who could promote, include or share your content to earn links. You can also use Followerwonk to analyze your own followers to see what writers are already following you: They already know you; they’ll be more inclined to do you a favor. What else did I miss? How else can we make content marketing and link building work together? Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here. Erin Everhart Erin Everhart is an experienced digital strategist, content developer and search marketer. She's currently the Senior Manager, Media Strategy for The Home Depot and has previously worked agency-side for mid-sized business and Fortune 500 companies. She speaks regularly on digital strategy, content development and inbound marketing at conferences nationwide. Follow her on Twitter @erinever. Channel: SEOLink Week Column	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1784
__label__cc	0.727783	0.272217	the secret keeper "The work will teach you how to do it." – "Le travail va vous apprendre à le faire." 09-23-18 ….. I am temporarily on hiatus, attending to matters of health and well being. I will return as soon as possible. secret keeper film views inside talk (5) word weekly writing challenge musical muse litany of fear maggie the cat private writings gifs be have no idea John Gardner \| Quotations of a Novelist \| #9 Posted on Tuesday, 27, November, 2018 by the secret keeper No fiction can have real interest if the central character is not an agent struggling for his or her own goals but a victim, subject to the will of others. (Failure to recognize that the central character must act, not simply be acted upon, is the single most common mistake in the fiction of beginners.) We care how things turn out because the character cares, our interest comes from empathy, and though we may know more than the character knows, anticipating dangers the character cannot see, we understand and to some degree sympathize with the character’s desire, approving what the character approves.” ― John Gardner John Gardner (1933–1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism. including. On Becoming a Novelist. He was also a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson. When I worked at Bennington College in Southern VT I would often see him walking across the campus during the Summer Writing Workshops. Or when his white hair was flowing as he rode his beloved motorcycle on campus or away. – j.kiley “As a general rule, highly rational writers (like Nabokov) write most comfortably in the morning, and mainly intuitive writers write most comfortably at night.” “Theme is not imposed on the story but evoked from within it- initially an intuitive but finally an intellectual act on the part of a writer.” “One cannot judge in advance whether or not the idea of the story is worthwhile because until one has finished writing the story one does not know for sure what the idea is; and one cannot judge the style of a story on the basis of a first draft, because in a first draft the style of the finished story does not yet exist.” ― John Gardner “What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic laws but artistic mastery. He cannot hope to develop mastery all at once; it involves too much. But if he pursues his goal in the proper way, he can approach it much more rapidly than he would if he went at it hit-or-miss, and the more successful he is at each stage along the way, the swifter his progress is likely to be. Invariably when the beginning writer hands in a short story to his writing teacher, the story has many things about it that mark it as amateur. But almost as invariably, when the beginning writer deals with some particular, small problem, such as description of a setting, description of a character, or brief dialogue that has some definite purpose, the quality of the work approaches the professional. Having written some small thing very well, he begins to learn confidence.” ― John Gardner An Imaginary Life \| a writer’s passage Posted on Friday, 9, November, 2018 by the secret keeper An Imaginary Life “What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful setting out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.” – Malouf’s Ovid, David Malouf Posted on Tuesday, 6, November, 2018 by the secret keeper “Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists only so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the character can discover what he is really like, forcing the character to choice and action. And theme exists only to make the character stand up and be somebody.” “One of the things that should go into the writer’s notebook is a set of experiments with the sentence. A convenient and challenging place to begin is with the long sentence, one that runs to at least two pages.” ― John Gardner John Gardner \| Quotations of a Novelist \| # 5 Posted on Tuesday, 30, October, 2018 by the secret keeper “To put all this in the form of another traditional metaphor, aesthetic styles—patterns for communicating feeling and thought—become dull with use, like carving knives, and since dullness is the chief enemy of art, each generation of artists must find new ways of slicing the fat off reality.” “Art is as original and important as it is precisely because it does not start out with clear knowledge of what it means to say.” ― John Gardner John Gardner (1933–1982) was born in Batavia, New York. His critically acclaimed books include the novels Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues, and October Light, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as several works of nonfiction and criticism . including . On Becoming a Novelist. He was also a professor of medieval literature and a pioneering creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver and Charles Johnson. When I worked at Bennington College in Southern VT I would often see him walking across the campus during the Summer Writing Workshops. Or when his white hair was flowing as he rode his beloved motorcycle on campus or away. – j.kiley “I think of the pastness of the past: how the moment I am alive in, prisoned in, moves like a slowly tumbling form through darkness, the underground river. Not only ancient history – the mythical age of the brothers’ feud – but my own history one second ago, has vanished utterly, dropped out of existence.” ― John Gardner	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1785
__label__cc	0.54514	0.45486	NILE: FULL TOUR DATES LEAKED FOR WINTER 2017 U.S. TOUR with OVERKILL and AMORPHIS. FULL dates have leaked for South Carolina, U.S.A. death metal warriors NILE's anticipated WINTER 2017 U.S. TOUR with OVERKILL, AMORPHIS and select dates with SWALLOW THE SUN and LORDI. MORE NILE, OVERKILL, AMORPHIS, SWALLOW THE SUN and LORDI tour dates T.B.A. NILE unleashed "WHAT SHOULD NOT BE UNEARTHED", 8/28/2015 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. OVERKILL unleashed "WHITE DEVIL ARMORY", 7/18/2014 (EUROPE) via NUCLEAR BLAST and 7/22/2014 in NORTH AMERICA, via E1 MUSIC . AMORPHIS unleashed "UNDER THE RED CLOUD", 9/4/2015 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. SWALLOW THE SUN unleashed "SONGS FROM THE NORTH I, II and III", (A TRIPLE ALBUM), 11/13/2015 via CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS. FROM AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Feb. 14 - Philadelphia, PA (Trocadero Theater) Feb. 15 - Cleveland, OH (Agora Ballroom) (w/Lordi) Feb. 16 - Columbus, OH (Park Street Saloon) Feb. 17 - Chicago, IL (Concord Music Hall) Feb. 18 - Minneapolis, MN (Cabooze) Feb. 19 - Lawrence, KS (Granada Theater) Feb. 20 - Englewood, CO (Gothic Theater) Feb. 22 - Seattle, WA (El Corazon) Feb. 23 - Portland, OR (Hawthorne Theater) Feb. 25 - Anaheim, CA (Grove) Feb. 26 - Mesa, AZ (Club Red) Feb. 27 - Albuquerque, NM (Sunshine Theater) Feb. 28 - Dallas, TX (Trees) Mar. 1 - Houston, TX (Scout Bar) Mar. 2 - San Antonio, TX (Alamo Music Hall) Mar. 3 - New Orleans, LA (Southport Hall) Mar. 4 - Ybor City, FL (Ritz) Mar. 5 - Atlanta, GA (Variety Playhouse) Mar. 6 - Charlotte, NC (Fillmore) (w/Amorphis, Swallow The Sun) Mar. 7 - Norfolk, VA (NorVa) (w/Amorphis, Swallow The Sun) Mar. 8 - Washington, DC (Howard Theater) (w/Amorphis, Swallow The Sun) Mar. 9 - Clifton Park, NY (Upstate Concert Hall) (w/Amorphis, Swallow The Sun) Mar. 10 - Worcester, MA (Palladium)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1790
__label__cc	0.510101	0.489899	MGD’S GRAND ALUMNI MEET CONCLUDES WITH A CAR RALLY HomePress ReleaseMGD’S GRAND ALUMNI MEET CONCLUDES WITH A CAR RALLY The 3-day celebration on the occasion of the ’75 Years of MGD’ ended with a car rally. The rally which kicked off from the Albert Hall, proceeded with stops at the Rajasthan University (RU), Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK), Rambagh Polo Ground and SMS Convention Centre, finishing at the MGD School. At each stop, clues were given to the teams, after solving which, they could proceed further. The rally was flagged off in the morning by the Secretary, MGD Girl’s Guild, Mrs. Nirmala Durlabhji. Around 30 vehicles including Car, SUVs and jeeps with catchy posters and girls, some of them wearing MGD T-shirts, painted the town red. The first position in the rally was bagged by Seema Saraf and team (batch of 1999), followed by Khushbu Saraf and team (batch of 2003) and Vidyut Seth and team (batch of 1989 and 1990) on the second and third positions, respectively. First prize for the Best Decorated Car was won by the girls from 1991 batch and second by 1990 batch. There was also a prize for the Best Sporty Car. The results were decided by a jury comprising the MGD Guild. While Principal, Mrs. Archana S. Mankotia announced the results, they were given away by President, MGD, Rani Vidya Devi. EXHIBITION OF ARTEFACTS MADE DURING ‘CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL’ BEGAN AT JKK Press Release After the 9-day Children’s Festival held from 5January to 13 January at JKK concluded on a high-note, an exhibition displaying the artefacts made by the participants during workshops was inaugurated at Chaturdik Gallery, JKK. The exhibition was inaugurated by the Director General of JKK, Ms. Kiran Soni... “GANDHI WAS ALWAYS AGAINST THE DIVISION OF INDIA”-Rajmohan Gandhi Press Release Mahatma Gandhi was always opposed to the division of India. His efforts to prevent the Partition were incomparable to any other. He always tried to spread happiness and eradicate hatred. In this mission, he visited villages, various parts of India to spread the message of friendship and... OVER 50 FARMERS AND ENTREPRENEURS BRING FORTH THEIR PRODUCTS AT THE FARMER’S MARKET Press Release Over 50 farmers, startups and entrepreneurs brought forth their organic, farm fresh and eco-friendly products at The Farmer’s Market (TFM) held in collaboration with Jaipur based incubation center, Startup Oasis at Hotel Clarks Amer The products ranged from apparel, home décor, food, groceries as well as cosmetics... G-4, Rukmani Garden, Shiv Marg, Bani Park, Jaipur - 302016 Email: info@sparkpr.in © Copyright 2018 SparkPR Designed by SaveDelete	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1791
__label__cc	0.707505	0.292495	BC SPCA > About us > Governance and accountability The BC SPCA is committed to achieving the highest standards of transparency and accountability in all its activities, which has resulted in several awards and accreditations. Learn how the how the governance of the BC SPCA is structured or review our strategic plan and our financial and operational reports. Review our strategic plan and our financial and operational reports to learn about how your generous support is helping animals in British Columbia. Learn about how the governance of the BC SPCA is structured, including information about our Board of Directors and Community Councils. (Photo credit: Avrum Soudack) Discover the core governance policies of the BC SPCA. (Photo credit: Jenna Knight) The BC SPCA is committed to achieving the highest standards of transparency and accountability in all its activities, which has resulted in several awards and accreditations. Core policies and standards Mission, Vision and Charter Stats at a glance History of the BC SPCA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1792
__label__wiki	0.929663	0.929663	Reed holds off sensational Spieth and surging Fowler to win dramatic Masters Jordan Spieth almost pulled off the unthinkable at the Masters and Rickie Fowler charged, but the green jacket belongs to Patrick Reed. Peter Hanson 09 April, 2018 05:01 IST Patrick Reed celebrates winning the Masters - Getty Images Patrick Reed held his nerve to clinch the Masters in the face of one of the greatest final rounds in major history from Jordan Spieth and a Rickie Fowler charge on an exhilarating final day at Augusta. Reed, who had led after rounds two and three, carded a gutsy one-under-par 71 to secure his maiden major title with a score of 15 under, finishing one clear of Fowler and two ahead of Spieth. The champion showed impressive character to prevail after a heroic performance from Spieth, who was one stroke short of tying the Augusta low-score of 63 due to a bogey at the last. Nine shots back at the start of the day, Spieth came close to pulling off the biggest final-round comeback in the tournament's history, reaching nine under for the day through 15 holes in his quest for a second green jacket. Fowler, who has top-five finishes at all four major tournaments, again went agonisingly close to breaking his major duck, playing the final 10 holes in six under par and birdieing the last for a 67 that left Reed needing a par to win. But ultimately it was Reed's day at Augusta as the 27-year-old claimed a richly deserved victory to join the pantheon of golfing greats to win a green jacket. Rory McIlroy had started the day as Reed's nearest challenger, three strokes back, but the Northern Irishman struggled with the putter throughout and limped to a two-over 74 to finish six strokes back in a tie for fifth with Bubba Watson, Henrik Stenson and Cameron Smith, two behind the fourth-placed Jon Rahm. Reed appeared understandably nervy at times on the front nine, registering bogeys at the first and sixth, although gains at three and seven ensured he stayed out in front. As McIlroy faltered, Spieth surged into contention with an outward nine of 31, before birdieing the 12th - the scene of his infamous Masters meltdown in 2016 - to gain more ground. With his putter running hot, Spieth went on to pick up further shots at 13 and 15, while Reed responded superbly to a bogey at 11 by rolling in a 22-foot putt for a two at the 12th. Yet more drama followed as Spieth holed an even bigger putt at 16 to tie the lead for the first time, the course record of 63 looking well within his grasp. However, he then clipped the trees with his tee shot at 18 - after Reed had birdied 14 to reclaim sole possession of first place - and a bogey ended Spieth's hopes of completing the most remarkable of comebacks. Fowler came up on the fence with four birdies in the last seven holes, his approach to within seven feet at the last and subsequent successful putt bringing about the potential of a play-off if Reed bogeyed 18. But for one last time, Reed played four flawless golf shots - hitting the fairway and green before two-putting to secure his triumph. The classy Fowler waited to congratulate his Ryder Cup team-mate as he walked off the 18th green, providing a graceful end to a spectacular tournament.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1796
__label__wiki	0.66391	0.66391	Celebrating Our Community, Our Customers & Our Continued Efforts to Create Positive Impact by Julie Fahnestock \| Sep 5, 2019 \| Activism, Community, Entrepreneurship, Lending, Small business \| 0 comments Recognized by B Lab as a Best For The World Honoree in Overall, Changemaker, Customers, and Governance It’s a momentous time for us. Not one, but four recognitions from the B Corp movement that affirm our work to create a world where all people have equal access and the opportunity to build prosperous and abundant financial futures. Today we are proud to announce we have been named 2019 Best For The World Honoree by B Lab in four categories: Overall, Changemaker, Customers, and Governance. What does this mean? We rank in the top 10 percent of all 3,000 B Corps worldwide for our positive impact, an affirmation of our commitment to this journey over the last 12 months. Here’s a look at some of the things we’ve been up to: Changemaker: Support for the community. We continue to support the incredible network of community partners who provide invaluable services in New York City like financial literacy, affordable housing, and job creation. Carbon neutral. This April we offset over 192,874.28 kg of CO2e, part of a movement to preserve the Amazon rainforest and supports indigenous families who live in the rainforests of Pará, Brazil. Customers: Since the day we opened our doors, we have served people and communities most often targeted by predatory lenders. We design affordable banking products like our Start Loan and Green Checking account to help people build savings and credit. We continue to score the highest in the Customer category on the B Impact Assessment because serving the needs of our customers is our priority. Governance: We have been recognized for how we achieve mission, accountability, and transparency through the active engagement of our employees, board members, and community representatives. Thank you to B Lab for recognizing our efforts. And, Thank YOU, our loyal customers, supporters, and partners who inspire us to do more, go further and stay the path to build an inclusive, equitable, and durable and shared prosperity for all. About the Best For The World Award Best For The World recognition is administered by B Lab, the global nonprofit that certifies and supports Certified B Corporations, which are for-profit companies dedicated to using business as a force for good. Today there are 3,000 Certified B Corporations across 64 countries and 150 industries, unified by one common goal: to redefine success in business. Learn about our score on the B Impact Assessment. Read about the Best For The World Honorees.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1797
__label__cc	0.518483	0.481517	Records, Barber County, Kansas Barber County Court House, Medicine Lodge, Kansas Photo by Nathan Lee, October 2006. Barber County, Kansas, was created in 1867 from Harper County, Kansas; the county seat is Medicine Lodge, Kansas. -- The Handy Book For Genealogists, 7th edition, Everton Publishers, Logan, Utah, 1981. For all counties in Kansas, birth and death records since July 1, 1911; marriages since May 1, 1913; and divorces since July 1, 1951 are obtainable at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Office of Vital Statistics, Topeka, Kansas 66620. Records are indexed alphabetically by year. The forms needed to order records from the Office of Vital Statistics are available online from The Kansas Dept. of Health & Environment Office of Vital Statistics. Another source of these forms is vitalrec.com. For vital records before the dates given above, and for probate, land records and other civil records, contact the appropriate office at the: Barber County Courthouse Medicine Lodge, KS 67104-1421 Phone: (620) 886-3961. Fax: (620) 886-5425. To locate the names of current county officials and contact information for them, use the following Google search results: "Barber County" +courthouse If you want to find an obituary or news articles, start by checking this List of Barber County Newspapers to locate the Kansas State Historical Society microfilm reel number the item you're seeking is likely to be on. Links to information on borrowing microfilms through interlibrary loan are on the aforementioned page. You will often read references to people in Barber County "homesteading" their land. Barber County was NOT settled under the provisions of the Homestead Act. Barber County is part of the Osage Diminished Reserve Lands. For more information, see the following page on the Comanche County, Kansas: History & Genealogy site: The Osage Diminished Reserve Lands. Collected Death Notices for Barber County, Kansas Collected Marriage Notices for Barber County, Kansas Petition for Incorporation of Sun City, 15 Jan 1886. Corporations in Sun City, Kansas, courtesy of Kim Fowles. Barber County Newspapers: Gyp Hill Premiere, 110 N. Main, Medicine Lodge, Kansas 67104. Barber County Libraries: Hardtner Public Library, P. O. Box 38, Hardtner, KS 67057. Kiowa Public Library, 123 N. Seventh, Kiowa, KS 67070. Lincoln Library, 201 N. Main, Medicine Lodge, KS 67104. Wisner Library, Sharon, KS 67138 Barber County Museums and Historical Societies: Carrie Nation House, Highway 160, Medicine Lodge, KS 67104. The Stockade Museum, Highway 160, Medicine Lodge, KS 67104. Kiowa Historical Museum, 107 N. 7th, Kiowa, KS 67070. Open: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Kiowa School Museum, 5th and Miller, Kiowa, KS 67070. Open by appointment. KGS Online Catalog Includes listings of historical records for Barber County, Ks, held by the Kansas Genealogical Society. Records available through interlibrary loan from The Kansas State Historical Society: * 1937-1938: Barber County farm directory, call# K/910.1/F229/-B23/1937-1938. * 1949: Medicine Lodge city directory, call# K/910/-M46/1949. * 1963: Barber County farm directory, call# K/910.1/F229/-B23/1963. This RootsWeb website is being created by Jerry Ferrin with the able assistance of many Contributors. Your comments, suggestions and contributions of historical information and photographs to this site are welcome. Please sign the Guest Book. This page was last updated 2 September 2006.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1798
__label__wiki	0.982516	0.982516	Drones Shot Down Near Russian Base in Syria Were Western-Made – Source (PHOTOS) © Photo : Russian Defense Ministry https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201807021065969351-syria-hmeymim-russia-air-defenses-drones/ A group of unidentified drones that approached the military facilities near the Hmeymim airbase in Syria on June 30 has been destroyed by Russian air defenses. A source in the Syrian army told Sputnik that more than five unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which were earlier eliminated near the Russian Hmeymim airbase in Syria, were "most likely on a reconnaissance mission." The source also said that "on closer examination it became clear that the UAVs' parts were made in Western countries." "The drones were invisible to conventional radars, because they were made of wood, plastic and modern innovative materials. Despite the deliberate use of these innovation technologies, the UAVS were detected by the Russian military," the source stressed. READ MORE: Russian Air Defenses Intercept Projectile Targeting Hmeymim Base in Syria It explained that first and foremost, the drones were tracked by the Russian-made photodetectors and secondly, adding to the UAV's destruction were the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF) who are specifically tasked with protecting the territory around the Hmeymim base. "After NDF fighters found out that the drones were flowing at low altitude, they shot down two UAVs with the help of Kalashnikov assault rifles," the source added. © Sputnik / MURAD SAID Downed drone Earlier, a representative of the Hmeymim airbase reported that on June 30, a group of UAVs of unknown origin was detected by Russian airspace control to the northeast of the airbase and that all the drones were obliterated shortly after. In a previous incident, Russian air defense systems intercepted two combat drones launched by militants near the base in late April. Syrian servicemen are seen near a downed drone The air defenses of the Russian airbase in Syria have been strengthened after a massive drone attack against Russian military facilities, including the Tartus Naval base and Hmeymin airbase on January 6. The Syrian government forces took control over six out of 13 drones as seven others were destroyed. Russian servicemen were deployed to Syria in 2015, in a move initiated by the Syrian government who asked Moscow’s assistance in the fight against terrorism. In December 2017, the Russian Defense Ministry announced complete destruction of Daesh* in Syria which were followed by Russian President Putin proclaiming "victory over terrorists" and ordering the partial withdrawal of Russian forces from Syrian territory. *Daesh, a terrorist group banned in Russia Another Two Russian Fifth Gen. Su-57 Jets Reportedly Land in Syria's Hmeymim Russian Military Denies Reports of Drone Attacks on Hmeymim Base on January 1 Drones Attacked Hmeymim Base From 'Moderate' Opposition-Controlled Area Russia to Spend $335,000 Annually to Maintain Hmeymim Airbase in Syria Hmeymim Airbase, radars, reconnaissance, unmanned aerial vehicle, mission, drones, Syria	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1802
__label__wiki	0.538668	0.538668	Faith Protection Man and Church Archbishop Theodosy clarifies if sacraments of Phanar and OCU are gracious Tatyana Chaika Vicar of the Kiev Metropolis Archbishop Theodosy of Boyarka Archbishop Theodosy commented on how to treat the OCU sacraments and if grace operates in sacraments of Constantinople Patriarchate, including the monasteries of Athos. After the rupture of Eucharistic communion with Constantinople, the grace of God did not cease to act in its sacraments: the fracture of Eucharistic communion in this case is not a mystical measure but a disciplinary one. However, the OCU sacraments are graceless, since all the “ordinations” of this structure descend from schismatics. This was told to Pravoslavie.Ru by the Vicar of the Kiev Metropolis, Archbishop Theodosy (Snigiriov) of Boyarka . “The disciplinary measure in this case is a warning to all believers of the Russian Church and the entire Orthodox world that Phanar has violated the canons of Orthodoxy, that the heresy of Eastern papism was openly declared, and this spiritual infection must be localized and cured. Moreover, the rupture of Eucharistic communion is an elementary spiritual protection for our hierarchs and clergymen from joint service with people from the OCU who do not have holy rank. After all, such concelebration is now common practice with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Therefore, it is better for Constantinople to ba under quarantine restrictions,” His Eminence explained. However, in his words, “to take the sacraments in the Patriarchate of Constantinople contrary to the decision of your Church is the same as to go to a service led by a banned priest who violates this prohibition. Is that right? It is completely wrong and spiritually dangerous for both a person and such a priest. Most recently, our pilgrims asked a famous Athos confessor if they could take the Holy Communion on Athos during this period, because this is the canonical territory of the Constantinople Patriarchate. He answered this way: such Communion will not bring you benefit, since you will disregard the blessing and break the obedience of your Holy Church. ” “Church communities that are infected with heresy and are moving further and further away from the True Church of Christ and Her teachings, even if they preserve the semblance of church structures, lose the grace in the sacraments. <...> With the removal of such communities from Orthodoxy, from the true Church Tradition, the grace of the Holy Spirit in their sacrament dries out even more until it becomes scanty altogether. Where pride and heresy reign, including papism's heresy, there is no grace there, it is hidden under the concrete layer and can no longer act. May such a thing never happen to our Phanariot brothers! It’s still not too late to remedy everything,” says the hierarch. According to him, “where pride and heresy reign, there is no grace there, it cannot work there,” however, “such ecclesiological logic is appropriate if it is a community with apostolic succession, but not such structures as Kiev Patriarchate and OCU, for example. In their case, they initially had no power of their sacraments, as there is no apostolic succession.” Commenting on the apostolic succession of the new church structure, the bishop noted that all its “ordinations” were performed by the two former bishops who had been deprived of the dignity at that time – Filaret (Denisenko) and Jacob (Panchuk), i.e. from simple monks who donned priestly robes: “In June of 1992, they were deprived of their dignity for committing schism by the plenipotentiary body – the Bishops' Council, whose decision was subsequently recognized by all Orthodox Churches of the world. In the aftermath of their excommunication, these schismatics created their new structure and being ordinary monks began to supply new "bishops", naturally, without the grace of apostolic succession. This is how the Kiev Patriarchate, a quasi-church parallel to the UOC, emerged in Ukraine.” “One may legalize these “bishops” without any rank, grant them whatever “tomos” and protect with state laws – yet this will not add any grace to them. Like in mathematics: any number, multiplied by zero, results in zero. Therefore, now the Local Orthodox Churches, one after another, refuse to recognize these citizens, headed by Epiphany, as priests. None of the world hierarchs who has clear conscience will serve before the throne of God with secular people. Even if they ideologically sympathize with them. Furthermore, it is spiritually dangerous to enter into Eucharistic communion with the OCU because, according to canonical rules, one who enters into communion with the excommunicated is subject to excommunication too,” said Vladyka Theodosy. Speaking about the concelebration of Patriarch Bartholomew with the head of the OCU Epiphany as a man without any rank, he noted: “I don’t know what his heart was feeling at that service ... To illustrate this absurdity, I suggest that the Academy and Seminary students fancy the following. If I lend my vestments to some of the students at the next Sunday liturgy, let him stand next to me and together we “serve” – will the liturgy be valid? It will be, of course, because the bishop performed it. But will the student become a bishop after this service? No, of course, he will not. How should he and I answer for this "service" at the Last Judgment? It will be difficult to answer. This is the same thing which happened in Istanbul on January 6.” As the UOJ reported, the Albanian Church earlier spoke in favor of the need to re-ordain the schismatics. The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Anastasius, wrote a letter to Patriarch Bartholomew in which he pointed out errors and debunked Phanar's historical and canonical position on the Ukrainian church issue. Considering the ecclesiastical points, Archbishop Anastasius singled out three themes “directly related to the traditions and consciousness of the Orthodox Church inspired by the Holy Spirit: a) The Holy Eucharist, b) Apostolic succession, and c) Conciliarity.” Tags: Archbishop Theodosy of Boyarka, Patriarchate of Constantinople, OCU, OCU, Sacraments of the Church, UOC If you notice an error, highlight the text you want and press Ctrl + Enter to report it to the editor. Archbishop Theodosius explains what temples can be visited in Greece UOC hierarch: New govt. needs to restore constitutional rights of believers UOC hierarch about OCU: One cannot just climb over a fence to get to Church UOC hierarch: Filaret is a mirror of the Ukrainian schism Abp. Theodosius of Boyarka: There will be more than one schism in OCU Abp. Theodosius: Power is moving from intimidation to repression of the UOC Media report about Orthodox anticafe in Kharkiv centre Protest prayers in Montenegro gather tens of thousands of believers Yurash: Those who do not Honcharuk dislike Ukraine. Odessa sectarian launches information war against Orthodox priest Phanar thanks hierarch of Cyprus for his position against Pat. Theophilos “Parishes that do not exist”: UOC communities of Boyanchuk and Horoshovtsy Mass media: Two Syrian metropolitans suffer martyrdom Expert: Phanar may try to give autocephaly to “Montenegrin Church” “Parishes that do not exist”: The UOC community of Mikhailovka village Premier of Skopje: A dynamic dialogue on our Church with Phanar initiated Mass media: Head of “Montenegrin church” says his structure would get Tomos Rada adds Sheptitsky’s 155th anniversary to list of observances for 2020 Israel dismisses Andrey Sheptitsky as a Righteous Man of the Nations again Metropolitan Onuphry visits Bancheny Monastery and Orphanage ROC Spokesman: Phanar’s actions are a stab in the back of Serbian Church Drabinko presents a panagia of Met. Vladimir (Sabodan) to UGCC bishop Mass media: Head of Phanar is set to grant Tomos to Macedonian dissenters Filaret: No anathema of Phanar matters to me Another "hierarch" withdraws his signature from "Council" starting up OCU Filaret: Phanariots asked in negotiations - what will we have from this? Did Prime Minister of Macedonia come to Phanar to address autocephaly? Bulgarian political expert: Autocephaly of OCU is a geo-religious project Metropolitan Jonathan: Tomos from Phanar did not work Filaret: The Church has no honorary patriarchs – an invention of Greeks What will happen if the Church of Greece recognizes the OCU? it will put itself out of Orthodoxy it will give rise to global recognition of the OCU by Local Churches nothing will happen, the Greeks will be the first and the last to recognize the OCU – Do you know when the fasting ends? So that we could eat meat at ease. – Can't you eat it? – I do eat.... But somehow ill at ease. © 2015-2019. 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__label__cc	0.747454	0.252546	How to Identify and Prevent Investment Fraud Some get-rich-quick schemes are too good to be true Credit: iStockphoto \| Thinkstock Be on the alert for investment fraud! According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the following investment scams are commonly used to target Americans: High-return or “risk-free” investments Some unscrupulous brokers and investment advisers recommend unsuitable products that don’t meet the investment objectives or financial situations of investors. Inappropriate recommendations might occur when a broker sells speculative, high-risk investments such as options, futures, or penny stocks to individuals who are near retirement or are retired and have a low risk tolerance. In this classic scheme, fraudsters promise sky-high returns in a short period of time for doing nothing other than handing over money and getting others to do the same. Despite their claims to have legitimate products or services to sell, these deceivers spend much of the money on themselves and simply use money coming in from new recruits to pay off early stage investors. Although the products sold may be legitimate, eventually the pyramid will collapse. At some point the schemes get too big, the promoters cannot raise enough money from new investors to pay earlier investors, and many people lose their money. These are a type of illegal pyramid scheme named for Charles Ponzi, who fooled thousands of New England residents into investing in a postage-stamp speculation scheme back in the 1920s. Today, the Ponzi scheme continues to work on the same “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” principle, as money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme collapses. Perhaps the most notorious Ponzi scheme came to light in 2008, when money manager Bernie Madoff duped investors out of $50 billion. A promissory note is a type of debt that is similar to a loan or IOU and is used by a company to raise money. Typically, an investor agrees to loan money to the company for a set period of time. In exchange, the company promises to pay the investor a fixed return on the investment, typically principal plus annual interest. While promissory notes can be legitimate investments, those that are marketed broadly to individual investors often turn out to be nothing more than worthless paper. Most established companies have borrowing relationships with financial institutions, therefore this type of transaction among individuals is rare. Individual investors should exercise extreme caution with this type of investment. Internet investment fraud Internet investment fraud is similar to other fraud perpetrated over the phone or through the mail. Fraudsters use a variety of Internet tools, including bulletin boards, online newsletters, spam or chat rooms to spread false information. They also may build a sophisticated Web page to make their scam appear legitimate. The Internet has made off-shore scams very easy to implement and difficult to police because the perpetrators often reside outside of the United States. This fraud refers to investment scams that prey upon members of certain groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, the elderly, or professional groups. Deceivers who promote affinity scams frequently are—or pretend to be—members of the group. They enlist respected community or religious leaders from within the group to spread the word about the scheme, by convincing people that a fraudulent investment is legitimate and worthwhile. Often, the leaders themselves become unwitting victims of the fraudster’s scheme. How Can You Protect Yourself From Future Schemers? To protect your investment, be sure to follow all five of these suggestions: Choose a money manager who is well-known, regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and who has been in the industry for several years. Carefully examine testimonials you read or see advertised about a money manager. Beware any money manager who wants total control of all your money or who deliberately overemphasizes his trustworthiness and honesty. Choose everyday investments that can be bought and sold through well-known brokerage firms or mutual fund companies. Make sure your statements come from your brokerage firm, not the individual money manager. Make your checks out to your brokerage firm, not to an individual money manager or a company that person controls. Beware promises of high or unusually steady rates of return. If a money manager can’t easily explain his or her investment process, that’s a red flag. 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__label__cc	0.748343	0.251657	AARP AARP States Michigan Check out local, state and national events. We’d love to have you join us. Events Offer Diabetes Prevention Tips By The AARP Bulletin, SEP 1, 2019 Despite a lifelong weakness for sweet treats, Willie Vinson was shocked when she heard that the word “prediabetic” applied to her. “I was truly surprised—both at the diagnosis and at the changes I would have to make," Vinson said. "You can’t be a sugar addict anymore, that’s for sure.” She is among the AARP volunteers organizing a four-part diabetes workshop that will take place the first four Wednesdays of October in Lansing. AARP in Detroit and Southeast Michigan By Careena Eggleston, AUG 29, 2019 AARP is here to help you take on today – and every day. From sharing practical resources, to holding fun activities and events, AARP is providing opportunities to connect and help build an even stronger Detroit, Southeast Michigan, and Michigan for all ages to live, work and play. We hope you’ll join us! AARP in Jackson and Jackson County By Careena Eggleston, JUL 1, 2019 AARP is here to help you take on today – and every day. From sharing practical resources, to holding fun activities and events, AARP is providing opportunities to connect and help build an even stronger Jackson and Michigan for all ages to live, work and play. We hope you’ll join us! AARP in Lansing and Mid-Michigan AARP is here to help you take on today – and every day. From sharing practical resources, to holding fun activities and events, AARP is providing opportunities to connect and help build an even stronger Michigan and mid-Michigan area for all ages to live, work and play. We hope you’ll join us! Celebrate Grandparents Day in Lansing By Mark Hornbeck, JUL 1, 2019 Free, interactive event -- slated for Sept. 8 at Don Johnson Field House -- includes games, activities, instruction, music, carnival and more for all ages Learn About Brain Health, Stress Reduction By The AARP Bulletin, MAY 1, 2019 A series of coffee gatherings in Grand Rapids on the third Wednesday of each month is featuring expert speakers on topics of interest to those 50 and older. Enjoying the Arts Promotes Brain Health By The AARP Bulletin, APR 1, 2019 By Melissa Preddy Love, Family, Prizes: 'Why I Love My Grandparents' Essay Contest Launches By Mark Hornbeck, MAR 20, 2019 AARP Michigan will celebrate the special family bond between grandparents and grandchildren with a "Why I Love My Grandparents" essay contest for students in the Mid-Michigan area. Job Fair Connects Employers With Older Workers Experience for Hire, AARP Michigan’s third hiring event, will be Wednesday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at West Michigan Works, 215 Straight Ave. NW in Grand Rapids. Experience for Hire - Grand Rapids Hiring Event By Careena Eggleston, FEB 12, 2019 Search AARP Michigan Emails from AARP Michigan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1809
__label__cc	0.597275	0.402725	Convergence criteria for Linear Process time series models For the model $X_t = \sum_{j=-\infty} ^{\infty} \psi_j Z_{t-j}$, where $Z_t \sim WN(0, \sigma^2)$, I'm not totally clear on why we require $\sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \| \psi_j\| < \infty$. I think we can show that $$ E \left[\sum_{j=-\infty} ^{\infty} \|\psi_j Z_{t-j}\| \right] \le \sigma \sum_{j=-\infty} ^{\infty} \|\psi_j\|$$ so the left hand side converges if the right hand side does. But why is it important for the left hand side to converge? FequishFequish $\begingroup$ Is this by any chance self-study? It affects the way we try to answer the question... $\endgroup$ – jbowman Jan 27 '16 at 20:47 $\begingroup$ I'm auditing a TS course but am not officially enrolled. Does that help? $\endgroup$ – Fequish Jan 27 '16 at 22:33 $\begingroup$ It should be "we require $\sum_{j=-\infty}^{\infty} \| \psi_j\| < \infty$" rather than $\sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \| \psi_j\| < \infty$, I guess? $\endgroup$ – Christoph Hanck Jan 28 '16 at 7:10 $\begingroup$ A more thorough derivation of the existence of the process given absolute summability: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/353071/… $\endgroup$ – Taylor Aug 21 '18 at 16:05 Short Answer: Requiring $\sum_j \|\psi_j\| < \infty$ avoids a few strange behaviors easier without being a much stronger assumption, so folks make it to avoid having to caveat all their other theorems. Longer: When building a model, you're almost certainly going to want a finite variance (unless you're specifically building a 'heavy-tailed' model). For this, we only need the slightly weaker condition that $\sum_j \psi_j^2 < \infty$. [SS15, Definition 1.12] $$ \begin{align} \text{Var}\left[\sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \psi_j Z_j\right] &= \sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \text{Var}[\psi_j Z_j] \\ &= \sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \psi_j^2 \text{Var}[Z_j] \\ &= \sigma^2 \sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \psi_j^2 \end{align} $$ If the variance exists (is finite), it's a standard result that the mean exists (is finite) as well [S03, Section 1.3.2]. However, if we don't require absolute convergence on the $\psi_j$, the series $\sum_j \psi_j$ may only be conditionally convergent and not absolutely convergent, which leads to strange things like the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem applying. In practice, it's not the RRT that you're worried about - that's just an example of the strange properties of conditionally convergent series. One of the great things about absolute convergence is that it lets you switch around integrals (expectations) and sums: this lets us assume that the sum gives a sensible random variable. Another, more serious, issue is that, without assuming absolute summability, you can't prove the ergodicity of the mean of the series (ergodicity means that given a long enough observation, you can get a good estimate of the mean which is useful because we typically only have one realization of a time series). The series may be 'long-memory' (long-range dependence) and having more observations won't necessarily make the variance of your mean estimate decay: roughly, any shocks will 'stick around' forever and pollute your estimate of the mean. (See [SS15, Section 5.2]; I also like [S06] for a more general overview of long-memory processes, but it's not the easiest read just because the subject is hard.) Hamilton [H94] discusses this briefly in section 3.3, particularly footnote 3, where he refers the reader to [R73, p.111] for details, and appendix 3.A but I don't have the Rao reference handy. [H94] James D. Hamilton, Time Series Analysis, 1st Ed. (1994) Princeton University Press. [R73] C. Radhakrishna Rao, Linear Statistical Inference and Its Applications 2nd Ed. (1973) Wiley. [S03] Jun Shao, Mathematical Statistics, 2nd Ed. (2003) Springer. Springer Texts in Statistics. [S06] Gennady Samorodnitsky, "Long Range Dependence". Foundations and Trends in Stochastic Systems 1(3). p.163-257 (2006). [SS15] Robert H. Shumway and David S. Stoffer, Time Series Analysis and Its Applications, 3rd Ed. Blue Printing (2015-12). Springer. Freely available at http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/ mweylandtmweylandt Since you have an infinite series $\sum_j \psi_j Z_{t-j}$ it is not immediately given that it sums up to a random variable. Furthermore since it is a sum of random variables there are various notions how to understand the sum of such series. The most simple is the convergence almost surely and for that we have the following statement. If $\sum_j E\|Y_j\|<\infty$ then the series $\sum_j Y_j$ converges absolutely almost surely and $E\sum_j Y_j = \sum EY_j$. Since $E\|Z_{t}\|=const$ for all $t$, if $Z_t\sim WN(0,\sigma^2)$, the condition $\sum_j \|\psi_j\|<\infty$ ensures that series $\sum_j \psi_j Z_{t-j}$ are well defined, i.e. that $X_t$ exists for all $t$. mpiktasmpiktas Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged time-series or ask your own question. Mean square convergence of linear processes Property of the autocovariance function in time series Least squares estimator in a time series $\{Y_t\}$ Distribution of infinite sum $\sum_{t=0}^{\infty} \epsilon_t r^t $ Why does absolutely-summable weights ensures a linear series itself summable (convergent)? Some questions on def'n of Linear Series	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1816
__label__wiki	0.762669	0.762669	November 27, 2019 onefrombills PBA Spare Shots: Go Bowling! to Showcase Bowling in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Nov. 27, 2019) Bill Vint \| PBA Media Relations Professional Bowlers Association \| 55 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 401 \| Chicago, IL 60604 bill.vint@pba.com \| cell: 414.339.0404 PBA Spare Shots GO BOWLING! TO SHOWCASE BOWLING IN MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE Go Bowling!, the PBA Tour’s umbrella sponsor for a third consecutive year in 2020, will again showcase the sport with an appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. The 93rd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will air starting at 9 a.m. in all time zones on NBC. In conjunction with the holiday season, Go Bowling! is also offering bowling fans a chance to win a $1,000 Holiday Shopping Spree simply by filling out an entry form. To enter, use this link: bit.ly/GBHolidayShoppingSpree. H5G OFFERS FREE SHIPPING FOR PBA MERCHANDISE ON CYBER MONDAY For the PBA fan in your family, H5G Brands is offering free shipping for PBA merchandise purchased online on Cyber Monday, Dec. 2. For details, and a look at the entire line of PBA products offered by the PBA’s new merchandising partner, visit this link: http://www.pbastore.com. PBA’S DEBUT SEASON ON FOX SPORTS PROVES REWARDING FOR PBA PLAYERS The PBA’s first full year of competition under its new FOX Sports agreement proved to be financially rewarding to PBA Tour players. Nine players exceeded $100,000 in earnings during the year, led by Australia’s Jason Belmonte who banked $288,290, the highest single-season earnings total since Mika Koivuniemi collected $333,040 after winning the record $250,000 first prize in the 2011 PBA Tournament of Champions during the 2010-11 season. Belmonte was the Go Bowling! PBA Tour’s only four-time title winner in 2019, including a pair of major championships (PBA Tournament of Champions and PBA World Championship), and won the earnings crown by $52,510 over Jakob Butturff of Tempe, Ariz., who won a total of $235,780. Both totals were career highs. The top 10 in 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour earnings includes the following players: 1, Jason Belmonte, $288,290. 2, Jakob Butturff, $235,780. 3, Bill O’Neill, $192,448. 4, Kris Prather, $183,960. 5, Sean Rash, $181,897. 6, Anthony Simonsen, $176,598. 7, EJ Tackett, $172,945. 8, Dom Barrett, $125,720. 9, Norm Duke, $105,515, 10, Kyle Sherman, $97,558. PBA PLAYER’S PERSPECTIVE: BILL O’NEILL DISCUSSES 2019 CHESAPEAKE OPEN TITLE The PBA Player’s Perspective interview series, featuring PBA title winners reflecting on their victories, continues with Bill O’Neill providing insights into his win in the 2019 Harry O’Neale Chesapeake Open. O’Neill’s inside story will debut on Tuesday, Dec. 3. To view all of the PBA Player’s Perspective episodes, visit the PBA’s YouTube channel and click on the PBA Player’s Perspective play list. The weekly series includes a new perspective released every Tuesday on the PBA’s YouTube channel. The following players will provide personal play-by-play reflections in the weeks ahead: • Dec. 3 – Bill O’Neill talks about his 2019 Harry O’Neale Chesapeake Open triumph. • Dec. 10 – Jason Belmonte provides insights about capturing his record-breaking 11th major title in the 2019 PBA World Championship during PBA World Series of Bowling X in Allen Park, Mich. • Dec. 17 – Jakob Butturff will reveal his thoughts about winning his first major championship in the 2019 USBC Masters. • Dec. 24 – On Christmas Eve day, EJ Tackett will take fans across the Pacific Ocean to talk about his victory in the DHC PBA Japan Invitational to kick off the 2017 season. Player’s Perspectives currently in the archives on YouTube include: • Norm Duke’s stunning 2011 U.S. Open win (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0cGzRfnBk). • Kris Prather’s historic PBA Playoffs victory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISjw3KmGCk). • Anthony Simonsen talks about his win in the 2019 Bear Open (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2k25WKNzQ). • Sean Rash reflections on his 2019 Wolf Open title (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GNxO2WdaZo). • EJ Tackett provides fans with his personal take on his 2019 Barbasol PBA Tour Finals victory in Las Vegas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuLOuU8btQ). PBA REGIONAL UPDATE: WALTER RAY WINS REGIONAL TITLE NO. 54 Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Oxford, Fla. and non-PBA member Josh Johnson of Yulee, Fla., defeated Orlando partners Mike Moore and Shawn Naumann, 244-232, to win the $4,800 first prize in the PBA South Region Member/Non-Member Doubles at Break Point Alley Bowling Center in Tavares, Fla., Sunday. With his 34th standard PBA Regional win, Williams improved his overall PBA Regional titles total to 54, one behind all-time leader Chris Warren of Grants Pass, Oregon, who has won a combined 55 times in PBA and PBA50 Regional competition. Including WRW’s record 47 PBA Tour titles and 14 PBA50 Tour titles, he improved his record for overall PBA titles at all levels to 115. Williams and Johnson won only four of their 10 matches leading into the stepladder finals, but their 18-game total of 5,974 pins was enough to claim the top berth in the finals by 13 pins over Craig Auerbach of Sunrise, Florida, and his non-member partner, Matthew Tuckfield of Orlando. Moore and Naumann, the defending champions, qualified third and easily defeated the team of Tom Daugherty of Riverview, Florida and Colin Champion of Spring Hill, Florida, 248-189, in the first stepladder match. Moore and Naumann then eliminated Tuckfield and Auerbach, 244-203, to advance to the title match. • Lennie Boresch of Kenosha, Wis. defeated Steve Kenyon of Grosse Ile, Mich., 743-644 in the three-game final match to win the PBA50 Allstate Central Match Classic at Westland Bowl in Westland, Mich., Sunday for his eighth PBA50 Regional title and the $1,700 first prize. In the semifinal round, Boresch topped Darryl Bower of Middletown, Pa., 723-651, and Kenyon edged Michael Lucente of Warren, Mich., 652-651, in the three-game semifinal round to set up the championship match. — Warren Crawford from McKinleyville, Calif., and Kevin Croucher from Grants Pass, Ore., were winners in Sunday’s PBA and PBA50 Epicenter Northwest-West Open tournaments, respectively, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Crawford, needing to beat Chris Warren of Grants Pass by 29 pins for the title, defeated the all-time PBA Regional titles leader, 238-203, in their position round match to claim the $2,000 first prize and his second PBA Regional title. Warren has won a record 47 standard PBA Regional titles. In the companion PBA50 event, Croucher went 6-2 and knocked down 3,715 total pins for 16 games, including match play bonus pins, to top Blaine Weninger of Happy Valley, Ore., for his fifth PBA50 Regional title, 10th overall PBA Regional title and a $1,300 prize. Weninger had a 6-2 match play record and a total of 3,513 pins. • The only PBA Regional tournament over the Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Thanksgiving weekend will be the PBA50 Beaumont Southwest Open at Crossroads Bowling Center in Beaumont, Texas. • The PBA Regional schedule over the Dec. 6-8 weekend includes the Knob Hill East Challenge at Knob Hill Country Lanes in Manalapan, N.J., and the Warren Harley-Davidson Central Challenge at Freeway Lanes of Warren, Ohio. Both “challenge” tournaments are open exclusively to non-title winners. • The PBA Regional program concludes its 2019 season with PBA/PBA50 Houston Emerald Bowl Doubles Dec. 20-22 in Houston, Texas. The Southwest Region event is projected to pay a projected $7,000 first place. • For complete PBA Regional schedules, rules and entry information, visit pba.com, open the “schedules” tab and click on PBA Regional Tours to find the event(s) in your area…and remember, you can follow “live scoring” for all PBA Regional events on pba.com (easily accessible for Apple and Android device users using the PBA app). • PBA Tour competitor Francois Louw became the first South African bowler to win the QubicaAMF World Cup in the tournament’s 55-year history, defeating Ryan Lalisang of Indonesia in Palembang, Indonesia, 237-202. Australia’s Bec Whiting won the women’s title, defeating two-time World Cup winner Aumi Guerra of Dominican Republic, 172-162, in their title match. 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__label__wiki	0.642481	0.642481	Clips Explore themed playlists of audio clips from the Archive. Reuse Listen to creative reuses of Studs’ interviews. Remix Combine audio from the Archive to create entirely new works. Search Sort by RelevanceAlphabeticalDate Order AscDesc Programs All Pages (-) Dancers (6) (-) Producers and Directors (6) Has Audio Dancers Producers and Directors Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins in conversation with Studs Terkel Richard Arve in conversation with Studs Terkel Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino discuss the 30th Anniversary of Joffrey and the new production "Birthday" Studs Terkel interviews Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino on the 30th anniversary of Joffrey Ballet. Ruth Page discusses her life and ballet Studs Terkel interviews Ruth Page about her life and her long career in ballet. He also reminisces about Martha Graham who died a week earlier. Robert Joffery and Gerald Arpino discuss dance, then and now Studs Terkel discusses the history of dance and its future with Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. Ruth Page discusses Chicago ballet production "November Steps" with Minsa Craig and a conversation with Martha Graham from years earlier Studs Terkel talks with Ruth page and Minsa Craig on the Chicago ballet production "November Steps." Major Support Provided By The Becca Kopf Memorial Education Fund This site is being managed by the WFMT Radio Network in partnership with the Chicago History Museum. In-kind digitization services of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive are provided by the Library of Congress. The Studs Terkel Radio Archive has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. All Programs About The Archive About Studs Supporters Blog Contact ©2020 WFMT Radio Network \| Site by Jell Creative Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1838
__label__wiki	0.674509	0.674509	After emerging to enormous buzz, the game has been plagued by bugs and a lack of designer care. (Image via Niantic) Screens x September 11, 2016 What Happened to ‘Pokémon Go’? Come on, Niantic. Do you even want us to play anymore? By Emily Suvannasankha, University of Central Florida Since penning my last article on “Pokémon Go,” the game’s popularity has really been scraping the dumpster. Glorious were the days when I could stride down any sidewalk on campus and count more people furiously flicking at their phones than not. Now I walk to class casually bagging a Pidgey with my right hand, abducting an Eevee with my left, hitting up all the PokéStops on the way — except this time, I’m alone. The disturbingly large fleets of Pokémon hunters that used to emerge with the night cicadas? Gone. The smash-hit game that had everyone and their great-uncle’s mistress in a rabid tizzy for Bulbasaurs just a few months ago? Dead. Or so naysayers would have you believe. I assure you, “Pokémon Go” isn’t really on death’s doorstep; after all, I still play it every day, and everyone knows that I am the Hippest Fool on the Streets. (Yes, that’s my official title. I had it engraved on my Hello Kitty lunchbox.) That said, plenty of normal people still boot up the ol’ Gyarados screen these days too, not to mention all the certified nerds who never put down their phones in the first place. But of course, it’s undeniable that I am one of those unfailingly endearing parade-rainers who comes out of the woodwork to tell you why everything’s bad. Woeful pessimism’s an integral part of my identity, and I’ve accepted it. So without further ado, here are three pretty good reasons why Pikachu’s currently huddled in the coat closet growing mushrooms with his tears. The Weirdest and Best New Pokémon from ‘Sword’ and ‘Shield’ 1. The Casuals Are Jumping Ship Remember when “Pokémon Go” was so popular that even the university cheerleaders who’d never laid eyes on a Pokéball in their lives were downloading the app? Boy, are those days a thing of the past. A gigantic chunk of the reason why it seems like everyone suddenly dropped PoGo like a flaming spud is that back in July, the novelty was real. College students were dragging their begrudging friends outside at 1:00am every night to battle gyms for those sweet, sweet experience points. Parents were tossing the kids in their tote bags and hauling them to the park to “play,” while Mommy and Daddy camped out at the nearest PokéStop and farmed Jigglypuffs. Two months ago, augmented reality was still worthy of such spirited exclamations as “Susie, look, there’s a Nidoran♂ on my knitting needles!” and “HEY EVERYONE, IT’S A CHARMANDER! RUN!” It was a better time, really. But even though the game hasn’t totally croaked, the hype sure has. Now it’s old hat to spot the odd Magikarp on your frying pan in the morning, no one wants to flop their lazy limbs out of bed for their 86th Pidgeyfest and even the Team Instinct ribbing is getting markedly less hilarious (although I refuse to cease the mockery myself). Nowadays, most of the people still playing “Pokémon Go” are the dedicated fans who would stick around no matter what—clearly, since the poor saps are still here after witnessing the shit show that is Niantic’s customer support (or lack thereof). The massive swarms of toted-along girlfriends and “just curious” grandpas have almost completely vanished, simply due to lost interest. This decrease in filthy casuals would have surely happened anyway, even if Niantic hadn’t dropped the ball, stomped on it, taken a flamethrower to it and made a mimosa out of the ashes. The Poké-scene may feel lonelier now, but at least there’ll be fewer weak-ass CP 10 Rattatas polluting the gyms from now on, right? 2. The Game is (Still) Broken Okay, so PoGo was a glitch-filled mess from day one. But by now, two full months later, most of the bugs should have been ironed out, yes? Ha. In your dreams. (And for that matter, mine!) For starters, the whole “tracking system” disaster has, if possible, only gotten more hopeless over time. When “Pokémon Go” first came out, players could track a specific Pokémon by the number of paw prints under its picture. Three paws meant far away, two meant nearby, one meant pancaked on the bottom of your flip-flops. A simple, elegant mechanic that made Poké-hunting just a little bit more thrillingly realistic. It worked for about a week. And then Niantic pulled a royal fuckeroo and let the feature glitch out, never showing less than three paws for any Pokémon, no matter the distance. This tomfoolery went on for actual months. So what did the fan base do? Why, they used their own wit and wisdom and created beautiful, precise third-party tracking sites, of course! Players could whip out their (second) phones to decipher exactly where that rare Venusaur had spawned—and exactly how fast they had to sprint to get there. It was a beautiful time to be a human. Are ‘Let’s Go Pikachu!’ and ‘Let’s Go Eevee!’ the Future of Pokémon Gameplay? Until Niantic pulled the rug out from under those brilliant bastards and started whipping out cease and desist orders to shut down the unaffiliated tracking apps. Peculiar that big businesses haven’t yet realized that hackers will never go away, so why not embrace them? Now there are no paw prints at all, meaning no clear method of chasing rare spawns whatsoever. (Well, actually, when there’s a will, there’s a way. Shh.) Lots of people who were intrigued by the treasure-hunting aspect of the game have become impatient and disillusioned with Niantic’s failure to fix this initially integral feature. These days, Pokémon trainers are more like blind poachers, fumbling around in the dark for a Charizard’s wing. 3. The Abundance of Pidgeys Allow me to state the painfully apparent when I say: People are bored. “Pokémon Go” ain’t new anymore, and Niantic hasn’t made any truly significant updates to the game since it came out two months ago. Not even the introduction of a new generation of critters could resuscitate its popularity back to what it once was. But it would certainly help. The thing about PoGo is that once you dive in, you’re in it for the long haul. Evolving a menacing Gyarados, for instance, demands that you squat by the nearest coast and pound 400 floppy-ass Magikarp into a sculpted serpent of fish meat. (You’ll never look at Gyarados the same way again.) Most annoyingly, to keep progressing your avatar’s level in the game requires more and more grinding—and I’m not just referring to the hallowed Pidgey guillotine. Jumping from level 26 to level 27 takes approximately the same amount of experience points as the first 20 levels combined. And without those constant level-up showers of free hyper potions, incubators and self-esteem, trainers’ enthusiasm tends to wilt. Which of the New Pokémon Starters are You? Similarly, many would-be players who spent their whole summer in, say, the middle of the woods and missed out on the wild honeymoon phase of the game have simply given up. From an outsider’s perspective, there’s no point in wading through the sea of Rattatas and trying to catch up to all the dorks (read: me) who trigger-fingered the download button the minute PoGo was released. So if Niantic adds some long-awaited features, such as trading Pokémon and battling with friends, the game may not kick the bucket completely. The revival of novelty would drag back a good portion of the casuals, keep the solid fan base happy and might even make up for all the suspiciously brown feathers and purple fur stuck to people’s shoes. To be fair, the most dramatic update to PoGo by far is coming soon: The “Buddy System,” which allows you to tote around your favorite Bellsprout on your head like a newsboy cap. Or something like that. Whether the team at headquarters is planning on fixing the full harvest of glitches and feature deficiencies still mucking up the game or not remains to be seen. I, for one, am not reserving my exhalations. In essence, most people initially booted up the app just to see what all the hoopla was about and then promptly abandoned their newborn Squirtles within the first month. The inherently repetitive gameplay required to advance in “Pokémon Go” is clearly not for everyone — those of inferior Poké-resolve have simply been sifted out at this point. But there’s hope for my nearest and dearest timewaster yet. As long as Niantic gets its shit together, that is. Augmented Reality Isn’t the Future. 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__label__cc	0.716252	0.283748	BA B.A. Chemistry Slippery Rock, United States www.sru.edu Local: n/a Foreign: n/a Languages of instruction: StudyQA ranking: 1464pts. A chemistry major studies the chemical properties of substances in order to develop the ability to make discoveries and to solve the vast array of problems associated with existing technologies. Four programs of study leading to a bachelor of science degree and one leading to a bachelor of arts degree are available. The bachelor of arts program allows students to choose more elective courses in order to link chemistry with some other interest such as marketing/sales or patent law. The bachelor of science programs in biochemistry, environmental chemistry, forensic chemistry and general chemistry prepare students for postgraduate education and careers in industry, government, medicine and education. Students seeking state certification in secondary education must also complete requirements for a Master of Education degree, a one-year program at SRU. All of our programs are designed to steadily develop the quantitative, deductive and inductive reasoning skills that chemists must have. The science and math course requirements taken during the first two years in our programs are almost identical. Consequently, students do not have to choose a specific specialization until their junior year. A pharmacy option in the biochemistry program enables students to take advantage of a 3 + 3 affiliation agreement with the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicines School of Pharmacy. Admission to the three-year pharmacy part of the program is competitive (see Pre-professional Programs). All of our students are strongly encouraged to do research under the direction of one of our faculty. 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__label__wiki	0.596934	0.596934	Skip to Navigation Skip to UConn Search Skip to Content Smart Medical Devices and Systems (SMDS) Laboratory Search this Site Search in https://smds.engr.uconn.edu/> Dr. Changchun Liu WELCOME TO THE SMDS LABORATORY Paradigm shifts in the biomedical field often arise from innovations in tools and measurement methods. Our research group is interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches to develop new tools and methods to solve current challenges in life sciences, such as disease diagnostics, medical therapeutics, mobile health, as well as personalized medicine. Our current research focuses on the integration of micro- and nanotechnology with biology and medicine, and their biomedical applications. Our research philosophy is “Interdisciplinary Integration and Innovation (I3)”. We are a diverse team of scientists & engineers with broad expertise spanning molecular biology and analytical chemistry to engineering (i.e. mechanical, electronic, biomedical, material). We have developed a number of innovative diagnostic devices for disease detection (i.e., HIV virus, Zika virus, cancer). Professor Changchun Liu Biomedical Engineering Department University of Connecticut, UConn Health 263 Farmington Avenue Farmington, CT 06030, USA Office: Room L6083 Email: chaliu@uchc.edu Website: https://smds.engr.uconn.edu/ Disclaimer, Privacy Notice & Copyright © UConn Health	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1841
__label__cc	0.554968	0.445032	Writing Our Lives provides Syracuse area youth with creative opportunities to write, create, produce and share their stories. The program takes multiple formats, including after-school writing programs, summer writing institutes, book clubs, digital composing programs, theatrical performances and an annual youth writing conference. Professor Marcelle Haddix also engages faculty and staff from across the School of Education and Syracuse University to present and facilitate workshops, as well as both undergraduate and graduate students. Marcelle Haddix, Chair of Reading and Language Arts; Dean's Professor mhaddix@syr.edu\|315.443.7642 Writing Our Lives Literacy Arts Fellowship The Writing Our Lives Literary Arts Fellowship (WOLLAF) was launched in 2017 to provide outstanding literary artists from across the nation a unique opportunity to work specifically within the community of Syracuse, New York. This fellowship bridges creative teaching and community collaboration within the dynamic environment of Central New York. It connects Syracuse University departments with distinguished literary artists from an array of disciplines to explore cross-disciplinary programming that cultivates writing spaces not normally open to the public. While providing the Syracuse community a unique opportunity to interact with professional literary artists, as well as literary departments at Syracuse University, the fellowship aims to bridge the relationship with artistic spaces located around the city. Inspiring a new direction for creative collaboration between literary artists and the SU faculty, WOLLAF’s mission is to strengthen the Syracuse art community while broadening public interest and understanding of literature and its affiliation within the arts. WOLLAF fellows commit to a year of extensive community engagement, and are explicitly for applicants who have an interest in both residing in and building relationships within the city of Syracuse. Fellows will: Work with the Reading and Language Arts Department Chair to identify individual artistic and administrative goals for the fellowship year, generating and developing curriculums and events appropriate to those goals; Meet, collaborate, engage and work with a community of artistic professionals and organizations in the Greater Syracuse area; Participate in and help the development of programming for the two annual Writing Our Lives conferences held during the academic year; Teach a semester long course to youth within the Central New York community, at a facility in the Syracuse community, within the literary artist’s respective field; Teach a 4-part graduate lecture within the Reading and Language Arts department; Receive support for the advancement and advocacy of work generated during the year, along with continued access to Syracuse University resources and facilities during the course of the Fellowship. Application and Selection Process Fellows are selected through a rolling application process. Applicants must reside within close proximity of Syracuse, New York, or have the intention of relocating for an entirety of a year. Applicants must identify as a literary artist, have a strong interest in community engagement and make a case for how the Fellowship and participation in the Writing Our Lives program would promote transformative artistic, teaching, and professional growth. Applicants will submit: A cover sheet, which includes your name, address, phone number, and email address. A current artistic and literary CV; Two personal or professional references (listing the referee’s title or institutional affiliation, alongside their contact information). Referrers may be an artistic collaborator, professor, or educator familiar with you and your work; A one-page Artistic Statement that describes (1) your current work; (2) where you feel you are in your creative and professional life; and your (3) career goals; A project proposal of your semester-long workshop; A sample of your work: Poetry: 10 pages Fiction and plays: up to 25 pages Creative-Nonfiction: up to 25 pages Performance art, including music, drama, spoken word: 5-7 minutes of audio or video. Applications must be submitted electronically (Word or PDF documents) to Marcelle Haddix. Finalists will be notified by July. The selected Fellow will be notified by August.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1846
__label__cc	0.726364	0.273636	Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition Aaron W. Peters, Zhanyong Li, Omar K. Farha, Joseph T Hupp Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been employed as a new synthetic route to thin films of cobalt sulfide on silicon and fluorine-doped tin oxide platforms. The self-limiting nature of the stepwise synthesis is established through growth rate studies at different pulse times and temperatures. Additionally, characterization of the materials by X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicates that the crystalline phase of these films has the composition Co9S8. The nodes of the metal-organic framework (MOF) NU-1000 were then selectively functionalized with cobalt sulfide via ALD in MOFs (AIM). Spectroscopic techniques confirm uniform deposition of cobalt sulfide throughout the crystallites, with no loss in crystallinity or porosity. The resulting material, CoS-AIM, is catalytically active for selective hydrogenation of m-nitrophenol to m-aminophenol, and outperforms the analogous oxide AIM material (CoO-AIM) as well as an amorphous CoSx reference material. These results reveal AIM to be an effective method of incorporating high surface area and catalytically active cobalt sulfide in metal-organic frameworks. (Figure Presented). ACS Nano https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b03429 Atomic layer deposition atomic layer epitaxy sulfides flat surfaces Tin oxides crystallinity metal-organic framework nanoscale Co<inf>9</inf>s<inf>8</inf> films Peters, A. W., Li, Z., Farha, O. K., & Hupp, J. T. (2015). Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Nano, 9(8), 8484-8490. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b03429 Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition. / Peters, Aaron W.; Li, Zhanyong; Farha, Omar K.; Hupp, Joseph T. In: ACS Nano, Vol. 9, No. 8, 25.08.2015, p. 8484-8490. Peters, AW, Li, Z, Farha, OK & Hupp, JT 2015, 'Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition', ACS Nano, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 8484-8490. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b03429 Peters AW, Li Z, Farha OK, Hupp JT. Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Nano. 2015 Aug 25;9(8):8484-8490. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b03429 Peters, Aaron W. ; Li, Zhanyong ; Farha, Omar K. ; Hupp, Joseph T. / Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition. In: ACS Nano. 2015 ; Vol. 9, No. 8. pp. 8484-8490. @article{a680d1c4b74f4160a60b4e17206f7979, title = "Atomically Precise Growth of Catalytically Active Cobalt Sulfide on Flat Surfaces and within a Metal-Organic Framework via Atomic Layer Deposition", abstract = "Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been employed as a new synthetic route to thin films of cobalt sulfide on silicon and fluorine-doped tin oxide platforms. The self-limiting nature of the stepwise synthesis is established through growth rate studies at different pulse times and temperatures. 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__label__cc	0.735116	0.264884	Is reinventing the wheel really all that bad? Its common knowledge in programming that reinventing the wheel is bad or evil. But why is that? I am not suggesting that it's good. I believe it to be wrong. However, I once read an article that said, if someone is doing something wrong (programming wise) explain to them why its wrong, if you can't, then maybe you should be asking yourself if it is really wrong. That leads me to this question: If I see someone is clearly reinventing the wheel by building their own method of something that is already built into the language/framework. First, for arguments sake, lets assume that their method is just as efficient as the built in method. Also the developer, aware of the built in method, prefers his own method. Why should he use the built in one over his own? reinventing-the-wheel JD Isaacks This is a great question. I don't think people should reinvent the wheel but it's important to challenge these ideas to make sure they hold up. – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 15:08 @Demian - That's actually a pretty good idea. If you can explain it then you're probably justified in doing it. – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 16:03 In all decisions, it's good to ask what your primary objective is, and then cause the other sub-elements to support the primary objective. If your primary objective is to deliver a quality product in a timely manner, then duplicating already-existing code is likely a detriment to this goal. If your primary objective is to create a better-thought-through library, then maybe it contributes to this goal. If you work for someone else, then you need to ask the question from their perspective, not so much yours. – gahooa Dec 23 '10 at 19:11 Reinvent if existing wheels really don't do the trick for your specific need, or... if you want to know how wheels work! An interesting article on this topic: codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/… – lindes Aug 22 '13 at 19:04 Attributed to Douglas Crockford: The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one. – Joel Etherton Dec 18 '14 at 20:52 As I've once posted on StackOverflow, reinventing the wheel is often a very good choice, contrary to popular belief. The main advantage is that you've got full control over the software, which is often essential. For a full discussion, see my original post. Dimitri C. +1 The most important point is that it is fully under your control and you know it inside out. Debugging other libraries can cause major headaches, if at all possible, and to say that all the mature libraries are bug-free is optimistic to say the least. – Orbling Dec 23 '10 at 15:30 The Excel team even went as far as to write their own compiler because they wanted no external dependencies which might impact the project. This is a valid point but how critical that control is the main question. – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 15:59 +1. Once in a my former life as an MFC/VC++ programmer, we used a third party library for various GUI components, which turned out to be a total nightmare to maintain. These things became deeply hooked in the software and couldn't be removed (without spending unrealistic man-months-which-we-didn't-have of effort). I am absolutely certain that any initial time saving from not having to roll our own grids and layout managers was blown apart by orders of magnitude over the years from having to maintain that monstrosity. – Bobby Tables Dec 23 '10 at 22:27 @Guzica, an unfortunate choice is not necessarily enough to generalize, and other libraries exist which are well maintained and a good choice. The question is whether the original decision was researched well enough? – user1249 Dec 23 '10 at 22:52 On the upside, if you use a pre-existing wheel, you've usually got LOTS of help, often nicely indexed by Google, to assist you in debugging it. – Dan Ray Dec 24 '10 at 17:56 Depends.. As with everything, its about context: It's Good when: Framework or library is too heavy, and you only require limited functionality. Rolling your own extremely light-weight version that suites your requirement is a better approach. When you want to understand and learn something complex, rolling you own makes sense. You have something different to offer, something others' implementations do not have. May be a new twist, new feature etc. It's Bad when: Functionality already exists and is known to be stable and well known (popular). Your version adds nothing new. Your version introduces bugs or constraints (e.g. your version is not thread-safe). Your version is missing features. Your version has worse documentation. Your version is lacking unit tests compared to what it is replacing. Alongside your first point (and inverse to your fourth), if the wheel is hard to deal with or - worse yet - inflexible, you really can improve it. This happens frequently with UI components in some areas, where the wheel turns out to be a train wheel, and only works in one track. – Magus Feb 27 '14 at 19:22 Hard to understand rings true for me. I just wasn't getting directed graph analysis so made one, and now I know. Now I feel confident to use a framework – JasTonAChair Dec 8 '16 at 7:29 I'd add a 4th for the "Good" column (though it rarely applies): if you understand the problem space better than the existing library. Java's de facto standard time library Joda was written because the built-in was hard to work with, and was rewritten as Java 8's de jure standard time library because they now understood the problem much better than when they wrote the original joda-time. – Morgen Jun 7 '18 at 6:09 I think the case of a developer knowingly reinventing the wheel "because he prefers his own method" is pretty rare. Mostly it's done out of ignorance, and sometimes out of stubbornness. Is it all that bad? Yes. Why? Because the existing wheel has most likely been crafted over time and has already been tested in lots of circumstances and against lots of different kinds of data. The developer(s) of the existing wheel have already encountered the edge-cases and difficulties that the reinventor can't even imagine yet. Dan Ray Or laziness - that the can't be bothered to go and look for the alternatives or find it less interesting to go and do so that to write the code. – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 15:13 I've seen many cases where re-inventing the wheel was done out of arrogance, with an attitude that library/framework xyz is only for bad programmers that didn't know how to do it the "right way". Heck, I've seen that argument (in some fashion or another) on SO sites. – Bill Dec 23 '10 at 15:36 ... Which creates a recurring (the worst kind) burden of maintenance on the current or subsequent developers. – gahooa Dec 23 '10 at 19:13 This is what I was doing for years. I'd roll my own feature in a language because I had no idea that that functionality was already built-in. – Matchu Dec 24 '10 at 18:27 Since writing this post (geez) almost three years ago, I hired and fired a developer that I described in the first sentence as "pretty rare". He lasted a month. I'd tell him how we do things here and he would say "I hear what you're saying". It took me a month to hear the unsaid "...but it's wrong and I will secretly do everything but it" at the end of the phrase. – Dan Ray Nov 2 '13 at 12:53 Square wheels have to be reinvented. Efforts that suck have to be duplicated. Maybe there's a lack of documentation for the method, and the other programmer feels it's easier just writing their own rather than trying to figure it out. Maybe the way the method is being called is awkward and doesn't fit into the idiom of the programming language. Just ask him what the deficiency is. +1 Good metaphor "square wheels have to be reinvented". – Orbling Dec 23 '10 at 15:31 +1 for "Square wheels have to be reinvented" – Tintu C Raju Feb 25 '19 at 5:44 In general, I avoid reinventing the wheel if the functionality I desire, or something approximating it, exists in the standard library of the language I use. However, if I have to incorporate third party libraries, it's a judgment call depending on how widely used and esteemed the library is. I mean, are we talking about Boost or Bob's Kick-ass String-Parsing Tools 1.0? Even if the library is generally well-known and highly-esteemed throughout the industry, it's still a third-party dependency. Programmers generally place significant emphasis on the virtues of code reuse, while often glossing over the danger of dependencies. A project with too many third-party dependencies is likely to fall apart in the long run as it slowly devolves into a maintenance nightmare. So leveraging existing code is good - but dependencies are bad. Unfortunately, these two statements are at odds with each other, so the trick is trying to find the right balance. That's why you need to identify acceptable dependencies. As I said, anything in the Standard Library of the language is most likely an acceptable dependency. Moving on from there, libraries which are highly regarded throughout the industry are also generally acceptable (like Boost for C++, or jQuery for Javascript) - but they are still less desirable than the Standard Library because they do tend to be less stable than standardized libraries. As for libraries which are relatively unknown, (e.g. the latest upload on SourceForge) these are extremely risky dependencies, and I would generally recommend avoiding these in production code, unless you are familiar enough with the source code to maintain them yourself. So it's really all a balancing act. But the point is that just blindly saying "Code reuse good! Reinventing wheel bad!" is a dangerous attitude. The benefits of leveraging third-party code must be weighed against the disadvantages of introducing dependencies. Charles Salvia +1. I tend to feel the same way. I'm a lot more inclined to reinvent small wheels if using an existing wheel will create a dependency hassle than if the existing wheel is already there, set up and waiting to be used in any environment where I may need it. – dsimcha Dec 24 '10 at 1:16 If people didn't reinvent wheels, the world would be filled with these.. Here is a dialogue from my workplace: - I would like to add some colors to the output of this program. - Oh, there is this library called Colorama .. There are two options: either reinvent the wheel OR use Colorama. Here is what each option would result into: Using Colorama Maybe a bit faster to get running Adding a third party dependency for something trivial You continue being as stupid as before using Colorama Reinventing the wheel You understand how some programs are able to show color You learn that special characters can be used to color on any terminal You are able to color in any programming language you might use in the future Your project is less likely to break As you see, it's all up to context. Reinventing the wheel is something I do very often because I want to be able and think for myself and not rely on other people thinking for me. If however you are running on a deadline or what you try to implement is huge and already exists, then you're better off using what is there. Pithikos +1 don't agree with you 100% but liked the image used to convey the idea. – Tulains Córdova Dec 19 '14 at 16:14 This answer does somewhat circumvent that your employer is paying for your luxury of reinventing that wheel for your own educational benefit. Perhaps you should do that in your own time; if asked, your employer will probably say that he./she just wants the job done in the quickest possible time and if Colorama does that, crack on with it. – Neil Haughton Jan 27 '17 at 14:56 @NeilHaughton as I see it my "own" educational benefit is also the benefit of my employer. – Pithikos Jan 27 '17 at 15:21 Hmmm... your employer may of course not see it that way, and he/she is putting the bread on your table. – Neil Haughton Mar 15 '17 at 11:02 The library Colorama, itself was a reinvention of a wheel. There already was an interface to display colors in terminal (through special chars) and before it came out people were already doing it. The Colorama library reinvents the interface how to achieve the goal. So question here is more about if you gonna use a supposedly improved wheel, or do you use an old-wheel in your project? Reinventing the wheel in this case would be building Colorama2 that "improves" even further on top of what Colorama had to offer. – Ski Jun 7 '18 at 2:45 One useful reason to reinvent the wheel is for learning purposes -- but I'd recommend doing it on your own time. As more pre-canned solutions become available, and more levels of abstraction is provided, we become a lot more productive. We can focus on the business problem rather than the generic stuff that's been tweaked time and again. BUT, for that reason, you can sharpen your skills and learn a lot by trying to re-implement a solution on your own. Just not necessarily for production use. One other thing -- if a concern is dependency on a third party library from a company that may disappear, make sure there's an option to get the source code, or at least a couple of other choices out there to fall back on. By the way, if you do choose to implement your own, avoid doing this for cryptography or other security-related functionality. Established (and fully tested) tools are available for that, and in this day and age, it is wayyyyyy too risky to roll your own. That is never worth it, and it's scary that I still hear about teams doing this. Mark Freedman +1 A very good point on the learning perspective, in order to use a library effectively, you should really know intimately how it works. I do not like black box use of tools. Also excellent point on the cryptography libraries, too risky to roll your own on that score. – Orbling Dec 23 '10 at 15:33 I'd add that if there's a concern a third party library might disappear, that's a pretty good justification for writing a programmatic interface that allows one library to easily be swapped out for another. – user8865 Dec 23 '10 at 16:23 Good point -- we use the adapter pattern just for this purpose, and it recently saved us when we had to swap out a third party FTP library. – Mark Freedman Dec 23 '10 at 16:44 There are two sorts of efficiency - processing / speed (that is how quickly it executes) which it may match and development speed which it almost certainly won't. That's the first reason - for any problem of reasonable complexity where existing solutions are available it will almost certainly be faster to research and implement an existing library than to code your own. The second reason is that the existing library (assuming it's mature) is tested and is proven to work - probably in a far wider range of scenarios than a developer and a test team will be able to put a newly written routine through and this comes at zero effort. Thirdly, it's way easier to support. Not only does someone else supports and improves it (whoever wrote the library / component), but it's far more likely that other developers will be familiar with it and be able to understand and maintain the code going forward, all of which minimises on-going costs. And all that assumes functional equivalence, which isn't normally the case. Frequently libraries will offer functionality which you would find useful but could never justify building in, all of which is suddenly available for free. There are reasons to roll your own - largely where you want to do something the built in function can't do and where there is a genuine advantage to be gained by doing so, or where the readily available options aren't mature - but they're less common than many developers would have you believe. Besides, why would you want to spend your time solving problems that have already been solved? Yes it's a great way to learn but you shouldn't be doing that at the cost of the right solution for production code which is what I'm assuming we're talking about. On your last line: in order to know how they are solved. Programming is dependent on experience after all. – Orbling Dec 23 '10 at 15:35 @Orbling - fair enough but you shouldn't be doing that in production code and I'm assuming that's what the question refers to. Shall amend. – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 15:42 @Jon Hopkins: Well production code usually follows on from the learning, unless done on your own time. – Orbling Dec 23 '10 at 16:17 @Orbling - I'd argue that you should never learn something for the sake of learning and then put it into production. Either something is production code in which case it should be the best solution, or it's for learning. There are times when they overlap but this wouldn't be one of them as it unless rolling your own was genuinely the best solution. – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 16:19 @Jon Hopkins: Ideally yes, but frequently there is no one on the team that knows how to do whatever it is, to the point where available libraries may not be reliably serviceable. Learning, or "research" as most people call it, is then a necessity. Yes, that's not exactly learning for the sake of learning, but it is learning to avoid future risk. – Orbling Dec 23 '10 at 16:24 Of course reinventing the wheel on a whim, out of ignorance and arrogance can be a bad thing, but IMHO the pendulum has swung too far. There's a tremendous advantage to having a wheel that does exactly what you want and nothing more. Often when I look at an existing wheel, it either does way more than I need it to, suffers from the inner platform effect, and is thus unnecessarily complex, or it is missing some key feature that I do need and that would be difficult to implement on top of what's already there. Furthermore, using existing wheels often adds constraints to my project that I don't want. For example: The existing wheel requires a different language and/or programming style than I would otherwise prefer to use. The existing wheel only works with the legacy version of a language (for example, Python 2 instead of Python 3). Where there are tradeoffs between efficiency, flexibility and simplicity the existing wheel makes choices that are suboptimal for my use case. (I've been known to reinvent even functionality from libraries that I originally wrote myself in these cases. Usually it's because I wrote the library version of the function to be generic and reasonably efficient, when I currently need something that's very fast in my specific case.) The existing wheel has tons of legacy cruft that's totally useless in the case of new code but makes life difficult nonetheless (for example, a Java library I use that forces me to use its crappy container classes because it was written before generics, etc.). The way the existing wheel models the problem is completely different than what's convenient for my use case. (For example, maybe it's convenient for me to have a directed graph represented by node objects and references but the existing wheel uses an adjacency matrix or vice-versa. Maybe it's convenient for me to lay my data out in column major order, but the existing wheel insists on row major or vice-versa.) The library adds a massive, brittle dependency that would be a major hassle to get up and running everywhere I want to deploy my code, when all I need is a small subset of its features. On the other hand, in this case I sometimes just extract the feature I want into a new, smaller library or just copy/paste if the library is open source and the codebase makes doing so sufficiently simple. (I've even done this with relatively large libraries I've written myself, not just other people's.) The existing wheel attempts to be pedantically compliant with some standard that is both inconvenient and irrelevant for my use case. dsimcha I think this all boils down to: if the wheel suits your purpose, use it, if it doesn't, create a new wheel that does. Just don't be dogmatic about it one way or the other. – Neil Haughton Jan 27 '17 at 14:58 Often I use my own because I built it before I discovered the pre-existing one, and I am too lazy to go find and replace every instance. Also, I fully understand my own method while I might not understand a pre-existing one. And finally, because I do not fully understand the pre-existing one I cannot verify that it does absolutely everything that my current one does. There's a lot to code, and I don't get a lot of time to go back and re-code something unless it impacts production. In fact, one asp web app that is still used today has a fully functional chart which displays data in a tabular format and allows sorting/editing, however it is not a datagrid. It was built a few years back when I was first learning asp.net and didn't know of datagrids. I am kind of scared of the code since I have no clue what I was doing back then, but it works, is accurate, is easy to modify, doesn't crash, and the users love it That's a reason not to replace it, not to do it in the first place. I assume that you wouldn't do the same now knowing that the alternative exists? – Jon Hopkins Dec 23 '10 at 15:08 @Jon lol definitely not! And I originally read the question as why a developer would prefer his own method to a pre-existing one. Re-reading the question now makes me realize the reverse of that question was asked, but I'm leaving the answer here since it seems related and got some up-votes – Rachel Dec 23 '10 at 17:09 Reinventing the wheel is a great way to learn how a wheel works, but it is not a good way to build a car. I currently work for a bunch of cheapskates. When the decision is made between "build or buy", instead of making a rational decision based on economics, the managers chose to "build." This means that instead of paying a few thousand dollars for a component or tool, we spend man-months building our own. Purchasing a wheel from another company costs money which comes out of the budget - which counts against mismanagerial year-end bonuses. Programmers' time is free and therefore does not count against year-end bonuses (with the additional benefit of dinging the programmers for not getting everything done "on time"), therefore a reinvented wheel is a free wheel. In a rational company, the cost vs benefits of purchasing wheels made by others vs reinventing one's own wheels would be based on short-term and long term costs, as well as opportunity costs lost because one can't be making new widgets while one is reinventing wheels. Every day you spend reinventing the wheel is another day you cannot write something new. Presentation on build vs buy. Article on build vs buy. The built-in version will have had a lot more people banging away on it - thus finding and fixing more bugs than your homebrew code can ever have. Finally, when your local developer leaves, and someone else has to maintain the code he wrote, it is going to get totally refactored out and replaced with what is in the framework. I know this will happen because my current employer has code that has been migrated to newer versions of VB over the years (the oldest product has been on the market for about 20 years) and this is what has happened. The developer with the longest employment in my office has been here 17 years. Tangurena To be fair, sometimes the "standard" version was put there as a reinvention of what most people ended up doing before the standard version was developed. IOW, the standard one is meant to be the "grand final reinvention". But switching to a standard, well-tested, much more robust and bug-fixed version can lead to bugs, because your application code makes assumptions that are true for your old non-standard version, but false for the new standard one. – Steve314 Dec 24 '10 at 4:57 In a rational company, if it is decided that vendor lock-in is acceptable, the company (being the buyer and dependent on the provider's offering) will need to establish good business relationship with the provider, as well as hedging against various business mishaps. Examples: refusal to provide support / fix bugs, price hike, changing contract terms, frivolous lawsuits, or leaving the business altogether. This hedging is also part of the cost, and it is often ignored. (Just like the in-house development cost being ignored.) Note: This cost does not exist on the built-in offerings. – rwong Dec 24 '10 at 7:36 Are you not forgetting that your misguided cheapskate employers are effectively providing you with more paid work than you might otherwise have? You ought to be encouraging them instead of complaining about it! – Neil Haughton Jan 27 '17 at 15:01 The thing about re-inventing the wheel is that sometimes there's no standard, off-the-shelf wheel that will do what you need. There's a lot of good wheels out there, in a lot of sizes, colors, materials, and modes of construction. But some days you just have to have a really light-weight wheel that's green anodized aluminum, and no one makes one. In that case, you HAVE to make your own. Now that's not to say that you should make your own wheels for every project - most things can use standard parts and be better for it. But every now and then, you find that the standard parts just don't work, so you make your own. The most important thing is knowing WHEN to make your own. You have to have a good idea of what the standard parts can do, and what they can't, before you start designing your own. Michael Kohne Whether or not to re-invent the wheel is a cost/benefit thing. Costs are fairly obvious... It takes a lot of time to do the reinventing. It takes even more time to document what you have invented. You cannot hire people who already understand what you have invented. It is all too easy to reinvent something badly, causing ongoing costs for the problems caused by the bad design. New code means new bugs. Old code has usually had most bugs removed already, and may have subtle workarounds to issues you're not aware of and therefore cannot work around in the new design. The last is important - there's a blog post somewhere warning about the tendency to "throw the old code away and start from scratch" on the basis that a lot of the old cruft you don't understand is actually essential bugfixes. There's a cautionary tale about Netscape, IIRC. The advantages can be... The ability to add features that existing libraries don't have. For example, I have containers that "maintain" their iterator/cursor instances. Insertions and deletions don't invalidate iterators. An iterator pointing into a vector will continue to point to the same item (not the same index) irrespective of inserts and deletes earlier in the vector. You simply cannot do that with standard C++ containers. A more specialised design targeting your particular requirements and respecting your priorities (but beware the tendency toward the inner-platform effect). Complete control - some third party cannot decide to redesign the API in a way that means you have to rewrite half your application. Complete understanding - you have designed it that way, so you hopefully fully understand how and why you did so. EDIT You can learn the lessons from other libraries without being caught in the same traps by being selective about how you imitate them. One thing - using a third-party library can count as reinventing the wheel. If you already have your own ancient, well used, well tested library, think carefully before discarding it to use a third-party library instead. It may well be a good idea in the long run - but there can be a huge amount of work and a lot of nasty surprises (from subtle semantic differences between the libraries) before you get there. For example, consider the effect of me switching from my own containers to standard library ones. A naive translation of calling code wouldn't allow for the fact that the standard library containers don't maintain their iterators. Cases where I save an iterator for later as a "bookmark" couldn't be implemented using a simple translation at all - I'd need some non-trivial alternative means of indicating bookmark positions. If there's a working component that does what you need then why spend the time writing and debugging your own version? Similarly, if you've already written code to fulfill a similar function previously, why re-write it? Joel wrote an article on Not-invented-here that speaks volumes about when re-writing code and software isn't and isn't useful. Reinventing the wheel can be a great way to learn how something works - and I recommend reinventing for just that purpose on your own time - but when writing an application why reinvent if there are well established solutions that already do the same thing? For example, I would never write JavaScript code from scratch; instead I would start with jQuery and build my applications on top of that framework. Justin Ethier My personal rule of thumb: Reinventing the wheel is good when you're just learning. If you have a deadline, you may want to use existing wheels. Being "bad" or even "evil" is rather strong words. As always there are reasons for choosing a personal implementation over a built-in one. In the old days a C program might encounter bugs in the runtime library, and therefore simply have to provide its own implementation. This doesn't apply for Java programs as the JVM is very strictly defined, but some algorithms are still very hard to get right. For instance Joshua Bloch describes how the deceivingly simple binary search algorithm in the Java runtime library contained a bug, which it took nine years to surface: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html It was found, fixed and distributed in future Java distributions. If you use the builtin binary search you just saved time and money by having Sun do the hard work finding, fixing and distributing this bugfix. You can leverage their work just by saying "you need at least Java 6 update 10". If you use your own implementation - which would very likely contain this error too - you first need the bug to manifest itself. Given that this particular one only shows on LARGE datasets, it is bound to happen in production somewhere, meaning at least one of your customers will be affected and most likely loose real money while you find, fix and distribute the bugfix. So, it is perfectly valid to prefer your own implementation, but the reason better be really good, as it is bound to be more expensive than leveraging the work of others. +1 for relying on the platform to deploy bugfixes. On the other hand, it is up to the platform vendor to decide whether to distribute the bugfix. A different vendor may choose: (1) distribute the bugfix, for free; (2) withhold the bugfix until a major version upgrade; (3) distribute the bugfix to users of the latest version, but deny the earlier versions (4) refuse to fix altogether, claiming that it may "cause widespread incompatibility" and "only affects limited users". – rwong Dec 24 '10 at 7:49 @rwong, if you found a bug in the built in routine, your Best bet would be to provide your own fixed version. This goes under "a very good reason to dó so". – user1249 Dec 24 '10 at 9:42 ørn: My point is that besides the benevolent vendor(s) you mentioned, there are also other kinds of vendors. – rwong Dec 24 '10 at 16:12 @rwong, in that case that qualifies for "a very good reason for choosing a personal implementation". – user1249 Dec 24 '10 at 23:09 I recently blogged my thoughts on this topic. To summarize: It's almost always evil to build your own, especially true if its a function thats built into the language. But if you're evaluating an immature / questionably-maintained / badly-documented framework you found on the Internet against the possibility of writing your own, it could be a no-brainer. I think reinventing the wheel is a pretty awful analogy for a software anti-pattern. It implies that the original solution can never be improved upon. That is nonsense. The so-called wheel can become obsolete overnight, or its owners could stop maintaining it. The wheel has a different value at each system where it's used. So, it's often entirely possible to invent a better wheel. One major benefit of making your own framework is that you won't have to take responsibility for someone else's bugs. (This is Amazon's philosophy.) Think of it this way: which of these is better to tell a customer? - "Our website broke. It was someone else's fault, and we've logged a bug with its creator. There is nothing we can do about it except wait. We'll keep you updated." "Our website broke, and we were able to fix it immediately." realworldcoder Maybe it's just as efficient, but is it as robust? I think the most compelling reason to use a library over rolling your own is that the framework has so many people using it that they can find and fix bugs quickly. In-house developed library, while they may provide just as much (or more) functionality, cannot compete with a library with millions of users to provide testing in pretty much every use-case. You just can't beat that kind of testing in-house. Well, his own method being as efficient as framework would be pretty rare because most frameworks still have bugs and no framework can give you an out of the box solution. Most programmers who can't think will never try to write anything at the framework level; they will just search Google for a ready-made solution. Any wise programmer will first see if there is a free framework that has the functionality he needs, and then write the solution himself if there isn't. Sometimes it is way too difficult to explain the current project situtation and the developer is the best judge. Reinventing the wheel is not bad, it is a statement made by lazy people to avoid working hard. Even framework writers do reinvent; the entire .Net framework was reinvented to do what COM was offering. Akash Kava As offensive as it may be to some, I've always found this term to be unclever when used by any form of engineer or in reference to a topic of creating or designing things. In fact, I can't help but to see it as disingenuous when considering the pressures to innovate in today's fast paced world. Repeating yourself (or ignoring adequate, pre-existing solutions) is never wise, but really, there's a reason why we're not all still staring at black screens full of green letters. I understand "If it ain't broke don't fix it", though I guess such a phrase may sound ignorant to some. Yet with the current effort to re-invent the wheel for the needs of space travel, racing, shipping, etc, "don't re-invent the wheel" is pretty ignorant as well, and is nowhere near as clever as it sounds. My background consists of leading many projects and I have had to work with many interns and other forms of green developers, and I have had to handle many naive questions that some would call 'stupid', and have also had to divert people from chasing rabbit wholes outside of the scope of their tasks. However, I would never discourage innovation or creativity, and have seen great things come from 're-inventing the wheel'. My actual answer to the question: There are only two situations that make re-inventing the wheel is a bad thing: If it is not really needed If it is the other guy doing it when you could have Edit: I can see by the drive-by down votes that I must have offended some. The one thing that I would like to add is that this phrase has always been a major pet-peeve of mine. I understand that my two cents might sound rather trollish, but I have no intentions to troll, cause fires, or offend. ClosetGeek Arguments about "reinventing a wheel" is often used in wrong context of choosing to use a library but it's hardly similar thing. Let's say I'm evaluating a library 'forms-plus', that just got popular recently and helps to deal with forms. It has a nice landing page, modern cool graphics, and a -cult- (oops I mean community) around it who swear how it makes making forms great again. But "forms-plus" is an abstraction on top of "forms". "forms" was possible but cumbersome to deal with, so abstraction that makes it easier is becoming popular. New abstractions are happening all the time. It's hard to compare them to wheels. It's more like a new control device and new manual to whatever-already-very-complicated-device you need to run. Valuation of this new device "forms-plus" will look different depending on personal experience. If I never built forms before then "forms-plus" will be very compelling because it's easier to get started. Downside is that if "forms-plus" turns out to be leaky abstraction I still will need to learn "forms" anyway. If I was building forms without "forms-plus" then I will need to take into account time that I need to learn new tool. Upside is that I already know "forms" so I'm not afraid of abstractions on top of it. Short term benefits often will be greater for new starters because there probably wouldn't be new library if it didn't improve on something. Long term benefits will vary widely on quality of abstraction, adoption rate, and other factors already discussed in other answers. After evaluating carefully benefits and negatives of using a new abstraction "forms-plus" vs using bare bone "forms" I make a decision. Decision is highly based on my personal experiences and different people will make different decision. I might had chosen to use bare-bone "forms". Maybe later in time forms-plus had gained more movement behind it and becoming a defacto standard. And maybe my own implementation over time got hairy and started covering a lot what forms-plus now is doing. People coming at this time will be drawn to criticize that I'm keen on reinventing the wheel and I should had used existing library instead. But it's also possible that at the time when I had to make decision about "forms-plus" there also was multiple other alternatives to "forms-plus", most of them dead projects by now, and possibly I gained by not choosing the wrong one. In the end choosing right tools is a complicated decision to make and "reinvention of wheel" is not a very helpful perspective. I wrote a little article about this - http://samueldelesque.tumblr.com/post/77811984752/what-re-inventing-the-wheel-can-teach-you In my experience, re-inventing has actually been great - although very lengthy and tedious. I would say, if you don't know exactly the programming models you are going to use, then write them yourself (if you have the time and energy). This will teach you about what exactly those programming models mean and you will become a better programmer ultimately. Of course, if you are working for a client and just need to get something up quickly, you will probably just want to do some research and find the right piece of software for you. Samuel Delesque Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged reinventing-the-wheel or ask your own question. Reinventing the Wheel, why should I? Developing wheel reinventing tendencies into a skill as opposed to reluctantly learning wheel-finding skills? Are there concrete reasons not to use libraries and code snippets heavily? When is it more productive to build your own framework than to use an existing one? What counts as reinventing the wheel? Reinventing the wheel, or the technology that drives it? Advice/Approach for distilling homogenous code and building common code for a team How to avoid reinventing the wheel when using complex frameworks?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1848
__label__wiki	0.598571	0.598571	Time of the Doctor Proves Moffat Can’t Write Death to Save His Life December 26, 2013 January 10, 2014 / Sarah Well, goodbye, Matt Smith. You were wonderful, but sadly I can’t say that it’s been a pleasure. Not only was last night’s Doctor Who episode, Time of the Doctor, a Christmas special, it was also a farewell to Doctor 11 (or 13, apparently). Unlike Steven Moffat and his horrendous script, I won’t meander around aimlessly in search of a point for an hour. I’ll just get right to it: the episode was an absolute mess that served neither as a fitting goodbye to our most recent Time Lord, nor as a particularly good Christmas episode. Since my gripes are many, I’ll skate right over last night’s horrific sexism, because frankly it was so blatant and so teeth-grindingly awful that I don’t feel like giving Moffat the satisfaction of hearing me whine. Suffice to say he likes pushing fangirl buttons and telling them to get out of his Boys Only clubhouse. So let’s just not. Because I could go on and on about the fact that every woman (and some men) in Moffat’s era wants to hop on the Doctor’s sonic screw driver with more frequency and desperation than in the David Tennant era when the Doctor looked like David Tennant. I won’t talk about the fact that Clara’s plot centered around her needing a boyfriend for Christmas, or cooking a turkey, or confessing her crush on the Doctor. Or the fact that she got cruelly ditched twice for no discernible reason and was only important when she was either helping the Doctor or crying over losing him. I’m definitely not going to talk about the head of the military Silence church trying to sleep with the Doctor on an alter bed. Or — and this isn’t sexist, but it was weird — why everyone needs to be naked to enter army Silence church. Talk about a half-cocked Chekov’s gun that just blew smoke. And let’s definitely not discuss Amy coming down the steps of the TARDIS to caress the Doctor’s face in a sexually charged moment that should’ve just been sweet. No. Thankfully we’re not doing that. Instead, let’s focus on the fact that the Christmas special this year was an episode all about the death of the show’s lead character, and yet once again Steven Moffat appears to be terrified of actually pulling the trigger. A lot of Moffat fans kept claiming that those of us who were critical of his writing for the last three years would look like real fools when all the pieces of the puzzle during Matt Smith’s era finally came together and Moffat’s spectacular and brilliant long game would finally be revealed. To be fair, Moffat did try to make that happen, but he did so in the messiest and most confusing way imaginable. There was no moment last night where I got that old heart-pounding sense of anticipation that the Davies era regularly instilled in me. Remember when Captain Jack turned out to be the Face of Boe, or the Master returned? Or that hand in a jar at Torchwood wound up being the Doctor’s hand from the Christmas special? That was some long game brilliance. Those were carefully-laid and well-executed plans. This felt slap-dash and hastily cobbled together. And, frankly, most of the “reveals” seemed more like Moffat found a way to force together two puzzle pieces that didn’t fit but looked roughly correct. So the army church from the Season 5 Weeping Angels episode use the Silence as confessional priests and that’s why you don’t remember them after you look away? Okay. That makes a basic and logical kind of sense. Do I believe that it was planned from the start? Absolutely not. Because when did the Doctor find out that that’s what the Silence were for and that they were working with the church? Were we, the audience, ever told that? But even on a simple fan service level, did that revelation feel remotely interesting or cool? Not really. And the cracks in space were created by the Time Lords, or is it that the Time Lords are just trying to get through now that they’re there? I’m pretty sure it’s the latter, right? But the Silence aka. Army Church blew up the TARDIS to stop the Doctor from getting to Trenzalore where the real crack is? Or was blowing up the TARDIS what caused the crack? And so does the Doctor not die at Trenzalore anymore? Or is it that he does die, and it’s simply the 11th/13th Doctor who’s housed there? Does that make sense, if he doesn’t lose his TARDIS? If the answer to all of these questions was clear last night, I must have missed it. But by far my biggest problem was the lack of death. Let’s side-step the regeneration for a moment to talk about the 600-year war of Trenzalore that apparently did not make that much of an impact on this small town whose population did not manage to get wiped out despite the fact that it was typically The Doctor and the Silence Priests vs. countless daleks and Cybermen. Or that we literally never saw a single person in the town die. Did they die? Were we even told that anyone had been killed in this SIX. HUNDRED. YEAR. WAR? Even if we were told that there had been casualties, we didn’t see them and we certainly didn’t feel them. If you’re going to write a war, write a damn war. Finally, whether or not you liked his run as the Doctor, I think we can all agree that Matt Smith deserved better than that. Hanging out in a town for 600 years, rapidly ageing (for some reason, even though he did not rapidly age after his last 300-year time jump back in Season 6), having the Time Lords (who, if you recall from the Tennant era went insane and are basically evil, but not anymore I guess) give him all of their lives (?). And then they chose not to come back to their own Universe, and instead gave the Doctor the power of Regeneration Lazer Arms that kill the Dalek overlord ship and a few other enemies? Beyond the fact of “What the fuck was that,” surely if the Time Lords had this ability, they could have and should have used it during the Time War, no? Then the regeneration itself was confusingly drawn out so that Matt Smith can get one final bow in his normal face. It’s nice to see Matt looking like Matt, rather than a Party City version of William Hartnell, but I think it still brings home the inescapable fact that Moffat is afraid of writing death. There’s a ridiculous irony in the youngest-ever Doctor dying of old age. And maybe I’m sadistic, but I enjoy watching the Doctor die and explode into his next form. Here, the Doctor lazer arms his enemies, uses a hologram to restore his face to factory settings and then apparently dies of old age and blinks into Peter Capaldi. That was not a death. That was not a regeneration. That was even weaker and more indulgent than David Tennant going on a world tour of all of his companions after getting radiation poisoning, but at the very least it did serve as one long final bow — both to Tennant and to showrunner Davies. So it was fitting, even if it was a little over the top. This didn’t even feel like a bow, even though Moffat gave Smith a heavy-handed speech about how much he’ll miss himself even though he changes and doesn’t change. Both Eccleston and Tennant got similar speeches, but they were made tragic and brilliant by the fact that they were clearly dying. Matt Smith was standing there looking completely fine, like he was just about to head off on a long trip. So here’s to hoping that Capaldi will be a stronger captain of this ship. He’s a great actor with arguably more gravitas and certainly more experience than Smith. Maybe the real issue is that Smith, as good as he is, simply isn’t a lead and never quite had what it took to lead a show. Maybe. Because at the moment I think I’m ready to go on a long trip away from this show as well. Mostly I’m worried that everything I really liked about this show is gone — dead and buried and replaced by sexist, meaningless, heartless and feckless nonsense. Christmas Special, Christopher Eccleston, Cybermen, Daleks, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Doctor Who Christmas Special, feminism, Gallifrey, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, regeneration, sexism, Steven Moffat, Time Lords, Time of the Doctor, Trenzalore ← Why Stephen Fry’s “Offensive” Quote is Total Bullshit The Empty Hearse: Equal Parts Love Letter and Restraining Order → 18 thoughts on “Time of the Doctor Proves Moffat Can’t Write Death to Save His Life” dschram The reason that they didn’t show a lot of death is because this is a family show. Also, I assume that the writer of this piece is American and doesn’t understand how the British view things differently and that some of it is just silliness in an attempt to survive the seriousness of the situation. In my own life I find that my American coworkers sometimes have a hard time understanding my sense of humour, it seems disrespectful and confusing to them. Being a family show has never stopped there being a lot of death on Doctor Who before. The very first episode showed you crowds of people being mown down. The next introduced you to a likeable new character only to unceremoniously kill them off. And that continued on into the Tennant run. Consider the ‘Silence in the Library’ or ‘Impossible Planet’ two patters. Under Moffatt, everyone on the world died of a heart attack and a quick electric shock was enough to reboot everyone with apparently zero fatalities (apparently noone was driving at the time). So actually, I think the author has a good point – Moffatt seems averse to death compared to those who’ve written the Doctor before. There’s an essay somewhere that goes into it in more detail than this (maybe on this site, I forget). I don’t agree with everything the author wrote (See my own comment below) but this episode falls far short of Doctor Who’s best. Australian, BTW. We generally understand the British sense of humour just fine, though personally I find stuff like the League of Gentlemen rather puerile. Honestly, it seems a bit petty to try and blame the author’s nationality for not appreciating the episode when there’s been a lot of dislike for it on ‘both sides of the pond’. I actually like a lot of what Moffatt’s done with Doctor Who as shown under, but this is far from his best work. It does seem to me that the Americans are critical of certain aspects of the show because of the cultural differences but I have not done a scientific count. As far as death goes remember that it was a Christmas episode and plenty of death was implied though not shown. I think when Mr Moffat does have death though it is much more personal and deeply felt (River) rather than mass numbers of unknowns dying, but you are right he does have a habit of defying death i.e. Rory and Clara plus the Power of Three episode you mentioned (the magic sonic strikes again!). @dschram (looks like replies only go down to a certain level). What death was implied? As far as I can tell, the town of Christmas was completely unaffected by centuries of war (as an aside, they seemed to be trapped in the town proper so one wonders where they got food from. I’d say the TARDIS’s pantry, but the TARDIS was missing for several decades at one point there). Christmas specials are hardly immune from death – remember the Space Titanic one? River never exactly died. In a way she was Moffatt’s first character death save. And it was AWESOME because it hadn’t become a pattern yet. That ‘Silence in the Library’ two-parter is still arguably the best single story in modern Who (and its main competitors, Blink and The Empty Child) were by Moffatt, too). But now that it’s happened again and again it’s seriously losing its charm. Donna’s erasure comes close but I’m not sure any modern Who has actually killed a major supporting character. Unless you count the Face of Boe. BTW, it looks like the article I was thinking of was “What Stephen Moffatt doesn’t understand about grief and why it’s killing Doctor Who”. It’s in the links below this blog post. The town’s food probably came from the church, I think that is where the Doctor got his marshmallows. Don’t believe Space Titanic was Moffat’s. Death and/or separation, that is was causes the grief. I find the Moffat era and stories to be more tragic and heartfelt (except for Donna) than the Davies but that is my personal opinion and just how I feel. I read the other article you mentioned about grief/death in the show. I often wonder if we are all watching the same show. But it seems to be a matter of what you focus on and personal preferences. I like Moffat’s timey-wimeyness and the storylines and how he connects things together. They had enough food in the church to feed an entire village for decades (if not centuries)? Really? Yes, Space Titanic was one of RTD’s Christmas specials, which was my point – you said that Time of the Doctor went light on the body count because it was a Christmas special. The Space Titanic episode is evidence that Doctor Who is hardly averse to killing off people en masse just because it’s Christmas. (Christmas ended poorly for the Sycorax and the Racnoss too). It’s specifically a Moffett thing. I may have given you the wrong idea: there’s an awful lot I like about the Moffett era. He gets ‘timey-wimey’ like noone else, he’s probably the most innovative Who creator out there and he’s a genius at planting story seeds that bear fruit in the finale. But he’s not infallible. He has a number of flaws and those flaws become increasingly noticeable the longer his run goes for. His emotional arcs are shallow (Rory and Amy experience severe marital difficulties for ONE episode, for example), he seems to have a stock template for female characters (and poor River was completely swallowed by exposition girl by the end), he likes to reboot the universe for a finale a lot and he has every single female character develop a crush on the Doctor, amongst other quirks. RTD wasn’t perfect either – he had his own flaws (an over-fondness for Daleks amongst them). And Moffatt’s now been running the show for about as long as RTD had when he stepped down and let someone with fresh strengths and weaknesses take the helm. IMO it’s time for Moffatt to consider the same, although I very much hope he continues to contribute individual stories because he is phenomenal at that and, IMO, his greatest weaknesses tend only to emerge at the long-running scale. therealdanto I’d like to add a gripe of my own: If the Time-Lords are waiting on the other side of that crack for the Doctor to speak his name and let them know they’re in the right place, how is it that they’re able to close that crack and open the SUPER crack in the sky? I really wanted to feel as emotional at the end as I did at the finale of The End Of Time as I’ve enjoyed Matt Smith in the role (although I don’t think he’s always had very good scripts to work with), but I just felt a little cheated when he didn’t “explode” the way Eccleston and Tenant did, as you put it. One assumes that opening a super crack is a massive expenditure of effort and energy and the Time Lords were holding off on opening it until they knew the time was right (ie. That it was safe on the other side). Presumably they weren’t planning to bring the entire planet of Gallifrey through that crack in the wall. When they learnt that it wasn’t safe on the other side but that the Doctor needed help, they opened the super crack that they would’ve taken Gallifrey through and helped him. “So the army church from the Season 5 Weeping Angels episode use the Silence as confessional priests and that’s why you don’t remember them after you look away? Okay. That makes a basic and logical kind of sense.” No it doesn’t. It makes no sense whatsoever. What is the point of confessing if you don’t remember doing it? Sounds like human nature to me. Do you really believe that, over millennia, people wouldn’t invent a way to make confession easier on themselves? The point of confessing is religious, and I can totally see people coming up with a way to ‘tick the boxes’ of confession but remove the awkwardness around the whole thing. A better question is why Confessor need the ability to electrocute people to death. For when ordinary penance just isn’t enough? I thought woman were supposed to the open-minded, empathic ones. Can you hear yourself? You’re shriveled up little gollum inside. You are right to gripe about this thing – it was a muddled mess, with a number of supposed-to-be funny-but-actually-just awkward bits and lacking the emotional impact it should have had. Oh, and apparently “stupid” is now standard for the entire Sonaran race. Joy. But you’ve indicated that a number of the reveals/answers were unclear when they really weren’t. In rough order: 1. The Doctor had plenty of opportunity to find out about the Confessors either (a) during the 300 years he spent wandering towards the end of Season 6 or (b) during early Season 7 when he was travelling on his own a lot. It might’ve been nice to see him find out the information on-camera, but he’s had countless adventures off-camera and I don’t mind hearing bits about them in dialogue. It makes the show feel larger than just what’s shown onscreen. 2. The cracks in time were created by the TARDIS exploding in Season 5 and they remained a weak point in reality even after the universe was rebooted at the end of Season 5. 3. Yes, the Time Lords hoped to take advantage of those weak points to return to the universe. 4. The Church of the Papal Mainframe aka The Silence dedicated themselves to the goal of preventing the return of the Time Lords (and thus reignition of the Time War) by preventing the Doctor from speaking his name at Trenzalore. 5. The explosion of the TARDIS was caused by a renegade arm of The Silence who attempted to prevent the return of the Time Lords by killing the Doctor. In doing so, they inadvertently created the very cracks in reality that the Time Lords were attempting to return through. 6. Regeneration energy has been shown to be explosive before (remember it crashing the TARDIS at the start of Season 5 because Tennant held off too long on regenerating?) and presumably being given an entire new regeneration cycle is even more so. The Time Lords probably did use regeneration energy as a weapon during the Time War, but honestly it’s not that effective (it took down one Dalek capital ship and a couple of fighters) and the Daleks had millions of ships and weaponry of to rival the Time Lords’ own. 7. Whether or not the Doctor will still die at Trenzelore is still unclear. There are two basic possibilities: (a) the Time Lords changed time and averted his death when they granted the Doctor his new regeneration cycle, or (b) The Doctor will still die at Trenzelore when he reaches the end of his new regeneration cycle. It’s probably #a since changing time has been stated in the new series to be within the Time Lords’ power. It doesn’t really matter until he burns through his new set of regenerations, though. With the exception of #7 all these were explained within the episode itself. I agree with all of this, except I really don’t blame Matt for this trainwreck – he did his best with an extremely dodgy script. Hands down the worst part of the episode was the treatment of Clara. The first time the Doctor sent her home, there was definitely, as you put it, no discernible reason, but it felt like a nod to Parting of the Ways. The SECOND time he sent her home, it just pissed me off. “9 tricked Rose into going home to keep her safe, so let’s top that, and have 11 send Clara home TWICE even though he PINKY PROMISED not to so its WAY MORE DRAMATIC.” Ugh. Since Dalek-Clara/Oswin her character development has basically reversed a little every episode and I’m running out of ways to defend her. I’ve gotta say — I love Matt, but I’m really starting to wonder if he didn’t contribute to the sheer dullness of the show the last couple of years. I think he’s a good actor, but he’s not a lead. That’s the hardest thing about Doctor Who casting, to be honest — finding a weird-looking man who also functions as a solid lead actor. You’re suggesting a female also couldn’t function as a lead. That’s quite the 360 on your baseless accusations of sexism in the episode. It’s a TV show based around characters who have motivations and emotions etc. You can’t cry about character development but then scorn them for having any sort of depth: maybe Clara did have a crush on the Doctor and maybe she wanted to pretend to have a boyfriend. Why does it matter? It’s Clara’s decision. If one of your friends did the same, would you scorn her? If you did, she’d probably stop being your friend – and rightly so. And as for many of your other points, as Irrevenant pointed out: most of the answers were actually in the episode. Maybe if you weren’t creating things to take issue with, you would have gathered the brain power to pay attention for five minutes. You captured it perfectly. I felt a tiny bit emotional at the very end when he was about to change, but otherwise I was confused and annoyed. All of Moffat’s worst tendancies as a writer were on display. Yeah, the worst part is that I wanted to have a big emotional goodbye to Matt, but the fact that he mostly didn’t die (and the the CrackLords “saved” him in a way I still don’t understand) made it feel like it wasn’t real and it didn’t matter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1853
__label__cc	0.563113	0.436887	dorset lta Tim Henman at The West Hants Club for 50th Anniversary Celebrations Celebrations were held at The West Hants Club to mark 50 years since the first tournament of the Open Era which took place at the club 22nd to 27th April 1968. West Hants Tennis Club, as it was then known, hosted The British Hard Court Championships, the first of 12 Open tournaments for the year sanctioned by the then International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) having been promoted by the Club and the LTA. Fifty years ago, the first Open Era titles were won by Australia’s Ken Rosewall and Britain’s Virginia Wade, who took home the first ever prize money breakdowns recorded on a draw sheet – the men’s title with £1000 and the women’s £300. Tim Henman took part in the celebrations playing exhibition matches featuring John Feaver, Miles Maclagan and Rob Booth. Performance players from The West Hants Club also had the opportunity of being on court with Tim Henman and Miles Maclagan with some close matches being played. Commentary throughout from Rob Curling added to the excitement with presentations being made to players from the first Open Era tournament – Sue Mappin, Frances McLennan, John Paish and Mark Cox. They were joined by West Hants Chief Executive Peter Elviss and Chairman Edwin Bessant, Chairman of the All England Tennis Club, Philip Brook, LTA Deputy President David Rawlinson and ITF COO Kelly Fairweather, to commemorate the role the LTA and West Hants Club together played in paving the way for professional tennis around the world. This year also marks a number of other notable landmarks in the history of tennis, including the 130th anniversary of the founding of the LTA and the 40th anniversary of the first-ever BBC broadcast of the Eastbourne International which saw Martina Navratilova beat Chris Evert two weeks ahead of her maiden Wimbledon title. 8U Team Tennis Saturday The flexible tennis revolution comes to Sherborne and Yeovil LTA Tennis Awards – County Winners December 11, 2019 LTA Venue Forum – Tuesday, 29th October 2019 October 14, 2019 Wendy Vernon-Browne OBE – Funeral Service October 10, 2019 No Events Today - click on a highlight date Tweets by DorsetLTA Monday : 9am - 5pm Tuesday : 9am - 4pm Wednesday : Closed Thursday : 9am - 4pm Friday : Closed Email: info@dorsetlta.co.uk © Copyright DLTA 2017 - 2019 : Site by HWB Design	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1856
__label__cc	0.699163	0.300837	TERMINAL_LANCE_TITLE© Terminal Lance #567 “Callsigned” As I said in the very first comic I ever did, 10 years ago now, no one gets to pick their own nicknames. You watch movies like Top Gun or whatever and you think you’re going to end up with some badass name like ICEMAN, or GRIM REAPER… Instead you end up with FUCKHEAD, because the ONE TIME you forgot your NVG’s and the whole platoon had to spend a night looking for them in the field. They never forget. Iran ain’t ready for Dad-Bod Actual. Speaking of… Shit is going crazy as I type. There’s a lot going on right now in the military sphere, thanks to all of the insanity in the Middle East at the moment. All I can hope for is that the Marines and other service members stationed abroad are staying safe and looking out for each other. In other news… Sunday was the 10th Anniversary of Terminal Lance. As I mentioned over the various social media channels, I could have never predicted as a Lance Corporal in Hawaii that TL would become the phenomenon that it has. I legitimately thank all of the Lance Corporals across the Corps for the love and support over the years, and look forward to more to come. Today, January 5th, marks the 10th birthday of Terminal Lance. In 2010, when I began this comic endeavor from Marine Corps Base Hawaii, I could have never known the impact it would have on the Marine Corps in the years to come, and the impact it would have on me as a person. This strip and the online community it has fostered over the years has taken me to places I would have never dreamed of, and I owe it all to the Marines that have read it for the last decade. Terminal Lance is and has always been about the Marines that read it. From day one, the goal of Terminal Lance has always been to give the lower enlisted Lance Corporals of the Marine Corps a voice. Much to the dismay of some higher-ups, I'm sure, I think we have succeeded. Funny comics, videos, pictures and stories from Lance Corporals across the Corps might seem arbitrary at this point, but believe it or not, there was no Terminal Lance before Terminal Lance. There wasn't a place for Marines to laugh with each other from all over the world, from every base and every place. Terminal Lance changed things, and there's no going back. Thank you all for giving me an opportunity to make you laugh… And stay tuned, there's more Terminal Lance to come. #terminallance #usmc #marines #marinecorps #military A post shared by Terminal Lance (@terminallance) on Jan 5, 2020 at 7:20pm PST As for the Duty Doodle contest, look forward to the winners on Friday… Stay tuned. Terminal Lance is copyright Maximilian Uriarte © 2010-2020 \| advertise on Terminal Lance \| Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1857
__label__wiki	0.855388	0.855388	RANDALL THE HANDLE: NFL Week 14 picks Randall the Handle Updated: December 6, 2019 7:40 AM EST NFL PICKS: Bilicki's Conference Finals selections AFC notebook: Sweetheart of a deal awaits sweetheart of a guy, Chiefs QB Mahomes Stampeders name football staff for 2020 season THE BEST BETS 49ers (10-2) at Saints (10-2) LINE: NEW ORLEANS by 2½ While it can be easily justified to accept the points being offered here with a sound San Francisco club, this is not the time to do so. The 49ers emptied their tanks against the current top team in football last week when losing on a last-second field goal at Baltimore. Now the Niners must remain on the road and head to one of the tougher venues in the league to face highly ranked Saints. The Niners will be a popular underdog here, but such sentiment has reduced the price whereas New Orleans just needs to win by a field goal to earn a cover. This marks the shortest price that a Drew Brees-led team has been on this field since 2016. San Francisco relies on an adequate ground game and sound defence. Running the ball against a stellar third-ranked run defence could be problematic here. TAKING: SAINTS –2½ Steelers (7-5) at Cardinals (3-8-1) LINE: PITTSBURGH by 2½ Pittsburgh is back in everyone’s good books after winning in Cincinnati and then atoning for a one-sided loss at Cleveland with a bounce-back win over Browns last week. After facing those subpar group of rivals from the AFC North, the underwhelming Steelers will travel to face an NFC weakling who just had their lunch fed to them by the Rams. Pittsburgh’s makeup is such that all of its energy clearly went into last week’s emotionally charged win. The Steelers have three AFC opponents awaiting after this one to close out the year as they chase a wild-card playoff spot. The Cards can be easily overlooked in this spot. We’ll excuse last week’s dud — it happens. But prior to that one, Arizona had scored 25 or more points in six of seven games including twice against daunting the Niners. The Steelers’ battered roster hardly worthy of favourite status in this one. TAKING: CARDINALS +2½ Panthers (5-7) at Falcons (3-9) LINE: ATLANTA by 3 It’s tough to garner support for a Carolina team that has lost four straight and was defeated by this division foe recently in a decisive 29-3 blowout. But we’re going to view the glass being half full here as backing the Falcons as a favourite against almost any team has to be a worse decision than the alternative. Atlanta has been favoured three times this season. Not only did it not cover in any, Dan Quinn’s squad lost all three games outright. Its flimsy defence gave up 24, 34 and 35 points, respectively, in the trio of defeats. Perry Fewell will take over Carolina coaching duties for the departed Ron Rivera. Teams have a way of energizing for a new coach, particularly in the first outing following a sudden change. The Panthers are decent road earners with five covers in their past seven away. TAKING: PANTHERS +3 Ravens (10-2) at Bills (9-3) LINE: BALTIMORE by 6 This will be a good barometer for the many that still aren’t sure how good the Bills are. Don’t be surprised for a respectable showing to occur. Buffalo can play defence, ranking third in yards, points and passing yards allowed. Of course, the league’s hottest team will visit, but good defences taking plentiful home points is a sound formula in this league. Inflation rate also a factor here with Baltimore expanding its profile after exciting win over 49ers last week. In addition, the Ravens could be in a flat spot after that physically draining win and knowing they play in just four days following this one. Buffalo QB Josh Allen making noticeable strides commanding this offence. Points here are alluring. TAKING: BILLS +6 Redskins (3-9) at Packers (9-3) LINE: GREEN BAY by 13 There is a lot of room for a backdoor cover here, especially against a Green Bay team that is winning, but is less than convincing when doing so. Still, asking the Redskins to compete at cold and windy Lambeau with its unimpressive roster is a demand that we’d rather not make. The Packers must stay focused with the Vikings sitting just one game back in NFC North race. Although Washington was able to pull a major upset at Carolina last week after trailing early, the ‘Skins passing game is a disaster and playing catchup against Aaron Rodgers and his offence unlikely to succeed in consecutive road games. Washington has covered just 13 of past 43 after a road victory. TAKING: PACKERS –13 Broncos (4-8) at Texans (8-4) LINE: HOUSTON by 9½ Gotta love the Texans. They are so transparent. Terrible as a favourite, but its talented roster is always dangerous when taking points. Underdog to New England last week? No problem. Go out and beat the Patriots. Spotting big points here to a meager Denver squad? That’s a problem. This year alone, Houston can claim just one cover in four tries when favoured. The lone triumph was when hammering a pitifully weak Atlanta defence. The Broncos are decent defenders and while it remains to be seen how rookie QB Drew Lock will develop in the weeks to come, Denver has a spring in its step after the youngster led them to a win in his first NFL action last week. There are enough points dangled here to earn our interest. TAKING: BRONCOS +9½ Bengals (1-11) at Browns (5-7) LINE: CLEVELAND by 8 Win or lose, one cannot back Cleveland spotting prohibitive points. Not with a team that has more characters than character. Coach Freddie Kitchens leads the way with his ridiculous decision making, on and off the field, while the players continue to disappoint and underachieve. There’s no denying it has been a difficult season for the Bengals, but they finally got off the schneid last week in a respectable showing against the Jets. Veteran QB Andy Dalton’s return to the lineup made a huge difference with his ability to at least fire the ball downfield, a strategy that was absent with Ryan Finley cutting his teeth. TAKING: BENGALS +8 Lions (3-8-1) at Vikings (8-4) LINE: MINNESOTA by 13 Minnesota once again failed to perform well under the Monday night spotlight (Kirk Cousins now 0-8 on MNF) and now they must return home on a short week to play a rested Detroit team. They will spot the Lions double-digits with Detroit having the luxury of extra rest after playing on Thanksgiving. While the Leos are not winning games, they have been surprisingly competitive when losing just once this season by more than eight points. New quarterback David Blough did not look entirely out of place against the Bears in Blough’s debut and his confidence will carry over to this one. Minny is giving up lots of passing yards these days. The Lions also have not been a double-digit dog since 2013. TAKING: LIONS +13 Dolphins (3-9) at Jets (4-8) LINE: N.Y. JETS by 5½ Miami has somehow won three of five include a shocking upset of the Eagles last week. As a result, they are underdogs by less than a touchdown in a road game here and while the Jets can be described as unreliable, they should not lack motivation in this one. Miami embarrassed Adam Gase’s squad last month and the former Dolphins coach has nothing more to play for this season other than avenging the earlier defeat. Miami can’t stop the run nor can it run the ball with its injury-riddled backfield. The Fish have been outscored 142-81 on the road this year. A cold December travel against an inspired host is unlikely to reverse such a trend. Jets had won three straight when scoring 34 points in each, before laying an egg in Cincy last week. TAKING: JETS –5½ Colts (6-6) at Buccaneers (5-7) LINE: TAMPA BAY by 3 The Bucs have won three of four and, while they remain guilty of making careless mistakes, they have the offensive firepower to overcome them. Tampa enters this one on the heels of consecutive road wins, by 13 and 17 points, respectively. This pointspread is giving the Colts a little too much respect for a team that has dropped four of their past five with the lone victory coming against lousy Jacksonville. QB Jacoby Brissett appears to have taken a step backward after a promising start. Indy’s QB has just two touchdown passes in his past five starts, including three interceptions. The absence of star WR T.Y. Hilton is being felt as is the team’s kicking game with veteran Adam Vinatieri well past his best-before date. TAKING: BUCCANEERS –3 Chargers (4-8) at Jaguars (4-8) LINE: L.A. CHARGERS by 3 Anyone that has watched the Chargers this season could confirm that this team could just as easily be 8-4 rather than the dismal 4-8 they’ve achieved. However, that doesn’t mean things are about to change. Lacking a killer instinct, the Bolts are in a lot of close games. We’ll accept one of those here as this spread requires Los Angeles to win by four or more points. That’s a tall order for a club that has won by that margin just once in its past eight games. The Jaguars are in a scoring funk, but they’ve opted to go back to rookie Gardner Minshew after benching Nick Foles. With nothing to lose, Minshew should have the reins loosened enough to produce a cover here. TAKING: JAGUARS +3 Chiefs (8-4) at Patriots (10-2) LINE: NEW ENGLAND by 3 Relax Patriots fans, the sky is not falling. Cynics are voicing concerns about New England’s offence and lack of scoring ability. While the Pats may have slowed down a bit, no team adjusts more proficiently and we can expect coach Bill Belichick to have something dialed up for this contest. Besides, this game is at Gillette where the Patriots are a perfect 5-0 and where any guest has not scored more than 14 points. The Chiefs do bring a high-octane offence, but K.C. is hurting badly at running back and being one-dimensional against Bill Belichick rarely ends successfully. Kansas City’s defence is a flimsy unit that saw Tom Brady and crew rack up 80 points in two wins vs. Chiefs a year ago. Pats laying a short price on this field is the prudent play until proven otherwise. TAKING: PATRIOTS –3 Titans (7-5) at Raiders (6-6) LINE: TENNESSEE by 2½ The Titans are on a roll by winning five of past six and scoring 108 points combined in their previous three games. The Raiders don’t seem like the team that can slow them down. Oakland has been bombarded in its past two games, losing 34-3 and 40-9 to the Jets and Chiefs, respectively. Jon Gruden’s leaky defence has been an issue all season long and now it has come home to roost. Tennessee does not look like a typical tired December group. QB Ryan Tannehill has been exceptional with 12 touchdown passes and a 72% completion rate since taking over for an inefficient Marcus Mariota. Both the offence and defence have been sparked and the momentum should carry over against this opponent. TAKING: TITANS -2½ Seahawks (10-2) at Rams (7-5) LINE: L.A. RAMS by 1 The Rams are looking to avenge a see-saw Thursday night loss from early October after falling just short in a 30-29 defeat. Now Seattle will travel to southern California on six days rest after a comeback win over the Vikings on Monday night. Just as football folk were about to write off the Rams, they reverted back to their recent selves when running roughshod over the Cardinals in a 34-7 romp and suddenly faith is restored. Maybe it will turn out to be false advertising, but we’re not so sure that the Seahawks are as good as their record indicates and the price is short enough to endorse a Rams team that can score points and one that is fighting for their playoff lives. TAKING: RAMS –1 Giants (2-10) at Eagles (5-7) LINE: PHILADELPHIA –9½ This has the feel of last week’s game in Cincinnati that had Andy Dalton returning to his rightful role and leading the underdog Bengals to a win over the favoured Jets. The Giants will have Eli Manning back at the helm for this one and, while Manning has not fared well against Philadelphia in recent times, these are not the Eagles of old. A Philadelphia club that has lost three straight, including an embarrassing loss to the Dolphins last week, has no business being a prohibitive favourite over any team. Giants don’t win much, but they have been lucrative as a road underdog when covering 10 of their past 13 away games. Philly has covered just three of its past 13 when hosting. Eli is savvy enough to keep this one close or possibly pull an upset. TAKING: GIANTS +9½ RANDALL THE HANDLE: NFL Conference Finals selections	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1874
__label__cc	0.521278	0.478722	Starbucks Launches Black & White Mocha Drinks to Celebrate New Year's By Mahita Gajanan Starbucks is going black-tie for New Year’s with a new line of limited edition drinks to end 2017 with a bang. The coffee chain has introduced three new “Black & White” mocha beverages that uses dark and white chocolate mocha to celebrate the last week of the year in style. The line follows several new creations from Starbucks over the last year, including the Unicorn frappuccino and other colorful drinks. The Black & White mocha mixes espresso with dark and white chocolate mocha and is topped with a line of “sparkly chocolate sequins to resemble a black tie,” a Starbucks spokesperson said in a statement. The other drinks include a Black & White hot chocolate, mixing the mocha with steamed milk, and a Black & White frappuccino, which blends mocha flavors and coffee with milk and ice. The Black & White mocha drinks are available now and will be sold at Starbucks through the first week of January to kick off 2018, USA Today reports. Write to Mahita Gajanan at mahita.gajanan@time.com. Arrests Ahead of Gun Rally	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1878
__label__cc	0.717097	0.282903	TV[R]EV Original, Advertising, Screen Convergence, Week In Review Week In Review: Are CBS and Viacom Getting Rehitched, Amazon Acquires Sizmek’s Ad Server 1. Are CBS and Viacom Getting Rehitched? The on-again/off-again romance between CBS and Viacom looks like it’s back on again. At least that’s what CNBC is saying (and they usually know what they’re talking about.) As Tim Stenovic, Hope King and I discussed yesterday on Cheddar, the remarriage was sort of inevitable. As in people would have been more surprised if it did not happen than if it did. Les Moonves was the big hold-up originally, but we all know what happened to him. So with that roadblock removed, it was more a question of “when” rather than “if.” There’s also the irony that while Moonves’s main concern was that Viacom would drag CBS down, the shoe now seems to be on the other foot. Tightly laced and ready to run. Bob Bakish has enabled quite a turnaround at Viacom, correctly betting on the fact that (a) brands that needed to reach the 18-34 year old Demo (Gen Zennials?) would not be sated by Instagram and Snapchat alone, and (b) no other network group was even remotely positioned to claim to reach that group. So he made some clever purchases—influencer marketing group WHOSAY, AwesomenessTV (the only successful MCN–remember them?) and the biggest of the FASTS, Pluto. Together with Viacom’s existing properties like content creation studio Velocity, they create a one-stop shop for advertisers and a way for Viacom to work around the fact that audiences on linear are shrinking rapidly. Why It Matters More Because OTT. CBS already has a strong OTT platform in CBS All Access. And another one in Showtime. They’re also allegedly in the market for STARZ. Viacom has Pluto and a motherlode of library content from Nick, MTV, VH1, BET, Paramount et al. Combine all of that together and you have a formidable Flix. Made even more formidable by the fact that CBS has been doing this since 2014 and so they’ve had time to iron out all the kinks, figure out what works and what doesn’t, give some thought (and budget) to customers retention and churn reduction. What You Need To Do About It If you’re one of the upcoming Flixes then this complicates your launch even further, though I can’t imagine it comes as a surprise. Steady the course, figure out what it is you actually stand for, what it is you’re actually offering, how it differs from what people are already getting from you via the MVPDs and why they’d want it. (You know, the obvious stuff.) Because CBS/Viacom is going to be a serious competitor. If you’re a viewer, be happy, because this could wind up being one of your favorite Flixes. If you’re an MVPD, well, carriage fee negotiation time just got a whole lot less fun. 2. Amazon Acquires Sizmek’s Ad Server Amazon bought out Sizmek’s ad server and DCO (dynamic content optimization—e.g., seeing that someone is from San Francisco and sticking a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge in the ad) server businesses today in a move that was not all that surprising: Sizmek declared bankruptcy a few months back, and Amazon wants to take on Google. Google and Facebook are walled gardens, meaning that they rely on their own data to fuel ad buys and everything that happens in the entire process is Google or Facebook related. Sizmek was the largest of the independents meaning they did not rely on a closed data loop. It’s a testament to the power of the Duopoly that they went belly up. Amazon is also a walled garden, likely even more of one, since it will use the data it has to drive users to buy whatever is being advertised from Amazon and they’ll also have data to match ad impressions to sales, which is the sort of direct correlation that many brand managers dream about. Sizmek was attractive to brands that didn’t want Google’s walled garden approach and it’s likely that some of them will not be happy about the Amazon takeover either, especially brands whose products cannot be sold on Amazon (yet) like insurance and financial products, and brands whose own ecommerce sites compete with Amazon. Still, Amazon has allegedly been pitching agencies hard and most brands not in the aforementioned categories are expected to stick around. Amazon is still feeling its oats in regards to its ad business, figuring out how to best take advantage of all that data. Note too, that while of this activity is around the digital ad marketplace rather than television (and Amazon Prime is ad-free) it’s not hard to see how it could be translated to TV or why brands might look favorably on commercials that drove viewers to Amazon where a direct correlation to sales could be obtained. If you’re a consumer, relax. Amazon is not going to sell your shopping history to anyone so they can chase you around the web with creepy ads for things you randomly clicked on or already bought. If you’re Google, watch out behind you! If you’re a brand that sells things on Amazon, this could be a great way to reach your target. If you’re not, and you want to avoid walled gardens, it’s time for Plan B and hopefully you’ve been busy figuring out what your move is, post-Sizmek. If you’re the TV industry, bear in mind that Amazon quite likely already has a plan in place for you and how they’re going to use all that data to place TV commercials too. Posted May 31, 2019 by Alan Wolk Publishers, Creators Missing Out On $13.4B In Ad Revenues Because Crummy Metrics Why has it taken so long for addressable to come to linear TV? [VIDEO]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1882
__label__wiki	0.671895	0.671895	Information published on 9 March 2010 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 176. Cambodia: Cambodia’s rail network set to be reconstructed by 2013 Cambodia’s rail network is due to be reconstructed by 2013 with an estimated several hundred million dollars’ worth of international financial support, Cambodian Finance Minister Keat Chhon stated yesterday. “The project implementation process began in 2007 and is expected to be completed in 2013”, explained Finance Minister Keat Chhon at a ceremony during which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Australian government allocated more funds to complete the network (42 and 21.5 million dollars respectively). Another 13 million will come from the OPEC Fund for International Development, while Malaysia has contributed towards the building of 106 km of rail track. The total cost of reconstructing 600 km of track is expected to reach 141.6 million dollars, confirmed Keat Chhon. The Cambodian authorities hope the reconstruction will boost economic growth and facilitate trade with neighbouring countries. (Source: “Le petit journal” in Bangkok with AFP) UIC signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Agencia Nacional de Transportes Terrestres (ANTT) of the Federal Republic of Brazil 11th UIC Sustainability Conference: call for papers until 15th April 2010 The European Performance Regime – learning from service disruption to improve quality AGORA Project: to identify and communicate best practices in terminal management UIC is inviting members Finance Directors Films from Latvia, Belgium and Austria awarded prizes at the 18th UIC CineRail Corporate Film Days event Spain / Russia: Russia is interested in Spanish railways UIC Asia Workshop on Optimisation of Sleeper Design - Lucknow, India - 5-6 April 2010. Freight: “Growing Intermodal Traffic in CEEC countries” Conference (Vienna, 25 March) Turkey: Appointment of new Director General of TCDD Tasimacilik A.S. (15 October 2019) China: Poem-themed Train launched in Nanning (8 October 2019) United Kingdom: Free station WiFi to benefit millions of rail passengers (8 October 2019) Russia: “Russian and Turkish railways have significant potential for cooperation,” says Oleg Belozorov (8 October 2019) Czech Republic: Mr Nebesky appointed Chairman of the Board and Director General of České dráhy (8 October 2019)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1886
__label__wiki	0.675459	0.675459	AJC Transatlantic Institute Our Advisory Council In Their words The EU Should not be Complicit in Abbas's Mistake By Daniel Schwammenthal The Commentator The war between Hamas and Israel has barely ended but the Palestinians are already off to their next battle – this time on the diplomatic front. Having been marginalized by the Gaza conflict, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas remains determined to ask the United Nations General Assembly for non-member observer state status on Thursday. He apparently hopes that this move will make him and the PA “relevant,” as the Jerusalem Post put it Friday, citing diplomatic sources. Now here is a crazy thought: If Mr. Abbas wants to become more relevant again, how about focusing his energy on state-building, fighting corruption at home, and getting back to the negotiating table? Having failed to embrace the offer by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a comprehensive peace in 2008, he has largely refused to even speak to Mr. Olmert's successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Abbas then has the chutzpah to cite the absence of peace talks, which he is himself boycotting, as justification for going to the UN. Given the traditional voting patterns in the general assembly, the resolution is sure to pass. With the 120-strong non-aligned movement, of which 56 are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Palestinians could easily win a resolution saying black is white. But the real fight is for Western legitimacy. Unfortunately, a number of European Union member states are likely to back the UN move. This would be a mistake. If the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict should have taught us one thing, it is that the Palestinian interests are not necessarily identical with their leadership’s policies. The UN vote may give the PA a state on paper but it will not change the reality on the ground. The creation of a state can only come through direct negotiations and any UN endorsement based on Palestinian terms will only make it harder to find a mutually acceptable compromise in the future. The UN bid thus threatens to divorce the creation of a Palestinian state from the ultimate goal of achieving peace. The only valid legal framework between Israel and the Palestinians – the 1995 “Oslo Accords” – specifically forbids the sort of unilateral maneuver Mr. Abbas plans. “Neither side shall initiate or take any step that will change the status of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip pending the outcome of the Permanent Status negotiations,” it reads. By supporting the unilateral UN bid, EU member states would not only assist the Palestinians in violating their contractual obligations, they would also undermine the EU’s own standing, which after all signed the Oslo Accords as a witness. And how will violating past agreements encourage Israelis to trust Palestinians to abide by future agreements? The just-ended Hamas conflict underlined Israel’s dilemma, which in any future peace deal will have to give up territory and thus security. But building trust is not on Mr. Abbas’s agenda. In a New York Times op-ed last year, the PA President outlined his UN move as part of a plan to intensify the conflict, for instance by bringing charges at the International Criminal Court. Such a step and the inevitable Israeli countercharges would make reconciliation so much harder. Speaking of countercharges: Does his UN gambit mean that Mr. Abbas is now taking responsibility for the war crimes and terrorism committed by Hamas? If not, how does he reconcile his statehood bid with the stubborn fact that he lacks control over Gaza, a significant part of that new “observer state.” Control over defined territory remains one of the basic legal criteria for statehood. So why is Mr. Abbas going to New York instead of Jerusalem to negotiate peace? Word here in Brussels is that he doesn’t trust Mr. Netanyahu. But what does the head of a state that does not yet exist have to lose from talking to the only man who can bring it about? Mr. Netanyahu has accepted the two-state solution, said he’s ready for the necessary “painful compromises,” and repeatedly invited Mr. Abbas for direct talks. So why not take him by his word and either negotiate an end to the conflict or, if Mr. Netanyahu is really only bluffing, “expose” him? To add an air of substance for his refusal to negotiate, President Abbas blamed the settlements, demanding a construction halt as a precondition to talks. But when Mr. Netanyahu agreed in 2009 to a 10-months building moratorium, Mr. Abbas still stayed away for nine out of these 10 months, showing up only when no more time was left for meaningful talks. So who’s bluffing? The UN vote is set for November 29th, the day of the 1947 UN Resolution that called for the creation of a Palestinian and a Jewish state. Mr. Abbas probably thinks the date’s symbolism will help his cause. It shouldn’t. The reason Palestine doesn’t exist yet is that unlike the Jewish leadership at the time, the Palestinians and their Arab brethren rejected the partition plan before attacking the newly born Israel. The Palestinians are about to compound their 1947 UN blunder with yet another misstep at the world body. No EU country should be complicit in this mistake. Daniel Schwammenthal is Director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute in Brussels Daniel SchwammenthalPalestinian UnilateralismMahmoud AbbasEuropean UnionNew York TimesPalestinian AuthorityUnited Nations Remarks by H.E. Georgios Lakkotrypis, Minister for Energy, Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Cyprus Hosted by the AJC Transatlantic Institute and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, H.E. Georgios Lakkotrypis, Minister for Energy, Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Cyprus, spoke to a select audience of Ambassadors, EU diplomats, and journalists. Below is the transcript of his remarks: ... Can Europe Become a Middle East ‘Player’? In 2009, the EU decided to condition any upgrade in its ties with Israel on progress in the peace process with the Palestinians and hasn't held an Association Council with the Jewish state since 2012. While peace still remains elusive, the mutually beneficial relationship has taken a hit. To discuss how the EU can become a Middle East ‘player’ - and not just a ‘payer’ - host Daniel Schwammenthal is joined by Greek MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou and AJC CEO David Harris. How can Europe Help Prevent the Next Middle East War? When Iran’s proxy Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets on Israel, Jerusalem’s measured response helped prevent the conflict spin out of control. To discuss how EU diplomacy can help prevent a future Middle East war with mass civilian casualties, host Michael Sieveking is joined by MEP Lukas Mandl, who had just returned from a visit to the region, and Brigadier General (Res.) Assaf Orion, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel. AJC Concerned over BDS Boost from EU Court’s Labeling Decision, Calls for Deeper EU-Israel Ties Brussels - 12 November 2019 - The AJC Transatlantic Institute regrets today’s EU Court of Justice decision mandating the labeling of Israeli foodstuffs produced beyond the Green Line. The ruling will likely be instrumentalized by those who seek to delegitimize the Jewish state, which is why it... Can Europe Help End the UN’s Obsession with Israel? Every year, the UN Human Rights Council systematically singles out the Jewish state under Item 7 while often turning a blind eye on the world’s most egregious human rights abusers. To discuss this deep flaw undermining the multilateral system and what Europe can do to rectify it, Counterpoint host Daniel Schwammenthal is joined by Israel’s envoy to the EU Aharon Leshno Yaar, who was previously posted in Geneva, and Željana Zovko, Croatian member of the EU Parliament’s foreign affairs committee. Members of the European Parliament Visit Israel with AJC, Call for Association Council and EU Ban of Hezbollah Jerusalem, 31 October 2019 - A leadership delegation of Members of the European Parliament associated with the ... BDS Is Antisemitic In his latest article in New Europe, AJC Transatlantic Institute Director Daniel Schwammenthal unmasks the patently antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The group seeks nothing less than the de-facto dismemberment of a UN Member State: “Irrespective of whether that state in question is Jewish or say, Irish, to call for its end cannot possibly be considered a “legitimate political position.” Anti-SemitismIsrael What’s TFI all about? After the launch of the cross-party Transatlantic Friends of Israel (TFI) in the EU Parliament, Counterpoint host Daniel Schwammenthal spoke with TFI Chair MEP Lukas Mandl and Vice Chair MEP Petras Auštrevičius (Renew Europe) from Lithuania about the group’s priorities, including upgrading the EU-Israel Association Agreement, a speedy convening of an Association Council, and overall stronger ties between Israel, Europe, and the U.S. on the basis of shared democratic values. AJC Launches Inter-Parliamentary U.S.-Israel-EU Friendship Group Brussels – 9 July 2019 –The AJC Transatlantic Institute launched today the inter-parliamentary “Transatlantic Friends of Israel (TFI)” group in the EU Parliament. Chaired by Austrian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Lukas Mandl (EPP), this is the first-ever cross-party friendship caucus... A Conversation with Pompeo In this exclusive interview first aired at the Global Forum, AJC’s annual flagship conference held on June 2-4 in Washington, AJC CEO David Harris speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about rising anti-Semitism, the future of American global leadership, why the Trump Administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and the need to bolster the crucial U.S.-Israel alliance. Anti-SemitismIranIsrael AJCTAI on Twitter RT @SievekingM: It‘s official: Hats off to 🇬🇧 for doing the right thing on banning all of #Hezbollah, the terror group responsible… https://t.co/0rg3zlXS4q RT @AJCGlobal: News from Brussels: Members of European Parliament affiliated with AJC's Friends of Israel group are leading the ca… https://t.co/20eAzkz0Ts RT @AJCGlobal: Iran by its own admission is exceeding the enrichment limits of the 2015 nuclear deal – shrinking breakout time to… https://t.co/lsneEVDknk tai@ajc.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1893
__label__cc	0.734469	0.265531	Tag Archives: the nature conservancy 6 Reasons to Hike the September Prairie Posted on September 3, 2019 \| 8 comments “The days dwindle down; to a precious few; September… .” — sung by Willie Nelson Change. Possibilities. Fresh starts. These are a few of the reasons I welcome the opening week of September on the prairie. Warm days, cool nights. The mental swap of summer to autumn. There are subtle shifts of color as the brights of summer become autumn’s metallic hues. I sit on the back porch overlooking my prairie planting, listening to the insects sing static. Buzz. Chatter. Hum. The buttered popcorn-cilantro smell of prairie dropseed planted around the yard tickles my nose. The first ripe gray-headed coneflower seeds in my prairie patch are ready for collecting. I crumble the seedheads between my fingers. Inhale. Mmmm. They smell lemony. September is a treat for the senses. Need more motivation to get outside? Here are six compelling reasons to hike the September prairie, whether for a short stroll through your backyard tallgrass patch or a longer walk at your local forest preserve’s tallgrass restoration. 1. Wind The grasses hit their stride in September, and this year’s prairie is particularly lush from early spring rains. Grasses tower over our heads. Tall wildflowers (called forbs) and some of the rangier grasses flop over in spots; too lanky to stand alone. When the wind ripples through the grasses against a backdrop of cumulus clouds, floating in a cerulean blue sky, you feel the immensity of time and space. A feeling that is often in short supply in the Chicago suburbs. In her book, My Antonia, Willa Cather wrote this about the prairie: “As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the color of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.” When I can’t fall asleep at night, I close my eyes and imagine the wind moving through the grasses, with the bright blue sky overhead. 2. Gold rush From the goldfinches to the goldenrod; the tall coreopsis and the last sunflowers… … yellow is the primary color of the early September prairie. American goldfinches bounce like yo-yo’s across the grasses, giving their trademark flight call, “Po-ta-to-chip!” “Po-tat-to-chip!” Black walnut trees shake their gold leaves loose; pocket change sprinkled across the prairie trails. In my backyard prairie patch, I watch the paper wasps work the goldenrod blooms for nectar. Wasps are important pollinators. Sure, you don’t want them at your cook-out, but seeing them methodically rummage through the flowers reminds me they have an important role to play on the prairie and in my backyard. 3. Migration Marvels The migrating monarch butterflies appreciate goldenrod, especially Solidago rigida—the stiff goldenrod—to nectar up for the long journey to Mexico. They like my zinnias as well. Dragonflies swarm through the tallgrass, zipping just above the big bluestem. This past week, my dragonfly monitors at two different tallgrass prairie sites noted hundreds of green darners— with a few black saddlebags and wandering gliders thrown in —massing and on the move. The Chicago lakefront is another traditional hot spot to see large groups of Odonates headed south. This is also the time of year I see the red saddlebags dragonfly in my backyard. Each evening I check the edges of the pond, the garden, and my backyard prairie patch. Will the red saddlebags show up this season? Not yet. Much of dragonfly migration is still shrouded in mystery, although new discoveries are happening all the time. Read more about how you can help scientists learn more about dragonfly migration here. 4. Grass, Grass, Grass Each spring, I think the miracle of a burned prairie becoming green shoots and blooms makes it the best possible time of year. In the summer, I reconsider—all that color and motion! In the early days of September, I’m convinced autumn is the best time of year on the prairie. I turn the names of the grasses over and over in my my mind. A litany of grass. Cordgrass. Switchgrass. Indian grass. Side-oats grama. Little bluestem. Grasses dominate. Especially our iconic big bluestem— Illinois’ state grass. In her essay, “Big Grass,” Louis Erdrich writes: “Grass sings, grass whispers.” Why not go listen? 5. Butterfly Extravaganza September marks the passing of the season of butterflies. Sure, there are some stragglers in October, but right now is their big finale. So many butterflies! The buckeyes. Painted ladies and monarchs. Silver-spotted skippers. A tiny eastern-tailed blue or two; this one resting on chicory. Before we know it, they’ll be gone for the season. Take time to stop and watch the butterflies as they nectar on flowers, float above the switchgrass, or swirl in a mating dance as old as time. 6. Filling Station If you’re wrestling with a problem, or need space to get away from people for a while, the tallgrass prairie is a good destination. I always find transitions in my life and the changes from season to season are an opportunity to stop. Reflect. Revisit some of my preconceptions about my priorities. It’s a chance to slow down. Think. A walk through the tallgrass—or even a stroll around my backyard prairie patch—gives me space to sort through whatever I’m wrestling with. Hiking the prairie fills up my inner well, which fuels creative tasks and the life of the spirit. That well becomes empty without time outdoors. You, too? Happy hiking. This week’s post opens with Willie Nelson (1933-) singing Kurt Weill’s (composition) and Maxwell Anderson’s (lyrics) September Song. I’m not particularly a country western aficionado, but a few of Nelson’s songs always end up on my playlist. Another is Nelson’s cover of Georgia on my Mind from the album, Stardust; my favorite of his collections. Blue Skies is another favorite. There’s a tinge of melancholy in these songs which seem perfect for ushering in autumn. All photographs copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) and great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL: September at Fermilab Natural Areas, Batavia, IL; possibly narrow-leaved sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius), along Willoway Brook on the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Glenbard South High School prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; possibly a dark paper wasp (Polistes fuscates ) on Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), author’s backyard garden, Glen Ellyn, IL; black saddlebags dragonfly (Tramea lacerata), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia), Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL; silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus), Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL; eastern tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, IL; September at the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Note that some of these images in today’s blog are from previous September hikes. Cindy’s classes and speaking events will resume October 5. See more at www.cindycrosby.com. Posted in backyard prairies, butterflies, Native species, Uncategorized Tagged backyard prairie, batavia, big bluestem, black saddlebags dragonfly, Blue Skies, buckeye butterfly, Canada goldenrod, dark paper wasp, dragonfly migration, eastern tailed blue, Fermilab Natural Areas, franklin grove, Georgia on My Mind, glen ellyn, Glenbard High School prairie, gray-headed coneflower, Illinois, lisle, monarch, monarch butterfly, monarch migration, Nachusa Grasslands, narrow-leaved sunflower, prairie dropseed, red saddlebags dragonfly, schulenberg prairie, September, silver-spotted skipper, switchgrass, The Morton Arboretum, the nature conservancy, the nature conservancy illinois, Willie Nelson, willoway brook July’s Prairie Patterns “The world is a confusing and turbulent place, but we make sense of it by finding order… . This makes us all pattern seekers. “– Philip Ball High heat and cool breezes; thunderstorms and calm mornings. From my hammock overlooking the backyard prairie patch, I’m astonished at the rapid growth of plants under the hot sun, watered by frequent rain showers. I swear I saw cup plants grow an inch right before my eyes! Anything seems possible in the bright light and blue skies of July. As I swing in my hammock, I’m reading a new book from University of Chicago Press: Patterns in Nature. It’s a revelation. As an art and journalism student in my undergrad years, I avoided math as much as possible. Now, I’m discovering the beauty of mathematics on the prairie. Symmetry. Fractals. Surface tension. So many different combinations of patterns in July! I’ve always been intrigued by patterns in nature. But I didn’t understand much about what I saw. Paging through Philip Ball’s book, I begin with symmetry, which Ball says, is at the root of understanding how patterns in nature appear. It’s an eye-opener. Ball notes that “Bilateral symmetry seems almost to be the default for animals. Fish, mammals, insects, and birds all share this attribute.” I see this in the blue-fronted damselfly above; in the mirror-image wings of a skipper butterfly below. Divide them in half and each side is essentially identical. It’s evinced in the reversed haploa moth, barely visible, deep in the tallgrass. There is bilateral symmetry in a bison’s skull, with a few imperfections. Or a monarch’s wings, even when tattered and worn. Who wouldn’t marvel at the folded, paired symmetrical wings of the male violet dancer damselfly? Once you begin looking for patterns in the natural world… …you see them everywhere. Fractal geometry, Ball writes, is said to be “the geometry of nature.” Fractals? What’s a fractal? “Don’t know much algebra…,” sang Sam Cooke in his classic, “(What a) Wonderful World.” Yup. But I want to know more. Ball boils it down to this: Look at a tree. A part of the tree, he writes, can resemble the whole, as the “tree algorithm” keeps making the same kind of structure repeatedly. As I hike the prairie one afternoon, I look up and all of the sudden it makes sense—once I understand what I’m looking at. “Growing fractals” are a type of fractal found in the network of arteries, veins, and capillaries in the vascular system—another “branching” effect, Ball tells me. I think of the “arteries” running across prairie dock leaves, so pronounced in the autumn. I reflect on these concepts and my head aches. Fractals. Symmetry. So fascinating. So…complex. I regret now my ability to dodge everything math-related in college except for a course called “Cardinal Numbers.” A sort of 101 math for art majors. But maybe it’s not too late? Early one morning, wading Clear Creek at Nachusa Grasslands, I admire the dew drops. I remember reading in Ball’s book that beads of water are driven by surface tension. Simply put, he says, surface tension pulls dew and rain into these “droplet” shapes, and gravity helps flatten the droplets. Ahhh. Look at that. Yes. A different sort of pattern. I search for water droplets: on leaves, spiderwebs, even dragonfly wings. Each dewdrop has heightened meaning. As I continue reading, chapter after chapter, then go for hikes to explore the different patterns in Ball’s book, his simple explanations for a non-scientist open up a new world for me. A world where math seems a little more applicable. A little more accessible. A little more…meaningful. Perhaps, though, the best moment in Ball’s book is when he writes that the law of pattern formation is driven by wonder. “We need to marvel and admire as well as to analyze and calculate,” Ball writes. Oh, yes. I’ve always been attuned to wonder; marveling comes without effort for me. Now, I’m learning the other side of the equation. Such an astonishing world! So many “patterns” to marvel at and admire in the month of July on the prairie. Why not go see? Philip Ball is the former editor for Nature. The quotes in this post are from his book, Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Check it out here. All photos copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): July on the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) on butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; blue-fronted dancer damselfly (Argia apicalis), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; reversed haploa moth (Haploa reversa), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; bison (Bison bison) skull, Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; violet dancer (sometimes called variable dancer) (Argia fumipennis violacea), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) seedhead, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; orb weaver (family Araneidae) spider web, Brown County State Park, Nashville, IN; tree leafing out on the edge of the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; water droplets along Clear Creek, Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; glade mallow (Napaea dioica), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Cindy’s Classes and Speaking August 2, 8-11:30 a.m., Prairie Ethnobotany: How People Have Used Prairie Plants Throughout History, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Register here. August 12, 7-8:30 p.m., Dragonflies and Damselflies: The Garden’s Frequent Fliers, Fox Valley Garden Club, Aurora, IL. Free and open to the Public. Details here. August 19-22, 8-5 p.m. daily, National Association for Interpretation Certified Interpretive Guide Training, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Register here. August 29, 7-8:30 p.m., Summer Literary Series: Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit. Hope aboard the Morton Arboretum’s tram and enjoy a cool beverage, then listen to Cindy talk about the “prairie spirit” on the beautiful Schulenberg Prairie, the fourth oldest prairie restoration in the world. Register here. See more at http://www.cindycrosby.com Posted in bilateral symmetry, Patterns in Nature, tallgrass prairie, Uncategorized Tagged (What a) Wonderful World, Art, Ball, bison skull, blue-fronted dancer damselfly, butterflyweed, Clear Creek, fractals, franklin grove, geometry, gray-headed coneflower, Illinois, journalistm, july, lisle, math, milkweed, monarch, monarch caterpillar, Nachusa Grasslands, orb weaver spider, Patterns in Nature, Philip, Philip Ball, prairie dock, rattlesnake master, reversed haploa moth, Sam Cooke, schulenberg prairie, silver-spotted skipper, surface tension, symmetry, The Morton Arboretum, the nature conservancy, University of Chicago Press, variable dancer damselfly, violet dancer damselfly, water droplets Prairie Fireworks “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”–David Attenborough It’s summer in the tallgrass; almost the Fourth of July. The bison go about their business of raising young calves. White wild indigo continues its magical year. I’ve never seen anything like the profusion of this wildflower on the prairie in the past two decades I’ve been hiking the tallgrass. And those pale purple coneflowers! Unbelievable. Anecdotally, the most beautiful time on the prairie is supposedly the Fourth of July. I love all four seasons in the tallgrass: the blue and black palette of winter, the golds and rusts of autumn, the first green shoots needling up through the ash of a prescribed burn in spring. But this year, from the white wild indigo and coneflowers, to the prairie lilies… ….to the black-eyed Susans… …it’s easy to make a case for this as the most lovely season of all. It’s not only the plants that are striking. Deep in the prairie wetlands, a calligrapher’s fly hangs out in the big bur reeds. The blooms it explores seem a foreshadowing of fireworks later this week. Soft spiky explosions of foxtail barley grass line the prairie trails. I read up on it, and discover it’s also called squirrel-tail grass. What great names! I love this silky grass, even though it is a bit on the weedy side. More “fireworks” to enjoy. The leaves of mountain mint and bee balm, crushed between my fingers, envelope me in their sharp fragrance as I hike. I chew a few of the leaves, enjoying the taste. While admiring the wildflowers and prairie grasses this summer, I also monitor dragonflies and damseflies—counting the different species and their numbers on the prairies and in the wetlands. Ethereal damselflies have shown up. New ones I’ve not seen before like the one below. Sweetflag spreadwing? I’m not sure. I pore over my field guides, looking at photos and parsing through identification marks. This lyre-tipped spreadwing, with its metallic body sizzling in the sunlight, stopped me in my tracks. Both spreadwings are new to me this summer, after chasing dragonflies for more than a dozen years. Cascades of wildflowers, a profusion of spreadwing species…perhaps the rainy deluge the past three months has brought these about? It’s nice to think so. There are many different bluets on the prairie, but this azure bluet damselfly in the prairie savanna grasses is a new discovery for me, and for our site. Marla Garrison’s wonderful Damselflies of the Chicago Region taught me to look for the “bat” image on the lower part of the azure bluet’s abdomen (most people call it “the tail”). Can you see it? Right above the blue segments. More familiar dragonflies are also out and about. Eastern amberwing dragonflies, like this female, do handstands to try and cool off in the sweltering heat. I never tire of the widow skimmer dragonflies, even though they are ubiquitous in my region. Ebony jewelwings, like this pair (the female with a white dot on her wings) are the essence of summer. They fly loops in and out of the reed canary grass along Willoway Brook, snatching insects and looking for mates. I’m looking forward to celebrating the Fourth of July with my family this week. But the best fireworks happen all summer long on the prairie. Explosions of wildflowers. The pop of color from a new dragonfly or damselfly. Unusual insects to discover. So many new adventures to anticipate. So much to be grateful for. David Attenborough is the narrator for the original episodes of Planet Earth, which I have had the joy to watch with four of my little grandkids, Ellie, Jack, Anna, and Margaret. If you haven’t checked out this award-winning series of documentaries about life on our planet, take a look here at Planet Earth II. All photos copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): bison (Bison bison) and wildflowers, Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL; white wild indigo (Baptisa alba), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; pale purple coneflowers (Echinacea pallida), Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL; prairie lilies (Lilium philadelphicum andinum) Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; calligrapher’s fly (Toxomerus — either the marginatus or geminatus) on big bur reed (Sparganium eurycarpum), prairie planting and pond, Lisle, IL; foxtail barley grass or squirrel-tail grass (Hordeum jubatum) Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; possibly sweetflag spreadwing damselfly (Lestes forcipatus) although it may also be slender spreadwing (Lestes rectangularis)–and so I continue learning!; prairie planting and pond, Lisle, IL; lyre-tipped spreadwing (Lestes unguiculatus), prairie planting and pond, Lisle, IL; azure bluet (Enallagma aspersum), Schulenberg Prairie Savanna, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; azure bluet (Enallagma aspersum), Schulenberg Prairie Savanna, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; female eastern amberwing dragonfly (Perithemis tenera), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; ebony jewelwing damselflies (Calopteryx maculata), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; dragonfly monitoring at Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL. Thanks to Odonata of the Eastern United States FB group and Joyce Gibbons for help on damselfly ID this week! Grateful. Cindy’s Upcoming Classes and Events Friday, August 2, 8-11:30am — Prairie Ethnobotany at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Discover how people have used prairie plants throughout history. Register here. Monday, August 12, 7-8 p.m., Fox Valley Garden Club –The Garden’s Frequent Fliers: Dragonflies and Damselflies –Aurora, IL. Free and open to the public. For details and directions, click here. August 10-13, online and in-person: Intensive Master Naturalist Training at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL (sold out). August 19-22, 8am-5pm daily, M-TH — Certified Interpretive Guide training with National Association for Interpretation at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Earn your credential as a naturalist or cultural history interpreter! Details and registration here. Thursday, August 29, 7-8:30 p.m.—Summer Literary Series: On the Prairie at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL– Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit, book signing, drinks, and tram ride with a lecture on the Schulenberg Prairie, the fourth oldest planted restoration in the world. Register here. See more on http://www.cindycrosby.com Posted in Dragonflies, Fourth of July, tallgrass prairie, Uncategorized Tagged azure bluet, bison, black-eyed susan, calligrapher's fly, damselflies of the chicagoland region, ebony jewelwing damselfly, female eastern amberwing, field museum, foxtail barley, franklin grove, Illinois, lisle, lyre-tipped spreadwing, Nachusa Grasslands, pale purple coneflowers, prairie lilies, prairie pond, schulenberg prairie, squirrel-tail grass, sweetflag spreadwing, tallgrass prairie, The Morton Arboretum, the nature conservancy, white wild indigo, widow skimmer dragonfly, wildflowers Finding Hope in the November Prairie “Do not go gentle into that good night…rage, rage against the dying of the light.”—Dylan Thomas November, shmo-vember. Sure, a few hard-core “I love all months of the year” folks out there are going to give a high-five to November. But I’m going to come clean here. I think November is the toughest month of the year. The elections are certainly a part of that. I despise the mud-slinging, the he-said/she-said, the polarization of the world I find myself in today and the many places where hatred and suspicion are cultivated in public forums. I cast my vote early, feeling a bit like I do when I planted pasque flower seeds on the prairie this season. The odds seem long, but hope was there. The promise of something beautiful. Today, in November, there’s no sign of the pasque flowers. But I haven’t given up hope. I’m trying to live in “prairie time.” Taking the long view. If you live in the Chicago region, our first few days of November have not been promising. Temperatures are cold enough to prompt extra blankets, but not cold enough for a Christmas card-worthy snowstorm. Rain, desperately needed, came just in time to splash all the (finally) colorful autumn leaves off the trees. High winds decimated most of the rest of the foliage, which lies strewn across prairie trails like discarded party invitations. How do you feel about November? Does November give you the blues? If you’re tempted to hang up your hiking boots and sit this month out, here are five reasons to go outside and see the prairie this month. If you feel discouraged by the state of the world—or just discouraged by the month of November and all it brings—this hike’s for you. 1. The Good News About Bison If you live in the Midwest, chances are you’re within driving distance of seeing bison on a prairie. In the Chicago region, I’m fortunate enough to have bison on three preserves within a two-hour driving distance. There’s something, well, reassuring about their sturdy presence, impervious to cold and rain amid the wind rippling the tallgrass in November. Bison remind me of strength. Of continuity. Of hope. Here is a species that was almost extinct, and through the efforts of people who care, is now thriving again. We need this kind of inspiration, as the United Nations issued grim news about our natural world that made headlines this week. So hop in the car and drive to your nearest bison preserve. Bring a friend. Feel your spirits lift? 2. Encore Performances Oddly enough, some native plants (and non-natives too!) put on a repeat bloom performance in November. To discover them is a bit of a bizarre scavenger hunt, worth traveling a trail or two to see what you can find. My backyard pond has pops of yellow right now; marsh marigolds which normally bloom in April are hosting a second-run performance. Other late bloomers in my prairie patch, like the obedient plant below, gave a last push of color against its deteriorating foliage this week. You can almost hear them whispering, “Do not go gentle into that good night… .” 3. Cruising Without Guilt I always feel a pang of remorse about driving around a natural area. After all, shouldn’t I be on foot, exploring trails, wading through wetlands looking for dragonflies, or sitting on top of a rocky knob, enjoying the breeze? Of course I want to hike this month. But in November, when pounding rain, wind gusts of 30 mph, and temps in the 40s are all in play, I can feel almost virtuous driving through a grassland, enjoying the views, without the shame that might normally accompany my gas-guzzling self. I’m outdoors! Sort of. Braving the elements. Hey–turn the heater up, will you? 4. Prairie Plants Take On New Personalities In November, you can exercise your imagination to describe the familiar prairie plants of summer in new ways. Prairie dock, below, is my November favorite for its transition from flexible sandpaper-y green to a crackled surface. A little like those old decoupaged craft projects we did in the sixties; right down to the tiny beads of “glue.” Maybe you see a prairie dock leaf in November as an aerial view of Death Valley. Or perhaps you see the leaf as the back of an dry, aged hand, with pores, veins and tiny hairs. A mountain range, dotted with snow? Spiderwebs in the rain? Or? Go ahead, your turn! Other plants give up the above-ground life in tangled shoelaces slowly draining of color, a virtual jungle of still-green and long-past-the-sell-date leaves. And when is a square-stemmed plant not a mint? When it’s a cup plant! After focusing on the signature leaves and flowers of this vigorous, sometimes-aggressive native all summer, we get a good look at the scaffolding. Wonder what tiny critter made that hole? 5. Those Spellbinding Seeds It’s almost worth facing November on the prairie to see how nature plans for the future. Diversity is on display in the form of prairie seeds in all colors, sizes, and shapes. Each seed is a possibility. The promise of restoration. I need that promise. You too? Of change, of hope, of restoration in the month of November. Especially on an election day, after another week of horrific shootings and dismal headlines. The prairie seeds remind me of all of those who have made a difference in the world. The stewards and site managers who are out there today, as you read this, cutting brush. Collecting seeds. Leading tours of the tallgrass. Painting prairie landscapes. At the polls, voting to save our natural areas and fund them for the future. Doing their part to make sure change happens in the world. Change doesn’t always come as quickly as we’d like. But the prairie reminds me—keep working toward restoring a damaged world. It all starts with these small, simple actions that are ours to take. “Do not go gentle into that good night…rage, rage against the dying of the light.” You know, November isn’t so bad after all if it brings the opportunity of change—the hope of a better future—with it. And at this point, I think I’ve talked myself into a hike. You too? Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh poet, whose lines that open this essay are from a poem of the same name. He told biographers he fell in love with words after learning nursery rhymes as a child. Thomas was a contemporary of T.S. Eliot, who helped bring him to the public’s attention as a very young man. Thomas was a high-school drop-out, an alcoholic, often homeless, hounded by creditors, and frequently cheated on his wife, Caitlin. He died at age 39 from pneumonia, probably complicated by alcohol poisoning and drug use, and Caitlin was incarcerated for a time in an insane asylum. And yet—out of so much despair and damage—there are these beautiful poems. Click here to hear Thomas read Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. All photos copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): Rice Lake-Danada, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Wheaton, IL; pasque flower (Pulsatilla patens or Anemone patens) in seed, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; red maple (Acer rubrum) leaves on the path, Kath Thomas’ prairie planting, Hinsdale, IL; bison (Bison bison), Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; Stone Barn Road, Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL: prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) and bundleflower (Desmanthus illinoensis) seeds, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL: rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium) seeds, Fermilab Natural Areas, Batavia, IL; Remic Ensweiller, prairie manager, leads a tour of the Russell Kirt Prairie at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica), Hinsdale Prairie Remnant, Hinsdale, IL. Posted in change, fermilab, nachusa grasslands, Uncategorized Tagged backyard prairie, bison, college of dupage, cup plant, forest preserve district of dupage county, franklin grove, glen ellyn, gray-headed coneflower, Hinsdale prairie, IL, Illinois, lisle, Nachusa Grasslands, pasque flower, prairie dock, prairie dropseed, prairie planting, prairie restoration, red maple, remnant, rice lake danada, russell kirt prairie, schulenberg prairie, Stone Barn Road, The Morton Arboretum, the nature conservancy, the nature conservancy illinois, thimbleweed October’s Prairie Astronomy “To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”– John Burroughs October has arrived on the prairie, bringing drizzly skies, a metallic palette of color, and a last flush of flying insects. When the gray sky clears over the prairie, it often turns to impossible blue. Contrails and cumulus clouds sketch their weather thoughts. October has come to my backyard as well, touching the tomatoes with rot. Fungi unfold their umbrellas against the damp in unexpected places, and the garden and prairie patch are crisped with brittleness. Colored with a brown crayon. When I walk out to the prairie patch in the morning, cup of coffee in hand, the mush of mud under my feet contrasts with the crunch of decaying leaves. Goldfinches and cardinals, sifting the bird feeders for the choicest fare, must have let a few sunflower seeds drop, leaving bright spots in the yard. Such welcome color! Makes me happy I let the weeding chores go this fall. The bees are pleased. In my backyard prairie patch and on the prairie, the Silphiums—prairie dock, cup plant, compass plant, and rosin weed—are perhaps most intriguing in October. Without the competition of so much summer wildflower jazz, I can focus on the plant leaf patterns and textures. Rosin weed on the prairie shows its variable-ness of leaf arrangement by going for a whorl. Close to my backyard prairie patch, the moonflower vine finally decides October is show-time. The seed packet description warned me—120 days until bloom–but what is four months when you’re standing in the plant nursery back in the raw month of March and thinking about the delights of the garden to come? Anything seemed possible then. But my moonflower vine has been unhappy in Illinois. It longs for the tropics of the south, like so many Chicago folks, and it doesn’t much care for the hot, long days of July or August, either. Suddenly, in October’s cool nights and shorter days, it flourishes. It’s an equinox aficionado, setting bud and bloom best when days are close to equal length. As they are right now. I walk out on the back patio early one morning this week and BAM! Eight moonflowers had twirled open overnight, each one bigger than my hand. Moonflower, a night-blooming morning glory (ironically named, isn’t it?) would be perennial in Mexico or Florida. But here in the Chicago region, I’m lucky to get it to bloom as an annual. The first touch of frost will be the end of the vine. I count the buds, imagine what could be, and keep my fingers crossed. As the sun disperses the mist and gray and touches the flowers with light, the vanilla-scented blooms will slowly crumple. Taking with them their delicious fragrance. By the time I go outside again at 11 a.m., they’re a memory. My backyard prairie patch and the prairies I visit don’t have any moonflowers, of course. But the prairie does have the “stars.” “Astronomy” comes from the Greek word astronomia, meaning “star regulating.” The word “aster” is also from the Greek, and means “star.” Constellations of asters cover the prairies and also, my backyard; a little starry universe in this suburban sprawl. The green bottle flies use the asters as launching pads for their adventures in corruption. The bumble bees work the asters, seeing their future in these stars. My goldenrods have now gone to seed, closing up nectar shop. But the blurry blizzards of asters spend themselves profligately, as if there is no tomorrow. The butterflies, like this cabbage white below, gorge themselves on “starshine” before the last blooms disappear in the cold. Where will these butterflies go in the winter? Check out this fascinating blog post by Dr. Doug Taron, Chief Curator of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, here to find out. Meanwhile, I enjoy the butterflies of October, counting down the days until the prairies will be emptier for their absence of color and motion. I also soak up as much of this “starshine”—this blizzard of asters—as I can. Temperatures threaten to drop into the low thirties by the end of the week. Fall flowers won’t linger much longer. As the evenings turn colder, night skies come into focus. The new moon will sliver its way to full on the 24th. Orion stalks the night sky, staking his claim for a new season. Soon, it will be time to trade some of my prairie and backyard “astronomy”—with its own versions of sun, stars and moon—for the winter constellations overhead. Bittersweet. John Burroughs (1837-1921) was a writer, naturalist, and activist in the conservation movement. His close friend was Walt Whitman, and Burroughs was a contemporary of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. The book, Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams is a fascinating account of Burroughs’ expedition to Alaska with railroad magnate Edward Harriman, George Bird Grinnell, Muir, and other naturalists of the time. A few favorite Burroughs’ quotes: “I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey;” “To learn something new, take the path you took yesterday;” and “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” The John Burroughs Medal is given each April to a distinguished Natural History book. Check out the winners here; it’s a thoughtful reading list for curling up with a good read during the colder months ahead. All photos copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): 250-plus year old bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), Taltree/Gabis Arboretum-Purdue Northwest, Valparasio, IN; trail through the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service, Strong City, Kansas; common sunflower (Helianthus sp.) with unknown bee, author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium), Taltree/Gabis Arboretum-Purdue Northwest, Valparaiso, IN; moonflowers (Ipomoea alba) with garden roses and salvia, author’s backyard, Glen Ellyn, IL; moonflower (Ipomoea alba), author’s backyard, Glen Ellyn, IL; New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), Taltree/Gabis Arboretum-Purdue Northwest, Valparaiso, IN; unknown aster, possibly Short’s (Symphyotrichum shortii) with green bottle fly/blow fly (Calliphoridae, Lucilia sp.), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) with male bumblebee, either the common eastern (Bombus impatiens) or the two-spotted bumblebee (Bombus bimaculatus); blurred heath asters (Aster ericoides), Taltree/Gabis Arboretum-Purdue Northwest, Valparaiso, IN; New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) with cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae), author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL. Thanks to Kristian Williams of FaceBook Group “Insect ID” for the help on the bumblebee identification and Kristian, Benjamin Coulter, and the other good folks of “Insects and Spiders of Illinois FB Group” for the green bottle fly/blow fly ID. Grateful. Posted in aster, october, Prairie, Uncategorized Tagged backyard, bumblebee, cabbage white butterfly, common eastern bumblebee, Gabis Arboretum, glen ellyn, green blow fly, green bottle fly, heath asters, IL, indiana, john burroughs, John Burroughs Medal, Kansas, Mark Adams, moonflower, new england aster, old bur oak, Purdue Northwest, roses, rosinweed, salvia, Short's aster, strong city, sunflower, Taltree Arboretum, the nature conservancy, The Nature Conservancy Kansas, Tip of the Iceberg, two-spotted bumblebee, Valparaiso The (Prairie) Butterfly Effect “I want the experience of the butterfly.” — William Stafford The first one flew just ahead of us, then disappeared. “Hey—was that a monarch?” my husband Jeff asked. I shaded my eyes against the sun, unsure. We were at Kankakee Sands in northwestern Indiana, returning from visiting family down south. Needing to get off the mind-numbing, semi-rumbling Interstate 65 that connects Indianapolis with Chicago, we decided to take a more off-the-beaten path route. A stop at this 7,000-plus acres Nature Conservancy site along the way was a no-brainer. As we pulled into the empty “Bison Viewing Area” parking lot, there was nary a hairy mammal in sight. All the bison were grazing far away in the preserve, oblivious to public relations and their responsibilities in promoting prairie at their assigned station. The light slanted low across the wildflowers. September days were shortening. The quiet was tangible, except for the hum of singing insects in the grasses. Jeff broke the silence. “Look! There’s another one,” he said, pointing. Two more butterflies flew over. Monarchs! And then another. And another. As our eyes adjusted, we began to understand what was in front of us. Hundreds, if not thousands, of monarch butterflies covered the prairie… A viceroy butterfly occasionally mixed in. Everywhere we looked, there were monarchs nectaring on stiff goldenrod. The prairie was a shimmer of motion and color in the late afternoon light. Wave after wave of orange and black butterflies fluttered across the goldenrod. I began frantically snapping photos with my camera. Click! Click! Click! But…How do you capture the movement and motion of clouds of butterflies? After a few minutes, I put my camera down and tried videotaping them with my cell phone. I soon gave up. One random viceroy butterfly video later, I realized it was futile to try and freeze the magic. Perhaps, this was a moment to tuck into your heart, instead of trying to capture it with images and technology. We put away the camera and our cell phones. Instead of frantically clicking away, both of us watched the butterflies in silence. So many butterflies! We couldn’t stop talking about them as we drove home. We knew prairies were great habitat for these amazing insects. But still! Nachusa Grasslands, a Nature Conservancy site where I’m a steward, has some beautiful butterflies. I love the buckeyes, which seem to be everywhere at Nachusa this month… …and the uncommon regal fritillaries, which I’ve seen there a few times in the summer. They take my breath away! The Schulenberg Prairie, where I’m a steward supervisor, constantly dazzles me with its frequent fliers. Like this black swallowtail butterfly nectaring on rattlesnake master just weeks ago. Fermilab’s prairies, another great place to hike in the Chicago region, continue to delight me with a diversity of butterflies, including the common but charming little eastern tailed blues. But seeing the massive monarch migration up close for the first time at Kankakee Sands this week brought all the other prairies like these into focus. This, I thought, is what happens when we try to heal the earth. This is why we collect native prairie seeds, then go to crazy lengths to dry them and reseed new prairie restorations. This is why we set the prescribed fires to renew the tallgrass each spring. This is why we sweat in summer temperatures nearing 100 degrees, caring for prairie. Stay up late at night reading about restoration methods. Help our children and grandchildren raise a few caterpillars that become butterflies to understand the cycle of life. This is why we hike the prairie trails with little ones, so that early on they will experience some of the miracles of the natural world. This is why we scribble restoration plans and seed collection notes. Cut honeysuckle and buckthorn so it doesn’t encroach into the tallgrass. Go out and speak and teach about prairie and all its creatures. Pull weeds. This is what can happen when volunteers and stewards and site managers and donors care for the beautiful world we’ve been given. And, sometimes, on a magical day like this one, we see the tangible results. William Stafford (1914-1993) is considered to be one of our finest, if sometimes uneven, nature poets. Wrote Steve Garrison of Stafford, “He offers a unique way into the heart of the world.” All photos and video copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): late afternoon at the bison viewing area of Kankakee Sands, The Nature Conservancy, Morocco, IN: monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and viceroy butterflies (Limenitis archippus) nectaring on stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum), Kankakee Sands, The Nature Conservancy, Morocco, IN; trio of monarchs (Danaus plexippus) nectaring on stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum), Kankakee Sands, The Nature Conservancy, Morocco, IN; late afternoon at Kankakee Sands, The Nature Conservancy, Morocco, IN: video of viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) nectaring on stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum), Kankakee Sands, The Nature Conservancy, Morocco, IN; buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) on unknown aster (Asteracea), Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) , Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) on rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; eastern tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas), Fermilab Inner Ring, Fermilab Natural Areas, Batavia, IL; September on Fame Flower Knob, Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; drying seeds at Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; prescribed burn, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; small toddler investigating flowers, Fermilab Interpretive Trail, Fermilab Natural Areas, Batavia, IL; weeds and work bucket, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; Nachusa Grasslands in the rain, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL. Thanks to all the organizations that manage Kankakee Sands, including the Nature Conservancy of Indiana, Division of Fish & Wildlife, Division of Nature Preserves, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Indiana Heritage Trust, Indiana Grand Company, Lilly Endowment, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, and Natural Resources Conservation Services. Grateful for the butterfly magic this week. Posted in Kankakee Sands, Uncategorized Tagged aster, batavia, bison, black swallowtail, buckeye butterfly, Division of Fish & Wildlife, Division of Nature Preserves, drying prairie seeds, eastern tailed blue, Fermilab Natural Areas, franklin grove, goldenrod, Illinois, indiana, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Indiana Grand Company, Indiana Heritage Trust, Kankakee Sands, Lilly Endowment, lisle, monarchs, Morocco, Nachusa Grasslands, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Natural Resources Conservation Services, nature conservancy illinois, poetry, prescribed burn, regal fritillary, schulenberg prairie, stiff goldenrod, The Morton Arboretum, the nature conservancy, the nature conservancy indiana, viceroy, William Stafford A September Prairie Soaking “Life is one big transition.”– Willie Stargell Thunder rattles the windows. Up north, tornado warning sirens blare. The news broadcasts footage of holiday passengers wading across flooded roads to get to O’Hare Airport, thinking only of returning home. The deluge continues. At last, in the early evening, a short break in the precipitation gives me time to go for a walk. I head to the prairie to check conditions. Trail puddles are necklaced with black walnut leaves, pulled loose from their tentative moorings by the pounding rain. A ruby-throated hummingbird shelters from the weather in an oak along the path. Just like the passengers at O’Hare, the thunderstorms have put a crimp in this bird’s travel plans. The hummingbirds are migrating. In my backyard, they wage fierce battles over the single feeder filled with sugar water, placed tantalizingly over the butterfly weed and little bluestem. The hummers are driven by instinct. Powered by nectar—or in the case of my backyard birds—faux nectar. In a few weeks, they’ll disappear completely; their entertaining antics only a memory. On the prairie, the sun breaks through the clouds. The tall Indian grasses, with their lingering raindrops, become crystal-hung chandeliers. For a moment. Despite the glitter and bling of raindrops catching sunlight, the prairie still seems dark. Subdued. The beginning of September is always a bit melancholy. Perhaps it’s the lowering slant of light; shorter days, longer nights. Just some of the many signals Mother Nature sends her creatures that colder weather is on the way. For migrating dragonflies—green darners, black saddlebags, wandering gliders, and others—those signals mean GO! GO! GO! They’ve massed together, then zipped away to warmer climes this past week. Their remaining kin, bedraggled and shopworn, are left to face the coming cold. The end-of-the-season butterflies I’ve seen this week are a study in contrasts. A few are bright and freshly emerged. Like this newly-minted American painted lady. Crisply colored, with unblemished wings, she’s probably the Midwest’s late season generation of her species. Oddly enough, according to University of Florida, instead of making a southward journey, American painted ladies, or “American ladies” as they are sometimes called, “overwinter in the southern U.S. and repopulate more northern areas each spring.” The report tells us the northern limit of their overwintering is unknown. Is Illinois too cold? Probably. Apparently, “in north central Florida, American ladies migrate northward during the spring, but there is no significant southward migration in the fall.” Why not, I wonder? So much mystery! This great spangled fritillary butterfly is only a bit worse for wear after the summer’s adventures. Perhaps it doesn’t have the worries of a cross-continental trip on its mind. Just nectaring, nectaring, nectaring until the cold weather sets in. That’s what thistles are for, right? But this evening, on the rain-drenched prairie, there isn’t much butterfly—or dragonfly—movement. Both likely shelter in the rain-glazed trees… …or nestle deep in the big bluestem and grasses. Thunder rumbles. The clouds sweep in. It’s Mother Nature’s signal to me! Go! The first raindrops splatter the trail. Tonight, the local news broadcast will tell us this was the Chicago region’s wettest Labor Day on record. But the September rain, no matter flooding and postponed picnics, has its purpose. It nourishes the prairie and its creatures for the last months of the prairie season. Gives a last boost to the goldenrods and asters, needed by monarchs on their long migratory journey south to Mexico. Coaxes the gentians to open, fresh and vibrant in the grasses. The passage from summer to autumn is bittersweet. But the prairie knows how to ease the transition. Butterflies. Gentians. The daily surprises of migration. Even thunderstorms. The opening quote is from Baseball Hall of Famer, Wilver “Willie” Stargell (1940-2001), who played his entire 21-year professional baseball career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1962-82). During his farm club years, he was harassed, threatened at gunpoint, and denied lodging because of his race in many of the towns where he played. Stargell, an African-American, was tempted to quit. He persevered to become one of the most beloved players in the game. Stargell is one of only five players to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium, and is known for his long-distance home runs. Said Cincinnati Reds second baseman Joe Morgan upon Stargell’s death, “He never made anyone look bad, and he never said anything bad about anybody.” A good way to be remembered. All photos and video copyright Cindy Crosby (top to bottom): video clip of rainfall, author’s backyard prairie, Glen Ellyn, IL; thunderstorm approaching the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; rain-drenched path, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) in the rain, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; Halloween pennant dragonfly (Celithemis eponina) at the end of the season, Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; American painted lady (Vanessa virginiensis), Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; great spangled fritillary (Speyeria cybele) on pasture thistle, (Cirsium discolor), Nachusa Grasslands, The Nature Conservancy, Franklin Grove, IL; trees on the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) with raindrops, Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL: bridge to the Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; prairie gentians (Gentiana puberulenta), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. 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__label__wiki	0.95864	0.95864	Europa: Man United to play St Etienne 3yESPN staff Pugh left off USWNT's Olympic qualifying roster 4hGraham Hays Crew sign Berhalter's son as Homegrown Player Manchester United face St Etienne in Europa League, Spurs play Gent The first legs will take place on Feb. 16, with the second legs on Feb. 23. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images Manchester United will take on St Etienne in the Europa League's round of 32, while Tottenham Hotspur will face Gent and Villarreal have been drawn against Roma. United, who finished second in their group behind Fenerbahce, come up against a side sitting eighth in Ligue 1 as they attempt to win the trophy for the first time in their history. The two sides have met twice before in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1977, with United emerging victorious over the two legs with a 3-1 win. Paul Pogba could come up against his older brother over the tie, with Florentin Pogba a defender for St Etienne. Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba's brother Florentin plays for St Etienne. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK/AFP/Getty Images Spurs' Champions League campaign ended in disappointment after they could only finish third in their group, but they will hope to make more of a mark on the Europa League this term, starting with their tie against Belgian side Gent. Roma's reward for topping their group is a tricky tie against Villarreal. Roma, who remained unbeaten throughout the group stage and who currently sit second in Serie A, have been drawn against a Villarreal side that finished second in their pool behind Osmanlispor and who lie sixth in La Liga. Borussia Monchengladbach, who finished third behind Barcelona and Manchester City in their Champions League group, have been handed a tough test against Serie A club Fiorentina. Hapoel Be'er Sheva, who qualified at the expense of Southampton and Inter Milan, will play Turkish club Besiktas. ROUND OF 32 DRAW: The first legs will take place on Feb. 16, with the second legs on Feb. 23. The draw for the round of 16 will take place on Feb. 24.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1901
__label__cc	0.549686	0.450314	The Black and White Letter From the Editors MD Senate overturns Hogan’s executive order for late school start Alex Silber By Zara Ali The Maryland Senate overturned Governor Hogan’s executive order that mandated all Maryland public schools must start after Labor Day weekend and end by June 25. The bill to overturn the order will now go to the Maryland House, where it is expected to pass due to the Democratic majority supporting the repeal, Montgomery County Board of Education president Shebra Evans said. The Senate voted largely along party lines (31-12) in favor of overturning the order. If the House votes to overturn the order as well, Governor Hogan has agreed to put the decision on a 2020 referendum. The original 2016 mandate was meant to support businesses in Ocean City and allow students to spend more time with their families. As a result of the mandate, businesses in Ocean City did experience a rise in tourism these past two years. However, these benefits have come at the cost of control over the school calendar year; the mandate forced the county to add days and shorten breaks throughout the school year to compensate. “We should have local control over the district to make those decisions, especially around the calendar,” Evans said. “I’m very positive that we will have support to overturn the order.” Due to the mandated late start of the school year, the county was only able to build in three extra days for snow days this year, compared to four days prior to the mandate. MCPS has already had four snow days; as a result, spring break has been shortened from five to four days and the end of the school year has been extended by one day. The extra week the county previously had at the beginning of the year gave teachers more flexibility that they no longer have, principal Robert Dodd said. Dodd hopes schools will start before Labor Day to relieve the burden and logistical stress the late start date places on teachers. “As an educator, I didn’t see any compelling educational reasons to make changes to the calendar in the first place,” Dodd said. “It was something that wasn’t broken and didn’t need to be fixed.” Zara Ali, Education Editor Why did you join the Black and White? I enjoy reporting on different topics I'm interested in, and The Black and White provides me with a way to connect students directly to what is happening around them. What's your favorite scent? Alex Silber, Online Production Head Because I wanted to get involved in creating graphics for the newspaper. One Response to “MD Senate overturns Hogan’s executive order for late school start” Matthew Boyer on March 28th, 2019 12:11 pm I liked the mandate because it boosted the length of the summer and particular the length of August and September which is when my summer job paid the most. But I liked it more than just selfish reasons. I really don’t think the logistic burden teachers face from the lack of 5 days is that much, if any honestly. I think people overplay how much of a problem the order was for teachers and APs and what not. I don’t think there is any AP Class that I know of that really needed those extra 5 days to cover the required content. Most of my AP Classes have several work days or chill days that if we were really crunched on time wouldn’t happen because more content would need to be covered. So in my opinion the slight discomfort experienced by teachers and administrators does not outweigh the economic benefit Maryland businesses and individuals (like me) received due to this executive order. I’ll stand by it in the referendum in 2020. In order to make the Black & White online a safe and secure public forum for members of the community to express their opinions, we read all comments before publishing them. No comments with obscenities, personal attacks, advertisements, nonsense, defamatory or derogatory rhetoric, libel or slander will be published. Comments are meant to spur discussion about the content and/or topic of an article. Please use your real name when commenting. Poms places fifth in first competition of the year By Mia Friedman Poms competed in their first competition of the season Saturday, Jan. 11 at Northwest... Bethesda Row’s newest sweet treat: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream By Lexi Fleck Jeni Britton Bauer was halfway through college at Ohio State University when she realized... Girls basketball routed by Churchill 72–29 By Gabe Schaner The girls basketball team (6–6) fell to the Churchill Bulldogs (11–1) 72–29 Wednesday... Boys basketball falls to Churchill 62–58 in overtime By Matt Mande The boys basketball team (5–7) lost to the Churchill Bulldogs (6–5) 62–58 in overtime... Photo of the Day: 1/16 By Ally Navarrete An anonymous leadership student, dressed up as Dr. Bear from Children’s National Hospital,... Bridging the gap: The challenges of transitioning from an international school The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1907
__label__cc	0.581258	0.418742	← Full AP Interview With President Trump (transcript)…. Monday April 24th – Open Thread → T-Rex: No Further Questions Needed on Russia Sanctions Being Lifted,… EVER ! Posted on April 23, 2017 by sundance Funny call readout from Secretary Tillerson’s office today. The last paragraph is extraordinarily blunt (emphasis mine): [Dept. of State] Secretary Tillerson phoned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today to discuss his recent trip to Moscow and his message to the Russian leadership that, although the United States is interested in improving relations with Russia, Russia’s actions in eastern Ukraine remain an obstacle. The Secretary emphasized the importance of Ukraine’s continued progress on reform and combating corruption. The Secretary accepted condolences from President Poroshenko on the death today of a U.S. member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM). The leaders agreed that the OSCE SMM has played a vital role in its role of monitoring the Minsk agreements designed to bring peace to eastern Ukraine, and that this tragic incident makes clear the need for all sides- and particularly the Russian-led separatist forces-to implement their commitments under the Minsk Agreements immediately. Secretary Tillerson reiterated the United States’ firm commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and confirmed that sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine and fully implements its commitments in the Minsk agreements. (link) Oh well, I guess that’s that then. No need to ever wonder about those pesky sanctions ever being lifted. Horse = Dead. This entry was posted in media bias, President Trump, Russia, Secretary of State, Secretary Tillerson, Ukraine, Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 236 Responses to T-Rex: No Further Questions Needed on Russia Sanctions Being Lifted,… EVER ! Sedanka says: It’s so good to have actual businesspersons running the show, FINALLY. Somewhere in Dixie says: I agree. The media still have no idea how they operate and how different they are from the regular politicians. Bill in Lexington,NC says: Which is an important head start. drdeb says: Amen to that post! the blacksmith says: and an actual American was well….. you, know, one of our own culture. SSI01 says: I’ve read somewhere an eyeball that allows the full circumference of the iris to be seen – that is, sclera (white of the eyeball) visible on all sides of the iris – is an indication the owner of that eyeball – or pair of eyeballs – has a mental or neurological disorder that needs looking into. I wish I could remember the name of the condition. wheatietoo says: I think that condition is call Barking Moonbat-itis. Orygun says: Hahaha! That really did make me laugh and it seems to be a virulent form common to the DC area. Sandra White says: Truly feel great again. Laughing so hard at Boris & Natasha poster. Priceless. WSB says: Contagious, then. Louisiana Steve says: Psychopelosi disorder. Benson II says: Darn! Ya beat me to it. ha ha jwingermany says: I’m so glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that! LOL! It’s called Sanpaku eyes It could also be caused by hyperthyroidism. trapper says: Sanpaku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku deanbrh says: Wow, how interesting. and here I just thought it was a play on words; Sand pack you! karmytrumpateer says: Quite fascinating! ” it is believed that these people attract accidents and violence.” When you look at the list of famous people with this affliction many were murderers or were murdered or had a tragic death: Osama bin Laden, Hitler, Ted Bundy, Omar Mateen, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Sal Mineo, Abe Lincoln, Natalie Wood, Jill Dando. 41420000 says: Charlie Manson Bert Darrell says: Thanks, trapper. I had to visit the TCHT comments section to learn that Obama had the Sanpaku condition. So unlucky! As if being a traitor were not enough for the lying leech. rumpole2 says: It’s the same look you see in a cat’s eyes when the vet takes it’s temperature… just sayin’😎 Omg I’m dying here, sooo funny. 😂 Curry Worsham says: Dekester says: It is 0200 here in Southern B.C. and I just woke my dog with a belly laugh. The one consistent with so many TCTH supporters, is their collective sense of humour. We understand the seriousness of what’s going on, but can still laugh. Leftists cannot do that. Unless they are causing someone pain. Sanpaku. Who knew. Deep Blue C says: Cue Jeff Sessions who supposedly (according to the media liars) “insulted the entire state of Hawaii.” Jeff was mostly right when he said nobody has a sense of humor anymore! (Lefties don’t; we do!) buzzybee says: Yup. Years ago I heard a constitutional attorney say that liberals have no sense of humor. Wish now I could remember the joke he told during his talk. I do remember we all laughed. Hey … how’d you get this picture of my cat, Blue? H.R. says: It’s called TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome, SSI01. What’s remarkable is that this syndrome was identified years before Trump was elected to the Presidency. Even more remarkable is how it has spread so rapidly after President Trump won the election. The good news is that it seems to be contained within the leftist and YSM members of the general population. Better news yet, TDS can be cured by jumping on board the Trump Train, which has shown to provide 100% remission from TDS. margarite1 says: Aren’t there some photos indicating Hillary is an example of this? hugofitch1 says: Other than when balloons are released? olderwiser21 says: My, God – she is a hideous looking woman…you can see all the evil in her – really!!! freeperjim says: She ALWAYS has those big, bulging eyes and a huge, wide open mouth. Phony beard marriage with a rapist. Evil communist traitor & sympathizer of islamic terrorism. She’s from the same era as Charles Manson, Bill Ayres, The Weatherman Underground, etc. She just went inside government to do her dirty work while they took to the streets of crime. …and don’t forget Angela Davis, the leftwing communist/terrorist who later became a professor at UCLA. They went to teach in colleges. Glad I just finished my coffee before looking at this. ZC says: It is sanpaku, which means “3 whites”. Normally only 2 whites are visible either side. If the lower is also visible, it is called yin sanpaku… many who have this have emotional and drug/ alcohol problems, are also prone to be victims of violence. (Michael Jackson, Marilynn Monroe, Betty David, JFK are famous examples). Often this is viewed as “beautiful” (vulnerable), and is imitated with makeup. When the white is visible above the eye, this is ysng sanpaku and shows a person prone to external violent temper, one can easily feel it from them. (Charles Manson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi are good examples.). If all whites are visible ones instincts would tell one immediately unless one is brain dead that this is a totally psychotic person. letjusticeprevail2014 says: I once worked construction with a guy who had that “All Around” look. It was very unsettling to catch him looking my way, so I totally avoided him. For all I knew, he might have been a saint among men but I wasn’t going to find out. It STILL gives me the willies just thinking about it. And that was more than 30 years ago. Interesting comment…now go back and look at Hilliar’s photos. Darn, guess now I’ll be looking for the “white” above everyone’s eyes! LOL jonvil says: All this stuff about the eyes made me nervous and had to check myself out in a mirror, no white above or below, WHEW!!! Me too. But I had to squint. 😉 US says: Exophthalmia. Dopidad says: Sanpaku, a Japanese book came out during the hippie era warning about people who displayed sanpaku. It has to do with macrobiotics and yin-yang. http://investmentwatchblog.com/hillary-had-yang-sanpaku-eyes-very-dangerous/ Jenny R. says: So in other words a bunch of new age hippie fiddle faddle? vidlbis says: Yep. However, just like all hippie-dippie nonsense, the original info has gravitas that goes back – like ancient. The hippies ruined pertymuch everything they touched. IMHO Insofar as bulging eyes is often a sign of thyroid troubles — in which case the charitable thing to do is to suggest said person get to a doctor and check it out — then yes “wisdom of the ancients”. However, I am not going to give some poor soul the side eye just because the whites of their eyes show — this is called the “joys of progression in knowledge”, I also don’t cut open animals to look at spots on their livers in order to tell the future. And I certainly didn’t need to look at Hillary’s eyeballs (I prefer to not gaze at her whatsoever) to know she was a corrupt megalomaniac…I just needed to observe her words and deeds to do that. Yep – got me there *) bofh says: it’s called proptosis or exophthalmos, often seen in over active thyroid conditions Graves’ ophthalmopathy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves%27_ophthalmopathy Often a sign of hyperthyroidism. Also called Exophthalmos boojum says: I don’t know if it’s the term you’re looking for, but I long ago heard it referred to as Sankapu. Ah, I see Dopidad beat me to the punch and has it spelled correctly. Like your spelling – add a t and you got sankaput – meaning outta whack. “sankaput”, sounds like something a golfer would say… Nah … means out of freeze-dried coffee. 😉 exophthalmos frequently subsequent to Grave’s Disease, or has to go potty really badly. Old Codger says: Its a thyroid condition; poor woman really is sick—not mention her mental disease known as “Liberalism. It’s a feature often seen in people with psychotic disorders. In this case, though, I think it’s just a case of a desperate weasel trying to lie her way out of a tight spot. Her eyes are popping out because she feels the squeeeeeze! RadioMattM says: Too many cups of coffee? I thought that corrupt people could have any kind of thyroid — high, low, normal, or whatever. The problem seems to lie in being morally crippled. I saw a report that said when the color part of the eyeball does not rest on the upper and lower part of the eye or one side is ” lifted” it is some kind of a shift in the brain and tends to belong to the criminally insane individual….. And T-Rex’s State Dept specifically turned down Exon’s request for a Waiver to drill in Russia. That is the company he just left! Squeaky clean, our T-Rex is. mireilleg says: I love this guy! T-Rex dropped the hammer again. He’s as Fed up with the Russian narrative as we are. Aqua says: T. Rex conversations have become “don’t miss” events… I’d love to be a part of a Trump/Tillerson dinner discussion. Real news. Kroesus says: It is questionable whether the Ukraine actually ever “owned”: the Crimean Peninsula…..Khrushchev in a drunken stupor (often for him) transferred its ownership…..the area had traditionally been Russian territory and its people are by a vast majority Russian heritage and lean towards Russian governance……I think we have no business trying to dictate on this matter Sentient says: They had a vote in Crimea. The people – mostly Russian speaking – voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia. American neocons protested that the election didn’t meet American standards. If it had, the “rejoin Russia” side would have won by only 85% instead of 90%. I’m sure John McCain will be overjoyed by this. It’ll also help Putin maintain overwhelming popularity against his American foil. He’ll probably also cooperate more with Iran, since the US is again proving its inclination to meddle throughout the world. Kaco says: Yes, and I thought I had read they have a military base there. I remember when we all heard Nikki Haley’s first speech at the U.N. She said basically the same thing. It was poo-poohed here as she’s just rattling off, it isn’t what Pres. Trump thinks. Apparently, we should start taking what they all say seriously, including Pompeo about Julian Assange and Wikileaks. I find it a shame that there can’t be a cordial, practical, relationship with Russia. Destroying the Left’s Russian hysteria is not much consolation, and they will continue the accusation anyway. I am never sure why you can’t have a sovereign country that speaks Russian and is friendly to Russia without having to become a part of Russia. Am I missing something here? Derek Hagen says: No, but now that you bring it up we are all not missing something. Thanks. Let’s pass this question around. You’re missing that they had a plebiscite. If the people of Crimea want to revert to being part of Russia why should Kiev be allowed to disallow it? More importantly, wtf business is it of ours? It’d be like if Russia slapped sanctions on the US until we handed Arizona back to Mexico. I get Sundance’s point (below) that the sanctions aren’t really hurting Russia (don’t throw me in the briar patch), but the mind-numbing sanctimoniousness of Americans weighing in on this matter at all is beyond belief. What’s next – we start dictating to Myanmar how they deal with the terrorist Rohinga? It’s none of our f’ing business!!!! alegenoa says: I hear that many European businesses suffer from this EU sanction, losing the Russian market. It doesn’t make sense. It seems the Trump administration is just protecting its reputation from those “Russiagate” accusations, but this in turn means there are unwanted consequences for the world. Always Faithful says: It’s all fake outrage. Very few Americans could locate Crimea, the Ukraine, or even Russia on a map. Even our representatives don’t know the difference between Crimea and Korea. The same could have been said of Serbia, but that didn’t stop us from bombing them to aid the Muslims. No briar patch for you. I agree with everything you said. It’s a very complicated situation, going back well, well before WWII (or even WWI), and neither side is completely the innocent victim. It also involves far more than politics (religion, ethnicity, et al. have been twisted to conform to political justification). There could potentially be some peaceful, pragmatic way to reconcile this thing to the mutual benefit of all concerned, but it would involve compromise and putting old grievances and entitlements to bed once and for all — so it won’t happen because all parties concerned nurse those like a starving infant at a bottle. The Middle East and Eastern Europe: the places where diplomacy goes to die. This is what I have been thinking for awhile. At some point there was a separation. Normally, the US would make a deal to operate a base in a separate strategic area. Why can’t the Russians do the same unless all decide to rejoin under one umbrella? However, the US still should not be involved. because it’s in an area of the world where diplomacy goes to die 😉 aka. Bismarck was a bastige, but correct (although he should have expanded it beyond the Balkans) The Russians and Ukrainians (although genetically and culturally quite close — Kievan Rus anyone?) have a tendency to hate each other’s guts (and both sides are guilty of causing that). And the leadership on both sides is infected with a disability to think outside the box — which will likely cause them and others grief in the future. Don’t get me wrong, I would have liked to see a U.S./Russia alliance and at least better working relations…but I’m not so lacking in clear-sightedness as to get on the Russia Rah-Rah Brigade. That country has some very troubling problems at the moment…we will have to be as ready as possible for the outcomes of those…imhao of course. Old tribes have sand box issues, no doubt. smartyjones1 says: See Robert Conquest’s “Harvest of Sorrow” for why there’s more than a little unhappiness between the people of Ukraine and the Russian government, direct descendants of the Terror Famine. https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Sorrow-Soviet-Collectivization-Terror-Famine/dp/0195051807 Putin’s Little Green Men now have successfully killed thousands and took down a civilian airliner over eastern Ukraine. The bear does not want independent thinking people at their doorstep. It could spread like a contagion into Russia itself. That’s not how a dictator stays in power year after year. In the end, who will be the longest reigning dictator in our lifetimes, Putin or Castro? That my friends is the question. Well framed! It seems they were doing fine until Putin decided they needed to come back into the fold and started agitating with some of the populace to get them to side with him. If Putin had left well enough alone would those who now side with him have decided they wanted to rejoin Russia, on their own. I doubt it. SteveInCO says: The fact of the matter is, when the USSR broke up in 1991, the then-present borders of the SSRs were recognized as the new borders of the independent countries. Russia simply decided to take away something they had previously recognized as belonging to Ukraine. In other words, they simply took it away, with the same excuses the Nazis used to take the Sudetenland. And yes I know it was ethnically Russian. Again: Sudetenland. Must be very dense here….I thought Trump wanted an opportunity to make friends with Putin and enlist his help in getting rid of Isis. What’s changed? And what of those 75 diplomats Obama sent back to Russsia? Were those the only “sanctions”? What about our diplomats in Russia? We leave them? I don’t think Trump has changed w/ respect to working with Russia against ISIS. He just negotiates from a position of strength, not weakness and sucking up. Southern Son says: It’s a Complicated Business Folks. Complicated Business.. It is ethnically Roosky, b/c Stalin or his predecessors murdered or forcibly rellocated the Ukrainians (maybe Tartars? Can’t remember their ethnicity right now) and replaced them with ethnic Rooskies, who remain the majority in Crimea as a result. I’m still looking for a deal to be struck where RUS essentially resumes supervision of Ukraine, keeps its naval base, but has to invest some serious economic development and law enforcement $ (rubles anyway) to get sanctions lifted. Seems like 3x win to me. We don’t want to “own” everything, When a smart developer sees a neighboring property in distress, if he doesn’t want to fix it himself, his best option is to get someone else to. As I recall, it was ethnically Russian primarily because the Russian empire under Catherine the Great in the 1770s conquered it and moved Russians in to settle what was, before that time, pastoral (nomadic) land. val76 says: Both are true. Yes! Thank you! The local and indigenous Ukrainians were killed and Russians were moved in! It’s why eastern Ukraine too is mostly Russian speaking and have Russian loyalists. And while we’re re-litigating the history of Crimea, let’s weigh in on whether lands taken by the Kingdom of Ghana should be returned to the f’ing Bantus! i'm just sayin'.. says: You had to open that one up didn’t you? There are disputed lands everywhere. Not our problem. Not our business. Just because they’re not our “problem”, doesn’t mean TRUMP can’t take advantage of a little chaos to kill off the lingering “Muh Russia” issue AND go a leg up on Putin! I know its Monday and you got out of bed on the “left side”, but try thinking ahead, just a little bit, eh? Sounds like an ancient Islamic tactic. There have never been any “indigenous Ukrainians” in Crimea. It was populated by Tatars before Stalin “relocated” them to Siberia for collaboration with Hitler, and ethnic Russians. Crimea was Russian before Chruschev decided to redraw the map and “give” it to Ukraine. Let’s be realistic: the local population voted to re-join Russia. They are not going back. And Russia will never abandon Crimea because of Sevastopol. Not gonna happen. Tillerson can issue as many political statements as he wants. Jenny R says: Not just Tatars — Poles, Germans, Russians,Ruthenians, Greeks, Jews, a bit of everything from the region (it is sitting on a crossroads of Eurasia, a key hub). And the relocations weren’t just under Stalin — the tsars were not so innocent themselves. In this regard Russia acted like just about every other imperial power at the time (and they weren’t the only ones who did the imperial shuffle in that part of the world)…but it is well to remember: usually the natives don’t remember being pushed hither and whither that fondly (parts of my husband’s family still feel like they were lied to and tricked by all sides of the Schleswig Holstein Wars — the Old World’s memory is far too long, and ours is far too short, or at least our knowledge of how long the Old World can carry a grudge is). And the Holomodor and forced relocations under Stalin didn’t endear Russians to Ukrainians (who in turn usually acted on any opportunity to get revenge, which didn’t endear them with the Russians). this territory LOOONG predates Stalin……it goes back to at least Catherine the Great (1700’s) and had a war that occurred BEFORE our Civil War…..Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire xs Imperial Russia….you may have heard of it as it was called the CRIMEAN War……Lord Tennyson actually wrote a somewhat famous poem about the fog of war and mistakes that happen called “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (look it up) Russia fought the Ottoman Turks for the Crimea, won in 1776 and signed a peace treaty with the Porte shortly thereafter. Russia’s claim to the Crimea is of longer duration than ours to the original 13 colonies, not to mention our later acquisition of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Sundance reminds us that President Trump is presently fighting rabid leftists ( 35% of the electorate ) milk-toast Republicans (15% of the electorate) as well as the US Chamber of Commerce & Business Roundtable wielding mega-millions come elections. Should we lose the White House in 2020 or 2024, we might well return to the chaotic immigration and unfair trade patterns of the last 30 years, as we grow ever poorer. What happens if Mexico demands both the return of those south-western states in 2040 and can count on local populations voting to rejoin Mexico in state referendums? And what would we do if the United Nations — citing sanctions on Russia over Crimea as a precedent — imposes sanctions on us, pending the return of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to Mexico? For that matter, come 2040, how might Russia vote in the UN Security Council about sanctioning us? Linden Markham says: The Mexicans will turn those areas into replicas of the shit holes they left, just as the Palestinians turned the thriving Gaza into a shit hole. Nothing changes. I say we return California to Mexico! A whole lotta problems solved! Let those lefty Silicon Valley and Hollywood panty-waists deal directly with the Cartels. Barrels of popcorn needed for that! (And don’t give me the “but, Cali has a GDP equal to the 5th largest…” BS! Cali’s been losing businesses for years and there would be an absolute mad rush for NV and AZ, if it was returned to México!) “Russia’s claim to the Crimea is of longer duration than ours to the original 13 colonies, not to mention our later acquisition of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.” Let’s not forget Alaska, Louisiana Purchase. Hey Coon, I was going to write that France and Russia sold us Louisiana and Alaska fair-and-square, but realized that — given the oil reserves — these nations might now claim that Napoleon had no right to betray the ‘Acadian refugees’ and that the Russia Czar was clearly insane to sell us so much oil for a pittance. In short, the deals for Louisiana and Alaska are invalid. Sanction those sanctimonious Americans till they return Louisiana and Alaska ! You’ve nailed it! The problem with this is that Russia owned Ukraine back then too. Ukraine, INCLUDING CRIMEA, became independent from the Soviet Union as the USSR fell apart and modern day Russia (also becoming independent) recognized that fact, and recognized its borders. Russia is now coming back and playing what would be, in a more politically incorrect age, “indian giver” and demanding–forcibly seizing, in fact–something they had previously given up. The parallels to Nazi Germany and the Sudetenland are staggering and I am absolutely appalled that good Americans make excuses for it. One can argue about whether we should get involved, but argue that Russia is in the right here? No fricking way. There’s lots of apologists popping up. You would think Putin is George Washington not a former KGB officer who was stationed in East Germany helping prop up that totalitarian system/government. There’s a lot of Russians who don’t have a problem with empire. Hey, just look at the land mass of Russia alone. You think it got that way by accident? Not by accident, but they did catch a couple of lucky breaks. Once they punched through the Siberian Khanate during Ivan IV’s reign (Ivan the Terrible) they basically had very little between them and the Pacific Ocean. But yes, they’ve always been expansionist. Are we keeping the UN? Buckeye Heathen says: and if so;why ? If we get rid of the UN, we get rid of the boot on our neck. Problem solved. Crimea is historically Russian and the warm water port for the Russian Navy. If we want friendly relations with the Russian Christian Nation they will have to keep Crimea and Latakia base in Syria. I hope and pray that this is only a negotiation position to make a good deal, otherwise we will never have a peaceful relationship. Ukraine is within the Russian sphere of influence. If they evacuate the Donbas we should leave Ukraine alone and never, ever have Ukraine in NATO or the EU. “Negotiation position”??? As Bugs Bunny would say, “Do tell!” JoAnn Leichliter says: Frankly, I agree, Kroesus. MVW says: “Secretary Tillerson reiterated the United States’ firm commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and confirmed that sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine and fully implements its commitments in the Minsk agreements. ” And we should return Texas and California to Mexico. /s Neocons are loving Tillerson’s position. Soros must love Tillerson. Ukraine government was overthrown by a CIA operation, so again we meddle for the Globalists and then put a White Hat on top of a Black Hat and put a ribbon on our chest. Bravo! /s I am not celebrating the continued hostility towards Russia, but until we get our domestic problems addressed and Neocons are gone I can’t see a political resolution. What a mess. Cali = YES; Texas = NO! Texas won its freedom from Mexico in a shooting war = Remember the Alamo!!! Texas joined the US as a separate, independent republic. SEJMON says: Crimeans are happy they do not have to live under worst government in Europe since may 1945….remember Vicky Nuland give away cookies in KYIEVi feb.2014…. Weeper says: I just love it when a plan comes together. I feel like I’m reading a political thriller where the “good guys” are smart, intelligent humans, and the enemies are a bunch of stupid cartoon characters. Next chapter please!!! 😉 Which ones are we? Depends. Could be either I guess. I’m a human, but I’m also quite fond of Minions! mopar2016 says: The enemies ARE cartoon characters. And most of them are in Senate and the House. LOL!!! Thanks mopar2016. I can’t do pics 😀 Rickster says: Yet, Rachael Madcow will probably be on her next show saying “What if….this is a ploy….by the Trump administration…..to apppeaar tough.” o_o coveyouthband says: All those tired of winning please raise your hand……………….. KevinH says: This is one of the few times I differ with the opinion here. At the fall of the Soviet Union, at that moment, the US began dumping billions of dollars into ripping Ukraine out of Russia’s sphere of influence, over 10 billion dollars in fact, according to Victoria Nuland. You can argue that that was a good idea, or a bad idea. That doesn’t change the fact there would be tens of thousands killed in Crimea if Russia didn’t accept them (half accept, half annex), whatever you want to call it — the people of Crimea are happy for Russia’s intervention. Your point is not mutually exclusive to the position of T-Rex (and/or Trump). These sanctions are a nothing-burger, mere annoyances, to both administrations in the larger scale of things. “Please don’t throw me into the briar patch”.. (the basic concept here). BlackKnightRides says: Our T-Rex just cuffed Russia, with more to come… What did those fools expect we’d do after their bomber-jabs at Alaska’s coastline! Trialbytruth says: Good point BK a little tit for tat. However, as straight forward as Secretary Tillerson was, the left will remind us he didn’t say never EVER nor did he pinky swear. It is nice having adults in charge who are clear in intent. Unlike our previous cabal of liars and cheats when you want to know what this administration means by what it says all you have too do is look at the words. I tried to explain this to my daughter in law (one year of undergrad law and a constitutional expert) we are no longer face book friends. I only had 7 so now i’m down to the 6 smart ones in the family. Every so often the zack herd must be thinned LOL Are you now ending each posted Trump Win with the “… don’t tell xyz 😉”? Excellent point. And it could also be Trump positioning himself at the farthest extreme for free, to leverage in negotiations with Russia about Syria and other topics. Your sentiment is spot on, though I doubt any significant impact on Syria. It’s about Ukraine. There’s a deal to be crafted that will help everyone. The world is real estate. so who knows how to make those kinds of deals? If Trump had been in the garden of eden, he’d have built a wall around the forbidden tree and we’d still be living under God’s original Grace. He’s got a lot of fixing up to do. ” It’s about Ukraine. There’s a deal to be crafted that will help everyone” If it has anything to do with allowing and paying for many more Ukrianian women into the US as “refugees”, I’m all in! Beautiful, long legged blondes…..mmmm! Sundance, exactly what I was thinking! This is all big-picture leverage stuff here that operates on a 4-D chess board. Most of us can barely see the board, much less the pieces. Sundance, Thank you for that clarification. Trump is working in the world of politics now out of necessity. This is the real world, politics is part of it. The problem with politics is that it is the swamp. xyzlatin says: There was a free vote in Crimea which approved of the annexation. Russia needs an all weather port for it’s navy. Russia cannot give in and will not. Ukraine also had a properly elected president who was ousted by CIA stirring up marches and the killing of protesters therein, and an unelected oligarch installed. The US, and the EU bureaucracy greedy nation building is to blame for this situation. Ukraine was to remain neutral and out of the EU. Russia was betrayed. This will remain a stalemate and a festering sore. No win here. However, I can see that Tillerson had to make a show of independence from Russia, given his former life. Also because of the stupidity of the accusations against Trump and bogus Russian interference in the election, Trump also has to make a show of not supporting Russia. This is part of the huge mess that Pres Trump has inherited. And yeah, the political optics would be bad if he were to lift sanctions right now. Even though he might want to. Putin is smart, so hopefully he understands this. It will take time to rectify the misdeeds of the past. Putin will have to EARN any change in America’s position. If China comes through on the NORKS, Putin will have to contribute mightily to reset relations. Like perhaps…helping us with Syria and Iran? Helping us do what in Syria – replace Assad with Salafis? Maybe he could give back the American Uranium that Hillary and the Clinton Crime Family Foundation sold him? Or maybe President Trump “freezes Russia’s American uranium assets”. Tonawanda says: Plus, Trump and Tillerson may have already acknowledged to Putin the historical fairness of Russia’s claims + the unfairness in Ukraine, and explicitly told Putin that a mutually favorable solution could and would be worked out. BO’s bogus sanctions might have been a huge gift to Trump. The CIA seems to stir up trouble everywhere and answer to no one. A country of their own. Best explanation ever – thank you…… Glad you mentioned the port…I thought it was one of the primary reasons for Putin’s action in Ukraine, but when no posters brought it up I was beginning to doubt my memory, That, BTW, irregardless of the tongue-in-cheek comments about Ca. is why it’s still important to the rest of the country…the coastline and all it brings. Well, I note there’s been elections in Ukraine and some have been free and fair. Others have been questionable but then again, when oligarch tyrant fled in the dead of night off to hide himself in Russia. All the tears spilling for the oligarch coward here. Fascinating. Putin wants the Crimean deep water port thats it that’s all elena19501deplorable says: No, Putin wants whole Ukraine back…Ukraine never been independent country, it was always split between Russia and Poland…and was always fighting Russia for Independence… Paula Kinziger says: That’s correct elena19501deplorable. Watched many docs on the Ukraine/Russia and the Ukraine people want to stay independent. Then they should avoid getting in bed with the hegemon. agree-if they wanted be truly independent as SWITZERLAND they would not welcome NULAND/MCCAIN and eat theirs cookies… I was born in USSR and know very well Russian and USSR’s imperial history. Timmy-the-Ute says: Then Russia can compensate the Ukraine for Crimea. Stop paying for a war between the two countries and compensate Ukraine. Enough trillions of Rubles will make the Ukraine happy and navigation right out of the Sea of Avoz (Kerch Strait). Ukraine is not going to invade Russia’s western border. Putin, pull back your tanks and troops. Yes Alex Jones says the Ukrainians are a bunch of Nazis. But the Russians make a treaty with them. If Russian wants there nationals back them ask them to emigrate back. Russia is not a natural country. It was a empire or a collection of countries. It’s ability to maintain that empire will vary. The empire under the USSR was a high point. Now it is at a smaller level. Well, if he would be practical, then he would negotiate a deal with Ukraine and get/keep his warm water port — and maybe some other nice bennies as well. A potential win-win situation for at least most people (and thus, in the interests of stability and future working relations, I believe this is what the U.S. should be angling for). There are still some people in the Russian leadership that might be up to convincing him of this. But if he decides to go with the revanchist elements camp in his government — and it is present and does fit just about every bad stereotype of the Russians available — then he’ll not be happy with just that, will try to reclaim control of all the former Soviet bloc nations, will extend further into Europe and Asia…and will likely have things backfire horribly…causing consequences of an unsavory nature for everybody. Personally, if the Russians aren’t careful they’re going to cause their country to go POP again (and it will happen suddenly and thus rather shockingly for everyone) — just imao. progpoker says: Love the Wanted Poster, Sundance!! Louise Mensch could’ve starred as “Bore Us” also!! 🙂 nothing menschlichkeit about her! “Menschć is a Yiddish word from the German for” man”. In Yiddish/Jewish parlance it means an excellent or Godly person. I’ve met 1, maybe up to 3 mensches in 60 years. She ain’t one. PDJT might prove to be a real mensch. We’ll see. In the meantime, he’s a heck uva POTUS! Sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of Crimean peninsula to Ukraine, implements its commitments in Minsk agreements. — Department of State (@StateDept) April 24, 2017 paris23 says: It’s all a funny game, isn’t it? The State Dept. must know that is never going to happen. I guess it’s all about posturing for political reasons. You can call it politics or humanitarian – – moxnix. Fact is RUS is best situated to provide economic development and security to Ukraine. Don’t see Poland, Germany, or any other neighbor stepping up. Key is making a deal that benefits USA, given those realities. PDJT & T-Rex appear to be on the right track, though since they haven’t hired me yet at a yuge salary, there remains room for improvement. I wouldn’t be so certain of that. As I have grown to see things as bargaining positions, I see this as leverage to do any number of things in the future. To say that’s never going to happen? Let’s say, for example, Russia were convinced serve US interests in some significant and highly visible way. Well? Perhaps that deserves reducing sanctions or some other reward for good behavior. That President Trump was not responsible for the sanctions still makes him “the good guy.” I begin to see things more and more as potentially useful positions from which to operate rather than staunch positions based on ideology. Operating on an ideological level is essentially operating from an emotional level. And that becomes a big problem as emotions replace intellect in the brain. Sometimes a hegemon is just a hegemon. Don’t think for one minute that the other side is against the idea for themselves and wouldn’t ever do it — countries and their inhabitants are never angels and seldom saints. Which one has its military in over 70 countries? You did not address the second half of my statement, which if a qualification of the (rather rhetorical) question. sentien…..with a emotion/ideology and no intellect/brain ????? we do no want that next 8 yrs… It won’t happen. Ever. They must honor their agreements. People may not take seriously Russia’s scientists’ research involving climate change. Their leading scientists predict massive COOLING which means Russia will be affected by having its northern seaports frozen. (Dec 4, 2013 – A new paper by solar physicist by Habibullo Abdussamatov predicts the current lull in solar activity will continue and lead to a new Little Ice Age ). Russia began building massive nuclear driven ice breakers because of this forecast. Russia needs a secure southern seaport for its navy. It is a matter of life and death for the Russians and they will not give in. The only important part of their Navy are Submarines. Warm water ports are not that important to their Subs. When you only have one Aircraft Carrier you really have one too many. Russia’s navy isn’t used to keep open international shipping lanes like the US Navy does. So why would Russia close down its options for ever more because at the present time it may have subs as its most important part of its navy? It still has some ships it needs to get out. It would be a foolish nation indeed who gave up a warm water port for ever closing its options down simply because neocons in the EU, Nato and the US (like McCain) want them to behave and toe their line? Unlike the US, Russians have suffered over the centuries from invasion and backstabbing. Oh, I think the U.S. has suffered its fair share of backstabbing. Let’s be honest: it is incredibly hard (but not impossible) for the Russians to maneuver a peaceful and lucrative deal due to past associations with its neighbors — a lot of this they have brought upon themselves, and while it isn’t fair to judge a country by its past actions nevertheless the memory of those actions is still there; however, the question should be brought to them: is it better to try something different and thus improve those associations? Or go with the old-fashioned method? At this point I’m not so sure it shouldn’t be presented to them as :”what have you got to lose?” The Ukraine is becoming a mess for them(and influencing the rest of E. Europe — even Serbia and Belarus have in recent years stepped away from Russia on occasion, and the situation in Central Asia is not looking too rosy, domestically it isn’t either, and I don’t think the Trump administration is going to respond in the same fashion as previous administrations. So at this point maybe they need to try something else because what they are doing is at the point of a zero sum game. are you crazy?…..ever hear of a thing called the “continental shelf”…..modern subs typical operate in the 1000-2000 foot depths and cannot do this until they reach deep ocean…..since most attack subs vary from 55-65 feet in height you can see the typical 100-200 foot coastal depths give very little water under the keel…in fact even with todays Black and Baltic sea ports in use by the Russian Navy we monitor their movements for HUNDREDS of miles after departure and they must surface to pass through many chokepoints (Dardanelles Bosporus and Juteland Straits) SharonKinDC says: In the geo-political chess game, this is the effective statement to make. What the end result will be may differ. BG2 says: For whose benefit are these ineffective sanctions? Shadow puppetry, a form of words. Russia will never give up its warm water ports in the Crimea. The naive Ukrainians are a perfect case study of why you don’t give up your nuclear weapons in return for hilarious Western promises about your territorial integrity. You can’t trust a democracy. Look who we elected for 8 years, BHO. That is the problem of years of public indoctrination, teaching them — incorrectly — that we are a democracy. We are not supposed to be anything of the sort. Because our founders knew you could not trust a democracy. In Az says: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master Interesting information on George Soros and his evil works in the Ukraine. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/228379-obama-power-transition-ukraine/ CNN interview with Obama, Obama admitting he “brokered” Ukraine power change. Of course it is BS. It was a government overthrow, a coup, with the help of George Soros. The Ukraine President that was overthrown was not a fan the of the EU. He had to go……enter Soros and Obama doing the dirty work for the EU. By any means Soros needs to be dealt with. He is not the only one causing wars, murder, the downfall of Western civilization. He has help, but he is the face, and he is doing the majority of the evil and vile. work to destroy the world for the Communists Globalists benefit. As usual, what’s in the USA ‘s interest and in the interest of the people affected is in direct opposition to Soros. Time is overdue when he can be turned over to those he has harmed for trial and sentencing. Jonathan Hughes says: Muslims are in the Ukraine. There are many names for Muslims. Ukraine was home to 248,193 Crimean Tatars, 73,304 Volga Tatars, 45,176 Azeris, 12,353 Uzbeks, 8,844 Turks, 6,575 Arabs and 5,526 Kazakhs. That number is growing. ,Muslims are doing there what Muslims are doing here making Liberals to be violent. Leave Russia alone. Muslims are bad actors wherever they immigrate. Islam is as Islam does. They play good cop/ bad cop and pretend victim until their numbers increase, then they are dangerous and tyrannical. They have played the same game and committed the same barbaric bloodshed, committed slavery and oppression since Mohammed was alive. Here is Islam’s reign of hell on earth just in 2017: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2017 IF Ukraine doesn’t stop the Muslim invasion, it will be Ukrainistan in 20 years or less. No doubt Erdogan is pushing Muslims to immigrate there. Kiev and its sponsor have not implemented Minsk. The Donbass and its sponsor have. The Russian Federation has assumed that sanctions will not be lifted. The bridge to Crimea will soon be finished. Now that the neocon Ukraine gambit has resulted in the impoverishment of the Ukraine it will get even more unpleasant. Keeping The Ukraine together will cost us more than the sanctions will cost Russia, so we probably will let it disintegrate. And Kiev might just attack the Donbass again. chojun says: I have a former co-worker who is ethnic Russian from Crimea. The big problem is that they wanted to return to the Russian federation. I’m not questioning the wisdom of this foreign policy objective but I will say that it will remain a stumbling block for improving relations. But the sanctions do create a significant amount of leverage for the US. Which means that at some point in the future sanctions and Crimea policy will likely be reversed in exchange for some big* concessions from Russia on strategic issues. I hope Chopin is right, we cannot have endless war. Chojun, spellchecker went off prematurely chojun-CRIMEA is already(april 2014)part of Russia and happy with that. KevinK says: So is this suppose to be another Trump foreign policy “success” we should celebrate? Another example of 3D chess? Anybody who knows anything about the history of Crimea (and I bet most on here are well versed) knows that Russia is never going to give up Crimea nor should it! Crimea has been Russian for hundreds of years! So we should just forget about ever achieving good relations between the U.S. and Russia? We all know what happened in the Ukraine under Obama. The neocons (Nuland) spent billions to overthrow a democratically president of the Ukraine. Thousands of innocents died horrible deaths as a result of U.S. intervention. But for the illegal U.S. actions in the Ukraine Russia would never have had to annex Crimea. Trump campaigned on better relations with Russia and seemed open to recognizing Crimea as Russian. Unfortunately it appears the unrelenting campaign to paint Trump as a “puppet of Putin” has worked and Trump has caved into the pressure by adopting a belligerent stance towards Russia – not only in the Ukraine but in Syria (to the delight of ISIS and Al Qaeda). This neocon foreign policy stance will just lead to more bloodshed in the Ukraine. It didn’t have to be this way. A2 says: I’m with Secretary Tillerson. The grievance collectors (aka Putin apologists) and false narrative promoters can pound sand. SteveFrench says: It basically comes down to them (the grievance collectors) underestimating PDJT. Look, admittedly with any other candidate I would be likely to be on their side with regards to the situation with Assad and now Ukraine. And that side is something like: “This is what the Neocons have been campaigning for, so this is bad.” But just HOW can you now operate under the assumption that that Trump doesn’t know something that is obvious to you? Memes about Trump having a time machine were popular because the guy has had such solid intel ffs. I just can’t wait until something so big and successful happens, maybe with NK or negotiation in the ME, so that most everyone will be forced to admit that we are dealing with an individual that operates on another level here. I do not operate under any assumptions, just the facts on the ground. The so-called Russian grievance collectors are disinfo agents or morons who do not pay attention to actual events. The rest of your post is garbled. The President=Sec Tillerson. Got that. No time machine, no memes. The memes are yours. What is your argument? The President, and the SoS are not ‘operating on ‘another level’. They are operating on hard evidence. We are in agreement, I think you misunderstood my post. Steve seemed to be agreeing with your comment about “grievance collectors” (whatever that is) and you turn around and insult him! Not very nice! Thank you Mr. Kagan. These statements by SOS Tillerson may be a wee bit more than first meets the eye. In 1994 Bill Clinton signed the Budapest Agreement, agreeing to protect Ukraine, and Ukraine gave up Ukraine’s nuclear weapons. Putin broke that 1994 agreement. “Is it fair to speculate that the Kremlin is also interested in the Clinton Foundation?” “(will) New York’s attorney general will investigate”? Recall, Obama/Clinton guy Preet Bhara was fired. http://observer.com/2016/06/vladimir-putin-has-everything-he-needs-to-blackmail-hillary-clinton/ Obama/Clinton also broke the 1994 Budapest agreement. Meanwhile, Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk became one of the largest Clinton Foundation donors, and atttempted to influence Bill Clinton to become anti-Putin. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/19/wikileaks-ukraine/ Have any of the 13 steps included in the Minsk II agreement been accomplished, or even attempted? It would seem not. Minsk I was never even begun. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/09/economist-explains-7 One may become entangled in all the weeds, but imo these statements by SOS Tillerson are more than just what appears on the surface, even a potential bargaining chip. Perhaps Putin knows this as well. If one may be permitted, plagerizing Sharon, “I’m wondering if The Donald already knows a lot more than he’s letting on to, but is willing to pursue the public dance because he already actually knows how it ends??? I can’t imagine him risking doing what he’s doing based on hunches…even to a greater extent than he’s already made reference to. We don’t have to worry about The Donald’s loyalties, I don’t believe.” https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2011/04/07/the-donald-has-gone-nuclear-too-trump-i-have-investigators-in-hawaii-they-cannot-believe-what-theyre-finding/comment-page-1/#comment-11442 Wow, kudos to you jeans2nd for your in depth reading of previous CTH articles and posts….that goes w-a-y back. WOW! That was a fun interview! And since it covered some of what T-Rex is saying, I just had to share PDJT’s closing remarks to Meridith… “I know this. I will be better than anybody. I will do the best job. If I decide to run, I will do the best job. I will be best for this country. And, you may say, “Oh, gee, that doesn’t sound like George Washington.” Well, guess what? Before George Washington ran, he didn’t sound like George Washington either. I will be and do a great job, if I run and if I win.” If the Budapest Memorandum had been a treaty, it would have had to be voted on by the senate. It wasn’t and it’s not. Bush the Elder also assured Gorbachev that we wouldn’t enroll former Soviet republics into NATO. We lied. Best solution to Crimea – let it be independent and lease their port to Russia if they wish. Best solution to Ukraine (after neutralizing $0r0$) is a massive MRP (Muslim Repatriation Program) to return Muslims to Saudi Arabia (Sunni) or Iran (Shiite). Really, Saudi Arabia should have to take them all. That is where the evil ideology was formed and that is where it should return. As for the Africa – muslims have been an evil plague there for way too long. It’s heart-wrenching how many deaths, slavery, oppression Africa has suffered at the hands and swords of Islamists. The whole world desperately needs MRP to be enacted globally. Answer to the entire world not blowing up! Thanks, georgiafl! Put a wall around it. Or offer complete annihilation to relieve the Royal family from their misery and demise. georgiafl, would you trust your security to a lease? There are 100 year leases – just like the USA leases sites for our bases, etc. ALSO – didn’t Crimea have a majority vote to return to alliance with Russia? Ukraine has had major problems with corruption and will have more serious problems with $0r0$ and Islam influencing the country. $0r0$ is still Nazi at heart. Islamism and Nazism are twin ideologies – equally tyrannical and barbaric. Good. Russia is a rapidly dying country. The fact they are squandering precious resources on conflicts that are nothing more then a replay of Cold War is obvious…Look at the leaders of Russia since end of Cold War and that answers many questions… We owe Russia nothing and they are not our friends in any way…..We can try to work together and that’s fine, but you don’t concede anything to a thug like Putin….I feel the same way about most of Europe…Pay up and fix yourselves….They all have much bigger bark then bite… Set the ground rules and walk away… At least Russia (like Poland and Hungary) has resisted the encroachment and demon hordes ofl Islam. Russia has a large and growing muslim population: https://www.stratfor.com/image/russias-growing-muslim-population I believe the only country on the Eurasian continent that is nominally Christian to have higher numbers is France. And many converts: https://globalecco.org/en_GB/ctx-v1n1/violent-converts-to-islam Go down to the section about other countries — Russia is having a problem with ethnic Russians, who one would suppose are at least nominally ROC in origin, converting to islam, and worse becoming jihadists. Oh – I had read Russia had cracked down and rejected Islamist invasion after the Beslan School massacre. Thanks for the correction. Anywhere Islam spreads is plagued and in for a lot of suffering. Re-correction for you, georgiafl. The Russians have a very aggressive anti-Wahhabi Islam security program in the Caucuses (Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia). These are Muslim republics in the RF, and the ISIS and AQ sponsors in Saudi Arabia have for 35 years sent radicals into these areas to fight the government forces. The FSB intercepts and kills many bombers and assailants all the time. There are special units dedicated to these regions and to the big cities of Russia. The St. Petersburg bomber and his cell (he was not a lone wolf, but a directed agent) have been uncovered, the leaders captured. So, more links will be uncovered. The Russians are very effective internally and internationally at fighting Islamic terror. Egypt is desperate to get Russia to come help them fight the MB/ISIS. Turkey depends on Russian Intel services to help them against terrorists. And the Central Asian ‘stans all depend on Russian security against Islamic radicals. https://www.rt.com/news/385307-suspect-petersburg-blast-detained/ Russia also has Siberia where they can store terrorists indefinitely….longterm cold storage. You’re welcome. It isn’t well known because it is not well reported. It is nonetheless significant, I think. I won’t lie: it troubles me greatly; I am afraid it will have serious future repercussions that may be coming into play now. The bigger crime is letting Obama, $0r0$ and Islam have their way in Ukraine. Alex…and you know about VVP & RUSSIA only from NYT & WAPO sir that is not eunogh. Agree, sanctions a nothingburger… Importantly, at home, this stance mutes the blathering of war hungry Punch and Judy (McCain & Graham) and their ilk. Pres. Trump has dinner with them (P&J) this week probably for a come to Jesus moment. Also, accentuates leverage in Europe pre-G7 meeting and anticipating opening, on a country by country basis, bilateral trade discussions. An ancillary benefit is the EU’s continuing to be exposed as an over bloated gas bag. Oh yeah, more leverage to get NATO “allies” to pay up This belligerent stance towards Russia will not mute McCain and Graham it simply rewards them them for their past attacks on Trump’s previous foreign policies (that he campaigned on). In an interview last week Graham said he was the happiest man in D.C. after Trump’s 180 degree turn on Russia. This just came in to my account: MORNING: 10:00AM: President Trump has a video conference with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station – Watch LIVE 11:30AM: President Trump has a working lunch with ambassadors of countries on the United Nations Security Council AFTERNOON: 2:30PM: President Trump signs a proclamation on Holocaust Remembrance 3:00PM: President Trump hosts a credential ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to Washington, D.C. 4:30PM: President Trump meets with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford 5:30PM: President Trump participates in a reception with conservative media 6:30PM: President Trump has dinner with Senator John McCain, Mrs. Cindy McCain, and Senator Lindsey Graham Bet President T is rrrrreally looking forward to this evening. Ha! Ha! I wonder what will be on the menu?! Sandra-VA says: Meatloaf, of course! crows- for Graham & McCain. Ha! Forgot about that! artichoke says: I support Trump in almost everything, but this seems like a contradiction of his campaign rhetoric that a lot of us liked. Why are we still fighting the cold war? Why are we trying to uphold General Secretary Khrushchev’s maneuver to transfer Crimea from the Russian SSR to the Ukrainian SSR? Why are we backing the side with neo-Nazi associations? Nose holding, stinky, swamp politics is reality. Trump has waded into the Neocon muck to get our domestic agenda passed in the legislature. Thank God for Teflon, soap and water. dododo says: I remember reading that Ukraine has a weak, corrupt govt and is a hotbed of islamic terrorism. C. Lowell says: T-Rex is no John Kerry, that’s for sure, And I’m sure this is code for DJT/Putin collusion, but I’ll leave it to the MSM to analyze that… Linked is an article which gives basic information about Crimea, its history, relevancy and which US state(s) it is most like. http://theweek.com/articles/449175/which-american-state-most-like-crimea This gives a very good overview of Crimea: https://www.britannica.com/place/Crimea Also includes the history. But I thought DJT was colluding with Russia — These comments don’t seem like collusion… Or maybe the Democrats and MSM are lying? saintoil says: I drop in here every now and then since the Tomahawk betrayal to the base to see if your current reactions. So your cheering Trump and Tillerson on now with the hyper Neo Con Job???? So are you guys ready to go to war for the Ukraine neo nazi’s that WE installed????? I don’t hardly recognize my formerly beloved CTH. You clearly have not read the comments. Hillary and McCain are surely proud of the slow learner Trump turned neo. Are you guys aware that Crimea is mostly Russian speaking and overwhelmingly voted to align with Russia? If you had read all the previous comments in this thread you would have noted that this has been pointed out several times. In fact, I have seen this espoused many times in other threads over the months, so I do think most here are educated on the facts regarding Crimea. This is a very troll like post that fits nicely into the current leftist talking points. ‘I don’t think it’s troll like… but…..by taking pro isis rebel, pro EU, pro globalist “GESTURES” he might be stabbing us in the back…….IF he doesn’t stop it ? What makes you think he is going to stop it? Give me one thing that has happened that gives you hope? And do NOT site 4 or 8 D chess. It’s folly, it’s all consistent since the great betrayal took place because Evanka cried and he had a neo conversion from evidence presented from his ENEMIES in the deep state. I am no troll, I was one of his biggest fans before the BETRAYAL. I went to many rallies and gave money. And loved every minute of it. Something happened folks. I voted for America first. There just doesn’t seem to be any debate here about the circumstances of what happened. Just glossing over and hope and wish that it’s some 7 D chess and that he will snap back or say he was hoodwinked by the black hats. I suppose this does fit into leftist talking points and that is the problem. Doing what he did is inconsistent with his promises. 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However tradition dictates that upon marriage, the Sovereign grant an official title to a Prince of the realm, as Prince William was upon his marriage to Kate Middleton (now Duchess of Cambridge) in 2011. In this article we explore why (in all likelihood) Harry will become the second Duke of Sussex, along with the varied and curious parallels between him and the only previous holder of the title. Prince Harry and Meghan Meghan Markle might become The Duke and duchess of Sussex? Picture by Andrew Parsons / i-Images To be a duke is to hold the highest title in the British peerage and as such they are awarded very rarely. At present there are a mere 35 dukedoms (though only 30 Dukes, as one person may hold several dukedoms), of which seven are specifically royal dukedoms. Since the creation of the first dukedom in 1337 by Edward III there have been various creations of specifically royal dukedoms awarded to husbands and direct male line descendants of the Sovereign, separate to those awarded to members of the aristocracy. Most dukedoms can only be inherited by legitimate male line descendants, and so over the last 700 years, many of them have fallen into abeyance through lack of heirs. The three major exceptions to this rule are the dukedoms of Cornwall, Rothesay and York – the first two currently held by Prince Charles and the third by Prince Andrew – which are traditionally always given to the eldest and second eldest sons of the reigning Monarch respectively. Aside from these three, there are only four extant royal dukedoms: Kent and Gloucester which are currently held by grandsons of George V, Edinburgh held by Prince Philip and Cambridge, held by Prince William. The Duke of Gloucester was granted his title on his 18th birthday, and The Duke of Kent succeeded just age 6 after his father’s death in WWII; but the others were granted by the Sovereign upon the occasion of their recipient’s marriage. It is therefore reasonable to assume that Prince Harry, as a direct male-line descendant of a reigning Monarch, will receive a dukedom when he weds Meghan Markle. Assuming The Queen chooses a previously used royal dukedom (and as a traditionalist we can probably assume this), her choices are surprisingly limited. The only previously used, but currently available royal dukedoms are Connaught, Albany, Cumberland, Ross, Kintyre, Kendal, Sussex and Clarence. Connaught, a province of what is now the independent Republic of Ireland, would be a wildly inappropriate choice to bestow on the man currently 5th in-line to the British throne. Albany and Cumberland were both revoked from previous holders after they fought in the German army in World War One, and their heirs are still alive, hence could dispute the right of anyone else to claim the title (quite apart from the distasteful association with Imperial Germany such titles bring). Ross and Kintyre were both very briefly held in medieval Scotland by younger sons of the King, but have not been used in over 500 years, while Kendal was almost always a gift to a close none-Royal, only once used for a baby son of King James II, who died before his first birthday. Clarence meanwhile has had the most colourful history of any dukedom, but a not entirely positive one. The Dukes of Clarence have been hit by a run of ill-luck in turn; dying young, slain in battle, being drowned in a barrel of wine for treason .The final Duke of Clarence, Prince Albert Victor, was the scandal hit elder brother of George V (this mysterious individual was the subject of much lurid speculation about his private life at the time and since including accusations of being Jack the Ripper). That leaves only Sussex from the available pool, and only one previous holder, offering a far more familiar and distinguished record for Prince Harry to follow… HRH Prince Augustus Frederick as a young man (wikimedia) Prince Augustus Frederick was born on the 27th January 1773 at Buckingham palace, the ninth child and sixth son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. Much like Prince Harry, he arrived at a time of great change for both Britain and its Royal Family: under George III, the Monarchy began the slow transition away from divinely appointed heads of state to the nations first family and representatives to the world. Also in common with Prince Harry, he was given freedom to develop his own interests and passions, safe in the knowledge that he was unlikely to be called to the throne. George III and Charlotte were blessed with many children, and so Augustus spent most of his early life with two of his brothers, the elder Ernest (born two years before) and the younger Adolphus (born a year later). All three were sent to Gottingen in Germany for their education, and to remove them from the dissolute influence of their oldest brother, the future King George IV, when Augustus was just 13. While he was a keen student, the young Prince also suffered from asthma and was unfortunately unable to follow his brothers into military training, as would have been traditional. As such, the young Augustus missed out on the action of the French revolutionary wars which occupied his brothers, and looked for another outlet for his energy. At first he considered a career in the church, before ultimately deciding to travel Europe instead as many young aristocrats did at the time. It was probably on these travels that he began to pick up the progressive views and enlightenment attitudes to science and religion which were to characterise his later life. It was also where he first fell in love. She was Lady Augusta Murray, the daughter of Lord Dunmore (a former Jacobite and last British governor of Virginia), she was 25, he was 20, and instantly besotted. They married secretly in an Anglican ceremony in Rome in April 1793, before returning to England and repeating the ceremony (again in private) in London that December. Unfortunately this was after the royal marriages act had been passed, forbidding marriage without the Sovereign’s consent, and an incensed George III absolutely refused to give his blessing, given the way it had happened. The marriage was therefore annulled in 1794, although the couple continued to live together for the next seven years, scandalising polite society by having two children, and apparently living very happily. However, despite the domestic bliss, as for many Royals to come, the lure of title and money proved to be a stronger one than love. In 1801, a settlement was worked out with his father and parliament whereby he agreed to stop living with Lady Augusta and their children in return for a grant of £12,000 from parliament per annum, and the title Duke of Sussex, while the Lady herself received £4,000 per annum with which to maintain herself and their children. While from here on the new Duke dedicated himself to his royal duties and began to broaden his interests, his unconventional streak would resurface many times. Often his set him against his parents or elder brothers, giving Augustus the impression of being the vanguard for royalty in the future to come; his enquiring and liberal personality far more inline with the conventions of the emerging 19th century society than the outdated notions of the 18th century Britain. Much as with Prince Harry today, the Duke of Sussex was associated with many progressive and liberal causes of the day. This included strong support for anti-slavery legislation, electoral reform, Jewish rights freemasonry, scientific enquiry and Catholic emancipation. In supporting this last cause, he put himself directly in opposition to his father and elder brother, both of whom were vehemently opposed to any relaxation of the anti-Catholic laws of the time. The Duke was also a strong believer in the new ideas of the enlightenment, spending his life supporting the work of intellectuals in all fields. The Duke of Wellington put it best in his message of condolence upon the Duke’s passing, saying that ‘his late Royal Highness was during his whole life the protector of literature, of the sciences, and of the arts, and of the professors and representatives of all branches of knowledge’. HRH prince Augustus Frederick, the Duke of Sussex (Smithsonian Museum of American Art) This culminated in 1830 when the Duke of Sussex became the only Royal in history to be elected President of the Royal Society. A score of letters from his tenure have survived (he headed the society for eight years, reportedly quitting because he couldn’t keep up with the expense of the formal dinners he was required to attend). The letters which survive show a man concerned with many different branches of learning, and also with not being overly extravagant (many relate to the cost of events and awards). The Duke’s interest and trust in the new learning manifests itself in various anecdotes from throughout his life. He was one of the first people to consent to a risky (and relatively untried) cataract operation, which restored his sight in 1832. He also took a special interest in learning Hebrew and Jewish rights more generally; at his death he reportedly owned over 500 Hebrew books. Augustus is also notable for having founded London’s very first Jewish orphanage. His willingness to combine the religious passion of previous ages and the scientific enquiry of the new is probably best summed up in his speech from 1838 to the Royal Society, where he stated that “attached as I am to science–attached as I am to religion, I am satisfied that the real philosopher is the most religious man; and it is in looking to the operations in nature that the finger of the Almighty leads us to the lesson”. In much the same way his personal life, while normal to modern eyes, was unconventional for the time. The Duke of Sussex contracted a second marriage without royal permission in 1831 – again in contravention of the royal marriages act – to Lady Cecilia Buggin. This marriage however, given the Duke’s age and experience (and the fact that the succession had by now been secured, taking much of the urgency out of the matter) was allowed to continue, despite lack of royal permission. While Lady Cecilia was not accorded the title ‘Duchess of Sussex’, she was permitted to live in Kensington Palace and the marriage was reportedly a happy one. The Duchess of Inverness, Prince Augustus’ second wife (wikimedia) In common with her husband, Cecilia became a great favourite of the young Queen Victoria, who in 1840 created her Duchess of Inverness in her own right, to allow her to attend court and share her husband’s life there more openly. She remained a close companion of the Queen, even after her husband’s passing, until her own death in 1873. Throughout his life the Duke of Sussex also seems to have adopted something of a ‘beloved uncle’ role in his extended family. Perhaps it was his youth and progressive views, which contrasted so severely with his brothers, that endeared him to his royal nieces, or perhaps the appeal of a favourite uncle over difficult parents is one with a strong hold in any century. Accordingly the Duke was a great supporter of his niece Princess Charlotte (daughter of the then Prince Regent, and later king George IV) in her attempts to escape her fathers controlling influence. In 1814, she famously fled from her father’s custody to try and avoid a marriage she didn’t want, receiving the Duke’s full support against his elder brother. When Princess Charlotte and her father reconciled, only for her to once again be left in isolation with little personal freedom, she smuggled a note pleading for help to her uncle. The Duke of Sussex spoke up for his niece in the house of Lords with such passion and force, that he was summoned to the palace by his enraged brother, the Prince Regent. His defence of his wayward niece so angered his brother that the two men reportedly never spoke again. Augustus also appears to have been held in even greater esteem by his most famous niece: Queen Victoria. The Duke seems to have been very fond of Victoria and seems to have come to represent something of the father figure she lacked, given the early death of her own father. This close bond is demonstrated in 1840 when, despite not being the eldest remaining brother (that being the ultra-conservative Ernest), Victoria requested he be the one to give her away at her wedding to Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha; in addition to this, the queen created him Grand Master of the Order of the Bath. Only a few years later in 1843, the Duke himself died. A radical to the last, he refused himself the honour of a state funeral and requested to be buried in Kensal Green cemetery, so as to be laid next to his none-royal wife, Lady Cecilia. It was a request his niece the Queen was more than willing to grant, and the couple lie side by side to this day. In his youthful energy, unconventional romantic choices, patronage of charities and socialites, modern interests and kindness to his younger relations; we can see much of Prince Harry in 19th century (potential) predecessor. Should these Princes indeed end up sharing a title, there can be no better predecessor to look towards, nor indeed successor to anticipate the successes of, than these two men. will prince harry be granted the dukedom of Sussex? augustus frederickduke of sussexdukedomroyal weddingtitle The Bacton Altar Cloth – Elizabeth I’s only... Fri 11 October, 2019 Royal rewind: the funeral of Diana, Princess of... Fri 06 September, 2019 Have the bones of Queen Emma been found... Thu 16 May, 2019 See the connections between Britain & Russia in... Sat 30 March, 2019 Barbara Villiers: the drama, passion & rivalry of... Sun 27 January, 2019 George III’s Great Pagoda at Kew reopens with... Thu 12 July, 2018 Tell me about…. The Most Noble Order of... 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__label__cc	0.732641	0.267359	Why We Don’t Have Comments by Ijeoma Oluo, Editor-At-Large What were we thinking with this whole ‘no comments’ thing? I f there’s one question we got more than any other in the few weeks after launching The Establishment, it was this one: Why don’t you have comments? On the surface, it might seem strange for a newly launched online publishing platform to not allow comments. Frequently commented stories are shared more often and drive up page views, as well as time on the site. Comments equal clicks, and clicks equal revenue. For a brand-new platform with no established (yes, I see what I did there) reputation, it just doesn’t seem like smart business. In addition, as a platform dedicated to discussing issues that don’t usually get attention in mainstream media, wouldn’t we want to promote dialogue in our comments section? Really — what were we thinking with this whole “no comments” thing? The truth is, in the ramp-up to launch, we thought long and hard about whether to include a comments section, but when it came time to decide, each and every one of us said “no.” The founding team — Kelley Calkins, Nikki Gloudeman, Katie Tandy, Jessica Sutherland, Ruchika Tulshyan, and myself — all had our own reasons for deciding that we didn’t want a comments section. We’ve decided to share those reasons with you here. Kelley Calkins, Cofounder & News Director, focused on the fact that comments sections rarely provide the thoughtful feedback they were designed for: “It can be an uncomfortable and painful process to encounter new ideas or opinions, especially if they are directly critical of your work. But this process is imperative; a true discourse — however challenging — is vital to moving us toward a more equitable and informed society. I keep this in mind when others call out issues they see in my words, and have come to value deeply the times when others invest energy in engaging with me, enabling me to evolve. A vast majority of my most formative ‘Aha!’ moments were borne of writers and thinkers rebutting and debating viewpoints. This, however, rarely happens in comments sections online — and certainly never as a result of hurled invectives or brutal ad hominem attacks. And this is, sadly, what unmonitored comments sections seemingly inevitably devolve into. Never once has being called a worthless cunt contributed to my personal growth. Never once has being threatened with rape inspired intellectual advancement. Nary a single time has being called ugly and stupid enriched my life or society in any way.” Nikki Gloudeman, Cofounder & Editorial Director, focused on how comments sections legitimize abusive language: “The Internet, that greatest of democratizers, has in many ways served as a powerful force for positive change; in the best of circumstances, marginalized voices that might otherwise be denied a platform are provided the critical space to be heard. But by its very nature, this democratization also provides space for those who have always been heard, and who least deserve to be: namely, privileged, hateful assholes. Worse yet, the Internet presents the illusion that these bigoted voices carry as much weight, and deserve as much space, as the marginalized voices. Every time, for instance, you read a story about rape, and then proceed to dive into a comments section where a bunch of men talk about how the woman probably deserved it or fabricated her story, you’re left with the perception that the voices of rape survivors and the voices of rape apologists are of equal merit. They aren’t. Providing a platform for bigotry is an implicit endorsement of its value, when it actually has none.” Katie Tandy, Cofounder & Creative Director, focused on fostering an environment that appeals to our better natures: “I lament my beleaguered memory, but I recently read an article that described the comments section as the authentic America — that in the bowels of those small white glowing boxes was a true, if twisted, cross-section of our society. And I’m wont to agree. There, in the blissful bravery that anonymity provides, people indulge their darkness; their basest fears. They bare their fetid teeth and claws, lashing out at those who are alternatively the most brave and the most vulnerable. And often in this Venn diagram of writers, they are both. Yet the comments section — which on paper is a virtual democracy in which all voices can and will be heard — has been hijacked and bastardized; it is decidedly Free Speech run amok. We have allowed behavior that is tantamount to hate crimes and granted it our greatest societal blessing. We have created and methodically maintained a ‘safe place’ for every disgusting ‘ism’ on the goddamn planet — while exposing writers and creators to the kind of caustic cruelty that as far as I’m concerned, only belongs in dystopian fiction. As Mark O’Connell wrote so succinctly in his New Yorker piece, “It’s Comments All The Way Down”: ‘Clicking a View All Comments button is a mild manifestation, I suspect, of the Freudian death instinct.’ If the comments section is truly a cross-section of humanity, then we, as humanity, need to do better. Full stop. And let’s be honest. There’s a lot of other ways to reach out — email, Facebook, and Twitter to name but three — to let us know what you think. This isn’t about silence or censorship; it’s about civility. It’s about fostering a critically thinking dialogue that isn’t predicated on expletives, fear-mongering, shame, or threats of sexual assault. Imagine that.” Jessica Sutherland, Marketing Director, focused on the psychic toll that hateful comments take on both writers and readers: “My marginal Internet fame was met with mostly positive comments, with the exception of white supremacists who hate everything, and creepy dudes who read an article about homeless college students and couldn’t contain their thoughts on where they’d like to put their penises. I had a public Facebook post once that led to a fairly large debate among absolute strangers about a woman’s right to choose, while other strangers told me I should have been aborted. It was intense for a couple of days, but fizzled out. I think I’m fortunate in this regard, because I see what happens to everyone else and it terrifies me. It’s not just the writers . . . it’s also those whose life experiences make the news who are attacked by these faceless Wi-Fi warriors. A childhood friend of mine was attacked outside a gay bar, and the things people said about him in the comments sections of the news coverage broke my heart. I have hundreds of writer friends in my world, and I have seen them attacked in the comments, doxxed, threatened, and worse. I fear for my friends’ safety, but I fear more for their openness — they are brave enough to share a part of themselves with the world, and this is how the world thanks them. What if they stop shouting their stories? I know these garbage people don’t matter, in the big scheme of things. That’s why, to me, it was not a difficult decision for the ladies of the Establishment to keep comments off our site: we strive to provide a platform for voices we seldom hear in the media, and our content creators offer up so much of themselves to our readers, so that readers may see things a little differently when next they look at the world. We have a responsibility to house that gift they’ve given us in a safe place of honor — not out in the yard, where the bottom-feeders can try to destroy it. So yeah, we don’t have comments. We’re not here to waste our bandwidth on hate debates nobody can never, ever win . . . we aim to provide a positive experience for our content creators and consumers alike.” Ruchika Tulshyan, Contributing Editor, focused on the disproportionate amount of abuse that women writers of color face in the comments: “Writers who are also women of color encounter particularly damaging vitriol, mostly ad hominem, when they write about minority issues at the intersection of gender, race, and class. Having been called names I wouldn’t dare call my worst enemy, by prowlers hiding behind the anonymous and cowardly masks the Internet readily provides, I have often felt deterred from writing on important topics such as immigration reform. The Establishment recognizes that hot-button issues in the digital age give trolls the very platform they need to spew venom at bold writers. So we take a proactive stance to ensure our courageous storytellers never feel a moment’s hesitation when telling difficult, multi-layered stories. We always welcome well thought-out critiques by email. We love active debates, but politely decline assholish diatribes.” For me personally, Ijeoma Oluo, Editor-At-Large, the reason was simple: Abuse is not dialogue. Abuse is not speech. Abuse is abuse, and we owe it to our writers and our readers to stop legitimizing abuse. Assholes already have plenty of platforms from which to abuse women, people of color, disabled people, sex workers, the poor, and the LGBTQI community. We won’t provide one here. Even though we don’t have comments, we encourage you to keep the conversation going on Twitter and Facebook.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1917
__label__cc	0.598754	0.401246	Brussels lobbying rules are ineffective say lobbyists Daniel Freund Today, organisations representing a large cross-section of lobbyists called for strong reform of the EU’s lobby register. The joint letter, initiated by Transparency International EU, calls for mandatory rules for all lobbyists and demands greater transparency around who EU officials and politicians meet with. The letter calls for a “robust and credible transparency regime”. The signatories state: “we simply cannot afford to further delay reforms and go on with business as usual”. “The fact that representatives of all these different organisations have come together to say the rules which govern them aren’t strong enough speaks volumes,” said Daniel Freund, who leads Transparency International EU’s work on EU lobbying. “The EU can no longer ignore the flaws in the current lobbying rules,” Freund continued. The letter calls for all EU institutions to be covered by a mandatory lobby register, including the Council. The signatories demand that all lobbyists register, file their declarations with diligence and abide by the basic rules of the Code of Conduct. The joint letter was drafted and signed together with the major associations representing EU public affairs professionals (SEAP), consultancies (EPACA) and lawyers (CCBE) and is supported by umbrella groups, such as the European Youth Forum and Social Platform. The demands outlined in the letter were also supported by more than 67,000 citizens from across Europe that signed an online petition. The joint letter “Lobbyists for Transparent Lobbying” can be found here. The petition is available here. Transparency International EU’s recommendations on increased lobby transparency are here and the reply to the European Commission consultation is here. Transparency International EU, Daniel Freund, dfreund@transparency.org, +32 489 58 71 40 SEAP, Rui Faria da Cunha, DG@seap.be, +32 486 99 72 28 EPACA, Karl Isaksson, karl.isaksson@kreab.com, +32 2 737 69 04 CCBE, Simone Cuomo, cuomo@ccbe.eu, +32 2 234 65 10 EU money & politics Integrity Watch EU Integrity Watch is a central hub of online tools that allow citizens, journalists and civil society to monitor the integrity of decisions made by politicians in the EU Lobbying in Europe Lobby meetings of the European Commission Transparency International EU has published new analysis of lobbying in Brussels on 1 December 2015. It reveals that the overwhelming majority of lobby meetings held by European Commissioners and their closest advisors are with representatives of corporate interests. PDF • 577.8 KB Download Joint Letter – Lobbyists for Transparent Lobbying PDF • 173.64 KB Download Head of Advocacy EU Integrity (on leave) dfreund@transparency.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1918
__label__cc	0.737189	0.262811	TRANSWESTERN COMPLETES SALE AND LEASE TRANSACTIONS - May 8, 2018 FORT WORTH – Transwestern today announces the following sale and lease transactions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Armet Dale Street Limited purchased 1420 Northpark Drive, a 31,128-square-foot industrial property in Fort Worth from Cameo America Corporation. Transwestern Principals Jeff Givens and Todd Hawpe acted as intermediaries in the transaction. Quorum Architects Inc. purchased 825 Vickery Blvd., a 12,000-square-foot office building in Fort Worth. Transwestern Director Jim Sager and Linda Claytor represented the sellers in the transaction. American Builders & Contractors Supply Co. Inc. sold 8144 West Frwy., a 46,651-square-foot industrial property in White Settlement, Texas, to NA Realty Investments Ltd. Transwestern Principals Jeff Givens and Todd Hawpe represented the buyer in the transaction. Mark Collins and Shannon Johnston of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller. Texas Elite Vending signed a new lease for 13,600 square feet of industrial space at 4101 Murray Ave. in Haltom City, Texas. Transwestern Principal Todd Hawpe represented the landlord, Random Properties, in the transaction. ABOUT TRANSWESTERN Transwestern is a privately held real estate firm of collaborative entrepreneurs who deliver a higher level of personalized service – the Transwestern Experience. Specializing in Agency Leasing, Tenant Advisory, Capital Markets, Asset Services and Research, our fully integrated global enterprise adds value for investors, owners and occupiers of all commercial property types. We leverage market insights and operational expertise from members of the Transwestern family of companies specializing in development, real estate investment management and research. Based in Houston, Transwestern has 35 U.S. offices and assists clients through more than 180 offices in 37 countries as part of a strategic alliance with BNP Paribas Real Estate. Experience Extraordinary at transwestern.com and @Transwestern. Andrea Wehler andrea.wehler@transwestern.com twmediarelations@transwestern.com Jeff Givens Todd Hawpe Jim Sager and @Transwestern. ", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "url" : "https://transwestern.com", "name" : "Transwestern", "logo" : { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://transwestern.com/assets/images/logo.png" }, "sameAs" : "https://www.facebook.com/transwestern" }, "author": { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "" }, "datePublished": "2018-05-08T00:00:00.0000000-05:00", "dateModified": "2018-05-08T00:00:00.0000000-05:00", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://transwestern.com/news-detail.aspx?c1=transwestern-completes-sale-and-lease-transactions-may-8-2018" } }	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1919
__label__wiki	0.544585	0.544585	0800 888 NUBE (6823) ventas@trenalasnubes.com.ar Official Site of the Train to the Clouds Integrated management system policy Send us your Curriculum Vitae Rates and promotions Thematic departures Thematic weddings Experimental Train Trip Dec 15, 1971 \| History The venture, now world-renowned, was born at the initiative of the authorities of the General Belgrano Railroad, who, at the end of 1971, decided to run a train with a Ganz-Mavag experimental high-mountain motor car with officials and journalists, the idea of a tourist train between Salta and Kilometer 1.350, that is the La Polvorilla Viaduct. The idea and management were consolidated months later by the tenacity of the Chamber of Hoteliers and the will of the railway authorities of Salta. According to the journalist and writer Luis Borelli, the name ͞Tren a las Nubes͟ is due to a colored film made by two Tucumán cameramen who, in the 60s before the tourist exploitation, made the Salta / Socompa section on board the train . When they reached La Polvorilla Viaduct, the machine made a side discharge of steam that, due to the low temperature of the place, did not dissipate quickly and remained floating for a few moments in the Puno air. The work was offered to the Railway, which later gave it to Clarín newspaper journalist Emilio Petcoff, to make the script of the documentary. The reporter, watching the filming, was attracted by the jet of steam that embraced the machine in La Polvorilla and titled that job “Train to the Clouds”. Later, Ferrocarriles Argentinos adopted that name for the only railway tourism undertaking that the country had at that time, which covered 217 km of the C14 branch.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1922
__label__cc	0.659613	0.340387	Mini Tutorials The Vae Difference Vae Enters Permanent Maintenance Mode - May 21, 2019 It’s with a heavy heart that I am writing to tell you that we are officially moving the Vae product into a permanent maintenance-only mode. When we first released Vae in 2007, the e-commerce and CMS landscape was drastically different. Vae’s one-stop-shop approach seemed promising, Wordpress was still a small startup, and Shopfiy’s shadow was not nearly as long. However, we failed to appreciate the importance of the open-source nature of Wordpress and the community-driven app marketplace of Shopify. As a result, those platforms have a much richer community of plugins and extensions with which we’ll never be able to compete. Also, static site generators such as Jekyll and Github Pages have replaced many of the use cases we developed Vae for, and they do so with much greater community support. As such, Vae has not grown at the pace necessary for us to sustain releasing new features and updates. We do not make a profit on Vae today, even without factoring in the costs of ongoing development and customer support. We know that you have invested considerably in the development of your Vae sites, which is why we resisted calls from investors and advisors to shutter Vae completely. We feel that a better option for the company and our customers is to shift into a maintenance-only mode, the details of which are as follows: We will no longer be adding new features or keeping integrations with third parties up to date. We will make updates as-needed to keep the core of Vae’s services running, but are not guaranteeing that every aspect and feature will continue to work. We will no longer be providing any refunds because of Vae service availability. We currently have no timeline on shutting down Vae entirely, but we will not be doing so until at least 2021. If we do decide to fully shut down Vae, we will notify you at least 180 days prior. To minimize the burden this may cause you and other customers, we reached out to a number of third parties to see if they were interested in taking over Vae’s development. While nobody showed interest, substantial portions of Vae are already open source, and we are happy to continue to review any pull requests you want to make. We appreciate your loyalty and support over the 12 years, and if you have any questions, you can contact us at 1-800-286-8372 or support@vaeplatform.com. Justin & Kevin The only members remaining, The Vae Platform Team Deluxe Hosting Platform VaeML Reference VaeQL Reference Copyright © 2007-2016 Action Verb, LLC. All rights reserved Action Verb Vae™ is a service of Action Verb, LLC,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1928
__label__cc	0.627795	0.372205	America ReFramed Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route \| Promo Preview: Season 7 Episode 3 \| 30s DETROIT 48202: CONVERSATIONS ALONG A POSTAL ROUTE explores the rise, demise and contested resurgence of the "motor city" through a multi-generational choir of voices who reside in mail carrier Wendell Watkins’s work route. Blamed for the devastation - disinvestment to bankruptcy - but determined to survive, the community offers creative solutions to re-imagine a more inclusive and equitable city. Major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Wyncote Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Reva & David Logan Foundation and the Park Foundation. Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route \| Trailer Exploring the rise, demise and contested resurgence of Detroit, America's "motor city." Preview: S7 Ep3 \| 1m 15s Season 7 Season 6 Season 5 Season 4 Surviving Home Millions of veterans have put their lives on the line. Surviving war is just the beginning S7 Ep14 \| 1h 27m 5s Perfectly Normal For Me Four youth, ages 5 to 15, reveal what it’s like to live with physical disabilities. Struggle & Hope The stories, and fight, of the residents of the last remaining all-Black towns in the U.S. Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route S7 Ep3 \| 1h 24m 57s Pyne Poynt A Camden, NJ resident leads a charge to reclaim Pyne Poynt Park for the community's youth.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1934
__label__cc	0.729198	0.270802	Wall street demands massive bailout or else Doug Henwood: Real solution includes shifting spending to green and public infrastructure A video could not be found. Please contact technical support for further assistance. Transcript Not Available Doug Henwood is the founder and editor of the Left Business Observer. Henwood is also a contributing editor of The Nation and does a weekly program on WBAI radio, New York’s Pacifica outlet. His book, The State of the USA Atlas, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1994; his Wall Street was published by… How to Save the World from Financialization Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less What Future for the UK with One-Third of Children in Poverty? Biden’s Real Union & Labor Track Record Rising Expenses and Stagnant Incomes Squeezes Middle Class Everywhere Unemployment is Down – Why Aren’t Wages Up? Trump’s Fed Nominee Has “Far Out Ideas,” But Progressive Criticism of the Fed is Important UDHR: Setting Limits On Power Still Pending Since 1948 The IMF is at it Again in Argentina’s Economic Crisis Economic Update: Seattle Firm Converts to Worker Co-Op	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1937
__label__cc	0.653148	0.346852	News Posts Categorised ‘NITGP (Showtime)’ Articles covering things that are Not In The Game Page – articles covering the screenshots, videos, previews and reviews on The Sims 3 Showtime page are not here, so other stuff is easier to find New The Sims 3 Game Update Adds Dumpster Diving, Stops Blueprint Crashes, More Thursday 21st February 2013 \| 9:05 pm UK time \| Categories NITGP (Ambitions) NITGP (Generations) NITGP (Late Night) NITGP (Seasons) NITGP (Showtime) The Sims 3 Ambitions The Sims 3 Generations The Sims 3 Late Night The Sims 3 Showtime A The Sims 3 game update has been released, fixing a large number of bugs, as well as adding some new items: Free Sims 3 Base Game Content Sims can now dumpster dive from the Commercial Dumpster pre-placed in Sunset Valley and find cool items including furniture and collectables! New air conditioning units and electrical box decorative objects. New Terrain Paint for Build Mode. A new traffic light for Create a World. See the full list of fixes, and the checklist of things to do before updating, by clicking below — you’ll need to switch to English > United States via the flag at the top if you can’t see the post (“Game update 1.50”). > “News:February 2013” at TheSims3.com The Sims 3 Game Update To Version 1.36 Released Monday 9th July 2012 \| 7:02 pm UK time \| Categories EA has released a game update for The Sims 3, updating it to version 1.36. Here’s some of the changes: Fixed a crash when Data Execution Prevention is turned on. Collections are now available. Sims no longer receive a green tint while in CAS. Relationships will not be negatively impacted when not responding to crowd requests while performing on stage. To view the full list of changes, and see the update checklist, click below and look for the “Game Update for 1.36” post — if you can’t find it on the page, you’ll need to switch to English > United States using the second link, then try the first link again. > “News:July 2012” at TheSims3.com > “Please Select Your Language” at TheSims3.com Poll Results: Which new profession did you have a Sim take up in The Sims 3 Showtime first? Tuesday 5th June 2012 \| 9:19 pm UK time \| Categories Another poll has come to an end and the results are in. 20% of you had a Sim take up the acrobat profession first, with another 20% choosing singer. No one fancied starting with a magician Sim. Click below to view the full results, then return here to comment on them. > Poll results In the new poll I’m wondering whether any of you still play The Sims 2, or even The Sims 1. Vote with explanation if you fancy explaining why you still play The Sims 2, for example. You can vote to the right of any page. If I’ve received enough votes by then, the poll will close on Tuesday 3rd July with the results revealed then. Get Some Showtime Tips & Tricks Friday 25th May 2012 \| 10:45 pm UK time \| Categories EA has been posting some The Sims 3 Showtime tips and tricks to the My Page wall, but if you missed them, you can now read them all in a new blog post: If you throw something on stage during a friend’s visting Sim’s performance, they will most likely have it in their inventory when they return! If your Magician Sim dies while performing in the Box of Danger, he/she will finish the show as a ghost! > “Get helpful hints and learn fun tricks for The Sims 3 Showtime!” at TheSims3.com Poll Results: Have you got any of your Sims turned into a vampire in The Sims 3 Late Night? Tuesday 24th April 2012 \| 6:27 pm UK time \| Categories The results are in and it seems the majority of those who have The Sims 3 Late Night have had a Sim become a vampire. The same number of people though never bought Late Night. See the full results by clicking below, then return here to discuss them in the comments. It’s more than a month since Showtime’s release, so probably a fair few of you have bought it now, and have had one of your Sims take up one of the new professions — but which one? That’s what I want to know this time. Even if you’ve forgotten which one you took up first, or haven’t even got Showtime, you can still vote, so do it now on the right of any page. If I’ve received enough votes by then the poll will close on Tuesday 22nd May, with the results revealed then. Showtime Reviews Wrap-Up Saturday 21st April 2012 \| 8:01 pm UK time \| Categories I think it’s about time I wrapped up my The Sims 3 Showtime reviews coverage. As usual, I’ll now compare Showtime’s Metascore from Metacritic with those of its predecessors to see how it stacks up against them. So Showtime’s probably-final Metascore is 71 — this doesn’t beat the base game but then neither did any other expansion pack. It is though the second worst scoring expansion, with only Generations getting a lower score (70) — all the others range from 74 to 81. Comparing it to The Sims 2 expansion packs, it, along with Generations, got a lower score than all of them, ranging as they do from 74 – 81. Links to Metacritic along with the Metascore attained by each game are listed below — click read more if you can’t see them. So that concludes my reviews coverage. With the possible exception of any from GameSpot and IGN as they’re such major websites, I will not inform you about any more reviews here. However, I’ll still add them to the game page and mention that change on the Updates page. GamesRadar Lists Their 19 Favourite Woohoo Spots In The Sims 3 NITGP (Pets) The Sims 3 Pets As part of their week of love, GamesRadar has listed their top 19 favourite places to woohoo in The Sims 3: The Sims series has come a long way since the tame days of the first game in the series. Those no-fun prudes would barely go near each other unless it involved making a baby. Things loosened up when the concept of WooHooing was introduced in The Sims 2, and with The Sims 3 and its six expansions, Sims are presented with over a dozen zany places to get it on. > “Sims WooHoo spots – Our 19 favorite places to love our fellow Sim” at GamesRadar As mentioned in the introduction to that article, The Sims 3 also featured in their top 7 “game characters we (seriously) fell in love with” with “Your neighbor in The Sims” at number 4: It started off plainly enough: our neighbor came over for a housewarming party once we moved in, and we told them a few jokes. But then they came over again and the jokes became flirts. And then the flirts became more flirts. And then they slapped us, but then the jokes became more flirts. Cut to a few months later and we were married, pumping out kids like no one’s business. Read the rest of the entry on page 5: > “The Top 7… Game characters we (seriously) fell in love with” at GamesRadar Behind The Scenes Of Animating The Magicians In Showtime Wednesday 21st March 2012 \| 3:24 pm UK time \| Categories A new blog entry has been posted on TheSims3.com which goes behind the scenes of how they planned the animations of the magicians in The Sims 3 Showtime: In order to make our magician Sims feel like ‘the real deal,’ we elicited the help of local magic-man Dan Paulus. We admired his special blend of comedy and magic and thought it would mesh perfectly with the zany world of The Sims. Dan was able to give us a private magic show in which we picked up some great tips of the trade. Ultimately, our team was able to come out of the experience with much more than we had expected. > “Try to Understand, He’s a Magic Man” at TheSims3.com See Some Of Showtime’s Karaoke Singing Being Recorded Monday 12th March 2012 \| 1:09 pm UK time \| Categories VideoGamer.com has got hold of a video showing some of the karaoke singing in The Sims 3 Showtime being recorded: EA’s Official Behind-The-Scenes-Of-Showtime-Katy-Perry-Advert Video Features Actual Advert Monday 5th March 2012 \| 12:14 pm UK time \| Categories EA has released an official video going behind the scenes of The Sims 3 Showtime’s advert featuring Katy Perry, and unlike the last one, it features the actual advert at the end so if you can’t wait to see it on TV, you can see it now. As well as discussing Showtime in general, Katy also explains the format of the advert: Please note that news posted before January 2010 is not categorised	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1941
__label__cc	0.612658	0.387342	I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project Metro Board meeting preview: several items — including project acceleration — could determine how billions of dollars are spent June Board meeting agenda The Metro Board of Directors meeting on Thursday should be both interesting and longer than a cold winter’s night with a broken furnace and no firewood, matches or a blanket. The Board has a lot on its collective plate, including several items that taken together will [continue reading] Full northbound I-405 closure between Montana and Moraga in West Los Angeles on June 22 This weekend on the I-405: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project contractor is scheduled to implement a full night-time closure of the northbound I-405 between Montana Avenue and Moraga Drive on Saturday night, June 22 from 12 a.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday morning, June 23, 2013. The closure is necessary [continue reading] One mile of new traffic lane added to the 405 project by Dave Sotero , June 18, 2013 Metro, Caltrans and Kiewit have opened another one-mile section of new freeway lane on the I-405 between Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, making good on a promise to continue opening parts of the freeway improvements project as soon as they’re ready for public use. Just before the Memorial Day [continue reading] Full freeway closures for Skirball Bridge in the Sepulveda Pass June 18-21 Here’s the skinny on what’s going on this week on the I-405: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project contractor is scheduled to implement full directional freeway closures on the nights of Tuesday, June 18, through Friday, June 21, 2013 to install girders for the Skirball Bridge in the Sepulveda Pass. [continue reading] Full Sepulveda Boulevard closure between Valley Vista and Sherman Oaks planned June 14 – 16 More work being done on the I-405 this weekend. Here’s the press release from Metro: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project contractor is anticipated to fully close a section of Sepulveda Boulevard between Valley Vista Boulevard and Sherman Oaks Avenue in Sherman Oaks during the weekend of June 14 – [continue reading] Transportation headlines, Thursday, May 30 Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. The 405 in the rear-view mirror (L.A. Times) The editorial page looks at delays [continue reading] Metro, Caltrans open first section of new freeway lane on northbound 405 by Dave Sotero , May 24, 2013 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xhTqfM60Mk] And here’s the news release from Metro: In time for the upcoming Memorial Day travel weekend, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) have officially opened an additional general purpose lane on the northbound I-405 between the I-10 and Santa Monica Boulevard [continue reading] Northbound 405 freeway closures Sunday and Monday nights between 10 freeway and Santa Monica Boulevard The above closure comes addition to the northbound closure tonight from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday at Santa Monica Boulevard — motorists will be able to exit the freeway at Santa Monica Boulevard and then re-enter, but delays are expected. More information about tonight’s closure here. The above [continue reading] Motorist advisory: northbound 405 freeway will close tonight and tomorrow night at Santa Monica Boulevard Here’s the news release from Metro: A short section of the northbound San Diego (405) Freeway, between the Santa Monica Boulevard on-ramp and the Santa Monica Boulevard off-ramp will be closed tonight and tomorrow night, Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. Motorists traveling [continue reading] Full northbound I-405 closure from Santa Monica Boulevard to Wilshire planned from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. Friday Here’s the news release from Metro: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project contractor is scheduled to conduct a full northbound I-405 freeway closure from Santa Monica Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles beginning Thursday night, May 9 2013 from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. The full northbound freeway [continue reading] ‹ Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 … 26 Older ›	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1942
__label__wiki	0.870967	0.870967	Horse Ku attacked by savage dog at Hillary’s beach Emily BakerThe West Australian Saturday, 14 December 2019 6:10PM Horse attack at Hillary's VideoHorse Ku attacked by savage dog at Hillary's horse beach A horse was savagely mauled by a dog at Hillary’s Beach on Saturday with skin and flesh ripped from its stomach. Blake Weller said the dog charged out of nowhere at his horse Ku as the pair emerged from the water. He was thrown from the horse and almost trampled but managed to hold onto the reins during the five minute frenzy as families with young children watched helplessly on. Mr Weller said he tried to whip the dog to keep it away but it managed to take a bite out of Ku’s side. Camera IconKu is recovering after a savage dog attack. Credit: Supplied Ku is a prized horse who had a promising career as a show jumper that was now in doubt. The wound is on the horse’s side where a rider’s foot would sit. Mr Weller said it was unlikely it would ever completely heal to a point that Ku could compete. He would also now need to come up with the veterinary fees, which would be at least $1000. In a Facebook post that attracted nearly 1000 comments in less than four hours, Mr Weller said the owner was lucky his dog was not killed. “All I wanted to do was spend time with my horses at the beach.” Camera IconKu had a promising career as a show horse. Credit: Supplied Mr Weller said what hurt the most was that the dog owner didn't apologise for the attack, which he has since reported to the local ranger. “Dog owners need to take more responsibility ... is it really that hard to put a leash on a dog?” he said. “A lead costs $2 versus thousands of dollars in veterinary fees.” Mr Weller said it was lucky the horse wasn't being ridden by a child or the outcome could have been even more disastrous. According to the City of Joondalup's website, dogs are allowed to be exercised at the Hillary's horse beach, which is just metres from the dog beach, but they must be restrained in the mornings. AnimalsWA News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1949
__label__wiki	0.887943	0.887943	Back to Front Page Slider A Lincoln County plan part 2: The role of the schools June 28, 2019 at 2:59 pm \| By BENJAMIN KIBBEY The Western News Local schools can serve as an indicator of both economic health and economic potential, but they can also boost a local economy. The George W. Bush Presidential Center published a 2016 briefing that discussed studies showing the economic benefits of investment in education from kindergarten through 12th grade. Some of the economic growth relates to improvement in the workforce, the briefing noted. On the opposite side of the political spectrum, a 2015 Atlantic article noted the potential benefits to local economies of having more skilled workers entering the economy. Citing a paper by Eric A. Hanushek of Stanford, and Ludger Woessmann and Jens Ruhose of the University of Munich, the Atlantic article states that the paper showed significant economic gains from investment in primary and secondary education. In their research, they showed that the number of years of schooling are not nearly as important as the quality of the education students receive. But schools do a lot more than prepare students for a job. They provide them basic skills of citizenship, foster civic pride and engage young people as community members, teaching them the values that hold their communities together. “The communities I’ve lived in, the schools are a reflection of the community,” said Craig Barringer, superintendent of Libby Public Schools. So when families are looking to relocate, they want to know about the schools and tour them, Barringer said. “The condition of our schools is important, the quality of what we do in the schools is important, and the people we have in the buildings is important,” he said. Research shows how much local schools can be a central focus of potential economic development, he said. Even as many school systems across the country have cut or completely eliminated their trades programs, the industrial arts classes in Libby and Troy have only been improving their numbers. Barringer said that there has been emphasis at the state level in the past five years that has helped with the focus on those programs locally. “We’re realizing, as an educational world, that we need to turn out people in the vocational fields, as much as we need to turn out people who are going to go on to four-year colleges,” Barringer said. Jacob Francom, superintendent of Troy Public Schools, talked about the role schools have as community rallying points. “The school is kind of like the heartbeat of the community,” he said. Activities and community identity can be tied closely to local schools. In preparing students for the workforce, Francom said everything the faculty does — whether preparing them for college or a trade — contributes toward that goal. Even in making a community more welcoming to businesses, the schools have a role, he said. By seeking the infrastructure improvements they need for education — such as improvements to broadband service — the school can be a voice advocating for improvements that benefit the entire community. “A lot of these kids, they want to stay here in Troy — there’s just not many jobs,” he said. Some find a sort of compromise instead of moving away completely, either commuting hours to a job or spending months or weeks away from the home they love to work the job they need, he said. “People do want to raise their families in a community like this,” Francom said. Francom said Troy school faculty are also aware of how even the outward appearance of the school gorunds — let alone the performance of the students — not only reflect but impact the community’s sense of pride in who they are. As Lincoln County works toward the next steps in the Growth Policy and Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy planning process, The Western News will run a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities that relate to economic growth and vitality. We will also look at some of the community organizations and government entities that play a role in the economic and social health of the community. If you have suggestions for subjects you think should be brought into the discussion, please contact your editor, Ben Kibbey, at 406-334-0956 or bkibbey@thewesternnews.com. More information about the Growth Policy and CEDS can be found at planlincolncounty.com. Read More Front Page Slider Davis receives deferred sentence for attempted theft January 14, 2020 at 11:12 am \| Western News A Kalispell woman arrested after her boyfriend admitted their roles in a self-storage theft ring received a deferred, three-year sentence in Lincoln County District Court on Jan. 6. Lyann Renee Dav... Sentence revocation sought for Lyght January 14, 2020 at 11:07 am \| Western News Authorities seek to revoke the deferred, three-year sentence of a Libby woman who pleaded guilty to criminal possession of dangerous drugs late last year. Crystal Star Lyght, 33, appeared back in Li... Loggers triumph over gritty C-Falls squad January 14, 2020 at 10:11 am \| Western News A withering half-court trap defense helped the Libby boys basketball team nail a home court win Jan. 10 against the Columbia Falls Wildcats. The comparatively low scoring game — in the end, the Logg... County commissioners to lobby governor on land deal January 10, 2020 at 9:16 am \| Western News The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners is working with the Montana Forest Collaborative Network in petitioning Gov. Steve Bullock for help retaining access to a vast swath of land up for private s...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1950
__label__wiki	0.508181	0.508181	Women's Volleyball Shuts-Out SUNY Delhi, 3-0 SUNY Delhi (13-12) 13 10 19 0 Thomas More (30-3) 25 25 25 3 K: 3 Players (#3, #14, #15) - 5 D: Shelby Nolan - 12 SA: N/A K: 2 Players (#3, #10) - 8 B: Abby Schutte - 3 D: Jessica Ginn - 17 SA: Jessica Ginn - 2 -.012 Photo by: Jeff McCurry (DELHI, N.Y.) - The Thomas More women's volleyball team improved to 30-3 overall after handing the shut-out to SUNY Delhi in the semifinals of the ACAA Tournament. The Saints took down the Broncos with scores of 25-13, 25-19, 25-19. Madison Krumpelman and Jenna Mummert shared the game high of eight kills in the match. Mummert also recorded one dig and one block while Krumpelman put up one service assist, 10 digs, and one block. Jenna Fessler led the game with 26 assists, along with one service assists, and three digs. Jessica Ginn posted the game high of 17 digs, along with having two assists and two service aces. Abby Shutte led the game with three blocks in the match. The Saints had the hitting percentage advantage, hitting a .286 to SUNY Delhi's -.012. With the win, the Saints advance to the ACAA Championship match where they will take on the winner of game two later today. The match is set for to start at noon.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1954
__label__cc	0.667223	0.332777	About J.C. Thompson GT/Advanced Academics Math Investigations netSchool State Required Assessments Arrival and Dismissal Attendance/ Tardies/Dismissals Community Folder Directions to Thompson Elementary eGrades Gradebook FAQ eGrades Sign In Extra/Co-Curricular Lunch Schedule ULTIMATE BOOK CHALLENGE Destiny Online Catalog READING BINGO Web Page Goodies Flippity AlphaBEST: After School Care Celebration Nutrition Guidelines Child Abuse Prevention Training Compulsory Attendance Notification Elementary Education Brochure Guest Educators Home Access Center/ Grades Online Monster Math NISD Dress Code NISD Health Guidelines Northwest ISD Beliefs, Vision, Mission and Goals Policy Online PTA - Parent Teacher Association What is PTA? PTA Benefits Student Handbook and Code of Conduct WATCH D.O.G.S. Forms and Sign Up Information WATCH D.O.G.S. Program Overview J.C. Thompson Elementary » Our School » Administration » Principal » About Me Welcome to Thompson! I'm so excited to be on the JCT team serving as the principal for the eighth year as we pursue our mission for creating future ready students. I am proud to be on this incredible team of educators working with outstanding students, parents, and community! I've been in Northwest ISD for twelve years, two as a special education and math teacher, one as a Campus Instructional Teacher, four as an assistant principal, and eight years in the principal role. Prior to finding my home in Northwest, I worked in another school district for seven years as a special education teacher K-6 and a 5th and 6th grade math teacher. I'm proud to be a Thompson Trailblazer. I believe in the Northwest vision and our Thompson mission. I'm eager to be a part of our vision to be the best and most sought after school district in Texas where every student will be future ready. I graduated with my Bachelor's degree from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada in 1996. I'm a native Canadian who has lived in Texas for 15 years. I love it here, especially in the winter, but even in the summer! I graduated with my Master's degree from Texas Woman's University in 2007. I graduated with my doctoral degree in 2012 from Nova Southeastern University. I love learning and I believe nurturing the love of learning in our students is essential to their success. I'm married to a wonderful man named Paul. We have a sweet, beautiful twelve year old girl who makes us laugh every day and a handsome ten year old boy who is a joy to watch as explores our world. Watching them learn, accept challenges, and discover new things reinforces every day why it's so important for all of us to provide our kids with fun and challenging experiences that encourage them to want to know and do more. I am enjoying my years at Thompson and looking forward to another great year. I look forward to working with our kids, our parents and our community members. Please contact me with any questions, concerns, and celebrations. Together, we will make this another great year for our kids!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1956
__label__wiki	0.705989	0.705989	A History of Google Anna Crowley Redding READ AN EXCERPT → 240 Pages, Ages 12-18 Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world's information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovative companies in the world. The word “google” has even entered our vocabulary as a verb. Now, find out the true history of Google—from its humble beginnings as a thesis project made out of “borrowed” hardware and discount toys through its revolution of the world's relationship with technology to a brief glimpse of where they might take us next. In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and most importantly, of shooting for the moon in order to change the world. A Cold, Hard, Google-less World Need to know how many stacked pennies it would take to reach the moon? Want to know about the latest visual effects technology used to make Star Wars? Need to know if George... READ THE FULL EXCERPT → Praise for Google It "Investigative journalist Redding does an admirable job of chronicling Larry and Sergey’s amazing successes and will inspire young people to follow in their ingenious footsteps. It’s more comprehensive than other books for young readers about Google’s founders, with energetically written short chapters, interesting facts, graphics, and photos" —Booklist, starred review "This readable and breezy history of the tech behemoth [is] An appealing and timely look at a universally relevant subject and a good fit for STEAM-related reading lists." —School Library Journal "This chronological history of the first two decades of Google is attractively packaged to appeal to a teen audience. ... Humorous accounts of Google's unpretentious beginnings as a student project, and its early years as a bare-bones startup in a friend's garage will intrigue teens who dream of growing their own projects into software and devices used by millions." — VOYA Before diving into the deep end of writing for children, Anna Crowley Redding's first career was as an Emmy-award winning investigative television reporter, anchor, and journalist. The recipient of multiple Edward R. Murrow awards and recognized by the Associated Press for her reporting, Redding now focuses her stealthy detective skills on digging up great stories for kids—which, as it turns out, is her true passion. Author Profile at Erin Murphy Literary Agency Tweetsby @mackidsbooks	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1958
__label__wiki	0.690355	0.690355	Real Friends (Volume 2) Written by Shannon Hale; illustrated by LeUyen Pham ePub, Fixed Layout Nook, Fixed Layout 256 Pages, Ages 8-11 A National and New York Times Bestseller! The creators of Real Friends Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with a true story about popularity, first crushes, and finding your own path in the graphic novel, Best Friends. Follow your heart. Find your people. Sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. Shannon’s got a sure spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader, Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and who she’s allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules, anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them? A School Library Journal Best Book of 2019 A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2019 A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book of 2019 One of NBC Today's 26 Best Kids' Books of 2019 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, NPR Best Book of the Year Best Friends Book Trailer Watch the Best Friends book trailer by the Bestselling creators of Real Friends Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with a true story about popularity, first crushes, and finding your own path in the graphic novel, BEST FRIENDS. xClose Share This content Praise for Best Friends “Somehow, Hale and Pham have made the “normal girl” into the ultimate cool girl.” —The New York Times Book Review “This uncommonly honest portrayal of the lures and pitfalls of popularity will likely ring true to many elementary and middle-school readers.” —Booklist, starred review “A terrific look at middle school culture . . . This authentic, important book will mean a great deal to many kids.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A must-read for fans of Raina Telgemeier or Victoria Jamieson . . . This glimpse into middle school is insightful, introspective, and important.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A natural suggestion for fans of Cece Bell and Raina Telgemeier, this book offers an honest, empathetic, and encouraging narrative for young readers braving the ups and downs of the tween years.” —Horn Book Praise for Real Friends: “Fresh and funny.” —New York Times Book Review “The book's truth is as vibrant as its art.” —Washington Post "I have two boys, they love these books. They love to talk about the friendships, I love that I am discussing all of these issues through the lives of these girls. There is something about it that's so wonderful." —NPR “Wistful, affecting, and utterly charming.” —Booklist, starred review “A heart-stabbing tale of the everyday social agonies of girlhood.” —Wall Street Journal “Shows us the incredible kindness and solidarity that girls can and do display.” —The Mary Sue “Bound to resonate with most readers, especi… More… “Bound to resonate with most readers, especially fans of Raina Telgemeier.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A wonderfully observed portrait of finding one’s place in your world.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Nails what it’s like to navigate elementary-school friendships.” —Parents Magazine “Sure to be loved by anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.” —Victoria Jamieson, New York Times–bestselling and Newbery Honor author of Roller Girl “Fresh, fun, and achingly real. Bravo!” —Jennifer L. Holm, New York Times–bestselling and Newbery Honor author and co-creator of Sunny Side Up and the Babymouse series “This book is SO GOOD. SO MANY FEELS.” —Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese Shannon Hale is the bestselling author of many books, including Real Friends, the Ever After High series, and Princess Academy. With her husband Dean Hale she co-wrote Rapunzel's Revenge, Calamity Jack, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series, and The Princess in Black series. They live with their four children near Salt Lake City, Utah. LeUyen Pham is the bestselling illustrator of Real Friends and The Princess in Black series. She wrote and illustrated Big Sister, Little Sister and The Bear Who Wasn’t There. She has illustrated many other picture books, including The Boy Who Loved Math. She lives and works in Los Angeles with her husband and her two adorable sons. Jenn Florence Anouk Kluyskens Tweetsby @01FirstSecond	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1959
__label__wiki	0.733173	0.733173	Download Book Through The Eyes Of Rebel Women The Young Lords 1969 1976 in PDF format. You can Read Online Through The Eyes Of Rebel Women The Young Lords 1969 1976 here in PDF, EPUB, Mobi or Docx formats Through the Eyes of Rebel Women The Young Lords : 1969-1976 Author: Iris Morales Publisher: Red Sugarcane Press Category: Social Science THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members. They fought the "revolution within the revolution" believing that women's equality was inseparable from society's progress as a whole. Written and edited by Iris Morales, the book includes essays, interviews, and primary documents. 50 Events that Shaped Latino History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic [2 volumes] Author: Lilia Fernández Publisher: ABC-CLIO What are the historical events most key to shaping Latino culture? This book provides detailed and broad coverage of the 50 most pivotal developments across more than 500 years' time that have shaped the Latino experience, offering primary sources, biographies of notable figures, and suggested readings for further research. • Offers scholarly analysis of critical events in Latino/a history while also providing in-depth primary sources, biographies, and evidence that provide additional historical perspective • Represents an invaluable reference tool for students doing research papers, seeking accessibly written background information, or simply wanting to learn more about Latinos in the United States • Written by expert contributors with specialties in a variety of key fields—media, politics, history, and popular culture • Supplies breadth and depth on significant events that have shaped the Latino experience for the past five centuries Activist New York A History of People, Protest, and Politics Author: Steven H. Jaffe Category: History Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City’s long history of social activism from the 1650’s to the 2010’s. Bringing these passionate histories alive, Activist New York is a visual exploration of these movements, serving as a companion book to the highly-praised Museum of the City of New York exhibition of the same name. New York’s primacy as a metropolis of commerce, finance, industry, media, and ethnic diversity has given it a unique and powerfully influential role in the history of American and global activism. Steven H. Jaffe explores how New York’s evolving identities as an incubator and battleground for activists have made it a “machine for change.” In responding to the city as a site of slavery, immigrant entry, labor conflicts, and wealth disparity, New Yorkers have repeatedly challenged the status quo. Activist New York brings to life the characters who make up these vibrant histories, including David Ruggles, an African American shopkeeper who helped enslaved fugitives on the city’s Underground Railroad during the 1830s; Clara Lemlich, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who helped spark the 1909 “Uprising of 20,000” that forever changed labor relations in the city’s booming garment industry; and Craig Rodwell, Karla Jay, and others who forged a Gay Liberation movement both before and after the Stonewall Riot of June 1969. The city’s inhabitants have been at the forefront of social change on issues ranging from religious tolerance and minority civil rights to sexual orientation and economic justice. Across 16 lavishly illustrated chronological chapters focusing on specific historical episodes, Jaffe explores how New York and New Yorkers have changed the way Americans think, feel, and act. 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All days (but especially Saturday's post) will be extremely image heavy! And you'll notice I've started tagging the photos with my name...if there are any you want to use for icons, etc. please let me know first! Thank you! Wednesday after getting off from work, I headed home to finalize my packing so I could drive up to meet Marcie ( dlgr) to drive to the airport! Of course, I forget my battery charger and 1 of my 2 batteries, so I bought a charger at the Best Buy in Fredericksburg and will return it when I get home heh. Marcie and I left to go to the airport - her mom drove us and I get to leave my car at her house, whee! Saves me $60! We went through security fairly quickly actually, and had time to grab a bite to eat. I got a really good PB&J sandwich that was toasted. Yum. So, we exchanged money there, all that good stuff, and then went to wait. We got to meet charly2004's friend who happened to be on the same flight as us, and then boarded. The flight is actually fairly empty, so it's nice and quiet (except for the stupid kid who occasionally cries...grrr). Marcie has actually been able to move into the row in front of mine that is empty so we both have plenty of space to spread out to get some sleep after dinner. HAHA I kept joking they should move us up to business class. After we took off, we got dinner - Marcie got the vegetarian dinner (which yay! I was surprised they would actually be able to get that for her) and I got the ravioli pasta. And, of course, we had tea to complete the dinner. Yum. So...now I'm writing this up and am going to read to get tired and try to get some sleep. England here we come! It was really hard to get any sleep on the plane - uncomfortable seats! Even though Marcie moved to the seat in front of mine so we could both get 2 seats, we were still rolling around for most of the flight. When we landed, we got through customs fairly quickly and Marcie left with her friend Chris, and I found charly2004! And we were off to Stratford-Upon-Avon to see David Tennant in Love's Labours Lost. We got to the hotel, which is a bit of a ways away but it's nice and quaint and next to farms with sheep and a deer reservation park and a HUGE house that a queen used to reside in, and then we explored Statford some. I couldn't live here, but it's SO SO quaint and cute and ye-olde-everything (haha I always think of David Tennant and his video diaries for the Shakespeare Code episode in S3). This is Shakespeare's birthplace and has many historic sites that relate to him, his gardens and where he was raised. We explored the park that was across from the Courtyard Theater and then wound up down at the Stratford Church, which was really, really neat. Very cool old architecture and graveyard, but unfortunately we couldn't get in. We also walked down some of what I assume is the downtown area. Lots of old areas and very English cottage types of houses. Most of the things were closed, but we got to look around. It's so hard for me to explain what England is like to me, but it's so green and lush and just untouched by time, especially this town. (Shakespeare's home!) Then was the play! HOORAY! We were in the 2nd row of the 1st balcony and they were great seats, a bit to the left center side of the stage. The stage itself was very pretty with the tree and hanging shiny things hanging down that were used as props (HAHA the bushes he was hiding behind). And then the 4 lords came out one by one, and David was the 3rd to come out...he laid down on the stage and placed a straw hat on his head. Hee! YAY! Heh, the woman beside me snapped at me for taking photos - before the play actually started - but at this point of time, EVERYONE was taking photos! We were actually some of the first to stop. And I was not using my flash and covered up my orange light. So, the play started, and I admit I was a bit lost with what was going on at first because I've never read this play or seen any adaptation of it to my knowledge, and it seemed to be a play specifically written that played with Shakespeare's use of language and the wit of puns and double entendres. SO TOUGH to follow! Sheesh! But it was VERY funny! I LOVED the last bit of the end of Act 1 where David's character is sitting in the tree watching the other 3 lords declare their love and then gets all on their case and purposely makes them feel bad about breaking their oaths while he has not (when he really has.) and then his note arrives and David quickly tears it up and begins to shove the entire thing in his mouth like a goat! HAHA It was so funny! All 4 of them together I thought acted so well together, playing off each other, and with some funny facial reactions. It was a great ensemble cast working together. I LOVED the guy who came up with the huge book and inside was a guitar! It kinda reminded me of seeing Jensen how we chuckled when he said "Sam" and "sonofabitch" in AFGM and just how his character blended with the one in the play. Well, David had some "Weellllllll..." moments and just some eye quirks and eyebrow raises that were so Doctor to me! He did a fantastic job...that must be so hard to memorize, especially when playing Hamlet at the same time. But he was just hilarious. And him jumping on the tree when the Princess comes up to him! HEE! And I loved in the 2nd Act when they were the Russians and had these HORRIBLE Russian accents and it was just hilarious! David said "feces" HAHA After the actors all took their bows, Charly and I booked it out there to try and get to the Stage Door in hopes of getting an autograph from David. We were like...3rd row or so, and literally the moment we got back there, David came out - VERY quickly, not long at all, and signed a bunch of autographs going from one side to the other. Luckily, we are both tall and have long arms, so we just kinda stretched our programs out and above others and got it signed! WHEEEEE! And he was adorable and just....OMG pretty and so normal joe looking. I think its the not-as-ruffled-up-hair and the lack of sideburns and suit that make him look so unlike the Doctor. David probably only signed for all of 5 minutes before going back in, so we were very lucky to get autographs at all. It was totally worth my skinned knee, which happened when my heel got caught and I fell trying to run and catch up to Charly. Totally worth it for getting to see David and get an auto! (edited to add later: and OMG my knee is just tore up. I can't bend it since I skinned it RIGHT where I bend my knee, and it only started drying out and scabbing over on Sunday. Yep, from Thurs-Sun, it was just gross.) We came back to the room and are planning on getting up early tomorrow to head onto Northampton for The Hub! I can't wait to meet John and Naoko, but getting an autograph from David Tennant was a WONDERFUL unexpected bonus! I'm so glad we were able to work the timing out so we could go to the play as well! Today we woke up and had some delicious English breakfast. It was buffet style and we had eggs, toast, potatoes, and tea, of course. It was very delicious! Then we left the Charleconte Pheasant Hotel and went back to the train station to head to Northampton. We had to change trains in Birmingham, and that went well...just a short walk. When we got to Northampton, we walked (the long way around everything) to the Park Inn Hotel. It's very close. It's also undergoing renovation, so there was pounding on the side of the hotel next to our room since we are on the end. How annoying, especially since so many people got moved to another hotel. I mean, how can they NOT be aware of this going on just 4 days before a huge convention? Registration opened at 2 and we were some of the first in line. Yay! We got a cool t-shirt that I am totally wearing on Tuesday, a coffee mug, and a packet that has 8x10 photos of everyone who is here to get signed tomorrow or Sunday. And confusion? Start now. HAHA we wanted extra autograph tickets but they weren't ready or something, so we had to come back at 6. First we waited for the Dealer's room to open up at 5 and went in to get some photos. I bought 4 8x10 TW and Who photos and 3 mini-posters of the Doctor and the TW cast and John. Marcie suggested I start putting posters on my ceiling, which I just might do when I get back home, and have that corner above my dresser be the TW/DW corner. Since I am completely out of room on my 4 walls. I also got a Torchwood keychain and want to go back and get some Who merch. (which I actually wound up not doing once I realized that I would want to spend some money in the airport and that I want to get a ticket for The Hub II) When we came back to try to get autograph tickets, it was still backed up, but I got extra autograph tickets for John and Naoko...since I want John to sign like 3 extra things (his autobiography, the photo that James signed at DragonCon, and the 10x10 poster I got at Asylum) and have Naoko sign the duo photo with Anthony as well as my big cast poster. We hung around and waited and then the opening ceremony was supposed to start at 7. It was a bit behind, but not too much. They are letting us in in groups of 30 people, so Charly and I are in the 2nd group - and I think this system should work pretty well for the weekend. For once, there is NO NEED TO QUEUE! Whatever will the British do?! HAHAHA oh the need to queue is strong here. They call 1-30, let all them in, and then 31-60 and let us all in, and so on. So no one can cut through early to get a better seat. Tonight Charly and I were on the inside end of the 3rd row...which really, was perfect. And best news of all? This weekend we will be able to keep our seats for the Q&A panels! I hope I can get those seats tomorrow. So the first person out was Gareth! He is adorable! He was dressed in this short sleeved red button-up t-shirt (which he later changed for a blue flannel button down). He joked that this wasn't working, it was a fun weekend! And then Naoko came out, and I LOVE HER. She was just kinda shocked standing up there (since this is her first real "con" as far as show-specific conventions), and she was just....EEEE Adorable! She was dressed super cute too! AND THEN JOHN BARROWMAN walked down the aisle! In a cute leather jacket and looking oh-so handsome! He was joking around right from the start, and suggestively rubbed Gareth's calf and then licked Naoko's toes. HAHA but the 3 seemed excited to be here and ready to get started. They said thanks for coming, and I just want to say "thank YOU for coming!" because up until we were on the plane, I kept having bad thoughts that John would have to cancel. But he is here, that's all that matters. The running joke of the weekend is that Barrowman must be in the center seat :P So Gareth moved. John suggestively stroking Gareth's calf. HAHA and that was probably the tamest thing of the weekend! :P For anyone saying why did they sit so far apart? Don't worry...they got a LOT closer on Saturday! After the opening ceremony, the gold ticket holders moved out to the bar area to have the wine reception. Gareth, Naoko, John, his agent Gavin, and then Kai Owen came out and basically moved around the area greeting and chatting with us fans. We got to meet Kai first, who is just adorable! EEEEE I love his accent and his laugh and his charm. He seems nice. And it looks like he has lost a LOT of weight. He looks great. I'd totally take him as my boyfriend. Then we floated around and waited for John to make his way over to us. UM. OMG. SOOOO handsome in public! And he looks great! And he's not that much taller than me (I thought he was a few inches taller than he actually is, like Jensen's height, but I think just a bit shorter). He talked about his new puppy and said he looked forward to getting to hang with us all this weekend. I took an illegal photo. HAHA oops Then purplepheonix03 walked us over to meet Gareth since we missed him when he was going the opposite way and we moved around to the other side of the room. And he REMEMBERED ME! He said "Hello again! Nice to see you again" and haha was already a bit buzzed. And he said "So you came all the way over here just for this?" and was kinda surprised. But he is adorable. I don't even know what else to say. I want him to talk to me allllll day long. And then we hunted down Naoko since she was the last one we hadn't met yet. We had to wait for her to talk to 3 other groups before us, and then she came over to us...and we were a small group of just the 4 of us (Andy who I had met at the first Asylum who worked for the staff there). She came over and was talking about nervous she is, and how she's just shocked about the turn out and amount of people. And she said something like "You know when you're really nervous and your upper lip get stuck to your teeth? That's what's happening!" And then proceeded to show us, heh! We told her that we came from the US, and was excited and surprised to hear that. She told us that she grew up in "New York" (as in, when she says "New York" she really meant "New Jersey") when she was a kid. So she loved that Marcie is from DC and I'm south of that. Marcie started telling her about how the government was being picky about letting her come to England (since we're trying to come back in January to see Hamlet), and Naoko was bothered and shocked and just completely upset for her! She's so cute! We told her than we are from the US and she was just "REALLY?!" and so shocked that we came over here JUST for this convention...flew out here for the convention and are leaving the day after the con is over, and that we watch Torchwood in the US. Then, right before Naoko was going to leave, I just wanted to tell her than I really appreciated her taking a role in this cool world and that she is Asian and that we in the US just don't have that strong a representation of strong Asian women (yes, it's a thing I'm stuck on...I can't help it. It's true. I have Sandra Oh to look up to and that's about it - along with the Lost Korean actress). She said she thought it was decent in the US, and I said no and mentioned the EW article rating the demographic percentages and Asian and Indian are like dead last. She asked me what my heritage is (which...I LOVE. Not "what are you?" or "are you Chinese" like I always hear) and told her that I'm Korean, adopted, but still very opinionated about racial roles on our TV shows. Naoko seemed truly touched that it meant so much to me, and she said that she is a character actor and takes roles that are flawed and troubled, and she likes that in Torchwood "it doesn't matter...it just fits in the real world" and I just said that I appreciate getting to have that on TV and thought it brought so much to Torchwood. I know it's corny, but to me it's completely true...I love getting to see strong, flawed, messed up Asian character actors in the real world (which is why I LOVE Sandra Oh so much), and this was the one thing I wanted to tell Naoko while I had some one-on-one time before things got started up. I think I basically sounded like a rambling idiot! So after that, we wandered back out of the area since it was starting to open up for the Friday night party. Marcie and I went to McDonalds to get some late food and to use their Internet for a while. GO AMERICA! HAHA (another running joke of the weekend) Now I'm sitting in the lobby typing this up, so I can make sure I don't leave anything out. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we have photo ops with Kai and Gareth and early autos with John. Stage talks start at 2 and go for the rest of the afternoon, including one with all of them! Coming up next...the insanity that was Saturday! OH JOHN! 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__label__cc	0.73274	0.26726	Leading Long Island Veterinarians in Referral Medicine 24 Hour Specialty & Emergency Services 75 Sunrise Hwy, West Islip, NY 11795-2033 Avian & Exotics Understanding & Maintaining NY Controlled Substance Compliance Hazardous Communication & Global Harmonized System Training Introduction to Radiation Safety Proper Animal Handling & Restraint Bloodborne Pathogens Overview Current CE Events Past CE Events What’s a Veterinary Specialist? AAHA Accreditation Meet the Vets Management Personnel VMCLI Gives Back The Sydney Memorial Fund Internships & Residencies EZ-Labor ADP TotalSource RDVM RDVM Referral Form (PDF File) VMCLI Info Sheet (PDF File) DONATE TO HELP PETS IN NEED VMCAA Success Stories Principles of Treating Immune-mediated and Inflammatory Ocular Diseases By ViralWolfFebruary 5, 2019Articles Many veterinary clients have a limited understanding and perception of what a disease in their pet actually entails. Typically, clients assume that a “disease” is caused by an infection (bacterial or viral), a malignancy, or physical trauma. With these assumptions are the ideas that infections can be cleared, malignancies resected or killed, and traumas repaired. However, and immune-mediated or imflammatory ocular disease lacking a specific etiology, and possibly requiring continuous management, is a more difficult for most clients to conceptualize. Unfortunately, many chronic degenerative and inflammatory ocular diseases are immune-mediated or associated with hypersensitivity. Inflammatory ocular diseases include episcleritis (Figure 1), scleritis, uveitis, chronic superficial keratitis, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, meibomianitis, follicular conjunctivitis, uveodermatologic syndrome, lens-induced uveitis, optic neuritis, eosinophilic keratitis, equine immune-mediated keratitis, equine conjunctival pseudotumors, masticatory muscle myositis, and extraocular muscle myositis. This is not an exhaustive list, and there are many other ocular infectious and cancer processes with strong immunologic components that generate a diseased state. In animals, homeostasis of the immune system involves tolerance, immunosuppression, and immunostimulation in response to various antigens. In an immune-mediated disease this delicate balance is upset. Overly immunosuppressed patients may develop susceptibility to infective agents and/or the growth of cancerous cells. Patients failing to tolerate self-antigens may develop autoimmunity. Patients failing to supress responses to common environmental antigens may develop allergies. A state of immunocompetence is considered an optimal balanced immune response. Classically, most physicians assumed that immune-mediated diseases were only the result of hyperstimulation of the immune system. However, newer models suggest immunodeficiencies and/or dysregulation of immune processes are more common etiologies of these diseases. Cures for immune-mediated diseases may then rely upon immunomodulation rather than direct immunosuppression. Many new drugs for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases have been designed with these concepts in mind. Immunomodulating rather than, or in addition to, immunosuppresive drugs may be most efficacious in combating immune-mediated disorders. Many immunomodulating drugs show synergism in combating immune-mediated ocular disorders. Lower prescribed quantities of two or more drugs with disparate immunomodulating mechanisms are less likely to cause complete immunosuppression, or other adverse effects generated by a single high-dose drug. The damage caused by ocular immune-mediated disorders is dependent on their duration and recurrence. Therefore, early accurate diagnoses and quick medical interventions tend to reduce the damage of an immune-mediated disorder. Preventing recurrence is often dependent upon complete remission of the signs of a disorder before the tapering of drug regimen can commence. The rapid tapering of immunomodulating medications has been associated with an increased probability of recurrence of many immune-mediated diseases. This recrudescence often necessitates increased dosages of immunomodulating medications associated with secondary complications or other adversities. Appropriate medical management of immune-mediated disease will therefore involve vigilant monitoring and reevaluation of systemic side effects in addition to any therapeutic effects. The remission of an immune-mediated ocular disease may be measured by slit lamp biomicroscopy, Schirmer tear testing, tonometry, ophthalmoscopy and/or by an evaluation of consecutive photographic medical records. Medical management can be modified following recurrent ocular evaluations to promote favorable visual outcomes. Immunomodulating occular medications are slowly tapered following signs of remission. Tapering schedules are designed to keep the disease in remission, minimize adverse effects, and improve client compliance. Once a diagnosis of an immune-mediated ocular disease has been made, appropriate treatments can reduce the incidence of associated blindness, glaucoma, and other damage of ocular structures. Appropriate immunomodulating and/or immunosuppresive medications designed to combat immune-mediated disorders, and their pharmacokinetics, will be discussed in a subsequent article. If you have any further questions regarding immune-mediated ocular diseases, please feel free to consult with a veterinary ophthalmologist. Noelle La Croix, DVM, Dip. ACVO The Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island 75 Sunrise Highway West Islip, New York 11795 www.vmcli.com Figure 1. Nodular granular episcleritis (an immune-mediated disease) in the left eye of a 3-year-old male neutered mixed breed dog. 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__label__cc	0.595343	0.404657	Lenovo Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus unveiled with 5.5" 1080p screen May 21, 2016 • Android • Lenovo • Moto • News The release of the Moto G4 and Moto G4 plus effectively showcase the departure of Motorola. We are now in the world of Moto! The Moto G is the first in the family tree and now it is going to be succeeded by the Moto G4 and Moto G4 plus. There are quite distinguishing features between these two phones and their predecessor. Both phones come with large displays as they both sport a 5.5" screen and 1080p, an improvement from the 5" and 720p from the previous version. This means that you will not only enjoy a bigger display but also sharper screen to play with. The camera and memory have also received some upgrade while there processing power has also been stepped up with the Snapdragon choose. This smartphone is placed in the higher echelon in the family, thanks to its higher spec options. A fast speed fingerprint sensor on the front, Gorilla Glass 3 protector, the Moto G4 plus boasts of a 5.5" screen and an 1080p screen with an excellent 401 ppi pixel density to enjoy super high quality display. It comes with the latest Android OS, Marshmallow 6.0.1 Lenovo has taken the camera up a notch vs it previous release with 16MP OmniVision sensor equipped with phase detection autofocus and laser autofocus, which puts the G4 Plus at the top of its price range. The selfie is 5MP with an 84 degree wide angle lens and a bright f/2.2 lens. The Lenovo Moto G4 plus is powered by Snapdragon 617 and 8 cores and Adorno 405 GPU, with 2GB or 4GB RAM, with option of 16/32 and 64GB of storage, expandable with microSD card. This phone is powered by 3,000 mAh battery, supports fast charging and comes with Turbo charger in the box. Lenovo claims that the device is capable of adding six hours worth of power in just 15 minutes with a Turbo Charger. The Moto G4 is the slimmer version of the pair. It also lacks the fingerprint sensor available on the G4 Plus, and the camera sensor has been downsized to 13MP. It has 5.5" screen and 1080p resolution, a 3,000 mAh battery with support for fast charging capabilities. It is also powered by the Snapdragon 617 chipset. The RAM is 2GB with a choice of 16GB/32GB built in memory. Unlike the G4 plus, the turbo charger does not come with the package. So to enjoy this feature, you have to purchase the charger separately.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1969
__label__wiki	0.992243	0.992243	UK Netflix Reviews ITV Hub byNWR Netflix Top 10s Amazon Prime Top 10s NOW TV Top 10s New Netflix UK releases New Prime Instant Video releases New on NOW TV New releases on MUBI BFI Player Plus+ UK VOD release dates Coming soon to Netflix UK Coming soon to Amazon Coming soon to NOW TV Coming soon to MUBI VOD release dates VOD News Trailer: Shudder’s Creepshow set for September release Staff Reporter \| On 21, Jul 2019 Creepshow is officially coming to Shudder this September, and a new trailer gives us a first glimpse of the series. Based on George Romero’s iconic 1982 film (written by Steven King), the new take on the anthology will unleash 12 terrifying tales across one spooky season. A considerable number of contributors to the new series have ties to the film and its 1987 sequel: the series will feature adaptations of a story by King as well as one by his son, Joe Hill, who fans will recall played comic-book loving Billy in the original film’s wrap-around segments. Also returning to the Creepshow franchise are actor Adrienne Barbeau; director Tom Savini, who created special effects makeup for the film; writer/director John Harrison, who was 1st Assistant Director on the original and composed its famous theme; and showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead), who visited the first film’s set as a teenager and contributed make-up effects to Creepshow 2. Stories include All Hallows Eve from Bruce Jones, By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain from Joe Hill, The Companion from Joe Lansdale, The Finger from David J. Schow (The Crow) and The House of the Head from Josh Malerman (Bird Box). The cast includes equally impressive names, from David Arquette, Adrienne Barbeau, Tobin Bell and Big Boi to Jeffrey Combs, Kid Cudi, Bruce Davison, Giancarlo Esposito, Dana Gould, Tricia Helfer and DJ Qualls. Creepshow premieres on Shudder on Friday 26th September. Here’s the trailer – or read on below for the full rundown of episodes and synopses. Shudder’s Creepshow expands cast and adds new story from Greg Nicotero Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has announced additional casting for its upcoming Creepshow anthology. Executive produced by Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead), and produced by the Cartel with Monster Agency Productions, Taurus Entertainment, and Striker Entertainment, the new Creepshow series follows in the footsteps of the iconic 1982 horror classic written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. A considerable number of contributors to the new series have ties to the film and its 1987 sequel: the series will feature adaptations of a story by King as well as one by his son, Joe Hill, who fans will recall played comic-book loving Billy in the original film’s wrap-around segments. Also returning to the Creepshow franchise are actor Adrienne Barbeau; director Tom Savini, who created special effects makeup for the film; writer/director John Harrison, who was 1st Assistant Director on the original and composed its famous theme; and showrunner Greg Nicotero, who visited the first film’s set as a teenager and contributed make-up effects to Creepshow 2. Joining the cast are Grammy winners Kid Cudi (Scott Mescudi) and Big Boi (Antwan Patton), along with Jeffrey Combs (Star Trek, Re-Animator), Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion, X-Men) and DJ Qualls (The Man in the High Castle, Supernatural). Shudder also revealed the final Creepshow story, The Finger, written by award-winning horror novelist David J. Schow (The Crow) and directed by series showrunner Greg Nicotero. DJ Qualls will star in The Finger, a previously unannounced Creepshow story written by David J. Schow and directed by showrunner Greg Nicotero. Kid Cudi and Jeffrey Combs will star in Bad Wolf Down, written and directed by Rob Schrab. Bruce Davison will star in Night of the Paw, written by John Esposito. Big Boi is featured in The Man in the Suitcase written by Christopher Buehlman and directed by Dave Bruckner (The Ritual). The new cast join Adrienne Barbeau, Giancarlo Esposito, David Arquette, Tobin Bell, Tricia Helfer and Dana Gould, who were previously announced to star in various Creepshow stories. You can see them all in action when Creepshow premieres on Shudder later this year. Here’s the full rundown of all 12 segments that will make Creepshow’s six-episode first season: Written by: Bruce Jones Directed by: John Harrison Even then they’re a little too old, this group of friends still want to trick-or-treat but getting candy isn’t all they are looking for. Bad Wolf Down Written by: Rob Schrab Directed by: Rob Schrab A group of American soldiers, trapped behind enemy lines during World War II, finds an unconventional way to even the odds. Story by: Joe Hill, adapted by Jason Ciaramella Directed by: Tom Savini Her dad died looking for the monster living at the bottom of Lake Champlain, and now, will she? The Companion Story by: Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale & Keith Lansdale, adapted by Matt Venne Directed by: Dave Bruckner (The Ritual) A young boy, bullied by his older brother, sneaks into an abandoned farm that is protected by a supernatural force. Written by: David J. Schow (The Crow) Directed by: Greg Nicotero An unhappy man discovers a severed, inhuman appendage on the street and brings it home, where it grows into a loyal companion with some deadly quirks. Story by: Stephen King, adapted by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi Doc and Chief, two old-timers in a small, dying town, brave a storm to check on Richie, an alcoholic single father, after encountering his terrified son at the local convenience store. The story, first published in 1973, is part of King’s best-selling 1978 collection, Night Shift. The House of the Head Written by: Josh Malerman (Bird Box) Evie’s discovers her new dollhouse might be haunted. Lydia Layne’s Better Half Story by: John Harrison & Greg Nicotero, adapted by John Harrison Directed by: Roxanne Benjamin (Body at Brighton Rock) A powerful woman denies a promotion to her protégée and lover but fails to anticipate the fallout. The Man in the Suitcase Written by: Christopher Buehlman A college student brings the wrong bag home from the airport only to find a pretzeled man trapped inside, afflicted by a strange condition that turns his pain into gold. Night of the Paw Written by: John Esposito A lonely mortician finds company in the ultimate ‘be careful what you wish for’ story. Skincrawlers Written by: Paul Dini & Stephen Langford A man considers a miraculous new treatment for weight loss that turns out to have unexpected complications. Times is Tough in Musky Holler Written by: John Skipp and Dori Miller, based on their short story Leaders who once controlled a town through fear and intimidation get a taste of their own medicine. Giancarlo Esposito and Tobin Bell to star in Shudder’s Creepshow Giancarlo Esposito and Tobin Bell will star in Shudder’s new Creepshow series. AMC Networks’ subscription streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural has announced the initial casting for its upcoming anthology, which is based on the 1982 film written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. First up, Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul) and Bell (Saw) will star alongside Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog) in the Stephen King story Gray Matter, adapted by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi (The Commuter) and directed by series showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead). “I feel I’m in great company getting the opportunity to direct a story written by Steve,” says Nicotero. “Between Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary and The Stand, I’ve always found his stories rich in relatable characters forced into supernatural situations beyond their control – the everyday person’s primal fears. To visualize Gray Matter for Creepshow with the help of Adrienne, Giancarlo and Tobin was about as good as it gets for a horror fan from Pittsburgh!” In Gray Matter, Doc and Chief, two old-timers in a small, dying town, brave a storm to check on Richie, an alcoholic single father, after encountering his terrified son at the local convenience store. The story, first published in 1973, is part of King’s best-selling 1978 collection, Night Shift. For Barbeau, Gray Matter represents a return to the Creepshow franchise more than 25 years after her unforgettable portrayal of Billie in the 1982 segment, The Crate. Barbeau also serves as the host of the Shudder Original podcast, She Kills. “I was thrilled when Greg asked me to join the Creepshow world once again,” comments Barbeau. “And then working with Tobin and Giancarlo, with Greg as our director, well, that was the icing on the cake – no, not that cake. Oh, you know what I mean.” The DNA of the original movie is firmly embedded in the new series: in addition to Barbeau and King’s return to the franchise, fans will recall that writer Joe Hill (who has also contributed a story this season) played comic-book-loving Billy in the film’s wrap-around segments. John Harrison, who was 1st Assistant Director on 1982’s Creepshow and composed its iconic theme, is back to direct several segments of the series. And executive producer Nicotero visited the first film’s set as a teenager, and contributed make-up effects to its 1987 follow-up, Creepshow 2. With Gray Matter, Shudder has confirmed eight of the 12 segments that will make up Creepshow’s six-episode season. Previously announced segments include By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain by Joe Hill, House of the Head by Josh Malerman (Bird Box), The Companion by Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, & Keith Lansdale, The Man in the Suitcase by Christopher Buehlman, All Hallows Eve by Bruce Jones, Night of the Paw by John Esposito, and Bad Wolf Down by Rob Schrab. Shudder’s Creepshow is produced by the Cartel with Monster Agency Productions, Taurus Entertainment, and Striker Entertainment: Stan Spry, Jeff Holland, and Eric Woods are executive producers for the Cartel; Greg Nicotero and Brian Witten are executive producers for Monster Agency Productions; Robert Dudelson, James Dudelson and Jordan Kizwani are executive producers for Taurus Entertainment; Russell Binder is executive producer and Marc Mostman co-executive producer for Striker Entertainment. Creepshow will premiere on Shudder later this year. The series is scheduled to wrap production later this week in Atlanta, GA. 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__label__cc	0.691003	0.308997	The Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast was built in 1855, easy to remember as this is now our address on Depot Lane in Cutchogue. The house had been empty for a number of years and needed a full restoration when former owners Joyce and Bob Barry purchased it in 2008. The Barrys restored and refurbished the Farmhouse and updated it to accommodate a bed and breakfast during the period 2009-2012. Great care and thought went into the long process of restoring the house with many details of the original house maintained, including the stunning wide board pine floors, while offering spacious rooms with lavish en suite bathrooms for each guest. Each room is outfitted with a ceiling fan, and central air conditioning is also available. Current owners, Anne McElroy and Bruce Brownawell fell in love with and purchased the Farmhouse in 2018, moving in over the summer and fall, and reopening the B&B in February 2019. They are looking forward to welcoming new and former guests to the Farmhouse. Anne and Bruce are big fans of sustainable living. Tesla and universal car charging ports are available free of charge for visitors arriving in electric vehicles. They are also willing to pick up visitors at the Mattituck LIRR train station or the Hampton Jitney bus stop in Cutchogue in their new Tesla Model 3. A flock of chickens produces amazing eggs, and they have become bee keepers with two hives already pollinating local farm fields and gearing up to produce honey for our breakfasts. Anne loves to cook and is excited to be able to share some of her favorite recipes with others. Bruce also fishes locally and is a major oenophile, so is looking forward to offering guided wine tastings to our guests at local vineyards and someday also taking them out on private fishing charters in local waters. If you would like to get in touch, or inquire about a reservation, our contact details are: Anne and Bruce 1855 Depot Lane Cutchogue, New York 11935	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1977
__label__wiki	0.556184	0.556184	A Conservatism of Hope Essays by Senior Contributors Rooted in Imaginative Conservatism Moral Imagination Liberal Learning American Republic American Founding Can We Save Our Dying English Departments? By David Deavel\|2020-01-17T15:07:00-06:00January 16th, 2020\|Categories: David Deavel, Education, Humanities, Literature, Senior Contributors\| We’ve been dumping Shakespeare, Milton, and Eliot in favor of the latest, trendy lesbian poet or controversial rapper. And then we wonder why fewer and fewer college students are majoring in English. What can be done to renew and revive our English departments in this age of political correctness? Q. What’s the difference between [...] The Fickle Moll Flanders By Christine Norvell\|2020-01-17T02:51:41-06:00January 16th, 2020\|Categories: Books, Character, Christine Norvell, Fiction, Imagination, Literature, Senior Contributors\| In “The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders,” Daniel Defoe relates the life story of an English adventuress and her exploits, portraying Moll’s life in such authentic detail that the readers can easily see themselves in her position. However, while reading, we must keep in mind a question: Is Moll’s story a [...] Heroes of Love By Paul Krause\|2020-01-15T15:10:03-06:00January 15th, 2020\|Categories: Great Books, Greek Epic Poetry, Heroism, Homer, Iliad, Imagination, Literature, Love, Odyssey, Paul Krause, Senior Contributors\| One of the most defining aspects of our humanity is love. We are creatures of affectivity made in love for love. It is the recognition of this fact that makes Homer so eternal: his heroes are heroes of love. In a cosmos governed by lust, strife, and war, the loving deeds of our Homeric heroes stand [...] “Ballade of Senseless Sensibility” By Ann Farmer\|2020-01-13T11:09:52-06:00January 11th, 2020\|Categories: Culture, Imagination, Poetry\| They are the most attentive pair, Their senses constantly on the alert For verbal faux pas; and because they care, They will most violently assert Their right to random remonstrations if their feelings hurt; Providing you behave, they are the friendliest of folk – But always at the ready with opinions pert; Because they [...] Remembering Our Reading By Christine Norvell\|2020-01-08T15:16:14-06:00January 8th, 2020\|Categories: Books, Christine Norvell, Imagination, Literature, Senior Contributors\| In a time of year when lists abound, I wonder why lists work so well. So many of us make to-do lists for the day, week, or month. These are often chores, things that must get done. We might have to read for work, to research, comment, or write. We should or could read [...] Athena as Founder & Statesman By John Alvis\|2019-12-27T17:59:57-06:00December 27th, 2019\|Categories: Justice, Literature, Myth, Politics, Religion, Statesman, Timeless Essays\| In the “Oresteia,” Aeschylus examines whether a city exists for proper worship of gods or whether it exists for proper cultivation of “that which is most divine in us.” Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join John Alvis, as he considers Aeschylus’ views of the polity as embodied [...] C.S. Lewis and His Critics By Bradley J. Birzer\|2019-12-25T22:55:32-06:00December 25th, 2019\|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, C.S. Lewis, Imagination, Literature, Senior Contributors\| Though C.S. Lewis’ reputation among most practicing Christians today is that of a saint, and though he was lauded as such in his own lifetime, the man, not surprisingly, has also accumulated a number of critics, some of them friendly and some of them brutal. In 1944, Charles Brady reported in the pages of [...] The Other Side of Bleakness: On Winter and the Nativity By Nayeli Riano\|2019-12-23T10:39:46-06:00December 23rd, 2019\|Categories: Advent, Christianity, Christmas, Imagination, Literature, Poetry\| Winter may only be a symbol to some, but it is a symbol that has been universal in its influence on the Christmastime imagination to this day. Winter, for many of us, signals the end of the year. It is a time when we reflect on our labor, what we’ve achieved, what we haven’t [...] C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” By Bradley J. Birzer\|2019-12-23T10:44:48-06:00December 22nd, 2019\|Categories: Books, Bradley J. Birzer, C.S. Lewis, Fiction, Imagination, Literature, Senior Contributors\| Though it would not see publication until August 1945, C.S. Lewis finished his greatest novel, That Hideous Strength, on Christmas Eve, 1943. In terms of depth, style, and audacity, That Hideous Strength is superior to its closest dystopian rivals, Brave New World and 1984. Its characters are far more realistic, and the setting—far from [...] Tennyson’s Poetry of Departure and the Heart By Stephen H. Conlin\|2019-12-21T00:40:15-06:00December 20th, 2019\|Categories: Alfred Tennyson, Imagination, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry\| It is in the products of great art that we encounter our condition as human beings as metaxic: in between. We come from non-existence and journey to our departure from this existence; the “middle” can seem to be all there is whilst we are in the midst of things. Yet we possess that constant [...] The Face of Love: Beatrice as Type of Christ By Paul Krause\|2019-12-12T12:22:40-06:00December 18th, 2019\|Categories: Christianity, Dante, Great Books, Heaven, Imagination, Literature, Love, Paul Krause, Senior Contributors\| Throughout “Paradiso,” Beatrice is Dante’s companion, his light in the darkness, his first fruit guide to Divine Love itself. Dante is transfigured and transformed in Beatrice’s presence and through Beatrice’s wisdom. In this way, she mirrors the typological and sacramental reality of the messiah. Dante sees Beatrice, but hears Love itself in her voice [...] Petrarch on Seeking the Ideal By Louis Markos\|2019-12-16T11:10:36-06:00December 16th, 2019\|Categories: Great Books, Imagination, Louis Markos, Love, Petrarch, Poetry, Senior Contributors, Wisdom\| Keep climbing, my friends of the future; though the ideal elude you, do not give up on the journey. 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__label__wiki	0.79803	0.79803	A web resource to study and celebrate the music of John Williams and its impact on generations of musicians and listeners A Herald for All Musicians Maurizio Caschetto Musicians, Reflections January 16, 2020 January 17, 2020 4 Minutes Photo by Jamie Trueblood /Lucasfilm Ltd. With The Rise of Skywalker, composer John Williams has completed his own musical cycle, putting the final coda on a rich musical glossary he started to work on 42 years earlier. When the composer wrote and recorded that film score in 1977, he couldn’t imagine how big the impact of his music would have been, and how long it would have resonated with audiences throughout the subsequent decades. As he told recently to film journalist and film music historian Jon Burlingame: “Forty years ago, if you said to me, ‘Here’s a project, John, and I want you to write 25 hours of music,’ I would have dropped my pencil case and said, ‘It’s impossible. No one can do that,’” Yet the composer was able to return to that musical world always with the same amount of enthusiasm, creativity, and devotion for all the subsequent scores he penned for the intergalactic space opera initiated by George Lucas, which now covers a time span of almost half of his life. One of the elements of the music that resonated more than others throughout the years is the inner sophistication of Williams’ orchestral writing. His scores are among the finest examples of symphonic music applied to film ever produced in the history of this discipline. However, his music is able to speak directly to the viewer/listener, with a language that is simple yet sophisticated. Williams has always been very grateful for the success he received for scores such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, E.T., Jurassic Park, and has always showed a particular reverence for the orchestra players who perform for him. In the case of Star Wars, he has been particularly fond of the high level of musicianship that the members of the London Symphony Orchestra gave in the recordings of the original trilogy scores, and how much their virtuosity inspired his writing for these scores. Even very recently, the composer recollected with joy the first sessions with the LSO back in 1977 for the original score (at 0:39): The brilliance of the playing of the LSO, especially their legendary brass section, is certainly one of the key ingredients of the success of the original film’s score, but it’s even more inspiring to sit back and look at the whole picture how much throughout the decades to realize Williams’ craftmanship in writing, coupled with the quality of the playing of the orchestra, has inspired generations and made them fall in love with the sound of the symphony orchestra. There are countless stories and anecdotes of musicians deciding to go for a career in music after hearing the music of Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman, or E.T. and Jurassic Park. Among those people, there are excellent and incredibly talented musicians who then had the true privilege to perform under John Williams in film recordings and concerts, including many now playing regulary in studio orchestras in Los Angeles for film recordings. LA-based trumpet player Dan Rosenboom is one of them, and he recently shared a lovely memory on his Instagram account about the final days of recording the score for The Rise of Skywalker. When I was 11, Jurassic Park came out in theaters. I’d been playing trumpet for about a year, and it was the first time I’d ever really noticed trumpet in a movie score in a big way. I saved my allowance money to go see the movie several times at the local dollar theater and then come home and try to play the themes on my trumpet. Fast forward to the present…on the last day of recording The Rise of Skywalker, the Maestro himself John Williams was gracious enough to make his way around the orchestra to have a brief moment with each section before we started recording. It was the end of recording this whole new trilogy […] for us, and it was one of the greatest honors of my life to be a small part of this titanic legacy and to work with this living legend. The trumpet section of Jon Lewis (principal), Barry Perkins, David Washburn, Rob Schaer, and me were simply the best of colleagues, and I’ve got to thank Jon Lewis for snapping this photo while I expressed my thanks to John Williams. Dan Rosenboom talks with John Williams It’s particularly thrilling to notice how much The Rise of Skywalker features some incredibly brilliant trumpet playing, especially in the virtuosic space battle sequences, and it’s even more thrilling to realize that some of the people now performing it were touched by the immense evocative power of Williams’s music when they were kids. One of the goals of this website is to celebrate the people who decided to spend a lifetime studying music, practicing it, and fine-tuning a true artform. So, on the eve of John Williams’s historic conducting debut in continental Europe at Vienna’s Musikverein for a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter, this small, but profound glimpse of gratitude showed by one of his orchestral players is another testament of Williams’ incredible ability to light up our imagination, both as listeners and as musicians. As a modern herald, he’s able to summon the most joyful creative spirit lying in all of us, inspiring us to achieve great results. The trumpet section from “Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker” (left to right): David Washburn, Barry Perkins, Maestro John Williams, Jon Lewis, and Dan Rosenboom (photo by Gio-David Washington) Los Angeles Studio Musicians Published January 16, 2020 January 17, 2020 Previous Post Legacy Conversations: Sandy DeCrescent The Legacy of John Williams Podcast: Latest Episodes Legacy Conversations #8: Sandy DeCrescent Symphony of Elements: Interview with Mike Matessino on the Disaster Movie Soundtrack Collection Legacy Conversations #7: Frank Lehman Legacy Conversations #6: John Mauceri Legacy Conversations #5: Brett Mitchell Composers (3) Directors & Filmmakers (1) Insights & Analysis (8) Legacy Conversations (8) Live Performance (3) Music Students (2) Orchestras (5) Quotes & Pictures (5) Scholars and Historians (1) The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration (2) The Legacy of John Williams Instagram The excitement is high at the Musikverein Wien... here’s a few official photos from the rehearsals of this weekend’s concerts with John Williams and the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker. Are you ready? 🎻🎺🥁🎼🎵🎶 .Ph. Benedikt Dinkhauser . . . . . . . #johnwilliams #thelegacyofjohnwilliams #concert #vienna #wienerphilarmoniker #orchestra #musikverein #starwars #soundtrack #annesophiemutter The Maestro is ready for his concert at the Musikverein with the Vienna Philharmonic #johnwilliams #viennaphilharmonic #wienerphilharmoniker #musikverein #orchestra #filmmusic #filmcomposer #concert #starwars #annesophiemutter Composer John Williams greets Italian Maestro Riccardo Muti in the backstage of Vienna’s Musikverein after the esteemed conductor led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Messa da Requiem’. Photo by Todd Rosenberg #johnwilliams #riccardomuti #musikverein #chicagosymphonyorchestra #vienna #wienerphilharmoniker #wien #filmcomposer #conductor Composer John Williams has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Score category for his score to ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, the last episode of the cycle begun in 1977. This is Williams’ 52nd nomination and he continues to be the most-nominated living person (and the second all-time most nominated) in the history of the Academy Awards Congratulations, Maestro! #johnwilliams #starwars #theriseofskywalker #academyawards #oscars #oscarnominations #bestoriginalscore #filmcomposer #filmmusic #soundtrack One week to go! January 18 and 19, Maestro John Williams will make his historic debut in continental Europe, conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Musikverein in Vienna in a program featuring his beloved film music. Joining him as a special guest soloist is violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. We cannot wait for this once-in-a-lifetime event. And you? #johnwilliams #vienna #viennaphilharmonic #musikverein #filmmusic #filmcomposer #concertmusic #classicalmusic [Photo reposted from @jkmsmusic ] “It’s an interesting challenge with [Rey], because her theme doesn’t suggest a love theme in any way. It suggests an adventurer, a female adventurer, but with great strength. She’s a fighter, she’s infused with the Force, and it needed to be something that was strong but thoughtful. She’s a very young girl, but she’s a woman of diverse parts, and so there’s a maturity, I think, about the approach, melodically, to her that I hope will fit her. It seemed particularly challenging, both in the scavenger section in the beginning and in the trip to the island to find Luke in the end, where her theme is pretty fully realized with the orchestra. And it seemed to the right degree of strength and beauty for an adventuress.” —John Williams (quote taken from a 2015 interview by Tim Greiving) #johnwilliams #starwars #daisyridley #reyskywalker #filmmusic #soundtrack #starwarsmusic #filmscoring #theriseofskywalker This website is not directly involved or affiliated with John Williams or his representatives. 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__label__cc	0.505142	0.494858	Editorials / Mouthful Nas’ Theory: The Hood is Expensive \|\| Rapture Episode 2 Review March 31, 2018 April 9, 2018 - by Sara Loretta Hip Hop was officially named the most popular music genre in the United States in 2017. And although we have seen a mass influx of culture inspired by and following these chart-topping artists, rappers’ stories are just beginning to be told cinematically. We’ve seen 80-something (literally) documentaries made about Tupac and Biggie, but where’s the documentary about the artists alive today, changing the game in real time? Queue Netflix & Mass Appeal’s new series, Rapture. The eight-episode season visits with artists like Logic, Rapsody and Dave East who detail not only their come up into the game, but also introduce the people who helped them along the way. For East, it was OG rapper Nas, who not only found the Harlem rapper but announced the new deal without even meeting in person. Since then, both artists have continued to grow off each other, working on projects like the Hamilton mixtape with creator, Lin Manuel Miranda. During the Nas/Dave East episode (#2 in the series) one message was clear, you don’t owe anyone anything, even if they’ve been around since day one. Joining the industry usually comes with a nice paycheck which gives a rapper the opportunity to support their family, but what about their friends? Nas says, “You gotta tell dudes look I got love for you, but the hood expensive as shit – you’ve got bail money, lawyer money, there’s funeral money – you know who’s funeral you may end up paying for. You’re going to find wise bros in the street, but they understand to remove themselves from the crime to get down with the movement and be legit is everything. First, you don’t have to watch your back 24/7 from the law and second, even though the salary is small at the moment, but the opportunity to grow to something you never dreamed of is everything.” While this isn’t a “keep your enemies closer” type theory, Nas does have a valid point. When we are growing personally or professionally our group tends to feel the requirement for inclusion, whether they should be or not. It’s up to us as to set that boundary on celebrating successes. More importantly how we use that success to inspire others to find their path and become the best version of themselves. Catch more real-life conversations about struggle and opportunity on Rapture, available now on Netflix. Photo Cred \| Ross Gilmore/Redferns via Getty Images Sara Loretta Writer & Visual Storyteller \| I think mumble rap is like disco, a bad phase. TaggedDave EastDef JamDef Jam RecordsDocumentaryHarlemMass AppealNasNetflixNew York CityNYCrap seriesRaptureRapture Rap SeriesSara LorettaThe Lunch TableThe Lunch Table Talks You’ll Get ‘Lost & Found’ With Jorja Smith’s Debut Album Kendrick Lamar Shuts Down White Girl For Rapping N-Word on Stage YBN Cordae is a GOAT in Training (“Old N*ggas Response) Previous Article When You Miss Someone So Badly \| Listen to “Too Late” by Janine Next Article 5 Years at Def Jam: A Look at Logic’s Success	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1988
__label__wiki	0.678898	0.678898	Category Archives: May, Theresa By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in Brokenshire, James, cowardice, cowardice (British), Eaton, George, lumpenintelligentsia, mendacity, New Statesman, politico-administrative élite, politico-bureaucratic class, Scruton, Sir Roger, surrender, surrender (posture of), Trump administration \| Comments (0) Dalrymple explains that he made a mistake in his assessment of Theresa May. He writes: Like almost everyone else, I regarded her as a pygmy in courage and a giant in incompetence. it is time for a re-assessment. After the European Union granted a further delay to Britain’s departure, Donald Tusk said that it was his secret dream to prevent Britain from leaving. It is, says Dalrymple, pleasing to know that Mr Tusk’s secret dreams so entirely coincide with those of the British political class, including those of Mrs May. At last we have a basis for full and final agreement. Dalrymple notes that like the great majority of the British political class, Mrs May was always in favour of remaining in the Union. This class was so confident of its ability to persuade the population that it was right that it agreed with practically no demur to a referendum which would pronounce the winner as the side which obtained 50% plus one of the votes cast. Thus the matter of British membership, it thought, would be settled once and for all. The problem for the political class was now to find a method of overriding the result of the referendum without doing so in too blatant a fashion. And here, in Mrs May, it found a perfect leader. could not just put forward her conviction that Britain should remain in the Union and say outright that she had no intention of carrying out the will of the majority. At that stage, such a disavowal of the result would have been politically impossible and might even have caused unrest. Instead, she went through a brilliantly elaborate charade of negotiating withdrawal, in such a way that the result would not be accepted by Parliament. Her agreement would be withdrawal without withdrawal, the worst of all possible outcomes, all complication and difficulty, and no benefit. She knew that the EU, having drafted this agreement unacceptable to Parliament, would not renegotiate it. Why should it, since it knew that Parliament had no intention of demanding a real and total withdrawal, since it did not want to withdraw? She also knew that Parliament would never agree to a withdrawal without an agreement with the Union, as Parliament has repeatedly made clear. Thus, says Dalrymple, May has brilliantly manœuvred the country into the following dilemma: it has a choice between her agreement and total withdrawal, neither of which is acceptable or ever likely to be accepted. The only way to cut the Gordian knot is to withdraw the application to leave; and the whole process has been so long-drawn-out, and so boring, that such a result would be welcome not only to the vast majority of those who voted to remain (though a few have been sufficiently appalled by the European leadership to have changed their mind), but to quite a number who voted to leave who imagined, as Mrs May once so cunningly put it (meaning quite the opposite), ‘Brexit means Brexit’ but who have discovered what perhaps they should have known all along, that when the people don’t like the government it is the people who have to change. The light of Brexit is not worth the candle of the deliberately-induced agonising uncertainties. has thus fully joined the modern European tradition: the holding of a seeming consultation with the people only to ignore the results if the people get the answer wrong. The appearances of democracy are preserved, but not the substance. May, says Dalrymple, has proved brilliantly adept at preserving the appearance while eviscerating the substance. By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in Theodore Dalrymple \| Comments (0) Dalrymple notes that this mediocrity — this nullity — is typical of the class that has gradually attained power in Britain, from the lowest levels of the administration to the highest. Theresa May, says Dalrymple, is vacillating humourless prey to the latest bad ideas intellectually mediocre believing in nothing very much mistaking obstinacy for strength timid but avid for power (avidity for power is not leadership) Dalrymple observes that thousands of minor Mays populate our institutions, as thousands of minor Blairs did before them. The House of Commons, writes Dalrymple, has deprived Theresa May of leverage with which to renegotiate, because it voted that it would not accept leaving the European Union without a deal. This, he says, deprived the EU of any reason to renegotiate anything: it was a pre-emptive surrender to the demands of Brussels that makes Neville Chamberlain look like a hard-bitten poker champion. Dalrymple explains that May, who will not take no for an answer, wants to try a fourth time to get her deal through Parliament. This is unprecedented: no unchanged bill is supposed to be presented to Parliament more than twice. May therefore much prefers to violate the constitution than to lose. Dalrymple explains that four options remain: Parliament could accept May’s deal. If it does, it discredits itself by its abject surrender and futile previous resistance to what it claimed was a bad deal. If it was a bad deal before, it is a bad deal now. Britain could leave without a deal. This would cause disruption, but only for a relatively short period. Britain could hold another referendum. It is by no means certain what the result would be. If the result were the same, it would be back to square one. If the result were different, it would reinforce what is a European tradition: referenda as confirmatory plebiscites of what the political class wants, exactly as Napoleon III used them. The Government and Parliament could unilaterally revoke Article 50, which, incidentally, was framed by a British diplomat with the express purpose of making it difficult for any country to leave the EU. This would annul the result of the referendum. It would also have long-term and intangible damaging effects on Britain as a parliamentary democracy. By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in Brexit, Theodore Dalrymple \| Comments (0) Dalrymple notes that those British legislators who agitated most vociferously for Brexit declined, when the time came, to carry out the policy. They left it to a woman, already well known for her political maladroitness. Dalrymple early grasped that May’s appearance of negotiating with the EU was shadow play. She never intended to produce the complete break that just over half the electorate—but not the political class—wanted. The impasse, he says will probably lead to Britain never leaving the union. Most legislators are opposed to Britain leaving the EU without a deal, and the Union, knowing this, has no reason to negotiate further. Dalrymple writes that the European approach to democracy is as follows: If the voters get the answer wrong, either ignore the verdict or make them vote again until they get the answer right. Whether the British population will take it lying down remains to be seen, but after three years of deliberately created political chaos, it is likely that Britons will simply shrug and get on with their lives. It should have been obvious from the first that the EU would never want an agreement that was anything other than disadvantageous to Britain—for if Britain did not suffer markedly by departure, it would be a disaster for the Union, already not exactly at the height of its own popularity. If nothing else, the Union has successfully united the vested interests of the European political class. Dalrymple declares: The philosopher-kings of the EU do not want any damned-fool population getting in the way of the implementation of their wisdom. The founders of the ‘European project’ over 60 years ago wanted to eliminate messy politics through neat, clean administration. has been humiliated by the episode, but history has no end, and Yugoslavian-style wars of secession may yet occur. By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in European Union, philosopher-kings, philosopher-kings (EU), Theodore Dalrymple \| Comments (1) Dalrymple points out that Theresa May’s crushing defeats in the House of Commons were a great victory for her, provided that you make a simple assumption: that she and her colleagues never wanted Britain to leave the EU in the first place. He notes that a majority of the British legislature is, and always was, opposed to Brexit. He reminds us that those legislators who agitated most vociferously for Brexit declined, when the time came, to carry out the policy, leaving it to a woman, already well known for her political maladroitness. May’s appearance of negotiating with the EU, he writes, was elaborate shadow-play. She never intended to produce the complete break that just over half the electorate—but not the political class—wanted. Colourless, humourless, talentless Theresa May has probably never made a correct decision, but what is the purpose of a political career? If, writes Dalrymple, it is to reach the top of the greasy pole, even for the briefest of periods, then Mrs May’s career has been a brilliant success, her incompetence as judged by every other criterion notwithstanding. was made for the modern world: colourless, humourless, talentless. One could have predicted that she would go far. Among the reasons, says Dalrymple, that the world seems nowadays so full of mediocre people who achieve power at all levels without display of apparent ability (other than apparatchik careerist ruthlessness) is that we insist upon disinterested selection by supposed merit rather than by nepotism or personal connection, which is a far superior method of selecting outstanding or even merely competent people. By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in asylum, Bibi, Asia, blasphemy, Britain, Britain (pusillanimity of), Britain (putrescence of), Chamberlain, Neville, cowardice, cowardice (British), freedom, freedoms (defence of), mob rule, mob, the, mobs (bearded fools), mobs (Muslim), Muslim fanatics, Muslim mob, surrender, surrender to violence, violence (surrender to) \| Comments (2) The British government’s instinct for making the wrong decision is, writes Dalrymple, almost infallible. For the moment, the prime minister is a mediocrity by the name of Theresa May, whom Dalrymple describes as nullity made flesh. By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in British governance, mediocrities, nullities, wrong decisions \| Comments (0) New red dawn Britain braced for full socialisation Thanks to the Brexit imbroglio, writes Dalrymple, England could soon be Venezuela without the oil or the warm weather. The stunning incompetence of the last two Tory prime ministers, David Cameron and Theresa May, might result in a Labour government, one led by Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has long admired Hugo Chávez for having reminded him—though not the people of Venezuela—what governments can do for the poor and the achievement of social justice. By DalrympleFans \| Also posted in Brexit, Britain, Cameron, David, Chávez, Hugo, Corbyn, Jeremy, Labour Party, Labour Party (UK), red Britain, social justice, socialism, Venezuela \| Comments (0) The world is rotten but I am not The nobility of Count Dankula	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1993
__label__wiki	0.829301	0.829301	3.75℃London Analysis & Comment 'I was widowed with 12 children – but now I've found love again' A mother who tragically lost her husband while she was heavily pregnant with her 12th child has now found love again. Orlagh Walker was 28 weeks pregnant when she waved her husband Fergus Green off to work on March 25, 2011. She received a call while driving her children to school less than 30 minutes later that he had walked into his office and died from a massive heart attack. “Fergus had been working really hard and was very stressed… I said goodbye to him at 8.15 and got a call less than 30 minutes later while I was driving my kids to school to say he had walked into his office and dropped dead from a massive heart attack. Please log in or register with Independent.ie for free access to this article. New to Independent.ie? Create an account “We had been married 20 years. We had 11 children and one on the way and suddenly, he was gone from our lives.” The then 41-year-old from Killiney in south Dublin couldn’t find any support groups in Ireland that addressed those who were widowed early in life. But eight years on, Orlagh and her new husband Gary are about to open the first European branch of Soaring Spirits International in Dublin next month. They want to help others who feel isolated after losing the partner that they hoped to spend the rest of their lives with. Gary Walker was 50 when he lost his wife in a horse riding accident on their 31st wedding anniversary, and she died in his arms. Lisa was his childhood sweetheart, and they married at 19 after graduation from school. Orlagh looks back on the dark days that followed her husband’s death. “My oldest child was 19 and the youngest were four, three and one. “The oldest children were fantastic in support of the younger ones and it really brought our family together in very difficult times,” she said. “Everyone was fantastic and couldn’t do enough for my children and I when Fergus died but as the weeks progressed, everyone began getting on with their own lives again. “I couldn’t find any support in Ireland for anyone my age who was widowed. “I headed for the US, registered with Soaring Spirits and began the first day of an incredible journey and transformation. I really wouldn’t be where I am now without the group, which is a peer-led widowed community who reach out to over three million widowed people a year.” After Gary and Orlagh married last May, he relocated to Ireland and the couple plan to open the first European branch of Soaring Spirits International in Dublin in January. Orlagh has studied to be a counsellor in loss and bereavement, and with her husband gives workshops each year back at a Soaring Spirits ‘Camp Widow’ in the US. “When you lose a partner early in life, that you had wanted to spend the rest of your life with, it’s hard. You feel so isolated. I wasn’t single and I was no longer married – so what was I? “This community seemed to understand that and I remember them saying as I walked in the door ‘you’re not alone’. Even just those words meant everything at a time when I felt I was so alone.” They will be hosting the first pop-up event in Europe in Dublin in May of 2021 and are beginning a bi-monthly support group in the capital in January. Runaway schoolgirl who just gave birth to baby boy does not regret decision to join Isis Brexiteer Mark Francois SAVAGES BBC host over Theresa May’s deal – ‘NEVER tell the BBC’ Iain Duncan Smith declares ENTIRE LIFE as politician is WASTE if Brexit is stopped Princess Eugenie snub: Queen’s granddaughter admitted she ’doesn’t like’ her royal title Posted in EuropeTagged 'I was widowed with 12 ch British PM Boris Johnson's Conservatives raise record campaign funds Kate Middleton pregnant: ‘Broody’ Kate to announce fourth baby by the end of the year? France hunts gunman as alert level raised 'There was a quid pro quo,' ambassador tells inquiry Fionnán Sheahan: 'Racism and bullying allegations not image Varadkar wants for his new FG. Time to do 'a McNulty' on Murphy' Vulture fund objects to Frank McNamara and Theresa... Cocaine addict stole £44k from ‘vulnerable’ residents at... Nigel Farage says ‘pathetic’ Boris Johnson too embarrassed... Banning loan sales could spark ‘Big Short’ style... Mexican autoparts firms eye fast lane after U.S.... Fiat Chrysler and Foxconn plan Chinese electric vehicle... Brazil minister quits over accusations of Nazi quotes Canada's Trudeau urges Iran to send downed jetliner's... US to screen passengers for Sars-like China mystery... Mexico offered asylum to migrant caravan members. Several... Klassen’s brothers testify at 2nd-degree murder trial Peter Watts: It’s time to upgrade STARS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1995
__label__cc	0.577235	0.422765	← Issues with Part I of ‘It IS About Islam’ ‘Reforming’ the NAZI Ideology → If You Have Not Read the Qur’an and Hadith, Beck’s New Book, “It IS About Islam,” Will Do More Harm than Good! Posted on August 19, 2015 by Black3Actual \| 9 Comments If you have not already read the Qur’an and Hadith (sayings and customs of Muhammad), and you do not know the details of Muhammad’s life, reading Beck’s new book, “It IS about Islam,” will do you more harm than good. It is not so much about what he explains about Islam as it is about how he presents it and especially about what he leaves out of the discussion. If you are a regular reader, then you know I have issues with Beck when it comes to matters of faith — even Islam. If you’re interested in why I say Beck’s book will cause more harm than good, then I’ll do my best to set my disagreement with him aside and explain where and how Beck goes wrong. After you finish reading my explanation, then you’ll have to decide why he did it. But one thing is for sure, if you check on the information I will present to support my case, you will see that I am telling the truth: this book does not help explain the confusion over the threat of Islam, it adds to it! Before we begin, we have to understand something. It is crucial to the topic at hand. If you do not accept this — at least intellectually — then you cannot understand the problem underlying this whole issue. It is impossible. What you have to understand is that we are discussing matters of religion, and the people who follow Islam believe that the Qur’an is the literal, infallible, unchanging word of Allah (their god). They also believe that Muhammad is the perfect example of how a Muslim should live — because Allah said so. To expect a Muslim to reject the Qur’an and Hadith is no different than to expect a Mormon to reject Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. If either do so, then they disobey their god and their prophet. This is not a matter of asking them to ‘re-interpret’ their holy books; it is a matter of asking they to tell their god that he is wrong and that they — the creation — know better. In both Islam and Mormonism, this will earn the believer a rather unpleasant ‘reward.’ There is one more crucial point that we need to understand. Joseph Smith defined Mormonism. Yes, it has been altered since he created it, but Smith is the highest authority on what Mormonism is and what their god teaches. Likewise, Muhammad is the highest authority on Islam. When and where Smith or Muhammad speak plainly and clearly to a specific matter, there is no room for ‘interpretation.’ To argue this is the case is to argue that Muslims should re-interpret Allah to be the Mormon god, or the Mormons to re-interpret their god to be Allah. Likewise when Muhammad said Islam is the only true religion. Smith said the same thing about Mormonism. So, to argue that clear instruction on a specific point — especially when it is explained by the example of the founding prophet in the way he lived his life — is to commit both a fallacy as well as a deliberate insult to the people of that religion. We do not get to go back and change the words of either Smith or Muhammad to suit our modern sensibilities. Now, let’s deal with Beck’s book. He correctly states that Islam is fixed: it does not change. he also explains that Muhammad is the perfect example of how a pious Muslim should live, and that this example if found in the Hadith. He further explains that, while some Hadith are questioned, there are a great many that are accepted by all Muslims — that means both Sunni and Shi’a. He also explains that Shari’a law is an all encompassing legal system. This makes Islam a theocracy. There is no separation of church and state in Islam. Muhammad said this cannot happen — ever. Beck does explain this. Beck also explains that Muhammad said any Muslim that does not obey his commands, or who tries to change or leave Islam is not a Muslim, but a ‘hypocrite’ and an ‘apostate’ and they are to be killed. Finally, Beck does admit that the Muslims the West calls ‘radical’ are following the teachings of the Qur’an and the Hadith, and that they can cite passages that allow every one of their actions — even terrorism. All of this is true, and Beck provides a few of the passages from the Qur’an and Hadith where these things are clearly and forcefully and unequivocally stated by Muhammad. But he has left out a lot, and the parts he has left out are very important. But first, let’s review what Beck has admitted about Islam: 1 — Islam does not change: Qur’an:48:22 “If the unbelieving infidels fight against you, they will retreat. (Such has been) the practice (approved) of Allah in the past: no change will you find in the ways of Allah.” Bukhari:V9B88N174 “I heard the Prophet saying, ‘Islam cannot change!’” 2 — Muhammad is the perfect example of how a Muslim should live his life. This means that the life of Muhammad can be copied and the Muslim will be in perfect obedience to Allah (their god): Ishaq:467 “Allah addressed the believers and said, ‘In Allah’s Apostle you have a fine example for anyone who hopes to be in the place where Allah is.’” 3 — Shari’a is based on perfect obedience to everything Muhammad said was a command from Allah: Ishaq:322 “Allah said, ‘Do not turn away from Muhammad when he is speaking to you. Do not contradict his orders. And do not be a hypocrite, one who pretends to be obedient to him and then disobeys him. Those who do so will receive My vengeance. You must respond to the Apostle when he summons you to war.” This command also extends to the Imam: Bukhari: V4B52N203 “I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘We are the last but will be the foremost to enter Paradise.’ The Prophet added, ‘He who obeys me, obeys Allah, and he who disobeys me, disobeys Allah. He who obeys the chief, obeys me, and he who disobeys the chief, disobeys me. The Imam is like a shelter for whose safety the Muslims should fight.'” 4 — Any Muslim who pretends to be a Muslim, who refuses to obey Muhammad’s commands, who tries to change Islam or who tries to leave it or converts to another religion is to be killed: Qur’an:33:60 “Truly, if the Hypocrites stir up sedition, if the agitators in the City do not desist, We shall urge you to go against them and set you over them. Then they will not be able to stay as your neighbors for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain without mercy – a fierce slaughter – murdered, a horrible murdering.” Now, I have only provided you with one or two passages because I do not want to write a book. I can easily provide more, and I have in other posts on this blog and The Rio Norte Line. But these should be sufficient to demonstrate the problem in Beck’s argument. After Beck admits all of the above, he then turns around and tries to create a difference between what he used to call ‘moderate’ Muslims, but now calls ‘Islam,’ and what he used to call ‘radical’ Muslims but now calls ‘Islamicsts,’ According to Beck, those Muslims who are trying to ‘reform’ Islam, or who live peacefully among other religions are not the problem. He says the Muslims who are politicizing Islam — the ‘Islamists’ — they are the problem and it is because they have taken a ‘radical’ interpretation of Muhammad’s commands. This is how Beck explains it throughout his book: “There’s a crucial distinction to be made between Islam and Islamism. When discussing a topic this important, terminology is critical. Islam is the faith of 1.5 billion people around the world. Islamism is the supremacist political ideology that insists on imposing sharia, or Islamic holy law, on the world.” (pg. 8) “The faith of 1.6 billion people around the world is not inherently bad, but those who insist on a fundamentalist, outdated, supremacist reading of it are.” (pg. 90) After finishing the book, I could not help but wonder how Beck would react if I told him that his religion is not the problem, it’s just the people who read it and think it means what it says who are the problem. But I don’t have to imagine, I already know. On at least two occasions, Beck has spent more than fifteen minutes of his radio program telling his audience that, unless you accept his claim to be a Christian, you are a hater. There’s only one problem with this: Mormons are not Christians! This is not my ‘opinion,’ as Beck has been explaining his new book; it is the actual word of Christ. So this leaves me with a question: how can Beck say that anyone who disagrees with Him is a hater, but he can disagree with Muhammad and not be a hater? How can Beck call anyone who tells him he is not following the Bible a hater, then tell Muslims they can’t follow the Qur’an without making himself a hater? Here is the simple truth that Beck tries to avoid saying: Muhammad said that Muslims must obey him — period! Muhammad also said that anyone who disagrees with that command is not a Muslim, but a hypocrite and an apostate — period! These parts of Islam are not in doubt. We know this because of how Muhammad treated Muslims who questioned or disobeyed him, or who left Islam or converted to another religion. Muhammad had them killed! And it is equally clear in islam that Muhammad is the perfect example of how a Muslim should live. This means the people Beck calls ‘Islamists,’ and ‘radicals’ and ‘Muslim fundamentalists’ are true Muslims. The people Beck tries to praise for changing or ‘reforming’ Islam are not. This is according to Muhammad. Now for a shocker. Jesus said the same thing about people who claimed His name but did not adhere to His Gospel message! He said they are not His disciples and will not be saved! OTHER THINGS BECK LEFT OUT OF HIS BOOK One of the biggest things Beck left out of his book pertains to the Sunni-Shi’a rift in Islam. True, he does discuss it and he covers the origins of this rift. He even covers many of the beliefs that differentiate the two sides, up to and including their end times theology. But what he does not tell his reader is how the Sunnis and Shi’a see Jihad. Shi’a Islam teaches that the individual Muslim can declare his own Jihad, but Sunnis believe that only a seated Caliphe can do so. Why does this matter? Well, as Beck rightly points out, about 80% of Islam is Sunni. This means a majority of those the West calls ‘radicals’ or ‘terrorists’ likely come from Shi’a Islam. But what happens if a Caliphe is seated and recognized by the majority of Sunni Islam and that Caliphe then declares global Jihad against the West? Well, if that happens, Beck is likely to suddenly, all these ‘moderate’ Muslims Beck he likes to refer to as ‘peaceful’ are now brandishing swords and coming after him to take his head. I should think this is a rather important distinction because it means Sunnis are not more peaceful, they just believe they have to wait for the Caliphe to tell them to take up arms. There are some other things Beck left out of his book that you should know. He left them out because, if he had explained them, it would have been even harder to make the case that there is nothing wrong with Islam, itself. 1 –Muslims can lie to non-believers Beck does explain the Muslim practice of taqqiya (pg 184), but it might have been helpful to have done so on page one — before he started to quote what other Muslims have said in defense of Islam. Taqqiya is the practice of lying to non-believers to advance the cause of Islam. Muhammad also said that Allah is the best of ‘schemers’ (deceivers). Basically, this means you cannot trust anything a Muslim says. This is drawn from the Qur’an and Hadith: Bukhari:V4B52N270 “Allah’s Messenger said, ‘Who is ready to kill Ashraf? He has said injurious things about Allah and His Apostle.’ Maslama got up saying, ‘Would you like me to kill him?’ The Prophet proclaimed, ‘Yes.’ Maslama said, ‘Then allow me to lie so that I will be able to deceive him.’ Muhammad said, ‘You may do so.'” [NOTE: Muhammad allowed his follower to lie so he could kill a poet who had insulted Muhammad — see where that comes from now?] 2 — Muslims are allowed to sin in deed, so long as they do not sin in their heart. This is related to #1 above. Muhammad gave Muslims permission to sin in their actions when they were in peril, or places where it is difficult to live according to Shari’a. This even includes eating pork and drinking alcohol. The key is, they have to not sin ‘in their heart.’ 3 — Abrogation Beck deals with this, but in a very poor way. Abrogation is the replacing of an older command with a newer one. Most of the passages in the Qur’an that talk about peace have been abrogated — replaced by passages commanding violence. 4 — The order of the Qur’an This is an area where Beck causes great confusion. He treats the Qur’an as though it was written from front to back, in a linear progression of time. It is not! The Qur’an is arranged by length of the chapter, longest first and shortest last. This means many of the earliest passages are found in the back, not the front, so Beck misunderstands the order of abrogation, thus, he teaches it incorrectly in this book. Bukhari:V6B60N8 “Umar said, ‘Our best Qur’an reciter is Ubai. And in spite of this, we leave out some of his statements because Allah’s Apostle himself said, “Whatever verse or revelation We abrogate or cause to be forgotten We bring a better one.” Tabari VI:110 “When Muhammad brought a revelation from Allah canceling what Satan had cast on the tongue of His Prophet, the Quraysh said, ‘Muhammad has repented of [reneged on] what he said concerning the position of our gods with Allah. He has altered [the bargain] and brought something else.’ Those two phrases which Satan had cast on Muhammad’s tongue of were in the mouth of every polytheist. The Messenger said, ‘I have fabricated things against Allah and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken.'” 5 — The importance of Muhammad’s biography Beck did not tell his reader that Muhammad’s official biography is the third highest holy book in Islam, and crucial to understanding how Islam evolved. Here is where we will learn that Muhammad turned violent because he discovered he could attract more disciples if he let them rob people and keep 4/5 of whatever they took. He could also get rich by keeping the other 1/5 for himself. Ishaq:327 “Allah made booty lawful and good. He used it to incite the Muslims to unity of purpose. So enjoy what you have captured.” Here is also where we find that Muhammad not only lead many raids, but that he had many Jews and Christians murdered. Here is where we discover that many of the passages in the Qur’an came after Muhammad had done something — many times something that was forbidden. And each time, Muhammad was absolved by Allah and given permission to continue doing it. 6 — Pedophilia is allowed in Islam Beck totally ignores the fact that Muhammad took a wife when she was six years old, and consummated his marriage when she was nine. Since Muhammad is the perfect example of how Muslims should live, pedophilia is allowed in Islam: Tabari VII:7 “The Prophet married Aisha in Mecca three years before the Hijrah, after the death of Khadija. At the time she was six.” Ishaq:281 “When the Apostle came to Medina he was fifty-three.” {NOTE: this means Muhammad was fifty when he married a six year old] Tabari IX:131 “My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was then brought in while the Messenger was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. Then the men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old.” Ishaq:311 “The Apostle saw Ummu’l when she was a baby crawling before his feet and said, ‘If she grows up, I will marry her.’ But he died before he was able to do so.” [NOTE: Muhammad was in his late fifties or early sixties at this time] Muhammad also took several women as ‘wives’ the very day he had killed their husbands in raids on their towns, and even forced his son-in-law to divorce a woman he wanted for himself: Tabari IX:134 “Muhammad took Zaynab [his daughter-in-law] but Allah did not find any fault in the [incestuous] relationship and ordered the marriage.” One of his followers said of Muhammad’s lust: Tabari VIII:110 “When Abu Sufyan learned that the Prophet had taken her, he said, ‘That stallion’s nose is not to be restrained!'” 7 — Muhammad was a racist Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.'” Bukhari: V9B89N256 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he is a black African slave whose head looks like a raisin.'” And there is more — much more. One in every fifty-five verses of the Qur’an commands war against, murder of, and terror or torture of non-believers. But Beck argues that all of this is just ‘bad interpretations,’ and not something inherently wrong with the teaching of Muhammad. I argue that Beck is trying to will a change of reality — the very thing he has made a career of attacking when Progressives do it. Which leaves me to wonder: If, as Beck says in his book, we will not defeat Islam without being honest about what it is and what it teaches, how — pray tell — does Beck propose his audience and readers learn that truth when he, himself, refuses to tell it? 9 responses to “If You Have Not Read the Qur’an and Hadith, Beck’s New Book, “It IS About Islam,” Will Do More Harm than Good!” Black3Actual \| August 19, 2015 at 10:39 pm \| Reply Reblogged this on The Rio Norte Line and commented: This is a long post, but it may save you money and time. Read it through to the end. You will start to understand why we are never going to be able to coexist with Islam. EdwardS \| August 20, 2015 at 1:41 pm \| Reply After reading your post I am confident that I will not buy Beck’s book. I have invested in a few of Beck’s earlier books and come to the conclusion that his opinion leaves a large void in my future purchase of any of his material. I would like to inform you of a book I am currently reading; “The Grand Jihad: How Islam and The Left Sabotage America” by Andrew C. McCarthy. I am very impressed with the amount of information McCarthy writes in 2010, that is extremely relevant to our current situation with Islam! I can understand your disappointment with Beck. I am certain that after reading the first two chapters of McCarthy’s book, you will see what Beck missed in his book! Big assumption on my part, but we will agree on this without my having read Beck’s book? Black3Actual \| August 20, 2015 at 1:52 pm \| Reply I have the Grand Jihad on my “already read it” shelf 🙂 Yes, I have come to the same conclusion about Beck’s books — but only if they are connected to matters of faith. Where history is concerned, they are still solid, but only if you view them as ‘bird-dogs:’ they give you the scent of what you’re after and then put you on the trail, but they still don’t deliver the game (so to speak) 🙂 Pingback: GLENN BECK: It IS About Islam \| The Oil in Your Lamp Have heard Beck’s explanation and summary of his book, “It IS About Islam,” on Mark Levin’s radio show this evening. As Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca: “I believe I have been misinformed.” As is the case with everything I accept as the Truth, even if an opinion, I believe that you, I and Beck are accepting the same Truths: That Islam, however it is called or defined, Islamism/Islamist, is STILL ISLAM and can NOT be accepted as Truth (a Religion) by definition, in the Qur’an, Hadith, or any explanation by any Imam or Muslim, therefore beneficial that WE can co-exist on this earth. Without trying to interpret or clarify the Qur’an, I have an opinion of Islam that it is Not in my best interest to acquiesce the presence of a growing Islamic population in America. My readings of “The Crisis of Islam,” “Islam: The Religion and The People,” and “Faith and Power,” by Bernard Lewis, along with “The Foreigner’s Gift” by Fouad Adjami, and other books on the Middle East Arabs have exposed me to a great deal of thought on (as George W. Bush would say) “The Religion of Peace.” As I stated earlier that I would not buy Beck’s book, still stands: I do not need his definition/explanation to expose me to what may be detrimental to my future. I will assume that you (maybe reluctantly) will agree with my assumption? It is probably because I am just too dense, or perhaps too tired, but I am not sure I understand what you are trying to say. However, having admitted my confusion, let me offer an observation that may accidentally cross with your own line of reasoning. While I do believe Beck thinks that Islam can be ‘reformed’ — at least to the point that we can co-exist with those adherents Beck calls ‘moderates,’ I do not. I see nothing peaceful in Islam. Nor do I see any way to ‘reform’ it without creating another entirely different religion. Furthermore, I do not believe we can continue to allow Islam to grow within our borders and remain as we are now. Either we have to do something to limit Islam, or Islam will take over this nation and impose Shari’a Law. There is no middle ground here. Pingback: AGENDAS: A Question for Glenn Beck’s Listeners \| The Oil in Your Lamp Pingback: Is Glenn Beck Standing with Pope Francis in Promoting Christlam? \| The Oil in Your Lamp Pingback: APPLIED LOGIC: The Tyranny In Glenn Beck’s Words \| The Oil in Your Lamp Leave a Reply to Black3Actual Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1997
__label__cc	0.530841	0.469159	/[pcre]/code/trunk/pcre_valid_utf8.c Contents of /code/trunk/pcre_valid_utf8.c Sat Mar 28 17:10:56 2009 UTC (10 years, 9 months ago) by ph10 Further USPTR additions. 9 Copyright (c) 1997-2009 University of Cambridge 41 /* This module contains an internal function for validating UTF-8 character 42 strings. / 45 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H 46 #include "config.h" 49 #include "pcre_internal.h" 52 /************************************************ 53 * Validate a UTF-8 string * 54 ************************************************/ 56 / This function is called (optionally) at the start of compile or match, to 57 validate that a supposed UTF-8 string is actually valid. The early check means 58 that subsequent code can assume it is dealing with a valid string. The check 59 can be turned off for maximum performance, but the consequences of supplying 60 an invalid string are then undefined. 62 Originally, this function checked according to RFC 2279, allowing for values in 63 the range 0 to 0x7fffffff, up to 6 bytes long, but ensuring that they were in 64 the canonical format. Once somebody had pointed out RFC 3629 to me (it 65 obsoletes 2279), additional restrictions were applied. The values are now 66 limited to be between 0 and 0x0010ffff, no more than 4 bytes long, and the 67 subrange 0xd000 to 0xdfff is excluded. 69 Arguments: 70 string points to the string 71 length length of string, or -1 if the string is zero-terminated 73 Returns: < 0 if the string is a valid UTF-8 string 74 >= 0 otherwise; the value is the offset of the bad byte 77 int 78 _pcre_valid_utf8(USPTR string, int length) 80 #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 81 register USPTR p; 83 if (length < 0) 85 for (p = string; p != 0; p++); 86 length = p - string; 89 for (p = string; length-- > 0; p++) 91 register int ab; 92 register int c = p; 93 if (c < 128) continue; 94 if (c < 0xc0) return p - string; 95 ab = _pcre_utf8_table4[c & 0x3f]; /* Number of additional bytes / 96 if (length < ab \|\| ab > 3) return p - string; 97 length -= ab; 99 / Check top bits in the second byte / 100 if (((++p) & 0xc0) != 0x80) return p - string; 102 /* Check for overlong sequences for each different length, and for the 103 excluded range 0xd000 to 0xdfff. / 105 switch (ab) 107 / Check for xx00 000x (overlong sequence) / 110 if ((c & 0x3e) == 0) return p - string; 111 continue; / We know there aren't any more bytes to check / 113 / Check for 1110 0000, xx0x xxxx (overlong sequence) or 114 1110 1101, 1010 xxxx (0xd000 - 0xdfff) / 117 if ((c == 0xe0 && (p & 0x20) == 0) \|\| 118 (c == 0xed && p >= 0xa0)) 119 return p - string; 122 / Check for 1111 0000, xx00 xxxx (overlong sequence) or 123 greater than 0x0010ffff (f4 8f bf bf) / 126 if ((c == 0xf0 && (p & 0x30) == 0) \|\| 127 (c > 0xf4 ) \|\| 128 (c == 0xf4 && p > 0x8f)) 132 #if 0 133 / These cases can no longer occur, as we restrict to a maximum of four 134 bytes nowadays. Leave the code here in case we ever want to add an option 135 for longer sequences. / 137 / Check for 1111 1000, xx00 0xxx / 139 if (c == 0xf8 && (p & 0x38) == 0) return p - string; 142 /* Check for leading 0xfe or 0xff, and then for 1111 1100, xx00 00xx / 144 if (c == 0xfe \|\| c == 0xff \|\| 145 (c == 0xfc && (p & 0x3c) == 0)) return p - string; 151 /* Check for valid bytes after the 2nd, if any; all must start 10 / 152 while (--ab > 0) 158 (void)(string); / Keep picky compilers happy / 159 (void)(length); 165 / End of pcre_valid_utf8.c */	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line1999
__label__wiki	0.759895	0.759895	Racism, sexism, and politics pose biggest risk for brand advertisers Dean Takahashi@deantak October 7, 2019 6:00 AM Damage caused by political content for brands. Image Credit: Channel Factory Racism, sexism, and politics pose the highest risks to brands buying media today, according to a brand suitability survey by services firm Channel Factory. Channel Factory surveyed media buyers across the U.S. and Western Europe to determine which content topics were most likely to cause sensitivity. While the survey covered all brand marketing, I heard a lot about this issue last week at the Esports BAR Miami conference, where a lot of brands talked about the challenges of marketing campaigns associated with esports and gamers. In both territories, racism came out as the biggest issue (cited by 70% of those surveyed), followed by sexism (50%). Both beat out terrorism and violence as topics of concern. In the U.S., polarizing politics was an issue, while fascism was more concerning to brands in the European Union. Brands are naturally sensitive to politically and culturally hot issues in their regions and responded that they were particularly sensitive to specific political, racist, and sexist content. Within the global survey, 56% of respondents said sexist content would score 9 or 10 on a scale of 1-10 for most damaging, and 70% of respondents said racist content would score 9 or 10 on a similar scale. However, results within the U.S. specifically showed that polarizing social content is most controversial (at 33%), while in Europe fascist content ranked highest (at 64%). Advertisers have varying levels of sensitivity, and each brand requires a tailored approach, as their regions, cultural issues, and unique brand sensitivities combine to create different needs. Brands want a comprehensive approach that covers planning and real-time management, with the ability to adapt to changes and hot button issues. While violent content didn’t top the list of concerns, it still scored pretty high. At the esports event last week, brands such as Anheuser-Busch acknowledged that games with red blood in them (particularly realistic first-person shooters) were inappropriate for the brand image. That’s a tough challenge, as such games are popular with millennials, who are a hard target to reach via traditional media. Above: Brands assess the risks for campaigns. “The results of this survey confirm that brands must own brand suitability, because it changes so much and is unique not only to a single brand, but in different markets for different audiences,” said Jed Hartman, chief commercialive officer at the Channel Factory, in a statement. “With a volatile political situation across many countries, alongside polarizing sensationalism of all types, brands benefit from a strong brand suitability strategy and advanced partners that have the technology to scale and customize for any situation.” “This survey reinforces the results of TAG’s recent consumer brand safety research, showing that unsuitable placements can cause significant and measurable damage to a brand,” said Nick Stringer, TAG vice president of global engagement and operations, in a statement. It also shows the importance of taking a nuanced approach to brand safety and suitability that factors in both regional variation in sensitivities and other ad-related reputational risks, such as malware and piracy. TAG’s cross-industry programs aligns closely with these findings, Stringer said, as the firm has built a global framework for local markets to address these issues. The global survey sample included brands from the U.S. and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and provides a wide view of the type of content deemed brand-suitable across industries, countries, and cultures. Executives from TAG, GroupM, JICWEBS, and ABC have endorsed the survey results as a vital step toward extending the brand suitability discussion across the digital advertising industry. “The results of this survey provide an in-depth view of the global variables of brand suitability and prove what a complex area this is, both geographically and from brand to brand,” said JICWEBS CEO Jules Kendrick in a statement. Channel Factory is based in Beverly Hills, California and does content targeting, brand suitability, and ad performance services on YouTube. Several leading brand safety experts also contributed to the report, including Trustworthy Accountability Group, Group M, and ABC.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2000
__label__wiki	0.849097	0.849097	Christian Bale Reportedly in Talks to Join Thor 4 Cast With Chris Hemsworth The man who played The Dark Knight may join the MCU. Updated: 7 Jan 2020 5:06 pm Posted: 6 Jan 2020 8:33 pm Former Batman actor Christian Bale may be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part of Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder. According to Collider, Bale is in talks to join Thor 4 in an undisclosed role. This is purely speculation, but given that Waititi has cited the comic The Mighty Thor as inspiration for his next Thor movie, it could be that Bale will be playing a villain from that series like the evil businessman Dario Agger who transforms into a powerful Minotaur. The Mighty Thor is part of a larger Thor saga where Gorr the God Butcher is the overarching villain, so that character may be a possibility. On the heroic side of things, Bale wouldn't be a bad fit for the fan-favorite hammer-wielder Beta Ray Bill, or perhaps Balder the Brave, Thor's half-brother. IGN reached out for confirmation on this casting but Disney declined to comment. The Top 25 Marvel Villains If Kevin Fiege does indeed recruit Bale to the MCU for Love and Thunder, Bale would be joining Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, and Natalie Portman, who will be returning to wield the hammer as Thor herself. And of course, Waititi's Korg will be coming back for the next installment. Waititi recently revealed when Thor 4 will begin filming later this year in Australia. He also shared how Love and Thunder will be different from Ragnarok. The released date for Thor: Love and Thunder is November 5, 2021. Joshua is Senior Features Editor at IGN. If Pokemon, Green Lantern, or Game of Thrones are frequently used words in your vocabulary, you’ll want to follow him on Twitter @JoshuaYehl and IGN. Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder Release DateNovember 5, 2021 Yes, Giancarlo Esposito Knows Why Moff Gideon Wants Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2004
__label__wiki	0.613015	0.613015	Incoming: Black Sun Empire are about to shake your 2017 to pieces with new single… And album! Dave Jenkins / 30 January 2017 BIG news to kickstart your week… On February 17 Black Sun Empire will release a premium two-track single with collaborations from none other than Noisia and Pythius. They have also confirmed that it’s the first full single to come from their as-yet-untitled sixth album, due later this year! An all-Dutch line-up, both collaborations are as tight, forthright and sense-blurring as you’d expect. The Veil with Noisia taps back into a now 12-year tradition between the two Dutch titans with some of the most dramatic, almost operatic dynamics they’ve created together. True neuro theatre with emotion and soul…. Catalyst with label mate Pythius picks us up off the floor where Heresy left us, chucks us around a bit and leaves us in even more of a state of unrest. Two colossal collaborations… Two more reasons to get hyped for Black Sun Empire’s sixth studio album which will also feature the major league Virus Syndicate collaboration Caterpillar. Here’s what we know so far. Any particular reason why The Veil is so biblically heavy? A remarkable piece of music… Haha, well thank you very much. There is no particular reason. You get older, you get heavier… What’s your favourite Noisia collaboration memory? A particularly weird memory is we were in our old studio in Utrecht, I think making Winter War or Lead Us and we had some lunch there at one point. One of the Noisia gang had put a large chunk of salami sausage somewhere and forgot all about it. As the tune progressed, the room started to smell worse and worse. The next day we had to stop and look for it as it became unbearable and, after we found the source of the evil stench and came up with all sorts of inappropriate titles for that collaboration. How does it work when the six of you jump on a track… That’s a lot of minds and men in the same place at the same time! I don’t think it has ever been all 6 of us working at one time. At most four, but that is still a lot! The good thing is they were never done online, people sharing an actual space to make something is still the best way to go. Now Pythius… What would you say his signature strengths are as an artist? In my opinion it’s that he keeps things simple, which doesn’t sound like a compliment, but it is. A lot of times it’s too easy to be distracted by making things overly busy or whatever, but it’s good to be focused on what matters. A good hook and some mental basses and beats! So… We hear there’s album coming. What can you tell us? All will be revealed very soon! We worked hard on it for most of last year and quite a bit before. The way we always work is we make a lot of beats, gather a lot of little ideas and then go into ‘album mode’ in which you actually try to finish as many tracks as possible, try make a cohesive album and try to figure out what fits together. It wasn’t until we came up with the title and artwork ideas that things really clicked for us, but we are really happy with it. This is just the tip of the iceberg. This will be your sixth album… Not a huge amount of acts in D&B have released that many albums. How do you feel about that? My only feeling right now is I want to make another! Making albums is fun, much more challenging than anything else. It’s also a painful and stressful time, which is probably why not everyone does more than a few. I still think it’s a shame Konflikt never got around to doing just ONE, that could have potentially been a pretty decent LP to say the least. Was there anything you learnt from From The Shadows that helped this new album? Only that the response to it was so good, it kept us motivated to do more. Can I squeeze you for any more information at this juncture? You have to do more than squeezing I’m afraid. Soon! Soon: Facebook / Soundcloud / Twitter NewsBlackout MusicDrum & Bass	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2005
__label__wiki	0.749593	0.749593	Sub Focus returns… Dave Jenkins / 29 November 2016 He’s back! Well, he never actually went away. This summer has been one of the best times to catch the London artist in several years in fact. But it has been three years since Sub Focus last dropped brand new material upside our heads (September 2013, his second album Torus to be precise) Until October when – out of the blue (no pun) – a brand new single track appeared… Then exactly four weeks later, he followed it up with the slower, old school hat-tipping vibe workout Love Divine. Both cuts instantly smack of classic Sub Focus while looking forward: big broad melodic brush strokes anchored with weight and unique tones, all culminating with a strong dancefloor focus. It goes us wondering… Is this the start of a new album? What’s next? In his first interview in well over a year, in the run up to him headlining our debut event at Printworks, we had the chance to ask these very questions… First Nobody Knows, now Love Divine… What’s happening here? I’ve been working on a whole load of music since I last put anything out, some of which people might have heard me testing in my sets over the last year or so. I wanted to create a series for some of the more club-focussed tracks before I release my album next year – I always seem to get a lot of feedback online that people want to hear more of that kind of stuff from me, going back to my club roots. We kicked off with Nobody Knows, then Love Divine and there are more tracks in the series coming soon. I’m building up a big batch of material and it’s nice to be able to just fire out underground tracks when I like. The climate has changed just in the last few years since I last released music – there’s less build up for releases, you can fling things out a lot quicker. I want to keep this series going alongside my album. I’ve just been really inspired lately. Inspired by anyone in particular? With this latest batch of club releases I’ve been drawing on a lot of the music I grew up with in the 90s – house, jungle, speed garage and old school rave music. It kind of stemmed from my DJ sets. I listen to a lot of house and techno DJs and when these guys play they always reference and bring up classics and older tracks, those genres have such an established and broad history to draw from. I decided to do the same with drum & bass and started incorporating older tracks into my sets, tracking them down and getting in touch with the artists if I’m fortunate enough to know them. Guys like Jonny L and Optical. That translated into the studio, tracking down some of samples, instruments and techniques used in the records that inspired me when I first got into electronic music in the 90’s. Like the old time-stretching they did on the Akai samplers and finding the samples used on the Emu Emulator Keyboards. Also there have been artists like Special Request and Jamie xx referencing the same era who have been really inspiring. So there’s been all these things that have lead to me making some more nostalgia referencing tracks. You’ve always had a slight tinge of rave/foundation-era nostalgia to your music anyway… Yeah when I started working on this new batch of material it definitely felt like it fitted with earlier tracks from my first album like Could This Be Real with the pitched-up vocal element and Last Jungle. Especially with slower jungle tracks like Love Divine. I’ve become slightly addicted to sample-hunting through all this too. Do you know that bird call sample that’s on a lot of early jungle records like Bukem’s Demon’s Theme? It’s on loads of acid house records too… That’s the one. I was researching into where that came from and found out it’s the call of a bird called a Canadian loon and it’s a preset on the old Emu Emulator II keyboard. I love the history of electronic music and looking back in time to find the origin of sounds. For the last 10 years people have been trying to emulate analog synths but now people are emulating 90’s early digital kit, they are generally a lot easier to replicate than analog keyboards as they were based on digital technology to start with. You can lose days/weeks on those missions. How much time can you justify on that as an artist? You’re right – you can lose a lot of time doing this but it’s never wasted in my opinion. I like to spend a day every now and again amassing sounds and samples. I come across a lot of old samples that I want to repurpose or re-contextualise so I spent time tracking down the original on Discogs or online. I’ve also built a modular synth which is really easy to get lost in, too. So some days I’ll spend hours making sounds and experimenting on that. It’s cool to have some bespoke kit that no other artist has got. Is this like the bespoke motion sensor instruments you made for your live show? Not exactly, the motion sensors were built from scratch, with modular synths it’s a little different – they are mostly made using multiple pre-built modules that you assemble in your own combination. It can be totally unique though because there are thousands of modules out there so the ones you choose and the way you use isn’t likely to be the same as another artist. It opens your eyes to new levels of combinations of techniques, being more hands on and not just being stuck in a screen. There’s a lot more hardware in my studio now which refreshes things a lot more – manipulating stuff in real time tends to have more unpredictable and exciting results. Was there anything that pushed you in the direction of hardware? After my last album I had some time and a brand new studio space with lots more room and I was feeling like I wanted to shake up what I’m doing – how I make tunes, how I create sounds, how I go about everything. I kind of redesigned my studio much more like an old traditional studio – with a patch bay and multiple bits of hardware like guitar pedals, synths and hardware vocoders that I could interface with my original in the box setup. It always takes me a while to write music. I never want to do the same thing again and there is a lot of self-imposed pressure. I’m very stringent on my quality control – I have been all along. I’ve never released loads of tracks at any period. I also like building up a batch of tracks so when I am ready to release music I have more to follow it up. Plus working like that helps you understand which direction you’re going in and how to develop that. It’s not been harder but it doest tend to take a long time. I also struggle with the balance of writing / DJing. I always feel I’m either DJing too much or not writing enough or vice versa. Such a fine line! It is. I love DJing but you can get sucked into that banger-making mentality which can be bad creatively. But when you do no shows there’s no urgency or excitement for the weekend to play something. There’s an ideal balance where you have enough shows to test material and get inspired but long enough periods to get your head down and write solidly. My best stuff comes through several weeks of total studio isolation. It’s like anything you need to practice at – like being an athlete – you have to build up to your best form. You’re not at that form when you’ve come off a two month tour. You need to get back into it and develop that speed of getting ideas down but that can take a while after a busy summer! Are you in deep hibernation mode now? Pretty much. This happens every year now – summer is always busy, winter for writing and the occasional show to break things up. So I’m currently deep in studio mode working on my album and in the meantime releasing tracks like the series I’m working on now. What’s interesting is that this interview was called a come-back interview when your team organised it. Do you consider this a comeback? I don’t. You’ve still be there DJing etc. Yeah, too early for a comeback tour, but it does feel like a return with new music. It’s been over two years since I put anything new out, which is a long time. And internally I’ve been sitting on this stuff and over-analysing how it will be received entirely. So to have it in circulation and to have good feedback on it is a nice feeling. Whether it’s a comeback or not. Wasn’t there an Eric Prydz remix coming? Yeah it was an unofficial remix I did as I loved the original, so I made something for my sets. I would love it to come out but I don’t think it will ever unfortunately. A lot of artists during album writing phases will shut out the rest of the world, fearing it can corrupt their own influences. You also seem very in touch with the wider world of electronic music such as techno and house. It’s a tricky balance to strike – you can definitely listen to too much music and get sucked into it but for me there’s a very clear divide of inspiration and enjoyment. So I’m loving a lot of music in D&B right now – tracks like Dimension’s UK, Rockwell’s Hoez To The Floor, a lot of Ivy Lab stuff, a lot of halftime and experimental stuff – but that doesn’t directly influence my music, it’s just stuff I love. I try not to get influenced by current things because there’s a danger of copying. I’m always trying to layer my influences in such a way that it would be very hard to decipher one particular sound or idea that has motivated me. The closest thing is the slight nostalgia feel to the club tracks in this current series. The actual album is sounding very different to that. I guess you’re not ready to divulge too much about that? No not yet. I don’t want to talk about it too much until the ideas are fully formed and I have a more complete idea of where it’s going. Does that get harder every time? Not really. There are always new territories to explore. That challenge is to change and develop but not sound too far away from what you’ve done. I suspect most artists would happily change a lot about their style and signature with every record but you risk alienating your audience doing that so it’s about building on what you’ve done before and getting people to hear the connections. Connections: Facebook / Soundcloud / Twitter See Sub Focus @ Printworks, London, February 11 w/ Feed Me, Dimension, Netsky, Friction, Mollie Collins, Holy Goof, Taiki Nulight, Audio, Alix Perez, Technimatic, Fourward and many more. 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__label__cc	0.705011	0.294989	AI Candidate Assistant Augmented Reality Will Be the New iPhone’s Killer App 98 Great New Jobs at rag & bone, Trunk Club, SMARTASSISTANT, and Medidata Solutions \| 2 years ago Take on the future. AR You Experienced? When Apple (presumably) unveils new iPhones next week, there will be a lot of talk about facial recognition, wireless charging, and the “Apple Neural Engine”. But you shouldn’t overlook perhaps the biggest innovation coming to iOS 11 – the introduction of augmented reality. Check out 6 amazing applications for the technology that are coming to an iPhone near you. Virtual Ikea The Swedish furnishings giant Ikea has announced they will be a launch partner for Apple’s AR platform, allowing users to place virtual furniture in the home. Zombies Get Real A collaboration between AMC and Next Games, The Walking Dead: Our World has been described as a cross between a zombie shooter and Pokemon GO. Augment Your Cooking Food Network is launching In the Kitchen, an app that will, as CNBC reports, “let you create custom digital desserts, and the app will return a recipe that can help you build it in real life.” Measure Once, Cut Once While this application might be more mundane, the possibilities are life-changing. Several AR-enabled “measuring tapes” have been released already, allowing users to accurately measure a distance using only their iPhone. Take On “Take On Me” Who among us hasn’t wanted to stroll through the comic book world of A-ha’s classic music video “Take On Me”? Now’s your chance, with an app created by AR studio Trixi (photo above). Currently in development, ARrived is a god-simulator where players must keep troublingly life-like “virtual pets” alive. Getting Cross-Platform If you want to learn more about augmented reality and ARKit, the software development kit that will power the innovation, check out Apple’s user interface guidelines. And you can keep up with all the latest developments at Made with ARKit. And fear not Android users, you will not be left out of the AR revolution. Last week, Google released a preview of ARCore, an SDK that brings augmented reality to Android devices. It’s 2020. Every Job is a Tech Job. Sign up for Uncubed Intel to receive the best tech news, career advice, and jobs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2008
__label__wiki	0.68003	0.68003	:: Buzzwords Archive: August 2016. Click here for the latest posts. Artistic Differences (published 31/08/2016) It’s The Buzz, Cock! By Linder (2015), Courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London 29 Jun 2016 – 4 Sep 2016 Entry with Day Membership To coincide with the Lower Gallery exhibition Judy Blame: Never Again (29 June – 4 September 2016), which features designer Judy Blame’s work since the 1980s, Artistic Differences in the Upper Gallery aims to present Blame’s work within a wider artistic context, drawing on connections in the art and design worlds in the UK from the 1980s and 1990s. Artistic Differences brings together artists and designers that have been directly linked to Blame throughout his career, and those who have been influenced by his work and share his distinct artistic approach and style. Participants include Charles Atlas, Dave Baby, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Malcolm Garrett, Derek Jarman, Barry Kamen, Jim Lambie, Mark Lebon, Linder, John Maybury, Jamie Reid, Peter Saville, Juergen Teller, Trojan, Nicola Tyson and Tim Noble & Sue Webster. If Charles Atlas’ film Hail the New Puritan (1985-6) evokes a particular moment in British cultural history associated with Blame and his work during 1980s London, it also provides context to contributions by other artists and designers of that time such as Dave Baby, Mark Lebon, Linder, John Maybury and Trojan. The work of graphic designers Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville, as well as artist Linder, also provides a reference to the time Blame spent in Manchester during the emerging music scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. Other works in the exhibition show a direct personal and artistic relationship with Blame: a film by Derek Jarman featuring Blame entitled B2 from 1981, the film Judy Blame on Southwark Bridge (1983) by Nicola Tyson, and the intimate photographs by Juergen Teller of Blame in his studio. The work of Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Jake & Dinos Chapman shows Blame’s close connection with and influence on the YBAs. Direct references to Goya and his Disasters of War series in the work of Jake & Dinos Chapman also resonate with Blame’s interest in art history and evoke his time spent in the Museo del Prado in Madrid as a young boy growing up in Spain. Artistic Differences also features an interview with Judy Blame by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir (embedded above), which provides a unique insight into Blame’s significant life and work. Monsieur de Bougrelon (published 30/08/2016) Spurl Editions is pleased to announce the November 1, 2016, release of the novel Monsieur de Bougrelon by Jean Lorrain translated by Eva Richter “I am taking you to the brothel, Messieurs,” declared the old puppet, “but the brothel of memories. There you will submit, and with the sharpest desire, to women you will not even see, to a deceptive obsession. I am taking you to the cloakroom of the dead. Standing before scraps of fabric, before dresses that will be empty forever and bodices of nothing, before the old rags of centuries and the tatters of dead lovers, I want to get you drunk on the sorrowful opium of what could have been and what is no more.” – from Monsieur de Bougrelon In Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume galleries, Monsieur de Bougrelon recounts hallucinatory stories of his past and delves into his “heroic friendship” with his aristocratic companion Monsieur de Mortimer. Monsieur de Bougrelon is a unique character: loquacious, proud, a leftover from an earlier age, wearing garish outfits and makeup that drips. To his speechless audience, he waxes nostalgic about his life as an exile in Holland, as well as what he calls “imaginary pleasures” – obsessions with incongruous people, animals, and objects. These obsessions are often sexual or border on the sexual, leading to shocking, surreal scenes. Monsieur de Bougrelon also enthuses over his beautiful friend Monsieur de Mortimer, making this novella one of the rare works of the nineteenth century to broach homosexuality in a meaningful way, years before Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet. Originally published in French in 1897, Monsieur de Bougrelon is now available in English translation for the first time. Its inventiveness and sheer Decadence find kindred spirits in the novels of Comte de Lautréamont, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and even Louis-Ferdinand Céline, while the novella’s indulgent language and unconventional vision of art and sex embody the best of fin-de-siècle literature. It is, in the novella’s own words, a true “boudoir of the dead.” Jean Lorrain, born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a novelist, critic, and dramatist, and one of the most conspicuously Decadent figures of fin-de-siècle France. Masks and disguises are recurring themes in his work, as is Parisian low life, satanism, ether, homosexuality, and the aristocracy. In 1897, he wrote Monsieur de Bougrelon, and shortly after, Lorrain left Paris to live in Nice. His stay at the Riviera began an intense period of creativity. In 1901, he wrote his best-known work, Monsieur de Phocas, which he followed a year later with his fantastical aristocrat saga, Le Vice errant. His health declined due to syphilis and his abuse of drugs, and he died on June 30, 1906, of peritonitis, at the age of fifty-one. It was rumored that when Lorrain’s grave was opened in 1986, the body of “Sodom’s ambassador to Paris,” as biographer Philippe Jullian called him, still smelled of ether. SPURL EDITIONS publishes literature and photography that is dark, eccentric, obscure, or unexpected. Available online and at select bookstores. The Candidate (published ) The inside story of Jeremy Corbyn’s extraordinary ascent to leadership of the British Labour Party A lifelong and outspoken socialist, Jeremy Corbyn only managed to get on last year’s ballot for the leadership of the Labour Party after his supporters begged for nominations from MPs who subsequently declined to vote for him. He did so at a time when even his closest political allies saw little hope for progress by the left. In the immediate run-up to the election the now-Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell wrote “This is the darkest hour that socialists in Britain have faced since the Attlee government fell in 1951.” And yet, just a few months later, Corbyn didn’t just win the Labour leadership, he crushed his opponents, winning 60% of the vote from a party membership that had more than doubled in the previous five years. The establishment was aghast. The official opposition to the government, according to the conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper, now had as its leader a man “with a plan to turn Britain into Zimbabwe.” This remarkable transformation is the subject of Alex Nunn’s stunning new book, The Candidate. Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including many of its most senior figures, Nunns traces a plot-line of such implausibility that it would be unusable in a work of fiction. The result is a story both richly-informed and compellingly readable. Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power Pre-order now and get 15% off www.orbooks.com Sleepless (published 26/08/2016) Analogue present Thursday 1 – Wednesday 14 September at Shoreditch Town Hall A woman lies awake. Pupils like pinpricks, skin saturated in sweat, the odd jerk of a muscle. She hasn’t slept for 3 months. She knows what is happening to her and there’s nothing she can do. Sleepless is inspired by the true story of a family cursed with a rare genetic disease that cruelly deprives its victims of sleep until they die, known as Fatal Familial Insomnia. When Cosima starts showing strange and sudden symptoms in the wake of her mother’s unexpected death, she embarks on a journey through history and a race against time to find the cause and cure of this rare condition. “An increasingly exceptional young company with a reputation for slick and inventive use of multimedia” This latest production from Analogue, the ‘bright young things of British theatre’ (The Observer), explores the crossroads between performance and science, sleep research and the mad cow crisis. Sleepless begs the broader question: how do we decide the value of a human life? 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__label__cc	0.629662	0.370338	Hard work has opened doors for Cherokee High School graduate’s career Posted 4:32 pm, May 24, 2019, by Carter Watkins COLBERT COUNTY, Ala. – There is one Cherokee High School graduate walking across the stage Friday night who has a lot to brag about. Due to his hard work in the classroom, he is ready to start his career protecting us. Justin Timmons has put on his training clothes for the last time. A graduating senior, Justin has spent more than two years studying Fire Science at the Colbert County Career Tech Center in Cherokee. “It has a heavy emphasis on training and stuff like that,” said Timmons. “Every aspect of training means that you are learning how to save someone’s life and how to protect your own life while helping other people.” Timmons finished at the top of his Fire Science class this year. He completed certifications in Firemanship, Emergency Care Provider, and Volunteer Fire Fighter courses. That’s pretty good for someone who just decided he wanted to be a career fire fighter one year ago. “It’s one of those things where as you are taking the class you grow into it and you start to love the job and love the things you do,” Timmons explained. The Alabama Fire College has recognized Justin’s drive and his ability. They have awarded him the only full scholarship to Rookie School in the state for a high school graduate. He earned the highest score in the state on the SkillsUSA Firefighting Written Exam to help qualify for the scholarship. Sixteen Fire Science programs across the state competed. “It not only gives them the ability to have a career straight out of high school, but also it teaches them a lot about, as Justin said, brotherhood, and about life-saving measures,” said Fire Science Instructor Michael David Smith. As soon as he finishes the five-week course, Justin Timmons will be ready to work for any fire department in Alabama. Timmons also received an applied technologies scholarship to Northwest Shoals Community College. And for good measure, Timmons was named the Buffalo Wild Wings Scholar-Athlete of the Year for his success on the gridiron. Filed in: Shoals Shoals Weather Crews work to clear storm damage in Colbert Heights Virginia man drops 176 pounds to achieve dream of becoming a police officer Man who shot church gunman gets highest Texas civilian honor A success story for Chris Murdock – Wins $319 for his class at Fayetteville High School Remembering an Army family Early education is one of the ways Launch 2035 is recruiting a Workforce Northeast Alabama STEM Four Jackson County schools awarded $5,000 TVA STEMready grants Three North Alabama schools win Safe Schools Awards from Alabama attorney general Official: Pensacola shooter Saudi Arabian aviation student Morgan County Schools says system-wide food pantry is available for students in need Lynn Newton wins $319 for class at Lauderdale County High School Decatur fire chief leaving for job in Tennessee How to keep New Year’s resolutions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2018
__label__wiki	0.750572	0.750572	Tokyo ghoul season 3 Episodes story sequence S1 Audience reviews Why does Tokyo Ghoul Season 3 story sequence change from S1 and 2 Audience reviews? Tokyo ghoul season 3 starts sometime after the end occasions in s2 which reveals Kaneki standing with all the dead body of his friend in the front of the army that is a dove. What happened can be anybody’s guess where he ends up being defeated rather than being murdered he is forced to forget his character while preserving the understanding of his skills and educated and struggled with the amount one ghoul Hunter arima.Tokyo ghoul season 3 In Tokyo ghoul season 3 He’s subsequently made an inspector placed underneath man’s daughter and forced to handle his group of artificial half ghouls. He’s still of use to this doves because of his morals, and so they continue trying to keep him to prevent tripping one of their weapons. Pretty. This video will hopefully END Your CONFUSION on Tokyo ghoul season 3 Season 3 of Tokyo ghoul explained Watch as far as you can, keeping apart the spoilers out of Manga; the audiences have always bugged. This is what you don’t have any clue of what is happening in the manga you adhere to Anime even if I get rid of the Manga. The continuity isn’t well clarified. I think Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul origin (A) were fairly clear since they did join the dots. However, if we discuss Tokyo ghoul season 3, Tokyo Ghoul: re there is a lot to be clarified. Manga readers understood beforehand what situation is happening, maybe the result, but as an anime watcher it turned out to what occurred hard. There’s an additional side for this. Section of Tokyo Ghoul: we will broadcast this year, in October. We can expect to get things. We could hope, although, I doubt that the manufacturing company will do justice but given the situation. Would result in spoilers. Life as another individual and how that occurred is not clarified in the anime.” You know, sometimes I do believe that some valid-cum-absurd question could pop up in somebody’s mind (just anime watchers), for example, What happened to Kaneki Ken adoring Coffee? Would Ghouls eat not and vegetarian food meat of people? Could they do it? Tokyo ghoul season 3 So the 3rd period of the anime presumes you have read the original Tokyo Ghoul manga. That is why plenty of people are perplexed as they didn’t. Is read the manga. Re. Start reading after the stage where Kaneki escapes Jason room, cause that is where manga and the anime diverge. Read it on the internet. It will not take a lot of time. Additionally while viewing Tokyo ghoul season 3, you can browse the manga TG: re side by side leaves certain information that is small out. Tokyo ghoul season 3: re is Haise Sasaki, a CCG Investigator’s narrative. Haise is Ken Kaneki. That is why the story differs from s2 and s1. It’s because season two”Route A” is filled with filler episodes and contains hardly any canons. Tokyo Ghoul’s first period coated out of manga around 60 chapters. The first time was a mess; several narrative components were covered by it but abandoned some significant ones 3 Things You NEED TO KNOW Before Tokyo Ghoul Season 3 Tokyo Ghoul TV app In a universe where ghosts dwell among individuals, they’re exactly the same as ordinary folks in any way — besides their craving for human flesh. Shy Ken Kaneki learns the way if he goes on a date with Rize, who’s simply interested in him to consume him. Following a rescue, Ken becomes the primary half-human, half-hour hybrid vehicle, that brings him into the violent world. Tokyo Ghoul Official 98% liked this TV show 7.9/10 · IMDb Why is the Tokyo Ghoul season 3 so differently animated than seasons 1 and 2? I amazed to find not one response bashing the hell out of Tokyo ghoul’s cartoon unworthy. Pierrot understood Tokyo ghoul was a recognized manufacturer. So, no matter everything they did people would observe. Season 1 had a notion of what Tokyo ghoul represented although year 2 and season 1 were not the greatest adaptations. But at that time 3 arrived, he had been occupied with his film. So we’re all, all of the employees. So studio clown did the one thing they were able to continue to the permit of Tokyo ghoul, they chased the season 3 and allow a manager to take charge. Meanwhile, the principal studio team poured their effort into bouts and black clover (I do not have to explain to you the way those two switched out). Season 1 and two were like we watched a theater dub. At the moment feel and the appearance has changed, picture look and the artwork style, impacts have improved. Anime has evolved with the years and they have established their own world so because they did this, they need to differ from their opponents; (American animations and many others.) That is the reason why the design improved and that Season 3 differs. Why is Tokyo Ghoul considered a bad anime? The motive was that the deviation of this s2 in the source substance i.e. that the Manga. Because of divergence, the season did nothing great the narrative Tokyo ghoul season 3. nothing! I enjoy Tokyo ghoul I would not call it dull at all I figure and even I believe it is a poor anime because the studio made up their own narrative, for now, two the origin is that the Manga right they did not adhere to the origin and attempting to cover 360ish chapters of a Manga series with 48 episodes is only mad tbh but I suppose they could have one final episode to describe a whole lot of stuff. Anime things know this case and if you’re a newcomer to Manga GTO had at 44 episodes leaving finished in anime and complete 200 chapters. Of chapters and shifting a bit of this story because I feel that the story from the Manga could have been poor not as bad as it is not good not good yet TG founders simply made up their own stories and created Tokyo ghoul only fight compilations without describing a great deal of backstory to what’s happening a good instance of that’s in Tokyo ghoul season 4 you see mutsuki demonstrating affection for kanji but do you understand why a man is demonstrating affection in kanji (spoiler ahead) Matsuki is actually in reality a transgender a born female but wished to be treated as a man once he fell in love with kanji he recognized that he is a girl after all. In Tokyo Ghoul season 3, is Rize still alive? So Rize was enjoyed by Ken Kaneki in the very first time. She enjoyed the writer and was amazing to him, bettering his interest. He went to date together with Rize to figure out she had been a ghoul. Metal beams that dropped from a construction chased Kaneki and crushed her. She died on the place, and the organs had been planted into Kaneki to keep him living, and for a reason gave a method to manifest herself right into the mind of Kaneki, and seemingly let her take charge if Kaneki enabled her to Rize. This only occurred throughout the struggle between Jason and Kaneki. Rize is not demonstrated to be shown in Kaneki’s mind after this, (I think ). To reply to your question NO. Rize wasn’t”living” after she had been crushed by the pipes, but she had been, for some reason, able to manifest himself in Kaneki, but was not”living”. Tokyo Ghoul Season 3 Audience reviews I won’t go into detail regarding just what the anime is all about since you can Google that. All I will say is that should you are looking for a character which isn’t born overpowered or has what go their way this really is that Anime. By far one of my men that are principal. In Tokyo ghoul season 3 As the anime continues he gets dark and strong. Subham Mukherjee The 1st one is magnificent although I have not seen the seasons. The transformation of kaneki is shown. Every character is well written and the narrative contains multiple layers. The final 2 episodes elevates the series and were gripping and intense, to say the least. It is only a show, that gets the majority of the items right. See it. My favorite anime by far. The seasons are wonderful although the season is rather lame to be fair. So many personalities with personalities which you may become attached to. Toyko Ghoul is an emotional roller coaster that will have you questioning everything you’d do in the scenario. Tokyo ghoul season 3 S2 and s1 – masterpieces but it was dreadful for me if it arrived into the Re-seasons. The incident for S3 was the great one to me personally and S4 is soo dull to watch since it feels as though the exact same thing is occurring as it did at S3. Kaneki’s character development is kind of boring and we did see the way he got so powerful as he is and cried. S4-Strong. I’m not knowing what they are doing with all the anime and I think they will need to have a fresh approach to the anime appears its audiences. 1 thought on “Tokyo ghoul season 3 Episodes story sequence S1 Audience reviews” tokyo ghoul anime season 3 I am sure this piece of writing has touched all the internet users, its really really good piece of writing on building up new blog.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2022
__label__wiki	0.685741	0.685741	Fleets and drivers urged to be on their guard as stolen vans hit record high Fleet operators and van drivers are being urged to increase light commercial vehicle security after new figures have revealed a 45% rise in thefts in the last four years. Meanwhile, according to vehicle protection company Tracker, the Ford Transit was the UK's most stolen and recovered van in 2018, followed closely by the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. What's more with a 55% increase in claims costs for the theft of tools from vans in the past year, tradespeople are not just at risk of losing their vehicle, but their livelihood too, according to the company, which works in partnership with UK police forces, and is urging tradespeople to protect their van and its contents from theft. "Over £500,000 worth of vans were stolen and recovered by Tracker last year," said Clive Wain, the company's head of police liaison. "But that's just one side of the story; with the average tool theft costing victims over £3,000 together in lost earnings and tool replacement - not to mention the loss of reputation when a tradespeople can't turn up for a job, it's not surprising they are feeling increasingly victimised by organised van thieves." More than 30,000 vans have been reported as stolen across the UK since 2015/16, according to research by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles with almost 10,000 commercial vehicle thefts recorded in the last 12 months - a year-on-year rise of 4% and a 45% increase since 2015/16. Of the 9,371 van thefts reported in the past 12 months, the Metropolitan Police recorded more than half of the total with 4,777 commercial vehicles stolen in the area - a rise of 15%. Tracker calculates that 89% of van thefts are keyless. The biggest yearly increase in thefts was reported in Leicestershire with 10 times more vans stolen in 2018/19 than records for the previous year. Van thefts in North Wales doubled while West Yorkshire police records showed a 67% rise. In fact, West Yorkshire was the second highest overall after London (931 thefts), followed by the West Midlands (409 thefts), Essex (387 thefts) and Leicestershire (377 thefts). The information was obtained following a Freedom of Information request, 42 of 47 police forces across UK responded. Mr Wain added: "As van thefts increase owners need to up their game in securing their property from theft or help ensure recovery if a van is stolen. If they don't keep informed of the latest ways of protecting their van, they may find themselves facing an uphill battle if their insurer feels they haven't taken enough security precautions. "It's tempting to rely on the security technology that comes as standard with a van, but ultimately, taking a few extra safeguards is not just protecting a van, but taking care of the bottom line of a business. Of course, while a tracking device cannot guarantee a vehicle is safe from theft, it can be incredibly efficient in helping retrieve not just the van, but the tools needed by tradespeople for their very livelihood." Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle is also advising drivers and operators to ensure that the latest anti-theft devices are fitted and not to leave expensive tools in vehicles overnight. David Hanna, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles head of service and parts operations, said: "Our most recent findings are concerning as it reveals that the problem of van theft is getting worse rather than better - and it's a problem right across the country. "Vans are the lifeblood of so many businesses up and down the country and it's not only the emotional stress of replacing a vehicle but also the days and weeks of letting customers down and the cost of replacing tools, often worth thousands of pounds, before getting back to 'business as usual'. "We strongly advise not to leave tools in the vehicle overnight and we're also supporting our customers with offers on the latest anti-theft devices to help give them piece of mind." op tips to secure a van: Park in well-lit areas or car parks with CCTV or alternatively position a van so that the doors are blocked by another vehicle or object Window guards or full internal bulkheads can stop would-be thieves seeing inside Adding security film to the side or back window glass can stop criminals smashing it Fitting additional locks to rear and sliding doors can help deter thieves. Additional deadlocks and steel-clad locks are advisable and slam locks ensure a door locks every time it's closed - ideal for quick stops If a van has keyless entry buy a 'faraday bag' that blocks electronic key fob signals from being compromised - use it on site and at home. Invest in lockable internal racking or secure storage boxes for the most valuable tools Fitting a tracker can help police hunt down a van if it is stolen plus it may reduce insurance premium Add extra alarms to vans and use immobilisers to stop thieves, even if they do manage to break in. Source: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Tracker. Volkswagen, as part of the Business Pack available across its range of Caddy, Transporter and Crafter, offers an anti-theft alarm system that can be specified with interior monitoring, a back-up horn and tow-away protection. As part of its 'Working With You' promise, Volkswagen also offers a variety of lockable racking solutions and storage boxes for expensive tools. Volkswagen is also currently offering a deal on its Meta Trak subscription, which allows owners to track their vans in real-time and receive instant smartphone alerts with full UK and European coverage. The one-year kit is currently offered with one month free while those opting for a three-year subscription receive three months free.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2023
__label__wiki	0.698207	0.698207	by Adobe Brand Publishing Team 1 TV's Big Bet on Audience Based Advertising. 2 A history of advertising. 3 T-Mobile: If You Love Your Customers, Set Them Free. 4 ADI: Big-Screen TVE Viewing Stealing Share From Mobile. TV's Big Bet on Audience Based Advertising. Not so long ago, in a television universe not so far away, Nielsen families gathered in front of the TV and scribbled notes in their diaries documenting their viewing habits. Nielsen’s sampling methodology and number crunching would tell advertisers the age and gender (more or less) of people watching almost every program on the dial. Advertisers bought media against their brand goals based on this information. For example, because the majority of NFL viewers on Nielsen’s panel are men aged 18–49, Sunday afternoon football is awash in ads for beer, cars, and brokerage firms. But advertisers never really knew who exactly was watching. They could guess what the audience might want to buy, but they weren’t certain. Are all men in this age group interested in drinking beer? What about women who watch football and don’t like beer? Today, Nielsen families continue to keep diaries, but there are more ways to consume media than just linear TV. Digital platforms have leveraged audience data to transform how viewers engage with content and how advertising is transacted. Media sellers in the TV space are now trying to apply a lesson from digital by embracing audience-based ad sales. “Advertisers are constantly looking to reach the right audiences and something that’s more complex than just age and gender,” says Hosana Thomas, an Adobe product marketing manager. “The goal with audience-based advertising is to help advertisers understand where their audiences are spending their time and what motivates them to make a purchase or choose a specific product — and the way you do that is by using data.” Why audience-based advertising? The ability to access your favorite shows anytime, on virtually any connected device, is great for viewers and an opportunity for advertisers. More content channels have made achieving a unified view of the consumer difficult, but at the same time, technology has made it possible for advertisers to target specific audiences with niche interests. Audience-based advertising allows brands to segment and target their audiences beyond age and gender, while providing more granular measurement than traditional buying. It leads naturally to more effective ad buys with less waste by reaching consumers in whatever corner of digital media they might visit. The most talked-about converts to audience-based advertising are some of the biggest names in media: Fox, Turner, Viacom, and NBCU. In March, Fox, Turner, and Viacom formed a consortium to offer audience-based advertising across their TV ad inventory. That same month, NBCU announced it had set aside $1 billion in ad inventory to sell based on data other than traditional Nielsen demographic guarantees. This new model is a bid to drive parity with digital advertising’s data-driven targeting capabilities. Audience-based advertising allows media sellers to understand how and where their audiences are spending their time and what motivates them to purchase. Because it permits analysis of variables beyond age and gender, media sellers can use the data to learn more about their audiences than ever before and share this information with their advertiser and agency partners. This form of data-driven advertising helps media buyers reach audiences more efficiently, enables media sellers to command higher prices for ad inventory, and improves the viewer experience by delivering more relevant content. Ad executives say they welcome the ability to buy advertising based on audience data — in addition to traditional Nielsen guarantees — especially with increased consumer demand for more personalized experiences. “About 78 percent of consumers want to receive relevant, personalized ads, but only 20 percent felt they were actually getting them. That’s what’s driving the shift to audience-based advertising,” says Pete Kluge, Group Manager of Product Marketing for Adobe Advertising Cloud. “The desire for better measurement also is a factor,” says Jeff Chi, a digital marketing expert and COO of Krush Media. “It’s important to give advertisers the ability to have different options of targeting that are more precise and backed by measurements that can show what worked for campaign performance and what doesn’t work, so they can optimize both their existing and future buys and help these campaigns perform even better,” Jeff says. The challenges of audience-based advertising. Until recently, TV consumed the lion’s share of advertisers’ budgets. However, digital ad spending surpassed TV for the first time in 2016, according to eMarketer, and that trend is expected to continue as digital ad spending grows from an estimated $83 billion this year to more than $129 billion by 2021. The growth in digital suggests that a more integrated, multi-channel approach is the way of the future for TV companies and ad buyers. Jeff says this may spur more collaborations between TV and digital media companies to give advertisers the audience, measurement, and tracking they crave. “Audience-based advertising is such a hot topic right now, and you have a lot of big companies finding a solution for this,” he says. “I think what we’re going to see is more linear companies and digital media companies merging in the near future to combine their offerings — whether that’s their data, technology or reputation — to solve an industry challenge, which is the lack of integrated data.” Data integration is one hurdle, but media sellers also need to address data accuracy and how audiences are defined for audience-based advertising to be successful. “It’s a matter of coming up with a consistent audience definition across media sellers, since there are still challenges around match rates, how advertisers are buying those audiences, and how they match up with the sellers’ audiences,” Pete says. While Fox, Turner and others are experimenting, media sellers will need to find the right technology solution to collect, filter and analyze all their disparate data sets. That solution will need to collect and combine information from various offline and online channels — and especially traditional TV and digital formats. This will allow media companies to define and identify the audiences for an advertiser’s campaigns across all channels, and ultimately improve viewer retention and advertising revenue long term. Kyle Morehouse, senior solutions consultant at Adobe, says the ultimate goal of audience-based advertising is to bring the targeting and personalization power of digital advertising to television. “Whether consumers are looking at a screen, at a laptop or they’re watching a television show, we want to make sure that people can still find the right eyeballs regardless of what screens they are looking at,” he says. “The payoff there is that we want people to build an audience in one place,” he adds. “Historically, in the digital world the assumption is that you’re combining all the data and building an audience to activate in paid media to buy banner ads, to buy video and to buy mobile display ads. What we’re saying now is that same effort of building an audience should be leveraged in every channel, including television. This is the central place to build a single concept of an audience that can be activated anywhere.” Put your content where it really matters. Everywhere. Behind every great ad, there are a million digital connections.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2024
__label__cc	0.572463	0.427537	Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women Takashi Abe, Yasuo Kawakami, Masaaki Sugita, Tetsuo Fukunaga We examined the interaction of two different frequencies of aerobic exercise training (30 min at 50-60% of maximal heart rate reserve per session) and a self-administered caloric restriction program on the changes in subcutaneous (SFM) and visceral (VFM) fat mass over a period of 13 wk. Twenty-six sedentary young women (27.9% body fat) were randomized into three groups: nonexercising control (C, N = 8); 1-2 sessions/wk plus a 240 kcal caloric restriction (1-2SW, N = 9); and 3-4 sessions/wk without caloric restriction (3-4SW, N = 9). There was a equivalent decrease in the percentage of body fat and total fat mass in both exercise groups compared with that in C. Reduction in SFM was significant in 3-4SW, but not in 1-2SW or C. A negative correlation was observed between training frequency and changes in SFM (r = -0.65). In contrast, VFM decreased significantly and equivalently in both 1-2SW and 3-4SW, but there was no correlation between training frequency and changes in VFM (r = 0.20). It is suggested that the decrease in SFM, but not VFM, is proportional to the amount of aerobic exercise training. A change in VFM appears to be related to an deficit in caloric balance either by dietary restriction (decrease caloric intake) or by increased caloric expenditure. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Intra-Abdominal Fat Subcutaneous Fat Caloric Restriction BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION Abe, T., Kawakami, Y., Sugita, M., & Fukunaga, T. (1997). Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 29(12), 1549-1553. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199712000-00001 Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women. / Abe, Takashi; Kawakami, Yasuo; Sugita, Masaaki; Fukunaga, Tetsuo. In: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Vol. 29, No. 12, 1997, p. 1549-1553. Abe, T, Kawakami, Y, Sugita, M & Fukunaga, T 1997, 'Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women', Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 1549-1553. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199712000-00001 Abe T, Kawakami Y, Sugita M, Fukunaga T. Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 1997;29(12):1549-1553. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-199712000-00001 Abe, Takashi ; Kawakami, Yasuo ; Sugita, Masaaki ; Fukunaga, Tetsuo. / Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women. In: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 1997 ; Vol. 29, No. 12. pp. 1549-1553. @article{0a3a46e173f048929191d3d24faeb2c1, title = "Relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat in women", abstract = "We examined the interaction of two different frequencies of aerobic exercise training (30 min at 50-60{\%} of maximal heart rate reserve per session) and a self-administered caloric restriction program on the changes in subcutaneous (SFM) and visceral (VFM) fat mass over a period of 13 wk. 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__label__wiki	0.984973	0.984973	Hockey lauded for "trailblazing" approach to coaching after scooping Governing Body of the Year award January 22 - The England Hockey Board (EHB) has been named Governing Body of the Year for its "trailblazing" approach to coaching. England Hockey take final look at players ahead of Indoor World Cup selection January 13 - England Hockey will use the 25th Leipzig Messestadt Cup in Germany next weekend for a final assessment of their players before naming the 12-man squad for next month's FIH Indoor World Cup in Poznan, Poland. Magnificent seven named in hockey All Star line-ups January 7 - Six England players and a coach have been named in the International Hockey Federation (FIH) 2010 All Star teams. Pakistan set target of hockey gold at London 2012 By Duncan Mackay December 29 - The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has set winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2014 World Cup as its next targets after its victory in the Asian Games last month. From freeze to sixes as hockey moves indoors December 20 - The country's top hockey clubs have come in from the cold for the start of the super sixes National Indoor Hockey Championships. Hockey star Smith demonstrates "dual career" is achievable December 13 - How athletes can successfully manage a dual career has been illustrated by the case of Loughborough University graduate and England and Great Britain hockey international Richard Smith (pictured). Richardson crowned GB Hockey's BOA Athlete of the Year December 11 - Exceptional performances on the field and her demonstration of the Olympic values of friendship, excellence and respect have won hockey star Helen Richardson the title of GB Hockey's 2010 BOA Athlete of the Year. Search for London 2012 ball boys and girls launched November 15 - British hockey supporters are being given an outstanding once in a lifetime opportunity to get pitchside at the London 2012 Olympic Games as Great Britain Hockey launches an exclusive hunt for 36 volunteers to be ball persons. London bid for 2014 Hockey World Championships fails British Sports Internet Writer of the Year November 11 - London's bid to host the 2014 Hockey World Cup failed today when the event was surprisingly awarded to the Netherlands. London favourites for 2014 Hockey World Championships November 10 - London will find out tomorrow whether its bid to host the 2014 Hockey World Cup at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which has been launched in association with boxing promoter Frank Warren, has been successful. Indoor hockey Super Sixes get new home at Wembley Arena November 6 - Hockey's fast-paced, high-scoring National Indoor Championships have been re-branded Super Sixes for 2011. GB hockey squad for Argentina clashes named November 2 - Great Britain men's hockey squad for the upcoming double-header against Argentina has been named. Young hockey players feel the thrill of a pro tournament October 26- An event designed to let young hockey players experience the thrill of a professional tournament gets under way on Thursday (October 28). Bronze for England as Argentina claim world title for second time September 11 - England's women's hockey team celebrated their first World Cup women's bronze medal tonight after beating Germany 2-0 in front of a near capacity crowd of 10,000 fans in Rosario. England upset Olympic silver medallists August 31 - England upset Olympic silver medallists China 1-0 with a first-minute goal for their second victory at the women's hockey World Cup in Rosario. Lausanne 2020: Day seven of competition Olympic rings installed at Odaiba Marine Park, as countdown to Tokyo 2020 continues	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2033
__label__wiki	0.707958	0.707958	Cam Jordan Tells the Truth about Big Ben While answering questions during Thursday’s media scrum, Saints DE Cameron Jordan was taking questions about his upcoming opponent, the Pittsburgh Steelers. One question, in particular, seemed to strike a nerve for the Pro Bowl defensive end. #Saints Cam Jordan is not buying the idea that #Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger is a future Hall of Famer. Apparently, he’s not even one of the Top 5 QB of his era – “I’d honestly put Eli before I put Ben” #PITvsNO #HereWeGo ➡️https://t.co/eUxl5N3Nxs⬅️ pic.twitter.com/uoBdAEu4jN — Simon Chester (@SimonAChester) December 20, 2018 Reporter: What does this offense do well? We know they run it well. We know they have a couple thousand yard receivers. They have a quarterback who might be going to the Hall of Fame… Real rookie stuff from this “reporter.” Don’t answer your own questions dude. But somehow, that’s not the most offensive part of the question. Cam’s reaction when the reporter said Ben Roethlisberger might be going to the Hall of Fame says it all. Jordan did not hold back proving Roethlisberger doesn’t belong in Canton. Jordan: You’d but him as a top 3 in this era? Top 5 of this era? Who’d be in your top 5? Drew, Tom, A-aron, Peyton. You’re saying he’s better than Phillip Rivers right now career wise? I’d honestly put Eli before I put Ben, but ok. Killer Key & Peele reference, but I digress. I would not put Ben Roethlisberger’s career over most of those guys. Yes, he has two rings, but Nick Foles and Trent Dilfer both have Super Bowl wins. He can’t rest on his playoff laurels lately either. He is 5-6 in the past 10 years in the playoffs. He’s only 2-4 in the playoffs against the quarterbacks Cam Jordan listed. He has consistently been surrounded by better weapons than all of them too. I’ve always viewed Roethlisberger the same way I view Tony Romo, very good but never elite. Ben’s best season was in 2014 when he finished tied with Drew Brees as the passing yards leader, but even then Aaron Rodgers won the MVP over him. A Hall of Famer is supposed to be arguably the best in the league during his era and Ben never was. A simple name game tells you he wasn’t. Would you rather have Big Ben over any of these quarterbacks in their prime: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Tony Romo, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, Matt Ryan, Donovan Mcnabb. You can debate a few of them, but the point is he was a second-tier player. Most teams would have loved to have him, but he was never the best. Ben has had one hell of a career, but it’s the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Very Good. Photo: 105.7 The Fan Published by Todd Serbent View all posts by Todd Serbent NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Jordan, New Orleans Saints, NFL The 2018 Chicago Bears are the Most Surprising Team in the NFL What Are the Rangers? Subscribe to WTP sports via Email Subscribe To WTP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2048
__label__wiki	0.847201	0.847201	home genres Latest Movies TV-Series TV-Shows top imdb top watched Contact us Please report this problem Get premium and watch without any limits! Server 1 Server 3 Server 2 MyStream Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt A man decides to put an end to the corrupt practices of the company he works for and becomes part of a protected community where he is free from the restrictions of the oppressive government. Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery Actors: Kristoffer Polaha, Laura Regan, Peter Mackenzie, Greg Germann, Larry Cedar, Joaquim de Almeida, Jen Nikolaisen, Rob Morrow, Eric Allan Kramer, Louis Herthum, Dominic Daniel, ...» Director: James Manera Quality: SD (1) Voted #Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt, #Kristoffer Polaha, #Laura Regan, #Rob Morrow, #James Manera, Atlas Shrugged Part I Atlas Shrugged 2 Actors of "Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt" Kristoffer Polaha Birthdate: 18 February 1977, Reno, Nevada, USA Laura Regan Birthdate: 17 October 1977, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Peter Mackenzie Greg Germann Birthdate: 26 February 1958, Houston, Texas, USA Larry Cedar Birthdate: 6 March 1955, Los Angeles County, California, USA Birthdate: 15 March 1957, São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal Jen Nikolaisen Birthdate: 21 September 1962, New Rochelle, New York, USA Eric Allan Kramer Birthdate: 26 March 1962, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Birthdate: 5 July 1956, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Dominic Daniel Tony Denison Birthdate: 20 September 1949, Harlem, New York, USA Claude Knowlton Birthdate: 22 May 1965, Rimouski, Québec, Canada Ned Vaughn Birthdate: 20 November 1964, Huntsville, Alabama, USA Mark Moses Birthdate: 24 February 1958, New York City, New York, USA Birthdate: 2 October 1967, USA Stephen Tobolowsky Birthdate: 30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA Gill Gayle Scott Klace Birthdate: 9 January 1961, Ohio, USA Nicola Lambo Lucinda Manera Birthdate: 5 October 1959, Long Beach, California, USA Ed Corbin Brent Briscoe Birthdate: 21 May 1961, Moberly, Missouri, USA Phil Valentine Birthdate: 18 January 1961, Lawrence, Kansas, USA Tim DeZarn Birthdate: 11 July 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Ronnie Clark Cooper Thornton Garikayi Mutambirwa Birthdate: 21 June 1978, New Jersey, USA Jason McBeth George Jonson Shon David Lange Birthdate: 17 March 1975, Hammond, Indiana, USA Scott Levy Birthdate: 13 February 1971, Westwood, New Jersey, USA Chris Hampton Eltony Williams JJ Snyder Rebecca Dunn Keith Ewell Birthdate: 19 May 1970 David Doumeng Lindsey Ginter Birthdate: 13 December 1950, Alameda, California, USA Kira Halling Michael Wiseman Birthdate: 12 April 1967, Northern California, USA Craig Hosking Birthdate: 31 March 1958 Jeff Grismer Birthdate: 20 August 1935, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Birthdate: 10 February 1964, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA Birthdate: 30 December 1961, New York City, New York, USA Characters of "Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt" Played by: Kristoffer Polaha Dagny Taggart Played by: Laura Regan Head of State Thompson Played by: Peter Mackenzie James Taggart Played by: Greg Germann Dr. Floyd Ferris Played by: Larry Cedar Francisco D'Anconia Played by: Joaquim de Almeida Cherryl Brooks Played by: Jen Nikolaisen Henry Rearden Played by: Rob Morrow Ragnar Danneskj Played by: Eric Allan Kramer Wesley Mouch Played by: Louis Herthum Eddie Willers Played by: Dominic Daniel Dr. Robert Stadler Played by: Neil Dickson Clem Weatherby Played by: Claude Knowlton Midas Mulligan Played by: Mark Moses Ellis Wyatt Played by: Lew Temple Hugh Akston Played by: Stephen Tobolowsky Eugene Lawson Played by: Phil Valentine Played by: Jeff Yagher Directors of "Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt" James Manera Creators of "Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt" Harmon Kaslow Birthdate: 21 January 1962, Hollywood, California, USA Critic Reviews of "Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt" Prime Mystery Science Theater 3000 fodder, cut-rate to the point of incoherence. The prior installments weren't very good movies, and it should surprise few that this last one is the worst of the lot. Rand's parable is meant to showcase just how much our world needs the best of us, but this adaptation only does so accidentally -- by revealing what movies would be like if none of the best of us worked on them. A missed opportunity to speak to anyone other than the converted, but at least as the culmination of its makers' will. To find fault with the Atlas Shrugged franchise because of its politics is like complaining about Birdemic because it gets the ornithology wrong. Why dwell on the details when there are giant, embarrassing flaws staring you in the face? We get it, we get it: Capitalism is good, government is bad. But "Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?" is worse. Austin Chronicle In 1949, when Warner Bros. filmed The Fountainhead, Rand threatened to burn down the studio if they compromised her novel. I'd like to think that if she were alive she'd be looking for lighter fluid for this one. With virtually nothing that happens onscreen resembling human behavior or emotion to any real extend, the film can't even function as propaganda. The favorite book of many young sociopaths you meet in business schools, it's all about a bunch of rich crybabies who don't want to share their toys so they break them and go home. Both the cheapest-looking and most narratively deficient film in the series, a rather pathetic end to a project undertaken with more ambition than talent. Gallery of "Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt" Example Example Example Subscribe to #1 Movies Website mailing list to receive updates on movies, tv-series and news 2018 copyright © #1 Movies Website	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2050
__label__cc	0.740755	0.259245	The UNOLS East Coast Winch Pool was developed to facilitate the science based use of winches. The East Coast Winch Pool is part of the UNOLS Equipment Pool Program. We maintain, prepare, and repair portable winches used in the fleet. The majority of our funding comes from the National Science Foundation. Types of Winches These winches are large and are for large diameter cables. They are multiple pieces. These winches are relatively large and are best suited for larger diameter cables or very long lengths of smaller cable. They are capable of holding 2000 meters of 0.5 inch cable. They can be used with a motion reference unit and have active heave compensation. They are also capable of operating with render and render recover modes. These multipurpose winches are best suited to small diameter cables. They can level wind any diameter cable and are suitable for most applications. For example, they are capable of holding 2000 meters of 0.322 cable. They can be used with a motion reference unit and have active heave compensation. They are also capable of operating with render and render recover modes. Ultra-light Duty These winches are the smallest least powerful winches available. They are used for light loads. Mooring Spooler These winches are used in mooring operations. The East Coast Winch Pool has standard base plates and turntables for the winches. Wire spoolers are used to spool cable onto winches. Contact the WHOI Port Office for scheduling. Sheaves in the pool available to users Accessory for adding heave compensation to winch Use the schedule request form, or call the winch pool. ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2054
__label__cc	0.531775	0.468225	WCCW The Women's Center for Creative Work Awesome Boundaries For Empowerment, Safety, And Really Good Sex! Thursday, June 14, 7:30-10pm Presented by Cassie Brighter & Beverly Diehl $6 Members / $8 Regular Member price accessed with discount code at checkout. Are you a member and don’t know your code? Email info@wccw.us! Not a member but interested in these perks? Join here! Okay, let’s admit it, at one time or another we’ve all said “yes” when we wanted to say “no,” “no” when we wanted to say “yes,” and “maybe” when we really didn’t mean it. Also, at one time or another, we’ve pushed someone’s boundaries, invaded their personal space, went in for the hug without waiting, accepted a lukewarm “yes” when we knew they didn’t mean it. How did it leave us feeling? Angry at ourselves and the other; guilt-ridden, pissed off, remorseful. Why did we do it? Because neither culture nor family of origin taught us any better. As a matter of fact, they taught us how to go against our own boundaries, if they taught us about boundaries at all. They taught us to push for what we wanted (a “real man” would go for it, wouldn’t they?); they taught us how to be nice and not make waves (a “good girl” would not raise her voice or cause a scene); they taught us to use veiled language and maintain ambiguity and deniability. In this 2.5 hour session you will learn and practice the following: + Learning what you want – Making a personal inventory of desires, fears, strengths and weaknesses + Learning your boundaries – How to make a list of your “hard nos”, your “under the right circumstances” and your “hell yes-es”! + Setting your boundaries – Where your line in the sand is, and where you want to test your own boundaries (maybe you don’t know how you feel about something until it happens) + Learn how to explore safely using safe words, changing your “yes” to a “no,” and giving and getting feedback. + Getting consent – How getting unambiguous consent can protect you in many ways, + Boundary violations and how to address them – Learn how to say no, gently and caringly yet with authority and finality, and how to deal with someone who doesn’t respect your boundaries (dealing with it as it happens, reporting it, and finding support after the fact + Reclaiming your space – Physical maneuvers to evade: the unwanted hug, the stray hand in a snuggle, the person who doesn’t hear or respect your “no”, Using words, tone of voice, and screams to be heard and avoid all possibility of being misunderstood, + Overcoming “freeze” – What to do it you freeze (fight, flight, or freeze response), and + How to recognize that someone you are interacting with has frozen (usually caused by past trauma) This is a practical, hands-on class where we will discuss actual and theoretical situations, and give useful information for how to deal with them. Group exercises will be part of the class, and attendees are welcome to participate in them or abstain and observe. Cassie Brighter is an author and public speaker. Cassie is the webmistress for SexPositiveWorld.com and the leader of Sex Geekdom L.A. Cassie focuses on teaching consent culture, social change and gender-diversity awareness. Cassie writes on Medium.com, and can be found on Cassie’s Facebook Page, or at CassieBrighter.com. Beverly Diehl is an author and editor. Beverly volunteers for SexPositiveWorld by running its many Facebook groups and hosting body-positive events known as Beautiful Badass Bodies. Beverly’s recently-published memoir “Sex, Drugs, Rock-n-Roll & a Tiara” describes how her experiences with polyamory and sex-positive communities helped her during her battle with breast cancer. You can find Beverly via her website, BeverlyDiehl.com. Sex Geekdom has 30 hubs in 8 countries. With 30 hubs in 8 countries, Sex Geekdom is a global community for people who love having geeky conversations about sex. It was founded in 2012 by sex & relationship educator Kate McCombs. You can learn more about Sex Geekdom here, and you can join Sex Geekdom Los Angeles via our Facebook Group. SexPositive World (SexPositiveWorld.org) is a social community and a movement. We organize public-interest seminars and workshops (usually on the subject of better sex and relationships), as well as social gatherings. We have chapters in 6 cities in the USA, and 4 cities in Europe. We believe that people of every gender are longing for more love, connection, touch, and pleasure in their lives. We know that sex-negativity has systematically robbed people of safe and healthy ways to get these needs met, and we know that there is much work to be done to reclaim sexuality as something natural, healthy, and beautiful. Helping people feel safe and empowered is key, and good boundaries are vital. Together with a team of therapists and sex-educators SPW has developed a class with the aim to empower, teach strategy, find solutions, and make possible more love in the world. www.SexPositiveWorld.org Accessibility information for this event: WCCW has a 36” wide ramp at our front entrance and a stairway with 8 steps and a rail. There are 2 gender neutral restrooms. One restroom is wheelchair accessible, with a handrail. We provide scent free soaps and encourage guests to attend our events scent free, however organic cleaning supplies are stored in the handicap accessible bathroom. If you require ASL interpretation, CART, interpretation for a language other than English, or have any other access needs or questions, please contact info@wccw.us at least two weeks in advance. It is our practice to do everything we can to create a safe and accessible space. WCCW Visitor Info *All members get 20% off paid programming. 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__label__cc	0.549606	0.450394	Rohtas – A Lion’s Fort [1 of 4] A lateral view:The Langar Khani Gate ROHTAS, A LION’S FORT by Nayyar Hashmey In our earlier post, the reportage on Rohtas Fort was printed on a continuous sheet (Blogroll). Many viewers told us it was quite voluminous, yet highly informative, so they would wish it in a booklet form on the web. For convenience of such viewers we have divided this into four parts. We hope this way viewers will find it more convenient to read. WoP editor Dr. Nayyar Hashmey was in Rohtas this month. This formidable fort was constructed on the orders of a mighty emperor who is known in history as the Lion King of Sur, a king who built roads, rest houses, water wells and established a model of governance which even today’s governments can emulate to turn Pakistan into a truly welfare state. And now the article. . . . World over there are magnificent buildings, palaces, monuments and forts raised on the orders of mighty emperors, devout kings and stout rulers. Some built castles, other the gardens and some like Shah Jahan, the fifth emperor in the hierarchy of the great Mughal Empire, built a beautiful monument in the memory of his beloved wife. However, amongst all such kings, rulers and emperors, one man stands tall; he is none else than the great ruler of his times, Farid Khan, most popularly known in history as Sher Shah Suri. This same Farid Khan ordered the construction of Grand Trunk Road which connected Kabul with Sonargaon in present Bangladesh. In today’s Pakistan, its improved version is the lifeline of our logistics and offers an alternate to our outmoded railways. The credit for this “Jarnaili Sarak” as the locals call it goes to the same “lion”. The road still exists as was built by Sher Shah Suri, however, there is now a 2-lane fully metalled road which connects Lahore with Peshawar. Not very far from the old Jarnaili Sarak, is the new all carpeted modern motorway which nowadays is a favourite route for motorists travelling between Lahore and Peshawar. In contrast to other rulers in the subcontinent, Sher Shah ordered constructions which mainly helped alleviate sufferings of common man. In his reign, inns for travelers were built where they could lodge or rest and move on to their next destination. The state paid all expenses for maintenance and other charges for these inns. Though a tough administrator and able general, from his acts of public welfare he looks more as an administrator than a general. In a span of only five years before his untimely death the “great lion” introduced the Rupiah, a precursor of modern Rupee, still a standard monetary unit in the subcontinent. [Image right:The main gate] For administrative purposes, he divided the kingdom into provinces and districts and appointed officers at all levels of administration. Unnecessary taxes were abolished. To prevent the abuse of power he also introduced checks and balance at every level of state administration, but his permanent achievement still remains the building of roads, drinking water facilities and rest houses along those roads. These rest houses also served as mail collection and dispatch centres and thus were part of the kingdom’s postal service. Though a tough ruler yet Sher Shah was a peer of his times. He was father of land reforms including measurements and documentation of property ownerships and land was categorized according to what was cultivated on it. He introduced loans to farmers and at the same time enforced an efficient revenue collection system. One can go on and on about “Sher Badshah’s” contribution to modern methods of governance that didn’t exist before him. Essentially it was Sher Shah’s revolutionary reforms in most important branches of governance that Mughals inherited and used throughout their rule. Much of this was retained by the British too and to a large extent we still use it. Amongst his principal deeds which he did solely for the defense of his empire, an imposing structure remains unique, the grand Rohtas Fort. On my way to Rohtas, while leaving Dina, I met Umer, a young Briton of Pakistan origin. I asked him what thoughts he had in mind while pondering over the personality of Farid Khan a.k.a. Sher Shah Suri and this is what he said. “Sher Shah Suri is no doubt one of those great men in history who made it through sheer personal efforts and which are not appreciated enough……despite the fact that he stands head and shoulders above the Mughals by any measure. His achievements are such that he left a lasting mark in history, though his incompetent successors squandered his gains. It is same story every where. After listening to Umer’s short but apt remarks, I moved onward to Rohtas. Previously a much shorter track from Dina to Rohtas was used. However, in rainy season, the small Kahan River was a big obstruction. To obviate Kahan I preferred to take the newly built road which starts from the main GT Road ahead of Dina city (while travelling from Lahore to Jhelum) its about 6 kilometers from this point and is an all year passable road. I reached the majestic Fort at 10.30 a.m. A cool breeze was blowing across Kahan. The very first look on the great fort made me wonderstruck, a truly imposing historical monument which is a blend of Afghan-Persian architectural style in Pakistan. The fort is a symbol of strength and determination of its builder Sher Shah, who ruled India for only six years (1540-1545 AD) but even though it was a short period in his life, he created many splendors including the grand fort of Rohtas. Today it may look very odd, rather out of the way, to any one visiting Rohtas but the site once had so much of importance and a great strategic value from military point of view. Yet no one will be able to deny the fact that the Kahan gorge, which the fort dominates, was the only practicable route from the mountainous country north of the salt range to the southern plains. The gorge was exploited certainly by the Gakhars and later on by the Mughals. Next: Rohtas – Part II Page 1 2 3 4 Note: To read this post on a continuous blog sheet, please visit: https://wondersofpakistan.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/rohtas-a-lions-fort/ Wonders of Pakistansupports freedom of expression and this commitment extends to our readers as well. Constraints however, apply in case of a violation ofWoP Comments Policy.We also moderate hate speech, libel and gratuitous insults. Posted on 26/07/2008 16/10/2012 Posted in Archeology, History and Heritage, Tourism Reports, EssaysTagged Historical Wonders of Pakistan, Nayyar Hashmey, Pakistan, Tourism - Our Mainstay, Tourism in Pakistan By Dr. Nayyar Hashmey Previous PostHeritage – Our Identity – Our Pride Next PostLessons from Sher Shah Suri – II 10 replies to “Rohtas – A Lion’s Fort [1 of 4]” Pingback: Rohtas - A Lion’s Fort, Part I \| Tea Break Pingback: Rohtas, A Lion’s Fort « Wonders of Pakistan Pingback: Lessons from Sher Shah Suri… « Wonders of Pakistan Pingback: Rohtas – A Lion’s Fort [2 of 4] « Wonders of Pakistan Pingback: Rohtas, A Lion’s Fort – III « Wonders of Pakistan Pingback: Rohtas – A Lion’s Fort [3 of 4] Pingback: Lessons from Sher Shah Suri… Pingback: Rohtas, A Lion’s Fort	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2056
__label__wiki	0.627535	0.627535	Photo by: Kate Rolston for Colorado Ballet 9-THINGS-TO-DO 9Things to do in Colorado this weekend: February 1-3 'The Wizard of Oz,' Bald Eagle Festival, Colorado Motorcycle Expo, 'Rent' and Arvada's Chocolate Affair are just some of the many things to do in Denver and Colorado this Super Bowl weekend. Author: Alexander Kirk Published: 8:21 PM MST January 30, 2019 Updated: 8:32 PM MST February 1, 2019 From ballet and motorcycles to model trains and golden retrievers, there's no shortage of festivals, expos, performance art and sporting events this first weekend of February. Before you settle down on the couch for our national sports holiday this Sunday, consider one of these two dozen happenings in the Centennial State. Kate Rolston for Colorado Ballet DENVER — Colorado Ballet's newest production, The Wizard of Oz, opens Friday for a 10-day engagement at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. With spectacular new sets, costumes and special effects, the magical ballet sees Septime Webre's choreography set to the music of Matthew Pierce, performed live by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. The Wizard of Oz plays through Sunday, Feb. 10. For tickets, head to ColoradoBallet.org. A Chocolate Affair ARVADA — Olde Town Arvada will be a chocolate lovers paradise during Saturday's "A Chocolate Affair." The chocolate festival offers fun activities including a treasure hunt, story time, the Arvada Bake-Off and chocolate samplings. All proceeds from the event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., will benefit Ralston House Child Advocacy Center. Bald Eagle Festival BRIGHTON — The 7th Annual Bald Eagle Festival arrives Saturday at Barr Lake State Park. The event offers crafts for kids, life-size eagle fest construction, guided hike and live raptor presentation for kids of all ages. The Bald Eagle Festival is set for 10 a.m. on Saturday. DURANGO — Durango's winter festival is back for a 41st year. Snowdown is a five-day celebration of winter fun and follies. The event features a family-friendly parade of lights, scavenger hunt, dart tournament, karaoke, costume contest, hot wing eating contest, canine fashion show, balloon rally and mass ascension and much more. Snowdown takes place Wednesday to Sunday with the Snowdown Light Parade set for 6 p.m. Friday. Visit Snowdown.org for a complete festival schedule. Colorado Motorcycle Expo DENVER — One of the country's largest motorcycle events returns to the Mile High City this Saturday and Sunday. The Colorado Motorcycle Expo is several motorcycle events rolled into one, including America's largest indoor motorcycle swap with over 800 booths, a bike show with vintage bikes, live music, used bike corral and more. All the events are included in the price of admission. Doors open at 9 a.m. each day at the National Western Complex. Union Colony Civic Center RENT: 20th Anniversary Tour GREELEY — The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT is back in Colorado on its 20th Anniversary Tour. The rock musical that changed the landscape of American theater follows a year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. The celebration of friendship, creativity, joy, hope and love, plays Greeley's Union Colony Civic Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. RENT 20th Anniversary Tour tickets are sold through UCStars.com. Kicker Arenacross DENVER — Kicker Arenacross, one of the nation's top indoor motorcycle race series, features massive race course with high-bank turns and technical rhythm sections. The show also features motorcycle stunt riders jumping over 70 feet into the air in the ultimate freestyle motocross event. Kicker Arenacross invades the National Western Complex this Friday and Saturday. Grab your tickets at TicketsWest.com or at any Colorado King Soopers store. pin Budweiser Events Center World Championship Ice Racing LOVELAND — The 2019 Fire on ICE Evolution Tour will stop in Loveland at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Budweiser Events Center. Featuring some of the biggest names in professional motorcycle ICE racing and the untamed Unlimited Outlaw Quads, the event features razor sharp studding tire racing on a solid ice track. Event tickets and Pit Party tickets are sold at TREventsComplex.com. Great Train Show COLORADO SPRINGS — America's only coast-to-coast model train show make a stop at Colorado Springs Event Center this Friday and Saturday. The huge event offers train rides for kids, train workshops, door prize giveaways, over 50 exhibitors, more than 250 tables of train displays and more. Get your tickets early for a show discount at TrainShow.com. Angela Weiss Mendelssohn Double Concerto DENVER — Your Colorado Symphony is ready to perform one of Felix Mendelssohn's most brilliant early works, Double Concerto in D minor, for three performances this weekend. Christopher Dragon will direct this weekend's concerts which also feature guest violist Yumi Hwang-Williams and pianist Anne Marie McDermott. The Colorado Symphony has performances scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Boettcher Concert Hall. Reserve your seats at ColoradoSymphony.org. Golden Retriever Gathering GOLDEN — The City of Golden is partnering with the Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies for a celebration on International Golden Retriever Day on Sunday. Humans and their well-behaved golden retrievers are invited to gather at the Golden Visitors Center starting at noon for a free dog photo and doggie bag of treats. The Golden Retriever Gathering will then walk through Golden, pausing for a group photo near the Welcome to Golden arch and at the Golden History Park before ending at Parfet Park. GalaxyFest COLORADO SPRINGS — GalaxyFest, Colorado Springs' pop culture festival, arrives this Friday to Sunday. The event features shows, panels, photography sessions, autograph sessions, interactive displays and more. The three-day festival is family-friendly and will bring celebrities, vendors, actors, artists and authors to The Antlers Wyndham Hotel in downtown Colorado Springs. For tickets, head to GalaxyFest.org. AEG Presents Winter on the Rocks MORRISON — Although there are still two months until spring, it's never too early to catch a concert at Red Rocks. Icelantic's Winter on the Rocks takes place Friday night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Atmosphere, De La Soul, Living Legends, Watsky, Dem Atlas, The Lioness, DJ Keezy and DJ Cassidy. Grab your tickets at AXS.com and bundle up! Super Bowl 5K DENVER — Lose some sweat before the big game at the Super Bowl 5K. Denver's Wash Park is the site of Denver's largest Super Bowl Run. The event features a 5K Run & Walk as well as a Kids Fun Run. Participants should come dressed in their craziest football fan gear for the costume contest and post-race photo opportunities. The Super Bowl 5K gets underway at 10 a.m. Sunday. Race registration can be completed online. Thinkstock by Getty Super Sunday Fun Run 5K LITTLETON — Before you settle down on the couch this Sunday, burn off some calories at the Super Sunday Fun Run 5K. The event, which is open to the whole family, takes place along the Mary Carter Greenway. Runners and walkers are encouraged to come dresses in their favorite jerseys and game attire. The Fun Run (and post-race party!) is hosted by Breckenridge Brewery Farmhouse in Littleton. Super Sunday Fun Run 5K registration can be completed online. Super Half Marathon & Game Day 5K COLORADO SPRINGS — More than 1,000 runners will take part in the 9th Annual Super Half Marathon and Game Day 5K this Super Bowl Sunday. Both races start on Colorado Ave. in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs shortly after 10 a.m. The event is a fundraiser for the Pikes Peak Road Runners and PikesPeakSports.us which help to promote "running, racing and healthy living in Colorado Springs." A post-race celebration will take place at Jack Quinn's pub on Tejon St. Super Half Marathon & Game Day 5K registration can be completed online. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities The Diary of Anne Frank ARVADA — The Arvada Center Black Box Repertory Company's newest production, The Diary of Anne Frank, opens this Friday night. The stirring drama tells the story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl, who in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, wrote one of the most powerful pieces of literature of the 20th century. Starring Darrow Klein as Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank will be performed in repertory through May. For specific dates and ticket information, visit ArvadaCenter.org. Ella Enchanted ARVADA — The musical adaption of Gail Carson Levine's Newbery Honor-winning book, Ella Enchanted, has arrived at the Arvada Center for the Performing Arts. The musical follows Ella on path to self-discovery on a journey to the fairytale land of Frell, featuring ogres, giants, elves, wicked stepsisters and true friends. Performances of Ella Enchanted are scheduled for the Main Stage Theatre through March 15 at ArvadaCenter.org. Greeley History Museum Skål! Scandinavian Spirits GREELEY — "Skål! Scandinavian Spirits," the newest exhibit at the Greeley History Museum, opens on Saturday. The national traveling exhibition, created by the Museum of Danish America, shares the history and traditions of drinking culture in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and how those traditions came to the United States with immigrants. Scandinavians have brewed beer for over 1,500 years while Norse god Odin is credited with teaching humans how to brew beer. Skål! Scandinavian Spirits at the Greeley History Museum will be open through July 20. Silkroad Ensemble DENVER — The traveling musical collective Silkroad Ensemble are set to perform at the University of Denver on Friday night. Founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, the Grammy Award-winning group perform a wide variety of music with a wide variety of instruments. Silkroad Ensemble's performance will take place at the Gates Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Longmont Downtown Development Authority Winter Walkabout Music Showcase LONGMONT — The inaugural Winter Walkabout Music Showcase takes place Saturday in downtown Longmont. Longmont will celebrate Groundhog Day with more than 30 performances at more than a dozen venues. The showcase is a full day of Longmont's best live, local music, delicious food and craft beverages. Each ticket allows access to every show plus unlocks special food and drink deals. The Winter Walkabout Music Showcase lineup includes Bonnie & The Clydes, Banshee Tree, Jackson Cloud Odyssey, Cat Jerky, Foxfeather, Native Station, Stange Parade and many more. Get your tickets before they sell out at DowntownLongmont.com. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Denver Nuggets vs. Houston Rockets DENVER — Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets welcome James Harden and the Houston Rockets to Pepsi Center this weekend. The Nuggets will tip off against their Western Conference rival Rockets at 8 p.m. Friday. Nuggets Night Out, Mile High City Night, Hoops for Heroes and Beer Passport tickets are available at AltitudeTickets.com. Colorado Avalanche vs. Vancouver Canucks DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche return from the All-Star break with a home game against the Vancouver Canucks this Saturday night. All-Stars Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and the Avs will face off with the Canucks at 8 p.m. at Pepsi Center. General tickets and Family Night tickets are sold through AltitudeTickets.com. University of Denver Athletics DU Men's Hockey vs. North Dakota DENVER — The University of Denver Pioneers men's hockey team returns to Denver for two games this weekend at Magness Arena. The Pios will face off against the North Dakota Fighting Hawks at 7:07 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Magness Arena. DenverPioneers.com is the place for tickets. The Longmont Theatre Company LONGMONT — Young Frankenstein, the newest production from the Longmont Theatre Company, opens this Friday. The musical adaptation of Mel Brooks' classic comedy film will bring Dr. Frankenstein, Frau Blucher, Igor, Inga and Frankenstein's monster to life. Featuring the songs “The Transylvania Mania,” “He Vas My Boyfriend,” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Young Frankenstein runs through Saturday, February 16. Tickets are available at BrownPaperTickets.com. HIGHLANDS RANCH — The Highlands Ranch Cultural Affairs Association, SCFD and Great Wall Chinese Academy will partner for this weekend's annual Chinese New Year Cultural Fair. The celebration features arts and craft displays, Chinese dragon and lion dances, Chinese folk dances, Chinese martial arts as well as choral and instrumental performances. The fair is set for 12 p.m. Saturday at the Southridge Rec Center and the Celebration at 2 p.m. Delaney Butte Lakes Ice Fishing Contest WALDEN — Delaney Butte Lakes is the site of this weekend's Ice Fishing Contest in the North Park area. The contest pays out a $1,000 Grand Prize and down to a fifth place at $200. Hourly prizes are also awarded to the largest fish caught during that hour. The Delaney Butte Lakes Ice Fishing Contest is set for 6 a.m. Saturday. Contest registration is available here. Denver Philharmonic Orchestra Denver Philharmonic Orchestra with a Twist DENVER — Denver Philharmonic Orchestra will celebrate Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday with "DPO With a Twist." The event takes the chamber concert experience and transforms it into a night of intimate dinner, music and drinks at downtown Denver's Dazzle at Baur’s. The performance from Denver Philharmonic Orchestra's brass quintet will begin at 7 p.m. Friday. Snowshoe for Peru 5K EAGLE — Sylvan Lake State Park is the site of the 6th Annual Showshoe for Peru 5K. The family-friendly community event, which helps to provide an education for youth in Peru, is open to all fitness levels and age groups. The event is set for 10 a.m. Saturday. Registration is available on site or online. Anheuser-Busch Fort Collins Chris Fairbanks at The Biergarten FORT COLLINS — The Biergarten at Fort Collins' Anheuser-Busch Brewery will hold its first comedy night event of the year on Saturday. The complimentary event, open to those age 18 and older, will feature performances from local comedians and touring comic Chris Fairbanks. Anheuser-Busch's After Hours Comedy Night is scheduled for 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. Before the event, guests can experience the Brewery tour with includes beer samples for guests 21 and older. Stanley Hotel Los Lonely Boys & Los Lobos ESTES PARK — The famed Stanley Hotel is hosting a weekend of "spicy hot Latino music sure to heat the frosty air of February in Estes Park." Texican rockers Los Lonely Boys are set to perform this Friday on the stage of The Stanley Hotel. On Saturday, country rock and roll band Los Lobos will headline a concert. Tickets and room packages are sold at StanleyLive.com. Econo Cat Club TICA Cat Show BRIGHTON — The Econo Cat Club will hold its 4th Annual Valentine International Show this Saturday and Sunday at the Adams County Fairgrounds. The family-friendly show features hundreds of different cat breeds, a cat agility tournament and cat education ring. Donations and proceeds from the show will benefit the Lakewood shelter Angels With Paws. Tickets for this weekend's show are available online. Free Day at Denver Zoo DENVER — If you're looking for a fun activity before the big game, admission to the Denver Zoo is free this Sunday. The zoo will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4 is also a free admissions day, but the next one isn't until November. Do you know of a fun Colorado festival, fair, expo, concert or event you think we ought to mention in this week's 9Things or in the future? Send it to alexander.kirk@9news.com right now. Have an outstanding weekend!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2061
__label__wiki	0.762285	0.762285	ABC Close menu Search ABC Go to primary menu\| Go to content\| Go to footer\| ABC on your mobile visit another location - Jayne Landsberg 6 May, 2015 12:55PM AEST In pictures: A day in the life of Charters Towers students at Beef Australia 2015 By Kathleen Calderwood Members of the All Souls St Gabriels School Cattle Club in Charters Towers are in Rockhampton this week working hard at Beef Australia. The team of 14 are doing long days helping stud breeders look after their prized cattle. But despite the early mornings, tough work and extreme heat, they aren't complaining. 4.30am: The students rise well before the sun does to get started cleaning out cattle stalls ready for the day. The presentation of the stalls is almost as important as the cattle, and breeders are judged on both. (ABC Local : Kathleen Calderwood) Their responsibilities include cleaning up manure and soiled sawdust and hay, making the stalls presentable, feeding and watering the cattle and preparing more food for the day ahead (while fighting off hungry cows). Looking after stud cattle is a new experience for the students, who are used to working with commercial cattle. "[It's different] compared to working out in the paddock with a lot of commercial cattle, which are just breeding steers to go to the meatworks or feedlots or boats... you get to see the other side of it where the bulls that are used for breeding originally come from," said 15-year-old Billy Dakin. (ABC Local : Kathleen Calderwood) 1pm: Once the clean-up is done, the students prepare for a day of parading cattle, looking at the trade fair, or - in this case - judging competitions. For 16-year-old Jessica Lusk, this is the best part of the week, while 17-year-old Clayton Gough has found it a bit more challenging. "I haven't really had a mind to look a lot of beasts before so it's a step up talking in front of people and saying what you really think about cattle," he said. "I'm a lot calmer on the mike now and I think I can judge cattle a bit better now I hope." (Contributed: Lionel Hartig) 4pm: When the afternoon comes around it's back to mucking out the stalls and feeding the cattle. The cattle are fed on a special ration to keep their condition up during the show, and the students learn about how much to feed each beast. "[You've] got to feed throughout different times of the day," Jessica said. "You got to water them at different times throughout the day because most of the ones that are tied up don't [drink] that often so... you got to make them drink and try and keep them healthy and keep them in good condition to show them each day... They're not in a paddock so you can't expect them to stay in paddock condition when they're at a show for a week... It teaches you a lot about keeping their condition up in difficult conditions." (ABC Local: Kathleen Calderwood) 7pm: After a long day the students all get together to have a yarn about the day's events before dinner and heading back to camp for the night. (ABC Local : Kathleen Calderwood) Jessica says they have learnt a lot from the stud breeders about presenting and having pride in the cattle. She adds that it has been great seeing different breeds of cattle. "You see some breeds that you never heard of, you see breeds that you can't pronounce, you see your favourite breeds... like brahmans and charbrays for me," Jessica said. All Souls St Gabriels School rural coordinator Lionel Hartig says it has been a long 12 months planning for the event, but the trip is definitely worthwhile. "I think they're seeing different breeds of cattle and they're seeing different ways of judging to what we are doing up there," he said. "A lot of times where we come from... there's just one or two breeds but down here there's that many different breeds... they fell in love with the little dexters and that here. "I think that has done them a world of good." 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__label__wiki	0.651101	0.651101	1 dead, 1 seriously injured after avalanche at Alpine Meadows \| Update Lodi Police say two children set fire to historic Zupo Field At the time, the fire department said they could not determine a cause of the fire. Many people thought it could have been started by a homeless person. Author: Alanea Cremen Published: 1:03 PM PDT October 24, 2019 Updated: 3:47 AM PDT October 25, 2019 LODI, Calif — Police have cited two kids for arson after a fire caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage at Lodi's historic Zupo Field. Just after 5 p.m. on September 22, firefighters fought against flames at the baseball field. The flames were so intense that firefighters at Station 1 could see it a mile away. The bleachers and the press box were completely destroyed. A month later, Lodi police announced they found the two people responsible. The suspects are two children. Due to their age, the suspects' identities will not be released, though police have described them as being "12 years old or younger." The suspects were identified through surveillance video and public assistance. The children were questioned and cited with arson. Deputies: Naked man wreaked havoc on business, then showered 'Why mess with the kids?' \| Arsonist torches playground at Fairfield elementary school FOR NEWS IN YOUR COMMUNITY, DOWNLOAD THE ABC10 APP: ►Stay In the Know! Sign up now for ABC10's Daily Blend Newsletter WATCH MORE: Playground at Fairfield elementary school burned in fire	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2065
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Transformation of 2833 6 Comments Awareness Through Movement Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness Author: Moshe Feldenkrais Media: Book, Paperback, 192 Pages, 12 Feldenkrais Lessons Awareness Through Movement quantity SKU: fel4-book Categories: Books and eBooks, Books by Moshe Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais Practitioners, Moshe Feldenkrais Tags: Breathing, Pelvis, *Posture This best-selling book contains 12 easy-to-follow Awareness Through Movement® exercises for improving posture, flexibility, breathing, coordination, etc. After an introduction emphasizing the importance of self-education and the primary relationship of movement to sensory, thinking and emotional life, Feldenkrais demonstrates his ideas through the Awareness Through Movement lessons. “Feldenkrais’ most popular and accessible book.” Part I: Understanding While Doing The Self-Image Strata of Development Where to Begin and How The Direction of Progress Part II: Doing to Understand: Twelve Practical Lessons Some Practical Hints Lesson 1 – What Is Good Posture? Lesson 2 – What Action Is Good? Lesson 3 – Some Fundamental Properties of Movement Lesson 4 – Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing Lesson 5 – Coordination of the Flexor Muscles and of the Extensors Lesson 6 – Differentiation of Pelvic Movements by Means of an Imaginary Clock Lesson 7 – The Carriage of the Head Affects the State of the Musculature Lesson 8 – Perfecting the Self-Image Lesson 9 – Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action Lesson 10 – The Movement of the Eyes Organizes the Movement of the Body Lesson 11 – Becoming Aware of Parts of Which We Are Not Conscious with the Help of Those of Which We Are Conscious Lesson 12 – Thinking and Breathing From Chapter 1: The Self-Image – The dynamics of personal action Each one of us speaks, moves, thinks and feels in a different way, each according to the image of himself that he has built up over the years. In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us. What is involved here, of course, is a change in the dynamics of our reactions, and not the mere replacing of one action by another. Such a change involves not only a change in our self-image, but a change in the nature of our motivations and the mobilization of all the parts of the body concerned. These changes produce a noticeable difference in the way each individual carries out similar actions–handwriting and pronunciation, for instance. The four components of action Our self-image consists of four components that are involved in every action: movement, sensation, feeling and thought. The contribution of each of the components to any particular action varies. Just as the persons carrying out the action vary, but each component will be present to some extent in any action. In order to think, for instance, a person must be awake, and know that be is awake and not dreaming; that is, he must sense and discern his physical position relative to the field of gravity. It follows that movement, sensing, and feeling are also involved in thinking. In order to feel angry or happy, a man must be in a certain posture, and in some kind of relationship to another being or object. That is, he must also move, sense, and think. In order to sense–see, hear, or touch–a person must be interested, startled, or aware of some happening that involves him. That is, he must move, feel, and think. In order to move, he must use at least one of his senses, consciously or unconsciously, which involves feeling and thinking. When one of these elements of action becomes so minute as to almost disappear, existence itself may be endangered. It is difficult to survive for even brief periods without any movement at all. There is no life where a being is deprived of all senses. Without feeling, there is no drive to live; it is the feeling of suffocation that forces us to breathe. Without at least some minimum of reflex thought, even a beetle cannot live too long. Changes become fixed as habits In reality our self-image is never static. It changes from action to action, but these changes gradually become habits; that is, the actions take on a fixed, unchanging character. Early in life, when the image is being established, the rate of change in the image is high; new forms of action that had only the previous day been beyond the child’s capacity are quickly achieved. The infant begins to see, for instance, a few weeks after birth; one day he will begin to stand, walk, and talk. The child’s own experiences, together with his biological inheritance, combine slowly to create an individual way of standing, walking, speaking, feeling, listening, and of carrying out all the other actions that give substance to human life. But while from a distance the life of one person appears to be very similar to that of any other, on close inspection they are entirely different. We must, then, use words and concepts in such a way that they will apply more or less equally to everyone. How the self-image is formed We confine ourselves, therefore, to examining in detail the motor part of the self-image. Instinct, feeling, and thought being linked with movement, their role in the creation of the self-image reveals itself together with that of movement. The stimulation of certain cells in the motor cortex of the brain will activate a particular muscle. It is known today that the correspondence between the cells of the cortex and the muscles that they activate is neither absolute nor exclusive. Nevertheless, we may consider that there is sufficient experimental justification to assume that specific cells do activate specific muscles at least in basic, elementary movements. Individual and social action The newborn human can perform practically nothing of what he will carry out as an adult in human society, but he can do almost everything the adult can do as an individual. He can breathe, eat, digest and eliminate, and his body can organize all the biological and physiological processes except the sexual act — and this may be considered a social process in the adult, for it takes place between two persons. In the beginning, sexual activity remains confined to the individual sphere. It is now widely accepted that adult sexuality develops from early self-sexuality. This approach makes it possible to explain inadequacies in this field as a failure in the development of the individual toward full social sexuality. Contact with the external world The infant’s contact with the external world is established mainly through the lips and mouth; through these he recognizes his mother. He will use his hands to fumble and assist the work of his mouth and lips, and will know by touch what he already knows through his lips and mouth. From here he will gradually progress to the discovery of other parts of his body and their relationship to each other, and through them his first notions of distance and volume. The discovery of time begins with the coordinating of processes of breathing and swallowing, both of which are connected with movements of the lips, mouth, jaw, nostrils, and the surrounding area. 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__label__cc	0.532786	0.467214	The cleverness of the referendum bill May30 by weegingerdug The Scottish Government has published its referendums bill, and as Andrew Tickell points out in The National, it makes for some very interesting reading. I’ve always been wary of an independence referendum without a Section 30 order because of the risk that it would be boycotted by the anti-independence parties. This is despite the fact that there are, as Andrew Tickell pointed out, legal arguments both for and against an independence referendum without a Section 30 order. Right now the likes of Ruth Davidson and her pals in the press assert it would be illegal, but the truth is that we don’t actually know whether it would be illegal because the matter has never been tested in the courts. Until such time as it is tested in the courts and there is a definitive legal ruling, anyone who asserts that an independence referendum without a Section 30 order would be illegal is not presenting you with a fact, they’re offering you a political opinion. However since it’s always been thought that any legal challenge would go directly to the UK Supreme Court, any legal challenge to an Independence Referendum Act passed by Holyrood would have been dealt with in pretty short order. The Scotland Act contains a provision allowing the UK Government to take objections by UK Government ministers to Acts of the Scottish Parliament directly to the UK Supreme Court, by-passing the Scottish courts. So it has always been assumed by the anti-independence parties and the British Government that they could fast-track their legal objections to another Scottish independence referendum and have them dealt with immediately in the UK Supreme Court, a court which has a majority of English judges who have shown in the past that they tend to side with the British Government concerning devolved issues. That provision meant that it was considered by many to be more likely than not that an independence referendum without a Section 30 order would be found to be illegal. After all, Scotland would be arguing its case in a court composed mostly of judges schooled in English law who have no sympathy with or understanding of the Scottish doctrine of popular sovereignty. This picture has now changed radically thanks to the new referendum bill. The beauty of the construction of the Scottish Government’s referendum bill is that it makes legal challenges to an independence referendum far more difficult. The bill deals with general provisions for holding referendums, it’s not specifically about an independence referendum. In fact the phrase independence referendum doesn’t appear anywhere in the bill. The provisions in this bill apply equally to local referendums on parking charges, congestion charges, or any other topic. One notable provision that it establishes is that all UK, EU, and Commonwealth citizens resident in Scotland aged 16 or over will be eligible to vote. It also ensures that the framing of the question will be for the Scottish Parliament to decide, subject to consultation with the Electoral Commission. This reduces the risk of biased interference from a Westminster which would seek to restrict the franchise or pose the question in a way which slants it towards opposition to independence, as Scotland in Union are prone to doing in their opinion polls. As it is framed, this referendums bill is clearly within the competence of Holyrood and cannot be challenged as dealing with matters reserved to Westminster. The Tories can gnash, wail, complain, and do their pouty thing, but there is nothing in this bill that allows them to challenge it legally. The SNP and the Greens have a clear majority in Holyrood, and this bill is going to pass. There’s nothing Ruth Davidson, Wullie Rennie, or whoever is the leader of Labour in Scotland next week can do to stop it. That’s a clever piece of legislative sleight of hand, but it’s not the really clever bit. The really clever bit is that having established a general framework for the holding of referendums the bill authorises Scottish ministers to proceed with a referendum subject only to a majority vote in Holyrood. That’s significant because decisions by Scottish ministers which Westminster objects to are not liable to immediate transferral to the UK Supreme Court. Objections to ministerial decisions have to be dealt with by the Scottish courts and make their way through the Scottish legal system. This bill does not negate the need for a Section 30 order for Scotland to have an independence referendum which can’t be legally challenged by the anti-independence parties, but crucially it makes a legal challenge by the Westminster Government far more difficult. The anti-independence parties can no longer rely upon an immediate referral to the UK Supreme Court, now they will have to go all the way through the Scottish legal process. We saw with the ruling on the revocation of Article 50 that the Scottish courts are less likely to automatically rule in favour of Westminster than the UK Supreme Court is. And just as it did during that particular case, if a Scottish court found against the British Government, it is not impossible that it could refuse to allow the British Government to take the matter further to the UK Supreme Court. However the really important effect of this bill isn’t legal, it’s political. This bill introduces significant political obstacles for opponents of independence because should a Scottish court rule in favour of the Scottish Government, but the British Government then appeals to the UK Supreme Court, they will be seen to be overruling not just Holyrood but also the Scottish legal system. There will be a political outcry in Scotland should a Scottish court rule in favour of the Scottish Government, only for the British Government to seek to overrule that in a court composed largely of English judges. It raises the important political question of the independence of the Scottish legal system which was supposed to have been guaranteed by the Treaty of Union. Westminster then runs the significant risk of being seen to break the spirit of that Treaty. That won’t play well as opponents of independence seek to persuade Scotland that it’s a valued partner in a family of nations. What the referendum bill does is to immensely strengthen the hand of the Scottish Government in negotiations with the British Government for a Section 30 order. It removes the arrogant assumption of the British Government that it would immediately be able to refer a unilateral Scottish decision to proceed to a referendum to a friendly court and have it overturned. Instead it makes the legal process far lengthier, far less predictable, and far more likely to produce an outcome unfavourable to the British Government. It significantly increases the pressure on whoever is Prime Minister to accede to a Section 30 order or to risk losing any semblance of control over the process. Crucially, this bill makes a consultative referendum without a Section 30 order a far more realistic prospect, because if a Scottish court rules that it’s legal, then the anti-independence parties have no principled grounds for boycotting it. The bill has crowbarred open another route to an independence referendum in the teeth of the objections of Tory leadership candidates. Most importantly of all, this bill establishes the principle that it’s for the people of Scotland and their elected representatives to decide when and if Scotland gets a say on its future. We don’t need Sajid Javid’s or any other Tory’s permission. My new book has just been published by Vagabond Voices. Containing the best articles from The National from 2016 to date. Weighing in at over 350 pages, this is the biggest and best anthology of Wee Gingerisms yet. This collection of pieces covers the increasingly demented Brexit years, and the continuing presence and strength of Scotland’s independence movement. You can order the book directly from the publisher. Ordering directly means that postage is free, and for the next ten days Vagabond Voices are doing a special offer, giving you two pounds off the cover price. You can order here – https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/rants/barking-up-the-right-tree-2019 You can also order a book directly from me. The book costs £11.95 and P&P is an additional £3.50, making a total of £15.45. To order just make a Paypal payment to weegingerbook@yahoo.com, or alternatively use the DONATE button below. Please make sure to give me your postal address when ordering. Orders to be sent outwith the UK will incur extra postage costs, please email me for details. If you can’t use Paypal, or prefer an alternative payment method, please email weegingerbook@yahoo.com ← Destroying the things you love, and being destroyed by them Wee Ginger Dugcast – 31 May → 53 comments on “The cleverness of the referendum bill” Just a wee note for people whose comments take a while to get authorised. WordPress has changed how it notifies me of comments needing to be authorised, so I don’t see them as clearly as I did before. That means I’ve missed some and they’ve consequently taken longer to appear. My apologies. mamaphee says: Paul, this is a brilliant article! Your explanation was clear and uplifting – thank you! 💛 Well really it’s Andrew Tickell’s analysis. I just tried to put it into more accessible language. Kate Meyer says: I read Andrew Trickle’s accounts of this in the National today. However the dug explains it more simply – a section 30 will not be needed for another referendum on Scot independence. Let’s see how this plays out. xxx Kate xxx fairliered says: You’ve burst ma baw! Savid Javid I was so delighted to read this that l gladly made a donation for your thoughtful and insightful article. Many thanks for your efforts! I hope you lot asked for permission tae make comments on here. #PermissionFromSajid annraynet says: Fantastic analysis by the dug (and Paul) and also to those who came up with this plan. We’re on our way to Independence. I see the British nationalists have stopped calling nicola sturgeon a chicken in calling indyref2 now the torys are fumming and now English supremacists cons are trying to dictate terms because the snp pulled the rug from under them only thing that could top this is independence and voting for our frist independent Scottish government with no English of Westminster thinking they can dictate to us ever again. heathermclean19 says: Thanks for this clear, concise and simplified explanation of the bill, in language everyone can understand. Well done again for your brilliant analysis! Sajid and co will be raging, hahahaha! alisonscot says: I read Andrew Tickell’s explanation of the bill this morning and couldn’t quite get what he was on about but your article makes it totally understandable. Thank you, Paul. Ayup! You can see why they’ve come over all stressed right enough. 😉 Here’s something we’re towards: 57. (of 60.) Scott, Dr Sturgeon and Indyref Two Gel Scott walked into his doctor’s surgery in the town of Essennpee. He was a little anxious but he had been feeling a pain in his right shoulder for some time and thought it best to visit his doctor. Dr. Sturgeon had quite a reputation for treating various ailments in town and was always ready to listen to her patients. “If anyone can cure my pain,” thought Scott. “It will be Dr. Sturgeon.” Scott then, like all the good townsfolk of Essennpee, felt he could trust Dr. Sturgeon and she would be able to help alleviate his pain. “And what seems to be the problem today, Scott?” asked Dr. Sturgeon, when his turn came. The good doctor always adopted a very friendly manner and her patients were happy to be called by their first names.This did not diminish in any way from Dr. Sturgeon’s exemplary professional conduct. “Well,” replied Scott. “It’s just that I’ve been having this awful pain on my right shoulder. I think part of the affected area is inflamed and is causing me agony on a daily basis. I thought it right to come and see you about it.” He grimaced at the doctor. Dr. Sturgeon returned Scott’s smile. “Let me see if I can help you,” she said. “Please take off your shirt and I’ll examine you.” Scott did as he was asked and Dr. Sturgeon bent down to look at the shoulder. She noticed a large red, white and blue patch on the skin. Dr. Sturgeon frowned. “Hmmm. Just as I thought, really”, she said. “You have a very unpleasant case of Unionitis there, Scott. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s of the Mundellis Vulgaris strain. A lot of people are suffering from that at the moment.” She smiled, almost wistfully. “Too many, in fact.” “I’ve heard of that,” said Scott. He paused. “Is there any cure?” he added fearfully. “Unionitis is a strong and persistent condition,” replied Dr. Sturgeon. “I’ve seen it in many of my patients and in some cases it can indeed prove to be intractable. I’m sure you’re familiar with our neighbouring town of Larkhall?” Scott nodded. Larkhall had a reputation and any sensible inhabitant of Essennpee always gave the place a wide berth. Not for nothing was it known as “Orange County.” “I’ve seen patients from there – and even beyond. They’re suffering from a particularly bad strain of Unionitis,” went on Dr. Sturgeon solemnly. “In fact, some are absolutely covered in a malignant blue rash. This form of Unionitis, which we in the medical profession have identified as being of the R. Davidsonii variety, is particularly worrisome. It is also an awful irritant to those suffering from it. Sometimes, it is so ingrained nothing works to remove it.” She was silent for a while and the tension in the room bore down heavily on Scott. “But what about me?” he asked nervously. “Well, your case of Unionitis is not so well-advanced,” replied Dr. Sturgeon. I’m pleased to tell you that I can prescribe something for you.” She was smiling. Scott couldn’t resist returning her smile and sighing a deep sigh of relief. “Oh, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Sturgeon!” he gushed. “What are you going to prescribe?” “I have the very thing,” smiled the doctor. She wrote on her prescription pad. Then she handed the paper to Scott. “I’m recommending that you apply this Indyref Two Gel to the affected areas. Apply it first thing in the morning and last thing at night. I can assure you that Indyref Two Gel will work wonders on your Unionitis and that the irritation will clear up in a pretty short time. The pain will also go and you will be left with unblemished skin when the red, white and blue stain disappears.” Scott couldn’t thank Dr. Sturgeon enough. “You’ve made my day, doctor,” he beamed. “I’m going to the nearest pharmacy as soon as possible to get my prescription and apply Indyref Two Gel to my affected areas. You really are a marvellous doctor! I’m going to recommend you to all my friends, too!” “And thank you, Scott for your confidence in me,” replied Dr Sturgeon. “But you see, it’s not really me,” she added modestly. “It was really down to you coming to see me about your painful affliction. I am, as a doctor, only a facilitator in helping my patients get over their aches and pains.” “I can’t thank you enough though, doctor.” Scott smiled. “I want to get over this Unionitis as soon as possible – and I’m sure the good citizens of Essennpee do too. No more Mundellis Vulgaris! You can keep your R. Davidsonii! Oh, what a wonderful day that will be!” “Go forth, my friend,” smiled Dr Sturgeon. “Go, and tell your fellow citizens suffering from Unionitis that they too can be free of it by applying Indyref Two Gel to their afflicted areas. Tell them that as you will feel far better as a result of taking it, that they can too. Face the future with confidence without pain, rashes and nasty irritants.” “You can be sure I will,” replied Scott, beaming from ear to ear. And with that, he strolled out of Dr. Sturgeon’s surgery into the sunshine. Parables for the New Politics Excellent story Welsh Sion. Neatly done. “It was really down to you coming to see me about your painful affliction. I am, as a doctor, only a facilitator in helping my patients get over their aches and pains.” READ between the lines folks. Popular sovereignty. The Claim of Right. NOT serving suggestions. Thanks for the compliments, readers. Feel free to use this (and any other of my stories), if it helps the cause of independence. (%6 have been published in book form and Kindle format. Apologies to WGD for a wee plug for my work.) %6 = 56. (D’oh!) Ronald Gillies says: I really enjoy your essays. And that’s my comment. I know that I shouldn’t have but I dipped in to QT tonight. From Epsom, there was a question on English Uni Tuition Fees. Jo Swinson, speaking in that tortured Anglo accent she adopts on ‘nationwide’ TV, coyly announced that she was standing for the leadership of the Beige Tories, and you can’t get any more beige than this lass. (Can I say ‘lass’? Yes, I can, I’m an old curmudgeon in my seventh decade, so there.) Now Ms Beige mentioned in passing that she represented a constituency in Scotland, and almost muttered under her breath that we don’t have tuition fees in Scotland, but blurted over this one would have thought a relevant fact in a tuition fees debate, by arguing that as 80% of her constituents out Bearsden and Milngavie way went to Uni (not true btw), only 4% of youngsters in Glasgow received tertiary education (again not true), presumably arguing that access to Uni with no student debt at the end of it wasn’t a factor in University take up. Fiona Bruce, chairperson, fell silent, as did the audience, with no one in the room asking, if Scotland can do it, why can’t England? Or even more poignantly, how could Swinson be the Leader of the UK Beiges, when she represented a Scots constituency, with a different Education, Health, Law and Order programme? EVEL would apply to all things Educational surely, therefore she would be barred from Beige Tory Policy making; a leader who had to leave the room when police numbers, nurse and doctor training, and classroom ratios were being discussed. The East Dunbartonshire Question? You could taste the deadly silence in the room. That horrible EssEnnPee and their freebies. Barrie Gardiner, who must be the biggest waffle in the Red Tory ranks, and believe me, that takes some doing, mused, do not ask what England can do for you, but what you can do for England, and Rory Middle Britain Stewart mused ‘all we need is love’ when asked by the audience why everybody was so angry all the time. England is another country now. Swinson will be turfed out at the next GE or Independence Day, whichever comes first. An American Harvard neuroscientist with an wiry unkempt Einstein mop of white hair, opined that compared with an annual tuition fees of $37,000 in the US ,England’s £82,000 Tuition Fee debt per student, or £150,000 to train as a pilot, was a ‘bargain’. The cultural, societal, and political gap between Scotland and England has never been wider. We ask no one’s ‘permission’ to mount a Self Determination campaign. Not one person spoke up for cancelling fees all together; US ‘college fees’ are now the accepted norm in Fantasy Island England. How can Brit Nats Up Here justify denying their fellow Scots the Claim of Right to decide their own fate. Do Davidson Findlay Leonard sincerely believe that their loyalties are to the QT audience tonight, or the people of Scotland, whom they are getting paid to serve? There is no going back. We have virtually nothing in common with our neighbours to the South now. Yes Jack Just to confirm the pilot’s training costs. VAT is charged on these courses at 20%. Early this year Hammond said he would look into removing the VAT charged on pilot training courses, yes they charge VAT on this. Of course we hear nothing more of the LOOKING INTO, Just a sound bite and move on. Your quote of an American can be explained as ‘They don’t have VAT or Sales Tax in some States’ and as fuel is costed in US dollars, linked to the Petro Dollar, courses are much cheaper in some US states, not all. Currently AVgas in the USA is priced at $3 a US gallon, approx 4 litres, in the rUK it is £2 a litre. Fuel is a large part of the actual flying part of the course, eventually the pilot has to fly a real aircraft after being trained on full motion simulators, still charged VAT by the hour. Education is the gift of all us oldies to the upcoming generation and should be free at the point of uptake. Pilot training should be at the very least VAT free for the education part, vat on the fuel part can be discounted in the courses, IF you want your pilot to be familiar with actually flying in the AIR and not a simulator. Thanks for this, Dave. Your expertise and knowledge here is priceless. I’ve just been ‘deleted’ for a BTL comment over on the Scotsman for challenging the writer’s assertion that Scotland rejected Trump because we were ‘Presbyterian Scotland. I quoted from The COS’ own figures, 325,695 in 2018, down 14% from 380,164 in 2014, which, in a population of 5.4 million Scots, 51% of whom described themselves as having no religion at all at the last census, hardly justifies the ‘Presbyterian Scotland’ description. We are not a ‘Protestant Country’ as is often declared on TV and in the Dead Tree Scrolls. Far from it. I also mentioned Swinson’s 4% Uni Take Up in Govan lie on QT from Epsom last night (it’s 22.8%) and was promptly ‘deleted’ by the Britsman. God save us from the Unseen Hand and corrupt influence of religions. The Scandal of Nazareth House shames us all, but especially the ‘dog collars’. Decades of Cover Up by the Establishment; clerics, politicians, Law Lords… It’s time to hose out the stables. No sooner do I click on the Guardian, than I read this:- “A Labour peer claimed almost £50,000 in attendance and travel expenses covering every single day the House of Lords was sitting last year, despite never speaking or asking any written questions, a Guardian investigation reveals. The former trade union general secretary David Brookman was among dozens of other lords and baronesses who never took part in a single debate, while almost a third of the 800 peers barely participated in parliamentary business over a 12-month period despite costing almost £3.2m in allowances.” Why in the name of all that’s holy is any Scots citizen prepared to put up with this, and Food and Aaron Banks and the Rape Clause, and Dick Leonard? Rise up, Scotland. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven? Hose out the stables. ‘ I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take any more’. WE are done being taken for mugs. Independent Woman says: It makes my blood boil. Unlimited feeding at the public trough for no public service. It is made all the worse when it is people who should know what it is like to work all your life and come out of it with a pittance of a State Pension, and even then have it snatched away at no notice. What happened to the Labour promises to ‘reform’ the House of Scroungers’. Were they too busy collecting the ermine themselves? INDEPENDENCE asap. See my song adaptation on Bella Caledonia, today, Independent Woman 😉 Isn’t Scotland “traditionally” Catholic? ArtyHetty says: Fabulous article thanks. re; Jack collatin@12.29am, Jack I think you meant to say £8,200 re Eng tuition fees. But anyway, in fact, students in England keave with far more debt than that, it’s per year for a start,and with student loans etc, they can be in debt by as much as £50k at the end of their studies. My cousin’s children have friends with that kind of debt due to studying, in England. Now, £50k is not a tiny sum. It’s not going to get you a good credit score, and, eventually will be called in. No mortgage for anyone with that kind of debt. Remember the Tories sold some old student loans off to debt companies a few years ago. Debt companies don’t keave people akone. There are some Tories who even have at least part ownership in businesses like debt companies. For poor students to leave uni with such huge debt, well, it can’t be good to have that hanging over you, so no doubt many just forego a university education. Nurses bursaries were also scrapped in England, part of a nurses training is working while studying, so they are going into debt to work effectively. In Scotland the SNP GOV have retained the nurses bursary, thank goodness. Imagine if a Britnat party was at the helm at Holyrood now? They would destroy Scotland, they would remove nurses bursaries, they would impose tuition fees, and they would privatise the NHS, and Scottish Water, just for starters. It’s a very chilling thought indeed! Here’s some questions to chill your bones even more: What is the difference between Slaves and Indentured Servants when you can never pay off your debt? Does anyone think that the majority of people will be able to pay off these student loans? The “jobcenter” has become a “send you to a privatised workhouse” center. They’re bringing slavery back into the mainstream 😦 Sorry, ArtyH, I was quoting one of the audience member’s figures: £82,000 was the total debt upon graduating in her case. The Red Blue and Beige Tories are for the Few, not the Many, hence their constant litany of lies about being champions of the Just About Managing, and ‘the Many’. Lord McConnell, Lord, Reid, Lord Foulkes, Lord Forsyth, Lord Campbell, Lord Darling, Baroness Goldie, Lord oh Lord, shysters who have made an indecent living out of keeping the Great Unwashed in their place. What this country doesn’t need is to become part of Old England, the 51st state of the US. You never see a poor Brit Nat Politician, do you? We are on the brink of an actual revolution, yet wee chubby cheeks and her old bools in the mooth florid face co pilot, and Jo the Beige Mist, seem to believe that we Scots should just lie down to English Domination, and play their perverted ‘democratic’ numbers game. There are more of us Down Here so get back behind the barbed wire. Swinson can never be Leader of a UK Party, and I’m sure Ed Davey, true English yeoman, will rub this in at the hustings. Swinson’s constituents are Scottish, and therefore protected by the Scottish Parliament from Swinson’s destruction of civil society Down There. She lied in a panic last night on QT, and I wonder how she will face the good folk of Dunbartonshire as England attempt to drag them out of Europe against their will. They must be a clever lot, what with 80% going to Uni, ‘n’at. She demands a second Referendum, but not That Second Referendum…who gives a feck about the Scots electorate? certainly not the Beige Miss. On QT there was a frozen silence when free tuition in Scotland reared its awkward head, and Swinson’s lies and bluster showed her up in her true colours: Tory through and through, with a Nick Clegg U Turn Beige tint of treachery. They’d sell their mothers for money and power. Excellent explanation Paul. I had caught the gist of most of it, but smoothed out now. Onto tuition fees: I had the biased broadcasting radio on at noon time yesterday and there was a 30 yr old (I think) southerner talking about how she had put herself through uni, worked full time throughout, graduated, and then ‘started work’. And that tuition fees need to be in place as higher education should be only for those who can afford it. She then went on to say there are too many young people out there with a degree for all the wrong reasons, and that they should study a course purely for the job opportunities. I wonder where that leaves this extra mature student…But then, I’m a Scot living in Scotland. Education is lifelong, it’s not just for the younger generations. Thank goodness for our quality of life in Scotland. deeldugs, your average Brit Nat ProudScotButter Nutters will talk any amount of pish about tuition fees to defend England charging for education, water, care for the elderly, or a spare bedroom to store a dialysis machine. Swinson lied last night, and in the heart of her true Motherland, Merrie Middle England, without a Scot to challenge her, she got away with decrying the policy of No Tuition fees, ‘Scot free’. (Couldn’t resist it.) Ergo, she doesn’t represent her E Dunbartonshire constituents on tuition fees. She’s all for selling Education on the Free Market, like Mars Bars or Yo-Yos. as were Clegg and Rennie and Tavish and Rumble in the Jungle last time, just to get power and loads of cash. Vote in a Brit Nat Government Up Here and Murdo Fraser will introduce toll booths to that pesky Queensferry Bridge, or as the Brit Nats would immediately rename it, the ‘Her Gracious Royal Majesty, Empress of Empire 2, Hammer of the Jocks, before whose Heavenly Light we all kneel and bow our heads in veneration, Queen Elizabeth II, Bridge’. Swinson is a fat liar vying for top spot in the Beige English Tories Party with the promise of great wealth and a fat pension if she ascends the Beige Fence upon which she can sit for the rest of her ‘political’ life. Check out the CV’s of our Brit Nat Politicos. University, politics, law, then a stint as bag carrier for an MP, then on the Gravy Train proper without so much as getting their hands dirty on anything as common as a real job. Now that’s what I call ‘a degree for all the wrong reasons’. Time to hose this shit from the stables once and for all. Jack looks like all Unionist politicians are playing the same game ” Bare Faced Lies ” , they have worked out that this actually works , The only wee fly in the ointment is the recent case brought against BoJo for lying in public office, very similar to the case against Mr Libdem Carmichael, maybe if the charge levied against Carmichael was along the same lines as Bojos then Mr Libdem would be having his breakfast this morning at her Majesties Pleasure , and Fluffy would be keeping him company . Here’s my story about Carmichael and his (butcher’s) apron for you, Robert Graham. Admittedly, it dates from before his particular court case, but I hope you will enjoy it nonetheless. Carmichael’s the Butcher’s Carmichael’s was a large butcher’s shop, located at the far end of Orkney Street. It was very well known in town, but few people had actually seen the owner, known locally as ‘Big Al,’ if you’ll excuse the pun, ‘in the flesh.’ One day, a young lady, who was up on her holiday in the area from down south came into the butcher’s shop. Her name was Tori Graff and she was looking for something to cook to go alongside her leek bake. She was holding a dinner party that very night and she wanted to impress her friends. “How about some mince?” suggested the friendly shop assistant. “I find that leaks and mince complement each other very nicely. We also serve very good tripe” Tori Graff was so impressed by the good-looking mince under the counter that she bought some there and then and took it home to cook. But alas and woe! Having cooked it in the appropriate manner, (the leek bake however was not done so well and some would later whisper it was only half-baked), Tori Graff and her guests began to feel decidedly unwell. Could there be something the matter with Carmichael’s mince? The nearest Trading Standards Office was in the nearby town of Essennpee, and one of its officers was quickly called in. He promptly paid a visit to Carmichael’s butcher’s shop. The same assistant who had served Tori Graff the previous day was behind the counter – but he did not satisfy the man from Trading Standards: he wanted to see the Manager, ‘Big Al’ Carmichael himself. After a long wait, ‘Big Al’ Carmichael shambled into the shop from the back. His nickname was well-earned: he was quite a large man, not out of place as a doorman at a nightclub, perhaps. Carmichael was wearing his standard butcher’s apron and straw hat. He stared indignantly at the man from Essennpee Trading Standards. “What’s this all about, then?” he asked gruffly. “We suspect that there is some issue with your mince,” replied the Trading Standards Officer grimly. “Poppycock!” exclaimed Carmichael. “I only sell the best quality mince in my shop. My meat is the best in town – you ask Mrs Cameron in Number 10. How dare you slander me like this!” “Be that as it may,” rejoined the Trading Standards Officer evenly, “I will still need to take a sample of your mince to study it in the lab. A rather virulent strain of Libus Demus Smearus is currently doing the rounds and I’d like to do my duty to ensure – as you claim – that your meat products are not affected.” ‘Big Al’ Carmichael harrumphed and swore blind that his mince was not contaminated. However, he could not very easily stop the Trading Standards Officer from Essennpee from upholding the law, so with a shrug of his shoulders, a deep groan and a defiant statement that he would be vindicated, ‘Big Al’ Carmichael shambled back to his office. Essennpee Trading Standards were meticulous in their analysis of ‘Big Al’ Carmichael’s mince. All this cost a lot of money and a lot of time and effort was also expended, but when one considers that the safety and well-being of the town and possible breaches of the Food Act that were involved, Trading Standards did a thoroughly professional job. The results from the laboratory eventually came through. As Essennpee Trading Standards had initially thought, there was a strong strain of the bacteria Libus Demus Smearus in ‘Big Al’ Carmichael’s mince. Upon hearing the result, the Trading Standards Officer acted promptly, and immediately returned to Carmichael’s butcher’s shop. Again, there was a lengthy delay before the man himself appeared, clad as usual in his butcher’s apron and straw hat. “I have to inform you that you have been found selling food which is unfit for human consumption,” announced the Trading Standards Officer from Essennpee gravely. “To whit, your mince has been proven to contain a most unpleasant strain of Libus Demus Smearus,” he went on. “This has been demonstrated to be the cause of the ill-effects in everyone who has swallowed your mince.” ‘Big Al’ Carmichael was silent for a little while. Then he blurted out, “It wasnae me! It was my shop assistant … It was Mundell! He made me do it!” “Be that as it may,” replied the Trading Standards Officer. “This is a strict liability offence under the Food Act.” He paused for his words to sink in. “I will be obliged to make a report that Carmichael’s the Butcher’s should be closed forthwith and that you will never sell any meat product ever again in the future.” “B-b-b-b-ut you can’t do that!” stuttered ‘Big Al’ Carmichael. “Think of my livelihood. My good name here on Orkney Street.” He paused. “I am NOT going to submit to your blackmailing innuendo, sir!” ‘Big Al’ was shouting. “We shall see what Mr Justice Scott and Mrs Justice Shetland have to say when we take you to court, Mr Carmichael,” replied the Essennpee Trading Standards Officer with a smile as he walked out of the shop, into the sunshine. Will ‘Big Al’ Carmichael now face the chop? Watch this space … Jo swinson cant even tell if shes born in somaset England or Glasgow Scotland because one file says shes English the other says shes glaswegian. mikeinkwazi says: Reblogged this on mikeinkwazi. Terry callachan says: This is the best most understandable explanation of the Scottish referendum bill I’ve seen anywhere I’ve sent it to my sister in Canada she will be pleased. Protestant Scotland.I think it’s too soon to say Scotland is not a Protestant country, yes many people in Scotland say they have no religion but the institutions of this country still have the after affects of Protestantism lingering its not really that long ago that Protestantism ensured catholics could not vote or be a lawyer join HM forces or be a doctor or work for the local council or be a policeman or policewoman or even get a council house etc and we do still see these orange order marches being protected from abolition and although the church is not as well attended as it used to be I think it is still a powerful institution the Protestant more so than the catholic for sure. Northern Ireland has similar issues they passed laws years ago to get a more even spread of catholic and Protestant police in the force but it’s still a large Protestant majority not in keeping with the population religious preferences. The church has gone quiet politically in recent years but still plays a huge part in politics there is the Scottish churches parliamentary office and the church has a representative in each local authority with a lot of input to education in particular. Different to England of course where something like thirty archbishops are lords in the House of Lords , Scotland doesn’t have any church reps in the House of Lords. Tuition fees are an abomination Scotland is ahead of the game , the idea that you should only go to university to learn a particular skill is so silly , many many students change their mind what they want to study after the first year and let’s face it learning never ends in life anyway so education for as many as possible at the highest level is best.People decide to educate themselves at different times of life , at different ages depending on so many factors in their life so we should make it easy to take part for all people of all ages it benefits the individual and society at large. The rich love to exclude the poor from education it makes it easier for them to rob the poor and to maintain the inequality that they and their family benefit from. Scotland is a great place to live especially right now you just get the feeling we are on the brink of something big that will change the way we live and redress the balance. Sincerely, I’m not getting at the Proddies or the Kafflicks among us. Each to his own; however, (not a ‘but’, you’ll notice) how can any man or woman of the cloth read the Sermon on The Mount, and not ‘man the barricades’ condemning food Banks, the 5 year Benefits’ freeze, the two child UCS cap, the privatised Disablement Benefits Assessors, and the truly dreadful totalitarian Rape Clause? It is surely against any religion that we sit silent while children starve and it is officially recorded that 120,000 of our fellow citizens have been killed by state engineered welfare Cuts since 2010? WMD? Iraq? Silence from the pulpits. Shame on you all. 1984 is 70 years old today. Even Orwell would not believe the state of 2019 UK. Baroness Smith, her daughter, and now Dugdale want us to be ‘nice’ to politicians; well, I couldn’t be in the same building as some of them. Blessed are the Poor, but not in Blue Red or Beige Britain. Time to hose out the stable. On a dreich miserable dank day, I’ve had too much time on my hands. You, dear duggers ,must be fed up listening to my moans. I’ll shut up now. Peace and Love to all no matter your belief system. If the British establishment uses its SC to thwart a “legal” independence referendum in Scotland, that would be the fnal straw. A critical portion of the people would quickly support an “ilegal” referendum IMO. I don’t want to go down the Catalonia route, but the British establishment can only push us so far. They would give us no choice. Something has to give. The British establishment and its MSM completely distracted by Brexit and the Tory leadership contest. Now is the perfect time to set a constitutional bear trap. Just sayin. 🙂 Indeed a more digestible read than others, an excellent job which will go a long way to soothing the impatience many feel. Given HMG’s recent previous, best be ready for some legislative spanner to be thrown in the works if the massed pipes and drums of Roothie’s media army fail to derail it before enactment, however unlikely. All those David Davis etc quotes over being able to freely leave a Treaty during the Brexit campaign should be getting plastered on every available billboard to expose their hypocrisy over the referendum issue. Best form of defence etc… Here’s a few for you, Bob Lamont. If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy. David Davis (19 November 2012) and … There will be no downside to Brexit only a considerable upside. https://www.ft.com/content/45137d44-8f0a-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78 David Davis (10 October 2016) The day after we vote to leave we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want. [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/michael-gove/michael-gove-vote-leave_b_9728548.html Michael Gove (9 April 2016) There will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/i-cannot-stress-too-much-that-britain-is-part-of-europe–and-alw/ Boris Johnson (26 June 2016) Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy – the UK holds most of the cards in any negotiation. http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2016/07/17/getting-out-of-the-eu-can-be-quick-and-easy-the-uk-holds-most-of-the-cards-in-any-negotiation/ John Redwood (17 July 2016) To me, Brexit is easy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-37416831/nigel-farage-outlines-three-easy-outcomes-for-brexit Nigel Farage (20 September 2016) The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/20/liam-fox-uk-eu-trade-deal-after-brexit-easiest-human-history Liam Fox (20 July 2017) Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Davis I was referring more to at least 4 quotes from leading Conservatives (inc Davis) circulating as memes banging on about being bound by an unfair Treaty (EU) etc.. Their hypocrisy in comparison to the Scottish question were why the memes were so hilarious. If these could be plastered on every available billboard in the same way as the Led by Donkeys lads did, it would be a very public exposition outwith the pro-UK Scottish media control… 😉 You could at least make use of the 1st one then, Bob. Otherwise feel free to use Google – one of the best options in searching. I was thinking more of such as Mark Francois (Francoism is indeed unfortunate) in the opening of his speech to the Bruges Group on 9th April, “This is the 21st century and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will”… I have never seen any political handouts about these Scottish church people, nor have I seen their names on any ballot paper. If they are not elected they should not be in any position to influence Scottish life in any way whatsoever. RevStu says: “This bill does not negate the need for a Section 30 order for Scotland to have an independence referendum which can’t be legally challenged by the anti-independence parties, but crucially it makes a legal challenge by the Westminster Government far more difficult. The anti-independence parties can no longer rely upon an immediate referral to the UK Supreme Court, now they will have to go all the way through the Scottish legal process.” I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me why making the legal argument take much longer is a good thing. Eckle Fechan says: Extended thanks to yourself Paul, the Dug and Andrew Tickell and for this incisive and insightful summary of recent strategic events, which I hadn’t quite realised the significance of. Careful navigation of the line is required, viz a viz “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” David Cameron awarded important job @ an American AI company. Half right. Everything about him is ‘Artificial’. He has no ‘Intelligence’. One of the aspects of this Referendum Bill laid before Holyrood that greatly amuses me is the timing of it. May is busy clearing out all the discarded staples from her drawers (desk I hasten to add), the wannabee PMs are busily conspiring among themselves (and backstabbing, sorry for that omission Messrs Gove and Johnson) such their eyes are “off the ball”. Ruth the Mooth will try to slow things down, but the principle consideration of this Bill should pass before any concerted action can be taken.. Very clever indeed… An obvious attack on the safeguards / benefits afforded by the referendum act is for Westminster’s agents to have put in place Unionist members of the Scottish Judiciary. Its a great piece of work by the Scot. Gov. You have to think Westminster will try to subvert it by any means available. Could they not alter the Scotland Act that set up Holyrood and block it? They can even Close down Holyrood. Certain actions will get backs up, increasing support for Independence. The cleverness of the referendum bill – Ewen's Blog says: […] via The cleverness of the referendum bill […] Leave a Reply to Illy Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2074
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__label__cc	0.7231	0.2769	VisitGuided Tours & MorePrimary School \| Munch Chagall Picasso Primary School \| Munch Chagall Picasso Masterworks of the Batliner Collection The Batliner Collection presents the ALBERTINA Museum's extensive holdings of classical modernist paintings and provides an outstanding overview of all the “-isms” to be found in 20th-century art history. This freshly redone public presentation of the permanent collection runs from Impressionism and Fauvism to German Expressionism and Bauhaus and on to the Russian avant-garde and Picasso. In this exhibition visit, everything revolves around the theme of landscape. Our interactive tour takes young people through the most varied landscapes – from the sea to the mountains, from impressionism to expressionism and surrealism. By comparing works, the participants learn to recognize the differences between individual styles and also get acquainted with the most important modern artists. The practical work in the studio involves elaborating on a landscape, using an outtake from a photo as a starting point. In the longer workshop variant (60 minutes), the special challenge lies in blending the “correct” color hues in addition to elaborating on the landscape. 2 Dots, 2 Lines – Voilà, a Face! This interactive tour through the exhibition takes a closer look at the ever-new challenge confronting artists when it comes to painting a face. Participants playfully analyze portraits by numerous artists in a variety of painting styles. How can feelings be represented? And what stories do the faces tell? Along the way, we’ll also learn about various styles such as impressionism, expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, and about how to distinguish between them. Participants will then go to the studio to create their own (self-)portraits. In the 30-minute workshop, the object is to try and imitate a previously seen artistic movement with wax crayons. If 60 minutes in the studio are reserved, the participants will create an expressionist/cubist self-portrait. Still, stiller, still life The focus of this exhibition tour is a genre with a long tradition: the still-life. What belongs in a still-life painting and what doesn’t? How are the objects arranged? What different kinds of still-lifes are there? And where do we encounter still-lifes in our everyday routines? As we view the works, participants will dig into questions of composition and color theory as well as compare the works of various artists—and in this way, they’ll become familiar with various styles of modern art. Back at the studio, the participants will create their own still-lifes. In the half-hour workshop, they’ll make use of a wealth of available materials and assemble a still-life drawn in pencil or wax crayon. In the one-hour workshop, they’ll have time to transform their pencil sketches into colorful pictures using intense gouache paints. All the Way Around Here, we tackle the theme of sculpture – artworks you can walk all the way around. What sculptures do we encounter at the ALBERTINA Museum, and how were they made? In the 30-minute variant of the workshop, the children model a shape out of clay. If 60 minutes are available, they’ll also try out the reverse process of sculpting on a small block of foam. (60 min tour of the exhibition and 30 min workshop in the Formatwerk studio) There is no entrance fee for children. Fee for the guided tour per participant of the group: 60 minutes program 120 minutes program Min. amount of participants: 13 children If your group consists of more than 25 children, we will split up the group. Teachers and attendants (max. of 2 per class/group) visit the exhibition for free and are responsible for the group throughout the museum visit. Inquiries & Contact ALBERTINA Art Education on working days between 9 am and 4 pm under T +43 1 534 83 540 or E After reserving a date please send us a list of your children's first names: Download Name List At the exhibition Monet to Picasso \| Photo © Rainer Mirau	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2089
__label__cc	0.6375	0.3625	Kate Branigan QC, Call 1985, Silk 2006 Door Tenant at Albion Chambers; Member at 4 Paper Buildings, London. For 18 years Kate was based on the Western Circuit practising in all areas of family law, in particular specialising in public law work for local authorities, parents and guardians and private law children work, but also undertaking serious domestic and violent crime for both prosecution and defence. Since her move to 4 Paper Buildings in 2002, Kate has maintained her practice in all aspects of family law whilst developing a particular interest in children. She continues to represent all parties in public law proceedings, specialising in non-accidental injury (including infant death) cases, neglect and factitious illness behaviour together with cases with considerable foreign, religious and public interest immunity elements. Kate also has a significant practice in private law proceedings, having undertaken a number of important specific issue cases and applications to remove from the jurisdiction, and continues her ancillary relief practice both in London and on the Western Circuit. Kate was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2006. Kate has a long-standing relationship with the EC Roberts Centre in Portsmouth providing staff and venues for both short and long-term supported and supervised contact and is a voluntary speaker for the Children’s Society. Nkumbe Ekaney QC, Call 1990, Silk 2011 Door tenant at Albion Chambers; Member at Garden Court Chambers, London. Nkumbe Ekaney is a door tenant at Albion Chambers. He practises exclusively in family law, specialising in children, divorce and civil partnership dissolution. The majority of his work is in Public Law acting for parents and children in care; cases of infanticide; non-accidental injury; sexual abuse and chronic neglect. Nkumbe moved to Garden Court Chambers in July 2016. Successful CPS Upgrades Winter 2019 Newsletters	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0069.json.gz/line2091

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