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__label__wiki	0.764418	0.764418	Home→South African News→News24.com \| Power FM chairperson responds to Ramaphosa cancellation: ‘We have the right to privacy’ ← Sport24.co.za \| Super Rugby returns with more Marvel magic in 2020 News24.com \| Durban school principal accused of raping four teachers → News24.com \| Power FM chairperson responds to Ramaphosa cancellation: ‘We have the right to privacy’ Power FM chairperson Given Mkhari has explained events leading up to the cancellation of the Chairman’s Conversation after President Cyril Ramaphosa bowed out at the last minute. In a statement on Thursday, the Presidency said Ramaphosa had pulled out of the event following pressure from civil society organisations Wise 4 Afrika and the Soul City Institute who raised concerns after Ipeleng Mkhari laid charges against her husband last year. The statement was released just before the event was to begin. In it, spokesperson Khusela Diko said: “President Ramaphosa firmly believes that he, like every other South African, has a responsibility to do everything within his means to confront gender-based violence, and to do nothing undermines the effectiveness of the national effort. “The Presidency emphasises that the non-participation of President Ramaphosa should not be read as an endorsement of the untested allegations raised by the civil society organisations, but a carefully weighed-up decision taken in the public interest.” #Mkhari proceeding to give the back story, presidency raised concerns over complaints they received. Some people said the president shouldn’t participate in the event, this week — Matshidiso Madia (@tshidi_lee) November 28, 2019 While the charges were eventually withdrawn, both organisations said in a statement Given had not accounted for his actions. Addressing guests and listeners on air at the event, he said the issue between him and his wife was a personal one despite him being a public figure. It was broadcast on Power FM, Capricorn FM and eNCA. “As human beings and individuals, we have the right to privacy … to the extent that we are not ignorant of the nature of what we do, we still communicated or acknowledged that something wrong had happened between us and asked friends, family, colleagues and the public to accord us privacy,” Given said. He added before the event, his wife, the Presidency and NGOs had tried to find a solution to the matter, even looking for someone else to host the event. “Mrs Mkhari said solutions deal with an event today, would accountability be reduced, should accountability be reduced to an event?” Given opted to cancel the event, which he announced while addressing guests. “We absolutely respect the decision of the Presidency. We also acknowledge that leading a country of about 58 million people is not child’s play, there are a whole lot of considerations and things at play that ordinary citizens like us may never understand,” he said. “We will continue everything humanly possibly within our means to ensure this country succeeds, and that’s all we set out to do. We will continue to be open to debating people’s views about us as individuals and as an organisation because the nature of our business is dialogue. “I want to thank the efforts that I’ve seen made by the Presidency to ensure that he honours the commitment that he made to us. I want to thank and maybe acknowledge people who when they feel strongly about something they do something about it,” Mkhari said. “Over the past weeks … or year, team Power … [is] not aware of new-found developments that would justify us being treated different but it’s possible that with time we will come to be aware.” Posted in South African News permalink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line811
__label__cc	0.705537	0.294463	Manage a Memorial Will and Estate Hospice and Palliative Care Grief Process Grief & Loss Blog Death & Dying Blog Caregiving & Hospice Blog Tour and Features Why do humans memorialize each other? What does it mean to memorialize? In its most basic terms, a memorialization is simply sharing and preserving the memory of a loved one. It's a way to commemorate someone we've lost. We all want our legacy to continue after us, and a memorial to someone reminds us, and our descendants, of that legacy. A memorial can be something as elegant, elaborate and famous as the Jefferson or Lincoln Memorial: a monument that people travel the world to see. But you needn't build a grand statue or landmark building; a memorial can be something as humble and simple as a headstone or an urn. It can be as ethereal as singing the departed's favorite song, writing a poem, or planting a flower or tree in their honor. Why Memorialize a Loved One? There seems to be a universal human need to create memorials for departed loved ones. Some cultures honor their dead ancestors for centuries. It is a way for us to say goodbye, it helps the grieving process, and gives us closure to our loss. It gives us comfort to be able to reflect on the joy the loved one brought to us during their life. And it helps us with the healing process, particularly on those rough dates, such as their birthday or the anniversary of their death. But even more, it is a way for us to create a legacy that the lost beloved has left us. Memorial tributes allow us to share our memories with other bereaved loved ones and memorial products keep alive the memories of the departed long after they have gone. Choosing a memorial product is something none of us would like to do. But once the time comes, doing so may provide some measure of comfort in the midst of grief. Click to learn more about selecting memorial products to remember the life of the one you have lost. An important part of the process of dealing with the death of a loved one is honoring that person's memory in a special way. Click to learn more on how memorial tributes can help bring closure and can highlight important aspects of that person's life. Recent Memorial Products Articles What Are Burial Urns? Jason Ropchan Choosing an Urn, Funeral Products, Memorial Products Burial urns are used for the containment of ashes of a deceased person. The term burial ... The Personal Tribute of Memorial Benches Your Tribute February 5, 2016 Choosing a Memorial Headstone: Advice and Inspiration Fergus Wessel October 9, 2015 The Role a Stonemason Plays in Selecting a Memorial Your Tribute February 17, 2014 Recent Memorial Tributes Articles Example Obituaries Jason Ropchan Sample Obituaries If you have to write an obituary you should begin by reading example obituaries. The six ... Come to the Forest to Visit Me Your Tribute May 1, 2014 Short Funeral Flower Card Messages Jason Ropchan July 8, 2013 Selecting the Best Message for Sympathy Flowers Ways to Memorialize There are as many ways to memorialize someone as there are people to memorialize. The memorial is there to remind us of the unique gifts and special qualities of that person. Create a memorial that reflects that uniqueness. Give a speech: It could be to a small gathering of family and friends, or it could be to a community group. Perhaps the departed was a prominent member of an organization, or a teacher or coach. Wherever that person had influence and touched people's lives is an appropriate venue to talk to folks who are gathered to remember their legacy. Talk from the heart: tell a story, whether it's humorous, poignant, whimsical or inspiring, that reflects the values the loved one instilled in you and the people he or she touched, and encapsulates the attributes that made him or her special. Write a tribute: If you're not one for public speaking, put your thoughts on paper instead. The tribute could be a simple poem, or it could be a personal story. Who you decide to share this tribute with is up to you. You can mail it to friends, post it on a website or social media, or keep it sealed in a drawer. Send it as a letter to the editor: it doesn't even matter if departed was a public figure or not, their memory is something that can be shared. Perhaps they embodied courage or sacrifice. Maybe they were a veteran, a schoolteacher, or sports coach who inspired a generation of youth. Maybe they gave a lot of themselves in volunteer work. All of these attributes are worthy of being told. Everybody's life is a lesson for the rest of us. Place a Monument: Set aside a portion of your yard to plant their favorite flowers, and set up a statue or plaque or flagstone with their name. Create a rock garden dedicated to them. Place a headstone at their grave or monument in a cemetery. Plant a tree: It can be in the local park where you visit all the time, with a plaque and a bench with their name. Or you can donate to a nature preserve and have a tree planted in a forest in their honor. Create a memorial table or shrine: Set aside a special corner in your home with their favorite items: photos, memorabilia, knick-knacks, candles, and other personal items. Create a photo album: Place your favorite photos in an album that can be shared and passed on. There are numerous online companies that make hard cover photo books that are beautifully constructed, and can have text and captions added to the photos. Post digital photos online or create a PowerPoint slide show or video memorial. Make a memorial website: In addition to the photos mentioned above, you can create a website where friends and family can post their memories and stories, becoming a virtual gathering place for loved ones. Make a mix tape of their favorite music: Few things trigger memories and emotions like music. A certain song will transport you back to a specific time and place and memory. Take their favorite songs and create a “mix tape” to share—or in this digital age, create an mp3 playlist, or a Pandora station dedicated to the departed. Volunteer or donate: Carry on the legacy of whatever the departed's passion was. If they were active in a faith based organization, or an avid gardener, or spent time working with children or a community group, keep that legacy alive by continuing their work. If you don't have the time or inclination to volunteer yourself, make a donation in their name. Make it a Joyous Occasion Save special personal effects and items that are unique to that person and that remind you of them, whether it is a special piece of jewelry, an item of clothing, or a favorite book. The purpose to a memorial is remembering what made that person different. There are no right or wrong ways to remember and no right or wrong items to use as a memorial. It can be flowers, it can be a baseball glove, or it can be a favorite easy chair. A memorial reflects the things that that person was passionate about. Above all, make the memorial a joyous thing. Whether it's an event or gathering, a physical monument big or small, a plaque, urn, headstone, or a special song, the purpose of a memorial is to help us keep the memory of someone dear to us alive. The best memorials are ones that, even if they bring a tear to our eye, also fill our hearts with love. It is a legacy that will help their memory burn bright, not only for the grieving loved ones who knew the departed, but also for generations to come, who can carry on their legacy. Memorializations are how our civilizations remain constant over time. Celebrate a life and remember a special someone with an online memorial from Your Tribute. Create a free Online Obituary in a few simple steps. 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__label__wiki	0.76125	0.76125	Thank you for signing up for the ticket newsletter! One more step: you will receive an email shortly. You must click on the link in that email to activate your subscription to the ticket Congratulations on confirming your subscription to the ticket newsletter! Enjoy the best sports stories of the day sent directly to your inbox. Sorry, we encountered an issue. You have been unsubscribed from the ticket newsletter. Please check your email for one final email confirming your removal from the list. TPG Studios Mom Postpones Son's Appendectomy To See Pacquiao By: Ben Maller You've heard stories of fans doing outrageous things to meet celebrities, but a fan of Manny Pacquiao might have topped them all. The Los Angeles Times reports a mother postponed her son's appendectomy so she could attend Pacquiao's recent media day appearance at Hollywood gym. The woman, who appeared to be in her late 30's, said her name was "Amy" and insisted her sick child supported the move. "He probably has appendicitis, he's in the hospital, but he knows how much Manny means to me so he said, 'Go, Mom,'" the woman told the Times. "He didn't want to keep me back. Even Octomom thinks that's not such a good idea. However this Pacman fan takes issue with any and all critics. "I'm not a horrible mom," she said. "He's not in total danger. Dad's there with him." Dozens of Pacquiao enthusiasts recently staked out LA's Griffith Park on a cold morning in the hopes of catching the Filipino congressman during his normal early run. ThePostGame brings you the most interesting sports stories on the web. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to read them first! Pacman says as he gets older and his political career takes off, his days in the ring are numbered. "I'm starting to think of my future life outside boxing," Pacquiao told Inquirer Sports. "(I will fight) a couple more years. I'm still going to fight. I have a number in mind (when I will retire) but I won't tell you." Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title against Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez for the third time this weekend in Las Vegas. ThePostGame.com contributor Martin Rogers weighs in on "Pacmom": More Great Stories On ThePostGame: -- Late Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Frazier To Receive Rare Honor -- Who Wins A One-On-One Showdown Between Mayweather And Pacquiao ... In Basketball? -- A Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Bout? Finally? Don't Believe The Hype ... Yet -- 44 Lives On: Jordan Gathers, Hank's Nephew, Tries To Shoulder A Beautiful Legacy LAFC Players Connect One-On-One With Fans At Unique Event Sugar Ray Leonard Lists SoCal Mansion For $52 Million Muhammad Ali's Story Unfolds With Interactive Exhibit At LA's Beverly Center Common's Boxing Documentary Underscores Importance Of Mentors To Young Black Men Boxing, Fans, Manny Pacquiao ThePostGame Tweets by ThePostGame Want More Sports Stories And Videos From ThePostGame Daily? pinterset flipagram Copyright © 2020 Sports Media Ventures, Inc. All Rights Reserved This website is owned and operated by Sports Media Ventures, Inc. To learn more about the information that Sports Media Ventures, Inc. collects on this website, and what is done with that information, please click on the Privacy Policy link above.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line814
__label__cc	0.675811	0.324189	Maharatna Certificate presented to ONGC Dated : 16 十一月 2010 01:48:11 上午 Shri R S Sharma, CMD ONGC receiving ‘Maharatna’ certificate from Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh, Hon’ble Union Minister for HI & PE Premier corporate and the most valuable Public Sector Undertaking ONGC was formally conferred Maharatna Status today by Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh, Hon’ble Union Minister of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises. Mr. R S Sharma, CMD, ONGC received the ‘Maharatna’ certificate from the Hon’ble Minister at a conference organized by ASSOCHAM with the support of the Ministry of HI&PE on the theme- “Resurgent PSUs- Vibrant India.” On this occasion, all four PSEs, viz. ONGC, IOC, SAIL and NTPC, who were Navaratna since 1997 and declared ‘Maharatna’ on 19th May this year, received the certificates in the inaugural function of this conference. The Maharatna status to select PSEs ensures more empowerment in decision making and encourages becoming globally competitive. While presenting this certificate, Shri Deshmukh congratulated the employees & managements of all ‘Maharatnas’. In his Conference inaugural speech, the Hon’ble Minister remarked that the “best practices of ONGC & ONGC Videsh Ltd. are worth emulating by others”. The status of Maharatna is a tribute to the robust and reliable public sector enterprises that helped the national economy during the recent global financial downturn, reaffirmed Shri Arun Yadav, Hon’ble Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. R S Sharma, CMD ONGC congratulated Team ONGC in its continuous pursuit for excellence year on year and exhorted them to take on the challenges ahead in retaining the position of World’s No.1 E & P Company (as per Platts). Corporate Communications, New Delhi, Tele-Fax: 011-23357860 Mail: ongcdelhicc@ongc.co.in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line817
__label__wiki	0.584813	0.584813	Things to do in Edinburgh/ Lindsay MacNevin\|Guest Contributor\|THINGS TO DO, EDINBURGH Would you also like to post a review for National War Museum ? ADDRESS:Edinburgh Castle, Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NG CONTACT:PHONE Photo courtesy: National War Museum If you wanted another reason to visit the Edinburgh Castle, it should be the National War Museum. Housed inside the castle walls is a collection of military artifacts and treasures. Stories are told through paintings, ceramics, uniforms, medals, weapons and more here. We suggest starting with the short film, which explains the history of Scottish military experience, and then moving onto the museum collections. Galleries tell the story of why so many Scots willingly joined the military and what their daily lives looked like. Currently, the museum has an exhibit that tells the story of the soldiers in the Royal Regiment of Scotland and what they have been doing over the past decade including peacekeeping and combat missions in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Entry to this museum is included with your Castle admission and is open seven days a week, throughout the year. FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GUIDES (2) CULTURE, PUNE Things to do in Pune if you're interested in culture If you’re interested in culture, there are several things to do in Pune. Commonly referred to as the cultural capital of Maharashtra, the city offers visitors a good mix of places and activities that ... more Best museums and galleries in Edinburgh to woo culture lovers One of the best things about the museums and galleries in the city of Edinburgh is that most of them are totally free to enter, although donations are accepted and encouraged. With more rainy days tha... more Easy Hotel Edinburgh Nearby places to eat in Edinburgh RESTAURANTS, EDINBURGH BARS, EDINBURGH EATING OUT, EDINBURGH Museum of Edinburgh Edinburgh for free Edinburgh for the fashionista Entertainment in the city of Edinburgh Edinburgh: the fundamentals, the fresh & the freaky Surgeons’ Hall Museums Great Astrolabe Reef, Kadavu Pacific Harbour, Viti Levu 1National War Museum 2National Museum of Scotland 3National Museum of Flight 4Surgeons’ Hall Museums 5Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 6City Art Centre 7Museum of Edinburgh 8Best museums and galleries in Edinburgh to woo culture lovers 9Great Astrolabe Reef, Kadavu 10Pacific Harbour, Viti Levu If you wanted another reason to visit the Edinburgh Castle, it should be the National War Museum. Housed inside the castle walls is a collection of military artifacts and treasures.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line821
__label__cc	0.534668	0.465332	Welcome! We're tracking 297 Jaguar XJ220 cars, with 2,690 photos! (Learn More) xj220data.com > about While XJ220DATA Data is a labor of love and will continue regardless, a donation or a purchase from our Caf� Press store will help us cover costs. Thank you! and More in the Store! XJ220DATA.com is a project to help people find information about a particular car or series of cars by serial number. So...What is the Difference Between This Site and Traditional Registers? This site welcomes participation from anyone interested in these cars. We aren't experts, but there is also no exclusivity to the data hosted here. You don't have to be a member (we don't have members, or everyone is a member, however you'd like to look at it) to list a car. In some cases this open model can lead to inaccuracies. But with your help the site can become more accurate--it's as easy as clicking on "add/edit" when you see a mistake, entering the car number, and editing the information. If a site user (perhaps you?) sees a car with such-and-such car number in a classified ad (or at a car show) that's what will be entered. It's all that's known at that point. But over time, hopefully more information will be added, corrections will be made, and at the end of the day we'll know a bit more about a particular car than we would otherwise. No one who contributes here (as far as we know) has the factory build sheets in front of them--take what you find here with a grain of salt. Ask any marque expert, or the keeper of a private register, what they think of this site--they generally all have the same view--and take their words to heart if you're doing in-depth research. Unlike this site, private registers are generally proprietary--and for good reason. A lot of work goes into maintaining a vetted list of cars. However, we feel there is value to the "wikipedia" model of a user-editable, user-updated online registry. There is value here, and we welcome your involvement, whether as student or (especially) as professor. What about scrapped cars? We want to learn the fate of every Jaguar XJ220, so if you know of cars which have gone to the big parking lot in the sky, by all means enter them. Data and Photos How do I add a car to the database? How do I update a car's information? How do I add a photograph? Removing: Can a car be removed? Can information about a car be removed? Can a photo be removed? Why won't my photo or entry show up? Some data seems to be wrong, what should I do? How do I report duplicate photos? How can I find a specific car? What about searching on other criteria? How can I search the photos? Can you put me in touch with the owner of this car? What browser do I need? Do you use Flash, JavaScript or other technologies? Is this legal? What about copyright? Can you remove my copyrighted materials? Do you have published terms and conditions? What user data do you collect and track? Why don't you register users? What about others altering data? Isn't the existence of this site a shopping list for thieves? What about fake cars based on numbers published here? So, is my car more or less secure being listed on this site? Is the site crawled by search engines? Who runs the site(s)? Is this a commercial enterprise? What's the deal with your "partners"? I'd love to do one of these sites for my own favorite car. Can you help? I have an article I wrote, do you want it? Do I have to own a car to participate? Can I throw some money at you? It's very easy: just have the car number in hand, go to the data page and start from there. Remember, the form is complex but all fields are optional! Just put in what you know. If you get an error message about the car's number being incorrect, you may have a letter instead of a number or vice versa. If you go to the same page mentioned in the previous question and enter the car number, the form will come up pre-populated with the existing data. The site automatically creates a history entry to note changes, which will prevent old information from being lost forever. Go to the Gallery upload page, put in the car number and use the browse buttons to find the photos on your computer. The site will automatically resize images which are too large. Images must be jpegs. Generally, no. We do remove some details of cars from time to time as a courtesy but the fact that the car made it onto the site means that the knowledge of its existence is public information. If the car number was entered in error then we will move the data to the proper location. See the above question...but additionally, we will remove user comments about a specific car if they are either clearly incorrect or abusive. If you are the copyright holder of the original image we will gladly remove the photo if you did not upload it. Car entry information and photos are reviewed by site volunteers before they are posted. This may be minutes later, or it may be a few days. While we do not interpret facts, we do look for inappropriate items. We do not read or edit any text fields, though we may delete information if it is warranted. Note: comments submitted via the form available on most pages of this site are not moderated and appear immediately. Please send the webmaster a note via the link at the bottom of any site page and note the car number and what you feel is incorrect. Email the webmaster with the car id, we'll remove the duplicate(s). There are two ways of doing this: use the search box at the top left of every page, or go to the search page and use the form there. Note that if you check the box under the field for the car number, you can find all of the cars near to that one in the database. Use the same form the above question points to, but only fill out the items in the lower section to locate cars sharing those attributes. If you go to the Gallery, you can use the form there to locate images in the database that share the attributes you select. These sites are very transparent; if an email address has been left by a commenter or the person uploading the car data, their name will be hot and link to the form we provide for email contact. If it does not appear hot, that means they did not leave an address to get in touch and you know as much as we do! We do not store any "secret" data in our database. The site is built in CSS/HTML, which means any "modern" browser will display it correctly. IE6 or 7, Firefox, Safari, etc. will all work well. We unfortunately cannot support older browsers, and if the site looks garbled you may wish to consider upgrading. We do not use any JavaScript or Flash, generally speaking. However, some special features accessed through the "resources" section may utilize either or both of these components, and the store uses some javascript in the books section, as does the "marketplace" feature. Yep. Note that we take efforts to ensure that the owner of cars uploaded to the database are left unknown unless they want to leave that information. We do not formally ask for or have dedicated fields in the database for that information. The rest of the information we keep is largely in the public domain and listing here constitutes "fair use." Copyright is a difficult and misunderstood area of the law. The fields in the "dataplate" consist of numbers or dates which generally cannot be copyrighted in the context in which we are displaying them. Photographs and narratives left in the comments would fall under copyright protections, and we do not want or condone the uploading of copyrighted materials from other sources, online or printed. If someone has uploaded photos without your permission or other material which would be found to be covered by copyright, please send us a note and we will review and remove illegal materials quickly. Yes. They are linked from the bottom of every page. If you use the site frequently, you may wish to occasionally review them to see if any provisions have changed. As long-time open internet advocates, we believe people should be able to use web sites without being relentlessly tracked. Data entry is completely anonymous. We do track IPs for comments and email form use, but only as a weapon in the fight on spam. This is meant to be a resource for everyone to use, not just owners of these cars. We do not have elaborate forums or other areas which would benefit from registered users. We feel very strongly that very little is gained from a security standpoint by requiring registration, as it is very easy to use an anonymizer and a throw-away email address to gain access to most registered sites. We do not have any privileged content to protect, or advertisers to show statistics to. We do not want to arbitrate arguments among registered users over car data or other aspects of the site. We do not want the data on any particular car to "belong" to anyone. Etc., etc. Knock on wood (show tapping of head) we have not suffered through any obvious attempts at manipulating the data on the site. The site records all data changes and displays them, so it is easy to see what the data has been in the past and spot obvious fooling around. In short: No. Frankly, while elderly British machines are valuable cars, there are plenty of them around and they are conspicuous and difficult to get rid of compared to modern cars. While classics are occasionally stolen, most thefts are by local joy-riders or are "crimes of opportunity," as when you leave the car unattended. Keep in mind that a ring of professional thieves can earn far more by stealing late-model commuter cars to be parted out than they can in the time it takes to track down and steal your car. Gone in 60 Seconds is a fun movie but a really unlikely scenario for any sort of successful stolen car operation. What about "fake" cars based on numbers published here? By "fake" cars, we're talking about a car constructed from parts but made to look like a real car via numbers applied to the engine, frame, dataplate, etc. I think the odds are very slim that this would ever happen based on numbers published on this site, for a few reasons: It's dumb. If you were creating a car from scratch, would you choose a car whose numbers were published in a registry, or would you choose a nearby car not covered in the registry, and whose numbers you could easily approximate? There are plenty of legitimate titles "in the wild." Dealers and others have been breaking old cars for years, and many have stacks of valid documents for cars which no longer exist. The type of people with access to the parts necessary to cobble together a "fake" old car also generally know how to make it "legitimate." Very few cars have any special provenance. As special as they are to owners, most production classics have very little in the way of special history or specification...this means no one is probably looking specifically for one particular E-Type or XK, rather they just "want one," perhaps of a specific series but rarely is the search more specific than that. We feel it's more secure, in that a "history" has been created. If your car is green and located in Canada, it sure looks suspicious when a car by the same number is on eBay painted black and located in Europe. Is this site crawled by search engines? Just like the rest of the internet, yes. It might be how you found us in the first place. The man behind the curtain is Roger Los, who lives on Whidbey Island in Washington State. There are also volunteers who help by finding and reviewing data (in no particular order): PaulS, StevenD, DanaB, Jagman, and DaveK. A bit of money comes in via the Cafe Press store, eBay auction links, and sponsors, but much more goes out than comes in (currently it's about 5:1, out:in, with everyone getting paid the same wage, $0). This site is a labor of love. If that changes (either the love part or we're suddenly making a mint), you'll be the first to know as either the site will be replaced with pictures of dogs in costumes (ie, the love has fled) or Roger will find time to add spiffy features, answer email in a semi-timely fashion, and buy the folks who help out on the site a beer (ie, that would be the minting money option--Roger plans on buying a solid gold hat if this happens). What's the deal with your "partners," "friends" or "sponsors"? Any links or logos in the box on the left nav are there because they have helped us out--either by providing promotion, lots of car data, or they are sponsored links. Note, we're not paid for the "friends" links (but visit them anyway!) and the others only kick back cash if you buy something from them after arriving from our site. Probably. The software is relatively robust but not of enterprise quality. It requires customization for each new marque/model added, which means work for Roger. Lazy, lazy Roger. Drop me a line via the webmaster link, and I'd be happy to talk about it. Yes! However, I have yet to update the engine I wrote originally to add articles, so they're a pain in the you-know-what, which may mean it will take awhile for them to appear. Absolutely not! There are many enthusiasts with information about classic cars who don't happen to own one. Feel free to add what you know. Do you want money? What's this eBay stuff? If you'd like to help fund our ambitions to live the life of a "trustafarian," please feel free to donate via the paypal link at page top. Another way to help (if you're an eBay user) is to enter eBay's site via the "on ebay" page as you head off for an evening of bidding on the obscure. To be able to display the searches on the "on eBay" page, we had to sign up as an eBay affiliate. That they return a few cents our way if you bid and buy something on their site (having arrived there via one of the links on our page) is a happy byproduct of having the search widget, but we embrace all happy byproducts. It doesn't cost you any extra fees, and it's a fun way to help keep this site going. © 2002-2020 xj220data.com. All Rights Reserved. Online since Oct. 2009.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line827
__label__wiki	0.515763	0.515763	It was an honor "Saudi Power Struggle Could Destabilize The Entire Middle East": "The increased internal power struggle, in which Mohammed bin Salman and his allies have the upper-hand, doesn’t bode well for the months to come. Stability on political and security levels are only possible if opposition elsewhere is countered. To quell political (or royal) discord, King Salman’s government must continue to push for higher oil prices and revenues. This will present the Kingdom with a major challenge. As prices are still floundering around $50 per barrel, Saudi Arabia will have to use all of its power and international influence to get a grip on volatile oil markets. Riyadh will need a continuous influx of cash to support higher government expenses, subsidies, and salaries while also investing in the ongoing economic diversification projects. An OPEC production cut extension is the only option." "Oil Prices Crash To Pre-OPEC Deal Levels". "Questions for US military after doubt cast on efficiency of Afghan bombing". RIP, 69 trees. "First on CNN: Pentagon investigation: US hit mosque complex in Syria". "What Are They Hiding about the USA Attack on Syria?" (those Russkies are fiendishly clever asking for a full investigation!): "The same day on which the USA launched the attack against Syria, the UN Security Council delayed a vote for a resolution regarding the incident with chemicals in Syria. Three competing plans for a resolution were submitted to the Security Council. The joint resolution put forward by the United Kingdom, the USA and France asked the Syrian authorities to provide the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with all the information regarding the flights of their military air force that took place on the day of the incident, and to allow free access to their military establishments around the specific region where the attack took place. It is worth noticing that the plan of the three does not mention any specific military establishment, despite the fact that the USA announced that they have some precise information that the attack with chemicals was launched from the Shayrat airport, the one that they hit with their Tomahawks. And of course it does not ask for the obvious: to extend the investigation in order to confirm the incident in the area that was hit with the chemicals. Why is that? The plan that Russia proposed asks exactly for this extension. It asked for a complete investigation into the incident to be conducted by UN and OPCW specialists, first and foremost in the area that is claimed to have been hit by chemicals, and it asks for all the participants in the conflict to cooperate. The third plan was proposed by the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council in an attempt to reach a compromise between the differences of the two other plans. In this way, Trump made a unilateral decision to hit Syria without any trace of evidence that the Assad government was responsible for the supposed attack with chemical weapons in the Idlib region. Even more, he took this decision without any kind of international justification from the UN Security Council, not even a resolution with misleading terms, as in the case of Gaddafi’s Libya. Trump invoked as an excuse for the missile attack on Syria the “vital national security and foreign policy interests of the USA,” as he characteristically mentioned in the letter he sent to inform the Congress on the 8th of April. And in order to present himself as legitimate he invoked the authority to start military action based on a common resolution of the Congress and the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148 of 1973), even though this resolution only authorises the president of USA to start military action after an official declaration of war, or in the case of a direct military threat against the integrity of the USA. It is the first time since George Bush – and his ‘coalition of the willing’ – who declared the Third World War, that a president of the USA goes ahead with a military action against a sovereign state in such a shameless manner and lacking any shred of even a pretext of legality, even invoking the ‘vital interests’ of his country, when there is not even a virtual threat against the USA. This has not been officially heard on the international scene since the Hitler era, who entered into the Second World War in order to defend the ‘vital interests’ of his country." "Trump Deletes Tweet Saying It Was 'An Honor' to Meet With Abbas". Mr President, Sheldon on line 1 . . . Comment by dontknowitall at Naked Capitalism (Huma has some kind of protection from a foreign government, probably the Saudis): "The best part was when Comey was asked if Wiener read the emails as he was printing them and Comey says no, he doesn’t think so. How could Wiener even avoid reading them as he was printing and making sure the prints were legible…was he wearing a blindfold?…Did Comey’s investigators take this for truth… The sweet spot was hit when Comey said Abedin did not get charged because there was no evidence she knew the law or had intent. The information security course everyone is required to take at State counted for nothing…and all those whistleblowers who argued they had no intent to spy when they took paperwork home but were sent to jail anyway because a showing of intent was not required were just mistakes…" "Italian Prime Minister Secretly Meets With George Soros In Rome Amid Migrant Transport Scandal". "Greater Albania and the Balkans". The WWIIImongers have so many choices. "President Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election". Vague sourcing, but I'd be shocked if it wasn't true. "The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles": "An electric auto will convert 5-10% of the energy in natural gas into motion. A normal vehicle will convert 20-30% of the energy in gasoline into motion." Paine 2017 Clinton vibe Stroking out Comedy orange Provocative stunts Fo'evah There is no innocent explanation Environmentalism by stupidity With the connivance All the rejects of the political world Apparently a criticism Khan't khount Nutjobistan / Barryopticon Monkeys riding bicycles Demonic forces Netanyahu's face Murderous history By design / subtle move Khoup khure Ny neigh no The Khoup Rich retraction What a real impeachable offence looks like Erdoğan's goons Political suicide Uranium courrier Mosul University Grabher Jehad Fairy tale warnings One missing piece Distrakba The big IC conspiracy theory Propellor on top Falling from balcony This is a very dark and perilous moment Victory means imposing your will on your enemy Insecure voters seeking authenticity Sayanim Club Camp of the sinners Flnely calibrated control #MacronGate Hiding with Lucky #SheBringsPeace Cosmopolitans / problems with the narrative IQ of a houseplant	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line828
__label__cc	0.705345	0.294655	Who Do You Think You Are Magazine Bringing family history to life Join our reader review panel By Matt Elton, 9 June 2011 - 9:01am We're looking for new members of the Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader review panel, offering the chance to share your thoughts about the latest books, data discs and DVDs Wednesday 22 February, 2012 Read more from our news section In every issue of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, we feature reviews of all the latest products available for family historians, from books and research guides to data discs and DVDs. And now we're looking for avid genealogists to join our reader review panel and get the chance to see your review featured in the magazine. Each month we'll send members of the panel an email letting you know about the product that we'd like you to write about. All you have to do is send us a message letting us know why you'd like to review it, and some more information about yourself – the family history research you've done, the particular areas you're interested in, and so on. We'll then choose one reader to write us a short review (240 words) of what you thought of the product and whether it was useful for your research. You don't need to worry too much about literary skill: we're interested in sharing your experiences with our family historians. And, as an added bonus, you get to keep the item you've reviewed! ►To join our reader review panel, simply send an email to Matt Elton at matt.elton@immediate.co.uk, telling us a bit about yourself... Win Yorkshire Family History Fair tickets previous news Article American Civil War records go online next news Article Don't know where to start with your family tree? You're in the right place! Our beginner's guide is the best way to sow the seeds of your research and watch your family tree grow Discover your roots Whether you're looking for ancestors near or far, these companies offer the tools needed to support your family discovery	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line831
__label__cc	0.663255	0.336745	Game Review: M.S. Saga: A New Dawn By Phillip Powers Being a longtime fan of the all the Gundam series and a fan of RPG games, I was excited to find out they made M.S. Saga: A New Dawn, a RPG Gundam game. Developer - Bandai Platform - PlayStation 2 Release date - February 21, 2006 Genre - Role-playing game Mode - Single player The basic story is somewhat the same as most of the Gundam series plots: basically a young man forced to fight in a war using a mobile suit called Gundam. The game’s story starts with a young man named Tristan, after having seen the orphanage where he grew up destroyed before his eyes by a black mobile suit, vows revenge on it. The game includes mobile suits from many of the Gundam universes including the original Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Mobile Suit Double Zeta, and the mobile for the original show character’s counterattack just to name a few. The gameplay is basic RPG style: you wander around a world map from place to place following a story while you randomly get in to fights. The battle system is pretty simple- you have a three-person party in the front row as your main attack force but if you have any people in the back row, then you can switch them in at anytime during battle. As for the fights, it's simple, you have the attack command, the boost command which is basically special attacks, the defend option, a charge option to store up extra energy for use with the boost attacks. The real stars of the game are the mobile suits though. You can modify the mobile suits up to eight times in three categories for a total of twenty-four times in all. Then you can outfit them with a single melee weapon, two handheld ranged weapons, a single shoulder mounted weapon, and if possible two ranged weapons attached to the arms of the mobile suit provided the suits payload space can hold that many. The early weaker suits you will have to find the best payload deployment that suits its best type of offense either melee or ranged. As you get farther in to the game you will gain access to the better suits with bigger payload space to hold more weapons and have better stats. There is a nice amount of extra stuff to do if you want to deviate from the story which is nice, but a lot of it can’t be done until late in the game. However as good as the game is, there are a few bad points to it. First, the max level cap for the characters is only fifty, so it does end up getting tricky towards the end of the game and even the best suits in the game are not really exceptional in the bonus dungeon. In a few of the boss fights, they were able to wipe out my entire party in a single attack. They were using the best suits, all fully modified, and the best weapons in the game so it does require some strategy, but it could have been quite a bit better in the whole modifying the suits department. You can switch out actual parts like the arms or legs and such, but doesn’t make up for the down points of the game. All in all, it’s a decent game I would recommend to fans of the Gundam series. Posted by TW at 2:38 PM Labels: review, RPG, video games XxMarioxX December 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM how to get zeta gundam?? Send in your news items to CortexNS@gmail.com. If you're promoting a con, local club meeting or a story idea, let us know. We'll get the news up as soon as we can. Be sure to put "WCB News Tip" in the subject line! Subscribe To WCB WCB Archive WCB Archive April (10) March (11) February (10) January (7) December (10) November (18) October (5) July (1) December (3) November (2) December (2) November (3) October (1) September (9) April (1) March (3) January (1) December (1) November (2) October (11) September (18) August (13) July (25) June (24) May (44) April (45) March (74) February (58) January (27) December (1) November (1) October (5) August (4) July (12) June (1) April (10) March (24) January (6) November (8) October (16) Copyright 2010 by Cortex News Service. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line832
__label__wiki	0.776749	0.776749	Stardew Valley Multiplayer Marriage Npc Making 'Stardew Valley' Multiplayer Sounds Like a Nightmare The long-awaited multiplayer mode for 'Stardew Valley' is really happening, it's just taking awhile. Simply putting NPC's through seed makers to turn them into crops! Also eating them and throwing them into the water and other fun ideas! Mods like this really open up a lot of new possibilities. 3 update story content, multiplayer functionality not supported. ” CG Magazine Note: Features new 1. Stardew Valley is getting new content, as well as console, Mac, and Linux ports. There are no character traits in Stardew Valley. As far as multiplayer connectivity goes, its not fully supported yet. ) Not only is befriending villagers required for these trophies, it is also necessary to befriend certain people as they will gift you cooking and crafting recipes. Shane and Emily were added as romanceable NPCs as of update 1. Still stuck on who to woo in Stardew Valley? We're here to help, by ranking the marriage candidates, including newcomers Shane and Emily. Multijogador é um modo de jogo opcional no qual 1 a 4 jogadores podem jogar no mesmo mundo pela rede de área local [1] ou pela internet. Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Befriended villagers may also send you gifts in the mail. It’s not. Divorces in Stardew Valley Are Soul-Destroying After creating a beautiful life for you and your family in Stardew Valley, you can end it all with a lump sum of gold. But the valley seems full of opportunity. 3 (Multiplayer Update) is now available! Aug 1, 2018 - Community Announcements Stardew Valley adding multiplayer on August 1st Jul 20, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Stardew Valley multiplayer will officially launch in August Jul 20, 2018 - PC Gamer Stardew Valley's big multiplayer update has a final release date Jul 20, 2018. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. First up, an overarching list of major updates for the game was outlined: Version 1. You’ll never miss a birthday again! Make sure to give them something nice on their special day to improve your relationship with them. The new co-operative. Stardew Valley Game Guide Free Download PDF. " Use the TAB to open the mod menu. Multiplayer Marriage on top of the standard NPC romances. He's focusing on Version. There’s still work to be done, but they expect to roll out the multiplayer into beta testing by the end of the year. The blog post on the official Stardew Valley website can be found here, it includes all instructions on how to beta test the long awaited Stardew Valley Multiplayer Update. Stardew Valley is a farming simulator game with RPG elements created by ConcemedApe game studio. NPC Map Locations mod download One of the most daunting tasks in Stardew Valley is having to deal with birthdays. currently in Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley's multiplayer won't be out until early next year. Stardew Valley offers some cool perks depending on what you choose to do with your time in game – be it bonuses from your profession(s) of choice, bundle rewards from Junimos, or even just some. A searchable Stardew Valley Item ID List, with all Stardew Valley cheats for the latest version of the game on PC/Mac (Steam), XBOX One, PS4 and the Nintendo Switch. 2 is now live on Xbox One + Playstation 4! With this update, Stardew Valley is now available to play in seven different languages; English, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian-Portuguese!. Once you do, this. Stardew Valley 1. Starbound 1 - 16 of stardew valley new mods low to 1790, we'll post the largest selection of them. All Discussions Multiplayer marriage Does anyone know how marriage works in co-op? if we both have a different npc what will happen, will both of. Stardew Valley. You can craft this using the following. That means I will now have full responsibility for any and all matters concerning Stardew Valley on the Switch, so if you have any comments or inquiries about the Switch version please send them directly to me. If you've been calming your farm for some co-op Stardew Valley, relax. We got a little bit of info from an interview on what the next Stardew Valley update will really be and in ConcernedApe’s own words, 1. Let’s face it, no one likes wandering around Pelican Town looking for a specific villager to get a quest or give them a gift. For Stardew Valley on the PC, GameFAQs presents a message board for game discussion and help. In a new interview with USgamer, Barone outlined precisely why. (Multiplayer isn't supported on mobile, and will be …. Stardew Valley (c) ConcernedApe. Stardew Valley is getting new content, as well as console, Mac, and Linux ports. some more character events for non-marriage NPC's more bug fixes??? When will this be released? I'm not sure. Before proposing marriage, you need to earn 10 hearts of friendship with your intended partner, which requires you to give them a bouquet. Not as often as before, but part-time!. 1 update is almost here. Shortly after you begin the game, Robin will offer to build up to 3 cabins on your farm. In Stardew Valley, the player takes the role of a character who, to get away from the hustle of an office job, takes over their grandfather's dilapidated farm in a place known as Stardew Valley. Chucklefish provided the latest information about the Stardew Valley content update and multiplayer. 1 edition thus far. When playing with others, Stardew Valley will support online voice chat as well as a new chat box feature that has colored text and close to 200 custom emojis. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Stardew Valley Multiplayer Mode Outlined. Look through Stardew Valley Characters mods free files and check what is new there. We got a little bit of info from an interview on what the next Stardew Valley update will really be and in ConcernedApe’s own words, 1. According to the developers, most of it is completely done. No in-app purchases. You can take the beta for a spin right now, if you’re willing to dirty your precious farming hands with a handful of bugs. Villagers are characters in Stardew Valley. Each one houses a farmhand. One of Stardew Valley's first quests sends you out on a mission to meet everyone in town. " CG Magazine Note: Features new 1. Originally a solo project that took four years of development, Stardew Valley later received numerous post-release updates with assistance by both Chucklefish and Playism (for localization). This leads to Calico Desert and a new NPC named Sandy. 3 (Multiplayer Update) is now available! This update is a significant change for Stardew Valley… Not only does it include a good amount of new content (new items, events, etc. No in-app purchases. Stardew Valley complete download + multiplayer. Stardew Valley’s multiplayer update remains in the works, but developer Chucklefish is finally ready to start detailing what players should expect from the new mode. Friendships and marriage are a big part of Stardew Valley. He is the son of Jodi and Kent. Stardew Valley is a very personal experience, and having direct communication and coordination with your farmhands is what I've envisioned, not only for PC multiplayer, but on the Switch as well. Jas Marriage Mod. Main Page - Mod Master List. It’s no wonder, then, that Stardew Valley fans have been clamouring for a multiplayer mode ever since the smash-hit farming RPG launched back in February 2016. Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. Variant Anime Portraits Mod edit sprite of all character in Stardew Valley. In Stardew Valley, the player takes the role of a character who, to get away from the hustle of an office job, takes over their grandfather's dilapidated farm in a place known as Stardew Valley. It was supposed to be sorted in the last patch, but my farm is so laggy. Most of them will be found around town, although the odd person will be a bit tougher to track down. The update for one of the best game from 2016 Stardew Valley is on its way, and will be ready soon. This game is perfect for multiplayer as there is a lots of stuff to do. As noted by creator Eric Barone, this update will eventually. Stardew Valley offers some cool perks depending on what you choose to do with your time in game – be it bonuses from your profession(s) of choice, bundle rewards from Junimos, or even just some. Stardew Valley multiplayer: Tips for farming together. The announcement came in a Developer Blog from the game’s creator. Following February's word that it was entering testing, Barone last night offered the update: "still making good. 3 will be live on December 12. The full post on multiplayer in Stardew Valley is below. HeartLevelCustomText - A bit of flavour text that describes your heart level with the NPC. Stardew Valley’s multiplayer is “coming along great” By Alice O'Connor • 2 years ago • 10. Stardew Valley Game Guide Free Download PDF. 250 Gold if you catch it. You can check out the full details on the future of Stardew Valley from the game’s official website by clicking right here. Da Stardew Valley Wiki. ), but it also includes the long-awaited addition of co-op multiplayer!. Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has mentioned that a co-op multiplayer mode is on the way, along with ports for the Mac, Linux, and consoles. Stardew Valley is a farming simulation role-playing video game developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone and originally published by Chucklefish. Still stuck on who to woo in Stardew Valley? We're here to help, by ranking the marriage candidates, including newcomers Shane and Emily. The latest Tweets from ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe). The full post on multiplayer in Stardew Valley is below. As developer Chucklefish posted on the game's official website, next patch of Stardew Valley has a couple of improvements and nice additions to it, including multiplayer mode. With a lot of specific dialogue, a. have released some new details for the highly-anticipated multiplayer feature coming to Stardew Valley. It’s not apparent at first — when I started my farm, I planned each tile for maximum. It won't show the two universal loved items. Villagers the player can give gifts to and befriend, but cannot marry. Once you do, this. Stardew Valley offers up some of the finest farming sim action you could possibly ask for right now, and it feels right at home on the. 4 is coming to PC and console, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has revealed. No in-app purchases. Stardew Valley complete download + multiplayer. It's a full replacement for the existing marriage system. Stardew Planner This excellent tool helps you to plan out your farm easily and make it possible to test different layouts with ease. The Stardew Valley Multiplayer patch will allow players to get married to another real player. The indie game has experienced new life thanks to its multiplayer update, currently only available on Steam, but it is. 스타듀 밸리 위키에서 자세한 설치 방법과 기초적인 모딩 방법을 안내하고 있다. After the Marriage Ceremony is complete, your new partner will move into your. Stardew valley multiplayer update starts to the 2016 farming/dating/life sim, to is an online petitioning site that is an advanced guide you can get it. Clint will run his shop, Gus will tend the bar, Lewis will check on businesses, Marnie will run the animal shop, Pam will drive the bus, and Willy will run the fishing shop. Sam is one of the 12 people in Stardew Valley who are eligible for romance as well as marriage. I'm working on some new Stardew Valley content, to be released with the upcoming free multiplayer update. Download this mod from the files tab and unzip it into your Stardew Valley/Mods folder; Run the game using SMAPI; Compatability: Works on Windows 10, SDV version 1. Stardew Valley 1. It was announced long before the game even released. Villagers are characters in Stardew Valley. Before proposing marriage, you need to earn 10 hearts of friendship with your intended partner, which requires you to give them a bouquet. Stardew Valley Multiplayer. Description: Shows NPC locations and real-time positions on the map. She likes to workout at Pierre’s General Store with Robin, Caroline, Emily, and Jodi. In a new interview with USgamer, Barone outlined precisely why. "Stardew Valley has been the most rich and heartwarming experience I've had in a game in years. At least one section titled "A Guide to Wooing and Marriage". In latest news from " Stardew Valley " developers, they have confirmed that the multiplayer mode for the game is very much underway. One player can go to the mines and all the way down to lv 120 while the other player stays on the farm and waters the plants. Multiplayer Marriage: Has anyone managed. Before proposing marriage, you need to earn 10 hearts of amitié with your intended partner, which requires you to give them a bouquet. Stardew Valley captivated audiences when it released on PC last year, letting players farm, mine, and become part of a relaxing Harvest Moon-like community. bwdy's mod lets you marry every single eligible NPC in the game. I haven't tested it on Mac, Linux, or Ubuntu so let me know if it isn't working for you on one of those OS' and I'll mess around with the build settings. The multiplayer update for Stardew Valley has finally made it through certification and on to our consoles. A player can recruit up to three friends as farmhands, who work for the host player, or as farmers themselves. Stardew Valley got an update about 2 months ago that allows you to invite friends into your game. Chat box & Custom Emojis - Communicate using the new chat box feature with coloured text and nearly 200 custom Stardew Valley emojis. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin. Stardew Valley multiplayer is in QA and bugs are being fixed at a very good pace! — ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) March 13, 2018 Update 1. Stardew Valley Gifts Guide: Marnie Edition. Learn more about this feature on the 1Stardew Valley Marriage Guide. Google Document: https://goo. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. Stardew Valley 1. NPC Map Locations is a mod Stardew Valley, created by Bouhm. FREE GOG PC GAMES PRESENTS. ” CG Magazine --- Note: Features new 1. Last week, Chucklefish shared some more details about the multiplayer features for Stardew Valley, which is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year. Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone calls the next update to the game, which will bring it up to version 1. more NPC events and outdoor items, Stardew Valley is available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Shows NPC locations on map. This useful mod will display every villager for you on your game map as they move in. If it's from a mechanical perspective, then right now there's no difference—all spouses provide basically the same game effect (occasional chore-assistance). But the valley seems full of opportunity. Most of them will be found around town, although the odd person will be a bit tougher to track down. Chucklefish are chipping in with multiplayer and expect it'll be ready to launch properly in "early 2018". Eric Barone, Stardew Valley's creator, announced on Twitter early. Multiplayer ist ein optionaler Spielmodus in dem 1 - 4 Spieler über LAN oder Internet in der gleichen Welt spielen können. Since Stardew Valley doesn't have official mod support on Steam yet, installing and removing them can pose a challenge for some players. Leaderboard Guides Discord Streams Resources Forum Statistics Sub-games. Among Stardew Valley's long list of features is marriage. The post also touches on inter-player marriage and expanded festivals, both of which are said to be coming along. A Switch Stardew Valley Tribute designed by Ann-Sophie De Steur. Stardew Valley 1. Sam is one of the 12 people in Stardew Valley who are eligible for romance as well as marriage. Now that Stardew Valley's official multiplayer support is out. Stardew Valley Walkthrough. Stardew Valley’s multiplayer update remains in the works, but developer Chucklefish is finally ready to start detailing what players should expect from the new mode. You can sleep in the same bed, confirmed this today, you have a shared balance, your inventories are seperate for a REASON, a very logical reason, inventory=/= Equipment, you can't buy one backpack expecting to get it for both people because it's 'one' backpack, use logic, it's simple. 5 datable datable: Whether the NPC is datable or non-datable. " Use the TAB to open the mod menu. Read More. Chat box & Custom Emojis - Communicate using the new chat box feature with coloured text and nearly 200 custom Stardew Valley emojis. The developer of Stardew Valley releases a progress update on the next version of the game, along with the future of co-op multiplayer and eventual console ports. The most important things to remember in Stardew Valley multiplayer are what you share with your friends and what you don't share. Rather than using the mermaid pendant, "an alternative method that requires a similar amount of effort to wooing an NPC" is planned instead. Compatibility with Stardew Valley Expanded (and other mods that add custom locations) Stardew Valley Expanded adds new locations like BlueMoonVineyard. Stardew Valley is a farming simulation role-playing video game developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone and originally published by Chucklefish. Vai a Each NPC can. For marriage between players in a Multiplayer game, see Multigiocatore e Fede nuziale. Stardew Valley Hardcover 2nd Edition Guidebook. She is a refugee from the war, currently sleeps on Emily's couch. I suppose that depends on what your definition of "Best to marry" is. Stardew Valley multiplayer: Tips for farming together. Seeing as. Which is great, because we really dig the game. By adding multiplayer “Stardew Valley,” the game is set to surpass the “Harvest Moon” series that inspired it and take on games like “Don’t Starve Together” and “Minecraft” in. Stardew Valley Multiplayer. Make sure to download these best mods for Stardew Valley from June 2019, including some new animals, a new NPC, and marriage perks for picking your spouse. 2 to share it with you now. NPC Name - Self explanatory, it's who you're currently hovering over :p. However, with a small development team — it was a one-man team before the success of the game allowed ConcernedApe to hire help — these additions take serious time. Fully unique post-marriage dialogue, just like the original marriage candidates. Multiplayer Marriage on top of the standard NPC romances. Like playing Terraria or Starbound, having friends in the flesh is my favorite way to play, and I’m sure that I’m not alone. Ehepartner haben jetzt einzigartige Dialoge während Festen (meistens), anstatt der generischen handvoll an Dialogen. Stardew publishers Chucklefish, who also make Starbound, are pitching in to help with Stardew Valley's co-op and Mac and Linux versions while creator ConcernedApe works on new content. New Details for Stardew Valley’s Multiplayer, Including Player-to-Player Marriage. r/StardewValley: Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG, with support for players (multiplayer on and Xbox will be added in Post with 0 votes and 67747 views. She likes to workout at Pierre’s General Store with Robin, Caroline, Emily, and Jodi. It was a little like doing your first couple’s trip to Ikea. Add Custom NPCs using json csv/tsv and png files. There are 10 potential partners in Stardew Valley that you can marry. This affects dialogue, whether children in marriage are obtained through adoption or pregnancy, and the reserved frames' positions on the spritesheet. Breathe new life into the valley. Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley's console multiplayer update is coming just after "a few fixes. Added Mac OSX and Linux compatibility. Stardew Valley has been announced to be coming to consoles one day, although what consoles and the release date was not revealed in the announcement. Developer Chucklefish recognized that, and announced that it was working on a patch to incorporate multiplayer into the experience. Starbound 4,484; Shows NPC locations on map. Stardew Valley Multiplayer Update Coming To PC In August - GS News Update. Same-sex marriage is available. Popular farming sim and Harvest Moon clone Stardew Valley has finally added the multiplayer mod. Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone calls the next update to the game, which will bring it up to version 1. New "Progression" Mode. Stardew Valley 2016. 5 datable datable: Whether the NPC is datable or non-datable. That’s everything you need to know about marriage in Stardew Valley. In the game, you can experience developing of your farm, exploration of the large open world, meeting friends in multiplayer, making in-game relationships, and many other activities. json; HeartLevel - Your current heart-meter level with the NPC. The developer took to their blog recently to outline their plans for multiplayer in the game, which includes a beta test in the near future. Nintendo is the first console that gets multiplayer mode. 3 update story content, multiplayer functionality not supported. It is one of the top rated game. Stardew Valley, the popular farming-sim RPG is getting a multiplayer component added to the game in 2018. Chests will help you in stocking random as well as off-season items obtained from traveling merchants and worms. (Photo: Multiplayer Screenshot) There's even less of a reason now not to check out the instantly popular game Stardew Valley. You can edit the different levels quite easily within >Stardew Valley>Mods>RelationshipTooltips>config. Let’s face it, no one likes wandering around Pelican Town looking for a specific villager to get a quest or give them a gift. Sep 16, 2019- Explore celestinalynch4's board "Stardew Valley" on Pinterest. Almost every NPC in the game appears on this menu (there are a few, like Marlon and Gunther, who do not) and all of them have a similar layout, consisting of the following:. For example, Adventurer's Guild newsletter features kill counts on monsters based on season, while the Dairy Council provides milk, cheese and eggs production. It shows you where all NPCs are on the map in real time. Q uirky and popular farm sim RPG Stardew Valley from Chucklefish is getting its multiplayer mode in early 2018, and the developer has finally shed light on what to expect. To marry someone, you will need to raise their friendship level to 10, as well as have given them a bouquet (which can be bought at Pierre's store). This mod adds in pretty much anything you can think of to make the game easier (and a little cheat-y, but heysometimes you just need a break, being a farmer is hard!). Originally a solo project that took four years of development, Stardew Valley later received numerous post-release updates with assistance by both Chucklefish and Playism (for localization). Stardew Valley offers some cool perks depending on what you choose to do with your time in game – be it bonuses from your profession(s) of choice, bundle rewards from Junimos, or even just some. 1 of the farming game, and that this one will be a “substantial content upgrade”. But the other players can then follow them to the other zones. NPC Name - Self explanatory, it's who you're currently hovering over :p. Shows NPC locations on map. In Stardew Valley, the player takes the role of a character who, to get away from the hustle of an office job, takes over their grandfather's dilapidated farm in a place known as Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley (c) ConcernedApe. Courtesy of a post on the Stardew Valley Blog it was outlined that players will be able to build up to three cabins on their farm for “farmhands”. One player can go to the mines and all the way down to lv 120 while the other player stays on the farm and waters the plants. I sat down with Compete’s Maddy Myers and my boy Chris Person to play some nice, relaxing Stardew Valley multiplayer. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. Befriended villagers may also send you gifts in the mail. Stardew Valley creator reveals new story and feature additions for 2018 new NPC events, new outdoor There's no release date for Stardew Valley's major new story and multiplayer update yet. New Details for Stardew Valley’s Multiplayer, Including Player-to-Player Marriage. Mod Request Jodi - posted in General Stardew Valley Discussion: Hello my brothers and sisters of the nexus, I come to you with a heavy heart I have a selfish request that i can no longer hold in, I have been to end of the interweb for such a thing, and ales i come back with empty wishes. No in-app purchases. Stardew Valley offers up some of the finest farming sim action you could possibly ask for right now, and it feels right at home on the. Stardew Valley is a farming simulation role-playing video game developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone and originally published by Chucklefish. Stardew Valley. Everybody can go to different zones alone without dragging other players. Multiplayer Marriage on top of the standard NPC romances. Marnie also has other friends. 3 (Multiplayer Update) is now available! This update is a significant change for Stardew Valley… Not only does it include a good amount of new content (new items, events, etc. Stardew Valley is getting co-op, console versions, and a new content update. 3 will be live on December 12. But one of the biggest features coming to the. Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. This toggles the romance features (e. Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Villagers the player can give gifts to, befriend, and marry. I hope the lag that was introduced with the multiplayer update is fixed. Stardew Valley Walkthrough. 07a was released on 29 July 2016. Most of them will be found around town, although the odd person will be a bit tougher to track down. Still stuck on who to woo in Stardew Valley? We're here to help, by ranking the marriage candidates, including newcomers Shane and Emily. com This Stardew Valley mod add perks based on the NPC you marry. Pookachus Multiplayer Farms Riverland. Add a json file with the name of the NPC inside it, that links to the tsv/csv files inside the folder. Multiplayer mode is finally coming to Stardew Valley on the Nintendo Switch via a new update coming Wednesday 12th December. Uses a more accurate map page for more accurate tracking! Stardew Valley Save Editor Shane post-marriage Flower Dance dialogue. Farming life sim Stardew Valley's long-awaited multiplayer update is now available to download on Steam, albeit only in public beta form for the time being. Simply putting NPC's through seed makers to turn them into crops! Also eating them and throwing them into the water and other fun ideas! Mods like this really open up a lot of new possibilities. Stardew Valley, 2016’s indie darling, is the gift that keeps on giving. Multiplayer Marriage on top of the standard NPC romances. Home / Stardew Valley Character & Portrait Mods \| Stardew Valley Hub. Everybody can go to different zones alone without dragging other players. He wanted to be a soccer player (Yes, yes, I know he takes you to a gridball game, but he has a soccer ball in his room and before the gridball event was added, there was the assumption that the shirt he wears is a soccer shirt), and he lived in the city, so he must have had a. No in-app purchases. Be the one who is one step forward and can forecast in the best way. Keeping one of everything is an easy way to fulfill NPC quests. Creature Keeper brings together the best of Zelda and Stardew Valley; Stardew Valley 1. Players could all pitch in to help out on the farm, or just let one person do the farming while everyone else went to go mining or fishing or to learn magic from a traveling wizard. Stardew Valley’s multiplayer update remains in the works, but developer Chucklefish is finally ready to start detailing what players should expect from the new mode. Pookachus Multiplayer Farms Riverland. Stardew Valley is set to receive a lot more features, such as multiplayer, localisation and even a console version of the game. For Stardew Valley on the Nintendo Switch, GameFAQs presents a message board for game discussion and help - Page 3. NPC Map Locations is a mod Stardew Valley, created by Bouhm. Romanceable NPCs. Stardew Valley became a hit game and sold more copies than anyone thought or predicted. It shows you where all NPCs are on the map in real time. How to Play Stardew Valley Multiplayer. It is one of the top rated game. Stardew Valley is the best harvest moon we never got, with the amount of depth, costomization, exploration and writing and considering this game was made by one single man. "Stardew Valley has been the most rich and heartwarming experience I've had in a game in years. Making 'Stardew Valley' Multiplayer Sounds Like a Nightmare The long-awaited multiplayer mode for 'Stardew Valley' is really happening, it's just taking awhile. It'll have player-to-player marriage. Stardew Valley’s latest version is now available in beta, and fans of the farming simulator have found a lot to like about the 1. Download Gift of Gab - Marriage Candidate Edition More Stardew Valley Mods For those Stardew Valley veterans who feel like they've heard everything the characters in the game have said, this mod adds hundreds of new lines of dialogue. It won't be easy. Also works with multiplayer, since farm name is same for all players. Coxon explains that player-to-player marriage will "require a similar amount of effort to wooing an NPC," but that the team is still ironing out the details of how player marriages will work. "Stardew Valley multiplayer is in QA and bugs are being fixed at a very good pace!". Whether the NPC is male or female. r/StardewValley: Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG with support for 1–4 players. I'm working on some new Stardew Valley content, to be released with the upcoming free multiplayer update. Categories. Stardew Valley is a farming simulation role-playing video game developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone and originally published by Chucklefish. Which is great, because we really dig the game. Stardew Valley developer concernedape has released the planned 1. NPC Map Locations is a mod Stardew Valley, created by Bouhm. Google Document: https://goo. In an interview with USGamer. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin. Stardew Valley Gifts Guide: Marnie Edition. For Stardew Valley on the PC, GameFAQs presents a message board for game discussion and help. I sat down with Compete’s Maddy Myers and my boy Chris Person to play some nice, relaxing Stardew Valley multiplayer. Be the one who is one step forward and can forecast in the best way. Rather than using the mermaid pendant, "an alternative method that requires a similar amount of effort to wooing an NPC" is planned instead. My favorite thing about Stardew Valley is not just that there’s a lot to see and do, but that it’s (almost) all intertwined. You can edit the different levels quite easily within >Stardew Valley>Mods>RelationshipTooltips>config. r/StardewValley: Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG, with support for 1–4 players (multiplayer on PS4 and Xbox will be added in 2019). He’s focusing on Version. O jogador pode também interagir com personagens não-jogáveis (NPC) que habitam a cidade, incluindo a possibilidade de entrar em relacionamentos com estes personagens; isto pode levar a casamento, que leva o NPC a ajudar o jogador a cuidar da fazenda. She is a refugee from the war, currently sleeps on Emily's couch. We got a little bit of info from an interview on what the next Stardew Valley update will really be and in ConcernedApe’s own words, 1. The first green sprouts of multiplayer should push up into cutesy farm life RPG Stardew Valley [official site] at the end of this year, publishers Chucklefish have announced. It's no secret co-op multiplayer is eventually coming to Stardew Valley. ConcernedApe explained his plans for Stardew Valley in a blog post over the weekend. 3 will implement multiplayer features along with a few. A Stardew Valley modder has finally made those dreams come true.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line836
__label__cc	0.689686	0.310314	Wyoming High Schools Debut New Sport, Clay Target Shooting Rick Roddam Ryan Pierse, Getty Images The first ever Wyoming State High School Clay Target League is underway with 40 students competing to be the top shot in the Cowboy State. The inaugural season will include teams from four high schools; Hulett, Sundance, Upton, and Wheatland. League President John Nelson hopes that more students and schools will join them in the coming years. “We are thrilled to expand our program to schools and athletes across the state," Nelson told Big Horn Radio Network. "The demand for alternative high school activities related to the state’s longstanding outdoor traditions has never been higher." Nelson helped organize the co-ed league in compliance with the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association and federal Title IX regulations. Students are required to attend a firearms safety course and coaches must complete a leadership and safety certification program in order to participate. The WSHSCL will host their first state tournament in June. Filed Under: Wyoming	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line838
__label__wiki	0.868871	0.868871	With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope and her team face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape. Actor: Jon Morrison Season 1 - Vera 1 "Hidden Depths" "After two young people are killed in the same way - placed in water and surrounded by flowers - DCI Vera Stanhope knows that she must catch the murderer before they strike again. Aided by her team, especially her trusted right-hand man Sgt Joe Ashworth, she unpicks the complex and dysfunctional relationships amongst a group of bird-watching friends. As the friends' loyalty turns to betrayal, Vera finds that a small act of teenage blackmail and an illicit affair may have driven someone to kill." 2 "Telling Tales" "After Jeanie Long commits suicide, evidence comes to light exonerating her for the murder of teenager Abigail Mantel 11 years earlier. DCI Vera Stanhope and her team set out to retrospectively solve the killing, delving into the secrets and lies of a small community which still feels the repercussions of Abigail's death. Then the case takes an violent and unexpected turn - can Vera use her skill and instinct to find the truth and lay ghosts to rest?" 3 "The Crow Trap" "When a woman is murdered in the remote Northumbrian countryside, DCI Vera Stanhope is led back to a place from her past. As she and her team investigate, they uncover shadowy liaisons, conflicting sympathies and hidden injustices." 4 "Little Lazarus" "Last in the series of the detective drama based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. DI Vera Stanhope rescues a young boy from a freezing pond after he escapes from a violent attack which left his mother dead. As Vera and her team investigate what happened to the child, they unravel a web of deadly secrets and discover a murderous sequence of events set in motion by power, money and a mother's love. Although she is usually awkward and uninterested around children, Vera finds a kindred spirit in the boy, and begins to realise that the key to the investigation may lie hidden in his memory." 1 "The Ghost Position" "Vera's reunion with her first-ever sergeant, Stuart Macken, occurs under tragic circumstances when his house is petrol-bombed. Stuart is badly burned by the attack and his 18-year-old daughter Stella is left fighting for her life in intensive care. Vera is shocked to see that Stuart is a shadow of the man she knew 20 years before and, when her investigation uncovers unpleasant revelations about his personal life, she is faced with some long-buried memories of her own." 2 "Silent Voices" "Vera investigates the case of a murdered social worked named Jenny Lister, who was universally considered to have been principled and popular. However, in an overworked and understaffed social work system, a notorious case involving the death of a child seems to hold the key to solving the killing. As Vera pursues the truth, she discovers the real secret at the heart of Jenny's death - and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it hidden" 3 "Sandancers" "DCI Vera Stanhope and DS Joe Ashworth investigate a suspicious death in an army barracks. Although the scene has been made to look like a suicide, Vera quickly establishes that Staff Sgt 'Dev' Deverson was murdered. Sensing a connection to a soldier named Ollie who was killed in Afghanistan, Vera interviews Dev's loyal comrades and Ollie's grieving family, exposing a deeply concealed trauma at the heart of the crime." 4 "A Certain Samaritan" "Last in series. DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of 29-year-old Niall Coulter. With those closest to Niall intent upon obscuring the truth, it is not until the body of a drug dealer is found washed up on a Northumberland beach that the dreadful truth begins to emerge about Niall's past. While coping with revelations from her own past, Vera sifts through evidence of the grief, love and addiction that characterised Niall's life and deduces that his murderer acted through selfless and unrequited love." 1 "Castles in the Air" "DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the brutal murder of a young physiotherapist gunned down at a luxury country retreat." 2 "Poster Child" "DCI Vera Stanhope and her team must race against time to track down the killer of a respected surgeon and save his abducted teenage daughters." 3 "Young Gods" "DCI Vera Stanhope delves into the tangled past of extreme sports fanatic, Gideon Frane, when he plunges from a Northumberland cliff top in a ball of flames." 4 "Prodigal Son" "Vera and her team investigate the fatal stabbing of an ex-Met police officer outside a busy Newcastle nightclub." 1 "On Harbour Street" "Investigating a mysterious death, DCI Vera Stanhope finds herself in a quiet coastal town with clues that keep revolving around one street." 2 "Protected" "Vera unearths a 30-year-old mystery when the son of a prominent local family is found brutally murdered on the sands of a seaside resort." 3 "The Deer Hunters" "When a suspected poacher is found dead from a gunshot wound, Vera must unearth the real truth behind his return to the Northumberland moors." 4 "Death of a Family Man" "DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the mysterious death of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge." 1 "Changing Tides" "Vera takes a look into a suspicious fire that rips through a holiday park on the Northumberland coast. Three cabins are destroyed and the body of a woman is discovered inside inside one of them." 2 "Old Wounds" "Following the discovery of the remains of a teenage girl half-buried in a Northumberland wood, Vera and her team end up looking into a thirty-year old mystery." 3 "Muddy Waters" "Vera investigates the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm." 4 "Shadows in the Sky" "A dock worker plunges from the roof of a multistory car park whilst picking up daughter from her school prom and everything points to foul play." 1 "Dark Road" "The body of a woman is found on the bleak Northumberland moors." 2 "Tuesday's Child" "The detective investigates the discovery of a young man's body in an area notorious for illicit teenage gatherings, the corpse wrapped in plastic sheeting and having received a blow to the head." 3 "The Moth Catcher" "DCI Stanhope and her team, including new recruit DC Hicham Cherradi, travel to a remote country house when the woman looking after it is killed." 4 "The Sea Glass" "A fisherman's body is found tangled up in a North Sea trawler's net. Vera and her team investigate with the help of the local harbourmaster" 1 "Natural Selection" "CI Vera Stanhope is drawn into a suspicious death on Ternstone, a remote and inaccessible island off the coast of Northumberland, home only to numerous species of birds and the rangers who observe them. The last thing anyone expected to see was a body, cruelly washed up on the shore." 2 "Dark Angel" 3 "Broken Promise" 4 "The Blanket Mire" "When the body of a missing teenager is discovered buried on the moors, Vera is forced to delve into the life and the secrets of the victim." 1 "Blood and Bone" "DCI Vera Stanhope is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator. With limited forensic evidence, she is disturbed to identify the body as DC Harry Fenton, a respected police officer from the Northumberland & City Fraud Unit." 2 "Black Ice" "When a seemingly beloved resident of a coastal community is fatally driven off the road, DCI Vera digs up the victim's past in the hope of unmasking the killer." 3 "Home" "Quiet life in suburbia takes a dark turn when a woman is is discovered murdered, found lying dead in her back garden. When DCI Vera Stanhope discovers that the neighbours aren\u2019t all that they seem, buried secrets must be unearthed in order to catch the killer." 4 "Darkwater" "Vera is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of teenager Ethan Dewley is found floating in a reservoir in a remote rural town, DCI Vera Stanhope must scrutinise the fractured relationships of the surrounding community to find his killer." 1 "Blind Spot" "DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of a trainee forensic psychologist found dead on a Northumberland landfill site." 2 "Cuckoo" "Vera is confronted with the tragic scene of a teenage boy's murder. His body is found in a shipyard in the sleepy coastal town of Peyton-by-the-Sea. As he isn't recognised locally, it's not immediately apparent who he is. Eventually, Missing Persons records reveal that troubled Caden Lennon had absconded from the care of his support worker six weeks previously.\n\nWith few leads thrown up by the Newcastle estate where Caden came from, Vera looks to the Peyton locals to throw some light on the investigation. Beneath the quaint facade she discovers that there is a growing drugs problem. But, with local dealer Tony Briggs now apparently going straight, it's not clear why. Vera begins to question whether Caden's connections to Newcastle and Peyton run deeper, and whether the lack of leads points to a ring of silence with darker forces at play. Vera must uncover the missing link to find Caden's ruthless killer.Vera is confronted with the tragic scene of a teenage boy's murder. His body is found in a shipyard in the sleepy coastal town of Peyton-by-the-Sea. As he isn't recognised locally, it's not immediately apparent who he is. Eventually, Missing Persons records reveal that troubled Caden Lennon had absconded from the care of his support worker six weeks previously.\n\nWith few leads thrown up by the Newcastle estate where Caden came from, Vera looks to the Peyton locals to throw some light on the investigation. Beneath the quaint facade she discovers that there is a growing drugs problem. But, with local dealer Tony Briggs now apparently going straight, it's not clear why. Vera begins to question whether Caden's connections to Newcastle and Peyton run deeper, and whether the lack of leads points to a ring of silence with darker forces at play. Vera must uncover the missing link to find Caden's ruthless killer." 3 "Cold River" "Successful business-woman Lisa Varsey throws a lavish boat party for her family and friends on the River Tyne. But it goes horribly wrong when her sister Dani is found dead in the water. Lisa has an empire of beauty salons in Newcastle and a caring family in husband, Ross, and sister Sadie. At first the family believe that Dani\u2019s death was an accident but DCI Vera Stanhope and pathologist Malcolm Donahue (Paul Kaye) know that the forensics point to murder.\n\nVera and the team alight on concerning rumours that Dani could have been in an abusive relationship and questions whether this could have led to her death. But, the investigation takes a turn when evidence points to the fact that something was rotten in another area of Dani\u2019s life. Vera begins to believe that Dani was going to expose an unpalatable truth. Vera must unpick the tightly-woven threads that hold the family together to discover who killed an innocent woman." 4 "The Seagull" "DCI Stanhope must open up a familiar cold case to find the connection with a present-day murder." Season 10 - Vera Little Women: LA The Wives Did It Dirty Rotten Survival Police Ten 7 Canada's Worst Driver Deadliest Job Interview Trailer: Vera	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line840
__label__wiki	0.600159	0.600159	Portuguese, GuineaBissau DIE HERAUSFORDERUNG DAS PRODUKT \| SANI SOLAR Projekt Soweto In collaboration with Bete Yisrael International Organization(BYIO) 58 families have been identified and earmarked to receive Sani Solar sanitation units in a semi urban settlement called Mofolo in Soweto Johannesburg, South Africa, The residents of Mofolo are in urgent need of sanitation and BYIO decided to fund and implement a sustainable solution to that problem in form of Sani Solar technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgJvYFBWatI Youngest member of the beneficiary family. Projekt São Domingus, Bahia, Brazil At the end of May a SANI SOLAR system was installed at the local community of São Domingus in the Brazilian State of Bahia. The installation was realized by our partner ECCO in the context of a collaboration project with associations of local communities of Bahia in which five more Sani Solar systems will be installed during the next month. Members of the beneficiary family together with a representative of local community of São Domingus. Exhibition DIHAD at Dubai From 21st to 23rd of March SANI SOLAR was presented at The Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition (DIHAD). During the event, patronised by of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, many contacts could be established to companies, organizations and thought-leaders within the global Humanitarian Aid and Development sector. SANI SOLAR was presented at The Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition. The 14th edition of DIHAD was supported by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment, the United Nations, the UAE Red Crescent Authority, International Humanitarian City, Dubai Cares and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The SANI SOLAR system is being used by all members of one family, three of them shown in the picture above (in the middle) together with the staff of 3P partner company ECCO. After an intensive testing period of more than 24 month with different pilot plants installed in the north east of Brazil, our partner company ECCO installed the first serial unit of SANI SOLAR in November. The system is installed in the community of Santa Barbara in the rural inland of the State of Bahia in north-eastern Brazil. Denise, Rafaela and Lindacy Lopez Kuching mascot visiting SANI SOLAR at the WTO Summit 15th World Toilet Summit and Expo Kuching, Malaysia From 27th to 29th of October 3P Technik, presented its SANI SOLAR technology in the event organised by the World Toilet Organisation with more than 800 participants from all over the world. More information under: http://www.wts2016kuching.com/ News Guinea Bissau During his visit to Guinea Bissau from the 10th until 18th of November, 3P representative Vítor Simões had the opportunity to present the SANI SOLAR technology to the Guinean authorities. Amongst his contacts where, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Finance. Meeting with the Secretary of State of Environment In the context of the visit, the first unit of SANI SOLAR in Guinea Bissau was installed for a local family. Dr. Jochen Scheerer with workers from NETATECH SANI SOLAR Demo site Singapore In collaboration with 3P partner NETATECH (http://www.netatech.com.sg) a sanitation system was installed in Singapore at the 31st of October. The SANI SOLAR system installed at NETTATECH research facilities is used by the workers living at the site and is a showcase to demonstrate effective operation of the system under climatic conditions of Southeast Asia (SEA). World Water Congress and Exhibition 2016 in Brisban From 9 – 14 October 3P Technik Australia used the opportunity of more than 4,500 leaders gathered in Brisbane at the World Water Congress and Exhibition to launch the SANI SOLAR system for sustainable sanitation in down under. Our Team in Brisbane SANI SOLAR technology aroused great interest among the visitors SANI SOLAR for installation on sealed surfaces Showcase Mexico Since September the first unit of SANI SOLAR is operating in Mexico. The system is an example for installation over sealed surface, typical for peri-urban or urban areas. Using the shown configuration, SANI SOLAR can be installed also on roof terraces in urban areas. For more information please contact: www.3ptechnik.com.mx. SANI SOLAR showcase Mexico SANI SOLAR Demo site Spain In order to have a demo site working under real conditions in Europe, a SANI SOLAR unit was installed at the beginning of June in Girona Province in the northeast of Spain. 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__label__cc	0.733962	0.266038	Alexis Deighton MacIntyre PhD student in cognitive neuroscience, jazz guitarist, Vancouver Islander living in the UK Tag: drumming The Metacognition of Drumming: Interview with Mark Colenburg From his work with Common, Q-Tip, and A Tribe Called Quest, to gigs with Kenny Garret and Kurt Rosenwinkel, not to mention a Grammy win with Robert Glasper, drummer Mark Colenburg’s resume speaks to his virtuosity and innovative approach to rhythm. I’ve admired his playing for a long time, so I was very pleased to find that he is interested in rhythm cognition and was happy to share some thoughts on his mental and physical strategies as an elite musician and timing specialist. Life as a trainee scientist has been heavy (in a good way) lately, so this piece is a long time coming. Thanks for staying tuned! ADM: I know you started out really young, but as you developed as a musician, were there any particularly difficult concepts or techniques (e.g., a feel, or maybe a specific series of movements) that come to mind? What was the breakthrough? Was there a mental strategy, a movement, or maybe something like a mnemonic that helped you to finally ‘get it’? MC: Yes, I did start at the very young age of two. Early on in my development (which is continual), everything seemed difficult. The concept of single strokes, double strokes, and triple strokes, playing those patterns with drumsticks on a floor, was very challenging but so intriguing at the same time. Independence between my limbs, conviction, and tempo control are just a few other challenging concepts that come to mind. My strategy to overcoming some of those humps were intentional quality, effort, learned and unlearned exploring, and time. Using those strategies really helped me to establish a strong foundation mentally, physically and spiritually. Continue reading “The Metacognition of Drumming: Interview with Mark Colenburg” → Alexis Deighton MacIntyre Interviews, Rhythm April 23, 2018 July 10, 2018 4 Minutes The Metacognition of Drumming: Interview with James McRae This interview is the first in a series I’m calling “The Metacognition of Drumming”. Getting musicians to speak in concrete language about performance and other forms of musicking is notoriously difficult, but it’s crucial that artists, scientists, and amphibians dissolve our hard disciplinary edges. To this end, I will share my conversations with drummers (and maybe a lucky few non-percussionists) in an attempt to articulate these very non-wordy things we do when we play music together. James McRae is a Vancouver Island institution, a fabulous musician, and a stalwart friend. I’m sad we don’t jam so often since I moved to England, but I’m grateful we could exchange some thoughts on the types of cognitive/active strategies drummers use here. If any readers have a perspective they’d like to share, drop me an email! And stay tuned for the next edition, featuring Robert Glasper Experiment drummer, Yamaha-sponsored artist, and Grammy Award-winner Mark Colenburg. ADM: What is your approach to groove, both as a drummer and as a teacher? JM: All music has to feel good. If it doesn’t feel good, people are going to turn away! How much of this is based on groove? A lot, probably. The feel changes based on the tempo. Steady tempos are great, but having metronomic time seems more artificial than natural. Continue reading “The Metacognition of Drumming: Interview with James McRae” → Alexis Deighton MacIntyre Interviews, Rhythm October 31, 2017 April 23, 2018 4 Minutes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line855
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__label__cc	0.707409	0.292591	Abigail: Dr. Richards' Littles 11 by Pepper North Publish: Oct 07, 2017Series: Dr. Richards' LittlesErotic Romance Abigail was shaking watching the last lightbulb flicker ominously. With a pop, it died leaving the stockroom in total darkness except for the small strip of white under the locked door from the light in the hall. She clasped one hand over her mouth to muffle her low panicked moan and she began to rock back and forth. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her arm. She screamed! “Abigail, it’s me, April. I know you’re panicking. I’m here with you. It’s going to be all right,” April reassured the shaking girl. “Come here,” She moved next to Abigail and wrapped her arms around her pulling Abigail close to her body. She began to run a comforting hand down the back of Abigail’s short brown hair. “It’s going to be okay, baby.” Abigail burrowed as close as possible to April. She could feel April’s long hair against her face. She loved her boss’ long, black hair. Combined with her beautiful green eyes, Abigail thought April was stunning. She knew she shouldn’t be this close to April. It wasn’t a good idea. She’d had a crush on her boss since her interview and had worked hard to keep her distance and not let her attraction be noticed. She started to move away but stopped immediately when April pulled her up on her lap to hold her closely. This ninth story in the popular Dr. Richards' Little series, focuses on Abigail and her boss, April. Who knew that a locked stockroom and burned out light bulbs could match this Mommy with the Little girl of her dreams. Some of the characters from the first eight novels in this series reappear to continue their stories. You do not need to read the stories in order. All are complete stories. The books in this series will feature invasive medical treatments, including thorough examinations and enemas when required, as well as diaper changes, spankings and other punishments. If you are offended by age play (adults who choose to live as a Little or a parent of a Little) or dubious consent, this is not the book for you. Title Abigail: Dr. Richards' Littles 11 ASIN B0769DML8F Publish Date 07, Oct 2017 Page Count 90 Donut Dilemma: A Standalone Romantic Comedy by: Jessika Klide Playing Until the End by: Stephanie Queen From the Moment We Met: A Modern Day Romance (A Series of Moments Book 1) by: M.L. Broome,Julie E. Soper The Curse: Origin of the Vampires by: Kethric Wilcox Rescuing Rita: A SANCTUM Novel by: Pepper North Legend of the Silver Hunter: Omnibus Edition	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line860
__label__cc	0.723431	0.276569	Innocent man freed from prison after 23 years Program Note: Tune in tonight to hear more about Ernest Sonnier's case on AC360° at 10 p.m. ET. Ernest Sonnier was sentenced to life but was released from prison after 23 years because DNA testing proved he was wrongfully convicted. Gary Tuchman \| BIO AC360° Correspondent Ernest Sonnier was 23 when he was arrested and charged with rape and kidnapping. He was taken in handcuffs from his Houston home and didn't leave prison for another 23 years. A week and a half ago, at the age of 46, Sonnier was freed after essentially being told by prosecutors, sorry – but we now inform you that DNA evidence we've just gotten around to checking indicates you did not commit this crime. And get this – when the DNA that was examined was compared with other specimens in police possession, it came up positive for two other men already in the system. Men who are felons, but are no longer in prison. As you wonder whether or not authorities will arrest those other men, we can tell you the answer is no. It won't happen because the statute of limitations has expired. That's just some of the discouraging news about this case. Also discouraging, is this: Ernest Sonnier is now the sixth person to be freed from prison after allegations of shoddy work from the same crime laboratory, which is run by the Houston police. Over the years, the lab has been accused of ineptitude, corruption, and has even suffered flooding and water leakage which led to the corruption of genetic materials. Now, the District Attorney, who is relatively new, has pledged that all cases that involved DNA in Houston will be reviewed. That means hundreds of cases will be re-examined. This all raises two serious questions: how many innocent people are behind bars because of poor lab work, and how many guilty people are not behind bars where they deserve to be? Ernest Sonnier was identified by his victim in court in 1986. Prosecutors said lab tests showed hair found in the victim's vehicle was consistent with his. Shortly after Sonnier's trial, DNA testing became routine. The DNA from the hair and bodily fluids found in the car and on the victim has been available for years. But the lab's backlog was endless, and there was no mechanism for verification. A national group that tries to help the wrongly convicted, the Innocence Project, got involved in Sonnier's case, and the testing was completed. Sonnier, who has no idea how to operate a cell phone and marvels over satellite TV, is now a free man. He says he will forgive, but he can't forget. Sonnier is staying at home with his grateful mother and father. He hugs great nieces and nephews he has never been allowed to touch. He has not officially been exonerated. He had a criminal record before his arrest (which likely diminished any credibility he might have had with police and prosecutors.) He is now on supervised release. So the district attorney and her investigators say they will spend weeks or months investigating his past. But unless they find out something new, Ernest Sonnier will officially be cleared. And the real criminals will continue to count their lucky stars that Sonnier took the rap for them. Filed under: 360° Radar • Crime & Punishment • Gary Tuchman Yet another clear cut example of how fallible both eye witness testimony AND forensic evidence can be. Both involve the HUMAN ELEMENT which is where things usually go afoul. Prosecutors in their over zealous styles ignore and even support any methodology of evidence production that assists them in "getting their man". The National Academy of Sciences is correct......forensic labs should NOT be run by or part of the Police Departments that make the arrests. Way too much advocacy where it should not be. August 17, 2009 at 3:12 pm \| He should get a tax free million for every year he was incarcerated. I understand the backlog due to the increasing amounts of inmates, HOWEVER, I think that it should be MANDATORY that all inmates coming up to "their date" on death row should be required to have all DNA testing done with the most up-to-date knowledge and equipment. Those who are on death row should not be euthanized based on old information. It shouldn't even have to be an appeal. It should be a process put in place that is mandatory. What if this was your son or daughter? I know that most of the individuals on death row, even those found innocent of the death sentence crime, have criminal records, but not all of them are murderers or rapists. I'm not very familiar with everything that happened to get a guilty vote by 12 juror's on this case. I was just wondering if they kidnapped and crossed state lines making it a Federal case? What's the Federal Statue of Limitation on these crimes? Maybe Federal officials can take over the case? No, science is exact. It the system that is flawed. DNA is DNA. Only in instances of a lack of DNA or twins, does DNA give false information. Every person has unique characteristics. If the lab would have done it's job, he (and all the others) we not be in jail. It's simple...don't spin it. There is so much that can be taken from this article but I see a lot of commenter are more worried about assigning blame. – In your job, if you were given the task of "review this lab work to ensure we have the right person. Because the person we have in jail says he didn't do it." or "We need this lab work done to convict a rapist that is out on the street" which would you prioritize? - I'm willing to bet most people would be more worried about who is on the streets rather than who is in jail. Its sad that there is so much crime that we have people who need to make those types of choices. – DNA wasn't always "the norm" and sadly eyewitnesses make mistakes. It doesn't make them bad people or deliberately misleading. In fact, we have somewhat of a backlash in cases where there is a reasonable amount of evidence to convict but no DNA. Many juries struggle to convict without it even under a great preponderance of evidence. – I will agree with many here that the statute of limitations on rape is too narrow. Rape is a violent crime and it shouldn't matter how long ago you did it. – I salute the current DA's goal of reviewing all the cases with DNA and at least we know lab tech for DNA at this point seems to have some job security. oly graham Fire the lab – lock – stock and barrel. Finance or bid out the work and put precautions and checks in place,. It is a simple solution. FIRE THE LAB AND ALL IT'S EMPLOYEES. Permanent – one life lost in a cell for over two decades is unforgiveable.... They do NOT deserve to stay in business. 808gurl poor guy, i would sue... 23 years waisted sitting in that jail cell. Arthur C Winters We Need To Get The Cob Webs Out of Congress Revamp The Legal System and Stop Letting Each State Use People In The System as a money Tool To Fill There over Budeted Rehtoric Then Maybe we would not have an over Crowded Prisons... We Made Mistakes Now lets Fix This Mess... And Not another 5yrs... 10yrs... or More. Do it NOW... Considering that they are still checking into previous arrests before they clear him of the charges that he was proven innocent of after 23 years I wonder how much of his arrest and conviction had to due with his past instead of the evidence at hand maybe if they had not judged him and attempted to convict him of the charges at hand he would not have spent 23 years in prison.. I guess as far as the police and DA are concerned people never change it is a good thing that God judges in the after life and not them. It makes me wonder if the two cops who murdered my Aunt 20 years ago not because she was resisting arrest but because she was dating their brother and he told them to, if they would have been convicted if it wasnt for their titles in the community. This story really gives us alot to think about. Didn't Bush say they have never made a mistake when executing one of his multitude. ( Texas leads the pack). Doesn't this indicate that he either outright lied or is as big a "FOOL" as we have been proven. the saddest part is the humans of Texas still beleive him to be a great president. Who and How do you pay this man back? Texas decides the most effective way is to investigate him furhter and keep him on supervised release. I vote to let them go and elect Chuck Norris their president. The victim identified him as one of the attackers. I didn't see anything where the DNA would have exonerated him in the kidnapping. Was he present during the kidnapping? Did he play a part in the crime and just didn't match up in the DNA test ? Are we getting the whole story ? We don't know much about this case at all. Let's not make a victim out of this guy yet. I stopped believing that there was justice in this country long ago. That's what we get when we give authority a carte blanc without determining whether they really deserve the respect and the credibility they want us to give them. I have read about 30 threads here. And, I totally agree that this is horrible! But, there are readers here that yell that this is indicative that our entire justice system is broken. Quick to yell, but they offer no alternative solution. I would love to hear those critics that will take isolated cases like this to bash the entire "system" and hear what human-proof system they would put in place. This IS horrible! So is losing your wife to a drunk driver! So is losing your entire retirement because some CEOs cooked their books. So is dying over the Hudson because (possibly) a air traffic controller was talking about a dead cat. Find me a system that dosn't involve humans and THEN you will have a "fixed" system. Let's go critics. If you can be so harshly critical of the system, have the fortitude to provide REAL alternatives that work! I can't stand all the "black man" and racist allegations by all of you. Let me see if I understand this a "black man" commited a crime and stood by while another "black man" went to jail – but somehow the "man" (who knows what race) is to blame? Why does it have to go there? He is a man like anyone else. In the end what's done is done. It's up to him to figure out how he is going to live his life and what steps he will take against a system that wronged him. mackinow This has become common place, I'm sorry to say. But, is inevitable when cops, judges, and prosecutors are not held accountable. But we as taxpayers are just as responsible. We have shirked our civic duties and allowed our legal system to be overrun by ineptitude, incompetence and just plain unfit people.Texans have no one to blame but themselves. Ernest – If ur ever down in Florida, I'll hire you ! Florida is prob worse than texas when it comes cops, prosecutors and the EEOC. Think about this... how rare is it that we hear about someone in this country being wrongly put behind bars or executed compared to any other country in the world... aside from canada.... we have a very liberal justice system and we should at least be grateful for that. This is just an example of the rarity but a symbol for just how free this country really is. I truely feel sorrow for what this man has been put through but i know deep down he sees that in 23 years our law enforcement personnel have grown to surpass ones race/ethnicity and more focused on the evidence, which is why he is free. Ken Nairn Should the statute of limitations be aligned with the most probable sentence if someone is convicted? To everyone insulting the courts and officials in Texas that did this, you have to think a little harder. The cops made mistakes and not the courts. DNA testing wasn't used back then, so all they had was an eye witness to go on. That was enough at the time, so don't fault them. Science advanced since, and I'm sure in 25 years people will be looking back at our "incomplete" science wondering how we operated a "fair" justice system. The cops might have been incompetant doing the DNA testing, but at least they kept the samples to be retested. Ask the 100's of thousands behind bars if they are innocent and then queue them up to investigate each one. I hear most state justice centers are hiring. Go help them weed out the 100's of thousands that said they are innocent. Might want to support the local police chapter and be active member to ensure quality and equality. david saint Glad to know at least the DA's office there will at least look at cases where innocent people may have been wrongfully convicted. Here in Phoenix, our County Attorney has evidence his office put an innocent woman behind bars and 2 years later is still ignoring it. her name is Courtney Bisbee, and innocent project if your reading these comments i hope you get involved.... andres coronado this makes me sick to my stomach, too many cases go to trial wihile the real guilty person free on vacation somewhere,and the innocent scratching his head saying how is this possible, Ryan Kincaid This is becoming a common injustice. I believe it should be law to reinvestigate convictions when DNA evidence has not been tested previously. Melinda Felice while, obviously, the most heinous actions committed here was the ineptitude of the lab, wrongly incarcerating a man, another thing also appauled me: there, apparently, is a statute of limitations on RAPE. There isnt one on murder and there shouldnt be one on rape. This is exactly the reason I believe we can't have the death penalty in the United States. Berdie Sanchez My baby sister was kidnapped, raped and murdered by 2 men who had already been in prison for the same offens and THEN RELEASED! Now they have innocent people in prison for 23 years? For the first in my life, I am ashamed to be an American! First the White House idiots who can't run a country, but get elected because of how much money they have, not brains! If I was this man, I would sue the state of Texas even for their shorts, and if i were a lawyer, I would do it pro bono. this country has become a cesspool of stupidity and arrogance by those in positions of power. I say fire them all and wipe the slate clean, just as we do when we clean a filthy toilet. I wouldn't cross the street to meet one single Senator, Congressman, not even any president of the last 5. they have their brains stuck in their jockies! Womanizers, boozers, DUI's, liars and apparently, not involved with anyone once they get into office. Please don't call this a democratic country! It is an elitist country, money = power. Imagine, electing a movie star as Gov. of a state, why? Oh, I forgot, he's married to a Kennedy! Does anyone get it? We need a giant eraser to wipe out all the ugly represents! Let's see....IF the victim discribed her attacker as "black" then Yes, another black man was inprisoned for a crime that another "black" man did. For those screaming "another innocent black man locked up", couldn't there be just the same number of people screaming "another guilty black man running around free"? And if he want's to sue anybody, have him sue the REAL problems of Society....the TRUE criminal who let him sit in jail for something the TRUE criminal did. Of course that won't happen because no lawyer is going to take a case that isn't going to pay anything, but a case against the bottomless pockets of the taxpayers, now that is a sure thing! How many innocent people have died on death row because of shoddy work at this crime laboratory? Lisa Mac I say that if we cannot test the DNA evidence in a timely manner, then we, at the very least, get rid of this thing called "statute of limitations"... in my opinion, that is such a stupid concept anyway. Juan Rivas This show how the criminal justice system has its corruptions. Over time more and more of these cases will appear as the criminal justice system gets more profound information and becomes more of a profession than a service to the people.God bless this poor man and nothing in the world will make up for his 23 lost year thanks to the mistake of the Houston police ran lab. Rose from Muscoy, Calif Now, I know why the saying, "JUSTICE IS BLIND". The people who suppost to enforce the laws sometimes block it also, with there laziness. This person is innocent, I like to know how in the heck a jury found him guilty. Since he is innocent, there had to be reasonable doubt. Then again this is Texas we are talking about. (Deep South) With all of the racism in the South I don't understand why Black people stay there. Remember Jim Crow sheesh, that should of been reason enough to leave. Juries are not doing their job. The Innocence Project staff and attorneys are my heroes. Their website gives lots of good information about this terrible problem – innocent lives ruined, innocent people on death row, innocent people waiting too long to have their cases reheard or their dna evidence missing. I agree the death penalty should be repealed in the United States of America. I agree the persons responsible for poor investigation of evidence shoudl be at least terminated and I agree that our system of using eye witnesses should be examined by a panel of experts (who are they?) to improve or eliminate that method as evidence. It could be any one of us tomorrow. Steve R Daniel Kinsman is right on; how many innocent people has TX murdered with our tax dollars despite the fact they also budgeted and took money for this "LAB". how can any reasoning person support the taking of another life when the system is so obviously corrupt and broken? Having said that i fully expect the crazed death penalty advocates to come and chime in on that is just "the cost of doing business" and the death penalty is a "deterrent". nonsense..Most studies show that the use of the death penalty increases violence, especially among those seeking "death by cop or needle". it's just insane ..our chance to be compassionate christians and other faiths is diminished by the wrath of god blood mongering corruption and incompetence. And still the lowing crowd of sheep will bellow for more blood..Pitiful It's sad that in this country, that revenge is confused with justice. Nobody really cares if the wrong person is convicted and jailed for a crime as long as somebody is. Why does the Innocence Project have to clean up behind the police and DA? Because we tolerate it. married2thepreacher My brother is in prison for a crime he did not commit. Everyday, I read a story like this it both sickens me that we are suppose to have the best judicial system there is and it gives me hope that one day my brother will be reunited with his family. I am also amazed at those that post in response to these articles. How many of you would have be screaming for this mans conviction 23 years ago? Society believes what they want, and the press as well as the D.A. wanted society to believe this man was guilty 23 years ago. Science has proved otherwise. Thank God! We should not be so quick to judge. Nothing can come close to compensating this man for the loss of time with his family and his own loss of life. Once again, they proved that justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means someone pays for the crime. -The Freedom Writers Your job is to find justice no matter how well she may hide herself from you. So you go in there and you do your job. -Lucien Wilbanks from A Time to Kill I seek justice everyday for my brother and I firmly believe with the help of the Innocence Project someday he will come home. I just hope and pray it doesn't take 23 years. Did I really read that the guilty parties will not be arrested because the statute of limitations has expired? Please, tell me it's not so. Perhaps its time to tweak the rules that govern the statute of limitations just a little bit, don't you think? If , as in this case, we know who the guilty parties really are, then by all means go and arrest them . This man has lost 23 years of his life that we cannot give back to him. The very least we can do is apprehend and prosecute the guilty parties. Outrageous,the system in Houston must be fixed. We have to many young men in prison, for doing wrong. Let's keep the innocence ones free.God bless america. I agree that it is sad that an innocent man went to prison for a long time, But it doesn’t mean it’s the cops or the District Attorneys fault. They did what they felt was right, and obviously 12 other jury members agreed. This man had a fair trial. This is what happens to so many minorities in the country. He is on supervised release? Why? We had a man in NC that served 18 years for a murder he did not commit. They discovered that from DNA too. So sad. Tragic to be sure...but nearly incredible is the information at the end of the article: "So the district attorney and her investigators say they will spend weeks or months investigating his past. But unless they find out something new, Ernest Sonnier will officially be cleared. " Spending more time and more to investigate "his past"...HE HAS BEEN IN JAIL THE PAST 23 YEARS!!! His "Past" was taken by the state. Can't leave well enough alone and let this beaten down individual be done with a broken system...simply incredible. Aquariandramaqueen This is an injustice on so many levels. Mr. Sonnier can never get those 23 years back! Who plans on making that up to him? No apology, no amount of money, no clearing of his record will make up for the hell this man and his family have had to endure at the hands of an extremely flawed system. The worst part: he isn't the only person this has happened to and if something isn't done soon, he won't be the last. To Ernest Sonnier, The Districit Attorney made an error in judgment in your case that resulted in you being convicted for a serious crime you did not do. Therefore for the 23 years you were held against your will , you should be reimbursed financially for these years. Get a good attorney who will take your case on a contingency and sue in order to protect your rights. No system is perfect and it is evident in court cases errors have been made and will continue to take place. People like you have a right to be angry, but it is imperative to relieve your anger in the proper way and that would be to get the justice you deserve. This will help in two ways, to make you whole again and to hopefully better the Judicial system of prosecution. I'm truly sorry this happened to you. Jim. For everyone bringing up race as an issue, how do we know the 2 men convicted weren't black? There are plenty of white people wrongly convicted too, so let's leave that out. It's the system, and back at the time DNA testing wasn't what it is today. I wonder how many more truly innocent people are behind bars because of "poor lab work across the us?" fast eddie oh well just a case of preventitive medicine...look at em he would have hurt whitey in some way..right carl light the system needs to be monitored not Ernest!!!!!!! yea but at like this no telling how many people it saved from a victim of him had he been out , i`m just saying Rosemary Florence DNA testing MUST be mandatory for all rape and murder cases. Prosecutors must not be allowed to bring a case unless DNA testing has been done.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line880
__label__cc	0.578567	0.421433	Tale #93: A circle, whispering time They built a calendar out of trees and flowers in the meadows 12 groves in a circle a new colour each month In January, the white of snowdrops In February, the yellow of daffodils In March, the green of grey willow In April, the blue of wisteria In May, the pink of cherry blossoms In June, the red of poppies In July, the honeyed yellow of catkins on sweet chestnut trees In August, the purple velvet of tufted vetch In September, the crimson of burnet In October, the gold of autumn hawkbit In November, the grey beards clinging to the branches of the clematis trees Then December comes nothing grows but much is buried 1. Written on September 4, 2019 2. And reminiscent of this previous tale – The town, the forest, the past a thousand and one talescalendarsfolk talestimetrees Tale #92: The Morning Birds Free The Soul, The Night Ones Take Them It was a commonly held belief that heaven resided in the earth and hell within the air. Crops grew from the ground, while fire and smoke rose upwards. Worms were believed to be new souls struggling to the surface from heaven, and only with the help of the morning birds could they be pulled free and delivered to the newborns that needed them. A child born in the morning was said to be blessed with a good soul. Upon death, the body was returned to the ground, so as to be nearer heaven. The bodies of the sinful and the condemned were hoisted up and left on the roofs of houses, so that the evening birds (crows, gulls, owls) could pick clean their bones and take not only their flesh but their souls up into the skies towards damnation. 1. Written on August 8th, 2013 a thousand and one talescrowsfolk lorefolk tales Tale #91: The King’s Wives The king kept his wives on an island from which none could escape. And every year he sent more wives to the island as new lands were conquered and became part of his kingdom. One day, he decided to sail out alone to the island to spend some time with his women. But when he arrived, there were no wives to be seen. “Where are you, my dears?” he called out into the silence, but there was no reply. And when he tried to leave he found the winds had fallen still and it was impossible for him to sail away on the becalmed seas. He spent the night in his favourite chambers, but found it hard to sleep in the huge and empty bed. He woke twice to the sound of voices, but when he called out they fell silent, and there was no reply. The third time he woke there was nothing but silence, and when he tried to call out he found he could not. The wives woke in the morning and were surprised to find the king’s boat moored at the shore. But of the king there was no sign, and though they called his name across the island they received no reply. They sailed away without him, and where that island is now, none can say. 1. Written in July 2016 a thousand and one talesfairy talesislandskingspunishmentswives Tale #90: The Woman Who Lived In The Woods There was a woman who lived in the woods. She was tired of her treatment by the men of the town, and wished to be left alone. But that evening a man of some standing came to her house to have his usual way with her. He lay down on her bed as if it was his own and orderer her to join him. She looked down at at the man and said, “Just this once, I want to see what you see when you leer at me.” And she plucked out her eyes and placed them over his own. But he turned away in shame and would not look at her again. “And just this once,” she said. “I want to feel what you feel when you hit me.” And she cut the flesh from of her hands and placed it over his own like gloves. But he lowered his fists in shame and would not touch her again. “And just this once,” she said. “I want to feel what you feel when you rape me.” She cut off his cock and attached it to herself. And he lay there in shame as she had his usual way. 1. Written in November 2014 2. This story is pretty horrible 3. For which I apologise a thousand and one talesabusefairy taleshorrorrape Tale #89: The Poor Woman There was a woman who lived in the woods. She had no money, and could find little work, and those that paid her paid her very little. One day an old lady knocked at her door and begged for some food to help her through the cold winter’s night, for she was far from home and farther still from reaching her way. The woman who lived in the woods said, “Alas, I haven’t enough even for one, let alone two, but you may have what little there is, although whether it will do you any good or not I cannot say. And you may sit by my fire and warm your bones, although the wood is already burning low, and the night has barely yet begun.” The old lady came in and together they sat by the fire, which seemed to burn brighter than ever, and ate the last of the bread, which seemed to fill the bellies of them both. After an hour the old lady got up and said that she must again be on her way. “In repayment for your kindness I will leave you a gift,” the old lady said. “So you may earn that which your kind spirit deserves, each time you receive payment for your work you shall become twice as beautiful as before, and subsequently earn twice as much, the next time circumstances allow.” With that the old lady made her way to the heart of the woods, where she disappeared from this world and went on her way to the next. At first the woman noticed very little change. She still struggled to find work, and for many weeks she starved away, surviving on scraps scavenged from the forest, and if anything when she looked at herself in the waters of the brook she thought that rather than becoming any fairer her famishment had made her ever fouler. In the early days of spring, however, after the snows had melted and the flowers of the forest had begun again to bloom, a woodsman from the nearest town knocked at the door of her house and she invited him in and provided him with what he desired. As he left she asked him for a shilling, but he looked her up and down sadly and paid only a penny. She wept that night, but the next day, when she caught sight of her reflection she was surprised by the vitality of her appearance. When the woodsman knocked again, he gladly paid the price she asked, and the day after he gave her double. “A tip,” he said, “for one so pretty.” And he even asked her to walk back with him to town, for rather than being ashamed by his patronage he now was overcome with pride. After she saw him to his house she tarried awhile in town, and by the end of her stay her beauty was greater than any the town had ever known, and her purse fuller than she had ever dared dream. Soon only the local Lord could afford to pay her. He took her into his house, and by the end of the week the house was hers and the Lord a beggar, much to the satisfaction of his staff, and the spiteful delight of his wife. The woman, who no longer lived in the woods, was generous with her money, and kind to all in her care, for she knew the horrors of poverty, and the humiliations of servitude. Eventually the King came calling, for by now stories of her otherworldly glamour had spread far and wide. As his treasuries emptied over the subsequent weeks, and her beauty multiplied, the King began to despair, for soon he would no longer be able to afford her services, and he could not bear to return to the drabness of his court. “How could I live, knowing this beauty was out there, beyond my reach?” he sighed. He ordered his treasurer to mint him a million pound coin, and then two more. By now the currency of the land and the entire economy of the country was on the verge of collapse. No matter how much of the money lavished on her by the King she spent trying to alleviate the suffering she saw around her, the country continued to collapse into despair and horror. And all the while the King tried ever more desperately to finance the further satiation of his lust. For him the end came quickly. The people rose up and threw him into the sea without ceremony or regret. In the ensuing days, they crowned the woman their Queen. She used her money and her wisdom to rebuild the country into something far greater than it had ever been before, and she ruled divinely for the rest of her days, delighting in way her country now prospered. She spent the rest of her life enjoying the many friendships she formed with the subjects of her land, and occasionally bankrupting other countries when politics and desire demanded. 1. Written on February 9th, 2015 a thousand and one talesfairy taleskingsnumbersqueenswomen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line884
__label__cc	0.705765	0.294235	Crotchety Old Seniors Pool Updates What’s not to love about Love, Simon? (A Comprehensive Movie Review) Alana Cree, Staff Writer Simon Spier is a fairly normal teenager growing up in a clean suburban world. His parents – high school sweethearts – are the epitome of a cliché love story that didn’t end in divorce, with two kids and a dog named Bieber. Simon also has a typical friend group: his two childhood best friends, Nick Eisner and Leah Burke, as well as Abby Suso, the new girl. Simon’s life is safe, uneventful, as close to perfect as a high schooler’s can be. But he has one “big-ass” secret: he’s gay and no one in the world knows. Simon’s closeted status changes when he connects with another gay boy, Blue, on his school’s blog page. The two bond anonymously and, thus, the teen rom-com commences. The phrase “it’s not like the movies” is often true. High school movies tend to get it all wrong. The cafeteria isn’t ravaged by devious food fights, and seniors do not shove nerdy freshman into lockers. Mean Girls and Clueless are cheesy masterpieces, but they hit the nail far from the head. And High School Musical, although entertaining as ever, couldn’t be further from the truth. Films are usually extreme dramatizations of the high school experience – the characters and plots are just not realistic. Love, Simon however, is different, and not only because it is one of the first huge Hollywood blockbusters that features a gay male lead. The characters in this movie are relatable. Abby, the gorgeous new girl that is adored by all the guys, is secretly insecure. Leah is dorky and weird, but really, she’s just a hopeless romantic. Nick is a sporty jock, but he is down-to-earth and silly. And Simon… he’s “just like you” and me. He’s probably one of the most relatable characters in young adult fiction, regardless of sexuality. These four individuals are very different, but they find common ground and remain friends. This is what the high school experience is all about: our friends aren’t exactly like us, but they balance us out and make us better people. That is what this film nailed. Grabbing an iced coffee and jamming out to our favorite songs in the car, cheering on our friends at sports games, and going to play rehearsal after school are things that we (the REAL high schoolers) do. This film, like every other, has several flaws. Many will criticize the idealistic happy ending that the film presents and how it steers clear of some of the messier aspects of coming out. But, in my opinion, it is refreshing to see a story like Simon’s. A lot of teenagers struggle with coming out and do not have parents and friends that accept them with open arms. This film shows the positive, accepting environment that all teens should have when they take the courageous step to come out. In addition, this film sheds a positive light on the subject, and it all works out in the end (no spoiler there). This light-hearted, funny, tear-jerker is well worth the $11.50 movie ticket. $18,695 Behind The State Average – Why the WCTA is Speaking Out (Op-Ed) Ione Dellos, Staff Writer May 15, 2019 • No Comments Six months of negotiations have brought tensions between the West County Teachers Association (WCTA) and the WSCUHSD to a boiling point. Due to an impasse between the two... Take a Hike: Sonoma Coast State Beach Trails Lars Dellos, Staff Writer Hey all! As I’m heading to pursue my wildest(pun intended) dreams at college, this is my last Take A Hike. I hope you all enjoyed my articles, and maybe even checked out... Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow Estrella Pacheco, Staff Writer Modern America is now, more than ever a constantly changing social and political climate. With all the constant change, how are the roles of our educators transforming? Where... The Hidden Truth Killer in the Rain 4 An Open Letter to School Board Members Mr. Wrisley Analy’s World Traveller FFA Update: 2018 State FFA Convention Golden State: A Triumph for Analy Mr. Casey: A Man of All Trades May Food For the Common Dude: Some Easy Milkshake Recipes for Y’all Things We Will Miss About Analy Santa Fe Shooting: Where Do We Go From Here? Brothers Only Get Suspended Sentence for Animal Cruelty The student news site of Analy High School	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line891
__label__wiki	0.575553	0.575553	1h 48min \| Drama \| 24 March 1924 (USA) After 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband. Rudolph Besier (play) (as Rudolf Besier), May Edginton (play) \| 1 more credit » Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Patterson Dial \| See full cast & crew » 1920 to watch Remarkable Silent Movies (1929-1923) Best movies of the 1920's 1920ies - My Average Voting List Search for "Secrets" on Amazon.com Title: Secrets (1924) Kiki (1926) Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the... See full summary » Director: Clarence Brown Stars: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor Lazybones (1925) Certificate: Passed Action \| Comedy \| Drama Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he ... See full summary » Director: Frank Borzage Stars: Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, Zasu Pitts The Lady (1925) A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, ... See full summary » Stars: Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst The Gang's All Here (1943) Comedy \| Musical \| Romance A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific. Director: Busby Berkeley Stars: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker Bad Girl (1931) Certificate: Passed Drama \| Romance A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage. Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell Back Pay (1922) Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of ... See full summary » Stars: Seena Owen, Matt Moore, J. Barney Sherry The Mortal Storm (1940) Certificate: Passed Drama The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil. Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young After Tomorrow (1932) Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage. Stars: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell Certificate: Passed Drama \| Western In the late 1800s New England, banker William Marlowe and his wife Martha have arranged for their daughter Mary to marry the officious and older Lord Hurley of England. Mary does not want ... See full summary » Stars: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith Lucky Star (1929) Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his... See full summary » Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams Three Comrades (1938) The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis. Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone Drama \| Romance \| War An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I. Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou Norma Talmadge ... Mary Carlton Eugene O'Brien ... John Carlton Patterson Dial ... Susan Emily Fitzroy ... Mrs. Marlowe Claire McDowell ... Elizabeth Channing George Nichols ... William Marlowe Harvey Clark ... Bob Charles Ogle ... Dr. McGovern Donald Keith ... John Carlton Jr. (1888) (as Francis Feeney) Alice Day ... Blanche Carlton (1888) Winston Miller ... Robert Carlton (1888) Mae Giraci ... Audrey Carlton (1888) (as May Giraci) Gertrude Astor ... Mrs. Manwaring Winter Hall ... Dr. Arbuthnot Frank Elliott ... Robert Carlton (1923) An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years. Written by duke1029@aol.com england \| old age \| dream \| melodrama \| saga \| See All (6) » En Kvindes Hemmeligheter See more » Joseph M. Schenck Productions See more » Version of Secrets (1933) See more » A partially preserved Norma Talmadge silent melodrama 15 August 2013 \| by robert-temple – See all my reviews This is an impressive melodrama which is now difficult to see, because the DVD is made from a very poor print, apparently the only one surviving, with about a third of its footage lost. The modern subtitles which have replaced the originals are also partially illiterate, which does not help. For instance, 'adversity' is spelled 'adversory'. Some idiots at work there! But the film is worth watching for those interested in cinema history and in Norma Talmadge as a sparkling star of the silent screen. She does very well in the lead role here, playing a character named Mary Carlton. The story begins with her as an old woman in the 1920s. Her husband is lying ill in bed, believed to be dying. As he sleeps, she goes to rest in her room and gets her diary out of a drawer, and reflects upon her dramatic and perilous life history. Suddenly we are back in 1865 in England, and she is a young girl from a wealthy family getting ready for a ball. There is an amazing scene, largely satirical, of her dressing for the ball. Anyone interested in costumes really must see this to believe it! Words fail me in attempting to describe it! Then she has a confrontation with her stern parents who have discovered that she has been writing love letters to John Carlton, an employee in her father's business, whom her father has consequently just fired. Her father says: 'No daughter of mine is going to marry such a nonentity!' So Talmadge elopes and does so, rather impractically, in her hoop skirt. She and John go off into the darkness. Then suddenly we are in the wild northwest of America in a log cabin, having lost a huge amount of footage. John has somehow antagonised some ruffians called 'Jack's gang' and they come riding through the snow to 'get' him. Talmadge's baby has been ill and the doctor has just left. A huge gunfight takes place, with John and one other man besieged in the cabin, and as Talmadge retreats to the back room to see how her baby is doing, she holds a small mirror to its mouth and sees that there is no breath, and that her baby has died. She sits there holding the dead baby in a state of shock while the gunfight is proceeding. Talmadge is very effective in her acting throughout the film, and in this scene she portrays the tragedy and pathos very well. Then a huge loss of footage occurs, but an inserted title informs us (from notes or perhaps the script) that John won the fight and defeated Jack's gang, despite being hugely outnumbered, and becomes a local hero. Then we are suddenly back in England again years later, where John's infidelity with another woman is exposed, and the woman comes to confront Talmadge and demand his freedom, saying that John and she love one another. However, Talmadge sees her off and reclaims the penitent John, who sheepishly admits that he has lost all his money 'again' (we missed the earlier occasion or occasions in the lost footage) and that they are penniless once more. Talmadge says they will fight together to survive, as they have always done. She has meanwhile met up with her parents again, and satire once again rears its head as the father says to his daughter that he had always wanted her to marry John Carlton. She looks at him with a mixture of amazement and contempt. Soon we are back with her as an old woman, as the doctor enters to speak of her husband's condition. As IMDb does not permit discussion of endings, I cannot say how it all turns out. Considering its poor state of preservation, this film now is very much a specialist's viewing experience and the general public would not wish to put up with the missing sections and the bad print. But for those of us who see beyond such things, it is worthwhile, and would have been a very impressive film at its time of release. It is also a particularly fine example of Norma Talmadge's talent as an actress.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line896
__label__wiki	0.544568	0.544568	Tag Archives \| Garbage Incineration “Reader’s view: Devil is in details of Clean Power Plan” By alan on May 10, 2016 in Uncategorized On May 9, 2016 the Duluth News Tribune ran a letter I sent them a few days ago. With enviro/energy wonk orgs in Minnesota heavily penetrated by industrial interests, and the state agencies dancing to the tune of the utilities, there is real potential for the “Clean Power Plan” to do more harm than good. We need to pay attention and think for ourselves. The chief danger is that the CPP could be used to promote smokestack facilities burning fuels much worse than coal: “Biomass” and garbage. Continue Reading → “5 Questions about [Garbage Burner] Ash Mining in Red Wing” By alan on April 30, 2016 in Uncategorized City of Red Wing officials are screwing up yet again: Some more background here. Watch the video, then please sign the petition: “Demand NO ASH MINING in Red Wing ….” http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/873/100/158/#sign Action Alert: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission: Withdraw funding for increased garbage incineration! By alan on January 12, 2016 in "biomass", air pollution, City of Red Wing (Minnesota), Energy, Garbage Incineration, Goodhue County, Minnesota, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, MN Public Utilities Commission, Nuclear Power, Xcel Energy If you want, skip the gory details and go directly to the action items lower down! As someone with a longstanding interest in energy and environmental issues, Minnesota can be a little strange. The state, or at least the central part of it, often seems like a wholly owned subsidiary of Xcel Energy (Northern States Power Company). I’m appalled by the ease with which Xcel seems able to impose its will, and the lack of dignity and self-respect with which officials and self-proclaimed energy/environmental advocates kowtow, grin and shuffle, for Xcel. Worse, I’m living in Red Wing, blessed with two Xcel nuclear reactors, Prairie Island 1 and 2, two Xcel garbage incinerators ( an old convertedcoal plant) and an Xcel nuclear waste parking lot, all within the city limits. As far as what Xcel has to offer, Red Wing has it all! There are so many interlocking scams going on, involving so many entities and so many moral and intellectual failures, that it can look and feel overwhelming. I’m going to focus on one here and ask for your help: Continue Reading → Let’s not dig up old incinerator ash By alan on December 25, 2015 in Uncategorized Red Wing is considering a scheme to mine its incinerator ash dump for metals. This is a bad idea for various reasons that are fairly obvious: •Dump mining has been tried before in Red Wing and the amounts of metal recovered did not cover the costs. If recycling of metals has increased, one would expect to find even less metal in the ash these days. •Garbage incinerator ash is nasty stuff. It contains dioxins, toxic heavy metal compounds, and other harmful materials. It’s much worse from that point of view than frac sand. Neither workers nor residents should be unnecessarily exposed. The test used to claim that incinerator ash is “non-hazardous” is a leaching test supposed to tell us something about the potential for contamination of groundwater. It tells us nothing about what is actually in the ash, or about the hazards of breathing it. •Metal recycling facilities, and their workers, would not benefit from receiving scrap dug out of an ash dump and contaminated with toxic crap. •If there is concern about possible future liability from landfill leaks, as has been stated, the very last thing we should want is to have machines digging around in our dumps, increasing water entry and potentially breaking the liner. This idea should be a non-starter. The thing to do about incinerator ash is to stop making it by not burning garbage. City of Red Wing seeks garbage monopoly at expense of rural and small town residents By alan on March 14, 2014 in "biomass", air pollution, City of Red Wing (Minnesota), Garbage Incineration, Goodhue County, Uncategorized Recycling ignored Minnesota law ignored Recently, after years of campaigning by residents, Hennepin County abandoned it’s plan to burn more garbage in downtown Minneapolis and called upon the city to collect more materials for recycling. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), which had always opposed the residents’ campaign, reacted with displeasure, broadcastingan email saying: “The HERC incinerator will remain an important component of how the metro area manages garbage disposal.” It should be no secret that a key cause of Minnesota’s failure for many years to make real progress on recycling is the MPCA itself. The MPCA makes waste policy, issues permits for waste facilities, does environmental review of many of them, and also makes grants for building/expanding these same facilities. There are huge conflicts of interest in these multiple roles. How can anybody believe the PCA is objective about a facility that it is funding? Worse, the PCA’s waste policy people act as a branch of the garbage incineration industry. Rather than focus on the top of the Minnesota “waste hierarchy”–source reduction and recycling–the PCA inverts the intent of the law and focuses on the bottom of the hierarchy–dumping and burning. The Minnesota Legislative Auditor has said: Minnesota law says that counties should manage municipal solid waste according to a hierarchy that makes waste reduction, reuse, and recycling the preferred methods and landfill disposal the least preferred. In 1989, the Legislature adopted comprehensive waste reduction and recycling legislation, commonly referred to as SCORE, to support the waste management hierarchy. Among other things, the legislation authorized state block grants to counties that could be used for recycling and waste reduction activities, education, developing markets for recycled material, and management of household hazardous waste. The legislation also established goals for recycling and waste reduction. But the PCA puts constant pressure on counties and municipalities to burn more, at great expense and harm to air quality, while doing very little if anything to increase recycling. Shameful examples of this can be found all over Minnesota, but here I will focus on Red Wing and Goodhue County. The MPCA’s chief incineration agent is Sig Schurle, who prowls the state promoting the big burn. (Schurle doesn’t return calls from this writer. As a matter of fact, nobody at the MPCA seems to be returning my calls right now.) The City of Red Wing has been into garbage incineration for a long time, with the usual toxic effects not only on the air but on policy. For instance, Red Wing has lobbied the MPCA for years to get it to force more garbage from the Cities to be sent to Red Wing. Why, because Red Wing’s burner has been losing the City lots of money for years and city officials’ idea of how to fix that is to get more garbage to burn. Red Wing public works director Rick Moskwa said “since I took over that facility ten years ago, all I’ve done is look for waste [to burn].” The City has curtailed library hours, stopped distributing a newsletter, and curtailed other useful services while wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars per year keeping the burner going. Now, Red Wing has shut down its municipal burner–old, dirty, obsolete, with a bad record of permit violations–and is working various alternative burner scams with Xcel Energy and the MPCA. Why? Xcel Energy also burns garbage in Red Wing in two converted 1940’s coal burners. Xcel also wants to burn more garbage. So the Red Wing legislative agenda for 2014 includes opposing a container deposit bill, more Cities garbage burned in Red Wing, and diversion of money from the Xcel “Renewable Development Fund” to buy Red Wing a garbage grinder–to increase burning at the Xcel incinerators. Is all this shameful enough? Read on: For years Red Wing has also tried to force municipalities and waste haulers in and around Goodhue County to send their garbage for burning in Red Wing. So far, these efforts have failed. Now, Xcel, Red Wing, and the MPCA are trying again, beating on Goodhue County with carrots and sticks: (1) The MPCA is withholding approval of the Goodhue County solid waste plan; (2) he MPCA has withheld the last three “SCORE” payments–totaling about $70,000–to Goodhue County, and (3) is offering to transfer responsibility for an old closed landfill to the state. This would require special legislation which Rep. Tim Kelly is reportedly prepared to introduce. The conditions: Goodhue County to pass a “flow control” ordinance forcing all county garbage to be taken to Red Wing for grinding up and burning. Red Wing projects this monopoly would bring the city garbage operation an additional 8,000 tons/year of waste. The motivation is financial: it would bring the money-losing operation closer to break-even. In effect: Red Wing’s money-losing garbage operation, and the Xcel garbage burners, would be subsidized by rural Goodhue County residents. At a March 3rd “workshop” on the scheme, attended by Red Wing city council members, Sig The Burner Man, and Greg Isakson, Goodhue County Public Works Director and County Engineer. All said they liked the idea. No public comment was allowed. No mention was made of the health effects of more garbage incinerator pollution. No mention was made of recycling except as a possible future issue. (Red Wing’s Deputy Director of Solid Waste, Jeff Schneider, used to be “State Recycling Coordinator” at the MPCA.) Data provided by Goodhue County indicates county recycling rates peaked at in 43% in 2007 but had dropped to 37 by 2012. What are the implications of this scheme? Higher disposal costs for everybody in Goodhue County, especially rural and small-town residents. More health-damaging incinerator pollution. Even less recycling. Possible serious damage to private businesses such as the P.I.G. landfill in Hager City, Wisconsin (across the Mississippi River from Red Wing) that now takes a lot of waste from Goodhue County. Well, some of the costs of Red Wing’s misguided waste operations could be shifted onto other County residents, and possible landfill cleanup costs could be shifted onto the entire state. But are these real benefits? Alternatives: Communities all over the world are getting serious about source reduction and recycling (“zero waste.”) There’s no reason the City of Red Wing, and Goodhue County, couldn’t do the same (Except for the perverted guidance they get from the “Pollution Control Agency .”) With time and commitment, we could work up to a recycling rate of 80%, leaving a relatively small amount of stuff to be landfilled, and have solid waste management we could be proud of.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line897
__label__wiki	0.769997	0.769997	Search by Imageby Armin Sebastian A powerful reverse image search tool, with support for various search engines, such as Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu and TinEye. Search by Image is a Firefox extension which enables you to initiate a reverse image search from the right-click context menu or the browser toolbar, and comes with support for more than 20 search engines. Images positioned at the selected area are detected regardless of how they were embedded in the page. The extension also supports uploading local images, searching for video frames, capturing details within images, and searching for images from private sites. The continued development of Search by Image is made possible thanks to the support of awesome backers. If you'd like to join them, please consider contributing with Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin. A diverse set of reverse image search engines are supported, which can be toggled and reordered from the extension's options. Visit the wiki for the full list of supported search engines. https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image/wiki/Search-engines A handful of search modes are offered that serve different use cases. The search mode can be set independently for the context menu and browser toolbar from the extension's options. Search modes: Select (context menu and toolbar): select an image on the page, then search for the image URL, whenever possible. Blob, data and file URLs will still be handled as image uploads. This is the default search mode. Select & Upload (context menu and toolbar): select an image on the page, then fetch the image, possibly from the browser cache, and upload it. This search mode is preferred for sites which do not allow direct linking of images or are otherwise private. Capture (context menu and toolbar): select and capture a page area, then upload it. Upload (toolbar): select or drop an image from your device, or paste it from the clipboard, then upload it. URL (toolbar): search for an image URL. Search with a single engine, or all enabled ones, directly from the top-level context menu item, or the browser toolbar button (see options) Detect any image on the page, including those declared in CSS and pseudo-elements Select the desired image from a dialog when multiple images are found Search for images from private sites (see search modes) Search for local images Search for the current video frame Required permissions: Access your data for all tabs and websites: required for parsing web pages and performing image searches Display notifications: needed for displaying error messages The context menu item is always visible, unless it is disabled. Visit the wiki for more details. The image you select during a search is sent to the requested third-party service, such as Google Images. Visit the extension's privacy policy for more information. Relevant Firefox bugs: The context menu API is not available on Android, use the extension from the toolbar instead (1363016) The search results are opened as regular tabs on Android, private tabs are not supported (1372178) The extension is also available for Chrome, Edge and Opera. Reviews are not monitored for bug reports, please use GitHub for issues and feature requests. https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image How are you enjoying Search by Image? Support this developer The developer of this extension asks that you help support its continued development by making a small contribution. Access your data for all web sites 23 days ago (26 Dec 2019) - Search with Dreamstime, Alamy and 123RF More extensions by Armin Sebastian Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Licence v3.0 or any later version.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line899
__label__wiki	0.965235	0.965235	Hasura GraphQL Service Targets Existing Postgres Apps By David Ramel Hasura, which describes itself as the first GraphQL-as-a-Service provider, unveiled its new open source GraphQL Engine, which reportedly sports the unique capability of working on existing apps based on the popular Postgres database. GraphQL was announced by Facebook three years ago and subsequently open sourced, providing a new way to query data. It's a query language/runtime combination for querying APIs based on types, letting clients retrieve only the information they request. Its approach differs from the traditional REST-based method that typically requires depending upon servers to fetch data from multiple URLs. Hasura began providing GraphQL support to its Kubernetes APIs earlier this year and proceeded to work toward releasing its solution as a standalone product able to immediately add GraphQL APIs to existing Postgres databases, which it said is an industry first. That work resulted in last week's launch of the Hasura GraphQL Engine. "This can be used to quickly build new applications on Postgres or fast-track the move to GraphQL for existing applications on Postgres," the company said in a July 11 blog post. The tool's UI lets data developers explore APIs and create and view database tables and create GraphQL queries via an included interface it calls GraphiQL, described as an in-browser IDE. The company's co-founder appeared on Hacker News in a front-page post to announce the product: "This is a standalone service that gives you GraphQL on Postgres. It comes with fine-grained access control that can integrate with any auth provider. It can also work with any existing Postgres database as is, and allows you to expose select tables/views across your Postgres schemas over GraphQL." The news was greeted with enthusiasm by some commenters, with one saying: "Nice work. There are several competitors in the automagic Postgres REST/GraphQL space, and you're nailing documentation and ergonomics here. Your site and the Hansura Console sets your project apart from the rest." Today it was the No. 1 trending item on the stackshare site, which provides news about the tools in developer stacks. In a news release, Hasura touted ROI benefits to enterprises and organizations, saying the engine consumes only 50MB of RAM even while serving some 1000 requests/per second. The company's support plans for the open source project start at $99 per month for the standard version and $749 per month for premium, with custom enterprise plans available. While the product initially works only with Postgres -- which according to StackOverflow's 2018 developer survey is the third-most commonly used database and ranks among the top two most preferred developer databases -- other support is on tap. Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura, said "Postgres is the first along a roadmap of other leading databases that Hasura intends to support in the future." David Ramel is an editor and writer for Converge360.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line901
__label__wiki	0.894233	0.894233	Home › News › Events Preen by Thornton Bregazzi is V&A's next Fashion in Motion partner London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has announced that Preen by Thornton Bregazzi will be the next subject of its Fashion in Motion series. Preen by Thornton Bregazzi - V&A The globally recognised fashion brand, worn by celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Bosworth, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett and the Duchess of Cambridge, will showcase four free catwalk shows in the museum’s Raphael Gallery this month. Taking place on Friday 21 June at 1pm, 3pm, 5pm and 8pm, the show will feature a collection of current and archival pieces chosen to represent the brand’s loyalty to floral motifs and pagan references to coincide with the Summer Solstice on 21 June and its celebration of light, nature and growth. “As a west London based brand, having the V&A on our doorstep is such a blessing - the museum has always been an endless source of inspiration for our designs,” said Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi, who founded the brand in 1996. “Elements of Victorian culture and costume seep into our collections and the floral motifs of the arts and crafts movement often form the basis of our signature prints. We feel honoured to show our work in an institution that has been so formative to Preen’s brand DNA.” Oriole Cullen, V&A fashion curator, added: “As an important London fashion brand for over two decades, we are delighted to have the opportunity to showcase the work of Preen. It is particularly significant for us as Justin and Thea have drawn so much inspiration from V&A collections over the years.” By becoming the V&A’s latest Fashion in Motion partner, Preen joins a long list of designers who have been featured at the museum. Alexander McQueen, Gareth Pugh, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood and Yohji Yamamoto have all previously presented their collections to the wider public as part of the Fashion in Motion initiative. The fashion and design museum is also currently hosting ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams', the largest and most comprehensive Dior exhibition in UK history, until September. Dior Men Sniff Bars boost Fragrance Shop Xmas sales, but annual profits are down Farfetch snaps up Ambush brand Supreme, maximalism and sustainability dominated resale trends in 2010s Marketing and beauty, the strategies of a millionaire alliance Dsquared2: The Caten twins on a quarter-century of dressing sporting stars and superheroes Raf Simons preparing to drop new sneakers line Hollywood stars shine on Globes red carpet 2019: The year’s key moments Pre-Fall 2020 Miami	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line902
__label__wiki	0.824793	0.824793	← Roamin’ through the gloaming with 40,000 headmen….. Watching Coil….. → Fergiewatch # 3: Götterdamerung Is anyone else as bored with the Wayne Rooney saga as I am? Player Power vs Corporate Clout, Fergie v Rooney, claim and counter-claim; it’s all so predictable and tedious. Even so, there a few little vignettes that are worth dwelling on…. Fergie’s Press Conference and Rooney’s Riposte Fergie drew a lot of positive press from his performance at Tuesday’s news briefing ahead of the Bursaspor game. ‘Statesmanlike’ and ‘vulnerable’ were just 2 of the adjectives unexpectedly wheeled out. Even more interesting was yesterday’s cunningly-timed riposte from Rooney, in which he cited the club’s lack of ambition as a major factor in his opting not to extend his contract. Some United fans might disagree, but I think we might have cause to be grateful to Rooney for raising this topic. Personally, I have been furious that the club has not strengthened where they most need it – in central midfield. Fergie, obviously hamstrung by the Glazers decision to impose severe restrictions on his transfer budget, has nonetheless dutifully continued to parrot the Party Line to the effect that there’s no value in the market – a market which saw Rafael van der Vaart move to Spurs for £500,000 more than Fergie splashed out on a player he had never seen and who has never been seen since his one brief substitute appearance in the first team – Bebé. Once a way forward is decided upon – as soon as tomorrow, according to Fergie – Rooney will undoubtedly be transfer-listed and is unlikely to ever play for United again. The club will then no doubt close ranks and suggest that Rooney has been poorly advised and is motivated entirely by greed. I sincerely hope that United fans are wise enough not to swallow that. Rooney may be greedy, but he is also ambitious to win more trophies and what he has been told about United’s recruitment strategy for the future has made him think twice about tieing himself to the club he once aspired to represent for the rest of his career as recently as April 2009. Pointless, also, to talk about loyalty because it rarely exists at top clubs these days. Clubs are quick enough to dump players who don’t make the grade and United have dumped quite a few through the years. The point is that you can hardly blame Rooney for wanting to push on and win more trophies, particularly as he feels that he’s unlikely to do so at United. Footballers have short careers and probably feel that they don’t have the time to hang around waiting for the next open-topped bus to come along. The question that we should be asking is what has happened between April 2009 and today to turn Rooney from a would-be United ‘lifer’ into an alleged spoilt-brat, greedy, wantaway scumbag. Of course, he’s a badge-kisser and a bit of an omadhaun, but until now, he’s been our omadhaun. Then again, I’m sure Everton fans once thought the same thing. The Elephant in the Room here is of course the way in which the Glazer family’s tenure is dragging United down. For all the bland denials from apparatchiks like Gill, and indeed from Fergie himself, it is clear that the £80 million from the sale of Ronaldo was never available to reinvest in players because it had already been gobbled up by the Glazers to meet their insane schedule of loan repayments. Everybody – including Wayne Rooney – knows this, so why don’t they just come clean? It’s a pity that Fergie’s frankness about the Rooney affair wasn’t mirrored by an equal degree of candour about the parlous state of the club’s finances. A glimpse of the future? United beat Bursaspor 1-0 in last night’s Champions League game, apparently in front of 72,000 people, though it looked a lot less to me . This was a team without Rooney, without Giggs and without Scholes. So, could this be the future? If so, United fans had better prepare themselves for a long stretch in the footballing wilderness. Against a team our Reserves would have fancied taking on, United struggled to maintain any tempo to their game and showed a profound lack of imagination going forward. Honourable exceptions to this criticism would be Nani and Patrice Evra, who at least tried to make something happen. Also Gabriel Obertan offered some welcome pace and drive in a short cameo. Other than that, the midfield was woeful and the attack non-existent. The only saving grace was that Bursaspor were even more inept, which meant that our creaky defence was never put under any real pressure. The way things are going, this could be our last Champions League season for a while, so we’d better enjoy it. Götterdamerung Now that the pantomime season on Merseyside would seem to be temporarily over, the media will no doubt go into a feeding frenzy of speculation about where Rooney’s going and for how much (in fact, they’re already off & running with that one) but the real concern now for United fans is how all of this will impact on Alex Ferguson. It’s been my feeling for a while now that this could be Fergie’s final season and I suspect the Rooney Saga and its attendant fallout will probably only harden his resolve to quit at the end of the season. Sad to say, but with Rooney’s departure goes our last realistic chance of silverware this season. Last year his goalscoring spree compensated for the departure of (in particular) Ronaldo and (to a lesser extent) Tevez, but that clearly won’t be repeated. Fergie will know better than anyone else that whilst there is a highly-talented crop of young players just moving up the totem pole from the U-18’s into the reserves (Keane, Cleverley, Pogba, Thorp, Morrison, King) these youngsters are 2-3 years off being ready to play regularly for the first team. Fergie was trying to build a team to win the European Cup one last time and he was building it around Wayne Rooney. With that out the window and clearly wounded by what he undoubtedly perceives as a lack of loyalty on Rooney’s part, the last of the managerial dinosaurs may feel that enough is enough. Given his socialist roots in Govan, I have no doubt that having to mouth the platitudes forced on him by the Glazers regime has been sticking in his craw for a while now and this whole Rooney business may be the last straw. They made a lovely couple; the wily ‘old school’ manager with a paternal arm round the shoulder of a traditional English talent. Rooney wasn’t some fly-by-night foreigner who’d be back off to the sun and the señoritas faster than you could say ’25 pieces of silver’. Rooney was the best English player of his generation and with him banging in goals from all angles, that elusive third European Cup might just have been attainable. Now? It has to be seen as very unlikely. Some great youngsters are on their way through, it seems, but is Fergie prepared to wait another three years for them to mature? I very much doubt it. Giggs, Scholes and Neville plus Van der Sar will all probably retire at the end of the season and I have a feeling that Fergie will be joining them. Update from 22/10/10 As everyone now knows, Rooney has done an about-turn and signed a 5-year contract that will take him through until he’s 30. Can’t work out whether this is a good thing or not – certainly it won’t be if he plays like he has since he got injured back in April. Anyway, time for the next conspiracy theory, which goes like this……..Rooney will still leave United, probably in the summer. However, having signed this new contract, United will – in principle – be able to get the full market value for him when he does leave, rather than the paltry sums they would have been offered had he left with just a year of his contract remaining. Let’s see how this one plays out…..	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line905
__label__cc	0.67556	0.32444	scribbles and doodles Anya Penfold Art (and writing!) Fantasy / Humour / Misc Pen / Illuminated work Summer is over. And so much for my plans to blog more often! Anyway, a brief rundown: I got the new job! It has more hours! It is closer! The people are lovely! I kept the old job on for a bit to give me extra cash! It was harvest season! I picked a monumental amount of fruit, and turned it all into a barely-feasible amount of wine that scares me every time I look at it. The car died! The laptop died! (Seriously, I was out the room for under ten minutes, and came back to a dead brick). …My relationship died! Yeah, bummer. I won’t put much about it because privacy of all concerned etc, but it turns out me and the G Monster wanted very different things, so after eight years together we have decided to try for an amicable split. I will miss him, he says he will miss me, etc. Unfortunately, (from my point of view) this means I will be looking for somewhere else to live. I might have found somewhere, though, just waiting to see what happens next. It’s all in the laps of the gods and/or solicitors. Unfortunately (from his point of view) he now has a massive garden needing maintenance. Well it’s never an even break, is it. From here on in I’ll be (touchwood!) working all the hours I can, probably for rather crappy wages, but they do add up, and if I can keep the heid, as they say in Scotland, and more specifically keep the heid down and the nose to the grindstone, I might come out okay. That might have all been quite depressing, for anyone who cared, so I will say, a) here is some art I done recently! and b) I am now old, and never was terribly attractive, so hopefully nobody is jumping up and down with delight at the thought that I am back on the market. c) because I am not, dear lord, no. There’s gonna be a whole lotta work before I am back on an even keel, and a whole lotta belt-tightening to go with it. I might dip a toe in the dating pool around, ooh, 2022, and even then that will be dependent on a lotta things! So, as Hallowe’en draws near, the days (in the northern hemisphere) grow shorter and the leaves drip from the trees like slow, rosy-coloured tears, all the very best to everyone reading this, and may a brighter day dawn for all. anyapenfold Holiday! Part nine – the Voyage Home. In which a Star Trek reference achievement is unlocked. ‘Part nine’, my hypothetical reader might be thinking, what happened to ‘part eight’? Not a lot – it was absolutely weeing it down that day but we had decided to spend it in Kirkwall anyway, as luck would have it, doing a tour of the gin distillery and Looking at Stuff. Not being used to gin, I was, um, ‘warmed’ by all the tasters, plus the free gin at the end, but the rain continued unabated and it didn’t stop me getting soaked as soon as I stepped outside. We looked at the shopping street, we looked at the cathedral, we looked at the ruins of the Earl’s and Bishop’s palaces, but it was too damn wet to even get the cameras out for any of it so we looked at each other and went to look for a pub. The St Ola’s Hotel on the waterfront has quite a nice one, which you might or might not expect from the outside. (Expectations might include: sawdust on floor, knife fight already in progress, accidental interruption of illegal, high-stakes poker game, student-y music on jukebox, depending on what you’re used to encountering in similar-looking locations). We ate many things and we drank a few things and we hauled our haul of gins back to the apartment and that was that. Indeed, that was that, because that was the last day of the holiday, and today we had to get up early, pack, recycle, and so on, and then be flung forth into the archipelago to find something to do for the six hours between kick-out and the ferry. Given that I was woken from a series of ever-more-horrible nightmares by the whistling of the wind (and not a cheerful, ‘sing a merry tune’ type of whistling, either) I had Trepidations about this. However, the south-eastern parts of the archipelago turned out to be pretty calm; sunny, even. Summery, even. We went to the Fossil and Heritage Museum and Tea Room, two whole seconds ahead of a coach tour, too, but it turned out they weren’t going to the museum bit so we were advised to hide in there and seek breakfast after they’d gone. It had a pretty cracking exhibition on the local Devonian period, if anybody got to the end of that phrase without falling asleep, and a more general exhibition on fossils and geology. Also, I finally learned all about the Churchill Barriers and all those sunken ships you can see here and there and lo, the ships are not the barriers, they are the German fleet after WWI, only the sunken ships you can see were British and sunk to create tide-breaks for the barriers (or, causeways) and… yeah, maybe I like prehistory because there is just less to have to remember. A very great deal less. On that note, it was off to the Tomb of the Eagles, right down the end of the island. As a bonus, next to the sign for The Tomb of the Eagles was another sign, announcing, Skerries Bistro Bar and Tomb of the Otters (Both Shut Saturdays) which was disappointing because a) Saturday! b) we’d been recommended to have lunch there and c) four hours still to kill. The Tomb of the Eagles was pretty damn good though. Neolithic tomb of a people who seemed to have eagles as their totem (rather fortunate that they’ve recently been reintroduced after being eradicated a hundred years ago – the eagles, not the Neolithic peeps), and bonus Bronze Age Hut of Unspecified Activity (the most popular theory is: baths). But first, the talks. They didn’t quite hand around the skulls of prehistoric people, as we had been lead to believe, but they did get waved about for a gander at, and they did hand around a bunch of Neolithic tools, pottery and jewellery that I would not normally be trusted with. As a nice touch, we were assured that the skulls, who have all been given names, used to be up in the house of the farmer, Ronnie, who discovered the archaeological sites, and were considered members of the family. On our way to the Tomb of the Eagles, we spied a standing stone of quite impressive size, but when we got up close a small plaque said that it was the grave marker of Ronnie, ‘back with his ancestors’. Awww. I was surprisingly moved, which probably means I’m coming down with something just in time to go back to work. You can ride into the Tomb of the Eagles on a skateboard; popular opinion among the peeps we visited it with was that it was far easier just to crawl. Certainly I managed to get said skateboard wedged in the entrance tunnel not once, but twice and had to be rescued the second time. I also got chased back out by a roaring monster (specifically, the G Monster) but hopefully we will never see any of the witnesses to any of this ever again, right? The Murray Arms in the wee village at the ferry terminal (finally! A wee village at a ferry terminal!) does a not bad menu and has a cute little beer garden with a cannon in it. The rain came on as we sat outside, thanking our stars we weren’t sitting in the car eating pea-based ‘crisps’ (is there anything Lidl can’t sell?), but it is Scotland. And so. The adventure is nearly over, and all without a single whale sighting. Since the whales were in the Kirkwall Harbour the day before yesterday – but not yesterday, when we were in the Kirkwall Harbour – but are back in the Kirkwall Harbour today, when we are not, I conclude that it was not meant to be. Especially since these were a whole bunch of apparently-scared pilot whales and row boats have been drafted in to herd them somewhere safer. I shall therefore claim the moral high ground of ‘not gawking at possibly-terrified intelligent lifeforms in difficulty’, though obviously if they’d been there yesterday I totally would have, and would right now be claiming the moral high ground ot be lying somewhere entirely different i.e. right under wherever I happen to be damn well standing, because that’s how homo sapiens rolls. Anyway. All there is to do is get this boat of a car onto the ferry – next to, I can’t help noticing, an actual boat, which seems like cheating – and then drive about six hours home. All of which, so I have just been told, I volunteered for. Holiday! part seven: in which there is No Time for Old Men Today was Hoy! The second attempt. Which we actually achieved. Sadly, we could only get a slot on the ten o’clock ferry over and the two o’clock ferry back, giving us a grand total of three and a half hours on the island. The guy at the ferry office did warn us it was at least a half hour drive each way to Rackwick, where the walk to the Old Man of Hoy (a gigantic cliff stack) starts, and then three hours to get to the viewpoint and back. Even without my own calculations coming to the same, i.e. miss that return ferry by even five minutes and you’re looking at sleeping in the car overnight, I like to think we would have taken his advice. However, that left plenty of time to go to the Dwarfie Stane, which the G Monster felt was the main attraction anyway – or at least, my main attraction, since it was in no way natural. Well, it was originally – it’s an eight metre long boulder left in the valley behind the Hoy hills by a glacier, but the Neolithic peeps, for some unfathomable reason, decided to carve a tomb into it (again, without anything stronger than stones, bones or antlers). Apparently this is the only time (that we know of) that this has ever been tried, possible because it was such a monumental pain in the arse, and possibly because of the general lack of boulders of suitable size, who knows. Maybe a bit of both. I have to say I felt ever so energised just as soon as we got off the ferry. Possibly, because it had not yet started raining and the sky was bright, but it had held such false promises before. I like to think it was because I was back on my native ‘soil’, Hoy being a rare igneous part of Orkney. Indeed, if I did somehow have some sort of affinity for bedrock, think of the possible applications! ‘I would love to achieve more, but unfortunately our village is on carboniferous sediment, my hands are tied’. Maybe it’s just because the G Monster invested in a number of new Combichrist albums for the journey. You wouldn’t think they should work for the rural landscape, but for some reason they really do. The RSPB were parked up in the Dwarfie Stane carpark, and had a telescope out and everything, showing a view of a white tailed eagle sitting on her nest on the cliff across the valley. Bloody hell, that thing was huge, you couldn’t imagine mistaking her for a sitting buzzard, for instance. Think Ludo out of Labyrinth (if you’re old, like me) only with the head of sarcastic bald eagle out of The Muppets. We had been told the Dwarfie Stone was a ‘bit of a walk’ up ‘a bit of a slope’, which did confuse me somewhat. I suppose, this might be the one time ever the phrases have been said without sarcasm. Now, I had been a bit ‘surprised’ by the price of the ferry (dumbass here offered to cover it before checking the prices) and the Dwarfie Stane was certainly promising to be the most expensive prehistoric site I’ve been to this side of Giza, so seeing a real eagle, even through a telescope, cheered me up greatly. However, when we got to the Dwarfie Stane, I was impressed to discover I could actually identify the two little trees seen through the telescope by eye, and even a tiny speck that might be the eagle’s head. Sadly, my big lens was back at the apartment, for which the G Monster did Voice His Opinions of my packing ability, but hey, his camera was good enough to confirm that yes, we were looking at the right spot and he even got what I think is a pretty good photo of a wild eagle. Given the choice of a) no camera or b) no clue where the eagle is, I think a) was pretty damn great. On the other hand, it was only the other day that I failed to recognise him walking down a side street towards me, resulting in a near heart attack when he suddenly lunged at me, screaming (in his defence, he says he thought I was deliberately dingying him and only realised he was wrong when I was halfway through a flowerbed in a defensive pose). So, as I said to him, although I am pretty-much face-blind, it might mean I am… eagle eyed. His response was that I should sleep on the veranda. We went a walk on the beach at Rackwick, (a settlement which is pretty much 1. beach 2. camp site 3. youth hostel), had a nice lunch and ice-cream floats at Emily’s Ice-cream Parlour on the road back to Lyness, and spent a bit of time admiring the gun emplacements etc at the ferry jetty. These are, allegedly, relics from the two world wars and not aimed at the ferry so that car-owners who have not paid for the crossing can be duly ‘penalised’ por enourage les autres. Whales were all around as we sat on the top deck and instantly wished we had brought another three or four layers of clothing, on top of the ‘all the clothing’ I have found is suitable for Orkney weather (again, just like home). Unfortunately, by ‘all around’ I mean, ‘and several miles off in every direction’. I have tried to look them up on the group we were advised on, truly. Unfortunately, being out in the countryside with little signal, I’ve mostly had time to glean that ‘Orcas sighted Hatston’: time-tag 90 minutes ago; then neither been able to discover where they were reckoned to be going after that, nor what Hatston even is. Today, it turned out a different pod of Orcas had been playfully close to the ferry’s path – ninety minutes ago – and were heading steadily away from us. No, back towards us. No, away from us. Etc. Eh, screw it. Unfortunately, after we went to visit the 11th century Earl’s Bu church (or, one remaining segment of what was originally a very fine circular church, with a bonus mead hall’s ruins by the gate, where a bonus murder took place, with a bonus rare Norse watermill in the field just behind it), then the Scapa Flow beach – ‘we ought to’ said the G Monster, ‘it is right by the apartment’ – we discovered Hatston is, um, right by sodding Kirkwall, and ‘orcas’ meant ‘pilot whales sighted by over-excited first-timer’, and far from sodding right off, as seems normal, the pilot whales had been in the bay all that time. Not by the time we found out, of course. In conclusion: well, one cannot have everything. We did, however, have beers, and Ghostrider 2 on the telly, which I daresay was better than one would have had in the Neolithic. Holiday! Part six – in which there is a trip to the Neolithic Heart of Orkney and Comeuppance is Delivered We did indeed pay for the good weather yesterday. I thought we’d got away with it at first – the morning was overcast, but not too dark – and we were only going a short way, eh, to a bunch of talks on the various big, famous structures round Stenness. So it turned out neither of us put on All the clothes like we did yesterday, and it turned out that was an error. The first raindrops hit the windscreen just as we pulled up at the Stenness stones (half an hour early) and within five minutes there was a biting gale and we were getting hammered by the rain. We did meet some nice foreign people as we all tried to shelter behind the same standing stone (and failed miserably). Note to self: just dress for the worst, like at home. (They had gloves. God, I was envious of the gloves. It’s summer.) The talk was really good, actually, and I suppose the awful pelting added to the ambience. Someone did ask if the Neolithic folks had this sort of weather to contend with and the tour guy assured us that Orkney was actually a few degrees warmer back then – and that we’re at latitude 59 degrees, the same as where the Hudson freezes a metre deep in winter, and as Moscow, but it doesn’t get anything like that here. We don’t know anything, the guide kept telling us. We think the Barnhouse Settlement behind the Stenness stones is to do with it, what with them being so close, the same age, orientated together and the hearth in the middle of the stones appearing to be from there, but that’s not the same thing as proof. We think the same people built Maeshowe, and indeed Stenness is orientated towards it, and we think the beds are so small because they all slept sitting up and huddled against each other for warmth because that was probably a massive priority (eep!) On the other hand, they obviously had the leisure to hack out a great big henge four metres wide and two deep, right out of the rock (the G Monster pointed out that it’s ‘only sandstone’, aye catch me doing that without metal tools; he also says me hacking out a smaller area for a retaining wall with a pickaxe will be impossible). Then they hauled stones weighing several tonnes apiece overland for at least eight miles, probably without the aid of wooden rollers since the islands were scrub trees at that point, although they might have used seaweed as lubricant. (Here we are in the pub and the G Monster is telling me they could well have made roads of ice using buckets of water, if they were patient and waited for a winter day, and that’s very efficient for moving big weights along.) This much is probably true for all the stone circles around here. However! They reckon this one is the very first circle, not just in Orkney but in the whole of the UK and western Europe (it’s 5,100 years old, happy birthday to it). Which might explain why it’s an ellipse. (‘Arg say not bad, but next time, use string’.) It’s a good six hundred years older than the Ring of Brodgar up the road, I think he said, and a lot older than Stonehenge. (He also said they’ve found the bones of cattle raised in Orkney at Stonehenge, so there was a fair amount of moving around back then). Maybe stone circles were invented here partly because the rock cleaves so easily into big, thin slabs (another game you can play while driving around is ‘standing stone or gate post?’) The stones for this circle were brought in from all around, however, each of them aligned in the circle so that their outer surface points back towards where they came from, which makes me wonder if it was a sort of ‘and we all bring a bit and all build it together’ as some kind of kinship affirmation, or ceremonial ‘binding’ of the settlements or something. Hey, your man said since we don’t and cannot know the why, then every theory is true! (Personally, I would have said ‘every theory is Schröedinger true’ – like, only one (or none, if we’re all way off) is actually true, and just because nobody can ever open the box and find out which doesn’t mean ‘as viable as each other’ = ‘Totes Legit How it Went Down!’ – but then, I’m surprisingly pernickety about that sort of thing, you know, for someone who finds the word ‘trundle’ hilarious.) Anyway, the stones were cut horizontally out of their beds – apparently we can tell that now – and the upper side faces outwards, while the ‘fresh’ side faces inward; which made me think maybe they were meant to be a huge mouth for eating the sky – remember! This too is totally as true as anything! – but he went on to say one of the notable archaeologists of this place has discovered the stones of the tomb inner walls are also orientated like this, i.e. fresh face in, weathered face out, and he has an exciting new theory that the inner face absorbed the essences of the corpses inside, and then made the bones stronger in return, so the tomb itself became the ancestors, as it were, and the bones were discarded. Which could explain why the living had no problem moving them about and putting them here and there after they were, erm, clean. They weren’t really the ‘resting place’ of the soul anymore, right? The guide did say this chap – Colin Richards, I think he said his name is and I hope I have that right because I want to look up his work – is full of off-the-wall ideas. However, he does have a pretty big ace up his sleeve in terms of being right, because he discovered the Barnhouse Settlement, back in 1984, I think he said it was. Despite being right next to the Stenness Stones, nobody knew this was here, until your man drew a line through from, um, something to something, possibly Skara Brae to Maeshowe, but I could be making that up, and then went round all the sites during the spring ploughing, having a look at what was churned up (pottery shards, vole bones etc – apparently the Neolithic peeps brought voles and red deer and all sorts with them, which is pretty damn organised for people who didn’t have a cruise liner). And was there ever a lot churned up at this place! So he dug an experimental trench, which the guide helpfully pointed out on the Barnhouse Settlement map. It was exactly in between all the houses, along the only possible line which could have missed them all, so let’s hope he never played Battleship. However, he dug again and this time discovered the village, which was still a hundred percent better than anyone else had ever managed. The guide did say, we don’t know anything about what Neolithic people thought, or believed, and given that there can apparently be enormous differences in outlooks in different cultures and times; to the extent that if someone modern had been living in, say, 400 BC China, it might be impossible for them to think in terms of some modern concepts (and vice versa) so we will never know whether the Neolithic peeps even had religion as we understand it. He did say, however, that they were extremely prone to losing things, given the amount of really amazing artefacts that had apparently just been put down and forgotten about, which makes me think about toddlers and their habits – though, the idea that people who can organise something like this and have the minds of toddlers is a bit scary, really. Then again, my abilities at organisation are simultaneously a) ferocious! at work, and b) involve forgetting to pack socks, so maybe I should stop while I’m ahead. The G Monster had speculated that this place was so clustered with sites because of the two freshwater lochs, but we found out the Barnhouse Settlement predates them – that used to be a marsh, and the sea broke through some hundreds of years later and flooded the place, taking out at least part of the village, which must have been quite traumatic. I suppose wherever it got through closed up again at some point and the salt… leached out again? (Oh look, something else that I totally don’t know how it works and should look up). So even though we were soaked through and horribly cold, that was an hour well spent. Fortunately, the Maeshowe visitor centre had a wee cafe we could go thaw out in, too, before we took the guided tour to that. The guided tour is the only way to get to Maeshowe, if anyone reading this is thinking of going; you go to the visitor centre down the road, get in a wee bus, trundle for about two minutes and have a short walk. And do mind out you don’t bang your head on the way in. The guide for this one said – and I have noticed it at other sites – that the Neolithic people were well into restricting the way into sacred places; aye, look at the avenues to Stonehenge and similar sites, and the henges (the ditch and embankment, it took me ages to realise ‘henge’ does not mean, the big stones with a stone across them) round them. Also, apparently, at Barnhouse and the Ness of Brodgar up the road (currently shut, alas), there is one very big building, with no sign of domestic use, which had a hearth right in the entranceway (Barnhouse) and no less than five hearths in the entranceway (Ness) which… well, it did a good job at restricting access, but nobody knows why. One guy in the party did declare it might be a doorbell, with the person trying to enter yelling ‘ow! Ow! Ow!’ and the guide laughed and laughed and said he was stealing it. If you ever go, and hear this theory, know it was formed on this day, year of our lord etc etc. Damn, I’m pre-ruining the tour spiel, so I’ll knock it off now. The tour is free, however, and that particular guide was very good, so I’m glad we went. Even if we were soaked. Maeshowe – well, about as much is known about that as about the other sites, i.e. close to eff all. However, it does have a midwinter sunset alignment – as opposed to Newgrange, which has a midwinter sunrise alignment – only in Maeshowe’s case, you do have a three-week window, and at Newgrange I think this is the only day? However, for some reason (nobody knows! The mating call of the TV programme QI) it all got abandoned at some point, until a group of Vikings, sheltering from a snowstorm – ha the climate must have changed then – broke in through the roof. Their legend says there were a hundred of them (the twenty or so of us looked around at this point, as if trying to imagine how the hell five times our number fitted) and they were in there for three days. During which time, they amused themselves carving outlandish Boasts on the walls. “I am so and so and I carved this using [a famous axe I almost certainly did not lay hands on and would never have wrecked in such a way if I had]’ was a typical one, as well as ‘There was all this treasure and you totally missed it (spoilers, there was probably not – the Neolithic did not have any metal, including gold or silver)’ and ‘look at me I am standing on my mate’s shoulders to carve this higher than anyone’ (it could explain how they all fitted in, after all). One of them was even a high-ranking woman who joined in the Boasting (boasting was a Viking Accomplishment, as far as I can tell from the sagas, there was none of this being all backward about blowing your own trumpet. Though the Vikings did give the English language the word ‘shy’, although hell, it might well have meant ‘someone who did not kick your teeth down your throat as a greeting’). And there was a tiny, gorgeous dragon someone had carved, and I like to imagine all the others, once they had hacked out their biggest and best runes, being dismayed because Sven (or whoever) had just quietly and patiently made something lovely. one guy’s runes got much smaller as he went up the wall, and then went sideways, giving a good indication of his height, if nothing else. So, mind aflame with all sorts of ideas and failing to fathom five thousand years, I got back in the car to Skara Brae. Seeing as we had free entry and high hopes that we might get a seat for lunch. Which we did. And then, the Ring of Brodgar, though my camera was still all fogged up from all the changes in hot/cold, wet/slightly moist and I will have some pretty damn atmospheric pictures, despite the obvious blue skies. Holiday! Part five – Hoy Ahoy. In which the weather is Nice and we will Suffer for it Later Up at the crack of dawn this morning, or rather what would have been the crack of dawn if we were further south, but here the sun had been up for an hour before we were. It was a lovely, cheery sunny morning, if you don’t count the showers happening all around. On which note, that is quite a novelty of the Orkney landscape; you can see showers stalking the horizon in almost any direction you look. (In contrast to the normal Scottish landscape, where there is invariably a hill blocking out one, or two, or often three sides of the view. I mean, forming, not blocking out.) Some body of water or other too is often clearly visible from about anywhere hereabouts (I originally said ‘the sea’, but the G Monster’s mate pointed out that often they are lakes). It’s that low and flat and rolling and green that the horizon is usually further off than I’m used to, and it is not in any way like Skyrim at all. (I had deliberately refrained from investigating what it was going to look like before we came, just stuck every prehistoric monument I could scare up on a google map). I’d even say it doesn’t look so much like the rest of Scotland. Tow this archipelago into the Med and you would have a certified paradise! Although, maybe you wouldn’t need to. There are plenty more trees than I had been lead to believe, and most of them deciduous, not conifers. Almost every house seems to have a big hedge and a row of them as a windbreak, which is just like home, really, but there are also wild fuschias and rhubarb growing along the side of the road, along with red poppies (which will be about another month coming along, back home) and clumps of rhubarb. Bleak and barren, it is not. Yeah, if it looked like this 5,000 years ago, I can see why the Neolithic peeps were all, wahey! Anyway, we roared off to the ferry terminal in Houton (well, the ferry terminal seems to be Houton, much like Tingwall, which I innocently expected to be a village, is a jetty with an office atop it) to see if we were early enough to book the car over. The original plan was we could take the passenger ferry from Stromness, cycle to the start of the Old Man of Hoy walk, walk for three hours and then cycle back, but the G Monster pointed out that the hash I’d made of cycling on Rousay put the idea of making it back for the last crossing in significant jeopardy. Fair enough. We were not, however, early enough to get the car booked for the ferries back, so we made a reservation for another day and went to find a coffee and plan something else. The nearest coffee turned out to be in Stromness, which was sitting looking all pretty in the sunlight on the other side of the bay, so we went there, and indeed it is worth a look. I was expecting the ‘standard’ Scottish coastal village – the road goes along the promenade at the front and the backroads stretch up among the houses beyond, but this turned out to be a bit different – the houses all have slipways or walls going straight down into the sea, and the main road is a flag-stoned, windy thing behind them that looks more like something you might find in York or some other town that’s still all Medievally in the middle. Was I ever glad I was not the one trying to navigate it. It was all very picturesque though, and lots of people had little plant-pots of colourful flowers sat out in the street. (First, I noticed they had all the same species. Then I noticed they were all plastic. Ah well. It added something anyway). In Ell’s Coffee, the wee lassie behind the counter made conversation about how bitterly cold the wind was and how she had been woken up by hailstones (this on the most summery of days we had experienced yet). However, I was Prepared for this, this time around, having learned from Rousay the other day and worn pretty much all the clothes I had brought. I roasted later on, it is true, but that was better than shivering. The G Monster found a coastal walk that promised to have standing stones, chambered cairns (not opened) and a broch, so off we went. It was a glorious day with the sea sparkling away, Hoy sitting like a louring lump to our left (Hoy looks more like ‘classic’ Scotland – steep and heathery. It’s apparently on a different and harder kind of rock) and the wind blowing hard in our faces. Sadly it blew over the rocky beach first, bearing a stench as if something huge had crawled out of the water, taken the most gigantic crap and then possibly expired beside it, but the source was just bladderwrack seaweed. I must look up why it stinks so. What was far more cheering was watching a large rain-cloud head over to Hoy and dump its contents all over it, while we remained dry. We found the standing stones, in a field, we found some cairns up behind the field (a lot of them are near farmhouses, you can play ‘modern midden, or priceless archaeological site?’ all day) and we found an impressive ruined house on the headland, where the broch was meant to be. The G Monster eventually spotted the remains of the broch – some piled stones, looking a bit like part of the cliff, that used to form the leeward wall. The rest of it is already in the sea, and the base of the sandstone cliff under the ruined house is looking a bit undercut too, so if anyone desperately wants to see the remains of this broch (it’s possible!) I would go soon. The Ferry Inn did us a fab lunch, if a bit dear. For some reason, they told the couple of people in front of us that they did not have a spare table for lunch, and then whisked us straight off to one, which was a bit of good fortune but also utterly mortifying. We will pay for this later, I muttered. Plus, I laughed at Hoy getting the rain when we didn’t, so we will probably pay for that too. But it remained dry as we drove back through Stenness, which is where most of the Neolithic structures are clustered. I really do mean clustered, they were popping up one after another like whack-a-mole. Which… is pretty much like Skyrim after all. Back at the apartment I asked the owner about his polytunnel and got a potted life history as well as plenty of advice. Fair play, these peeps have been here their whole lives and have been mightily industrious the entire time. I also met a man buying marine supplies. ‘What a terrible cold wind it is!’ he said. Since this was the second person who had commented on it just today, I asked if it wasn’t always like that though, and he said yes it was. How was I finding it? he asked. Much like home, I confessed. The G Monster’s mate had invited us to theirs for an ‘Indian feast’ in the evening and when we got there he turned out not to be kidding. There were at least eight main dishes and the same number of sauces, almost all of them cooked from scratch, by him, and not only that he had laid them out lovingly on beds of carefully-arranged salads… well, it put the Ferry Inn to shame. It also put my attempts at hospitality to shame, but we will gloss over that. It hailed down while we were there. It hailed down later in the evening, too, but the walk home was under a clear sky. We will no doubt pay for that later, too. Holiday! Part Four – in which there is more History and all the Calories Burned Yesterday return with Reinforcements As mentioned, the G Monster has friends living in Kirkwall – friends who, in a mild coincidence, moved here recently from the village next to ours. Not only did they save us from a long and tired wait for the guest apartment to be ready on Saturday, they had offered to show us the sights, hit us up with whale sighting info, and the hubby had even volunteered to be designated driver if we wanted to visit the Orkney Brewery. Well, it would be rude to pass that up, right? Lo, today dawned bright and sunny with only a fraction of the rain we had yesterday. How typical. There were even a couple of wee rainbows here and there. It was nice enough to walk round to his place in the morning, and he drove us off to Skara Brae, where a 5,000 year old Neolithic village had been preserved under a giant sand dune until a big storm in 1850. The local Laird, who lived in Skaill House nearby, promptly undertook some archaeology and had it investigated and preserved for posterity (presumably not quite as well as reburying it would have done, but you can’t have everything). Apparently it was the owners of the Highland Park Distillery, a stone’s throw over our shoulder from this apartment, who stumped up for the Rousay cairns to be preserved too, so that’s quite nice. All our Historic Scotland cards were promptly declined on entry, which was quite impressive, because they were from wildly different dates and places of purchase. We got in eventually, however, and went to the replica Neolithic house. This is pretty roomy! I said. We went to see a Mesolithic house on Santorini one time and I could have just about fitted in the rooms if I curled up, and I do mean just about. And I do mean length-wise, not width. This one’s a to scale replica, was the reply. Oh. Later on we saw the real one it was based on. Yeah, maybe not quite as big. Much more impressively preserved than other houses of the same period that I’ve seen, though; they still had a 5,000 year old stone dresser, beds, and even strange square boxes sitting about the floor. Neolithic storage units? My favourite part was how all the houses were built into a cairn-like structure and had passageways between them, so you could go visit your mates without having to go outdoors (I assume that was the point, anyway) – once you were inside the village, you were all snug and warm and safe wherever you went. The G Monster said that once you warmed up thick stone walls with turf over the roof they stay warm for ages, too, so it would’ve been mad cosy. Someone did ask the tour guide about the floors, and apparently they were flagstones in the corridor but sand inside the houses. The first example of the ‘shoes-off’ rule? The G Monster’s mate said he had volunteered with the school trip one bank holiday, being off work, and they got to go down and in and out the ruins (if they could fit – well, the kids probably could) and that it was quite awesome. We didn’t get to do so, however. Well, the Big tour was off a cruise ship, and imagine if someone got wedged and delayed their schedule… We had a brief shuftie round Skaill House as well. I had read up on the ghosts of Skaill House on the web the night before; several, apparently, and they found a whole raft of skeletons when they went to dig a patio and refloor the hall, which turned out to be a Norse graveyard, so they… put them back where they found them, and they are still underfoot today. (I have to do something about the vast gaps in my knowledge of history, on that note. It goes ‘something Neolithic something something Iron Age Broch something Vikings something Victorians’, and that covers rather a lot of ground where I have no idea what went on.) There were Owls on the terrace, because if you have any sort of stately home open to the public it is Mandatory these days that you have Owls on the terrace so that eejits like myself can stick a couple of quid in a bucket to hold their jesses (the leather things attached to their feet, not anything personal). Why this is mandatory, I do not know, but it works every time. After that, we went to the Orkney brewery, which is round the corner, has a shop and a bar and a restaurant and does tours. The tour guide today looked not unlike Gerard Depardieu (which makes me wonder, where did Gerard Depardieu go?) but swore he was educated in Sussex, although, if Gerard Depardieu was undercover as a brewery tour guide, he probably would say that. This was a pretty decent tour, for the record. I’ve been round distilleries and breweries and stuff before and it’s all ‘and this is the big tub at X degrees where ingredient Y goes in and…’ but this guy did a lot of explaining of the why things happen. So we got it explained how the different kinds of malt barley affect the taste, and how the hops are used for two things, acids and aromatics, and therefore the type of hops is important and they get added twice, first for the acids, and second for the aromatics. And also, why the big kettles are the shape they are and how that affects the process. Definitely in my top five of tours, and that includes my all-time favourite, ‘The Fall of The Berlin Wall, Told in Reference to David Hasslehoff’s Career’. There followed a lot of beer, and an enormous cheese platter (the guys went for gorging on cake instead, but each to their own), and then we bought a lot of beer to take home so I am now bankrupt until payday. Thankfully that would be the day after tomorrow, but there remains the fact that all that painful hard work yesterday is undoubtedly undone. We got home to find a message from our designated driver’s wife saying there are Orcas in the area. Alas, we were too stuffed to roll over the moors in search of them. They will just have to come to us, if it was meant to be. Holiday! Part Three – in which Decisions are made that turn out to be a bit Disastrous Having taken the bikes apart and stuck them in the car and driven them six hours, I thought we should put them to good use. Therefore I suggested we get up at the crack of dawn on a Sunday, drive them over to Tingwall, take the ferry to Rousay and have a leisurely cycle round the island, gawking at the prehistoric chambered cairns. Fifteen miles, said the internet. I mean, that’s a long way to walk, but not so much on a bike, right? You could do that in a few hours, surely. ‘And it’s not like we’re going over a hill’, the G Monster pointed out. ‘We’re just going round the edge, and that should be quite flat’. I had second thoughts about the whole thing when I found a site including the phrase ‘despite the long and gruelling climb’, but the G Monster assured me he had had a look at the topographical maps and there was nothing of that sort there at all. We got there horribly early. Like, two hours early. There was a cold, cold wind coming in from the east, there was no cafe or office or anything open (though they had kept the door open to the loos, which was decent of them) and I realised that ‘suitable clothes for cycling’ did not so much match up with ‘suitable clothes for standing stock still in the frigid breeze’. Also, my bike had a puncture, but that was okay because we had two hours to fix it. As we did so, two women swam merrily through the harbour, chattering away to each other and laughing, and then stood in their swimsuits by their car, getting changed and chattering away to each other and laughing. The only thing chattering between me and the G Monster was my teeth. I have no idea how those two weren’t human icicles. I warmed up a bit on the ferry, but not nearly enough. There were lots of other cyclists there too, by that time, all of them looking rather more professionally decked out than me (I looked like a top-heavy woman in a miniskirt, if you insist on having a mental image of it, said miniskirt being there mainly to keep people from having to see my arse in leggings, and with a skull and crossbones cycle helmet topping it all off. I looked Ridiculous.) Also, the weather forecast had suddenly crashed from ‘10% chance of precipitation all morning, even-stevens thereafter’ to ‘80% all day’. Still, there we were, having paid the return fare and everything, and it was too late to back out now. My first problem was remembering how to get onto a bike. My second problem was remembering where the gear changey things were (I am not used to a bike with four of them. I had one, when I was a kid, and it got stuck in the top gear and that was just how I had to get around). This one got stuck in the top gear, too. I made it out of the ‘port’, up the hill, round the corner, halfway up the next hill and then had to climb off and wonder if I was going to puke or just faint. The other, skinnier, more professional-looking cyclists all sailed past me at that exact point, because of course they did. It then started raining, because of course it did. Meanwhile, my arse was already remembering how truly uncomfortable it finds bike seats, because it turns out some things you do forget. Mercifully, Taversoë Tuick chambered cairn was only a short way off. The other cyclists clearly had other things on their minds because they kept going, leaving me and my lack of fitness with a merciful lack of observers, if you didn’t count the taxi full of people who were also going to look at the chambered cairn. I am pretty impressed with Rousay’s treatment of its chambered cairns. They’ve concreted over the tops and provided helpful ladders etc, as well as fencing them off and having a little information sign. So you can go inside, which was quite a novelty, and also climb down into the lower bit, because this one’s a double-decker chambered cairn. Also, the bike helmet came in useful all day, stopping me cracking my head on the doorways. Unfortunately, we then had to get back on the bikes. By the time we got to Blackhammer chambered cairn, I was doubting my ability to get round the whole island. By the time we got to the Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn, I was doubting my ability to get round all four of the cairns in one piece, let alone back again. To make things worse, we kept catching up with the damn taxi tour for some reason, so everywhere they went there was this stout, middle aged woman in a pink cagoule, a miniskirt and a skull-and-crossbones helmet staggering after them like some sort of albatross (a tired, ageing-Goth albatross, I suppose, as much ‘Nevermore’ as The Ancient Mariner). The taxi tour went for a slap up meal in the Tavisoe restaurant nearby, which has excellent ratings. The G Monster and I went round a corner to find shelter from the wind by a ruined farmhouse and eat sarnies we’d bought in Tescos. I fell off backwards on the dismount and rolled around in a horribly ungainly fashion, but fortunately there were no witnesses. Well, except the G Monster (but we’ve been together eight years now, it’s not like he was expecting grace and agility, right?) It is only three miles to the next cairn! the G Monster kept telling me. This was your idea! he also added. All these things were, sadly, true. We saw a ruined broch by the sea, but no way to get near it. We also saw a very impressive standing stone, on a tiny island of grass on a corner between a farmhouse and the road. I did not stop to take photos of its majesty because it was on one of the few, precious downhill runs and I needed every bit of momentum I could scrape up for the next uphill slog. Which went on and on, forever and ever amen, and it was proper raining by this time and my arm was giving it proper laldy where I fell on it. (Do not dismount on the downhill side of your bike. Everyone knows that, even I know that, but by the time I realised there was a downhill side and I was on it, it was too late). The G Monster was, by this time, but a speck upon the horizon. Who rolled up at the same time I finally staggered into the Midhowe carpark? The taxi tour again. I was slightly heartened by their dismay at the steep descent to Midhowe Broch and Chambered Cairn. I was even more heartened when I didn’t slip and go all the way to the bottom on my arse, as I suspected I would. The G Monster pointed out a skua low overhead (probably an omen of doom, I thought) and we saw a lovely, fluffy little black and white and grey bird with a black bar across its eye perch on a post in the field. I think it’s a fly-catcher! I said. I shall look it up when we get back! But first, the chambered cairn. This bugger was inside a massive hangar, which was pretty impressive in itself (I’d seen it from the carpark and thought it was a very posh barn). It was gigantic, and is well worth a gander at if you happen to be in the area, even if you’re not really into this sort of thing. I did notice where the first two cairns were round, the last two were sort of barrow-shaped (long barrow, that is, not wheelbarrow) but why the difference, I have no idea. Also about a hundred yards from this is Midhowe Broch, which is also very impressive and worth a gander. As the information sign says, by the time the broch was built, the chambered cairn had been abandoned for a thousand years; and yet, to me, even when I’m trying, it all sort of falls under the heading of ‘extremely old stuff’. Oh to be around when future teachers have to explain that no, the Vikings did not use GPS, and while yes, the Romans had water mills, windmills and wind turbines were invented 600 years apart and the cutting edge of military technology during the former was the crossbow, whereas now it’s the drone-strike. Anyway, then we had to somehow get back to the ferry; and before the last sailing, too, or be marooned overnight. Despite being mostly uphill on the way out, it was still mostly uphill on the way back. This is, of course, physically impossible, and yet there it is. Worse, the wind was now against us, and though the G Monster sped down the downhill parts and off into the distance without touching the pedals, I was forced to pedal continually just to keep from slowing to a halt. Given that even I can’t be that un-aerodynamic, I concluded that it must be the ferocious grip of the mountain bike tyres; at least, I hope so. A ferry started approaching as we went, leisurely cutting through the water with a promise of hot showers and being out of the wind and this by-our-lady miniskirt. I watched the G Monster speed up, disappear over the hill and wondered if he was going to wait for me and, if not, if he remembered he had both our return tickets in his pocket. I made it to the jetty with half a minute to spare. It was nice to warm up a bit on the ferry, even if it only served to accentuate how cold and drenched I was. Shame that half an hour later we had to pile out again, which was when becoming wet and cold a second time got really unbearable. Plus, I managed to break my bike getting it into the car. Was that a stab of pure joy when the G Monster told me I’d knacked it and it would have to be repaired when we got home? I swear, it was not. Turns out he manage to fix it with his supertechy skills, though. Woe. I mean, woo! Mercifully, there were indeed hot showers. And a warm apartment and clean clothes and cold gin and a hot meal, too. Also, I got to inspect my arm, where there is a small pink point as if I had bumped gently off the business end of a set-square. Well that’s… epic. As an end-note, as well as divers and a hare and a skua, it turns out we saw a shrike today. An actual, fearsome shrike! The ‘Butcher Bird’, the one that impales mice and voles on thorns to eat later; the Shrike that Dan Simmons’ Hyperion series named the metal, invincible, time-travelling robot monster after. It was that fluffy little grey and white and black thing that would fit in your hand. Go figure. And indeed, perhaps that one was the omen of doom after all. For lo, I cycled ten miles and rued the day, and the ‘safe’ route I had looked at cycling to the new job and back is twelve… Holiday! Part Two – in which the Worst Driver in the Party has agreed to do the Drive to Orkney I’m not a terribly confident driver. I did learn away back in the day when I was seventeen, but there were rather a lot of incidents that summer, like that horsebox that tried to run me off a cliff into the river, and that time the gear linkage fell off while I was overtaking a bus and I ended up blocking the entire main artery west into the valley and causing a three hour traffic jam, and, well, I never actually had the budget for a car after that, so the whole thing was moot anyway. The G Monster insisted I should start driving again, however, on the not-wholly-unreasonable grounds that sometimes he would like to not be the designated driver, so seeing as I had the luck of having a good friend whose husband taught driving, I got some refresher lessons off him. And also got a rather fearsome number of people saying to me, upon hearing this, ‘why are you taking refresher lessons? You never forget!’ Which is not something I want to try and prove true after twenty years, using a half-tonne of metal. Especially since there seem to be rather more cars around than there were back then. But off we set, with a very tight schedule, through a part of the country I had never even visited before. We are on a very tight schedule! the G Monster kept reminding me, as we went over the big scary bridge and up the big scary hills and over the splendid scenic causeways, none of which I got a proper gander at because a) driving and b) we promptly got in behind a giant delivery lorry. Fortunately he must have been delivering crisps or something light like that, because I had trouble keeping up with the bugger. But we made it, even with my phone turning the camera on and the google maps off every time we went over a slight bump. I even made it onto the ferry without running anyone over or hitting a pole. A series of impressive causeways and sunken ships later, and we were at the G Monster’s mate’s house, where we got fed to within an inch of our lives and entertained by his happy friendly children until it was time to find the guest cottage. Which we almost managed to do. We were just reversing out of the wrong cul-de-sac when this bloke appeared at our window as if by magic. Are you lost? he said. Where are you looking for? he said. Follow me, I think I know where that is, he said. He owned the place, didn’t he. I only realised it when he ushered us inside. We have fallen on our feet with this one. It’s a palace! All the rooms are massive, the heating was so warm we had to turn it down, it’s got wet-rooms, they put in lots of thoughtful little things like washing powder for the washing machine and a jug of fresh milk in the fridge, and it’s got a veranda where you can watch Shetland ponies playing in the field above Scapa Flow. We celebrated our good fortune by dumping our stuff and going for a sleep. Bear Grylls, this is not. Holiday! Part One – in which a Break is Needed from the Old Routine So I’ve been a bit burned out recently, although heaven knows why and I’ve not been doing anything that far outside the norm. Job 1 has been quite stressful, it’s true, since the amount of work I’ve been assigned has doubled and then some, but I’ve knocked job 3 on the head for now because after 11.5 hours of work plus commute, a three hour shift of audio on the back of that turns out to mean guaranteed migraine the next day. Oh frailty, thy name is Anya, etc. (So far the hardest part of job 2 is trying to get work done while people are waving cakes at me and want to hear all about my life/ tell me interesting things about theirs. I love job 2). I then had to spend all the money I’d painfully earned working three jobs on new clothes for the new job (during which I will be keeping on the other three, in some form or another, if my luck holds). There is something deeply unsatisfying about that, but my lanyard has bobbled the heck out of all the old office clothes and needs must. Anyway, with the new raised beds all made, the lovely trio of boundlessly energetic dogs away home again and me getting to the stage of genuinely not being able to work out what day it is, let alone which town I should be getting off the bus in if it was that day, it was time for A Break. Just kidding, we booked this months in advance. I always sod off for my birthday, because of that One Time (at band camp) that only one person turned up (everyone’s had a birthday like this, right? Right?) So, once was enough, I’ve had seven months without a proper week off, I’m doing nothing but vegetating of an evening and I want to go explore some history. I looked longingly at Rome, where all my colleagues seem to have gone for a short break this year and said it was brilliant. I looked longingly at the castle trail in Germany. Then I looked at the budget. Thus it was the G Monster booked us a week in a wee cottage on Orkney. I would love to say I’d been looking forward to it. It’s one of the places I’ve always wanted to go (see under: all the places, everywhere, ever), but this one’s chock full of prehistoric ruins, wildlife, Views, etc, and I was convinced it would look just like Skyrim. Unfortunately I’m paranoid about looking forward to things, because the things I’ve looked forward to most have always turned out the most horrible of fiascos, so I now approach them with the sort of superstitious trepidation anyone with any sense would show when the gods descend to give them closed boxes of Surprise! for no discernible reason. The theory is, the trepidation will negate any bad luck resulting from, say, cartwheeling about the place, shouting “this is going to be awesome!” as if daring the gods themselves to do Something About it. (Although they know that now, of course, and are probably not chuffed). Besides, if you don’t expect anything, everything you get is a bonus, right? It was my fault, however, that we took the bikes. The G Monster’s been looking longingly at a replacement for Dogface since we had the trio of dogs over, so I mentioned if he wanted to have space in the car for bikes, now was the time. Granted it’s been something like four years since I was on a bike but they say you never forget. More on that later. First, we had to get there. The G Monster had a cunning plan where we would get up early of a morning, having packed the night before, roll into the car, roll the car up the road to a McDonalds, and eat pancakes before carrying on up to the highlands. Unfortunately, this plan did not account for the Urgent Admin Phonecall (there is always one, every time we go away. I’ve sorted out everything from insurance claims to new jobs from various motorway service-station car-parks). This time the Urgent Admin Phonecall involved HR urgently requiring info for my new job (this is at least the third time this has happened while we tried to get away from it all), which of course they only realised they didn’t have four weeks after the interview, on the very day we went away (third time, ditto). Of course I didn’t have it with me (it had to go Really wrong sometime, right?), so since that would hold everything up and I would be persona non grata with the new boss from day one, in a fit of novelty we had to turn round and drive back home to get it. In a further fit of novelty, the G Monster is actually still talking to me after that. We still managed to make the Highland Wildlife Park for lunch, however, and had enough time to meander round the polar bears and snow leopards and see a goose getting hoofed by a reindeer (the G Monster got a cracking picture, feathers flying everywhere. And fair enough, the goose did start it). Then we arrived at the hotel in Inverness and I realised I had packed exactly zero socks. Coincidentally, Packing No Socks is my biggest packing nightmare. Fortunately there was a Tescos round the corner. Even more fortunately, the G Monster was still talking to me after that, too. In fact, he got the beers in and we shivered in the beer garden for two pints apiece until we admitted it really was far too cold for that sort of thing, and got inside just before it chucked it down. Sadly, we had left it far too late to bag a table, let alone food, so we had to stand at the bar to finish off, then go back out in the rain and find somewhere else. Which we did, round the corner. So far so good. We met a friendly guy who drove lorries up to Wick, and a friendly lady whose husband is in Antarctica, building a wharf for whatever they called Boaty McBoatface in the end. What time do we have to be up for the drive to the ferry tomorrow? I said. Five a.m., apparently. And I’d apparently said I’d drive it, too. Beware the Ides of, um, April? So, I’ve spent March, and the first part of April, working jobs 1 through 3. This was Fine, honestly. I met new people in job 2, who were all very lovely, and learned just how much a different office in the same department can have massively different ways of implementing the same admin systems. Whereas in job 3 I, erm, learned about being a self-employed person (read, pieceworker) and also, the underrated art of not throwing everything out of the window in despair. All told, I put in about 100 hours of extra work, most of which will not be paid until next month’s pay-cheque, alas. Last week, however, the overtime at job 2 dried up (thus teaching a valuable lesson about pacing myself, which I will not learn because I apparently like to give value for money more than I like earning the stuff). The shifts at job 3 dried up as well, leaving me looking at an empty typing-queue at six every morning like a chump, but such are the vagaries of zero-hours contracts, as the G Monster said. All was not lost, however! For instance, we had a trio of variously-sized border collie crosses to take in for half a week! A bittersweet opportunity to reminisce about Dogface, you might wonder? Even better, they’re his old pack! My, three dogs sure are more work than one dog. I wasn’t strong enough to walk them all on the lead together, so they had to go in shifts, both before and after job 1. They had to be fed one at a time. Not only that, the evening the G Monster went out and left me alone with them, I was feeding them all (in ascending order of size), and while the biggest one was wolfing down his dinner in the porch, the other two had some sort of ruckus against the kitchen door, shoved the doormat up against it and basically barricaded the pair of us out. I honestly did not see that coming. I eventually managed to wangle a gap no wider than my hand. I then discovered my arse and doorhandles, both of which occupy much horizontal space within such a gap, are at the same height. Desperation can, however, achieve miracles. With that excitement mercifully over, I could get down to making the most of my unexpected most-of-a-week off. With bonus unexpected good weather thanks to the east wind! Instead, I spent a good half of it asleep, because it turns out three jobs all spent sat on one’s arse, in addition to making it more difficult to sneak past door-handles, play merry hell with the physical tone and fitness and what-have-you. Either that or I’m getting old. Surely, just gutting the house, putting up 36 metres of chicken-wire (small dogs may now neither enter nor leave along the front of the house without permission; they can still go all the way along to the drive, but I have a better chance of catching them at it), replacing the raised beds and putting up a trellis would not have been that strenuous a mere ten years ago? Of art and writing, there has unfortunately been none. Well, not quite none. I managed a short story for a “Grumpy Old Gods” prompt (there is a Grumpy Old Gods 1 anthology, turns out, and this is volume 2). I plan to purchase both, if funds finally arrive before the black hole in my bank balance starts expanding its domain uncontrollably, but may as well publicise them even if nothing comes of my submission; karma and a’ that. If it sounds like your bag, it might be worth a look. I also wrote a wee story ‘The City and the Dragon’ which, well, nobody who requested a swatch has commented, which could mean any one of a dozen things. Let us pretend it is a good one! It hasn’t really been all work and no play, however. One weekend, I was deputised to attend a beer festival and bring back many beers; there was also steak and Prosecco and cocktails in the evening. I am amazed I can remember any of that day. And this weekend, fresh from a day of hauling logs, I got taken out to dinner and the Love from Stourbridge tour, which was most excellent. The Poppies were at their best, I think, of all the times I’ve seen them, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin played a blinder as well, and the G Monster not only endured Miles Hunt’s acoustic set at the start but admitted afterwards that he had very much enjoyed it. Ooh, and I also had a job interview at the tail-end of last week, which… yeah. Funny story, it was for a job a whole lot closer to home, and with more hours, which is the reason I’m attempting to jump ship, but not until the morning of the interview did I read the letter properly and discover I was supposed to turn up… at my actual place of work! A lot further away and oh jeebus would you look at the time. I made it, to my vast surprise. Unfortunately, I was thrown into something of a tailspin by (re)discovering my own idiocy; that and having spent the whole week talking to nobody other than the G Monster and the canine crew, and as soon as the first difficult question was asked (hint, it was the first question) I just turned into a stumbling, stammering mess. So that was… special. Also, my colleagues don’t recognise me when I turn up unexpectedly in a suit with makeup on and so forth. That was quite nice, actually. Well, apart from the screaming. So imagine my surprise when I got a phone-call yesterday and they offered me the job. The G Monster is all delighted. Me, I’m suspicious, being of the opinion that It’s A Trap! Because it usually is, I’ve discovered. Sometimes, life just decides your wagon needs fixing, whether as punishment for hubris, a test of personal growth, bit of both, who knows, and you can tell because a) a Challenge arises! and b) you start sucking. But you try anyway, goddammit, only the more staggering and stumbling you do, the more pitfalls you oh-so-narrowly avoid, the higher the stakes rise and the greater the thump when you finally do fall over. On the other hand, if it isn’t A Trap!, that would be very nice. Summer is over. October 24, 2019 Holiday! Part nine – the Voyage Home. In which a Star Trek reference achievement is unlocked. June 2, 2019 Holiday! part seven: in which there is No Time for Old Men May 31, 2019 Holiday! Part six – in which there is a trip to the Neolithic Heart of Orkney and Comeuppance is Delivered May 30, 2019 Holiday! Part five – Hoy Ahoy. In which the weather is Nice and we will Suffer for it Later May 29, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line908
__label__cc	0.723506	0.276494	ERROR: type should be string, got "https://apnews.com/Business%2520Wire/fda0d71fa14b444793be13e4883d28bd\nCIRCOR Reports Preliminary Third-Quarter 2019 Financial Results\nBURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 6, 2019--\nCIRCOR International, Inc. (NYSE: CIR), a leading provider of flow control solutions and other highly engineered products for the Industrial, Aerospace & Defense, and Energy markets, today announced adjusted and preliminary GAAP financial results for the third quarter ended September 29, 2019.\nThe results presented in this press release are considered preliminary, as the Company has not completed its review procedures related to reporting discontinued operations and related impairments and associated tax effects. As the Company completes its review, material adjustments may arise between the date of this press release and the date the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 29, 2019.\nThird-Quarter 2019 Highlights\n“We had a solid third-quarter 2019 with continuing operations delivering 7% organic revenue growth and 11.0% adjusted operating margin, up 160 basis points from a year ago,” said Scott Buckhout, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Consistent with our stated strategy to exit commodity businesses, simplify the Company, and accelerate the deleveraging process, we completed divestures of two non-core businesses and reduced our debt by $89 million during the quarter. In October, we announced our intention to sell our Distributed Valves business, in-line with our strategic shift away from upstream oil and gas and focus on more attractive end markets with enhanced growth and earnings potential.\n“Our third quarter performance and outlook for the remainder of the year are in-line with the targets communicated in our 18-month plan. We remain committed to driving long-term growth, expanding margins, generating strong free cash flow, and deleveraging the Company as we drive value for shareholders,” concluded Mr. Buckhout.\nFourth-Quarter 2019 Guidance\nFor the fourth quarter of 2019, CIRCOR expects revenue in the range of $238 million to $248 million, and GAAP earnings per share from continuing operations in the range of $0.03 to $0.19, which reflects acquisition-related amortization expense of $(0.49), and other special and restructuring charges of $(0.24) to $(0.20). Excluding the impact of amortization and special and restructuring (charges) gains, adjusted EPS is expected to be in the range of $0.78 to $0.88 per share. The revenue and adjusted EPS exclude the results from the Company’s Distributed Valves business, which will continue to be reported as discontinued operations until a sale is completed. Presentation slides that provide supporting information to this guidance and third-quarter results are posted on the “Investors” section of the Company’s website, http://investors.circor.com, and will be discussed during the conference call at 9:00 a.m. ET today, November 6, 2019.\nSelected Preliminary Consolidated Results (unaudited)\n($ millions except EPS)\n(4)%\nRevenue excluding divested businesses 1\nGAAP Operating (Loss) Income\nAdjusted Operating Income 2\nGAAP Operating Margin\n(1.0)%\n(450) bps\nAdjusted Operating Margin 2\n70 bps\nAdjusted Operating Margin excluding divestitures 2\n160 bps\nGAAP (Loss) Earnings Per Share (Diluted)\nAdjusted Earnings Per Share (Diluted) 2\nFree Cash Flow 3\n(21)%\nOrders excluding divested businesses 1\nSegment Results\n($ millions)\nRevenue excluding divested business 1\nSegment Operating Income 2\nSegment Operating Margin 2\nOrders excluding divested business 1\nAerospace & Defense\n0 bps\nConference Call Information\nCIRCOR International will hold a conference call to review its financial results at 9:00 a.m. ET today, November 6, 2019. To listen to the live conference call and view the accompanying presentation slides, please visit “Webcasts & Presentations” in the “Investors” portion of CIRCOR’s website. The live call also can be accessed by dialing (877) 407-5790 or (201) 689-8328. The webcast will be archived on the Company’s website for one year.\nAdjusted operating income, Adjusted operating margin, Adjusted net income, Adjusted earnings per share (diluted), EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, net debt, free cash flow and organic growth, (and such measures further excluding divested businesses) are non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are used by management in our financial and operating decision making because we believe they reflect our ongoing business and facilitate period-to-period comparisons. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating the Company’s current operating performance and future prospects in the same manner as management does, if they so choose. These non-GAAP financial measures also allow investors and others to compare the Company’s current financial results with the Company’s past financial results in a consistent manner.\nCIRCOR’s management uses these non-GAAP measures, in addition to GAAP financial measures, as the basis for measuring the Company’s operating performance and comparing such performance to that of prior periods and to the performance of our competitors. We use such measures when publicly providing our business outlook, assessing future earnings potential, evaluating potential acquisitions and dispositions and in our financial and operating decision-making process, including for compensation purposes.\nInvestors should recognize that these non-GAAP measures might not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. These measures should be considered in addition and not as a substitute for or superior to, any measure of performance, cash flow or liquidity prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is included in this news release.\nThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27 A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21 E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements because they involve unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which are, in some cases, beyond the control of CIRCOR. Any statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, those relating to CIRCOR’s fourth-quarter 2019 guidance, our future performance, including future growth and profitability, increase in shareholder value, realization of cost reductions from restructuring activities and expected synergies, plans to reduce our outstanding debt and our corporate priorities. Actual events, performance or results could differ materially from the anticipated events, performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to vary from expectations include, but are not limited to: our ability to respond to competitive developments and to grow our business, both domestically and internationally; changes in the cost, quality or supply of raw materials; our ability to comply with our debt obligations; our ability to successfully implement our acquisition, divestiture or restructuring strategies, including our integration of the Fluid Handling business; changes in industry standards, trade policies or government regulations, both in the United States and internationally; our ability to operate our manufacturing facilities at current or higher levels and respond to increases in manufacturing costs; and any actions of stockholders or other in response to expiration of the recent unsolicited tender offer and the cost and disruption of responding to those actions. BEFORE MAKING ANY INVESTMENT DECISIONS REGARDING OUR COMPANY, WE STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO READ THE SECTION ENTITLED “RISK FACTORS” IN OUR MOST RECENT ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K AND SUBSEQUENT REPORTS ON FORMS 10-Q, WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED UNDER THE “INVESTORS” LINK OF OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CIRCOR.COM. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.\nAbout CIRCOR International, Inc.\nCIRCOR International, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets differentiated technology products and sub-systems for markets including oil & gas, industrial, aerospace & defense and commercial marine. CIRCOR has a diversified flow and motion control product portfolio with recognized, market-leading brands that fulfill its customers’ mission critical needs. For more information, visit the Company’s investor relations website at http://investors.circor.com.\nPreliminary Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations\nCost of revenues\nSelling, general and administrative expenses\nSpecial and restructuring charges, net\nOPERATING (LOSS) INCOME\n(2.3\nOther expense (income):\nOther income, net\nLOSS FROM CONTINUING OPEARTIONS BEFORE INCOME TAXES\n(13.3\nLoss from continuing operations, net of tax\nLoss from discontinued operations, net of tax\n(105.5\nBasic loss per common share:\nBasic loss from continuing operations\n(1.05\nBasic loss from discontinuing operations\nDiluted loss per common share:\nDiluted loss from continuing operations\nDiluted loss from discontinuing operations\nWeighted average number of common shares outstanding:\nNumbers may not add due to rounding.\nThe results presented in this press release are considered preliminary, as the Company has not completed its review procedures related to reporting discontinued operations and related impairments and associated tax effects. As the Company completes its review, material adjustments may arise between the date of this press release and the date the Company files with the SEC its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 29, 2019.\n(in millions, except percentages)\nUNAUDITED\nAs Reported\nDIVESTED BUSINESSES (a)\nBACKLOG (b)\nDebt & Cash\nGross Debt\nCash & Equivalents\n(a) Divested businesses include Reliability Services (Energy), Spence / Nicholson (Industrial) and Delden (Industrial) which were sold before September 29, 2019. Engineered Valves and Distributed Valves are discontinued operations and not reflected in the As Reported figures in accordance with US GAAP.\n(b) Backlog at Q3 2018 includes $21.6 million and $15.0 million for Energy and Industrial, respectively related to divested businesses. A&D 2018 backlog has been adjusted to conform to current period reporting methodology.\nTotal orders\nSEGMENT OPERATING INCOME\nCorporate expenses\nCIRCOR Adjusted Operating Income\nSEGMENT OPERATING MARGIN %\nCIRCOR Adjusted Operating Margin\nEXCLUDING DIVESTITURES (a)\nCIRCOR\nRECONCILIATION OF KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES TO COMMONLY USED GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE TERMS\nNET (LOSS) INCOME\nLESS:\nRestructuring related inventory charges\nAmortization of inventory step-up\nRestructuring charges, net\nAcquisition amortization\nAcquisition depreciation\nSpecial charges, net\nIncome tax impact\nNet Income from discontinued operations\nADJUSTED NET INCOME\nEARNINGS (LOSS) PER COMMON SHARE (Diluted)\nEarnings Per Share from discontinued Operations\nADJUSTED EARNINGS PER SHARE (Diluted)\nRECONCILIATION OF KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES TO COMMONLY USED GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLE TERMS CONTINUED\nDepreciation & Amortization\nBenefit from (provision for) income taxes\nLoss From Discontinued Operations\nADJUSTED EBITDA\nGAAP OPERATING INCOME (LOSS)\nADJUSTED OPERATING INCOME\n)%\nADJUSTED OPERATING MARGIN\nImpact of Divestitures (a)\nADJUSTED OPERATING MARGIN EXCLUDING DIVESTITURES\nCONTACT: David F. Mullen\nSenior Vice President Finance\nKEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: DEFENSE AEROSPACE OIL/GAS MANUFACTURING ENERGY OTHER MANUFACTURING OTHER DEFENSE\nSOURCE: CIRCOR International, Inc."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line912
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__label__cc	0.586193	0.413807	"Antifa Broke My Camera." That's the headline at The New Republic, where, if you click, you'll see a photo with the caption "The author's camera, moments before it was smashed on the ground. Photo courtesy of Thomas Hawk." Thomas Hawk is, obviously, not the author of the article, whose camera got flung by a masked guy wearing a hat that seem to say "Queremos El Rock" (We want the rock?) The author is Mike Kessler, who tells us: Journalists, myself included, held our cameras high to capture the assault as the antifas circled, raising their shields, some decorated with the words “No Hate,” to block our view and push us away. “Stop filming,” shouted a masked white woman in her twenties, pushing her shield at us. “You know what’s gonna happen anyway.”... Suddenly, from behind, someone knocked my camera out of my right hand.... another antifa picked up my camera, hurled it into the air, and got in my face. “No fucking pictures!”... To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate.... Conflating the two groups is a way for whataboutist conservatives to play down the racist rot that is spreading on the right.... For what it’s worth, I’m a middle-aged white guy. The young man who snatched my camera was also white. I looked at him and shook my head. “Seriously, man!? Is that really necessary?” It was all a bit of a blur, but I think my next words were, “Dude, I’m on your side”—meaning the side that finds white supremacists repugnant.... Hey, journalist — you call yourself a "journalist" — how about not being on any side? Have you completely forgotten that idea? Sad about your camera, but what about your ethics? Did somebody grab them too and smash them on the pavement? Or is it still possible to scrounge back somewhere in your head and find them?* * I couldn't find "We Want the Rock," specifically, in English or Spanish, but I did find "We Want a Rock": There's also "I Wanna Rock": "Wanna" can be "want a" or "want to." The song title "I Wanna Rock" is, without more, ambiguous. "Rock" could be a noun or a verb. Spoiler alert: It's a verb. In the They Might Be Giants song, you can see from the title that "rock" is a noun, but it's nevertheless hard to guess what they want. They want "a rock to wind a string around." What does that mean? "This sounds really abstract, but in order to begin wrapping a piece of string around itself, you need something to start with. Like a rock. I guess you can make a ball of string starting from nothing if you just make a tiny loop at the end of the string. But it seems theoretically impossible. It's a metaphor for getting started." In other words, you don't need a rock. But you can be your own rock. And here's Paul Simon singing what Art Garfunkel told him was his "most neurotic" song, "I Am a Rock": Speaking of being your own rock, there's The Rock, Dwayne Johnson... ... but don't think he's called "El Rock." In fact, I think "el rock," in Spanish, means rock music. (The little stone is feminine, "la roca.") So after all this, I'm going to nail it down: The camera-flinging masked man wants rock music. So it's pretty much the Twisted Sister video. Since I'm doing song lyrics in footnotes this morning, let me indulge myself with something from "Desolation Row": Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?”... Tags: antifa, Dylan, grammar, hats, journalism, masks, metaphor, protest, Simon and Garfunkel, The Rock Paco Wové said... "For what it’s worth, I’m a middle-aged white guy." In other words, too old to say the kind of stupid shit you're spouting here. (To clarify, "you" = "Mike Kessler".) There's nothing good in hating neo Nazis. It's what they say that is to be attacked, and there's nothing easier to do. But you have to let them say it first. The actual antifa strategy is to keep other stuff from being said. Some of those supremacists have points that are valid but not sayable. The leftist gamble is that you can keep most blacks from realizing that they're not out of step: these leftist guys are in fact the morons that they look like. Just as Limbaugh showed it to the right. I listened to Amy Wax on bloggingheads, for a while. She's too afraid to get to the point still. Academic habits. Put the obvious hypothesis out there and then it can be talked about instead of talked around. The elephant on the table. Easy solution - pass a law that people attending protests cannot cover their face. If they do, arrest them. I think that would survive a court challenge. So, if he is on the side of Dude and the rest of the antifas, are we supposed to feel sorry for him or be outraged that he was effectively robbed of his camera which was then smashed? You reap what you sow. "We want... a shrubbery!" Quaestor said... “Seriously, man!? Is that really necessary?” It was all a bit of a blur, but I think my next words were, “Dude, I’m on your side”—meaning the side that finds white supremacists repugnant.... That was obviously a typo. No one with more than two neurons to rub together could write that shit deliberately. The corrected but as yet unpublished sentence follows: “Seriously, man!? Is that really necessary?” It was all a bit of a blur, but I think my next words were, “Dude, I’m on your side”—meaning the side that wants to wipe its gargantuan ass with the Bill of Rights." Easy solution - pass a law that people attending protests cannot cover their face. Many states already do. They were enacted in response to the KKK, another group that, like the left, would put on masks to hide their identities while they committed violence. J. Farmer said... If The New Republic is going anti-antifa, it may be the beginning of the end. Leftist stalwart Noam Chomsky caught hell last week for criticizing antifa on both principles and pragmatic grounds (e.g. a "major gift" to the right). And of course, he is completely right. The latest round of anti-antifa is not so much because of major principles differences (Chomsky is a particularly principles man even if one disagrees with his principles), but because they recognize it's bad for the brand. The media may finally, slowly be realizing that their incessant Trump hysteria, trying to turn every story up to an 11, is backfiring on them. To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate.... WRONG. BULLSHIT. Antifa fascists are on par or much worse than any white supremacist. There is nothing more vile than a violent anti-free speech asshole leftwing progressive "antifa" with a mask, a baseball bat, the will, and the SHIELDED protected-by-media status to do what they do. They contain the desire to steam-roll everyone under the thumb of Marxist Communism. No cameras, please. Anfita's are as white supremacist as any white supremacist. + Both are Jew hating thugs. "One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate.... " Uh huh. Just keep telling yourself that, man. Derb had some nice lines this week, even though he's off the deep end on behavior-racism. I'd like to debate that with him. At this point everyone outside the crazy white left — the baizuo — everyone with half a brain knows that there are innate, intractable statistical differences between the races in behavior, intelligence, and personality: big differences between black Africans and the out-of-Africa races, smaller differences among those races. Pretending not to know that is just a social courtesy practiced to avoid hurting the feelings of persons too dimwitted to grasp sophisticated statistical concepts like "average" and "variation." Or possibly, in the case of gentle souls like Prof. Wax and Ms. Mac Donald (I've had no personal acquaintance with Prof. Alexander), it's a case of knowing but not knowing that you know. This is a phenomenon familiar to anyone acquainted with neuroscience: google "blindsight." The social courtesy observation is nice, and lines up with what Althouse, being a woman, puts as primary, though Derb is here taking as obvious what I think is wrong. There are intelligence differences that are big enough to matter on the average, but they don't lead to behavior differences that are anywhere near beyond normal upbringing. It's normal upbringing that you want to encourage, which gets to Amy Wax's point. Courtesy would work fine with that upbringing. Good character is a bourgeois value. Another good Derb line The arrow of race hatred points from the less capable race to the more capable. Antisemites don't hate Jews because they are a dysfunctional, poverty-stricken minority; they hate them because they are successful. Malays and Indonesians and Filipinos don't hate Chinese merchants because Chinese people are stupid and violent; they hate them because they are smart and successful. The more capable rarely hate the less capable. They may believe they are dangerous and untrustworthy, and so avoid them. They may feel contempt for them. On the other hand, they may feel paternalistic pity for them. None of those things is "hate," though. I think that's right, and is why talking about IQ differences is forbidden even though it's a silence that enables all our problems. "Have you completely forgotten that idea?" Assumes facts not in evidence: do we know he ever knew? Do we know he ever cared? "Sad about your camera, but what about your ethics?" Ethics, ethics: there you go again, with your white supremacism. He's got all the ethics he needs: situational prog ethics. The other seeks to stop hate, with a baseball bat and media-D protection. chuck Todd approves of antifa fascists. Hey, journalist — you call yourself a "journalist" — how about not being on any side? Have you completely forgotten that idea? Sad about your camera, but what about your ethics? Did somebody grab them too and smash them on the pavement? @Althouse, eloquently put. @rhhardin: I love Amy Wax. I read her Race, Wrongs, and Remedies years ago and was thrilled with her performance. Her first BHTV opposite Adam Sewer was a waste of time, as Sewer was simply too facile to keep up with the arguments. Her subsequent dialogues with Glenn Loury (who is miles ahead of most race commenters writing today) have all been fruitful and intellectually stimulating (on both sides). I agree that Wax knows the IQ stuff but is sly enough to sidestep those landmines. You can see that she's in the know (without her ever having to come out and say it), in this article from 2012: The Dead End of “Disparate Impact” mockturtle said... There is no objectivity in journalism today. I have no idea how the classes are taught now but I suspect they are portraying reporters as SJWs---activists for the forces of good against evil. Pathetic. To be clear, Antifa is fascist. Hate is their power. Every generation of humans must re-learn this. Not just every generation, but about every 15-25 years. You will become the thing you want to hate. You want to hate hatred, so you embrace hate to do so. That's ironic and stupid, but you do it every few years, youngsters. It hurts to learn that. It will be unlearned again about ten years from now. NC General Statutes - Chapter 14 Article 4A § 14-12.7. Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public ways. No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter, be or appear upon any lane, walkway, alley, street, road, highway or other public way in this State. (1953, c. 1193, s. 6; 1983, c. 175, ss. 1, 10; c. 720, s. 4.) § 14-12.8. Wearing of masks, hoods, etc., on public property. No person or persons shall in this State, while wearing any mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter, or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the State, or of the State of North Carolina. (1953, c. 1193, s. 7.) § 14-12.9. Entry, etc., upon premises of another while wearing mask, hood or other disguise. No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall, while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, demand entrance or admission, enter or come upon or into, or be upon or in the premises, enclosure or house of any other person in any municipality or county of this State. (1953, c. 1193, s. 8; 1983, c. 175, ss. 2, 10; c. 720, s. 4.) § 14-12.10. Holding meetings or demonstrations while wearing masks, hoods, etc. No person or persons at least 16 years of age shall while wearing a mask, hood or device whereby the person, face or voice is disguised so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, hold any manner of meeting, or make any demonstration upon the private property of another unless such person or persons shall first obtain from the owner or occupier of the property his or her written permission to do so, which said written permission shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which said property is located before the beginning of such meeting or demonstration. (1953, c. 1193, s. 9; 1983, c. 175, ss. 3, 10; c. 720, s. 4.) "For what it’s worth..." The "sides" lyric not chosen for footnote : What a field day for the heat A thousand people in the street Singing songs and carrying signs Mostly saying, "hooray for our side" robinintn said... That second quoted paragraph stands completely refuted by the totality of the article. It's like the poor banana guy's "apology" yesterday; there's no way to say the words and sound sane. Earnest Prole said... Antifa has been smashing cameras at demonstrations for twenty years. A guy who lived in my dorm owned a full-body gorilla suit which he donned for partying. (It's surprising how quickly a tequila-swigging gorilla can become intolerably tedious.) He became personally acquainted with this statute when he decided to wear his anthropoid alter ego to a local off-campus waterhole. $300 plus costs, not to mention a weekend in jail. Antifa got it from union protests. "To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate..." Reminds me of the interviews with North Koreans I've seen on CNN. CNN has this one reporter in North Korea, and he is able to interview people, but they just intone what they obviously feel they must say. It's up to us to interpret what they might really think or whether they have enough of a mind left to think anything other than what they are supposed to say. They are not free, so I don't blame them for limiting their political thought to what they've got to say and using their minds for whatever part of life is left to them within which to be an individual. But I disrespect Americans who are free but choose to behave as if they were not free. My adventures in the gorilla suit. Yes, Virginia, there are adults who believe this, and others who act as if they believe it. Antifa is composed of socialists, communists, anarchists and Jokers who just want to watch the world burn (assemble Venn diagram). "No Trump, no wall, no USA at all" is a current chant that nicely suggests the spectrum of their messaging: Conventional lefty stuff for public consumption then eventually letting the mask slip. The author presents on the genuinely clueless spectrum. What part of "Liberals, you'll get a bullet too" does he not understand? (Graffiti that appeared during a recent demo, I think in Washington DC, could be wrong). Amadeus 48 said... Re: the New Republic "journalist": Another idiot self-identifies. Another good day's work. They're not free unless they decide to be, which means losing their job. If you haven't already, you should read the multi-part debate between Jared Taylor and Steve Sailer over white nationalism versus Sailer's "citizenism." I am not fully convinced by either argument, and for whatever reason "white nationalism" writ large just does not sit well with me. That said, while my heart wants Sailer to be right, my brain fears Taylor is correct. "To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate.... Conflating the two groups is a way for whataboutist conservatives to play down the racist rot that is spreading on the right...." What Paco said at comment#1. What's with the writing of grown men in once-respectable publications being indistinguishable from that of dingbat high-school girls on social media? ("Hey, all the cool kids are throwing around the hip new vocabulary word "whataboutism" this week to totally shut down fascists and keep anybody from noticing how full of shit we are, and I'm cool, too! Please, please, tell me I'm cool!") What's causing this? Xenoestrogens in the water supply? BHP in plastics? Fatherless households? Or a journalistic variant of Gresham's law? It was easy for the "journalist" to tell that antifa is against hate. He knew it when they hurled his camera into the air, got in his face and yelled, “No fucking pictures!” What a message of love and tolerance! I feel as though I've seen it in a movie, a guy getting crushed while crying "I’m on your side." I know upbringing rules because of dog training. Every dog can be made a similar good canine citizen even off leash, in spite of the wide variety of inclinations each breed brings and is in fact bred for. If you present bourgeois values attractively, they're adopted enthusiastically. "But I disrespect Americans who are free but choose to behave as if they were not free." That's why I define virtue signaling as wearing your chastity belt over your clothes. IgnatzEsq said... More appropriate Paul Simon rock based song for the modern times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5JbnfWL3c#t=17m06s If I was President And the Congress call my name I'd say "who do Who do you think you're fooling?" I've got the Presidential Seal I'm up on the Presidential Podium My mama loves me She gets down on her knees and hugs me And she loves me like a rock She rocks me like the rock of ages "I’m on your side" calls to mind another Simon & Garfunkel song "Bridge Over Troubled Water," but I'm looking for darker iterations of the phrase, where somebody's insisting that he's on the same side as the person who's hurting him. I think there are scenes in movies where 2 people are having an argument and one tries to make progress by pleading "I’m on your side." Or is that just a big cliché. Maybe there's a "Know Your Memes" article about it. bgates said... It takes a special combination of stupid and evil to be able to say "I'm so much on the side of radical leftists who are eager to commit violent crimes against anyone they even suspect of being opposed to them that I'll stay on their side while they commit violent crimes against me". Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is gonna win! I'm on your side is being said by the right to blacks all the time but they don't notice. Via Know Your Memes: "Hey, Einstein, I'm on your side!" maskirovka77 said... I disagree with the saying, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Sometimes, that's true, but sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. Which is to say, just because Antifa gets into fights with Nazis and white supremacists does not make them "the good guys." I think they are bad guys as well...maybe slightly less bad than the Nazis and white supremacists, but they are still bad guys. To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and the other has a different message of hate and is far more violent. Help I'm a Rock I'm on your side is being said by Democrats to blacks all the time and they appear to believe it. But what has the harvest been? Funny how AntiFa burns American flags instead of Nazi ones. Gonna see if I can post a link to a thread on Twitter by David Hines, who I started following this year after some awesome posts on lefty organizing. So I've got 2 theories on why mainstream Lefty press and politicians did an abrupt 180 on antifa after comparing them to WWII soldiers, etc (you can read this without being on Twitter) MacMacConnell said... So let me get this straight, the camera man who agrees with these international socialists complains about his private property being destroyed? "I'm on your side." Bowie Bergdahl I think they like being compared to brownshirts, its all part of the gaslighting. A more effective and equally true comparison might be to how Botha took power with the same tactics and imposef Apartheid. Whose #7 jersey is that in NR photo, sports fans? By saying,"I'm on your side" this contemptible coward is saying he supports hurting people who won't at least pretend to agree with the party line. In fact he supports hurting random people regardless of their politics in order to send a message that debate will not be tolerated. And because of this, he expects to be spared. Jupiter said... The term "white supremacist" is used routinely in the MSM, but I cannot recall any instance of someone's using it to describe themselves. The Charlottesville demonstrators called themselves "white nationalists". The fact that Leftists like Kessler and the MSM refuse to call them what they call themselves is telling. Most racial minorities have organizations specifically intended to pursue their racial interests, and in the American context that is perfectly acceptable as long as they do not pursue criminal goals. The only way whites are different is that we are not a minority. But the Left tells us every day, with evident relish, that we soon will be, and their eagerness to use our dwindling numbers to damage our interests is not even masked. It therefore makes perfect sense that whites would organize to protect our own interests. The Left Fascists understand this, and probably realize that race consciousness among white people is only going to become more pronounced and widespread as they pursue their anti-white program. By smearing white pride and white solidarity as "white supremacism", whatever the Hell that is, they hope to divide whites into warring factions. And they are having a lot of success with this tactic. Many of the commenters on this blog are at pains to establish that they are not "racist". The accepted way to do this is to assert that some other white person is racist. "The racists start two paces to my right", they tell us. Sure we do. And the Lefties will eat your kids last. Whenever you ask yourself why the tens of millions of victims of Marxist-Leninist regimes are not as well known & mourned as are the victims of National Socialism, remember that quotation. I'd also like to add that that sentence would have never appeared in The New Republic under Marty Peretz. Never. Meade said... "That's why I define virtue signaling as wearing your chastity belt over your clothes." Just to be safe when signaling my virtues, I always wear my chastity belt AND suspenders. What a fool. The beatings will continue until morale improves. You know... those They Might Be Giants it that video are not the real They Might Be Giants. Hence, the word "might"? Kind of the inverse of saying "Antifa Might be Fascist" when it's abundantly clear they are. tcrosse said... They broke my camera with Love. the other media bullshit is that the non-antifas are all white supremacists. Bull. Many of the people have nothing to do with white supremacist. The anfita fascists, on the other hand, are all violent mask wearing Nazi brown shirts. Color supremacy is to one-child as [color] diversity is to selective-child. Both groups deny individual dignity (e.g. judge people by the "color" of their skin) and should be shunned by moral people. Easy bro, Same team. ALP said... Who suggested that anarchists re-brand themselves as antifa? That's what I'd like to know. This whole thing smacks of some wealthy powerful entity behind this marketing move. Doesn't it seem so...focus grouped? Madison Avenue? I don't see these antifa individuals as being that smart and perceptive to come up with it on their own. Its the same people as we saw with WTO with the same MO, isn't it? "To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate." Funny thing is, he's right. "What I saw was a photographer—a white guy, thirty-something, pink shorts, black tee-shirt; media affiliation, if any, still unknown—taking blows to the head and body while cradling his camera like a football recovered post-fumble. Evidently, he’d captured something the antifas didn’t want him to document. They wanted to destroy the evidence, and he wasn’t going to hand it over." Another white supremacist bites the dust. While wearing pink shorts, no less. The "selective-child" group is worse, because they represent a normalized state of judging individuals by the "color of their skin", which denies individual dignity, thereby representing a progressive condition in a society. And Twisted Sister's great hit song (and even better video)? "We're not going to take it." The anthem of AntiFa as 13-year-old boys. Which is redundant. "Hey, journalist — you call yourself a "journalist" — how about not being on any side? Have you completely forgotten that idea? Sad about your camera, but what about your ethics? " Ann where have you been the last 30 years? PoNyman said... "Queremos El Rock" could also have a meaning of "we love El Rock". Like "te quiero" means I love you "Just to be safe when signaling my virtues, I always wear my chastity belt AND suspenders." A style invented by famous son of Wisconsin, Liberace. It's known as The Other Wisconsin Idea. Mr. Majestyk said... I wish someone would start recording these "peaceful assemblies" with video cameras mounted on drones. It'd be fun to watch the furious thugs with their masked faces pointed skyward shaking their fists impotently and screaming, "No cameras!" That's true, but incomplete. "Smart and successful" isn't always a sufficient condition to provoke violent backlash. Envy and resentment are human constants, but it's also true that members of the "smart and successful" groups sometimes do behave like complete assholes toward the "lower orders", which isn't terribly smart. (I believe Derb himself has remarked the shockingly oblivious and un-self-aware behavior of some "smart and successful" Chinese toward "less capable" groups, and we're all familiar with the punch-worthiness of certain "smart, successful" and egregiously patronizing white liberals toward the same.) When events go south, the smart and successful who aren't assholes get caught up in the mess, because that's what happens when things fall apart. Envy and hatred also arise from historical grievances (real or less-than-real but carefully nurtured), even when the aggrieved group is clearly not "less capable" by any objective measure. Crimso said... "To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas." Perhaps, but as to the specific issue of his camera, how many times have white supremacists smashed it and how many times has antifa smashed it? Next time (assuming there is one) he covers a white supremacist rally (assuming there is one), will he fear the white supremacists more or his pals in antifa? Zach said... I feel like such a trendsetter, getting beaten up by a black block for taking pictures of a Berkeley demonstration in 2015. Hey, journalist — you call yourself a "journalist" — how about not being on any side? I agree with the sentiment, but this is a guy that's getting assaulted for no reason. It's not like I'm a fan of police brutality, which is what my demonstration was ostensibly about. The thing he doesn't realize is, it doesn't matter. Those guys came out to beat somebody up, and today they decided it was going to be him, for holding a camera. Tomorrow it will be somebody else, for some other reason. Have white supremacist assaulted journalists at these protests? Seems to me that if there's no equivalence, they clearly have. For the record, I've also been at a counter protest of an actual Nazi march (literal Nazis, in Germany). It was very peaceful, and I took lots of pictures. And it had an overwhelming police presence, making sure that neither group started anything. Once you give people the idea that certain events are fair game for street violence, you start attracting the sort of people who like street violence. Berkeley needs to change their tactics before they become Riot Disneyland. holdfast said... The Left, including this MSM tool Kessler, has been brainwashed to believe that being "racist" (i.e. just having racist thoughts or saying racist things (and yes, they have a pretty loose definition of "racism" - but even under a reasonable definition, Neo-Nazis qualify)) is literally the WORST THING EVAH! Worse than committing assaults. Worse than $million of property damage. Worse than attempted murder with a bike lock. Worse than shredding the First Amendment. They lack any sense of proportion or reality. As a Jew, I am in no way happy to see these basement-dwelling Brownshirts spewing their bile - it makes me queasy - but it's a hell of a lot less dangerous for a few losers to do their pathetic seig heils than to see American streets turned into a battlespace. Racism (real racism - not just ideas the Left does't like) is bad. It can be argued down. It can result in social ostracization. And sometimes it can even be ignored to death because the purveys are pathetic attention seekers. But it's the AntiFa left that is usually throwing the first punch, bottle of urine or molotiv cocktail. That makes them the instigators of violence (a crime) vs just purveyors of hate (generally not a crime). So yeah, the criminals are the worse actors. Right. Because it's not like AntiFa hates: - The American Flag, - The First Amendment, - Starbucks, - Conservatives, - Capitalism, - "White Culture" (WTF that is), and - Pretty much anyone who doesn't 100% toe their line. Nope, everything they do is out of love. Sure the Nazis and Neo-Nazis' hate comes from pure racism, while AntiFa's hate sources are more diffuse, but it's still all hate. Annie C. said... Liberace was from Wisconsin? Fernandinande: To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and the other has a different message of hate and is far more violent. Also, antifas actually exist. Genuine white supremacists are kinda like Sasquatch - there are many claims of sightings over the years, they haunt the imaginations of certain groups, but the documentation is sketchy, and tends to suggest that they're more likely to be an FBI plant/hoax than a real thing. As opposed to "white nationalists", or "white identitarians", who are quite rare but documented to exist. "Liberace was from Wisconsin?" The Antisequinists toppled his statue years ago, but yeah, West Allis. Now I Know! said... So, Ann can not bring herself to say that she's on the side that finds white supremacists repugnant? I am glad that Ann can do posts that are critical of those in the antifa group who are violent. I hope those assholes get arrested and face the full force of the law. But for some reason Ann can't work up the same outrage towards violent white supremacists. For some reason.., Bill Peschel said... If there's any kind of rock going on, it should be Tim Curry Doing The Rock. There's a song that can be updated for current times. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un Rouhani and Obamo Everyday negotiate us Closer to disastro How many loyalty oaths are required? Here's one. Neo-Nazis are pathetic scum, and violent ones should rot in prison along with the violent AntiFa. But for some reason Ann can't work up the same outrage towards violent white supremacists. For some reason.., Presumably there's some sort of liturgy one can recite each day to absolve oneself of white supremacy. There's lots of equivalence between AntiFa and the Nazis. Lots, both use Nazi tactics, but one has friends in high places. I think a nation where Antifa got it's way would be at least as bad as one run by Nazis, and so far in the media, Antifa gets its way. Thank God for Trumpism. Although I have and have always had disagreements with Trumpers, I can't engine anyone else in politics having a chance against this insanity. Maybe Reagan, but since him, submission has been the defining quality of Republican politicians, and it's been a waste land. Nothing illustrates love and peace like a group of black-clad, club-wielding anarchists. Antifa has a long history and that history is little more than anarchists destroying stuff mostly for fun. It's political message is not popular except as unserious posturing, and its tactics are despised. Making the fighting of Nazis and white supremacy the new face of their brand is just an attempt to gain legitimacy and give themselves cover to hide their shallowness. The dumb people actually fell for it for a while. That's running out. "Ann can't work up the same outrage towards violent white supremacists." Maybe you could show us some. Here is what the ones I've seen look like. Antifa have shown up at one right-leaning gathering after another this year to administer random beat-downs with everything from metal poles to bike locks to bear spray, causing multitudinous injuries and large-scale property damage. Back in February, they literally set fires on the Berkeley campus, smashing windows as they rampaged through the city streets, to prevent Milo Yiannopoulos from appearing, even though the professional provocateur frequently speaks about his penchant for sex with black men, which used to count as a social-justice twofer during less polarized times. Now, it's your turn. buwaya said... I have some ancient Nikons that would serve well as weapons in street fighting. A Nikon F with an old 300/4.5 Nikkor makes a marvelous club. Modern cameras have lost this old alternative function. Roughcoat said... Derb needs to get out more. Or binge watch episodes of "Cops" and "Live PD." All those dumb-ass meth'd up white guys shirtless or clad in wife-beaters getting busted after their wives called in a domestic abuse report . . . Definitely not an advertisement for race intelligence. Greg Hlatky said... The Old Bolsheviks died in the cellars of the Lefortovo screaming "What for?" Journalists will regret their original complaisant attitude to Antifa. By that time it will be too late. I am Iraq. I am an island. "Koba, why do you need me to die?" Said Bukharin just seconds before Yezhov put a bullet into the back of his neck. The right in America is individualist. The center in America is conservative, classical liberal tempered by Judeo-Christian religious/moral principles, which recognizes individual dignity and intrinsic value. The left is a progressive liberal (i.e. divergent) menagerie of groups ranging from national socialist to antifascist fascists to class/color diversitists (e.g. racists) that are organized under an established quasi-religious/moral Pro-Choice "Church". There is no equivalence between a philosophy that recognizes individual dignity and others that deny it (e.g. color diversity, sex diversity, color supremacy). There are tyrants and then there are tyrants. E.g., the Yezhovshina was vastly more terrible than the Porfiriato by many orders of magnitude. Diaz did not murder his opponents, he isolated them with transfers to the provinces. Arguably Mexico today would be better off under another Porfiriato. But that's the Latinos for you. Jim at said... "Its the same people as we saw with WTO with the same MO, isn't it?" Yep. Leftists. Fifth-column, totalitarian leftists. Treat them as such. "You know... those They Might Be Giants it that video are not the real They Might Be Giants." Oh, thanks. How can you tell? I thought they seemed lacking in punch, but that's the way I remembered TMBG. Will do another search. Why did that come up on top? Etienne said... Can't fing a good TMBG video for this. Will just keep these guys. I don't say they're TMBG, and they're pleasant enoy. ""Ann can't work up the same outrage towards violent white supremacists." Few of us can, becuase it's 2017, and they really aren't a threat. They are already marginalized and jailed when violent, which is what you do with racists in a civil free society. It's also what you do with violent extremists like Antifa who also seem to have a lot of racists in their ranks, as well as a racist message out front. It's time we start doing with Antifa what we did to the KKK. When we get there, we can start talking about them as equal threats. Right now there is only one of these groups really threatening the country and its values, and they are being glossed over and even supported by Democrats, just like the KKK was long ago. What is it about violence, totalitarianism, and racism that Democrats and the left just can't resist? Nobody is on the Nazi side, but you are on the wrong side even by your own values. @Roughcoat: This is a straw man built from statistical ignorance. When discussing average IQs, we are always discussing groups, not individuals. The point is that if you draw the distribution curves, there will be significant overlap but the group averages will not be the same. So, for example, while about 50% of European-Americans have IQs over 100, only about 16% of African-Americans do. Conversely, only about 16% of European-Americans have IQs under 85, while it's 50% for African-Americans. Still, when you are talking about millions of people, there will be many, many black Americans with higher IQs than many, many European-Americans. In other words, the existence of very smart African-Americans and very stupid European-Americans does not refute anything I have just written. And as for domestic violence calls, it's worth noting that black women make up about 6.5% of the population but are typically about 25% of the domestic violence victims. Hyphenated American said... In the old USSR, the old bolsheviks would shout "Long Live comrade Stalin" when the NKVD agents were lining them up against the wall for execution. Same here at the New Republic. Left-wing fanatics are incorrigible. "The Old Bolsheviks died in the cellars of the Lefortovo screaming "What for?" Journalists will regret their original complaisant attitude to Antifa. By that time it will be too late." They died screaming "long live comrade Stalin"... it's far worse. The problem with street violence in the US is that no-one with assets worth being sued for can afford to indulge. They probably love the term Antifa because it sounds cognate with intifada. You know, the only feeling I can muster on this is regret that the violent thugs didn't smash Mr. Kessler's head. Seriously, you're a journalist declaring that you're on the side of violent thugs who oppose the First Amendment, and you still think you're on their side after they make it utterly clear by attacking you for trying to exercise your First Amendment rights? "Then they came for the journalists, but I did not speak out, because although I work as a journalist, I'm a totalitarian thug in my heart." JPS said... "Dude, I'm on your side" I used to wonder why the purges got so much more attention than Stalin's other, much more prolific mass murders. I'm pretty sure it's because they happened mainly to loyal communists. (I'm on your side!) Whereas the kulaks? Probably had it coming.... Anyway, he was fighting fascism so it was all good. Yet the article has the phrase 'white supremacy' 10 times. What we need is a 'white supremacy' drinking game from now on. Every time the media mentions that phrase, you take a shot of hard liquor. Anyone who survives this game by 2020 has an amazing liver. Ann said.. But I disrespect Americans who are free but choose to behave as if they were not free. Is Ann taking the red pill finally? Will she go on the Joe Rogan podcast next? Start blogging pepe memes? Praise Kek. Inga...Allie Oop said... "Genuine white supremacists are kinda like Sasquatch - there are many claims of sightings over the years, they haunt the imaginations of certain groups, but the documentation is sketchy, and tends to suggest that they're more likely to be an FBI plant/hoax than a real thing." So you would like people to think. You may want to deny what you are, but your comments give you away. So there is "no equivalency" between antifa and neo-nazis? Antifa that goes around burning buildings and assaulting people, and neo-nazis which have not even made an appearance at 90% of antifa riots, have not started a riot anywhere, have not assaulted anyone until attacked by antifa, have just tried to have peaceful (even if supremacist) rallies? No, there is no equivalence, especially when Milo and Ann Coulter and Trump are lumped in with the imaginary nazis. The problem with "White supremacy" is when Ben Carson is being called a white supremacist and Ben Shapiro is being called a Nazi, maybe, just maybe we should take a hard look at how we're using these words. Or maybe people are just anti-Bennists. J. Farmer @ 2:14 PM: All true. And totally beside the point, which you missed -- not for the first time -- that I was making . . . about Derb. But, you got to ventilate. With impressive erudition. There is another way to compare antifa and white supremacists: white supremacists are unlikely to get the laws changed and their goal is closer to getting some white respect. Even at the worst, white supremacy would still entail a nation, though an unjust one. In contrast, antifa wants to destroy the US, destroy capitalism, kill the police, burn the flag, kill republicans and ban them, and destroy free speech. That is, they want to burn it all down. I think that is WAAAY worse. Some of the Antifas are out-and-out Maoists and admirers of the North Korean regime. I've read plausible reports that the woman who led the mob that destroyed a Confederate statue in Durham and the woman who died in Charlottesville are among them. I would think that any sensible person would realize that those two political opinions combined make someone every bit as bad as a Nazi, even leaving aside Antifa's much greater propensity to violence. After all, Mao was the greatest mass-murderer of the 20th century, while Hitler was only in 3rd place (Stalin in 2nd). Mao's heirs are still in power in China, while Germany has been thoroughly deNazified and real Nazis have had no power anywhere in the last 72 years, though a few Fascistic regimes like Franco's hung on a lot longer. As for North Korea, Kim Jong Un was and is building nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles and openly threatening to fire them at the U.S., most loudly during the very week of the Charlottesville riots. That makes his American supporters morally equivalent to traitors, even if they are not legally such. All in all, it's like a "Hold my beer" joke. Ordinary Americans tend to assume that being a swastika-waving Nazi is the worst political position anyone could possibly hold, and Antifa says "Hold my beer! Let me show you one that's even worse!" A rabbit was caught trying to escape from The Soviet Union. When the border guards asked him why, the rabbit said, "I heard a decree that all camels were to be castrated." The guards scoffed, "You're a rabbit!" The rabbit replied, "Right, but if they catch you and cut off your nuts, then prove that you're not a camel!" So anyone can eventually become a white supremacist. HoodlumDoodlum said... To be clear, there can be no equivalance between GOOD antifa people who steal my shit, destroy my property, assault and batter me, gang up to beat people in the streets and BAD white supremacist people who say mean things while wearing stupid symbols and walking down the street in public. It is not possible to hate the Media enough. Remember when journalists proudly stated that they were neutral when covering Americans in the Vietnam War...that they weren't on the side of the US troops? The famous example was some famous journo on a news program being asked if he would give away a VC ambush to protect US lives, and he proudly said he would not. Not on anyone's side, you see. It's a cliche, but worth remembering: they aren't anti war, they aren't anti violence--they are on the other side. The Media is the Left. Nazis and Communists. The only good ones are the dead ones. In a just world, they all would become good. Old socialist slogan: liberals get the bullet too. We Want the Rock. In sports, the ball is often called the rock. So we want the rock could mean we want the ball, which can mean "we want to be in charge now." Einstein had brown eyes, Einstein. We want the rock Give it to 'em. To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate... No evidence at all to support that antifa "seeks to stop the hate," beyond their own transparently fake assertions. This "journalist" is peddling their lie. Conflating the two groups is a way for whataboutist conservatives to play down the racist rot that is spreading on the right... ...now that the intellectual rot has completely consumed the left and has nowhere to go. It's disappointing that even today, there are people and sects that will deny individual dignity and judge others by the "color of their skin", and that a progressive psychopathy such as color, sex, etc. diversity could every be normalized in a civilized society. Then there is the twilight faith and Pro-Choice quasi-religious/moral philosophy that denies lives deemed unworthy, inconvenient, and unviable; and Planned Parenthood et al's resumption of the Nazi's clinical cannibalism; processed under a quasi-legal layer of privacy, no less. Progress, unqualified. Roughcoat to J.Farmer: All true. And totally beside the point, which you missed -- not for the first time -- that I was making . . . about Derb. I guess I missed your point, too. Were you suggesting that Derbyshire doesn't understand statistical distributions, or thinks that all white people are smarter than all black people, or doesn't believe in the existence of dumb, highly dysfunctional white people? (All those assertions are false.) Otherwise, I don't get your point. Bad Lieutenant said... Interesting, and somewhat strange, that empty far doesn't trust leftist or generally mainstream journalists and photographers to cover and back them and censor themselves if they capture something bad. They've always done that. They always will. Those moments are only used against the right. I suppose because the people who go into that line or of the left. Or are controlled by those who are. Or are just blocked. HoodlumDoodlum, 4:05: Why, yes, I do remember: http://tinyurl.com/ybmwvqlw I think Wallace was trying to uphold the ideal of pure disinterestedness, one I support in principle and would absolutely violate in this hypothetical. (My career is not more important than their lives.) It's not fair to ask it of Wallace, who has passed on (and whose son seems to be a newsman with some integrity). But I wonder how many journalists today would agree with Wallace that journalistic objectivity requires them not to warn their country's soldiers; and also agree with their colleagues who argue that Trump is simply too dangerous for them to be neutral and objective, and that they shouldn't be when covering him. walter said... Fighting hate with violence..feeling so righteous about it wanting no record of it, many wearing masks. The Revolution kills its own. That is standar operating procedure. Which is why they call themselves Dead Men Walking. I don't know any neo-Nazis, KKK members, or antifas. Where do these people come from? I believe that there are more transgendered people than members of these groups. I just hope that these protests don't distract us from the more important issue of transgendered bathrooms......I don't think that America is in any danger of being taken over by the Nazis or the Maoists any time soon. I have heard rumors though that Trump supporters are trying to take over the Executive Branch of our government. These rumors are unsubstantiated,and I don't see that happening anytime soon either. After a successful stay at the reeducation and indoctrination camp: It's quite an achievement to be able to say that after being bashed about by a crowd of antifas. I think the message he learned at camp was that race based hate is bad, but ideological-political hate is acceptable and even desirable in the right circumstance. "Kruschev was almost killed when German planes bombed his command post. He was south of the city when German Messerschmitts attacked Soviet bombers heading for the front. Their planes in flames, several Soviet pilots bailed out, only to be fired on by Soviet infantry who mistook them for Germans. Kruschev remembered how one pilot screamed, "I'm one of you! I'm one of you!" Then there was a burst of machine-gun fire, and it was all over." --Kruschev, The Man and His Era, by William Teiber, p. 67 "I'm you. I'm just like you." -- Linda Tripp “Dude, I’m on your side” Funny, that's what every good party apparatchik said as the NVKD dragged them to the Black Maria. One has a message of hate, and one seeks to stop that hate... The latter is such utter bllsht. (and they say black is slimming). The Dead End of “Disparate Impact” Here's the full (93 page) version: "Disparate Impact Realism" "Democrat operatives with bylines excusing Democrat operatives with baseball bats." Gk1 said... I'm glad his camera got smashed. I hope he gets his head bashed with a bike lock next time since he is too nuanced to see thuggery happen even with his own eyes. Maybe a gaping head wound will get the point across. The problem for Antifa, German National Socialists, Chinese Communists, Zimbabwean Marxists, "=", etc.... the civil rights rackets, generally, is that their business is to extrapolate from the minority to paint the majority with an unprincipled brush in order to manufacture leverage that will offer disparate advantage (e.g. monopoly formation) over their competing interests (e.g. political, economic, religious/moral). This is clearly an intolerable progression that denies individual dignity, intrinsic value, and often their competitors' lives. Michael The Magnificent said... I have some ancient Nikons that would serve well as weapons in street fighting. A Nikon F with an old 300/4.5 Nikkor makes a marvelous club. I have an FM3a, milled from a solid block of sex (brass), that you'll have to pry from my cold dead hands. I wouldn't waste it on some POS brainless commie-pinko-marxist-lenonist-maoist. My wife and I saw They Might Be Giants earlier this evening. So far as I can recall, they didn't play the string and rock song. Gahrie said... The famous example was some famous journo on a news program being asked if he would give away a VC ambush to protect US lives, and he proudly said he would not. Not on anyone's side, you see. The irony is , while willing to use the media as willing dupes, our enemies reflexively consider the media to be U.S spies anyway. @Fernandinande: The Dead End of “D Thank you for the link. I was not aware the full paper was available without going through a firewall. Roughcoat: Apologies for that. Care to elaborate on "the point...about Derb" you were making? I reread your original comment and am not sure what I have missed. It would be even more fun if they were also equipped with reservoirs and spray nozzles dispensing urine on them at the same time. I believe that Roughcoats "point" was that the visual evidence of television clearly shows that White people behave disfunctionally, so that should shut Derb up and give people of color a pass. What I would be interested in investigating is how often similar footage featuring people of color are deep sixed so as not to "promote" racism. @Gahrie: I am still confused, but perhaps I missed the original context. "Should shut Derb up" about what, precisely? This is common practice. BART in San Francisco recently refused to release surveillance video out of fear of reinforcing stereotypes. And it has been common practice for years for news articles to discuss the behavior of groups of "teens" or "juveniles" without ever making note of their race. The preponderance of cell phone cameras and social media have made this tactic more difficult to continue, however. Spend 10 minutes on WorldStarHipHop.com and you can see for yourself. MayBee said... I wonder if they all think that Orwell's characters knew they were practicing goodthink or if they realize many of the characters in the books were voluntarily saying the approved phrases because they thought it sounded actually good I guess I'm trying to say not all the Orwellian characters knew they were being Orwellian. Mike Kessler needs to do some thinking about this donald said... Glad his camera got smashed, hope next time he gets his fucking eye put out. What a pussy. furious_a: Which group fields more waddling, puffy, physically pathetic specimens: tiki-torch nazis or antifas? I wonder if that's part of the problem - poor diet and lack of physical activity among young people leading to all kinds of mental squirreliness. I'm only half-joking. Sound body, sound mind. It's disturbing how grossly overweight, soft and slack so many young people are these days. Even moderate overweight and lack of youthful muscle tone used to be unusual among people in their late teens/twenties. The FM3 is a nice camera, but not actually intended for warfare. I have an FM(same chassis as the FM3), F, F2, and a bunch of giveaway Nikkormats. The F is my first choice for fatal assault, the Nikkormats a close second because they, durable and functional though they are, are also drugs on the market and expendable these days. For actually taking pictures my choice are my Pentax MX and LX, elegant tools from a more civilized age. "No Trump, no wall, no USA at all!" , enough said. They are nothing but a Maoist bag of yeast infected vaginas. Angel-dyne observes: I'm only half-joking. Sound body, sound mind. It's disturbing how grossly overweight, soft and slack so many young people are these days. Even moderate overweight and lack of youthful muscle tone used to be unusual among people in their late teens/twenties. I have read articles that claim that 70-75% of today's youth are unfit for military service due to obesity, drug use and educational deficits. How have the white supremacists fallen so low that they have forgotten how to make proper torches, and at the same time, they are in the ascendency? It's a mystery! Call "AntiFa" what they are, the white left. They probably think they would be spared in a black revolution. But they would likely be the first targets. I can just hear their final words: "Hey, bro, I'm on your side!". And the response: "Who you callin' bro, white boy?!" The "journalist" says to antifa "I'm on your side!" Antifa = democrat = media. Seriously, this "journalist" does not see the inconsistency of the fact that the side that he says "wants peace and is not violent" broke his camera, hides their faces and does not want their actions filmed? SDN said... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8iT1UHnjI Firehand said... I could be mistaken, but I think "We want the rock" is from the fight over Gibraltar. Antifa = democrat = media = public school teachers organizing BAMN, By Any Means Necessary. Yorick said... His line about being on their side reminds me of Pappy O'Daniel at the end of O Brother: "Sounds like Homer Stokes is the kind of fellow that wants to cast the first stone. (Boos) Well, I'm with you folks. I'm a forgive-and-forgettin Christian." Immediately after the mob had just run Homer out on a rail. Isn't the Rock a synonym for the island of Alcatraz? Could it be that the idea behind the (La Raza?) message is: We Mejicanos Want San Francisco (Along with the Rest of California) Back? Inkling said... What's happening here is much like the disillusion some on the left began to feel for Stalin in the late-1930s even before he made his pact with Hitler. Starving perhaps four to five million Ukranians to death and sending millions of other people to Siberia had been OK for them. Such people weren't the progressives and they deserved their terrible fate. Ah, but when Stalin in his paranoia began to turn on his own, still-loyal agents of repression and death, that was too much for the Western Left. Then and only then did some of them become outraged. We're seeing the same here. It is OK when Antifa attacks alt-right people. But outrage is the response when "Antifa Broke My Camera." To be clear the so called antifa has spent most of its existence rioting against WTO and G20 meetings and pushing other left wing agendas. This is why the journalist argues he's on ttheir side although he tries to hide that. They have never been primarily opposed white supremacists mostly because those groups are powerless and thus until the left's most recent freakout opposing them was a waste of time. DeVere said... White supremacists are the equivalent of Black Lives Matter and Farrakhan and other black supremacists. Antifa is an anti free speech movement. They all seem to want the same result, a totalitarian country balkanized by race. Alec Rawls said... The lack of ethics is not in the side taking. A person can be on one side and still analyze a conflict honestly and objectively and report it honestly and objectively. These qualities often will LEAD to taking a side. The reporter's lack of ethics is in thinking that Antifa's claims to be anti-racist justifies its attacks on other people's rights to speech and assembly. Indeed there is no comparison between the two sides. Only Antifa plans as a group to criminally attack other people: the "racists" (which to Antifa and probably to the reporter means anyone who voted for Trump). Others groups have planned to defend themselves and so far only one person (even from the tiny actual racist group) has responded with violence beyond self defense. One criminal vs an entire nationwide criminal movement. The problem with modern 'reporting' is that journalists think it's their prerogative--even their duty!--to make moral judgment on stories rather than to just report them. This is just wrong! We, the public, can analyze and judge news for ourselves. As Jack Webb used to say, 'Just the facts, ma'am.' Why would they consider that a problem? Academic leaders are giving their students the opportunity they wish they had taken advantage of. What better way exists to ensure your campus fills with acolytes than to publicize that the wrong sorts of people will be violently intimidated with the full support of the administration? I was in Berkeley in 1970 and it was very much like it is now. Riots are what Berkeley lives for. It has its own culture and is not likely to change. autothreads said... Anfita's are as... supremacist as any white supremacist. + Both are Jew hating thugs. The difference between the two groups is that Antifa (and their Jew-hating buddies in BDS) is much closer to the center of power. Nobody in the mainstream conservative or libertarian movements is sympathetic to white supremacists (who ideologically belong on the left anyhow). It took who-you-gonna-believe-your-ideology-or-your-own-lying-eyes videos of Antifa thugs dogpiling and beating down people they assumed were Nazis, and presumably some brutal internal polling that showed that Americans overwhelmingly aren't thrilled with leftist totalitarians, for Pelosi and the Dems' house organs NYT & WaPo to about-face on Antifa. RonF said... Want to spot who the fascists are at a public event? Simple. Look for folks who all wear clothing that look alike, cover their faces, smash property and assault people who say things they don't like and assault the people who would record them while they're doing it. Those are fascists. And they're taking pages right out of the Nazi playbook. Ruprecht said... Antifa loves Communism which killed tens of millions of people but killed them for political reasons. Fascists Americans love Nazi's which killed six million people but killed them for racist reasons. So this journalist is ignorant, or simply offended by WHY the millions were killed as if killing them in the name of communism is just an acceptable necessity or something. So many layers of nonsense in that article. Whataboutism (no; it is aboutism; showing the left is as bad as the far right)... smashing a camera to hide what they're really up to from the public... antifa violent socialists being against hate. So; clue free they can't get it even when attacked in person... Leora said... There is an anti-mask law in Virginia: § 18.2-422. Prohibition of wearing of masks in certain places However laws like this need to be enforced to be effective. Charlottesville is a rural college town with a small police force. It seemed odd to me that the Virginia State Police were not more pro-active. The only reason we know they were there is that a couple of policemen were killed in a helicopter crash after the disturbance. I think the governor wanted things to get out of hand for political gain. I think it's not going the way he expected. To some degree; Americans deserve what they get for refusing to take the threat from the seriously. Not like they were not warned... and if they want to buy the left's stories about classical liberals being right wing nazis... hey; that is on them... I'll get out before it gets bad. Like my relatives got out to come here before me... Now THAT is a lie of Goebbels size. No equivalence? They are exactly equivalent: what motivates the would-be Nazis? Race. What motivates the Blackshirts (historical reference)? Race. They are ALL haters, the only difference between them is who they hate. Nazis were doing terrible things. First they physically attacked those people in their own society that they did not like, such as Jews and leftists. Then they jailed those who said things they did not like, forced people opposed to them to flee or be ruined, and killed mentally ill people by gas. Then they deprived Jews of citizenship and deported them, and then killed millions of Jews in Poland and Russia and throughout Europe as well as millions of others. The author here sees an upsurge of reports of nazi-ism in this country. Yet I see no signs of so called nazis attempting to suppress speech from those opposed to them, or trying to deporting citizens. And I do see signs of suppression of speech from left wing groups, and even, in these comments, talk of depriving nazis and white supremacists of citizenship. Furthermore, there are those on the left who call anyone to the right of Mrs. Clinton a Nazi. Most young people have no knowledge of what nazis did and see them only as people hated by the left and by so called reporters. Most people in this country have lost respect for the press, and are developing sympathy for those they attack, which for some includes nazis. If this reporter was trying to create nazis in this country (something that looks hopeless today) he would do exactly what he is doing. I mean ignoring history and making naziism into a symbol of something good to hate that their friends often apply to half the people of our country. He stands for hate and so does antifa and black lives matter and occupy wall street, and their supporters. Their enemies are all are citizens who do not support them. Mr. Kessler does support them. I urge him to come to his senses, and rejoin the good people of this country. Daniel, you make a valid point. I can easily picture today's teenagers forming neo-nazi groups just to be defiant, because that's what teens do. Just as my generation went leftist in our youth, they will go 'rightist' because the left is now the acceptable norm. There is a profound ignorance of the long history of social democrats being used by political extremists, and acting surprised when it turns out that the people they thought were their allies are their most nightmarish enemies. Brett said... To be clear, there's no equivalency here; One group attacked Kessler, and the other... Didn't. Honestly, I don't see why you'd be surprised at the Antifa attacking Kessler as he attempted to document what they were doing; You might be a little unclear on the topic, but they're quite clear about the fact that they're engaged in felony assault, and conspiracy to deny civil rights. (The anti-Klan act!) That's why they wear masks, after all. So that they can't be identified, and end up in prison. 0_0 said... I'm thinking of The Man with the Golden Gun, where Sheriff J. Dubyah Peppah, after a state trooper brings him up to date on who is the English guy he wants to arrest. "Secret agent? On whose side?!" JAORE said... Antifa showed up on the Auburn (Alabama) campus. Alabama, like many other states, has a no mask rule. Local cops made the Antifa get in a line and removed their masks one by one. No violence followed. JAORE; there was a bit of violence. Not the right kind to make the news, though. "To be clear, there’s no equivalence between white supremacists and antifas. One" goes out and engages in their right to freedom of speech, "and one seeks" to beat up people for saying things they don't like." Fixed it for you The simple fact is that the people who call themselves "Nazis" look and act infinitely superior to the people ho call themselves "anti-fascist", but who ACT like a bunch of Nazi Brownshirts. If you are sane, actions speak louder than words." EMyrt said... "Berkeley needs to change their tactics before they become Riot Disneyland." Berkeley has been Riot Disneyland since 1969. I lived there in the 80s & 90s. Our term was "recreational rioting" Live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HV2SuT1KdM Flood was always my favorite TMBG... "Particle Man" "Istanbul" (apologies to the four lads) "Mr. Horrible" and on and on The lyrics to We Want A Rock are weirdly appropriate, "someone in this town is trying to burn the Play house down" ... but what exactly did they mean: Where was I? I forgot The point that I was making I said if I was smart that I would Save up for a piece of string And a rock to wind the string around Everybody wants a rock To wind a piece of string around Throw the crib door wide Let the people crawl inside Someone in this town Is trying to burn the playhouse down They want to stop the ones who want A rock to wind a string around But everybody wants a rock If I were a carpenter I'd Hammer on my piglet, I'd Collect the seven dollars and I'd Buy a big prosthetic forehead And wear it on my real head Everybody wants prosthetic Foreheads on their real heads Prosthetic foreheads on their heads But everybody wants prosthetic Is trying to burn the foreheads down White supremacists hate based on race. Antifa hates based on ideology. There's not a dime's worth of difference. Both groups are equally evil and despicable. Char Char Binks said... I remember when an Anti-1A agitator tried to shut down AA's right to video record in a public place. Skippy Tisdale said... Rock could also mean crack.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line925
__label__cc	0.523027	0.476973	Author: Cornelis van Dalen Publish date: Apr 17, 2013 Summary: Some call it cacophony and are driven to madness; others find it the most beautiful event in all of creation—the dawn chorus of the birds. In spring, before the sun’s morning rays light the heavens, the birds begin to sing. First one, then another, and finally all together singing to their heart’s content, if one can use such an expression. Each country has its own song where the species of birds differ; I shall never forget dawn chorus in the subtropical bush of northern New South Wales, Australia. CC Sharon Mollerus https://www.flickr.com/photos/clairity/318437820/in/photolist-u95tf-7mh6ry-7mdd4n-ieVqHy-ieVAm9-ieVA9L... Here in southern England the bird life is especially prevalent in our locality. I have long admired the Blackbird Turdus merula for his song, yet after the summer solstice he gradually ceases to sing so regularly. This is also true for the Song Thrush Turdus musicus, often called England’s finest singer. The song of the various birds is most beautiful and one must ask why they sing. The Rev. F.O. Morris in writing of the Nightingale says it ‘loves a neighbourhood where there is an echo, as if aware of and admiring its own music.’i Or is the Nightingale in that locality to enhance the effects of the music? Music! Here is our clue. In the book A Pilgrimage with the Animalsii Dr Lascelles introduces us to the subtle nature of animals, and points to our failure to understand them as spiritual beings having a role and function in the labyrinth of life. “I want you to think of what you call the dawn chorus of the birds, that strange moment of nature just before the morning light seeps through. Suddenly, as you may have noticed if you have been lying awake, every bird in the neighbourhood breaks into song as though obeying some signal. For a time, while it is dark, the air is filled with orchestrated sound—the triumphant, challenging and positive sound of birds in song.” “Now, why is this so? What prompts the birds into such a performance unequalled at any other time during the day?....This massed heralding in of the day awakens the earth in a magical way. Yes, actually awakens the earth as though God had arranged it, as indeed He has.” A thrush. Source: Matt Reinbold on Flickr.... “It has been said that you cannot hurt the humblest creature or disturb the smallest pebble without your action having a reaction upon something else...You cannot think an evil thought, no matter how privately, without it having an effect upon somebody else. Whatsoever you do in life sets up some form of resonance.” “When I say the morning chorus of the birds awakens the earth I mean that the characteristic song of the birds sets in motion a series of vibrations which react upon other forms of life. Remember, the soil of the earth is full of living micro-organisms. The plants are also living organisms. You, yourselves, are living organisms. Now, this is the beauty and wonder of it all—when one aspect of nature has been moved into a state of resonance it immediately relays its vibrational motion to something else.” “So when I say the dawn chorus awakens the earth I literally mean what I say. I do not suggest that the earth would come to a standstill without the bird song, but I do mean that life on earth would be sluggish and ineffectual without that first instigating outburst of vibrational power poured forth at just the right pitch and tone to set off a chain effect.” “I know some of you will say, what happens in those parts of the world where there are no birds? Well, what does happen? Very little, I assure you. The hot deserts and the polar regions where there are few, if any, birds are not renowned for their wonders of nature. It is as though they are asleep. Nothing grows, few things live. Little resonates and there is a great stillness over everything.” “You see, that outburst of sound just before the dawn is like the little lever which works the bigger lever which turns the wheel which moves the machine…and so on. Never underestimate small things.” “Animals are blessed with an instantaneous and un-thought-out wisdom. They are in direct contact with God and they act and live as though they are fully aware of it. Men are also in contact with God, but most of them act as though they have never heard of God because they are largely veiled off from their divine centre by their own thinking minds of which they are so proud.”iii The effects of birdsong on plant life may at first glance be far-fetched. Nigh on ten years ago an article appeared in Nexus Magazineiv on the discovery or invention of a method of growing plants using bird sounds. Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins describe the development of Dan Carlson’s Sonic Bloom in their book the Secret Life of Plants. Many others have, it seems, recognized the role of birdsong in the growth of plants, and influenced or directly helped Carlson to develop his invention. Dan Carlson’s desire to see that no one need be hungry through shortage of food sought to understand the optimum growth of plants. His discovery was that plants also feed from ‘the top down’ as well as the roots. Underneath all leaves are pores called stomata which open to take in nutrients and moisture from the air. Carlson’s observation that the more bird life there is on the farm, the more abundant is plant life, has been echoed by farmers throughout history, except in modern times. Where there is little bird life, plants are stunted, dwarfed. Nature has the birds sing at dawn and dusk, which dilates the stomata, and so feeds the plants. One can immediately see the importance of trees. The development of Sonic Bloom was to create birdsong, which is played to the plants, while a foliar nutrient is sprayed onto the plants at the same time as they are being stimulated by the sound, to enhance their growth . This method produced fantastic results in the amount of abundantly nutritious produce from one plant, often in poor soils and in drought conditions. Carlson showed that the breathing leaves of plants are the source of the nutrient intake for growth. This of course is also true for humans—the breath is food. We shall discourse on this at another occasion. Plants transfer nutrient to the soil via this breathing, and Carlson showed that his plants improved the soil and helped earthworms proliferate. The secret of Sonic Bloom was the development of music of the same frequency as the dawn chorus of the birds. With the help of a Minneapolis music teacher, Michael Holtz, a cassette was prepared. It seems that both birds and plants found Indian melodies called ragas delightfully suitable. This is actually quite profound, although the American farmers, especially women, who had to endure this music whilst it was played to the plants, found it irritating. Holtz found the “Spring” movement of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons appropriate and concludes: “I realized that Vivaldi, in his day, must have known all about birdsong, which he tried to imitate in his long violin passages.” Holtz, it is related by the authors Bird and Tompkins, also realized that the violin music dominant in “Spring” reflected Johann Sebastian Bach’s violin sonatas broadcast by the Ottawa University researchers to a wheat field, which had obtained remarkable crops with 66 percent greater yield than average, with larger and heavier seeds. Accordingly, Holtz selected Bach’s E-major concerto for violin for inclusion on the tape. “I chose that particular concerto,” explained Holtz, “because it has many repetitions but varying notes. Bach was such a musical genius he could change his harmonic rhythm at nearly every other beat, with his chords going from E to B to G-sharp and so on, whereas Vivaldi would frequently keep to one chord for as long as four measures. That is why Bach is considered the greatest composer that ever lived. I chose Bach’s string concerto, rather than his more popular organ music, because the timbre of the violin, its harmonic structure, is far richer than that of the organ.”v Birdsong has long been loved, but also studied with reference to the musical scale and harmonics. As Holtz deepened his study he said, “I began to feel that God had created the birds for more than just freely flying about and warbling. Their very singing must somehow be intimately linked to the mysteries of seed germination and plant growth.” “I guess Rachel Carsonvi was right,” Holtz said nostalgically. “The spring season down on the farms is much more silent than ever before. DDT killed off many birds and others never seem to have taken their place. Who knows what magical effect a bird like the wood thrush might have on its environment, singing three separate notes all at the same time, warbling two of them and sustaining the others!” Tree and bird life are essential to earth existence, which Carlson, Holtz and others have shown, but indeed others see and feel. “Plants”, says Steiner, “can only be understood when considered in connection with all that is circling, weaving, and living around them. In spring and autumn, when swallows produce vibrations as they flock in a body of air, causing currents with their wing beats, these and birdsong, have a powerful effect on the flowering and fruiting of plants. Remove the winged creatures, Steiner warns, and there would be a stunting of vegetation.”vii Nothing more need be added here. Music and Human Development Whilst Birdsong reflects the beauty and subtlety of the underlying majesty of Nature, we as creators or creative beings can devise the instruments with which music is made. The human being is an instrument; the creation of musical instruments is modelled on the human frame. The lyre is the archetypal instrument of the Greeks. The four-stringed lyre is the instrument upon which the human is created. The vibrations of the universe are the underlying spirit of creation; the soul experiences the spiritual with music. With musical experience, one subtly perceives the cosmic existence out of which one is fashioned. The Lyre of Apollo is seen to be the nerve fibres (as rami) of the spinal column. This is adequately experienced in the tingles felt in the appreciation of music that is attuned to one’s inner note. More directly one can experience the sound of music ‘lighting up’ or activating the various rami on the spinal column thus revitalising the entire being, and having a rhapsodic moment in the beauty of harmony. Such experiences can occur with the simple polyphony of the Middle Ages to the orchestral complexity of the Classical composers. Music in Therapy The authors of The Secrets of the Soil made a insightful comment on the way the imitated birdsong of Dan Carlson’s Sonic Bloom was homoeopathic in the way that a small quantity of sound met with a large response in the plants, in growth, vitality, and nutrient abundance of the produce. They are forgiven for their undiscriminating use of the word homoeopathic, for what is meant is the minimal dose to achieve a large response. Generally, the use of sound is not used widely in therapy. One can well imagine the efficacy of a homoeopathic remedy being greatly enhanced if the patient were prior to and immediately after taking a remedy to be in repose and listen to specific music. This would be to activate the specific nerve rami of the spinal chord—realising that each vertebrae of the spinal column has rami which lead to specific organs. The specific organ remedy would thus enter the subtle being, doing its task accordingly. A homoeopathic remedy—the similimum—is vibrations—this is acknowledged. But it is also colour or a hue, a musical note or harmonic chord to establish harmony, which is health. One can only come to harmony in life by attuning to that which is harmonious. Discord does not heal, similars do. Would it be so simple as to take a specific tuning fork and vibrate one note through the human frame, to open the organism and the soul to healing? Would it be the song of the Blackbird or its cousins in the thrush family that would long reign over the ever more vibrant spring as we all come to sing Alleluia? It is birdsong and the life forces! Man is music and music heals—open yourself to this. Read more about the power of music and music therapy This article by Cornelis van Dalen is a reprint from New Physis Newsletter, 2006. i. Reverend F.O. Morris, British Birds (London: Webb & Bower Ltd., 1985): 135. ii. Stanley King (Ed.), A Pilgrimage with the Animals (Maidstone, Kent: The Seekers Trust, 1982). iii. Stanley King (Ed.), A Pilgrimage with the Animals (Maidstone, Kent: The Seekers Trust, 1982): 35-37. iv. Nexus New Times Magazine published Internationally – see www.nexusmagazine.com v. Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Soil, as quoted from the chapter on Sonic Bloom found on www.sonicbloom.com/articles. vi. Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring, the seminal work discussing pesticides in agriculture. vii. Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Soil, as quoted from the chapter on Sonic Bloom found on www.sonicbloom.com/articles. Disclaimer: This article is provided by a third-party source. Providing a third-party article on amazingdiscoveries.org indicates that we stand behind the content of that particular article, but it is not an endorsement by Amazing Discoveries of the author's opinion, lifestyle or work published elsewhere.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line928
__label__cc	0.585941	0.414059	Amherst Names New Assessor Town Manager Paul Bockelman announced the appointment of Elizabeth A. Duffy as the new Principal Assessor for the Town of Amherst. She replaces long-time Principal Assessor David Burgess, who retired on July 12, 2019. David has continued to consult with Read on... 2020 Elections Schedule & Information The 2020 Elections schedule is now available online. Please be aware that the last day to register, change an address or party enrollment for the Presidential Primary is Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by 8:00 PM. The Presidential Primary is on March 3, 2020 Read on... This Week in Amherst... A look at some of the Town news and happenings in Amherst this week... Read on... Amherst Awarded $140,438 from Massachusetts DEP The Town of Amherst received a $140,438 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as part of the Volkswagen emissions settlement funds. The DEP awarded $7.5 million in this latest round, funding 98 projects Read on... Election Workers Needed! Work at the Polls on Election Day! The Town of Amherst is seeking applications to work at polling locations throughout the Town. Easily apply online at www.amherstma.gov/jobs Read on... Amherst Receives $44,100 from ADA Improvement Grant Program The Town of Amherst received a Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Improvement Grant from the Massachusetts Office on Disability. The Town will receive $44,100 to fund sidewalk and crosswalk work in downtown Amherst. Read on... Public Art Commission Now Accepting Applications for Town Hall Art Gallery Exhibits The Amherst Public Art Commission announces that applications are now being accepted for the Amherst Town Hall Art Gallery for the 2020-2021 exhibit season. Now through January 19, 2020, the Amherst Public Art Commission invites area artists or small Read on... Massachusetts School Building Authority Admits Town of Amherst Into Grant Program The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) Board voted unanimously this morning to invite the Town of Amherst into the Eligibility Period of its Core to address building deficiencies in one of our district schools. Amherst was among 11 school Read on... 90 Day Appeal Period for Preliminary Flood Maps The Town of Amherst is in the process of updating its Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) and Flood Insurance Study (FIS). The Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps have been available for review since June 2019. A 90-Day statutory appeal period began on Read on... District 1 Office Hours with Councilor Sarah Swartz @ Jake's at the Mill Please visit the Amherst BID website for a full listing of Downtown Events. AmherstMA Tweets by TownOfAmherst Town Staff Directory Hours & Facilities LSSE & Recreation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line930
__label__cc	0.711085	0.288915	It All Starts With a Bright Spot… Chico (far left), Iris (in the red shirt), and various other “Amigos” serving together in Villa Catalina in 2010. Chico alongside Ana Gabriela and her daughter Belsy in front of their brand new Modern Bathroom in Los Rotarios. Chico leading our team in praise and worship. BY: FRANCISCO “CHICO” DESBAS Francisco “Chico” Desbas is a true servant leader at Amigos. He started on the Marketing & Communications team in 2011 and then became an all-star university scholarship student. With his degree in Civil Engineering, Chico has greatly influenced our Infrastructure projects to best achieve our Community Development goals. Chico is a friend to all and an inspiring visionary. Bright spots are all around us. If you remember to keep an eye out, there is always someone who can positively impact your life with their light. For me it was a U.S. missionary named Iris. I met her in 2011. Her relationship with God and her love of serving others inspired me to do the same. As I watched her lead groups in infrastructure projects and devotionals, I was inspired to follow in her footsteps. I saw her light shining, and I knew that I wanted to do that for other people. Through Iris, I learned about Amigos for Christ. She encouraged me to apply for an internship when I was still in high school. After completing my internship, I received a scholarship from Amigos to study Civil Engineering. Now I work full time as a Project Director, creating budgets, designs, and leading our team in the construction of Modern Bathrooms. Because of Iris’ light, I have seen so many families transformed when they received their Modern Bathroom. Their health and hygiene have improved greatly, but nothing impacts them more than the people they get to know through the visiting volunteers. People who leave their homes, their countries and their communities to come and serve alongside them. People like Iris, who invest their time, money, and strength so that others feel important, exactly how Jesus did. Join the Amigos' Email List Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Amigos for Christ I Mission Trips to Nicaragua. (You can unsubscribe anytime) By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Amigos for Christ, 75 Maddox Rd., Buford, GA, 30518, http://www.amigosforchrist.org. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact The Amigos Store 75 Maddox Road, Suite 107 Buford, GA 30518 Del Restaurante Monserrath 2 cuadras al Norte, Chinandega, Nicaragua	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line931
__label__wiki	0.929331	0.929331	Spanish Terrorist Attack August 24, 2017 August 24, 2017 / amlrisk / Leave a comment There are some fundamental lessons to be learnt here. Again we have an open access Street Mall popular with the public and visiting tourists. Given that the ‘terrorists’ managed to blow themselves up and the house they were staying its reasonable to conclude that they were amateurs. Crash Barriers and Explosive detection checkpoints can prevent great loss of life in such circumstances Please note there has been an Arabic and North African Muslim population in Spain since 711 AD The ‘Moors” (a term applied by the British) ruled Spain until 1492. Their offspring have lived in Spain (as they have in Sicily, Malta and other Mediterranean cities ever since. It took one radical ‘Imam’ (largely discredited by the majority) to radicalise a small group of local youths sufficiently to commit these heinous crimes. Prevention and working WITH the local community can ensure such tragic foolhardy actions do not occur. At AML we simply suggest being prepared and ready to create deterrents and to block such actions in an intelligent and sensible manner. Barcelona terror suspects say they were planning ‘a larger atrocity’ and blame dead imam for attacks Police now believe all the attack suspects have either been killed or captured Mohamed Houli Chemlal, suspected of involvement in the terror cell that carried out twin attacks in Spain, is escorted by Spanish Civil Guards to court AFP/Getty Suspects in the Spanish terror attack investigation have admitted a bigger attack was planned and blamed a dead imam for the outrage, according to court sources. Appearing in court for the first time, Mohamed Houli Chemlal, said the Islamist terror cell was planning to use homemade explosives to kill hundreds more people at landmarks in the city, including the historic Sagrada Familia cathedral. A total of 15 people were killed in two vehicle ramming attacks and a car-jacking in Catalonia last week, and 130 were injured. Police now believe all the attack suspects have either been killed or captured. Chemlal, 21 and Driss Oukabir, 27, both appeared for hearings in Spain’s High Court on Tuesday, though Oukabir denied involvement in the atrocity. Two other suspects also appeared in court: Sahal el Karib, 34, and Mohammed Aalla, 27. All hearings took place behind closed doors in line with Spanish law. Prosecutors had asked for the four to be sent to prison without bail on preliminary charges of being part of a terrorist organisation, homicide, causing havoc and dealing with explosives. But on Monday evening, a judge ordered two of the four surviving suspects to be held without bail, another to be detained for 72 more hours and one freed. National Court Judge Fernando Andreu said there was enough evidence to hold Chemlal and Oukabir on preliminary charges of causing homicides and injuries of a terrorist nature and of belonging to a terror organisation. Sahl El Karib, the owner of a cybercafe in Ripoll, the Pyrenees hometown to most of the members of the cell, will remain in custody under arrest for at least 72 more hours while police inquiries continue. The judged ruled the evidence to keep holding suspect Mohamed Aalla, whose car was used in the Cambrils attack, was “not solid enough”, and he will be freed. Chemlal was the first suspect to testify and admitted in court that the group planned a bigger attack using explosives against Barcelona’s monuments at the height of the summer tourist season, sources said. He is the only suspect to have conceded being part of the cell. The terrorists’ broader plans are believed to have failed after a stockpile of gas canisters, to be used in an attack, blew up their safe house in Alcanar. Imam Abdelbaki Es Satty, 45, is believed to have been killed in the accidental explosion. He was accused by two unnamed suspects of organising the plot and wanted to blow himself up in the attack, Chemlal said, according to a court official. Satty is suspected of having radicalised the terror cell responsible for the outrages. Chemlal survived the explosion and was arrested in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, a day before the ramming attacks. Traces of a high explosive, triacetone triperoxide, were said to have been found in the house, along with the remains of two bodies and Isis documents, according to Judge Andreu. The same substance was used in suicide bombings in Manchester, Brussels and Paris. Driss Oukabir, 27, who was the first suspect named in the hours after Thursday’s attack, also appeared in a closed session in court and denied being part of the terrorist cell. In a break from his original story, he admitted renting the vans used in the attacks but said he thought they were going to be used for a house move, according to a source speaking with AP. Oukabir, who was arrested in the town of Ripoll, said he changed his initial story out of fear. He previously claimed his documents were stolen by his 17-year-old brother, Moussa, to rent the vehicle which killed 13 people in the busy Las Ramblas district. The alleged driver of the van, Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, remained at large for four days before being shot by police in the town of Subirats yesterday. Moussa was among five other suspects killed by police after attempting a second vehicle ramming in the coastal town of Cambrils hours after the atrocity in Barcelona, which left one woman dead. The other dead men were named as Said Aalla, 18, Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, 19, Omar Hychami, 21 and Mohamed Hychami, 24. The suspects bought knives and an axe just minutes before the rampage, court documents showed. Also on Tuesday, the French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb revealed the Audi car used in the Cambrils attack was photographed in Paris some time before the attack. Mr Collomb said: “This group came to Paris but it was a quick arrival and departure.” The significance of the France visit is not yet known but the cell is believed to have been exclusively Spanish. Crash Barriers Save Lives August 17, 2017 / amlrisk / 4 Comments The recent tragedy this week in Charlottesville, Carolina in the USA clearly illustrates the absolute common sense in deploying portable barriers to block vehicular traffic where crowds may be at risk. Watch the video of the incident. It’s simply frightening. The driver of the Dodge Challenger accelerates and slams into two parked cars and the many pedestrians on the road. It’s a clear message that Police and City Authorities worldwide need to consider portable crash barriers and then deploy them at ‘at risk’ events and venues. Watch this video of a car travelling at approximately 55km/h hitting such Crash Barriers… In this case the barriers are the Meridian Archer 1200 Rapid Defence Barriers. Note that the vehicle is stopped completely. Yes, the barriers would probably require personnel keeping a space clear behind them, but it’s obvious that the carnage that occurred in Charlottesville would have been avoided should these units have been deployed. Now watch this video which demonstrates the simplicity and ease in which the Meridian Archer 1200 Barriers can be unloaded and deployed – with only one person if necessary. It makes real sense to make such an investment in protecting lives. In the first video there are bollards protecting the footpaths on either side of the road. But the footage clearly demonstrates that when roads are occupied by crowds – for any reason – there is need to provide real protection from those – of any political, ideological persuasion or simply those of unstable mental capacity – who would do them harm. The vehicle has now become one of the weapons of choice with IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), automatic weapons and blades. In the last year we have witnessed Nice, Berlin, Charlottesville and Melbourne being subjected to vehicular attack, generally by unstable individuals. What they do or don’t believe is irrelevant. The real challenge is to protect people as effectively as possible from death and serious injury. Mobile Rapid Defence Barriers achieve this as is evidenced in the videos presented. AML Risk Management can deploy such crash barriers anywhere in Melbourne at short notice. The Meridian Group work to the adage of Plan, Prepare, Protect. At AML we not only agree but insist on this approach, it is the foundation of the service we provide. It’s time to take action now. Action that is effective and timely. There are no second chances. Sydney terror raids: Airport delays expected as security increased over alleged plot In reading and watching this report, it suggests that now more than ever, Australia is ready for the EVOLV detection system. Click here to watch the EVOLV video Australian travellers have faced major delays at airports after security measures were ramped up following the discovery of an alleged terror plot involving a plane. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said authorities uncovered and disrupted a terror plot to bring down an aircraft using an “improvised device”. International and domestic passengers have been advised to allow extra time for screening and to limit their carry-on and checked baggage, but there have been no official changes to baggage restrictions. Transport Minister Darren Chester said additional security measures had been put in place at all major Australian airports in coordination with counter terrorism raids in Sydney over the weekend. “Some of these measures will be obvious to the travelling public, other will not. The increased measures will include additional checks of cabin and checked baggage,” Mr Chester said. At Adelaide and Sydney airports, some passengers reported delays of up to 90 minutes before passing through security. ABC journalist Ewan Gilbert was at Sydney’s international terminal on Sunday morning and said the effects of additional security measures were noticeable even before reaching the terminal building. “Police on motorbikes are slowly patrolling up and down the long queues of cars, peering into every window,” he said. “Once inside the terminal it’s certainly busy at the check-in desks, but it’s once you get through to security that the authorities are warning to again expect long waits.” One overseas traveller who spoke to the ABC was unaware of the Sydney terrorism raids, but said he had gone through some extra checks. When told the reason for the increased security and asked if it worried him, he replied “it concerns us, but we won’t stop for it”. Other travellers said they were concerned by the alleged plot, but put their faith in officials. “Absolutely we’re concerned but we’re hoping that they’ve got them and ASIO and the Federal Police keep up the exceptional work they’re doing,” one passenger said. “They caught the people who they thought were going to do it so it’s good now, I guess,” another passenger said. In Adelaide, tertiary student Liam Thompson said people waited in long queues just to reach the designated screening areas. All passengers are being required to remove their jackets during the screening process and he described hearing more frequent public announcements and heightened police presence. ‘Bomb checks at the front door’ While it appeared to be business as usual at Brisbane Airport this morning, passengers on inbound flights said they had noticed increased security measures. Jacob Pickering got off a flight from Sydney and said he was delayed by up to an hour because of explosives checks. “They were checking every three to four to five bags. [We were] probably there 45 minutes to an hour to get through check-in to get to the plane,” he said. Marilyn Marsh-Booth arrived in Brisbane from Cairns on Sunday morning, and said every third person checking in to the flight was targeted. “There were guys coming up to random people in the queue and getting them to check inside their bags,” she said. “This was quite different. Every third or fourth person which was quite a lot.” Nicole Burns flew the same route and said the extra security was immediately noticeable. “When we entered Cairns airport this morning, the bomb checks were at the front door, so we had to get checked before we even entered the airport,” she said. Margaret Rowe, who had returned from an overseas trip to Melbourne on Sunday, said queues to enter departures security screening at the domestic terminal “were amazingly long” and took 30 minutes to go through. “However, the security procedures were no more intensive than usual and two of the security bag/body scanning stations were not being used,” she said. “I didn’t sense any increased diligence in screening.” At the X-ray point where carry-on luggage is screened, it appeared two staff members were viewing the screen before the luggage was passed back to the passenger. At the Virgin terminal, there was a makeshift desk set up for an explosives check at the bag drop point. Travellers were told to arrive at terminals at least two hours before flights to allow ample time for screening. A regular police presence was in place at Hobart Airport with the addition of a detection dog named Cassie. Tasmania Police said it had taken measures to increase security at the state’s principal airports in response to the counter-terrorism investigation in Sydney. “Cassie is a detection dog so she will cover all baggage and passengers that we screen her over and heaven forbid there is anything untoward, she will let me know and we will take it from there as per normal protocols,” Senior Constable Will Flynn said. Australian Federal Police withdrew its presence from Tasmanian airports in 2014 following budget cuts. ‘You’re never really safe anywhere’ Heightened security at Perth Airport did not appear to be causing major delays. Traveller Amy Kalantary said the airport seemed to have the situation under control. “A little bit nervous but I guess you’re never really safe anywhere these days,” she said. Travellers at Darwin airport said they were happy to deal with extra security if it meant getting home in “one piece”. “It’s the best thing for everyone’s safety. One, two, three hours — it doesn’t matter as long as we get to our destination safely,” one passenger said. “That’s the most important thing as far as we’re concerned.” Passengers vent frustration Virgin Airlines and its budget subsidiary Tigerair released a statement confirming additional security measures were in place at airports, and urging travellers not to be alarmed. “As the measures place an additional burden on the screening system, it may take a little longer than usual to get through the process,” it said. A Qantas Group spokesperson — representing Qantas and Jetstar — said it was working closely with the Government and airport partners to implement the measures. “Australia has very strong safeguards in place at its airports; these changes are about making them even stronger,” the spokesperson said. Tigerair and Virgin were among the first airlines to issue travel alerts to passengers but for some it was too late to beat the long queues at the airport. One Melbourne couple received a text message only three hours prior to their flight advising them to arrive earlier. “We live two hours out of Melbourne and at 8:00am this morning we got a text message saying arrive two hours earlier instead of one,” the woman said. “Well, that was impossible for us.” Passengers took to Twitter to vent their frustrations with the delays caused by the new measures. Source: abc.net.au How has the global terror threat shaped airline security and just how confident can you be? Photo: Screening technologies and processes have intensified since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Extra security measures have been put at place at major airports. That line often follows news of an alleged foiled plot, an increase in a country’s terror threat level or, at worst, news of an attack somewhere in the world. Analysts say air travel is vulnerable by nature because of all the moving parts and the potential weaknesses they create, so how has security evolved and what systems are in place to protect us now? THIS WEEK: Increased security measures were announced at major Australian airports after authorities foiled an attack. Virgin Australia said passengers should expect “an increased level of scrutiny” during the security screening process and travellers would need more time to get airside. APRIL: Additional random explosive detection tests and screening of electronic devices were imposed for passengers travelling to Australia from Dubai, Doha or Abu Dhabi. MARCH: American and British authorities temporarily banned all laptops and large electronic devices from carry-on luggage on flights travelling from 10 airports across the Middle East. These bans have since been scaled back. Like most changes to security measures, the temporary ban on laptops was driven by intelligence that identified a vulnerability in the system, according to Dr John Coyne, head of border security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “Every time there is a threat or a risk that arises you see stages of response,” he said. Mitigate and reduce risk: it’s an immediate, high-security response often wide-ranging bans or screening processes Behind the scenes: authorities are working together to assess incoming information Review and adjust: after a set period of time authorities review security measures and determine which are still required and any that need adjusting Take the laptop ban earlier this year for example. “With the laptop threat from Al Qaeda earlier in the year, a raid in Yemen from US special forces had intelligence that revealed AQ was working on a laptop-based bomb to bring a plane down so the first reaction is to bring in heavy handed stuff, arrest the situation straight away,” Dr Coyne said. “You see that within a couple of hours of an incident. It’s not just about the measures, it’s about the theatre. “Part of it is stopping the bad guys but also discouraging the bag guys.” Dr Coyne said authorities have a window of “48-72 hours, maybe up to a week, [before] it’s a question of what more permanent changes need to be made”. “We bought ourselves some time with heavy-handed measures, but they cost time and money, and the public get disengaged with risk and just get annoyed about not being able to take inhalers and baby formula on the plane so you have a limited amount of time,” he said. “With the laptop threat, do you need new ways to scan them, or swabbing them?” Let’s take a look at some of the other incidents that have shaped airport security. September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States This moment made aviation security a global issue. Two months after the attack, US lawmakers made airport security a federal issue forming what we all now know as the TSA, or the Transportation Security Administration. The restrictions implemented by this body continue to reverberate around the world. Particularly the banning of a wide range of implements from carry-on luggage and the strict screening processes that prevent them making it on board. These are all the things you’re not allowed to pack into your carry-on luggage in Australia. Some other changes in the US since 911 include: Only ticketed passengers are allowed through security screening Fortified aircraft cockpits 100 per cent checked baggage screening. December 2001 shoe bomb attempt on Miami-bound flight According to the TSA, Richard Reid, who would become known as the shoe bomber, used matches in an attempt to ignite explosive devices hidden in his shoes after departing Paris for Miami. The threat continued and from 2006 the TSA required all passengers travelling in the US to remove their shoes for more scrutinised screening. August 2006 foiled plot involving liquid explosives British authorities detailed 24 terrorist suspects over plans to attack 10 transatlantic flights with liquid explosives carried in their hand luggage. The flights were travelling from the UK to the USA and Canada. Australia introduced measures limiting the amount of liquids, aerosols and gels allowed in carry-on luggage the following year, matching similar changes made across the world. Photo: The TSA introduced full body scanners after the “underwear bomber” incident. December 2009 attempted ‘underwear bomber’ attack An Al Qaeda extremist attempted to detonate an improvised explosive device concealed in his underwear while aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. In March 2010 the TSA introduced advanced imaging units known as full body scanners “designed to detect non-metallic weapons, explosives and other threats which could be concealed under layers of clothing”. Other precautions include, removing laptops and tablets from luggage to allow for better screening, enhanced pat downs, canine teams and restrictions on cargo. Photo: The TSA suspended some cargo shipments after a plots involving bombs in printer cartridges on cargo flights were foiled. People who want to do harm are ‘innovators’ “There is an easy way to 100 per cent secure airports and planes and that is don’t let people fly,” Dr Coyne said. Despite the “outstanding security measures in airports, airlines and outstanding participation by the private sector” those who want to find and exploit the weaknesses in the system are innovating and so security systems need to keep developing to reduce those opportunities. Will carry on eventually be banned? Dr Coyne said historically there had been discussion about completely banning carry-on and “that was certainly the case straight after September 11” but he believes restriction is not the answer. “I think improving search capability and improving search process — so improving x-ray machines, swipes for explosive residue,” he said. “It is about making sure intelligence information is linked to those responsible for physical security, the operators. “They’ve got to get lucky once, you’ve got to be lucky all the time.” Source: ABC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line932
__label__wiki	0.529438	0.529438	Home / Projects / Canberra Metro Stage 1 Built, December 2018 Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) Council of Australia Design v1 Excellent Rating Architectus provided urban design, architecture and landscape design services for the winning consortium Canberra Metro. In February 2016 the consortium was selected to deliver the first stage of the Canberra Light Rail project which is part of an overall master plan to deliver faster, more convenient and more sustainable transport options for Canberra over the next 20 years. The Canberra Light Rail represented a major public infrastructure development for the Australian capital. The project was unusual as there were two clients in the Canberra Metro consortium – the National Capital Authority and the Transport Canberra department of the Australian Capital Territory Government. With such high community investment in the Canberra Light Rail, Stage 1 would set the tone for subsequent links. Architectus’ design met and exceeded Canberra Metro’s brief for a high-quality Light Rail link that would be attractive, comfortable, provide an uplifting civic presence and a legacy for future generations. Stage 1 of the Canberra Light Rail encompasses a 12.5km link from Gungahlin to Civic (the Canberra CBD) with 13 stops and a depot and stabling yard and five substations. The Canberra Light Rail stops have a towering architectural form that reflect on the natural and urban landscapes of Canberra. The materials and finishes are consistent with the quality of other landmark buildings in the National Capital. The project provides world-class urban design for Canberra. The link enriches the public domain, stimulates urban renewal, provides sustainable transport and builds community pride and identity. The dignified character of Canberra’s Federal Highway precinct is enhanced with the planting of 1200 new native trees along the link. As the network approaches the city, the landscape design becomes progressively more formal with the splendour of the track running along Northbourne Avenue recalls Burley Griffin’s original plans for a “Grand Boulevard” parading towards Capital Hill. The Canberra Metro consortium is formed by Pacific Partnerships, CPB Contractors, John Holland, UGL, Mitsubishi Corporation, Aberdeen Infrastructure Investments, whom are working with the ACT Government client representatives at Transport Canberra, Major Projects Canberra and the National Capital Authority. Canberra Metro is tasked with facilitating the operation and maintenance of the project for an initial 20 year contract period. Canberra’s light rail has achieved an Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) Council of Australia Design v1 Excellent Rating. The IS rating scheme is the only comprehensive system across Australia and New Zealand for evaluating sustainability across the planning, design, construction and operational phases of infrastructure programs, projects, networks and assets. Luke Johnson Nigel Justins Steve Fox Jane Fielding Daniel Pike Ian Stanger	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line934
__label__wiki	0.764627	0.764627	Best of San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Best Place to Outfox Your Friends Real Escape Game Perhaps you've tired of walloping your friends at Halo, or the appeal of spending every Saturday night calling Lyfts outside of DNA Lounge at 2:30 a.m. is rapidly diminishing. Best Place to Pee in Public Dolores Park Pissoir When day drinkers just could not stop pissing along the train tracks at Dolores Park, where every weekend tons of revelers gather to partake in booze and other inebriants, the city came up with a great idea to make public urination acceptable: install an outdoor urinal. News The Snitch Sports By Max DeNike News The Snitch Only in SF News The Snitch Tech Millennial Problems: Most Pokemon-Obsessed City Is NOT S.F. News The Snitch Housing, Tech S.F. Renters Partying Like It’s 2009 News The Snitch Yesterday's Crimes Yesterday's Crimes: Rolling Stones, Hells Angels and Busted Heads at Altamont By Bob Calhoun News The Snitch Crime S.F. Residents Beware: Razor Scooter Thug Is Roaming Streets News The Snitch Celebrities, Law & Order, Sports News The Snitch Controversy SF Police Union Just Won’t Stop Frantic Tweets About 7.0 Earthquake -- Tomorrow Posted By Joe Eskenazi @EskSF on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:15 AM A much-retweeted "warning" of a 7.0 earthquake that will ostensibly hit Southern California tomorrow has earned a stern tweet of its own from the United States Geological Survey. You can't predict earthquakes, notes the USGS. And there's no Easter Bunny, either. Dire warnings of a massive quake are emanating from a Twitter account titled @Quakeprediction. That account is affiliated with the bizarre "Quake Prediction" Web site -- which posits an "EARTHQUAKE WARNING; 6.0 to 7.0 earthquake likely in Southern California; Most likely in the Coachella, Salton Sea area or Chino Hills, Los Angeles area. September 29 - October 1." It lists the possibility of a quake today at 90 percent and tomorrow at 98 percent. Perhaps the only documentable information to be found on the Quake Prediction site is the disclaimer, "I am not associated with the USGS earthquake prediction site." That's because no such site exists. The USGS isn't in the "There's an earthquake coming next Tuesday" business. While it lists the probability of a major quake coming along certain faults over the course of many years, government scientists emphasize that no one has ever predicted a major quake. Luke Thomas, the man behind the "Quake Predictions" website, claims differently. His secret: "The main method we use to make our earthquake forecasts is based on thermal temperature changes caused by kinetic frictional heating of the tectonic plates." Other devices used to divine the movement of the earth: "moon phases," "animal behaviour" (sic), and "human behaviour" (sic). Unfortunately for Thomas, none of those prediction methods panned out when he claimed a major earthquake was a-comin' to SoCal in mid April. Didn't happen. Follow @sfweekly Tags: Chuck Norris, Earthquake, Luke Thomas, Quake Prediction, Twitter Earthquake, USGS, Image Joe Eskenazi @EskSF Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. "Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line935
__label__wiki	0.900203	0.900203	Gears of War loses key developer to Mass Effect franchise The latest news in the world of video games at Attack of the Fanboy July 3rd, 2013 by William Schwartz The exodus from the Gears of War franchise continues, as Chris Wynn departs Epic for Bioware. Wynn will be working on the next Mass Effect game at the EA studio, where he’ll be the senior development director of the franchise. The developer posted the news via Twitter, and explained his excitement for the transition into leadership for one of gaming’s biggest third party franchises. Wynn was in lead roles at Epic Games for Gears of War 3 and Gears of War: Judgment. His departure from Epic comes in the wake of other key developers leaving the company. Rod Fergusson, Cliff Bleszinski, and Mike Capps all left Epic in about the span of a year. While there’s still no telling what the future holds for Gears of War fans, if another game does arrive on the Xbox One, it most certainly will not have its creators at the helm. The last game in the franchise, Gears of War: Judgment was developed by People Can Fly, the development studio responsible for Bulletstorm. As for Wynn’s new venture, a new chapter in the Mass Effect story is set to begin. While Bioware has blatantly explained to fans that the storyline of Commander Shepard is over, they’re confident that there is plenty of story to tell in the robust Mass Effect universe. Just don’t call it Mass Effect 4. Home / Game News / Gears of War loses key developer to Mass Effect franchise	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line938
__label__cc	0.511571	0.488429	General Fiction Round Up: September – October by Aislinn Batstone \| Nov 2, 2019 \| Round-ups \| 2 comments Over the months of September and October, there were 82 books reviewed, with 59 of those being books for adult readers. There were 90 reviews of these 59 adult general fiction titles. Since it’s a bumper 2-month edition of the General Fiction update, I’ll feature a number of the most-reviewed titles. First off is Pamela Cook’s new book, Cross My Heartwhich received five reviews and an interview with Amanda @ Mrs B’s book reviews. In her review of the book, Amanda describes Cook’s first foray into contemporary women’s fiction as “an emotional but moving tale, that carefully considers life’s unexpected turns, accepting responsibility, altering your purpose in life and learning to love in different ways.” The book explores the consequences of a woman accepting responsibility for her best friend’s child when that friend dies. Amanda says that “Rural settings are Pamela Cook’s forte and she again showcases the beauty of country based Australia in Cross My Heart.” Continuing the rural theme, Fiona Palmer’s retelling of Pride and Prejudice, entitled Matters of the Heart, was reviewed five times by our AWWC reviewers. Regular Palmer readers were not disappointed, with Brenda commenting that Jane Austen would be pleased with this re-telling! Theresa Smith Writes labelled it as one not to miss for Pride and Prejudice fans. Next we have another new release by a popular author, this time Rachael Johns’ Just One Wishwhich received a massive six reviews. Mic Loves Books is a long-term Rachael Johns fan and published a release-day review on her blog. In the book, three generations of women showcase the sacrifices women make to live the lives they want. “Just One Wish takes us on a journey through some major crossroads for these strong, and strong willed, women. there is love, lust, heartbreak, secrets, betrayals and some rather juicy twists… Everything comes at a cost and Just One Wish explores the sacrifices that we have to make to get where we want to be. Johns also explores what happens if we are left wondering if perhaps we sacrificed too much.” Joanna Nell, whose popular debut The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village was released in 2018, is back with her second novel, The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker, which received three reviews in September-October. Joanna was also interviewed at Tea with Mrs B. Readers might be interested that Channel 7 interviewed Joannaabout her time as a cruise ship doctor, experience she’s brought to writing this novel. Readers thoroughly enjoyed Henry Parker, giving the novel four and five star reviews. Regular reviewer Helen Sibbritt was particularly enthusiastic: “I loved this story, there were tears there was laughter … so many surprises. Evelyn and Henry were such fabulous people it was fabulous hearing about Henry’s life as a ship’s doctor and the love that they shared. I love cruising and have been on many myself … I would highly recommend this story to anyone who loves a story packed with emotion and fun.” This round-up is consolidated into two months’ worth because I spent most of October in beautiful Tasmania. With so many tranquil, inspiring settings I’m not surprised that many authors choose to live there, including Tasmanian-born Heather Rose. The final book I’d like to feature today is her much-anticipated follow-up to The Museum of Modern Love, which won the Stella Award in 2017 and won and was shortlisted for a clutch of other awards too. Rose’s new novel Bruny gathered three recent reviews from our AWWC reviewers. Nalini Haynes at Dark Matter Zine gave the book five stars and described how her experience of reading it, a political thriller set in near-future Tasmania, interacted with her experience growing up in Tasmania. Joanne at Book Lover Book Reviewsalso praised the novel with a 4.5 star review, calling it a page-turner. “Bruny is an intelligent and timely literary, political thriller — another highly thought-provoking read from the very talented Heather Rose.” Until December – happy reading! Sheree @ Keeping Up With The Penguins on November 7, 2019 at 12:34 pm Bruny is such a strange one – it’s kind of a political thriller, but also kind of a love story, but also kind of a family drama… I think Australian literature in general is really leading the charge with hybridising, so many genre-benders coming out, I love it! Tracey (Carpe Librum blog) on November 9, 2019 at 12:39 am Great wrap up!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line942
__label__cc	0.712321	0.287679	Delaerships Kia Motors to invest $2 billion; create 3,000-4,000 jobs by 2022 Kia in April announced that it would invest $1.1 billion to build a factory in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district. The additional investment will be to create the supplier base, said Tae-Hyun Oh, the chief operating officer of its international business division. Marketing budget will be outside of this, he told ETAuto. Tata Motors News All that goes behind the pavilions at Auto Expo Tata Motors Group global wholesales down 3% at 97,348 in December 2019 Jaguar Land Rover's sales dip in 2019, but show signs of recovery	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line945
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__label__wiki	0.563762	0.563762	Entrepreneurship Challenge Submit Your 2020 Women in STEM Entrepreneurship Challenge Application Here NJIT I-Corps Site Life Sciences Summer Accelerator Johnson and Johnson Innovation Immersion Workshop Submit 2020 STEM Scholarship Application Here MedHealth Challenge MedHealth Advisory Board 2019 MedHealth Challenge Information Submit your 2019 MedHealth Project Mentoring Award W.O.M.E.N. Summit 2019 MedHealth Challenge Winners. Montclair State University partners with AWIS New Jersey to provide female STEM students access to local AWIS resources Johnson and Johnson Consumer R&D Hosts Innovation Immersion Workshop for AWIS New Jersey Women in STEM Entrepreneurship Challenge Participants. AWIS NJ and NJIT receive NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) supplemental funding to help STEM-trained women commercialize their research. Johnson & Johnson and AWIS New Jersey partner to promote female STEM entrepreneurs. Publishing Forum Join AWIS Johnson and Johnson and AWIS New Jersey have partnered to offer “Johnson and Johnson immersion program” to the 2018 New Jersey Women in STEM Entrepreneurship Challenge participants. The immersion program will offer a unique opportunity to the female founders to access an entrepreneurship training module created by Johnson & Johnson leadership. The Johnson and Johnson team spearheading this initiative includes: Catherine Salerno Catherine Salerno is Global Vice President of R&D supporting the existing portfolio of products for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. In this position, Ms. Salerno is responsible for commercialization technical support for the $12B Consumer Product portfolio including Beauty, Baby, Oral Care, Topical Health Care, and Women’s Health. Ms. Salerno’s team is a cross functional technical organization of over 250 employees located at multiple R&D and manufacturing sites in the four regions. In her role she represents In-Market R&D on the Global R&D Leadership Team as well as the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team. A graduate of Saint Bonaventure University with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry, Ms. Salerno began her career at AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) developing new polymer technologies, and later at National Starch and Chemical Co., working in 100% polymer adhesive systems. Ms. Salerno is the author of 15 issued U.S. patents, and in 2000 was inducted to the Tribute to Women in Industry (TWIN) in recognition of her scientific leadership at J&J. Ms. Salerno currently resides in New Jersey. She has two grown children and she enjoys traveling, cooking, and sports with her family. Anna Prilutsky Anna Prilutsky currently serves as Vice President of Research & Development, fully accountable for leading innovation platforms, product development and pipeline commercialization for Johnson & Johnson Global Baby Care Portfolio. Anna began her career at Johnson & Johnson Consumer and has progressed through roles of expanding responsibility across our Baby, Beauty and Personal Care Franchises and left J&J in 2015 to pursue external opportunities. Anna most recently was Senior Vice President, Global R&D and Portfolio & Project Management for the Revlon and Elizabeth Arden portfolio of equities, fully accountable for leading innovation platforms, product development and commercialization, claim substantiation and product life cycle analysis for a growing $3B+ Global Color Cosmetics & Skin Care Portfolio. Anna received her M.S. degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She also attended Rutgers University and St. Petersburg Institute of Technology in Russia to complete her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. Born in Russia and bilingual in both the Russian and English languages, Anna appreciates the international opportunities of her profession. She cherishes the diversity of thought she encounters in meeting and working with people around the globe. Today, she resides in New Jersey with her husband, daughter and son. In her free time, she enjoys gourmet cooking and supporting her children’s activities, such as competitive fencing. Her daughter recently started experimenting with skincare products, and is an avid Neutrogena® fan. John leads the External Innovation Department within J&J Consumer R&D and joined J&J in 2015. Prior to J&J, John was Vice President of Strategy and New Business development at Philips research. Prior to that, he was responsible for Strategic Alliances in Philips and also worked as a Strategy Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. John has a strong background in open innovation, new business creation, partnerships and strategy. John has a track record of creating new emerging businesses, setting up an internal incubator, driving the cultural change towards Open Innovation and managing alliances. John has a degree in business economics and a Ph.D. on joint ventures from Tilburg University. Mona Nair As the Regional R&D VP, Mona leads the NA R&D Leadership Team which is responsible for ensuring a robust pipeline of innovation that supports regional growth strategies across all franchises and is also accountable for talent management and development within the region. She began her professional career in 1994 at Warner Lambert as an Oral Care product development scientist and moved to jobs of greater responsibility assuming leadership of Oral Care, Gastrointestinal and Upper Respiratory franchises. In 2008, she moved to Advanced Technologies where she was responsible for the launch of a new DTC business in Health & Wellness – the first of its kind within J&J. After a four-year tenure in Advanced Technologies, Mona transitioned to NA Deployment. Mona has a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Rutgers University. She and her husband have two sons. Sandrine Alvarado New Jersey Women in STEM State House Showcase Meet our 2018 STEM Scholars Senior STEM Scholars: Stephaine Wasik, Passaic Valley Regional High School Tara Housen, Red Bank Catholic High School Junior STEM Scholars: Veronica Farag, Math and Science Magnet Program at Morris Hills High School Selena Gonzalez-Sanchez, New Brunswick High School Ruby Jacobs, Hopewell Valley Central High School. Anika Pruthi, Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences AWIS NEW JERSEY STEM MENTORING AWARDS IN ACTION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgubR5lXvZA Mentoring Award Receipients Entrepreneurshio & Innovation Challenge Winners NJ STEM WOMEN MENTORING AWARDS The award honors women who have shown outstanding service as mentors (scope of mentorship may be concentrated in the classroom, laboratory, industry setting or an office). These are women who have significantly impacted and guided STEM colleagues or students to achieve higher targets in life. These mentee’s have subsequently progressed and made impacts in their own fields. NEW JERSEY WOMEN IN STEM MEDHEALTH CHALLENGE Hardwares like Arduino are changing the field of medical device development. The Association for Women in Science, New Jersey chapter designed AWISNJ MedHealth Challenge to encourage college, middle and high school STEM females to be part of this revolution. We want you to explore these opportunities and start thinking about Arduino applications in the Medical/ Healthcare field. AWIS New Jersey Mentoring Award in Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwSabc61qNs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line950
__label__cc	0.718986	0.281014	The #1 Crucial Question Every Journalist Asks When Reading Your Press Release Get the answer to this one question wrong and you get the delete finger. Get it right and you get your message out to millions (without having to build the audience first). One of my party tricks as a professional speaker is to ask the audience, “If you were pitching the press and a producer asked you why is this a story right now, what would you say?” One after the other, hands will go up and small business owners will call out, “Because I have a new product launch” or “I’m opening a factory” or “We’re expanding into a whole new facet of the industry” or “we’re having an event”. Or even worse, “we just hired a new CEO”. These answers are the correct answer if you’re a Kardashian or a brand like Apple or Facebook, each of which have such a huge footprint in the media’s consciousness that Zuckerberg or Kim endorsing a new kind of breakfast sandwich is automatically news. For the rest of us mere mortals, not so much. Too many entrepreneurs and experts make the mistake of assuming that just because their product or service is one that’s useful throughout the year, it’s automatically interesting as a story at any time. It isn’t. Here’s why. The media are obsessed with remaining relevant to their audiences. So, you need to “hook” your message on to whatever’s currently front and centre right now. The reporter who prints out your pitch and brings it into his or her morning meeting is going to have to defend it to a senior editor or producer, who will ask things like: Why is this story of interest right now? Why is it newsworthy? Is it based on an emerging trend? Does it speak to a breaking news story? Is there a celebrity whose actions call this expertise to the fore? For example: A breaking story about a celebrity committing suicide opens the door to an expert in mental health or grief counseling to step forward to share insight. If there’s a stock market crash, a real estate investor can speak about how diversifying one’s portfolio will save a chunk of cash. If there’s an election running, an image consultant can offer commentary on the candidates’ fashion sense and how the public perceives them. When I teach my Baby Got Booked course online, I coach my students to think about the following ways to “hook” their message onto what’s relevant right now. 1. What’s in season? For example: A nutritionist or food company would do well to think about what the home cook is thinking about right now. Is it back to school season? Are there a whole bunch of unusual summer veggies (eg fiddleheads) flooding the local farmer’s market? A concrete example of this that landed one of my students, Miriam Pearl of Delicious Without Gluten not just an interview but a regular column on her local breakfast TV show was pitching gluten-free Valentine’s Day treats. And then following up with ideas for bread-free sandwiches, healthy school lunches, gluten-free Jewish holiday treats and more. 2. What’s trending right now? I encourage students to check out Twitter and Facebook for stories that are trending and see if there’s a way to speak to an emerging trend. For example, when Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller came out on Facebook talking about his struggle with depression, it created a fabulous opportunity for one of my students Jason Finucan, who speaks about destigmatizing mental illness in the workplace, to help take a celebrity story and parse it in such a way that a lay audience can understand and apply it in their daily lives. 3. Is it breaking news? The recent court ruling against the parents of a toddler who died of bacterial meningitis opens up an opportunity where an ethics expert could step forward and address the underlying morality of the issue. Or an integrative medicine practitioner could help the public better understand what the real stats are behind deaths in patients who receive both traditional and alternative medical care. When there’s a big breaking news story, newsrooms scramble to find an expert who can take the sometimes complex and emotionally loaded facts of the case and explain them to those watching, listening and reading at home. If you’re able to talk about a big news story with a fresh or unusual perspective, chances are there’s a journalist waiting for your email or call. 4. What are the celebrities up to? Celebrities often create fantastic opportunities for the rest of us by just doing what they do: embracing a fitness trend, getting divorced, going to prison, announcing births, or simply saying something on Twitter. The possibilities are literally limitless. For example, when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver recently publicly supported breastfeeding, it created a media uproar. This would be been a fabulous opportunity for a company like Two Doulas, who provide perinatal, birth and postnatal support to talk about the 5 biggest challenges that new moms face when breastfeeding. They don’t need to have any connection whatsoever to Oliver himself; their impact lies in making the story relevant and giving words to the thousands of Canadian mothers who struggle with a lack of support and the resulting guilt from not being able to do something so “natural”. 5. Awareness Days Another fun way to figure out a “why now?” for your topic is to hit Google and enter the title of your topic plus “awareness days.” There is an awareness day or week for just about everything. It makes it far easier for a journalist to pitch her producer a story on fertility acupuncture and interview an award-winning expert like Dr Lorne Brown on the subject with Canada’s Infertility Awareness Day looming on the editorial calendar. So there you go. Five easy ways to flex your message and answer the #1 question that all gatekeepers to the media will ask. Want free tips and a template to write a killer pitch (instead of a boring press release)? Download them for free here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line952
__label__cc	0.747278	0.252722	Brad Miller, plasma_flow installation at Cleland Store, The Rocks, Sydney. Art & Design Residency Program UNSW Art & Design supports a range of campus residencies throughout the year. We welcome applications and also directly invite leading artists, designers, media innovators, educators, creative arts researchers and scholars to join our diverse international creative community. The Art & Design Residency Program has been established to enhance the knowledge and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate students and higher degree research candidates across all disciplines. Participants receive status as Residents of the Faculty with access to our libraries, technical support facilities, staff and workshops. Our inner urban Paddington Campus features an apartment that residents can apply to occupy for a period of up to two months. Participants in our Residency Program are responsible for contributing to our education, practice and research programs by engaging students, staff and alumni through open studios, guest lectures, workshops and other forms of knowledge exchange. With easy access to UNSW’s Kensington campus via a free shuttle bus and located close to many of Sydney’s leading cultural institutions and creative precincts, Art & Design offers a supportive environment to engage and explore art, culture and innovation in Sydney. From 2016 our residency programs include the new Bowen Bungaree Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Residency which provides tailored support for Indigenous artists and designers to enable them to undertake ambitious projects and to create new work. Partnerships & Industry Engagement Global Connections The Studio incubator Di'van Journal Art & Design Residencies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line957
__label__wiki	0.747701	0.747701	Bellevue, WA Land Use Code Ch. 20.10 Toggle site navigation Menu City of Bellevue Land Use Code Ch. 20.10, Land Use Districts 20.10.375, BelRed Legislative History Historic Versions Recent Updates This Page Your Selections 20.10.375 BelRed. Search within This This section is included in your selections. A. Purpose and Intent. BelRed is a major mixed use employment and residential area characterized by a transit-oriented, nodal development pattern, over time replacing the area’s original low intensity light industrial and commercial past. The City will encourage land uses in the BelRed area which promote employment, retail and residential opportunities. More intense uses and greater heights are concentrated in designated nodal development areas along the NE 15th/16th corridor; these areas are intended to be served by high capacity transit. New development in these designated nodal areas is expected to have a transit-supportive and pedestrian-friendly form. The entire BelRed area will be distinguished by environmental and community amenities that serve residents and employees in the area, as well as nearby neighborhoods and the entire city. New development is expected to make significant contributions to these amenities, and to the infrastructure needed to support redevelopment. Redevelopment of the BelRed area will occur over decades, and the City encourages a graceful transition of land use over time. Therefore special provisions are appropriate for existing uses that may not be part of the area’s long-term envisioned future. 1. BelRed-Medical Office (BelRed-MO). The purpose of the BelRed-MO Land Use District is to provide an area for office uses, with an emphasis on medical office. 2. BelRed-Medical Office Node (BelRed-MO-1). The purpose of the BelRed-MO-1 Land Use District is to provide an area for the most intense medical office uses. The district is located within the core of a nodal area, and is limited in extent in order to provide the level of intensity appropriate for areas in close proximity to the highest levels of transit service within the BelRed area. 3. BelRed Office/Residential (BelRed-OR). The purpose of the BelRed-OR Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of office, housing and retail uses, with office as the predominant use. 4. BelRed-Office/Residential Node 1 (BelRed-OR-1). The purpose of the BelRed-OR-1 Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of office, housing and retail uses within the core of a nodal area, with offices as the predominant use. The district is limited in extent in order to provide the level of intensity appropriate for areas in close proximity to the highest levels of transit service within the BelRed area. 5. BelRed-Office/Residential Node 2 (BelRed-OR-2). The purpose of the BelRed-OR-2 Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of office, housing and retail uses, with office as the predominant use. The district is located within a node but outside the node’s core, and building heights provide for a transition between the node’s core and areas outside the node. 6. BelRed-Residential/Commercial Node 1 (BelRed-RC-1). The purpose of the BelRed-RC-1 Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of housing, retail, office and service uses within the core of a nodal area, with an emphasis on housing. The district is limited in extent in order to provide the level of intensity appropriate for areas in close proximity to the highest levels of transit service within the BelRed area. 7. BelRed-Residential/Commercial Node 2 (BelRed-RC-2). The purpose of the BelRed-RC-2 Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of housing, retail, office and service uses. The district is located within a node but outside the node’s core, and building heights provide for a transition between the node’s core and areas outside the node. 8. BelRed-Residential/Commercial (BelRed-RC-3). The purpose of the BelRed-RC-3 Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of housing, retail, office and service uses, with an emphasis on housing. The district is located within a node but in close proximity to mature, stable neighborhoods, and is thus appropriate for transitional heights. 9. BelRed-Commercial/Residential (BelRed-CR). The purpose of the BelRed-CR Land Use District is to provide an area for a mix of housing, retail, office and services. Multiple uses are encouraged on individual sites, in individual buildings, and in the district as a whole. 10. BelRed-Residential (BelRed-R). The purpose of the BelRed-R Land Use District is to provide an area for residential uses. Limited retail and service uses are permitted secondary to residential use, in order to provide the amenity of shopping and services within easy walking distance of residential structures. 11. BelRed-General Commercial (BelRed-GC). The purpose of the BelRed-GC Land Use District is to provide an area for a wide variety of business activities that provide goods and services to other businesses and the general public. 12. BelRed-Office/Residential Transition (BelRed-ORT). The purpose of the BelRed-ORT Land Use District is to provide an area for low-intensity offices and uses and low density multifamily residential dwellings, developed in such a manner as to provide a buffer between residential and more intensively developed properties. B. Permitted Uses. Specific categories of uses are listed in Chart 20.25D.070. LUC 20.25D.050 explains Chart 20.25D.070 and describes the applicable review procedures for BelRed. The description of the use chart contained in LUC 20.10.400 and the categories of uses contained in LUC 20.10.440 do not apply to the BelRed Land Use Districts. C. General Development Requirements. 1. Regulations applying to specific structures or activities are found listed alphabetically in Chapter 20.20 LUC; consult the alphabetical Key Word Index in the beginning of that chapter. 2. BelRed specific standards and guidelines are found in Chapter 20.25D LUC. All development in BelRed shall conform to these requirements. (Ord. 5876, 5-18-09, § 2) Preface 20.10 20.20 The Bellevue Land Use Code is current through Ordinance 6495, passed December 2, 2019. Disclaimer: The City Clerk’s Office has the official version of the Bellevue Land Use Code. Users should contact the City Clerk’s Office for ordinances passed subsequent to the ordinance cited above. City Website: www.bellevuewa.gov City Telephone: (425) 452-6800 Code Publishing Company The requested information could not be loaded. 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__label__cc	0.503074	0.496926	04:00 AMEntertainers with Byron Allen Preakness Looks Like Justify's Race To Lose After Derby WinThere's such a sense of awe about Justify and an aura around the heavy favorite that it's clear it'll take something significant to beat him. Good Magic, Quip Are Top Challengers To Justify In PreaknessJustify is the talk of Pimlico Race Course and the horse racing industry with a very real chance to win the Triple Crown. Mayor Pugh Announces Plans To Keep Preakness At PimlicoQuestions about Baltimore losing the second jewel of the Triple Crown are being answered with plans announced by the mayor for major long-term improvements. Report: Maryland Horse Industry Has Economic Impact Of $1.3BNew numbers show Maryland's horse industry is making a huge impact outside the gates of Pimlico. Kentucky Derby Winner Justify Is Heading To The PreaknessThe Maryland Jockey Club has confirmed with hall of fame trainer Bob Baffert that Kentucky Derby winner Justify will be heading to the Preakness to race on Saturday May 19th. 'The Pride of Maryland' In Horse Racing Is Officially RetiringEleven may seem young to retire. But not when you're a race horse and not when you've won more than $2.6 million in your career. Garceau: Sizing Up The Orioles At The Quarter-Pole Of The SeasonThe 142nd running of the Preakness Stakes is tomorrow so with the 3-year-olds ready at Pimlico I guess it’s time to check the oil on the Orioles. Todd Pletcher Takes Sure And Steady Approach To PreaknessThe Preakness' position two weeks after the Derby is too soon for Pletcher. He prefers giving his horses more rest between starts. He's 0 for 8 in the race, with his best finish being third with Impeachment in 2000. Lookin At Lee Eyes Preakness Glory After Strong Run In DerbyCharging hard down the stretch, Lookin At Lee barely missed winning the Kentucky Derby as a 33-1 long shot. What Happens To Thousands Of Thoroughbred Horses That Don't Win?Baltimore is center stage in the world of racing this week in preparation the 142nd running of the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of the Triple Crown. Derby Winner Always Dreaming Gallops Smoothly For PreaknessKentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming has gone for a routine gallop ahead of the Preakness, which trainer Todd Pletcher sees as a positive development. Orioles Auction Off 'Celebrate Maryland Day' JerseysDuring the game, Orioles players and coaches wore the Orioles Maryland flag script jerseys and Maryland flag themed caps. New Horses Among Preakness Challenges Facing Always DreamingAfter Always Dreaming's win in the Kentucky Derby as the favorite, the colt will be running in the Preakness with a bulls-eye on his back. Kentucky Derby Winner Always Dreaming Gets RambunctiousKentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming got a bit rambunctious while stepping onto the track at Pimlico for a gallop ahead of this weekend's Preakness. Laffit Pincay Joins Sports With Coleman To Talk The PreaknessThe winner of this year's Kentucky Derby is the betting favorite to win. However, Classic Empire is sure to be a strong challenger after finishing fourth, despite being disrupted by a three-horse collision at Churchill Downs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line965
__label__wiki	0.829154	0.829154	Board OKs ordinances on tax, mitigation plan, improvement grant The Arkadelphia City Board passed three resolutions Thursday night: one concerning a 5 mill tax against personal property, one that adopts the Clark County Hazard Mitigation Plan and one applying for a parks improvement grant. The first ordinance was the third and final reading of a 5 mill tax against real and personal property – a resolution the Clark County Quorum Court requires the board to pass each year. “This is not a new tax,” Director James Calhoun said in the Aug. 7 city board meeting. Arkadelphia Fire Chief Ricky Arnold spoke about the Hazard Mitigation plan for the county. “This is not just a city thing,” he said. “It’s county wide.” The resolution called for adoption of a plan in order to receive FEMA funds in the event that a disaster occurs in the county. The plan identifies and assesses potential hazards. Mike Volz, parks and recreation sports supervisor, spoke to the board about a grant for new softball fields at the Youth Sports Complex. The 50/50 matching grant will call for the city to match $25,000 with the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism’s Outdoor Recreation Grants Program. “Development of these fields is the next step in completing the Youth Sports Complex master plan,” Volz said. He said the reason behind choosing a softball field is because parks and recreation staff have been “listening to people who’d like to see softball” at the park. Director Don Hager asked Volz if the fields would be adjustable for age. “They will be adjustable for college-aged people to children as young as 8,” Volz said. The end product would call for six fields for both softball and baseball. Vice Mayor Ann Sanders asked Jimmy Bolt, city manager, if the city has the 50 percent to match the grant. “Yes,” Bolt said. “We’re not even out of our general tax revenue (for the year).” “It won’t tap us out for the rest of the year?” Sanders said. “No,” Bolt said. Sanders said she just wanted to make sure the city had the money before she would vote for the grant. “Sometimes we buy what we want and beg for what we need.” Calhoun moved to adopt the resolution, and Sanders seconded. Bolt said, “I don’t want people to leave here thinking we’ll have a finished field.” The construction of the fields, he said, would be completed in phases, with the first phase including just a playable field without lights or other utilities. Other phases would be completed as funds become available. “We’re going to stretch tax dollars.” The resolution passed unanimously. Volz thanked the board for adopting the resolution and said there are interest groups that are willing to help purchase items for the fields during construction. Bolt gave the city manager’s report. He said the Royal Theatre project has continued to develop, as a draft business model is nearing (completion), the appraisal for the building is due Wednesday, and an architect is working on remodeling estimates and relationships with other interested parties continue to develop. He said statements of qualifications to perform a feasibility study for the creation of a municipal utility and biomass electrical energy plant have been reviewed, and GDS Associates Inc. was the “top candidate” for the study. He said that city staff is working to develop a scope of services and a fee schedule to use to apply for a grant for the study. Bolt said that he recently spoke at the Lions Club meeting and presented his three concepts: the reopening of Royal Theatre, a sustainability project and the creation of the municipal utility plant. Over the past week, Epic Construction has removed four condemned houses in the city, and 15 more structures will be ready for condemnation by next month’s board meeting. He said members of the city staff attended a State Aeronautics Commission meeting and was awarded a grant for the 5 percent match to complete the funding of the purchase of the 15.9 acres north of the airport. The city received the $7,600 check yesterday. Staff members attended the legislative committee meetings at DeGray Lake Resort State Park lodge and Henderson State University on Monday and Tuesday. He thanked state Rep. Johnnie Roebuck for bringing the committee to the community and state Sen. Percy Malone for participating in the meetings. A fall city board retreat is scheduled for Sept. 27 at the Recreation Center. Bolt has been selected to participate in Leadership Arkansas for the 2008-2009 year. “I look forward to participating in the program that Paul Harvel developed,” he said. The program begins Sept. 14 and lasts until June 2009. The Sept. 18 board meeting will include a public hearing for consideration of annexation. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m., 30 minutes earlier than normal board meetings. Street marking in downtown is scheduled for the first couple of weeks in September as weather permits. “I’ve never seen weather quite like this in August,” Bolt said. Each director present gave their reports. Director Brenda Hagerich said she was glad to be back for the meetings. She had missed the last two meetings as she was on vacation. Director Don Hager, on behalf of wet/dry petitioners, said he wanted to remind people to be aware of the status on their voter registration before signing a petition. People who have not voted in the past eight years may not be on the voter rolls, and “will be in for a shock come November when they try to vote.” HSU volunteers will host voter registration and petition signing next week, and Clark County Strategic Plan volunteers will host voter registration in September, after the petition circulates. To check the status of voter registration, call the county clerk at 246-4491. Calhoun said he is excited about the upcoming Scroll Technologies picnic. “It’s good for them to be in the city,” he said. Mayor Chuck Hollingshead said that Dr. Charles Welch will do an excellent job as HSU’s new president. He commended city staff and Fire Chief Ricky Arnold for the placement of a phone book recycling bin at 610 Caddo St. Hollingshead, who signs proclamations honoring the elderly, said people in the city need to recognize the community’s senior citizens. He said the “What’s Next” education forum was “well attended” with high school students interested in attending college and several representatives of colleges and universities throughout the state.Board OKs ordinances on tax, mitigation plan, improvement grant	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line966
__label__cc	0.594721	0.405279	Review: Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag GABBAR SINKS The only thing good about this wretched retread of ‘Sholay’ is that it makes you remember the glorious original all over again. SEPT 2, 2007 – THE LITIGIOUS TENDENCIES of the Sippy family apart, Ram Gopal Varma claims he chose to name his Sholay-remake Aag because that could be the title of your average, disreputable, vendetta-themed potboiler from the seventies or the eighties. And as you sit through Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, it becomes increasingly – and disturbingly – clear that that’s all he thought Sholay was: a generic, dacoit-land revenge saga, possibly the kind that would have made it into one of those Indrajal Comics featuring the homegrown hero Bahadur. Because the basic one-liner sketch of Sholay is simply this: Bad Guy polishes off Good Guy’s family. Good Guy hires a couple of Bahadur-equivalents to bring down Bad Guy. Period. But you know and I know and everyone (except, apparently, Ram Gopal Varma) knows that when it comes to Sholay, its story is so not the point. What Ramesh Sippy crafted, along with Salim-Javed, wasn’t a great movie so much as an unstoppable train of great characters and great moments that retroactively added up to a great movie. There’s very little organic greatness in Sholay. It’s a cheerfully unapologetic pastiche of bits from – among others – Once Upon a Time in the West, Mera Gaon Mera Desh and that genius Kishore Kumar vehicle Half Ticket, and even the staunchest of its defenders would be hard-pressed today to conceal an embarrassed smile at some of its more dated conceits, like the climactic image of Sanjeev Kumar single-handedly (rather, single-leggedly) bringing down Amjad Khan’s dreaded dacoit with a lethal combination of flying kicks and a fixed expression that suggests not rage so much as acute constipation. And yet, each time Sholay shows up on TV, we can’t tear our eyes away – and that’s because of scenes such as the one where AK Hangal’s Imam sahib discovers that his son (played by Sachin, who contributes a cameo in Aag as well) has been killed. The way this sequence spools out is a master class in masala-movie screenwriting. Just a little earlier, we’ve seen Sachin reluctantly take leave of his aged, blind father, and now, as his horse returns to the village of Ramgarh with its lifeless rider (who’s been murdered by Gabbar Singh), we already feel for Imam sahib. After all, the son didn’t want to go; it’s the father who forced him to take up a lucrative job in a beedi factory in another town, and it’s during the travel to that other town that the boy met his untimely end. And the scene keeps building. A crowd gathers. Jai and Veeru haul the body off the horse, just as Imam sahib joins them and breaks down. Kashiram reads out a note from Gabbar, which says that unless Jai and Veeru surrender, there will be many more such deaths. The terrified villagers urge Thakur to see reason. And then, Thakur lifts what has so far been standard-issue melodrama into the realm of myth. He issues a rallying cry, pointing out that down the ages – “Yug yug se…” – people have fought back against tyrants, and such efforts have always involved an element of sacrifice. But the villagers are still unconvinced. They protest, “Hum is musibat ka bojh nahin utha sakte,” that they can’t bear this burden anymore. And then comes the stunning closure to the scene, the big bang that releases the slow-fuse tension that’s been building all along. Without raising his voice, Imam sahib rebukes the cowering villagers by reminding them of what he’s just lost, saying that if he is willing to support Thakur, the others had no business opposing him. And look how beautifully he puts this thought across, by picking up on the word bojh that was tossed around barely a moment ago: “Jaante ho duniya ka sabse bada bojh kya hota hai? Baap ke kandhon par bete ka janaaza.” That, among other things, is what Sholay is about – not just the plot, but magnificently sculpted dialogue like this one, and the one that Jai utters when Veeru considers giving up a life of petty thievery by buying a plot of land in Ramgarh and taking up farming. (But how will they farm, Veeru wonders, considering that they don’t know the first thing about wielding a plough. And Jai responds, with a casual dash of existential philosophy, “Buraai ne bandook chalaana sikha di thi… neki hal chalaana sikha degi,” that if their opting for a life of crime had taught them how to handle a gun, their choosing the good path would automatically guide them in their new career.) We often laugh at masala movies, and if we can appreciate them anymore, it appears to be purely from a retro-kitsch angle. But consider how, in that Imam sahib scene, a simple moment of conflict and tragedy has been elevated to deeply affecting popular art. And when Ram Gopal Varma expressed his admiration for Sholay – he’s apparently seen it dozens of times – these were the things you thought he’d pick up on, the things he wanted to repackage for a new generation. You thought he’d show us what we’re missing in our mainstream cinema, by going back to – among other things – the way songs were used in Sholay, which was a virtual textbook on the various genres of the Hindi film song. (The happy and sad versions of the friendship song, the festival song, the item number, the keep-the-clock-ticking-till rescue-arrives dance in the villain’s den, and the roothna-manaana song, with the hero pacifying the cross heroine.) And you thought he’d take a fresh look at the relationships. You thought, perhaps, that he’d refashion the friendship between Veeru and Jai (now Heero and Raj, played by a tired Ajay Devgan and stony-faced newcomer Prashant Raj) into the sort of male-bonding better suited to our more cynical times, where not even soul mates burst into the kind of lyrics in Yeh dosti. (I mean, Tera gham mera gham, meri jaan teri jaan, aisa apna pyaar?) These revisionist touches, we thought, would compensate for the fact that Aag could never hope to reach, say, the rhetorical heights of its predecessor. (Because for one, no one writes dialogue like that anymore. And even if they did, no one apparently wants to listen to them anymore. Film is a visual medium, we’re constantly reminded these days, as if it weren’t an integrated audio-visual experience.) But Varma isn’t interested in any of this. His characters are a joke. His screenplay is not much more than an exercise in spot-the-corresponding-scene-in-Sholay. (That’s why this review of Aag is filled with recollections from Sholay. When the filmmaker can’t stop invoking the earlier film, how can the viewer?) His dialogues are drowned out by the unbearably loud background score (which incorporates reworked versions of RD Burman’s evocative themes from the original). And save for a Holi-revelry number – staged like the one in Nayakan, with rain and bleached colours and surging, free-spirited multitudes (surrounding the hapless, fish-out-of-water Mohanlal, who plays the Thakur equivalent) – his song picturisations are a horrific blur of tacky skin show and terrible choreography. And you want to ask Varma: This is your idea of a masala movie, simply because it’s a mix of various seemingly-incompatible elements? There’s a reason films like Sholay are labelled masala, and that’s because the best of them are a perfect blend of these elements. When you saw Sholay, you got not just the dialogues and the songs, you also got a revenge drama with equal doses of comedy, friendship and romance, along with a more-than-cursory nod to the textures of the society around. (What is Jaya Bhaduri’s widow-in-white if not a symbol of the complications of losing a husband in a feudal setup? And what is it if not a celebration of pluralism that Imam sahib is included in the celebration of the Hindu festival of colours?) It’s telling in Aag that its heroes move from Nasik to the generic gangster-land of Mumbai, thus reversing the anonymous-big-city-to-comforting-Ramgarh trajectory of the heroes in Sholay – for at least in the movies, save for a Lagaan here or a Swades there, India doesn’t live in the villages anymore. So okay, we’ve made our peace with that. But why, then, remake Sholay so faithfully that even the constructs that depended on the rural setting to fully work are retained? Sushmita Sen plays the widow in Aag, but in today’s Mumbai, all things considered, how could this character carry the emotional wallop that Jaya Bhaduri’s did in Sholay? And that’s why the hysterically over-stylised Aag becomes just another guns-and-gangsters saga. It is brave of Varma, in this current cinematic culture not exactly conducive to the masala movie, to update one of the best examples of the genre (which isn’t quite the right word in this context, for the masala movie wouldn’t be a masala movie if it weren’t a conflation of a number of genres). And if his acknowledgement of the heyday of the masala movie – in the form of nods to Amar Akbar Anthony and Kabhi Kabhie – is any indication, he does seem genuinely fond of that kind of cinema. But he’s too ambitious to do what Subhash Ghai did with Karma, which was to simply retell the Sholay story in a solidly comforting mainstream format. (And, for a minute, let’s try and forget Dharmesh Darshan’s awful woman-centric spin with Mela.) Varma appears to be mining for subtext in Aag. In Sholay, when Veeru teaches Basanti how to handle a gun, it’s because she’s trying to pick raw mangoes from branches her extended arms cannot reach. It’s to shoot down the mangoes. But in Aag, this shooting practice occurs due to Ghungroo’s (the Basanti character, played intolerably by Nisha Kothari) fascination with guns. It’s as if Varma is choosing this film – of all times – to wink at the gun culture we live in. But this is nothing compared to how he conceives Babban Singh (the Gabbar Singh update, played by Amitabh Bachchan with a huge appetite for chewing up all the scenery in sight). Varma makes Babban an extremely modern (and therefore non-mythical, and non-masala-movie) embodiment of evil, someone who muses that the innocents that die at his hands are no different from those that die at the hands of America or the Al-Qaeda. This villain isn’t a simple bogeyman who’s stepped out of our darkest imagination; he’s very much a part of the complex reality around us, for when Babban escapes from jail, it’s thanks to the complicity of the all-too-corrupt police. These updated touches may be Varma’s nods to the textures of the society around us today, but they cannot save a film that fails at the most basic level – by not giving us a story to get involved in, with characters to care about. It’s occasionally fun to watch certain scenes, like the one where Amitabh Bachchan plays the harmonica, and get all meta about the fact that he played the instrument in the earlier film too, but as a different character. But when it comes to something really important, when one of the heroes dies at the end, you barely register the loss. You’re supposed to be shedding big, fat masala-movie tears about the premature death of a beautiful friendship – yeh dosti and all that – and instead you heave a sigh of relief that this interminable travesty of a remake is finally coming to a close. Aag isn’t masala; it’s a mess. Copyright ©2007 The New Sunday Express Posted in: Cinema: Hindi ← Review: The Invasion / Vacancy Review: Apna Asmaan / Dhamaal → 34 Responses “Review: Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag” → Some problems with the site, hence the delay… Dharu Often what you expect to be a bad movie turns out to be a bad movie! Rarely does this happen to good movies for me. Thanks Baddy for the Rs 180 I saved on the multiplex ticket. I will wait for Sony Max (or should it be Sahara One) announce this movie. This certainly is one of the times I am happy I don’t have the burden of reviewing a movie as a professional, award winning reviewer :). Keep it coming and may be good movies will come out as well. Mr Rangan. Your review was, as always, great. But I found a spelling mistake here, which never happens in any of your reviews. The “chorography” in the 9th paragraph should read “choreography”. I believe, you were typing in a hurry. No offence meant. Dharu: You know, in a weird way, this may yet become something of a cult – as in, let’s check out how bad this can really be, especially for those who know Sholay… anon: Thanks for the catch. Though I’m surprised MS-Word didn’t catch it first… strong words eh Baradwaj :)..Verma’s characters are a joke 🙂 . (btw Did you always used to refer RGV as Verma ? Looks like the movie really pissed you off ) .Time was when Verma used to make stylish,competent gangster movies (if nothing much else )…nowadays he and his factory chelas are working at parodying his own style with frankly horrific consequences… sachita The movie has received duds from most of the reviews I have read. I agree you have clearly given reasons why it is a dud. But in all fairness, I didn’t expect you to like the movie even it has been otherwise. Aren’t you too much of nostlagia-specialist, to enjoy a old classic remade by today’s radical director? I mean I see you pensively look back at the Leela chitnis mother types of the old movies:) I did not even know her name till I read your reviews. Thanks for the review, and BTW, who is interested in 2 ok-ok Hollywood flicks? Thanks for warning us before hand, I thought I would watch this for AB and Ajay, but now I may not even watch it on TV! You write, “That’s why this review of Aag is filled with recollections from Sholay. When the filmmaker can’t stop invoking the earlier film, how can the viewer?”, what is it that you want? And did you hear Bheema? And I remember that somewhere, you had mentioned that you were asked by your Ed on something about Mozhi, not a review as such but something that you are not too sure of and you promised that it would be up in the blog even if it does not make it to the paper….where is it? It is so obvious that you did not find anything worthwhile to mention about the movie. Therefore, you went down the memory lane. Thanks for the post. Didn’t see Aag so i won’t comment the movie, but the reviews. If the movie is that bad, so all of them are quite fair… but i read somewhere that a critic though that it was so bad that he threw eggs before leaving the theatre. Never seen such a stupid behavior ! Not professional at all ! Nobody need that kind of humiliation. Ok the movie is bad. But let’s not start some “RGV ki bashing” to punish him because he made a bad remake of one the best hindi film ever (which after all is an adaptation of a japanese movie… we should ask them what they think of sholay Lol. French would say “Kurusawa à la sauce curry” with irony, a good entertainment thanks to those Leone film’s reference and one of the coolest bad guy ever Lol). Not a critic towards you Baradwaj, but i somewhat feel that critics are loosing their objectivity when they review “RGV KI AAG” and i don’t think it’s cool. It’s tough to make a movie. U have the right not to like it, not the right to be mean. Oh and i want to add… let Gods be Gods and humans be humans. Too much respect for those good old days… old is gold etc… I’m not saying that we should lower the standards but let the young generation to at least dare something. I’m sure if Aag was a good film, it wouldn’t be good enough to detrone the myth. But what stop directors to even try ? Long live “the Politicaly incorrect” ! raag Great review, as usual. Actually, most people expected RGV to mess it up the moment he declared his intentions to remake Sholay. It would take helluva effort for anyone to remake Sholay. Remakes have a better chance of succeeding when the original had a great story but weak presentation/treatment. However, Sholay already had a good story and an excellent presentation. An aside, it has always been my opinion that a huge chunk of credit for the making of the legend of Amitabh Bachchan (and Sholay) should go to the likes of Salim-Jaaved, Prakash Mehra (remember the dialogues and lyrics of Sharaabi), RDB and Kishore Kumar. Why remake an old film if it is so iconic? It will never live up to the original in people’s minds. Frankly I’m more than a little disturbed by such remakes of iconic films. Not out of reverence for the originals, but out of a worry that filmmakers would rather relive past glories than try to create new iconic films that strike a chord with the audience. Its one thing if you make a film like the (original) Sholay which is a stew of film references re-contextualized and taken to a different level. But you had better make a damn good film if you are doing a remake of a classic. Rahul Raichand Atleast now you’d realize how well Don was remade. thamizhan Who is this we who often laughs at masala movies and sees them as retro-kitsch — and is it the same we who doesn’t know what ratatouille is? Why do you insist on imputing opinions to your readers? Not to mention how does being a mix of genres make “masala” not a genre? It has generic conventions, which you yourself list in the review, surely that’s enough. And masala movies were full of modern villains — Shaan being an example. Isn’t the villanousness of modern types a masala movie cliche. Just realised the original sholey was made years before I was born; and am a bit surprised because on the bus trips Sholey was still the most popular movie. In fact, I remember I once started crying that they were going to play the movie again. At that age I did not watch any movie, my problem with Sholey was that the volume would be higher than usual and nobody would let me speak a word. munimma Good review, esp. because it made me want to see Sholay again. That is similarly what RGV has achieved (though not on the same level)- put Sholay on a higher pedestal ;-P filter kaapi brangan..m plannin 2 ctch d movie 2day bt i hv dis feelin dat its nt as bad as d critics r puttin it..all critics seem 2 hv unanimously declared war on d movie…mayb he dint wanna make it classy for u n me.. mayb he has dun sm market skimmin n tragetted it at Ramgarh type places. neway i’ll kno dat in d evnin. MumbaiRamki At the risk of getting rotten tomatoes- I don’t think the Old SHolay was great – probably it was the best in 1970s , but i don’t think it can withstand the time – However from ur review, i guess RGV has made a mess , by deleting the ‘timeless’ scenes of sholay and adding more oomph! bala: It’s “Varma” right? Aprt from the gangster films, I quite liked Naach when it came out. Though if I saw it now, I don’t know how I’d feel. sachita: Well, I did have a decent time with Partner, which was Hitch by way of Chhoti si Baat. But yes, proposed projects such as a remake of Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam with John Abraham as Bhootnath do scare the shit out of me. Padawan: Heard Bheema once. The tunes kinda slipped by. Should listen to them again. Lakshmi: That’s quite right. I really didn’t find much worthwhile (or worth talking about) with the new one. Oops: Don’t know about the eggs, but I don’t think it’s RGV-bashing so much as people being outraged at such a descration of a beloved movie memory. Ask yourself this: Are there any teens — i.e. from a generation that did not grow up with Sholay — who liked Aag? raag: Yup, Desai and Mehra were a big part of the AB legend. And of course Salim-Javed. Even their commercial dud like Imaan Dharam are worth watching simply for how they stitched together a certain kind of masala movie with big stars. Ravi K: The remakes don’t bother me. The bad remakes, though, are a problem 🙂 Rahul Raichand: Ah, you’ve been waiting for a year to point that out, haven’t you? 🙂 thamizhan: I though Shaan had a pretty mythic vilain too, a go-for-broke megalomaniac on the lines of the Bond films. N: That was some nice nostalgia. Thanks 🙂 nishant: Thanks munimma: Yes, in a weird way, you feel this film is going to resuurect Sholay all over again. filter kaapi: So did you like it or not? MumbaiRamki: No rotten tomatoes there. Quite a few people share that opinion. Gaipajama Congrats on the award! I have been away for a couple of months and you have managed to win a national award and write a terrific rahman piece in the meantime. Btw, Is there an Oscar or Cannes equivalent? 🙂 I haven’t watched Aag, but after watching sarkar I don’t ever want to watch another “tribute” film by RGV. “… male-bonding better suited to our more cynical times …” I think thats where Rajkumar Hirani scored with Munnabhai. In a hilarious reference to Sholay, munnabhai and circuit ride on a motorcycle with a sidecar delivering “hal chalayenge” dialogs. He was able to tap into our collective movie-subconscious while not spoiling the memory of the original. Brangan : My point is not “do you love or hate” the movie. See we all know what people think about Aag. And i’m not asking critics to love it (didn’t say that), but to stay professional… because it’s your job to make constructive reviews. Everybody can find a funny or a cruel way to say “ur movie is shit”… just to look cool and brilliant. I’m asking something else from a professional reviewer, even if it’s to like a movie that everybody hates (u did it with JBJ). But i repeat i’m not asking u to like Aag. “people being outraged at such a descration of a beloved movie memory” See ! Too much passion, emotion ! This is just cinema… even when u speak about a movie like Sholay. U have to forget that Sholay is a myth because if u don’t, then there is no debate anymore, and u kill completely “RGV Ki Aag” chances. U have to judge a remake on his own terms despite the effort of RGV to recall the old one. That’s ur job. And i repeat, not a critic toward you but i’m disappoint by the tone reviews. Full of sarcasm that is not needed. Brangan, i’m not asking u to like the movie (didn’t say that). But there is a difference between doing a review and writing a piece full of sarcasm because RGV dared to touch a myth. That i can expect that from anybody… not from a professional reviewer. It’s ur job to judge a movie on his own term despite RGV efforts to recall Sholay, ur job to forget that Sholay is a myth when u write, openning the debate with those who don’t think like you (i think Sholay is a very good movie by the way), ur job to be more objective. Not a critic toward u but in general, some of the reviewers lack objectivity when they review Aag. Jaiganesh I haven’t seen the movie, so can’t comment if the reviewer was right or wrong. However one thing that comes to my mind is this. Sholay – was a dacoit drama like the westerns. The setting was all too crucial – the vast barren stretches and rocky Ramanagaram was visually the right setting and with horses and trains, the action scenes of Sholay wore a grand look and that is what got the viewers sucked in the very first time itself, for all other dialogue elements were there to be found in earlier movies itself. So I find the glorification of the scene build up by you a tad too naive and simply a fans enchantment blurring out objectivity. If you take the setting out of Sholay, then you are left with only one thing and thats Gabbar – the eery menacing villain whose gun and his mouth were synonymous. The low slow tones he speaks to start with, set the train of expectation starting in your mind, waiting for the station or point when the gun is going to explode. Offcourse his mouth can speak loud too. A Villain who requires three protagonists to bring him down. I guess it is this villain piece that Ramu was enchanted with. It is not just Ramu, even film makers down south drew from Gabbar – what RKSelvamani made with Mansoor Ali Khan in Captain Prabhakaran – another movie closely following Sholay from the settings and action perspective. The moment Ramu decided to take the setting out from the rocky ramanagaram to building clad mumbai, the only hope that is left alive was how Gabbar scales up now. The rest of the characters are pretty formulaic and I am damn sure that the sippys and javeds wouldnt have even broken a sweat in coming up with those. The heart of sholay is Gabbar and the setting and not the formulaic hindu muslim camraderie that you try to bring out or Jai-veeru friendship or the widowhood in feudal setup. These are things that as fans of a movie we try to unearth and relate to so that we can enjoy the main course much better. Just simple tools of fan endearment to an affliction. In simple words Sholay isn’t a master piece that people make it out to be. Just that Amjad Khan breathed fire and the wonderful Ramanagaram rocks that saved the movie. If Ramu had these two today, I guess Aag would have burned more brightly. Again these are just my musings. Sorry, i thought it didn’t work the first time. That’s why i’ve written a second shorter message. Gaipajama: Thanks. That’s why you should keep visiting 🙂 And your Munnabhai reference is spot on. oops/Jaiganesh: “Too much passion, emotion ! This is just cinema…” But what is cinema viewing if passion and emotion were taken out of the equation? And it’s not about forgetting that Sholay is a myth. What I wanted to do is show how Sholay is a wonderful example of a masala movie — and Jaiganesh, I didn’t mean to say that Sholay was a pioneer in this respect; just that it used all those older elements very effectively — and that what RGV has done is an ineffective remake that neither stands on its own nor stands out as tribute. And Jaiganesh, that point about Gabbar was great. But for me, all the characters worked, and I did not find them “pretty formulaic” at all. In conception maybe, but not in the execution. I am not supporting Aaag by any means here when I posted the previous message. I haven’t seen that movie. I just jotted down what I thought of Sholay and after many viewings which I had to because of friends , I still feel that Sholay sells because of ground breaking technical work that went into it(for a movie of its time). Offcourse even in that aspect is derives its inspiration generously from the western movies. Offcourse acting in Sholay is good. I did not mean that actors did a formulaic job. However except Gabbar, the rest were all regulars. Gabbar was unique and special in conception and execution. The key to gabbar in my opinion is – He is mean, thats a given. He is captivating and because of that, there is a mesmerizing effect he has on audience. He has to be toned down to start with, get menacing by leaps and bounds and off course when he has to say “Yeh haath mujhe dhe dhe thaakur”, he has to reach a crescendo that has to grab the audience’s collective jugular like a cobra’s bite. This was not “hotch potched” like a holi song or an innocent villager killed by Villain. This was “conceived” and the evidence is all there for us to see. Ok brangan. To conclude, i’ve read this article where it’s said that Sarkar Raj will release in December. Very bad move. Why so early after Aag ? Just like he killed Darling chances (Brangan did u see this movie ?), he will kill Sarkar Raj. He should wait till January 2008. There’s already too many biggies for the end of this year. http://hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=11cbd37c-7d5a-4e89-9410-c2d5e97dbca7&&Headline=I+take+full+responsibility+for+my+film%3a+Ram+Gopal+Varma Jaiganesh : YES ! U MADE A VERY CLEAR POINT. GABBAR WAS THE HEART OF SHOLAY . THE FILM WAS BOX OFFICE AND REMEMBERED TODAY BECAUSE OF GABBAR . I LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THE TITLE SHOLAY TO BE AMENDED AS GABBAR AS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO AMJAD KHAN. HE WAS BORNED FOR THE SAKE OF SHOLAY. MAY GOD BLESS HIM WITH HEAVEN. INSYA ALLAH. movielvrgrl i don’t know if you’re reading this but I have just read 8 of reviews… and plan on reading more. you are one of the few people who seem to understand the genre of film from both a connoseiur’s point of view as well as the everyday moviegoer. you and i definitely don’t have the same favorites but i can still understand and usually agree with what you say. moreover past agreeing, it is when i disagree with you that tells the most– even when our opinions differ, i find your knowledge and love of the cinema a wonderful justification for the way you feel. keep up the great work, because i can’t wait to keep reading it. AYOOSH K.P Indian films are still lagging behind because the bench mark set by the viewers and critics are the” so called” classic films like sholay. Grow up guys sholay was just as good as a child magazine cartoon story. Tivep Hilarious, not the movie, but this post making fun of Aag: http://digestivepyrotechnics.blogspot.com/2012/04/interview-with-cast-of-ram-gopal-varmas.html 1 Trackback For This Post Aag Vs Sholay « India Syndicate → September 7th, 2007 → 09:22 […] Vs Sholay September 7th, 2007 — sridharvanka I was struck by this review of Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag by award-winning film-critic Baradwaj Rangan. And yet, each time […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line967
__label__cc	0.705859	0.294141	The influence of mass media an Angela ehlers dissertation Operational issues of mcdonald Home help with homework E r p implementation problems E r p implementation problems Simple Report all non-const variables declared at namespace scope. Avoid singletons Singletons are basically complicated global objects in disguise. History[ edit ] The concept of implementation intentions originated from research on goal striving throughout the late s and s. The research also suggested that the weak intention-behavior relation is a result of people having good intentions, but failing to act on them. Emerging research proposed the notion that successful goal attainment is in part attributable to the manner in which goal setting criteria are framed. For example, a person will perform better when set goals are challenging and specific as compared to goals that are challenging but vague known as the goal-specificity effect. Concept[ edit ] People generally have positive intentionsbut often fail to act on them. Implementation intentions offer a practical solution for such a problem. The problems of initiating and maintaining goal-directed behavior can be addressed by using the implementation intention process. This if-then plan is a very specific approach as compared to goal intentions. A goal intention may be phrased in the following way: They are often phrased in the following way: Having formed a concrete plan involving a specific situation, this situation then becomes mentally represented and activated, leading to better perceptionattention and memory concerning the critical situation. As a result, the chosen goal-directed behavior the then-part of the plan will be performed automatically and efficiently, without conscious effort. The automatization of the behavior in response to the future situation or cue, removes all hesitation and deliberation on the part of the decision maker when such a critical situation arises. This also has the effect of freeing cognitive resources for other mental processing tasks, and also for avoiding goal-threatening distractions or competing goals. It is also assumed that an implementation intention, once set, will continue operating non-consciously. This process is called strategic automaticity. Without commitment, an implementation intention will hardly have any effect on goal-directed behavior. In the phase model of action, the use of implementation intention takes place in the post-decisional phase implemental mindset, volition is the driving force of action which follows the predecisional phase deliberative mindset, motivation is the driving force of setting goals. 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Norton [16] suggest the following situations in which the use of planning prompts is most effective: When strong intentions already exist When these intentions are intrinsically motivated When at least some obstacles exist When no current plan exists When the risk of forgetting to act is high When the timeline for action is finite When planning will induce people to consider specific barriers to action When there is a specific future time for action When people can think specifically about implementation details When there are opportunities to share plans publicly When planning for single rather than multiple goals When there is a low likelihood that unanticipated moments for action will arise Empirical support[ edit ] Implementation intentions have been very successful in helping individuals achieve targeted and specific goals over the years, as indicated by a survey of the research. Voting plans[ edit ] Implementation intentions can help to increase voter turnout. A study by David W. Nickerson and Todd Rogers found that voters in a high-salience election were more likely to vote when they received an implementation intentions phone call facilitating the creation of a voting plan. In a study conducted by Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian [20]randomly assigned employees at a Midwestern company received a mailing that prompted them to write down the date and time that they would get their flu shot, while the remaining employees received a letter with only the clinic information. C++ Core Guidelines Those who received the plan-making letter were 4 percentage points more likely to get a flu shot. The women that were asked to create specific implementation intentions lost on average 4. The first group were given the simple goal intention to not experience fright or disgust, and were told to believe "I will not get frightened. 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__label__cc	0.606215	0.393785	Home » Reviews » Image Reviews » Review – Curse Words #2 (Image Comics) Review – Curse Words #2 (Image Comics) Posted on February 25, 2017 in Image Reviews Publisher: Image Comics Writer: Charles Soule Artist: Ryan Browne Release Date: 22nd February 2017 Wizord the, uh, wizard has been tasked with using his magic to destroy the world. Thing is, he actually kind of likes it here, especially after deciding to cash in on his unique gifts and becoming a wealthy quasi-celebrity in the process. Unfortunately, his “boss” Sizzajee isn’t as understanding, and dispatched rival wizard Cornwall last issue in an attempt to bring Wizord back under control. Things didn’t go so well for the newcomer, and after Wizord was forced to brutally execute his rival in front of a baseball stadium full of onlookers at the conclusion of the previous chapter, he now finds himself forced to use his powers to cover up the indiscretion faster than you can say ‘sandwich bag full of shrunken witnesses’. Yeah. Writer Charles Soule is clearly having a lot of fun, but with the ‘fish out of water’ shenanigans of the first issue now a distant memory, we’re left with a fairly inconsistent tone here. On the one hand there are some straight-faced fantasy moments, like Wizord’s apparent frustration at being seen as a ‘monster’ and his allusions to a troubled childhood, and on the other there are several comedic wrinkles to the story (such Wizord’s Koala companion Margaret) that make it difficult at times to really know how we’re supposed to be taking things. One thing that’s easy to know how to take is the art. Ryan Browne, man. Beautiful work from start to finish once again, and he – along with Michael Garland and Michael Parkinson – combine to provide a wonderfully distinctive colour palette for the series; all pinks, purples and pale blues. Browne also does a terrific job with the more fantastical aspects of the story – winged bird women, the effects which accompany Wizord using his powers, and basically everything that happens in “the Hole World” with Sizzajee and his minions. It’s a great looking book, and the strength of the art makes it a lot easier to overlook the aforementioned tonal inconsistencies, leaving Curse Words as a thoroughly enjoyable ready from start to finish. Ultimately then, while this latest chapter doesn’t quite hit the heights of the first issue, this is still a series that comes highly recommended, with Soule and Browne combining to create something truly unique, from the artwork to the lead character himself. And, providing it can decide whether it’s a fantasy with dashes of comedy or a comedy with hints of fantasy, this could wind up becoming something truly special. I’ll definitely be sticking around to find out, that’s for sure. Curse Words Ryan Browne	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line974
__label__cc	0.504376	0.495624	Berean Research "Guard Yourselves in Steadfast Truth!" A “money changers” moment for Catholics Posted By Marsha West on October 1, 2016 in Liberalism, Politics, Roman Catholicism 2 Journalist and media critic Cliff Kincaid reports on an editorial written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, where he goes after the far left for working through the Democratic Party to censor the views of people who believe in traditional values as well as “destroying institutions that convey these values to young people.” According to Kincaid “not all Catholics are remaining silent. The EWTN Catholic cable channel, which reaches tens of millions of people in the U.S., has been running a blockbuster film, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” examining how Marxists have subverted the church from within by recruiting clergy into revolutionary socialist activities that divide people and cause conflict. The film is described as “a lens into America’s cultural Marxism euphemistically called ‘progressivism.'” Kincaid included a quote by Wuerl where he warned that “the ease with which today a politically correct morality is being forced on our Catholic institutions in place of our own Catholic moral tradition.” The archbishop’s editorial “should cause headaches among Democrats who think they can dupe Catholics in another election year,” says Kincaid. Our White Paper on the Roman Catholic Church examines the doctrines the RCC teaches and demonstrates that it stands in stark contrast with – and even in opposition to – historic orthodox Christianity. Now to Cliff Kincaid’s report: And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (Mat. 21:12) Of all the groups that Barack Obama bamboozled in 2008 and 2012, Catholics were the biggest suckers. They voted for Obama, and now, according to the polls, they are backing Hillary. But evidence suggests that some people in the Catholic media are waking up. They are promising not to get fooled again. They could influence millions of Catholics to abandon the Democratic Party in this critical election year. The Catholic Standard editorial “The Fruits of Silence,” by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, may be a signal of what’s to come. It is a strong indictment of the liberal intelligentsia and their “politically correct” mindset. Wuerl communicates a sophisticated awareness of how the far left uses misleading talk about solving the problem of “discrimination” against various groups in order to force their radical views on society at large. He writes, “Here is how it works. A legislative body passes a law that says it is illegal to discriminate against a specific group of people and their behavior. This classification of ‘discrimination’ includes Catholic teaching or any requirement concerning behaviors in our Catholic schools. In other words, such laws would find that a Catholic school discriminates when it teaches that taking the life of an unborn child is wrong or that sexual activity outside of marriage is immoral. The charge of discrimination is also directed at Catholic schools when they expect their teachers to support the teaching in words and deeds.” Without saying so explicitly, Wuerl is describing how the liberals and leftists working through the Democratic Party are not only censoring the views of people who believe in traditional values, but are also destroying institutions that convey these values to young people. “During all of this drama, an equally constant factor has been the silence of so many Catholics and other neighbors in the community whose voices might have influenced the outcome,” he adds. Those are the Catholics intimidated by – or active agents of – the forces of political correctness. They are the liberal Catholics who don’t believe in what their church teaches on such issues as abortion and homosexuality. They want to see their church transformed into an arm or adjunct of the Democratic Party, which is radically pro-abortion, pro-gay, and pro-transgender. Continue reading Cliff Kincaid, Democratic Party, Donald Wuerl Archbishop of Washington, Political Correctness Is John Piper Disqualifying Himself As A Teacher? Why don’t you recommend GOOD teachers for a change? 2 Responses to A “money changers” moment for Catholics Manny1962 October 2, 2016 at 10:28 am # Apart from being completely apostate, the RCC has one thing in common with American Churchianity, political activism, it has come full circle……..the NAR movement currently in love with Rome is also very politically active! Pushing for the “right” party, the “right” candidate meanwhile ignoring the saving gospel. Little do they know this is part and parcel of the ecumenical movement foretold long ago. Both the NAR and the RCC hold to the belief they will usher in the kingdom, they will overcome man made government institutions and mandate “Christianity” as the law of the land…………. God’s word says otherwise. Stephen James Schneider December 13, 2016 at 4:37 am # Yes, there are certainly: “liberal Catholics who don’t believe in what their church teaches on such issues as abortion and homosexuality.” Which is that both are wrong, period! That’s the teaching. Thumbs up! And, fortunately, they are in the minority! Indeed, unfortunately, there are many Protestant denominations that have a much higher number of their parishioners percentage wise supporting such transgressions of God’s standards. 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__label__cc	0.641867	0.358133	(A/N): This plot bunny wasn’t even the first on my list of things to tackle, but every time I sat to write, Damon just popped up in his oh-so snarky way and wouldn’t leave me alone! So, as per his demands as well as your encouragement, this is now my main project. “Hear your heartbeat Beat a frantic pace And it’s not even seven AM You’re feeling the rush of anguish settling You cannot help showing them in Hurry up then Or you’ll fall behind and They will take control of you And you need to heal the hurt behind your eyes Fickle words crowding your mind” Poets of the Fall – “Sleep” Damon turned the car off when they came to a stop at Bella’s house and they sat there for a moment in awkward silence. They’d been quiet for the majority of the ride, Bella softly relaying directions while Damon made odd quips about her Podunk town, as he liked to call it. When he made no move to exit the car, Bella finally said, “This is my house.” He turned to her and shot her a don’t-be-stupid look and said, “No shit.” Bella looked down, embarrassed. “Um, Charlie should be home in a bit, so I’ll get some things together and then you can do your Jedi mind trick thing. It won’t hurt him, will it?” Damon snorted. “It won’t, but I’ll hurt you if you ever call it that again. I’m way cooler than a Jedi.” She rolled her eyes and was about to retort when Damon’s head snapped to the left sharply, his eyes fixated on the treeline. His head was quirked slightly and she instantly recognized his expression having seen the Cullens look similar whenever they strained to hear something her human ears could not detect. Oh no, she thought. Was it Victoria already? Could it be starting so soon? They hadn’t even left town, for chrissakes. “Go inside, Bella,” Damon ordered. “W-what is it? What do you hear?” Quickly, Damon got out of the car and Bella scrambled to follow, tripping over her feet in her haste. He was there instantly, gripping her arm and hauling her towards the house. “Shut up and go inside. Stay there until I come back.” Bella bit her lip to stifle the protest poised to fall. She wanted to stay with him and make sure he wouldn’t be hurt from whatever was out there, but Bella had learned the hard way that she was physically no match for the supernatural. So instead of insisting he let her come with him, Bella merely placed her hand on his arm, her fingers finding purchase his leather jacket. “Please be careful,” she said. Damon frowned at her hand, and then flicked his eyes up to stare at her. His expression was unreadable, his guard clearly up as he studied her for a long, tense moment. Feeling like she may have committed some sort of faux pas, Bella started to move her hand away, fighting the urge blush and look down. Before she could stammer some sort of an apology for offending him, Damon caught her hand in his and brought it to his lips for a peck. It would’ve been in a politely romantic gesture had he not been sporting his ever constant mocking smirk. “I make no promises, sweetheart. But don’t worry, it’s the other guys you got to worry about.” And with a wink he was gone, running in a blur into the woods to face whatever was out there. Bella sighed. Already she could tell that Damon was going to be dangerous on more than one level, but she was hopeful about going with him, hopeful that he’d see her as worth the risk he was taking in bringing her. She doubted that he would in the long run and she imagined the thrill she presented would wear off eventually and he’d leave her too. Still, at least he’d been honest with her from the start. He certainly made no false pretenses about why he was helping her – not for her, but for his own amusement. That boded well for when he’d decide to leave her. Bella had no illusions in what he was doing with her, not like before with Edward who’d fed her honied lies of love and devotion. She’d be able to handle it when he realized she was just a plain, boring human girl and would take his leave. At least, she hoped she could handle it because she wouldn’t really have any choice in the matter. It was bound to happen. Closing the door behind her, Bella took a moment to organize her thoughts. It’d been an incredibly eventful day and she could feel the beginnings of a migraine stirring at her temples. Laurent had tipped her off about Victoria, she’d learned there was a different kind of vampire, Damon had decided to kidnap her for fun while in the same breath pledging to protect her for the duration of said kidnapping. It was kind of a symbiotic agreement they’d made, Bella suddenly realized, but didn’t have it in her to analyze what that meant about them. There were times she thought of the naive bubble she’d once lived in before coming to Forks and yearned for that blissful ignorance once again. Life was so much easier when the world was small and humans were at the top of the food chain. All she had to worry about was college coming up and making sure dinner was edible when her mom decided to cook for them. Massaging her temples, Bella moved to the stairs, resigned to pack her meager belongings and leave Forks once and for all. “Bella.” She froze, her head snapping to the kitchen. There was a silhouette of a man standing close to the backdoor. He was tall and dark, and as he moved towards her, she recognized him instantly. “Jacob?” It was him, but not. He was like Jake to the nth degree. He’d shot up several inches, had muscles where he’d once had scrawny arms and his hair was cropped short and neat in an almost military fashion. And was that a tattoo she saw on his shoulder? He could have easily passed for a man and not the young teenage boy Bella knew him to be. Instantly she was wary. There was nothing natural about the way he looked – and she doubted something like steroids would have worked so effectively in the few weeks he’d been avoiding her. She took a step towards the stairs. She’d never make it out the front door before he could reach her, and with Damon outside fighting who knew what, it’d probably be safer if she could make it up to her room and lock herself in there. She didn’t know why she was thinking that way, but something inside her told her something wasn’t right. That she should be careful. He either didn’t notice her accusatory tone, or he simply ignored it, because he only smiled in response and took a step further into her house. “I’m here to help you, Loca. Don’t be afraid. I’m here now.” That made her even more wary and Bella suddenly felt like a cornered animal with no where to run. “You can’t ignore me for weeks and then show up out of the blue like this, Jake. Your actions have spoken clearly and I get it, so just go home. And don’t come into my home uninvited again.” Jake frowned. “You don’t know what you’re talking about, Bells. I’m your friend and I’m here to help.” Bella stiffened. The hurt and despair she’d lost herself to was still there, but the newly discovered anger and resentment was reigniting and proving far stronger. “Friend?” she hissed, an unfamiliar bitterness tinging the word. “You’ve ignored me for weeks, Jacob Black. Avoided my calls, brushed me off like I was nothing more than a bad habit you suddenly decided to drop – you even had your dad tell me off for you the last time I called. You are a coward, and you are no friend of mine. I have no friends.” And she meant that last part with every fiber of her being. She only had herself she could depend upon – that lesson had been hard learned these past few months. Anger stiffened him and through a clenched jaw, Jacob said, “You’re mad. I get it. But you don’t know what you’re talking about. You have to come with me Bella, it’s not safe for you here.” The anger burned brighter. Who did he think he was? What made him think he could ignore her for weeks and then show up out of the blue and order her around without giving her any information? Abruptly, her anger shifted inwards. She knew exactly why he thought he could treat her this way. It was her own fault because she’d always let herself be ordered around before. All she ever did was let people make decisions for her. Edward practically dictated her whole life while they’d been together, and the rest of the Cullens had been no better. Alice had constantly used her visions to twist Bella to her will. Jasper had manipulated her emotions plenty of times, usually in an attempt to help, but she’d never asked for his help and he’d never asked her permission before toying with them. Emmett and Rosalie had been the most truthful, particularly Rosalie who never tried to hide her disapproval, but they were also guilty of condescending to her for being a mere human. Even Carlisle and Esme were guilty of the that. It was like they’d wanted her to think she was one of them, but they’d constantly looked down on her for being what she was. They’d used her humanity, something she couldn’t control but they could, against her. And when they broke her, Bella had latched on to Jake. She’d given him too much power over her well-being and when he’d tired of her, once again she broke. The shattered pieces left by the Cullens had fractured further under his care. Even if she could somehow pull herself back together, the pieces would never fit the same way again. The girl Jacob had known, the little human the Cullens had adopted, was gone forever. This time, Bella would pick up the pieces herself. Her well-being was her own responsibility and she’d never again allow herself to become dependent on another in such a manner. If it took years, Bella would find a way to forge the shattered pieces of her soul back together and once she did that, she’d never let herself fall again. Suddenly Damon’s face flashed in her mind and she knew she wasn’t being completely honest with herself. She was risking herself with Damon, by depending on him even if only for protection and nothing else. But there was a strange sort of affinity she felt with him that told her she was safe. Damon wouldn’t hurt her. Not like that, at least. He was broken too, and if anything, they’d help piece each other back together, or maybe he’d give her the courage to fix herself. Maybe he could show her how to build walls as impenetrable as his own. Bella may be contradicting her sudden vow of independence by thinking this way, but she knew with every fiber of her being that Damon Salvatore was nothing like the Cullens and Jacob Black. If anything he was like her, and knowing she wasn’t entirely alone in this godforsaken world of monsters brought Bella far more comfort than anything else had in a very long time. With the weight of her realizations, Bella felt herself harden further towards Jacob. Her hands curled into fists, her fingernails biting sharply into her palm as she said, “You don’t understand anything, Jacob, you never did. And I’m not going with you ever again.” Jake started trembling, like he wanted to leap at her but was restraining himself. “We don’t have time for this, Bella. You have to come with me now.” Bella moved closer to the stairs. “No,” she said lowly. “Bella,” he snapped. “Stop being an idiot – you have no idea what’s going on here. You’re coming with me if I have to carry you kicking and screaming over my shoulder. You get me?” “No!” she shouted, turning and making for the stairs. But Jake was faster and he tackled her before she made it to the fifth step. They crashed against the stairs together and Bella felt pain ricocheting against her left side, her wrist twinging sharply. Jake hauled her up, his hands squeezing her wrists as he tried to tug her to the kitchen door. “Let me go, Jacob Black. You’ve no right!” “Don’t be stupid, Bella – I’m trying to help you!” His grip tightened as she fought him. “Ow! Jake you’re hurting me!” “Then stop fighting and come with me,” he yelled. “Stop being so stubborn!” Bella stared at him in horror. He was shaking, his rage barely controlled, and he felt so hot against her, like he was literally burning up with fury. It wasn’t a normal reaction and she had a sudden moment of clarity, realizing that Jake was holding her with an unnatural strength – strength similar to that of a vampire. No sooner had the realization hit, Bella was startled by the front door slamming open. Damon stood bracing himself with both hands on the frame looking like he wanted nothing more than to launch himself into the room. “Damon,” she sighed. The sight of him alone brought her immeasurable comfort. Better the demon she knew than the unknown one Jake had become. “Invite me in, Isabella,” he ordered. His voice was deep and his expression hard. He certainly didn’t look harmed from whatever he’d faced out in the woods and Bella slumped a little in relief. On the contrary, he looked angry but almost happy. Excited from his fight and eager for another. “Bells, come with me,” Jake said again, giving her wrist a sharp tug. Bella cried out and Damon roared, “NOW ISABELLA!” “Come in, Damon, come in,” she gasped, tears pricking her eyes. Instantly Damon was there and had Jake against the wall. He held him suspended in the air with one hand, sneering at him. “W-Who are you?” Jake wheezed, his entire body shaking as he gasped for air. “I’m pissed off is what I am,” Damon snapped. “I suppose those were your puppy pals out in the woods?” Jake struggled uselessly. “What did you do to them?” “Relax Fido. They’re fine… mostly. Nothing a trip to the vet won’t fix. They were lucky – I got a bit distracted towards the end there. You alight, sweetness?” His eyes never left Jake, but his head moved slightly towards her. “Yes,” she said despite the throbbing in her wrist and the aches that resonated from when Jake had tackled her into the stairs. “Now why don’t I believe you?” “Leave her alone,” Jake spat, struggling against Damon’s hold. Damon laughed. “Down boy – you even think of shifting and I’ll rip your fucking throat out, get me? You’re not really in the position to be making orders here. So tell me why you were waiting to ambush my friend here, and if I like your answer I’ll only hurt you a little.” “She’s my friend,” Jake said. “Really? You got a funny way of showing it, pup,” Damon’s eyes darkened some and quick as a flash he drew back his arm and punched Jake in the jaw. “Now, that’s for tackling her into the stairs. Bad dog. And this,” he threw a kidney shot, “is for her wrist. Speak pup, tell me why you’re here.” “We caught the scent of a leech circling her house. She’s being hunted by some bloodsuckers and we came to protect her,” Jacob wheezed. A grin lit up Damon’s face. “And why would she need a guard dog when I’m here?” Jacob started – growling? Bella wasn’t sure if she’d hit her head in the earlier scuffle, but their entire conversation seemed like something out of a dream. She was so befuddled that she really only took in part of what they were saying. Moving to sit, Bella cradled her head in her hands and thought harder on what was happening. Certain words popped out as they spoke… Jake had said leech and bloodsucker, hadn’t he? And Damon was making snarky dog references – and what was it he threatened Jake with earlier? You even think of shifting and I’ll rip your fucking throat out. A memory slowly surfaced. She and Jake were walking along First Beach and she was clumsily flirting her way into hearing the legends of Cold Ones – and shape-shifters. Wolves. Half of their legends had been proven true, but perhaps the other half… “Holy shit,” she muttered. Damon looked at her and quirked a brow. “Princess?” Bella ignored him and studied Jake while making a mental tally of all the strange things she’d noticed earlier. His new physique, the body shaking as if he could barely be contained, his unnatural strength, and the sheer heat she’d felt radiating from him. “You shifted, didn’t you? Like in the legends?” “Oh that’s how it is, huh?” Damon laughed. “She didn’t know? And you wanted to drag her off unawares? Fucking classic.” Jake looked angry, but also relieved. “I wanted to tell you before, Bella, but I wasn’t allowed. But now that you’ve figured it out you know I can protect you from the vamps. You can come with me and it’ll be like it was before.” “So forgive and forget, is that it? Never mind the pain I went through because of you.” Jake shook his head slightly. “I’m sorry, okay? But I did that for your protection. I left you alone because I care about you, about keeping you safe – I’ve always loved you, Bells.” Bella laughed and it sounded hollow even to her own ears. “Care about me? You abandoned me. You knew what it would do to me, and you left anyway. You don’t care for me and you certainly don’t love me. If you loved me you wouldn’t have been able to stay away. People in love fight for that love, Jake, they don’t surrender it.” She could feel the heat of Damon’s gaze and glanced at him quick to see him looking at her intently. Bella turned from his gaze feeling naked and raw. “Bella please-“ “No,” she cut him off, angrily swiping at her tears. She wouldn’t cry over him anymore. “I don’t want to listen to your excuses. You used to be my friend, Jake, but not anymore. Thank you for your concern, but as you can see, I don’t need your protection. You’re no longer welcome here.” Jacob looked heartbroken, but Bella couldn’t find it in herself to summon even a drop of pity for the boy. He’d get over it like he had done before. “Is that it, then? You’re choosing this guy over me?” There was no hesitation. “Yes. Now get out.” “Look at me, who wouldn’t choose this,” Damon snarked, shoving Jake to the door and getting in another hit before tossing him outside. Jake rolled to his feet and looked back at Bella as she stood slightly behind Damon. “When this guy leaves you, don’t expect me to be around to pick up the pieces. I wash my hands of you, Isabella Swan.” Then he ran off into the woods. Bella deflated once he was gone. The hole in her chest was burning again. Without Jake’s ignorant comments to spur her on it was harder to hold onto her anger and in its wake was the pain she’d become accustomed to. Perhaps she’d been too harsh on him – unfair considering he’d been dealing with his own issues. But no, Bella decided. She couldn’t make excuses for him. If he had been even remotely sincere when he gave his half-assed apology, she might have acted differently, but he’d swept her emotions away carelessly like his were the only ones that mattered. She’d been pushed aside again. This was for the best, she decided, and she straightened some once she reached that conclusion. Looking to Damon she found him hovering nearby, watching her. When their eyes met, he seemed to read her, nodding slightly as though in approval of her decisions. There was a beat of silence before Bella said, “So that whole inviting in thing is true, then?” Damon quirked a brow at her as if to say really, that’s what you want to talk about. Nonetheless, he answered, “Yes. Most of the myths got it right with us. Stakes, daylight…” “How are you out in the day?” “I’m just that amazing,” he grinned. It was Bella’s turn to lift a brow. Rolling his eyes, Damon held up a hand and she noticed the ring he wore, glinting softly at her. “The stone – lapis lazuli – it’s spelled.” Bella took a deep breath. “Spelled? As in a witch?” Damon smirked, nodding. “Right. Of course there are witches. Obviously right? I mean, there are vampires, and shape-shifters, so naturally there are witches.” “You alright there, sweet pea?” He didn’t sound concerned, but rather amused. “Perfectly fine. My world just keeps getting bigger and I keep getting smaller.” Damon laughed. “And that’s why you’ve got me. There’s nothing bigger than me,” he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively. Laughter bubbled out of her. “I’ll take your word on that, big boy,” she snorted. He grinned at her as she tried to stifle her slightly hysterical giggles. The adrenaline was wearing off and she wouldn’t be surprised if she was going into a mild state of shock. “Are you alright?” she managed to ask once she’d calmed down some. He frowned. “I’m as perfect as I always am. Why wouldn’t I be?” “Well, you were out there fight shape-shifter wolves, right? You didn’t get hurt, did you?” “Please,” he sniffed indignantly. “It takes a lot more than overgrown puppies to hurt me.” Bella smiled. “I’m glad you’re alright.” He gave her another one of those searching looks, like he was trying to determine her angle or whether she was telling the truth. All it did was reinforce her earlier sentiment. Damon was obviously not used to someone worrying about him. Bella imagined he’d been lied to before, probably in a similar manner as her, and it’d made him question everything and everyone since. But instead of feeling sorry for him, Bella only felt a strong sense of kinship, and maybe some envy. She wanted to be able to read through people’s lies like he seemed to be able to now. Perhaps he’d teach her if she asked him nicely. After he seemed to determine she was being honest, he broke his stare and changed the subject. “I was right about you, wasn’t I, hot stuff?” Bella blushed. “Um, what?” He smirked at her. “You’re just fascinating for a human – bit of a danger magnet, huh? Cold Ones, vampires, wolves… you’re going to be trouble, I can tell.” She bit her lip and looked down. “I’m sorry,” she whispered. It was happening already, her heart started to race in fear. Damon was realizing she wasn’t worth the effort, that she simply had too much baggage. He was going to change his mind about bringing her with him, and now that Jake had truly written her off she’d be a ridiculously easy target for Victoria. Charlie was in danger if she stayed with him, so she’d have to go on the run. She’d become just another teenage statistic about a kid running away and disappearing. If she was lucky, she’d be able to find odd jobs and wouldn’t end up sleeping on the streets, freezing and starving to death. Damon’s face was suddenly before hers as he crouched in front of her. His eyes were wide and serious and his lips were quirked in a softer version of his usual smirk. “I’m not sorry,” he said firmly. “I like causing trouble.” A cautious relief filled her. He said that now, but only time would tell. But at least he was still taking her away from Forks. “Where exactly are we going, anyway?” she asked. “You never said.” Damon stood again. “Mystic Falls, Virginia. But we’ll take the long route – you ever been to Vegas, little girl?” Bella’s eyes widened and she shook her head. “That’s a must then. We’ll use your womanly wiles to distract other poker players and then we’ll hit the bars and get bombed. What do you say?” He shot her a winning grin that made him look softer and younger than he’d ever had, almost playful. “But I’m not twenty-one.” He snorted. “You’re however old I tell them you are, sweetness.” “I – I’ve never been drunk before,” she confessed. “Really?” he drawled. “Clearly you haven’t been living.” “And you have?” she quipped. He smirked. “I’m the most living dead person I know.” “Does that mean you can drink – alcohol, I mean?” “Eat, drink, sleep, sex – we can do all the fun stuff. Stick with me, baby, and I’ll show you the time of your life,” he promised. Bella didn’t doubt him. “I’d be too nervous,” she muttered. “Maybe I could just wait in the hotel room for you or something.” “You can’t just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it.” When she looked at him Bella could tell he was completely sincere. Maybe that was her problem, she thought. Ever since Edward left she’d kept herself in some sort of stasis of constant depression while waiting for him to magically reappear and fix her broken heart. Then instead of dealing with her heartbreak herself she’d allowed Jake to try and heal her. That had been wrong of her and maybe even unfair, she knew that now. It shouldn’t have fallen to him to put her back together and her dependence on him was what had probably fed his infatuation with her. It was a harsh truth to accept, but much of Bella’s heartache was her own doing. She’d followed the Cullens blindly, put too much need in Jacob. She molded her life to fit theirs and when they’d left her, not only did she lose her friends, but she’d lost her sense of self. With Damon it was different, she noted once more. He wasn’t dictating her choices, although he certainly didn’t shy away from getting her to agree with whatever he wanted. Instead he was encouraging her to get out. To try new things, take risks. Edward had treated her like a porcelain doll that could shatter at any moment, never giving her enough credit, but Damon seemed to think she was made of stronger stuff. They’d known each other for all of five minutes and already he gave her more credit that Edward ever had. And suddenly, Bella wanted nothing more than to prove him right. A tentative smile stretched her lips. Smiling felt odd and she probably looked a little funny doing it since it had been so long, but for once, Bella didn’t care. “Vegas sounds like fun,” she said. Damon grinned wickedly. “That’s because it’s the city of sin. No one does sin like me.” That’s not intimidating at all, Bella thought sarcastically. “Do you know how to shoot Craps?” she asked. “Of course I do,” he scoffed. “I know everything.” Bella laughed. “Will you teach me then? I’ve never understood it – I mean, seven’s good, but then it’s bad?” Damon rolled his eyes and gave an exaggerated sigh. “I suppose I must to keep you from embarrassing me.” Bella grinned. She still didn’t know Damon very well but she already recognized his sense of humor was not only a weapon yielded to deflect and hurt, but also a way to camouflage his feelings. “What are you going to make Charlie believe?” she changed the subject, worried about reading too much into her musings. “The truth, of course. That you couldn’t resist my wicked charms and we’re running off to Vegas to get married.” “Seriously?” she deadpanned. He smirked. “Damon, you can’t tell him that!” she hissed. “And why not? Some girls just can’t refuse my good looks, my style and my charm and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift.” Bella narrowed her eyes. “It’s amazing you can get a girl at all with that kind of an ego. I mean, really, how have you not floated away with the big head of yours?” Damon glared at her. “You’re one to talk, dog whisperer.” She scoffed. “What did you just call me?” He leaned forward and Bella was uncomfortably aware of his lips as they grazed her ear. “You heard me, cupcake. Dog boy was all over you – smart choice in passing that up, by the way, I hear they’re murder to house train. Not to mention the fleas.” “Jake’s just a kid really,” Bella shifted away. “Just because he’s confused a crush for something else doesn’t mean I have an ego to rival yours, big boy.” He sniffed. “No one rivals me.” “Clearly,” she drawled as best as she could. He gave her an amused look. “Go upstairs and pack. We’ve got a lot of road to cover, sugar.” She grinned and the memory of him dropping her another one of his winks lingered in her mind long after she’d finished packing a bag and rejoined him to wait for Charlie. (A/N): Thanks again for reading – I’d love to know what you think if you’re willing to share 😉 30 thoughts on “Chapter 2: Puppy Chow” Awesome awesome awesome awesome super fucking awesome!!! You have me wanting updates as bad as you want them yourself… LMAO!! I love the fight with Jake.. And if I meld some of your theories into my stories, TELL ME!! This is so freaking awesome! bertiebottwrites says: LOL – you’re the best and I’m glad you’re liking it! I wouldn’t have started it without you so that makes me feel all sentimental 🙂 Gabrielle Spiteri says: that was great. wonder what charlie will say ( before compulsion) and how the others will react when they get to MF. has he fallen for her already or is that still to happen? Thanks for your comment! I want to answer your question, but also don’t want to give anything away so all I’ll say for now is that the affinity Bella feels for Damon is mutual and they’re going to build off of that. Hope that clears it up some! Thanks for reading! I love it.What will think Charlie? Want soon updates. Thank you so much! Charlie’s reaction, and some Vegas fun, is coming up next 😉 ccgnme says: This is amazing and I absolutely LOVE it! I’m so glad you love it! It’s a lot of fun writing snarky Damon! Thank you for reading. love it cant wait for more Thank you! I’m hoping to update weekly, at least, so hopefully you’ll have another chapter within a few days! Thanks for reading! Thank you! I’m glad you’re liking it! Holy tension folks…. Loving the banter, love her putting Jake in place, after all most don’t allow dogs to roam their homes freely! I love how she didnt even blink at the mention of marriage, fake or otherwise, nor really truly protest that that is what the town would think. That in and of itself speaks volumes. As much as I’m looking forward to the road trip I can’t wait for Mystic Falls and their reactions to the pair! I’m looking forward to Mystic Falls too! Our road trip won’t be too long, so stay tuned! This is drenched in awesomesauce! That sounds delicious, lol! Thanks! LOVED her telling off Jake. The banter between B and D is hilarious. Pingback: Chapter 2: Puppy Chow \| simonedmcintyre 4padfoot says: Puppy chow…oh that just leads me to many many funny situations in my head which did you choose? Wait got to get the song going… okay ready to read now.. Awkward….no Damon would not do good in a small town.. by the way I love this song had never heard it before!!! Cooler than a jedi? I don’t know….maybe. Yes, try to keep up visually this time though. Wow good moment. waves had at Damon for a kiss Oh yes, Damon is the dangerous, fun loving, wild side of life…embrace it and the man. Quite a day and it’s is only starting for you I think. Not natural … approach carefully…what have they done to Damon better not have ganged up on him That is your survival instinct telling you to run…listen. Cornered by a wolf…not good. Damon where are you…get in here or I am calling you Jedi Knight for chapters!!! Oh so Jake was the re-bound…okay you can embrace the anger and the wild side now…New Bella on the way … step back and we will see what we can build here. Bella hurt…reading faster doors slamming….ruh row scooby should have left well enough alone. Damon’s on a bloodlust high…sits on couch to enjoy this reaching for the popcorn Fido…LMAO….bad god…i love those.. Finally catch up quicker Bella or you will be on a chair in the corner. Blah blah blah…Damon get back to the tossing around the room again that was fun. OKay those are all the rules explained very well done. Two kindred souls…wakeup Damon pay attention…OHHH VEGAS…never been this could be fun. Already sitting in the back of the car waiting…LETS GO…People. Sin City here we come…ahhh forgot about Charlie….okay that could be good tooo. I am really liking this keep it up. ~Robin I loved this… Jacob is such an ass so I’m glad Bella told him to get lost. Great chapter 🙂 asgardianangel says: Loving this – thanks for the link kittyinaz. GreenThumbTarasova says: I haven’t read the vampire diaries before but I sure am enjoying your fic. It’s fun, angst, adventure and an enjoyable read. Thanks for writing it! cullenlover55 says: So rereading for about the tenth time and waiting for new chapter. It’s funnier every time I read it. So love snarky Damon. cela says: i don’t know how bella could have ever put up with Jacob! I mean come on, all he ever said was what he wanted, bella was right, he never listened to her. he was as bad as Edward, who thought he knew everything because he could read minds, and Jacob thought the same because he became a wolf and grew ten inches overnight. I mean he’s a fifteen year old boy, get real. Love the title. And how I missed this story! It always was one of my absolute fav’s and I remember why now. ❤ I am so looking forward to reading this story.i have a feeling that before half way through the story Bella will be as snarky as him and loving life and helping him enjoy it once again. Thank you that you are writing a Bella that won’t spend a third of the story on a pity party.the only reason Jake ever hung around her was to get in to her pants glad you had her set him straight.now lets see what he says to Charlie.hope he won’t miss his maid and cook too much,but then he can just latch onto Sue and she can take over for Bella while he drink his beer and watches the sports. Love how you have Bella realize all her flaws and what she needs to do herself to overcome them. Watching her grow a backbone is fantastic. Especially when she puts Jake in his place. Again, very good. You write really well. I should read more of your stuff. blinkblink* Anyhow, you nailed Jacob and the Cullens. They never told her shit, and she didn’t really ever ask, did she? She wanted to be loved so badly, she’d do anything they said. Damon’s snark is wonderful. Bella’s keeping up with him! So Jacob is not only a manipulative asshole in this, but an abusive twat as well. I had hoped Damon would at least cripple him for a bit. mwahaha Bella is going deep into the self reflection here too. Leave a Reply to Gabrielle Spiteri Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line987
__label__cc	0.620359	0.379641	Best New York Comedy The Best in NYC Live Comedy, Selected by Hy Bender; Most Shows $15, $10, or Free Favorite Jokes Favorite Comedy Videos Comedy Club Discounts NYC Top Comedy Choices for Monday 6/13/09 For a chance to win free tickets to a star-studded comedy club show, please click here. For full details about tonight’s shows, please visit HyReviews.com. Marina Franklin Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include: the perfect show for short attention spans, open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours—tonight including Joe DeVito, RG Daniels, Emily Epstein, Chelsea White, Mark Normand, Sean Donnelly, Blaine Perry, Aalap Patel, Matteson Perry, and John Morrison—at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm), improv comedy, plus stellar sketch comedy duo The Chris and Paul Show, at MacGuffin (7:00 pm), [$] [DISCOUNTED] professional stand-up comics and comedy writers try to teach businesspeople how to be funny—live on stage, with much potential embarrassment for everyone—at Gotham Jokewriters (7:30 pm), [TOP PICK] legendary comedy star Marc Maron (a comic’s comic; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central, and numerous other impressive credits), Victor Varnado (Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Comedy Central, My Name is Earl, Adult Swim, The Awkward Kings of Comedy), Marina Franklin (Last Comic Standing, Chappelle’s Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The Awkward Kings of Comedy), Kumail Nanjiani (staff writer of upcoming Michael Black & Michael Showalter Comedy Central series; Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report; co-host of Game Bros. Live!; winner of the 2009 ECNY Awards for Best Male Stand-Up), Tony Camin (Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Comedy Central), Myq Kaplan (Comedy Central), and more at Tell Your Friends (8:00ish pm), fresh sketch comedy from UCBT house groups Gorilla Gorilla and Stone Cold Fox at Maude Night (8:00 pm), Mo Rocca (former correspondent for The Daily Show), Sam Brown (cast member of IFC’s sketch troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know), DJ Ayres, and more at Andy Rocco’s The Hipster Show (9:30 pm), [TOP PICK] [FREE] and a free weekly show featuring some of the best stand-up comics in the country—who tonight include John Mulaney (staff writer for Saturday Night Live; Conan O’Brien, VH1’s Best Week Ever; 2008 ECNY Award for Best Male Stand-Up Comedian), Morgan Murphy (staff writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, former staff writer for Jimmy Kimmel and Crank Yankers), Tony Camin (Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Comedy Central), and Claudia Cogan (MTV, Logo Network, here! TV, Sirius OutQ)—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, HBO) at Whiplash (11:00 pm). Leave a Comment » \| Best New York Live Comedy Shows \| Tagged: Cheap Comedy, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Clubs, Comix, Free Comedy, Fun NYC, Funny, Improv, Improvisation, Marina Franklin, New York City Comedy, New York Comedy, New York Comedy Clubs, NY Comedy, NYC Comedy, NYC Fun, Ochi’s Lounge, Sketch Comedy, Stand-Up Comedy, Standup Comedy, Storytelling, The Magnet, The Peoples Improv Theatre, The PIT, UCB, UCBT, Upright Citizens Brigade \| Permalink Posted by hybender You are currently browsing the Best New York Comedy blog archives for the day Monday, June 8th, 2009. Hy Bender Search Best New York Comedy Previous NYC Comedy Listings Follow BestNewYorkComedy.com Enter your email address to follow BestNewYorkComedy.com and receive notification of each day's new listings via email.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line992
__label__cc	0.546518	0.453482	What is a Humanist Funeral? \|In Arranging a Funeral If you’ve recently said goodbye to someone who wasn’t religious, you might be wondering what to do for their funeral. What kind of ceremony can you have that respects their perspective, but still feels as meaningful and comforting as a traditional funeral? A humanist funeral – that is, a non-religious funeral – may well be the answer. Intrigued? Here’s what you need to know to decide if a humanist service is right for your loved one. We’ll be talking about: What is a humanist funeral service? What happens at a humanist funeral service? Where can you hold a humanist funeral? Humanist funeral songs and readings How much does a humanist funeral cost? What to wear to a humanist funeral How do you plan a humanist funeral? A humanist funeral is a ceremony that celebrates the life of someone who’s died, without mentioning religion or a god. Humanist funeral services are usually led by a celebrant, who guides guests through the readings and music much like a vicar would in a Christian service. The person who has died doesn’t need to have been a ‘humanist’ to have a humanist funeral – most humanist funerals don’t really talk about humanism at all. They are simply meaningful, non-religious, memorial services. What happens at a humanist funeral? The description above might sound pretty open-ended, and it is: a humanist service can have any format you want, and what happens at a humanist funeral service is largely up to the people organising it. So, a humanist service can be much like a traditional funeral, just with non-religious music and poems instead of hymns and prayers. Or it can take a completely different approach, like an ash scattering on a hillside or a Viking-style send off on the beach. That said, the organisation Humanists UK does have a sample format you could take as a starting point: Music plays as the service begins The celebrant welcomes the guests, and sets the tone with a reflection on what it means to celebrate a life and say goodbye The celebrant or a close family member reads the tribute (this is essentially the same as a eulogy, and covers the life and character of the person who has died) Friends and family stand up to give readings The celebrant calls for a moment’s silence for thought The coffin is taken from view The celebrant shares some closing thoughts, and thanks guests for their attendance Music plays as guests walk out Most humanist services take place at a crematorium, cemetery or natural burial site. In theory, however, you could hold a humanist funeral anywhere. Village halls, gardens, outdoor spaces and hotel event halls are all popular options. If you would rather hold the funeral with the ashes of the person who has died, rather than a coffin, consider arranging a direct cremation. This is a simple and inexpensive cremation without a service, often chosen by families who’d like to arrange a less traditional ash-scattering service to say goodbye. Humanist funeral songs, poems and prose readings don’t have to be funeral-themed, or even sad. Your loved one’s favourite tracks and books can be a very meaningful place to start. You can even write your own funeral poem. But if you’d like some inspiration, some popular options for music are: What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong My Way by Frank Sinatra Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from Monty Python’s Life of Brian (contains swearing!) Daughter by Peter Blegvad The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel And for readings, you could consider: Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden Wild Geese by Mary Oliver “Everyone must leave something behind”, from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury When I am Dead, My Dearest by Christina Rossetti “Real isn’t how you are made”, from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams A typical humanist celebrant will charge between £150 and £280 for a service. You can contact a few different celebrants to compare prices if you’d like. Find out more about funeral costs here. Generally speaking, your safest bet is to wear formal clothing in dark colours. Some families ask guests to wear bright colours, or their loved one’s favourite colours or prints. It’s safest to ask the person organising the funeral if you’re not sure. If you’d like to arrange a humanist funeral, your first step is to find a celebrant. You can ask your funeral director if they know someone, or find a celebrant yourself using the Humanists UK website. The celebrant will meet with you before the funeral to plan the service with you and find out more about the person who has died. It can help to prepare with pictures, ideas for readings and songs and plenty of stories to help them create a really personal farewell. If you’d like to find out more about humanism and what happens at a humanist funeral service, check out our interview with Mick Chilvers and Tag McEntegart from Humanists UK here, or contact our team using the comment box below. What is a Funeral Procession? Who Can Witness a Will – And Who Can't Looking for a funeral director? Compare funeral directors on price & service for free. Cremation Burial At-need Or were you looking to How Much Does a Funeral Cost in the UK? Do You Have to Have a Funeral?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line996
__label__cc	0.598344	0.401656	Crypto Payments Now Legal in Ukraine Posted on december 9, 2019 by Blockchain News Lawmakers in Ukraine have adopted new legislation that legalizes crypto payments as the country moves forward with strict compliance to international anti-money laundering (AML) standards. Private Individuals Can Provide Crypto Payment Services According to Forklog, members of the Verkhovna Rada — Ukraine’s legislative arm, have adopted a new bill that incorporates international AML best practices into the country’s crypto regulatory framework. As part of the newly adopted legislation, cryptos are now classified as property in Ukraine. Thus, virtual currency owners can use their digital holdings as a medium of exchange allowing room for legalized trading, payments, investments, and transfers. Details of the new law also include a provision for private individuals to act as crypto money transmitters and custodians. Such services must, however, operate in strict compliance with financial monitoring and reporting standards prescribed by the newly adopted bill. The news of the legalization of cryptoasset payments comes on the heels of an announcement by the country’s Ministry of Digital Transformation of its partnership with a Belarusian crypto exchange. As reported by Bitcoinist, the move aims to learn from the Belarusian experience in creating a legal framework for payments and virtual currency adoption in general. By legalizing crypto payments, Ukraine appears to have taken a significant step in boosting local virtual currency commerce in the country. Earlier in the year, the city of Kyiv announced that it was considering allowing bitcoin payments in its public transport system. Ukraine Keen on Following FATF Monitoring Standards By adopting the new regulatory standards for crypto payments, Ukraine is also complying with the guidelines introduced by the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Since the start of 2019, the FATF has been keen on directing member nations to enact more stringent regulatory provisions. The main focus for the FATF concerning crypto has been compliance with AML regulations. Several crypto exchanges have been forced to comply with FATF ‘Travel Rule.’ In preparing the bill, Ukrainian lawmakers reportedly collaborated with European Union (EU)-funded crypto experts. Ukraine’s government will also be hoping that the adoption of the new laws will aid its quest in securing up to €500 million in financial assistance from the (EU). Since assuming office, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has adopted a positive stance towards digital and blockchain technology. Reports indicate that the Zelensky administration sees blockchain adoption as a path towards fighting systemic corruption in the country. What do you think about Ukraine legalizing crypto payments? Let us know in the comments below. Images via Shutterstock The post Crypto Payments Now Legal in Ukraine appeared first on Bitcoinist.com. Source: Bitcoinist.com Original Post: Crypto Payments Now Legal in Ukraine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line998
__label__wiki	0.743233	0.743233	Posts filtered on Category Category: The Web Street style: Techie edition By Maghan McDowell on May 29, 2015 at 11:30 AM Tech workers! They’re just like us! But, really. Although much has been written about hoodies, messenger bags and T-shirts, our recent photoshoot, in which we invited programmers to show us their style, showed that people who work for Bay Area tech companies often break the normcore mold. We sent our street style photographer out “into … How to wear these designer dresses for less than $50 By Maghan McDowell on May 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM We’ve had our eyes on Stylelend since founder Lona Duncan won a fash-tech hackathon in February 2013. (An unlikely techie, Duncan is a former model who speaks seven languages and has an MBA.) But that was two years ago. Now, the Y-Combinator graduate, which is like a “peer-to-peer Rent the Runway” (it lets users lend … Mr Porter magazine filled with San Francisco icons By Tony Bravo on April 24, 2015 at 6:43 PM If you need more proof that both menswear and San Francisco’s style profile are on the rise, take a look at the new issue of the Mr Porter Journal, the official publication of men’s fashion web-portal Mr. Porter. The California Issue (with “The Longest Ride” star Scott Eastwood on the cover) includes an online San Francisco issue … ModCloth introduces transgender model By Maghan McDowell on April 9, 2015 at 5:17 PM This week, San Francisco-based clothing company ModCloth announced its latest model: Los Angeles comedian and writer Rye Silverman, who is the company’s first transgender model. Silverman was chosen as part of the monthly #fashiontruth Casting Call for All, which features models chosen from ModCloth’s community of followers and fans. “We celebrate the unique beauty of … Apple Watch ad debuts in Vogue By Laura Compton on February 25, 2015 at 4:43 PM The Apple Watch was officially rolled out last September at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters and to fashion insiders, but the rest of us can see 12 pages worth of life-size detail in an ad appearing in March’s Vogue magazine. This isn’t the first glimpse, of course: China Vogue showed the watch on model Liu Wen on its … Plus-size model who started #effyourbeautystandards campaign lands major agency By Lauren Parvizi on January 27, 2015 at 6:02 PM Have you heard of Tess Munster yet? The 29-year-old plus-size model, who goes professionally by Tess Holliday, is trending this week on social media and fashion blogs after being signed to MiLK Model Management. Wearing a size 22, Holliday is reportedly the first model of her size and height (5’5”) to be signed to a … Street Style: A modern-day Red Riding Hood By Maghan McDowell on December 18, 2014 at 6:00 AM Poland-native Kasia Kowalczyk has an innovative approach to dressing: “I am trying out only wearing one color for long periods of time to see how they affect me or others around me.” She is currently transitioning out of a red stage (which lasted three months) into a white stage. (Guess she’s not kidding when she … Tips from “Fairy Tale” entrepreneurs By Laura Compton on December 5, 2014 at 2:05 PM It takes more than the wave of a magic wand to create a booming business, but a little extra help can go far to can set you on the right course. Enter fairy godmothers Adrienne Arieff and Beverly West. Their new book, “Fairy-Tale Success: A Guide to Entrepreneurial Magic” (Adams Media, 256 pages, $17.99), presents young … Can you really wear sweatpants anywhere? By Maghan McDowell on December 1, 2014 at 3:38 PM You’d be forgiven for feeling underwhelmed at the concept of a sweatshirt or sweatpants, but San Francisco’s American Giant has created quite a reputation among aficionados who like their clothes cotton and comfy. Two years ago, the company went gangbusters after Slate deemed their hoodie the greatest sweatshirt ever made. Then this March, their women’s … Yahoo’s Joe Zee talks San Francisco style, celebrities, and digital vs. print By Maghan McDowell on September 24, 2014 at 5:25 PM When Joe Zee announced that he would be decamping from his post as creative director at Elle magazine to work for Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo, the fashion and media worlds let out a collective gasp. Here was Zee, a longtime stylist and fixture on red carpets, front rows and glossy pages, heading to the Internet giant …	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1002
__label__wiki	0.577652	0.577652	Søk Bilder Maps Play YouTube Nyheter Gmail Disk Mer » Avansert boksøk Last ned ePub Last ned PDF Sidebilder e-bok – gratis 0 AnmeldelserSkriv anmeldelse Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of ... Om denne boken Bøker på Google Play and pain and the depressing influence of a confirmed asthma could not stop his pen. He died working. He was most anxious to finish two of his incomplete works, the one being a translation of St. John's Gospel into the Saxon language. Stretched on his pallet, and unable to write with his own hand, he employed Wilberch, a young monk of the house, to write under his dictation. While thus occupied he grew worse and very weak. The young monk, observing this, said— “There remains now only one chapter to do ; but it seems difficult to you to speak.” The dying man answered—“It is easy; take your pen, dip it in the ink, and write as fast as you can.” About nine o'clock Bede sent for some of his brethren to divide among them a little incense and a few other things of small value which he kept in a chest in his cell. The young man Wilberch then said— “Master, there is now but one sentence wanting.” “Write on,” said Bede, “and write fast !” The young monk did his best, and soon said—“Now, master, it is finished.”—Bede replied—“Thou hast said the truth—consummatum est / So take up my head, for I would sit opposite to the place where I have been wont to pray.” Being seated according to his desire upon the floor of his cell he said—“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost"—and he breathed his last breath with the last of these words. This, according to the most generally received opinion, happened on the 26th day of May in the year 735 when he was in the sixtieth year of his age. The monks buried his body in the church of his own monastery at Jarrow: but long after his death his bones were removed to Durham Cathedral and placed in the same coffin or chest with those of St. Cuthbert. The church of Rome canonized him and conferred on him the name of “the Wenerable.” The name, at least, has been ratified by all succeeding ages. Bede's ecclesiastical history contains a long series of striking picturesque narratives. We shall select and condense one or two of the more remarkable. Gregory, a Roman monk, of a noble family which traced its origin from the time of the imperial Caesars, when Rome was mistress of the world, goes one day into the slave-market, which is situated at the end of the ancient Forum. Here he is struck by the sight of some young slaves from Britain, who are publicly exposed for sale, even like the cattle that are selling in another part of the Forum or great market-place. The children have bright complexions and fair long hair; their forms are beautiful, the innocence of their look is most touching. Gregory eagerly asks from what distant country they come, and being told that they are Angles the pious father says they would be Angels if they were but Christians. He throws back his cowl and stands looking at them, and the children look at him, while some slave-dealers close at hand are chaffering with their customers, or inviting purchasers by extolling the fine proportions and the beauty of the young Northern slaves. The Capitol of ancient Rome and the Tarpeian Rock are in full sight; the Coliseum shows its lofty walls at a short distance; the magnificent columns of the Temple of Jupiter Stator come within the picture, and there are other ruins of a sublime character. It is but the end of the sixth century, and many ancient buildings are comparatively perfect, though destined to disappear in the course of succeeding centuries, and to leave it matter of doubt and speculation as to where stood the Temple of Concord, where the Temple of the Penates or Household Gods, where the Temple of Victory, where the arches of Tiberius and Severus, and where the other temples, arches, and columns that are known to have crowded the Forum and the spots surrounding it. As things are, we see the decay of Paganism and the establishment of Christianity upon its ruins. The temples, which are entire, are converted into churches: there is a crucifix on the highest part of the Capitol; there is a procession of monks passing along the edge of the Tarpeian Rock; the firm set columns erected to that Jupiter whose faith could not stand are crowned with crosses—the cross of Christ shows itself every where, on the summits of temples, over the crowns of triumphal arches, and upon all of the seven hills that are in sight. Gregory quits the slave-market solemnly musing upon the means or carrying the knowledge of divine truth to the distant and savage land which gave birth to these fair children. Shortly after he determines to be himself the missionary and apostle of the Anglo-Saxons. He even sets off on the journey; but his friends, thinking that he is going to a certain death among barbarians, induce the pope to command his return. A few years pass away, and the monk Gregory becomes Pope Gregory, and head of the Christian world, although he will only style himself Servus Servorum Domini, or Servant of the Servants of the Lord. Men call him “The Great,” and great is he in his humility and devotion and generosity of soul. He lives in as simple a style as when he was a poor monk; he is averse to persecution, holding that heretics and even Jews are to be treated with lenity, and are to be converted not by persecution but by persuasion. The wealth which begins to flow in to the Roman See he employs in bettering the condition of the poor, in erecting churches and in sending out missionaries to reclaim the heathen. He cannot go himself to the land of those fair-haired children, but now he sends Augustin, prior of the convent of St. Andrews at Rome, and forty monks as missionaries to England. Augustin and his companions make the coast of Kent, and after many dangers, and fears, and misgivings—for the Anglo-Saxons had been represented to them as the most stubborn and most ferocious of the human species—they land in the isle of Thanet. Ethelbert the King of Kent is a pagan and worshipper of Odin, one who believes that the pleasures of Heaven, or of some future state of existence, consist of fighting all day and feasting and drinking all night; but his beautiful wife Bertha, a native of some part of the country which we now call France, is a Christian, and has brought with her from her own country a few holy men who reprobate but are afraid of attacking the sanguinary Scandinavian faith and idolatry. These timid priests have built or restored a little church outside the walls of Canterbury; but it is overshadowed by a pagan temple, wherein is the rude image not of a God of Peace, but of a God of War and destruction; and the foreigners fear that their humble little church will soon be destroyed by the Pagan priests. But Augustin arrives, and invites King Ethelbert to hear the glad tidings of salvation, the mild voice of the Gospel. The priests of bloody Odin and of the murderous Thor apprehend conjuration and magic, and advise the king to meet the missionaries not under a roof but in the open air, where magic spells will be less dangerous in their operation. Ethelbert, with Queen Bertha by his side, goes forth to one of the pleasant Kentish hills commanding a view of the flowing ocean, which the monks have crossed : his warriors and his pagan priests stand round the king; and there is a solemn expectant silence until the music of many mingled harmonious voices is heard, and Augustin and his forty companions are seen advancing in solemn processional order, singing the psalms and anthems of Rome. The foremost monk in the procession carries a large silver crucifix. Another monk carries a banner on which is painted a picture of the Redeemer. The heart of Ethelbert is touched by the music and by the venerable, devout aspect of the strangers. By means of an interpreter, whose heart and soul are in the office, Augustin briefly expounds to the king the nature of the Christian faith, and implores Ethelbert to receive the holiest and only true religion, and permit him to preach and teach it to his subjects. The king listens in rapt attention, never once taking his eyes from of the missionary; the queen blesses the day and happy hour; the priests of Odin seem perplexed and irritated; but the stalwart warriors leaning on their long, broad swords, or on their ponderous battle-axes, look for the most part as if they would inquire farther, and gladly hear the wonderful words of the stranger again. The Saxon king is more than half-converted; but he thinks it needful to be cautious. He says he has no thought of forsaking the gods of his fathers; but since the purposes of the strangers are good, and their promises inviting, they shall be suffered to instruct his people; none shall raise the hand of violence against them, and they shall not know want, for the land is the land of plenty, and he, the King of Kent and Bretwalda of all the Saxon princes, will supply the monks with food and drink and lodging. Upon this Augustin and his companions fall again into order of procession, and direct their steps, solemn and slow, towards the neighbouring city of Canterbury, chaunting their anthems as they go. They reach the ancient city, and as they enter it in the midst of a wondering crowd, they sing with a holy and a cheerful note—“Hallelujah hallelujah! may the wrath of the Lord be turned from this city and from this holy place " “For ever hallowed be this morning fair, Blest be the unconscious shore on which ye tread, And blest the Silver Cross, which ye, instead Of martial banner, in procession bear; The Cross preceding Him who floats in air, The pictured Saviour!—By Augustine led, They come—and onward travel without dread, Chanting in barbarous ears a tuneful prayer, Sung for themselves, and those whom they would free Rich conquest waits them: the tempestuous sea Of ignorance that ran so rough and high, And heeded not the voice of clashing swords, These good men humble by a few bare words, And calm with fear of God's divinity." WoRDsworth. The work of conversion proceeds rapidly and smoothly. The Italians find the poor Anglo-Saxons of Kent rather gentle and docile than ferocious; many gladly renounce a creed of blood and hatred for a religion of peace and love; the baptisms become numerous; and at last, on the day of Pentecost, King Ethelbert himself yields to the arguments of the missionaries and the entreaties of his wife, and is baptized. On the ensuing Christmas ten thousand of the people follow the example of the king. Pope Gregory is transported with joy when these tidings reach Rome; he writes an exulting letter to Eulogius, patriarch of Alexandria, giving an account of the success of his missionaries “in the most remote parts of the world;” and he forthwith appoints Augustin to be primate of all England as well as Archbishop of Canterbury. Such is the origin of our church as related by the venerable Bede. 16.--THE CONVERSION OF EDWIN. Camden describes a place upon the estuary of the Humber which, although a trivial place in modern days, is dear to every one familiar with our old ecclesiastical history:— “In the Roman times, not far from its bank upon the little river Foulness, (where Wighton, a small town, but well stocked with husbandmen, now stands.) there seems to have formerly stood Delgovitia; as is probable both from the likeness and the signification of the name. For the British word Delgwe (or rather 'delu) signifies the statues or images of the heathen gods; and in a little village ..ot far off there stood an idol-temple, which was in very great honour even in the Saxon times, and, from the heathen gods in it, was then called God-mundingham, and now, in the same sense, Godmanham.” This is the place which witnessed the conversion to Christianity of Edwin, King of Northumbria. The whole story of this conversion, as told by Bede, is one of those episodes that we call superstitious, in which history reflects the confiding faith of popular tradition, which does not resign itself to the belief that all worldly events depend solely upon material influences. But one portion of this story has the best elements of high poetry in itself, and has therefore gained little by being versified even by Wordsworth. Edwin held a council of his wise men, to inquire their opinion of the new doctrine which was taught by the missionary Paulinus. In this council one thus addressed him : “The present life of man, O King, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to a sparrow swiftly flying through the room, well warmed with the fire made in the midst of it, wherein you sit at supper in the winter, with commanders and ministers, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad: the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within is not affected with the winter storm; but after a very brief interval of what is to him fair weather and safety, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, returning from one winter to another. So this life of man appears for a moment; but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.” Never was a familiar image more beautifully applied ; never was there a more striking picture of ancient manners—the storm without, the fire in the hall within, the king at supper with his great men around, the open doors through which the sparrow can flit. To this poetical counsellor succeeded the chief priest of the idol-worship, Coifi. He declared for the new faith, and advised that the heathen altars should be destroyed. “Who,” exclaimed the king, “shall first desecrate their altars and their temples " The priest answered, “I; for who can more properly than myself destroy these things that I worshipped through ignorance, for an example to all others, through the wisdom given me by the true God " “Prompt transformation works the novel lore. The Council closed, the priest in full career Rides forth, an armed man, and hurls a spear To desecrate the fame which heretofore He served in folly. Woden falls, and Thor Is overturned.” WoRDsworth. The altars and images which the priests of Northumbria overthrew have left no monuments in the land. They were not built like the Druidical temples, under the impulses of a great system of faith which, dark as it was, had its foundations in spiritual aspirations. The pagan worship which the Saxons brought to this land was chiefly cultivated under its sensual aspects. The Walhalla, or heaven of the brave, was a heaven of fighting and feasting, of full meals of boar's flesh, and large draughts of mead. Such a future called not for solemn temples, and altars where the lowly and the weak might kneel in the belief that there was a heaven for them, as well as for the mighty in battle. The idols frowned, and the people trembled. But this worship has marked us, even to this hour, with the stamp of its authority. Our Sunday is still the Saxon's Sun's-day; our Monday the Moon's-day; our Tuesday Tuisco's-day; our Wednesday Woden’s-day; our Thursday Thor's-day; our Friday Friga's-day; our Saturday Seater's-day. This is one of the many examples of the incidental circumstances of institutions surviving the institutions themselves—an example of itself sufficient to show the folly of legislating against established customs and modes of thought. The French republicans, with every aid from popular intoxication, could not establish their calendar for a dozen years. The Pagan Saxons have fixed their names of the week-days upon Christian England for twelve centuries, and probably for so long as England shall be a country. 17.-CAEDMON THE POET. In the Fourth Book of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, we find the following narrative:– There was in this Abbess's Monastery a certain brother, particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was wont to make pious and religious verses, so that whatsoever was interpreted to him out of Holy Writ, he soon after put the same into poetical expressions of much sweetness and compunction, in his own, that is, the English language. By his verses the minds of many were often excited to despise the world, and to aspire to the heavenly life. Others after him attempted in the English nation to compose religious poems, but none could ever compare with him, for he did not learn the art of poetising of men, but through the Divine assistance; for which reason he never could compose any trivial or vain poem; but only those that relate to religion suited his religious tongue; for having lived in a secular habit, till well advanced in years, he had never learnt any thing of versifying; for which reason being sometimes at entertainments, when it was agreed for the more mirth, that all present should sing in their turns, when he saw the instrument come towards him, he rose up from table, and returned home. Having done so at a certain time, and going out of the house where the entertainment was, to the stable, the care of horses falling to him that night, and composing himself there to rest at the proper time, a person appeared to him in his sleep, and saluting him by his name, said, Caedmon, Sing some song to me. He answered, I cannot sing; for that was the reason why I left the entertainment, and retired to this place, because I could not sing. The other who talked to him, replied, however you shall sing. What shall I sing, rejoined he, Sing the beginning of Creatures, said the other. Hereupon he presently began to sing verses to the praise of God, which he had never heard. We extract the following remarks on the Poetry of Caedmon, from “Old England': The ode which Caedmon composed under the inspiration thus recorded is preserved in Anglo-Saxon, in King Alfred's translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History: and the following is an English translation from Alfred's version:— “Now must we praise The guardian of heaven's kingdom, The Creator's might, And his mind's thought; Glorious Father of men! As of every wonder he, Lord Eternal, Formed the beginning. He first framed For the children of earth The heaven as a roof Holy Creator! Then mid-earth. The Guardian of mankind, The eternal Lord, Afterwards produced The earth for men, Lord Almighty!” The Metrical Paraphrase to which we have alluded is ascribed by some to a « ForrigeFortsett »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1011
__label__cc	0.703255	0.296745	Bedouin in the Negev and Environmental Studies: Current and Future Research Prospects Rueff, Henri (February 2010). Bedouin in the Negev and Environmental Studies: Current and Future Research Prospects (Unpublished). In: Rethinking the Paradigms: Negev Bedouin Research 2000+. Exeter, UK. 13.02.-14.02.2010. Official URL: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/events/con... Environmental aspects are increasingly being integrated in Negev Bedouin studies by both, NGO activists and scholars. We will present these recent works and discuss new concepts and methodologies of environmental studies with potential relevance in the field of Negev Bedouin studies. We will then identify research areas where environmental and development approaches converge or diverge with mainstream social sciences on this specific field of research. While most of the Bedouin population in southern Israel lives in urban centers in the Northern Negev, a large part of Bedouin people live in unrecognized clusters of houses in remote areas. Extensive livestock rearing is an important source of livelihood at least for non-urbanized Bedouin, the latter forming the lowest economic strata of the Israeli spectrum of incomes. Numerous stressors affect this Bedouin community enduring uncertain livelihood and access to land. The erratic precipitations from year to year and long-term changes in precipitation trends are a source of great uncertainty. With a significant price increase for feeding supplements to compensate for dry years, livestock rearing has become a harsher source of livelihood. Land scarcity for grazing adds to the difficulty in ensuring enough income for living. Studies in the last 15 years have described several livelihood strategies based on a livestock rearing semi-nomadic economy in the Negev. A number of other analyses have shown how Bedouin herders and governmental agencies have found agreements at the advantage of both, the agencies and the herders. New concepts such as transformability, resilience and adaptation strategies are important tools to analyze the capacity of vulnerable communities to cope with an ever increasing livelihood uncertainty. Such research concepts can assist in better understanding how Bedouin herders in the Negev may adapt to climate and political risks. 0 since deposited on 12 Jun 2015 Conference or Workshop Item (Abstract) 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Integrative Geography > Unit Geography of Sustainable Development 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Integrative Geography 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > NCCR North-South Management Centre (discontinued) 10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) Rueff, Henri 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics Stephan Schmidt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1013
__label__cc	0.6159	0.3841	Quick Heal Security Predictions for 2016: Be Alert, Be Secured and Stay Safe! It is time to say goodbye to 2015 and welcome 2016. New Year wishes, greetings and celebrations are on its way. And, so are New Year resolutions and predictions. Quick Heal family wishes you a Merry Christmas and a safe and secured New Year 2016. 2015 was an eventful year... Security Vulnerabilities for Android and iOS Hit An All-time High in 2015 Quick Heal hopes it has been a good year for you. But, has it been a good year for your mobile devices as well? It has been an alarming year for both Android and iOS users. If Android users were vulnerable to Stagefright attacks, iOS users had their own share... Apple security in the spotlight and other IT Security news Apple enjoyed a fine week with the reveal of iOS8 and the new iPhone 6, but in spite of its claims of being at a different level as its rivals, when it comes to security and privacy, it’s not all apples and oranges. Apple faces many of the same issues... Beware – Fake Google Apps Spotted Over Windows Phone Store! Windows Phone has a worldwide market share of less than 5% in 2014, and this has led to its marketplace (known as the Windows Phone Store) being ignored by several app developers. The most prominent of these developers of course, is Google. Right now the only Google app that is... How to avoid accidental in-app purchases by kids on your Smartphone? Uncontrolled in-app purchases can result in huge bills for your Smartphone. However, the feature can be easily turned off. Needless to say, ‘free’ apps in Google Play or iTunes Store are always more preferable than their ‘paid’ counterparts. However, these apps work using a ‘freemium’ model to generate revenue. Yes,... Latest security news updates from the week gone by Personal information of app users leaked on Google Play People who still disregard Android security and do not take privacy controls over the platform seriously, will be alarmed to learn this piece of news. An Australian app developer recently discovered that he had complete access to personal information of the... Security news and updates from the last week New York Times website breached by Chinese hackers The New York Times recently discovered that their computer systems were breached by Chinese hackers. The hackers stole corporate passwords of each and every employee and spied on more than 50 individuals in a time span of 4 months. Apparently these attacks... A history of Mac malware: The Apple of a virus developer’s eye Apple Macs are falsely believed to be invincible and completely safe against malware threats and security breaches. But as we recently discussed, this perpetual myth has gradually been broken over the years. Apple has subtly acknowledged this fact over the last year or so and has made major upheavals in... The FBI’s IC3 releases a public warning about the growing threat of mobile malware It is a known fact that malware threats over smartphones, especially on Android, are on the rise and have reached a large number of victims all around the world. To highlight this threat, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a warning about the growing hazards of mobile malware and... Security news updates from the last week Microsoft releases ‘Fix it’ tool for IE vulnerability Microsoft has released a temporary “Fix it” tool for the highly publicized Internet Explorer vulnerability. A full IE update will soon be released as well. The security hole exploited Internet Explorer users when they visited a malicious website and installed a trojan...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1017
__label__cc	0.54977	0.45023	Saturdays at the Café June 22, 2019 August 16, 2019 Jonetta (Ejaygirl) \| Blue Mood Café Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/scheduled releases I’ve seen on NetGalley, at the library, or from publishers or they may be older titles my friends have reviewed and shared on Goodreads or blogs. Private investigator Jonah Wolfe knows trouble when he sees it. So when April Vale storms into his office at Maximum Security, all his warning signs flash red. April’s been accused of murder, except she has no memory of how she woke up in her coworker’s bed—drenched in his blood, as he was shot with her gun. As the campaign manager for the mayor, April’s job and life are on the line if she doesn’t figure out who’s trying to frame her. But the clock is ticking, and the pair must find the murderer…before April winds up dead. I’ve collected many of the author’s books but haven’t yet read them. This is a novella launching a new series. She’s come back to solve the mystery of her father’s death and confront her own dark past. When Detective Rebecca North left her rural hometown, she vowed never to return. Her father’s apparent suicide has changed that. The official report is that retired cop Noah North shot himself, knocked over a lantern, and set his isolated cabin ablaze. But Rebecca cannot believe he killed himself. To prove it, she needs the help of Ash Haugen, the man she left behind. But Rebecca and Ash share more than broken hearts. Something darker lies between them, and the investigation is stirring it back to life. Clues lead them to the home of Olivia West and her deeply troubled twelve-year-old daughter, Tori. The child knows more about the murder than anyone can imagine, but she’s too terrified to say a word. And as a cold-blooded killer resurfaces from the past, Rebecca and Ash begin to fear that their own secrets may be even harder to survive. White is one of my most favorite authors who’s so skilled at atmospheric and mystery writing. This is the second book in a new series and I got it free as an Amazon Prime member. I’ll be buying the audiobook from Audible for $1.99. An apparent suicide. A mysterious disappearance. Did one man get away with murder—twice? NYPD detective Sheryn Sterling has had her eye on Alex Traynor ever since his friend Cori fell to her death under suspicious circumstances a year ago. Cori’s death was ruled a suicide, but Sheryn thinks Alex—a wartime photojournalist suffering from PTSD—got away with murder. When Alex’s fiancée, Emily, a talented and beloved local doctor, suddenly goes missing, Sheryn suspects that Alex is again at the center of a sticky case. Sheryn dislikes loose ends, and Cori’s death had way too many of them. But as Sheryn starts pulling at the threads in this web, her whole theory unravels. Everyone involved remembers the night Cori died differently—and the truth about her death could be the key to solving Emily’s disappearance. I had the opportunity to get this for audio review and after much deliberation, gave it a pass. Then came Jennifer ~ Tar Heel Reader’s review and I immediately regretted my decision. But, I was still able to get it for review! Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It’s 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic home in downtown Nantucket: but this year Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, a nursing student, is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests, a passion which takes her to Martha’s Vineyard with her best friend, Mary Jo Kopechne. Only son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother who is hiding some secrets of her own. As the summer heats up, Teddy Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie experiences some sinking and flying herself, as she grows into her own body and mind. In her first historic novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a country and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again proves her title as queen of the summer novel. Thanks again to Jennifer ~ Tar Heel Reader for her review, which alerted me to this new release by the author. My library agreed with my recommendation and bought it! I’m in a short queue. A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks, she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. The nurses at the hospital where she is taken call her “Angel Face” because she won’t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is 12, maybe 15, or somewhere in between. She doesn’t appear on any missing person’s file, or match the DNA of any murder victim. Six years later, still unidentified, the same girl is living in a secure children’s home with a new name, Evie Cormac, when she initiates a court case demanding the right to be released as an adult. Psychologist Cyrus Haven is sent to interview Evie and decide if she’s ready to go free, but Evie Cormac is unlike he’s anyone he’s ever met. She’s damaged, destructive, and self-hating, yet possessed of a gift, or a curse, that makes her both fascinating and dangerous to be with – the ability to tell when someone is lying. Soon, he is embroiled in her unique and dangerous world, his life in utmost peril. I’m a fan of the author and I’m hoping to get this new release (scheduled for July) on audio for review. Thanks to Darinda @ Nightcap Books for putting it on my radar! In the snowy perfection of Aspen, the White family gathers for youngest daughter Rosie’s whirlwind Christmas wedding. First to arrive are the bride’s parents, Maggie and Nick. Their daughter’s marriage is a milestone they are determined to celebrate wholeheartedly, but they are hiding a huge secret of their own: they are on the brink of divorce. After living apart for the last six months, the last thing they need is to be trapped together in an irresistibly romantic winter wonderland. Rosie’s older sister, Katie, is also dreading the wedding. Worried that impulsive, sweet-hearted Rosie is making a mistake, Katie is determined to save her sister from herself! If only the irritatingly good-looking best man, Jordan, would stop interfering with her plans…. Bride-to-be Rosie loves her fiancé but is having serious second thoughts. Except everyone has arrived – how can she tell them she’s not sure? As the big day gets closer, and emotions run even higher, this is one White family Christmas none of them will ever forget! I saw this on NetGalley and definitely want it on audio so I’m hopeful to get it for review. I loved last year’s Christmas story by the author. Seventeen-year-old Stella stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them? After this was selected as a group read by the Traveling Friends and seeing countless reviews, I entered the Goodreads giveaway for the audiobook. Fingers crossed🤞 The Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the last resort offers a chance for partners to repair their relationships in a luxurious setting on the gorgeous Mayan Riviera. Johanna and Ben have a marriage that looks perfect on the surface, but in reality, they don’t know each other at all. Shell and Colin fight constantly: after all, Colin is a workaholic, and Shell always comes second to his job as an executive at a powerful mining company. But what has really torn them apart is too devastating to talk about. When both couples begin Harmony’s intensive therapy program, it becomes clear that Harmony is not all it seems-and neither are Miles and Grace themselves. What are they hiding, and what price will these couples pay for finding out? As a deadly tropical storm descends on the coast, trapping the hosts and the guests on the resort, secrets are revealed, loyalties are tested and not one single person-or their marriage-will remain unchanged by what follows. Brenda @ Two Sisters Lost in a Coulee Reading wrote a teaser of a review and I bit. I’ve recommended it for library purchase. Meet Nina Hill: A young woman supremely confident in her own…shell. The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They’re all–or mostly all–excited to meet her! She’ll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It’s a disaster! And as if that wasn’t enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn’t he realize what a terrible idea that is? Nina considers her options. 1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.) 2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee). 3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.) It’s time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn’t convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It’s going to take a brand new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page. Offered for audio review and I accepted because it just sounds fun. FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn’t been home in twelve years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father’s ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father’s partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young Hispanic women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the prime suspect–and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks. Plagued by doubts about her mother’s murder–and her own role in exonerating her father in that case–Nell can’t help but ask questions about who killed Ria Ruiz and Ariana Marques and why. But she may not like the answers she finds–not just about those she loves, but about herself. I’m a sucker for police procedurals and this one sounds particularly good. I greedily accepted the offer for audio review. In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. There’s Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, wealthy New Englander; Max, John’s cousin, a shy pre-med major; Khaled, a wisecracking prince from Abu Dhabi; and Ruby, a beautiful art history major. But Malin isn’t like the rest of her friends. She’s an expert at hiding her troubled past. She acts as if she shares the preoccupations of those around her—dating, partying—all while using her extraordinary insight to detect their deepest vulnerabilities and weaknesses. By Senior Day, on the cusp of graduation, Malin’s secrets—and those of her friends—are revealed. While she scrambles to maintain her artfully curated image, her missteps set in motion a devastating chain of events that ends in a murder. And as fragile relationships hang in the balance and close alliances shift, Malin must test the limits of what she’s capable of to stop the truth from coming out. I like taking chances on debut novelists and this one sounds like something a little different and interesting so I agreed to review it on audio. Most of us have never heard of Israel Keyes. But he is one of the most ambitious, meticulous serial killers of modern time. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as “a force of pure evil,” he was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried “kill kits”–cash, weapons, and body-disposal tools–in remote locations across the country and over the course of fourteen years, would fly to a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles in order to use his kits. He would break into a stranger’s house, abduct his victims in broad daylight, and kill and dispose of them in mere hours. And then he would return home, resuming life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter. When journalist Maureen Callahan first heard about Israel Keyes in 2012, she was captivated by how a killer of this magnitude could go undetected by law enforcement for over a decade. And so began a project that consumed her for the next several years–uncovering the true story behind how the FBI ultimately caught Israel Keyes, and trying to understand what it means for a killer like Keyes to exist. A killer who left a path of monstrous, randomly committed crimes in his wake–many of which remain unsolved to this day. A Dark Night in Alaska is the ambitious culmination of years of on-the-ground interviews with key figures in law enforcement and in Keyes’s life, and research uncovered from classified FBI files. Callahan takes us on a journey into the chilling, nightmarish mind of a relentless killer, and the limitations of traditional law enforcement, in one of America’s most isolated environments–Alaska–when faced with a killer who defies all expectation and categorization. Being a big true crime fan, I’m always on the hunt for interesting stories and Ren @ What’s Nonfiction? is a great resource and when this was offered for audio review, I remembered her including this as one of the titles she’s looking forward to this year. Of course I grabbed it. Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother’s birth through the lens of his camera. Photography–and fate–introduce him to Ana, whose family’s interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War–as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Daniel’s photographs leave him with uncomfortable questions amidst shadows of danger. He is backed into a corner of decisions to protect those he loves. Lives and hearts collide, revealing an incredibly dark side to the sunny Spanish city. Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys once again shines light into one of history’s darkest corners in this epic, heart-wrenching novel about identity, unforgettable love, repercussions of war, and the hidden violence of silence–inspired by the true post-war struggles of Spain. I loved her Between Shades of Gray so when Suzanne @ The Bookish Libra featured this in her Can’t Wait Wednesday post, I quickly added it as an audio review hopeful. One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. This was an epic fail for me in high school. But, when Nicki @ Secret Library Book Blog recently reviewed it, I thought I should give it an adult attempt. Thanks to my library for the audiobook. From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents–hiding the fact that many weren’t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. In Before and After, Wingate and Christie tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with Wingate and Christie to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. If you read Before We Were Yours you understand why I immediately added this book after seeing it featured by Tina @ Reading Between the Pages as one of her anticipated upcoming releases. I’m hoping to get it for audio review. In this psychological thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of suspense, as a father and son are caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed “The Whisper Man,” for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter’s crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man. I read the review by Eva @ Novel Deelights and couldn’t resist. I’ve recommended it for library purchase! Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss. She is a miracle of science. But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins questioning her husband’s motives—and his version of events. Can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together forever? And what really happened to Abbie half a decade ago? Beware the man who calls you . . . This showed up in NetGalley and I want it on audio. Another review hopeful! In this game, even winning can be deadly… Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it-teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy’s sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when the mysterious and alluring Angelica Roux arrives on her doorstep one book club night. Sultry and magnetic, Roux beguiles the group with her feral charm. She keeps the wine flowing and lures them into a game of spilling secrets. Everyone thinks it’s naughty, harmless fun. Only Amy knows better. Something wicked has come her way-a she-devil in a pricey red sports car who seems to know the terrible truth about who she is and what she once did. When they’re alone, Roux tells her that if she doesn’t give her what she asks for, what she deserves, she’s going to make Amy pay for her sins. One way or another. To protect herself and her family and save the life she’s built, Amy must beat the devil at her own clever game, matching wits with Roux in an escalating war of hidden pasts and unearthed secrets. Amy knows the consequences if she can’t beat Roux. What terrifies her is everything she could lose if she wins. A diabolically entertaining tale of betrayal, deception, temptation, and love filled with dark twists leavened by Joshilyn Jackson’s trademark humor, Never Have I Ever explores what happens when the transgressions of our past come back with a vengeance. Another NetGalley sighting that I want on audio. Fingers crossed 🤞 for the opportunity to get it for review on audio. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made its home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To distance himself from his family’s criminal empire, Clayton took the job of sheriff in a neighboring community to keep what peace he can. But when a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms shows up at Clayton’s office with a plan to shut down the mountain, his hidden agenda will pit brother against brother, test loyalties, and could lead Clayton down a path to self-destruction. In a sweeping narrative spanning decades and told from alternating points of view, the novel brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the mountain and its inhabitants: forbidding, loyal, gritty, and ruthless. A story of family—the lengths men will go to protect it, honor it, or in some cases destroy it—Bull Mountain is an incredibly assured debut that heralds a major new talent in fiction. The dynamic duo team of Jan and Marialyce @ yayareads posted really wonderful reviews of this book back in May and I got in the library queue back then. It’s a tribute to the book that there’s still a wait list four years after its release. Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver, introduced in the electrifying Splinter in the Blood, must stop a serial killer whose victims are the centerpiece of his macabre works of art. While Britain is obsessed with the newest hit true-crime television show, Fact, or Fable? detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver are tormented by a fiendish flesh-and-blood killer on the loose. Lured to a “crime scene” by a mysterious digital invitation, Ruth Lake is horrified by what she finds: a bizarre and gruesome tableau surrounded by a crowd of gawkers. The deadly work is the latest “art installation” designed by a diabolical criminal dubbed the Ferryman. Not only is this criminal cold-blooded; he’s a narcissistic exhibitionist desperate for an audience. He’s also clever at promoting his deadly handiwork. Exploiting England’s current true-crime craze, he uses social media to titillate and terrorize the public. Ruth is joined in the investigation by her partner Greg Carver, who is slowly regaining his strength after a run-in with another sadistic criminal. But Greg can’t seem to shake the bewildering effects of the head wound that nearly ended him. Are the strange auras blurring his vision an annoying side effect of his injury, or could they be something more . . . a tool to help him see a person’s true nature? In this utterly engrossing and thrilling tale of suspense, a pair of seasoned detectives face off against a wickedly smart and inventive psychopath in a tense, bloody game that leads to a shocking end. I blame Berit @ Audio Killed the Bookmark for this one. Another police procedural…my Kryptonite. Of course, I’m getting the first book in the series, too! What books did YOU add to your shelves this week? Tagged Saturdays at the Café Published by Jonetta (Ejaygirl) \| Blue Mood Café View all posts by Jonetta (Ejaygirl) \| Blue Mood Café Previous postThe Positivity Wave #3 Next postDisavowed by Kaylea Cross 47 thoughts on “Saturdays at the Café” Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer says: I read Nina and loved it. I bet it’s awesome on audio 🙂 Oh, that’s so good to know, Kim!!! I’m really excited about that one. Wow! You’ve got some awesome books there Jo! I hope you get to read/listen to them all!😎💜 Thanks, Susan! Definitely listening/reading all of them. Just a question of when😬 Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl says: Another amazing Saturday at the cafe!!!! 🙂 I added Never Have I Ever to my shelf as well. Can’t wait to read that one and now I really want to read The Last Resort you mentioned. Looking for some beach reads and this seems perfect! Thank you for putting this list together. You are amazing! Thank you, Amy! I’m thrilled you found some of these to add to your shelf. Have a wonderful weekend💜 Wow so many good books in this post! Thanks for the mention I hope you enjoy Great Expectations! 🤞 You’re welcome, Nicki! Fingers crossed about Great Expectations😏 🤞🤞🤞 Jennifer (@Jennifer_TBN) says: Some very intriguing titles. Hope you enjoy them! Once again, Jonetta, you’re killing me spoilt for choice among all these great sounding titles. I need to add a few to my wish list to check out. I really need something new to inspire me to get back into the reading groove. Alexandra, I felt a little overwhelmed this week, like a kid in a candy store so I thought I’d share the wealth😏 Hope you truly do find something that excites you. I’ve been kind of underwhelmed these last few weeks, uninspired to crack open a spine on even my fav author. I just need to get something that grabs me. 😉 Nicola Niemc says: The Bookish Life… sounds a bit like Eleanor Oliphant (but without the tragedy). I really like the recent spate of books about nervous, reclusive young women – it makes me realise I’m not the only one who feels like that, and it’s ok to feel this way! I thought so, too, Nicola (sounds similar to Eleanor. I think it’s a good thing that we’re learning more about characters such as these. I find it enlightening. Darinda @ Nightcap Books says: Thanks for the mention! Looks like a good selection of books. 😀 I have some of these on my summer TBR. Happy reading! 💜 Thank you and you’re welcome, Darinda! American predator sounds exciting! Doesn’t it, though? I’d never heard of the case before. Me either 😄 Thanks for the mention! Do so hope you enjoy The Whisper Man! You’re welcome, Eva! I’m sure I’ll enjoy it. ellesecrit says: I read Great Expectations this year. I enjoyed it, but it was very long!😂 I’ve high hopes, Elle! I think I’ll do better with it on audio. The Whisper Man is everywhere!! 😀 I’m just now seeing it pop up on friends’ reviews. thebookishlibra says: Looks like you added a lot of great books to your TBR this week. Jenni’s review had me adding Summer of ’69 to mine as well. It sounds so good! I’m excited about them, Suzanne! I’ve some serious reading ahead of me. Glad to see Jennifer’s influencing others, too😏 Brianne's Book Reviews says: Some fantastic choices, Jonetta! You’re not helping my TBR! 📚😏 Thank you, Brianne! I hope that’s a good thing😍 whatsnonfiction says: American Predator was so, so good! Incredibly well written. Although, fair warning, I actually had nightmares while reading it, some of what he did was flat-out terrifying. Gives me chills even thinking of it now. I’ll be looking forward to reading your take on it! I see so many great books here, Jonetta! I have added a few of these, too, and I really hope you enjoy every single one. I also hope you’ve had a great weekend! Hopefully we can dry out a little! ♥️ Thank you, Jennifer! It would be nice to return the book love favor for a change💜 You’ve given me lots of recs, Jonetta, and you most definitely inspire me to try more series. ♥️ Great additions! I totally didn’t know Ruta Sepetys had a new title coming out! I love her books and that one goes straight to my wishlist. I also can’t wait to get a copy of The Whisper Man. Thanks, Yvo! I did the same thing when I saw the new Sepetys title. No brainer. Exactly! She’s definitely one of my auto-buy authors. So many great looking titles here! I am thrilled to see you added Lisa Wingate’s newest. I cannot wait to read it! Thanks, Tina! I’m really looking forward to that one. Janel (Keeper of Pages) says: I hope you love The Whisper Man!! I’ve got my eye on the new JP Delaney and A Nearly Normal Family, they both sound really good! It was YOU who first put this on my radar!!! I couldn’t remember. Eva sent me over the edge. Haha, you can just say we tag-teamed you 🤣 We actually buddy read it together and both loved it, just so happened my tour stop was before hers 😆 I got One Small Sacrifice before my holiday, thinking i’m gonna read it there, but of course i didn’t 😀 Never Have I Ever sounds pretty cool too! I wanted One Small Sacrifice the moment I saw it💜 I’m so hoping I can get Never Have I Ever. 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__label__wiki	0.637617	0.637617	Mike's Mad Log Page 174 of 213 « First < 74 124 164 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 184 > Last » Michael A. Jones Re: Mike's Mad Log 30 Minutes of HIIT with focus on cardio and core Hero WOD AMRAP in 30 minutes 8 Squat Cleans per side 30# 11 HRPU Royal Marine Commando, Sergeant Barry Weston, 40, of Reading, England, serving with 42 Commando, Royal Marines was killed on August 30, 2011. I completed 17 or 18 rounds....Got caught up in motivating the group during the final minutes. Rest easy, Sergeant Weston!! Male/48/6'1"/205 lbs CF-L1 Find More Posts by Michael A. Jones 30 Snatches, L&R 30 Hang Cleans, L&R 30 Modified Pull Ups (Inverted Rows) Becky Sefscik passed away on August 31, 2015 after deciding to take her own life. Becky was a Navy veteran and suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, more commonly known as PTSD. She was a coach at CrossFit The Tracks in Erlanger, Kentucky. Completed the WOD in 18:15 with a 30# dumbbells. Lots of new folks in class and they enjoyed honoring Becky last evening. Most had never done a Hero workout, and fewer knew the affects of PTSD. I told them about my diagnosis and how everyone battles and handles it differently. Some promised to do some research and become more educated. My job is so gratifying! Conditioning 35 brutal minutes of HIIT!!!! Active Rest Day Mobility and Strength Resistance Band Drills Lat Stretches SmashweRX Method #1 2x 10 second Isometric Serratus Pushdown 3x 10 Suspension Scapular Stabilaztion 2x 15 Adduction, green band 2x 15 Abduction, green band 3x 15 D1/D2, red/gray bands 2x5 Seated Press 10# 3x 10 Serratus Press 30# 28 Minute AMRAP 9 Overhead Squats 30/20# Seated Triceps Walkout ( From seated, press up and walk hands to crab position and return) 12 Crush Presses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ydoB3ktlI (WSF) U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jeremie "JBo" "Bubba" Border, 28, of Mesquite, Texas, died September 1, 2012 in Batur Village, Afghanistan. 30 rounds completed. I alternated weights on the OHS as I could maintain good form with 30# on my right, but had to scale for my left side.... HICT (High Intensity Circuit Training) 20:10 for 4 rounds DB Rows, then Lateral Lunge and Reach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73eKch1SMx0 (WSF) Power Skip, then Carioca DB High Pull, then Single Leg Deadlift Push Up, then X Jackknifes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjqL7g5mSA (WSF) Corner Stretch Adhesive capsulitis release SmashweRx Four Shoulder Drills Ran the River City 5k with friends this morning. Finished in 24:35 although chip timing had me at 25:31... I'll see official results after the sponsors post. No matter. I ran an excellent race because I hate that course; ran 4 miles there back in June. Results are mixed but I'll take it. I did some rolling on the quads and hams after yesterday's run, and made sure to hydrate. SmashweRX Indestructible Shoulders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYrzrBylkqM (WSF) SmashweRX Thoracic Fix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R00biDnraeQ (WSF) I sort of milled around during the early part of the day.... Didn't have a real desire to be active whatsoever. Then, I saw a video with Ben Smith squatting and talking about his lifetime goal was to hit 550....That was enough to fire me up!!! CrossFit WOD 170904 Back squat 10-5-3-1-1-1-3-5-10 205-255-280-305-335-365-280-255-205# 365 was a bit of a struggle but not by much. I'm coming for you, Ben!!! Conditioning30 Minutes of Interval Training Conditioning 30 minutes of interval training 2-8-10-8-2 C&P 30# Drop Deads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVPZDgFssA WSF 2 Minutes Rest at 15 Minutes 7 Squat Clean 135# 8 Burpee Box Jump, 24" Canadian Forces Sergeant Prescott Shipway, 36, of Esterhazy, SK, Canada, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, MB, Canada, was killed on September 7, 2008 by a roadside bomb in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Rest Easy, Sergeant Shipway! SmashweRX Indestructible Shoulders SmashweRX Thoracic Fix 20 Floor Press 1.5 POOD 20 Toes To Bell 20 KBS 20 Squat Thrust High Pulls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLhlD-BuiJg (WSF) 20 Rack Lunges, 10 each side 400m Run @ 95% 9 rounds for time with a partner of: 9 bar muscle-ups 11 clean and jerks, 155 lb. 50-yard buddy carry Share the work with your partner however you choose with only one person working at a time. If you can't find a partner, perform 5 reps of each exercise per round and find a heavy sandbag to carry. U.S. Army Spc. Christopher D. Horton, of Collinsville, Oklahoma, died Sept. 9, 2011, in Zurmat District, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with small-arms fire. The 26-year-old was assigned to 1st Battalion, 279 Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma National Guard. Horton is survived by his wife, Jane; parents David and Cherie; brother, Nicholas; sister, Tenley; and many other friends and family. I had no partner, so I completed the WOD with the 5 reps. Scaled C&J to Power Cleans 135#, 100# sandbag and modified muscle ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC-6KNfqaPc (WSF) I used a milk crate at my feet and set the bar at a height where my arms were at full extension, and my knees were on the ground. This made it more challenging and closer to a true bar muscle up. Completed in 25:45. Rest in peace, Specialist Horton!! Ran Old Glory from VFW 76 to the Alamo for a total of 6 miles this morning as a tribute to 9/11. Our local Team RWB hosted the event, and it was awesome!! Completion time was 57:27. 9/11 Tribute WOD 2,020m Airdyne 4 Ball Slams 40# 49 Deadlifts 135# 49 KBS 53# 49 Floor Press 50# 49 Step Ups 20" 125 Flutterkicks Completed in 35:30. The WOD is broken down into different rep schemes: 2,020m is one meter for the combined number of those lost between Tower 1 (1,406) and Tower 2 (614). 2 represents the paramedics killed. 4 for each plane highjacked - United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, United Flight 93. Further, the 23 Burpees are for the 23 service men and women of the NYPD who perished. 37 for members of the NY Port Authority who gave their lives. Total the Deadlift, DUs, Push Ups, KBS, Sit Ups, Floor Press, and Step Ups equals 343 reps, which is the total number of NYFD first responders who died at the World Trade Center site on 9/11. Lastly, 125 for every person lost at the Pentagon. SmashweRX Ultimate Three https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJyauFUyEBw (WSF) 10 rounds for time 30 double-unders 100-m sprint Second Lt. Emily Jazmin Tatum Perez, 23, was killed Sept. 12, 2006, when her Humvee was struck by an improvised explosive device as she was leading a convoy through Al Kifl, Iraq. She served in the 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Perez was the first female African-American officer in U.S. military history to die in combat and the first female West Point graduate to die in the Iraq War. She is survived by her parents, Daniel and Vicki; brother, Kevyn; and many classmates and friends. Subbed to ring rows at round 4, and wore my 10# plate carrier. 1:50, 1:56, 1:49, 1:37, 1:41, 1:28, 1:36, 1:24, 1:20, 1:22 Rest easy, 2Lt. Perez!! 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__label__wiki	0.649348	0.649348	Front Page » Archives » July 2012 » " Articles from: July 2012 " PA's Top Election Official Testifies: 'I Don't Know What Photo ID Law Says' Oy... Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carole Aichele, testifying Tuesday during a state trial on the state’s controversial voter ID law, said she wasn’t sure about the details of the law, but stood by her unsupported claim that 99 percent of voters had valid identification. “I don’t know what the law says,” Aichele said under questioning, according to CBS. Aichele also couldn’t provide any evidence that 99 percent of voters already have a valid form of ID, as the state has claimed. CBS reported that when lawyers cited testimony from a Department of State official calling the number likely inaccurate, Aichele responded "I disagree." Wow. Aichele is a Republican. Her husband is Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's chief of staff. Corbett was recently forced to admit that he had no clue what type of ID was now required to vote under the new law he recently signed. Not since Arizona's Jan Brewer was promoted by Barack Obama from Sec. of State to Governor, has a state had such a clueless dope as their top election official, apparently. And here I thought the previous Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, was a disaster back in 2008. I guess the bar is getting pretty low for state election officials in PA!... Article Categories: Election Reform, Pennsylvania, Election Fraud, Photo ID Laws, Accountability, Dept. of Defense, Republicans, Election 2012, Tom Corbett 'Green News Report' - July 31, 2012 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Food v. Fuel in fight over corn ethanol, as the nation's record drought continues; Massive power blackouts in India; Germany breaks another world solar record (we don't); PLUS: CLIMATE SCIENCE BOMBSHELL: Prominent, Koch Brothers-funded skeptic discovers global warming is real...and man-made ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Breaking: judge tosses new EPA mining rules; WV: Mountaintop removal coal mining has harmed 22% of streams; WI: New Enbridge pipeline spill complicates proposed pipeline; Drought woes impacting oil & gas industry; Romney wants wind energy tax credits to expire (but not oil subsidies!); Pacific Coral Triangle at risk; Study: US storms are bigger; Make way for more 'grolar' and 'pizzly' bears ... PLUS: Is this your new electric car?: GE announces electric motor breakthrough ... and much, MUCH more! ... Article Categories: California, Environment, Stephen Colbert, Republicans, Green News, James Inhofe, EPA, Koch Industries, Bernie Sanders, Coal, Solar, Climate change, Extreme weather 40,000 Uncounted Provisional Ballots in Ohio in 2008, Many Unnecessarily So, Finds Paper Will GOP Sec. of State Jon Husted correct that in 2012?... Setting aside for a moment whether or not the ballots of Ohio voters were and are counted accurately, a new investigative report by the Cincinnati Enquirer's Barry M. Horstman finds that some 40,000 provisional ballots cast during the Buckeye State's 2008 Presidential election were never even counted at all. Worse, thousands of them, as the paper details, were disqualified due to no fault of voters... Each election year, Ohio residents cast thousands of ballots that are not counted. Despite efforts to simplify the state's voting to avoid widespread discarding of ballots, it could happen again in November's presidential race. The Enquirer, during a weeks-long examination of the state's electoral procedures, found that voting - America's most precious right and the foundation for all others - is a fragile civic exercise for many Ohioans. A confusing maze of state laws, administrative directives and court rulings on voting procedures, errors - by voters and poll workers alike - and other factors cause large numbers of ballots to end up in the electoral trash can every year, particularly in urban counties. In Hamilton County alone, hundreds of votes are routinely disqualified in major statewide elections because they are cast in the wrong precinct, often only feet from the correct location. Hundreds more votes have been tossed out for another relatively minor miscue: voters' failure to seal an inner envelope containing their absentee ballot. The report goes on to warn that, unless there are changes made to the state's election laws and procedures --- including the implementation of changes recommended by state election officials after the 2008 contest --- "tens of thousands of ballots are likely to be disqualified" in the key swing-state, once again, during the 2012 Presidential election... Article Categories: Election Irregularities, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio, Election Reform, Election 2008, Paper Ballots Legislation, Photo ID Laws, Election 2012 High Cost of Willfully Misinterpreting the 2nd Amendment The horror that played out during the recent midnight massacre inside a Century theater in Aurora, CO is but the latest example of the danger posed to our safety and our very lives by the radical right's expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment. On June 28, 2008, that view --- that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected to service in a state militia --- became the law of the land, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court's hard right quintet's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller ("Heller") --- a 5-4 decision that ignored precedent, history and basic rules of constitutional interpretation. Heller not only elevated the profits of the domestic small arms industry above the ability of government to protect our safety, our general welfare, our domestic tranquility and our very lives, but provided a disturbing new context to the eerily prescient 1991 warning provided by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) when he likened the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to a game of "Russian Roulette"... Article Categories: Colorado, Arizona, Rights And Freedoms, U.S. Constitution, Accountability, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court, Ted Kennedy Former FL GOP Chair Testifies That Party Discussed How to 'Keep Blacks From Voting' in 2009 Deposition recalls FL Republican whistleblower Clint Curtis' 2004 affidavit on 'reducing black vote' before 2000 election... Well, this sounds familiar, and for good reason... In a 630-page deposition, released to the press yesterday, former Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer described a systemic effort by Republicans to suppress the black vote. Referring to a 2009 meeting with party officials, Greer said "I was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting." He also said party officials discussed how "minority outreach programs were not fit for the Republican Party." Florida is currently embroiled in a controversy surrounding Gov. Rick Scott's (R) voter purge program, which disproportionately affects voters of color. Fifty-eight percent of Scott's original list of voters who were supposedly ineligible to voter were Hispanic while Hispanics make up only 13 percent of Florida's eligible voters. Greer and the GOP cut ties in 2010, and he is currently facing felony corruption charges. The summary above comes from ThinkProgress' Alex Brown who offer a hat-tip to Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald who opens his report this way: In the debate over new laws meant to curb voter fraud in places like Florida, Democrats always charge that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote of liberal voting blocs like blacks and young people, while Republicans just laugh at such ludicrous and offensive accusations. The entire matter echoes back to our initial 2004 exclusive on then Republican software programmer turned whistleblower Clint Curtis who had filed a sworn affidavit charging Florida Republican Tom Feeney had asked his company, Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), to create a vote-rigging software prototype in 2000. At the time of his alleged meetings with Feeney, Curtis says the Congressman --- who had been Jeb Bush's Lt. Governor running mate in 1998 before becoming Speaker of the FL House and one of the most powerful elected officials in the state by 2000 --- discussed methods that he said the Republican Party had in place to "reduce the black vote" in the 2000 Presidential election. According to the December 6, 2004 affidavit [PDF] filed by Curtis, just days before he would testify to a U.S. House Judiciary Committee panel... Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Florida, Election 2000, Tom Feeney, Clint Curtis, Election Fraud, Accountability, Voter Registration, Vote Caging, Republicans, Bush Legacy, Election 2010, Rick Scott Why They're Worried About Warren By D.R. Tucker on 7/27/2012 6:35am PT Guest editorial by D.R. Tucker If you want to see pure madness in action, ask a Republican friend about Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, the creator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who will face US Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) in one of the most high-profile races of the year. Chances are, your Fox "News"-watching friend will turn beet-red within a half-second, swearing and sputtering about her supposed socialism and attacking her as the mascot of the Occupy movement. There's just something about Warren that sends the right into 'roid rage. Is it something she said --- or just something she represents?... Article Categories: Massachusetts, Environment, U.S. Senate, Economy, Election 2012, Elizabeth Warren Video Toon: How ALEC Subverts Democracy Last April, in an article which covered an ethics complaint filed by the Center for Media and Democracy against 43 Republican state legislators, The BRAD BLOG went to great lengths to explain how the "legislative task force" system employed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was not merely subverting but supplanting our representative form of democracy. It was an article that would later be reprinted by The American Trial Lawyer magazine. But, leave it to a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, like Mark Fiore, to provide a more succinct explanation of the same phenomenon in this relatively short but powerful animated toon... Article Categories: Toons, Rights And Freedoms, Accountability, ALEC IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Drought expands in the US, and it's gonna cost ya; Obama Admin expands solar lands --- while Fox 'News' whines about it; US Navy's Great Green Fleet sails to success; Heat records shattered in St. Louis; PLUS: Shocking ice melt across Greenland ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): David Letterman On Fracking: 'We're Screwed; Rise in Weather Extremes Threatens Infrastructure; 70% of Arctic ice loss is due to climate change; Could Africa hold the answers to America's drought woes?; U.S. cities unprepared for future heat waves; Winning the carbon tax debate; Geo-engineering, storms may speed up ozone loss ... PLUS: The environment is trying to ruin the Olympics again ... and much, MUCH more! ... Article Categories: Fox 'News', Mainstream Media Failure, Accountability, Environment, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, Dept. of Defense, Republicans, Green News, James Inhofe, BP Oil Disaster, Fracking, Natural gas, Coal, Oil, Solar, Climate change, Extreme weather 'The BradCast' on KPFK: Targeting the Terrorist-Enabling NRA for Accountability Ever wonder what one of my blog items sounds like inside my own brain when I write it? On today's BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio (audio posted below), listeners got a bit of an idea, as the terrorist-enabling NRA, in the wake of their Aurora, CO Massacre, was squarely in my sights. Sadly, they were too busy praying or lying or raising money off the tragedy or something, to show up and defend their deadly positions, so today's show was just me, and a bunch of great callers who, unlike the terrorist-enabling NRA, were not afraid to come on our public airwaves to offer their positions in the public square over our public airwaves. For the record, here are the folks who declined to show up and support their deadly positions on the show today, or who simply didn't respond at all to our invitation to appear. Yes, we really believe in offering opportunities for all legitimate positions to be heard over our public airwaves... National Rifle Association (NRA): "We believe that now is the time for families to grieve and for the community to heal. There will be an appropriate time down the road to engage in political and policy discussions." NRA Official State Associations Colorado State Shooting Association: "While we appreciate your efforts to present the perspective of gun rights organizations such as CSSA on your program, we are unable to accommodate your request." Arizona State Rifle & Pistol Assocation: "I am sorry but all we are doing is concentrating on our total support and prayers for those families. I know many are jumping on the bandwagon to ban this or do away with the Constitutions guarantees and such but they are always ready to strike out at folks like us in the gun culture. ... Please forgive me for forgoing the interview. When emotions are more level, I would possibly do an interview. ... Thanks so much for your understanding." California Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc.: no response Arkansas Rifle & Pistol Association: no response Florida Sport Shooting Association, Inc.: no response Texas State Rifle Association: no response Politicians with A+ or A grade from the NRA Rep. Paul C. Broun (R-GA): declined Former AZ State Senator Russell Pearce (R): declined Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA): no response Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA): no response Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MI): no response Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO): no response Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX): no response Here's today's show, which also includes a few minutes on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's stunning admission that there is no known case of in-person voter fraud --- the only kind of voter fraud that might be deterred by the GOP's new polling place Photo ID restriction there --- in the history of the state, and a quick visit from Desi Doyen with the latest Green News Report... Download MP3 or listen online below [appx 58 mins]... P.S. KPFK's BradCast is now available on your smart device via the Stitcher Radio app! Plug it in and listen every week automagically! Article Categories: Election Reform, Colorado, Pennsylvania, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Election Fraud, Photo ID Laws, Accountability, KPFK, NRA/Gun Violence 'The Debate is Over': FL's 'Non-Citizen' Voter Purge Has Been a Spectacular, Disenfranchising Failure Yet mainstream media misreport easily verifiable facts, continue to fall for FL Governor, Secretary of State's deceptive spin... A BRAD BLOG investigation by Ernest A. Canning & Brad Friedman Florida Governor Rick Scott's attempted purge of "potential non-citizen" voters --- a purge which Scott's Republican predecessor Gov. Charlie Crist described last week as a "shameless," "mean-spirited," "insidious" and "sweeping" effort to gain partisan advantage "under the guise of removing non-U.S. citizens" --- has been an abject failure. Scott's claims of success in unearthing "non-citizens" said to be registered to vote in the Sunshine State, repeated by his hand-picked Sec. of State Ken Detzner and uncritically echoed by a compliant mainstream corporate media, have amounted to less --- far less --- than meets the eye. Over the course of our months-long investigation, which included public records requests and interviews with state and county officials, The BRAD BLOG has discovered that the Scott/Detzner claim of having captured some 107 "non-citizens" on the Sunshine State voter rolls as a result of their purge is, at best, a reckless overstatement. Yet, that number (107), which Scott described as "alarming," has been uncritically accepted as fact by corporate mainstream media. Even if it had been accurate, 107 would amount to an infinitesimal percentage of the original 182,000 who had initially been identified as "potential non-citizens" by Florida officials --- 107 as against Florida's 11.2 million legally registered voters, with an untold number of perfectly legal voters threatened with losing their right to vote as collateral damage of the state's attempted purge. But the 107 number isn't even close to being accurate. To the contrary, Florida election officials have been unable to confirm that more than ten percent of those whom Scott and Detzner claim their purge captured were in fact non-citizens. For example, in the two counties, Lee and Collier, where 92 of Scott and Detzner's claimed 107 have been removed, just nine (9) of them have actually been verified, to date, as "non-citizens" named by Scott and Detzner on their list of "potential non-citizens" sent to county election officials for purging earlier this year. The rest have either been removed from the rolls without independent verification of whether or not they are lawfully registered U.S. citizens, or they were removed after their names surfaced on a separate list that had nothing to do with the list compiled by Scott and Detzner. That separate list, as gathered by a local news outlet, similarly, may or may not accurately identify the named registered voters as "non-citizens". Despite the extraordinary failure to date, Scott and Detzner have repeatedly proclaimed "victory" in their voter purge scheme. Making matters worse for the general populace trying to make sense of what is actually going on, numerous corporate-owned media outlets have compliantly echoed their extraordinarily misleading and deceptive spin... Article Categories: Florida, AP, Rights And Freedoms, Mainstream Media Failure, Accountability, Dept. of Justice, Hans Von Spakovsky, Election 2012, DHS, Rick Scott Ed Schultz' Wife Battling Ovarian Cancer Our best to Ed Schultz whose wife, he has just announced, is now battling ovarian cancer. In the past hour, I was a guest on his radio show which is being guest hosted this week by Mike Papantonio of Ring Of Fire. Afterwards, the MSNBC prime time TV and radio host called in to the show to make the teary announcement and offer an update on his wife Wendy, who, he says, is just out of surgery, and will soon be recovering at home, after learning just last Wednesday about her illness. Schultz said her fight to recover would take a while, so his radio and TV shows were, understandably, not at the front of his mind right now. The fiery and feisty progressive thanked his staff at both shows for covering for him during what he expects to be a prolonged absence from each program. We've been on Ed's radio show many times over the years, and appeared as well on his TV program late last year. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him, Wendy and their family during this difficult time. UPDATE: Here is Ed's call into his own show (appx 6 mins), just after the top of the 1p ET hour, announcing his wife's battle with cancer. Thanks to the crews at Ring Of Fire and the Ed Schultz Show for sending over the audio... Article Categories: MSNBC, Ed Schultz Game Over: PA Admits There is No Known 'Voter Fraud' That Would Have Been Prevented by State GOP's New Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions Last night we offered some very encouraging news about an apparent federal challenge, in the works by the U.S. Dept of Justice, against the state of Pennsylvania's disenfranchising, GOP-enacted, polling place Photo ID restriction law. Today's news is even more encouraging! The Commonwealth of PA and the plaintiffs in the state challenge to the law have filed a remarkable one-page, 6-point stipulation [PDF] in advance of the trial in that case which is set to begin tomorrow. The stipulation agrees, in plain language, that there has never been a known case of in-person voter fraud --- the only type of voter fraud that can even possibly be deterred by such restrictions --- in the history of the Keystone State, or even in other states, for that matter... STIPULATION Petitioners and Respondents, by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate as follows: 1. There have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states; 2. The parties are not aware of any incidents of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania and do not have direct personal knowledge of in person voter fraud elsewhere; 3. Respondents will not offer any evidence in this action that in-person voter fraud has in fact occurred in Pennsylvania or elsewhere; 5. Respondents will not offer any evidence or argument that in person voter fraud is likely to occur in November 2012 in the absence of the Photo ID law. I don't think it can be stated any plainer. The GOP's polling place Photo ID restriction, which they have passed under the guise that it is needed to prevent "voter fraud", is, itself, a fraud. Of course, we've been arguing this point for some time (going on 10 years, in fact). In state after state where these laws have been passed by Republican legislatures and signed by Republican governors on the basis that they are needed to curb "voter fraud", the proponents of the laws in every state have been unable to offer even a single historical case of voter fraud in their state which would have been prevented by these measures. In other words, these laws are not meant to curb "voter fraud", they are meant to curb voting --- specifically, by people who don't have the type of state-issued Photo ID required under these new laws. In the case of PA, that amounts to some 750,000 legally eligible voters, by the state's own numbers --- more voters than Obama won the state by in 2008. The voters most effected by these laws, as study after study have shown for years, are far and away more Democratic-leaning than Republican. That's the entire story on these purposely disenfranchising voter suppression laws. Period. Always has been, always will be. That, despite the unforgivably poor reporting by many in the corporate mainstream media suggesting there is some legitimate reason to enact these laws. There isn't. There never has been. And it is that poor reporting which has allowed the GOP to keep this issue alive, as if it is anything but a blatant attempt to suppress the Democratic-leaning vote... Article Categories: Election Reform, Pennsylvania, Election Fraud, Photo ID Laws, Republicans, Election 2012 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Deadly floods in China, drought in Europe - global food prices rise as extreme weather hammers crops across the planet; Germany warns time is running out to cut emissions; EPA to pull back on new mercury pollution standards?; PLUS: Mutants in Florida: pushing back against the Franken-skeeter! ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): BC premiere criticizes tar sands pipeline; "Experts" wrong again on renewable energy predictions; "Perfect storm" on Gulf dolphin deaths; Michael Mann threatens to sue over conservative media's Sandusky comparison; Fukushima: workers' radiation levels faked? ... PLUS: Fossil fuels and global warming's terrifying new math ... and much, MUCH more! ... Article Categories: Florida, Great Britain, United Nations, Environment, Stephen Colbert, Republicans, Green News, BP Oil Disaster, EPA, Japan, Fracking, Natural gas, Coal, Climate change, Extreme weather DOJ INVESTIGATING PA'S NEW, GOP-ENACTED POLLING PLACE PHOTO ID RESTRICTION Case would represent first instance of the federal agency challenging such a law under Section 2 of Voting Rights Act... Good news for fans of democracy and voting rights, and for foes of discrimination! Bad news for Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, his GOP state legislature, and perhaps others like them in different states. The U.S. Dept. of Justice may soon be filing a legal challenge to Pennsylvania's new GOP-enacted polling place Photo ID restriction. The law will affect the ability of some 750,000 legal voters to cast their once-legal vote in the Keystone State this November, unless it is overturned. If the feds choose to bring suit against the new law, it would be the first time the federal agency has used the anti-discrimination provisions of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 to block such a law. Last February, as a civil rights group had filed a federal challenge against the state of Wisconsin, charging that state's new GOP-enacted polling place Photo ID restriction violated the federal constitution, we explained how the moment presented a "golden opportunity" for the U.S. Dept. of Justice to join the case and challenge it, as well as similar laws in other states, under Section 2 of the VRA. As Ernie Canning detailed at the time, the DoJ has, to date, only challenged recently-enacted polling place Photo ID restriction laws in jurisdictions which are covered by Section 5 of the VRA. That section of the landmark federal law requires that new election laws in some 16 states, or parts of states with long histories of racial discrimination at the polls, receive federal government preclearance for the new laws before they may be enforced. Section 5 places the burden on the jurisdictions themselves to demonstrate that the new laws will not have a discriminatory effect. Since these particular laws have been shown, indeed, to be designed to discriminate against largely Democratic-leaning voters, the states where the laws have been denied preclearance by the DoJ --- states like Texas and South Carolina, for instance --- have been unable to demonstrate their laws did not have the effect of discriminating against legal minority voters. In both of those cases, using data supplied to the DoJ by the states, it was simple to show the discriminatory effect of the new laws. (For example, in South Carolina, African-American voters were found to be 20% more likely to lack the type of ID needed to vote under the new law than white voters. In Texas, the state's own data showed that legal Hispanic voters were as much as 120% more likely to lack the requisite ID to vote under the new law than non-Hispanic voters.) But similar laws passed in states not covered by Section 5 --- states like Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kansas, and Pennsylvania --- have yet to face the same kind of legal scrutiny from the federal government --- until now... Article Categories: Texas, Pennsylvania, Rights And Freedoms, Photo ID Laws, South Carolina, Voting Rights Act, Tom Corbett Congress Cowers to Terrorist-Enabling NRA The fact that they haven't yet been labeled a terrorist-associated group is due only to the fact that if they were, they would rain down hellfire --- and one of the mightiest propaganda and lying campaigns you've ever seen --- against those associated with having made that decision. That, of course, is how any terrorist group worth its assault plies its trade: Scare the hell out of those who might oppose them. Let them know there will be serious consequences to those who even try, to those who even discuss it. So that anyone even thinking of it becomes crippled with fear to the point they won't do a thing to even appear to threaten the terrorists' agenda in any way. In this case, of course, it's mostly just political terrorism. But in the real world, given the carnage they continue to enable year after year and tear after tear, it's difficult to say whether the NRA should best be described as terrorist enablers, or just plain terrorists, for the all of the indescribable violence they help perpetuate and, arguably, even help to fund. Without the help of the NRA and those who fund them, James Holmes, the alleged gunman of Colorado's latest massacre, might not have been able to shoot nearly 70 Americans in a matter of minutes, killing 12 of them, in a sold-out movie theater just after midnight last Friday night. Neither would it have been so simple for Jared Loughner to shoot 19 Americans and kill 6 of them, including nearly murdering Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, AZ just over a year ago, leading to her eventual resignation from Congress. Thanks to years of terror-enabling by the National Rifle Association, both the AZ and CO sociopaths were able to maximize their rage through a maximum of carnage against their fellow citizens. And both incidents are just a drop of blood in the NRA's great American bucket. Despite AZ and CO and the tens of thousands of deaths by firearm in this country each year, despite even coming within a hair's breadth of losing one of their own last year in the bargain, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress are unable and unwilling to lift a finger to do a damn thing about any of it. Neither is the President of the United States. They are all cowards, shriveling in abject fear of the almighty menace to sanity and common-sense and domestic tranquility that is today's NRA... Article Categories: Rights And Freedoms, U.S. Constitution, Accountability, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, NRA/Gun Violence [1] 2 3 »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1026
__label__cc	0.613335	0.386665	Notice of temporary closure of: Whiteheads Lane (Part), Bradford on Avon Notice from Wiltshire Council of Temporary Closure of: Whiteheads Lane (Part), Bradford on Avon (Ref: TTRO 5675) Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 Notice is hereby given that the Wiltshire Council has made an Order to close temporarily to all traffic: Whiteheads Lane (Part), Bradford on Avon; from property known as 8 Whiteheads Lane for a distance of approximately 50m in a northerly direction. To enable: Wessex Water to carry out a new connection. No alternative route is available; access will be maintained for residents and businesses where possible. The closure will be clearly indicated by traffic signs. This Order will come into operation on 17 December 2018 and the closure will be required until 19 December 2018. It is anticipated that the works will take the stated duration to complete depending upon weather conditions. Access will be maintained for residents and businesses where possible, although delays are likely due to the nature of the works. The Order will have a maximum duration of 18 months. For further information please contact Simon Phillips (Wessex Water) on 03456004600. Sustainable Transport Group, County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge BA14 8JN 14 December 2018 Feedback is always welcome! Visit our CONTACT US page or reach us at: Bradford on Avon Town Council St Margaret's Hall, St Margaret's Street, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 1DE office@bradfordonavontowncouncil.gov.uk 01225 864240 Bradford on Avon photography by Lydia Booth Logo design by Marc Bessant with Jenny Dack Copyright 2020 bradford on avon town council managed by Tom Beavan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1027
__label__cc	0.653392	0.346608	Posts by Liam Browser Not Working – Get Expert Solutions From Browser Support By Liam \| June 8, 2018 While working on the internet, and your browser stops working midway. What makes this a matter of concern? Surely it’s a symptom that needs serious attention, otherwise, you may lose your work or even the browser itself. Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about it anymore, as no matter what the reason for Browser Not Working,… Fix Chrome “Aw, Snap!” Error – Get Solutions From Us Google Chrome is the fastest browser available to surf the internet. However, it has some errors that may impact your browsing experience. Chrome Aw Snap is one of the errors that are most common in occurrence. But, no need to worry about that, as it might sound some bigger issue, but, as a matter of… Chrome Not Working – Why It Happens and How to Fix It Google Chrome widely uses the feature-rich web browser. But the Chrome Not Working issue is quite a trouble that can take a toll on our work pace. Don’t worry about it, you can resolve the issue with simple steps. But in order to do so, you need to understand the problem from the root level. Because… Common Google Chrome Issues – Resolve With Chrome Support Speaking of a web browser, who can ignore Google Chrome? Yes exactly, perhaps this is the main reason behind its worldwide popularity. However, does that mean it will not have issues? All the browsers have some level of technical or general glitches. Similarly, Google Chrome Issues are common to all users. Fortunately, you can resolve the… Having problems with Microsoft Edge browser? No worries, you have come to the right place. Edge is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft packed with impressive and advanced features making it better than the previous Internet Explorer. But if you have issues with Microsoft Edge, not working errors, it can feel frustrating. Read through… Mozilla Firefox is one of the most widely chosen web browsers in the world. With exclusive features and tools, the software is indeed something you can rely on. But just like other similar software Mozilla too has its problems. If you are looking for information about Firefox Not Responding errors simply keep reading. Firstly, these… Common UC Browser Error Messages – How To Resolve Them UC Browser is definitely a great option to have installed on your system. It makes the toughest task look and feels so very easy with exclusive tools and features. But at the same point in time, just like other browsers UC too has its problems. If you are looking for identifying recurring UC browser error…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1031
__label__cc	0.544467	0.455533	Theatrical make-up for the west end’s Kinky Boots Blog, BTEC diploma in make-up & hair, Interviews, Proper make-up training, Theatrical make-up, Working with wigs What’s it like doing theatrical make-up and hair on a big, London musical? Here to give us some insight is Lorna Stimson, head of wigs for the west end show Kinky Boots currently playing at the Adelphi Theatre. Lorna studied at Brushstroke on the 9 Month Make-Up and Hair ITEC course. Since this time, she’s focused on stage make-up and hair – the love of which she puts down to a certain sporting event in 2012: “The Olympics did it for me – I knew immediately that live stage work was where I wanted to be. I worked on both the Opening and Closing ceremonies and had a wonderful time. As a hair assistant for the dancers and flag bearers, I was able to put my newly-learnt skills to test. Even though my efforts went unpaid, I learnt so much about working with people and being part of a team.” Lorna went on to work on Cats, Singin’ in the Rain, Funny Girl (with Sheridan Smith) and Gypsy where she was head of department (usually called ‘HoD’). Now, as head of wigs for Kinky Boots, she is responsible for some amazing transformations, as she explains. The daily regime of a theatrical make-up artist The working day for a theatrical make-up and hair professional starts well in advance of the performance. Lorna’s ‘typical’ schedule for an evening performance of Kinky Boots, starts around 2pm. Apart from getting the actors ready (she also does the make-up for the leads), she has 30+ wigs to look after. This means following a daily regime to keep the wigs fresh and in good shape for each performance. Olivier Award winning (2016) Kinky Boots is about the fortunes of a shoe-maker and it takes the audience from the factory floor to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. The cast have many costume, make-up and wig changes so Lorna and her team (a deputy, 3 assistants plus a wig swing – similar to a make-up daily) really have their work cut out. Getting a wig back into good shape The Kinky Boots’ wig collection An ‘Angel’s’ wig Quick-fire theatrical make-up and hair changes Applying the make-up for the lead actors (the rest of the cast do their own) takes Lorna and her team 2-3 hours. Theatrical make-up is very different from film, TV or editorial. Make-up for the stage enhances the features of the performers so the audience at the back of the auditorium can see and connect with them. The Kinky Boots storyline features drag queen Lola and her group of ‘Angels’. Transforming these male actors into stunning performers requires a bit of time – drawing a ‘décolletage’ on their chests for example! “There are 4 wig plots – which are big changes for us to manage. For example the character, Lola, appears first in drag, then as a boy before finally, switching back to being a drag queen again,” explains Lorna. That’s a lot of make-up for one face so Lorna has a very simple beauty routine for her clients: “Coconut oil is great for removing make-up and it’s really soft on the skin. I also use micellar water and hot flannels.” Hair and make-up for 2 different Lolas Good advice for all make-up students Having a good team of people working together is so important. As Lorna says, “you spend a lot of time together on a production – whether it’s film or stage make-up you’re doing. So it really matters that you get on, are sociable and respectful of each other. “My advice to all make-up artists is to be known for doing an excellent job. Be indispensible and a willing member of the team. Passion shows and so does attitude. Always be prepared to demonstrate your skills and capabilities at interviews. If you’re going for a job that involves something specific – like wigs or hair styling – you can be sure you’ll be asked to prove you know what you’re doing. In your own way you also need to perform.” You’ll find more tips about succeeding as a make-up artist in our blog. Also, how actor, Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody) rates the calming effect of the make-up artist. Ready but just taking a moment… Cast members taking centre stage outside Thank you to Lorna (left) for talking to us about her work as a theatrical make-up and hair artist. Our best wishes also to the cast of Kinky Boots and the whole production team. (Performers featured in this blog are: Louis Clarke-Clare, Momar Diagne and Simon-Anthony Rhoden.) Please follow Lorna on Instagram and here’s the official UK website for Kinky Boots Theatrical make-up training is included on our 2 year and 9 month courses – along with all the skills you need to become a fully rounded hair and make-up artist across film, TV and fashion. 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__label__cc	0.653738	0.346262	Power Take: Savoring the memories requires memories to savor By John Vogl Published Sat, Feb 27, 2016 The shuttered bar where I spent much of the 1990s recently threw everything away. The thought of a broken broom getting tossed in the garbage reminded me that an entire generation of Buffalo fans has been robbed of playoff memories. The bar was packed on April 27, 1999, when the Sabres swept favored Ottawa. My buddy Woj grabbed the broom from the corner, snapped it in half and passed it around like it was the Stanley Cup. He signed and dated it, then placed it on a shelf above the window. For years, people would look up, see it and start talking about that night. Certainly that wasn’t the only establishment with memory-flooding memorabilia. A piece of the goal post from the Bills’ 1988 win over the Jets that clinched the AFC East or a ticket stub from the 51-3 rout of the Raiders could lead to conversations about Rob Ray scoring against Toronto in the conference finals or Steve Shields dropping the blocker for a goalie fight with Garth Snow. I have no idea what people who grew up watching the Bills and Sabres during the last decade have to talk about or place on a shelf. That’s a ridiculous shame. John Vogl– John Vogl spent 15 seasons writing about the Sabres for The Buffalo News.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1034
__label__cc	0.708606	0.291394	“We just know we have to get this win…,” Azeez Ojulari Azeez Ojulari (13) during the Vanderbilt game, Saturday, August 31, 2019 Azeez Ojulari, a redshirt freshman outside linebacker, discusses the Georgia vs. Florida game, his recruitment as a high school player, playing at TIAA field in Jacksonville, Dawgs’ defense and more during his Monday interview on October 28, 2019. How big is this for Georgia? “Man, we just know we have to get this win, definitely, for sure,” said Ojulari. “So we’ve got to be doing whatever we’ve got to do to execute and get this win.” Of course, to get that win, the Dawgs’ defense will have to keep Florida quarterback Kyle Trask and the Gator offense in check. Azeez shares his observations on the Florida offense. “I feel like they’re very explosive,” said Ojulari. “They’ve got good receivers that can make big plays. They’ve got a good offense, so we’ve got to stop that.” And on Kyle Trask… “He came in and he’s a game changer. He throws big passes, complete passes,” said Ojulari. “He’s a good player so we’ve got to come in ready.” And on Emory Jones… “We definitely have to prepare for him too. He’s a dual-threat, so he can run and he can throw,” said Ojulari. “He can throw the ball well. We have to prepare for both quarterbacks, actually, so we’ll prepare this week.” Azeez Ojulari Emory Jones Georgia vs. Florida 2019 Jacksonville Florida Kyle Trask prev Volleyball: Georgia’s win streak ends on the road at A&M “The atmosphere is incredible with all the red and the blue…,” D’Andre Swift next	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1035
__label__cc	0.604868	0.395132	Stage Shows Our stage shows are designed to razzle and dazzle. Featuring talented singers, musicians and dancers performing crowd-thrilling numbers in extravagant costumes with awesome sets and scenery, it’s like catching one of the best shows on land. All performances are created to ensure that every night feels like opening night. And best of all, since shows are included in your fare, it’s like having top-dollar tickets to the hottest show in town, absolutely free. Available on all ships. The Punchliner Comedy Club There’s chuckle-funny, then there’s laughing-so-hard-you-can-barely-breathe funny. To take our Punchliner Comedy Club talent way over the top, we’ve teamed up with renowned comedian and TV personality George Lopez. George is our ‘curator of comedy,’ our ‘finder of funny,’ our… ‘locator of laugh-out-loud’ (sorry, we’ll leave the jokes to him), helping select talent for our fleetwide Punchliner Comedy Clubs. Available on all ships. Playlist Productions When was the last time you got up and danced… at the theater? Playlist Productions takes tunes you know and puts them live on stage, transforming them into full blown musical productions featuring pro singers and dancers rocking the house. Enjoy the spicy sounds of Latin Nights, or the know-them-anywhere favorites of Divas. Don’t forget Motor City — which will have you dancing in your seat — or even The Brits!, a swingin’ revue of your across-the-pond favourites. Rounding out the lineup is the anything-but-square, arena-shaking Epic Rock, plus the funky, sophisticated… and not at all exclusive Studio VIP, where everyone’s welcome! Available on Carnival Breeze, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Ecstasy, Carnival Fantasy, Carnival Fascination, Carnival Glory, Carnival Imagination, Carnival Inspiration and Carnival Sunshine. Dive-In Movies Ready to see stars? Park yourself in front of the big screen — the really big screen — and settle in for a night at the cinema… under some real stars. From the comfort of your poolside lounge chair, or even the pool itself, you’ll enjoy a big-name movie from categories like Date Night, Best Picture and Super Hero. And don’t think that being in the middle of the sea means going without the usual comforts. There’s not only popcorn — who could forget that? — but blankets! So lounge around, snuggle up and try to remember the last time you truly enjoyed a night at the movies. Available on Carnival Breeze, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Dream, Carnival Freedom, Carnival Glory, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Magic, Carnival Splendor, Carnival Sunshine, Carnival Triumph, Carnival Valor and Carnival Victory. Carnival's Seaside Theatre Night time isn’t the only time you’ll find stars on your cruise. Day or night, find a spot on deck and check out Carnival’s Seaside Theatre’s huge outdoor screen. Hit movies, sporting events and even cartoons for the kiddies are just some of the features you’ll find at our outdoor movie theater. Check the Fun Times to see what’s playing during your cruise. Then get some popcorn, a friend or three and get ready to kick back and enjoy the entertainment! Available on Carnival Breeze, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Dream, Carnival Freedom, Carnival Glory, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Magic, Carnival Splendor, Carnival Sunshine, Carnival Triumph, Carnival Victory and Carnival Valor. DJ IRIE Nobody can get the party started like a great DJ, right? That’s why we’ve brought DJ IRIE into the mix (pun intended) to make the nightlife on board Carnival hotter than ever. He’ll be heading up “DJ IRIE’s Spin’iversity,” a program designed to train our DJs to keep their spinning skills sharp and their personalities party-ready. Oh, and as for music, graduates will be spinning expanded musical catalogs in clubs across the fleet for maximum guest body-rocking. Available on all ships. Want to rock ’n’ roll every night and every day? Well, you’ve come to the right ship. We bring some of the best performers on land out to sea for an ambiance that can’t be beat. From happy-go-lucky island rock at RedFrog Pub to sing-alongs at the piano bar to let’s-get-this-party-started jams on Lido deck, chances are you’ll find a live performance on board that gets your hands clapping and toes tapping. Available on all ships. Thrill Theater It’s been said that a good film is one that makes you feel something. You’ll feel it for sure at the onboard Thrill Theater, where 3D, jumping-off-the-screen visuals are only part of the experience. Experience being literally transported through dimensions. Experience the heart-racing feeling of exploring exciting films that turn special effects into a truly moving experience. Experience the feeling throughout your entire body, thanks to the special seat you’ll be taking it all in from. If this sounds like fun, you can be sure it feels that way too! When the lights go down, the fun comes out… of the screen, that is. Available on Carnival Breeze. Carnival LIVE Concert Cruises Seeing a favorite band in concert is more like taking a vacation than you’d think — both have the power to transport you to another world. And when done right, both can absolutely rock. Carnival LIVE not only takes you to great destinations, but makes getting there half the fun. Cruise to the usual stunning spots, and while in one port the band will board the ship and put on an amazing 90-minute show. And for the entire cruise, you’re in good company — you’re sailing with a shipful of your fellow fans.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1041
__label__wiki	0.879787	0.879787	Castleton Spartans Castleton Classic Castleton.edu Castleton Home About Castleton Castleton Women's Track and Field News 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 Castleton Lands 35 on LEC Spring All-Academic Team Castleton’s 35 members of the All-Academic Team were fifth-most in the LEC. Track and Field Announces 19 Commitments for 2019-20 Season The class is comprised of 12 men and seven women thus far. Spring Student-Athletes Honored at End-of-Year Ceremony Castleton University spring sport student-athletes gathered in the 1787 Room in the Castleton Campus Center Tuesday evening to celebrate the successes of the group during the 2019 campaign. Three Spartans Compete at Track & Field New England Regionals Seniors Ally Stearns and Taylor Larmie as well as freshman Nate Gilcris represented Castleton at the NCAA Division III Track & Field New England Regionals over the weekend. Williams College hosted the three-day event. Women's Track & Field Eighth at Inaugural LEC Championships Lydia Maier earned a fourth-place finish in the 800-meter run to pace the Castleton University women’s track & field team at its inaugural Little East Conference Outdoor Championships, where the Spartans finished eighth. Maier and Stearns Earn Points for Women's Track & Field at Penmen Relays The Castleton University women’s track & field team competed at the Second Annual Penmen Relays hosted by Southern New Hampshire University on Saturday. Women's Track & Field 12th at Fitchburg Meet The Castleton University women’s track and field team came in 12th out of 19 teams in attendance at the Jim Sheehan Memorial Invitational hosted by Fitchburg State on Saturday. Stearns Wins Hammer and Meets Regional Qualifier at St. Lawrence Track & Field Meet Ally Stearns led the Castleton women’s track & field team at the Saints Ice Breaker Open at St. Lawrence University with a winning effort in the hammer throw as she achieved a NCAA Division III New England Regional Championships qualifier. Winter Student-Athletes Celebrated at End-of-Season Ceremony The Castleton University winter athletic programs gathered at the Casella Theater on Wednesday evening to celebrate the success of the student-athletes during the 2018-19 campaign. Women's Track and Field Opens at Wesleyan Spring Classic The Castleton women’s outdoor track and field team opened its outdoor season at the Wesleyan University Spring Classic on Saturday. 14 Spartans Earn LEC All-Academic Accolades Following the completion of the 2018-19 winter athletic seasons, 14 Castleton University student-athletes were named to the Little East Conference All-Academic Team for their performance in the classroom. Three Athletes Compete at Track and Field NCAA DIII New England Regionals Tayler Larmie, Lydia Maier, and Ally Stearns represented the Castleton men’s and women’s track and field teams at the NCAA Division III New England Regionals on Saturday. Three Women Compete at LEC/ New England Alliance Indoor Track and Field Championships The Castleton women’s indoor track and field sent three athletes and placed seventh at the Little East Conference Championships as part of the New England Alliance Championships at Plymouth State on Saturday. Hopwood Named LEC Indoor Track and Field Rookie of the Week After a school record-breaking performance in the long jump, Bronwen Hopwood of the Castleton women’s indoor track and field team has been named the Little East Conference (LEC) Indoor Track and Field Rookie Field Athlete of the Week for the week ending Feb. 3. Three School Records Broken for Women's Indoor Track and Field at Panther Invitational The Castleton women’s indoor track and field team set three school records at the Panther Invitational hosted by Plymouth State on Saturday. Lydia Maier Breaks School Record to Lead Women's Track and Field at Middlebury Invite Lydia Maier broke the 500-meter school record for the Castleton women’s indoor track and field team as the squad participated at the Middlebury Invitational on Saturday. Emily Maier Breaks Hurdles Record for Women's Indoor Tack & Field at Middlebury Winterfell Emily Maier ran the 60-meter hurdles in 10.64 seconds to break the school record for the Castleton women’s indoor track & field team at the Middlebury Winterfell on Saturday. SAAC to Host Bottle and Can Drive to Support For Every Girl The Castleton University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will be hosting a bottle and can drive fundraiser the week of January 21-26 to benefit the non-profit organization For Every Girl. Hopwood Improves on Own School Long Jump Record for Women's Indoor Track and Field at Middlebury Winter Classic Bronwen Hopwood broke her own school record in the long jump as part of her effort in four events for the women’s indoor track and field team at the Middlebury Winter Classic on Saturday. Hopwood Sets Two Records for Women’s Indoor Track & Field at St. Lawrence Meet Senior Bronwen Hopwood placed in the top-five in all four events in which she competed – setting the school record in two – to lead the Castleton women’s indoor track and field team at the Dual Duel in Newell hosted by St. Lawrence on Saturday. Hopwood Sets School Record, Stearns Meets Regional-Qualifying Mark in Women’s Indoor Track and Field Opener Bronwen Hopwood broke the school record in the 400-meter and Ally Stearns met a regional-qualifying mark in the weight throw to lead the Castleton women’s indoor track and field at its season-opening meet at the Smith Winter Invitational on Saturday. 190 University Drive, Castleton VT 05735, (802) 468-6075	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1048
__label__wiki	0.670616	0.670616	BBB: Beware Of Dubious Donation Sites For Hurricane Michael VictimsWatch out for charities that don't already have staff in the affected areas as they may not be able to provide immediate assistance. Pencils For Puerto RicoSome students in Puerto Rico lost everything, including school supplies. Local students knew exactly what to send them. Spending Spring Break Serving Others"This is not a vacation. We're going to serve." Chicago Red Cross CEO Going To Puerto Rico To Monitor Relief EffortsSelena Roldan, CEO of the Red Cross for Chicago and Northern Illinois, said the situation remains desperate in Puerto Rico, especially outside of San Juan. Lin-Manuel Miranda Says Puerto Rico Relief His 'New Full-Time Gig'"This is family, this is our friends, this is who we are, this is where we’re from, so this is the gig for the foreseeable future," Miranda said of hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. West Suburban Volunteers Getting School Supplies To Harvey VictimsHowser, the city of Aurora and District 204 Schools collected 120,000 supplies which volunteers organized into kits. They'll go on city trucks and sent to Houston. Relief Flight Loaded With Supplies Heading From Chicago To Puerto RicoAnother flight made the same trip on Monday, delivering 75,000 pounds of supplies, and bringing back more than 300 evacuees. Chicago Activists Plan Relief Efforts For Mexico After Major EarthquakeRescuers continued their search for survivors in Mexico, in the aftermath of a major earthquake, as the death toll has risen to at least 217 Salvation Army Offers Disaster Relief Training Classes For Hurricane VolunteersThe Salvation Army announced Thursday its Chicagoland location is offering volunteer Emergency Disaster Training (EDS) for anyone interested in helping critical relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey in Texas and potentially Hurricane Irma in Florida. Chicago Area Nepalis Set Up Fund To Help Quake Victims In HomelandLeaders of Chicago's Nepalese community are mobilizing to send help back to their homeland, after more than 3,500 people died in a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Recovery Moving Forward After Fairdale Tornado, But Much More Work AheadA week after a deadly tornado devastated the small town of Fairdale, there already have been signs of major progress, but lots more work is needed as survivors recover from the storm. Demolition Crews Find Beauty (The Cat) Amid Devastation In FairdaleFor nearly a week now, WBBM Newsradio traffic reporter Kris Habermehl has been in the tornado zone near Rockford, serving as a volunteer firefighter. Recovery Efforts Continue After Thursday's TornadoNeighbors in Fairdale and Rochelle have been rallying together to pick up the pieces, and get through this difficult time, after Thursday's devastating tornado. Survivors and volunteers spent the entire weekend cleaning, but there’s still a lot of work left to do. Disaster Relief Groups Offer Helping Hand To Tornado VictimsThe Salvation Army and the American Red Cross have set up shelters for victims, served hot meals to first responders, and provided other relief supplies as residents dig out, and begin the slow recovery process. Washington Residents Hit By Twister Step Up To Help Fairdale VictimsResidents of an Illinois community devastated by a tornado in November 2013 were coming together Friday to help the victims of Thursday’s deadly tornado in Fairdale, Illinois.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1055
__label__cc	0.676718	0.323282	Chicago Member Mary Hills Receives IABC Fellow Designation Mary Hills, ABC, MCOMM, addresses IABC members after being named an IABC Fellow. IABC Chicago wishes a hearty congratulations to Mary Hills, ABC, MComm, Six Sigma, who became one of only 58 IABC Fellows in the world at the 2016 IABC World Conference in New Orleans. This designation is the highest honor IABC gives to its members and is awarded to communication professionals for exceptional leadership and service to the organization and profession. In her acceptance speech, Mary explained her greatest accomplishments with IABC. “In particular, my time working with accreditation, the Corporate Accreditation Program and developing the Global Standard of the Communication Profession were opportunities to not only strengthen the resolve of a communication professional as a business asset, but to work with the most amazing people dedicated to communication excellence.” Why did Mary first join IABC? She explained that the international component was something she needed and couldn’t get from other professional organizations. She often remarks that when she joined IABC it felt like “coming home.” Highlights of Mary’s Accomplishments Mary Hills ABC, is an international marketing and communication professional. Mary has served IABC in many ways, including: For IABC Chicago, she served as Director of Accreditation, Director of Strategy and Director of Marketing. Mary served IABC as a member of the Accreditation Council and the Career Roadmap Committee (CRM), including spearheading the CRM initiative that resulted in the Global Standard of the Communication Profession. Most recently, she worked with the Global Alliance. She is the recipient of the 2012 IABC Chairman Award and 2015 IABC Chicago Karen Utterback Award. “Mary helped us understand and become brand champions, for the association and our organizations,” said former IABC Chicago President Diane Laux, MSC, ABC. “Mary approaches everything with an entrepreneurial drive. She is a professional and a mentor.” Mary is Principal of HeimannHills Marketing Group, a global consulting firm that works with companies and business units undergoing significant evolution and change. She has held leadership positions with responsibility for developing plans and schemas to support long term growth and sustainability goals in top Chicago-based companies. In addition, as Visiting Professor in the Keller Graduate School of Management’s MBA program and Adjunct Faculty at Loyola University’s MS Global Strategic Management Program, Mary develops and teaches relevant, practical courses using experiential pedagogy. She makes a point of staying current on business management, communication trends, issues and techniques, bringing her experience into the classroom with passion and excitement. Criteria for the Fellow Designation IABC Fellow nominees are considered based on: Outstanding contributions to the organizational communication field and profession Their body of work and career achievement Authorship, speaking and lecturing The impact they’ve had on IABC, whether global or specific to a region Cheers to Mary! Article by chicago-webmaster / Awards, Communications, Featured, IABC/Chicago News, Newsroom / awards, iabc chicago, IABC World Conference, Mary Hills, recognition, slider	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1056
__label__cc	0.736457	0.263543	Chinook Rotary Rotary Today Why Rotary Meeting Minutes (Members) Weekly ARCH History The Arch online 2019-20 e-ARCH RibFest 2019 Rotary has grown to a membership of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, and community leaders. It has a distinct point of view and approach that helps it see challenges in unique ways, apply leadership and expertise to social issues, and find unique solutions. Combining different occupations, cultures, and countries with a focus on service has produced a dynamic, modern and globally respected organization. The heart of Rotary is its local Clubs, which bring together dedicated individuals to exchange ideas, build relationships. Clubs are supported by The Rotary Foundation, which turns generous donations into grants that fund the work of members and partners around the world, and Rotary International, which co- ordinates global programs and initiatives. Rotary members are found in your community and across the globe, operating in over 200 countries. Speci c causes are targeted to maximize impact, promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local economies. JOIN ROTARY CHINOOK Rotary’s Ideal of Service Encouraging service as a worthy enterprise. Developing business networks and acquaintance. Having high and broad ethical standards. Applying the ideal of service to personal and professional life. Advancing international goodwill through business fellowship. Calgary Chinook Our club members are dedicated people who share a passion for both community service and friendship. Becoming a Rotarian connects you with a diverse group of professionals who share your drive to contribute to your local, national, and international community. Our club accepts new members. Membership Information Here Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to: Promote peace, Fight disease, Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, Save mothers and children, Support education, and Grow local economies Keep in touch, or reach out to us via social media, mail, or email Email: info@ChinookRotary.org Southland Crossing RPO Calgary, AB T2J 7A6 All materials and photos, unless otherwise specified, copyright of Rotary Club of Calgary Chinook. All Rotary marks, logos, and copyrighted content is owned by Rotary International, used with permission.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1059
__label__wiki	0.605322	0.605322	ChompTalk.com Chomping at the bit for Florida Athletics About Chomp Talk Tag: Allie Gregory Sweet Sixteen Bound: Gators sweep UCF; Advance in NCAA Tournament By Joseph Erickson on December 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) The Florida Gators are still dancing. The 12th-ranked Gators picked up their second sweep of the Tournament in Exactech Arena Thursday evening (25-21, 25-18, 25-17) VB: Gators sweep Alabama State; Advance to second round of NCAA Tournament The No. 12 Florida Gators swept the Alabama State Hornets in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday evening in Exactech Arena. VB: Gators back to winning ways with sweep at Auburn By Joseph Erickson on November 20, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) The 15th-ranked Florida Gators etched another W into the record books with a sweep over Auburn at Auburn Arena. The Gators secured the victory by a 25-17 scoreline in each frame. VB: Gators Sweep LSU at Home The No. 11 Florida Gators won their 10th-straight match with a three-set victory over the LSU Tigers (25-20, 25-19, 25-18) at Exactech Arena Friday evening. VB: Gators sweep Mississippi State on the road The 12th-ranked Florida Gators defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs in straight sets to improve to 11-1 in SEC play. Florida has now won nine straight matches; the longest streak in the conference. VB: Gators extend win streak to 8 after another five-set victory By Joseph Erickson on November 8, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) Doing things the easy way is overrated. That’s what the No. 12 Florida Gator volleyball team must think, anyway. VB: Gators Escape Mizzou with Fifth Set Comeback By Joseph Erickson on October 31, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) The No. 13 Florida Gators held off 24th-ranked Mizzou in the fifth set on Wednesday (25-22, 17-25, 29-27, 20-25, 15-12) to improve to 9-1 in the SEC. VB: Gators Beat Vols in Well-Rounded Showing The 13th-ranked Florida Gators improved to 8-1 in conference play with a three-sets-to-one victory over Tennessee (25-18, 25-20, 20-25, 25-17) in the O’Dome on Sunday. VB: Gators Pick Up Third Straight Sweep Against Alabama The Florida Gators improved to 16-3 (7-1) after a sweep over Alabama in the O’Dome (25-18, 25-16, 26-16). Florida sits atop the Southeastern Conference standings alongside Georgia and Kentucky. VB: Gators Sweep LSU in Baton Rouge The No. 13 Florida Gators put away the LSU Tigers in straight sets in Baton Rouge (25-20, 25-20, 25-21). The Gators have now won four straight matches and sit at 6-1 in SEC play. View chomptalk’s profile on Facebook View chomptalk’s profile on Twitter View chomptalk’s profile on Instagram WGYM Liveblog: No. 2 Florida at No. 19 Missouri SB: Florida picked fifth in SEC Preseason Coaches Poll SB: Danielle Romanello has entered NCAA transfer portal MBB: Gators bounce back with rout of Ole Miss BSB: Meet the Florida Gators 2020 Recruiting Class Alex McMurtry becomes first Gators gymnast with multiple perfect scores in one meet Florida ranked first in SEC Preseason Coaches Poll MBB: Gorjok Gak leaves program FB: Florida's All-Decade Team Top categories: Fall Sports Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Broadsheet.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1061
__label__cc	0.72202	0.27798	HomeYouth Services InsiderPay for Success Watch: Connecticut Moving Bond on Parent Drug Use Pay for Success Watch: Connecticut Moving Bond on Parent Drug Use May 5, 2014 Judith Fenlon Youth Services Insider Comments Off on Pay for Success Watch: Connecticut Moving Bond on Parent Drug Use With this post, we begin “Pay for Success Watch,” a regular column in which we will keep subscribers up to date on pay for success (PFS). For the uninitiated: PFS projects, which are often referred to as social impact bonds as well, use private capital to address some of the most persistent and complex social issues. In this model, a promising (but often untested) intervention is funded up front with private sector and/or philanthropic capital. If certain outcomes are met, the government pays back the investors with a bonus. If the project fails, the government does not bear any cost burden. It is a relatively new and untested approach to developing services for youth and other at-risk populations. But with tightening budgets at the state and local level, there is much hope that PFS models will prove the worthiness of new approaches. Connecticut Looks to PFS on Substance Abuse in Child Welfare Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) has begun implementation of the state’s first social impact bond. Officials at DCF say they used the experience of earlier PFS implementers – Massachusetts and New York – to gain insight into various aspects of the implementation, such as the selection of interventions and service providers. DCF decided to focus its PFS project on substance abuse treatment, and with good reason: 60 percent of the families involved in Connecticut’s child welfare system were also impacted by substance abuse. DCF Director of Development Elizabeth Duryea explained the decision in an email to Youth Services Insider: “Our pursuit of a social impact project to enhance services targeting parent or caregiver substance abuse emerged as an area where we have overwhelming needs. Effective substance abuse interventions are expensive and limited in terms of existing capacity to meet all of the needs of DCF-served families. By focusing our social impact project in this area, we hope to increase reunification rates and reduce costs of long-term stays in foster care by expanding and enhancing interventions to better meet these needs.” In November of 2013, Connecticut released a Request for Information (RFI) regarding Improving Outcomes for Families Involved in Child Protective Services and Impacted by Substance Use. The intent of the RFI was to gather suggestions from families, intermediaries, investors, providers, and other interested persons or entities regarding the delivery of services within the Pay for Success model. Following the RFI responses, the state released a request for proposals in February of 2013 to identify an intermediary organization. The intermediary plays a critical role in the model. The state is seeking a partner who has proven experience in management of social impact projects and demonstrated ability to raise capital to fund the projects. The intermediary will also play a key role in to identifying promising interventions, both evidence-based and possible pilot programs. Currently, the state has two applicants in the final stages of selection and should be making an official announcement in early May. There is a great deal of enthusiasm in Connecticut for an innovative funding stream, considering the state is in fiscal crisis. While, there are not definitive plans to replicate the PFS model in other human service areas, the state is looking at better ways to serve clients who receive services across state agencies in an effort to streamline interventions. The first SIB was launched in the U.K in 2010, aimed at lowering the recidivism rates of men returning home from Peterborough Prison. Although, it’s too soon to know the effectiveness of social impact bonds, there is national interest in the method. Massachusetts was the first state to implement a social impact bond. One of their first bonds was for services addressing youth recidivism. Specifically, targeting youth who “age out” of the juvenile justice system each year. These youth receive a range of targeted interventions and support to prevent re-offenses. The intent of the program is to save the government money by reducing the number of inmates the state needs to care for, while also improving job and educational outcomes for program participants. Connecticut, like its neighbors New York and Massachusetts, receives technical support from the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab (SIB Lab) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). The SIB Lab selected Connecticut and five other states (Colo., N.Y., Ill., Ohio, and S.C.) were chosen to receive pro bono technical assistance to help design, procure, and implement social impact bonds. Judith Fenlon is the money and business editor for The Chronicle of Social Change. Judith Fenlon About Judith Fenlon 166 Articles Money & Business Editor for The Chronicle of Social Change Focus on the Figures: Length of Time from Foster Care to Adoption Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, Education Grants 2013 Richard Wexler, NCCPR, Re-Enter Child Welfare Advocacy November 6, 2015 John Kelly Child Welfare, Subscriber Content, Youth Services Insider 1 In 2012, before The Chronicle even launched its real website, one of our first Youth Services Insider columns lamented the shuttering of The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR). The organization, led and pretty […] NYC Foster Care Agency You Gotta Believe Says Farewell to Director Susan Grundberg July 20, 2017 Stephanie Pham News Comments Off on NYC Foster Care Agency You Gotta Believe Says Farewell to Director Susan Grundberg For the past four years, Susan Grundberg has worked to help foster youth find permanent families and parents while leading the non-profit organization You Gotta Believe (YGB). “When I began, it was a daunting prospect […] Report Highlights Race Disproportionality in Nebraska’s Foster Care System June 19, 2018 Kim Phagan-Hansel Child Welfare, Politics, Top Stories Comments Off on Report Highlights Race Disproportionality in Nebraska’s Foster Care System Note: This article was updated on June 19. Black and Native American children are vastly overrepresented in Nebraska’s foster care system, according to a report issued this month by the state’s Foster Care Review Office […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1062
__label__wiki	0.611434	0.611434	Nearby Petitions Australia Bangladesh Belgium Canada Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Switzerland Germany Denmark Egypt Finland France United Kingdom Ireland India Italy Jersey Japan Netherlands Norway New Zealand Philippines Sweden United States South Africa University of Wisconsin - Platteville: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on University of Wisconsin - Platteville to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of University of Wisconsin - Platteville will not only be a sound decision for our institution’s financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. 21 of 100 Signatures Created by Parwat Regmi Gettysburg College: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Gettysburg College to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of Gettysburg College will not only be a sound decision for our institution's financial portfolio, but also for the well-being of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. University of Maine at Machias: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on University of Maine at Machias to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of University of Maine at Machias will not only be a sound decision for our institution's financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. Created by Stefanie Burchtree University of Washington: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on the University of Washington to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of University of Washington will not only be a sound decision for our institution's financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. 259 of 300 Signatures Created by David Perlmutter Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on MIT to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of MIT will not only be a sound decision for our institution's financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. Created by Randal Pope Columbia College Chicago: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Columbia College Chicago to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of Columbia College Chicago will not only be a sound decision for our institution's financial portfolio, but also for the wellbeing of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. Created by Virginia Baker Hofstra University: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Hofstra University to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. We believe such action on behalf of Hofstra University will not only be a sound decision for our institution’s financial portfolio, but also for the well-being of its current and future graduating classes, who deserve the opportunity to graduate with a future not defined by climate chaos. Created by Ariel Flajnik Humboldt State University: Go Fossil Free! Climate change is accelerating. We are witnessing the increasing impacts of a warming planet more and more consistently; in this last year alone our country experienced record-breaking heat, droughts, and hurricanes, which impacted hundreds of thousands of people and cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars. Hurricane Sandy alone caused $50bn in damages. Experts agree that global warming caused by humans burning fossil fuels will continue to accelerate and intensify these tragic climate disasters. The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming; we cannot safely burn even half of global fossil-fuel reserves without dangerously warming the planet for several thousand years. As public pressure to confront climate change builds, we call on Humboldt State University to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil-fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds. 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__label__cc	0.656227	0.343773	Tag Archives: crizotinib A Word From The Nerds I went (a long time ago it has to be admitted) to what people call an ‘old-fashioned’ grammar school. It wasn’t really old-fashioned – we didn’t wear wigs and frock coats – it just put great emphasis in getting its kids into good universities. To this end we were, at an early stage, split into scientists and the rest (aka arts students). It was a bit more severe even than that because the ‘scientists’ were sub-divided: those considered bright did Maths, Chemistry and Physics whilst the rest did Biology instead of Maths (or anything instead of Maths). All of which was consistent with the view that biologists – and that includes medics – could get by without being able to add up. That was a long time ago, of course, but to some extent the myth lives on. In tutorials with first year medical students I found an ace way of inducing nervous breakdowns was to ask them to do a sum in their heads (“Put that calculator away Biggs minor”). But times do change and when I asked a doctor the other day which branches of medical science required maths, he paused for moment and then said “All of them.” By that he meant that pretty well every area of current research relies on the application of mathematics. We hear much about DNA sequencing, genomics and its various offshoots but all of these need ‘bioinformaticists’ (whizzos at sums) to extract the useful grains form the vast mass of data generated. Much the same may be said of research in what are called imaging techniques – developing methods of detecting tumours – and there is now a vast subject in itself of ‘systems biology’ in which mathematical modeling is applied to complex biological events (e.g., signalling within cells) with the aim of being able to reconstruct what goes on – what folk like to call a holistic approach. A variation on this theme is studying how large populations of cells behave – for example, tumour cells when exposed to an anti-cancer drug. And that’s an important matter: if your drug kills off every cancer cell bar one but that one happens to be very good at reproducing itself, before long you’ll be back to square one. The way to avoid going round in circles is to detect and interrogate individual survivor cells to find out why they are such good escape artists. Girls will be girls All of which brings us to Franziska Michor. Born in Vienna of a mathematician father who, she has recounted, told her and her sister that they had either to study maths or marry a mathematician. Sounds a frightening version of tradition to me – and it had perhaps the intended effect on the girls: frantic sprints to the nearest Department of Mathematics. That’s a bit unfair. As they say, some of my best friends are mathematicians – so they’re not at all the stereotypical distrait, inarticulate, socially inept weirdos. Although most of them are. But Fräulein Michor was clearly one of the exceptions. She’s now a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and, with colleagues, she’s had a go at an important question: when cancer cells become resistant to a drug, is it because they acquire new mutations in their DNA or is it that some cells are already resistant and they are the ones that survive and grow. Their results suggest the simple answer is ‘the latter’ – resistant clones are present before treatment and they’re the survivors. So the upshot is clear but the route to it was very clever – not least because the maths involved in teasing out the answer is positively frightening. Fortunately (medics breathe a sigh of relief!) we can ignore the horrors of ‘Stochastic mathematical modeling using a nonhomogeneous continuous-time multitype birth–death process’ – yes, really – and just look at the biology, which was ingenious enough. To get at the answer they developed a tagging system that tracked the individual fates of over one million barcoded cancer cells under drug treatment. Barcoding cells. Strings of DNA 30 base pairs in length and of random sequence are artificially synthesized (coloured bars). These fragments are inserted in the genomes of viruses. The viruses infect cancer cells in culture and, after drug treatment, cells that survive (drug resistant) are harvested, their DNA is extracted and barcode DNA is detected (redrawn from Bhang et al. 2015). Barcodes were pioneered by two young Americans, Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland, for automatically reading product information at checkouts and nowadays they’re used to mark everything from bananas to railway wagons and plane tickets. Their most familiar form is essentially a one-dimensional array that Woodland said he came up with by drawing Morse code in sand and just extending the dots and dashes to make narrow and wide lines. Cellular barcoding uses the same idea but the ‘label’ is an artificial DNA sequence. Such is the power of the genetic code that a random string made up of 30 of its four distinct units (A, C, G & T) can essentially make an infinite number of different tags. Just like those on supermarket labels, two different codes look the same at first glance: ACTCTGTGTCTCAGTGTGAGTGTCTGACTG ACTGTCTGAGACAGAGAGTGTGACAGTCAG The tags are made in an oligonucleotide synthesizer (a machine that sticks the units together) and then incorporated into virus backbones, just as we described for immunotherapy. The viruses (+ barcodes) then infect cells in culture, these are treated with a drug and the survivors present after a few weeks have their barcode DNAs sequenced. The deal here is that the number of different barcodes detected reflects the proportion of the original cell population that survived – and it indeed turned out that it’s very rare, pre-existing clones that are drug resistant. For one of the cell lines (derived from a human lung cancer) about one in 2,000 of the starting cell population showed resistance to the drug erlotinib. The obvious question then is ‘What’s special about those few cells that they can thumb their noses at drugs that kill off most of their pals?’ To begin to get answers Bhang, Michor and colleagues noted that, for the lung cancer line, resistance to erlotinib occurs in cells that have multiple copies of a gene called MET – which makes a signalling protein. Exposing the cells to erlotinib and a MET inhibitor (crizotinib) greatly reduced the size of the resistant population (to one in 200,000). This still leaves the question of the genetic alterations in that 0.0005% – and of course, finding drugs to target them. A further point is that this was a study of cells grown in the lab and it’s not possible to use this system in patients – but it could be used in mice to follow the development of implanted human tumours. If the causes of resistance can be tracked down it would open the way to using combinations of drugs that target both the bulk of tumour cells and the small sub-populations in which resistance lurks. That upshot would bring us to clinicians at the bedside (non-mathematicians!) – but not before running up a big debt to the maths geeks and in this case to a Viennese Dad who really did know best (offspring of the world please note!). Bhang, H.C. et al. (2015). Studying clonal dynamics in response to cancer therapy using high-complexity barcoding. Nature Medicine 21, 440-448. By Cancer For All • Posted in Uncategorized • Tagged anti-cancer drug, barcoding, Bernard Silver, bioinformaticist, cancer, cancer drugs, Cellular barcoding, crizotinib, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, DNA, DNA sequencing, erlotinib, Franziska Michor, genomics, Harvard School of Public Health, immunotherapy, lung cancer, mathematical modeling, mutation, Norman Woodland, virus	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1067
__label__cc	0.629663	0.370337	Daily radio usage in European countries 2018 This statistic shows the results of a survey on the daily radio usage in EU 28 countries in 2018. During the survey period, it was found that radio was the most popular in Ireland, with 69 percent respondents stating to listen to the radio every day or almost every day, while only 24 percent of Romanian citizens stated to do the same. Share of respondents who listened to the radio every day or almost every day in EU 28 countries in 2018 Share of respondents** 27,424 respondents This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Could you tell me to what extent you..." This statistic only shows the share of respondents that replied, "Every day/almost every day". Media usage in Europe Average daily television viewing time in France 2005-2018 TV watching time per day in Spain 1997-2018 Trust in the written press in Europe 2018, by country Daily time spent watching television in Germany 1997-2019 Statistics on "Media usage in Europe" Penetration of daily media usage in the EU 2011-2018, by media Television usage frequency in the EU 2018 Internet usage frequency in the EU 2018 Radio usage frequency in the EU 2018 Usage frequency of written press in the EU 2018 Sources used to access news in selected EU countries 2019 Trust in the media in the European Union 2018, by medium Daily television usage penetration in European countries 2018 Average daily TV consumption in Central and Eastern Europe 2011-2021 Average daily TV consumption in Western Europe 2011-2021 Weekly TV viewing time per person in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018 Italy: TV usage among young people 2019, by age group Daily internet usage penetration in European countries 2018 Internet usage in Europe 2018, by country Social network usage penetration of European populations in 2018 Trust in the internet in Europe 2018, by country Penetration of daily radio listening in the EU 2011-2018 Trust in the radio in Europe 2018, by country Penetration of daily print press consumption in the EU 2011-2018 Radio use occuring in company in the U.S. in 2012 Radio usage frequency of teenagers in Germany 2018, by type of school Frequency of listening to the radio in Portugal 2018 Daily time spent on listening to the radio in APAC 2011-2021 Weekday radio use in the U.S. in 2012, by location Weekend radio use in the U.S. in 2012, by location Frequency of radio usage in the U.S. 2016 Number of radio stations used by children in the U.S. 2016, by age & ethnicity Development of the share of daily radio usage in Finland 2014-2016 Share of Americans listening to sports radio in the U.S. 2018, by age Share of Americans listening to Easy Listening 2018, by age Frequency of listening to the radio during leisure time in Germany 2015-2018 Survey on importance of listening to the radio in Norway 2017, by age Share of Americans listening to religious or Christian radio 2018, by age Italy: distribution of radio listenership 2016, by gender Number of radio users among adult U.S. Millennials 2012-2013 Value of Indian exports to the EU 2019 Media usage in Europe Online mass media industry Media Use Trust in media in Europe Media usage in Sweden European Commission. (May 13, 2019). Share of respondents who listened to the radio every day or almost every day in EU 28 countries in 2018 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 18, 2020, from https://cdn2.statista.com/statistics/422806/europe-daily-radio-usage/ European Commission. "Share of respondents who listened to the radio every day or almost every day in EU 28 countries in 2018." Chart. May 13, 2019. Statista. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://cdn2.statista.com/statistics/422806/europe-daily-radio-usage/ European Commission. (2019). Share of respondents who listened to the radio every day or almost every day in EU 28 countries in 2018. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 18, 2020. https://cdn2.statista.com/statistics/422806/europe-daily-radio-usage/ European Commission. "Share of Respondents Who Listened to The Radio Every Day or Almost Every Day in Eu 28 Countries in 2018." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 May 2019, https://cdn2.statista.com/statistics/422806/europe-daily-radio-usage/ European Commission, Share of respondents who listened to the radio every day or almost every day in EU 28 countries in 2018 Statista, https://cdn2.statista.com/statistics/422806/europe-daily-radio-usage/ (last visited January 18, 2020)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1075
__label__wiki	0.51112	0.51112	Josh Cunningham Trey Landers Jalen Crutcher Jordan Davis Sports Men's basketball Men's sports basketball Men's college basketball College basketball College sports Dayton Atlantic 10 Massachusetts Dayton leans on Crutcher, Davis to down UMass 72-67 - Jan. 14, 2019 03:27 AM EST DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Jordan Davis scored 21 points and Jalen Crutcher's go-ahead 3-pointer with 56 seconds left helped send Dayton past UMass 72-67 on Sunday. Rashaan Holloway's jumper with 1:36 remaining tied it at 67 for the Minutemen but they missed their last two shot attempts thereafter. Trey Landers made two of four foul shots in the final 13 seconds and Dayton (11-5, 3-0 Atlantic 10) held on. Dayton led 38-33 at halftime and never trailed after intermission. Crutcher scored 19 points, Josh Cunningham added 15 and Landers 12. The Flyers made 11 of 19 shots from beyond the 3-point arc and were 13 of 21 from the foul line compared to 3 of 4 for UMass (7-9, 0-3). Luwane Pipkins scored 19 for the Minutemen, Carl Pierre 16 and Keon Clergeot and Rashaan Holloway each scored 10. The Flyers share a three-way tie for first place in the conference with Davidson and Saint Louis. The Flyers own a six-game win streak and have won seven of their last nine.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1079
__label__wiki	0.887313	0.887313	Sundance 2012: SHADOW DANCER Review by Matt Goldberg January 29, 2012 It’s great when movies are a slow burn, but to qualify for that description there needs to be at least some heat. James Marsh‘s Shadow Dancer moves at a glacial pace and barely does anything to build tension. There’s hardly any urgency and no interest in the intrigue. A compelling lead performance is essential to making a film like this working, but actress Andrea Riseborough meanders through her role and fails to convey any deeper emotions or conflict. Some movies can be effective “anti-thrillers” where they play against expectations and still manage to generate drama. Shadow Dancer just seems to be against thrills. Colette McVeigh (Riseborough) has been an active member in an IRA cell for twenty years after witnessing her younger brother shot dead when she was a child. In 1993, Colette is in the middle of trying to set off a bomb in the London Underground when her plans are foiled and she’s arrested by MI5 agents. She’s then offered a deal by Agent Mac (Clive Owen): serve as an informant or be taken into jail and lose custody of her young son. Colette accepts the deal, which involves not only spying on her compatriots, but also on her brother (Domhnall Gleeson). Meanwhile, Mac, who now serves as her handler, discovers that the agency may want to burn Colette just as fast as they recruited her. All of the elements are in place for a taut thriller: family betrayal, life-and-death stakes, two people being forced to investigate their own organizations, but all of this adds up to a crushing bore. The only scenes with any energy and excitement are when Mac is hard-charging around MI5, asking for favors, and questioning his bosses. The frantic-and-weary Clive Owen isn’t a new character for the talented actor, but he plays his part well and Marsh’s direction in these scenes matches the character’s purpose and will. But then we go over to Colette and the film falls asleep. Instead of conveying the character’s fears, doubts, strengths, and weaknesses, Riseborough walks around in a daze. Even in the rare moments where the character acts passionately, the performance feels half-hearted. The approach may have been done to show how Colette is conflicted and unwilling to give herself over to either side, but instead the character feels detached and indecisive. Matters are made worse when the story makes a detour into showing her organization’s dynamics between the men running the show. It’s almost a completely different movie with its own set of intrigue and motives, but these discussions don’t involve Colette. The character feels even smaller as we see that the cell is trying to root out their mole as well as the deal with their on-going conflict with England. The idea may be that Colette is a pawn stuck in the middle of two larger players, but because there’s hardly any action on her part, she feels like a minor character in her own story. As a documentary filmmaker, Marsh is one of the best after having delivered Man on Wire and Project Nim within the last four years. He’s also shown he can do drama with his 2009 film, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980. But his quiet approach to Shadow Dancer completely backfires because he takes what should be a captivating story and then trusts it will work with a low-key, quiet approach. Thrillers don’t need to be loud and bombastic, but Shadow Dancer hardly makes a sound. Rating: D For all of our coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, click here. Also, here are links to all of my Sundance reviews so far: The End of Love For a Good Time, Call… Hello I Must Be Going The Law in These Parts Monsieur Lazhar Red Hook Summer Your Sister’s Sister Reader Report from the ALCATRAZ Viral Scavenger Hunt Sundance 2012: Magnolia Picks Up NOBODY WALKS; Participant and AFFRM Acquire MIDDLE… • 2012 Sundance Film Festival • Andrea Riseborough • Clive Owen • Domhnall Gleeson • Entertainment • James Marsh • Movie • Review • Shadow Dancer • Sundance • Sundance 2012 • Sundance Film Festival	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1081
__label__cc	0.720346	0.279654	Own a Home Collegiate Challenge Leadership Build If These Walls Could Talk Contact Us: (904) 282-7590 Donate Now Donate a Car Clay County Habitat for Humanity (CCHH) began as Greater Penney Partners in 1977. The Mission was to help neighbors repair their homes. The emphasis was mostly on mobile homes, the elderly and the poor in and around Penney Farms and Keystone Heights. Funding was mostly local, from churches and individuals. Leadership came from a voluntary Board of Directors. In 1987, CCHH was formed after the Habitat for Humanity International model and the emphasis changed to building new homes in the entire Clay County area. Churches continued to be the best partner, with Orange Park United Methodist Church (OPUMC) becoming a lead partner. Donations expanded to come from area businesses, foundations, and private individual donors. Families had to apply and meet strict criteria for approval. Committees were formed to handle applications, family support, church partnerships, construction plans, fund raising, and site selection. Leadership from the Board continued. Funding for the construction of the homes increased with a partnership with Clay County’s State Housing Initiative Program (SHIP). A partnership was formed with the local school board where in the 5 county high schools agreed to build 50% of a home at the school and CCHH would pay to have it moved to an available lot and complete the home. This increased the annual house count. CCHH was also able to participate in the Community Contribution Tax Credit Program (CCTCP), a tax credit program run by the State of Florida in which local companies contributed funds to build a house and received a tax credit of 50% of the final appraised value of the home. 1717 Blanding Boulevard Middleburg, FL 32068 Copyright 2020 Clay County Habitat for Humanity. All rights reserved. Site by Motionbuzz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1086
__label__cc	0.5332	0.4668	Language Deutsch English Español (América Latina) français Português Brasileiro Ελληνικά 日本語简体中文繁體中文 한국어 MOKLI: connecting at-risk youth to food, shelter and social services About Mokli KARUNA is a Berlin-based aid organization that supports children and young people who live on the street and/or who are suffering from or at risk of addiction by providing them with a broad spectrum of advice. In addition to providing individual support for \young people affected, the organization also tries to arrange for them assistance, therapies and places to sleep. To help the young people help themselves better, the organization created MOKLI as an online resource to provide access to critical resources. Industries: Non-profit Products: Google Maps Platform About Ubilabs Ubilabs is an owner-managed software company based in Hamburg , Munich and San Francisco . From store locators to business data visualization, we specialize in interactive map applications . In a team of around 40 developers, project managers and designers, we realize projects for well-known customers in Europe and the USA. As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, we provide comprehensive consulting and distribution of Google Maps products . In addition, we support our customers in the integration of other mapping technologies such as OpenStreetMap, CARTO or Mapbox. Tens of thousands of children and young people are homeless and live on the streets in German cities, where they lack access to basic services like food, shelter, and medical care. KARUNA, a Berlin-based nonprofit organization considered establishing a 24-hour hotline for young people to call when they needed help, but staffing costs would have been too high. Since most young people have smartphones, KARUNA decided an online interactive map would provide fast access to information about shelters, free medical care, and counseling services. Google Maps Platform Results Young people who might be fearful of contacting parents, teachers or authorities are comfortable using Google Maps — a tool that's familiar to them — to seek assistance. Simple icons, such as beds for shelter and tableware for food, as well as autocomplete functionality of the Places API for location searches, help less-literate young people easily navigate maps. Because Google Maps easily integrates with MOKLI's website, KARUNA didn't have to hire a professional maps programmer, which would cost between €45,000 and €60,000 per year. 3,400 service locations listed on MOKLI "With Google Maps, we can link detailed mapping data to information about social services, adapting maps to the particular needs and habits of vulnerable young people." —Annika Bock, Project Owner at Ubilabs "Vulnerable young people who hesitate to ask adults for help will readily use the Google Maps on MOKLI to find shelter, food and counseling nearby." —Jennifer Menges, Management Assistant of Karuna and Project Manager for MOKLI Working with Google Cloud Premier Partner Ubilabs, KARUNA created MOKLI, a mobile website built on Google Maps Platform. On their smartphones, young people can choose the type of service they need – such as a shelter or free medical services – and view locations on a map created using their phones' geolocation service. Users can also get directions to their chosen service. KARUNA and Ubilabs chose Google Maps because of its ease of use for every audience: young people, social workers, and developers. Young people are familiar with Google Maps already, so they didn't need to learn to use a new tool. Google Maps is also mobile-friendly, which was important to KARUNA because most of their young clients access their service using a smartphone. Social workers can also easily update contact information, hours, and addresses in a Google Sheet and the data updates automatically in Google Maps. In mid-2017, MOKLI is adding an easy-to-use "update data" button for social workers; changes will go directly to KARUNA. If KARUNA social workers think of new and useful features for the MOKLI maps, they can easily add them using Google Maps Platform. 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__label__wiki	0.650924	0.650924	UPDATE 1-China urges re-elected Canadian government to free Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou (Adds Chinese detention of Canadian nationals) BEIJING, Nov 6 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday urged Canada's re-elected Liberal Party government to immediately release detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Geng Shuang, a spokesman at the ministry, made the comment at a regular news briefing. Meng has been detained in Vancouver since December last year. She is charged in the United States with bank fraud, and is accused of misleading HSBC Holdings PLC about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's business in Iran, which is under U.S. sanctions. Meng has said she is innocent and is fighting extradition to the United States. China detained two Canadian men shortly after police arrested Meng on a U.S. warrant. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals held on to power after an election in October, although it was reduced to a minority government that needs the support in Parliament of a smaller left-leaning party. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Writing by Ryan Woo; Editing by Peter Cooney)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1091
__label__cc	0.745617	0.254383	"Much more moral authority comes from the imprimatur of government" - David "funny sunny" Archibald at WUWT Sou \| 2:51 AM Go to the first of 123 comments. Add a comment He's back! I was wondering what had happened to David "funny sunny" Archibald. He hasn't been seen for a good while at WUWT. David is one of the wackier deniers who thinks we are heading for an ice age "any day now". Setting the scene by twisting the facts His article is about Nebraska, or partly (archived here). David says he is writing his third book, which I think is about the impending ice age that cometh. He is a strange one for a WUWT conspiracy theorist. He writes: At the urging of State Senator Beau McCoy in late 2013, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture was tasked with commissioning a report on cyclical climate change. The budget for the exercise was $44,000. That right, for a mere $44,000 Nebraskans would be told what was going to happen to their climate. If the Sun was going to sleep with the consequence that cold air from the Canadians would come south faster and longer, Nebraskans would be forewarned and fore-armed. Alas, the effort was abandoned when promoters of global warming in the state offered to do it for free. People who keep up with the climate blog wars will recall that the situation wasn't quite like that. What happened was this. A lawmaker in Nebraska who is a climate science denier was happy enough to support a bill for someone to prepare a report on climate in Nebraska. However he didn't want them to take account of any human factors influencing the climate, so he proposed an amendment to the bill. Given that human factors now dominate global warming (ie climate change not day to day weather), that seemed not just pointless but a waste of money. And you'd have to offer a lot more than $44,000 to climate scientists to persuade any of them to forsake their science for money. They might have gotten Marc Morano or Anthony Watts or one of the other denier bloggers to prepare the report. They come cheap I hear. I don't know why they didn't do that. Alternatively they could have approached some of the Not the IPCC Report writers. Perhaps they were hoping for a credible name to attach to their shonky report. Or maybe they just wanted to test the waters and see if there were any corruptible climate scientists around. (Judith Curry put up her hand, but I don't think her blog offer was accepted.) I wrote about this at the time, because Judith Curry was arguing that politicians should be able to put constraints on climate studies to suit their political agenda. Her stance was reminiscent of the various attempts to prevent high school teachers from teaching students about biology, wanting to bring their weird religious beliefs into the classroom and ban science. If only deniers could drum up a fake report that was credible Back to David "funny sunny" Archibald. His next paragraph was this: The danger to the promoters of global warming was that the stillborn Nebraskan climate report would have been the first government-sanctioned report on the planet to say that carbon dioxide and the burning of coal are nothing to worry about. A report on cyclical climate change would say that there is something far more serious coming that is going to smack our civilisation like a freight train. That serious thing is one of the cycles that the Nebraskans were going to be told about. One day the science of climate cycles might get out to Nebraska but in the meantime they will be wondering why their winters are getting colder and Spring seems to be delayed and how can they begin planting while their fields are still covered in snow. There you see it. Climate science is a hoax and information is being kept from the poor little Nebraskans. What's odd about this is that David is arguing that the government could be trusted. This is despite the fact that in this case the politician who put up the amendment to the bill wanted scientists to exclude some of the main factors that will affect Nebraska's climate in coming years. More moral authority from the imprimatur of government! David even writes (my bold italics): It is one thing for books to be published which warn of the severe, solar-driven cooling coming (I’m on my third) and for retired academics to voice concerns over the low standards of US Government-funded climate science, but much more moral authority comes from the imprimatur of government. I know you'll be scratching your head wondering how this article of David "funny sunny" Archibald got past the censor-in-chief at WUWT. Anthony Watts spends a lot of time complaining about "political interference". I saw a couple of tweets that he put out only a day ago where, in his conspiracy-addled brain, he is clearly of the view that IPCC reports can't be trusted because the IPCC is a "political body". I guess he's never read an IPCC report or any of the scientific papers underpinning it. Only some governments have moral authority There's a catch to this moral authority and imprimatur business. You knew there would be, didn't you. Apparently "moral authority" only comes from governments that reject climate science. For example, the government agency the EPA doesn't have any moral authority. Neither does the President of the United States. David writes: As the climate reports come in, the vague, almost-impossible-to-believe notion that the Obama Administration’s war on coal through the EPA is a peculiar form of malicious self-loathing will be seen with crystal clarity. That there is no scientific basis for what the EPA is attempting to do whatsoever. That the degradation and disruption that the EPA is intent upon is a loathing for America as it is, pure and simple. Instead of the loftiest ideals of “thinking of the children” and so on, President Obama and the EPA are driven by the basest of motives – that their fellow Americans be poorer with reduced opportunities. Now why didn't more than half the people in the USA realise that President Obama is driven by the basest of motives, to reduce all his "fellow Americans" to poverty. And he's got a funny way of going about it, too. Look at how he impoverished American investors - not! As for people's jobs and other economic measures, well the charts here at CNN show he's not doing a very good job at reducing everyone to a poverty below what George Bush managed. Arguably his biggest coup was helping Americans get health care when they need it. Oh, wait. That can hardly have been prompted by the "basest of motives" can it? Another twist: David sez that one government's climate report is as good as another's There's yet another twist. According to David Archibald: One government’s report on something like climate is as good as another’s. Oh, I do wish he'd make up his mind. He's just been telling us that the US government is not to be trusted, now it is. I have a sneaking suspicion that David doesn't really believe what he says. I've yet to see him tout the IPCC report, which is accepted by 193 nation's governments, as being "as good as another's". Nebraska braces for an ice age While we're waiting to see if David can figure out what he wants to say, let's shoot back to Nebraska and see how his Nebraskan ice age is faring: Data source: NOAA Hmmm. I guess David "funny sunny" Archibald is prepared to wait for all that hot weather of the past forty years to go away so that the temperatures can drop back to those more common in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Nope. He won't be satisfied with that. Here is what David has predicted for the world: Incidentally, it looks as if the Nebraskan government has successfully suppressed any information on climate change from its Department of Agriculture. Despite it's claim of "Nebraska Agriculture at Work for You" there is not a peep about climate change. Thankfully here in my home state the government is not so draconian. Have David's coal shares plummeted? By the way, David's article was mainly moaning about the fact that coal has no future. Here's what the rest of the world thinks about coal: Peabody, "the world’s largest private-sector coal company" share price drops sharply Here's a short bio of David "funny sunny" Archibald. Interesting concept. Please explain further how the AGW promoters derailed the state effort. The story seems incomplete. We need to know more so that the push back against the hype can be more effective. Jeff is one of those conspiracy nutters that the deniers say don't exist. He talks about control of "every facet of life in America" and says (excerpt): I think the poster above gives Obama way too much credit. I don’t believe Obama cares one bit for the environment, I think his motives are entirely an effort to support the efforts of an extreme faction of liberals. Not all supporters of AGW science are the same. He gives voice only to those scare mongers whose goal isn’t to clean the environment, but to control every facet of life in America. Patrick "knows" that the CO2 is 3% of the atmosphere! He says: I just spoke to a friend of mine who called me to talk about cars they want to buy, and then talked about electrically powered cars because the UK had “servos” littered about the country to re-powered electrically powered cars. Apparently it was cheaper than petrol. Well, maybe so in the UK, but CO2 is still emitted. I asked how the electricity that “re-powered” the batteries was generated. We eventually got to gas and coal fired power stations. Which in the bigger picture of the situation, is correct. Then I asked how much CO2 “pollution” was in the air, right now, in their opinion. The answer was 40% (I kid you not – And most people I know “believe” this is the sort of concentration in the air right now). We’d all be dead I said, if that were true. The actual figure, as we know here, is ~3%. James Strom comes up with a bit of trivia and says: In light of your political leanings, which I am sympathetic with, it is amusing that your choice of title, “What is to be done?”, is the same that Lenin used for a pamphlet he published in 1902. The phrase is somewhat famous, at least to someone with an interest in early communist arcana. G. Karst says: I would like to see coal miners and the mine owners perform a pre-emptive strike. A shut down of coal production for thirty days will have an alarming effect on those trying to shut down the industry. A shutdown until prices improve would be justifiable and a real sharp eye opener. GK I suppose it would be noticed in some states, anyway. Coal still makes up 37% of electricity production in the USA. It was 57% in 1985 but only 46% in 1950. Posted by Sou at 2:51 AM Labels: coal, conspiracy theories, David Archibald, Nebraska Millicent April 6, 2014 at 4:22 AM "G. Karst says: I would like to see coal miners and the mine owners perform a pre-emptive strike. A shut down of coal production for thirty days will..." I too would like to see coal plants shut down for a month: it would be instructive to see the fall in mortality rates over the period. Well yes I know I am an old skeptical white guy and therefore beyond silly and evil in your mind but to me your absolute confidence in what you believe to be true is exactly why people like me will tend not to bother engaging with you . Live your dream but please spare our families and children from the cost of your madness . bill April 6, 2014 at 1:42 PM Yes, just imagine believing what all the worlds academies of science believe! Another overwrought non-comment from an anonytroll. Pointless. Bill said ... "Yes, just imagine believing what all the worlds academies of science believe!" It is more a matter of what you imagine they believe . There are literally thousands of research papers telling an entirely different story . Sadly people like you are will not look and if you did probably could not understand them . Twiggy April 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM List these "thousands of research papers" please. If you don't, I might think you have just made that up. Now, that's just stupid. C'mon Anonytroll, put up or shut up!... Jammy Dodger April 6, 2014 at 6:12 PM "It is more a matter of what you imagine they believe ." Or is it a case of believing what I imagine they believe? Oh, come on, that could go on forever and get nowhere. At some point you have to make some judgement of what you think is solid and real. Of course this is where real scepticism counts - remembering to have a reality check every so often to see what has changed. You slightly contradict yourself. Alleging "we" would not look at your "thousands" of denialist papers and then say you cannot be bothered to engage with "us". Is this not a tad hypocritical? Actually I have looked at quite a number of denialist materials while trying to understand if there was anything there. Perhaps towards the more sensible fringes there are some sensible questions and doubts. But on the whole it is a pile of self-reinforcing nonsense with a rather limited scope. Perhaps you should engage and try to learn how to be properly sceptical. Millicent April 6, 2014 at 11:55 PM "Sadly people like you are will not look" People like us? Sadly, people like us have been given this line time after time. And every time we look we find one - or more - of the following. 1. The paper doesn't say what the denier thinks it does. So we have wasted our time because a denier does not possess basic reading comprehension. 2. The paper has been thoroughly debunked. So we wasted our time because the denier apparently lives in the land that time forgot. 3. The paper isn't a paper at all. Its a load of twaddle that dodged peer review because the author didn't care that his screed contained numerous 'errors'. So we wasted our time because the denier didn't even know what a research paper was. I am sure there are more cases if I could be bothered to dredge up more memories. But thats enough to show the problem isn't "people like us": the problem is a huge campaign of misinformation funded by fossil fuel companies assisted by a horde of credulous numpties. David Sanger April 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM Well I'm sure you think there are thousands of research papers "telling a different story" but I wonder, Anonymous, whether that isn't something someone told you or that you read somewhere. Have you actually seen and read thousands of such papers? Have you even read a few? If so perhaps you could share just one or two of these research papers and tell me what it is that you find so convincing about them. At least then we'd have a place to start a conversation. Just a few would do as a start!! idunno April 6, 2014 at 5:14 PM Here's one... http://www.jamespowell.org/Avakyan/Avakyan.html as further discussed here... http://desmogblog.com/2014/01/08/why-climate-deniers-have-no-scientific-credibility-only-1-9136-study-authors-rejects-global-warming Then there's a good couple of dozen from the great intellectual titan of denialist science, here... http://denialdepot.blogspot.fr/ But to get to "thosandS", you need to find about another 1,975 research papers. Can you please provide some indication of where they have been hidden? John Russell April 6, 2014 at 11:52 PM Funny, isn't it, how the people with their heads buried in the sand are the first to complain that everyone else has their head buried in the sand? What they don't seem to realise when they make up stuff like, "there are literally thousands of research papers telling an entirely different story", is that the IPCC reviews in great detail every research paper written on each and every aspect of climate science and then arrives at a balanced view. And based on that balanced view, which is summarised in the IPCC's numerous reports, all the world's scientific institutions—representing the vast majority of the world's scientists—make their declarations. These declarations are listed here: http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus So really, anonymous posters who deny the facts are just writing—in the language of Australia's current leader—unadulterated crap. Eric Worrall has what looks to be a comedy piece in the comments section: "Back in 2006, the Russian Academy of Science predicted imminent severe global cooling, beginning in 2012-2015, peaking at around 2055...." In reality the RAS is a signatory of the Joint science academies’ statement: Global response to climate change http://nationalacademies.org/onpi/06072005.pdf It seems that a paper by an astrophysicist who is a member of the RAS somehow gets promoted in Worralls mind into the RAS's own position. Dumb Scientist April 7, 2014 at 2:29 AM He's not alone. I pointed this out to U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher after he made the same bizarre comment as Worrall did in this WUWT guest essay. Just to be clear, Watts promoted Worrall's comment into a guest essay which suggests to me that "very speculative theory" is a euphemism for "conspiracy theory" which supposedly never appears at WUWT or CA or any other contrarian site. What else could one call the "theory" that Chinese and American companies are plotting to take advantage of the impending global cooling Eric Worrall stakes his reputation on by buying land in Australia? Ok done telling me what an ignorant denier I am ? Nup you are just warming up right ? I am sure not a soul among you will read any of it but here is a fair starting point if you want to read up on skeptical research papers . http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html Sou April 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM ha ha ha ha ha. Anonymous is backtracking now - I thought there were meant to be "thousands* of papers disputing the greenhouse effect or human influence on the current warming or whatever it is he's disputing. Not a measly few hundred (most of which don't dispute AGW in any case). Anonymous, we all probably guessed that you'd go to poptech! My guess is that you cannot find any consistent explanation in his collection for the cause of the current warming, except for greenhouse gases and other human influences. Prove me wrong Anonymous. List five of those papers that show that the greenhouse effect isn't real. Or list five of those papers that "prove" that CO2 hasn't risen. Or list five of those papers that "prove" that average global surface temperatures haven't risen. In fact, if you can list even five papers from poptech's motley collection, written by five different teams (ie not written by the same people) that give the same explanation for the current global warming without it involving human activity, list them and give a brief summary of the science, I'll honour you with an article on HotWhopper. You'll also need to explain why, if you've managed to find five papers in any of the above categories, you find them credible. Since we are such dills, we need to have it explained to us and, given you are so knowledgeable about science, you are just the man for the job! Millicent April 7, 2014 at 3:49 PM "Ok done telling me what an ignorant denier I am " Not while you continue to display such ignorance. Ah yes the infamous poptech list: https://itsnotnova.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/poptechs-list-of-confusion/ So, on my list of time wasters above, this list would make you a proponent of (1) and (2) and (3). So you proved my point. What, are you trying to be a comedian? So that's it is it? A link to a notorious denier site. Surely with the thousands of research papers you say tell a different story you could have come up with at least one from a top journal say 'Science' or 'Nature'. Dave April 7, 2014 at 5:02 PM Anonymous wrote "Ok done telling me what an ignorant denier I am ? research papers" And then you go and prove that you are an ignorant denier by linking to the denier list of lists. You are wrong though. Most of us have actually read through that list before as other ignorant denier's have thrown that list around before. You may notice that most of the papers are published in 'Energy and Environment', who published the famous iron sun paper. Anyone who has more than two brain cells knows that 'Energy and Environment' is ideologically based, and will publish any old crap. Many of the other papers have managed to get published in reputable journals have already been refuted, while most of the rest are written by Heartland experts and are pure bunkum. Interestingly, there are a number of papers that are written by highly respectable scientists, who are known to support the current consensus. It shows that the list is worthless, and anyone who links to it has most likely not even read the linked papers. I've read many of the papers, and not one has provided compelling evidence that manages to completely rewrite the laws of physics. Just face it. You are ideologically driven. You still haven't twigged that there are no published papers in reputable journals that you can cite. Look, you are denying over 150 years of careful and repeatable observations and science. Real scepticism is an inherent part of science, which is why we can be certain that AGW is caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. For more information have a read of this. http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm While we're waiting for Anonymous to come up with his five papers, here's a bit of a rundown of the list he likes. The first paper on the list is by Sherwood Idso. The paper isn't disputing AGW, it's just postulating the warming won't be as high as mainstream scientists have estimated. His paper was published sixteen years ago. The Idso's have been twisting actual science for years for various interests. The next several papers are a real mish mash. One is Svensmark's paper on his theory of cosmic rays and clouds - which has yet to be proven. In any case the amount of cosmic rays haven't changed while earth has warmed so it's not cosmic rays that are causing global warming, so this paper doesn't fit Anonymous' criteria. There's a paper by Shaviv that tries to argue cosmic rays caused past climate change with something about "spiral arms of the galaxy". It isn't a published paper in any peer reviewed journal so doesn't count. (He might be able to get it published in the dog astrology journal if he tried.) One is by Willie Soon, which should be "'nuff said". His wasn't published in a climate journal. In any case, going by the abstract he doesn't dispute the greenhouse effect, he's just asking some questions and postulating that all the science is wrong about the extent of the effect. The next one is by an economist, Ross McKitrick from the Cornwall Alliance, who by that membership has sworn to not accept climate science, saying his god will look after nature (but not economics). His paper was published in a political science journal that looks like it went belly up after only three volumes. If anyone noticed it, it would have been debunked if anyone thought it worth their while. He published another paper on socioeconomic influences on land use changes in the journal Climate Dynamics. I think he's been pushing that barrow for years to no effect. Who could forget the time he mixed up radians and degrees! Then there's Nicola Scafetta, who Anthony Watts disowned recently, with his astronomical theories about Jupiter and Saturn. After that there's a pack of contrarians publishing in a little known journal that bears no relation to climate (Remote Sensing) - John Christy, Roger Pielke Snr, Roy Spencer are among that lot. We know they don't dispute the greenhouse effect. In this particular paper, this lot are trying to find a reason to argue that climate models are wrong. /cont... .../cont Without labouring the point, the conclusion is that there is no coherent, consistent explanation of global warming by poptech's papers, and most of them don't dispute the greenhouse effect or AGW in any case (except for a couple of utter nutters). Even Nicola Scafetta doesn't dispute AGW as far as I know. He just likes playing with numbers and looking for patterns to try to prove that humans don't have to wear all the blame. Like I say, most of poptech's papers don't dispute AGW. For example, further down you'll see a paper by Ryan O'Donnell et al. It doesn't dispute the greenhouse effect or the fact that human emissions of CO2 are causing global warming. Then Lindzen, who's been trying to argue not that CO2 doesn't affect temperature but that the effect won't be all that great. Poptech's even listed a recent Spencer and Braswell paper, which doesn't dispute the greenhouse effect or that humans are causing global warming. It's just arguing that ENSO can influence multi-decadal temperature trends and the temperature trend since the 1950 is not a "very strong constraint on our estimates of climate sensitivity" - whatever they mean by that. To keep it simple, perhaps Anonymous could tell us which other explanation for warming he favours. Is it Jupiter and Saturn causing global warming? Or perhaps he thinks it's all down to cosmic rays (that haven't changed). Or maybe he likes any wild hypothesis as long as it gets him off the hook. Dumb Scientist April 7, 2014 at 6:09 PM Even when cosmic rays did change, that didn't change the climate. Richard Alley mentioned (at 42:00 in his 2009 AGU talk) that beryllium proxy data reveal a spike in cosmic ray intensity during the “Laschamp anomaly” ~40,000 years ago, but the corresponding oxygen isotope proxy for temperature didn’t change unusually during that time period. Bernard J. April 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM Climate change deniers are like Einstein refuters. Each thinks that they have suddenly and magically found the key to opening the door of the Vault of All Prior Science Refutation, that no one's ever before seen their Remarkable Insight, and that they are pioneers in blazing this new trail. None of them are aware that countless fellow useful idiots have preceded them, using the same rebutted nonsense, and that they no more than roadkill on the road to The Realisation of the Laws of Nature. Snort! NOTE: silly, multiply-refuted list does not become less silly or less multiply-refuted upon umpteenth repetition. Beatlejuice, Beatlejuice, Beatlejuice... Sou, you're right to point out that Spencer and Braswell are agreeing with mainstream science when they argue that ENSO can influence multi-decadal temperature trends. It's also not controversial to say that the temperature trend since the 1950 is not a "very strong constraint on our estimates of climate sensitivity". Consider this figure of sensitivity constraints from the recent IPCC AR5. Notice that the instrumental studies (for instance, the temperature trend since 1950) have larger error bars than the paleoclimate studies, so they don't constrain climate sensitivity as strongly. The scientific conclusion here is that climate sensitivity can be estimated in different ways which have different pros and cons. These double-checks actually strengthen the conclusions of mainstream science, which in 2013 used the same lower bound on sensitivity (1.5°C) as in the 1979 Charney report. "Ok done telling me what an ignorant denier I am ?" Really not my intention or probably anyone else here. But if you treat the people you are addressing as ignorant then you are likely to get that sort of response. You have more than once stated that "we" would not bother with your materials. Yet I suggest to you that most people who think about this subject have looked. And yes you are right, they do not bother any more because it is (mostly) fringe crackpot material. Individuals like you keep pointing to the same pile of discredited and obsolete mumbo-jumbo as if it is offering something new. I cannot count the number of deniers that I have seen pointing to that list - all the way back to when it was "600+" papers and presumably before that. The point is you keep referring to the same stuff that just reinforces what you want to hear. There are probably 100000 climate change papers out there. Go and do some real research and sceptical analysis instead of accepting it second hand from crackpots. Then you will not be an "ignorant denier" any more but a fully fledged real sceptic. Rattus Norvegicus April 8, 2014 at 1:38 AM Bernard, are you summoning John, Paul, George or, heaven help us, Ringo? George Montgomery April 7, 2014 at 2:42 PM "Imprimatur of government"? That's a new one. Is Archibald playing loose with the meaning of "imprimatur" i.e. an official licence issued by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical or religious book? If not, which government body or official does he suggest will issue the nihil obstat prior to the imprimatur? Continuing in the Roman Catholic/papal genre, the Archibald article should be referred to an Archibald bull. Just saying. Perhaps Christopher Monckton will set him straight. Does the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley "Goodness! Is that me?" Christopher M. really exist? Silly me! I thought he was a vaudevillian doing a caricature of an English peer. "...the Obama Administration’s war on coal through the EPA is a peculiar form of malicious self-loathing will be seen with crystal clarity. That there is no scientific basis for what the EPA is attempting to do whatsoever. That the degradation and disruption that the EPA is intent upon is a loathing for America as it is, pure and simple." This crackpot unintended comedy routine is one of David's finest! Truly one of the great interweb funny men. ligne April 7, 2014 at 10:14 PM "The danger to the promoters of global warming was that the stillborn Nebraskan climate report would have been the first government-sanctioned report on the planet to say that carbon dioxide and the burning of coal are nothing to worry about." so a report that is explicitly forbidden to mention anthropogenic factors, and therefore doesn't mention anthropogenic factors is meant to be evidence that anthropogenic factors aren't a factor? impeccable logic there. i think he's just pissed off because the scientists twigged that was the message McCoy was shiiting for, and decided they'd rather not give him any ammunition for his idiotic rhetorical games. uh, s/shiiting/shooting. though the more i think about it.... # Let us define the argument . Most skeptics and skeptical scientists believe CO2 causes some warming . This issue is "how much warming " and whether there is any reasonable chance it will be damaging ( say plus 3 degrees C ) . # The second part revolves around need to act . Even assuming evidence unfolds at some point in the future suggesting 3 degrees is possible the fear mongers would need to show there will not be plenty of time to act. Do I accept CO2 has and may cause more warming , of course I do , as I said the issue is how much warming . Sou said ... "Prove me wrong Anonymous. List five of those papers that show that the greenhouse effect isn't real." Hey Sou , like most people I believe CO2 can cause some warming. The difference between us is that I would not ask the community to spend billions and kill jobs on a wild shot that it might get a bit warmer than we like. If you want to spend billions it is on you to prove it not me . Dave said ... Well actually what dave said was typical of our age of darkness . "everybody on the other side must be evil evil evil" Spare me the crap Dave . Millicent said ... Well sweet Millicent what can I say to your little pout , other than suggest you stamp your little foot then go home and bake some scones . Dumb Scientist Thanks DS , looks like an interesting video . I will play it in a few minutes and if I appropriate , respond . Let me know when you have read the first 1000 research papers. Jammy Dodger Thank you for your polite response, I probably do not deserve it . idunno Sadly Idunno has comes up with the usual sales pitch . "It is all rubbish" . Idunno have you checked out the thousands of whistleblower scientists and academics who are calling "fraud" . Yes there are such lists , try this link .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming JR laughably thinks that the IPCC which was setup to promote carbon trading and global warming fear mongering is a fair and impartial scientific source. Sorry John your head is up your ass . Ok , I have not finished reading the remainder of your comments which is good because I will have something to when at a future date when feeling deeply masochistic . Marco April 7, 2014 at 11:57 PM "the IPCC which was setup to promote carbon trading and global warming fear mongering" But no, the pseudoskeptics are not conspiracy ideationists... "the thousands of whistleblower scientists and academics who are calling "fraud" . Yes there are such lists, try this link .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming" I think quite a few people on that list will be very surprised to hear they are calling "fraud"... Misrepresenting others? Put a checkmark in front of that, too. Sou April 8, 2014 at 12:27 AM What a fear-mongering alarmist is our Anonymous! Or maybe he's just feeling bad that he stuck with his coal shares instead of investing in a wind farm. (I can tell that Anonymous is doing his best to get into the HotWhoppery.) Thing is, just like the deniers at WUWT, for Anonymous it all boils down to protecting his hip-pocket from some yet to appear ransacking. He rejects science because he's scared he'll be asked to pay to mitigate. Yet if he lives in Australia and pays any tax, he's already paying a fair proportion of it for recovery (eg the Queensland flood levy, drought relief, repairing roads, rail and bridges after the amazing Australia-wide floods a couple of years ago, fire recovery). And if he has any household or flood insurance he's already paying extra for climate change, according to the letters I've had from my insurance company. The carbon tax is a pittance compared to what he's going to be paying for recovery and adaptation over the next few years. Though if he's old, as is my guess, he could be on the pension and the rest of us are paying all this on his behalf. As for Anonymous' "wild shot". The science is clear. Cut CO2 or suffer worse consequences. If Anonymous doesn't accept mainstream science then it's he who has to show good cause. The science is already in. (Sometimes I think deniers pay lip service to the greenhouse effect to pretend they are "reasonable people". Anonymous accuses HW readers - many of whom are climate scientists themselves - of not understanding science. Then he goes and spouts rubbish like poptech's list and a wiki article that includes people like Vincent Gray, Tim Ball, the Idso's, David Deming and co.) Jammy Dodger April 8, 2014 at 12:35 AM "Even assuming evidence unfolds at some point in the future suggesting 3 degrees is possible the fear mongers would need to show there will not be plenty of time to act." How do I fault thee? Let me count the ways... You cannot really seriously believe this position? 1. There is already lots of evidence for 3 degrees and you must know this. It may be subject to uncertainty and only a probability but it is evidence. Not to mention that only 2 degrees would be very disruptive in itself. 2. Fear mongers? What is that - some sort of smear against ordinary, everyday scientists and politicians? Not a logical addition to your statement. 3. Is this just setting the bar of proof impossibly high so you can avoid facing the consequences? Everyone everywhere has to make decisions on incomplete information. With imperative decisions it is even more important to act. All that needs to be shown is that there is a good probability and that taking action earlier is precautionary and sensible. 4. Many of the actions we have to take we will have to take at some point when resources run low. And they are on the whole good for us in the longer run anyway. "Well sweet Millicent what can I say to your little pout , and bake some scones . " You overestimate your capacities. Not only do you not have any real response to anything I have written, you don't have any response to anyone else either. All we can learn from this is that you have a position that is founded on your own needs and not founded on reality. Freud says that people in denial have three excuses: it isn't happening, it isn't me, and it isn't so bad really. You would claim the third kind for yourself (low CO2 sensitivity), although as - apparently - you have discarded all scepticism and 'believe' that silly poptech list, its actually the other two as well. The drowning denier clutches at straws. Nothing we all haven't seen before and very, very boring. There isn't even any mental challenge here for us: its the intellectual equivalent of slapping a naughty six year old who just won't stop screaming. But you will never let yourself see it. So maybe I should go and make a few scones: there would be as much chance of getting sensible conversation out of them. Jammy Dodger April 8, 2014 at 2:15 AM "...make a few scones" Ha ha Millicent. I think making scones would be more productive for you than trying to talk sense to Anonymous! Interesting that Anonymous is so bereft of rational argument that all he can do is try and belittle you on the basis of your (assumed) gender. Do you think that puts him in a certain generation or is it a general trait of deniers to be so sexist? I (male!) have just made some hot cross buns. Guess that rules me out for manly debate about climate science. Twiggy April 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM I'm ready to start reading when you give me a reference to even one paper in a decent journal that tells another story compared to the current strong scientific consensus. And I don't mean a reference to a thoroughly discredited list on a denier site, I mean a reference to an actual paper in an actual well-respected scientific journal. Bernard J. April 7, 2014 at 11:41 PM Mop and bucket to isle four please... Pedantic humour April 9, 2014 at 7:40 PM Sardinia? Dumb scientist . I watched the video , thank-you . I did not seem much to disagree with . Interestingly however he did not discuss the decreasing effectiveness of CO2 as levels increase . Even more interesting he does not say the "end is nigh" or even imply it is likely . Bernard J. April 8, 2014 at 1:09 AM "nterestingly however he did not discuss the decreasing effectiveness of CO2 as levels increase ." Um, do you even know what that's supposed to mean? Increasing the concentration of atmospheric CO2 does not mean that there is no additional absorbance of infrared radiation by the planetary system. There's a whole swag of not-trival physics involved (nicely summarised in the post and comments here) but the upshot is that for several doublings of CO2 concentration over the pre-Industrial Revolution level the temperature response is effectively logarithmic. Note: that's l-o-g-a-r-i-t-h-m-i-c. Not zero. And at the rate that we are emitting, that logarithmic response is still resulting in a fairly linear temperature response over the next century or two (and quite possible greater than linear) which means that the danger threshold for warming is fast approaching. Whale, meet petunias meet ground... Like all mainstream scientists since the 1800s, Richard Alley described the warming by CO2 per doubling which automatically tells us its warming is logarithmic. Otherwise the warming would be described in a linear fashion, like per gigaton. Alley's slides on the Great Dying and the spike in insect leaf damage during the PETM show that increasing CO2 warms the planet and that rapid warming causes extinctions and destabilizes ecosystems. That's the mainstream position. Anyone who thinks mainstream science says "the end is nigh" might have been listening to strawman caricatures instead of actually listening to the scientists themselves. Anyone who liked Richard Alley's talk might also like his freely available TV series Earth: The Operators Manual. In it, he reviews why scientists know that most of the warming since 1950 is very likely due to our emissions of greenhouse gases like CO2, and explains that building a clean energy economy will cost about as much as our sewer system. Cartman ( Previously Anonymous ) April 8, 2014 at 12:45 PM I do not like calling you that , how about DS I did not think the R. Alley speech was particularly marvelous but there were interesting moments. In particular the fact that prior episodes of high cosmic radiation had no discernible impact . ( which does not prove very much ) My the "end is nigh" expression was of course hyperbole ,nonetheless I did not hear him predict doom , perhaps I missed it . There seems to be a misunderstanding about the logarithmic relationship between temperature and CO2 . Unable to post an image I can only refer you to a chart , one of which can be found at this link . http://www.junksciencearchive.com/Greenhouse/co2greenhouse-X2.png Alley seems to accept that CO2 mostly trailed increases in temperature . Nobody doubts that at various times temperatures were much higher in the past and CO2 correspondingly so . Given your apparently staunch support for CO2 alarmism could you be so kind as to share your opinion on any of the professor Salby lectures one of which is found here . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROw_cDKwc0 Your recommended "Earth: The Operators Manual" smells a bit too much like the same old same old for me . Thank-you but I will pass on that . Dunning and Kruger - look here. In his first comment, Cartman (previously Anonymous) rushed in arms waving and wrote, somewhat irrelevantly: Well yes I know I am an old skeptical white guy and therefore beyond silly and evil in your mind but to me your absolute confidence in what you believe to be true is exactly why people like me will tend not to bother engaging with you . Live your dream but please spare our families and children from the cost of your madness . For his second comment, Cartman (previously Anonymous) implied that not only does he knows more about climate science than the climate scientists who frequent HotWhopper, but mainstream climate scientists "don't know nuffin'", writing: It is more a matter of what you imagine they believe . There are literally thousands of research papers telling an entirely different story . Sadly people like you are will not look and if you did probably could not understand them . Since then he hasn't managed to produce his "literally thousands of research papers telling an entirely different story", all he has managed is to: - cycle through poptech's silly list of papers, most of which do not reject global warming and many of which are not out of line with mainstream science; - tout a Wikipedia list of contrarian scientists, including such luminaries as Fred Singer, Tim Ball, Willie Soon, David Deming and others. Now he's asking about Murry Salby of all people. I expect Cartman will get a suitable response from other people here. Meanwhile, he would do well to use a search engine or even search HotWhopper. Finally we get: Thank-you but I will pass on that . That last sentence pretty well sums up denialism attitudes. Salby's ignorance of decreasing atmospheric O2 and increasing oceanic CO2 was already boring the last time. I'd rather do something more productive and pleasant, like slam my head against a wall. Bernard J said ... "Um, do you even know what that's supposed to mean?" Bernard I was referring to this chart which is based on the results of several research papers . On viewing it you will be able to see that CO2 has a diminishing effect on global temperature as concentration increases. ps .... Yes the first chart I found was at a evil denier website , how dreadful ! Yes, it is quite dreadful. You ignore mainstream science and choose what you want to believe - mainly Richard Lindzen and his favourite, if antiquated, contrarian sources. Did you check them? You do know that Richard Lindzen's Iris hypothesis does not have any legs, don't you? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Iris/ The IPCC AR5 report states the likely range of climate sensitivity to be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees. It has many references to support that estimate, including paleo studies as well as modeling of current forcings. The fact that you reject mainstream science doesn't have any impact on the science itself. CO2 has increased by 40% with a rise in global surface temperatures of 0.8 degrees, most of which has been attributed to human activity - and it would be higher except for aerosols. Do the sums! A rise of global average surface temperature of only 2 degrees will be bad enough. Given that CO2 is still being emitted more and more each year, it will double in a very short time. It will keep going up as long as we are adding more than can be absorbed. It stays in the air for a long time. That means that CO2 will be well and truly more than double this century if we don't do something about it. Global average surface temperatures could end up rising six degrees or more over a very short period of time, which would make life extremely difficult (to put it mildly). If temperatures rose by more than that, many regions will be uninhabitable for periods of the years. If average global surface temperatures rose by 12 degrees (which is not out of the realm of possibility), many areas of land will be uninhabitable all years around - for we highly adaptable human beings. http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/PNAS-2010-Sherwood-0913352107.pdf Cartman ( Previously Anonymous ) April 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM Well Tiggy if you really believe there are no research papers of merit that cast doubt on the catastrophic global warming scenario then there is such a gulf between us that I just plain give up . How do you know what I believe? All I have asked for are references to at least some of the thousands of scientific papers you have read that cast doubt on the current consensus on AGW. So far you haven't done so. Don't give up, just give me some references to actual papers. Surely that's not hard? Dave April 8, 2014 at 11:47 PM Good grief. Asking a denier to provide at least one research paper published in a reputable journal that provides an alternate model to the observed warming is like trying to get blood from a stone. They come onto this blog with all the bravado and certainty that they are right, yet when asked to provide a single citation, they throw their hands up and give up. Such poor form. cRR Kampen April 9, 2014 at 12:50 AM "if you really believe there are no the catastrophic global warming scenario" We KNOW and so do you. Come on Cartman. You can see that people are laughing at you now. You can have the last laugh by giving references to just a very small proportion of those thousands of research papers you have read that dispute the current scientific consensus. There has been no significant atmospheric warming for up to 17 years 8 months while CO2 has continued to increase in leaps and bounds . Which one of us is in denial . A chart produced by the unspeakably evil Monckton can be found at the URL quoted below . https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rLLavUgz_Yk/Uz_yE6bHJvI/AAAAAAAAh9k/yFh8kao-meU/s800/monckton%2520april%25202014%2520avg.png The earth is still warming, Cartman. I don't know about your hyperbole re Christopher Monckton. He has some talent as a professional entertainer and conspiracy theorist. Here's a good overview of Christopher: http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/lord-moncktons-rap-sheet/ If you had any scientific scepticism you'd take what he tells you with a big lump of salt and compare what he dishes up with what's happening in the world around you. For example: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/06/whats-that-about-16-years-since-1996.html Wishful thinking isn't enough. We all wish that global warming wasn't happening, but it is. ...just goes to prove what I said before. "Cartman ( Previously Anonymous )April 8, 2014 at 1:16 PM There has been no significant atmospheric warming for up to 17 years 8 months" And your point is? The atmosphere is just a small part of the earth. The planet has continued to absorb heat, but its been going into the those big wet things - the oceans. There: I have tried to respond in language suitable for any thicko who still clings to El Nino cherry picks. btw: Use of the El Nino cherry pick isn't too popular among climate change deniers at the moment because there's a threat of a new El Nino which would be at the wrong end of the trend for any idiot stupid enough to use El Nino cherry picks. If there is an El Nino soon, the use of El Nino cherry picks will be resuming for climate change deniers around the year 2020 when - for a few years - you will be telling us the earth is cooling. BBD April 9, 2014 at 12:51 AM What Millicent said, what Bernard J said (below) and the honest, not dishonest presentation of the data: GISTEMP, HadCRUT4, UAH (TLT) annual means, August 1996 - present; linear fits. Try being sceptical. Check the facts for yourself. Don't listen to climate liars like Monckton. How remarkable it is that any scientist who disputes the global warming orthodoxy is smeared and dismissed as "denier" , "big oil shill" or whatever . What a remarkable coincidence it is that every last one of them is an evil corrupt incompetent turd . The fact is sir that some of the brightest , best and most courageous are skeptical , you just refuse to see it through your dung colored glasses. "evil corrupt incompetent turd", "dung coloured glasses" Signs of frustration? Steve Milloy is not a climate scientist, he's a climate disinformer of long-standing, among other things. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steven_J._Milloy Who are these "brightest and best and most courageous"? I think of people like Michael Mann and Phil Jones and Ben Santer who have had to rise above appalling treatment by deniers and disinformers and have continued, with immense courage, to produce top quality research - while people like you complain about being called "science deniers" and try to shoot the messengers. Then when you can't produce the goods, revert to form with your "dung coloured glasses" taunts etc. "What a remarkable coincidence it is that every last one of them is an evil corrupt incompetent turd." No coincidence. Denying a clear physical phenomenon of paramount societal importance is evil, corrupt, incompetent and it certainly stinks. Did I ever say Steve Milloy is a climate scientist , of course not . Again we see the usual smear against anybody who dares to standup to the usual bullying . Doubtless you did not even look at the chart ( which Steve Milloy did not create , merely post ) . Surely the fact that, as I said, I traced some of Steve's references (incomplete and as antiquated as they were) back to Richard Lindzen's collection would have told you that I "looked at the chart". For someone who blithely accuses mainstream scientists of "knowing nothing", while claiming that you regard perusing links to science as "masochistic" and that "you'll pass on that" when it comes to actual science. Who thinks nothing of calling mainstream science "alarmism" and referring to people who accept and understand much of it as wearing "dung coloured glasses". Of saying to one of my readers "sweet Millicent what can I say to your little pout , other than suggest you stamp your little foot then go home and bake some scones"... ...you are remarkably sensitive to us pointing out the obvious and claim that you are being "bullied". Yet it was you who barged into my blog waving your arms about throwing metaphorical if aimless punches, and rejecting everything that HotWhopper stands for - which is demolishing disinformation of the type you are peddling. (I've commented before how sexism and climate science denial appear to be correlated, though most probably there is not a causal link. It's just the same demographic.) Looking back I see you have also quoted Barry Bickmore as a reliable source on Monckton . Kinda laughable given that Barry Bickmore is a Mormon religious zealout whose claim to fame is that he is employed at Brigham Young Uni Salt lake city . Have you ever read his ramblings on religion , they are hilarious . As to the allegations against Monckton his defense as I understand it is that the taped interviews were edited by an activist . Yes he probably does over inflate his resume , who does not . Did he claim to be a Nobel winner of course not , that comment was made when he was ridiculing the Nobel claims of Micheal Mann . I will not respond to the remainder of Bickmores slander but not because I cannot , but because they are totally irrelevant to the simple issue of whether the chart I posted is correct or not . It is isn't it , you just cannot handle it . Cartman, time you took a deep breath. Point to something that Barry Bickmore wrote about Christopher that is wrong instead of trying to belittle Barry Bickmore. Then think about what is happening in the world. RSS is just one chart of tropospheric temperatures. It's not surface temperature for starters. And Christopher cuts out all that has gone before. Not only that, but Christopher likes to hide the signal by showing noisy monthly data, not annual let alone decadal. I'm not disputing the chart. What I dispute is what you appear to be concluding after seeing his chart. Here is some of what I've written about this in the past. http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/much-to-dismay-of-christopher-monckton.html http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/01/bob-tisdales-perspective-on-baselines.html#addendum Even so, the earth system is more than just the troposphere. Sometimes more heat goes into the oceans and sometimes more into the air. The land surface heats faster than the seas for obvious reasons. Ice melts as it gets hotter - and continues to do so. The oceans expand from being warmer as well as from melting ice. (Spoon-feeding a denier is extremely tedious, but probably not a complete waste of time because there are also more rational people lurking.) George Montgomery April 8, 2014 at 10:28 PM Bickmore's religious beliefs are irrelevant as were Galileo's, Newton's, Darwin's, Einstein's, etc. But if you want to go down that path. It's obvious that you've never read Bickmore's published works on religion as you've not quoted what it is that is "hilarious" in his publications. Furthermore, you've misspelled "devout" as "zealout" (sic) as Barry Bickmore is not a zealot i.e. he is a devout "Mormon". Got it? But, with Sou's indulgence, if you like to post what is hilarious about Bickmore's works on the LDS religion (they actually don't call themselves Mormons, non-Mormons do that), I'd just love to reply to that. What is more relevant is that Barry Bickmore is eminently qualified to comment on AGW et al unlike Chris Monckton. Now, Bickmore has an extensive Monckton Rap Sheet (Sou posted above), a post on The Church of Monckton and a YouTube video How to Avoid the Truth about Climate Change which explains why he is no longer a skeptic. I guess that you can see where this heading. You're resorting to an ad hominem because … (you should be able to fill in the rest yourself). I've looked at your "chart" and I'll raise you this graph, technically that's what you've posted i.e. a subset of "chart" (A chart (n.) = a diagram, a graph or a table. To chart (v.) = to make a map. Got it?). The graph I've linked is from David Appell's blog post "UAH but not RSS Again at Record 5yr High". Now if you get a ruler and draw a line-of-best-fit on the Appell graph, from 1997 to 2014 (March) then compare it to your Monckton graph, I think you'll be able see what Sou meant with the comment "The earth is still warming, Cartman.". (Note: To draw the line-of-best-fit using a ruler, position it so that there are equal amounts of the RSS and UAH plots on either side of your ruler. You should be able to figure it out.) "Kinda laughable given that Barry Bickmore is a Mormon religious zealout" Red herring --> logical fallacy --> fail. I see you also claim ... " The IPCC AR5 report states the likely range of climate sensitivity to be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees " Clearly a misrepresentation of fact . Those are the extremes of model projections. As I understand it the median of model runs was 1.8 degrees , which is quite a credible figure . After saying that the IPCC has a long history of producing wildly exaggerated alarmist projections . Nothing to do with their mandate re global alarmism of course . . It has many references to support that estimate, including paleo studies as well as modeling of current forcings. The fact that you reject mainstream science doesn't have any impact on the science itself. CO2 has increased by 40% with a rise in global surface temperatures of 0.8 degrees, most of which has been attributed to human activity - and it would be higher except for aerosols. Do the sums! Cartman, I didn't misrepresent anything. The IPCC report states: TS.5.3 Quantification of Climate System Response Estimates of the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) based on observed climate change, climate models and feedback analysis, as well as paleoclimate evidence indicate that ECS is positive, likely in the range 1.5°C to 4.5°C with high confidence, extremely unlikely less than 1°C (high confidence) and very unlikely greater than 6°C (medium confidence). Earth system sensitivity over millennia timescales including longterm feedbacks not typically included in models could be significantly higher than ECS (see TFE.6 for further details). {5.3.1, 10.8; Box 12.2} If you're alleging that all the scientists who prepared that section of the report misrepresented something, then you'll need to be more specific and point out which references they misrepresented. I don't know where you get your 1.8 degrees from - care to cite? It's not what is shown in TFE.6, Figure 1 for example. Maybe you ought to look at the report itself and the references underpinning it. (You are edging closer and closer to the HotWhoppery.) Um? What? Are you being serious? As Sou points out the range of sensitivities quite clearly stated in the report. And what else are the extremes of the model projections other than the range of projections? And why would anybody misrepresent such an ordinary, straightforward detail? Perhaps you do not understand the meaning of the word "range"? (Not median, range). You have really gone to town since I last looked in and are now resplendent in your full denier plumage. I see you have adopted the usual denier methods of never actually engaging with any issue or question but each time just raising another hare for everybody to chase after. After all if you had to actually engage meaningfully it might challenge your prejudices. I quoted a median value from memory . A full discussion can be found at the link below . Indeed you should ask yourself why the IPCC is so reluctant to publish a median values . http://climateaudit.org/2013/12/09/does-the-observational-evidence-in-ar5-support-itsthe-cmip5-models-tcr-ranges/ Marco April 8, 2014 at 5:22 PM "Quick, shift he goalposts! I made a false claim about Sou making a false claim, so better not apologize and open up a new line of discussion!" Seriously, it's not even true that the range of models is 1.5 to 4.5 degrees. Someone (read: Cartman) who just assumes nefarious motives to the IPCC will never be able to be a constructive discussion partner, so Sou would do well to move Cartman to the Hotwhoppery. It reduces the noise and allows discussions with those who genuinely have a point or honest question. There's a problem with relying on memory, it's fallible. I'd think the 1.8 degrees median (if that's what it was) may well refer to the transient climate response, which is the indicative global surface temperature rise at the point of doubling of CO2. Not that it will ever be measured precisely because when CO2 doubles it's not going to stop rising. And the earth system isn't static. This is one thing the IPCC WGI report states about TCR: For scenarios of increasing radiative forcing, TCR is a more informative indicator of future climate change than ECS. This assessment concludes with high confidence that the transient climate response (TCR) is likely in the range 1°C to 2.5°C, close to the estimated 5–95% range of CMIP5 (1.2°C to 2.4°C), is positive and extremely unlikely greater than 3°C. As with the ECS, this is an expert-assessed range, supported by several different and partly independent lines of evidence, each based on multiple studies, models and datasets. TCR is estimated from the observed global changes in surface temperature, ocean heat uptake and radiative forcing including detection/attribution studies identifying the response patterns to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, and the results of CMIP3 and CMIP5. Estimating TCR suffers from fewer difficulties in terms of state- or time-dependent feedbacks, and is less affected by uncertainty as to how much energy is taken up by the ocean. Unlike ECS, the ranges of TCR estimated from the observed warming and from AOGCMs agree well, increasing our confidence in the assessment of uncertainties in projections over the 21st century. The assessed ranges of ECS and TCR are largely consistent with the observed warming, the estimated forcing, and the projected future warming. {9.7.1, 10.8.1, 12.5.3; Table 9.5} ECS, which is the medium term estimate from doubling CO2 (after things have settled down but before the slow feedbacks take full effect (ie very long term factors) is what I quoted in my previous comment. Again, it's not at all likely it can be pinned down precisely because it's not at all likely that we'll stop adding CO2 right at the very time it doubles. I don't need to ask myself anything but I can understand that you want a particular single number. Thing is, the CMIP median (or mode or mean) won't necessarily be the actual number you want. That's probably why the scientists prefer to provide a likely range. I also think it's odd how deniers want a median of models to be identified rather than also taking account of what observation suggest has happened in the past (ie paleo data), when usually they really, really dislike models and call for observations. Nic Lewis' analysis is just one of many. (He's not a climate scientist, he's a retired financier so he doesn't have the insight of specialists). He seems to be arguing that he is right and anyone who disagrees with him is wrong. His analysis changes a lot depending on what recent years are included, which suggests it's not very robust. (That is, if a few years of natural variation can affect it so much, then what will happen to his calculations after the next few years if temperatures take a big jump). You can read some of what some climate scientists think of a report he wrote for the GWPF on the subject: http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2014/gwpf/ Thing is, the world won't have to wait too long to find out a ballpark figure for TCR. At the rate we're going CO2 will have doubled in a very short time, possibly before the middle of this century. It might be too far ahead for me to ever find out, but not my nieces and great nieces and nephews. They'll be the generations that have to deal with it. (I hope they have more wisdom than my generation and won't blame them if they find it difficult to forgive me and my generation.) "Indeed you should ask yourself why the IPCC is so reluctant to publish a median values ." Why should I ask myself this question? It is not good enough to just make some floating assertion with no context or explanation. Is the IPCC reluctant to publish the median? A citation would be helpful or some confirming details. Is it important they do not publish a median? Please explain why. Just a groundless attempt to ascribe some nefarious motive where there is none. This is just another hare you have set running. Anything rather than admit you are not actually able to properly discuss anything. Getting back to your original squirrel, hare, tortoise comment i.e. the 3 million, 200 hundred and 21 AGW-skeptical, peer-reviewed papers... (Just kidding). Your Pop Tech's plethora of papers, from one of your comments above, supporting the skeptics view of AGW, well … I think that it's best summed up by the following November 2009 comment on the blog post Better Recheck that List by one of the Pop-Tech-referenced authors speaking on behalf of himself and his dear old dad: "… If the peer-reviewed papers support 'Pop Tech's' skepticism then I suggest retitling the post to be: " 450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting 'Pop Tech's' Skepticism of Man-Made Global Warming". I hope that you can appreciate the nuance within the suggested, more appropriate title. And now, in 2014, Pop Tech sails on into another Ice Age, adding more self-classified, peer-reviewed papers, while shouting, " I'm the king of the world!". Interestingly, the "Better Recheck that List" blog post included an 11/11/11 update: "By email, Professor Russell Dickerson, University of Maryland has asked that I add his comment to this post: After repeated communication with the authors of http://www.populartechnology.net I have concluded that the content of the site is intentionally inaccurate and misleading. That site lists a paper on which I am a co-author as "skeptical." Our paper supports the view that man-made climate change is a substantial danger to human health and the environment. The site refused to remove our paper(s) from their list after repeated written requests to do so." In that 11/11/11 email, you should be able to pick out the following: "intentionally inaccurate and misleading", "refused to remove … after repeated written request". And of course, this reinforces that 'the list' you've linked in a comment merely reflects the Pop-Techian view which seriously reduces its reliability and moncktonises it. Raoul April 8, 2014 at 7:14 PM "I quoted a median value from memory . A full discussion can be found at the link below ." Trying to vindicate his claim that the ECS median value is 1.8°C, Cartman cites a blog post on McI by Nic Lewis arguing that the TCR likely mean value of 1.8°C posited by the IPCC is too large. One has to conclude that Cartman - has a very bad memory; - conflates ECS and TCR; - conflates mean and median, and - considers McI and Nic Lewis are reliable sources of information regarding climate science. Talking about "dung colored glasses" ... Cartman ( Previously Anonymous ) April 10, 2014 at 11:37 AM A great article by Dr. Tim Ball explaining why the IPCC cannot be trusted can be found here Or as Klaus Eckert Puls put it .... “Ten years ago I simply parroted what the IPCC told us. One day I started checking the facts and data – first I started with a sense of doubt but then I became outraged when I discovered that much of what the IPCC and the media were telling us was sheer nonsense and was not even supported by any scientific facts and measurements. To this day I still feel shame that as a scientist I made presentations of their science without first checking it.” Sou April 10, 2014 at 1:59 PM Yeah, I saw that article Cartman. Incidentally, you've told us some of your wacky ideas already but I hadn't pegged you for a full-blown conspiracy nutter of the type of Tim Ball (till now). Really and truly! Do you agree with Tim that "Through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) they [the IPCC] controlled national weather offices so global climate policies and research funding were similarly directed"? And that by logical deduction (if one applies logic to Tim's fantastic fantasies) that Tom Wigley is Ruler of the World? Or that Agenda 21 is an evil plot hatched by the UN? Or that the greenhouse effect isn't real (Tim's an author of the "sky dragon" book that disputes the greenhouse effect!) Do you take as gospel every wacky thing that deniers from disinformation organisations (like EIKE or the Heartland Institute) puts out? Are you saying you agree with the statement or are you merely providing data in the hope you'll get named in another HotWhopper article about conspiracy theorist Tim Ball? (Use the search bar above to find out more about Tim Ball. As for Klaus-Eckart Puls, about the only thing I can find out about him is that he's a spokesperson for the European disinformation lobby group EIKE. (And that Tim Ball can't spell his name.) I've no idea whether he said that or not. Whether he did or not it's a worthless statement - having about as much scientific value as Anthony Watts saying what bothers him the most about arguments that there is serious global warming is that "they want to apply taxes" Jammy Dodger April 10, 2014 at 6:15 PM Tim Ball? You must be having a laugh. Who is Klaus Eckert Puls? Someone who conflates the IPCC and the media and thinks he has made a meaningful statement. Come on Cartman, surely you can do better than this? This is just random noise. Have you got anything significant to say? Twiggy April 11, 2014 at 9:53 AM Tim Ball - really? He has as much credibility as someone who turns up on this blog claiming there are thousands of research papers that show a different story to the scientific consensus on AGW and then refuses to list even one of them. Cartman ( Previously Anonymous ) April 10, 2014 at 8:43 PM you've told us some of your wacky ideas already but I hadn't pegged you for a full-blown conspiracy nutter of the type of Tim Ball (till now). Your post covered a number of points so I will endevour to answer it in several parts ( unless I run out of puff or interest ) Is there a global conspiracy ? Not unless you also consider the Christian Church a conspiracy . I am not religious and to me , in a rational world it should be quite impossible for an organization like the Church to grow and prosper . Yet there it is , a massive world wide organisation based on false beliefs with zilch real evidence . Let me ask you these questions .. - "do you see the majority of religious people as evil " ? - "do you think there is a world wide religious conspiracy by say the Catholic church operating at all levels " ? Needless to say I do not regard all religious people as evil nor concisously being invovled in a conspiracy to do evil . On the contrary they think they are saving the world ( just like you do ) . "This is about science not religion " At this point I am sure you are going to say something like "this is nothing like religion " but please bear with me and follow the logic . So why was the church so successful ? To me part of the the answer lies in the fact that humans are predisposed to be religious just as they are predisposed to worry about the weather . In other words they were deeply vulnerable at an emotional level . Was there a conspiracy at the top of the church or was it just reasonable planning and control by people who believed they were saving the world ? Are church leaders exercising mysterious and sinister control or are they simply good people acting at times in unison and at other times completely independently . If the Pope rings up Rupert Murdoch and says "go easy on the peds you are hurting the church" is he a good man trying to save an organisation he believes in or a sinsister world manipulator operating behind the scenes ? So when Warmist Tom Wigley sends an email to Phil Jones proposing to fudge temperature data by .15 degrees C is a good guy lying to save the world or a consipracist engaged in world manipulation? ( actual email is here ) So when Warmist Tom Wigley privately calls the Dr. Mann hockey stick "a very sloppy piece of work" but stays silent in public is he saving the world or perpetrating global deception ? <a href="http://tomnelson.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/2004-email-phil-jones-on-why-he-thought.html>( email found here )</a> bill April 10, 2014 at 9:08 PM Um, hate to break it to you, Pet, but Climategate is over, and you lost. And all the rest is just so much mush. And projection. No wonder you're susceptible to the likes of Tim Ball! MikeH April 10, 2014 at 9:37 PM "To me part of the the answer lies in the fact that humans are predisposed to be religious just as they are predisposed to worry about the weather" Oh dear. What deep insight. LOL. To me the whole answer is that you are a nutter. Life is too short to be bothered with a conspiracy theorist who has a few sheep loose in top paddock. George Montgomery April 10, 2014 at 9:53 PM Tim Ball is big on using the term "alarmism". He's actually following the path of 'false accusation of alarmism' that is used to discredit legitimate warnings. Winston Churchill was labelled as an alarmist for his warnings on the threat posed by Hitler's Germany (M. Makovsky, Churchill's Promised Land (2007) p. 140-1). Labelling Churchill as an alarmist turned out to be particularly infantile given what eventuated. If 'skeptics' of Tim Ball's calibre had been around in 1775 would they've declared Paul Revere is an Alarmist? Skeptics like Tim Ball (and others) use the term 'alarmism' because of its negative connotations through an implied 'panic' and in order to score cheap points by downplaying the danger posed by human-induced climate disruption. Tim Ball (and others) need to learn the difference between the terms, "alarmism" and "alarming". Which leads me to this: There is a Category 5 cyclone bearing down on the far North Queensland coastline in Australia as shown in this gif animation here and in this predicted path graphic here. I'd be willing to bet that there are extremely few individuals commenting on blogs or social media in North Queensland along the lines of accusing the Bureau of Meteorology or the government authorities of being "alarmist" or ignoring the warnings for the regions in the cyclone's predicted path because it was generated by a "model". (A "model" which amongst other things has correctly predicted the change from a Category 3 to a Category 5 cyclone before landfall.) And I'd be willing to bet that there are very few individuals in the predicted path of the cyclone who, because of their scepticism of "models", are questioning the accuracy of the Bureau of Meteorology's warnings and aren't battening down in anticipation of the cyclone's arrival. "Alarming" and "alarmism" aren't the same thing and Tim Ball just doesn't get it. Sou April 11, 2014 at 12:05 AM Cartman started with a lofty "thousands of scientific papers" deny global warming and the insinuation that climate scientists "don't know nuffin'" - except for his mythical authors of the thousands of mythical papers. He couldn't produce one. Now he's sunk as low as quote-mining stolen emails. (+1 what Bill said, BTW) and conspiracy theorists of the One World Government/Agenda21 type. As for Cartman equating religious belief with scientific evidence, I was hanging out for him to tell us how he had a mate who took a photo of a chap with a white beard sitting on a cloud. Or for more robust evidence, maybe his mate climbed a very long ladder stretching up into the same cloud, and cut a lock of god's hair, which was verified as real god hair by his other mate, who's an analytical chemist. His analogy failed before he got to that point. P'rhaps he realised that one person reporting a UFO or god in heaven sighting isn't quite the same thing as thousands of independent teams of scientists collecting and analysing evidence over decades, with all these streams of evidence from multiple scientific disciplines all pointing to the same inescapable conclusions explained by well-established theories. PS To my question to Cartman about whether he's as nutty as Tim Ball (paraphrased), I think it's fair to interpret Cartman's answer as being in the affirmative. PL April 11, 2014 at 1:00 AM Tim Ball: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tim_Ball Not pretty. Jammy Dodger April 11, 2014 at 1:43 AM Sigh. Setting another couple of hares running Cartman? Just more random noise. Give us something real! How about giving Sou her 5 papers? Surely you can rise to that challenge? Or even one paper you would be willing to defend? Tim Ball may appear to be nutty if you do not understand where he is coming from and/or know the history of what has happened over the life of the IPCC . To me he is a decent , very intelligent , brave and likeable man . Not that I think many of you will ever see it or stop the dreadful smearing . bill April 11, 2014 at 10:39 AM Oh, for God's sake: even you must find yourself ridiculous! Is this your life? You really can't find anything useful to do? (What freaking swearing? And what is it with Deniers and the , gap , punctuation thing ? Seen that from several sockpuppets; perhaps there really are only 6 of you, after all? And what is it with . this crap?) PL April 11, 2014 at 12:21 PM Read http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tim_Ball. What's incorrect? But let's get back to the papers you rely on for your assessment of AGW. Sou April 11, 2014 at 12:28 PM Tim Ball appears nutty as a fruit cake if you read what he writes. There is no smearing (or swearing) going on here. Tim is an advocate of the One World Government conspiracy theory that he's morphed to incorporate the IPCC, which he believes (or pretends to believe) that the IPCC is a "political" body (it's not) that was set up to help Maurice Strong or Tom Wigley (depends on which day it is) take over the world. When it's not one of them who's going to take over the world he leaves it to your imagination to decide just who or what is going to "take over the world". He's got "nefarious intent" oozing from every word he writes. He advocates the Agenda 21 conspiracy - this runs along the lines of his purported One World Government seizing the property of private individuals everywhere - and is often merged with the mythical FEMA concentration camp conspiracy theory - though I don't know if Tim himself has done that yet. Should I go on with Tim's crazy conspiracy theories? There's more, but readers will get the gist. (I've linked to where he's spouted some of his nonsense - or just do a "Tim Ball" search of HotWhopper or Google for more.) Like most conspiracy theorists, he argues his point by suggestion rather than being explicit about the details. It's more a case of "they" are going to do "something bad" to you (reader) without describing in detail who "they" are or what the "something bad" is. Though he's created a couple of bogey men (like Maurice Strong and Tom Wigley) - goodness only knows why he picked Tom Wigley. Maurice Strong features a lot in nutty conspiracy theories associated with the environment - beyond climate science. I don't know if he advocates the related HAARP conspiracy theory. Anthony Watts might draw the line at that one. He only allows some wacky conspiracy theories at WUWT. He's refused to allow at least one of Tim's articles, presumably because he figured it might alienate too many of his readers. WUWT-ers are happy to entertain Agenda21 conspiracy theories but prefer to not go as far as, for example, lizard men. (So far, anyway.) Tim doesn't accept that more greenhouse gases cause global warming, writing a chapter of the Sky Dragon book that argues that physics precludes the greenhouse effect. And talking of smearing, he's being sued for defamation by at least two climate scientists. It's hard to think anyone could be talking about the same person when they describe him as "decent" or "brave" or "very intelligent". As for likeable - if you class grubby little mud-throwing conspiracy theorists as "likeable" then you have a strange taste in men that would not be shared by most people in the world. "Tim Ball may appear to be nutty if you do not understand..." And climate scientists may appear to be normal, straightforward and uncomplicated individuals. Though of course we do not understand, do we? Naturally you believe the person who only appears to be nutty and reject the hundreds of people pretending to be rational. That makes sense in your bubble I suppose. Hey Bill I said smearing not swearing ya goof . Cartman ( Previously Anonymous ) April 12, 2014 at 12:13 PM PL April 12, 2014 at 1:06 PM "He is an experienced scientist/academic": Tell us about this. How many peer-reviewed articles in climate science? List them. (It'll be quick.) "The fact that he thinks CO2 has limited effect is based on scientific argument which he explains. He hardly stands alone in the scientific world in the view global warming via back radiation from a trace gas ( CO2 ) is unconvincing." Sorry, that just means he's either ignorant, stupid, or deliberately wrong. Dave April 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM Cartman writes "He hardly stands alone in the scientific world in the view global warming via back radiation from a trace gas ( CO2 ) is unconvincing ." Yes, we all know that some people think that back radiation doesn't exist, but really, it's based on ignorance and ideology. Back Radiation by greenhouse gases is not just a theory, or an opinion, it is measurable!!! It was first measured in the 1890's. That you find it unconvincing, well, it's because your ideology and total ignorance prevents you from understanding it. Without back radiation, the earth would have a night time temperature close to the moon's night time temperature. You have still failed to provide a single published paper, so it is only YOU who is unconvincing!! Oh dear what is this I see . Global sea ice extent is approaching record levels . Kinda strange in a world that is supposed to going through meltdown . Chart found here Raoul April 12, 2014 at 8:31 PM Oh dear, what have we here? Another anonymous commenter with a punctuation problem shouting "Squirrel!". Looks like a pattern is emerging. Quick, call Nicola Scafetta. And we have another who cries "Look! Squirrels!" SunSpam, is that you? Your ability to punctuate has deteriorated even further, it seems... Who is Raoul and why has he stolen my comment? ;-) Jammy Dodger April 12, 2014 at 11:44 PM Why do these hit and run commentators do this? Do they think they are making a sharp point? The question you should be asking yourself, Anonymous, is "Yes, it is kind of strange sea ice is increasing if the world is warming. Is there a possible explanation?". But that would involve real scepticism and some scientific ability which you do not possess. Raoul April 13, 2014 at 6:31 AM @Marco, sorry about that! Guess we both saw the same squirrel... Jammy Dodger April 13, 2014 at 12:25 AM You will not find real science at a denier website Anonymous. That is just self-delusion. Dave April 13, 2014 at 12:52 AM Anonymous writes "For those very few of you who are interested in real science there is an explanation here" You have got to be a poe because anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the adiabatic lapse rate can see the mile wide holes in the 'presentation' in the ideological blog you linked to. All you are showing is how completely enthralled and smitten you are with ideology. You have further demonstrated that with this "The explanation is further supported by new research found here" You just will never get it will you. The link was citing this paper http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/4/045004/pdf/1748-9326_9_4_045004.pdf which stated "Based on the GEOS-Chem/APM simulations, a decrease in ionization rate associated with GCR flux change from solar minimum to solar maximum reduces global mean nucleation rates CN3, CN10, CCN0.8, CCN0.4, and CCN0.2 in the lower troposphere (0–3 km) by 6.8%, 1.91%, 1.36%, 0.74%, 0.54%, and 0.43%, respectively." So using a model, they managed to get at most a 6.8% influence. That's right, a less than 10% influence on "global mean nucleation rates". Nothing about this effect on temperature, or in a real world situation. What you have illustrated is how ideological blogs will distort and lie to suit their own agenda. When is the penny going to drop that those sort of blogs are just ignorant, illogical and just plain wrong, and anyone who thinks that they present real science is totally freaking deluded. Cartman gone back to being Anonymous? Too many questions to answer? If you were interested in really understanding anything, you'd stay on one topic until we agree. The easiest question above for Cartman is to list Tim Ball's peer-reviewed climate-science articles. Abstract of new paper avoids the inconvenient truth that measured GCR flux does not have a trend that explains a trend in temperature. There may be a relationship on the 11-year solar cycle, but that's it. Catmando April 13, 2014 at 1:05 AM I notice that the denier sites have simplified the flow chart from the solar output hypothesis paper. I guess they don't think the slightly more complex version from the paper is dumbed down enough. "Do you really not understand the cumulative effect of that over years . Like all the accumulated CO2 - sorry, you don't think that has any effect. Silly me. Changes in GCR flux only work one way, like a diode? Amazing: "it's all cycles", until it's convenient that it isn't. BBD April 13, 2014 at 6:25 AM Catmando Don't you know that conservation of energy works differently in libertarian physics? It is highly selective. Some kinds of energy can just disappear. Others can get bigger until they are efficacious climate forcings. It's wonderful stuff. I dare say one of these days it'll get written up in a decent journal and we can all stop worrying. BBD, I had noticed that the laws of libertarian physics don't obey Scottie's description - they can be changed. The simplest way is just to make stuff up. I do not expect to post again . There is no point anyway this one will be deleted fairly quickly based on what has happened to my last few posts. Good luck with your lives . Cartman . Your comments haven't disappeared, Cartman. They've been delicately moved but carefully preserved in their proper place. Bernard J. April 14, 2014 at 12:43 AM I wonder - is Cartman KarenMackSunspot? Sou April 14, 2014 at 1:01 AM Different style, don't you think Bernard? Beefed up or toned down? Judith Curry, David Rose,... Anthony Watts sez to wait till it's too late. Are ... Denier weirdness: "OMG it's insects" is back at WU... There's a 63.57% consensus at WUWT! Heat sinking, temperatures rising in the US of A Wondering Willis Eschenbach's hilarious hilarity -... No need for fury: Ethics and internet research El Niño by July? Is Maurice Newman telling Tony Abbott he should fi... Judith Curry, the hero of deniers at WUWT, complai... Matt Ridley can't make up his mind about the futur... The Heartland Institute can't get anyone to promot... HotWhopper Competition: Best Name for a Denier Lob... Anthony Watts got the Quadrella with an outdated c... Denier weirdness: The biggest threat to humanity? ... Judith Curry and George Brandis on Free Speech The Pseudo-Science Coalition, Bible Science and Co... Are US winters cooling or warming? It is all so ve... It's a trifecta with "Al Gore is Fat"! And is Anth... Greenland has been (partly) white for a very long ... A blow to smear merchants and disinformers Same old, same old from WUWT deniers A Fishy Failure at WUWT - not so spectacular Living Dangerously: Jim Steele denies Texas warmin... Irony of the Day: WUWT Motto on Deceit? Quote of the Day at WUWT: Beginner's Mind or Fools... WGIII is out - Mitigation options and societal imp... Anthony Watts is confused about ENSO. More on Tropical Cyclone Ita Battening down in Far North Queensland for Tropica... What next from CEI and Chris Horner - thought reco... WUWT boasts how it tries to delegitimise expert kn... Awww! Poor little Anthony Watts Ego Trips to Nonen... Denier Weirdness: Wildely Wrong (behaviour) at WUW... Anthony Watts denies agricultural science at WUWT Ira Glickstein's "Natural Cycles" that refuse to c... "Much more moral authority comes from the imprimat... Speaking of ethics and conspiracies ... Ignoble cause: Anthony Watts tells a lie to stoke ... Totally Bat-Shit Crazy: Anthony Watts and his "fai... We can ignore everything Anthony Watts says becaus... "Heeeelp! They are going to throw me in jail!" Or...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1096
__label__cc	0.691063	0.308937	Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting. Limits to Growth Wealth. A lot of folk have commented excellently on the Scottish Growth Commission report. A lot of folk on the left have been critical. George Kerevan, in particular, has lambasted the SNP for promoting a regressive, over-cautious, Morningside-friendly version of Independence Lite, writing: "Working-class folk, especially those who are unemployed, unskilled and dependent on benefits, are the most likely to vote SNP. They provided the bedrock of support in 2014 that nearly won us independence. The Rowntree report argues forcibly that unless the SNP directly address the needs and aspirations of this core demographic, they will lose support to Labour and the Tories." George is right, of course. I agree with him, of course. But actually, although I have many criticisms myself, I'm not too worried by this. From the point of view of an independence referendum, it doesn't matter. The SNP can wave their Growth Commission report in the faces of the 'soft no' voters in Morningside and Bearsden, Cramond and Newton Mearns. They may swing a few voters, and if they do, that's excellent. But in the meantime, the left - Radical Independence, the SSP, RISE, even the Greens - can be presenting a far more radical, adventurous, egalitarian, internationalist vision of independence to working (and not-working) Scotland, and that's where the referendum will be won. But that's also where the Growth Commission threatens to lose it for us. A report written to tempt the comfortable middle class does not go down well everywhere. Darren "Loki" McGarvie writes: "the party I once voted into power, believing they could deliver an imaginative, “trouble-making” form of independence, have produced an economic prospectus so demoralisingly timid... if the big idea is simply to rebrand the fundamentals of the UK economy, so that independence becomes more attractive to those whose entrenched advantages are threatened by a radical alternative, well, that’s a very different proposition, isn’t it?" Loki usually irritates me, but he represents a large section of 'soft yes' opinion; and in this piece he's only saying what I have said myself many times: independence which changes nothing is worth nothing. The very document which may win us a few 'soft no' voters threatens to lose us a lot more 'soft yes'. My analysis of the Labour party has been for years that while its core vote was working class, its parliamentarians - and particularly its front bench - are drawn largely from an Oxbridge-educated elite. Their parliamentarians don't socialise with their electorate; they don't understand them. Consequently they have to send out ethnographers to do focus groups to discover (often imperfectly) what their electorate thinks. The Growth Commission report emphasises that the SNP have fallen into the same trap. Their electors, too, are largely working class - and largely urban working class. Yet their parliamentarians are bankers, lawyers, journalists; suit-wearers. The Growth Commission report speaks to Morningsiders because SNP politicians are themselves Morningsiders. It doesn't speak to Easterhouse or Castlemilk because SNP politicians don't socialise with Easterhouse or Castlemilk. This is the root of SNP timidity. They think the time is not right for a referendum because, in the circles in which they move, the time is not right for a referendum. They think caution, fiscal prudence, independence-lite will swing the vote because for the people with whom they socialise that is what would swing the vote. Of course, if the SNP do dawdle, dally, and delay the referendum until after the next Holyrood election, George is right and I am wrong. The SNP have over the past decade run Scotland considerably better than any of their predecessors, but they have also made mistakes, and there are several policy areas on which they are now looking a little tired. If they delay until 2021, if they don't radically change direction to appeal to working Scotland, then there really will be no independence referendum for a generation, because there aren't enough 'soft no' voters in Morningside to balance a 'soft yes' that sees no benefit in an independence which changes nothing. But to get down to detail of Growth Commission report, and to my own criticisms. The report says: "3.88 Maximising frictionless trade and market access with the rest of the UK and with Europe is of critical importance to the performance of the Scottish economy in the short and long term." This is almost certainly not possible, and absolutely certainly not in our gift. England and Wales (hereinafter EW - and note that I'm rather assuming we'll see a united Ireland before an independent Scotland) seem destined for a very hard crash out of the EU. Given that that is so, there will be a hard border between EW and any country which is in either the EU or EFTA. Scotland will have to choose which side of that border to be on. Do we choose the UK side, which makes independence virtually meaningless, or the EU side, which puts us into a community of 27 other nations many of a similar size to our own? This decision is made harder by the fact that England sits squarely across our main trade route. Trade war with EW is precisely what undermined the Scottish economy before the 1706 union; it is a major risk. Scotland urgently needs its own Brexit Buster, like Ireland's. That means not just ships, but new port infrastructure (and transport links to it) at Grangemouth, Rosyth, possibly Aberdeen. The Growth Commission report covers port facilities only in paragraphs A183 and A190; it doesn't mention the risk of trade friction in using EW as our main trade conduit - friction which could arise out of hostility but is equally likely to be simply a consequence of incompetence and dislocation of an economy collapsing under the weight of Brexit. For the commission not to have acknowledged this and allowed for it seems to me pretty remiss. Related is the matter of currency. The report urges the idea of continuing to use Sterling for what seems to me a remarkably long period (10 years). As Kirsty Hughes persuasively argues, using Sterling prevents us rejoining the EU during that period. If she's right (and I believe she is), shouldn't the Growth Commission have considered this? But even if she were wrong about EU membership, for a country which wishes to remain part of the European family to hitch itself to a currency set to diverge rapidly from it doesn't seem like a good plan. I'm also bothered by the 'Annual Solidarity Payment'. It looks a lot like tribute; or like paying off a blackmailer. We shouldn't do this. Article 38 of the Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts reads: "1.When the successor State is a newly independent State, no State debt of the predecessor State shall pass to the newly independent State, unless an agreement between them provides otherwise..." So Scotland is not obliged to, and cannot be obliged to, pay a share of the UK debt. This doesn't mean we should not, but it does mean we cannot be forced to. The risk that concerns me is that EW will assume it is entitled to payments from Scotland, and will behave badly - for example, by holding up Scottish exports - in order to try to screw more money out of us. The Growth Commission report compounds this problem by suggesting that we should continue to 'buy services' from EW as part of the 'Solidarity Payment', specifically including military services. For me, making a break from the UK's military traditions of bombast, adventurism, gunboat diplomacy is one of the most important reasons for independence. I don't think I'm alone. Again, UK foreign aid is increasingly being used to pursue the UK's geopolitical and commercial ambitions. Scotland should not be supporting UK foreign aid programmes (para B2.3). But there's a more fundamental issue about the Growth Commission report: growth. Sustainable growth is physically possible only if you assign artificial financial values to intangible things. We currently do do this, but we shouldn't assume it's beneficial. Does the Scottish economy need to grow at all? I'd argue it doesn't. According to 'Wealth and Assets in Scotland, 2006-2014', the total household wealth of Scotland is £865.6 BILLION - almost a trillion pounds. I own ten acres of land, a car with 130k miles on it, a 55 year old tractor, five cattle, a little sailing boat, several computers, a lot of books, several bicycles, a home-built house you would call a hut, and some tools; total value £70,000 if I'm lucky. Yet, apart from mental health, I have an extraordinarily good life. I work about ten days a month. I eat well. I'm secure. There's nothing I need I don't have. Of course, I don't have a partner or children, but if I did have, it would not take three times my current wealth to provide all of us with a very comfortable life. The average household wealth in Scotland - the arithmetic mean - is £360,666.67. You don't have that much? I'm not surprised. The problem isn't that Scotland is poor, the problem is that Scotland is unequal. Worse, Scotland is still steadily getting more unequal. Chart of household wealth per decile over time, showing increasing inequality. Yet more than half of all households have no or negligible net financial wealth. 40% of all households have no or negligible property wealth (and you can bet those are mostly the same folk as have no net financial wealth). In fact, overall, this is how badly wealth in Scotland is distributed. Iif we shared Scotland's household wealth equally, 88% of households would benefit. Only 12% of households would lose. And that is before you count wealth held in tax havens and secrecy regimes. So, going back to that average figure, £360,666.67. Suppose your household had that much wealth. Would you be able to live an extremely comfortable life? I would think so. If you couldn't, what is wrong with you? Inequality is the elephant in the room of independence. A plan for independence which does not radically address inequality will not attract a majority of Scotland's voters. Any major constitutional change is a risk - as we are seeing with Brexit. People - perhaps Scots especially - are wary of risk. People take risks only when the potential benefit is considerable, and independence which changes nothing offers no benefits. We have to have an independence plan which offers the prospect of a radically fairer Scotland. We can do that. It really isn't hard. And if the overwhelming majority of us could live very comfortably indeed on a fair share of Scotland's wealth, why does Scotland's economy need to grow? Why is it seen as a political desideratum? We cannot grow by resource consumption without destroying the future of the planet for our children. We cannot extract all the oil from under the North Sea without far exceeding the planet's ability to cope. We need to use the resources we do extract more thoughtfully. We need to waste less. We need use less. All this can be done without hurting anyone's standard of living. In summary, if we made our political objective to make people's quality of life better, rather than to grow the economy, we have adequate wealth and would have, with independence, adequate tools to do that. The question is, have we the will? 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__label__wiki	0.533714	0.533714	Comics Universes Advertise/Sponsor on ComicsUniverses.com Your Source for Comics, Anime and Cosplay Redbox to Stop Renting and Selling Video Games December 10, 2019 by admin 0 Comments Since the days of Blockbuster, video game rentals have always been a high-risk investment for companies. With the average video game costing about $60, the few remaining rental companies like Family Video have had to take precautions such as deposit fees to make sure renters would return the games. Unfortunately, it seems that the risk may have been a bit too much for Redbox. The company has announced that they will no longer rent video games at their kiosks, and the rest of their stock will be sold off through the end of 2019. As of this writing, the company has provided few additional details. We’re still alive and still a legend. We’re just doing some new and exciting things! — Redbox (@redbox) December 10, 2019 Unfortunately, the end of video game rentals from Redbox leaves gamers with very limited options to try games before buying them. Some games have demos available via the console maker’s respective online stores; for example, Dragon Quest Builders 2 now has a demo available on Steam, and players that choose to purchase the title can upload their progress from the demo so they don’t have to revisit areas they completed in the demo. While that’s a convenient perk, online demos just aren’t as common as most gamers would like. Gamefly is also an option, but players who aren’t looking for another subscription service might be less inclined to look to them as a resource. The price of video games has always been a roadblock for new fans. While games tend to see discounts fairly quickly for those who are patient, that isn’t always the case. The medium of video games’ $60 price of entry, plus the price of the console itself, is a lot of money for a newcomer to spend. Compared to any other industry, it’s a huge stumbling block. Blockbuster Video once used to offer rentals for video game consoles in their stores, but even they moved away from the practice long before most of the chain’s stores closed. 0commentsAs it is, gamers will just have to make do with the resources that are available to them, but for new fans, there are very few answers. At a time when the video game industry is booming from both a creative and cultural standpoint, it’s a shame that there aren’t more options for newcomers to try before they buy. Did you take advantage of Redbox’s rental program while it lasted? Are you disappointed to see the company discontinue video game rentals? Let us know in the comments or share your thoughts directly on Twitter at @Marcdachamp to talk all things gaming! This article was originally published by Comicbook.com. Read the original article here. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare DLC Proceeds Pledged to Help Australian Bushfire Relief Nioh 2 Development Wrapping Soon Interview: THE EXPANSE’S Frankie Adams on her character’s heartbreak and hopes WOLVERINE and SPIDER-MAN Rejoin FANTASTIC FOUR – But Not With HULK or GHOST RIDER Hunt: Showdown Is Adding Significant Features in Future Updates The X-Men get sidekicks in CHILDREN OF THE ATOM from Ayala and Chang OSCAR ISAAC To Star/Produce EX MACHINA Adaptation – Report Funko’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Geralt vs. Leshen Game Moments Pop Figure Revealed 10 Surprises from DC COMICS’ April 2020 Solicitations EMPYRE gets Avengers and Spider-Man-centric tie-in books Dungeons & Dragons Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount Hits the Magical 40% Discount NYFF Review: THE IRISHMAN is probably the most Scorsese a Scorsese movie can possibly be New Star Wars merch galore for Triple Force Friday GRAPHIC NOVEL CLUB: CHESHIRE CROSSING Collaborators Sarah Andersen & Andy Weir Chat About Ridley Scott and the Supernatural THE BEAT PICKS: 5 actors who could play Miles Morales in the MCU NYCC ’19: RESIDENT ALIEN, THE LEGEND OF KORRA, THE ORVILLE highlight Dark Horse NYCC programming BEST NEW YORK COMIC CON 2018 \| SSJ BLUE GOKU COSPLAY 19 Costumes That Take Cosplay To The Next Level NYCC New York Comic Con 2019 – Cosplay Music Video This cosplayer wins all the internet points today (13 Photos) 18-year-old makes a fortune from posting cosplay pics to Instagram (16 Photos) Copyright © 2020 by Comics Universes. All rights reserved. All articles, images, product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. All company, product and service names used in this website are for identification purposes only. Use of these names, logos, and brands does not imply endorsement unless specified. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1112
__label__cc	0.620214	0.379786	Directions to CommonWealth Our clinic is located at: 25 Saint Mary's Court Brookline, MA 02446 Please note: we are open on an appointment-only basis and are not available for drop-in visits. (Except during our monthly herbal free clinic!) Directions by Public Transit Our location is accessible via the MBTA Green Line trolleys and several MBTA buses. From Green Line B - BU Central Head up Saint Mary's Street (across Commonwealth Avenue from BU's Marsh Chapel), over the bridge and across Mountfort Street, until you reach Saint Mary's Court on the right (just before the laundromat / locksmith). Saint Mary's Court is an old "alleyway", with a row of turn-of-the-century brick carriage houses. Number 25 is towards the end of the row. Our office is down the granite stairwell. From Green Line C - Saint Mary's Street Cross over to the north side of Beacon Street (toward Ginza Japanese restaurant) and head right. Turn left onto Saint Mary's Street. Take the first left onto Saint Mary's Court (just after the laundromat / locksmith). Saint Mary's Court is an old "alleyway", with a row of turn-of-the-century brick carriage houses. Number 25 is towards the end of the row. Our office is down the granite stairwell. From Green Line D - Fenway Exit the train and climb the stairs to Park Drive. Go right towards Beacon Street. Cross over to the north side of Beacon Street (toward the church), then head left. Turn right onto Saint Mary's Street. Take the first left onto Saint Mary's Court (just after the laundromat / locksmith). Saint Mary's Court is an old "alleyway", with a row of turn-of-the-century brick carriage houses. Number 25 is towards the end of the row. Our office is down the granite stairwell. Directions by Car There are 3-hour metered parking spots on Beacon Street next to the T tracks, and by the sidewalks. You can also park on Saint Mary's Street in the metered spots. Parking in any of the spots on St. Mary's Court is not advisable, as these spots are assigned and any other cars will be towed. Saint Mary's Court is an old "alleyway", with a row of turn-of-the-century brick carriage houses. Number 25 is towards the end of the row. Our office is down the granite stairwell. Join our newsletter for more herby goodness! Get our newsletter delivered right to your inbox. You'll be first to hear about free mini-courses, podcast episodes, and other goodies about holistic herbalism. Thanks for subscribing! You'll get our next mailing. In the meantime, check out our blog & podcast! CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism 25 Saint Mary’s Court info@commonwealthherbs.com Top Resources for Herbalists Top Books for Herbalists The Holistic Herbalism Podcast Free Herbal Clinic Wellness Benefit Program CommonWealth was established in 2010 to provide robust herbal education for beginners and professionals alike. We offer classes & instruction in the Boston area, and we've grown into a full online community with podcasts, videos, and online course offerings for dedicated learners. Support our community projects with a monthly contribution! © 2020 CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. All Rights Reserved. Read our Privacy & Health Disclosure Here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1113
__label__cc	0.537137	0.462863	Tags: XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > ME OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > BAY OF BENGAL OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Enviro Temperature profile data from XBT casts in a World-wide distribution from NOA... Temperature profile data were collected using XBT casts in a World-wide distribution from NOAA Ship RESEARCHER and other platforms from 24 May 1982 to 21 March 1996. Data were... Temperature profile data from XBT casts from a World-Wide Distribution 31 Mar... Physical data were collected from XBT casts from from a World-Wide Distribution from 31 March 1985 to 24 November 1990. Physical parameters include temperature profiles. Data... Temperature profile data from the SEA-LAND DEFENDER using bottle, CTD, profil... Temperature profile data were collected from the SEA-LAND DEFENDER from January 1, 1991 to December 31, 1991. Data were submitted by the Institut FranÃ§ais De Recherche Pour... Physical, nutrients, and chemical data from bottle casts and other instrument... Physical, nutrients, and chemical data were collected using bottle, CTD, XBT, XSV, AXBT, thermometer, and tide gauge casts from AIRCRAFT in the North and South Pacific Ocean.... Temperature profile and other data from moored buoy, profiling floats, TAO bu... Temperature profile and other data were collected from multiple ships from June 1, 2000 to November 29, 2000. Data were submitted by Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) as... WATER TEMPERATURE and other data from MULTIPLE SHIPS in the Bismarck Sea, Gul... Temperature profile data from moored buoy, profiling floats, TAO buoy, and XB... Temperature profile data were collected from multiple ships from April 14, 2000 to February 20, 2001. Data were submitted by Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) as part of... Indian Ocean Near Real-Time Temperature Profile Data from the GTSPP project f... Physical data were collected from XBT casts from the Indian Ocean. Data were collected from 31 December 1989 to 31 July 1990. Data were submitted by the Commonwealth Scientific... Cloud amount/frequency, NITRATE and other data from USS DECATUR, STARK and ot... Temperature profile data were collected from the SEA-LAND DEFENDER from January 1, 1992 to December 31, 1992. Data were submitted by Institut FranÃ§ais De Recherche Pour... SOUND VELOCITY and Other Data from UNKNOWN and Other Platforms From World-Wid... The Master Oceanographic Observation Data Set (MOODS), maintained by the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, is the standard Navy database... Temperature profile data collected from multiple platforms primarily in the P... This collection includes temperature profile and other data collected using bathythermograph (BT/XBT) casts, meteorological sensors, secchi disks, and bottle casts from multiple... Temperature profile data collected from XBT casts in the Indian Ocean from th... Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from the HMAS MELBOURNE and other vessels in the Indian Ocean from 01 January 1991 to 31 December 2001. Data were collected by... Temperature profiles from XBT casts from a World-Wide distribution from MULTI... Temperature profiles were collected from XBT casts from a World-Wide distribution. Data were collected from MULTIPLE PLATFORMS from 03 June 1979 to 27 May 1988. Data were... Temperature profile data were collected from multiple ships from October 21, 2000 to January 31, 2001. Data were submitted by Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) as part of... Temperature, and sound velocity data collected using XBT's from 19900101 to 1... Temperature profile data collected in a world wide distribution using XBT cas... Temperature profile data were collected using XBT casts from the ANGO and other platforms in a world wide distribution. Data were collected from 01 January 1994 to 25 May 1994. OCEAN > INDIAN OCEA... (32) OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN (32) GTSPP > THE GLOBAL ... (17) GEOGRAPHIC REGION >... (16) OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN (15) OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEA... (11) CONTINENT > EUROPE ... (10) CONTINENT > ASIA > ... (10) CA/DFO > Fisheries ... (10) WOCE > World Ocean ... (8)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1122
__label__wiki	0.65273	0.65273	Promoting the branch lines Supporting economic growth Helping deliver improvements Tarka Line Exeter – Barnstaple Avocet Line Exeter – Exmouth East Devon Line Exeter – Axminster Riviera Line Exeter – Paignton Tamar Valley Line Plymouth – Gunnislake Looe Valley Line Liskeard – Looe Par – Newquay Maritime Line Truro – Falmouth St Ives Bay Line St Erth – St Ives The GWR timetable change – what does it mean for you? The GWR timetable change – what does it mean for you? This Sunday (15 Dec 2019) sees the biggest timetable change on the Great Western Railway network since 1976. Journey times will change, with more frequent trains and more seats. Find out what it means for you with our quick summary below. Read more Plymouth’s rail partnership and tech whizzes team up to win national award A high tech heritage project born in Plymouth has picked up a national award. The Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership, based at the University of Plymouth, teamed up with city digital agency Elixel to encourage more visitors to explore the branch line in South East Cornwall between Liskeard and Looe. Read more South East Cornwall rail projects scoop national awards A trio of Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership projects in South East Cornwall have been recognised at the national Community Rail Awards. The Looe Valley Line Heritage Project which celebrates the history of the Liskeard to Looe branch line won two awards. Read more CreativiTea trains CASE STUDY \| Find out about our inter-generational tea parties on the train to explore memories of the railway and bring people together. The project won the "Best Community Engagement" category at the national Community Rail Awards. Looe Valley Line heritage project CASE STUDY \| We worked with the local community to tell the hidden stories of the past 160 years on the Looe Valley Line. We produced video documentaries, a mobile phone app, interpretation boards and more to bring history to life. Gunnislake tiles project CASE STUDY \| The Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership worked with the local community to replace damaged and decrepit tiles at Gunnislake with creative and durable new works of art. Insect friendly rockery installed at Penmere The Friends of Penmere Station have installed a new insect friendly rockery at the station thanks to help from the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership and funding from the Community Rail Development Fund, a joint initiative of the Department for Transport and ACoRP, the Association of Community Rail Partnerships. Read more Dartmoor bus between Okehampton and Gunnislake on summer Sundays New for 2019, have a summer Sunday day out on Dartmoor thanks to a new bus connecting with trains. Every Sunday until 8 September, the bus will run between Okehampton station and Lydford, Lydford Gorge, Brentor, Tavistock and Gunnislake station. It will link in with some Exeter–Okehampton and Gunnislake–Plymouth trains and pass the main entrance to Lydford Gorge. Take the Great Round Trip Buy a Devon Day Ranger and a £3 bus ticket to go for a great Devon round trip between Exeter and Plymouth. Read more Free wi-fi at Barnstaple station Barnstaple railway station now has free wi-fi throughout the station thanks to a partnership between the Tarka Rail Association, Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership and GWR. The wi-fi equipment has been supplied by local company Lineal Software Solutions of The Strand, Barnstaple. Read more Truro station clock restored The clock on platform 2 at Truro station was in need of TLC, having stopped being a reliable timekeeper (and hence having to be stopped) and with its casing filthy from decades of diesel fumes. GWR Station Manager Lee Goodson and his staff were determined to get the clock restored inside and out and asked the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership for help with funding. Read more New Looe Valley Line Heritage Centre to be set up at Liskeard station £40,000 funding from Great Western Railway’s Customer & Communities Improvement Fund will see a new Looe Valley Line Heritage Centre created at Liskeard station, following a successful bid by the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership. The centre will be established in three rooms on Platform 3 at Liskeard station, currently used by the Partnership as a summer information point and shop. Read more More seats on Looe trains There are more seats on the scenic Looe Valley Line which links Liskeard and Looe. All trains will now be formed of two coaches throughout the year, instead of a single coach outside of the peak Summer holidays. The two coach trains have all been recently refurbished by train company GWR and have free Wi-Fi, power sockets, space for wheelchairs and buggies and a toilet which has been adapted for use by the disabled. Read more Celebrating the heritage of the Looe Valley Line We’re excited to be holding a premiere evening on Friday 26th April to show off the fantastic songs and films created as part of the Looe Valley Line heritage project. It’s a free event, but booking is required on our Eventbrite page: Book tickets The project has been funded by Great Western Railway’s Customer and Communities Improvement Fund and the Designated Community Rail Development Fund, a joint initiative of the Department for Transport and ACoRP, the Association of Community Rail Partnerships. Read more New national rail promotion for Devon & Cornwall A new national rail promotion of Devon & Cornwall has been launched by the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership and CrossCountry. The centrepiece of the promotion is a "Devon & Cornwall – visit by train with CrossCountry" leaflet. Help for projects in East Devon – the East Devon Line Community Rail Fund If you have an idea for a project at or relating to the East Devon Line or one of its stations, help is available, including money. The East Devon Line is the section of South Western Railway’s Waterloo – Exeter route in Devon and includes Axminster, Honiton, Feniton, Whimple, Cranbrook and Pinhoe stations. Read more CCTV and signage improvements on the Looe Valley Line CCTV cameras have been installed at Looe Railway Station as part of a project which has also seen improvements to signs and posterboards there and at Sandplace and Liskeard stations. New heritage project on the Looe Valley Line We are pleased to have secured funding for an exciting project to explore and bring to life the rich and varied heritage of the Looe Valley Line. Over the next six months we will be working with the community to tell the story of the Looe Valley Line and its effect on local people and the landscape. Read more Mobile ticketing campaign At the start of September we launched our campaign to promote buying tickets in the GWR app. Our animated video reached more than 60,000 people on Facebook, and was complemented by press ads in nine local newspapers across the two counties, plus digital ads on the papers’ websites. Read more Promoting watching the Tour of Britain by train To highlight the fact that both the start (Cranbrook) and finish (Barnstaple) of the Tour of Britain’s second stage were easily accessible by train, we ran a marketing campaign developed in consultation with our partners at South Western Railway and Great Western Railway. Read more Rail tourism delivers huge boost to the economy New research published by the Rail Delivery Group has found that three of the South West’s iconic branch lines are leading a £2 billion national boost to the economy through rail tourism. The research uses data from Visit England and the GB Tourism Survey to look at the country’s top tourist destinations. Read more Partnership-wide GreatScenicRailways @dcrailpart Rail Partnership railpart@plymouth.ac.uk Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership School of Geography Drake Circus	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1126
__label__wiki	0.528898	0.528898	History of Capital Market Regulation in Nigeria - 281011 proshareng the fact is that apart from the concerns already raised, we cannot in 2011 be talking about 50 years of capital market regulation in Nigeria if the idea is not to provide an escape for bored public officers seeking media lime light while providing the perfect licence to fritter away public funds. How old is the Nigerian capital market? Did regulation start at the onset of the market? Absolutely not. PDF, TXT oder online auf Scribd lesen Als PDF, TXT herunterladen oder online auf Scribd lesen speichernHistory of Capital Market Regulation in Nigeria - ... für später speichern The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial The Total Money Makeover Workbook: Classic Edition: The Essential Companion for Applying the Book’s Principles Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed. MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom The Historical Evolution of the Nigerian Capital Market - 311011 The Historical Evolution of the Nigerian Capital Market October 31, 2011 / Author - Dr. ESOSA Bob OSAZE From the Book: Capital Markets – African & Global by Dr. ESOSA Bob OSAZE, January 2007, Published by The Book House Company – ISBN 9789780-801922; pages 55- 63 (Chapter 4). The origins of the Nigerian Capital Market date back to colonial times when the British Government ruling Nigeria at the time sought funds for running the local administration. Most these funds derived from agriculture, produce marketing and solid mineral mining. Discovering that these sources were inadequate to meet its growing financial obligations, the colonial administration decided to expand its revenue base by reforming the system of revenue mobilization, taxation and other payments. It also saw the need to raise funds from public sector to cover temporary shortfalls in funds availability. Hence, it found it necessary to establish a financial system by setting up the basic infrastructure for its take off pending the development of an organized private sector. According to Odife (2000:6), the first step in this direction was to secure the necessary finance for the development of this infrastructure and long-term capital project. This it did in 1946 when it promulgated the 1946 10-year plan Local Loan Ordinance for the floatation of the first N300,000, 3% Government stock 1956/61 with its management vested on the Accountant-General. In 1957, the government and Other Securities (Local Trustees Powers) Acts was enacted. This law specified the types of securities in which trust funds may be invested. It also clearly defined the powers and responsibilities of trustees. In addition, the colonial government set up the Professor Barback committee to examine the ways and means of fostering a share market in Nigeria. Part of the terms of reference of this committee included the possibility of establishing a capital market in Nigeria. The committee recommended, among others, the creation of facilities for dealing in shares , the establishment of rules regulating share transfer and measures for encouraging savings and issues of securities of government and other organizations. By the end of the year (1957), the colonial administration had promulgated the General Loan and Stock Act and the Local Loan (Registered Stock and Securities) Act on the recommendations of the Barback Committee. In 1958, the Central Bank of Nigerian was established through the Central Bank of Nigeria Act of 1958. The purpose of these various legislations was to establish the legal and infrastructural frame work for the take off of a viable securities/capital market in Nigeria. As a follow up to these laws, the colonial administration issued the first N2 million Federation of Nigeria Development Loan Stock in May 1959. In 1959, it also enacted the Statutory Corporations (Guarantee of Loans) Act. In April 1960, the Central Bank of Nigeria issued the first Nigerian Treasury Bills which were meant to provide an avenue for the investment of short-term liquid funds in Nigeria and assist in providing government with funds pending receipt of its own revenues. On September 15, 1960, the Lagos Stock Exchange was incorporated as a private limited liability company, limited by guarantee under the provisions of the Lagos Stock Exchange Act 1960. The Lagos Stock Exchange Act 1960 conferred monopoly powers on it members to deal in securities granted quotation on the Exchange. It also allowed the Central Bank to Deal directly in securities. On June 5, 1961, the Lagos Stock Exchange opened for business www.proshareng.com with 19 listed securities made up of 3 equities, 6 Federal Government Bonds and 10 industrial loans. In 1961, “the National Provident Fund was established as a compulsory contributory savings scheme aimed at providing some protection to contributors at old age, invalidity or temporary loss of employment”. The enabling Act required the Fund to invest its surplus funds only in securities in Nigeria authorized by the Trustee Investment Acts of 1957 and 1962 and restricted to securities created or issued by or on behalf of the government of the federation (SEC, 1999:49). By 1962, the Exchange Control Act and Trustees Investment Act were enacted. The Capital Issues Committee was also constituted to examine and recommend the establishment of an apex monitoring institution for the growing Nigerian Capital Market. In 1966, the Borrowings by public Bodies Act was enacted. This was followed in 1968 by the Companies Decree and the Banking Decree in 1969. In 1972, the Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree was promulgated which was followed in 1963 by the Capital Issues Commission Decree. The Capital Issue Committee thus became the apex regulatory body for the Nigeria Capital Market. By this decree, it was empowered to determine the price and timing of new issues of securities through offer for sale or for subscription. In 1977, the name of the Lagos Stock Exchange was changed to the Nigerian Stock Exchange by the Indigenization Decree of 1977 followed the recommendations of the Industrial Enterprises Panel (Adeosun Panel) of 1975 that branch exchanges should be established. As a result, six new trading floors of the Nigerian Stock Exchange were created in Kaduna (1978), Port Harcourt (1980), Kano (1989), Onitsha (1990) and Yola (2002). On April 1, 1978, the Securities and Exchange Decree was promulgated to replace the Capital Issues Commission and expand the scope of its activities following the recommendations of the Financial System Review Committee (Okigbo Committee) of 1976. The Committee also recommended the establishment of multiple exchanges and the approval of share allotments by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1978, the first state government revenue bond was floated by the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria. The N20 million 7% first Bendel State Loan was floated to finance the state’s housing development programme. On April 5, 1985, the Second-tier Securities Market (SSM) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange was established to cater for the requirements of small and medium scale enterprise. It essentially diluted the listing requirements of this category of companies to encourage them to seek quotation and thereby further broaden and deepen the market. In 1987, the Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree 34 (Issue of non-voting equity shares) was promulgated permitting public companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange to issue through the Exchange, non-voting paid-up shares for the subscription of persons whether citizens of Nigeria or not and whether resident in Nigeria. In 1988, the functions of the Securities and Exchange Commission were further expanded by Decree 29 of 1988 to include the review and approval of all mergers, acquisition and combinations between or among companies. In 1988 also, the Privatization and Commercialization Decree 25 was promulgated. This Decree provided for the privatization of some enterprises in which the Federal Government of Nigeria has equity interest and the commercialization of some Federal Government wholly-owned enterprises. The exercise that ensued from this Decree brought more companies to the Nigerian Stock Exchange whose shares were thus listed. Similarly, in 1958, Debt Conversion was officially adopted by the Central Bank of Nigeria and a guideline on the debt conversion programme published. The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation was also established in 1988 to monitor the performance of the banking sector and insure depositors against possible bank distress and consequent loss of funds. In 1989, the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA 1990) was enacted to regulate the incorporation, corporations and activities of all bodies in Nigeria. Specifically, Sections 541-623 cover “dealings in the securities of companies and vests its administration on the Corporate Affairs Commission. Indeed, the CAMA, 1990 is a comprehensive securities law for the country as it deals with a wide range of issues such as invitation of the public to securities offer, registration of securities, prospectus, allotment, unit trusts, reconstructions, mergers and takeover as well as insider trading” (SEC< 1990:53). By 1991, following the spate of large scale distress in the financial system, the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Decree 25 (BOFID), 1991was promulgated to monitor the operations of the banking and financial sector and reduce the tide of distress. In 1991, the Interministerial Committee on the Nigerian Capital Market recommended the discontinuation of official pricing of securities as well as the establishment of more stock exchanges. The Central Bank of Nigeria Decree of 1991 was also promulgated; this decree expanded the functions of the Central Bank granting it greater autonomy in monetary policy and repealed the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 1958. In 1992, the first municipal bond in the Nigerian Capital was floated by the Lagos Island Local Government. The first Lagos Island Local Government Floating Rate Revenue Bond N100 million was floated to finance the Sura Shopping Complex in Lagos. The coupon rate was 24.75%. In 1992, The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers Decree was promulgated which granted the Institute of Stockbrokers powers to charter stockbrokers and dealers, conduct examination for brokers and genrally oversee the conduct of its members in the interest of the orderly development of the capital market. On July 29, 1992, the Central Securities Clearing System was incorporated as the official central clearing and depository of the Nigeria Stock Exchange. The CSCS was incorporated to implement a computerized Stock Exchange Management System (SEMS) which emphasizes the immobilization of share certificate in a Central Depository. In 1993, the federal government, through its budgets presentation, formally deregulated the capital market, thus ending the official pricing, timing and allotment of securities issues. These functions were passed on to the issuing houses to perform. In 1993, the second Kaduna State Revenue Trust Fund (NSITF) was created by decree to replace the National Provident Fund. By this Act, the scope of activities of the National Provident Fund was expanded and the National Provident Fund Act thereby repealed. In 1995, the Nigerian Investment Promotion Act No.16 of 1995 was enacted to guarantee the ease of transfer of funds through authorized dealers. It stipulated the funds that can be transferred out by foreign investors to include: (a) Dividends and profits (net of taxes) attributable investments; Payment in respect of loan servicing where a foreign loan has been obtained; The remittance of proceeds (net of taxes) and other obligations in the event of a sale or liquidation of investments or any interest attributable to the investor. In 1995, the Exchange Control Act of 1962 and the Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree of 1989 were abrogated to promote greater foreign investment in Nigeria. In 1995, the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council was established by Decree 16 of 1995 to promote industrial growth and development through the attraction of foreign capital and encouragement of domestic savings and investment. On March 19, 1996, the Federal Government of Nigeria appointed the panel on the Review of the Nigerian Capital Market (The Odife Panel). Members of the Panel included Chief Dennis Odife (Chairman), Otunba A. O. Ogunde, Dr. Ahmed Abdullahi, Alhaji Baba Danbappa, Prince Lekan Fadina (Members), Mr. O. G. Abiose and Mrs M. A. Lashmann (Secretaries). The terms of reference of the Panel were: To review the history, structure, conduct and performance of the Nigerian Capital Market and its contributions to the Nigerian economic development; To examine the objectives for the establishment of the Nigerian Capital Market and their continued relevance to Nigeria’s contemporary and prospective needs and aspirations, and make appropriate recommendations; To anticipate the likely direction of evolution of the Nigerian economy in the next century and project how the capital market should develop to respond to the needs of the economy; To analytically examine the present state of the Nigerian Capital Market and formulate a concise framework geared towards the creation of a conductive atmosphere for the orderly growth and development of the Market; To access the continued adequacy of the structure, law , institutions and overall framework of the capital marketing in the light of the evolution of the Nigerian economy and of recent developments in the money market, as well as of the needs of the economy as the nation is approaching the twenty-first century; To indentify and itemize all laws and regulations prescribing the conduct of capital market activities and institutions, and to assess their continued relevance; To codify all laws and regulations prescribing capital market activities, behavior and institutions into one comprehensive law applicable to all; To recommend measures to strengthen the laws, structures, the institutions and the frame work (including manpower training) of the capital market to make it more responsive to the needs of all economic units, be they at the federal, state, local government or village level; To examine the structure of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and its branches and their adequacy in the context of the Federal Government Privatization Programme and policy of ensuring widespread shareholding, and make appropriate recommendations; To review the role of regulatory and or supervisory agencies and the adequacy of the regulatory/supervisory oversight process, including the number and adequacy of the self regulatory organizations established for the purpose; To recommend, it the light of the findings above, precautionary measures to be put in place and appropriate steps to be taken to ensure that Nigerian Capital Market functions optimally henceforth and that it becomes continuously alive to the needs of both local and foreign investors; To consider the desirability or otherwise of setting up an appropriate informal judicial forum within the capital market for the prompt determination of any questions, dispute or controversy that may arise between the institutions in the Nigerian Capital Market, inter se, or market operators generally; To make suggestions and recommend appropriate incentives necessary to be injected from time to time by any government of the Federation into the Nigerian Capital Market to ensure the attainment of the targeted growth indices between investments and capital market development; and To recommend such other actions as may be considered desirable at this stage having regard to the present policy thrust of the federal government in the sphere of capital market development. The panel concluded its assignment and submitted its final report dated September 24, 1996 to the Honourable Minister of Finance on Thursday October 10, 1996. The report of the Panel culminated in the promulgation of the Investment and Securities Act 1999. On June 26, 1996, the African Capital Market Forum was formally launched in Accra, Ghana to: Promote the establishment of formal capital market in Africa; Accelerate the development of existing markets; Promote cooperation among African Capital Market Institution; and Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among African Capital Market Institutions. On June 17, 1998, the Abuja Stock Exchange (ASE) was incorporated as a Public Limited Liability Company as the second bourse in Nigeria after the Nigerian Stock Exchange. On July 13, 1998, Rights Issues were permitted for trading as the first derivative instrument in the Nigerian Stock Market. The Investment and Securities Act No.45, 1995 was promulgated into law with a commencement date of May 26, 1999. The Act repealed the Securities and Exchange Commission Decree of 1998, the Lagos Stock Exchange Act of 1960, the Nigerian Enterprise Promotion (Issues of Non-Voting Equity Shares) Decree of 1990, Part XVII of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990, Sections 3(d) of the capital Gains Act and Section 21 (2) of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Decree of 1995. The Act became the basic legislation guiding the conduct and operations of the Nigerian Capital Market. On April 1999, the Automatic Trading System was introduced in the Nigerian Stock Market to replace the open outcry method. The Automated Trading System is a security trading arrangement whereby transactions on the stock exchange are achieved through a network of computers operating on-line, real-time, automatically. This increased settlement efficiency from T+2 weeks to T+3 days. In 1998, the first foreign stock, M-NET Supersport of South Africa, was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In 2000, the Edo State Government issued N1 billion 7 years floating rate bond to finance its Ogba Riverside Housing Project. The initial size of the bond was N5000 million but it was oversubscribed by 103% which led to the absorption of the excess through the issuance of a supplementary prospectus. The 2000/06 bond bore a 21% coupon rate. In 2000, the Delta State Government raised n3.5 billion from the capital market being the first tranche of a projected N5 billion 7-year floating rate bond. The proceeds were used to fund a water supply scheme in Warri/Effurun, provision of educational facilities in all the local government councils of the state, rehabilitation of twelve general and central hospitals and the development of modern markets in Effurum and Ughelli: The 16.50% coupon bond was 101.74% subscribed. In May, 2001, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) all-share index crossed the 10,000 point mark, ending the month of 10,153.8. On May 2, 2001, the Abuja Stock Exchange began operation as a floorless, electronically-driven exchange with a fully automated order-driven screen-based trading system. The Abuja Stock Exchange opened for operation on May 2, 2001 with four companies listed on a Permission-To-Trade (PTT) basis. These were FSB International Bank Plc, Inland Bank Nigerian Plc, Ashaka Cement Exchange. On August 8, 2001. The Abuja Stock Exchange was converted to Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange (ASCE) by the Federal Government of Nigeria to undertake commodity market operations. The ASCE is expected to trade agricultural commodities, solid minerals as well as financial futures. In 2002, the Lagos State Government floated a N15 billion 7-year floating rate bond. The proceeds were for short-term facilities which the State has obtained from various commercial banks to fund some of its development projects, ranging from educational and transportation projects, construction and rehabilitation of the state high court, housing, water works, computerization and waste management. During the year 2002, the Cross River State Government also floated a n4 billion 20.50% 3- year floating rate bond. The bond, which was for the development and expansion of the obudu Cattle Ranch Resort, was 79.9% subscribed. The last state government to access the Capital Market in 2002 was the Akwa Ibom State Government which raised N6 billion through a 3-year floating rate in the state. In 2002, Yobe State came to the market to float a N2.5 billion 3-year floating rate bond to finance urban roads, improve drainages, develop houses and embark on an industrial estate. The 23% coupon was 81.28% subscribed. In 2002, Ekiti State also accessed the market with the first tranche of a N4 billion 4-year floating rate bond. The proceeds were spent for financing water, rural electrification, education and housing projects. The 24.50% coupon bond was 81.28% subscribed. On May 21, 2002, an Inter-Ministerial Technical Committee on the conversion of the Abuja Stock Exchange to a Commodity Exchange was inaugurated. In July 2002, the 8 th floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange was declared open in Yola, Adamawa State by the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Also in 2002, the Lagos State Government floated a N15 billion 2002/2009 revenue bond to refinance its development projects. The bond which carried a 4% coupon over the prevailing Treasury Bill rate was 77.58 subscribed. On December 19, 2002, the Nigerian Investment and Securities Tribunal was inaugurated by the Minister of Finance, in accordance with Section 224 of the Investment and Securities Act 1999, with the objective of ensuring transparency, effective, speedy and flexible resolution of disputes among capital market participants. In 2004, the Akwa Ibom State Government raised N6 billion from the capital market to refinance infrastructural development. The 2005/07 bond bore a coupon rate of 19.5%. In November 2003, the Code of Corporate Government was introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission following the acceptance of the Atedo Peterside Panel on Corporate Governance in Nigeria. It encouraged publicly quoted companies to follow certain international best-practice codes of adequate disclosure, accuracy, transparency, accountability and investor protection in financial reporting. In 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Ghana. The objective of the Memorandum is to establish a framework for cooperation, mutual understanding and to facilitate the exchange of information between the authorities in the area of enforcement of compliance with security laws and regulations. In October 2004, the Trading School of Securities and Exchange Commission was converted in the Nigerian Capital Market Institute. In October 2004, Zenith International Bank broker all records for fund raising in the Nigerian Capital Market with a N15 billion Initial Public Offer that netted N48 billion in proceeds. On Thursday January 27, 2005, the 19 th Floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange was declared open in Benin City by the Vice-President of the Federation, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion. In April 2005, e-IPOs and e-Pos were introduced into the Nigerian Capital Market. As at December 31, 2005, the Nigerian Capital Market had recorded the following developments since its origin in 1946: 1 stock exchange with 9 trading floors 1 commodity exchange security listing I depository broker dealers/funds managers/portfolio managers broker dealer/issuing houses reporting accountants 1 powerful Securities and Exchange Commission 1 investors’ Protection Fund capital operators (stockbrokers and dealers, issuing houses, registrars, investment advisers etc) Investment and Securities Tribunal. In November 2005, Oando Petroleum Company Plc became the first Nigerian firm to have its stock listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The listing, by way of introduction, paved the way for a rights offer by the company to South African investors in 2005. In May 2006,the Securities and Exchange Commission signed a Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMOU) with the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) becoming the 38 th member and an “A” signatory. On Tuesday 25 th of July, 2006, the Abuja Securities and Commodity Exchange Plc formerly began trading operations with spot market transactions in agricultural commodities. 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__label__wiki	0.932886	0.932886	Mexico City’s new cardinal urges people to use faith to rebuild society David Agren Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes stands with his crosier as he acknowledges the congregation during his installation as the new archbishop of Mexico City Feb. 5 at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. (Credit: Jorge Nunez/EPA via CNS.) In his first homily as archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes urged unity, promised humility and promoted social ministries. MEXICO CITY — In his first homily as archbishop of Mexico City, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes urged unity, promised humility and promoted social ministries. He also called for Catholics in the Mexican capital to create a “humanized” city — served by one of the largest archdioceses in the world and at the heart of a country currently consumed by crime, corruption and inequality. “Today we are overwhelmed by situations that violate justice and peace; aggressions that denigrate our condition as brothers and that foster a life of confrontation, discrimination, contempt for human dignity and that lead to anguish,” Aguiar said at a Feb. 5 Mass following his installation. “More than ever, we need to, from a perspective of faith … rebuild our society’s way of life, giving generously of ourselves — like past generations did — to support the social and pastoral projects we need to carry out in order to leave new generations a humanized and humanizing city.” Aguiar arrives in Mexico City as Catholics there confront the challenge of serving a flock increasingly alienated from the church hierarchy. It’s a hierarchy that critics say has served elites’ interests, not put a priority on social ministries and failed to show a friendly face. The Archdiocese of Mexico City, with nearly 9 million inhabitants, presents unique challenges for the new archbishop. Parts of the city have become increasingly cosmopolitan and left-leaning, while wide swaths of struggling working-class residents find refuge in popular religion, such as venerating St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of impossible causes, and worshiping the skeletal Santa Muerte, which Catholic leaders condemn as Satanic. Census data show 83 percent of Mexicans still profess Catholicism, though the figure is falling fast in Mexico City. Aguiar succeeds Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, who submitted his resignation upon turning 75, as required by canon law. Rivera claimed success after 22 years of leading the Mexico City Archdiocese, telling Aguiar in his final statement as archbishop: “I leave you a united archdiocese, full of faith, moved by hope and participating in charity for the least protected.” Catholics supporting Rivera say he supported education, opened a seminary to train priests for serving migrant communities in the United States and worked with a wealthy church backer to provide priests with proper medical care. He could be controversial, however, and he was often mocked in the Mexico City media. He defended the Legionaries of Christ, whose founder fathered children and sexually abused seminarians and, critics contend, did not properly report cases of clerical sexual abuse to the civil authorities — a charge Rivera has repeatedly denied. Rivera consistently spoke out against controversial social policy changes in Mexico City — ruled by left-leaning governments since 1997 — including laws approved in the late 2000s to decriminalize abortion and allow same-sex marriages. Aguiar has called overturning Mexico City’s abortion law a priority. Rivera also communicated through editorials in a diocesan publication. One editorial questioned who had advised the pope on Mexican matters after Pope Francis, visiting Mexico, urged bishops to confront Mexico’s crises of crime and drug cartel violence. Aguiar alluded to disunity in his homily and cited the pope’s 2016 address. “May your gaze, rested always and only on Christ, be able to contribute to the unity of the people, favoring reconciliation of differences and integrating their diversity … of helping to find shared and sustainable solutions for their miseries,” Aguiar said. Known as a pastor, but also a man of politics, Aguilar previously led the Mexican bishops’ conference and the Latin American bishops’ council, CELAM. While head of the Mexican bishops, he organized the church response to the Mexico City initiative to decriminalize abortion and successfully worked with prominent politicians on a constitutional change to allow for increased religious liberty. Citing the example of the archdiocesan patron, St. Felipe de Jesus, Mexico’s first martyr, Aguiar promised to further pursue increased religious liberty. Mexico’s Church was persecuted in the 1920s Cristero Rebellion and was forced to exist without legal status or state recognition until Mexico and the Vatican established relations in 1992. Shouts of Viva Cristo Rey — the Cristero battle cry — were heard at his installation. The bells of the Metropolitan Cathedral also were sounded for the first time since the Sept. 19 earthquake that rocked the capital and damaged the cathedral. Aguiar promised to celebrate Sunday services at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a more easily accessible sanctuary than the Metropolitan Cathedral. Some observers saw the move as populist and an attempt to promote the profile of the new cardinal and promote increased proximity with the people. Others said Aguiar would easily win over people with his personality and pastoral approach. “He’s a very charismatic individual,” who believes in empowering the work of laypeople, said Chicago Cardinal Blase J. 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__label__cc	0.628867	0.371133	You are here: Home / Black Feminism Initiative Pictured Above: Button produced by the National Student Coalition Against Racism, which was one of the many groups that campaigned to free Joan Little after she was charged with murder for stabbing a prison guard in self defense against sexual assault in 1974. Her case inspired widespread organizing across the United States, which proved critical in producing a context for her eventual acquittal. The CSW Black Feminism Initiative (BFI) was established in Fall 2019 to honor and encourage black feminist thought and visions for political transformation. BFI supports interdisciplinary research and social engagements that are grounded in black feminist and black queer frameworks of analysis, challenges state and interpersonal violence, considers intramural forms of relation, and engages everyday forms of refusal, black feminist assembly, and collective organizing practice. BFI also highlights questions of social reproduction and reproductive justice, contemporary and historical regimes of captivity and carcerality, and black feminist art and expressive culture. BFI supports graduate research, a faculty-graduate workshop, and public programming. Current projects include: The Alisa Bierria and Mariame Kaba Graduate Research Fellowships, the Black Feminist Faculty-Graduate Workshop, and public talks and symposia. The Alisa Bierria Graduate Fellowship in Black Feminist Research and the Mariame Kaba Graduate Fellowship in Black Feminist Research The Black Feminism Initiative sponsors two graduate fellowships to support current research in black feminism: The Alisa Bierria Graduate Fellowship in Black Feminist Research and the Mariame Kaba Graduate Fellowship in Black Feminist Research. Each $1,000 fellowship supports graduate research, conference travel, or the acquisition of necessary materials for in-progress dissertation or thesis projects. Current UCLA MA and PhD students are eligible to apply. Applications for Fall 2019 are due on Friday, November 15, 2019. The Faculty-Graduate Workshop in Black Feminism This workshop meets each quarter for conversations in black feminism that provide the opportunity for graduate students and faculty to workshop in-progress writing and ideas. The 2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Workshop in Black Feminism coordinator is Jaimie Crumley, a PhD student in the UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Jaimie D. Crumley is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Gender Studies. Before coming to UCLA, Jaimie earned her Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees at Yale Divinity School and her Bachelor of Arts degree at Wellesley College. Her work explores the history of the free African American in the antebellum United States through the lens of the black Christian women who preached, taught, wrote, and lectured in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C. and in England. Jaimie argues that these women’s words and work provide a lens for us not only to understand the role of Christian spirituality in shaping freedom for black women, but also to explore the complexities of race, gender, sexuality, and religiosity in the antebellum United States. The Black Feminism Initiative Public Program The Black Feminism Initiative Public Program sponsors public talks and events on subjects of pressing political and social concern. Black Feminism, Care, and Reproductive Justice in Urgent Times: A Conversation with Kimberly Durdin, Followed by a Discussion with Ariel Hart Kimberly Durdin is a birth worker and advocate for reproductive justice for women of color. She is the co-founder of Kindred Space LA, a hub for midwifery care, doula support, lactation consulting, education, support groups, enrichment, meditation, and movement. Durdin will be in dialogue with Ariel Hart, UCLA PhD student in Medicine and Sociology. Date: Monday, February 10, 2020 Location: 306 Royce Hall For questions regarding the Black Feminism Initiative and BFI Graduate Fellowships, please contact the BFI director, Sarah Haley, at blackfem@women.ucla.edu. Gender and Everyday Water Use in Los Angeles Households	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1130
__label__wiki	0.585119	0.585119	Culture News: Only Fools and Horses Johnny Hunt December 2, 2013 Most of the time the news can be pretty drab and miserable (to say the least) but every now and again something comes along to remind you that the world really is quite a funny place; unless you’re Dappy from N-Dubz that is. Arguably the most useless person in the music industry, Dappy, has recently been hospitalised after being kicked in the face by a horse. Following this, the ever-witty British public have already started a petition calling for the horse to win the Outstanding Contribution to Music gong at the Brit Awards. It’s over on change.org currently and, in my opinion at least, is well worth signing! Katy Perry and the Arctic Monkeys (and hopefully the horse) will be performing live at the ceremony next year. Meanwhile, Arctic Monkeys have sold out their biggest shows to date, scheduled to take to the stage at Finsbury Park in May. Unfortunately, you have to take the rough with the smooth sometimes, and while Dappy is busy horsing around, Ian Watkins has been, ousted as such an appalling human being that you’d sooner have Gary Glitter as your screensaver than ever listen to a Lost Prophets song again. HMV have removed all Lost Prophets albums from their shelves in the light of Ian’s self-confessed crimes against humanity, a small but appreciated silver lining. It all begins to make Nigella Lawson smashing the odd line of cocaine here and there a bit of a non-issue, luckily for her. On a positive note, at last all of the Greenpeace activists that were arrested by armed Russian gunmen have been released. Dubbed the ‘Arctic 30’, the activists had been held in Russian prisons since their ship, Arctic Sunrise, was taken hostage. arctic monkeysbrit awardsdappykaty perrynigella lawson AM – Arctic Monkeys Johnny Hunt September 10, 2013 Grafting At Glastonbury 10 albums to look forward to in 2018 Chloe Dobinson December 31, 2017 Culture News Roundup: Farewell Rain And Misery, Hello Spring Johnny Hunt March 10, 2014 Best albums of 2018: Tom Misch, Janelle Monáe, Arctic Monkeys and more Josh Hinton, Natalie Xenos, Chloe Dobinson, Nick Gomez, Megan Davies and Steven Riley December 16, 2018 Arctic Monkeys Close Leeds Festival 2014 Joe Brown August 26, 2014	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1131
__label__cc	0.690524	0.309476	Cycling Examiner The world is better on 2 wheels! Tour de Colorado Tag Archives: mountain biking Gwin is on Fire with no Tire! Aaron Gwin suffered a flat just seconds into his run on the UCI World Cup DH in Leogang, Austria, but that didn’t stop him from finishing. Sit back and watch Aaron take lines and somehow finishes his run unscathed! June 16, 2014 in mountain biking, video. Huayhuash Film Last winter 3 friends got together to go on an impossible mountain bike journey through the Huayhuash Mountains in the Peruvian Andes. Locals questioned their sanity, but in the end these guys nearly reached their goal of completing the trail, but most importantly they all had a journey that would go down as one of the… May 9, 2014 in mountain biking, video. Kona Cinder Cone Time Machine You won’t need a DeLorean to go back in time to see the now 27 year old Kona Cinder Cone, but instead you can watch it in action in this short film. This bike is the longest running model in the Kona lineup and has put smiles on 1000’s of riders over the years. The… March 19, 2014 in mountain biking, video. Gadgets to Boost Bike Safety Cycling Examiner‘s insight: Looking to bring your cycling to even safer levels? Here’s some advice from the NY Times for a lot of the latest technology hitting the cycling scene including the air-bag scarf and See.Sense light. See on well.blogs.nytimes.com March 12, 2014 in cycling. Inspired in Barcelona Like bikes? You should probably give the latest Danny MacAskill video a watch. This time he and a group of his buddies take to the street of Barcelona. Check it out below. February 22, 2014 in cycling, video. No(r)way – Lofoten Island Hans “No Way” Rey has done it again! This time he brought his sense for adventure to Lofoten Island in Norway. This new film was shot all last summer and is perfectly named, “No(r)way ” Give it a watch and see what these old military and hiking trails have to offer mountain bikers. These are… February 17, 2014 in cycling. Crossing the Divide There are so many heroes at IMBA and this short film “Crossing the Divide” is a testament to the great work the do for providing more access to mountain bikers. This film was produced by Grit & Thistle Film Company of Salida, Colorado with help from the Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association, Roaring Fork Mountain… February 10, 2014 in colorado, mountain biking. VIDEO // Freestyle MTB group ride with Andreu Lacondeguy “Everyday you can come here and it’s a different ride. It is like a theme park for bikes next to Barcelona, and it’s perfect for riding and having fun.” –Andreu Lacondeguy January 27, 2014 in mountain biking, video. Volvo’s New Reflective Paint Could Save Your Life Do or Die – Riding the White Line Trail in Sedona 2015 NAHBS Award Winners The North American Handmade Bicycle Show Is Fast Approaching! Local Boston Cyclists Dig Massive Bike Path Tunnel ‣Wave to that other cyclist on the opposite side of the road. ‣Ask your fellow cyclists if they need help when fixing a flat. ‣Wait up for your friends on a social ride. ‣Remember that we're riding bikes! It's all about FUN! Bicycle Colorado leadville 100 new bike announcement	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1135
__label__cc	0.720229	0.279771	Tag: Huey On this Memorial Day while enjoying the freedom to gather with our family and friends, have a backyard barbecue, go to the lake, or just enjoy having an extended weekend our thoughts and prayers are for those whom “Memorial Day” is just one more day of heartbreak and loss they live with every day of the year. “Lest we forget … freedom isn’t free.” On this Memorial Day I wanted to write about a trip we took in April of 2018 to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.. Finally, 43 years after the Vietnam War was over, also known as “The Helicopter War” there was going to be a dedication held at Arlington National Cemetery for all the helicopter pilots and crew members (approximately 5,000) who were killed in Vietnam. Loading up the troops for another combat assault I originally planned to have this blog done in time for Memorial Day 2018, but writing it so soon after our trip, the memories and emotions of our special time together were too poignant and I had to wait until this Memorial Day. Richard and I began our Memorial trip (over 4,600 miles in all) from Texas and drove to St. Louis, Missouri to pick up Sherry. Our dear friend, Sherry … who before a war in Vietnam changed her future hopes and dreams forever, was engaged to Bill Seaborn. Sherry … who’s own precious helicopter pilot had given “the full measure of devotion” and was killed 48 years ago when the helicopter he and my husband were flying was shot down over the jungles of Vietnam. The three of us left St. Louis and drove to Edinburgh, Indiana to spend the night before driving the next day to West Virginia. The third morning we drove on into Washington, D.C. where we met and had lunch with some more precious friends, George and Patricia before heading to the ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Richard and George … friends since high school! “Good food is all the sweeter when shared with good friends.” After lunch we met Bill Seaborn’s sister, Beverly who had flown in from Florida to come to the dedication. We picked Beverly up at the hotel where she was staying and she, Sherry, Richard and I rode to Arlington National Cemetery together, parked, then rode on trams to the amphitheater at the Cemetery. Richard, in somber contemplation looking from the tram at the grave sites of more than 400.000 that are buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. Before the ceremony began, we were delighted to meet up with Bob and his wife, Paula. Sherry met Bob when he graduated from the same Flight School Class as Bill did before they both left for Vietnam. She had remained friends with Bob since that day. Richard and I, only the previous year, had met Bob at Bill’s Memorial. We all sat together as the dedication began, united in love for Bill and honoring all the pilots and crews members who were killed in Vietnam. Beverly and Bob seated in the amphitheater at the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Opening ceremony … At the end of the dedication the Memorial Wreath was carried out to be placed next to the Vietnam monument while the bagpipes played “Amazing Grace.” Bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” The Memorial Wreath next to the monument … “In honored memory of the helicopter pilots and crew members who gave the full measure of devotion to their nation in the Vietnam war.“ Sherry (Bill Seaborn’s fiancee) Beverly (Bill’s sister) and Richard (Bill’s friend and co-pilot) standing by the monument. The Gold Star Members (any family member that lost a loved one in military service) were recognized and honored and Sherry and Beverly were each given a single long stem rose. LEST WE FORGET WHAT MEMORIAL DAY IS ABOUT … Author cottagegreenonthelakePosted on May 27, 2019 May 27, 2019 Categories Lakehouse, home, decorTags Arlington National Cemetery, Bill Seaborn, crewmembers, freedom, Gold Star Family, helicopter, Huey, Memorial Day, pilots, United States of America, Veteran's, Vietnam, war6 Comments on Memorial Day … “In Honored Memory” My Heroes Have Always Been Soldiers … a Memorial Day Tribute with pictures of family and friends attending by Trenda In my blog “This Land Is Your Land” I told you that my husband had been asked to be the guest speaker at a Memorial for his dear friend, Bill Seaborn. Bill and Richard were helicopter pilots and their crew, 4 Special Forces troops, and the ship they were flying was shot down while flying a rescue mission in Vietnam. Memorial Day weekend was the date appropriately set for the tribute and memorial and the 4 days we were in Mississippi were bittersweet as we met with Bill’s fiance, Sharon Bowie, his family, friends, and some of the men that served with Richard in the 240th Helicopter Assault Company … some of the men Richard hadn’t seen since they were flying together over the jungles of Vietnam, 47 years ago. I’ve included some poignant parts of Richard’s speech below and pictures that were taken during the Vietnam war that can be used to depict any one of hundreds of missions our American troops carried out. Although I have excerpted Richard’s speech, this blog is longer than I usually post. However, I hope you will read it all to gain a better understanding of what our American soldiers are trained to do, the hardships they encounter, the physical and mental anguish they suffer, and forever remember. Excerpts from Captain Richard Toops Memorial Speech May 27, 2017—– “It is a great honor to speak today about Bill…..my dear friend, a Christian, a soldier, warrant officer and leader of men, an American Hero, a gentleman (the nicest guy you could ever meet) and best of all, just a truly good friend to us all.” “I flew with Bill, on his last mission in Vietnam, and today I have the honor of introducing to you other men of our unit who flew with us. If you men of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company will please stand as I call you name.”…..”Capt Tom Brown, WO Joe Long, WO Al Roettger, Capt Pat Schmickrath, SP5 Bobby Taylor, WO George Stone, and not a Greyhound but a former Flight School classmate of Bill’s, Bob Shoen….It was a privilege flying with you guys and thank you for being here today. All of you were a part of Bill’s legacy….and I appreciate that you have taken time from your lives to honor Bill today and support me as well. Thank you.” “This will be my first time to publicly talk in front of a large group of people about Bill and what happened. It has always been hard thinking of what happened and reliving it, let alone talking about it. It may be difficult at times, but please bear with me…..I like to think of myself as just a guy that had the great privilege of knowing a great man, Bill Seaborn. I am not an accomplished or experienced speaker…..” I have read that families and friend of fallen soldiers don’t really care how you say it,…..they just want to hear it. Hopefully, I can do that for you all today.” ………. “On 22 January 1971 around 0900 Hrs The White Flight Platoon (2 helicopters) the Huey flown by Bill and I, and our other ship flown by Warrant Officer Roger Moyer and his co-pilot, of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company (Greyhounds) 222nd Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Brigade, were refueling at Bearcat Vietnam following a morning mission with the 111th Special Forces (SF) at Long Than North, South Vietnam.” “On board our UH1 (Huey) helicopter (SN 66-163-56). Our Aircraft Commander was WO William H. Seaborn Jr. (SSN XXX-XX-1786), our co-pilot, myself, Capt Richard D. Toops, (XXX-XX-2474) our crew chief was SP-4 Jimmy Lance, our gunner was SP-4 William (Bill) Barker. Both these guys I had flown with and I liked them and respected them very much, and both I am thankful to say ….. survived our crash….In Vietnam helicopter pilots know the crews are their lifeline and we treated them as equal brothers, they kept our Huey’s flying, and in the field they guided us into tight landing zones, and protected us with their M-60 machine guns…..” “While Bill and I were refueling our Huey after our first morning mission,…..which went great and without a hitch, we received an urgent and life threatening call from the Bearcat tower requesting our assistance to extract the crew of a crashed Light Observation Helicopter (Loach), belonging to D Troop, 3RD SQUAD, 4TH CAV, 25TH INF DIV. The tower operator had received the call from CW2 Hugh McLeod, the pilot of the Cobra gunship accompanying the crashed Loach. He was requesting aid for the crew of the crashed helicopter. The crew was Warrant Officer Rog Johnson, SGT Michael Petty, and SP4 Frederick Vigil. A rescue mission for fellow aviation crew members. Bill and I did not have to think about what we were going to do we looked at each other and just said…. let’s go. Any and all helicopter crews would have done the same thing.”……”As the Assistant Flight Commander and ranking member on the mission I contacted our Operation Office by FM radio and apprised them that we were going on a rescue mission to get the crew to safety”…..”We finished refueling and flew to Long Thanh North to pick up the Special Forces rescue team that would be inserted to rescue the downed crew.”…….. “We picked up 4 Special Forces troops in our helicopter, MSGT Virgil Glenn, SGT Hugh Opperman, SGT Frank Celano, and SGT Kenneth Lovelace. Warrant Officer Roger Moyer and his co-pilot picked up 4 as well. Capt Simpson, SFC Alton Monroe, SFC Martin Bennett, SSG Joseph Hill……” “While Bill and I waited for the guys to load, Bill looked at me,…..actually he was staring intently at me…..and he asked me to put my chicken-plate on. A chicken-plate is a 22 pound piece of ceramic sheets glued together, with a nylon covering (mine had no cover.) It’s a bullet proof vest sorta,…..I told him ‘I never wear it, you know that Bill, too hot’….many had tried to get me to wear it, but to no avail. After all, I outranked them and could do as I wanted. I told Bill, ‘you didn’t worry about me wearing it on our morning mission’ …….. Well, Bill looked at me as serious as I had ever seen him,…..the truth is….he is staring me down again,….and Bill said in a very somber way ‘do it for me.’……can you imagine that, now using his personality on me…..’do it for me.’……so I did….I knew at this point Bill was truly concerned……”I put the chicken-plate on over my chest resting on my lap underneath my restraint harness, covering me from my neck to my lap. I was a little bothered, to be frank. Bill knew my views on the chicken-plate, we had talked about it before, many times, but hey…. he musta sensed something….he cared more about my safety and he knew….he could get me to wear it…..This one seemingly simple act by Bill, thinking of me as his friend was what I felt saved my life that day.” “We came in and hovered about 30 feet up and over the right side of the canopy opening, approximately 5-10 meters laterally from the first insertion and a few meters closer to the downed Loach, and unbeknowst to us directly above the Enemy. We had lowered our helicopter down into the opening in the trees, go left, go right, forward a bit, go left etc, our helicopter with Bill’s hands guiding our ship through the jungle canopy. We maneuvered through the tree branches as far as we could go down.” “Our ladders had been dropped, and we began to wait for the Special Forces team to descend the ladders…while hovering our 4 Special Forces troops, Glenn, Celano, Opperman, and Lovelace were descending down the ladders when we came under attack, intense and heavy fire from small arms, AK-47s. A weapon that has a very familiar sound. MSGT Verlin Glenn, The only one of the four Special Forces soldiers on our helicopter who survived later stated that we were receiving fire directed at the Special Forces troops on the ladders, fire directed into our cockpit and fire directed at our tail rotor. MSGT Glenn, was shot in the chest and his ladder rung was shattered by bullets and he jumped from the ladder on our helicopter, landing in a thick bunch of vegetation, saving his life. The other three, …..were shot and killed as they were climbing down the ladders.” “Bill and I both knew our crew chief and gunner were in a tough predicament as they could not fire back with our M-60 machine guns unless they could clearly see where the enemy fire was coming from, as we now had 7 American soldiers on the ground and 4 more of our men going down our ladders below us. A total of 11 soldiers. And the chance of hitting our own men was just too great. …..We were hovering in and among the trees and with men going down our ladders and were now a stationary target for the enemy below….” “Bill was at the controls, and I had my left hand on the hot mike switch on the radio control switches located on the center console between both pilot seats and my right hand loosely around the cyclic control as was our normal protocol entering and exiting Landing and pickup zones. At this time Bill and I were not talking to each other, only listening to our crew talking through the intercom in our helmets and keeping us from hitting the rotor blades on the trees on both our sides.” “When the Enemy fire started. Loud, very very loud bullets coming into the cockpit at a heavy rate, it was very violent, everything in the cockpit was being hit and was being shredded and destroyed, my left hand was blown into the air, and off of the radio switch, as bullets started penetrating and destroying the radio console between Bill and my seats. Because of this I was unable to contact Roger’s ship, the Command and Control ship or any of the gunships overhead. We were all,…. now alone. …… The firing continued without letup. Everything in our cockpit, the dash, bubble of the helicopter, radio console, my chicken-plate” [protective body armor made of ceramic sheets glued together, weighing approximately 20 lbs.] “were being ripped apart and spraying shrapnel everywhere. The inside of our cockpit was disintegrating.” “Bullets were ricocheting their way across my chicken-plate and splattering me with shrapnel, but thanks to Bill insisting I wear my chicken-plate, they were not going into my chest…….At what seemed now like an unending attack, with tremendous noise and destruction, something happened, ……Bill and I at the very same time turned our heads and eyes just slightly towards each other and exchanged a quick look……. I know we both needed some comfort from the other…….some form of brotherly reassurance that this nightmare would end soon,… Something, anything to stop the noise and devastation……our communication system was gone and we could not communicate via intercom or radio. …….And as we both caught one another’s eye’s…. Bill was struck and killed instantly……….” “I knew it, ……..immediately, I knew it, ………..I was looking in Bill’s eyes when it happened, ……..I could not think any differently. …..he did not suffer……. I gasped for air….Oh My…… it was such a terrible feeling, I was so sad with deep sorrow,…. then I felt alone, ……then I was just so mad….very mad…all these different thoughts in less than a second…..my head was exploding with emotion…..” “Looking back I’m glad Bill’s final moments were with me, his friend, a fellow Christian…..We were not alone……Jesus was with us. We never were alone.” “But time does not stop….my military training took over from my emotions……..The ship was starting to feel the effects of the onslaught. It was getting unsteady. I had taken all the controls now and my mind was telling me ‘keep it together Richard, ……Come on, just get us outta here.’ I was going to try and bring us straight up, I did not know if the guys were still on the ladders or not, but I knew if they were they would hold on. …. Some months earlier we extracted two Special Forces troops from contact with the enemy in War Zone D we had to carry them several miles with them hanging on the ladders, while we escaped the hostile fire. Today I would have to clear the trees before we could go forward and get outta there.” ‘The Helicopter then lurched violently, the nose turned down and the ship starting rotating to the right. As this happened the tail of the ship started to rise up. I pulled additional collective and then pulled the cyclic back with my right hand to try and regain some control, I pushed the pedals as I tried giving more power, but I received no response and we started quickly spinning towards the trees on our perimeter. The engine was still operating, and by our helicopter-spin to the right I knew our tail rotor must have been hit by enemy fire and rendered inoperative. I saw the trees we were about to smash into, coming towards us ……and, I knew I was not in control, there was nothing I could do, ….Our helicopter had taken too much damage…. and I then knew….. the controls are gone, my options were gone,….. my friend was gone….at this time I had no idea the fate of Jimmy and Bill Barker. We had no communication equipment, so I could not talk to them …..And as I saw the trees coming, I said ‘Lord…..just make it quick.’ I was resigned to crashing,… We then crashed very, very violently into the trees and I was immediately knocked unconscious. Our ship, Bill, myself, Jimmy and Bill Barton, we fell to the jungle floor as one big awkward, mangled mass of machine and men……metal breaking bones and tearing flesh as we slammed through the trees until we hit the jungle below. Our turbine jet engine still eerily humming away. But our plight was not over. Not yet……we were now no longer above the enemy ……we were now in the enemy’s living room.” “I awoke from unconsciousness lying in the jungle in the middle of a Vietcong base camp not knowing how I ended up out of the ship, and had the fleeting thought that maybe I was wrong …..that Bill was down here with us alive…and that what I had seen was not real, ‘shoot, I thought, I have been wrong many times in my life, Lord…just let this be another one of those times’….Then My concern shifted to our guys in the back….were Jimmy and Bill Barton alive….since our intercom system had been severed when the firing had started….I did not know. I later learned that Jimmy had been thrown out over the M-60 machine gun mount upon crashing and his torso and stomach had been split open. Bill Barton suffered broken bones and other injuries, as he was thrown out of the helicopter as well, ….and he was the one,……although terribly wounded, risked his life to pull Bill and myself out of the crashed Helicopter. While on the ground I groaned in excruciating pain ……….”My body hurt so bad, I could only see shapes and it seemed so dark. I was slammed in the back by what felt like the butt of a weapon, and told in a low but forceful tone to shut up and I went back into the security of my unconsciousness. (the guys from Roger’s ship had come to our aid after finding the Loach crew all dead and were now fighting for us.) The bad guys were still there. ….. I learned from Captain Tom Brown, Maddog 6, our gunship leader that upon hearing of our crash that every gunship pilot and ship available at Bearcat was flying to our location to help us, to help us…to give us security…protection, to rescue us, ….Everyone of them wanted to help us so much any way they could. Tom Brown said our gunship pilots were ready to light up the jungle.” The Special Forces troops and our aircrew performed their mission with great courage, valor, selflessness, and dedication. John Kennedy once said in his book Profiles of Courage “A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.” “I am proud of all these guys……..And Bill for making me wear my chicken-plate on this mission, he was my friend. And I was his friend and he took great care of me. I know he saved my life….not a doubt in my mind. Not a doubt. Our Gunner Bill Barker saved my life a second time, in spite of his injuries and with the enemy all around us, he at his own risk pulled Bill and I from the helicopter after we crashed and before our chopper was hit by an RPG shell, as our chopper lay in a twisted mass…..My life was saved a third time as the Special Forces troops from Roger’s ship surrounded our crashed chopper to protect us, Capt Simpson and SFC Monroe were wounded as they were hit by shrapnel from the RPG round that struck our Huey on the ground. I was saved a fourth time a few weeks later in a hospital in Japan from internal bleeding.7 American heroes were killed that day and 6 American heroes were wounded… …..three of those killed were from the 25th Division Loach we were trying to rescue, four were killed from our ship, and 4 wounded, and another 2 were wounded from Roger Moyer’s ship. We lost 2 helicopters and I was told the first medivac helicopter that came to get us out for medical attention took fire and was hit and had to withdraw. Ultimately, the 25th Infantry Division sent in a company of 150 to 200 infantry soldiers in a nearby LZ to come to our rescue. Our mission was finally over.” As I lay there on the jungle floor, my body in pain [my ankle had been shot, my ankle bones were all shattered, …..my toes on one foot were all broken, my tibia in my leg was broken, my femur was broken and twisted, I had a deep hematoma on the inside of my legs that ran from my knee to my upper thigh. My knee was badly damaged, I had been shot through the back, the bullet barely missing my spine] “my chest was bruised and beaten from bullets but nothing….I repeat nothing, got through my chicken-plate, my hand sustained shrapnel wounds from the bullets coming through the radio console, my face was smashed in like it had been hit with a sledge hammer from the crash, my orbital bone, my nose, and my jaw were all broken and flattened. My skin above my brow had been-peeled back. My eyes were both hemorrhaging, my face sustained shrapnel wounds and would take over 50 stitches to sew up. ……But I was alive……God was with me through all those brave guys around me…..For the next 5 1/2 months that I was in the hospital and 2 months afterwards in rehab I learned to eat again, to walk again and then get the news that I would never be able to fly again and my military career was over…..of all my injuries….the only injury that prevented me from flying again was the destruction of my ankle, limiting the movement necessary for controlling the anti-torque pedals in a helicopter. I realized my vision from God some months earlier regarding my ankle injury was not the only injury I would receive in Vietnam as I had thought, but rather the injury that would end my military career. The only thing I ever truly wanted to do in life was now gone. They medically retired me from the Army. But…..I would have gladly traded all that to have my friend Bill back a thousand times over.” “Bill was a fellow pilot, but a friend and brother first of all, he died trying to save others, what greater honor is there. He will forever be missed, always be remembered….and because of memorials like this, never be forgotten. Bill died a hero and for that we can all be very proud. I am always truly sorry for the loss of a great and wonderful person here on earth, but we will be reunited in Heaven, our eternal home, reserved for those who have accepted Jesus as their Savior. Please….before I finish…..there is life and there is death….there is a heaven…..there is a hell, if you don’t know the Jesus, Bill and I know and are not sure you are going to heaven, please talk to me, Brother Willy, or my wife before you leave today. I know I will see Bill again. Please….don’t you leave today without having that certainty.” “In closing……While in grade school my teacher asked me to read a friendship speech at one of our kid/parent banquets. I think I was maybe 10 years old. I was so nervous to get up in front of anybody, but got through it. At the end of that speech was a very simple poem which I will always remember, and have for nearly 60 years……fitting for a bunch of 10 year old’s then and for us older 10 year old’s as well today…..and I close with it. ‘Remember this and bear in mind A good true friend is hard to find So when you find one good and true Do not forsake him for a new’……”Bill, we will never forget you……and we will meet again……” “I would like this moment to personally give the slow salute to my great friend……Bill Seaborn………… I SALUTE YOU.” ~ excerpts from speech by Captain Richard D. Toops – Guest Speaker for Memorial Service honoring Bill Seaborn on May 27, 2017 Men of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company listed left to right. Bob Schoen, 2nd from right, not in the 240th Assault Helicopter Co. but a Flight School classmate of Bill’s. It was my honor meeting each of the men who served with Richard in Vietnam. Throughout the almost 40 years of our marriage, I have thought and prayed for them and for the wounds I know they may still suffer from … in body and “in heart.” Left to right: Charles Ray (placement of the wreath) Tommy Gladney, Memorial Master of Ceremony, Charles Clark (placement of the wreath) Willy Weddle – U.S.Congressman Trent Kelly’s staff and formerly Bill Seaborn’s Pastor, and Bill Stewart, soloist One of our most treasured moments from Bill’s Memorial was getting to meet Bill’s fiancé and soul mate, Sharon Bowie. The love she and Bill shared and the bond they will forever have, made us love her instantly. Richard Toops and Joel Foshee … dear friends and both were dear friends of Bill. This Memorial meant so much to Joel and after suffering with Pancreatic Cancer for 21 months, he went on “to be with the Lord” just 6 1/2 weeks after this Memorial. 3 Sister’s and Bill’s cousins … left to right: Chalie Ray, Fran Harrison, Ruthie Young. After hearing Bill talk about his cousins so much and their “growing up years” together, it was a delight for Richard and I to finally meet them. When Chalie Ray first heard we were coming to Mississippi in March to arrange hotel accommodations for the men coming from the 240th Assault Helicopter Company and to meet with Tommy Gladney about the arrangements for the upcoming ceremony, she drove almost 3 hours just to “get to know us.” The warmth, graciousness, and love she extended to us made what we were about to undertake, much easier and meant so much to us. Each “cousin” portrayed those same characteristics of love and goodness that were always evident in Bill’s life. Sharon Bowie, Bill’s fiancé and Beverly Seaborn Tinsley, Bill’s sister … it was truly our blessing meeting both of these sweet ladies. Richard and I both felt such a kinship and love for Sharon and Beverly. We believe it was God-given … born from our common love for Bill. Richard and I met with Beverly and Bob the night before the Memorial; our hours together felt like minutes and we were all “old friends.” Bob Tinsley (a dear man, I instantly cared for) Bill’s brother-in-law, and Bob and Beverly’s son, Rob Tinsley, Bill’s nephew. Top picture: Left to Right – Ruthie, Fran, her husband Jimmy Harrison, Chalie and her husband Bill Ray … Left middle picture: Bob Schoen, Richard Toops, and Joe Long, seated … Left bottom picture: Richard Toops and Joel Foshee … Bottom right picture: Beverly Seaborn Tinsley (Bill’s sister) and Richard Toops share a special moment at the Memorial luncheon. More of Bill’s family … joining the Carrol sisters is cousin Roy McGriff, cousin Carol, and Rob Tinsley and his son Bill’s cousins … Ruthie, Chalie, Roy, and Fran Bro. Willy Weddle and Richard Toops before the Memorial … Bottom picture, left to right – Bob Tinsley, Bill’s nephew, Mrs. Weddle and seated, Pat Ray. Pat was the Official Greeter of the Memorial; she was the perfect person to be given the honor of greeting everyone who came to the Memorial and making sure they had a program. Her sweet Southern charm and her caring nature made us feel instantly at ease and a dear friendship was born. Police Officer and Escort for the Memorial Procession with Brad Latham, bagpipe player of “Taps” Bill Stewart – performing soloist of “The National Anthem” and “Friends are Forever” Before leaving for Mississippi, Richard and I … as well as our friends, our family, our Pastor and his wife had “steeped” the whole ceremony and each word of Richard’s speech in prayer. The Lord certainly heard our prayers as each moment we were there seemed enveloped with a endearing connection, a common heartache, a love, and a healing that bonded each of the almost 200 people that attended, together. With a heart full of gratitude for all of our military and their families, thank you for your service; thank you for your sacrifices; thank you for your selflessness. I’m delighted you spent some time reading my blog today. To have all my posts delivered directly to your email address, just click on FOLLOW in the post above … or click on my site: cottagegreenonthelake.com and follow the prompts. Author cottagegreenonthelakePosted on June 5, 2017 November 23, 2017 Categories Veteran, Memorial Tribute,Tags 240thAHC, Bearcat, Bill Seaborn, Camp Cox, Greyhound, Huey, Maddog, Memorial, Richard Toops, scripture, SOG, The Wall, tribute, UH1, VHPA, Vietnam, VVMF7 Comments on My Heroes Have Always Been Soldiers … a Memorial Day Tribute with pictures of family and friends attending by Trenda	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1138
__label__wiki	0.620356	0.620356	The Beard Question: Religious Duty or Discipline? in Communal Harmony — by Mirza Yawar Baig — December 19, 2016 It is very interesting to note the judgement regarding the Muslim IAF officer who claimed that keeping a beard is his religious obligation. The Indian Express reported that the ruling given was, “Emphasising the need to “maintain discipline” in the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Muslim personnel cannot keep beards by citing religious grounds.” http://indianexpress.com/article/india/air-force-personnel-cant-sport-beard-rules-supreme-court-as-it-junks-muslim-mans-plea-4427848/ Being a SadharanManush (not AamAadmi), I am overawed by the logic. In my understanding the above statement can be interpreted in four ways: A Muslim in the IAF can’t keep a beard citing ‘religious grounds’. A Muslim in the IAF can keep a beard as long as it is not on religious grounds. If a Muslim in the IAF keeps a beard citing religious grounds it will negatively impact the discipline of the Air Force. But if a Muslim keeps a beard on any other grounds, as long as they are not religious, then it will not negatively impact the discipline of the Air Force. The fact that Sikhs keep beards clearly citing religious grounds and that it doesn’t negatively impact discipline is not something that the judgement seems to have considered. My own question therefore is, is the judgment about discipline and how it allegedly gets compromised only if a Muslim keeps a beard citing religious grounds, or is it about the rights of Muslims to exercise their freedom of religion while serving their country which they love enough to put their lives on the line in its defence? I will not mention the fact that the Constitution of India guarantees (not just gives) every citizen the right and freedom to practice his religion in safety, dignity and without harassment from anyone on that basis. What I must and will do is to put the record straight about whetherthe Muslim man is obligated (not a typo), obligated to keep his beard. I am thrilled that the judgment seems to be adjudicating according to the Shari’ah. I never thought I would see that day when a judgment would state the importance of obeying Divine Commands according to Islam. But life is full of surprises. The statement as reported in the article above is: “The touchstone for being allowed to grow one’s hair or to retain a beard is where there is a religious command which prohibits either the hair being cut or a beard being shaved,” noted the bench. I must applaud the statement stating that the touchstone for doing something or not doing it must be a clear religious command. The statement of the judge is a clear indication of his and (by inference) the respect that judicial thinking has for the commands of Allahﷻ and His Prophet Muhammadﷺ. As a Muslim citizen of India, what more can one ask? I wish our Muslim brothers would pay heed to this. So,what is the religious command with respect to the beard for the Muslim man? A word in explanation first. The Shari’ah of Islam (Islamic Law) has four bases, in order of priority. Kitabullah: The Book of Allahﷻ (Qur’an) Sunnatun Nabi: The commands and teachings of His Prophet Muhammadﷺ (Hadith) Ijma: Consensus opinion of jurists subject to the Qur’an and Sunnah Qiyas: Personal judgment of the jurist subject to the Qur’an and Sunnah In this order, the first two not only have priority but supercede the other two. The other two are required and allowed because there may be (and are) matters that emerge as the world changes and new situations arise for which a direct command may not exist in the Qur’an and Sunnah. Islamic Law gives jurists of all time, the freedom to interpret the law and make it applicable to the times but with the caveat that it doesn’t violate the basic principles as laid down in the Qur’an and Sunnah. This is what makes Islamic Law (Shari’ah) the most dynamic of all religious laws. To illustrate with an example of how it works in practice, let us take the case of the use of IVF for a woman who is unable to bear a child. Is this permissible in Islam? Obviously, there is no mention of IVF in the Qur’an or Sunnah. So, how can jurists decide whether it is permissible or not? The ruling is that it is permissible but the sperm used must be of her husband and not of anyone else or from a sperm bank. This is because using someone else’s sperm would amount to adultery. This is the way a modern ruling can still be in line with the orders mentioned in the Qur’an and Sunnah which have overriding authority in the Shari’ah and are not changeable. In the case of the beard, here is what the ‘religious command’states. Narrated Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar: that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Trim the mustache and leave the beard to grow.” حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْخَلاَّلُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ “‏ أَحْفُوا الشَّوَارِبَ وَأَعْفُوا اللِّحَى ‏”‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ ‏.‏ Grade: Sahih (Darussalam) English reference : Vol. 5, Book 41, Hadith 2763Arabic reference : Book 43, Hadith 2990 Allahﷻ says about obeying whatever is commanded by His Prophet Muhammadﷺ: Qur’an, SuraAl-Hashr: 59: 7And whatsoever the Messenger (Muhammadﷺ) gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it), and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Severe in punishment. And Allahﷻ also said: Qur’an, SuraAn-Nisa: 4:80 He who obeys the Messenger (Muhammadﷺ), has indeed obeyed Allah, but he who turns away, then we have not sent you (O Muhammadﷺ) as a watcher over them. What becomes abundantly clear from the above is: It is a clear religious command and requirement for every Muslim man to grow his beard and trim his mustache as a mark of his religious identity; just like every Sikh is required to grow his beard and for the same reason. This command was given clearly in so many words, by the Prophet Muhammadﷺ so it comes as a command from the Sunnah and is supported by these two Ayaat (verses) of the Qur’an where Allahﷻ commanded people to obey every order of His Messengerﷺ and stated that to do so would be considered as obeying Allahﷻ All the Imams of all the Madhhabs (Jurists of all Schools of Jurisprudence) are united on the opinion that for a Muslim man to shave his beard is a major sin and makes him liable for punishment ranging from corporal punishment to being declared unfit to bear witness in a court of law and unfit to lead prayer on account of his deliberate disobedience of the command of Allahﷻ and His Messengerﷺ. I don’t think anything can be clearer than this. Which proves that to have a beard is obligatory on the Muslim man as it is a Divine Command. The requirement of the basis of judgment therefore is satisfied. In Islamic Law, as in any law (including Indian Law) the law stands on its own. Whether people like it, agree with it or follow it or not doesn’t change the law. Citing that many Muslims don’t keep a beard, and therefore ruling on that basis that it is not a clear religious obligation is incorrect. Just as it would be incorrect torule that since many Sikhs shave their beards and cut their hair and don’t wear turbans, growing beards and wearing turbans is not obligatory for Sikhs. Even if every Sikh shaved his beard and cut his hair, the law about beards and hair would still be valid and have sanctity because the law doesn’t depend on people following it for its validity.Same logic; i.e. people’s following a law or not, doesn’t change the law. The one who disobeys the law is at fault and is liable to be held accountable for it and to be punished. But his or her action of disobedience doesn’t detract from the sanctity, applicability or validity of the law itself. What anyone who wishes to investigate must do, is to go to the source of the law to see if it exists and to seek its validity. Not look at what people in their ignorance do. I believe I have clarified the law to the best of my ability. It is for the Court to do whatever it considers just. After all that is why the title of the judge is ‘Justice’. The matter is very clear and it is not a matter of facial hair. The question is: Is a Muslim allowed to follow his religion freely with dignity, which the Constitution of India allows him to do; while serving his nation as a soldier? Or is the law different for Muslims? Mirza Yawar Baig is based in Hyderabad, India and is the founder and President of Yawar Baig & Associates; an international leadership consulting organization. He can be reached at yawar@yawarbaig.com Mohamed Ali Essa says: JazakAllahu Khairan ya Sheikh. This is a sunna which many are not much concerned. Also some are now scared It is a religious duty and a strong sunna. It is the only sunna which comes with us after death K SHESHU BABUo says: This is one of the weird verdict. Supposing a Hindu sports a beard for ‘religious purposes’ ( some Hindus offer their hair and ‘ beard’ to the gods – especially temples like Tirupati in AP ). Are they exempt? In what way does a ‘ Muslim beard’ comes in the way of IAF officer discipline and why does not a Hindu or a Sikh beard is not a hindrance? What is the relationship between beard, discipline and IAF officers??? May be, another PIL could elucidate the facts …!! Sayama says: This is a very small thing. Surprised that we have to go to court for such trifle things. They should have seen at the larger picture. The motive of the person in question was to serve the nation but that landed on his beard. May Allah open up other doors of rizk for him. He should take it a an opportunity to explore other options of rizk. In clear words, if you are religious and would like to keep beard , you better leave off one profession from the list of options available. We should become more and more tolerable to such things. Secondly, countries like Canada has started accepting people wearing hijab in police force and we Indians are in a entirely route of development. Timely and precise essay on the position of the beard in ‘Muslim’ compliance with Islam. That said, to consider Islam to be what most ‘Muslims’ live by nowadays is – to put it very lightly – to miss the forest for the trees by a very long stretch. Unfortunately, it is the world of humanity itself that is all the poorer for such a myopic attitude, deliberate or otherwise. Of the ‘Muslim’ predicament today, it might suffice here to say: Pity the beggar blind, or indifferent, to the treasure atop which he sits, and still goes a-begging from all and sundry. Omair says: Very clear and objective article Ashfaq says: This statement: “What anyone who wishes to investigate must do, is to go to the source of the law to see if it exists and to seek its validity.” is the basis on which any judgement or investigation should be made. The house of justice (The Court) should have enough resources who know the law of the issue at hand and must investigate thoroughly before passing the judgement. Similar conclusions are drawn by the media today as well. They would pick actions of some Muslims and then state that Islam is the source of that incident. Whereas, the incident would be less Islamic and more personal. mahajir says: one small aspect that merits attention : given the SC delivered a judgement on a matter it was hearing, it held whatever it held, justified or not, inclusive or disruptive. however, could not the court have said no religious group that does not have a specific matter as not mandatory but either only directive or optional, shall be entitled to demand the right to observe or follow it, instead of saying a muslim officer… yes, we know this was a muslim officer’s case but see the contrast when the court hears matters where neither party is a muslim yet the opportunity is not lost to come out against something unconnected with that case but peculiarly “muslim” or “islamic” : be it the perversion of a triple talaaq or polygyny or even a separate personal law or an allegedly uniform civil code ! its not a new phenomenon : there is this trend right from the 1950s : before independence we had a statute that specifically restricted playing of music in front of any masjid; the Nizam was sovereign : then operation polarize, sorry, operation polo polarized society for the first time : thereafter that law (that specifically restricted playing of music in front of mosques) was repealed by a specific repealing law. that law said that that restrictive law was repealed. now, old fool that i am, i cannot help thinking : would it not have been better for a new law to have said no music other than as required under any specific religious belief shall be played before any religious institution of any other denomination, thus extending the benefit of peace and quiet in the vicinity of religious worship places to all religious groups ? yes it would, but that was not to be for such was not the thought then, and it is not the thought now. deny a specific group all such rights as can be scuttled using the cloak of …well, sometimes the cloak is discipline, sometimes it is armed forces’ morale, sometimes it is constitutional rights of a few members of a group, sometimes it is uniformity of laws, sometimes it is creation of national integration, sometimes citing of possibility of differing loyalties… denial of rights to a specific group seems to be the preferred approach. not include others in beneficial legislation. forget muslims and armed force regulations. forget “sardarji” sikhs. take hindus. some hindus have beards. many have extra locks of hair as a pleated length, at the back of the head. some shave. some sport moustaches. some have twirling moustahes, some cropped ones. so now what ? legislate ? it is hereby legislated that all male armed forces personnel shall have not a single hair more in length than the general crop of hair at the top of the skull? add this legislation shall not apply to females and to LGBTs ? we have males marrying males and females marrying females in society. to pre-empt charges of discrimination, shall there be legislation or court rulings that say armed forces personnel shall be entitled to do likewise ? there is a saying. some people rush in where other people fear to tread. our powers that be are brave. they have the courage to walk in confidently where less invincible mortals would hesitate. i think the system of appointing judges should be overhauled. judges should come from among those who think clearly, think things through, uphold not ideological views or political agendas but constitutional values, and are beyond being affected by passing fancies and whimsical stands of swaying social masses. we can do without more judgements of the babri type, or ones that dispense death penalties citing allegedly outraged alleged national conscience and other imaginary bases that serve only to rock constitutional and judicial foundations. may there be light.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1139
__label__wiki	0.62892	0.62892	Ad: Optima Public Relations Top 5 Stories Techno-boosted fish Gone guy Iditarod troubles The Nome finish line of the Iditarod/Wikimedia Commons A California animal-rights group was Monday claiming credit for a longtime sponsor abandoning Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. “Victory!” headlined the website of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “Wells Fargo & Guggenheim Partners End Iditarod Sponsorships” The report Wells Fargo was cutting ties with the Super Bowl of Alaska was confirmed by a Wells Fargo official in Anchorage Monday evening. He said the company expected to issue a statement later on the end of its Iditarod relationship. The Guggenheim report could not be immediately confirmed. Wells Fargo has been associated with the Iditarod for almost 30 years. The relationship dates back to the national banking chain’s acquisition of the former Bank of the North. Only three years ago, Wells Fargo officials gushed all over the Iditarod in an Alaska Business Monthly story which described the 49th state’s Last Great Race as one of Wells Fargo’s “signature events.” The company was then co-sponsoring a hospitality booth at the race start, and independently sponsoring the Gold Coast Award for the first musher to Unalakleet on the Bering Sea, the Red Lantern Award given the last musher to finish the Iditarod, and the official finishers’ banquet in Nome to wrap up the race. “This is such an important tradition; the race captures the Alaskan spirit and is all about Alaskans helping Alaskans,” Elaine Junge, vice president and regional marketing manager for Wells Fargo, told reporter Vanessa Orr. “Its rich heritage is so important to what we as a company believe; it reflects our values as a company.” The Iditarod, which has long been under attack by animal rights activists, was then flying high. It had just run its first race without a fatality, something veterinarians considered a statistical improbability given the many ways dogs can die. But two more death-free years followed in 2011 and 2012, and there was but one death in 2013 and that came because of a checkpoint handling error. Iditarod was riding a wave and Wells Fargo along with it. Its Alaska branches were featuring “Iditarod Days” where members of the Wells Fargo “team” sported Iditarod shirts crafted by well-known Alaska artist and musher Jon Van Zyle. Dog deaths and bad publicity From 2010 until this year, the Iditarod was little but positive publicity for the banking giant, but some of the glow left this year with five deaths – three on the trail and two associated with the handling of Iditarod dogs that dropped out of the race – and the screening of the documentary “Sled Dogs” which raised difficult questions about the businesses associated with sled dogs. PETA moved quickly to exploit the situation. With mushers across the north enraged by “Sled Dogs” and launching protests, PETA hosted a showing at its Empathy Center on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and embraced director Fern Levitt. In the wake of the movie, PETA organizers are said to have put together a list of Lower-48 based sponsors to target. Wells Fargo and Guggenheim were reported to be on that list with Exxon Mobil and others. PETA publicly issued an “action alert” requesting its members and supporters “use the form below to urge Beacon, Chrysler, Exxon Mobil, and State Farm to end their sponsorship of this abusive race in which dogs are run to their deaths.” Dogs are not run to their deaths in the Iditarod, but dogs have died just as humans sometimes do while running marathons. The latest animal-rights attack is bad news for a largely sponsored-funded race already struggling in the face of the Alaska recession, but the Iditarod has lived a history of difficult finances. The first race was run with prize money promised before it was collected, and there have been several occasions since when the race has teetered on the edge of financial ruin. Rick Swenson, the race’s only five-time champ, once remarked that it didn’t matter to him what happened, that he expected the race would go on even if it came down to a small group of dog mushers competing to win a bag of dog food in Nome. Iditarod finances Wells Fargo was a second-tier “lead dog” sponsor for the Iditarod. It this year financed online coverage of the race. Lead-dog sponsors contribute $100,000 to $250,000 to the race. Guggenheim is a “wheel dog” sponsor. Wheel dog sponsors contribute $25,000 to $50,000. Guggenheim is a global investment firm. Scott Minerd, the global chief investment officer for the company, has been a big advocate for Arctic development. Alice Rogoff, the publisher of the Alaska Dispatch News, introduced him to Nome and the Iditarod in 2011 when she was the owner of the internet start-up Alaska Dispatch.com Rogoff has long been an Iditarod fan, although after buying the Anchorage Daily News and merging it with Dispatch not long after checkpoint hopping the Iditarod by small plane in 2014, she was forced to drop the former’s long Iditarod sponsorship because of financial difficulties. The Daily News for years provided the Iditarod with a little cash and a lot of free advertising to market raffles and other fund-raising events. Both are vital to the race. More than half of the annual budget of about $5 million comes from cash sponsorships donations. Another big chunk of the money comes from various fund-raising efforts that are fueled by free advertising. “There are so many examples of this,” Iditarod Executive Director Stan Hooley told Orr. “We get airline tickets from Alaska Air and PenAir, and Anchorage Chrysler Dodge provides the winner’s truck and also gives us four vehicles to give away as raffle prizes.” Tough times coming? Anchorage Chrysler Dodge has long been the race’s biggest booster. It’s enthusiasm was driven by Rod Udd, the company owner and the race’s biggest fan. Udd passed away this year, and since his death there have been questions about the size of the role played by Anchorage Chrysler Dodge going forward. Those knowledgeable as to the value of Alaska advertising say Udd was clearly contributing more to the race than his company was getting back in marketing worth. As an Iditarod “principal partner” along with Exxon Mobil, Donlin Gold and GCI, Anchorage Chrysler Dodge donated more than $250,000 per year to the race. Donlin and GCI are Alaska-based company’s that get nothing but good spin from the Iditarod, a beloved event in the 49th state. They are generally considered immune to Outside pressure. ExxonMobil is a national energy company with more at stake. It already has problems with the environmental community after being accused of trying to cover up climate change. Animals-rights groups have also been reported to be leaning on Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, which now does the bulk of its business Outside. With the recent purchase of Virgin American, Alaska became the nation’s fifth largest airline behind American, Delta, United and Southwest. PETA has also publicly upped the pressure on some smaller Iditarod sponsors. “PETA and people all over the world who care about dogs commend the compassionate decision made by (Wells Fargo and Guggenheim),” it said in the Monday blog post, “but recognize that there is still work to be done. Even though many major brands—including Costco, Maxwell House, Nestlé, Pizza Hut, Rite Aid, and Safeway—cut ties with the Iditarod years ago, others, like Coca-Cola, continue to sponsor the event, and they need to hear from you. “Until the Iditarod is canceled entirely or switches to using only willing, human cyclists, cross-country skiers, or snowmobilers, you can make a difference for the dogs who suffer on the trail. Please join PETA in urging Chrysler, State Farm, Coca-Cola, and others to end their sponsorship of this abusive race.” Iditarod mushers and fans disagree with just about every word in that last paragraph, but whether they rally to support the race remains to be seen. The Alaska of 2017 is a very different place than the Alaska of 1973 when the Iditarod race began as an effort to save the rich history of sled dog travel in the north. Categories: News, Outdoors Tagged as: bad publicity, dog deaths, Fern Levitt, Guggenheim Partners, mushers enraged, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, Scott Minerd, Sled dogs, Super Bowl of Alaska, Wells Fargo bank Life with bears When moose attack Charles Blanchard says: Sorry … but the PETA stand is purely political and BS. We had owned a timber wolf when I was young, the best animal we’d ever had. He attacked a bear to protect my dad when his rifle jammed, no command, just that he understood the danger my dad was in. He, like these sled dogs, loved to run. While living in the woods, he’d go for a run and often bring back a rabbit for the pot. Crying against the Iditarod just shows their lack of understanding … like those that expect to keep children from every getting hurt. If it offends them so much, don’t participate, but leave the rest of us alone that enjoy such things as dog sledding and children playing. Steve Stine says: Premiere’s tonight on Canadian TV….CBC Documentary on the “Sled Dog Industrial Complex”… #sleddogsfilm http://sleddogsfilm.com/ Howard Houston says: Any company that gives in to the terrorist blackmail of PeTA and HSUS are cowards and don’t deserve our funding or business. These dogs love to race and if they didn’t they wouldn’t do it. Animal rights PeTA is about eliminating animals from our lives in every possible way. They want all domestic species to die out thus their push for mandatory spay and neuter. PeTA does not care about animals at all. See and Read the truth about PeTA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html PeTA kills 97% of animals that come their way. Anyone who gives to PeTA gives to this murdering of pets. PeTA’s goal is to remove all animals from human contact. This is a very sick organization that only wants to take your money and use it to kill. They do not understand the biological imperative that drove dogs and cats to collaborate with humans. Many animals including Elephants found it to their advantage to work with humans. Note the so called Elephant rescue group in California refused all help to move the elephants they took from zoos and circuses to safety during the california fires. What were they hiding that they refused all help to move these animals to safety. Does any government entity inspect these so called sanctuaries? What were they hiding? How many of these elephants are still alive? KeithGerke says: It is ironic that their logo is a team of horses pulling a stagecoach. How many horses were killed? No one will ever know. We severed ties with Wells Fargo before the public found out about their business practices. I’d say good riddance. Pack it up and leave Alaska while they are at it. Your article is very good, although it leads readers to believe that Wells Fargo just dropped their sponsorship due to pressure from animal rights activists….I believe the truth is that a group of top executives sat down and watched Fern’s movie and decided for themselves to sever ties with the Iditarod. I am sure there will be more sponsors to follow since the movie is just “hitting the big screens” this summer. animalandpeoplelover says: Why on earth can’t people see what a sociopathic organization PeTA is? How they continue to get support is beyond me. They USE animals to PUNISH people because they HATE humanity. al smith says: i could not have said it better PETA HATES HUMANS unless of course you give them money.. they are parasites Peta needs to be put to sleep….seriously… Jjay says: http://m.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2007/01/24/testimony-underway-in-peta-trial/ From NC and establishing my own siberian rescue after years of volunteering at our orange and Durham county shelters, I find PETA detestable. The dogs all were labeled for termination. Because of running them, they all found new homes, over 80 in all before moving here to Alaska last year. I now concentrate on Alaskans because of time requirements in the races. I would like to see this changed if anything, which has been addressed this year. Unsure what could be a good answer, but still in hope for the dogs. james mason says: Last time I visited San Francisco I was shocked to see a woman taking a Siberian husky for a walk. My Siberian’s idea of exercise was a twenty mile run at top speed across the frozen sound. Her favorite temperature was minus 20. And here’s a husky who lives indoors in California getting a walk around the block at 68 degrees? Where’s the dog abuse here? Not in Alaska! CHERI GRIMM says: GET OVER YOURSELVES, PETA! This is an Alaskan TRADITION, these dogs are bred and trained to be Athletes and LOVE the race. So sick of you who try to impose your ideas and will on everyone else! Mike Korn says: I remember animal rights people complained to Wells Fargo about its sponsorship of the Iditarod for many years. Insiders say that the bank cut ties with the race NOW because it’s been dealing with a public relations nightmare. In September, 2016, the public learned that Wells Fargo employees created millions of fake bank and credit card accounts. The phony accounts earned the bank unwarranted fees and allowed Wells Fargo employees to boost their sales figures and make more money. The scope of the scandal was shocking. Customers were fuming. The public was fuming. This scenario along with years of emails against its sponsorship, many dog deaths, the helpleddogs.org site that popped up on lots of searches, PETA, other animal rights groups and the film caused Wells Fargo to cut the cord with the iditarod. They’re tired of all the bad publicity. Lev says: So what you’re saying is, if they hadn’t stepped on their own dick to begin with, they’d still be affiliated with the race craigmedred says: actually, i think a fairer summary would be too say that Wells Fargo is in a position where it is the most gun-shy of sponsors, Lev.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1143
__label__cc	0.537761	0.462239	#LoveOverBias All things being equal, some campaigns aren’t There’s a lot of talk about equality these days, and with good reason. Exclusion is on the rise. People are being left out. Groups are ignored. It’s no wonder that the mega, multi-national consumer goods corporation P&G started a #WeSeeEqual campaign, a push well-timed in today’s society of #MeToo and #TimesUp. The campaign aims for a world free of gender bias that offers equal representation and voices for both women and men. It’s a powerful message that deserves praise and attention. Frankly, it’s hard to argue with or dispute any of its pleas. You can debate a lot of things in life, but equality isn’t one of them – it’s necessary and needed in a world filled with exclusion. But the campaign runs a bit contradictory when compared to another P&G effort, “Thank You Mom,” which resurfaces during each Olympics, as it did again during last month’s Winter Games. In it, we see an effort aimed at celebrating just one half of the parenting duo. It’s one thing to market to a certain segment – as it’s doing with the “Mom” promotion – but another to want it both ways, as P&G emphatically implores us that “a world free from gender bias is a better world for all.” Imagine what sports-loving dads were thinking when they watched regular nightly exclusion during the 17-day PyeongChang Games, as only mothers were thanked for helping athletes achieve their dreams. Meanwhile, these same dads would simultaneously encounter the #WeSeeEqual declaration, and another occasional P&G effort, #LoveOverBias – both exhorting humanity to treat everyone equally. Everyone, that is, except customers. These conflicting messages aren’t just confusing, they’re actually illogical; it’s impossible to pair the word “equality” with brands that concurrently exclude fathers, but P&G has indeed done the impossible. Media writers have praised the effort of #WeSeeEqual – and rightly so. On its own, it’s an incredibly commendable campaign and well-executed. But there’s no denying the mixed message it sends to dads and the parenting community. If equality is going to mean something, the corporate world needs a genuine effort with a real, authentic backing – in word and in deed. Otherwise a company is just selling products on a shelf, not a mission. Uncategorized #LoveOverBias, #MeToo, #TimesUp, #WeSeeEqual, dads, gender bias, moms, Olympics, P&G, Procter & Gamble, PyeongChang, Thank You Mom, Winter Games 0 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1146
__label__wiki	0.832801	0.832801	TV Boxsets Movie Showdown Soundtrack Thursday Reviews: A-Z The Jane Bond Conundrum by Kelechi Ehenulo “My name is Bond, James Bond.” In a world of iconic quotes, Bond’s legendary introductions are as definitive since the birth of cinema language. Just like The X-Files and Batman, the world of James Bond has been a staple of my cultural upbringing. My first introduction to Bond was Roger Moore and A View to a Kill, a film which might not be the greatest Bond adventure but will always hold a sentimental place in my heart (and that includes Duran Duran’s awesome Bond song). And if you need further illustration about my passion for the debonair spy, when I started Confessions From A Geek Mind five years ago (young, fresh-faced and still finding my writing feet), my first major undertaking was reviewing every single Bond film, celebrating it’s 50th anniversary with the release of its impressive blu-ray box set. After much delays and speculation, Bond 25 is now in motion with director Danny Boyle helming the next adventure. But subsequently, there have been calls for the franchise to re-invent itself again after Daniel Craig retires from the role. Is it time for Bond to change race or gender, especially in a time when there is a conscious movement for equality and representation? Well Gillian Anderson was linked with the role back in 2016 and just recently, Idris Elba’s name has been in the news again after a source claimed that the producing duo of Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were ready for a ‘Black Bond’ – only for the rumour to be shot down (or that Idris is trolling his fanbase). This will definitely sound counter-productive, but as much as I would love a ‘female Bond’, I actually don’t think it’s needed. Now put your pitchforks down and call off that Facebook invite for a mass protest and let me make something very clear: I’m not against the idea of having a ‘black bond’ or specifically, a ‘female Bond’. If the announcement came along those lines, I would welcome it with open and excited arms and give it the support it deserves. Fierce, online judgement about an actor’s appearance has sadly become a mandatory hotbed of excuses for why actors can’t portray a character (transport your mind back to the days of when Craig was criticised for being ‘too blonde’ for Bond). However, if Tom Cruise’s latest adventure in Mission: Impossible – Fallout at the age of 56 is anything to go by, then factors like that shouldn’t be completely disregarded in acquiring the right actor for the role. But in delving into this topic, it’s hard to ignore the historical factors. Bond’s legacy is a symbol of an idealised male fantasy. Ian Fleming’s books set the standard, but it wasn’t until Goldfinger when Bond as a commercial figure started to materialise. The Aston Martin car, the Savile Row/Tom Ford suits, the cigarettes, the Dom Pérignon champagne, the gadgets, the espionage, the globe-trotting escapades and even the women are all part of Bond’s romanticised signature. With over fifty years of cinema history under his belt, Bond has elevated as a British institution, a unique feat amongst the trend of comic book heroes and big budgeted properties. There is no reason why Bond can’t switch gender or ethnicity, especially when the franchise has already introduced a precedent in its characters of Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), Felix (Jeffrey Wright) and M (Judi Dench). If the rumours were to be believed, Chiwetel Ejiofor would have played Blofeld in Spectre. Other than the outdated and tiresome argument of ‘preserving the male masculinity’, there is a legitimate case to be made about what Bond psychologically represents. Bond is not perfect – he is a flawed yet deeply patriotic individual who fights in the shadows for Queen and country. But he is the alter-ego and struggling persona of writer/creator Ian Fleming. Bond was everything he wanted to be, a hero. Working mostly behind a desk for the British Naval Intelligence with no front-line experience, Bond’s exploits became Fleming’s creative and devoted ventures, utilising his real-life experiences (both professionally and personally) to bolster its detail. This reflection came to light due to the real-life emergence of the Cold War and finding an archetype to be an answer to that threat. Since Bond’s transition from grounded reality book to escapist, fantasy film, Bond’s core essence has remained the same, only deviating due to actor choice and the cultural signs of the times which have been used to standardise his tropes and lifestyle. I mean, who could ever forget Moonraker, a franchise response to Star Wars? Now that is not to say that change can’t happen, especially when Doctor Who, a franchise of equal longevity undertook that brave challenge with their selection of Jodie Whittaker. They’re both fictional characters, granted one is a spy and the other, a time-lord alien. But if Bond’s history is to change, then it can’t be done half-heartedly or without any considerable thought. You only have to look at 2017’s The Mummy at how not to do it; a tonally confused film so concerned about establishing its cinematic universe and Tom Cruise’s miscast credentials, that it forgot to tell an engaging story. Its severe neglect towards Sofia Boutella was criminal as a missed opportunity to redefine the titular character as female. Underdeveloped and ineffective, the modifications made were not presented with a nurturing respect in a franchise dominated by Imhotep and his quest to bring his dead girlfriend back to life (even if that meant the complete destruction of that world). The point I’m illustrating it that Bond (for better or for worse) should try to elevate above those arguments. It shouldn’t be an impulse reaction because of marketing trends that celebrate the new ‘in’ thing like avocado on toast. The decision to change has to come from a passionate desire to bring the best out of the franchise but most importantly, because the strong script justifies the inclusion (an overlooked factor when it comes to the quality of Bond films). By doing this, Broccoli and Wilson understand they are effectively not just rebooting Bond as a modern-day concept but its entire legacy. Changing genders would certainly confront the comfortable stereotypes about gender expectations. Males are often seen as aggressively heroic and admirable no matter how reckless, selfish or entitled their personal endeavours are, versus the female traits of sexualised or sidekick objects of desire. It’s not to say women can’t play anti-hero characters such as Bond. That would be severely ignorant when we have been honoured with characters such as Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Catwoman (Batman Returns/The Dark Knight Rises), Hit Girl (Kick-Ass), Beatrice Kiddo (Kill Bill), Molly Bloom (Molly’s Game) and even Arya Stark (Game of Thrones) to name a few. It also encourages a cynical narrative that women can’t be as complicated or nuanced as their male counterparts. But what you certainly don’t want is a ‘copy and paste’ attitude where it doesn’t evolve the character. That’s what happened with The Mummy (2017) where Boutella’s interpretation was reduced to highlighting how comparable her powers were to Imhotep. Women are fascinating and beautifully complex, and a ‘female Bond’ deserves something unique and tailor-made, one that respects Bond’s ‘tortured-soul’ narrative that Fleming instilled but is given a natural, emotive drive to push it into a new direction. Regardless whether Bond goes to a female actress or someone from a different ethnicity, that incoming actor deserves the right to make it their own without the comparisons of the past and deserves material that gives them plenty to manoeuvre with. If you’re asking who could fit that bill, then that would be Idris Elba. That’s not founded because of his ethnicity or a societal consciousness, but because he is one of the best British acting talents we have right now who can genuinely bring something different to the role. Based on that notion (for a role that has been debated and disputed endlessly to death), I think women are skilled and capable enough to establish something new. Charlize Theron’s ‘kick ass veracity’ as displayed in Atomic Blonde is one notable example. Based on the 2012 graphic novel, The Coldest City, Theron as Lorraine Broughton was a homage to the Cold War spies of 80s Berlin, fuelled by her unapologetic and unreserved demeanour. While there are significant comparisons with John Wick, Theron’s commitment to push her character to an uncompromising, combative extreme certainly earned her respect and credibility. Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) from Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Fallout combined her use of mystery and stealth and the complicit and compromising nature of her work. The Bond producers are certainly exploring that alternative vision in The Rhythm Section starring Blake Lively, scheduled for a 2019 release. If you venture outside Western cinema, then Michelle Yeoh (Star Trek Discovery, Tomorrow Never Dies) has been a trailblazer in this field reaching as far back as 1985 with Yes, Madam! Certainly not to paint this into a narrow-minded corner, but it shouldn’t be restricted to just to physical attributes or fighting skills, especially in light of Frances McDormand’s outstanding performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Female characters can be whatever they want, and when there is a distinct vacuum of female-driven spy films (TV fairs better with Carrie Mathison in Homeland, Sydney Bristow in Alias, Emma Peel in The Avengers and Elisabeth Jennings in The Americans), there is an expansive opportunity to explore that, outside the restrictions that franchises hold themselves accountable to. The examples are there – it just needs that push. But if we are still insistent on a ‘female consciousness’ within the Bond Universe, then perhaps it’s not just Bond that needs updating. The grateful aspect of Craig’s tenure is that projection of an emotive Bond, straying away from the misogyny traits by allowing Bond to ‘grow up’ and evolve. It follows the tone that was established under Lazenby and Dalton. If the franchise wants to be viewed as relevant, then the continued modernisation of the Bond girls would be a good place to start. The essence of the Bond girl has always been dreamlike and larger than life, right down to their exotic names, but Bond’s uncomfortable history with women as an unchangeable product of its cultural past is evident. Think back to Goldfinger, arguably the most highly regarded Bond film had Pussy Galore “cured” of her lesbian ways thanks to Bond (in the book, her character was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 12). Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) was treated as a ditzy, damsel in distress that Bond mocked for her stupidity in The Man with the Golden Gun. Solitaire (Jane Seymour) was tricked by Bond into sleeping with her, which resulted in losing her mystical powers in Live and Let Die. Even 2015’s Spectre (a film I would rank differently now) was a misjudged throwback to 70s era Bond in its treatment of Lucia (Monica Bellucci) and Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux). Their polarising characteristics showed defiance one minute but easily submitting to Bond’s advances the next. The franchise is not absent of revolutionary female characters who have challenged and matched Bond. Tracy (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), Agent XXX (The Spy Who Loved Me), Melina (For Your Eyes Only), May Day (A View to a Kill), Wai Lin (Michelle Yoah) and Moneypenny (yes I consider her a Bond girl) are characters who have showcased their independence. Even Camille from Quantum of Solace was underrated as the only Bond girl not to fall for Bond’s advances. But the best representation of a Bond girl belongs to Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). Similar to the events of the book, the romantic relationship was doomed to fail, but Vesper’s duality of genuine love and the maintenance of her secret meant Bond was able to see his world differently. Their introduction in 2006’s Casino Royale still remains the best-written dialogue in the Bond franchise, filled with playful wit yet encompassing an emotional vulnerability that psychologically analyses their compromised reality. That is where I think the Bond franchise can continue to make surpassing inroads. Not pandering one-dimensional women that Spectre returned to in a tone-deaf manner after abandoning dynamic portrayals in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Nor should it be something that turns it into a stylised, forced or retcon gimmick. Madeleine’s story in Spectre mirrored the spirit of Vesper and Tracy’s story in Casino Royale and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service respectfully, but was rushed through, lacking a finesse to elevate the character beyond the page. Like any character, it has to earn the right to be genuine that constitutes a ‘meaningful pursuit’ as Vesper would declare. Now more than ever would be a perfect opportunity to re-introduce a female Bond villain. You would have to go back to Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) from Thunderball or Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) from The World is Not Enough to show that there is space to develop this. Marceau’s performance is particularly striking because how the film played with our pre-conceptions of her being just another Bond girl. We expected Renard (Robert Carlyle) to dominate the proceedings in typical fashion until Elektra King was unmasked as the real mastermind. Brosnan’s Bond films may not have aged well, but Elektra’s impact should not be taken lightly. Her emotional manipulations taunted Bond and ensured he wasn’t just tested physically as an agent, but challenged mentally as well. Since we are in the era of fantasised casting, then how about someone like Kate Winslet or Gillian Anderson taking on that responsibility? At the peak of their versatile powers, they can bring that element right up to date. Could there be room for a female 00 agent to work alongside Bond or even a female director for Bond 26? Again, there are possibilities to explore that. When other franchises are taking risks, it is important that Bond follows suit because it has to progress forward. Bond is a survivor, but it can’t remain in the pits of stagnation. Like any brand, the quality of the film based on its script will remain the purest acid test in regards to dynamic changes. If the script sucks, it won’t work, no matter how bold or audacious it is, and there is no harm in stating that considering that the quality has varied over the years. Yes, franchises of Bond’s calibre are far and few in between, and I understand the voices calling for change. But women deserve their own mythological franchise and if given the right support, can create a legacy that could rival and equal Bond. As with anything, the ball is in Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson’s court. Geek Out & Share This: Posted in DiscussionTagged Atomic Blonde, Bond Girls, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Gillian Anderson, Idris Elba, James Bond, Jane Bond, Mission Impossible, Moneypenny, Sofia Boutella, Vesper Lynd Author: Kelechi Ehenulo Kelechi Ehenulo is the creator and writer of Confessions From A Geek Mind, an analytical film and TV blog. As a freelance film critic, her work can be found on Set The Tape - an independent pop culture website, VultureHound Magazine and podcasts such as The X-Cast, Close Encounters of the Film Kind, The Movie Palace Pod and The Tales We Tell podcast. She thinks Batman: The Animated Series is the best cartoon ever (and that is not up for debate) and loves science-fiction, LEGO and Tottenham Hotspur. View all posts by Kelechi Ehenulo Prev “The greater the suffering, the greater the peace.” – Mission: Impossible – Fallout Review Next “God bless white America.” – BlacKkKlansman Review boxofficebuzzab says: This is a really interesting write-up! I’m personally pulling for Idris Elba as the next Bond; he has a lot of charisma and screen presence, and I feel he would fit well with the role and also bring something new to it. As a female film fan, it is sometimes harder to watch the older Bond films and their treatment of women. I would love to see a really cool, nuanced female villain in a future Bond film (and more female villains like this in general). Kelechi Ehenulo says: Couldn’t agree more and as a fan of the franchise, Bond can go into interesting directions if the producers take a risk. Whilst I do understand the passion to get behind a female bond, I think there will be more freedom to establish something entirely new in its own space and own terms. Bond is already restrictive, not just because it is a franchise, but in terms of style. Swapping Bond from male to female will not solve or change anything if the script is under par. If they’re not prepare for a radical change then it’s best to improve other, much needed areas of the franchise to ensure it reflects the modernity of females and the world itself. Leave a Reply to Kelechi Ehenulo Cancel reply The Digital Erasure Culture The Oscars: Where Do We Go From Here? Batfleck: The Underappreciated Batman Me, Mum and Kubo and the Two Strings Heroes and Villains: The New Age of Women Proud Sponsors of London Film Festival 2019: Color Out of Space Review "My motto is if you want to win the lottery you have to make the money to buy a ticket." - Nightcrawler Review “Hey! You're Rick fucking Dalton. Don't you forget it.” - Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Review “Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a garden. 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__label__wiki	0.734975	0.734975	Humpback Whale Population Leaps Back From Near-Extinction — From Just 450 To Over 25,000 24 Voices That Are Warning America About What Is Coming, And Most Of Them Are Being Censored And Persecuted TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THREATENS 100% TARIFFS ON $2.4 BILLION OF FRENCH GOODS Report: Google Insider Gives 950 Pages of Documents to DOJ Many people are not aware that back in April of 2017, tech giant Google embarked on massive effort to ‘cleanse’ their search engines of content which Google’s executives believe should not be widely seen or read by billions of viewers across the globe. However, Google’s censorship was not limited to ‘right wing’ or ‘pro-Trump’ information as has been widely reported by numerous conservative outlets. Google’s political censorship program has also buried content and redirected internet searches away from left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites, cutting the search traffic of leading alternative news outlets by well over 50 percent since they implemented their corporate information purge in April 2017. In some instances, website traffic from Google searches dropped more than 70%. This political lustration by the Silicon Valley conglomerate has had a devastating effect of independent media outlets worldwide, as Google continually works to control the public information space. But their gross manipulation is now beginning to be exposed. Journalist Sara Carter reports… A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms – in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content – delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust division Friday. The former Google insider, who has already spoken in to the nonprofit organization Project Veritas, met with SaraACarter.com on several occasions last week. He was interviewed in silhouette, to conceal his identity, in group’s latest film, which they say exposes bias inside the social media platform. Several weeks prior, the insider mailed a laptop to the DOJ containing the same information delivered on Friday, they said. The former insider is choosing to remain anonymous until Project Verita’s James O’Keefe reveals his identity tomorrow (Wednesday). He told this reporter on his recent trip to Washington D.C. that the documents he turned over to the Justice Department will provide proof that Google has been manipulating the algorithms and the evidence of how it was done, the insider said. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee in December, 2018, that the search engine was not biased against conservatives. Pichai explained what algorithm’s are said Google’s algorithm was not offensive to conservatives because its artificial intelligence does not operate in that manner. He told lawmakers, “things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it” are what drives the search results. Pichai said even if his programmers were anti-Republican, the process is so intricate that the artificial intelligence could not be manipulated and it was to complicated to train the algorithm to fit their bias. Google did not immediately respond for comment on the insider’s claims, however, this story will be updated if comment is provided. The insider says Google is aware most people are unaware or not knowledgeable about these advanced IT systems and therefore unable to determine who is telling the truth. “I honestly think that a free market can fix this issue,” he told this reporter at a meeting in Washington D.C. “The issue is that the free market has been distorted and what’s happened is that the distortion is so grotesque and the engineering is so repulsive, all we need to do is just expose what’s going on. People can hear that it is bad but that can be bias. But when they see what Google has actually written with the documents, this will actually be taught in universities of what totalitarian states can do with this type of capability.” Continue this story at Sara Carter Watch the following Google whistleblower interview published by Project Veritas: READ MORE GOOGLE NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Google Files SUPPORT OUR MEDIA PLATFORM – BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TV Breaking News, US News DOCTORS killed more Americans last weekend than mass shooters… but there’s zero outrage from the media or leftists Portland braces for “End To Domestic Terrorism” rally that could bring more clashes between ‘Proud Boys’ and ‘Antifa’ The Facts: Sonia Poulton, a British journalist, social commentator, and filmmaker, has been investigating the dark... Source: Mac Slavo Donald Trump really loves his tariffs! The Trump administration is now threatening to...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1152
__label__wiki	0.622475	0.622475	Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group Departs for Indo-Pacific Deployment Dynetics’ X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle Performs its Maiden Flight AEHF-6 Military Communications Satellite Delivered to Florida Ahead of March Launch Sierra Technical Services Completes Engine Run Testing on 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) Egyptian Air Force F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes Killing Pilot DefPost A Comprehensive Aerospace & Defense Portal AEW&CS Air/ Missile Defense Small Arms and Light Weapons Directed-energy weapons GeoPolitics/ Policy Asia-Pacific GeoPolitics/ Policy Magnitude 3.4 earthquake hits North Korea September 23, 2017 September 23, 2017 Arun Mathew 0 Comments Earthquake, North Korea, Nuclear Test A 3.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the northeastern North Korea on Saturday at 4:29 p.m., Chinese news agencies reports citing China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The earthquake, with an epicenter depth of 0 km, reportedly took place at Kilju in North Hamgyong Province. According to CENC seismologists, the earthquake is probably caused by a nuclear detonation as it took place around 20 km southeast from sixth nuclear test site. But South Korea’s weather agency, Meteorological Administration (KMA) said that a 3 magnitude tremor is presumed to be a natural quake. “The quake is presumed to have occurred naturally,” an agency official said. “A sound wave, which is usually generated in the event of an artificial earthquake, was not detected.” The event has not yet been confirmed by the United States own earthquake monitoring service, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). If it is a nuclear test, the low magnitude of the earthquake event suggests a much smaller yield compared to the Sept. 3 hydrogen bomb test which triggered a 6,3 magnitude seismic event. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to take the “highest-level” action in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to “totally destroy” the North over its nuclear and missile programs. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said later in New York that Pyongyang may consider its most powerful test of a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. ← USAF C-17 Globemaster III arrives at Mexico City for HADR Ops Pakistan Navy Sea King helicopter test-fires AM39 Exocet anti-ship missile → Copyright @ 2017 DefPost. All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1172
__label__wiki	0.972134	0.972134	On Cue: Jacques Greene On Cue is our flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their local scenes and beyond. This week, Amy Fielding talks to Toronto-based DJ and producer, Jacques Greene, about his new album, 'Dawn Chorus', creating a narrative, and the art of collaboration. He also steps up with an hour of mesmerising electronics for the club, after-party, and beyond Amy Fielding “Lately I’ve been recovering from the initial blast of the release of the album,” Jacques Greene tells DJ Mag. “I’m feeling grateful, accomplished, and tired.” The album Greene is talking about is ‘Dawn Chorus’, a hazy after-hours trip through sublime electronics. It’s been almost a decade since the release of his debut EP, ‘The Look’, on Glasgow’s LuckyMe, the original home of Hudson Mohawke. Since then, Greene has masterfully blurred the lines between full-blown club sounds and emotive musical journeys, while carving his own distinguished sound. The producer grew up in Montreal and began playing guitar at a young age. “I always devoured music,” Greene says. “If someone tells me about something and I can sense they are passionate about it, then it’s probably worth hearing at least once. That’s led me down many paths and musical eras in my own life. After a few years of guitar I quickly moved onto samples and software in high school, when I first figured out ‘Oh, you mean I can make a WHOLE track by myself?’ - I haven’t looked back since.” Greene went on to intern at the Ninja Tune office in Montreal, where employees and artists on the labels gave him his first real exposure to DJing. He credits fellow Canadian artist Tiga for his introduction to the dancefloor, referring to him as the “all-seeing-eye” for his education in club-centric music. His first release, ‘The Look’, feels a long way away from ‘Dawn Chorus’, but there are still some echoes between them: a sentimental tone, chopped, pitched-up vocals, and glittering synths. The same can be said for its follow-up, ‘Another Girl’, again released through LuckyMe, where a tender sample of Ciara’s ‘Deuces’ adds a glossy sheen to the track. “I’ve definitely tried consciously to keep a thru-line in the work,” he says. “Jacques Greene isn’t my name - it’s the name of a music project, and it feels fun to try to create a sort of narrative and musical world within that universe.” He admits it’s not easy all the time, though. Months go by where the music he creates simply doesn’t fit the idea of “JG”, although it always ends up coming back. As well as working with LuckyMe, he’s released on Night Slugs, 3024, and his own Vase imprint, and remixed tracks for Shlohmo, Radiohead, and Ciara. After dropping a string of singles, he released his first album, ‘Feel Infinite’, through LuckyMe in 2017. An intimate and dynamic debut, the productions weave between deep house, ambience, and lush R&B. Tracks from the album also received key remixes, too. Shlohmo and Baltra put their stamp on some album stand-outs, with a slowed-down ‘You See All My Light’ and lo-fi take on ‘Fall’ respectively. In 2018, Greene released his ‘Fever Focus’ EP. Describing it as “[his] version of ‘DJ Music’”, the six-tracker was the accidental beginning of ‘Dawn Chorus’. “I was writing a lot of music around the release of ‘Fever Focus’,” he says. “I made a few things in a row that had a ghostly quality to them. It was pretty clear I wasn’t making another EP, and I was trying to psycho-analyze myself and put my finger on what the ghostly qualities in these tracks were.” Those ghostly qualities were his hazy memories of post-rave moments. “I kept thinking about leaving after-parties,” he explains. “Walking home, trying to finally fall asleep when your curtain isn’t thick enough and it’s bright out.” These sentiments can be heard through-out the album: from opening track ‘Serenity’, a drum-heavy but soft journey through spiralling sonics; an amalgamation of abrasive and smooth textures, it feels much like those confusing, early morning hours. “I think it’s more fully-realised as an album than ‘Feel Infinite’,” he continues. “I’m so proud of that first record, but I think it was almost like a ‘JG 101 GUIDE’ - a good entry point into what I do. ‘Dawn Chorus’ feels more like its own self-contained chapter.” The album features collaborations, too, which Greene had to push his typically solo self to achieve. He worked with Machinedrum (otherwise known as one half of Dream Continuum alongside Om Unit), Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, and celebrated British cellist and producer Oliver Coates. ”Half of the collaborators were friends that I really wanted to work with, like Machinedrum and Cadence Weapon” he says. “The others were people whose work I admire [from afar]. When it came to doing it, I thought ‘I really wish I had some kind of Oliver Coates-type cello counter-melody here’ and then realised, ‘Why not just see if I can get the real thing instead of faking it?’” Clams Casino, Ebhoni, and Rochelle Jordan making up some of the other album credits. “Collaboration is its own art,” Greene continues. “I haven’t mastered it at all and really look forward to trying more of it. At the end of the day, it’s about picking the collaborators with whom you’ll build something greater than the sum of its parts, not the ones you’ll dilute yourself with.” Alongside his heart-achingly beautiful productions, Greene is well-established as a DJ and live artist. His 2017 appearance on Boiler Room in Montreal, where he performed ‘Feel Infinite’ live in its entirety, is one for the books, but his 2012 garage-tinged DJ set on Boiler Room is excellent, too. Right now, he’s at the end of a hectic year of shows, pulling together more music for release. “I’m collecting a bunch of remixes for the album, which I can’t wait to share with everyone,” he says. He also admits he’s hoping to slow himself down a bit - “if only for my sanity” - and will start back up touring again in early 2020. “As for producers to look out for,” he continues, after DJ Mag ask for any artists to keep an eye on, “people should really be signed up for Mind Of A Dragon’s dub email newsletter.” In Greene’s On Cue mix, there’s new music from Four Tet’s ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ alias, as well as Nightwave’s ‘Dakini Dance’ from her 2019 ‘Rainbow Body’ EP. “I wanted to get into the headspace I’m talking about when I say it’s so late that it’s early,” Greene says. “Starting off with a tiny bit of zig-zagging from ambient into some light club shit, then we go for heady, lie-on-your-living-room-floor space.” Check it out below. Malibu ‘Camargue’ Jacques Greene ‘Understand’ ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - ' ੂ࿃ूੂළඕั✧✧ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡\|̲̲̲͡ π̲̲͡͡ ɵੂ≢࿃ूੂ೧ູఠీੂ ඊູཀ ꐑ(ʅ(ƟӨ)ʃ' Gene Tellem ‘Chipped’ Nocow ‘Far Voices’ Nightwave ‘Dakini Dance’ AV ‘Lain’ Jacques Greene ‘Sibling’ Project Pablo ‘Pill’ S P A ‘Ring Di Alarm’ J Chrysalis ‘Latent Space’ Joy O ‘Burn (ft. Infinite & Mansur Brown)’ Kazu ‘Salty (Nosaj Thing remix)’ Rising Sun ‘Ambient’ Jacques Greene ‘Stars’ Want more? Check out our recent On Cue mixes from Galcher Lustwerk and Joe Amy Fielding is DJ Mag's digital staff writer. Follow her on twitter here @amebbbb Jacques Greene LuckyMe On Cue Ciel, Big Miz, Nathan Micay, more remix Jacques Greene’s ‘Dawn Chorus’ on new LP: Listen On Cue: Anetha On Cue: J:Kenzo On Cue: Black Jazz Consortium TNGHT are right here, right now On Cue: Galcher Lustwerk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line1181

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