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__label__cc	0.703627	0.296373	Accendo Press Pet News All the news you need to know about pets Your Dog Can Also Suffer From Anxiety By Accendo Press on Jul 15, 2014 in Dogs Continuous barking, destructive behavior, drooling and tremors are some of the symptoms. Spending too much time alone, visiting strangers, the sound of some appliances, thunder or sirens and even renovations in the house can get your dog really nervous and keep your dog in a state of anxiety. “Detecting the origin of anxiety is the first step to the cure of the animal, since in most cases is not due to a single factor, but rather the sum of many,” said Edgar Gutierrez, director of the Veterinary Clinic La Salle University. Separation anxiety is the most common cause, especially when the animal spends a lot of time alone. In these cases, they often take on destructive behavior. “For this separation, the pet does not know what to do and starts to do damage, like biting the furniture, scratching the doors or smashing something. They may also have compulsive licking, which even break the skin, “says Nancy Margarita Alarcón veterinary medical specialist in homeopathy and acupuncture. Other pets may become nervous from certain noises, which can range from thunder, shots, explosions, alarms and other sounds being emitted by the vacuum cleaner, blender or hair dryer. In such situations, the behavior is usually run and / or hide in a place where they feel safer. The danger sometimes is that with an uncontrolled escape type of run, the dog could jump out of a window or even go through it. There is also the possibility of social anxiety. The pet panics with other people, because the pet was not properly socialized or handled with other people at an early age. When the pet is confronted by one or many people together, it can feel trapped and cornered, and thus either react aggressively or become retracted. In these type of situations, cats usually respond more by trying to hide, may become aggressive or stop eating. Many of these situations can be controlled. “If you were to do a behavioral modification, you can modified he pets reaction to a noise, such as hammering, by having the dog become familiar the noise,” advises Gutierrez. Some symptoms to look for: Continuous barking. Destructive behavior. Scratches on doors and furniture. Tendency to escape. Drooling. Tremors. Tendency to hide. Urination and defecation in unusual places. Attitudes of aggression. It can cause skin lesions by continuous licking (self-mutilation). Hyperactivity. Low appetite. If you pet has any of the above, your veterinarian can help you and instruct you further. Behavioral modification is the best course of therapy, but drug therapy and in extreme cases, veterinarians can try massage, homeopathy and acupuncture. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more great content just like it. Select Month July 2014 (16) Provide Prophylactic Dental Cleaning for Your Pet Our Partner Hospitals All Pet Care Hospital - Clearwater FL © Copyright Accendo Press Pet News 2020. All rights reserved. WordPress \| WordPress Themes \| XHTML	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line2
__label__cc	0.569491	0.430509	You are here: Home / Archives for alt.religion.scientology Jesse Prince: One-time Second in Command of Scientology Speaks (August 24, 2000) August 24, 2000 by Clerk1 24 Aug 20001 “Jesse Prince” <jesseprince@lisatrust.net> Originally, my “Tales from the Cult” response was part of a thread started by some brainwashed Scientologist. I have made it a separate post so that it can be seen by more people. The original message is at the end of my tale. The first line of the original post began with: So what’s next for Jesse? Here is what’s next. It’s time for TALES FROM THE CULT. Listen carefully. There was once a fellow named John Nelson who at one time was the top executive in the ever changing quagmire of false corporations within Scientology. His post title was Commanding Officer, Commodore Messenger Organization International, the year in question was 1983. It was during this time period that Hubbard was informed by the high priced lawyers (of course paid for by your donations) Lenske Lenske and Heller that he would no longer be able to send his “urgent” orders into any Scientology corporation like he was use to doing because it endangered Scientology’s chance at getting it’s 501 C3 tax exempt status. Hubbard went into a complete rage and decided he no longer cared what happened in Scientology because he felt Scientology was being taken away from him. Hubbard considered everyone, especially Miss Cabbage of being against him and the majority of the executives over the fake Scientology corporations were removed. John Nelson was just one of the casualties of Hubbard’s rant and he was removed from his position of power. There is so much I could say about what happened at that time, and I surely will another time. Suffice to say, John ended up leaving the Sea Org and joined David Mayo who started many groups called AAC or Advanced Ability Centers. The AAC offered the full range of Scientology services at a greatly reduced price without the insanity of heavy ethics. Many Scientologist flocked to the AAC and reported they were having more wins and gains with David Mayo than they ever had in Scientology. To say the least, this was very disturbing to Hubbard, who by now was on the down swing of his manic depression. Hubbard ordered Miss Cabbage to get Mayo and Nelson thrown in jail by whatever means because they were a horrible embarrassment to Scientology. Ultimately, it became my job to get them put in jail. Many intelligence operations were run on Mayo, Nelson and his groups. There was no lack of people to run the operations because contrary to the party line of “The Guardians Office was criminal and gotten rid of…”, many of the people that were in the old GO were now part of a new forming organization called Office of Special Affairs. Again, this story is about John Nelson. Rick Aznaran, Chief of Security for Miss Cabbage’s new International Management ran an operation on John Nelson that nearly cost John his life. John was traveling in Hong Kong on business. Unbeknownst to John, Rick Aznaran and a newly hired private investigator were watching Johns every move. Rick and his PI had very high end bugging devices as well as the standard breaking and entering tools. The breaking and entering tools are fully described in Scientology sacred scriptures seized by US FBI agents when they raided Big Blue in 1977. John had a hotel room in Hong Kong and at one point left to meet with business contacts. When John left his hotel room, Rick and his PI friend broke into Johns room and placed bugging devices in lamp stands and the telephone. Rick figured out how to handle the problem with John once and for all. In Hong Kong, if a person is caught with a large amount of heroin, the person caught gets the death sentence. The PI with Rick called me from Hong Kong and told me that Rick had planted a large amount of heroin in John’s room. Rick was arranging for the Hong Kong police to raid John’s room because John was a drug dealer. The PI wanted to make sure I understood what was going on here and the PI wanted NOTHING to do with getting an innocent person framed and killed. The PI said he was on his way back to the states and Rick would have to do his dirty work alone. I remember at the time being horrified that this could even be happening. I myself had been involved with Rick illegally bugging other people but never had we ever done anything to get anyone killed. I told Rick it was the wrong thing to do and to get his ass back home as fast as he could. Miss Cabbage was told what was happening and agreed Rick should come back home because too many people knew what the op was as I had already told many people about it. Too many people knew about it. Too many people wanted nothing to do with it. That is the level of morals and ethics you find in the criminal cult of Scientology. So many people have left the Sea Org and Scientology because they found out what Scientology is really about. Oh you don’t know what it’s all about yet? Let me spell it out for you, it’s really very simple.Money, Power and Control through lies and deception. I guess there was no one with honor left to protect me when my ticket came up to get set up. What do you think that means for you should you ever decided to start thinking for yourself? Unlike you I have real friends now who know and see your cult for what it is and I promise you I will be okay. The moral to the story is, where you are there are no morals. — Jesse Prince The Lisa McPherson Trust Document source: https://web.archive.org/web/20020302091430/http://www.raids.org/gen00303.htm ↩ Filed Under: Other writings Tagged With: alt.religion.scientology, David Mayo, David Miscavige, Jesse Prince, John Nelson, L. Ron Hubbard, LMT, Rick Aznaran	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line22
__label__cc	0.712858	0.287142	340-06. A beach in Demarest - Lloyd State Park, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 10, 2003 A beach in Demarest - Lloyd State Park, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 10, 2003 A beach in Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, September 6, 2003 Beach sand ripples at Deepwater Pt. in Demarest - Lloyd Memorial State Park at low tide. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, November 13, 2003 Basin of Slocums River in Demarest - Lloyd State Park, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 10, 2003 Remains of a gull s lunch on a parking (not yet open) in Demarest - Lloyd State Park, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 10, 2003 Beach sand ripples at low tide in Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, November 14, 2004 Giles Creek in Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, November 14, 2004 A piping plover in Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, June 15, 2004 A nesting piping plover in Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, June 15, 2004 A nesting piping plover with eggs in Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, June 15, 2004 Giles Creek and a salt marsh at the entrance of Demarest - Lloyd State Park. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, June 21, 2004 Floats on a fence of a private house in Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, July 31, 2003 Little Beach near Allen s Pond. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, October 5, 2003 A fish on Horseneck Beach near Allen s Pond. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, September 18, 2003 Floats on a fence of a house on Little Beach near Allen s Pond. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, October 5, 2003 Algae on Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Massachusetts, April 20, 2003. A plant in Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Massachusetts, April 13, 2003. Fishing after sunset, near Allen s Pond, view from Little Beach. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, October 5, 2003 View from Little Beach, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth, at evening. Massachusetts, July 31, 2003 Seaweeds on Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Massachusetts, April 20, 2003. Salt marshes of Slocums River near Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, October 29, 2004 A fence of a house in Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Massachusetts, April 20, 2003. Floats on a fence of a house in Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Massachusetts, April 13, 2003. Codium fragile (Deadman s Fingers) on Little Beach of Buzzards Bay, near Allen s Pond in south Dartmouth. Massachusetts, April 20, 2003. Shells (mostly Jingle Shells) collected on Little Beach in south Dartmouth 4/13/03. Massachusetts, May 1, 2003. Fire-control installations at Gooseberry Point (Horseneck Beach State Park). Westport, Massachusetts, May 17, 2003 From Horseneck Road in Dartmouth. Massachusetts, May 26, 2003 Near Cedar Dell Lake in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 7, 2003 View from Lucy Little Road near UMass Dartmouth, Massachusetts, April 8, 2003. A farm in Dartmouth, view from Horseneck Road. Massachusetts, November 23, 2003 Tower Road in UMass Dartmouth next day after a snowstorm. Massachusetts, March 7, 2003. Forsythia in bloom near Cedar Dell Lake in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 7, 2003 Gooseberry Point at evening (Horseneck Beach State Reservation). Westport, Massachusetts, October 24, 2003 A forest between UMass Dartmouth and Cedar Dell Lake, Massachusetts, April 8, 2003. Atlantic Ocean from Gooseberry Point at evening (Horseneck Beach State Reservation). Westport, Massachusetts, October 24, 2003 A dam on Paskamansett/Slocums River from Rock O Dundee Road in Russells Mills village. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 28, 2003 A dam in Russells Mills village, on Paskamansett River, view from Rock O Dundee Road. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, November 28, 2003 Horseneck Beach, from East Beach Road. Westport, Massachusetts, May 17, 2003 View from East Beach Road of Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, July 31, 2003 Herring Gull near East Beach Road of Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, July 31, 2003 A dam in Russells Mills village, on Paskamansett/Slocums River, view from Rock O Dundee Road. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, November 23, 2003 Battleship BB-59 USS Massachusetts and Braga Bridge from Fall River Heritage State Park at 4:32 p.m. Massachusetts, December 22, 2003 Battleship BB-59 USS Massachusetts and Braga Bridge from Fall River Heritage State Park at 4:49 p.m. Massachusetts, October 29, 2003 A road to parking lot No. 12 in UMass Dartmouth next day after a snowstorm, view from Tower Road. Massachusetts, March 7, 2003. Tower Road, University library and Campanile Tower in UMass Dartmouth next day after a snowstorm. Massachusetts, March 7, 2003. Ocean from a tip of Gooseberry Point (Horseneck Beach Park). Westport, Massachusetts, July 25, 2003 Ocean from Gooseberry Point (Horseneck Beach Park). Westport, Massachusetts, July 25, 2003 A marsh of Halfmoon Flat of Horseneck Channel, view from John Reed Road (Horseneck Beach State Reservation). Westport, Massachusetts, October 24, 2003 Vesa Nevalainen, David Z. Goodson and William Dills at annual Holiday Potluck Luncheon of Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry of UMassD, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, December 17, 2003 Auto repair service(?) at State Road. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, March 19, 2004 Gerald B. Hammond, David Z. Goodson, Sapna Sharma, and researchers at annual Holiday Potluck Luncheon of Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry of UMassD, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, December 17, 2003 Borges House and Garden Center at 611 State Road. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, March 19, 2004 Southern kelp (Laminaria saccharina)(?) on Gooseberry Point (Horseneck Beach Park). Westport, Massachusetts, July 25, 2003 Hobby shop and small engine service at State Road. Dartmouth, Massachusetts, March 19, 2004 Taunton River, battleship BB-59 USS Massachusetts and Braga Bridge from Fall River Heritage State Park at 4:44 p.m. Massachusetts, October 29, 2003 Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, May 15, 2003 A beach near Acoaxet. Massachusetts, October 3, 2003 A beach in Acoaxet. Massachusetts, September 14, 2003 Horseneck Beach in Westport. Massachusetts, December 27, 2003 Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, October 2, 2003 Gulls on a beach near Acoaxet. Massachusetts, October 3, 2003 Horseneck Beach in Westport at 3:45 p.m. Massachusetts, December 18, 2003 Horseneck Beach in Westport, at 4:11 p.m. Massachusetts, December 27, 2003 Dunes of Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, May 15, 2003 A beach in Acoaxet at evening. Massachusetts, October 9, 2003 Horseneck Beach at evening. Massachusetts, August 28, 2003 Horseneck Beach, from a parking lot. Westport, Massachusetts, May 17, 2003 Cabins on Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, May 15, 2003 Seaweeds on a beach near Acoaxet. Massachusetts, September 25, 2003 In Dighton Rock State Park, Massachusetts, May 10, 2003 Ray(?) fish on Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, December 12, 2003 Cabins on Horseneck Beach in Westport, at 4:02 p.m. Massachusetts, December 27, 2003 Beach Street in Chinatown. Boston, Massachusetts, August 31, 2003 A beach west from Acoaxet at evening. Massachusetts, October 9, 2003 Horseneck Beach at evening. Westport, Massachusetts, June 6, 2003 Horseneck Beach at sunset (7:11 p.m.). Westport, Massachusetts, August 19, 2003 A shell on Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, September 11, 2003 Dunes of Horseneck Beach near a parking lot. Massachusetts, August 28, 2003 Shells on Horseneck Beach. Westport, Massachusetts, September 11, 2003 Horseneck Beach at sunset. Westport, Massachusetts, August 19, 2003	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line23
__label__wiki	0.764699	0.764699	EC Comics: It's An Entertaining Comic! Part Thirteen: August 1951 Featuring special guest host, John Scoleri! The EC Reign Month by Month 1950-1956 Kurtzman Frontline Combat #1 "Marines Retreat!" ★★★ Story by Harvey Kurtzman Art by John Severin and Harvey Kurtzman "Enemy Assault!" ★★★★ Art by Jack Davis "O.P.!" ★★★ 1/2 "Unterseeboot 113" ★★★ Art by Wally Wood "Enemy Assault!" We join our nameless narrator in the freezing trenches south of Seoul as he watches with mounting fear the steady advance of a wave of Chinese Communist troops. Snapping a clip of ammunition into his rifle, the American soldier takes aim across the snow-covered wasteland and drops one of the enemy’s number. This instigates a tidal outpouring of his fellows, and the American bats their progress off admirably enough before one attacker standing at the very lip of the trench takes aim at him. The two soldiers fire simultaneously. The American awakens later, head pounding from a bullet that impacted his helmet while the Chinese soldier lies dead across his chest. Surveying his surroundings, the American only sees more corpses from both sides littering the trench and it appears that he is the sole survivor … excepting the wounded Chinese troop training a pistol on him. They hold one another at gunpoint, each convinced that the other has invaded home territory. They resolve to wait for backup to see which of them is actually correct. When the American asks how the Chinese soldier came to know English, it opens up a dialogue that reveals the soldiers have more in common than they might have expected. The Chinese soldier is just showing the American photos of his wife and child when Communist and U.N. forces arrive on the scene at the same time, combusting into another round of battle. The Chinese soldier fires at a U.N. troop as he enters the trench and, realizing what he must do, the American guns down the Chinese soldier in turn. As the corpse lies cooling in the snow decorated with the fallen family photos, the American joins his comrades as they prepare for another “Enemy Assault!” Harvey Kurtzman advances the no-holds barred attitude of his war stories from Two-Fisted Tales and refines his masterly touch in the process with the four tales included in the premiere issue of Frontline Combat, the top contender of which is undoubtedly “Enemy Assault.” The narrative flows in such a natural manner that we are never made aware until the moment of crisis what the ultimate goal or “message” is here. Our narrator is another in a likable line of war “heroes,” neither despicable nor virtuous, some chum from New York who’s in a foreign land performing a task that calls into question his morality and his mortality on a regular basis. It’s through an innocent question that he discovers “the enemy” is like him in many of these same ways. Cut through all the politics and the nationalism, they discover that both of them are simply men. This is potently illustrated in what just might be my favorite single panel from E.C. thus far, a long shot of the two troops squatting in the trench as the Chinese soldier proffers his family snapshots while surrounding them on all sides are the fallen bodies of their countrymen. Talk about a thousand words. Davis is incredibly hep to Kurtzman’s vibe, proving that he was definitely more at home on the battlefield than in the crypt. At least for now, anyway. One of the three great splash panels on display in this issue. That constant questioning of integrity and fate is also present in “Marines Retreat.” Though the title seems like a frank thumb-bite in the direction of one of the USA’s own, the story is actually another in Kurtzman’s attacks against the portrayal of the American soldier as glorified “superhuman” common in propaganda and saccharine comics of the time. It doesn’t take long for that message to hit home when a fun-loving comrade in the 1st division gets snuffed out by enemy fire just as he’s expressing excitement over breaking into the bottle of Chianti his mother has sent him as a Christmas present. Private Barks is our point of contact this time out, and he can’t help but wonder if he’ll meet a similar end before he gets to return to the paradisaical albeit troubled land he calls home. While the downbeat ending carries its own grim weight, what particularly impacted me in this story was the routine air that accented each successive bout of slaughter. With clockwork precision, the Chinese soldiers firing down on the Americans are efficiently blasted from their perch by Yankee air relief, and when a second wave of Commies charges from below, the Americans take their place as new kings of the hill and rain down gunfire just as had been done to them only moments ago. While the drudgery and cold business of battle have been commented on before, it seemed all the chillier to me in “Marines Retreat.” And another! Speaking of packing wallops, “O.P.”—short for “operation post”—boasts some gnarly bouts of massacre and sacrifice that fit as snugly within the story’s six pages as a bullet in the chamber. During WWI, the commander of a battery of howitzers is attempting to establish feedback with the troops manning the O.P. to see if the Jerries have made any moves. One soldier reports back that all is quiet on the western front, but it isn’t for long: the Germans send a “whizz bang” sailing directly into the trench that the Allied soldiers have reclaimed from the enemy, killing all but the one soldier operating the line to the commander. He watches in paralyzed fear as dozens of Germans enter through a tunnel in the trench’s wall, realizing that they must have honeycombed routes to all the spots the Allies commandeered in their absence. Desperate to nip their counterattack in the bud, the soldier radios for the commander to barrage the trench with explosives just as the Jerries figure out what he’s doing. The last three panels are gut-wrenching. It’s a shame that Russ Heath will only make this appearance in EC’s New Trend; he has a stark style just on this side of cartoonish that I find terribly endearing. "Unterseeboot 113" “Unterseeboot 113” performs admirably enough in the dead wake of the preceding three epics, and it operates in a terrain that will be much more familiar to EC addicts as it portrays the ironic fate of a nasty villain. The “nastiness” isn’t elaborated on much outside of the fact that the target baddie is a Nazi captain of a submarine unit, but then I suppose further elaboration isn’t required for anyone who is a Nazi. Kapitan Kurt Kluge chuckles as an English tanker sinks into the briny depths, the victim of a little early morning gunplay, but soon finds himself begging for rescue from the Queen’s navy when his own ship leaves him high and wet on the ocean’s surface. The British won’t pick him up though; they get readings of a German U-boat in the area and leave the Kapitan to the mercy of the nautical gods. Wood's art doesn't quite take my breath away here ("Not like the sea did for Kapitan Kluge," chuckles a GhouLunatic), but this brief excursion on the high seas draws the issue to a solid close. -Jose An intense moment from "O. P."! Peter: Among the slew of new artists we get to enjoy this month is a master of illustrated war, Russ Heath. Alas, "O.P." is Heath's single appearance in an EC combat funny book so we'll have to savor this one opportunity. Jack and I have been lucky enough to survey Heath's prodigious output for G.I. Combat (where he co-created the long-running "Haunted Tank" series) and the other DC war titles; I'd go out on a limb and call him the greatest war story illustrator of all time (I duck as the Joe Kubert fans throw vegetables at me). This issue contains all-around solid writing and art, not a bad one in the quartet, but I'd give the best of the bunch award to "Enemy Assault!," which contains the obligatory Kurtzman unhappy ending and some fabulous illos by Davis. How is it, when I discovered EC for the first time in the 1970s, that these war comics were, for the most part, ignored? Well, I'm all the richer for discovering them now that I can appreciate them. Jack: By the time I finished reading "O.P.!" I was convinced that this comic book should have been called War Is Hell instead of Frontline Combat. All four stories contain minimal plot, hard-hitting battle action, lots of carnage, and downbeat endings. It's interesting to see the positive approach to immigrants and friendly foreigners in stories like "Marines Retreat!" in light of today's anti-immigrant sentiment. I agree that "Enemy Assault!" is the best of the bunch, mainly due to the fantastic art by Jack Davis, who seems to thrive on war stories. The art is outstanding in all four stories and having Kurtzman write them all provides a consistent tone. Two-Fisted Tales #22 "Enemy Contact" ★★★★ "Dying City!" ★★★ 1/2 "Massacre at Agincourt" ★★ 1/2 "Chicken!" ★★★★ Art by John Severin and Will Elder "Enemy Contact" A medic risks his life racing across a battlefield to save a G.I. dying of appendicitis. With the help of the ailing soldier's comrades and a phone call from a surgeon, the medic performs the operation successfully, only to watch his patient die minutes later in a mortar shelling. "Enemy Contact!" is another of Harvey's attempts to educate the public on the horrors of war and the lesson is a potent one. I'd lay money down that the writers of the MASH TV show grew up reading TFT and FC and integrated some of the shocking visuals from some of the more disturbing stories. "Dying City!" gives us our first glance at the work of future legend Alex Toth, whose stark style could be polarizing; here, only elements of that style show through. Toth's early work resembles Kurtzman's in a way. The story, wherein a young North Korean swears to his family he'll join the revolution and bring a better world home to them, is another bullseye by Harvey, who doesn't spare the grime and grit one iota. Once again, Harvey's message that war produces nothing but corpses and madness is hammered home without being entirely preachy. But, since no other company was producing stories like these, could we really call the messages Kurtzman delivered preachy? "Dying City!" "Massacre at Agincourt" "Massacre at Agincourt" chronicles the advent of the longbowman in war back in the 15th century. Though the story is nicely illustrated (in insanely minute detail) by Wally, the whole affair comes off as Monday morning in History class; it's violent and gory as all hell but I prefer Kurtzman's character studies to the slices of history that pop up now and then. Captain Harold Black is one tough son of a bitch and doesn't seem to think of his men as human; they're simply cogs in the wheel and the ends will justify any of the means. When the mission is to take out an enemy observation post, Black sacrifices dozens of his men and gets nowhere. He sends Lt. Hall back to the platoon for more men but when Hall arrives he's told the Marines will be barraging the area and the Captain needs to get out of their way pronto. Hall heads back to tell the Captain but Black, furious that the Lt. hasn't brought men back with him, shoots and kills the man even as he's about to explain. The bombing begins and Captain Black is blown to pieces. Another four-star feather in Harvey Kurtzman's hat, "Chicken!" is a perfect bookend to "Enemy Contact!" and further proof that, for the time being, Two-Fisted Tales is EC's strongest title. Severin and Elder provide tension with very simple images and not a lot of background detail, such as with the end sequence, where Captain Black is surrounded by dropping bombs and wants to know just what Hall was about to tell him. "Chicken!" Jack: "Enemy Contact" is another winner from the team of Kurtzman and Davis, its savage irony reading like a fifth story from this month's Frontline Combat but with more plot. I thought "Dying City!" was heavy handed and showed little of the Toth magic. This month's letters column reveals that Two-Fisted Tales will focus on war stories from here on, and "Massacre at Agincourt!" is a rare trip to a war from the distant past. As a lover of Shakespeare, I was excited to see this story told by Kurtzman and Wood, but for some reason the tale doesn't quite have the horror of the more recent war stories, even though some of Woody's panels are as graphic as anything we've seen. Finally, while I love the art by Severin and Elder in "Chicken!" I think that the plot fizzles out toward the end and perhaps Kurtzman might have done more with the story had he drawn it himself. Jose: Kurtzman proves that there are plenty of rounds left in his creative chamber with the scripts on hand in this issue. While Feldstein had a tendency to overburden his panels with flourishes of purple prose and some frankly unnecessary details, Kurtzman allows his stories to be told in a much more visual and organic style, allowing the urgency and drama within the four frames of the panel to do all the talking. Few scenes have been as cinematic and hand-wringing as the impromptu surgery performed in “Enemy Contact.” The reader can almost feel themselves in that skeletal house along with the troops, sweating it out as each nervous incision is made. (Harvey’s scripts always carried the true ring of experience too: check out that throwaway bit about using bent spoons as surgical clamps!) I have to agree with both of my cohorts regarding “Dying City!” While it certainly seems to beat one over the head by today’s standards, I give the story allowance for innovating the field during its time. I actually enjoyed the historical respite provided by “Massacre at Agincourt.” Wood’s minute details are the perfect complement to Kurtzman’s massive amounts of research, and its blunt portrayal of the savagery on the battlefield likely served as a peppy kick for boys who’d grown bored with history class. “Chicken!” does indeed seem to meander at its climax, and the “gritty” comeuppance of Captain Black seems a touch too contrived to really make an impact. John: Wally Wood was in a class by himself, and can even make a history lesson like "Massacre at Agincourt!" more enjoyable. Lots of French pincushions in the tale, but tastefully done (for an EC comic). The Haunt of Fear #8 "Hounded to Death!" ★★★ Story by Al Feldstein Art by Graham Ingels "The Very Strange Mummy!" ★ Art by George Roussos "Diminishing Returns!" ★★ Art by Ed Smalle "The Irony of Death!" ★★ 1/2 Edward Garson is a creep who likes to starve his hunting dogs prior to a fox hunt. His wife Ann can't stand him or the dogs but agrees to go on a hunt because she's bored. While in the woods, she meets Steve Baxter and an affair begins. Her husband says he'll kill any man who looks at her so, when Garson comes home unexpectedly right in the middle of a tryst, the lovers hatch a plan on the spot. Steve lies down on the floor and plays dead while Ann pretends he forced his way in and died suddenly of a heart attack. Ed takes Steve's body and tosses it to the hungry hounds, but before he's barely back in the house Steve's corpse follows him with an axe and kills him. "Hounded to Death" features a bottom of the barrel script but very nice art by Ghastly, who surprised me with his ability to draw a sexy woman. "The Very Strange Mummy!" "The Very Strange Mummy!" is one that is found on an expedition in Egypt, but when people start dying at night with two puncture wounds in the neck, there is suspicion that the mummy is also a vampire. Hieroglyphics are deciphered and we learn that the vampire was sealed in a mummy case; now that he's been freed, he chases the heroine and the hero puts a stake through his heart. Feldstein's script is just plain boring and it is matched by the uninspired art of Roussos. Famous explorer Vincent Beardsley convinces Mr. Hagen to finance another trip to the jungles of Ecuador, where the Jivaro Diamond Field is located. Once they get there, Beardsley collects a huge diamond and turns Hagen over to the natives, who are known to be head-shrinkers. Beardsley returns home with his prize but soon receives a package in the mail--Hagen's shrunken head, which proceeds to attack and kill Beardsley. The Golden Age art of "Diminishing Returns" doesn't seem to fit in an EC comic, but the sheer nuttiness of this story's conclusion makes it a notch more entertaining than the mummy story that precedes it. "The Irony of Death!" Tired of his job at the Kreegor Iron and Steel Works, Jeff Slag secretly marries the boss's daughter in order to put himself in line to move up the ladder of success. When the boss finds out, he demands that the marriage be annulled, so Jeff knocks him out and drops his body into a vat of molten iron. Jeff tells the workers to process the batch into ingots and, once he's in charge, he has the ingots made into various degrading items, such as a spittoon. Unfortunately for Jeff, "The Irony of Death" has a surprise in store for him: the last two ingots were fashioned into an iron maiden and, when Jeff decides to test it out, the door closes on its own accord, impaling and killing him. Jack Davis saves the day with his fine work on this tale, which reminded me of the sort of stories Michael Fleischer would later write for DC horror comics in the early 1970s. -Jack Peter: "Diminishing Returns" would be an apt subtitle for Haunt of Fear #8 as we see Al's scripts take a giant step backwards. A lot of these horror stories seem to be nothing but set-ups for an "ironic" punchline; which wouldn't be so bad if the irony weren't so forced. Patience is the keyword here, though, as we'll soon see Al and Bill craft tales with legitimate "shock" endings, rather than stories that simply end with a "shock." "Hounded to Death" is a perfect example of the climax I'm alluding to. Feldstein's idea of a twist ending is to have Steven rise from the dead and head after Edward with an axe. Well, we've seen this already several times; it's the go-to finale for lazy horror writers. "Diminishing Returns!" Ed Smalle's single contribution to the EC Universe, "Diminishing Returns," is nothing to bother with, a generic voodoo tale with a lead character who looks like Daddy Warbucks. I just can't get into George Roussos's work and I'm surprised he contributed nine stories to the line, especially with the exacting tastes of Feldstein and Gaines. Again, not that George was an awful artist, it's just that his style doesn't fit in with the rest of the EC bullpen. "The Very Strange Mummy" not only looks like something that would be found in ACG's Adventures into the Unknown, but it also reads that way; it's an awful mishmash that doesn't so much end as just sputter. The same fate befalls the lead-off story but at least Ghastly gives us something to keep the pages turning. This is the story to show people who insist Ingels could never draw an attractive woman. It doesn't happen much, I'll grant you, but it is possible. Jose: I love how quickly Ann and Steve “fall for each other” in “Hounded to Death!” She must be really bored to jump at the slightest provocation of meeting a younger, more handsome man than her husband, and Steve must be quite the slimeball to move in on a married woman after only talking to her for a few minutes. Then again, Steve is quick on his feet; his mauled body has scarcely cooled before he’s trudging after his killer with axe in hand. Undoubtedly the fastest resurrection we’ve seen yet! And is it just me, or does anyone else think that Steve should have cut his losses and hustled off the scene as soon as he realized that Edward was taking him to the dog pen? Narrative incredulity becomes narrative vegetation in “The Very Strange Mummy!” In itself, the premise is actually promising and could’ve been turned into a really gonzo affair. As it is, the story is comparable to watching paint dry. I actually enjoyed “Diminishing Returns!” and Ed Smalle’s art. The Golden Age-cleanliness that Jack alluded to was a drawing point for me. This tale also represents one of the rare instances where the cover of the issue accurately displays a scene from the story, right down to the color of clothing. My low expectations for “The Irony of Death!”—I was fearing another “Cheese, That’s Horrible” (HoF #6)—were thankfully dashed when Feldstein introduced the sadistic ploy of having the killer mold the ingots containing traces of his victim into degrading receptacles. Now that's recycling! Speaking of which, the ending to “Irony...” will be familiar to fans of classic horror stories as the biting finish of the inadvertent kitty-killer from Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw.” Moral for the day: Don’t go anywhere near Iron Maidens unless it’s at a concert. John: Wasn't I just complimenting HoF for having one of the best all around issues? And this is what I get in return? "Diminishing Returns" is right. I doubt Richard Matheson was familiar with this tale when he wrote the teleplay for his short story, "Prey," but I couldn't help picture a Zuni Fetish when seeing a shrunken head biting a man's ankle. And was Steven really so committed to his 'dead' performance in "Hounded to Death" that he let his body be thrown to the dogs? "Hounded to Death!" Weird Fantasy #8 "The Origin of the Species!" ★★ Story and Art by Al Feldstein "It Didn't Matter" ★ 1/2 Art by Jack Kamen "The Slave Ship" ★ 1/2 "The Enemies of the Colony" ★★★ 1/2 Story and Art by Wally Wood The Revere Brothers believe in evolution but disagree on exactly where man descended from. Ernest believes that the answer will be found in outer space and so bids his brother, Stanley (who believes the proof will be dug up here on Earth), a sweet adieu. Ernest boards a rocket ship, bound for parts unknown deep in space, but the ship appears to explode only minutes into take-off. At least that's what witnesses on the ground see. In the ship, everything is calm but for a "lurch." Very soon, the moon comes into view but it's not the moon the men are used to seeing from afar; this rock has lush vegetation and (surprise!) Earth-like atmosphere. The men land and discover ape-like creatures just as the astro-navigator arrives with some bad news: evidently, the "lurch" was actually a time warp and they're standing on the moon as it was one million years ago. Knowing he's on to something, Ernest has two of the creatures captured and the ship sets off, the men hoping they can repeat their trip through time and land in modern times. Alas, no lurch and the crew find themselves on Earth at the dawn of evolution. The ape-monsters escape (surprise!) and the crew die off one by one. In the future, Stanley happens to dig up the spaceship and finds his brother's corpse (surprisingly well-preserved for one million years), along with Ernest's notes. He happily proclaims that both brothers were right! No radio contact with home? ("The Origin of the Species") Just one year after the New Trend launch, you can tell where these time travel stories are going by the second page (I knew the second Stan gives Ernie his "lucky ring," thus setting up the inevitable, "Hey, that corpse is wearing my ring!" scene) and it's just a matter of whether Al can perhaps throw another twist or two in. With "The Origin of the Species," the only twist I didn't see coming was the fact that the lush, vegetated moon was actually the moon (and not, in fact, Earth). Feldstein had a wonderfully naive view of life aboard a spaceship, where every man performs his job in tight trunks and walls appear to be unfinished steel. Up next on the "tired, overused plot lines" list, right after time travel, would have to be the "babe who marries the scientist for his money and then falls for his assistant" bleh that makes up the crux of "It Didn't Matter!," a pre-The Fly piece of nonsense about the world's first "matter transmitter" and the doltish scientist who created it. It's not the science here that goes awry (at least not until the climax), but the overused "romantic triangle" subplot. We're not even given a reason why the fresh-out-of-her-teens Nina marries the old goat with the big brain (ostensibly, it's for the money, but then why does she sound so willing to get the Prof. in the sack?) before we're whisked into the ludicrous murder plot. Assistant Arnold loves Nina so much he advises her to jump into an experimental machine that's never been tested on humans? And, let me back up a bit, why would the Prof. spend ten years perfecting this gizmo and then turn over the construction to a perfect stranger? The mind boggles. Yep, sounds like a foolproof plan to me. ("It Didn't Matter") "The Slave Ship" Captain Jorkin runs "The Slave Ship," but when the Coast Guard threatens to board, dozens of slaves are brutally dumped overboard and drowned. Several days later, a spaceship kidnaps Jorkin and his crew and take them into deep space. All clues point to an interstellar version of what transpired back on Earth and, sure enough, when the ship is approached by a smaller ship, the crew is dumped into space and explode ("...for space, being a vacuum, has no air! And having no air, space has no air pressure! So, the dissolved gases in the human body..." begins the mandatory expository)! What interests me most about this sub-par EC effort is not the lazy, heavy-handed story-telling but the fact that the entire affair looks so out of place in an EC funny book. Though Roussos's work here is far from awful illustrating, the style and heavy inking stick out like sore thumbs from the rest of the EC bullpen. "The Slave Ship" looks, for all the world, as if it came from one of Atlas's pre-code books. Roussos's main claim to fame, as far as comic fans are concerned, was his stretch in the early 1960s as Jack Kirby's inker on several key Marvel titles. Wood!! ("The Enemies of the Colony") On a distant planet, The Galactic Colonization Authority is on the verge of ridding itself of the dangerous Hydra-files, creatures with a taste for the G.C.A.’s favorite pets, the monkey-like Mokos (which reproduce faster than rabbits). After the final Hydra-file is eliminated, the G.C.A., to their dismay, find that the Mokos are actually carnivores and the larger monsters were keeping the population down. A wonderful alien story only Wally Wood could illustrate (the Mokos have the trademark Woodian “popping eyes”), with startlingly detailed panels. As strange as it may seem, the climax of “The Enemies of the Colony” is reminiscent of the famous scene in John Ford’s The Searchers where John Wayne and his “posse” are drawn away from the ranch only to realize they've left the ranchers wide open for an Indian raid. -Peter Jack: Wood’s art on “The Enemies of the Colony” is so gorgeously detailed that it almost looks like Frazetta had a hand in it. Feldstein’s “The Origin of the Species!” is not a bad little time travel story in the end, but why do the astronauts wear tight, long-sleeved shirts and hot pants? And why do they wear salad bowls on their heads when exploring the moon? The Kamen story disappoints by telling us what happens at the end rather than showing us, and this seems to be a trend with Kamen. The slave traders in “The Slave Ship” get their just desserts but the art by Roussos is routine. Jose: Whereas the war titles are currently at the top of the EC food chain, the two SF series are undoubtedly the crawling slugs of the comic book wild. Granted, the horror titles haven’t been without their clichéd plots, but almost without fail we’ve been lucky to get even one middling-to-solid story from either Weird Fantasy or Weird Science. The descriptor “tired” is an apt one for the majority of Feldstein’s scripts, one that could be applied to the first three tales in this issue. Jack beat me to the punch on the space travelers’ wardrobe in “The Origin of the Species!”; their hilarious garb put me in mind of the Ambiguously Gay Duo from SNL. Kamen’s piece is inane soap opera disguised as science fiction. While the period setting and historical brutality in “The Slave Ship” are certainly noteworthy, it progresses in such a formulaic fashion as to deflate any sense of engagement. Wally Wood saves the day yet again with “The Enemies of the Colony,” his intricate designs strengthening a fun script that I could see as having had a definite influence on Bruce Jones; the vicious turnabout seen here is a trait that was rampant in his two series for Eclipse, Alien Worlds and Twisted Tales. Weird Science #8 "Seeds of Jupiter!" ★★★ "The Escape" ★★ "Beyond Repair" ★★ "The Probers" ★★ 1/2 Story by Al Feldstein and William Gaines Sadly, the story never quite reaches the level of B-movie goodness that the splash promises. When an asteroid crashes into a US naval ship at sea, two young sailors pick the wrong time to play a practical joke on their ever-lovin’ pal Peach Pit when they present him with one of the many hard, nut-like seeds within the space rock as a tasty snack. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the seed is actually the freeze-dried embryo of a tentacled monster from Jupiter that, when swallowed by the lunkheaded sea dog, proceeds to drink up all of Peach Pit’s bodily fluids to nurture its growth, leaving the sailor a boiling, desiccated husk when the ship’s physician cuts the little beast free of its human nest. And where does the little tyke go from there? Straight into the mighty blue ocean, of course! The next thing anyone knows, Manhattan is contending with the gargantuan horror that plucks ladies from the streets without discretion. Having studied the remaining seeds back at the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense orders the Marines to harness and destroy the creature’s back-end tentacle that it uses to constantly replenish itself from the Atlantic. Its crazy-straw blown to smithereens, the monster quickly withers away. But Mr. Secretary gets a surprise upon returning to his office: the Old Maid-cleaning woman explains that she tossed the “peach pits” on his desk into the trash and that they’re now on their way to the depths of the Potomac River. "Seeds of Jupiter!" It sure ain’t great literature, but Feldstein’s “Seeds from Jupiter” certainly fits the marquee bill for pure popcorn frills. The story follows a steadily escalating progression of omens and mayhem that fans will recognize from similar tales of monstrous sieges like “The Call of Cthulhu,” Godzilla, and even John Carpenter’s The Thing. Even though the whole tale gets kicked off by the rather inane device of having a character forsake one of the major tenets of adulthood—“Don’t put that in your mouth”—the remainder of the story relies on the tentpole events of Atomic Age cinema to provide eight pages’ worth of passable entertainment that skimps only in that it doesn’t have the mollusk-esque beastie wreak nearly enough dehydrated destruction upon the frightened masses. Your three hosts being told that there's more John Roussos art on the way. ("The Escape") Overall, Feldstein shows a confidence in his prose that helps to distract from the general lack of any new ideas in the remaining three stories. The opening images of the second tale may recall Ray Bradbury’s “Kaleidoscope,” but “The Escape” turns out not to be another from the line of “free adaptations” of the august author’s works but a mild potboiler that finds a crew of three bound for the moon stranded in Earth’s orbit like a rotating satellite when the rockets go on the fritz. While the chances of returning home are slim, the chances of death by starvation and/or asphyxiation remain high, that is until one smart cookie hits on the notion of sending one man outfitted in a spacesuit and makeshift parachute with a couple of bursts from an oxygen tank back home to request help. Even though the family-man captain draws the choice straw, nasty radio operator Warwick makes his own fortunes when he shoots his shipmates and makes the journey himself. But Warwick gets a chilly reception upon touching down on Earth soil when a kook farmer blows him out of his space-shoes thinking him an alien invader. The last-minute contrivance isn’t helped any by the lumpy artwork of George Roussos. "Beyond Repair" “Beyond Repair” finds a handsome space traveler relieving his Melvin roommate of the beautiful woman whom the latter is engaged to before finding out upon their own elopement that she’s actually a robot. Cue organ sting. The tired motions of the narrative are enlivened by some effective characterization on Feldstein’s part, who sees the girlfriend-stealing Lothario through his scheming courtship to a reflective moment where he starts to believe he might genuinely be in love this time around, the irony that it is with a being as superficial as his original pretenses totally lost on him as he gapes at the busted gears of his desire. “The Probers” has Wally Wood stuck with another ho-hum script that is light on action and excitement until its closing just desserts. Captain Scott derides staff scientist Drake for his seemingly merciless vivisection of experimental guinea pigs even as the lab coat explains that it is only through the efforts of men like him that scientific progress can be made. One forced landing on an alien planet and five mysterious disappearances of their shipmates later, Scott and Drake are attacked by a pair of gruesome monsters and dragged kicking and screaming to their laboratory hideaway where—you guessed it—the guinea pig humans are being prepped for study to advance the progress of alien science! Despite being a classic EC stinger, the ending doesn’t quite stick the landing this time around. -Jose "The Probers" Peter: The climactic twist of "The Probers" is painfully obvious halfway through the story but Wally gives it the old college try anyway. George Roussos's art for "The Escape" almost makes me want to take back the bad things I've said about his work thus far. Almost. "Beyond Repair" almost feels like something we've already read; it might be the by-now cliched "one handsome buddy, one homely buddy" gimmick but the perfect woman revealed as a robot also seems a tad bit overworked. That leaves "Seeds of Jupiter," a fabulously goofy old-fashioned giant monster from outer space story. The most inexplicable event is not the monster overrunning a battle field or the Secretary leaving world-threatening peach pits on his desk unattended, but the fact that the dopey "Peach Pit" would put something that fell from the sky in his mouth. And if that isn't an assist from legendary Basil Wolverton (who will show up on our radar when Mad rolls around) on the Hydrated Creature From Another World then it's a sure bet Feldstein was at least influenced by Wolverton's style. Jack: I love a good giant monster story as much as the next guy, but “Seeds of Jupiter!” reinforced my growing boredom with Al Feldstein’s art, even in service of a story that’s really an extension of the old ads selling seahorses by mail. “The Escape” is boring, poorly illustrated and ends with a thud and, while Jack Kamen can always be counted on for some cheesecake, “Beyond Repair” seems like a swipe of Ray Bradbury’s 1949 story, “Marionettes, Inc.” Once again, we can thank Wally Wood for bringing some of his best art ever to “The Probers,” rescuing a predictable plot. John: "Seeds of Jupiter!" might very well be the best dehydrated space monster story I've ever read. If you like watching little monsters grow to be huge monsters, this one is for you. While Jack Kamen does a fine job illustrating "Beyond Repair," I can't help but notice that aside from a few panels with futuristic trappings, everything else has a contemporary 50's feel. Wally Wood gets to do his thing again in "The Probers" (when the extremely wordy word-balloons don't get in the way). While there are no real surprises here, Wood really delivers on that last page. Don't be left in the dark! Be sure to read Star Spangled DC War Stories right here next Monday! Posted by Peter Enfantino at 5:00 AM Labels: EC comics, Frontline Combat, The Haunt of Fear, Two-Fisted Tales, Weird Fantasy, Weird Science Jordan Prejean said... I like the Feldstein cover on The Haunt of Fear. I really enjoy this narrative type of cover that sort of tells an entire story with a single image, though I agree this issue as a whole is surprisingly weak. I think The Haunt of Fear was the best of the horror books once the lineup was solidified around issue #10 but these early issues were feast or famine. I was never a fan of the war books (just not my type of material) but I respect the work done there, for sure. John Severin is very underrated in my opinion, though I'm partial to the work he did for the Warren magazines in the late '60s. It's a weird question, but I wonder whether those "degrading" objects in the "Irony" story included a toilet (maybe shown a little indirectly), or whether that subject was a little touchy even in pre-Code comics (just like on TV for a long while). If the second thing is true, it doesn't exactly bother me, since I always treat that as a very overrated subject, in all-out comedy or anywhere else! But I couldn't help wondering. Jordan, I never read the war books as a kid or a young adult, but I'm blown away by them now. I've never read any of the Warren mags other than The Spirit, so you (and Peter) know way more about them than I do! Grant, it wouldn't surprise me with the EC crew, especially Jack Davis! Star Spangled DC War Stories Part 86: July 1966 EC Comics: It's An Entertaining Comic! Part Thirte... The Hitchcock Project-Bryce Walton Part Three: The... 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__label__wiki	0.723235	0.723235	Call Us Today! 028 9099 7022\|lucy@cliftonbelfast.org.uk Clifton House Belfast Charitable Society Events Past & Present Home/Events Past & Present Events Past & PresentJohn Wallace2017-03-07T15:46:13+00:00 On This Day (OTD) posts are snippets of information to describe what was happening in the Poor House on that day. Current Events are marked in green. Contact 028 9099 7022 for further details of current events or to book a tour. Christmas in the Poor House Tour Clifton House Heritage Centre, N Queen St, Belfast BT15 1EQ, UK Come along and hear about the history of the Poor House from the doors opened in 1774. Hear about Christmas traditions and how they developed through the years. Our tour guides will use original research from our archives to tell the story of those responsible for bringing some festive cheer into the house in the 1800s. The tours begin at 3pm in Clifton House. Car parking is available on site. Price is £6.50 per person . Booking is essential. Please phone 028 9099 7022. OTD1793 A Lying-In (Maternity) Hospital established in Belfast with the help of the Belfast Charitable Society OTD1824 Dr Drummond was given a single plot in the paupers grave to bury those who had been used as research by the Anatomical School. the paupers grave to bury those who had been used as research by the Anatomical School. OTD1945 A Victory Outing was held for the residents stationed at Garron Tower during the War. They headed to Ballycastle for the day. Philanthropy Past & Present: Tour of Clifton House Come and hear tales about Belfast's original Poor House as our tour guide takes you through the interesting, and at times turbulent, history of the Belfast Charitable Society as you walk in the footsteps of the famous Joy and McCracken families. The tours begin at 3pm in Clifton House. Car parking is available on site. Price is £6.50 per person. Booking advisable to avoid disappointment. Please advise in advance of any mobility issues. Please phone 028 9099 7022 or email info@cliftonbelfast.org.uk OTD1824 An infant’s coffin, several years interred, was dug up by body snatchers but left unopened- the Belfast Charitable Society offered a reward of £50 pounds for anyone with evidence of the crime that led to prosecution. OTD1807 Collectors sent out to the people who have not paid their extra water money, and require all arrears to be paid, if this is not complied with, the offenders are to have their water supply cut off ‘without loss of time’ The collectors had received ‘abusive and insulting language’ when trying to carry out their duties 248th Belfast Charitable Society AGM 248th Annual Belfast Charitable Society AGM Followed by a presentation on 'The Life & Times of Mary Ann McCracken' 7pm \| Clifton House \| Booking Essential Secrets from the Northern Ireland State Papers by Dr Éamon Phoenix (Winter Lecture Series) Clifton House Winter Lecture Series 'Secrets from the Northern Ireland State Papers' Delivered by Dr Éamon Phoenix Clifton House, 2 North Queen Street, Belfast, BT15 1ES Door @ 6.30pm for 7pm start Cost £6 or entire series £25 Call 02890997022 or email info@cliftonbelfast.org.uk OTD1820 Dr William Drennan passed away. He was interred at the New Burying Ground. The Hearts of Steel Agitation & the Attack on Belfast c1768-1772 by Dr Éamon Phoenix (Winter Lecture Series) Bricks & Mortals in Belfast's Golden Age c.1770-1830 (Clifton House Winter Lecture Series) 'The Hearts of Steel Agitation & the Attack on Belfast c1768-1772' Belfast, the United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion by Dr Éamon Phoenix (Winter Lecture Series) 'Belfast, the United Irishmen and the 1798Rebellion' OTD1775 An advert was published in the Newsletter: Whoever brings ‘strolling beggars’ to the House will be paid 5S 3d for each ‘after next Saturday’ OTD1794 The Belfast Charitable Society agreed the lying-in hospital are to have liberty of as much water as they ‘have occasion for.’ Orangeism and Irish History, 1795-2019 by Dr David Hume MBE (Winter Lecture Series) 'Orangeism and Irish History, 1795-2019' Delivered by Dr David Hume MBE The Ulster-Scots Tradition and the Weaver Poets by Laura Spence (Winter Lecture Series) 'The Ulster-Scots Tradition and the Weaver Poets' Delivered by Laura Spence OTD1797 The New Burying Ground was opened to the public OTD1799 Belfast Charitable Society Notified the Poor would be returned after the 1798 Rebellion OTD1782 Dr William Drennan presents his small pox inoculation programme to the Poor House OTD1826 Elizabeth Fry met with ladies from Belfast to organise a women's committee for the Poor House OTD1775 Poor Badges not to be renewed - All poor taken to the Poor House instead OTD1805 Founding member of Belfast Charitable Society, Valentine Jones died aged 94. OTD1826 Belfast Charitable Society received a letter to confirm the establishment of a Ladies Committee OTD 1775 Rev William Bristow, a board member, wrote to the Vestry for the loan of the bell and clock of the Old Parish Church and were granted these. OTD1799 Resolved that a section of the Burying Ground be left aside for interring ‘the poor persons as may die not having funds for their interment’ OTD1792 Proposal for the formation of public dispensary (which would ultimately become the RVH) was published in the Newsletter. OTD 1778 American privateer Paul Jones sailed his ship Ranger into Belfast Lough and seized a Royal Navy sloop. Frustrated at Dublin Castle’s response the citizens of Belfast, fearing a French invasion formed themselves into Volunteer companies, armed at their own expense. The Belfast volunteers would billet in the Poor House and use the lawn for drilling. Dublin Castle's response the citizens of Belfast, fearing a French invasion formed themselves into Volunteer companies, armed at their own expense. The Belfast volunteers would billet in the Poor House and use the lawn for drilling. OTD1846 The Belfast Charitable Society agree to take in medical and surgical patients from the General Hospital to free up beds for fever victims OTD1779 Robert Joy and Thomas McCabe propose to employ a large number of children in the house in the manufacturing of cotton. OTD1753 William Drennan born at the Manse of 1st Rosemary St Presbyterian, son of Rev Thomas Drennan the Manse of 1st Rosemary St Presbyterian, son of Rev Thomas Drennan OTD 1798 - The Rebellion Began OTD1790 Francis Joy,father to Robert & Henry Joy and founder of the Newsletter, died. He was buried in the Parish graveyard in Belfast the Parish graveyard in Belfast OTD2001 The new 100 bed Clifton Nursing Home was opened following the ‘Home from Home’ Appeal which raised £1 million OTD1775 One of the first medical reports written was by a surgeon, Mr James Clarke, including ‘Jane Hunter, admitted June 23 1775: A Scorbtick Humour & inflammation in her Leg & bad habit of body, recovering.’ OTD1792 The Belfast Dispensary was set up and housed in the Poor House OTD1770 Mary Ann McCracken was born OTD1847 The Belfast Charitable Society had to reopen the Poor Ground in Clifton Street Cemetery due to the chronic need during the famine OTD1847 Surgeon to the male side of the Poor House, James McCleery, for 12 years died of famine fever. His son was appointed to his father's position in the Poor House OTD1996 A new Act of Parliament, the fifth in the history of the BCS, achieved Royal Assent. This enabled them to move the charity into its third century and begin to raise the funds to build a new purpose built care home. the history of the BCS, achieved Royal Assent. This enabled them to move the charity into its third century and begin to raise the funds to build a new purpose built care home. OTD1817 The Spring Water Commissioners meet for the first time OTD1802 The committee believe that confinement is not a fitting punishment and ‘desire that they shall be kept as low with respect to diet as is constituent with health.’ OTD1866 Mary Ann McCracken passed away OTD1771 The foundation stone for the Poor House was laid by the Sovereign of Belfast, Stewart Banks OTD1779 Daniel Blow, a board member of the BCS society, died. He was the last to have his name recorded on the original 1680 ‘Poores Board’ OTD1944 Residents of Clifton House John Bloomer (82) married Frances Ashe (64) in Largy Parish Church and honeymooned in Larne OTD1818 Grand Duke Michael of Russia visited the Poor House and presented £50 British pounds for the use of the Charity OTD1752 The first meeting of the Belfast Charitable Society was held in "The George" Public House in Belfast OTD1800 A meeting held by the Belfast Charitable Society in the Assembly Rooms to draw attention to the lack of funds and the threat to the ‘very existence of the institution’ unless funds were forthcoming. [The Poor House was still occupied by British Troops at this point] OTD1914 Resident Walter F. Element enlisted in Kitchener’s Army. He was an veteran soldier and was employed in training the troops. His place was to be kept for him should he wish to return. Kitchener's Army. He was an veteran soldier and was employed in training the troops. His place was to be kept for him should he wish to return. OTD1768 Belfast Charitable Society started to collect materials for the construction of the house- sand from Co Down side of Belfast Lough & the board sent a letter of thanks to John Kennedy Esq of Cultra for granting the Society free liberty to quarry stones and lift sand from his estate OTD1946 Residents returned to the House from Garron Tower following the end of WW2 OTD1795 Resolved to recommend to the next general board to consider ‘appropriating one of the fields up the lane [Buttle’s Loney] for the Purpose of a burying ground OTD1940 The running of the House during the war required ‘constant care’ with air raid precautions given much attention. The basement cellar level was used as an air raid shelter with male staff sleeping in the building at night. the building at night, this service is unpaid and voluntary OTD1776 Committee order that a proper place be fitted up as a black-hole for confining delinquents and vagrants OTD1772 Ordered that 1 guinea to given to the several workmen to drink as is customary at the rearing of the roof of the Poor House OTD1775 The first child was admitted to the Poor House OTD1882 Last of the children leave the Poor House, provision being made for them in other places including orphanage societies, parents or relatives, the Industrial school and apprenticeships other places including orphanage societies, parents or relatives, the Industrial school and apprenticeships OTD1808 Robert Stevenson, former physician to the Poor House, bequeathed £1000 following his death. OTD1791 Drought in Belfast. Poor House sent a cart out daily selling water for 1/2p for 4 gallons OTD1797 Waddell Cunningham died. He was a member of the Belfast Charitable Society and also the man who proposed that Belfast should become a slave port. THE BELFAST CHARITABLE SOCIETY Based at Clifton House, the Belfast Charitable Society has long played a role in the development of Belfast and the welfare of its people. Founded by a group of leading businessmen in the city to build a Poor House and Infirmary for the most vulnerable citizens of Belfast, the Society continues to play a part in the city today, led by a board of members. North Belfast Early Intervention Family Support programme The Benn Christmas Dinner: George Benn & his legacy at Clifton House International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: Belfast Charitable Society & Slavery Children in the Poor House 1775-1882 Belfast Charitable Society & Social Enterprise Day 2019 Clifton House and the story of Mary Ann McCracken will feature on the @AntiqueRoadTrip 's episode airing on 28th Jan… https://t.co/z2sgtcWow7 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our followers! The office will reopen on 6th January 2020. https://t.co/Wz5yHLgCfX 2 North Queen Street, Belfast, Antrim BT15 1ES Copyright 2015 Belfast Charitable Society \| All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line34
__label__wiki	0.67264	0.67264	The Web version and the Android version are now available for beta testing. For the Web version, You will need to login again with your normal WazHack account if you have one. Please watch for announcements and updates, either on the Reddit forum or the blog. The Reddit forum is the best place to discuss the beta. Play now online! What are you waiting for? Hit the "Play" tab! There are three versions - the Steam version, the Web version, and the Mobile version. The games are very similar. The user interface is a little different in each, and the Steam and Web version graphics are a little fancier than the Mobile version. Steam Version Just hit the "Play" tab above! You can explore the game up to 300 feet, after that you'll need to buy the Web version. Each male/female pair of classes is just $1 in the mobile version, so you can buy just one to take WazHack on-the-go, or go crazy and support development even more by buying the whole lot! The Android version also supports Android TV. What's new in WazHack 1.3? This release adds eggs, belief systems, and some new items and monsters. Eggs have a number of uses which you'll want to work out as you play. Belief systems vary between classes and character alignment, though some classes have the same belief system (for example the Valkyrie and the Barbarians both believe in the Old Germanic / Norse gods). The belief system is accessed through the "Cast" action (now a green aura not a spellbook). In general, beliefs are designed to be last-resort emergency measures, so for example the Knight can only pray to "The Big Guy" after he has played (and so dined) for quite a while; praying early will reset his timeout; other classes have worse consequences for calling on them too frequently, while others have no difference in consequence. Just show me a Video! Check out this quick WazHack gameplay video. The game isn't quite as "hack and slash" as depicted in this action video, since you really need to pay attention (don't just keep whacking away when a goblin with a giant club walks into the room!). Just show me Screenshots! I want to Review it! Waz will fall over his big hairy feet to help you! Check out the Press page for more info. © 2015 Waz \| Privacy Policy \| Contacts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line36
__label__wiki	0.555684	0.555684	Kaya (@1.2) vs Green Archers United (@9.0) Kaya will win Kaya vs Green Archers United Kaya – Green Archers United Match Prediction \| 17-10-2019 04:00 Additional troubleshooting resources. There is an issue between Cloudflare's cache and your origin web server. To help support the investigation, you can pull the corresponding error log from your web server and submit it our support team. Please include the Ray ID (which is at the bottom of this error page). Cloudflare monitors for these errors and automatically investigates the cause. With this, we always try to provide gratis all the tools you need to bet responsibly and we hope winning! Even stats, standings, news and information on the football league Asia AFC Cup and on teams Home United FC and Kaya.The prediction 1x2 or under/over or goal/nogoal, with odds of bookmakers comes complete with the correct score. Under you found the prediction processed by our proprietary software and reviewed manually by our editors of the football match Home United FC-Kaya, match of the championship Asia AFC Cup. Prediction correct score: 4 - 2 Green Archers United was among the teams that applied to participate in the inaugural season of the Philippines Football League (PFL) in 2017 but later decided to withdrew its application.[4] The club decision was due to uncertainties in raising funds to pay for the leagues 4.5 million franchise fee and expressed readiness in joining if club finds the league's rules as consistent enough. The club was among the seven teams to participate in the 2019 season of the revived PFL league. They decided to enter the league after withdrawing its plans to do the same for the inaugural season of the PFL in 2017. This is due to a more lenient finance policies imposed in the 2019 season, which allowed freedom for clubs to sign in more sponsors than in previous iterations of the PFL. They decided to enter the league after withdrawing its plans to do the same for the inaugural season of the PFL in 2017. The club was among the seven teams to participate in the 2019 season of the revived PFL league. This is due to a more lenient finance policies imposed in the 2019 season, which allowed freedom for clubs to sign in more sponsors than in previous iterations of the PFL. 8 on Kaya FC Green Archers United formally expressed interest to join the Philippine Premier League (PPL), the intended successor league of the Philippines Football League (PFL) in December 2018[6] Their only match in the short-lived PPL which only had one match day was a 03 loss to KayaIloilo on April 27, 2019.[7] The PPL folded when the Philippine Football Federation withdrew its sanction of the league's operators and decided to revive the PFL within the same year. Even stats, standings, news and information on the football league Asia AFC Cup and on teams Kaya and Home United FC.The prediction 1x2 or under/over or goal/nogoal, with odds of bookmakers comes complete with the correct score. With this, we always try to provide gratis all the tools you need to bet responsibly and we hope winning! Under you found the prediction processed by our proprietary software and reviewed manually by our editors of the football match Kaya-Home United FC, match of the championship Asia AFC Cup. Vitesse Arnhem / FC GRONINGEN Prediction Fortuna Sittard / ADO Den Haag Prediction Heracles / VVV Venlo Prediction Ajax / FC Utrecht Prediction FC Twente / PEC Zwolle Prediction	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line37
__label__cc	0.74507	0.25493	Postcolonial Reading of Hagar A Postcolonial Reading of Hagar: A Christian Egyptian Perspective by Safwat Marzouk The stories of Hagar and Ishmael have captured the attention of many readers from different cultural locations. Christian Egyptian readers of the Hebrew Bible have responded to the narrative of Hagar, the Egyptian maidservant of Sarah the Hebrew, in particular and interesting ways. Many Egyptian Christians avoid identifying with Hagar and her son Ishmael, preferring instead to side with Sarah and her son Isaac. This decision is shaped by two attitudes that approach the narrative through sets of binary opposites. First, the story of Hagar has a long history of allegorization: in Galatians 4, Paul associates Hagar negatively with the law and Sarah positively with the promise. Second, the conflict and enmity between Muslims and Christians also affect the reception of the Hagar stories among Christian Egyptian communities. Although the social location of the oppressed and cast-out Hagar and Ishmael can be compared to that of Egypt’s marginalized Christian minority, their rejection of these two figures functions in a subtle way as a posture of resistance to the Muslim majority, who trace their traditions back to Hagar and Ishmael. Christian Egyptian readers of the Hagar story might learn from postcolonial theory, which, by problematizing simple binaries that construct the self at the expense of the “other,” opens the door for mixed or hybrid identities. Rather than dismiss the Hebrew Bible because of its negative portrayals of Egypt or allegorize it to repress the political facet of identity, Christian Egyptians are invited to read the story of Hagar from their cultural location, holding their political and religious identities in a creative tension. Such a reading invites the community to critique its abuse of power when it marginalizes others, and also to recognize gifts of freedom that gush forth in the wilderness of oppression. If the predominant image of Egypt in the Hebrew Bible is of slavery, we find a reversal in the story of Hagar, as Sarah, ancestor of the Israelites, afflicts an Egyptian woman. Though this reversal does not undo the oppression that the Israelites experienced in Egypt, it destabilizes the idea of Egypt as only a site of oppression. The same verb “to afflict” (Hebrew, ‘nh) that is used to describe Sarah’s affliction of Hagar (Gen 16:6) is also used to describe the oppression inflicted upon the Israelites by the Egyptians (Deut 26:6; for other shared words between the Hagar and the Exodus narratives, compare also Gen 16:6 with Exod 14:5 and Gen 21:10 with Exod 10:11, Exod 11:1, Exod 12:39). The verb “to wander” (Hebrew, ta’ah), describing Hagar’s loss of direction in the wilderness after she is forced to leave Abraham’s household, is also used when the people of Israel go astray in the wilderness after their deliverance from Egypt (Ps 95:10; compare Ps 107:4). In both references from The Psalms, God provides water for the thirsting Israelites, an act of divine benevolence also shown to Hagar and Ishmael: God opens Hagar’s eyes to see a well that allows them to survive in the desert. Thus God cares and provides for Hagar the Egyptian and for the Israelites alike. A rereading of the story of Hagar and Sarah that offers Christian Egyptians a way to speak against their marginalization while avowing their political identity as Egyptians could have a ripple effect. What other privileged and powerful community members might be held accountable, as Sarah and Abraham should be, because of their gender, social status, or abuse of power? Safwat Marzouk, "Postcolonial Reading of Hagar", n.p. [cited 18 Jan 2020]. Online: http://bibleodyssey.com/en/people/related-articles/postcolonial-reading-of-hagar Safwat Marzouk Assistant Professor, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Safwat Marzouk is assistant professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. Abraham's Family Abraham is the ancestor of the Israelites and of many Arabian groups, but his family, despite God’s promise, is often threatened. Hagar, the African mother of many nations, who saw and named God, was enslaved, impregnated, abandoned, and liberated by Sarah and Abraham. Hagar: She Who Speaks with God Hagar, fleeing Abraham and Sarah’s household, is found by an angel of the Lord in the desert and receives a covenant blessing and a personal birth annunciation from God. Egypt in the Bible Michael Chan on both negative and positive images of Egypt in the Bible. Egypt looms large in the biblical world--find out how and why with this collection of content. Psalms, The Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives Of or related to history after a colony is declared independent; also: of or related to postcolonialism, an academic orientation that critiques colonialism and impoerialism. Characteristic of a deity (a god or goddess). migration of the ancient Israelites from Egypt into Canaan A West Semitic language, in which most of the Hebrew Bible is written except for parts of Daniel and Ezra. Hebrew is regarded as the spoken language of ancient Israel but is largely replaced by Aramaic in the Persian period. The set of Biblical books shared by Jews and Christians. A more neutral alternative to "Old Testament." A written, spoken, or recorded story. The promise made by Yahweh to the ancestors in Genesis, including the promise of offspring, land, and blessing. Eventually the covenant becomes the essential part of this promise. Gen 16:6 6But Abram said to Sarai, “Your slave-girl is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she ran away from her. Deut 26:6 6When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, Exod 10:11 11No, never! Your men may go and worship the Lord, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. Exod 11:1 Warning of the Final Plague 1The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go from here; indeed, ... View more 39They baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt; it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, no ... View more 10For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.” Ps 107:4 4Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line38
__label__cc	0.646683	0.353317	Black Sea Networks at Columbia University A collaborative initiative to investigate the Black Sea as a hub of cultural, political, and historical interest About the Black Sea Networks Initiative The Black Sea has linked the cultures and economies of Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East for millennia. Today, the Black Sea region is the site of political and ecologic crises with global repercussions. But the region’s countries, with their diverse languages, religions, cultures, and political systems, are too often viewed in isolation, without a clear understanding of their profound interconnections. To successfully meet global challenges, we must learn to work with religious, cultural, and linguistic diversity, and understand the complex local contexts in which ordinary people lead their lives. Black Sea Networks is an international teaching and learning initiative at Columbia University that connects regions, disciplines, and institutions, creating educational and research programs that target the diversity of cultural practices in a highly strategic zone. Building upon existing initiatives, including the Columbia-Boğaziçi Summer Program in Balkan Transcultural Studies, which was developed in partnership with Global Centers \| Turkey, Black Sea Networks reconceptualizes existing programs within a larger Black Sea framework. Based in Columbia’s Slavic Department, the initiative will foster new bonds among Slavic, Hellenic, Classical, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern, and East Asian Studies, as well as History, Political Science, Art History, Music, and Anthropology, creating opportunities to establish innovative interdisciplinary programs, such as Black Sea Studies and Environmental Science, or Black Sea Studies and Economics.” Read more about the Black Sea Networks Initiative Goals, outcomes, and impact of the initiative Calendar of public events Our institutional partners Faculty, students, support team, and advisory board Literature on the Black Sea region Get in touch or subscribe to our listserv Contact us or subscribe to our mailing list to receive notifications on upcoming events. © 2019 Columbia University Slavic Department Principle Investigator: Valentina Izmirlieva Web design: Bradley Gorski Text: Sophie Pinkham and Valentina Izmirlieva	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.554029	0.554029	Home » Catalog » IDLEWILD Posted by Joseph Belanger on Sep 16, 2006 in Catalog \| 0 comments Written and Directed by Bryan Barber Hip-Hop duo, Outkast, has always been at the forefront of music video innovation. The man behind many of these innovations is director, Bryan Barber. With their Southern prohibition-era musical, IDLEWILD, the trio expands their quirky visual gimmickry to feature length size stimulation. The film opens at a funeral where we are introduced to Percival and Rooster (Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi) as they introduce themselves to each other. Flipping back and forth between black and white and vibrant colour, the images are manipulated like a vinyl LP being spun by a DJ. Eyes in frozen frames shift from left to right on beat with the jazzed-up Hip-Hop musical bed while the moving images jitter to the scratches of the record. And as musical notes come to life on the sheet music atop Percival’s upright piano, so does the film. It has an energy that invigorates your mind while it exhilarates your dancing feet. You feel that much cooler just for being there. Then, almost as quickly as your heart rate shot up, it slows down to its normal murmur as the lifeless story tries its hardest to suck all the force out of Barber’s hip fresh style. Pulling double duty as director and writer, Barber both saves and ruins his own film at the same time. In recent years, media reports have reveled in telling the story of one of hip-hop’s most successful acts. Big Boi enjoys a lifestyle of excess that money can buy him – lots of booze, cigars and parties. Andre 3000 on the other hand seeks to purify his soul. Their last musical recording found them laying down tracks individually, encouraging rumours that the two could barely stand each other. There is plenty of opportunity for drama here that could translate easily to the screen. At first, this appears to be the story that Barber intends to tell. Percival and Rooster meet as young boys. Rooster is always getting into trouble while Percival must please his strict mortician father. As adults, Percival is still leading a straight, god-fearing existence while Rooster boozes it up at a club called Church as the major musical attraction. The way in which the story is set up leads you to think that you are about to watch a story in which two friends with two different motivations learn that they have an unbreakable bond despite all their differences – the kind of bond that will help them get through all of their struggles. Instead, in what I can only assume is a decided effort to get away from the story we are all familiar with, Barber takes his two characters in different directions. He takes them each so far from each other that, like their solo musical efforts, they barely end up on screen together. Their separate story paths range from banal to cliché to ridiculous and all the while there is a looming confusion as to why the friendship was established as the unshakeable center to begin with. Another reason Barber should leave the writing duties to someone else is his complete lack of understanding of the female character. Paula Patton and Melinda Williams play the only two female characters of significance. Patton plays Angel Davenport, a sultry diva chanteuse who takes a liking to Percival, presumably because he respects her while everyone else, including the camera, ogles her. From the moment she makes her appearance on screen, with the first of a few fetishized close-ups of her feet, she turns the head of all the men and enrages all the chorus girls at Church. With her temptress persona cemented as her purpose straight away, it seems entirely bizarre when there is some background given to her in the later part of the film. Williams plays Zora, Rooster’s wife and mother to his numerous children. She scolds him for staying out all night and accuses him of fooling around on her while he’s boozing, to the point that she tries to run over a couple of girls she assumes her husband has been with. Of course, despite her constant complaints, she waits for him at home like the good wife she is, believing she’s won an argument because she has forced Rooster to take her and the kids shopping. With few exceptions, the remaining female cast members fill in as dancers who appear in little clothing that reveals plenty as they dance and shake around the men that love them. Their hollow, unmotivated dialogue becomes laughable as the film progresses. Barber has a unique imagination. From a wall of cuckoo clocks cuckoo-ing melodically to a Matrix-ification of a swing dance sequence, IDLEWILD pushes its visual motif to the limits and dazzles the viewer. However, this is a musical, not a music video. Not only are solid story developments vital to get the viewer past the suspense of disbelief when people start to sing out of nowhere but the pacing, placement and relevance of musical numbers needs to be consistent. As Outkast rap on about the moment or their surroundings, they are not bringing the film forward but rather stopping it still. IDLEWILD could be recut into a series of four or five videos, leaving all the pointless filler on the floor and allowing Barber to shine on the right screen.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line43
__label__cc	0.582353	0.417647	In Context: Angels in America Tony Kushner's Angels In America, directed by Ivo Van Hove, runs at BAM October 23—25. Context is everything, so get even closer to the show with this curated selection of original blog pieces, articles, interviews, and videos related to the production. Once you've seen it, help us keep the conversation going by telling us what you thought below. Angels In America (PDF) "Angels In America, the Spare Dutch Version" (WNYC) "Why not have total the illusion, the total freedom for the audience to [imagine] where we are and to imagine everything [them]selves," asks the Angels director. Ivo van Hove and Tony Kushner In Conversation Watch Kushner and van Hove discuss all things Angels in this video from our Oct 22 talk. Angels In America, 20 Years Later (NPR) Tony Kushner discusses the Reagan-era context for his play, its controversial subject matter, and more. Tony Kushner: Does Theater Still Matter? (YouTube) The greatest gift of theater’s “poverty of means”? For Kushner, allowing people to “believe and disbelieve at the same time.” Angels Approaching (Time Out New York) “Ivo van Hove's astonishing production at the Toneelgroep in Amsterdam was done with no scenery whatsoever," says Tony Kushner. "And it was kind of extraordinary.” What Happens When Love Is Witnessed On Stage? (Out Magazine) "What attracts me to the homosexual relationship in these plays," says Ivo van Hove, "is that it’s a forbidden thing. It’s not something you can live out in society; it’s hidden and secret." My Sweet Memories of Angels in America (BAM blog) A BAM staffer reflects on his experience working on the original Broadway production of "Perestroika." Ivo van Hove (Exeunt Magazine) The Dutch director discusses bad-boy avant-gardism and more. Writing the Playwright (Guernica) When Angels premiered, “the censorious, ego-anarchist, theocratic, anti-tax, anti-government right-wing madness had had its play,” says Kushner, “and it was time to do something else.” How I Made It: Tony Kushner on Angels in America (New York Magazine) Kushner’s play was born partly in dream, partly at a Carroll Gardens subway stop. Worthwhile Words Even if the play is more or less done, the theatrical event, the live event is not. [Theater] asks people to engage collectively in a relationship with an event, with an action, with a field of meaning and not with a thing, not with an object—and to engage in an event that will respond and be transformed by the degree of your engagement with it. So it has a fluidity in that sense, and a completely human quality, that I think no recorded event can have—which isn't to say that theater is superior, but it's a different kind of experience, and the difficulties and awkwardnesses and inconveniences and imperfections of theater are all part of the power of theatricality. And maybe now that we're entering into the Avatar age, it's even more true that theater teaches a kind of double consciousness, a critical consciousness: You have to learn, if you're really going to play the game and understand what is going on in front of you, you have to be willing to consider the way in which what you're looking at both is and isn't what it appears to be—what the nature of artifice is, and how it relates to meaning and understanding. You could argue that all art participates in questions of artifice and reality, but I think theater more than any other form is a construct that places that dialectic at the center of an event. And I think what makes theater so essential and irreplaceable is that we desperately need to struggle with those questions. Those are the questions that life presents us with over and over again, and you have to be able to see double to be able to make sense of life. —Tony Kushner So how did you enjoy the show? Likes? Dislikes? Surprises? Tell us what's on your mind in the comments below. Labels: 2014 Next Wave Festival, Angels In America, In Context, Ivo van Hove, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Tony Kushner Incredible that a 5 hour production in Dutch(!) could be so mesmerizing. Absolutely adored the show--staging, actors. I still haven't figured out why Dutch (other than that was the director's language/company). Not sure that the language element really added to the show, but it certainly did not distract. BUT, the boxed dinner service was a mess. Ill-organized (waited 20 minutes in a mobbed queue for a boxed meal) and clumsy. Why take tickets and names? Why only delivering meals at one small location? Why not have more tables, especially for people who can't sit on the floor. Saw one older gentleman bent almost in half struggling to carry his pizza-sized box up the steep stairs... I love "Angels in America" and was excited at the prospect of seeing it live. While I enjoyed this production, I couldn't help wishing I was watching it in English. Part of this stemmed from frustration over needing to read the supertitles instead of being able to watch the actors. But more fundamentally, I think "Angels" is just such a quintessentially American play. It deals with a very specific period of U.S. history. Hearing it in Dutch was distracting. When I bought my ticket, I didn't actually notice the tiny asterisk saying the play was in Dutch. In the future, BAM should make that more prominent. It was pretty essential to the ultimate experience. One of the things I love about BAM is that they bring the rest of the world to you. I could spend the money to fly to Amsterdam or Germany to see a Van Hove play but it would not be in English. BAM finds the plays, brings them to us and gives us subtitles. It was a spectacular production in every way. I saw the original ages ago, the TV version, the revival at Signature 3 years ago and now this. the play never fails to stimulate , move, provoke and capture your attention. i wouldn't have missed it for the world. Another plus, the easily read subtitles were a blessing. You could read every word of Kushner's brilliant and funny dialogue.No need to strain to hear it. I had mixed feelings, but essentially I was moved. I don't understand why Tony Kushner was so moved by the first appearance of the angel, who was neither a woman nor seemed anything unusual--more like hospital personnel. And I didn't understand why Ethel Rosenberg was so chic. My friend gave me and my boyfriend last min tickets to the show Friday night. WOW. I was blown away. I have only seen the movie and did not know what to expect. It was so simple but moving. His tickets came with dinner which we assumed was chips and sandwich. Again, blown away. We both had salmon, salad, and desert. The lady told us we were able to eat at our seat which we did. Perfect Night. I will be back. The actor playing Roy Cohn was very effective in portraying the long decline into terminal illness. The play itself is two hours too long and dated. The Dutch production was much more effective than the bloated movie version. We could have done without all the very loud music. Very high quality production with wonderful acting. Unfortunately reading the supertitles did distract from watching the acting itself. Loved this production! Everything about the evening was magical. I wasn't bothered by it being in Dutch at all as the acting is so good. In fact I found the meaning came through more than the literal sense of the words had it been in English. It brought out a different aspect of the play, it's essence. I was mesmerized. "Angels in America" Grab my heart and startled me. The empty stage was an authentic metaphor of human nature and life. It was Joyous to be part of such a real theatre experience. A Dionysian theatre. I wish I could see Ivo Van Hove with this group exploring on "Oedipus Rex". Bilha Birman Rivlin My a** still hurts from 5 hours in those ancient chairs in the balcony! Andy Warhol’s Brooklyn: A Tour Things To Do With 1,000 Pounds of Salt In Context: Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films... Last-minute BAM-inspired Halloween Costume Ideas In Context: The Object Lesson The Object Lesson—an interview with director David... Gabriel Kahane on Sunshine Noir Birds With Skymirrors—The Last Dance on Earth BAM Blog Questionnaire: Zvi Sahar of Salt of the E... 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__label__cc	0.68935	0.31065	Structuring trusts for intergenerational transfers As set out in earlier posts, and with thanks to the Television Education Network, today’s post addresses the issue of ‘Structuring trusts for intergenerational transfers’ at the following link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Sna2eXvag As usual, a transcript of the presentation for those that cannot (or choose not) to view the presentation is below – Probably the biggest risk when structuring trusts is to look at any particular issue in isolation. Obviously, asset protection from a family law perspective is critical and fundamental in many situations. However, it is also important to be factoring in a myriad of commercial and revenue issues, such as tax, stamp duty and GST. There's also related issues in terms of asset protection from a bankruptcy perspective, and the overall estate and succession planning objectives. There are a number of adjacent issues that mean whenever an arrangement is put in place, it must be reviewed regularly. Adopting a holistic approach is absolutely critical if steps are being considered immediately before a relationship actually breaks down, because arguably the one key principle, not just out of Spry, but out of all the family law cases in recent times, is that the courts will look very dimly on any such steps. Topics: intergenerational transfers, Structuring trusts, Television Education Network Party de-identification in court decisions As a general statement, one of the key principles of the court system in Australia is that of open justice. The vast majority of cases are held in an open court, and the decisions when released, provide a full factual background and detailed analysis of the relevant legal issues. This said, the principles of open justice do not automatically require the publication of the identity of the parties involved. Particularly where the court believes that an individual involved in the case would be impacted on adversely in terms of their privacy and dignity, their personal details are often de-identified when the decision of the case is released. The three primary techniques used in this regard are: a. referring to the parties by reference to initials; b. referring to the case simply by reference to a number; and c. particularly in family court cases, a protocol is often adopted where the first initial of the parties’ names is used and the same number of letters are also used, however an entirely new word is created. For example, a case involving a party named 'Burgess' may instead be referred to as the case of 'Boseman'. Image credit: Jack cc Topics: court decisions, court system, open justice, Party de-identification Spry enforcement proceedings As set out in earlier posts, and with thanks to the Television Education Network, today’s post addresses the issue of ‘Spry enforcement proceedings’ at the following link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ewuWIpJE3g Stephens is the case about the actual enforcement proceedings of the Spry case and it reinforces just how wide powers of the court are, in terms of making and implementing decisions under the property settlement regime. In the particular case of Stephens, there were aspects of the judgment that saw transactions that took place after the relationship had broken down, completely ignored and unwound. What the court also did was unwind transactions that had taken place before the relationship had broken down as well as those which related to third parties. For example, independent trustees and the children of the relationship who had been involved in those transactions were actually forced to comply with orders, that on the face of it just applied to Dr and Mrs Spry. Topics: Spry case, Spry enforcement proceedings, Television Education Network, video Apple iTunes Podcasts launched by View Leveraging our successful webinar series, View is excited to announce the launch of our iTunes podcast channel. In creating this new service we have joined the thousands of public and commercial broadcasters, renowned celebrities and independent podcasters on iTunes giving you immediate free access via your iphone, ipad or computer to specialist content across a range of topics. Each podcast contains 60 minutes of audio content from View’s various webinar and seminar programs. The podcasts can be found on our website at the following link – http://viewlegal.com.au/view-legal-podcast/ or directly on iTunes – simply search ‘View Legal’. Podcasts already released include – (a) Failed Trust Distributions (b) Estate planning and asset protection (c) Superannuation and estate planning (d) Are you ready for June 30? (e) Testamentary trusts - the fundamentals Making our webinars available as podcasts offers yet another mode of accessing specialist content and the ability to ‘try before you buy’ – recordings giving access to the full video presentation of each webinar and seminar are also available via our website in DVD, USB and streaming formats – see http://viewlegal.com.au/recorded-webinars/ New View podcasts will be released on iTunes every few weeks, so consider subscribing for automatic notification. Topics: itunes, podcast, webinars Structuring trusts for intergenerational transfers...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line60
__label__wiki	0.583801	0.583801	Panel: The Future As I See It (San Diego Comic Con 50, 2019) Published on August 2, 2019 August 2, 2019 by Bryan SchmidtLeave a comment This is the panel I moderated on Friday of Comic Con 50 in San Diego with authors discussing how they write and envision the future in their works. Gini Koch – National bestselling Author, Alien series Timothy Zahn – Number 1 New York Times bestselling Author, Star Wars Thrawn, Quadrail series, Cobra series Steven L. Sears – Screenwriter/Author, Xena, The A-Team, Riptide Jonathan Maberry – New York Times bestselling Author, Joe Ledger series, Rot and Ruin series, VWars Javier Grillo-Marxuach – Screenwriter/Author/Comic Writer, Middleman, Lost, Blood & Treasure Seanan McGuire-New York Times bestselling author/Comic Writer, Newsflesh, October Daye, Spidergirl, The X-Men Categories appearances/schedule, General•Tags Alien, Ateam, Blood and Treasure, Cobra, Gini Koch, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Lost, Middleman, Nathan Maberry, Quadrail, Riptide, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, Seanan McGuire, Spiderman, Star Wars, Steven L. Sears, Thrawn, Timothy Zahn, Xena, XMen Sprunk-Schmidt Original Trilogy Rewatch: Empire Strikes Back Published on November 26, 2012 by admin4 Comments A couple weeks back my buddy and fellow author Jon Sprunk and I decided the time had come to revisit our childhoods and rewatch the original Star Wars movies that changed our lives. Knowing other fans might enjoy sharing the experience and learning how it’s influenced our writing, etc., we decided to discuss it on our blogs. You can find previous posts here, followed by the latest–a discussion of “The Empire Strikes Back.“ Intro & Invitation: http://bryanthomasschmidt.net/2012/11/11/announcing-the-sprunk-schmidt-star-wars-original-trilogy-rewatch-youre-invited/ A New Hope: http://jonsprunk.blogspot.com/2012/11/hello-friends-today-i-have-special-treat.html Bryan Thomas Schmidt: So Jon, you said watching Empire you found it to be better than you remembered. Give us some thoughts on that, please. Jon Sprunk: Well, Empire is my favorite movie of the trilogy, and watching it again after a few years just reinforced that opinion. For one, most movie sequels are disappointing, but in Empire Lucas and Kershner flip the script on us. The imperials, via Vader, are the driving force in most of the scenes. For a kid (and an adult) who idolized Vader, that is a powerful device. I really loved the Dagobah scenes. Luke’s training is handled so deftly in scenes that are varied and well-timed that it feels like he’s actually learning something rather than an 80’s-style “training” montage to crappy music. We get more information about the Force, versed in eastern philosophical tennants, which just rings true. In fact, the entire concept of the Force always struck me as elegant–simple enough for a child to grasp, yet full of deeper meanings and symbolism. Also, watching Empire on DVD on a good television reminded how well these movies hold up, visually. Bespin city is just gorgeous. BTS: And here’s where we diverge. I have waivered back and forth over the years about whether Empire or A New Hope was my favorite. This viewing leaves me feeling that A New Hope is a better film. For one, it’s far more imminently quotable. It’s also more hopeful and encouraging. I found Empire staler on this rewatch, maybe because I’ve rewatched it so often. I have never been a Yoda fan. Whereas you enjoy the training scenes, I found them the most frustrating part of the film. For me, the heart of Empire is the Leia-Han story and the furtherance of Vader’s journey. Luke’s takes second fiddle and is far less interesting. I found Yoda barely more tolerable than Jar Jar. Although, to be fair, in films where Yoda has appeared after this one, I found him easier to stomach. The visuals do hold up impressively. The battle scenes, etc. are amazing. The scenes with the ice monster and tauntauns a bit less so, given what technology since Jurassic Park can do but still, they pulled off amazing stuff considering when they were made. Favorite moments? JS: The Battle of Hoth is one of my favorite battle scenes of all time. The Falcon’s plunge into the asteroid field–pure gold. I’m so glad they were able to make the ship more agile and evasive, because watching it fly through the asteroids is poetry in motion. I still wonder, though, why Leia couldn’t have been on one of the laser cannons, firing back at the TIE fighters. The scene where Luke enters the evil cave on Dagobah is haunting (and a good foreshadowing of his later duel with Vader). And, of course, the Luke-Vader duel. I still remember seeing it in the theater for the first time and freaking out when Vader reveals he is Luke’s father. BTS: I love the battle of Hoth. I enjoy the chase scenes through the asteroid. The Bespin escape is a lot of fun as is the freezing Han scene. I also love the Vader scenes with his men, who are so ever expendable. And I too like that Vader-Luke duel in the cave and later the Vader reveal. There are some really great scenes. But I definitely enjoy the action scenes more than the drill training Yoda sequence generally. I also enjoyed the reveal of the Emperor this time around. Did anything disappoint or turn out different than you’d remembered it? JS: Not too much. Yoda’s animations looked low-tech, of course, but that’s because I’m jaded with the current CGI capabilities. I found the Han-Leia “angry romance” angle a little juvenile in the beginning, but they got to where they needed to be at the end. BTS: I actually enjoy their banter. It provided some of the best lines and the right amount of tension breaking/escalating humor for me. I really enjoyed the whole ice planet angle, much as I did with the BSG Ice Planet episodes in 1979, some of my favorites. The ice speeders, the Imperial Walkers, the melting in Leia’s chambers, lots of cool new stuff. Also a fun cameo from Cliff Clavin actor John Ratzenberger as the chief Rebel officer during the part where Han discovers Luke is missing. JS: “Then I’ll see you in Hell!” Aye, I agree. Hoth was a wonderful start to the movie in many aspects. Kershner managed to squeeze in a budding love affair, Luke’s growing powers and new training goal (Dagobah), an escalation of the war (Imperial Walkers ftw!), brought back Obi-Wan for some sage advice… And I think Bespin was a good ending point for the middle film. BTS: That’s a good point, actually. Middle film. One thing Empire does very well structurally which very definitely influenced me is be a middle chapter. At the end of A New Hope, it feels like closure. Despite the fact Darth Vader spins off into space alive, the Death Star is destroyed, the Rebels have won, our heroes are rewarded. Sure, there are enough seeds and loose ends for us to believe that there’s more we can look forward to, but also it’s enough of an ending that if the film had not been as successful, it could have stood alone fairly well. I really modeled my Davi Rhii series structurally after that. The first book, The Worker Prince, stands alone, despite having villains still alive and loose ends. But the second chapters tend to be harder. With a second movie, you expect more. You expect it to top the first in many ways–emotional arcs, character development, intensity, stakes, etc. But you also expect it to set up future possibilities, most of the time. Like any trilogy, it becomes a challenge then to make such a film and have it truly feel like it has an ending. Empire has all of these aspects–character development in spades, intensity in its darker feel, stakes as Vader goes unchained off to hunt like a madman with no Tarkin to reign him in, etc. But it ends on a cliffhanger and yet feels complete. Because by the end of the journey, it’s almost like so much has happened that we need to come up for air. OMG, Vader is Luke’s father? OMG, Han is frozen in carbonite? OMG, Leia and Han? What about Leia and Luke? etc. Despite the fact we are dying to know what happens next, we feel a sense of the chapter ending and a natural conclusion, even though the story very much goes on. Storytellers can learn a great deal from that. JS: I couldn’t agree more. Empire is everything I hope my second books could be, take the best parts of the first chapter and build on them in a meaningful way, increasing the stakes while making us care more. And Walkers. And the Super Imperial Star Destroyer. One thing I noticed was that everything was a little bit slicker in the second movie. The sets were more polished, and even the actors were better groomed. BTS: It’s true. Everyone was more comfortable and prepared. The first movie was a fly by the seat of your paints independent movie with low expectations, the second movie was the sequel to one of the greatest hits in box office history with the highest expectations and the pressure to go with it, so they were extra prepared and also benefitted from everything done and learned for the first film, just as I hope each subsequent book shows author growth learned from prior books. I also think that from storytelling craft there was growth. They had a lot of back history worked out but Lucas brought on too top notch writers in Leigh Brackett, already a scifi and screenwriting legend at that point, and Lawrence Kasdan, a very smart up and comer. They surely demanded he figure things out that he’d winged before as did the director and the actors. Having read the behind the scenes making of paperback, I know some things were worked out on set as actors like Harrison Ford forced clarifications and changes. Other things had to be worked out with a third movie in mind, since Lucas now knew there’d be one coming. So he was able to complicate and add depth and complications to backstory and character arcs he didn’t bother with or need for A New Hope but which laid ground work and took the characters in directions to allow for a much stronger follow up. JS: Yes, there is definitely much less making stuff up on the fly in the second and third movies. It’s interesting because I understand the need to throw everything into a first movie (book) because you never know if there’s actually going to be a second or third. But then there is, and you have to figure out some things that you winged or left mysterious in the first installment. BTS: Exactly. Let’s talk about characters a bit. Empire introduced some important and less so new characters, whom we will see again. Admiral Piett, Boba Fett, Yoda, and Lando Calrissian, most significantly. I personally favor Lando and Boba Fett amongst these, because although he’s a small character, Boba Fett is one of those unpredictable menacing, mysterious badass characters that just keeps you guessing, and Lando fills in backstory for Han in many ways and also, it’s about time they had a major black character. Shouldn’t have taken this long. I love the way Han and Lando are parallel scoundrels yet, whereas Han is all rough edges and seat of the pants, Lando is smooth and refined. Who’s your favorite of these and why? JS: I wish I liked Yoda more, but I’m not a big fan of puppets in live-action movies (nor most CGI ones, either. Gollum being the notable exception). I guess I’d say Boba Feet for the same reason, even though he goes out like a punk in Return. Lando is a good character, but I think he’d make a better spinoff hero on his own. I never really bought into him becoming a beacon of the Alliance. I think he would have been better served in his own element, fighting the good fight among the scum and villainy of the galaxy’s underworld. Piett… meh. Give me Grand Admiral Thrawn any day. BTS: LOL Well, if Thrawn had faced off Vader that would have been REALLY interesting. I’d like to see that cage match. Yeah, most of the Imperial officers don’t show any backbone in dealing with Vader after the few Council members with Tarkin in A New Hope, Vader just runs rampant. But then, given his power and influence and ability to choke people, and, well, “the Emperor is not as forgiving as I am,” I’d say life expectancy put a damper on bravery and confidence. Favorite new set pieces/vehicles? The Imperial Walkers are pretty damn cool, although I like the mini-walkers in Return better, myself. I also like the Bespin fighters and the Hoth snow speeders. But my favorite new set pieces are probably Bespin and the Hoth base. JS: Well, the Millennium Falcon isn’t a new set piece, but it acts differently in this movie. I already mentioned how it’s lightyears more maneuverable, but also it has a stronger subplot arc of its own (the malfunctioning hyperdrive). After that, I liked Bespin (Cloud City) a lot, especially the contrasts between the gorgeous white-and-silver upper city and the dark/gloomy undercity where Luke fights Vader (a second Cave!). BTS: Yes and the Falcon is always one of my favorites and the one Star Wars toy I never had and still lust after a bit. Sigh. I could make it manuever… heh… From a storytelling perspective, another thing that’s interesting is the way Lucas has woven the subplots and majors together. At the beginning, Vader is hunting the Rebels for Luke. That’s the overarching storyline. Vader is hunting Luke throughout. Then they set up Han-Leia sexual tension that wasn’t as direct in A New Hope but was hinted at by the Falcon cockpit scene where Luke gets jealous when Han asks “Do you think a guy like me and…” That storyline begins with Han daring her to admit her feelings and her denial but then they are thrust together twice, first by fear for Luke out in the cold and then when Han takes her aboard the Falcon to flee. Now they have to deal with each other and their storyline is embossed with a chase through asteroids by the Empire, and then the Bespin visit. The third major plotline is Luke’s quest to be a Jedi and get training from Obiwan’s Jedi trainer, Yoda, which leads him to flee to Dagobah instead of rendezvous with the fleet. With the exception of Luke’s training, all three plots are intertwined throughout, but even at training, there is a sense of inevitability that Luke must face Vader, as evidenced in the cave scene and later when he goes to rescue his friends, bringing them all together again, in a sense. It’s very smart writing and crafting. They manage to pull it off while keeping up an intense pace, not easy to do. JS: Quite right. And Empire is the first time we see the Emperor (well, a holo-image of him). This sets up the third movie, of course, and gives us a deeper insight into the machinations of the empire. It’s important to know that the Emperor places such high stock on a single person (Luke), and firmly entrenches the idea that the battle between the Light and Dark sides of the Force is just as important, if not more so, than the war between the Alliance and Empire. Then there is Yoda’s line when Luke leaves Dagobah. Obi-Wan says there goes our last hope, and Yoda replies, “No, there is another.” That one line haunted me until the third movie came out, a powerful bit of foreshadowing. BTS: Yes, and they paid it off nicely which we’ll discuss in Return. I think overall, if I had to sum up Empire, it’s a maturer Star Wars chapter in many ways than either of the others. In Return, Lucas used Ewoks to return to a level of childlikeness that many fans dislike but also that took bite out of the darker aspects, but we don’t see that here. Here the dark overhanging the entire story is a constant. Jeopardy is the watch word throughout: from the jeapordy of the Rebels as the Empire finds them again, to Han and Leia fleeing Vader, to the dark inevitability of Luke’s face off with Vader, and then, “I am your father” with Luke escaping, sans hand, but Han off with Boba Fett. Never in the entire film are we not on the edge of our seats wondering how one or more of our heroes will survive. That lends to pacing and tension but also to a less hopeful spirit than the first film in many ways. And speaking of, “I am your father,” we haven’t talked about big reveals yet. What were your big “Wow” moments? JS: When Luke lost his hand to Vader, that was a pretty big surprise back when I saw the movie the first time because I had grown accustomed to the idea that the heroes would emerge unscathed from their adventures, and that moment introduced a hint of true mortality which had previously been reserved for nameless stormtroopers and rebel soldiers. Seeing the Emperor for the first time was also big. I still get chills when Yoda lifts the X-Wing out of the swamp. That is why you fail, indeed. Then the entire sequence from when Luke lands in Bespin, shoots at Fett, and then fights Vader is spectacular. BTS: I agree about the hand and the significance of it, but the symbolism of his replacement hand looking like Vader’s after the “father” revelation also was shocking. If you’d harbored doubts before, then that moment, you just knew it had to be true. I think the mortality of Han was brought into question as well. And we were left hanging. I think the mortality of Han was brought into question as well. And we were left hanging. The X-Wing thing was huge. I also think the revelation of Darth as being humbled by anyone was big. It humanized him as well as reminding us that maybe he wasn’t the darkest evil possible because the Emperor was worse or might be. Also, that Ben could still appear and was still alive in another realm was a really important revelation which became far more important in the next film and prequel trilogy. So that was a big moment. I also think the Han-Leia thing was a bit startling at the time because we were kinda rooting for Luke to get the girl in A New Hope and now he had other goals and needs. But it sure made it easier to transition to the revelations of the next film. Well, it’s almost time for the third film. I actually tracked down copies of the theatrical releases on DVD and am going to rewatch those for the first time in decades. That’ll be interesting. Meanwhile, any final thoughts on Empire? JS: My final thought is that I loved it. Empire is possibly my favorite movie of all time. Part of that is surely nostalgia, but part is also due to its importance in the trilogy– the farmboy enters a larger world and faces his enemy on near-equal footing, the scoundrel and the princess find strength in each other, and Vader comes to the forefront as the primary antagonist. BTS: I still can’t get over the part where you said Vader was your hero growing up, but perhaps if you cry at the end of the next film we can unpack that. Okay, all, we’ll be back next week to discuss Return Of The Jedi. Our first discussions can be found here: Jon Sprunk grew up in central Pennsylvania, the eldest of four and attended Lock Haven University. He graduated with a B.A. in English in 1992. After his disastrous first novel failed to find a publisher, he sought gainful employment. Finally, after many more rejections and twists and turns of life, he joined Pennwriters and attended their annual conference in 2004. His short fiction has appeared in Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves, Dreams & Visions #34 andCemetery Moon #4. In June 2009, he signed a multi-book contract with Pyr Books by whom his Shadow Trilogy dark fantasy series have been published. He can be found on twitter as @jsprunk70, on Facebook and via his website athttp://jonsprunk.com/. Bryan Thomas Schmidt is an author and editor of adult and children’s speculative fiction. His debut novel, The Worker Prince(2011) received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club’s Year’s Best Science Fiction Releases for 2011. A sequel The Returning followed in 2012 and The Exodus will appear in 2013, completing the space opera Saga Of Davi Rhii. His first children’s books, 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes For Kids (ebook only) and Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter- Land Of Legends (forthcoming) appeared from Delabarre Publishing in 2012. His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies and online. He edited the anthology Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 (2012) and is working on Beyond The Sun for Fairwood Press, headlined by Robert Silverberg, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mike Resnick and Nancy Kress, a Ray Gun Revival Best Of Collection for Every Day Publishing and World Encounters and Space & Shadows: SpecNoir with coeditor John Helfers, all forthcoming. He hosts #sffwrtcht (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Chat) Wednesdays at 9 pm ET on Twitter and is an affiliate member of the SFWA. Categories Guest Posts•Tags Bryan Thomas Schmidt, classics, discussion, Empire Strikes Back, films, Jon Sprunk, Movies, original trilogy, rewatch, Science Fiction, Space Opera, space westerns, Sprunk-Schmidt, Star Wars Announcing the Sprunk-Schmidt Star Wars Original Trilogy Rewatch: You’re Invited Published on November 11, 2012 November 19, 2012 by admin5 Comments The Project: Star Wars Original Trilogy Rewatch The Hosts: Jon Sprunk & Bryan Thomas Schmidt The Invitation To You: Rewatch the original trilogy in order, one a week, and join the conversation. Jon and I are of an age where the release of the original Star Wars: A New Hope to theatres in 1977 remains a seminal moment. Bef0re that, while stories were fascinating, the possibilities had limits. Star Wars: A New Hope changed all that. It opened up possibilities for our imaginations that went beyond anything we’d seen before. From its state of the art special effects to its return to a classic storytelling style, Star Wars captured the public and never let go, launching a franchise, a legend, and an empire. For me, Bryan, Star Wars infused my sense of what I wanted stories to be and the kind of stories I strive to tell, from witty banter to lots of action and large scale, my own Saga of Davi Rhii has been said to capture “the Star Wars feel,” and my forthcoming epic fantasies surely show that influence as well. I still enjoy a good space opera book, Star Wars tie-ins included. And I still like hopeful stories of good v. evil and the possibility of real heroes one can look up to and admire. One of my all time favorite sequences is still the opening battle of A New Hope, and I also still love the escape from the Death Star and the Battle of Yavin tons. There was something about the coming of age, innocent Luke that still attracts me, and I’ve used similar elements in both my Davi Rhii and Dawning Age novel series as well as some short stories. Jon says: “I was seven years old when A New Hope arrived in theaters. I saw it seventeen times that summer. Never before had a movie—or any story—affected me so profoundly. The original Star Wars films were basic enough that a child could understand them, with their larger-than-life battles between the Empire and the Rebellion. Yet they were also dynamic enough to enthrall an entire generation of wannabe X-Wing pilots, smuggers, Jedi, and Sith Lords. It wasn’t until I was much older that I started to appreciate these films for their technical aspects, especially A New Hope, which I consider one of the most structurally-perfect movies ever made. There is no doubt that a little bit of Star Wars infuses my writing, no matter the subject or genre.” So, starting this week, Jon and I will watch Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and dialogue about it. That post will go up on his blog. We’ll talk about things we like and don’t like and why, how we react to them now as opposed to when we first encountered them as children, influences on our writing, genre, and so much more. You’re invited to join us in comments. We think it’ll be a lot of fun. So let’s take a trip back to a galaxy far, far away together. We look forward to engaging with you. Our conversation begins on A New Hope here: http://jonsprunk.blogspot.com/2012/11/hello-friends-today-i-have-special-treat.html Categories General, Reviews, The Saga Of Davi Rhii•Tags a new hope, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, collaboration, conversation, Davi Rhii, epic fantasy, Fantasy, George Lucas, Jon Sprunk, original trilogy, rewatch, Science Fiction, Shadow series, Space Opera, space western, Star Wars Write Tip: 8 Key Elements For Capturing The Star Wars Feel In Your Story Published on March 12, 2012 March 10, 2012 by admin4 Comments One of the highest compliments I’ve gotten on my debut novel, The Worker Prince, and I’ve heard it over and over, is that it “feels like reading Star Wars: A New Hope.” This was very deliberate on my part, and I referred a lot in writing it to Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy and Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy books. It’s a challenge to capture the feel without going too far into imitation. And while watching the films repeatedly and reading tie-in books is definitely essential, I also think there are other factors which must be present to lend the right aura. Here are the 8 I’ve identified: 1) Your story must have an epic scope. Both Star Wars and The Worker Prince are stories about a quest of good vs. evil, to win justice over evil and save the universe, or at least their part of it. This is epic and requires bigness: big baddees, big ships, big planets and world, big stakes, big heroes, etc. You can’t really do it well staying inside an Enterprise or just on a single planet. There has to be a larger picture and bigger feel to capture it. Despite the different key focus of each movie or book, all encompass this epic scope of good vs. evil. 2) Larger than life characters. You need characters we can relate to, yes. Who can’t relate to the young farm boy with big dreams of a more exciting life somewhere else? Both Luke Skywalker and Davi Rhii (protagonist of The Worker Prince) share that trait. And thus, the first segments of both trilogies are coming of age tales about their quest to become men and men with a purpose. Han Solo and Leia are larger than life. Leia may be a petite figure but her attitude far outsizes her physical body. Han Solo is edgy. He comes off as dangerous and unpredictable, but, as we get to know him, he has a morality not so different from our other heroes, and, above all, he wants good to win. Chewbacca is another obvious example, as is Darth Vader. Both are feared on sight for similar and different reasons. And both are formidable foes. One possesses a kind, giving heart. The other is selfish and cruel. But neither does it half way. Vader takes his cruelty to the extreme just as Chewbacca takes his kindness to extremes with his loyalty and dedication to his friends. I gave Davi Rhii some companions who have trait like this. None of them is a copy or exactly identical to any Star Wars character. I was careful about this. Davi’s love interest, Tela, is a pilot, a slave, but she has Leia’s sass, values and strength of will. His companions Yao, a tall alien, and Farien, a shorter, bulker, edgier human, compete and banter with Davi throughout their adventures much like Luke, Han and Leia do. And the bad guy, Xalivar, is definitely a dark lord, even though he and Vader approach it very differently. The anti-heroes are not dominant in these worlds. Luke is pretty clear cut in his goodness as is Leia. Han teeters on the edge but he comes out good overall in the end. The same is true of characters in my saga. There are very clear cut bad and good characters, not a lot left up to reader interpretation. 3) Adrenaline filled, relentless action. High stakes require a sense of fast pace and constant jeopardy for your characters. They can never be totally at ease or seem to get ahead without something new and dangerous knocking them off course. The action scenes are intense, with real danger, and the character’s witty banter adds to both the urgency and tension while also infusing much needed humor at times. Zahn and Anderson’s action scenes were particular important to me in writing the many action sequences of The Worker Prince, because I wanted to capture this style. I also had to make sure the action only lets up for short periods. The story always had to keep its sense that the heroes’ lives were on the line. 4) An overarching ideology with which characters must wrestle and which they must interpret in living according to their own understandings. In Star Wars, this is called “The Force.” In The Worker Prince, I used a conflict of religions. Not only do all characters good and evil wrestle with what these belief systems mean for them and how to interpret them in their lives (in both stories), but so do the two major opposing forces: The Empire and The Rebels in Star Wars, The Borali Alliance and the Vertullians in The Worker Prince. Some characters, like Han and Farien, are indifferent and don’t really hold much credence to the ideologies. They live by their own code of morality, even if they share some of the larger ideology’s values. Other characters honor the ideology for living good lives, serving others, like Luke, the Jedi, Leia, Davi Rhii. Vader, Xalivar and the baddies, however, turn that ideology into a force for evil. Vader playing with the dark side, and Xalivar persecuting anyone who doesn’t share the traditional birthright and ideology of his Boralian people. 5) Rapport/banter. I already mentioned how much this adds to action scenes but it adds to character in general. Good guys banter. It’s part of their rapport. And good guys banter with bad guys as well. Much of this occurs with humor. Humor humanizes the characters, lessens the tension at the right moments, and endears the characters to the audience. It’s fun, too. Banter is difficult to write without dipping into silliness. Star Wars has certainly been accused of it, at times. And I’d imagine The Worker Prince will get a few criticisms, too. But audiences love it. C-3PO and R2D2 aren’t popular for their looks. It’s their heart and personality, so often expressed through banter, which won audiences over. There’s a reason action movies are known for quotable lines. They may be silly but they sure are memorable. The key is to find proper balance and not take it too far one way or the other. 6) Cool gadgets and vehicles. Lightsabers, blasters, landspeeders, X-Wings, Tie Fighters, The Millennium Falcon–these are characters as much as the people in Star Wars. In The Worker Prince, we have blasters, datapads, Skitters, Floaters, air taxis, VS28 fighters and more. All these ships become huge parts of the world and how it operates. And they play essential roles in the characters’ abilities to survive and triumph over adversity. Can you imagine the stories without these things? 7) A Sense Of Wonder And Discovery. It’s no accident that Star Wars: A New Hope is a coming of age tale. It’s about Luke’s self-discovery and we discover it along with him: his world, his abilities, his future, etc. Davi Rhii takes a similar journey in The Worker Prince. Both approach the world, as young people often do, with wonder and curiosity that’s contageous. And they also share a drive to discover how to make the world better and how to be better men. The second stories, Empire Strikes Back and The Returning, change focus a bit. In Empire, it’s more of Han and Leia’s story. Their relationship, their beliefs, are central in focus as they are chased around the galaxy by the Empire and threatened time and again, fighting side by side for their lives. Luke’s still present and discovering who he is, but his journey is a bit more thoughtful this time around and less adrenaline packed at times. In The Returning, Davi, Yao and Farien find their lives on the line from very early on until the very end. They are involved in most of the book’s huge action scenes and there’s almost one per chapter, some many pages long. Davi is being chased by those who want to kill him, and, at the same time, he and his friends are chasing answers to who’s killing Vertullians and who’s threatening the peace. At the same time, Davi is discovering how to be a good mate to Tela and he and Tela are both rediscovering relationships with their long lost fathers. Aron’s new role on the Council as the first Vertullian to serve in leadership brings many challenges of discovery, and so does Miri’s adjustment from royalty to civilian life. In Return Of The Jedi, Luke’s quest comes center stage again as he tries to discover the truth about Vader’s claim to be his father and what that means. He also struggles to confront Vader and the Empire and end the chase once and for all. Leia and Han’s relationship continues to develop and the Rebels continue fighting the Empire, but the focus is still different from Empire. I am still writing The Exodus, my third book, so I’m not sure how it all will wind up, but this story has chase elements and also people stepping up, like Luke, for final confrontations, including Davi and Xalivar, Davi and Bordox, and Tarkanius taking charge in his leadership role. Throughout, the discoveries impact the characters with a profound sense of change and continued wonder at the bigness of their worlds. 8 ) Emphasis on Character and plot, not science. Both Star Wars and The Worker Prince are space opera and space fantasy. They have elements of science, but the science is not hard science and often wouldn’t hold up to scientific law. In both cases, there are some elements of true science, perhaps, but mostly the tales are driven by the characters and the plot, not the science. The characters and their journeys are the heart and what draws us in and makes us care; what entertains us and captures us. There’s never a sense of some infodump teaching science nor is there a sense of it teaching philosophy or religion. The ideologies are present as part of the world, but they are not for our indoctrination but for our understanding of what drives the characters and frames their understandings of the world. For me, these 8 elements are at the core of why stories like Star Wars have the feel they do. Reading The Worker Prince, even if you notice the feel, they’re still very different. I do pay tribute to the former’s influence, of course, but the story is original and stands on its own. And I think anyone trying to capture a similar feel would do well to keep these elements in mind. Yes, they can be traced back to old fashioned pulp stories, in many cases. What do you think? Did I miss anything? I’d love to hear comments. Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the author of the space opera novel The Worker Prince, a Barnes & Noble Book Clubs Year’s Best SF Releases of 2011 Honorable Mention, the collection The North Star Serial, Part 1, and has several short stories forthcoming in anthologies and magazines. His second novel, The Returning, is forthcoming from Diminished Media Group in 2012 along with his book 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes For Kids from Delabarre Publishing and the anthology Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 which he edited for Flying Pen Press, headlined by Mike Resnick. As a freelance editor, he’s edited a novel for author Ellen C. Maze (Rabbit: Legacy), a historical book for Leon C. Metz (The Shooters, John Wesley Hardin, The Border), and is now editing Decipher Inc’s WARS tie-in books for Grail Quest Books. He’s also the host of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chat every Wednesday at 9 pm EST on Twitter, where he interviews people like Mike Resnick, AC Crispin, Kevin J. Anderson and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. A frequent contributor to Adventures In SF Publishing, Grasping For The Wind and SF Signal, he can be found online as @BryanThomasS on Twitter or via his website. Excerpts from The Worker Prince can be found on his blog.‎ Bryan is an affiliate member of the SFWA. Categories The Saga Of Davi Rhii, The Worker Prince, Write Tips•Tags Bryan Thomas Schmidt, craft of writing, feel, Fiction, saga of davi rhii, Science Fiction, space fantasy, Space Opera, Star Wars, the worker prince, tips, writetip, writetips, Writing AISFP 136 – Bryan Thomas Schmidt Published on September 11, 2011 September 18, 2011 by adminLeave a comment September 10, 2011 By Shaun Farrell This episode is brought to you by MAYAN DECEMBER, the exciting new science fiction novel from Brenda Cooper. Dr. Alic Cameron is a famous scientist devoted to studying ancient Mayan culture. In December 2012 she finds herself on the Yucatan Peninsula with her daughter, Nixie, fellow scholars, end of the world crazies, and even the President of the United States. It all sounds wonderful until Nixie disappears into the past. Featuring a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, an ancient shamam, a high ranking Mayan couple, a computer nerd, and an eleven year old child, Alice must traverse the past in a search for the meaning of life and a way to save two worlds. You can follow Brenda on Twitter, and please tell her Adventures in Scifi Publishing sent you! http://aisfp.media.farpointmedia.net//aisfp/AISFP_136_092011.mp3 Bryan Thomas Schmidt, author of THE WORKER PRINCE and creator of the Twitter #SFFWRTCHT weekly interview series, which has featured an impressive list of guests, joins us to discuss religion in science fiction, working with a new publisher, writing good characters, his love of Star Wars, starting books off with an emotional punch, and much more. Read the untwittered transcripts at Grasping for the Wind. Once THE WORKER PRINCE is available for order, which should be any day now, we’ll post it here. Links to things I mentioned in this interview: http://www.jamierubin.net/ — SF writer Jamie Todd Rubin who blogs about Golden Age SF and more. http://www.facebook.com/TimothyZahn?ref=ts — Timothy Zahn has yet to set up a website but he does have this Facebook page where he’s very active at communicating with fans http://www.wordfire.com/ — Website of Author/Editor Kevin J. Anderson www.bryanthomasschmidt.net/sffwrtcht — Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chat which I host and which also has a Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sffwrtcht-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Writers-Chat/144219588975058 www.majipoor.com — the closest Robert Silverberg comes to an official website. http://sciencefictionfantasybooks.net/ — Moses Siregar III’s site. He’s cohost of the podcast and author of “Black God’s War” which I highly recommend. http://www.brenda-cooper.com/ — Author of “Mayan December” who blurbed my novel and is mentioned also above as sponsor of this episode http://www.diminishedmediagroup.com/Home_Page.html — my publisher’s page Categories General•Tags AISFP Podcast, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, heros, interview, sffwrtcht, Space Opera, Star Wars, the worker prince From Jimmy Kimmel Live: The Harrison Ford Reunited With Chewbacca Sketch (video) Published on July 29, 2011 July 29, 2011 by adminLeave a comment I just have to put this on here because it’s hilarious! I’ve been laughing about it for 24 hours. Great to see Harrison Ford keeping his sense of humor. Horrible Chewie face on the costume but still well done. Categories General•Tags comedy, Humor, Jimmy Kimmel, skit, Star Wars, video Review: Star Wars-The Old Republic: Deceived by Paul S. Kemp Published on April 6, 2011 May 30, 2011 by Bryan Schmidt2 Comments For me, Star Wars books are often like comfort food — familiar, not overly surprising, but good, an enjoyable way to pass the time. So when I scheduled Paul Kemp for my interview chat, I was surprised to learn his Star Wars books didn’t include those familiar characters I’d grown to love–the characters who made me fall in love with science fiction, made me want to tell stories. But Paul Kemp wrote a Star Wars book (three now in fact), and we’re close in age, so I wanted to commiserate. He must have viewed the saga at the same age I did with similar awe. What was it like to now be a part of that universe as a storyteller? So I ordered up some reading copies and read. Imagine my surprise when I found myself engaged, even captivated by the characters. Kemp’s ability to create immediate connections between characters and readers is admirable. He had me at “hello,” you might say. And like a stalker, he never let me go, but in a good way. Even the antagonist, Darth Malgus is someone you can’t help but feel sympathy for. He’s relatable. He may be evil and dark and hateful, but he’s human, just like the reader. And Kemp brings that out so well you almost root for him at times against the protagonists. That’s great writing. Like most Star Wars tie-ins the prose is kept simple, a few challenging words here and there, but not many. After all, these books are intended to be accessible for fans of all ages. And that requires talent, too. When the competition are sometimes books with extra effort at complex prose, to have written a book written simply but well which engages adults as well as children is a real accomplishment. One to be proud of. I can’t wait to chat with Paul and find out more about his writing journey, to soak up the lessons he has to teach us about writing, and to call him my friend. He tells me his assignment was to do a story with Darth Malgus, a character from the forthcoming online multi-player game “The Old Republic.” He wrote a Malgus story with spades. The book revolves around three central characters, the dark Sith Malgus, a rogue Jedi Aryn, and a pilot Zeerid. Malgus wants to conquer the universe for the Sith and rid them forever of the Jedi menace. Aryn wants revenge for the death of her mentor/father-figure at Malgus’ hands. Zeerid, an old friend of Aryn’s, is just trying to pay off a debt and provide artificial legs for his young daughter. Each of them gets sucked in by circumstance to a web of deception–both internal and external to themselves–and struggles to accomplish their goal. All of them wind up taking paths far different than they’d imagined in doing so. And all of them learn lessons that forever change them in the process. Filled with action and moving at a steady clip, “Deceived” even includes a cute astromech droid character, who may remind us of ancestors to come. It has romance, betrayal, political intrigue, and rivalry. It’s a well told tale that could be set in any universe but works exceedingly well in the confines of the familiar Star Wars one. Truly these are characters worth discovering and enjoying. I’d like to see more of each of them. I can’t wait to read more from Kemp. Highly recommended. Categories General•Tags Book Review, Science Fiction, sffwrtcht, Space Opera, Star Wars	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.542094	0.542094	Men in Black III Will Smith is back and once again makes that suit look good. Even if Men in Black III isn’t nearly as memorable as the original, it’s on par with the second film and Will Smith delivers the same cocky humor as before. It’s been a decade and fans are more than ready for this one and luckily they won’t walk away angry or disappointed. In this installment, Agent J (Will Smith) has to travel back to the 1960’s to stop a psychotic, time jumping alien (Jemaine Clement) from assassinating Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). While there, J also discovers a lot of history about the Men in Black and gains an understanding of why Agent K is the way he is; dry and void of emotion. A lot of things work in this movie, the main one being Josh Brolin as the young Agent K. Brolin completely personifies Tommy Lee Jones’ mannerisms and dialogue. It is at times uncanny. This brings a lot of humor while adding an element to the film that would have been lost had they simply altered Tommy Lee Jones with computer graphics. This film also adds some nifty aliens who reflect the time period of the 60s – especially in their dress and mannerisms. Like the earlier films, Men in Black III does a decent job of incorporating real life events into fictional scenarios. Things like the Apollo 11 moon launch, and other recognizable figures are brought to life in a humorous story line. Still this one relies heavily on the comedy of Will Smith and his character Agent J. Again, it wasn’t as completely clever as the first one and seemed to lack a little of the originality. It tried to work in some serious moments with J and K and those these were written well, it did sort of create a buzz kill. Men in Black III is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and brief suggestive content. The language is mild but prevalent; still nothing more severe than what you would hear in prime-time television. The violence is on par with the first two films with a lot of laser guns, exploding aliens and green goo. I give it 3.5 out of 5 sky jumps. It was exciting to see the team back together and have some of our questions answered. Though not a perfect film, definitely a solid kickoff to the summer. PreviousMeet Julie Elias NextA Conversation with Dean Wright Somebody’s Hero A Conversation With Cheryl McKay	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.534848	0.465152	December 5Mumps Has Officially ENDED Professor Spotlight Best Beats Rant of the Week The Comenian Working with Writers: National Week on Writing at Moravian Christopher Shosted, Guest Reporter\|October 31, 2019 The logo for Writing at Moravian, lovingly known as WAM; Photo Courtesy of: moravian.edu Through workshops, a collaborative writing space, and an inflatable photo booth, this year’s National Week on Writing event overtook previous attempts to educate students on the importance of writing. The event was sponsored by the Writing at Moravian (WAM) program, which oversees the Writing Center and First-year Writing Seminar classes. WAM’s staff assistant, Christopher Hassay, and student assistant, Gabrielle Stanley, were responsible for the majority of the planning along with student volunteers. WAM Staff. Pictured (left to right) Gabrielle Stanley, Crystal Fodrey, Meg Mikovits, Christopher Hassay standing on the porch outside Zinzendorf Hall. The National Week on Writing is how Moravian College celebrates the National Day of Writing, a commemorative day proposed by the National Council of Teachers of English, recognized by the U.S. Senate. National Day of Writing is observed on October 20. The College, through WAM, sponsors events near this day to raise awareness of the ways students can write creatively and professionally. To help achieve this goal, English faculty and students led workshops where students could learn about different writing opportunities at the College. Professor Meg Mikovits, who directs Moravian’s Writing Center, conducted a workshop focusing on the process of becoming a writing center tutor and a writing fellow. The Comenian’s faculty advisor, professor Mark Harris, also led a workshop discussing how to write creative non-fiction. Hassay explained that in previous years, WAM struggled to engage students with the event. “This year our main goal was to increase the engagement of both students and faculty,” he said. “We wanted to get members of the community participating in the various programs, and we wanted to offer more this year that could get different folks interested and engaged.” Both Stanley and Hassay considered the event to be a success. Stanley said, “I was very pleased with how the event turned out… Almost all of our writing workshops were well-attended, we had so many people fill out #WhyIWrite forms that we ran out of them, and we have a wonderful campus map now hanging in the Writing Center that shows the many places where writing happens on campus.” Participation improved this year with more than 50 students attending the workshops, and others stopped to pose in an inflatable photo booth while holding flyers marked with #WhyIWrite. Stanley added that she wanted to compile a robust catalogue of activities to share why she believes writing is important. “Writing is a passion of mine that I absolutely love to share with others,” she said. “After last year, I was so eager to work on it again and make improvements so that National Week on Writing could really be a campus-wide celebration of writing.” This is her second year organizing the event. Classes in the Write-in. Students from a first-year writing seminar and the digital rhetorics class working in the United, Brethrens, & Church Rooms during the National Week on Writing. Credit: Gabrielle Stanley For Hassay, Stanley, and others involved in WAM, writing is more than the stomping grounds of the English major – it is something that everyone is involved with. “I think that sometimes people don’t realize just how often writing happens, and how it happens, and how it enriches all of our lives,” Stanley said. Hassay added, “I think the National Week on Writing allows us all to more actively think about the writing we do every day and why that is both valuable and important.” While this year’s event was successful, Hassay and Stanley plan to build on what has worked so far while mending problems that have arisen both this year and in years prior. Hassay said that the largest issue this year was faculty participation due to the event coinciding with the deadline for midterm grades. “Faculty are really, really busy during that time, which made it difficult for some people to attend [the faculty development workshops.]” Looking forward, Hassay hopes to continue expanding the event to serve the wider Moravian College community. Currently, he and Stanley are considering reaching out to faculty from outside the English department to lead workshops discussing writing in other disciplines. They are also considering incorporating a scavenger hunt, but many of the plans are yet to be announced. 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__label__cc	0.743404	0.256596	Carl Brenders Wildlife Art The Official Site of Carl Brenders Additional Originals New Reproductions Playful Pair November 28, 2013 631 × 501 Wildlife Playful Pair – Chipmunks, (1984) Signed and Numbered Limited Edition of 950, Offset on Paper Current Market Price Will Apply. Please inquire about the availability of Artist’s Proofs Image Size 17-1/2″ x 20 ¾”* * Indicates Overall Size Print no longer available from the Publisher. Please inquire for details. Interested buyers please contact Tracy Morrison (Conservation Design) at Email: aprintjock@gmail.com; Phone: 1-781-585-9871; Located in Duxbury MA My first encounter with chipmunks took place in a parking area at Yellowstone National Park. There were five or six of them, not at all afraid of the humans who were walking to a viewpoint approximately 100 feet away. The chipmunks were looking for food, nervously running from one place to another, hoping to find some pieces of bread or other discarded bits to eat. I was thrilled when they came to eat out of my hands. On another occasion, I observed chipmunks in a more remote area while on a pack trip in wilderness country. Our campsite was visited regularly by both chipmunks and squirrels. They came to pick up what remained of our pancakes and often found themselves in competition with the ‘camp robbers,’ otherwise known as the gray jays. I was really in love with those charming little creatures, in spite of the fact that no one in our party could sleep at night, as they were running over our tent and making a lot of noise. (Ordinarily they are diurnal animals, but they made an exception for us!) The wilderness area that we explored was very beautiful. Everywhere one could see colorful dead pine trees, trimmed with beautiful yellow-green moss. The chipmunks ran up and down these trees, seemingly disputing ownership of various items of food such as grass seed. Ground dwellers that burrow and climb, these chipmunks moved about on the tree trunks, and at one point in time, paused about ten feet above ground level to eat the seeds that they had found below. This was such a wonderful sight that I felt it would result in a fine painting. I cannot imagine that another painting will give me more enjoyment than this one. — Carl Brenders	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line77
__label__wiki	0.59643	0.59643	Collection: Cronin Papers, 1905-1945 >> ... >> Letter from Daniel J. Giltinan, Lord Mayor's Secretary,... Letter from Daniel J. Giltinan, Lord Mayor's Secretary, Secretary of the Committee and Clerk of the Burial Board, Cork, to Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork, requesting cheque for the interment of James Hickey, William Murphy, Daniel Barry and Liam Cronin in the Republican Plot in 1924, Giltinan, Daniel J., 1885- French, Seán, 1890-1937 Cronin Papers, 1905-1945 R. Cronin, Funeral and General Posting Establishments (Cork) Ireland > History > 1922- Ireland > History > Civil War, 1922-1923 Typescript on headed paper. Physical description: 1 item (1 page). Hide notes ... Typescript on headed paper. Hide arrangement information ... Sub-fonds No results All Fields Title Your search returned too many results to display in the tree. Showing only the first items. For a full search click . Cronin Papers, Family and business correspondence of the Cronin family, 1914-1934. Letter to Catherine Cronin from her brother, Father William Roche, regarding finance and business endeavors, 1914 February 26. Letter to Fred Cronin from his sister Madge, St. Finnbarr's Place, [Cork], regarding the Cronin family and possible business endeavors, 1915 July. Letter from Thomas Ireton, City Treasurer, Cork City Council, to Fred Cronin regarding his rent account for several yards and a house in Cork, 1921 October 26. Letter from Dominic O'Sullivan, Secretary, Irish Transport & General Worker's Union, to Richard Cronin regarding improvements on behalf of his employees who are members of the union, 1923 June 12. Letter from Dominic O'Sullivan, Secretary, Irish Transport & General Workers' Union, to Richard Cronin requesting a reply to his letter of 12th June, 1923 June 26. Quarto notebook containing a summary of business assets by Fred Cronin, ca. 1925. Letter from Gregg, Jermyn & Sons Solicitors, Cork, to Fred Cronin regarding leases, 1932 September 19. Final notice from D.R. Hall, Manager, Munster & Leinster Bank Limited, to Fred Cronin regarding his outstanding bill with S. [Sean?] MacSwiney, 1934 October 12. List of assets and financial data regarding probate, payment amounts and schedules, 1939-1940. List titled "D. Private Affairs" containing various notes regarding business and financial affairs, undated. List of terms and conditions for employment of coffin makers and hearse drivers, undated. Letter from Denis Lynch, 1 Moore St. Place, Cork, to [Fred Cronin?] regarding his application to the "Transport" [Irish Transport & General Workers' Union?] for a card, undated. Letter to Fred Cronin from Diarmuid Fawsitt listing clauses relating to financial procedures and liabilities, undated. Correspondence mostly between Fred Cronin and Terence MacSwiney, with other documents, 1905-1918. Letter from "Concubhar" [Fred Cronin] to Terence MacSwiney with regarding Alice Milligan, Cumann na nGaedhael, Wolfe Tone, the '67 movement, 1848, and reflections on John O'Leary, 1905 April 5. Letter from Terence MacSwiney to Fred Cronin conveying warm wishes for Cronin's forthcoming marriage, 1910 July 6. Marriage certificate of Fred Cronin and Catherine Roche, who were married at St. John's Church, Brentford, Middlesex, England, with Terence MacSwiney as one of the witnesses, 1910 July 16. Telegram from Cardinal Merry Del Val to Rev. William Roche, conveying a Papal blessing on the recent weddings including that of Fred Cronin and Catherine Roche, 1910 July 25. Poem by Terence MacSwiney titled "Written on the back of a picture of a view of the Blackwater at Templemichael", undated. Letter from Terence MacSwiney, Reading Jail, England, to "Conchobhar" [Fred Cronin], about his attempts to write to his friends Pauline Henley, Daniel Corkery and Con O'Leary, 1916. Letter from the Cork Industrial Development Association regarding foreign-made coffin furniture and hearses, and Terence MacSwiney's draft response to that letter, 1921 November. Letter from M. O'Herlihy, Cork Industrial Development Association, to representatives of Richard Cronin, Esq., Sullivan's Quay, Cork, advising them that Messrs. J.B. Roche of Cork are now in a position to supply coffin furniture requirements at a competitive price, 1921 November 11. Draft letter from Terence MacSwiney headed "Outline of suggested letter" with note at end from MacSwiney to Fred Cronin indicating how he might reply to a complaint regarding the importation of a foreign-made hearse, undated [1921]. Letter from Terence MacSwiney, Lincoln Prison, England, to his wife Muriel [Muirgheal] and his sisters Mary and Eithne [Min and Nan] MacSwiney, mentioning earlier correspondence and the good news of his daughter Màire, 1918. Correspondence between Terence MacSwiney, Lincoln Prison, England, and his sister Min [Mary MacSwiney], 1919. Letter from Terence MacSwiney, Lincoln Prison, England, to his sister Min [Mary MacSwiney] about his wife Muriel, and his concerns for Seàn Etchingham's health, 1919 January 18. Letter from Mary MacSwiney to her brother Terence MacSwiney, Lincoln Prison, England, regarding Muriel MacSwiney and the release of Seàn Etchingham from prison, 1919 January 24. Letter from Mary MacSwiney to her brother Terence MacSwiney, Lincoln Prison, England, regarding the flu epidemic in Cork, 1919 February 24. Letter from Mary MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding the Treaty debate in Dàil Èireann, undated [1921 December]. Letters from Eithne [Annie] MacSwiney to Fred Cronin, 1916-1929. Letter from Annie MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding reserving a room, and passing on a message from "Terry" [Terence MacSwiney] saying that seven men have been released from Reading Prison, 1916 August 3. Letter from Annie MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding her efforts to see her brother Seán MacSwiney in prison and sending telegrams and letters to General Strickland, undated [1920 November]. Letter from Annie MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding Muriel MacSwiney's wish to bring her daughter Màire to London, and asks Cronin what can be done to stop her from doing so, 1921 January 24. Card from Annie MacSwiney to Fred Cronin requesting that a car be sent to her so that she can visit her brother Seán MacSwiney in prison, and mentions the threatened execution of 6 men, 1921 February 27. Letter from Annie MacSwiney to Fred Cronin, Hare Park internment camp, regarding Fred's daughter Brighid's First Communion, 1923 June 7. Letter from Annie MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding the ninth anniversary of Terence MacSwiney's arrest, and discussing her concerns about the state of the Republican plot in [Glasnevin Cemetery?], 1929 August 10. Correspondence from Peter MacSwiney, brother of Terence MacSwiney, to various members of his family, 1918-1919. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York City, to his sisters "Min" [Mary MacSwiney] and "Nan" [Margaret MacSwiney] regarding the death of Kate Curtin, and remarks that "everyone here is sick of John Dillon for opposing Arthur Griffith", 1918 May 28. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York City, to Muriel MacSwiney congratulating her on the birth of her baby Màire, 1918 June 26. Letter from Peter MacSwiney to Terence MacSwiney congratulating on the birth of his daughter Màire, with postscript about their brother Sean MacSwiney with his address in Canada, 1918 June 28. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York City, to his sister "Min" [Mary MacSwiney] informing her that her letters to her brother John [Seán MacSwiney] are being stopped by the censor because of their political content, 1919 January 9. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York City, to his sister "Min" [Mary MacSwiney] regarding politics and the Irish general election of 1918, 1919 January 15. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York City, to Terence MacSwiney regarding the delay of the release of prisoners of war in Canada, the ill-treatment of his brother Seán MacSwiney in prison, and Eamon de Valera's escape from prison, 1919 February 17. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York City, to his niece Màire MacSwiney regarding St. Patrick's Day and the Irish Race Convention, 1919 March 12. Letter from Peter MacSwiney, New York, to Terence MacSwiney congratulating him on his release, 1919 March 27. Letters from John [Seán] MacSwiney to various members of the MacSwiney family, 1918-1919. Letter from John MacSwiney to his brother Peter MacSwiney regarding his arrest and imprisonment in Canada, 1918 April 21. Letter from John MacSwiney, Canada, to Peter MacSwiney regarding his imprisonment and their brother Terence MacSwiney, 1918 May 19. Letter from John MacSwiney, Canada, to Peter MacSwiney regarding post from home and also Terence MacSwiney's whereabouts, 1918 June 23. Letter from John MacSwiney, Canada, to Muriel MacSwiney regarding lack of letters from home and wondering where Terence MacSwiney is, 1918 June 30. Letter from John MacSwiney, Canada, to Peter MacSwiney regarding the election results in Ireland and the future of the country, 1919 January 6. Letter from Thomas Mulvey, Under-Secretary of State, Canada, to Mary MacSwiney confirming the release of her brother Seán MacSwiney from Kingston Penitentiary, 1919 March 17. Letter from John MacSwiney, Canada, to Muriel, Màire and Terence MacSwiney regarding his recent release from prison, 1919 March 18. Letter from John MacSwiney, Canada, to his sisters Mary and Margaret MacSwiney regarding his recent release from prison, 1919 March 18. Letters to Terence MacSwiney and Muriel MacSwiney, 1917-1919. Letter from Sr. St. Augustine, Weybridge Convent, England, to her nephew Terence MacSwiney regarding personal and family matters, 1917 December 28. Letter from Sr. St. Xavier, Toyko, Japan, to Muriel and Terence MacSwiney regarding the birth of their daughter Màire, 1918 July 18. Card from Sr. Margaret MacSwiney [sister of Terence MacSwiney] to Muriel MacSwiney encouraging her to be brave and strong for Terence MacSwiney, 1919 March 2. Letter from Deora Frínseach [Dorothy French] to Terence MacSwiney congratulating him on his release, 1919 March 17. Letter from Margaret MacSwiney to Terence and Muriel MacSwiney congratulating them on their wedding anniversary and enclosing two prayer cards for them and their daughter Màire, 1919 June 7. Envelope addressed to Terence MacSwiney in Lincoln Prison, England, 1919 February 26. Envelope addressed to Terence MacSwiney, Fleming's Hotel, Gardiner Place, Dublin, undated [ca. 1919]. Reporter's pocket notebook belonging to Terence MacSwiney containing personal notes, and signed by MacSwiney in Irish on cover, ca. 1915. Collection of documents relating to the funeral of Terence MacSwiney, 1920-1921. Copy of 'Arrangements for removal of remains from Brixton Prison to the Church...and funeral from Church to Euston in the event of the death of the Lord Mayor', 1920. Copy of 'Order of Funeral' for Terence MacSwiney's funeral, undated [1920]. Photograph of Terence MacSwiney's coffin lying in state in St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, London, on the evening following his death, 1920 October 28. Envelope entitled "Wreaths" with information regarding Terence MacSwiney's funeral, 1920 October 30. Letter from William Hegarty, Lord Mayor's Secretary, City Hall, Cork, requesting payment of cemetery charges for opening of three graves, including the grave of Lord Mayor MacSwiney, 1920 November 12. Draft letter from Fred Cronin to Art O'Brien, Sinn Fein representative in London, regarding Terence MacSwiney's funeral expenses, 1921 January 19. Letter from Art O'Brien to Fred Cronin acknowledging receipt of the account and offering to meet all the Cork expenses for Terence MacSwiney's funeral, with mention of Muriel MacSwiney's health, 1921 February 5. Letter to Sean O'Hegarty from Art O'Brien regarding Terence MacSwiney's funeral expenses in Cork, 1921 February 7. Letter from Art O'Brien to Fred Cronin regarding invoices for Terence MacSwiney's funeral, with draft reply on verso from Fred Cronin, 1921 March 2. Envelope addressed to Fred Cronin, sent from Aldridges, St. Martin's Lane, London., 1921 March 10. Copy of resolution passed by Battersea Borough Council condemning the murder of Terence MacSwiney, and inviting Muriel MacSwiney to a special meeting of the Council to receive an engrossed copy of the resolution, 1920 October 27. Letters between Muriel MacSwiney and Fred Cronin regarding her finances, Terence MacSwiney's will and his plays 'The Revolutionist' and 'The Wooing of Emer', 1920-1921. Letter from Muriel MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding a biography of Terence MacSwiney, 1920 November 14. Letter from Muriel MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding Terence MacSwiney's play 'The Revolutionist' and other business matters, 1921 February 11. Draft letter from Fred Cronin to Muriel MacSwiney regarding her financial situation, 1921 February 15. Letter from Muriel MacSwiney to Fred Cronin regarding her finances and the signing of the agreement for Terence MacSwiney's play 'The Revolutionist', 1921 March 2. Statement of account from Fred Cronin to Muriel MacSwiney sent to her solicitor Barry Galvin, 1921 November. Cash statement relating to the administration of the will of Terence MacSwiney by Fred Cronin, 1920-1921. Statement of account relating to the administration of the will of Terence MacSwiney by Fred Cronin, with copy of letter from Muriel MacSwiney, Germany, to her solictor Barry Galvin regarding Fred Cronin and her requests for the return of some household linen which apparently she had given or lent to the Cronins, but now wants to recover for her own use (8th November 1921), 1920-1921. Letter from Muriel MacSwiney to Fred Cronin concerning a mix-up regarding her legal instructions regarding the return of her household linen from the Cronin's house, undated [ca. 1921]. Letter from Muriel MacSwiney to Fred Cronin reporting her decision to return from Germany and settle in Dublin, and requests that he return her household linen to her, undated [ca. 1921]. Letter from Fred Cronin to the publishers Messrs E.P. Dutton, Fifth Avenue, New York, regarding Terence MacSwiney's book 'The Principles of Freedom' and the disposing of the profits on the book, undated [ca. 1921]. Address from the Cork Poor Law Board "To the members of the Irish American Delegation on their visit to Cork, 7 May 1919"; 1919 May 7. Account from Richard Cronin, Funeral & General Posting Establishment, St. Finbarr's Place & Sullivan's Quay, Cork for the funeral expenses of the late Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork, with endorsement from Fred Cronin, 1920 March 20. Document by Fred Cronin setting out the principles of transport organisation and the duties and requirements of IRA company and battalion transport officers and assistants, undated [ca. 1920]. Correspondence during Fred Cronin's internment by the British Government in Cork Male Prison and Spike Island during the War of Independence, 1921 May - Sept. Letter from Fred Cronin, Cork Male Prison, to "Máire" [Mary Roche] regarding the food he received in a "portmanteau" and asks her to bring stationery the next time she visits him, undated [ca. May 1921]. Letter from Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, to [Proinsias?] thanking the recipient for the eggs and the support he is getting from family, neighbours and friends, 1921 May 25. Letter from Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, to his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding his children passing their school exams and the food he is getting from family and friends, 1921June 26. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, regarding the health of his youngest daughter Maire, and other family members, 1921 Aug. 28. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, about her worries when she heard about the hunger strike at the prison and hope he's not involved, 1921 Aug. 30. Letter from Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, to "A chara" [unidentified recipient], regarding the start of his hunger strike, 1921 September 1. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, regarding the health of his daughter Maire "Moira" and the hunger strike of the prisoners on Spike Island, 1921 September 1. Letter from Mary Roche "Auntie" to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, expressing her relief that the hunger strike has been called off, 1921 September 2. Letter from "Mamie" to Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, enquiring about his health and state of mind after his hunger strike, 1921 September 2. Letter from "Willie" [Father William Roche] to his sister Mary Roche regarding Fred Cronin's children, particularly the health of Fred Cronin's daughter Maire, and that he is praying that "peace & prosperity will come to a good & brave people", 1921 September 5. Letter from Mary Roche, Sunday's Well, Cork, to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, regarding his recovery from his hunger strike, the well-being of his children and other family matters, 1921 September 7. Letter from "Jim" to his brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, regarding Cronin's health, family and other business matters, 1921 September 9. Letter from "Mamie" to Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, regarding his health after the hunger strike, and other family matters, 1921 September 9. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, regarding the health of his daughter Maire, 1921 September 16. Note to Fred Cronin from a British military official at the Military Prison, Spike Island, informing him that it is with regret that his application for parole cannot be granted, 1921 September 16. Fred Cronin's application for parole, addressed to the Commandant, Internment Camp, Spike Island, County Cork, requesting parole from 1st to 7th October, 1921 October 1. Copy letter from Fred Cronin, 18 Sunday's Well, Cork, to General Strickland, G.O.C., 6th Division, Cork, requesting an extension to his parole due to the illness of his daughter Maire, 1921 October 5. Letter to Fred Cronin from a British Lieutenant Colonel, A.A.G. 6th Division, informing him that his parole has been extended to 22nd October due to his daughter's illness, 1921 October 14. Letter from [Mae?] to Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, expressing disappointment that his parole has ended and that he has already returned to the prison, undated [ca. October 1921]. Letter from "Bob", a recently released prisoner, to Fred Cronin, Military Prison, Spike Island, enquiring after Cronin's health, undated [1921]. Envelope addressed to Fred Cronin, No. 15 Hut, Military Prison, In Field, Spike Island, Cove of Cork, 1921 May 20. Letters to Fred Cronin during his internment by the Free State Government in Cork Male Prison and Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1922 Nov. - Dec. Letter from "Póilín" [Pauline Henley], 6 Springfield Road, Belfast, to "Conchubar" [Fred Cronin], regarding his imprisonment in Cork Male Prison, and the impact of the Civil War on Belfast and Cork, 1922 November 4. Letter from Una Cronin, Irish College [Coláiste na Rinne], Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, to her father, Fred Cronin, expressing her hope that he will soon be released from prison and apologises for writing in English but explains that none of the teachers are around to help her to write in Irish, 1922 November 8. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin regarding the poor treatment he is receiving during his imprisonment in Cork Male Prison, and financial matters, 1922 November 8. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, regarding a food parcel she has sent to him in Cork Male Prison, 1922 November 8. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Cork Male Prison, regarding his letters, the conditions at the prison, financial and business matters, and the smallpox outbreak in London, 1922 November 10. Letter from "Breeda" [Breda O'Brien] to her uncle Fred Cronin, Cork Male Prison, regarding the arrests of Donny and Willie Barrett for going near the prison, and informing him that Muriel MacSwiney is opening a shop, 1922 November 21. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Cork Male Prison, regarding sending food to him and also news of the children, 1922 November 30. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, about his internment, conditions in the prison, the children and Christmas, 1922 December 8. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, about his internment, the children returning home from school for Christmas, 1922 December 23. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, about his internment, the children and Christmas, 1922 December 29. Letters from Fred Cronin's children, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, to their aunt Mary Roche and siblings Brighid and Máire Cronin, 1922-1923. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about the news that her father Fred Cronin is in prison again, 1922 October 29. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Dick, Maeve and Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, thanking her for sending them fruit and giving her news about the school, 1922 November 2. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Maeve and Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, thanking her for sending them toiletries and money, 1922 November 8. Letter to Breda [Brighid] and Maria [Máire] Cronin from their sister Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, hoping that they will be better soon and enquiring after Dick Barrett and Eithne Hanning, 1922 November 12. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, informing her that she got a letter from her father Fred Cronin and enquiring after her sisters Brighid and Maire, 1922 November 18. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Maeve Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, enquiring after her sisters Brighid and Maire, and also Dick Barrett and Ethna Hannigan, 1922 November 19. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, enquiring after her sisters Brighid and Maire who have been vaccinated, 1922 November 21. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Maeve Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, enquiring after her father Fred Cronin who has been interned by the Free State Government during the Civil War, 1922 December 9. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, asking if her father Fred Cronin, who has been interned by the Free State Government during the Civil War, got her letter, 1922 December 9. Letter to Brighid and Máire Cronin from their sister Maeve Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, informing them that she, Dick and Una will all be home soon, 1922 December 9. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Dick Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about the Civil War and that he had heard that Mary MacSwiney was in prison, undated [1922 November/December]. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Risteárd Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about the school and requesting items for his birthday, 1923 February 14. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Risteárd Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, informing her that he received a letter from his father Fred Cronin and that he heard from a fellow pupil that the women prisoners in Dublin have been moved to Sligo, 1923 March 12. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, requesting a new pair of boots or shoes, 1923 March 12. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Maeve Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, thanking her for the Easter eggs and enquiring after her father Fred Cronin, 1923 April 4. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Risteárd Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, informing her that Una Cronin got her new boots and they have an exam in Irish catechism soon, 1923 April 25. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about her new boots and enquiring after her father Fred Cronin, 1923 April 25. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Risteárd Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, with news about the school and thanking her for the money for new boots, 1923 May 17. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, thanking her for sending money and telling her how much she is looking forward to coming home, 1923 May 22. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, with news about the school, undated [ca. 1923]. Letter to "Auntie" [Mary Roche] from Maeve Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, with news about the school, undated [ca. 1923]. Letters to Fred Cronin during his internment at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1923 January - March. Letter to Choncubhar [Fred Cronin], Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from "Póilín" [Pauline Henley], Belfast, regarding family and business matters, 1923 January 4. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, about his children and what they got up to over Christmas, 1923 January 9. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his son Risteárd Cronin, about his school Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, 1923 January 9. Letter to Choncubhar [Fred Cronin], Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from "Póilín" [Pauline Henley], Belfast, about his children, family matters, and the political situation in Belfast, 1923 January 15. Letter to Choncubhar [Fred Cronin], Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from"Póilín" [Pauline Henley], Belfast, acknowledging receipt of his letters, 1923 January 25. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from unidentified person, regarding Fred Cronin's children and enclosing stamps for Fred to use, 1923 February 2. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, with news of his children and informing him that their dog Rover has just died, 1923 March 15. Postcard to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley informing him that her uncle had died, 1923 March 15. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, about his family and also the death of "Mr. Henley" and "Mrs. Davis", 1923 March 15. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his daughter Una Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about the school, 1923 March 25. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his son Risteárd Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about the school, 1923 March 25. Telegram to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from "O'Brien" asking if he has received any letters or parcels recently, 1923 March 28. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his daughter Maeve Cronin, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, about the school, 1923 March 29. Letter to Choncubhar [Fred Cronin], Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, Cork, about his children, family matters and the death of her uncle, 1923 March 29. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister Madge Cronin, Cork, about her husband's illness, school, his children and other family matters, 1923 March 30. Letters mostly to Mary Roche from An Fear Mór, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Pauline Henley, and her cousin Sister M. Finbar, 1923 April - June. Letter to Mary Roche from An Fear Mór, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, regarding Fred Cronin's children, 1923 April 3. Letter to Mary Roche from An Fear Mór, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, regarding school fees, 1923 April 12. Letter to Mary Roche from An Fear Mór, Coláiste na Rinne, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, acknowledging receipt of her cheque and letter, 1923 April 24. Letter to Mary Roche from Pauline Henley enquiring after Fred Cronin who is interned in Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, 1923 April 29. Letter to Mary Roche from her cousin Sister M. Finbar thanking her for bringing Fred Cronin's children to see her, 1923 June 9. Letter to "Jack" from May Murphy, 30 Gillabbey Street, Cork, asking him to thank Fred Cronin for sending Nora a bag, and mentions that Fred Cronin's daughters Una and Maeve visited her, 1923 June 23. Letters to Fred Cronin during his internment at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1923 April - June. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding family matters and Pauline Henley, 1923 April 10. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding family and financial matters, 1923 April 20. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding family and financial matters especially the payment of his children's school fees, 1923 May 4. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding family and financial matters, 1923 May 12. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding his daughter Brighid's holy communion and financial matters, 1923 May 23. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, Belfast, about a friend of hers who is also interned in Hare Park Camp, 1923 May 24. Postcard to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding financial matters and the children, 1923 May 24. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, regarding financial matters and his children, 1923 May 26. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, Belfast, apologising for not writing and giving news about her family, 1923 May 25. Letter to "Tadhg" [Fred Cronin?], from his aunt Ellen Cronin, French's Quay, Cork, about family matters and the impending end to the Civil War, 1923 May 25. Postcard to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, informing him that his children Risteárd, Una and Maeve have arrived home safely from school at Coláiste Rinne, 1923 June 2. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, informing him that his children Risteárd, Una and Maeve are happy to be home, and about the severe punishment Maeve is receiving at school at Coláiste Rinne, 1923 June 4. Telegram to "Concubar J. Cronin" [Fred Cronin], 1070 Hut 22 Line B, Harepark Curragh Camp, from [Brigid Cronin?], with reply on verso from "Daidí", 1923 June 8. Letter to "Choncubhar" [Fred Cronin], Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, Belfast, about family matters and informing him that she's going to "join the Irish course" in the University, 1923 June 8. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his aunt Ellen Cronin, French's Quay, Cork, regarding his children and other family matters, 1923 June 19. Letter to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp, Co. Kildare, from his daughters Una and Brigid Cronin, 1923 June 22. Letters to Fred Cronin during his internment at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1923 July - August. Letter from Breeda O'Brien, 20 St. Finn Barrs Place, Cork, to her uncle Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about her music examination and other news, [1923] July 1. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, 18 Sunday's Well Road, giving news about his children, [1923] July 4. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, Cork, regarding his family and other news in Cork, [1923] July 5. Telegram to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, informing him that Dan Corkery's wife has just died after an operation and asking him to break the news to Corkery, 1923 July 7. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from H. [Hannah?] Shorten, Ballycotton, Co. Cork, about the death of Dan Corkery's wife Mary, 1923 July 12. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, 9 Minerva Terrace, Cork, about the death of Dan Corkery's wife Mary, the establishment of a new political party in Cork called the Progressive Association, and the political mood in Cork, 1923 July 15. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from Mary Ellen O'Brien, 18 Sunday's Well Road, Cork, about his children and Pauline Henley, 1923 July 15. Postcard in Irish to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from his son Risteárd Cronin, about their impending trip to Ballycotton, Co. Cork, 1923 July 26. Fragment of letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, Cork, about An Fáinne and a lecture by a Welsh professor at University College Cork about the Welsh Renaissance, 1923 July 31. Postcard in Irish to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from his son Risteárd Cronin, about his trip to Ballycotton, Co. Cork, 1923 Aug. 7. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from his sister-in-law Mary Roche, 18 Sunday's Well Road, Cork, about the strikes in Cork, the scarcity of food, and his children, 1923 Aug. 20. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from Reverend Brother Gervais O'Sullivan, about his visit to Cork and meeting Fred Cronin's children, 1923 Aug. 21. Letter to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from Pauline Henley, 9 Minerva Terrace, Cork, about the Irish general elections and the lack of interest in it in Cork, 1923 Aug. 27. Letter in Irish to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, from his daughter Una Cronin, giving him news about the family, 1923 Sept. 13. Letters to and from Fred Cronin during his internment at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1923 September - October. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about her brother Father William Roche, Fred Cronin's children, and the undertaker's strike, 1923 Sept. 21. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about his recovery from hunger strike, 1923 Oct. 8. Draft letter in Irish from Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, to his family, 1923 Oct. 12. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, giving him news from home, 1923 Oct. 22. Fragment of letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, expressing her anger that he is still being held in prison "six months after the last shot [of the Civil War] was fired", 1923 Oct. 29. Postcard from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, regarding a family wedding, 1923 October 31. Letters to and from Fred Cronin during his internment at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1923 November. Letter in Irish from Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare to his daughter Maire, 1923 November 1. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, regarding his recovery from his hunger strike, 1923 November 4. Letter from Victor Mulcahy to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, informing him about his release and that he is sending him cigarettes, 1923 November 6. Postcard to Fred Cronin, No. 8 Ward, General Military Hospital, Curragh Camp, from "R.M.", 1923 Nov. 10. Postcard from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, No. 8 Ward, General Military Hospital, Curragh Camp, asking him when he is coming home and if he got the parcels sent from home, 1923 Nov. 12. Letter card from "May" to Fred Cronin, No. 8 Ward, General Military Hospital, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, informing him of her delight that he is recovering from his hunger-strike, 1923 Nov. 12. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, No. 8 Ward, General Military Hospital, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, regarding family matters, 1923 Nov. 13. Letter from Pauline Henley to "Conchubhar" Fred Cronin, No. 8 Ward, General Military Hospital, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, about his family, 1923 Nov. 13. Letter in Irish from Una Cronin to her father Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, giving him news about home, 1923 Nov. 14. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, with news about his children and other family matters, 1923 Nov. 16. Letter from Pauline Henley to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, with news about his family, 1923 Nov. 17. Notes in Irish from Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, keeping track of all the correspondence he has received, 1923 Nov. 17. Letter from a "N. O'Callaghan", 14 Castle Street, to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, enquiring after his health and giving him news from home, 1923 Nov. 20. Letter from "Bill", Transtown House, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork, to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about his release from Hare Park Camp, 1923 Nov. 21. Letter from "Jim", Ringabella, Cork, to Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, 1923 Nov. 22. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, with news about his children and family, 1923 Nov. 22. Letter in Irish from Una Cronin to her father Fred Cronin at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, giving him news from home, with drafts of letters from Fred Cronin inscribed on verso, 1923 Nov. 16 & 25. Letter from "A. O'C" [O'Callaghan], 14 Castle Street, [Cork?], to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, 1923 Nov. 27. Letter from Mary Roche to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, giving news about his children and other family matters, 1923 Nov. 28. Letters to Fred Cronin during his internment at Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, during the Civil War, 1923 December. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, regarding family matters, 1923 Dec. 3. Letter from Madge Cronin to her brother Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, expressing her relief that he has now been released from hospital and hoping that he will be home for Christmas, 1923 Dec. 6. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, regarding his family, 1923 Dec. 6. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, regarding his children, 1923 Dec. 11. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, regarding family matters, 1923 Dec. 15. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, giving news from home and enquiring if he'll be home for Christmas, 1923 Dec. 17. Letter from Captain Slocock to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, with news of the Undertakers' Strike in Cork, 1923 Dec. 18. Letter in Irish from Risteárd Cronin to his father Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about his Christmas presents, 1923 Dec. 27. Letter in Irish from Risteárd Cronin to his father Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about family matters, undated [ca. 1923]. Letter from "Auntie" [Mary Roche] to her brother-in-law Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, expressing her disappointment that he has not been freed in time for Christmas, 1923 Dec. 27. Letter from Pauline Henley to Fred Cronin, Hare Park Camp (Curragh), Co. Kildare, about Christmas with his family, 1923 Dec. 27. Collection of accounts for funeral expenses for various Cork Republicans, and related correspondence, 1925-1934. Accounts for funeral expenses for Cork Republicans including Tim Hobbs, John McCarthy, William Healy, Dick Barrett, James Pyne, and others, for various dates in 1924, sent to the Officer in Command of the 2nd Battalion, Cork Brigade I, 1925 July. Accounts for funeral expenses for Cork Republicans including Richard Noonan, James Hickey, Liam Healy, Edward Hurley, and others between 1922 and 1925, 1926 April 22. Accounts for funeral expenses for Cork Republicans including Richard Noonan, James Hickey, Denny Barry, Liam Healy, Dick Barrett, James Pyne, Charle Murphy, Sean O'Riordan, Edward Hurley, and others between 1922 and 1930, undated [ca. 1930]. Accounts for funeral expenses for Cork Republicans including Richard Noonan, James Hickey, Richard Barrett, Denny Barry, James Pyne, Charlie Murphy, Liam Cronin, William Murphy, Daniel Barry, Matt Ryan, Tim Hobbs, Michael O'Leary, Edward Hurley, Sean O'Riordan, and others, between 1922 and 1930, undated [ca. 1930]. Letter from Daniel J. Giltinan, Lord Mayor's Secretary, Secretary of the Committee and Clerk of the Burial Board, Cork, to Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork, requesting cheque for the interment of James Hickey, William Murphy, Daniel Barry and Liam Cronin in the Republican Plot in 1924, 1926 May 25. Letter from the Adjutant of the Cork No. 1 Brigade, Irish Republican Army, to Fred Cronin informing him that his application for payment of expenses incurred by his firm in connection with the internment of a number of men killed during the War of Independence and Civil War, has been rejected as they do not have any money, 1928 January 7. Letter from Barry Galvin, solicitor, to Fred Cronin, regarding his compensation claim for services rendered during the burial of Republican men in Cork, and enclosing copy of the new Compensation Act, 1934 March 8. Letter from Barry Galvin, solicitor, to Fred Cronin, regarding his compensation claim for services rendered during the burial of Republican men in Cork, and enclosing letter that he, Galvin, received from Owen J. Redmond, Ministry of Finance, in relation to the matter (29th March 1934), 1934 April 9. Letter from Tom Crofts on behalf of the old I.R.A., Cork, to Eamon De Valera, President of the Executive Council, Leinster House, Dublin, regarding Fred Cronin's unsuccessful compensation claim for expenses incurred during the burial of Republican men, with reply from the Department of the President (18th July 1934), 1934 May 24. Typescript copy of letter from Barry Galvin, solicitor, sent to the Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, regarding compensation claim for expenses incurred during the burial of Republican prisoners in the aftermath of the Civil War, [1934] March 27. Documents relating to Fred Cronin's appeal for improvement of his Cork Corporation pension, 1925-1934. Copy of letter [in Fred Cronin's hand] from William Hegarty, Town Clerk Office, Cork, to Fred Cronin informing him that he has been dismissed by the Commisioner, 1925 February 6. Copy of "Friday's Council Meeting at 3pm" in Fred Cronin's hand, regarding his removal from his position as clerk in the Cornmarket and his pension, 1925 May 8. Letter from Fred Cronin to William Hegarty, Town Clerk, regarding his removal from his position as clerk in the Cornmarket and his pension, 1925 June 12. Letter from Daniel Egan, Secretary and Superintendent Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, South Cork County Board of Public Assistance, to Fred Cronin enclosing copy of Cronin's baptismal certificate, 1927 March 3. Memorandum 'Local Government Act, 1925. Superannuation' issued by the Department of Local Government and Public Health, to each local authority, with annotations on page 3 regarding Fred Cronin's case, 1925 April 4. Letter from Fred Cronin to the Secretary, Local Authorities Offices and Empoyments (Political Victimisation) Committee of Inquiry, regarding improvement of his pension from Cork Corporation, including follow-up letter, 1934 September 10 & 11. Draft letter from Florence O'Donoghue, Hon. Secretary, Old IRA Men's Association (Cork County), to Sean T. O'Kelly, Minister of Local Government, regarding Fred Cronin's application for hearing before Political Victimisation Committee of Local Government Officials, 1934 September 18. Letter from Florence O'Donoghue, Hon. Secretary, Old IRA Men's Association (Cork County), to Sean T. O'Kelly, Minister of Local Government, regarding Fred Cronin's application for hearing before Political Victimisation Committee of Local Government Officials, including extract of minutes from the Cork Corporation in relation to Cronin's pension, 1934 September 18. Letter from Diarmuid Fawsitt to Fred Cronin regarding Fred Cronin's application for hearing before Political Victimisation Committee of Local Government Officials, 1934 October 20. Draft letter from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Cork Corporation, to the Secretary of the Local Authorities Offices and Employments (Political Victimisation) Committee of Inquiry, Dublin, with manuscript annotations and corrections by Fred Cronin, 1934 October 24. Copy of letter, in Fred Cronin's hand, from Florence O'Donoghue, Hon. Secretary, Old IRA Men's Association (Cork County), to Sean T. O'Kelly, Minister of Local Government, regarding Fred Cronin's application for a hearing before Political Victimisation Committee of Local Government Officials, 1934 October 30. Letter from Tom Crofts, Old IRA Men's Association (Cork City), to Gerald Boland, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dublin, regarding Fred Cronin's application for a hearing before Political Victimisation Committee of Local Government Officials, 1934 December 19. Letter from the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, Dublin, to Dan Corkery, informing him that Gerald Boland has received his letter of 19th December regarding Fred Cronin, 1934 December 21. Documents relating to Fred Cronin's appeal for improvement of his Cork Corporation pension, 1935. List of the names and addresses of the aldermen and councillors of the Cork County Borough Council, 1934-1935. Letter to T. P. Dowdall from the secretary to Sean T. O'Kelly, Minister for Local Government and Public Health, regarding Fred Cronin's appeal to the Political Victimisation Committee, 1935 February 1. Copy of memo from Sean O'Hegarty [with his signed initials], former O/C of Cork No. 1 Brigade, to the Cork Republican Tom Crofts, outlining Fred Cronin's case for improvement of his pension, in advance of a meeting with a government minister; [19]35 February 2. Letter from Diarmuid Fawsitt to Fred Cronin regarding his appeal to the Political Victimisation Committee, 1935 February 22. Letter from John Collins, Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, to Fred Cronin, regarding Cronin's case for improvement of his pension, 1935 February 22. Letter from Diarmuid Fawsitt to Fred Cronin, regarding Cronin's case for improvement of his pension, 1935 February 25. Copy of declaration signed by Fred Cronin outlining his case for improvement of his pension from Cork Corporation, 1935 March 1. Letter from Philip Monahan, City Manager, County Borough of Cork, to Fred Cronin regarding his claim for increased pension due to his service in the Cornmarket and requesting a copy of Cronin's birth certificate, 1935 March 12. Letter from John Collins, Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, to Fred Cronin, regarding Cronin's case for improvement of his pension and requesting information on his employment by the Cornmarket Committee, 1935 March 23. Copy letter from Fred Cronin to John Collins, Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, to Fred Cronin, supplying information on his employment by the Cornmarket Committee, 1935 March 28. Letter from John Collins, Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, to Fred Cronin acknowleging receipt of Cronin's letter of 28th March and the details of his employment with the Cornmarket Committee, 1935 April 2. Copy letter from Fred Cronin to John Collins, Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, with the details of his employment with the Cornmarket Committee, 1935 April 5. Letter from John Collins, Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health, to Fred Cronin, enclosing the Order under Seal from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, Minister for Local Government and Public Health, to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork, instructing them that Cronin gets his full pension from the Corporation, including a copy in Irish, 1935 April 5. Notes by Fred Cronin on "Cronin's Garage and Livery" postcard about his pension, 1935 May 16. Collection of newspaper cuttings regarding Fred Cronin's application to the Political Victimisation Committee in regards to his pension, 1934-1935. Letter from Séan T. O'Kelly to to Seán Ó Croinín, [brother of Fred Cronin] acknowledging Ó Croinín's letter of May 30 [1945] and saying "I did what little was in my power to assist your friend re. that post in the Beet Co.". 1945 Iúl [July] 2 View more information ... 1 item (1 page). MS 49,526/29/5 (Manuscripts Reading Room) Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line78
__label__cc	0.707986	0.292014	How companies achieve their marketing goals toward youngers with social networks? Connect-universum 2012 4 августа 2012, 09:39 Authors: Sansone M., Bruni R.. This work examines the role of social network sites as tool used by companies to achieve marketing goals. As known from the main business literature, the social network represents one of the most important instrument to improve the company fame by strengthening the affection of customers to the brand. For this reason some companies use these tools to build relations and “contacts” with customers all over the world. The population of social networks users is made, for the most part, of youngsters (people belonging to the 13 — 30 years old cluster). In the last years, with the social web networking, social communication loses the exclusive “social meaning” and social network sites become strategic instruments for the construction of powerful relationsthat connect people with people and people with firms. This work is aimed at clarifying the genesis and the evolution of the relations between companies and potential customers, focusing on the tools used by the firm to achieve their marketing goals through social network sites (SNSs). First of all, the work proposes the recognition of some studies about the origin of web social network and their links with marketing strategies. Secondly, it considers marketing goals achieved from any companies through Social Networking with a particular focus on advertising through web social networking. Topic of report: How companies achieve their marketing goals toward youngers with social networks? The origin of Marketing in Social Network Sites: from Social Marketing to Network Science Social marketing founds its origins in the seventies; before these years itis possible to find only advertising awareness campaigns for public and social issue(Wiebe 1951). According to McGovern (2007), social marketing aim is to understand how individuals percepttheirself and firms and how the influence of others (of the “group”) can shape them in their behaviours (Pechman 2002). Between the seventies and the eighties different awareness campaigns on the theme of social advertising (for eg: campaigns on social responsibility, family, diseases) have been developed and the campaigns against smoke represent a specific example of this. Social marketing campaigns became wider trough the integrated marketing (Kotler, Lee 2007; Geary 2007) and the relevance of the network role into the business world and society have represented the connection between Marketing, internet and Social Networking; in particular, there is a relevant literature on network science that represents the connection between social, business and marketing studies. In this connection we find studies on Social Marketing and Social Network Marketing that find material instrument in SNSs.Some foundamental concepts have been studied in the past about network science: the different types of relation in networks ( Lechner, Dowling 2003); survivor, performance and development of entrepreneurial societies as focus of research ( Gartner 1985, Bygrave e Hofer 1991, Venkataraman 1997, Virtanen 1997, Shane e Venkataraman 2000). The network as more important model of organizations development ( Richardson 1972, Powell 1987-1990). People as resource in a network ( Granovetter 1974-1985, Burt 1992, Easton 1992, Gulati 1999), the network as particular form of governance and the loyalty in the network as relevant asset ( Richardson 1972, Thorelli 1986, Powell 1987, Larson 1992). The network takes different forms as time goes on (Fombrun, 1982) ( Larson 1992). Between 2005 and 2010 the internet use as promotion of the advertising campaigns begins to take relevance because of the possibility, that this technological tool gives, to optimize relation and segmentation toward different customers with appropriate use of ad hoc messages and thanks to benefits that customers find in a correct behaviour toward society. Some studies demonstrate that a high level of involvement and interactivity can give a better participation and a positive approach to websites (Kalyanaraman, Sundar 2003); this approach aims at a value co-creation and a powerful relations with customer. In particular, customers are particularly influenced by firms (Kreuter 1999) but also by other customers that publish online their considerations (Awad 2006, Weiss 2008). Boyd and Ellison (2007), studying social network sites say that «social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site ». New media can take advantage of of social marketing benefit using some important tools: attention and conservation, for example, are two elements which carry out a kind of research about consumptions sounding out a very strong propension towards the use of new multimedia technologies in order to modify the individual attitude by underlining the importance of interactive tools (Ferney, Marshall 2006, Hu e Sunder 2010, Binks e Van Mierlo 2010). New media technologies permits constant communication with customers and provide them opportunities to give and receive feedback. In particular, through integrated forms of communication (e-mails, messages), firms can try to modify long term practices of customers (verbal persuasion). Customers have an active role in the relation with SNSs because they can present data about their needsand develop, in this way, intervention and personalized objectives (control). The technique of web marketing had to be integrated with the most recent social marketing; for companies, social marketing means to promote and to manage public relation in order to obtain reputation and loyalty. A correct activity of Social Media Marketing implies the creation and management of a social profile through a website (facebook, twitter, google, linked in) which is correct, sincere and planned to permit an user friendly consultation. Only few entrepreneurs (expecially in Italy and between SMEs) use to manage Social Media Marketing to improve the interaction with customers and, for example, to increase sales, loyalty and brand value. Aversion to the use of Social Network Sites is higher for small and medium enterprises which can not coordinate themselves with the speed of the web (Freeman 2010) and, frequently, have not economic and human resources to manage SNSs internally. In the same time, with the increase of the relevance of these instruments and strategies, some SMEs have knownw the powerof these tools and, for this reason, have choosen from one hand a direct management of social network (expensive activity that give results in medium-long period) and, on the other hand, the investment in online advertising using SNSs; this last tool contributes principally to the strengthening of brand value. The “youngers” cluster in and Social Network Sites (SNSs) The “youngers” cluster is composed by young people that represent a target for many firms and the first supporters of Social Network Sites (SNSs). In this work, according to the European Commission, we consider in this cluster people from 13 to 30 years old (SNSs are frequented also by people of other age clusters until 70 years old). The range name “youngers”, now also accepted by the scientific community, has acquired this classification also according to some programs created by the European Commission independently of the research projects that involves the Internet. Just to study the age range of those who use Facebook or SNSs in general, it has been carried out a study of sampling and data collection based on researches that, in turn, have used data from an university centre (Ellison, Steinfield, Lampe, 2007). In order to attract several people from a variety of States and Universities, the study has been founded on a Facebook research. In particular, the survey has been started by an email invitation sent through a Facebook account, for first to students of an University placed in the Midwestern United States, which asked them to forward the e-mail to their colleagues. Participation was voluntary and those who completed the survey received an «extra credit» as compensation for their involvement. In addition, all participants were included in a project which provided the delivery of a $ 50 gift card for purchases to be done in any Apple Computer store; the online data revealed the participation of 302 members found in a limited geographic area and in a short time and most of them belonged to an age range that goes from 18 and 24 years old. This is an element that allows to perfectly understand the power of SNSs on the youngers. As in the USA, also in Italy the age range of SNSs frequently users refers to a cluster from 13 to 30 years old and it represents people who uses SNSs especially to joke, to find new friends, to exchange considerations on products and services. Marketing and Social Network Sites (SNSs) Social networking sites (SNSs) allows the development of a value creation process within the customers’ mind and it helps to enhance the perception of the brand value by strengthening the relationships between companies and customers. SNSs are used as “tools” to monitor, to report and to have a direct contact with customer and an amplification of business communication. The monitoring concept is complex but relevant in marketing and, in SNSs, it involves the control of posts, discussions, exchanges of information and commentaries, but also the mood of customers in different stages of the business approach (company and product offerings exploration, product-service purchase, aftersales). The relationship between firm and customer can be direct (business-to-customer) or indirect — in this case, the firm can monitor chats, comments from expert customers and firm, fans who express negative (or positive) opinions on the product-service performance-. The “amplification” concept of brands value, products and firm services involves a planning of the marketing activities which is able to multiply the number of customers who speak about topics connected with the company, to increase the positive feedback about brands and products, to encourage the word – of — mouth advertising among customers who have lost faith in traditional advertising. Antončič and Hoang (2003) led for fifteen years a research on the effects that the network (in general) has on firms activities. In a similar study Kock and Coviello (2010) sustain that it can improve the activities of small and medium-sized enterprises and, in particular, they pay attention to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies and their way of using the network to reach globalization. An efficient use of the network allows companies to overcome some obstacles such as their relatively small size, their lack of internal resources, their distance from international markets. Some searches have shown that SMEs can simplify the process of product sale in international markets through the efficient use of networks (Chetty, 2003 Wilson, Coviello, Munro 1997). The use of SNSs is therefore fundamental for the business activities of companies because they offer alternative strategies to improve the relation between firm and customer and to minimize, trough web technology, the weaknesses that could come out starting a physical relational network. Through the SNSs companies start various activities to enhance brand value, to acquire information, to develop the relationship with customers. With a marketing approach, there are different schemes through which it is possible to analyse information and to empower customers relationship. Between the 80’s and the 90’s, the scheme of relational marketing analysed different tools to improve the customer relation with firms (call centre, information phone numbers, customer care supports, etc.); the main aim of these instruments was the empowerment of the relation with customers through the direct contact with them even if, often, the input of the report took place in an unidirectional manner (company-customer) and, sometimes, it was resolved with a response from the company though it comes from the consumer. Through SNSs companies move towards a value co-creation based on a continuous exchange of views and information on products / produced services. The evolution of marketing studies brings the researcher to investigate the role of the brand and its position within the marketing strategy. In particular, thinking the brand as a relational network, some powerful investments, as social network sites, are right tools to strengthen the relation between customers and firms. A first tool used for the collection of information is the Social Media Monitoring which differs from traditional searches because it comes out of the classic rule of rigidly fixed questions and it allows to discover free comments and, sometimes, additional elements and comments on competitors’ products. In social media monitoring, unlike the interviews, considerations are spontaneous and not constrained by the necessary response to a questionnaire or an interviewer; with the online publication of the answers, opportunities of involving and influencing other customers have proliferated and contributed to the generation of opinions and considerations. Most used tools are Social Mention, Addictomatic, IceRocket, and specific software such as: NetMiner, NodeXL, Gephi[1]. With the development of these new technics in marketing management, the role of new managerial figures becomes relevant in the company: The Social media manager who plans the development of activities on SNSs and defines team roles and responsibilities in goals ; The Community manager who manages company profiles on various social media monitoring conversations; The Social Media Analyst who controls the online data, sentiments and the relations with customers[2]. The conversation monitoring is very important because it allows to understand opinions, needs, languages and customers’ wishes. The following step is to establish a sincere dialogue with users, avoiding advertising tone because, otherwise, the company could be excluded from conversations in the medium and long period. In order to create and consolidate a relationship with a wide audience, especially the youngsters, companies must offer interesting, useful and nice content. Strengths and weaknesses of advertising in (SNSs) Advertising is a relevant argument for SNSs and, sometimes, in SNSs, it has a “viral form”. Starting from Porter and Golan (2006) considerations, we can look at the viral advertising as a kind of provocative communication which influences and persuades users through the use of the Internet. Some studies indicate that emotion is a relevant component of the viral advertising: Phelps (2004), for example, explains how the sender of viral messages tends to produce emotions that lead customers to positive experience; Dobale (2007), argues that the emotional component plays a critical role in influencing customer behavior but, to do this, itis necessary that messages contain a sort of «surprise»; Still, Eckler and Bolls (2011) have studied how the emotional tone of viral video influenced users, in particular young people involved in SNSs. SNSs have drastically changed the way in which customers respond to advertisements and not everybody, however, appreciate them on social networks. According to an AdReaction’s study (2010), only the 22% of customers have a positive attitude towards the viral advertising, while the 8% of them left a SNS because they perceived an excess of the advertising[3] activity. Anyway there are also some other reasons that bring companies toward the disuse of social networks: the growing number of platforms that make it difficult to locate where conversations take place between users; the difficulty in measuring the return on investment; the difficulty of social media monitoring. The main obstacle to social networks advertising is the intrusiveness level perceived by users: an advertisement can be defined “intrusive” when it distracts or irritates the customer (Lee, 2002 Edwards measuring the intrusiveness of advertisements: scale development and validation ). Customers perceive an implicit social contract with advertisers in case of traditional media (television, radio, print) as they have free or reduced-price programs dedicated to advertising activities (Gordon, Lima, Turner 1997). Vice versa Internet customers do not perceive the advertising as a contract, but as an intrusive and annoying «deviation» (Mathews 2000, Gaffney 2001). Nowadays there are some studies suggesting that the most loyal users of the Internet perceive online advertisements as a negative factor (Yang 2003) as it imply the constant need of protecting their privacy (Castaneda, Montoro 2007). The use of information collection, in fact, cannot be controlled and, frequently, users do not know that web sites are collecting their private data (Milne 2000). The online advertising is very important for business companies and users spend more and more time on SNSs: from an average of 3 hours per week in December 2008 we have got to an average of 5.5 hours per week during December 2010 (Nielsenwire 2010). Researchers have argued that, in the same time, we have to understand why people use SNSs but also how they respond to the advertising activity (Rodgers, Thorson 2009).Some authors (Stafford 2008, Schkade 2004), have suggested that the main reason which bring users to netsurf includes structural factors, content factors (information, entertainment), and socialization factors (for example, connecting with others). According to the «Theory of the uses and gratifications» (Katz and Foulkes 1962), customers are actively seeking ways to satisfy needs both hedonistic and utilitarian: for example, they can watch television to be entertained by a movie or to be informed by a documentary or news program. Therefore this theory shows that the value of an advertisement derives from its capacity to satisfy the needs of entertainment, evasion, fun and emotional release of customers (McQuail 1983). Customers can use SNSs to escape from boredom but, often, these sites represent a part of their daily routine. Lull (1980) proposed a classification of utilitarian and hedonic motivations in media use, distinguishing structural dimension (the use of a media to have information or entertainment), and relational dimension (use a media to facilitate relations or interpersonal communications). Although the theory had been conceived to explain the use of television and other old forms of media, in the late ‘90s it has also been applied to Internet world (1997 Eighmey, Eighmey and McCord 1998, Eighmey and Stafford 2004), viral advertising (Rodgers, Thorson 2000), mobile advertising (Peters, Amato, Hollenbeck 2007) and SNSs studies(Joinson 2008). But what is the content an advertisement should have? According to some authors, the advertisment become relevant just for its informative content (i.e a content that informs users about alternative products, social responsibility or environmental safeguard (Rotzoll, Haefner, Sondage 1990)). According to others, the advertisment has to show accurate representations of the products in order to guide the customer perception (Andrews 1989); the content of an advertisment, according to some scholars (Darley and Smith 1995), is perceived differently by men and women, as well as their motivations to use the Internet are different (Weiser 2000, Wolin and Korgaonkar 2003 ); from this point of view, the information is also relevant for SNSs contents that improve the possibility to have a good visibility trough different people gender. Men are more inclined to use the Internet for entertainment, while women use it to communicate or interact with others; also the idea each group has about privacy is different: women are in fact more predisposed to protect their privacy. At the same way, while adults care about the privacy invasion threatened by market and information researchs, on the contrary teenagers and young adults freely disclose personal and private information on SNSs (Barnes 2006). This reality creates, at the same time, an opportunity for firms and a risk for people; youngsters who become adults will have problems to shift their generality trough a more reserved profile and, maybe, they could become the target of different firms that know these people since their young age. Barnes (2006) called this situation the “privacy paradox”: the author argues that it occurs when users, especially teenagers, are not aware of the Internet nature. However, Acquisti and Gross (2006) explain this phenomenon as a disconnection between the users’ desire to protect their privacy and their effective behaviour: in the beginning, the SNSs have simply represented a means to send messages and view “friends’” photos, but later, many features have been added, including special interest groups (45 million in 2009), web links, news and blogs. Managerial implications and practices SNSs have not the same conformation all over the world although marketing goals are often the same in all countries: brand visibility, value and customer relation improvement, fidelization and loyalty to firm and to product/services. However in some countries we find different approaches that involve different types ofSNSs power. There are a lot of case studies containing different experiences in different countries around the world to discuss. In China, for example, because of the government censure, relevant SNSs can not enter in the country and for this reason we just find the development of local social network as RenRen, Weibo, Qzone and others; although this online social networks are unknown all over the world, they have million of users in China. The success of this social network is guaranteed and it represents an opportunity for firms that need advertising in Chinese market. Demographic data, in fact, underline that the number of Chinese web users has increased: from 265 milion in 2010 to 500 milion in 2011. Some of this social network, such as RenRen, Sina and Weibon are also quoted on the Stock Exchange… Here is a brief list of firms present on this social network: Lancome that guides the customers on the choice of beauty product, Louis Vuitton, that aim at high quality video, images and events to attract customers. This demonstrates that Chinese social network have the same function of western ones: young Chinese users speak with their contemporary through blogs and thanks to the advertisments inserted on them they become loyal to a certain brand or product. There are other successful cases of traditional companies: FORD: when Ford entered for the second time the american market with “Fiesta Subcompact Car” model, it began a wide marketing campaign called “Fiesta Movement”. The video of Fiesta campaign have generated 6,5 milion of visualization on You Tube, and Ford has received 50.000 requests of information about the product, in particular from no-Ford-driver. PepsiCO: PepsiCO used SNSs to find information about customers and it created a new brand for a new drink through a new campaign of promotion named DEWmocracyIn Italy we can find many cases of SNSs use in marketing strategies by Ikea, Media World, Euronics, La Feltrinelli. In particular OssCom, Cattolica University’s research centre of communication and media, and Digital PR, consulting agency of communication, have studied firms communication on social media in Italy; by monitoring the communication activity of 20 chain stores active at national level in sport, clothes, customer electronics, publishing and multimedia sector, they have drawn up a classification based on degree of exposition in social media, use of digital spacesand kind of interaction with customers. In particular, the positioning of the firms has been influenced by the frequency of profile revisions, but also by the amount of Facebook comments and links or Twitter retweet. The research has underlined that the highest step on the podium belongs to Ikea that implements communications strategies through an intensive multiplatform involving Facebook, Twitter, You tube. Media World, Euronics and La feltrinelli implement similar strategies but they do not reach the same result of the Swedish brand. Ikea, in fact, gains success with its customers expecially through comment on the projects and suggestion on products and combinations. The most active sector on social media are that ones referred to furniture and bricolage, publishing and multimedia, customer and electronic field. These sectors, in fact, use to work on constricted geographical zones so that SNSs become useful in order to calibrate offers, customize promotions, etc. On the contrary, companies belonging to the clothing field, for example, as it is referred to a more global business, must take care of the relationship with a large amount of customers (which are different in each part of the world) and must also pay attention to the improvment of the brand reputation. 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__label__wiki	0.60968	0.60968	About Durban eThekwini Municipality / Resource Centre / Newsletters / All Systems Go For Festive Season 2013 20 Years of Freedom and Democracy Development planning Research Studies Durban Municipal Thrift Fund Economic Development: EDGE eThekwini Audio Channel eThekwini Quality of Life eThekwini Weekly Bulletin ezaseGagasini Metro Radical Economic Transformation Framework Services Tariffs Thrif Fund PROPOSED BY-LAWS National Treasury #iSayNoToXenophobia All Systems Go For Festive Season 2013 The beach patrons will this festive season enjoy their stay differently as the upgraded facilities from the Blue Lagoon to uShaka Marine World will give beachgoers a wonderful experience. To ensure that all citizens who descend on our shores during this festive season have a safe and memorable time, eThekwini Municipality has put together a comprehensive festive season management plan that comprises of roles and responsibilities of various internal and external stakeholders of the Municipality. The new and fascinating look of the Blue Lagoon included the rehabilitation of the southern bank to Umngeni River, the pedestrianisation of the Blue Lagoon Pier, picnic and braai areas, trading kiosks and a special cycle lane from Blue Lagoon to Riverside Road. The Mayor, Cllr James Nxumalo said patrons can feel free to enjoy breakfast in the new restaurants which will be operational during this festive season. These restaurants will provide a casual dining experience during the day offering a snack menu, and then in the evening it transforms into an elegant dining restaurants. “Law enforcement agencies which include Metro Police, South African Police Services, Law Enforcement and Security personnel have been deployed at different areas to ensure that patrons are able to enjoy themselves in a safe and responsible manner,” said Nxumalo. Approximately 500 Metro Police Officers divided into beach activities group, foot patrols group and motor patrol group will be deployed 24 hours to strategically deal with crime prevention, traffic enforcement and by law enforcement. The targeted areas are north, south and central Durban beaches. The Municipality’s Deputy Head of Parks, Leisure and Cemeteries Department and Chairperson of Festive Season Management Committee (FESMAC), Christo Swart said there is an increased security, two additional CCTV Centres have recently been opened. One is situated in Pinetown and the other is at the beachfront. The CCTV Centre at the Disaster Management Centre will also be operational to help spot criminal activities at the beachfront. The Municipality drives the “Clean My City programme, which aims at keeping the City clean and during this joyous time, patrons are urged to keep the City clean at all times and use bins to dispose waste. Durban Solid Waste has extended working hours, as two shifts will be operational this festive season. Sweeping activities will be conducted from 06h00 to 22h00 each day. “Approximately 48 permanent lifeguards, 58 seasonal lifeguards and some voluntary lifeguards will be situated at various bathing beaches to ensure the safety of all bathers. It is important for bathers to co-operate with them and only swim in designated areas and during the specified times, which are 06H00-18H00 for the central beach and swimming pools and 06H00-17H00 for the district aquatic facilities,” said Swart. Children are more vulnerable at this time of the year and it is also important for parents and guardians to ensure that their children receive wristbands that will contain their personal details as soon as they arrive at the beach. These can be obtained from any of the 100 beach buddies (identified by their orange bibs written “I’m here to help you” or childminder. In cases where children are separated from their parents/guardians, the first point of call should be the gazebos written “Separated Children” where they will be looked after until collected. For safety reasons parents collecting children should produce proof of identity. To avoid congestion in the beachfront area, certain roads leading into this vicinity will be closed on peak days which are; 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31 December 2013 and 01-02 January 2014. Only motorists with access permits will be allowed access to the beachfront. Buses and taxis will be expected to drop off passengers and park at the Drive Inn Site located at Stalwart Simelane (Stanger) Street. “Last year our beaches had a footprint of approximately 3 million people. As is the trend, we expect that more numbers will visit us this summer and we welcome all people with open arms. We encourage them to take full advantage of our scenic tourist destinations, various activities that have been planned and learn about our diverse cultures. We also urge them to do this in a safe and responsible manner, as we would like to see them go back home refreshed and ready to start the New Year,” adds Swart. For more information, contact Tozi Mthethwa on 031 311 4800/ 083 307 9067 or email: Tozi.Mthethwa@durban.gov.za. Issued by the eThekwini Municipality’s Communications Unit. Contact Vuyo Gwala on 031 311 4838/ 0073 250 5704 or email vuyo.gwala@durban.gov.za Cannot retrieve the URL specified in the XML Link property. 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__label__cc	0.51287	0.48713	Bellevue family champions of draft horse competition Posted by Adam Droscha \| Oct 1, 2018 \| Bellevue \| 0 \| Thursday, Sept. 13 through Saturday, Sept. 15, was a horse competition few Michiganders were probably aware was taking place. At the Oklahoma State Fair Grounds, however, was a family from Bellevue, Mich. with their six horses for the Six-Horse Hitch Classic Series World Finals. Doyle and Rene had been to the competition before, and even won the previous year, but they were back for the three-day competition determined for another title. Rene is certain her horses were too. The Dingmans have owned horses since the 80s, and shown their horses since the 90s. Both Rene and Doyle grew up around horses, and took an interest in draft horses shortly after they moved to Bellevue in 1981. Over 30 years later, the Dingmans, their two daughters, and grandchildren are still showing their horses, but they’re not the only family with claim over the six horses that went to Oklahoma. Doyle and Rene have shared ownership with two families from Ohio. Nick and Cherie Wagner, and Mike and Tara Supers make up the ownership of the All Star Farms six-horse hitch team. The team took the title of champion at the 2018 competition, a second in a row for the team. The All Star Farms team, like every other team at the competition, went through a series of other qualifying competitions. The points accumulated from the qualifying competitions determined who went on, but every team started out with equal footing in Oklahoma. All Star Farms points from Oklahoma truly were outstanding. The team with the least amount of points comes out on top, and after the first two days All Star Farms was the only team still in the single digits from a three-judge panel. Their total after the three-day competition was 13, and their closest runner up had 29. The horse teams are judged on several factors, not the least of which is the uniformity among the horses, as well as decorative flare and animation. Rene was proud to share that her horses display confidence and prestige, and even enjoy the competition and showmanship. “They all have real heart and drive,” said Rene. “The six we have really like their job. They’re evenly matched and drive well together.” Ross and Nicole Honsberger, and Kelsey and Andy Gilbert, the Dingmans’ two daughters and sons-in-law, continue to help with the horses as well. Rene expects that competitions like the SHHCL will continue to be a family affair for the next generation. PreviousCharlotte Athletic Hall of Fame honors first inductees NextVacancies and budgetary issues at City of Potterville Adam Droscha Whitcomb passes 1,000 point threshold in high school basketball Bronco basketball teams look to cap off perfect regular seasons Just a few seats left to discover bones of ancient beast Bellevue students make mural for their hometown	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line86
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__label__cc	0.63818	0.36182	CHANS Fellows CHANS-Net Blogs Science Feeds HomeContentFarming-and-water-quality Enter terms: Search for: -Any-Blog entryEventPagePress ReleaseProfileProjectPublication Sign in to CHANS-Net New York Times: Of Fish, Monsoons and the Future - A Push to Save Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake NSF - Telecoupling science shows China's forest... Twitter Snapshot - A day of telecoupling tweets - 12/19/13 LiveScience - Bird Bones Reveal Human Effects on Ocean Food Chain French Tribune - Human Influence Changes Open-Ocean Food Chain: Seabird Bones Study Voice of America - Seabird Bones Reveal Changes in Open-Ocean Food Chain Science Codex: Rocks, water, air, space ... and humans: An NSF recipe for AGU success Science Update: Animal Conservation Podcast BBC News - Tigers "take night shift" to dodge humans Scientific American - Tigers take to the night – for peaceful coexistence with humans CHANS-Net Blog: How Becky Fuda is a Ph.D. student in the Department of... CHANS-Net Blog: Blogger: Abigail Lynch, a fisheries and wildlife PhD... AGU wrap-up and Hello again! I wanted to write to you to let you know... Farming and water quality CHANS-Net: Human-Nature Network scientists are examining the relationships between human and natural systems in agriculture, including studying how a farmer's decision to adopt conservation practices influences downstream water quality. Conservation practices are generally considered ways to improve water quality and improve agricultural sustainability. The research aims to reveal exactly how much each adopted conservation tactic improves the quality of water downstream from the farm, with the goal of increasing sustainability. The research uses two modeling approaches: a social model and a physically-based watershed model. National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow. Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales. Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme. About CHANS-Net Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are integrated systems in which humans and natural components interact. CHANS research has recently emerged as an exciting and integrative field of cross-disciplinary scientific inquiry, with research projects covering a variety of coupled systems in locations spanning the globe. Although individual projects have generated many important insights, it is essential to systematically transform the field to be more than the sum of its parts and provide broader insights of greater scientific and societal significance than those resulting from individual projects alone. The goal of CHANS-Net is to foster this transformation by facilitating communication and collaboration among members of the CHANS research community.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line98
__label__cc	0.510127	0.489873	Dance Programs & Forms Teachers & Instructors Danceability is an individualized dance, fitness and movement program serving the special needs community. Our studio is led by qualified staff and dedicated volunteers who create a nurturing environment that empowers our students to flourish and grow while promoting a healthy lifestyle… and we have a little fun along the way. Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Creative Movement, etc. Classes available Monday – Thursday, afternoon and evening classes. End of the year performance (optional for every student) While our expertise is in working with the special needs community, we welcome all ages and abilities who wish to have dance instruction. Danceability is now accepting donations online. Click Here to view our profile on “Crowdrise” and make a donation today! We are now looking for Summer & Fall volunteers. 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__label__wiki	0.531162	0.531162	Darksome Utt'rings The blog of the Darksome Schooner Attention Film Industry – Greatness is Upon You November 12, 2011 October 1, 2019 I_PWN_YER_MA_84 A few years ago I found myself engaged in conversation with a mid-level film producer whilst waiting for a train. As we stood on the platform, he enquired, possibly simply out of politeness, whether I had any good ideas for films (though the fact he waited so long to broach such an obvious topic would seem to indicate genuine interest spurred by some element in our conversation prior to that point which had enabled him to identify me as a formidable creative force.) I had made known my disdain for much of the adapted fiction/speculative fantasy which had been produced by “Hollywood” in its near-century of underachievement, and I maintain a tenacious grip on my own works, (many of which cannot even be discussed beyond the blurb without my representatives first receiving a small honorarium as a statement of interest,) so the only option left to me was to offer this man my idea for a sequel or “follow-up” to an existing property. The film in question was Twins, the successful action comedy romp starring a virile Arnold Schwarzenegger and the swarthy and decidedly un-Teutonic Danny DeVito. My proposed sequel was to be called Quads. Following a similar pattern to the original, we start with two storylines showing seemingly unrelated and diametrically opposite adults going about their daily lives. Jackie Chan is twin Hong Kong hustler urchins, partaking in hilarious slapstick petty crimes against property and occasionally the person.* The Chan brothers use their identical physical appearance and amazing acrobatic feats of violence to dumbfound the local mob bosses and maintain a degree of independence from the quagmire of organised crime. They seem to display a preternatural intelligence which is wasted in filching dumplings from old crones who push wooden carts and wear stupid hats. It is almost as though they have some element of the more sophisticated European cultural mindset which sets them apart from their fellow slum-dwellers. Meanwhile, Jean-Claude Van Damme is twin Belgian research scientists, as alike in the power of their minds as they are in the symmetry and firmness of their shoulders and trapezoids. These brothers’ almost telepathic bond has given them a vast shared body of knowledge from which either can draw. The Van Dammes have developed some spectacular products in their careers, from improved pest extermination devices to a handheld automated judicial device which can be used by street police officers to determine the guilt of suspects from vocal and chemical cues, thus eradicating the need for the wasteful trial element of the criminal justice system. Before starting work each day, both brothers will likely need to don anti-contamination suits Their latest discovery is a rudimentary perpetual motion device, which, when properly patented and rolled out by a monopolistic supplier, could provide for all the energy needs of humanity at no current expenditure cost to the producer. Reckless rumours around the laboratory speculate that the Van Dammes plan to use the device to rip a hole in the temporal fabric of our universe and skip back and forth through time. Of course this is ridiculous. It is not at all possible to flit back and forth through time, even with the potentially limitless power available from the invention of the Jeans-Claude. However, desperate men will believe stupid things, and none is more desperate than the tenured professor at the research institute where the identical beefcakes are employed. Played by Jeremy Irons, the professor has become lazy and reckless after years of gaining prestige and trips to swanky conferences off the back of others’ hard graft. He has incurred substantial gambling debts and the ire of the Swiss Mafia. Facing financial ruin, public indignation, and the destruction of his “enlightened” poly-amorous, pansexual open marriage, Jeremy Irons needs cash, and he needs it fast. If only he had worked harder in the last 10 years, establishing patents, releasing tiny incremental changes to existing products to keep them under copyright protection, and speculating on the public’s insatiable desire for coffee with too much milk served in unnecessarily large cardboard cups. If only Jeremy Irons had a time machine, he could go back in time; he could make a few shrewd investments, bet on some unsurprising sports results* and then come back to the present day with a veritable shitload of money at his disposal. Irons knows that he would never get his hands on the perpetual motion device with the Van Dammes around, as not only are they fiercely protective of their intellectual property, they’re also adept at totally snapping people’s necks with hardly any effort at all. The buff brothers will have to be distracted and taken away from the lab if Irons is to dance brazenly across the boundaries of time and reason. Luckily for Jeremy, the Van Dammes have just found out that their conception was part of a utopian sperm-mingling experiment to create a specimen of athletic and intellectual perfection to give the West the edge over the Ruskies. However, unbeknownst to the Van Dammes, when the elite spooge was shoved up some hot secretary, it didn’t just result in the conception of the two fine Flemish frères. Oh no, Jeremy Irons has discovered there were other twins quickening away in that crowded uterus. That pair got the raw deal in the jizzum lottery, ending up with all the wily, lawless, diminutive and Asian genes. They were promptly shipped off to Hong Kong, where any damaging impact would be restricted to a less salubrious outpost of Western imperial influence. The Van-Dammes, still tied to outmoded ideas of fraternal loyalty as a result of their cloistered existence of permanent success, set out immediately for Hong Kong to “find themselves”, leaving the perpetual motion device at the whims of Jeremy Irons. Just as Jeremy Irons is about to enter the temporal rip, a man clatters into the laboratory shouting for him to stop. Irons ignores the voice and steps nonchalantly toward the rift in linear chronology. The intruder tackles Irons to the floor and wrestles him away from hole in time and space. “Who are you?” asks Irons. “I’m us,” replies his assailant… If this was not the finest “elevator pitch” the producer had ever heard, then I can only imagine he was present in Michael Crichton’s head when the late visionary summoned up the idea for Jurassic Park. The minor mogul was so astounded by the strength of my complex splicing of hard sci-fi, mass market action comedy and neo-Randian doctrine, that he neglected to ask for my contact details before rushing to board a train which had just arrived four platforms away. Sadly this meant I was unable to fill him in on the finer details of the remaining two and half hours of the film. Whilst I would never be so idiotic as to offer specifics to the piratical domains of the WorldWide Web, I will at least provide a loose skeleton of the immediate developments: The man accosting Jeremy Irons is indeed himself, from the past, sort of. Alan Rickman plays the older version of Irons, who travelled 10 years back in time to make canny investments and leveraged buyouts of companies offering pointless consumer catnip to the senseless masses of the preceding decade. However, Rickman realised that, though it is possible to flit back in time using the perpetual motion device, it is not at all possible to flit back forwards.He returned to the exact time and place where he first leapt across the eternal void to warn himself (Irons) that the journey could not be reversed. Rickman had been stranded in the past for 10 years, forced to watch humanity, and specifically his own promiscuous multi-ethnic “family”, repeat the mistakes they’d made before, terrified that intervention would create a time paradox, ending the existence of the universe. What’s not to trust? As Irons is working his leisure-addled brain around the schema of Rickman’s explanation, a new rift opens in the laboratory. Out strides Steven Berkoff, bearing an expression of intense determination. Berkoff informs Rickman and Irons the he (Berkoff) is them (Irons and Rickman) from the future, come back to warn them (Irons and Rickman) of an imminent threat to the very systems which hold the planet together.The Van Dammes will find the Jackie Chans in Hong Kong and partake in some international-market-friendly mostly dialogue-free bonding hijinks. Once the four men have established a close connection, the freeloading criminalistic attitude of the Oriental siblings will infect the rational minds of the Van Dammes. After securing start-up capital from guilt-ridden turncoat high net worth philanthropists, they will use the perpetual motion device to provide free energy to the planet. This will have a devastating impact on the energy extraction and distribution cartels and decimate the pension funds of countless productive participants in the economy. Irons, Rickman and Berkoff must stop this at any cost…*** This idea is still available for development, should any producers be reading (particularly if you are in possession of the rights to the original Twins, but I’m sure we can find a way around that.) This is not a labour of love, but rather a throwaway moment of genius resulting from a heated debate on the wasteful mishandling of sci-fi ideas in mainstream entertainment – so I am willing to be flexible about fine details of the plot. There’s still plenty you don’t know, for example, the genealogy and works of each of the 14 sperm donors; the delivery medium which transported aforesaid semen into the attractive secretary’s surprisingly capacious parts; whether Steven Berkoff is the older version of the embittered, but hardened-by-experience, Alan Rickman, or the callow and untested Jeremy Irons, who still holds a strong attachment to the deviant conglomeration he considers a family. Was this unlikely device used in one or more of the artificial fertilisation processes? Although I am willing to be flexible on any number of the matters outlined above, I would ask any prospective producers to note that my fee is not negotiable. * The title Quads is clever in a number of ways, not only is it the appropriate terminology for the circumstances outlined in the film (two sets of identical twins in the same litter), but it is also a homophone, being a truncation of both the word “quadruplets” and “quadriceps” (the extensor muscles of the leg, which would need to be especially rippling and well-developed for the back-flipping and “butt-kicking” enacted by our heroes). A lazier custodian of this franchise would likely have chosen to call a sequel to Twins, Triplets, but this is a common mistake which neglects the astonishing force of exponentiation. If film sequels followed an exponential pattern, then the advertisements could more accurately boast the latest instalment to be “twice as good/fun/harrowing as [its predecessor]” and by only the 11th chapter it could truthfully claim to be “1024-times better than the original”. The crucial role of exponential mathematics in the marketing of mainstream cinematic fayre has been ignored for too long – the organisers of the Global Marketing Conference 2012 in Seoul should be prepared to hire several extra interns, as I plan to follow through on my promise 13 years ago to each year double my efforts in applying for one of the open speaker slots to deliver a lecture on my proprietary exponential marketing model. I would countenance the occasional pick-pocketing of an uppity business executive who was stupid enough to wander into the slums. That’s just asking for it. They’ll have your bag, your phone, that file, and don’t expect your orange juice to still be there when you look around, love. * Although a reckless gambler, and guilty of partaking in countless nefarious pleasures of the flesh, Jeremy Irons is not an idiot and so would not succumb to what I call “The Tannen Fatuity”. Biff Tannen, in Back to the Future: Part II displays an astounding lack of foresight when he uses the Almanac from 2015 to make millions on shock sporting results. This was only ever going to draw attention to the slow-witted manure-o-sceptic. Had Tannen had the patience and intelligence to simply bet big on a continuing succession of short-odds unsurprising victories, he could’ve avoided the attentions of the mob, heartlessly slain George McFly much earlier, and shacked up with Lorraine long before she’d whelped the troublesome Marty, who would eventually contribute to his downfall. Jeremy Irons will only bet on games with an obvious outcome, but play the margins carefully, shrewdly picking a first scorer here, an aggregate scoreline there, and thus accruing more than sufficient wealth to cover his debts and support the perverse decadence of his home life. ** In case you weren’t paying attention, these other twins are Jackie Chan. *** This is probably the point at which Quads breaks loose from the boundaries of a straightforward sequel and enters transcendent narrative realms. Whilst the original Twins featured a roguish lawless character in the form of Danny DeVito, he was, at worst, an anti-hero and essentially pure in his motives. In Quads, the intention to release the perpetual motion technology on an open source model would seem to make the Van Dammes villainous, or at best imbecilic. The real meat of the narrative comes in the extended debate between Irons/Rickman/Berkoff and the Van Dammes, (possibly over a waterfall, or atop a volcano, or a burning train or something,) in which the ripped geniuses are persuaded that the free licensing of the device would bring about the decline of market capitalism as we know it and destroy all we hold dear. Once persuaded, the Jeans-Claude could retire to a secluded mountain getaway to invest their profits in further innovations, and, if sentimentally inclined, attempt to teach some modicum of business acumen and ingenuity to their deficient siblings. A less adventurous producer may decide they want the Van Dammes/Chans to “win” at the end by making their technology available to even the most backward corners of the globe. If so, I would insist on conscience that any sequel to such a bowdlerised version take place in a hideous trade-free dystopia where the bodies of creative individuals are literally leeched dry by the feckless masses using a series of crude and inefficient out-of-copyright suction devices. To do otherwise would be to abandon the message of my film. Besides, a sensible filmmaker would agree that the most cost effective approach to the franchise would be to bring in a whole new set of principle players for the sequel Octuplets, in line with my Exponential Marketing Mechanism™©® outlined above. Categories: Movies, Sci-fiTags: Available to Highest Bidder, Culture, Dizygotic/Monozygotic Multiple Births, Movies, Sequels The Ambience Engineer #1: Futuristic Consumerist Dystopia #2: Post-Apocalyptic Motorcycle Raid #3: Post-Cataclysmic Waterworld	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line105
__label__wiki	0.813086	0.813086	Author Archives: KEN E. CAGULA Student leaders want NYC chair to step down by KEN E. CAGULA More student leaders and organizations are calling for the head of the National Youth Commission (NYC) to step down from his post. SC decision on ML extension draws flak from Lumad schools, solons The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the third extension of Martial Law extension in Mindanao until the end of 2019 has drawn flak from various progressive groups, calling it as “outright neglect of human rights.” Arrest of Rappler’s Maria Ressa ‘a shameless act of persecution by a bully government’ Rappler chief Maria Ressa was detained overnight at the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Pasay City for cyber libel charges, in what media watchdog and lawyer’s group called, as a “shameless act of persecution by a bully government.” Women’s group on Bato’s campaign stunt: ‘crass, sexist, misogynist’ Former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief and now senatorial aspirant Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa pulled a campaign stunt on Tuesday but it has raised the eye brows of women rights advocates, saying the stunt was crass, sexist and misogynist. Soldiers held captive by NPA begs to Duterte: ‘Suspend military operations’ Two soldiers being held captive by the New Peoples Army (NPA) appealed for help from President Rodrigo Duterte to cease military operations to pave way for their release. Workers’ group laments PH, Japan failure to discuss labor woes of Sumifru workers Workers’ group on Monday lamented that the labor woes involving a Japanese multinational banana firm was not tackled before the visit of Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono here in the country. Amending anti-terror law to worsen HRVs, groups warn Human rights advocates are wary of a countrywide martial law if the military’s proposed amendments to the anti-terror law will be legislated. Philippine Eagle nesting site spotted in Bukidnon The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) has announced on Wednesday it has caught sight of a 10 to 11-month old Philippine Eagle was spotted nesting in the highlands of Bukidnon province. ROTC to “normalize” violence, impunity in schools, group warns The youth group League of Filipino Students (LFS) recently voiced out its concerns and condemned the government’s renewed bid to revive the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) among senior high school (SHS) students in the country. Killings, arrests of environmental defenders in Mindanao alarming The massive human rights violations committed against the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) or lumads and peasants are designed to silence the opposition to the continuing operations of large-scale mining and plantations in Northern Mindanao and the rest of Caraga Region.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line106
__label__cc	0.723372	0.276628	GS Goes Verslag 02 – Buitenlandweek 1/Brieven GS Goes Verslag 03 – Buitenlandweek 2/Toespraken GS Goes Verslag 04 – Buitenlandweek 3/Bespreking GS Goes – Impressie 01/Buitenlandweek Wegwezen GS Goes Verslag 01 – Buitenlandweek 1 Protestanten die ‘Solus Christus’ ontkennen Lezen en laten lezen Zo?! 7 Signalen 95 Signalen Den Bosch, donderdag 16 januari 'Blijft de GKv een belijdende kerk?' Ds. J. Wesseling (GKv) De Ontmoeting, Europalaan 42, 20.00 uur Emmeloord, vrijdag 24 januari 'Hoe lief heb ik uw wet' Ds. A. Bas (GKN) Aanmelden GRATIS nieuwsbrief Are we following the reformed churches in the netherlands? 3 Rev. J. Moesker 5 What about the CanRC? The question here and now is, what about the CanRC? Are we maybe being drawn into a similar kind of emotionalism as so many in our sister churches in the Netherlands? I'm afraid I do see some signs that something similar is stirring in the CanRC. After all, though our culture has some differences with Europe, here in North America we also live in a post-Christian emotionalistic culture. And we exist as Reformed churches among all sorts of evangelical and charismatic churches where faith is often measured by feeling. So there’s also constant and increasing pull on CanRC members to emotionalism, to judge things more by our feelings and emotions than by the plain and sufficient Word of God. As Dr. Visscher has pointed out, there are things that may mitigate that pull in the CanRC. Nevertheless, the pull is definitely there. And history shows us that because of the weakness of the covenant people, reformations are needed again and again. But let me mention a few things I have noticed which cause me to suspect movement toward emotionalism. I mentioned declining RCN membership statistics. Thankfully the CanRC membership is still increasing. But you know something? The rate of increase is steadily declining. Membership increase 2013 -369; in 2014 – 210; in 2015 125. Fewer children are being born, but the decline also reflects an increasing number of members leaving the churches, many for evangelical churches. Early in my ministry already I had to do with people, mainly young people, who withdrew from the church I was serving. Many of them stated that they didn’t feel part of church, didn’t feel happy or lifted up in worship, didn’t like the Genevan tunes, and so on. There’s nothing Biblically wrong with this church, but I don’t feel good worshipping here, so I’m going to that community church. The first sign of withdrawing from the church is often attending only one worship service on Sunday and then skipping worship more and more. And it used to be mainly young people, but over the years I more and more heard that kind of talk and noticed "onceing" from more mature people. And I know that all consistories and ministers deal with this on a regular basis. How many CanRC people aren’t worshipping in evangelical churches like Harvest churches today? That’s also why for instance the article of Rev. R. Schouten in the August issue of Clarion entitled, “So You’re Thinking of Leaving Your Church…” A very thoughtful and to the point article in which he uses the Form for Profession of Faith to confront people who are unhappy with the CanRC they belong to and are thinking of leaving for a community church or megachurch. Worth reading! He invited reactions, and there were a couple of letters to the editor critiquing the article. One reaction referred to the beginning of the article where Rev. Schouten says that when questioned, those intending to leave often say, But I just feel happier and more at home in this new church. The letter writer asked, Is it wrong to desire to feel happy and at home in one’s home church? If our members do not feel happy in church, are there ways we as church community can make that happen? And then, the letter also critiques Rev. Schouten’s statement that truth should trump emotion every time in the Christian life. The letter writer asks, Can truth and positive emotion not stand side by side in the Christian life? In worship can and should they not both be present? I’m afraid that that reaction shows something of the pushing forward of feeling as a measure of Christian life and worship. Should we really make truth AND feeling the measure of good worship? Are we so afraid that truth won’t bring that positive emotion that feeling is elevated beside it as touchstone of godly worship? Dr. T. VanRaalte was asked a couple of years ago at a conference about the place of emotion in worship. He replied that there is emotion and there is emotionalism. Emotionalism seeks to arouse positive emotions. Like happy clappy worship. On the other hand, emotion is the good benefit of godly worship, but not the aim of such worship. In fact, the effect of Biblical worship should also be negative emotion when confronted by one’s sins and weaknesses. The gospel is after all an affront to our pride and weakness. Some time ago I rubbed shoulders at a gathering with someone with whom I had some words about the celebration of the Lord’s Supper. I was going to administer the Lord’s Supper the next Sunday and that person said, Do the elders invite up to the table in this church? What would you do if I simply walked up to take part without being invited and without an attestation? He didn’t go up to the table, but I understand that he later withdrew himself from the CanRC he belonged to about this issue. I know that person isn’t alone in feeling upset by the way the table is fenced in the CanRC. It feels as if the CanRC are saying that unless you have an attestation we don’t accept that you’re a true Christian, or we don’t trust that you are such. And as such fencing the table feels offensive to some members if it also offends guests at that time. But this is not a matter that’s decided by emotion, but by Scripture. We confess quite clearly in LD 30 and 31 that the elders of the church have the task and authority to admit and to withhold from the table of the Lord, and this is reflected in Article 61 of the Church Order. In this truth has to trump emotion every time. But I’m afraid that there is increasing push to let emotion trump the truth in this matter. I noticed, by the way, that Synod 2016 has decided that the Committee for Contact with Churches in North America are no longer mandated to raise the issue of fencing of the Lord’s Table with the sister churches in the US. I wonder why not, especially if the fencing of the table is a matter we confess from Scripture. As I mentioned, CanRC worship services have changed in various ways over the years. And change isn’t always bad. It’s positive if we find Biblically better ways to glorify God in Christ and to encourage one another in praise. I preached in the RCNZ for some time recently and though their liturgy is quite similar there are some differences, some we could learn from. In the RCNZ the the deacons place the offerings on a table at the from and stand in front of the table and offer prayer connected with those offerings. The thing is, though, sometimes proposals to change the way worship is conducted are made more on the basis of feeling than Scripture. Some time ago a consistory had received a proposal for a change in the liturgy, and they presented it to the congregation. There was a fair bit discussion about it. Until one brother stood up and said that the only substantial reason he heard throughout the discussion about the change in the liturgy was that people were bored with the way it was. Well, he said, if you start changing the worship because people feel bored, be prepared to change it again and again in the future because they’ll eventually get bored with each change too! We don’t worship to keep people entertained, but to glorify God and be called to repentance and faith in Christ. We also regularly hear criticism of our Genevan Psalter. I have heard criticism about the tunes and that there ought to be many more hymns since they are more uplifting. Again, arguments largely based on feelings. The psalms were originally inspired for worship. There is lots of emotion in the psalms, and by them the Spirit channels our emotions in a good direction. Yes, there could be different tunes, the Genevan tunes weren’t inspired, but they have historical value and connect us with brothers and sisters of the past. And according to Synod 2004 we could add more hymns, but they need to Biblical and in a worship style that isn’t faddish but classical. But I suspect though that the continual urging for additional and more contemporary hymns which I hear from time to time, is due to a desire for more emotional worship. I also believe that as our society becomes more and more egalitarian there will be a movement to push females more to the fore in worship and in church work and eventually in church office. You can think what you will of the decision to allow women’s voting, but I personally expect that there is a degree of egalitarianism behind it. And I researched it a bit, but pretty well every church in North America which has opened the way to women’s voting has over time also accepted females in church office in spite of what the Bible so plainly says. And I’m thankful for the seminary and I trust that our seminary and its board of governors and the professors all have mind and hearts focussed on the Word and training men to bring that Word. But I do expect that over time there will be increasing pressure on the seminary to accommodate the feeling-based changes which ferment among local churches. 6 So how forward? I need to come to some concluding remarks. I can't look into the future. And I pray not, but I expect that the emotionalism of our man-centred culture will continue to have an effect on CanRC members and churches as it has in the RCN. It will likely continue to push on the way we worship in the first place, as it already is in some places. There will be less unity in practice and more modality churches and maybe even modality church assemblies. There will probably be push for more member participation in worship. There will be a push to change the songs and music in worship, to bring instruments and also allow bands in worship. The role of women in the church will likely become a matter of study. Maybe also in time the status of same-sex relationships. There will be more ecumenicity of the heart with Christians of differing confession and practice. There will be more drive to make room for members who don't necessarily stand fully for the Reformed confessions. There will be more pressure on the way the Bible has always been understood throughout the history of the NT church with its changing cultures. And that push will reach out for the support of the seminary. Overall, a process which may differ in some ways from the developments overseas, but which will follow a similar course as in the RCN and too many other churches. Changes based more on emotion than on reasonable discussion about what the Bible says. What should we do if our desire is to remain close to the Bible? Well, in the first place we need to hold fast to what we confess in Article 27 BC that the holy catholic church has existed from the beginning of the world and will be to the end, for Christ is an eternal King who cannot be without subjects. He gather, defends and preserves for Himself by Spirit and Word in the unity of faith a church chosen to everlasting life, as we also confess from the Bible in LD21. So there’s no need to be afraid, and every reason to pray and to trust that as long as you do your task in your own place and station according to the Bible as best you can, that the Lord will continue to gather and keep His church and keep you for it. Work and pray to remain faithful as church members. Know your Bible and confessions and teach your children to love the Lord. And work and pray to keep the church you belong to true to God’s Word. And be faithful to that holy catholic church of Christ wherever and whatever. As we have seen throughout church history, churches decline and reformation is needed again and again. So time and again in history believing people had to leave a church to stay with the church of Christ. I pray that in my lifetime no one may need to leave the CanRC to remain with Christ's holy catholic church. But let's not think that that might not be needed 20 years from now. Let me bring what I just said together in the apostolic command throughout the NT to be sober and self-controlled. Especially the apostle Peter who was inclined to be so emotional. He learned to ground his mind and heart in Christ and in the gospel. In his letters he later emphasizes then that Christians need to be sober. In other words, not carried along by passions, by emotionalism, but self-controlled and subject to the whole Word of God. Let me end by reading 1 Peter 5:6-11: Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Rev J. Moesker is Minister emeritus of Owen Sound, Canada. He held this speech in Smithville ON, November 2017. © een in waarheid.info \| Disclaimer \| Colofon	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line116
__label__cc	0.525828	0.474172	effective competition Darren aims to put grower needs first Today, as western region systems and agronomy general manager based back in Western Australia, Dr Hughes is largely focused on projects that fall into the GRDC's three-to-eight year investment strategy... "We are directing and developing a strategy around the GRDC's investments in farming systems, soils and agronomy and what is the best return for growers," Dr Hughes said... "The GRDC is investing nearly $4 million per year in a range of soils projects for the benefit of WA grain growers, with a significant focus on non-wetting soils, soil compaction, acidity and sodicity," he said... dr hughes enhanced profitability global grain market western region system Local link for grain growers to the GRDC The panel system is a key strength of the GRDC, with a cross-section of grain growers, scientists and people from industry to feed in regional priorities and assess funding proposals... Mr Martel will serve a two year term providing a direct link for local growers, helping to ensure they can provide input into the organisation and get to learn about the latest research results... "The panel system is vital to the GRDC's success and the organisation relies on panellists to contribute robust opinions based on professional and practical grains industry experience," Mr Clark said... grain trading Tasmanian link for grain growers to the GRDC Tasmania has a representative on the newly appointed southern region panel of the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) for the first time in several years... The panel system is a key strength of the GRDC, with a cross-section of grain growers, scientists and people from industry to feed in regional priorities and assess funding proposals... We have a good representation of growers, researchers and people from industry on the new panel, each with a fresh perspective on the task and different networks to bring to the organisation," Mr Shannon said... family farming operation southern panel panel member Queensland link for grain growers to the GRDC The panel system is a key strength of the GRDC, with a cross-section of grain growers, scientists and people from industry to feed in regional priorities and assess funding proposals... All panel members will serve two year terms providing a direct link for Queensland growers, helping to ensure they can provide input into the organisation and get to learn about the latest research results... "The panel system is vital to the GRDC's success and the organisation relies on panellists to contribute robust opinions based on professional and practical grains industry experience," Mr Clark said... northern panel cereal quality research appointed northern panel WA growers consulted during GRDC panel tours WA growers consulted during GRDC panel tours.. Key decision makers from the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) hit the road in recent weeks to discuss a range of research, development and extension (RD&E) issues with Western Australian growers... Mr Clark said the tours were an opportunity to demonstrate how the GRDC was investing not only in new technologies relating to key issues such as herbicide resistance, frost, soil constraints, and crop rotations, but also in pre-emptive research defending farming systems from potential threats such as rust in cereals and blackleg in canola... mr clark end contact grower profitability grdc panel frost research frost risk Grower a strong believer in giving back to industry Grower a strong believer in giving back to industry.. "I have a personal philosophy to be involved in industry affairs, and over the years I've been involved with quite a few different industry representative bodies," he said... Mr Duncan says that, with some of his time being freed up as his adult children took on greater roles in the family's farming business at West River near Ravensthorpe in WA's South Coast region, he felt he could dedicate sufficient time to the new role... specific industry issue industry body industry affair grdc investment "The challenge for the GRDC is to enhance its engagement with those growers who don't already contribute through Regional Cropping Solutions Networks (RCSNs) and the western panel, so that they feel a greater connection with the GRDC and have a better understanding of how we are delivering value to them," he said... Mr Clark said the tours were an opportunity to demonstrate how the GRDC was investing not only in new technologies relating to key issues such as herbicide resistance, frost, soil constraints, and crop rotations, but also in pre-emptive research defending farming systems from potential threats such as rust in cereals and blackleg in canola... Mr Clark said that while growers indicated that GRDC investments reflected the key issues of importance to them, many wanted an increased focus on local issues such as variety-specific agronomy information... wa grower Two new faces for GRDC's western panel The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has appointed two new members to its western regional panel... In announcing the appointments, GRDC chairman Richard Clark said Darrin Lee, of Mingenew, and Gemma Walker, of Esperance, would strengthen the panel... Ms Walker has extensive experience in broadacre cropping and livestock systems gained through managing the tri-state Mallee Sustainable Farming and her hands-on involvement in her family farm near Munglinup in WA's Esperance region... mr lee western regional panel regional panel grdc western panel dr hughes (2) effective competition (11) end contact (2) enhanced profitability (9) global grain market (10) grain grower (4) grain trading (2) grdc (4) grdc investment (2) grdc panel (2) grower (3) grower profitability (2) industry affair (2) industry body (2) mr clark (2) mr duncan (2) new staff member (2) panel member (3) panel system (2)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line117
__label__cc	0.629146	0.370854	Birdie's Updates for Hiking Canada's Great Divide Trail These are my friend Birdie's updates to the guidebook that she sent me recently. Birdie hiked in 2005 following more or less the same route I did, though taking some more adventurous paths at times, including going all the way to Kakwa. Remember that things change, people are wrong (including me), and conditions alter over time. The GDT is not a guided walk and potential hikers should exercise their brains throughout their time on the trail. P54- Lynx Creek Campground is now $7. There is a different company from what you have listed, managing the campground. IÕm sorry I didnÕt get the name of it. The campground offers camping on both sides of Lynx Creek Road. All the water pumps say to boil or treat water before using. The water pump in the picnic area was broken but in the camp area worked. The bathrooms are only open in the camping area. P56-additional description to find the unmarked junction waypoint a36- There is a large erratic/rock standing on its end in a pasture on the right side of the road about 50 meters before the junction. The trail/logging road up to Willoughby Ridge through the burn was in good condition and not a bad walk. The wildflowers were amazing when I hiked through there. P71-I received a note in Coleman from Lindy and Ishmael and did follow your recommendation to take Atlas Road to Dutch Creek Road and on to Tornado Pass, instead of the guidebooks route over Deadman Pass to North Fork Pass. Near Dutch Creek, I was unable to pick up the GDT orange blazes, but did easily follow the ATV track up to the Pass. If you want a report on the Deadman Pass to North Fork Pass, Kevin Rowe successfully hiked that route without entering the off-limits mining area summer 2004. P89-93 Ð Recent trail work and new blazes in the area. Noted a nice trail re-route in the forest south of Cataract Creek and new bridge built over Cataract Creek. P93- Logging activity and recent large clear cut after Etherington Creek campground. The ATV trails are now wide logging roads that the trail follows (no blazes on the roads). The trail ducks into the woods for a short stretch off the logging road before entering the large clear cut. (If one missed the turn where the trail re-enters the woods, it is no big deal since the logging road leads to the clear-cut too.) In the clear cut, the tread is covered up by clear-cut debris. Loggers left a few ÒhalfÓ trees with orange blazes to follow. Best to describe as stay towards tree line on right side of clear cut. The trail reenters the woods about half way up the clear-cut and stays in it until it reaches the ÒLunch SpotÓ and beyond. P95 There is a campsite by the ford of Baril Creek before the waterfall and bridge crossing of Baril Creek. P95- As you approach Fording River Pass, an outfitterÕs trail veers left and meanders over the Pass on left side on the top leveled-out alpine area. It leads past two small lakes on top of the Pass. The outfitterÕs longer route has a gentle grade on ascent and moderate grade on descent over the Pass. The outfitterÕs trail descends the other side of the Pass and leads directly to the small lake/tarin with the campground described in the Guide. From the campground the outfitter trail heads south of the small lake along a small creek to a seismic line/gravel road. When you reach the road/seismic line, one would need to turn left and cross Aldridge Creek to reach the junction with your described route. At that junction, turn right on the seismic line then pick up the GuideÕs description of Òsoon pass the boulder-strewn slope, moderate climb, spring and so onÓ. P101- Chris Willett is wrong about Fox Lake. You are correct that Fox Lake is before West Elk Pass. The trail junctions beyond West Elk Pass leading to Elk Pass trail head were not marked. The trail signs/maps that are common elsewhere in Peter Longheed PP where missing. Perhaps they were being redone? All the intersections are unmarked and there are trails that are not on the Gem maps. P143-Trail to Natural Bridge from railroad tracks walk is 50 meters after the electrical box-MI 2.50 Mountain Sub, or just after the telephone pole marked #679. this trail junction is difficult to see from the railroad tracks but evident once you get close to the woods and off the railroad embankment. P111-Ford the Pallister River at waypoint c4--Before the ford, on the Òeast sideÓ or LeRoy Creek side, there is a diamond marker on a tree with 0.0 on it. (Helpful info for ÒsouthboundÓ hikers, northbound hikers most likely would not see it unless they looked behind them). P115-After fording the river, evident trail leads up over the creek bank to a small meadow, near a campsite (campsite is on the left). Continue west through the meadow towards the ÒcanyonÓ wall, then turn north to pick up a definite trail that leads north on the west side of Pallister River for 2km before crossing to the east side of the Pallister River and continuing up to the Pass. Back at the first ford (c4) of the Pallister River, after crossing to the west side, there is a faint trail that starts out near the west bank, but peters out. You donÕt want that trail. Again, go through the meadow towards the back of it, and pick up the proper trail that is easy to follow, although overgrown in spots, up to Pallister Pass. One additional note, it looks like a trail crew is working on a reroute towards the top of the Pass (before the ponds), where it is steep. There was a lot of flagging around the area. 115-There is established trail on the left (west) side of the Spray River valley. After leveling out at the Spray River gravel bars from the Pass, cross the gravel bars, and angle west to pick up the trail near the tree line. The trail crosses to the east side of the Valley just south of the junction for the Lemon Lake trail and Burstall campground. The second junction to Lemon Lake is unmarked. The trail stays on the east side of the Spray River valley for the remainder of the stretch, entering the woods after the Birdwood Creek warden station. P137-the bridge over the Vermillion River is back and the trail to Floe Lake and campground is open. P161- There was a series of footbridges over the Cairnes Creek as you described. On the south bank of the river, as you described, about 15 meters before the equestrian ford, an unmarked but flagged trail heads west, (to the left) for about a 100 meters to the place where these foot bridges are located. This trail is flagged with blue trail tape. On the north side of the creek, the trail leads west also for about 100 meters before reaching these footbridges. Currently, this trail is flagged with pink trail tape. The footbridges are not visible from the equestrian ford. P161-second paragraph- The trail after David Howse Pass is in poor condition with many tree wind fall. Once down to the Howse River flood plain, it is easy to lose the trailÕs tread on the gravel bed. If canÕt find it as it meanders on and off the river bank and in forest, look for it near the treeline. Of note, for GDT southbound hikers, there is a random campsite on the gravel bed of the flood plain at the very south end of the route along the river. After passing the campsite, the trail route enters the woods and heads away from the flood plain for the remainder of the walk south until reaching waypoint d12 at the reclaimed campsite at the confluence. P179-Trail is in poor condition from White Goat Wilderness boundary to Cataract Creek. It is easy to lose trail route in meadows/high grasses and marshy areas. After crossing Cataract Creek for the first time, (waypoint e8), a hiker should turn left and follow the creek bank for about 100 meters to pickup the trail again and make a sharp right turn to follow the trail heading away from the creek, weaving through forest to waypoint e9 at the trail junction on the low ridgeline. P179- (second paragraph)There is a campsite on the gravel bar of Cataract Creek before it reaches the major confluence. 179- (Second paragraph), After fording Cataract Creek by the major confluence, one is to follow the Cataract Creek upstream on narrow trail, for about 1 km. I found the trail peters out quickly at that point. I did stay on the west side of the creek for about 1 km and then crossed over near where the canyon walls narrow. I then follow the ÒeastÓ bank of Cataract Creek upstream to the Cataract Creek basin where the sub-alpine meadow valley opens up. P179-( Second paragraph)- At the foot of the Cataract Pass, (on the east/south side/cataract basin), the rocks of the glacial moraine turn light brown, in contrast to the dark gray glacial moraine rock ridge leading up to it. Here a few cairns have been built that lead to evident trail up to the top of Cataract Pass. This evident trail goes between two small year-round snow fields/patches and swings right to pass a third one before heading up as a moderate climb over the Pass. P209-Miette Warden cabin is gone. But the site offers a flat area to camp. P211-second paragraph-The trail route is most affected by the forest fire from waypoint f10 at the Colonel Creek Ford, to the Colonel Creek trail junction. Deadfall and overgrown underbrush make following the tread and still evident axe blazes on the burnt trees challenging but not impossible. P217- from the Colonel Creek Trail junction to Steppe Creek, the route continues to be challenging through the old burn. Most hikers including myself lost the trail route on the east side of the Moose shortly after the junction. It is recommended to ford the Moose River to the west bank and pick up the trail there which is fair condition through areas affected by the burn and has occasional orange blazes at various points along the route and especially further up river at fords. I could not ford the Moose River safely by the Colonel Creek trail junction due to high water, so I bushwhacked up river on the east side until I could cross. Once across the Moose River on the west bank, I was able to pick up the trail just beyond the tree line. P221-Trail to Bess Pass from Chown Creek: Cross the bridge and hike up the north side of Chown Creek as described in the Guide. Beyond the bottleneck 2.5 km from the bridge, where the south side opens up, a hiker should start to look for a safe place to ford the CreekÕs many braids of the main channel to reach the south bank. Once on the south bank, head along the gravel bank angling west towards the tree line. You will first reach a small campsite, and then about 50 meters beyond it is a tree with an orange trail marker marking a trail entrance. Take the trail and follow it over a low ridge and down to the GuideÕs described tributary. Ford the tributary, (a nearby large fallen tree across the tributary offers a dry crossing) and pick up the trail on the other side that (although overgrown with willows), leads a bushy ascent to Bess Pass. P229-The trail junction, waypoint f22, where the GDT emerges onto the Jackpine River gravel bed maybe difficult to see if heading ÒsouthÓ. Rock cairns mark the junction, but evident tread is not visible from the gravel bed due to overgrown willows until about 10 meters in. P227- You changed the first sentence to read Òhiking north through avalanche debrisÓ. The change to the sentence makes it confusing because the trail actually heads west from the Pass through the first part of the avalanche debris before veering north to head up the steep ascent through brush to timberline. P234-(second paragraph) From Pauline Creek campground, the trail to Big Shale Hill actually can be found by going through the campground. Pick up the trail in the back of the campground, on the right side after the hitching rails. Of note, once the trail reaches the alpine, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow. The trail stays below the top of the ridge for awhile, paralleling it as it winds around or hooks left of the top. Look for cairns and faint tread. P239-I could not find the south Casket Mountain shoulder cut-off trail junction. I did find the boggy lake but never located the trail until I bushwacked up to the alpine shoulder and picked up the trail there. I know of at least one other northbound hiker who had the same problem. P239 (second paragraph)-There is a fairly new campground built by equestrians on the north bank of Sheep Creek just west of the north Casket Mountain shoulder cut-off junction. P239 (second paragraph) - The trail junction that leads towards Surprise Pass from Sheep Creek is difficult to find in the meadow. Even with all the horse traffic in the area, I could not find where the trail veered right and headed northwest towards the Pass. I was able to pick up the trail again near where the tributary ford, waypoint f37. P241- A little north of Providence Pass to past Kakwa Pass, trail flagging/ribbons help indicate the trail route where the the trail tread has vanished in the marshy meadows. P241-(second paragraph)-Upon reaching Kakwa Lake equestrian camp or camp #2, I lost the route. The blazes indicate to cross a deep marshy area near the southern tip of the lake. IÕm not sure if the area had a higher then normal water level due to the wet summer or I missed the correct route, but it was confusing until I picked up the trail on higher ground, on the other side of the marshy area that lead to the outflow. P253-Please add to your lodging list- A Safe Haven B & B and Cadin. 8126 #3 HWY, Coleman, AB T0K 0M0, 1-800-290-0860 or 403-503-5030, asafehaven@shaw.ca, www.asafehavenbb.ca The owners, Alannah and Dan Stepa are very interested in hosting GDT hikers and go out of their way to accommodate them. They also offer a discount price to hikers that includes gourmet meals, laundry, showers, internet and phone use in their price. They also will accept packages. If ever in the Crowsnest Pass area I highly recommend their B & B. P253-In Jasper, if you go into the Jasper National Park Information Centre on Patricia Street, the Jasper Area Tourist has a desk. There one can get information about guest houses and rooms to rent in the area. They have a brochure with a list of all the area accommodations. They also have a board that guesthouses post room availability on a daily basis. Visitors can use the free phones to call guesthouses to make reservations. P254-Boulton Creek Trading Post no longer accepts packages sent to them. There is a Canadian Post substation at Kananaskis Village one could send a package. Near Kananaskis Village is a HI Hostel.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line120
__label__wiki	0.841748	0.841748	Complete DHS Daily Report for March 5, 2013 • Arkansas officials took three suspects into custody and are looking for others after discovering 22 Union Pacific trains completely stripped of copper with damages worth more than $5 million. – KATV 7 Little Rock 4. March 1, KATV 7 Little Rock – (Arkansas) Police make large copper theft bust, millions in damages. Three suspects were taken into custody after a $5 million copper theft heist was uncovered. Arkansas officials said they stripped twenty two out of twenty eight Union Pacific trains of copper. Source: http://www.katv.com/story/21441919/police-make-large-copper-theft-bust-millions-in-damages • A Marion County fire which burned through 1900 acres of brush is 80 percent contained after destroying multiple homes and structures and closing down parts of a local highway. – WTEV 47 Jacksonville 21. March 3, WTEV 47 Jacksonville – (Florida) 1900 acre brush fire burning in Marion County. A brush fire is 80 percent contained after it burned through 1900 acres, destroyed 13 homes and 24 structures, and closed parts of Highway 19 in Marion County. Source: http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/1900-acre-brush-fire-burning-in-Marion-County/CzOOriY0c0qPSml8fM8RVA.cspx • Arizona State Prison was placed on lockdown after a 400 inmate fight which left multiple inmates and two prison guards injured. – International Business Times 27. March 4, International Business Times – (Arizona) 400 inmates fight at Arizona State Prison leaving 19 injured. Two prison guards and 17 inmates were injured after a fight broke out at Arizona State Prison involving 400 inmates March 3. The prison was placed on lockdown and the fight was quickly dispelled. Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/400-inmates-fight-arizona-state-prison-leaving-19-injured-1110167 • Evernote forced 50 million of its users to reset passwords after acknowledging that digital intruders had gained access to customer information. – Krebs on Security See item 36 below in the Information Technology Sector 7. March 2, Associated Press – (Florida) Fla. Businessman guilty in investment scheme. The former owner of a Florida-based construction materials company pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of $40 million and the U.S. government of $10 million in loans. Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/02/3262628/fla-businessman-guilty-in-investment.html 8. March 1, Associated Press – (International) Man accused of credit fraud arrested in Australia after being a fugitive for 4 years. A man accused of bank fraud as part of a $13 million account impersonation group was extradited from Australia to the U.S. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/man-accused-of-credit-fraud-arrested-in-australia-after-being-a-fugitive-for-4-years/2013/03/01/b3aceb14-82d9-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_story.html 34. March 4, The Register – (International) New class of industrial-scale super-phishing emails threatens biz. Security researchers have identified a new large-scale form of phishing that uses tailored messages and variable links to direct users to drive-by download sites where rootkits are installed. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/longlining_phishing/ 35. March 4, Softpedia – (International) Experts identify 5 new Java 7 u15 vulnerabilities leading to a sandbox bypass. Security Explorations researchers discovered five new vulnerabilities in Java SE 7 Update 15 that can be used by an attacker to perform a sandbox bypass. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-Identify-5-New-Java-7-u15-Vulnerabilities-Leading-to-a-Sandbox-Bypass-334249.shtml 36. March 2, Krebs on Security – (International) Evernote forces password reset for 50M users. The Evernote note-syncing service stated that digital intruders gained access to customer information, and forced its 50 million users to reset their passwords. Source: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/evernote-forces-password-reset-for-50m-users/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line123
__label__wiki	0.86889	0.86889	Home University Archives Page_01 Central Florida Future, Vol. 28 No. 47, March 7, 1996 Page_01 says 'Bring it on' to March Madness-in Sports Central Honda Future Vol. 28 • No. 47 Serving the University of Central Florida since 1968 Cyber censors seek controls on information superhighway by SAMANTHA KATES Everything from the HTV Web page to Pearl Jam's lyrics will no longer be available on the Internet if the government's new Communication Decency Act is enforced. The Act also covers indecent words known as the "George Carlin Seven." The Communication Decency Act extends from chatting on newsgroups to browsing Web sites. It could possibly even extend to college campus E-mail. The Communication Decency Act, or the CDA, is currently not enforceable. However, a legal case is pending in the Pennsylvania federal court concerning the constitutionality of the CDA. For now, the Justice Department will not deal with the issue due to its vague wording. The Communication Decency Act and the Telecommunications Act will make certain sites on the World Wide Web unavailable if the content is deemed "indecent." More examples of the sites that will no longer be available range from Renaissance art to the discussion of safe sex. Also affected are Web pages containing lyrics to popular songs and federally funded resources such as the National Library of Medicine. Supporters of the measure at the Christian Coalition and opponents at the American Civil Liberties Union both agree a ban on indecency could affect almost all material of a sexual Censors would ban the following: • The Sistine Chapel • Michelangelo's David • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • The King James Bible •The HIV Info Web • Information on safe sex and STDs • Discussion of Prozac • Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against • Alanis Morissette • Pearl Jam • Smashing Pumpkins nature, regardless of whether it has literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Such a restriction would have a major impact on the culture of openness that has defined the Internet since government researchers created it 25 years ago, according to Thomas DeLoughry in an the article Banning 'Indecency'. "We (The Orlando Sentinel) are obviously concerned when the restraints on freedom of speech are involved," said Barry Cooper, manager of The Orlando Sentinel Online. "At the same time we want to create an online environment that is inviting to both children and adults. It's a balancing act. There is the right to free speech, but we also need to ensure the online environment is open and friendly to everyone." Jason Lee, UCF LEAD Scholars Technology CorrmiitleeChairman,representsagrow- ing number of campus protestors. He wrote, "Pure hypocrisy. Congress wants to ignore the Bill of Rights when it comes to the Internet—a network that makes the true meaning of the Bill ofRights actually ATTAINABLE!" Bulletin boards, a popular Internet interaction among students, provide an open forum to discuss issues. The UCF Computer Services Department monitors the UCF bulletin boards and occasionally admonishes students who use obscene language. Censorship of E-mail should perhaps be UCF students' biggest concern, since the majority of students and faculty often use their accounts to send and receive electronic mail. And although there is currently no legislation in the United States regarding E-mail, for students like Andi Cowell, sending E-mail has already been a problem. Cowell, a doctoral student at UCF, received an E-mail message from a friend attending the Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. The message had been censored by the UK university and contained a warning and threat of disciplinary action. "When you send someone E-Mail, it should be regarded with as much privacy as postal mail," Maria Bernstein, 21, a health and public affairs major said: "If I want to use four- letter words in my E-mail, it is my prerogative. My mail should be between myself and the recipient, not myself, the recipient and the federal government" Rachel Auerbach, 21, agrees: "The United States is based on freedom of speech. If the government can regulate this, what will be next?" Becky Dedo named Miss UCF by LINDA HUMPHREY The contestants in the 1996 Miss UCF Scholarship Pageant and more than 500 cheering fans spent A "Knight" in New Orleans, Saturday at the Student Center Auditorium. Becky Dedo, 20, became Miss UCF 1996 and walked away with the crown, a renewed self-image and a determination to make a difference in the lives of others around After receiving the crown from Heidi Hyche Grubbs, Miss UCF 1995, Dedo, a UCF junior majoring in public relations and advertising, said she was surprised at "I won first runner-up in last year's Miss UCF Pageant, and I didn't want to stop there. So I tried again, but I was shocked to really win!" Dedo said. According to Dedo, when she decided to enter the Miss Orlando Pageant last month, she began taking image classes which helped her have more confidence in herself and helped her respond to a live interview. Dedo's extra effort apparently paid off — she became third runner-up in the Miss Orlando contest. As Miss UCF 1996, she looks forward to putting her platform, "Reclaim the Spirit of Life," into action. "When I was a young girl, I attended church with an elderly man — Mr. O'Neal," Dedo said: "He would sit in the back in a wheelchair. Sometimes he would give me a ride. He loved to hear me sing, and I was really touched. I think I decided then to work with the elderly, to bring life back into their hearts." Dedo plans to get actively involved with Volunteer UCF and hopes to encourage other students to visit nursing homes and entertain the residents. She hopes to see a surge of interest in the Adopt-A-Grandparent In addition to being a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Dedo also serves as cheerieading coach and choreographer at Pinecastle Christian Academy. According to Dedo, the three most important things in her life are God, family and friends and education. Among the many awards Dedo will receive is a $1,000 cash scholarship. First runner-up is Kelli Meierhenry; second runner-up is Christina Benyola. Other participants include: Maria Mercedes Rodriguez, Georgina Bracone, Stephanie Langston, Katie Riney, Tanya Li, Mary Anne Page and Amy Baker. Baker, 20, an elementary education major, said: "This is the first time I have ever performed. It gave me confidence and was a lot of fun. I would recommend the experience to anyone." Another contestant, Laura Templeton, dropped out of the contest after winning Miss Sumter County on Friday. Jennifer Alvarez, a UCF senior who was a former Miss UCF and is now the reigning Miss Orlando, served as mistress of ceremonies. photo/SOILEAU Becky Dedo accepts congratulatory wishes from other contestants after being crowned Miss UCF 1996. Dedo earned $1,000 in scholarship funds. Pot, pot, everybody smoke some pot-F-1 Some angry young readers speak out- P-6 Title Central Florida Future, Vol. 28 No. 47, March 7, 1996 Title-Alternative FuTUre Preferred Title Central Florida Future (Orlando, Fla.) Issue Vol. 28 No. 47, March 7, 1996 Subject Orange County (Fla.) -- Newspapers Orlando (Fla.) -- Newspapers Oviedo (Fla.) -- Newspapers Seminole County (Fla.) -- Newspapers University of Central Florida -- Newspapers University of Central Florida -- Students College student newspapers and periodicals -- Florida – Orlando Publisher Knight Newspapers Incorporated Collection Description Semi-weekly student newspaper of the University of Central Florida (UCF). It started in 1968 upon the opening of Florida Technological University (FTU), UCF's predecessor. Initially it was called "FuTUre" and published weekly. The words "Central Florida" were added around the time the school changed to UCF. It is available in microfilm (1968-1986, library call number LD1772.F9 A1438), online (September 2001-current, at http://www.centralfloridafuture.com) and in University Archives (1968-current). Number of pages 16 pages Size Original 29cm x 42.5cm Identification Code LD1772.F9 A1438 Repository University of Central Florida Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives Repository Collection University Publications Type Newspapers Relation Online: September 2000-current available at: http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/ Source Paper and microform editions (http://ucf.catalog.fcla.edu/permalink.jsp?29CF025995369) Place Orlando (Fla.) Coverage-Temporal 20th century Rights All rights to images are held by the respective holding institution. This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact Special Collections & University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL 32816, (407) 823-2576, email: SpecialCollections@ucf.edu; Digital Reproduction Specifications Jpeg2000 images were derived from no less than 400 dpi tiff images. Title Page_01 Number of pages pages Transcript says 'Bring it on' to March Madness-in Sports The Central Honda Future Vol. 28 • No. 47 Serving the University of Central Florida since 1968 March 7, 1996 Cyber censors seek controls on information superhighway by SAMANTHA KATES Staff writer Everything from the HTV Web page to Pearl Jam's lyrics will no longer be available on the Internet if the government's new Communication Decency Act is enforced. The Act also covers indecent words known as the "George Carlin Seven." The Communication Decency Act extends from chatting on newsgroups to browsing Web sites. It could possibly even extend to college campus E-mail. The Communication Decency Act, or the CDA, is currently not enforceable. However, a legal case is pending in the Pennsylvania federal court concerning the constitutionality of the CDA. For now, the Justice Department will not deal with the issue due to its vague wording. The Communication Decency Act and the Telecommunications Act will make certain sites on the World Wide Web unavailable if the content is deemed "indecent." More examples of the sites that will no longer be available range from Renaissance art to the discussion of safe sex. Also affected are Web pages containing lyrics to popular songs and federally funded resources such as the National Library of Medicine. Supporters of the measure at the Christian Coalition and opponents at the American Civil Liberties Union both agree a ban on indecency could affect almost all material of a sexual Censors would ban the following: ART • The Sistine Chapel • Michelangelo's David LITERATURE • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • The King James Bible HEALTH •The HIV Info Web • Information on safe sex and STDs SUPPORT GROUPS • Discussion of Prozac • Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation MUSIC LYRICS • Alanis Morissette • Pearl Jam • Smashing Pumpkins nature, regardless of whether it has literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Such a restriction would have a major impact on the culture of openness that has defined the Internet since government researchers created it 25 years ago, according to Thomas DeLoughry in an the article Banning 'Indecency'. "We (The Orlando Sentinel) are obviously concerned when the restraints on freedom of speech are involved," said Barry Cooper, manager of The Orlando Sentinel Online. "At the same time we want to create an online environment that is inviting to both children and adults. It's a balancing act. There is the right to free speech, but we also need to ensure the online environment is open and friendly to everyone." Jason Lee, UCF LEAD Scholars Technology CorrmiitleeChairman,representsagrow- ing number of campus protestors. He wrote, "Pure hypocrisy. Congress wants to ignore the Bill of Rights when it comes to the Internet—a network that makes the true meaning of the Bill ofRights actually ATTAINABLE!" Bulletin boards, a popular Internet interaction among students, provide an open forum to discuss issues. The UCF Computer Services Department monitors the UCF bulletin boards and occasionally admonishes students who use obscene language. Censorship of E-mail should perhaps be UCF students' biggest concern, since the majority of students and faculty often use their accounts to send and receive electronic mail. And although there is currently no legislation in the United States regarding E-mail, for students like Andi Cowell, sending E-mail has already been a problem. Cowell, a doctoral student at UCF, received an E-mail message from a friend attending the Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. The message had been censored by the UK university and contained a warning and threat of disciplinary action. "When you send someone E-Mail, it should be regarded with as much privacy as postal mail," Maria Bernstein, 21, a health and public affairs major said: "If I want to use four- letter words in my E-mail, it is my prerogative. My mail should be between myself and the recipient, not myself, the recipient and the federal government" Rachel Auerbach, 21, agrees: "The United States is based on freedom of speech. If the government can regulate this, what will be next?" Becky Dedo named Miss UCF by LINDA HUMPHREY Contributing writer The contestants in the 1996 Miss UCF Scholarship Pageant and more than 500 cheering fans spent A "Knight" in New Orleans, Saturday at the Student Center Auditorium. Becky Dedo, 20, became Miss UCF 1996 and walked away with the crown, a renewed self-image and a determination to make a difference in the lives of others around her. After receiving the crown from Heidi Hyche Grubbs, Miss UCF 1995, Dedo, a UCF junior majoring in public relations and advertising, said she was surprised at the outcome. "I won first runner-up in last year's Miss UCF Pageant, and I didn't want to stop there. So I tried again, but I was shocked to really win!" Dedo said. According to Dedo, when she decided to enter the Miss Orlando Pageant last month, she began taking image classes which helped her have more confidence in herself and helped her respond to a live interview. Dedo's extra effort apparently paid off — she became third runner-up in the Miss Orlando contest. As Miss UCF 1996, she looks forward to putting her platform, "Reclaim the Spirit of Life," into action. "When I was a young girl, I attended church with an elderly man — Mr. O'Neal," Dedo said: "He would sit in the back in a wheelchair. Sometimes he would give me a ride. He loved to hear me sing, and I was really touched. I think I decided then to work with the elderly, to bring life back into their hearts." Dedo plans to get actively involved with Volunteer UCF and hopes to encourage other students to visit nursing homes and entertain the residents. She hopes to see a surge of interest in the Adopt-A-Grandparent program. In addition to being a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Dedo also serves as cheerieading coach and choreographer at Pinecastle Christian Academy. According to Dedo, the three most important things in her life are God, family and friends and education. Among the many awards Dedo will receive is a $1,000 cash scholarship. First runner-up is Kelli Meierhenry; second runner-up is Christina Benyola. Other participants include: Maria Mercedes Rodriguez, Georgina Bracone, Stephanie Langston, Katie Riney, Tanya Li, Mary Anne Page and Amy Baker. Baker, 20, an elementary education major, said: "This is the first time I have ever performed. It gave me confidence and was a lot of fun. I would recommend the experience to anyone." Another contestant, Laura Templeton, dropped out of the contest after winning Miss Sumter County on Friday. Jennifer Alvarez, a UCF senior who was a former Miss UCF and is now the reigning Miss Orlando, served as mistress of ceremonies. photo/SOILEAU Becky Dedo accepts congratulatory wishes from other contestants after being crowned Miss UCF 1996. Dedo earned $1,000 in scholarship funds. 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__label__wiki	0.665381	0.665381	The Plain Dealer, Numb. II - 6 1 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 Will Fenton 9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c 7200 1 The plain dealer: numb. II. : Being a tickler, for the leisure hour's amusement of the author of Cool thoughts. Wherein the force of his several arguments in favour of a change of government is stated in a clear light and accommodated to the comprehension of readers of every capacity. / By X.Y.Z. gentleman. To be continued. 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. Numb. II LCP Am 1764 Will 1571.O.3 Philadelphia : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] in Second-Street, where Numb. I may be had, 1764. Mistakenly attributed by Evans to Hugh Williamson, author of numbers 1 and 3. Cf. the Advertisement in number 3, where it is stated: The author of this is obliged to the gentleman, who wrote the piece which was published on Teusday [sic], by the title of Plain dealer, no. 2. As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans. 16 p. ; 18 cm Evans, C. American bibliography, 9877; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W15609; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2097 16 6 Will Fenton 9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c This page has annotations: 1 2017-06-20T06:20:56-07:00 Will Fenton 9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c The Plain Dealer, Numb. II - 6 Will Fenton 1 (annotation) plain 2017-06-20T06:20:56-07:00 Will Fenton 9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c Contents of this annotation: 1 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 The Plain Dealer, Numb. II - 6 1 The plain dealer: numb. II. : Being a tickler, for the leisure hour's amusement of the author of Cool thoughts. Wherein the force of his several arguments in favour of a change of government is stated in a clear light and accommodated to the comprehension of readers of every capacity. / By X.Y.Z. gentleman. To be continued. 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. Numb. II LCP Am 1764 Will 1571.O.3 Philadelphia : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] in Second-Street, where Numb. I may be had, 1764. Mistakenly attributed by Evans to Hugh Williamson, author of numbers 1 and 3. Cf. the Advertisement in number 3, where it is stated: The author of this is obliged to the gentleman, who wrote the piece which was published on Teusday [sic], by the title of Plain dealer, no. 2. As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans. 16 p. ; 18 cm Evans, C. American bibliography, 9877; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W15609; Hildeburn, C.R. 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As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans, C. American bibliography, 9877; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W15609; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2086. Library Company of Philadelphia. Will Fenton 9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c 1 2016-08-19T13:00:22-07:00 The Plain Dealer, Numb. II - Title Page 1 The plain dealer: numb. II. : Being a tickler, for the leisure hour's amusement of the author of Cool thoughts. Wherein the force of his several arguments in favour of a change of government is stated in a clear light and accommodated to the comprehension of readers of every capacity. / By X.Y.Z. gentleman. To be continued. 2016-08-19T13:00:22-07:00 Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. Numb. II LCP Am 1764 Will 1571.O.3 Philadelphia : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] in Second-Street, where Numb. I may be had, 1764. Mistakenly attributed by Evans to Hugh Williamson, author of numbers 1 and 3. Cf. the Advertisement in number 3, where it is stated: The author of this is obliged to the gentleman, who wrote the piece which was published on Teusday [sic], by the title of Plain dealer, no. 2. As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans. 16 p. ; 18 cm Evans, C. American bibliography, 9877; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W15609; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2086 16 Title Page 1 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 The Plain Dealer, Numb. II - 10 1 The plain dealer: numb. II. : Being a tickler, for the leisure hour's amusement of the author of Cool thoughts. Wherein the force of his several arguments in favour of a change of government is stated in a clear light and accommodated to the comprehension of readers of every capacity. / By X.Y.Z. gentleman. To be continued. 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. Numb. II LCP Am 1764 Will 1571.O.3 Philadelphia : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] in Second-Street, where Numb. I may be had, 1764. Mistakenly attributed by Evans to Hugh Williamson, author of numbers 1 and 3. Cf. the Advertisement in number 3, where it is stated: The author of this is obliged to the gentleman, who wrote the piece which was published on Teusday [sic], by the title of Plain dealer, no. 2. As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans. 16 p. ; 18 cm Evans, C. American bibliography, 9877; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W15609; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2087 16 10 1 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 The Plain Dealer, Numb. II - Book Plate 1 The plain dealer: numb. II. : Being a tickler, for the leisure hour's amusement of the author of Cool thoughts. Wherein the force of his several arguments in favour of a change of government is stated in a clear light and accommodated to the comprehension of readers of every capacity. / By X.Y.Z. gentleman. To be continued. 2016-08-19T12:59:23-07:00 Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819. Numb. II LCP Am 1764 Will 1571.O.3 Philadelphia : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] in Second-Street, where Numb. I may be had, 1764. Mistakenly attributed by Evans to Hugh Williamson, author of numbers 1 and 3. Cf. the Advertisement in number 3, where it is stated: The author of this is obliged to the gentleman, who wrote the piece which was published on Teusday [sic], by the title of Plain dealer, no. 2. As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans. 16 p. ; 18 cm Evans, C. American bibliography, 9877; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W15609; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2101 16 Book Plate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line129
__label__wiki	0.891592	0.891592	The Tales of Hoffmann - Sold out Shackleton's Cat at Scott Polar Research Institute Pelleas & Melisande at West Road Concert Hall About ETO Support ETO Giacomo Puccini - Spring 2015 A group of struggling artists discover love and loss in this evening of heart-rending emotions, laughter and tears set in 19th century Paris. Michael Rosewell James Conway Florence de Maré Mark Howland Beautifully sung… English Touring Opera’s new take on Puccini’s classic features starkly atmospheric sets and terrific singing. — 4 STARS, Guardian A dream Bohème… If you live too far from a city to profit from the major producing houses, be assured: this touring version is as good as it gets. It’s off the scale of good. — 4 STARS, WhatsOnStage Enough to make you shed a tear — 4 STARS, The Times Worth catching for the wonderful singing and conducting alone. — Sunday Times The two leads are excellent: David Butt Philip imbues his bashful Rodolfo with clarion tone and a generous warmth of phrase, while Ilona Domnich is an absolutely enchanting Mimi. — Daily Telegraph Paris, 1840. On a snowy Christmas Eve, a starry-eyed poet meets a poor dress-maker over candlelight, and instantly falls in love. At first the good times roll. But will their happiness last, or does the bohemian lifestyle come at a price? ETO’s new period production draws inspiration from 19th century Paris and features some of the most exciting lyric singers in Britain today, including Ilona Domnich as Mimì and David Butt Philip as Rodolfo – a role he sang for ENO to wide acclaim. With some of the most memorable music in opera, a night at La bohème will lift every spirit and break every heart. New production, sung in Italian with English surtitles Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes (incl. interval) Age guidance: Suitable for all ages Who were the real bohemians? Read the stories behind some of the characters in Puccini’s La bohème. Click here to read the opera’s synopsis. Showing At Hackney Empire 13th Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm Hall for Cornwall, Truro Lighthouse, Poole Norwich Theatre Royal 23rd Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham 10th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Snape Maltings Concert Hall Curve, Leicester Exeter Northcott Theatre 1st May 2015 - 7:30 pm The Hawth, Crawley 6th May 2015 - 7:30 pm The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Grand Theatre Blackpool 11th May 2015 - 7:30 pm Buxton Opera House Gala Theatre, Durham Perth Festival, Perth Concert Hall 21st May 2015 - 7:30 pm Cambridge Arts Theatre Hackney Empire — 13th Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm 291 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 1EJ Hall for Cornwall, Truro — 17th Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm Back Quay, Truro, TR1 2LL Lighthouse, Poole — 20th Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm Kingland Road, Poole, BH15 1UG Norwich Theatre Royal — 23rd Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm Theatre Street, Norwich, NR2 1RL Norwich Theatre Royal — 24th Mar 2015 - 7:30 pm Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield — 30th Mar 2015 - 7:45 pm 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 1DA Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham — 10th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm Regent Street, Cheltenham, GL50 1HQ Wolverhampton Grand Theatre — 13th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DE Snape Maltings Concert Hall — 17th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm Aldeburgh Music, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk, IP17 1SP Curve, Leicester — 20th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1SB Warwick Arts Centre — 24th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL Exeter Northcott Theatre — 28th Apr 2015 - 7:30 pm Exeter Northcott, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QB Exeter Northcott Theatre — 1st May 2015 - 7:30 pm The Hawth, Crawley — 6th May 2015 - 7:30 pm Hawth Avenue, Crawley, RH10 6YZ The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury — 8th May 2015 - 7:30 pm The Friars, Canterbury, CT1 2AS Grand Theatre Blackpool — 11th May 2015 - 7:30 pm 33 Church Street, Blackpool, FY1 1HT Buxton Opera House — 14th May 2015 - 7:30 pm Water Street, SK17 6XN Gala Theatre, Durham — 18th May 2015 - 7:30 pm 1 Millennium Place, Town Centre, Durham, DH1 1WA Perth Festival, Perth Concert Hall — 21st May 2015 - 7:30 pm Mill Street, Perth, PH1 5HZ Cambridge Arts Theatre — 28th May 2015 - 7:30 pm 6 St Edward's Passage, Cambridge, CB2 3PJ Featured Crew Michael began his career at the Vienna State Opera as a member of the music staff and assistant to Claudio Abbado. Having worked closely with many of the world’s greatest singers including Pavarotti, Domingo, Gruberova, Freni, Carreras, Alfredo Kraus, and Cappuccilli, he went on to conduct extensively throughout Germany; notably the opera houses in Kassel, Wiesbaden and the Nationaltheater, Mannheim, where he held the position of Kapellmeister. He has also conducted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for Kent Opera, ENO, and regularly at the International Festivals in Aldeburgh, Bath, Perth, Buxton and Montepulciano. In concert Michael has conducted amongst others, the Staatsorchester, Rheinische Philharmonie, the Nationalorchester, Mannheim, the Staatsorchester, Wiesbaden, the Pforztheimer Kammerorchester, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, the RTE Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the BT Scottish Ensemble and the Aurora Orchestra. He has also worked extensively with leading period instrument ensemble ‘The London Handel Orchestra’ with which, as ‘Associate Conductor’, he introduced many rarely performed Handel operas to the London stage. He has broadcast for Radio France Musique, RTE Dublin and Süddeutsche Rundfunk. His recording of Lehar arias, with Grammy award winning tenor Alfie Boe and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera was recently re-released under the Decca record label. Recent projects include mentoring Craig Revel Horwood through to winning the BBC Maestro at the Opera, filmed in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to conducting a Bach’s St John Passion with the RTE Symphony Orchestra, Dublin. His most recent performances with ETO included Michael Tippett’s King Priam at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; a production which won the Olivier Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Opera’, 2014. As General Director of ETO for 17 years and ETO’s Artistic Director since April 2019, James Conway has directed productions of operas by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Janácek, Puccini, Debussy, Ullmann, Britten and Tippett, as well as a world premiere by Alexander Goehr. Before coming to ETO he was General Director of Opera Theatre Company in Dublin; his productions for that company travelled to New York (Brooklyn Academy of Music), and to festivals in Melbourne, London, Buxton, Paris, Dusseldorf, Prague, Brno, Lisbon and Porto. Notable among his freelance directing is the long-running production of The Cunning Little Vixen at the Janácek Theatre, Brno. Mark studied, briefly, at Oxford University prior to training in Stage Lighting Design at RADA. Previously for ETO: Dardanus, Tosca, Patience, Ulysses’ Homecoming, La Calisto, Xerxes, The Tales of Hoffmann, Werther, Pelleas et Melisande, La Boheme, The Siege of Calais, Wild Man of the West Indies. Other designs include: La Rondine, Don Giovanni (Opera Holland Park); Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep & West End); Elixir of Love, Rodelinda (Scottish Opera); Sweeney Todd (Aarhus Theatre, Denmark); Singin’ in the Rain (Det Ny Teater, Copenhagen) and numerous productions for The Gate Theatre London, The Curve, Nottingham Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast amongst many others. David Butt Philip Robyn Lyn Evans Ilona Domnich Ilona Domnich is a rising opera star described by critics as a memorable voice of silken beauty with a luminous edge to the tone, a sensitive musician and an actress of magnetic presence. She was chosen by Opera Now 2014 as one of their Top 10 high flyers, a “new generation of sopranos who are destined to have impressive careers”. Ilona Domnich was born in St. Petersburg, and studied at the Royal College of Music. She was discovered by Vera Rozsa who invited her to join the RCM after hearing her at a vocal masterclass. She has performed with companies including English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Festival, Iford Arts Festival, Bury Court and ETO in roles including Rosina IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Tatyana EUGENE ONEGIN, Gilda RIGOLETTO, Melisande PELLEAS ET MELISANDE, Pamina DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Blonde DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL, Jacqueline FORTUNIO, Magda LA RONDINE, Zerlina DON GIOVANNI, Countess LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. She has recently recorded a CD of operatic arias with Signum Records. Paula Sides Recently applauded for her performance of Tosca with English Touring Opera, Paula Sides was awarded the Tagor Gold Medal from the Royal College of the Music and was the winner of the Karavoitis Prize in the Les Azureal International Competition. In 2018 operatic performances include the title role of Thais with Chelsea Opera Group, receiving critical acclaim, Cunegonde, Iford Opera. and Sombra, The Arcadians Opera Della Luna. This year on the concert platform performances include Mahler 8, Britten’s War Requiem, Rutter’s Requiem, Dona Nobis Pacem, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven 9, Dvorak’s 9th Symphony. Upcoming engagements Donna Anna Don Giovanni Longborough Opera Summer 2019. Grant Doyle Born in Australia, he studied in Adelaide and the RCM. A former Royal Opera Young Artist, his roles there have included Čekunov House of the Dead, Ping Turandot, Le Dancaïre Carmen, Billy Anna Nicole, Schaunard and Harlequin Ariadne auf Naxos. Other appearances include Prince Yeletsky (Opera Holland Park), Forester Cunning Little Vixen, Don Giovanni (Garsington), Robin Oakapple Ruddigore (Opera North), Abraham Clemency (Scottish Opera), Sir Thomas in Dove’s Mansfield Park (Grange Festival), Oreste (Sydney), Zurga Les pêcheurs de perles (Opera Queensland), Starbuck in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick (Adelaide), Ned Keene Peter Grimes (Gran Canaria), Mike in Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling (Rome) and Demetrius (Madrid, Berlin). ETO roles include Figaro (Barber of Seville), Paolo (Simon Boccanegra), Hector (King Priam), Emireno (Ottone), Eduardo (L’assedio di Calais), Marcello (La boheme), Oreste (Iphigénie en Tauride), Nello (Pia de’ Tolomei), Teucer (Dardanus) and Tiridate (Radamisto). Nicholas Lester Marcello (from 25 April) Australian born, Nicholas Lester trained at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, on the Young Artists Programme at the State Opera of South Australia. He was awarded the Anne Woods/Johanna Peters Award and Independent Opera Postgraduate Fellowship to attend the National Opera Studio. Nicholas Lester’s repertoire includes The Foreman Jenůfa, Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Figaro and Fiorello Il barbiere di Siviglia, Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni (title role), Theseus A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Doctor and Shepherd Pelléas et Méllisande, Diarte Erismena (Cavalli), Justizrat and Storch Intermezzo, Marcello and Schaunard La bohème, Onegin Eugene Onegin, Pietro Simon Boccanegra, Der Sprecher Die Zauberflöte, Malatesta Don Pasquale, Zweiter Gefangener Fidelio, Aeneas Dido and Aeneas, Miguel Betrothal in a Monastery (Prokofiev), Colonel Calverly Patience, Pirate King The Pirates of Penzance, and Sir Joseph Porter HMS Pinafore, Paris Roméo et Juliette, Kagler Wiener Blut, Brioche The Merry Widow, Kuligin Katya Kabanová, and The Vicar Albert Herring. The companies Nicholas Lester has been engaged by include Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Nationale Reisopera, Buxton Festival, Glyndebourne on Tour, English National Opera and Opera Holland Park. Nicholas Lester’s recent engagements have included Figaro in a new production of Il barbiere di Siviglia for his début with Welsh National Opera, Marcello La Bohème for English Touring Opera and Lyric Opera Productions, Dublin, Frédéric Lakmé for Opera Holland Park, Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte for Den Jyske Opera (Danish National Opera), Escamillo Carmen for Mid Wales Opera, excerpts of Gianni Schicchi (title role) in a broadcast performance from Amsterdam’s newest concert hall, Bimhuis, Dr Malatesta in the new production of Don Pasquale and Ping in a concert performance of Turandot at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, both with Scottish Opera, Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Holland Park and Bohuš The Jacobin at Buxton Festival. Nicholas Lester created the role of Edward Lear in Ode to nonsense – a co-production between Slingsby Theatre Company and State Opera of South Australia in Adelaide, and performed Marcello for the State Opera of South Australia. Nicholas Lester’s concert engagements have included Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen for Maurice Béjart’s ballet ‘Song of a Wayfarer’ with English National Ballet at the London Coliseum, performances of Mendelssohn Elijah, Bach Cantatas, Rameau Motets and Mozart Requiem. He has sung Brahms Requiem in Beijing, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Fauré Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields and Messiah under Laurence Cummings. Nicholas Lester’s forthcoming highlights include Don Giovann_i (title role) for English Touring Opera, Dandini _La Cenerentola for Opera Holland Park and Josef K in Philip Glass’s The Trial for Scottish Opera. Sky Ingram Ms Ingram will sing the role of Fiordiligi at Hackney Empire, London (Fri 6 Mar), Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Fri 13 Mar), Lighthouse, Poole (Fri 20 Mar), Buxton Opera House (Sat 28 Mar), Storyhouse, Chester (Wed 8 Apr) and Festival Theatre, Malvern (Thu 23 – Fri 24 Apr). Sky Ingram studied most recently at the National Opera Studio in London and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Sky has performed concert repertoire in Australia, New York, Norway, and the UK, and has featured on ABC and BBC radio. She has won several music scholarships and competitions in Australia and the UK including an Opera Awards Foundation Bursary, Wingate Scholarship, 5MBS Young Performer of the Year and an ROSL Overseas Trophy. Recent & Upcoming Roles: Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera), Rusalka/Rusalka (Valladolid, Spain), Lea/Glare & Venus/Orpheus (Royal Opera House), Katya cvr./Katya Kabanova (Opera North), Avis/The Wreckers (Bard SummerScape USA), Princess/Rusalka (Garsington Opera), La Contessa/Le Nozze di Figaro (Kristiansand Norway & Nevill Holt Opera), Dido/Dido and Aeneas (ETO), Musetta/La Bohème (Opera North, ETO). Donna Bateman Ms Donna Bateman will sing the role of Musetta on 11 April (Everyman Theatre, matinee performance), 1 May (Exeter Northcott Theatre) and 29 May (Cambridge Arts Theatre). Donna is an award-winning Soprano who has been honored as an Associate of the Royal Academy Of Music. She sang her first major role, Marzelline, in BOC’s award-winning production of Fidelio and has returned to sing Cunegonde in Candide, Zerbinetta in the prologue of Ariadne auf Naxos and Elettra in Idomeneo. Other opera roles include Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rusalka for ETO. Her expertise in contemporary operatic repertoire has earned her several major premieres, including her debut for The ROH, ROH2 as Miranda in The Gentle Giant; the role of Estella in Life is a dream, by Jonathan Dove and the title role in American Lulu – Neuwirth/Berg for The Opera Group, Young Vic, Scottish Opera and Bregenz Festspiele co-production. Concert highlights include La Cuisinière in Le Rossignol with the CBSO conducted by Sakari Oramo and Bernstein’s Mass with the LSO, conducted by Marin Alsop. Recent and future roles include Giorgetta in ‘Il Tabarro’, Geraldine in ‘A Hand Of Bridge’ and for the Music series at King’s Place, London the role of Emilie in the British premiere of Ernest Tochs’ Egon Und Emilie. Njabulo Madlala Schaunard Matthew Stiff Matthew Stiff graduated with distinction from the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed for companies including Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera, Mid Wales Opera, Iford Arts Festival and Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan. Roles include Leporello DON GIOVANNI, Colline LA BOHEME, title role LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Pietro L’ASSEDIO DI CALAIS, Prince Gremin EUGENE ONEGIN, Doctor Grenvil LA TRAVIATA, Hobson PETER GRIMES, Lord Walton I PURITANI, Marquis de la Force DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, Snug A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. His most recent performances include Sacristan TOSCA for Opera North and Magnifico CENERENTOLA for West Green House Opera. Adam Player Andrew Glover Alcindoro Andrew was born in New Zealand and graduated the Australian Opera Studio with Honours and the Dux award for excellence. Recent appearances have included Tinca, Il tabarro, Gherardo, Gianni Schicchi and cover Bunce, Fantastic Mr Fox (all ETO); Bardolfo, Falstaff, Abdallo, Nabucco (both IFAC Tokyo); Tito, La clemenza di Tito, Msr Triquet, Eugene Onegin (both New Zealand Opera); Remendado, Carmen, Un Voce, La Gioconda (both Opera Holland Park); Don Basilio, Le nozze di Figaro (Vignette Productions). He has appeared in numerous concerts and recitals with ensembles including the Tokyo New Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Perth Orchestra, the Australian Opera Studio, the NBR NZ Opera Company. Future engagements include Vašek, The Bartered Bride. Absolutely loving ETOpera</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LaBoheme?src=hash">#LaBoheme</a> - totally delightful, inventive staging & stunning singing. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bravi?src=hash">#bravi</a></p>— Eleanor C R Thompson (ERuckerThompson) March 14, 2015 Another glorious evening with ETOpera</a>. La Boheme at its best. Glorious music, beautiful set and stunning performances! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bravitutti?src=hash">#bravitutti</a></p>— Alice Wright (alicempwright) March 14, 2015 Thank you for such a moving production of la boheme HackneyEmpire</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ETOpera">ETOpera — Jackie O’Sullivan (@finferg) March 15, 2015 Wonderful singing of La Boheme by English Touring Opera HackneyEmpire</a>. Very full, and relatively diverse audience. Enjoyed it. <a href="https://twitter.com/ETOpera">ETOpera — althea efunshile (@altheaefunshile) March 14, 2015 Many congratulations to ETOpera</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ETOBoheme?src=hash">#ETOBoheme</a>. A tremendous company performance; one would have thought they had been together for months.</p>— Mark Berry (boulezian) March 14, 2015 ETOpera</a> congratulations on tremendous evening <a href="https://twitter.com/HackneyEmpire">HackneyEmpire never been there…ok yes I know…what a venue and what a cast #Boheme — Marion Friend (@MFr5854769) March 14, 2015 Fantastic night at beautiful HackneyEmpire</a> watching <a href="https://twitter.com/ETOpera">ETOpera. So happy we went! pic.twitter.com/p4FQXIKkna — Polly Westlake (@PollyWestlake) March 14, 2015 La Boheme is probably the best ETOpera</a> production I've seen. Stunning cast, set looks amazing & some really beautiful touches in direction</p>— Dave Burgess (D_A_Burgess) March 14, 2015 That La bohème was seriously the best thing I’ve ever seen from ETOpera</a>... struggling to stem the tears throughout much of Act 4.</p>— Mark Pullinger (larkingrumple) March 13, 2015 Casting of Ilona Domnich and David Butt Philip was stronger than I’ve seen at more illustrious venues in recent years. #ETOBohème — Mark Pullinger (@larkingrumple) March 13, 2015 Fell in love with Ilona Domnich’s Mimì from the first off-stage note ETOpera</a></p>— Mark Pullinger (larkingrumple) March 13, 2015 Children’s chorus in La bohème – list of participating schools Hackney: St Mary’s & St John’s CE School, London NW4 Truro: Bosvigo School, Truro Poole: Baden-Powell and St Peter’s Church of England Junior School, Poole Norwich: Arden Grove Infant and Nursery School, Norwich Sheffield: Fusion Youth Theatre Cheltenham: Members of the Beauregard Youth Choir Wolverhampton: East Park Primary School, Wolverhampton Snape: Southwold Primary School, Suffolk Leicester: St Peter’s Church of England (Aided) Primary School, Leicester WAC: Hearsall Community Primary School, Coventry Exeter: Ladysmith Junior School, Exeter Crawley: ‘Sway Perform’ at The Hawth Canterbury: St Peters Methodist Primary School, Canterbury Blackpool: St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Blackpool Buxton: Buxton Opera House Young Company Durham: Harton Primary School, South Shields Perth: Oakbank Primary Choir, Oakbank School, Perth Cambridge: Students from Theatretrain Cambridge North Our award-winning education department delivers about 250 workshops and interactive performances each year for nearly 10,000 people of every age and ability. The scope of our work includes residential in-school projects, commissioned new operas for young people, full-scale community operas, and creative work for people with dementia. We are open to every kind of new opportunity and collaboration, and if at all possible work hard to make even the most ambitious dreams become reality. For more information contact: Tim Yealland (Head of Education) or Talia Lash (Education and Community Coordinator). Just watched La Boheme at Hall for Truro tonight. What a delight. Wonderful singers. Bit undecided on the stark stage settings but thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Thank you. Said Penny Jones at 22:58pm on 17th Mar 2015 I just have to write to say what a wonderful 3 days I had in Cheltenham - seeing all three operas. The singing was superb. It was the second time I had seen Calais - and it didn't let me down! The Wild Man was well performed - especially the performance of Peter Brathwaite whose singing and acting were faultless. When it came to Boheme, my handky was soaked!! But often it is just the beauty of the music: however, this time I would say I have never seen the final scene so beautifully and convincingly acted and sung. So, from a very enthusiastic supporter, all praise and congratulations. Said Francesca at 11:14am on 13th Apr 2015 Just home from a beautifully sung and played Boheme at Warwick University Arts Centre. We look forward with anticipation to the Autumn programme!Congratulations to all concerned. Said JEAN PRATT at 22:40pm on 24th Apr 2015 Most enjoyable exuberant performance with stunning singing/acting, conducting, and accompaniment enhanced by the intimacy of the small Grand Theatre in Blackpool. Said R. Sanner at 18:36pm on 12th May 2015 Stupendous performance at Cambridge Arts Theatre. Beautifully sung and wonderfully accompanied by the orchestra. They let Puccini flow, gave the music time and let emotion take over. Act 3 set - the BEST ever Said Lucian Hatfield at 23:14pm on 29th May 2015 Went to first ever opera - La Boheme Cambridge Arts Theatre 29 May. What an introduction to live opera!! Awsome production, superb voices, excellent acting. Had my wife in tears - I just managed to hold back! What next in the opera journey? Said Steve Knowles at 11:34am on 2nd Jun 2015 Rehearsal gallery The Siege of Calais (L'assedio di Calais) The Wild Man of the West Indies English Touring Opera on Twitter English Touring Opera on Facebook Sign-up to the English Touring Opera email newsletter to receive the latest news and info from ETO Like most websites, we use cookies to facilitate online booking and to ensure we give you the best possible experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume you're happy to receive cookies. 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__label__cc	0.73572	0.26428	Welcome to the Forums Type: Posts; User: Darran Noworldwar Thread: CAPTCHA - You really are extracting the urine by Darran Noworldwar CAPTCHA - You really are extracting the urine FFS, Getting a CAPTCHA box pop up for clicking on the collect money/oil button, you really are taking the piss out of us game players now, or is it your aim to drive everyone away and play Angry... Thread: Collection item gifting here's a suggesting, how about a system that... here's a suggesting, how about a system that works, currently no bugger can send items using the wishlist....blanks out, and you cant get the box up Thread: Where's my Thermal Camera?? Best off taken a snowplough Mick :cool: Thread: Communication with Enemy Attacker But I'm the Galactic Obergruppenfurher in Chief... But I'm the Galactic Obergruppenfurher in Chief of the SS (Silly Sods) I fart in his general direction:D What communications are you on about....unless... What communications are you on about....unless you're suggesting we have a taunt button fitted to mock the other player ......"Your Mother was a hamster, and your Father smelled of elderberry's"... Thread: Fix this poxy game out, Same here.....still Thread: Reactivation of Previously Featured Items in the MP and Other Freebie Rewards Nice idea, but.............well, its a bit... Nice idea, but.............well, its a bit pointless unless you've got Bill Gate's credit card :cool: Thread: The complete list of clans No, because I binned the game a month... No, because I binned the game a month ago...........only drop in now and again these days/.........please call when something interesting happens :) Thread: Automated bot/macro prevention system Me for one, but don't worry matey, by the time... Me for one, but don't worry matey, by the time you get down there, Satan will have had a right shoeing. and his pitchfork will be used to toast the ROAC bread................................Might... Thread: Warzone: Armageddon Featured Items Contest Narh, Belt Fed Wombat and a rotund bottomed WRAC... Narh, Belt Fed Wombat and a rotund bottomed WRAC member who goes like one for the win Jim :cool: Thread: Some players should read this MPD about multi`s and mini`s Think you've got the figures the wrong way around... Think you've got the figures the wrong way around :rolleyes: But, and lets be honest here, does anyone really give a toss - it's always have been, and always will be that way with any of these games... Thread: Boss Battles Group Better one is here... Better one is here https://www.facebook.com/groups/417073368357241/ for a kick,off all types of boss fights are welcome.....and the admins don't take the piss by pinning their fights to the top of... Thread: Boss Group on Facebook Better room is here,... Better room is here, https://www.facebook.com/groups/417073368357241/ No chitchat, just boss fights....and unlike the skip lickers room, all fights are welcome be they big or small bosses :) Thread: Money from bosses Gone from feast to famine, perhaps the dev's... Gone from feast to famine, perhaps the dev's could find a middle ground because quite frankly the payouts now are just extracting the urine :-( Thread: Bully's (like You) Really Mick, You don't normally find the words... Really Mick, You don't normally find the words "EFF" & "Fun" in the same sentence.... unless broken with the words "lack of":rolleyes: ... You sure you don't mean dull ;););) Thread: Reported Incidence of Cheating by a Player During Sanction Fights And the difference between that and a... And the difference between that and a clan/grouping targeting people is??? And does anyone in fact give a toss, its a war game after all, either get used to being sanctioned, or quit :-) Uhmmmmmmmm, Joel, that would be the same... Uhmmmmmmmm, Joel, that would be the same worthless [moderated] that tried to wreck the fight room after he chucked his teddys out of the pram and stropped off, that Joel??? Lets face it, for all... Thread: something is screwy about this whole game Or even just stop cocking around with trying to... Or even just stop cocking around with trying to fix problems that don't exist Thread: Who are the EFF? Oi Jim, I resemble that remark... Oi Jim, I resemble that remark ...................................and so do you :-) Thread: Warzone: Armageddon Character Sneak peek looked at it, must say....what a pile of fetid... looked at it, must say....what a pile of fetid dingos droppings Thread: RAS Alliance Like I indicated, ask your man Conan the skip... Like I indicated, ask your man Conan the skip licker, he's a fully paid up member :cool: Thread: Spam !!!!!!!!!! Oh go on, let the spammer back ....Let's face it,... Oh go on, let the spammer back ....Let's face it, he/she/it made more bloody sense than half the posters on here :cool::cool::o:o Truth is, all those who've got "!~RAS~!" in their... Truth is, all those who've got "!~RAS~!" in their tagline, tend to wear crotch-less leather chaps while hanging around the Blue Oyster Club.................You'll find Conan there every Friday night... Thread: Register Your Boss Fights HERE!!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/417073368357241/... https://www.facebook.com/groups/417073368357241/ Warzone boss fight room for all your boss fight needs :- Thread: captchas and a boycott More like fetid dingo's droppings, no on else... More like fetid dingo's droppings, no on else find it odd that other games are not affected by this crap? -- Default Style -- Warzone2 -- Default Mobile Style Play Warzone: Armageddon	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line158
__label__wiki	0.943381	0.943381	KYRGYZSTAN: Who can be a conscientious objector? Changes before Kyrgyzstan's Parliament continue to restrict conscientious objection to "members of registered religious organisations whose beliefs do not allow the use of weapons or service in the Armed Forces". But they change the recipient of the financial penalty - called "alternative service" and equivalent to between one and two months' average wages - paid by conscientious objectors from the Defence Ministry to "the state body which handles social issues". Human rights defender Dmitry Kabak of Open Viewpoint observed to Forum 18 News Service that there could be problems if the state deregisters a community. Temir Kasymov, assistant to Deputy Mairamkul Tlenchiyeva who co-drafted the legal changes, stated that Muslim or Russian Orthodox conscientious objectors, and atheists, would be able to opt out of military service. But asked what would happen if Muslim or Orthodox leaders were asked if their faiths allowed individuals to perform military service, Kasymov appeared unsure. "There haven't been cases when Muslims refused to serve", he told Forum 18. Kasymov pointed out that the proposed amendments are still in draft form, and asked for help in framing them to meet concerns over who will be allowed to be a conscientious objector. KYRGYZSTAN: Eight raids, two official warnings in three months Police and secret police officers raided eight meetings for worship of Jehovah's Witnesses in the first three months of 2013, claiming that they were illegal because the communities had no individual registration. Kyrgyzstan's State Commission for Religious Affairs (SCRA) also issued two official warnings – seen by Forum 18 News Service - that their communities have broken the law. In four places – including twice in Jalal-Abad – officials have refused even to process their registration applications. Ahmadi Muslims are still challenging in court the SCRA's re-registration denial which has prevented their communities meeting since 2011. "We have freedom of assembly and freedom of religion in Kyrgyzstan," Kubanychbek Abakirov, expert on religious communities in the Presidential Administration, insisted to Forum 18 after reviewing documentation on the warnings to the Jehovah's Witnesses and their latest registration denial. KYRGYZSTAN: Criminal prosecutions to punish registration applications? With at least eight raids on their meetings for worship in two regions of Kyrgyzstan since the beginning of 2013, Jehovah's Witnesses believe the criminal cases launched against two of their members are designed to punish the community for their latest registration application. A Jehovah's Witness mother and daughter in Osh are under two-months' house arrest and face up to three years' imprisonment for allegedly conjuring live snakes from eggs and then swindling two old women of their life savings. Jehovah's Witnesses described the accusations to Forum 18 News Service as "bizarre" and "ludicrous". A police investigator in one of the two criminal cases refused to say how police had identified the two women as suspects, but denied to Forum 18 that the NSC secret police had been involved. Meanwhile, the family of Uzbek former imam Khabibullo Sulaimanov is hoping a Bishkek court will decisively reject his possible extradition back to Uzbekistan when it re-hears his appeal. KYRGYZSTAN: Extradition overturned, but new charges and transfer to prison close to Uzbekistan The appeal in Kyrgyzstan by Uzbek former imam Khabibullo Sulaimanov against his extradition back to Uzbekistan has been upheld, Forum 18 News Service notes. The successful appeal followed his being recognised as a refugee by the Bishkek office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – but he was immediately afterwards detained again and sent by the NSC secret police to a prison in Osh, very close to the border with Uzbekistan. "We had to tell the lawyer – no one had told him of the transfer," Sulaimanov's wife Albina Karankina told Forum 18. She complained that no one would tell the family why he was transferred to Osh, where he is being held and what the new accusations against him are. His lawyer Toktogul Abdyev understands that the new charges relate to an alleged illegal border crossing in 2012, but the UNHCR is "waiting for an official confirmation concerning his transfer and charges brought against him". The NSC secret police would not tell Forum 18 what new charges Sulaimanov faces. But officials confirmed that he is in the Osh Region NSC Investigation Prison. KYRGYZSTAN: Will international law protect Uzbek imam from extradition? The wife of Uzbek former imam Khabibullo Sulaimanov has spoken of her concern for her husband, detained since October 2012 by Kyrgyzstan's NSC secret police. "I'm very worried that they could extradite him back to Uzbekistan," Albina Karankina told Forum 18 News Service. "We want him freed. It is very hard for the children to live without their father." She observed that "they [Kyrgyz authorities] keep delaying the case" in court. Sulaimanov's next appeal hearing against his deportation is due at Bishkek City Court on 1 March. Karankina has been denied access to her husband in detention, and called for the "fight for justice" for him to continue. "We're grateful to all who have shown concern for us," she told Forum 18. Sulaimanov's only "crime" in Uzbekistan was to lead religious communities. The Bishkek office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told Forum 18 that Sulaimanov is protected under international human rights law against refoulement, or being sent back to his home country. KYRGYZSTAN: Imam still faces extradition to Uzbek torture The legal appeal by former imam Khabibullo Sulaimanov against his extradition from Kyrgyzstan back to Uzbekistan resumes on 12 February, Forum 18 News Service has learned. Officials failed to produce Sulaimanov for the first hearing yesterday (5 February). His lawyer argued in court that if Sulaimanov is returned to Uzbekistan, he is likely to face torture. However, Kyrgyzstan's General Prosecutor's Office, which wants to send him back, insisted to Forum 18 – against overwhelming documented evidence - that "the risk or basis to believe that torture would be used against Sulaimanov does not exist". Sulaimanov's wife, Albina Karankina, calls for the proposed extradition of her husband to Uzbekistan to be halted. "We also want him to be freed from the Investigation Prison", she told Forum 18. Human rights defenders continue to condemn the possible extradition, but the General Prosecutor's Office denied to Forum 18 that it had received an appeal letter on the case from Human Rights Watch. The letter in English and in Russian was submitted to the General Prosecutor's Office in hard copy on 1 February, and signed confirmation of receipt was given. Apart from one five minute visit, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has not been allowed access to Sulaimanov, and family members have been refused visits. KYRGYZSTAN: Extradition "would violate our international human rights obligations" Khabibullo Sulaimanov – who led a mosque in the Uzbek capital Tashkent and is seeking asylum in Kyrgyzstan - is fighting extradition back to Uzbekistan. "If the former imam is handed back to Uzbekistan, he faces torture and conviction on fabricated charges of 'extremism'", insists Vitaly Ponomarev of Memorial, who is among human rights defenders following the case. Sulaimanov was detained by Kyrgyzstan's NSC secret police in October 2012. "I can only see him at court hearings, and we can talk together for no more than five or ten minutes," his wife Albina Karankina told Forum 18 News Service. Tursunbek Akun, Kyrgyzstan's human rights Ombudsperson told Forum 18 that "extraditing Sulaimanov back to Uzbekistan would violate our international human rights obligations. (..) I will use all my authority and influence to prevent Sulaimanov's extradition." In sharp contrast, Kanabek Uzakbayev of Kyrgyzstan's General Prosecutor's Office, asked by Forum 18 about breaking international law by sending an individual back to Uzbekistan where they might face torture, responded: "Let them [the Uzbek authorities] do it. It doesn't bother me at all." The next appeal hearing is due on 5 February in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek. KYRGYZSTAN: NSC secret police behind "needed" new religious freedom punishments Kyrgyzstan's State Commission for Religious Affairs (SCRA), with the help of the National Security Committee (NSC) secret police, formulated proposed new punishments for exercising the right to religious freedom, an NSC official told Forum 18 News Service. The proposed new punishments are included in Justice Ministry amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, which considerably increase both the range of activities which are punishable and potential penalties. The Committee of Ministers Department, whose approval is necessary before the amendments can reach Parliament, has returned them to the Justice Ministry for more work. Galina Kolodzinskaia of the Inter-religious Council told Forum 18 that religious leaders "without exception were very worried about the amendments". She added that "if adopted, the punishments will definitely be used. We regard them as a way for the authorities to collect money from religious communities." NSC secret police and Interior Ministry officials stressed to Forum 18 that they support introduction of the "needed" new punishments. KYRGYZSTAN: Religion Law changes being done "democratically" Government-backed changes to Kyrgyzstan's Religion Law have begun passage in Parliament, Forum 18 News Service notes. If eventually adopted, they would ban sending students for foreign religious education without state permission, require religious communities to have 200 founders in one locality, and ban all foreigners exercising freedom of religion or belief without a state license. The amendments do not address the long-standing issue of obstructions or denials of burials according to their own rites to deceased Protestants, Baha'is, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishna devotees. Mira Karybaeva of the Presidential Administration claimed to Forum 18 that "we're doing all this democratically", insisting that "government and society have reached a consensus". Her claim of "consensus" ignored heavy criticisms by human rights defenders such as the Open Viewpoint Foundation and others, including that the amendments increase the risk of conflict. Meanwhile, Ahmadi Muslims are again challenging state denials of registration and so of permission to exist, and Jehovah's Witnesses have taken state registration denials to the UN Human Rights Committee.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line160
__label__wiki	0.558227	0.558227	Langstroth Beehives are considered to be the most convenient especially if one has to practice beekeeping as a business. They have rectangular frames made of wire-mesh. The main advantage is that the bees build honeycomb into the wire-meshed frames, making it easy for the farmer to move the combs without trouble. “Unlike other beehives, it is easy to pull out one frame after the other from the Langstroth beehive to check whether there is honey without breaking the combs," said the farmer. This means that the farmer has the opportunity to harvest only the honeycombs that are full with honey. Following the frame design in a Langstroth beehive, bees do not attach wax honeycomb between the frames or to the walls of the hive. Hence, the farmer does not temper with the wax, one of the most essential components needed for bees to make honey. Under normal circumstances, bees consume seven kilograms of nectar in order to make a kilo of wax. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the farmer primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein nutrients. Alex harvests between 15 to 18 kilograms of honey from each beehive twice a year. “I have a special machine for extracting honey without getting impurities into the final product, and without damaging the honey-combs, and this is what customers need pure honey," he said. Alex began honey farming in the year 2000 with three Top-bar beehives. But three years later, he was linked to a Belgian Non-Governmental Organization, from which he was fully trained on bee keeping as a business, prompting him to buy the Langstroth beehives. To supplement the beekeeping business, Alex engages in indigenous poultry farming. This is a business that most villagers here have tried but failed due to various reasons. “The biggest impediment has always been diseases, particularly the Newcastle disease," he said. “Through a program known as Kenya Arid and Semi Arid Land KASAL project, I have been taught how to vaccinate the chicken against the Newcastle disease," said the farmer. According to Dr Ann Wachira, a poultry expert at KARI, and a KASAL Principal Investigator for the Indigenous chicken pro-gram, the Newcastle disease has no cure. The only way to combat the disease is to stop the chicken form getting it and the best way is through vaccinating the birds, she said. As a result, the KASAL group trained 64 trainers of trainees in Eastern province who as well act as community based extension officer to ensure that al chicken are vaccinated at a cost of five shillings per dose administered. Alex is one of the lucky trainers or trainees. “It is like another job. I receive orders on daily basis, but I venture out in field to vaccinate chicken in villages twice every week”, said the farmer. Now that the biggest problem for poultry farming in his are ahs been controlled, Alex has been able to improve the stock of birds on his farm. I just sold 120 birds a few days ago. At the moment, am remaining with 197 birds he said. However, the farmer as well involves himself in crop farming especially during rainy seasons. “Rains are elusive in this area. As a result, we can only plant whenever it rains sometimes once after three years, he said Alex has become a role model to many people in his village and beyond, who visit his farm to learn about techniques one can use to remain productive despite the scorching drought. Discounts for you Farmbiz wins 2019 BAKE Awards’ Agriculture Blog of the Year NYS Tumaini base producing clean potato seeds for... National Youth Service (NYS) at its offices in Tumaini, Nyandarua County is employing new technolo... 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__label__wiki	0.808553	0.808553	The Coutts Touch on June 5, 2019 at 6:27 pm A Nicholas Coutts Retrospective. A Nicholas Coutts design speaks volumes for originality, craftsmanship and authenticity, forming part of a newer contemporary fashion collective in South Africa. His work simultaneously delved into and transcended trend, gender and medium, is instantly recognisable and contains an intrinsic relevance that seems to not only intensify with time but is more so of this time. That’s why the South African fashion industry suffered such a profound loss when the designer died unexpectedly at the age of 27 in May 2019. A Design Academy of Fashion graduate, Coutts stepped onto the local design scene in 2013, winning the ELLE Rising Star design competition with a collection characterised by textured bodycon separates wrapped in hand-woven scarves, generous in their length and width. The scarves would quickly become known as his brand signature, embodying its fundamental design pillars of craft, texture and a forward-thinking outlook on heritage. Coutts would often cite the textile designer and pioneer of the 19th century craft movement, William Morris, as a core inspiration, mentioning their shared belief that handmade pieces have a sense of honesty far beyond that of anything machine manufactured. “He was a trailblazer,” says Jackie Burger, a judge and driving force of the ELLE Rising Star initiative as then editor of the publication. Coutts’ aesthetic had an element of surprise, subverting the futuristic mood that often characterises new-talent design initiatives of the sort. “Nick delved into heritage,” Burger explains. To her, he represented “that dualism in design: Someone who went back to heritage, indigenous culture and craft, and paired it with a vision.” Fellow Rising Star judge, the renowned multimedia fashion journalist, Malibongwe Tyilo, agrees that Coutts was a standout from the start. “Everyone went absolutely crazy over the textures,” he says, praising particularly Coutts’ effortless command of chunky knitwear and other heavier winter fabrics. “A lot of the time it can be slightly more expected to do boxier shapes, so I really love that he was taking materials that would ultimately be for an Autumn Winter collection and brought them to a form fitting place. It was a sexy winter, basically.” Burger was particularly impressed with the business plan Coutts submitted as part of his Rising Star entry. In relation to his supply chain and use of local resources to create his fabrics, “he tapped into female community culture, the idea of women getting together with the skillset to create something.” She rightly pegs him as a feminist and environmentalist, working those values into the fabric of his designs back then in a way that rivals the often-superficial way global brands attempt to do today. Part of Coutts’ Rising Star prize was the opportunity to design a capsule collection for Mr Price. Given the slow, intricate nature of his core designs, it’s particularly impressive to see how he translated his love of hand-made tactility into a fast-fashion retail ready collection for an accessibly priced brand without sacrificing his love of texture and infatuation with nature. The former manifested in pleats, and the latter in a metallic jacket inspired by the pearlescent exterior of the African dung beetle. Metallics were the unifying message of his second collection shown at 2014’s Africa Fashion International (AFI) Cape Town Fashion Week. His collections thereafter, though unmistakably high-end, seemed edited and designed for function in a considered way that proved the value of his time spent at Mr Price. “It has to do with the ego of the designer,” says Burger of the way Coutts integrated the accessible principals of his retail training into his luxurious offering. “You can either integrate it or say, ‘well I’m just doing it but it’s not really important to me.’ Nick always came across as an incredibly humble person who would consider every opportunity in terms of the bigger picture.” “He did what he said he would do which is very rare for fashion designers,” attests South African Menswear Week (SAMW) founder and director Simon Deiner. “So for us, if he asked for something different, we bent over backwards because he delivered consistently.” Coutts would show five menswear collections at Deiner’s SAMW, the first of which was a collaboration with fellow Rising Star finalist, Lukhanyo Mdingi. The Mdingi Coutts Autumn Winter 2016 collection had its first runway outing at the Generation Africa showcase at the Pitti Uomo tradeshow in Florence alongside fellow South African label, AKJP, and two Nigerian designers and then a month later on home turf at SAMW. Coutts and Mdingi proved they’d held South Africa’s name high on the global stage with a contemporary, sophisticated collection inspired by the local landscape. Mdingi’s minimal cuts gave the collection its sophistication, and Coutts’ luscious woven details its overall feeling of cosy luxury. Tyilo calls it a “beautiful marriage” of designers who both care very deeply about texture and take pride in celebrating the South African landscape. With the designer’s following three collections, Coutts hit his stride as one of the must-sees on the Menswear Week calendar. “Nick had this craft aesthetic that no one else had,” says Deiner, adding that when his team quantified the fashion week’s runway image downloads, Coutts was always in the top five brands of the season. The Spring Summer 2017 collection was a play between urban and natural references, foregoing chunky scarves (and their integration into coats and shirts as done in the Mdingi collab) for denim jacquard, embroidery, check fabrics and metallic ring embellishments. Making use of the aforementioned elements, every piece felt elevated without sacrificing an intrinsic casual wearability. “I remember when I saw this I thought, ‘okay, that is Nicholas’ proposal in terms of how to take his love for texture and dimension and bring it to a more affordable level’,” says Tyilo. Autumn Winter 2017 and Spring Summer 2018 delved into 70s leisurewear and Cape Town’s queer nightlife respectively. Coutts’ creative direction was evident from runway to campaign in his selection of models, photographers, and settings to do his designs justice. Wherever the season’s inspiration took Coutts, the final product would always be unmistakably his. Whether in their literal form, or woven through his collections in more conceptual ways, Coutts’ scarves were always at the core of his design. “When you live in a country like South Africa with limited access to fabric, how do you then bring in your signature into the fabrication of the garments?” asks Tyilo. “That’s something I think he really did well, by bringing through all of that handwork.” He quite literally wove (into) the fabric of the pieces he created, making every piece unmistakably bound to the hand of the late designer and the context in which it was created. Burger saw the scarves as a cross-cultural garment, reverberating in the cloaks worn by eastern philosophers and blankets in traditional South African communities: “They just have incredible symbolical value.” His penultimate collection was an unexpected switch back to womenswear. Autumn Winter 2018 at AFI Cape Town Fashion Week was arguably his best work, unparalleled in its sophistication and the way it pushed Coutts’ aesthetic into the future. The designer wove a heavy multicoloured tapestry inspired by a birds-eye view of the local landscape, scanned it in and printed it onto light-as-air silk separates, dresses and bags that felt as rich in their instant connotations of beauty as they were in design narrative. Next season, Coutts debuted his Loom Chaise. The eclectic lounger, inspired by the form of a hand-weaving loom, was a collaboration with Southern Guild co-founder, Julian McGowan. Having worked with the gallery during its launch on a limited line of leather products sporting similar prints to his AW18 collection, this was Coutts’ official furniture design debut. “That kind of hand-made, beautifully imperfect nature of his work,” is what drew McGowan to Coutts. “The tactile nature of the work, its colour and vibrancy, made people happy.” McGowan emphasises the importance of longevity in his relationships with designers like Coutts. Product often sells better as the designer grows their portfolio and fosters a sense of familiarity. “He certainly had all the requirements,” says McGowan who was looking forward to the next chapter in their collaboration. Coutts’ final collection, Autumn Winter 2019, debuted at SAMW before jetting off for an encore at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Inspired by the Western Cape Fynbos that populated his favourite hiking trails, the collection bloomed with colour and a certain masculine warmth that felt unintentionally autobiographical. Any question about the future of his career trajectory quickly leads to discussions around the South African business of fashion and its lack of infrastructure to support designers. “What always breaks my heart with designers is the market we are in,” says Tyilo. “So many people who are absolutely brilliant at what they do have limited opportunities to give us the [type of] high-end product that would be so great for the industry.” Cut short, the Nicholas Coutts story is one of profound potential, lacking only in the type of success the local industry is not yet built to offer. One thing is certain – he has offered a glimpse into the future makings of local luxury fashion in South Africa, and quite possibly a pathway to meet global fashion on our own terms. By Daniël Geldenhuys for @safashionhandbook Runway Images by @sdrphoto and AFI Loom Chaise image via Nicholas Coutts Instagram AfricadesignerFashionhandcraftNicholas Couttssouth africaSustainable Fashion The psychology of fashion Everything you need to know about our new mentoring sessions Cape Wools SA Launches First Wool Competition For Designers Tips on attending Fashion Week Fashion season is upon us and if you are attending.. Read More+ Local talent arrives at Edgars The best of South African fashion coming to a store near you. Edgars.. Read More+ The beauty of change Publishers note… Living through an unprecede.. Read More+	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line169
__label__cc	0.589331	0.410669	Apple app store für windows 7. 3 Ways to Bring an App Store to Windows 7 2019-05-19 Apple app store für windows 7 Rating: 6,3/10 484 reviews 7 Best iOS Emulator For Windows To Run iOS Apps [2017] You immediately notice that the program operates as a Start menu; give it a click and then click the App Store link. We advice to use the Puffin Web Browser instead of Safari. Within the app, click the My Apps link at the top of the page and from here you can choose which updates you want to install. With all these features listed below, it makes the app a user-friendly one for sound mixing and creating music. There is also the function to debug your apps with useful debugging features such as real time code changes and breakpoints etc. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. PC App Store (free) download Windows version To simulate it, you pretend to jump into the pool yourself and enjoy the cold water by enacting how it would feel. Many music enthusiasts and professionals use this app for recording sound tracks and mixing music. Over 100 million active users in two and a half years. Audio - When screen mirroring from Safari on your iPhone or iPad, there is no audio. So basically, with every update, unfortunately the app gets worse. When you like the app, please don't forget to give it a positive rating! View your library by artist, album, episode, year, rating — any way you want. This free program is an intellectual property of Baidu, Inc. It's the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork. If you would like to submit a review of this software download, we welcome your input and encourage you to submit us something! Compatibility with this software may vary, but will generally run fine under Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8. This is a choice that Netflix made; there is nothing that we can do about that. AllMyApps is quite a traditional example of an app store. Although this program might not be very useful for the app developers for advanced features such as debugging etc. Although there are various features available on this emulator, some core applications such as the Safari Web browser are not available and that constraints its use. If possible maybe even allowing features thats on discord to be on the app, better bots would be a plus that telegram makes themselves rather than relying on other people bots. With its minimalist design, Telegram is lean and easy to use. Take care to click the correct link at the top of the page that corresponds to the version you are using and then use the download button. In terms of developer support, I have to say that Xamarin Testflight is best ios emulator for pc to give a try once. Apple iTunes 12.9.5 for Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10 Download For group admins and developers: - Connect a discussion group to your channel to get a 'Discuss' button. You can mirror any app on your iPhone or iPad to your computer. Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. If you want to know more on how this works, please contact us at support airbeam. Please give us feedback by mailing to info airbeam. All that one needs to do is to install the app on the host device through the app store and then connect it to the windows system. To the point that I don't really get it why do you even make an update for it?? But, Emulator is also a virtual phone without physical feel, in the Emulator we can install the apps and test them. It also nurtures creativity without limitations, since the teacher does not give them a piece to perform but lets the students choose and arrange their music for themselves. To download GarageBand one has to simply visit the site of Rare Software. And in same direction, the companies have come up with a superb app called as Stagelight. I took away one star simply because I cannot find a way to turn off the audio instructions and I find them very annoying. Permissions will get updated as users leave and join the groups. Louis County to promote art education. Guys Please do not confuse between simulator and emulator, Simulator is a thing which has the fixed set of apps installed virtual thing, we can only use it to understand the look and feel of the app. I hope to see a future update soon where these small features are added! Apple does not let app developers, like us, control the volume on the device. After that, you can just go to any other app on your iPhone or iPad and the mirroring just continues to run. Turn on notifications for this app. We keep expanding the boundaries of what you can do with a messaging app. What's New: This document describes the security content of iTunes for Windows 12. Note: You can also use any other android emulator like Andy for downloading GarageBand on your Windows Pc. One analogy, to understand the subtle difference between the two could be to imagine that you are trying to tell your friend that it will be fun to jump in an ice cold pool. Air iPhone emulator was originally designed to allow users to make and receive free calls through Ribbit, a telecommunications service that was used mostly by developers to connect with telephone networks. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line172
__label__cc	0.501061	0.498939	President's Report 2019 Friends of Williamstown Wetlands Inc President’s Report 2019 The twelve months to July 2019 have been filled with activity as we continue to play our role in looking after the Jawbone Flora and Fauna Reserve and the Paisley-Challis Wetlands, in conjunction with Hobsons Bay City Council and Parks Victoria. We began the year noting the contributions of Helen Tregear, who died in July 2018, aged 99. Helen was a founder of the group in the late 1980s and our Secretary until 2001. She remained active for years after that and became an honorary member in 2009. In another significant change, our Treasurer for almost a decade, Marilyn Olliff, stepped down at the Annual General Meeting so as to have more time for her latest project, the Hobsons Bay Wetlands centre. So we began the year with a new Treasurer, Vesna Djuric, and after twelve months I am happy to say that the books are still in excellent order. Our seasonal programme of planting in the cooler, wetter months, and bird walks in the drier months, continued, with maintenance and ground preparation taking place whenever it was necessary and volunteers were available to work. Our planting has been more concentrated this year on the area to the south of the lake, for which the responsible authority is Parks Victoria. Peter Smith again arranged and supervised our Clean Up Australia Day effort at the Paisley Challis Wetland in March. We also participated in Council’s World Environment Day event at the beginning of June. A group from the Ford Motor Company, workers from their proving ground north of Geelong, had two Volunteer Activity Days working on our patch. On the first of these activity days, in September 2018, the volunteers removed old fencing and associated rubbish and watered our recent plantings on the south side of the lakes. On the second day, in June 2019, they planted 1500 plants in the area near the shallow section of the eastern lake. Staff from Hobsons Bay City Council and Parks Victoria were in attendance, and site preparation for the plantings was carried out by Richard Leppitt and Andrew Thornton. Their use of an auger to prepare holes has become a standard feature of our planting routines. We have been accustomed to seeing tiger snakes as we work at the Jawbone and the Paisley Challis Wetland, but we have become aware that there are other snakes in the area, notably the white lipped snake (seen on the goat track). The little whip snake is also reported as having been sighted in this region, although we have not seen any on our patch. The stormwater lakes and their surrounds continue to attract a rich birdlife and our summer bird walks attract other twitchers in addition to regular members of our Friends group. We continue to receive reports of fox sightings, which is probably why there are not so many rabbits around. Domestic dogs are, however, still causing problems on the coastal flats and Council officers have responded to our suggestions for better communication with dog walkers and their pets that harass migratory and other birds. Planning Issues The great increase in sporting activity at the J. T. Gray Reserve is the cause of parking congestion on our workdays at Paisley Challis. Some other activity there has caught our attention and we forwarded our comments to the working group of Hobsons Bay City Council. This group, which also includes Melbourne Water, Parks Victoria, Aboriginal Victoria, and VCictoria’s Department of Environment, Lands, Water and Planning (DELWP) have been reviewing the status of the fishing club rooms on the bank of the Kororoit Creek. At the time of writing it seems that the disused building of the Deaf Anglers Club will be removed because it is derelict. Plans to close the car park at the foot of Maddox Road and incorporate the area into the Wetland Reserve are also under consideration. By August 2018 we noticed that the eastern storm water lake seemed to be shallowing. There was excessive growth of the shallow water reed, Typha, the lake had receded from its original shoreline, and a shallow section of the lake had become almost dry land. It seemed that that device at the western end of the lake, near the causeway, that was supposed to maintain the water level in the lake, had failed. This was confirmed by an inspection by an environmental engineering consultant, and we pitched our case to Council for inclusion of the necessary action in their 2019-2020 budget of remediation works. This approach was successful, and Council has approved a three- stage work programme to restore the lake to something more like its original form and remove the overgrown vegetation. Associated with the inflow of storm water to the lakes, Nick Olliff has investigated the gross litter traps and found that some of them have not been receiving regular attention. Council staff have rectified this oversight. Governance and Organization The committee has continued to function well, with major contributions from Secretary Sandra Thorn, good attendance at meetings, and activity planning by Vice president Richard Leppitt. Publicity for our activities, through our website and FaceBook, has been aided by graphic design by Peter Cross and, of course, new volunteers are always welcome. Ian D. 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__label__cc	0.567219	0.432781	Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K. "Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody." Sleep Deprivation: The Great American Myth - Yahoo! News This is an extremely interesting story. posted by Kevin @ 7:03:00 PM Goddamn Ridiculous Finding drunks in a bar -- what are the chances? \| Reuters.com "SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday. Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkeness..." Man's Toddler Son Wanders Into Strip Club - Yahoo! News Right here in Oklahoma. You got change for a Grover Cleveland, pal? - Yahoo! News Some idiot was trying to pass off counterfeit one billion dollar bills. posted by Kevin @ 3:55:00 AM CNN.com - Teenage 'Buddha' missing - Mar 11, 2006 BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Furry 'lobster' found in Pacific Kites of Death! ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime. Already it's banned for all but 15 days of the year but a provincial minister warned kite-flyers this week that any who cause injury or death with string made from metal or coated with glass could be tried under anti-terrorism laws. The Punjabi chief minister's unprecedented threat came just ahead of the start of an annual kite-flying festival in the provincial capital, Lahore, Sunday. Kite-flying in Pakistan and neighboring India often involves aerial duels in which participants try to bring down each other's kites using string coated in a sticky paste of ground-up glass or metal. Every year, Pakistani media report dozens of deaths and injuries caused by kite flying, mainly of children and motorcyclists whose throats are sometimes cut by metal or glass-coated string. "It is a matter of concern that a healthy sport is being turned into a game of death," the official APP news agency quoted Punjab Chief Minister Pervez Elahi as saying Tuesday. Prosthetic legs returned; police stumped - Yahoo! News "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two prosthetic legs stolen from a 16-year-old California girl have mysteriously turned up in her mother's van, the second time in three months that an artificial limb belonging to the teen has been taken and then returned, police said on Friday." How many states allow a resident to marry a cousin? Wow, this is an interesting article, I guess. I didn't know it was still legal in so many places. I thought it was illegal everywhere in the United States. Discovery Channel :: News :: Fossils Fill Human Ev... Sleep Deprivation: The Great American Myth - Yahoo... Man's Toddler Son Wanders Into Strip Club - Yahoo!... You got change for a Grover Cleveland, pal? - Yaho... BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Furry 'lobster' found ... Prosthetic legs returned; police stumped - Yahoo! ... How many states allow a resident to marry a cousin... Email: SubSpecies23(at)gmail(dot)com Yahoo!: SubSpecies23 AIM: SqrrlODoom Many more Links here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line180
__label__wiki	0.755718	0.755718	GWM and Seed Experiences, entertaining you all through 2014 Go Back: News GWM has entered into an exciting annual sponsorship with Seed Experiences, South Africa’s top festival brand. The deal, secured by the entertainment industry’s specialist communications agency, One-eyed Jack, follows on a partnership for the smash-hit 2013 Vodacom In The City urban event. The new agreement, which also sees five logistical support vehicles made available to Seed’s management team, nets GWM activation rights at such exciting events as the WE ARE ONE Colour Festival, UB40’s SA tour, Sowing the Seeds, Rocking the Daisies, Jameson Vic Falls Carnival and two confidential international tours that the award-winning agency has up its sleeve. ‘GWM is very excited to team up with Seed Experiences for a number of high-profile events in 2014,’ says Tony Pinfold, CEO of GWM SA. ‘The company is currently in the process of launching four new models onto the local market, most of which take the brand into market segments it has not competed in before. These new models are mostly aimed at younger, adventurous, urban consumers, which is perfectly in line with the character of, for example, the brand’s upcoming mini-crossover, the M4.’ The Seed Experiences festivals will give GWM access to a live audience of 115 000 and a social media community of 150 000, consisting of music fans aged between 18 and 35 – in line with the brand’s target market for specifically products such as the C20R and M4. ‘This is the perfect partnership for these two brands,’ comments One-eyed Jack’s sponsorship director Manuela de Deus. ‘Seed’s quickly becoming known as the festival brand that delivers magical partnerships, so its only fitting that their directors drive top-notch sponsored vehicles to cement this observation.’ Stay tuned for calendar updates and competitions on GWM’s social media platforms here; Facebook – GWM South Africa Twitter – @GWMSouthAfrica	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line185
__label__cc	0.695296	0.304704	B F Gee[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Birth 24 Aug 1905 Guion, Texas [1, 2, 3, 4] Died 09 Mar 1975 Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, USA; buried Garden of Memories Cemetery, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas [4, 5] Person ID I49 William J. Gee Father Samuel Davis Gee, b. 04 May 1861, Columbus, Colorado, Texas, USA , d. 01 Mar 1923, Snyder, Scurry County, Texas; buried Snyder Cemetery, Snyder, Scurry County, Texas Mother Mattie Mae Scott, b. 06 Dec 1880, Hardeman, Texas, USA , d. 17 Apr 1924, Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, USA Married 01 Dec 1897 Ballinger, Runnels, Texas, USA Family ID F58 Group Sheet Family Marguerite Leslie Riley, b. 06 Jul 1906, d. 09 Feb 1996, Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA; buried Garden of Memories Cemetery, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas 1. Darla Durrell Gee, b. 01 Jan 1941, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, USA , d. 12 Feb 2002, Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA; buried Garden of Memories Cemetery, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas [S24] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco;;;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Justice Precinct 2, Scurry, Texas; Roll: T625_1845; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 219; Image: .. Birth date: abt 1906Birth place: TexasResidence date: 1920Residence place: Justice Precinct 2, Scurry, Texas [S21] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was;;;), Year: 1910; Census Place: Justice Precinct 4, Kent, Texas; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .. Birth date: 1906Birth place: TexasResidence date: 1910Residence place: Justice Precinct 4, Kent, Texas [S26] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,;;;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Snyder, Scurry, Texas; Roll: 2389; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 704.0.. Birth date: abt 1906Birth place: TexasResidence date: 1930Residence place: Snyder, Scurry, Texas [S19] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.Original data - Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security D;;;), Number: 451-09-4801; Issue State: Texas; Issue Date: Before 1951.. Birth date: 24 Aug 1905Birth place: Death date: Mar 1975Death place: Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States of America [S23] Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit.Original data: Texas Department of H;;;). Death date: 9 Mar 1975Death place: Taylor, Texas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line188
__label__wiki	0.503884	0.503884	Weird Pulp A Savage Worlds campaign Episode 16: Istanbul, Not Constantinople January 29, 2017 EpisodesNukeHavoc After an eventful journey aboard the Orient Express, the Wardens arrive in Istanbul on March 1, 1937. They met with their local contact, Mert Kahraman, Turkish liaison to the British consulate in Istanbul at the Pera Palace Hotel. The Wardens — Rikard Greystone, Sai-fon Richard Shen, McGinnis, Alistair Sebastian Cadwalader Martindrake III, and Andrew Buchanan — learn that it’s an interesting time in Turkey, with secularism has just been declared and the iconic Ottoman fez has been outlawed. The Wardens explained their mission to confront and take down The Teacher, one of the senior leaders of the Enlightenment and the leader of the Reptilian Order assassins. Kahraman agreed to secure them some essential gear for their mission including a cargo truck and crates of “survey equipment”: three bottles of whiskey 16 grenades 4 sticks of dynamite He also provided them with a map of the Snake Castle area of Turkey and the fortification itself. A map of Snake Castle in Turkey. Inspired by Belvoir Fortress. Attack on Pera Palace Hotel “If I hear one more story about the circus, I’m going to shoot the bloke” — McGinnis, commenting on Rickard Greystone’s tendency to discuss his childhood. Knowing it would take a day to assemble their gear, the Wardens decided to stay at the prestigious and elegant Pera Palace Hotel, a popular destination for Europeans visiting via the Orient Express. They spent a good portion of the night carousing in the hotel’s bar and lobby, with McGinnis staying up the latest telling tales of World War I. As McGinnis spun out his stories, Andrew Buchanan decided to slip out into the city to see check out some of the more disreputable sites within the city, promising to meet up with the heroes later. Meanwhile Alistair decided to set up some basic boobytraps in his room, just in case the Teacher’s agents decided to launch a surprise attack in the night. His paranoia was rewarded. Late that night, after even McGinnis had turned in, assassins from the Reptilian Order struck, launching separate attacks on each of the Wardens’ rooms. Two took on McGinnis, who whipped out the 1911 he had under his pillow and shot one of them dead. Meanwhile two rooms over Alistair’s silverware boobytraps went off, providing him with just enough warning to grab his sword from under the bed and block on of the assassin’s attacks, riposting to wound the assailant. Shen slept through it all, only waking when one of the Reptilian Order — aka “Snakes” stabbed him badly. It was a brutal, unexpected attack, but the Warden was able to shake it off, roll off the bed, and leap into action. The pacifist martial artist retreated into the hotel’s internal balcony, drawing the Snakes after him. McGinnis’ 1911 erupted again, hitting the other intruder in his room. That didn’t take out the Snake, but the follow-up hit from the mercenary’s brass knuckles did. Meanwhile in his room, Alistair continued to maneuver with the Snakes, edging toward the door while lashing out with his sword. He was able to drop one of his attackers as he did so. Out on the balcony overlooking the hotels massive lobby, Shen erupted from his room, ran to the railing and jumped to one of the massive crystal chandeliers. Alistair took out his second attacker with some deft sword play, then rann to the window to see what was happening outside. Near as he could tell, the night was quiet. The other assassins ran after Shen. When they saw him swimming on the chandelier, deftly rotating to block his attackers, they took out bows. The Snakes began lining up their shots as best they could and started firing, arrows deflecting off the hanging crystals. A Paralyzing Distraction Unbeknownst to the others, the attacks were a diversion from the real prize: Rikard. The Teacher had been shaping the young man’s life for years, killing his parents and murdering his mentor. The Enlightenment elder then sent his righthand assassin, the Horned Viper, to subdue and capture the Greystone. He succeeded, his strike team subduing Rikard with a paralyzing poison and then escaping out the hotel room window. They lowered Rikard to the floor with ropes and prepared to load him into a waiting car. They almost got away cleanly. Alistair heard the commotion in Rikard’s room. Concerned about his friend, he ran to check on the room and saw the open window. He got to the window just in time to see the Horned Viper throw Rikard into the car and shout “The Student is Ours!” The Battle for Pera Palace Inside the Snakes continued their fight with the other Wardens. Arrows flew across the open space between the balcony and the chandelier, but Shen’s acrobatic maneuvers on the crystalline work of art kept the projectiles from hitting. McGinnis, having deal with his own opponents, burst of his room and saw the two Snakes threatening his ally. He immediately shot one, causing the assassin to stagger against the railing. Shen drew his pistol and shot at one of the snakes, hoping to hit it in the leg. It was risky — he could miss and cause a killing blow — but he took the shot anyway. He missed. Realizing his position was untenable, he leapt back to the balcony where he and McGinnis fought the assassins with fist and blades. The battle turned when one of the Snakes, betraying his years of training, accidentally stabbed his companion. The surprised assassin died instantly, soon followed by his brother in arms after McGinnis put him down. Outside the hotel, the Reptilian Order’s sedan was speeding away, but it wasn’t quite fast enough. Alistair used his rifle to shoot its engine, causing oil to start spewing and black smoke to pour from the car. The sedan careened to the side of the road and then stopped. The Horned Viper and other assassins got out of the car, dragging Rikard. They quickly found and commandeered another vehicle and were soon speeding off again. This time they had a pursuer. Alistair had used the precious time he’d gained to cast a spell of flight, and now soared over the city streets following the car. He managed to shoot out the back window of the car, but it soon became apparent that his arcane flight would not be sufficient to keep up with the fleeing vehicle. Frustrated, he returned to the hotel and informed his companions of Rikard’s fate. He found Shen and McGinnis being interrogated by the hotel’s night manager, Cuskun Timer. The man was clearly outraged, but surprisingly McGinnis was able to talk him down after it was revealed that they’d both fought in the War. After Alistair caught the rest up on Rikard’s plight, they searched his room. They found a note pinned to the nightstand with a dagger. On it were three simple sentences: “The Student is Ours. The Lesson Will Be Completed. Leave or Die.” McGinnis, looking to his friends, said. “Well, look at it this way, we don’t have to listen to his circus stories any more or how his parents are dead. I didn’t like the bloke that much be we have to go rescue him.” The Flight to Snake Castle Driven by a sense of urgency, the heroes sought out Mert Kahraman to see what gear they could get together quickly. He responded with what he had on hand: Having secured the supplies, they gathered up Andrew Buchannan and left for the airport. As the sun rose on March 2, 1937 they drove up to one of the facilities backwater hangers to look up some of British ex-pat mercenary friends of McGinnis. Their plan? Have Alistair drop a ton of money to rent or buy a plane, then fly to Snake Castle before the Snake assassins could get there. Once there, they met Ashton Byrne, a down-on-his-luck Canadian pilot and veteran of World War I with a beat-up Ford Tri-Motor cargo plane who could potentially do the deal. Although skeptical, he was won over by McGinnis’ argument: “Just think of it the risk, the danger, … the money!” Bryne agreed, accepting $10,000 and a bottle of whiskey as payment. Soon afterward the heroes were in the air, reminiscing about lost loves and old tragedies. Alistair’s Tragedy Alistair’s tale revolved around a fencing scoring controversy in the 1924 olympics in which the Italian coach of the Hungarian team got into a duel with a French fencing critic. The Hungarian coach was sixty, so his son — a classmate of Alistair’s at Yale — could have stood in for him. Alistair decided to take on that role instead. The outrage over that duel has haunted him to this day. (Game note: Alistair draws an extra adventure card in our next session) McGinnis’ Lost Love Years ago in French Indochina, McGinnis met Alice, another another New Zealander. Together they were up against Francois Nugyven, a Vietnamese resistance fighter working against French rule. McGinnis and Alice got into a big fire fight with the bloke and his men. She took out two of Nugyven’s best with amazing shots … but then took a bullet to the chest. She was dead before McGinnis could even get to her. It was the closest he ever came to true love. (Game note: McGinnis will start next session with an extra benny) Shen’s Great Victory The thrumming of the rickety jet’s engines reminded Shen of a time when he and Uncle Lee had to save his friend Samo from a cultist (this was before Samo later turned to the dark arts of his own accord). Uncle Lee and Shen wanted to rescue Samo before his kidnapper could summon a Chinese demon known as a yaghawi. They arrived just as the cultist was preparing to finish the ceremony, but Shen couldn’t bring himself to kill the madman. The ritual completed and the demon killed its summoner. It was then that Chen acted, slaying the demon with his sword. (Game note: Shen draws an extra adventure card in our next session) One of the great things about Weird Pulp has been the things we’ve learned about our own history and world by playing the campaign. Here’s what we learned in this session: How big is a bundle of $10,000 in $100 bills? A bundle is approximately 6″x2 1/2″x1/2″ … so smaller than you might think (thus explaining how Alistair was able to have so much money on hand to secure the plane). Sabiha Gökçen became the first female fighter pilot in military history in 1937 when she flew for Hungary. Another key Hungarian event in 1937 was the establishment of the Air War College (Hava Harp Akademisi). The fencing scandal at the 1924 Olympics really happened. The Battle of Gallipoli was just as awful as you may have heard. We couldn’t find floor plans of the Pera Palace Hotel, so we had to improvise. Any differences between reality and fiction are our fault. Feature photo credit: The interior of the Pera Palace hotel. Credit: “Frederick’s First Steps in Constantinople.” Game Date: Sunday, November 20, 2016 Alistair: 3 xp McGinnis: 3 xp Richard Shen: 3xp Behind the Name: Turkish Names ← Shake, Rattle, and Roll the Dice! The Rusty Duck → The Rusty Duck Shake, Rattle, and Roll the Dice! Episode 17 status If I hear one more story about the circus… Red Hand The Griffin's Crier	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line196
__label__wiki	0.947176	0.947176	An engaging way of teaching science communication through Wikipedia Building infrastructure to support mentor training Why fruit flies belong in primary and secondary schools Peer-tutoring helps students succeed Looking for teaching ideas? Genetics articles in CourseSource, Fall 2018 Genetics Society of America partners with The Gruber Foundation to award the Gruber Genetics Prize Image credit: Genome Research Limited. Shared by yourgenome via Flickr under a [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] license. GSA to nominate advisors to the Selection Advisory Board of the Gruber Genetics Prize To promote the public awareness and recognition of recent achievements in the field of genetics, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with The Gruber Foundation to award the Gruber Genetics Prize. This prize is presented annually to up to three scientists in recognition of groundbreaking contributions to genetics research. The award includes an unrestricted cash prize of USD $500,000. Prize recipients are selected by an international Selection Advisory Board composed of seven distinguished geneticists. In the new agreement, six of the seven will be nominated by GSA and the seventh, at-large member will be selected by these six nominees. The Genetics Prize will be presented at a GSA Conference or an event honoring the recipient; every fifth year it will be presented at the International Congress of Genetics. GSA will continue its existing partnership with The Gruber Foundation to administer The Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, a career development award for women geneticists funded by the foundation. The Award, which honors the critical contributions of Rosalind Franklin, is intended to inspire and support new generations of women in the field of genetics. “Our community is thrilled to help The Gruber Foundation both recognize big achievements and foster new leaders in the field,” says GSA’s Executive Director Tracey DePellegrin. “The Gruber Foundation is delighted to expand its longstanding collaboration with GSA,” says Sarah Hreha, executive director of The Gruber Foundation, “We benefit from the scientific expertise GSA generously provides, and appreciate that their dedication to the field extends to helping us honor the best work being done in genetics internationally.” Subscribe to the Genes to Genomes weekly newsletter to stay up to date! Building the basement Imprinting impulsivity Awards & PrizesGruber PrizeRosalind Franklin Award	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line198
__label__cc	0.721387	0.278613	Geotripper News and views from the geologic realm The Stacks are Odded Against Us! Subduction's Gift in Southern Oregon and Northern California Sea stacks on Highway 1 near Elk, in Northern California Sea stacks are isolated rocky islands found along rugged coasts where wave erosion is intense. They form for a variety of reasons (from glaciers in places like Maine, for instance, or from lava flows in Hawaii). If the rocks vary in composition over short distances, some outcrops will be more resistant to erosion and may last longer against the onslaught of the breakers. This is the gift of subduction in areas like Oregon and Northern California. Rocks exposed along the coast tend to include a hodge-podge of ocean-related rocks, including graywacke sandstone, shale, basaltic ocean crust, limestone, chert, and the occasional seamount (seafloor volcano). Some are really tough, and others are easily eroded. Sea stacks at Point Orford in Oregon Subduction happens when a thick slab of oceanic crust and upper mantle (the lithosphere) sinks beneath another slab of lithosphere. The crustal material is drawn into the mantle where some of the rock may melt, producing volcanic activity at the surface above. In Oregon and Northern California the oceanic lithosphere is sinking beneath the edge of the North American continent along what is known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The volcanoes of the Cascades Range are the very visible evidence of this intense geologic activity. Subduction zones produce some of the worst of geologic disasters, including massive earthquakes and devastating tsunamis. But the deformation of the Earth's crust also causes the formation of mountains and rugged coast lines that make some of the world's most beautiful scenery. And that is where today's post originates. I had the privilege of spending a few days making my way south along Oregon 101 and Highway 1 in Northern California on my way home from Christmas visits, and we saw a stunning variety of shoreline features including the sea stacks that I am emphasizing today. Sea stacks near Brookings, Oregon, I think. Anyone recognize them? The Cascadia Subduction Zone has also collected bits and pieces of continents from elsewhere (called exotic terranes) and mashed them into the edge of the continent. The rocks of the Klamath Mountains in southern Oregon and Northern California originated in this fashion. These metamorphic rocks contribute to the extreme variety of rocks found along the coast. Restless seas in the morning at Fort Bragg in Northern California The weather was supremely perfect for viewing the scenery (if not an utter disaster in the making for water-planners; the ongoing drought is the worst ever). There are storms out there somewhere because the waves were quite large at times. At the mouth of the Navarro River just south of Mendocino in Northern California This isn't the first time I've used the dumb pun above; I put up a series of sea stack pictures last year when I made my first journey down the Oregon coast in many years. The thing is, these stacks are completely different. There is a lot of very spectacular scenery, and every trip along that route will be a different experience. Sea arch in a stack at Navarro Beach in Northern California near Mendocino. Navarro Beach was our last long stop. We actually had to get home at some point after two weeks on the road. It was a truly beautiful day. Happy New Year to all! Sea stacks at Navarro Beach on the Northern California coast. Posted by Garry Hayes at 7:26 PM Labels: Brookings Oregon, Elk, Fort Bragg, Navarro River, northern California, Oregon, Point Orford, sea stack Lockwood said... Nice! I love this stretch of coast. Don't recognize the stacks "near Brookings." 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__label__cc	0.701175	0.298825	Kimberly Cook Google Go Language Future, Programming Language Programmer Will Get Best Paid Jobs New Coder Tool Promises to Turbo-Charge Coding In Major Programming Language Why Many Companies Plan To Double Artificial Intelligence Projects In The Next Year Why 75% SMBs Are Not Worried About Artifical Intelligence Killing Their Jobs Interview Study Guide for Data Science To Get Job Quickly 50+ Data Structure, Algorithms & Programming Languages Interview Questions for Programmers 100+ Data Structure, Algorithms & Programming Language Interview Questions Answers for Programmers - Part 1 Data Science Communication Skills Domain Expertise Software Engineer Why Will Not Be Data Science Job Titles By 2029? By Kimberly Cook \|Email \| Feb 6, 2019 \| 5643 Views There will be no data science job listings in about 10 years, and here is why. There are no MBA jobs in 2019, just like there are no computer science jobs. MBAs, computer science degrees and data science degrees are degrees, not jobs. I believe the reason companies are hiring people into data science job titles is because they recognize there are emerging trends (cloud computing, big data, AI, machine learning), and they want to invest in them. There is evidence to suggest this is a temporary phenomenon, though, which is a normal part of the technology hype cycle. We just passed the Peak of Inflated Expectations with data science, and we are about to enter the Trough of Disillusionment. From where I stand, the end result will be that yes, data science as a degree and as a capability are here to stay, but the job title is not. The coming Trough of Disillusionment with data science job titles will be the following: Many data science teams have not delivered results that can be measured in ROI by executives. The excitement of AI and ML has temporary led people to ignore the basic question: What does a data scientist actually do? For complex data engineering tasks, you need five data engineers for every one data scientist. Automation is coming for many tasks data scientists perform, including machine learning. Every major cloud vendor has heavily invested in some type of AutoML initiative. A recent example of a similar phenomenon can be seen in system administrators. This used to be one of the hottest jobs in IT during the pre-cloud era, but in looking at Google Trends from 2004 until now, you can see how active directory, a key skill for systems administrators, has swapped positions with AWS. In a recent article by job site Dice, it mentions several tech jobs in danger of becoming extinct. One of the prominent jobs going extinct is Windows/Linux/Unix systems administrators. Those positions are being eliminated by the cloud, DevOps tools, and DevOps engineers. I believe something similar will happen to data science job titles. The role of data scientist will change into something else. Does this mean data science is a bad degree to get? I believe it will be a very important degree in the next 10 years, but it will not be a job title. Instead, there will be an evolution. The takeaway for data scientists is to look toward improving their skills in things that are not automatable: Applied domain expertise Creating revenue and business value Some future job titles that may take the place of data scientist include machine learning engineer, data engineer, AI wrangler, AI communicator, AI product manager and AI architect. The only thing that is certain is change, and there are changes coming to data science. One way to be on top of this trend is to not only invest in data science and machine learning skills but to also embrace soft skills. Another way is to think about tasks that can be easily automated -- feature engineering, exploratory data analysis, trivial modeling -- and work on tasks that are harder to automate, like producing a machine learning system that increases key business metrics and produces revenue. Companies that want to be ahead of the curve can embrace the pragmatism and automation of machine learning. Becoming early adopters of cloud or third-party software solutions that automate machine learning tasks is a clear strategic advantage in 2019. A most trending career in the world is Data Science Data science is basically the application of a combination of mathematical, statistical, analytical and programming skills for the collection, organization, and interpretation of data to allow effective and proper management of the business whose data it is. How to use Big Data round the world? Big Data is the term business insiders use to depict a transformational change in PC examination and business administration. Get introduced with Python Programming language Courses These courses are perfect for true beginners, learn Python basics and start coding right away. Some major challenges of Machine Learning in Big Data Analytics Machine Learning is a branch of computer science, a field of Artificial Intelligence. It is a data analysis method that further helps in automating the analytical model building.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line217
__label__wiki	0.884383	0.884383	Reggie Fullwood Urban Traveler [ January 16, 2020 ] How Ghana’s Historic Homecoming is Changing Africa Urban Traveler [ January 16, 2020 ] Black Owned Yacht -Owned Yacht Charter Business Launched By HBCU Alum Urban Traveler [ January 16, 2020 ] What McDonald’s Has Meant to Black Americans Editorials [ January 16, 2020 ] The Celebrity Primary: Danny Glover, Judge Judy, Mandy Moore and a Still-Crowded 2020 Field Political [ January 16, 2020 ] Poll: Almost Equal Number of African Americans Open to Voting for Biden, Sanders National HomeNewsPoliticalFive Myths about Black Voters Five Myths about Black Voters December 6, 2019 admin Political 0 Former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris take the stage before the start of the second night of the second U.S. 2020 presidential Democratic candidates debate in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., July 31, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) By Theodore R. Johnson Theodore R. Johnson is a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Dec. 6, 2019 at 12:02 p.m. EST For the past30 years, the Democratic presidential candidate who received the most primary support from black voters won the party’s nomination. All but one — John F. Kerry in 2004 — won the popular vote in the general election. But developments in the curren tDemocratic contest, including former vice president Joe Biden’s continued popularity among black voters and Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s departure, show that the black electorate remains widely misunderstood. Here are five myths about the voting bloc that may be especially relevant for the 2020 election. Myth No. 1 Black voters are liberal. One of the defining phenomena of contemporary American electoral politics is the black electorate’s large and enduring support for the Democratic Party, which has concurrently moved leftward: its presidential candidates have received an average of nearly 90 percent of the black vote for the past six decades. Many conclude that black voters’ liberal preferences, carried over from economic and racially progressive policies of the civil rights movement and Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns of 1984 and 1988, led this shift. MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid wrote that Jackson’s radical liberalism helped pave the way for Bernie Sanders’s rise. And the Black Lives Matter movement tried to push Hillary Clinton left, changing liberal politics in the process. As a result, senior politics writer David Catanese held in U.S. News & World Report, “the most liberal list of policy positions” would be Sanders’s “best gambit to win over African Americans. ” And Noah Millman made the case in the Week that Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s liberale conomic populism may be the key to winning black voters. But black voters’ support of Democratic candidates is a function of electoral pragmatism — voting in a risk-averse fashion to preserve gains, instead of ideologically in hopes of immediate transformative change — not devotion to left-wing ideology. In surveys, more than half of black Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents prefer a public option for health care over Medicare-for-all, and two-thirds of black Americans favor charter schools and choice programs, which run counter to party orthodoxy. Only 28 percent of black Democrats consider themselves liberal, according to the Pew Research Center, while 70 percent identify as moderate or conservative. And black liberal Democrats constitute just 17 percent of the left wing of the party, Gallup found. Black voters’ political diversity is more visible in local and state politics: A 2007 study of direct-democracy referendums in California found that black voters were split between the conservative and liberal positions, for example. And Republicans have succeeded in appealing to moderate and conservative black voters in state races, as Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan did in his 2018 reelection campaign, when he won more than a quarter of the bloc. Black candidates are what matters most to black voters. When black candidates run for office, observers assume that they can rely on group solidarity. The Los Angeles Times noted that Harris and Sen. Cory Booker were “banking on racial pride” to win black voters. When former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick entered the primary race last month, Bloomberg News reported, “As an African American, Patrick could diminish Biden’s strength with black voters.” It’s certainly true that black voters support black Democratic candidates at higher rates, often in terms of both turnout and vote share. But analysis of past elections and campaigns shows that black voters have never prioritized simple descriptive representation over other factors, like party affiliation, campaign viability, candidate electability, preexisting relationships with the black community and a sense of authenticity. Sen. Barack Obama had to prove his viability by winning white Democrats in Iowa before his black support materialized, a hurdle that many black candidates, from Shirley Chisholm and Al Sharpton to Booker and Harris, have not managed to clear. As several black voters recently told the New York Times: “Representation is not enough.” Trump can win black voters in significant numbers. While campaigning in Michigan in 2016, Donald Trump claimed, “At the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African American vote.” That assertion is clearly outlandish. But it has long been a Republican axiom that winning 1 in 5 black voters is the magic number for party dominance. Trump and the GOP point to low black unemployment and federal prison reform as winning messages. Yet Trump will be fortunate to get to half of that 20 percent threshold in 2020. The 8 percent of black voters he won in 2016 was certainly more than John McCain and Mitt Romney received in 2008 and 2012 while facing Obama’s historic candidacy. Still, between 1968 and 2004, Republican presidential nominees averaged nearly 12 percent of the black vote, and Trump under performed each one. Meanwhile, Gallup reports that just 10 percent of black Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, and more than 3 in 4 have an unfavorable view of him, according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll. The party’s relative silence after the president’s comments about black countries, majority-black cities like Baltimore, and black athletes and women appears set to play a larger role in black voters’ choices than specific policy proposals. Democrats lose elections because of black voters’ apathy. In 2016, a seven-point drop in black voter turnout was perceived to have cost Hillary Clinton the election. Political commentators often cite black voters’ “enthusiasm gap” as the primary reason for low turnout. After last month’s elections, an NBC headline claimed, “Democratic wins come with a warning sign: Low African American voter turnout,” suggesting that unless black voters are energized, Democrats cannot prevail. But the 7 million to 9 million voters who backed Trump after supporting Obama four years earlier played a larger role in Clinton’s loss than lower black turnout. And state voter-suppression measures — from ID laws to longer lines — had become more prevalent, targeting black Americans “with almost surgical precision,” according to a federal court. Subpar outreach and mobilization efforts, coupled with voter suppression, hurt Democrats more than a disinterested black electorate. Finally, higher black turnout does not equate to Democratic wins: Though it increased in 1984, 2000, and 2000 2004 Republican nominees won the White House. Black voters won’t vote for gay candidates. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s support among black voters has been dismal:at 2 percent nationally in the Economist/YouGov poll and at less than 1percent in South Carolina, where black voters are nearly two-thirds of the primary electorate. A much-publicized rationale for this lack of support, largely based on an internal campaign memo, is that black voters can’t get past the fact that Buttigiegis openly gay. Rep. James E. Clyburn remarked that “there’s no question”Buttigieg’s sexuality is a problem for older black voters. These sentiments are grounded in the social conservatism and strong religiosity often found in parts of black America, demonstrated most publicly during state referendums and law making on same-sex marriage between 2000 and 2015. For example, black parishioners in North Carolina helped pass a 2012 measure to define marriage as between a man and woman, and mobilized in Maryland against a 2012 statute legalizing same-sex marriage. But Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is black and gay, won thanks to black voters — despite the open acknowledgment that if she’d kissed her partner in a black church, she’d be asked to leave. Social conservatism does not have a large effect on black Americans’ voting behavior, according to research published in Social Science Quarterly. In fact, black voters view Buttigieg about as favorably as white and Hispanic voters do, and fewer black voters view him unfavorably, according to the Economist/YouGov poll. A range of issues impairs his ability to win black support (including lack of endorsements from prominent black officials); homophobia probably isn’t one of them. Nice Try, Richard Sherman, But Racist Comments Are Racist Comments In Sports 83 days Trailor Tweets by @JacksonvilleFP About JFP JFPress provides local, state and national news. 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__label__wiki	0.944494	0.944494	Location：首页 > 英语新闻 > 国际英语新闻国际英语新闻:Security Council calls on member states to fully comply with UN Charter: statement Source: Xinhuanet 2020-01-10 我要投稿论坛 Favorite UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council on Thursday adopted a presidential statement urging all member states to fully comply with the UN Charter while recognizing the critical importance of the Charter to the maintenance of international peace and security. "The Security Council calls on member states to fully comply with the Charter of the United Nations. In this regard, the Council calls on all member states to promote and uphold the Charter, including through raising public awareness of the Charter and the importance of compliance with the Charter in the maintenance of international peace and security," said the statement adopted at a ministerial-level open debate on the topic of "maintenance of international peace and security upholding the UN Charter." "The Council also stresses the need for enhanced inclusive dialogue in the interest of all member states to share different experiences, national best practices and lessons learned in implementing their obligations under the Charter," the statement said. The council stressed the importance of commitment to the Charter "on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations," adding that "the Council reaffirms its commitment to multilateralism and the central role of the United Nations." "The Security Council reaffirms its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security under the Charter of the United Nations, and in this context, underscores the need for all states and international and regional organizations and others to have respect for the Charter," according to the statement. "The Council encourages the United Nations Secretary-General to continue his efforts to assist member states and regional organizations in upholding the Charter," the statement noted. The council also underlined the importance of the role of regional and sub-regional organizations and arrangements and of cooperation with them and stressed its determination in upholding the UN Charter in all of its activities. 上一篇：国际英语新闻:Turkey, Russia inaugurate TurkStream pipeline 下一篇：国际英语新闻:Spotlight: Expert at CES 2020 sheds light on why China leads in e-commerce ・国际英语新闻:Iran releases report on crashed Ukrainian passenger plane ・国际英语新闻:Vote paves way for UK exit from EU in just three weeks ・国际英语新闻:U.S. House passes resolution to rein in Trump's war power against Iran ・国际英语新闻:"One unhinged regime is frantically clamoring to turn back time:" Iranian FM ・国际英语新闻:Spotlight: Expert at CES 2020 sheds light on why China leads in e-commerce	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line226
__label__cc	0.718171	0.281829	Kerry McPherson HOMEBLAHgABOUTSTORIES100 WordsPromptedLINKSCONTACT BLAHg "The Disappearing Lady" in "Coffin Bell" My attempts at getting 100 rejections was spoiled when my story was accepted in Coffin Bell. You can read it here. Bad Connection “I don’t think anyone will remember me when I’m gone," I said to the cute girl. She smiled. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure they’ll just look at my empty space and say, “Wasn’t there someone there a minute ago?” I laughed. I could tell she was into me. Even though I was old enough to be her father. She didn’t look at me as she laughed and continued wiping the counter. “People don’t connect the way they used to. You know, like this?” I said motioning to us. “The way we’re I held the absurdly large gun. It looked stupid in my hands. I pointed it at the counter. “It’s heavy,” I said. “Well, it’s a big gun.” He laughed at my simpleness. “And it’s so hard and cold,” I said, toying with him. “Sure is,” he said, standing taller and tugging at his dirty cap. He looked at it and said, “That piece will take care of you.” “We all need that these days,” I said, laying it gently onto the counter. He picked it up and said, “Ooh FOLLOW MY BLAHg Poor Investment Sticky Thoughts damn technology stupid phones losing donald play dumb coffee shop talk the coffin bell © Kerry McPherson and kerrymcpherson.com, 2017. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Kerry McPherson and kerrymcpherson.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line232
__label__cc	0.667071	0.332929	Stob na Fhàinne - 655m Beinn a' Choin - 770m Maol Breac a' Bhealaich - 599m Maol Mor - 694m Weather/Conditions: Beautiful weather. Just look at those pictures... what more? Distance/Ascent/Time: 11.5km / 950m / 4h 50m Accompanying: Alone It was the end of February, and I'd only been out once that month. So with the arrival of some beautiful high-pressure weather, I headed to the east bank of Loch Lomond for a trip into what is a stunning, and oddly wild and remote area. After an obscenely early start, I drove up via. Aberfoyle, with the moon out in the sky and complete stillness all around. The area really blew my mind from the outset. I felt very remote driving out there, into an area of Scotland I wasn't at all familiar with. And to see the moon across Loch Ard, framed by the mature pines was quite a way to start the trip. It only got better after that. I parked up by Loch Arklet as the first signs of morning brushed the south-eastern horizon. I had an odd moment here, a feeling intimidation, of setting off into a wild world, epitomised by the sight of wind-blasted cloud against a far mountain slope. Maybe it was the darkness that made me feel that way. But as soon as I was going, I was on a solid pace to the summits. I climbed the southern flank of Stob na Fhàinne in an exhausted lack-of-sleep grind. But the heights did eventually open out, piece by piece. There was the sun pillar, which rose into the sky before the sun had even pierced the horizon. There were the pink striations across the sky. But it was the Moon that stole centre show - a big orange lamp that descended through a pink band in the western sky, hanging over the snow-dappled Arrochar Alps. Silently it receded behind the arm of Beinn Ime to be swallowed by the land, as the sun brushed the mountain tops in the first light of a bright day. There was also a rawness to the air which existed in spite of the coming brilliant, sunny day. The mountains were bones this morning. Stob na Fhàinne arrived in time, and from there the way to Beinn a' Choin was clear. I passed among bogs and little cliffs, watching the day in amazement. From here the Munros looked so massive - cool to think I'd be on them soon. It wouldn't so long until I left for Mull. Beinn a' Choin is a big rambling mountain, where outcrops incrementally build on one another to finally gain the summit. It's really classic southern Highland roughness. If anything, I consider this region of Scotland as rough as anywhere on the Scottish mainland, I just wonder if sometimes it isn't seem that way to people because of it's accessibility. Contrary to that, I felt pretty "wild" out on my mountain today. It was a day where I fully absorbed the peace of the area. While only a few miles distant from the A82, I was somehow left feeling much further 'out-there' in mind. Once again, wilderness is a state of mind. Today it came about by pressing my face up against the phenomena this world offers - and I got so much back from it. Beyond Beinn a' Choin, I stopped by the rambling top of Maol Breac a' Bhealaich, then onto Maol Mor, which has a summit, then a trig point a little further on. At this point in my life (early 2013), I'd just really got into rock climbing, especially Dumbarton Rock. And so I spent the day looking for crags to climb that hadn't perhaps been touched yet. I saw a lot, and sewed the seeds for future trips to the area. By contrast, walking seemed "samey", too much of one thing. But that now seems unfair. It's amazing how the act of walking and crucially, perceiving your environment, gives so much back in memory. In a sense, being in a location at the time is a slightly dulled experience as you are so immersed your environment you do not notice it so much. But in memory, those places take on stronger colour and a distilled sense of what it was like to be there. And that is how I remember this day, as with all other beautiful days I've had on the hills. I descended Maol Mor, coming upon a cool cleft of rock that I must return to one day. The descent was otherwise uneventful and I arrived back at the car on a peaceful and sunny morning. The drive back was sheer bliss. I couldn't wait to come back to this region of Scotland, but I also knew a Munro Round awaited first. On the way home, I stopped by the Queen's View for a quick jaunt up the hill and was home soon after. Photos: Loch Ard Stob na Fhàinne Beinn a' Choin Maol Mor (0.00) 6.10am Layby, Loch Arklet (1.35) 7.45am Stob na Fhàinne (2.25) 8.35am Beinn a' Choin (3.30) 9.40am Maol Mor (4.50) 11.00am Layby, Loch Arklet Written: 2015-11-04!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line233
__label__cc	0.652044	0.347956	Posts Tagged ‘Buffalo Sabres.’ Dallas coach Lindy Ruff gets career win 600 against old club, Buffalo Written by Sabrina Bradley on 04 March 2014 Lindy Ruff (photo by Arnold C. Buchanan-Hermit via wikipedia commons) When Lindy Ruff was an NHL hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers, he gained a reputation as a player for his toughness, character and hard work on the ice as a left winger/defenseman. He brought that same mentality behind the bench as one of the top coaches in the league. Monday night, his Dallas Stars team defeated his former club, the Sabres, 3-2. The win earned the 54-year-old Ruff his 600th career win. Overall his record as a coach is 600-454-88 in 16 years. Ruff was the head coach at Buffalo for 15 years, from the 1997-98 season until the middle of the 2012-2013 season. On February 20, 2013, the Sabres announced that Ruff had been relieved of his coaching duties. That ended his tenure as the NHL’s longest active-serving coach with one team and he was second only to Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA as one of the longest-employed coaches in all of the four major sports in North America (NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB). Tags: Buffalo Sabres., Cavaliers, Dallas Stars., Gregg Popovich., Lindy Ruff., MLB, New York Rangers., NFL, NHL., North America., San Antonio Spurs. Posted in NHL \| Comments Off Improving Sabres looking to remove interim tag from Nolan’s job status Written by Dee Dee West on 26 February 2014 Ted Nolan (photo by Buchanan-Hermit, Aaron Y via wikipedia commons) The Buffalo Sabres got off to a rough start this season at 4-15-1, the worst in franchise history. NHL owners are impatient with a start like that and thus general manager Darcy Regier and head coach Ron Rolston were fired. Enter into the picture was interim coach Ted Nolan for his second stint with the team. The Sabres are still on the losing end of the stick with a record of 16-34-7 but have played better under Nolan at 12-19-6. Current general manager Tim Murray has said that the club is having discussions about lifting the interim tag from Nolan’s job status. Tags: Buffalo Sabres., Darcy Regier., NHL., Ron Rolston, Ted Nolan, Tim Murray Posted in NHL \| No Comments » Prospal set to become sixth Czech Republic native to play 1,000 NHL games Written by J.Y. Mortimer on 25 November 2011 Vinny Prospal of CBJ Oct 2011 (photo by Rdav1109 via wikipedia commons) Vinny Prospal has been a huge pickup for the Columbus Blue Jackets this year. He is filling in for Kristian Huselius who is out with an injury. Friday (Tonight) at Nationwide Arena, Prospal will achieve an NHL milestone. The left winger will play his 1,000th game when the Jackets host the Buffalo Sabres. He’ll become the sixth player from the Czech Republic to join that special club. The others include: Roman Hamrlik (1,331), Bobby Holik (1,314), Jaromir Jagr (1,292), Radek Dvorak (1,139) and Petr Svoboda (1,028). The 6’2, 198-pound Prospal is a 1993 71st-overall draft pick of the Philadelphia Flyers. He has played for the New York Rangers, Anaheim, Tampa Bay, Florida, Ottawa and the Flyers twice. Info compiled from NHL & Columbus Blue Jackets notes Tags: Anaheim., Bobby Holik., Buffalo Sabres., Columbus Blue Jackets., Czech Republic., Florida., Jaromir Jagr., Kristian Huselius., Nationwide Arena., New York Rangers., NHL., Ottawa., Petr Svoboda., Philadelphia Flyers., Radek Dvorak., Roman Hamrlik., Tampa Bay., Vinny Prospal. Posted in Blue Jackets \| No Comments » Blue Jackets lose 6-3 to Buffalo in prospect tournament Written by Dan Hock on 13 September 2011 (Courtesy of Columbus Blue Jackets) The Columbus Blue Jackets allowed three third-period goals to the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday and lost 6-3. The loss dropped the CBJ to 1-1 at the annual prospect tournament in Traverse City, Michigan. The Blue Jackets, beat Detroit on Saturday to open the tourney, were off on Monday and will play again on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. when they take on the Minnesota Wild. The Jackets received goals from Boone Jenner, Cam Atkinson and Cody Goloubef. David Savard garnered three assists and Ryan Johansen had two. But the disappointment came in the play of goaltender Mathieu Corbeil, who allowed six goals on 37 shots. compiled from Radio, TV & CBJ reports Tags: Blue Jackets, Boone Jenner., Buffalo Sabres., Cam Atkinson., CBJ., Cody Goloubef., Columbus Blue Jackets., David Savard., Detroit., Mathieu Corbeil., Minnesota Wild., Ryan Johansen., Traverse City Michigan. Buffalo gives Ruff well-deserved contract extension Written by Nancy Mason on 30 April 2011 Lindy Ruff (file photo) The Buffalo Sabres have rewarded head coach Lindy Ruff with a multi-year contract extension. The new pact keeps the franchise’s winningest coach on the bench for another run at a championship that has continually eluded the team on Lake Erie since its first season in 1970. The 6’2, 190 Ruff, is a former left winger/defenseman during his playing career from 1979-1993 for Buffalo and the New York Rangers. Ruff was drafted by Buffalo in 1979, 32nd overall. Ruff, a very-disciplined coach in dealing with his players, has been the head man with Buffalo since the 1997-98 season. In 1,066 games, he has a record of 526 wins, 390 losses, 78 ties, 72 overtime losses. In the post-season, his record is 57-44. compiled from Buffalo Sabres & NHL news Tags: Buffalo Sabres., Lake Erie., Lindy Ruff., New York Rangers. Posted in Various Sports \| No Comments » Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line258
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__label__cc	0.657769	0.342231	Naturalist at Large: Life in the Soil Comparing the rewards of small-scale farming to those recounted by Thoreau By Bernd Heinrich A privy makes for fertile ground. This essay will be included in an anthology, Dirt: A Love Story, to be released in autumn of 2015 by University Press of New England. www.dirtalovestory.com It was black. I remember, because at my age then—around eight years old and in early spring—it was the first time I had looked down to notice dirt. Our family was quartered in a one-room hut in a dark forest in northern Germany right after the war. Towering pines shaded the ground except for a small clear patch up on a bank in front of the cabin. Light snow had recently covered the ground, and now, after a warm spring rain, it had become black, and that made me notice something marvelous by our doorstep. Quite suddenly, maybe one day to the next, I saw a small patch of the dark dirt turning a luminous green, and it was larger the next day, and then expanded in ribbons over the black ground from day to day: I was mesmerized by a rosette of laterallyspreading grass blades that had made the dirt vibrant. This was, as far as I can remember, my earliest moment of wonder. Had grass been underfoot before, I would probably have hardly noticed it from seeing it all the time, nor would I have made a connection between grass and dirt. But the single patch that had expanded from one day to the next had transformed this dark patch of soil to what I might later have called Life. It was a moment of magic and mystery, maybe even of ecstasy, forever stamped into my memory. For the time being then, dirt was also something crumbly under the soles of my feet and between my toes. It was the sand on a mile or so of the wooded road between our hut and the village school. Shiny green beetles flushed in front of me, and after a brief zigzagging flight, where they glinted like jewels in the sun, they landed a few yards ahead. We called them “sand beetles,” and later tiger beetles. Although I couldn’t fly, I could run, and it felt good to be on par with such gorgeous company. Carabus granulatus Matthias Lenke Tiger beetles (of the family Cicindelidae) are related to carabids, which are commonly called “ground beetles.” Like me, ground beetles do not fly, but they all run. These earthbound running beetles soon became my passion, to have and to hold, through the influence of my father. I accompanied him when he dug pits in the ground for catching mice and shrews, but ground beetles fell in, too. He gave me a field guide to identify them, and I soon knew them by name: the giant black Carabus coriaceus, the dark-bluish C. intricatus, the shiny copper C. cancellatus, and its look-alike C. concolor, and the deep-green C. auratus. . . The merit of those intricately sculpted beetles was not simply that they were beautiful, but also that I could find them merely by scanning the dirt wherever I walked. Even more merrily, I could run and catch them. I thought of my old carabids with a start, with a nostalgic recognition, when recently— now in Maine, on a new continent—I dug out the pit for my privy. There, several feet down in the dirt, I unearthed a Carabus. Held in rapture by the chaotic substrate of unimaginable complexity, a substrate that looked like sheer randomness on my shovel, I suddenly found one of those creations of the dirt. It was metallic black, sculpted in lines and pits, and its edges glistened a deep purple. I did not know the name of this species, nor what precisely it was doing underground, but I captured it in a photograph. Perhaps its larva had burrowed in that spot and metamorphosed to become an adult, or maybe it had hibernated there in the winter, or was attempting to escape heat or drought. But in any case, it was ultimately from and of the dirt, just as the green, green grass had been. The beetle had likely fed on snails, and the snails on grass. It was of the soil, which I was preparing to receive my wastes. And this same receptive soil would also receive all of me, eventually, to convert all of me to grass, trees, flowers, and more. For the time being, though, an American chestnut tree I had planted years earlier, as well as nearby sugar maples, would grow well because of their proximity to the privy. I used the dirt from the pit excavation to make a raised garden bed, in which I planted potatoes. I just stuck several of them into this dirt, and presto, come fall—it seemed too good to be true—there were perfect and delicious Yukon Golds. My girlfriend, Lynn, saw the magic, and before I knew it, we had an even bigger bed of potatoes, beans climbing a pole, snap peas growing on chicken wire, and little green sprouts of kale and carrots. We had watched with eager participation as the emerging green dots in the dark dirt first turned into shoots, and we would harvest potatoes in August for eating in winter. With every meal there would be a memory of that plot and our shared task. There is more to be had from dirt than food. I think Thoreau knew this well and maybe said it better 172 years ago. Old Henry was “determined to know beans,” and having made himself a two-and-a-half-acre bean field, he tended and hoed it daily from “five o’clock in the morning till noon.” He came to “love” and “cherish” his beans and wrote: “They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.“ Working alone and with his hands, he became, as he said, “much more intimate with my beans than usual.” Along the way he concluded that “labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness.” And he told the reasons why. When tending his bean field, Thoreau was “attracted by the passage of wild pigeons,” he sometimes “watched a pair of hen-hawks circling high in the sky,” heard the brown thrasher sing, and with his hoe “turned up a sluggish portentous and outlandish spotted salamander.” His enterprise was “not that I wanted beans to eat,” nor was it likely for “leaving a pecuniary profit.” I’m in rapport with his romantic ideal, and his point that when he “paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible entertainment which the country offers”—as opposed, I suppose, to those summer days “which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston and Rome” as entertainment, instead. Perhaps this vibrant “idleness” is what Thoreau cherished most. Carabus auronitens Virginie FORT One would, however, want to get real when it comes to dirt and work. We do not generally hoe beans in order to hear the brown thrasher, or exhume a spotted salamander as a lofty end in itself. One wants to see the things impartially from all perspectives. However, true to that sentiment, Thoreau gave an exact economic enumeration of his work as well. He itemizes monetary costs and profits, in which overall bean-patch costs added up in his accounting to $14.72 and 1/2 cent, with a profit of $8.71 and 1/2 cent. To our ears now, old Henry pretty much worked that summer in his two-and-a-half-acre bean patch for nothing. The garden patch that Lynn and I worked this past summer allows for some comparisons. We were not seeing any passenger pigeons, but we were getting pleasures similar to what Henry got from his. Plus, we enjoy companionship, which old Henry did not appear to pursue. So for us it’s a win-win situation with the dirt, in more ways than two. But I also suspect this dirt will, before the start of winter, become a winning economic proposition as well. And so was Henry’s (if he’d excuse me for being familiar), despite what he may have implied, and we inferred. Our dirt patch is 1,600 square feet (0.037 acres), so his was about seventy times larger. He spent $3.12 on seed, and we spent $94.00. Thus, overall, in terms of our money, he paid about 30 times less overall, but on a per-acre basis, in dollar amount, he paid 2,100 times less. Take outside labor: his “ploughing/harrowing/ farrowing” cost him $7.50. (This amount irked him, because in Walden he added a comment—“Too much”—for emphasis next to it.) How much is his “Too much?” Lynn and I paid our neighbor, Mike Pratt, $150 to harrow our plot, which, as already mentioned, is 70 times smaller than Henry’s. But Henry did not pay 70 times more. Instead, he paid 20 times less overall, which comes to 1,400 times less per unit acre than we paid. Similarly, our total pecuniary costs were 1,960 times more than his, prorated per acre. My point: inflation since the time of Thoreau’s bean patch (of 172 years ago) has reduced the worth of a dollar about 2,000 times from what it used to be. Thus, Thoreau’s seemingly trivial profit of $8.71 and a half cent is actually a hefty $17,430, in terms of the dollar now. (And his seeming pettiness, accounting to the last half cent, is thus more like figuring to within ten dollars now.) Bean field Dave Berryman How many young people today could earn $17,000 in a summer by working forenoons in a bean field, and having the rest of the day off for “other affairs”? None! But it was not the amount of time Thoreau spent in his bean field, or the money he made, that he rhapsodized about. It was the ancillary “profit.” Now we are hard put to get a fraction of the pecuniary profit he earned, and even then it is usually at the cost of the main ancillary ones that a country life close to the dirt provides, and that we now all too commonly lack. Thoreau derided husbandry as he saw it then as pursued with “irreverent haste and heedlessness . . . [with] our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.” His conclusion that “I will not plant beans and corn with so much industry another summer” suggests he felt that even his “industry” was already too much. To turn now to the other Henry, a Maine writer a century later, near the arguable beginning of industrial agriculture, who marks the end of dirt with its ancillary gratuities and the beginning of accounting by and to the dollar its material worth only: In his book Northern Farm, Henry Beston reminds us, “[T]he shadow of any man is but for a time cast upon the grass of any field. What remains is the earth, the mother of life.” And he concludes: “When farming becomes purely utilitarian, something perishes . . . sometimes it is the human beings who practice this economy, and oftenest of all it is a destruction of both land and man.” As a fellow Mainer, and as a fellow human—united not by artificial or perceived boundaries but linked together by our universal bonds to the soil of Earth, the link that connects all of Life—I grow beans for more than utilitarian purposes. My farming may be token, but like the blades of grass that first sparked my interest in living things, the activity is a visceral and vital reminder of the grandeur in our very existence. --BH	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line275
__label__wiki	0.99048	0.99048	Last Updated: Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 13:45 GMT Pakistan sets new election date Supporters of Benazir Bhutto blame the government over her death Elections originally scheduled for 8 January in Pakistan will now take place on 18 February, polling officials say. The chief election commissioner said it would not be possible to hold the vote as scheduled following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. At least 47 people have been killed since Ms Bhutto's death last Thursday. The main opposition parties say they will take part, despite having demanded the election not be delayed. They have accused officials of seeking to rig it. The election is seen as a crucial move towards democratic rule under President Pervez Musharraf, an important ally in the US-led "war on terror" who stood down as army chief in November. He is expected to deliver a televised address within the next few hours. 'Not conducive' Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Farooq said violent protests had directly affected the organisation of the poll. I would like to reassure all the political parties that these elections in every respect will be clean and transparent Election Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Farooq Murder inquiry questions Successors' challenge Readers react to succession He told a news conference in Islamabad that, after consulting its staff around the country, the election commission had decided the situation was "not conducive" to holding the vote on time. Therefore, he said, he had decided it would take place after the holy month of Muharram, which begins next week. A number of polling offices had been burnt down, particularly in Ms Bhutto's home province of Sindh, with the loss of many election materials, Mr Farooq said. The riots had also delayed printing of ballot papers by four days and new lists of voters were required, he added. "I would like to reassure all the political parties that these elections in every respect will be clean and transparent and I request that their leaders should support the new election date in the interests of national interests and take part in the elections," he told reporters. Opposition parties said the delay was a desperate measure designed to avoid defeat for President Musharraf's ruling party. Elections were less than two weeks away when Bhutto was killed Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) called the reasons for postponing the vote "baseless excuses". "Whatever reasons they give are such lame-duck excuses, because the electoral papers and lists were burnt in the districts but they have those lists in the central office," party spokeswoman Farzana Raja told Reuters news agency. A spokesman for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also condemned the postponement but confirmed his party would take part in the election. The BBC's Chris Morris in Islamabad says the PPP wanted elections as soon as possible, in order to take advantage of what could be a big sympathy vote. The ruling PML-Q party had said the 8 January vote should be delayed for several weeks, on the grounds that the vote would "lose credibility" if held under current conditions. The authorities have accused pro-Taleban militant leader Baitullah Mehsud of being behind Benazir Bhutto's killing. On Wednesday, the military said troops had killed about 25 militants in the tribal region of South Waziristan where Baitullah Mehsud is based. Fighting began on Tuesday after four troops were taken hostage by the militants, the authorities say. There is no independent confirmation of the military's account. VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS The announcement on the poll delay is made THE DEATH OF BENAZIR BHUTTO UN report says murder was 'avoidable' Pakistan early poll 'impossible' Bhutto's son named as successor ANALYSIS & REACTION Key questions on murder Q&A: Bhutto assassination Successors' tough challenge Profile: Asif Ali Zardari Profile: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari TROUBLED LIFE The life of Benazir Bhutto, scion of a political dynasty Obituary: Benazir Bhutto 'Curse' of the Bhuttos In pictures: Final journey Election: Your comments Pakistani government Pakistan People's Party PML-N TOP SOUTH ASIA STORIES Nato's Afghan death toll mounts Dalit murders death penalty dropped Sri Lanka cabinet meets in north MOST POPULAR STORIES NOW Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in Kashmir Most popular now, in detail FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS Has China's housing bubble burst? The guerilla plant How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit Most Popular Now Most Popular Now \| 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now.";	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line277
__label__cc	0.670996	0.329004	SEE PAGES ABOUT MYSTERY CLUB About The Characters ABOUT THE STORY... Amy Abnobotchi is known to be the only living human in a world full of animals that have evolved to a human level of intelligence (or, at least some of them have). She lives in a tree house with a renegade scientist named Professor Loco who is her polar-opposite in every way imaginable. They have formed their own club called the Mystery Club for no real reason in particular, but when they go to a festival called the Club Festival strange goings on seem to be afoot. Not long after that, an unusual number of life threatening events seem to be taking place one after another, and finally their club has something worth while to do. In this world sanity just doesn’t seem to exist, and it’s even difficult to tell if someone is exactly who, or even what, they say they are! Meaning, their true enemies could be closer to them than they think.. with this said... welcome to the mystery club..... Read Latest News & Reviews Now Available as Digital PDF Volumes Available Mystery Club Vol - 1 Meet Miss Rock Dark Poison The Party Plan Mini Comics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line284
__label__wiki	0.602453	0.602453	enjoying audiobooks and ebooks purchased Computer, Android, or iOS device to read books [Download] ✤ Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) Author Arthur C. Clarke – Mgiworx.co.uk At First, Only A Few Things Are Known About The Celestial Object That Astronomers Dub Rama It Is Huge, Weighing Than Ten Trillion Tons And It Is Hurtling Through The Solar System At An Inconceivable Speed Then A Space Probe Confirms The Unthinkable Rama Is No Natural Object It Is, Incredibly, An Interstellar Spacecraft Space Explorers And Planet Bound Scientists Alike Prepare For Mankind S First Encounter With Alien Intelligence It Will Kindle Their Wildest Dreams And Fan Their Darkest Fears For No One Knows Who The Ramans Are Or Why They Have Come And Now The Moment Of Rendezvous Awaits Just Behind A Raman Airlock Door. [Download] ➼ The End (The 30-Day Collective Book 1) ➾ Ellen A. 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Clarke Arthur C Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956 He is best known for the novel and movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, which he co created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Clarke was a graduate of King s Co Arthur C Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956 He is best known for the novel and movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, which he co created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Clarke was a graduate of King s College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Author of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 1974 and 1979, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 1974 and 1980, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America He was awarded the CBE in 1989 10 thoughts on “Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) ” Patrick Patrick says: It s odd to think that this book was published 40 years ago I don t know why that strikes me as strange, but it does It s tempting for me to call this book Traditional Science Fiction Or Classic Science Fiction or something along those lines But what I really mean to say is that this is a story where the science is one of the central aspects of the story The basic premise of the story Lyn Lyn says: Mysterious and engaging, classic science fiction.I first read this back in high school, we ll just say a LONG time ago Since then the concepts, ideas and themes surrounding this archetypal work of science fiction have been a huge influence on works in this genre Clarke first published this Hugo and Nebula award winner in 1972 The first works that I think of that was influenced by RWR is John V Cassy Cassy says: Ladies, have you ever heard the advice that theyou cover up, the sexier you are Forgo the plunging neckline for the small keyhole Let the boys use their imagination Hint, but don t show Clarke evidently had He dressed this book in a turtleneck, elbow length gloves, trousers, work boots, and one of those hats with ear flaps There is barely any flesh showing What does show is intriguing a mysterious spac Dan Schwent Dan Schwent says: An enormous alien structure enters our solar system and a team is dispatched to explore it before it drifts away and is lost forever What will humanity discover after its Rendezvous with Rama Years ago, I decided I needed to readhard science fiction Then I read Ringworld and was so uninterested that I quit my hard sf quest before it began Months ago, a copy of Rendezvous with Rama fell into my clutches I decide Evgeny Evgeny says: We, the humanity, see quite a lot of comets and meteors flying around So in the future fairly distant nobody cared much about yet another such visitor until astronomers realized it had an ideal cylindrical form At this point it did not take a genius to realize its artificial origin Luckily there was a spaceship nearby to catch up with the guest named Rama before it disappears into depths of space This is the story about Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C ClarkeRendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C Clarke first published in 1973 Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50 kilometre 31 mi cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship i... Apatt Apatt says: Rendezvous With Rama starts off where lesser books would climax To begin with parts of Italy are wiped out by an asteroid leading to the creation of the Spaceguard system for detecting future asteroids well in advance of collision so that preventative measures can be taken Along comes another huge object initially mistaken for another asteroid but as it draws nearer turns out to be a ginormous spaceship with no apparent mean of propulsio Scurra Scurra says: For heaven s sake, don t expect great writing from this book For all his talent, Clarke wasn t a wordsmith heck, even Asimov could write better Instead, simply glory in one of the cleverest conceits you will ever read an encounter with an alien civilisation in which the aliens are absent and there is no convenient universal translator to explain things Slowly you can begin to piece things together, keeping maybe one step ahead of the astronauts, mark monday mark monday says: i like world building in science fiction and fantasy in these modern times, extensive world building is commonly derided it is often seen as a lazy way to create a world, telling not showing, an author so in love with something they ve built that they just want to describe instead of allowing the reader to slowly experience i understand that point of view world building can often be seen as a glorified, masturbatory info dump but for some reason, it just Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ Mary ~Ravager of Tomes~ says: This book was SO BORING Wow I did not care about any of these characters, they were only slightly different demeanor wise, which I guess could be believable among astronauts, but it made for a really lacking characterization element.Even during parts of the plot where danger was ensuing I felt no sense of danger I had no feelings of hoping that the character in danger survived In this novel women hardly served a further purpose than to be a distraction for or slee	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line285
__label__cc	0.717778	0.282222	Working together to keep local households safe - PA 2-1-1 Southwest, powered by United Way Working together to keep local households safe by Daynell Marbury \| Feb 6, 2019 \| PA 2-1-1 Southwest Blog \| 0 comments Keeping the heat on to a safe degree; having light and electricity; using the stove to cook a warm meal. Families often take these basic needs and access to critical utilities for granted. But for many in our community, when a crisis occurs, these everyday household utilities could be at jeopardy. That’s where Dollar Energy Fund comes in. “We work directly with utility companies to link low-income households to resources and make sure they are maintaining safe and adequate utilities,” said Chad Quinn, CEO, Dollar Energy Fund. “It’s our goal to improve the quality of life for households experiencing hardships by helping with utility assistance when needed and other services that lead to self-sufficiency.” Oftentimes people are referred to Dollar Energy Fund through their utility agency if they are at-risk of missing a payment or behind on a payment. The organization also reaches many people through referrals from PA 2-1-1 Southwest. Just last year, the two organizations expanded their relationship and impact when PA 2-1-1 Southwest co-located its call center with Dollar Energy Fund, allowing their partnership to become more seamless. “Sharing a space with 2-1-1 has provided a much warmer transfer for our callers,” Quinn explained. “We’re now able to make that immediate connection. If someone calls 2-1-1 for utilities assistance, we’re right there, or if someone reaches out to us for help with something we’re not able to provide, we can send them to 2-1-1 for additional assistance.” From 2017-2018, Dollar Energy Fund provided 7,889 grants to people across the region totaling $2.8 million. In the last year, 1,934 people have been referred to Dollar Energy Fund through 2-1-1. “Our partnership with 2-1-1 is so important. Typically, when people need help with their utilities, there’s usually something else going on in the household,” Quinn said. “We can help address the utility need, but 2-1-1 is there to help look at the situation holistically.” For more information about Dollar Energy Fund, visit https://www.dollarenergy.org/. http://pa211sw.org/working-together-to-keep-local-households-safe/ Sponsored by The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania http://pa211sw.org/working-together-to-keep-local-households-safe/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line294
__label__wiki	0.708985	0.708985	Johnson living his Premiership dream as Holt and Morison continue to state their case for that lone striker gig 31st October 2011 By Rick Waghorn Leave a Comment “Holty could have easily dropped his head because he hasn’t been playing, but that’s the attitude of the team – we all want to do well for each other. And we can’t play both of them [Morison and Holt] because we’re playing one, lone striker. So it’s either Steve or Holty and they both scored today, so they’re just fighting for that shirt at the moment… Filed Under: Latest news Kean left to bemoan the hand of cruel Miss Fortune as Lambert sees Lady Luck evening herself out 30th October 2011 By Rick Waghorn 2 Comments “I’ve looked at it from six or seven angles and we feel Steven was fouled and what he’s doing is appealing for a free-kick,” the Rovers chief bemoaned afterwards. “Then the ball hit his arm. There was obviously no intent.” Morison with a ‘wonder goal’ and Holt with a nerveless last second penalty; City have the pair to thank for a big, big point 29th October 2011 By Rick Waghorn Leave a Comment “It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve played or how many years you have been playing football,” said Lambert. “But as soon as you see the whites of the goalkeeper’s eyes in that last second, it doesn’t matter who you are – the nerves play a huge part. And the penalty is right in the side-netting. And any other place, I think that goalkeeper would have saved it.” Morison with a 'wonder goal' and Holt with a nerveless last second penalty; City have the pair to thank for a big, big point Filed Under: none Fox delighting in his new-found role; the one to pull the strings of City wide-men Benno and Pilks “If you’ve got wide players like that [Pilkington and Bennett] then you’ve got to try and get the ball out to them as much as you can. And that’s sort of my job in the middle – to try and get it out to Benno and Pilks as much as possible just to let them have free rein to do what they want really.” Filed Under: Latest news, Uncategorized Lambert offers a stark warning over expecting a simple three points tomorrow as the City chief ponders the great Morison or Holt debate “The players know that they have to be bang at it every single game – or else we will get turned over,” said Lambert. “But they know that and, hopefully, they will keep the performance level up. And if we do that then maybe we’ve got a chance.” Rovers boss Kean feeling the heat at foot of the table as Ewood Park reject Pilkington flies under Lambert’s inspiring rule “I don’t think the time is right for me to talk about myself, a contract or staying at the club longer or anything like that. It’s a time that I should be focused on getting results,” added Kean, talking the talk of a manager under pressure… Rovers boss Kean feeling the heat at foot of the table as Ewood Park reject Pilkington flies under Lambert's inspiring rule Time to stop pinching yourself and just enjoy living the dream. Times rarely get as good as these… But the point is that the City boss now has a transfer model that works; he knows which players thrive on centre stage – given the right opportunity to prove their teenage detractors wrong. And, more importantly still, he knows which wage model works and which doesn’t. Sunderland’s, for example. Filed Under: Column, Rick Waghorn City put in a braveheart performance when they need it most, as talisman Holt returns to secure a huge Anfield point 22nd October 2011 By Tom Haylett Leave a Comment “Those players in the dressing room have been colossal,” boss Paul Lambert said afterwards. “We’ve got to remember what we’re up against here but we’re thriving on it; we’re enjoying it and I’m proud of them.” Lambert all set to lock horns with his footballing hero Dalglish as City head north with spirits soaring ever higher 22nd October 2011 By Rick Waghorn Leave a Comment “We’re playing a high level of football at the minute and at this minute in time, we’re a match for most of the teams in this league, but we have to sustain that. There’s only a handful of games gone – we have to sustain the standard that we have set ourselves and, hopefully, the lads will do it.” Brand is all-too often seen as a dirty, five-letter word. Unless that word is Delia. But it’s key to City’s future prosperity. 18th October 2011 By Rick Waghorn 1 Comment The impression, in short, was that City have gone from Halvergate to Hull to Hanoi in the space of 15 years and the three men at the helm. Bowkett, he revealed, was off to China this month where he has long done business; he appeared to have an easy familiarity with the ways of the Premier League board; he ‘fitted’ with their likely vision of a supportive and engaged club chairman. Pilkington relishing life in the fast lane and more than happy to banish those Old Trafford blues in an instant “All I’ve done is look to get a good connection and put the ball in the net and after the previous week when I’ve missed a few chances, I couldn’t have asked for a better start to the game than this week. But everyone is misses chances – everyone is human. It’s how you bounce back from that and I’m grateful that after 48 seconds I had the chance to put it right. I wasn’t going to miss that one today.” Lambert salutes a huge shift from Morison as Pilkington’s double-strike cements City’s place in the top-half of the table “I thought that was as good a No9 play as I’ve seen in a long time,” said Lambert, with Morison delivering the perfect knock-back for Pilkington’s 48th second opener. “Grant Holt has played some really big games for us, but I thought he [Morison] was excellent… Lambert salutes a huge shift from Morison as Pilkington's double-strike cements City's place in the top-half of the table Canaries cited by the banks as ‘an examplar’ of the way football clubs can work with their lenders as City reveal their 2010-11 accounts “We’ve had some difficult times,” said Bowkett, in a rare media appearance. “But, I have to say, our lenders were extremely supportive of us. And now they’re using us as an exemplar of the way that they can work with football clubs rather than pulling the plug. We’re now at the situation where we are just a customer again.” Canaries cited by the banks as 'an examplar' of the way football clubs can work with their lenders as City reveal their 2010-11 accounts Johnson delighting in his new role on centre stage as he runs and runs… and runs in the Canary cause. “It was a hard pre-season, but I feel fit and strong and I’m proving that in my performances,” he said. “I can run all day, but it’s not all about running. You’ve got to be able to play as well and, like I said, I’ve got good players around me this year and, hopefully, it’s all paying off in the performances.” Question: What have Gary Barlow, the late Steve Jobs and our glorious Canaries got in common? From the ashes they all rose… 13th October 2011 By Kevin Baldwin 4 Comments Now where was I? Oh yes, Fernando Torres. I mentioned in last month’s column that I was fascinated by his complete loss of form, though I ran out of space in which to explain why and explore further. The reason is that I find myself identifying with his situation, albeit at a much lower and […] Filed Under: Column, Kevin Baldwin Speed could yet test Lambert’s patience as Wales’ footballing adventures offers a mid-season trip to Costa Rica for Morison and Crofts “He is a match-winner, but that said you have to give your match winners a platform to win games for you, and everyone else gave him a platform and he puts the hard work in too…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line300
__label__cc	0.708278	0.291722	NavigationHomeAbout UsPresident's MessageOur HistoryMembershipJoin Rotary Now!Meeting MakeUp OnlineServiceEventsLeadershipBoard of DirectorsCommittee ChairsContact Us Join Rotary Now! Meeting MakeUp Online Come to a Meeting Thank you Stater Brothers for supporting our 2018 Literacy Program! We meet every Tuesday at 12:00pm in the clubhouse at Desert Falls Country Club at 1111 Desert Falls Pkwy, Palm Desert, CA Click here to learn about District 5330 Click here to learn about Rotary International The Palm Desert Rotary Club, in partnership with Stater Brothers Charities, increased its Literacy Program in the East Valley in 2018. Neil Roth, Literacy Chairman, said, “Thanks to a grant of $5000.00 from Stater Brothers Charities, the Dictionary program for third graders was expanded and a new Thesaurus program for fifth graders was initiated. The Read Across America program was expanded to include more books made available to the individual classrooms and to the Library at Lincoln Elementary School.” “Stater Brothers Charities allowed us to expand our schools and the number of students we were able to reach,” he continued. A group of Palm Desert Rotary volunteers spent hours placing Stater Brothers labels in over 2,000 dictionaries, thesaurus and donated library books as the Club spent seven months working with eight schools in the East Valley. 3,000 students from Lincoln, Carter, Ford, Reagan, Washington, Mecca, Saul Martinez and Sacred Heart elementary schools were recipients of the Stater Brothers Charities sponsored Literacy Program. Roth said, “The 2018 Literacy Program was the largest in the Club’s history and has set the stage for increasing all literacy programs in 2019. As of May, 2018, the Literacy programs have given $6,500.00 to dictionary give-away, thesaurus give-away, Read Across America and the Teacher Grant program.” Join Now!"...Service Above Self..." Palm Desert Rotarians are volunteers who engage in acts of unselfish service for people in need. Learn more about who we are, what we do and how we do it in these pages, then consider visiting us for lunch every Tuesday at 12:00pm in the clubhouse at Desert Falls CC at 1111 Desert Falls Pkwy, Palm Desert, CA Map Why join Rotary? Maybe you’ve seen a need in your own community and wondered how you could help. Maybe you want to use your professional skills to help others — or even learn new skills. Maybe you’re seeking connections with other service-minded professionals in your community or abroad. Whatever your reason, joining Rotary can help you achieve these goals, and so much more. Here's what one Rotarian says: “Rotary creates the perfect venue for me to give back to the community I live in while enjoying the camaraderie of positive and active individuals.” —Tom Brand, Rotary Club of Kenosha West, Wisconsin, USA Interested In MembershipEventsSpeakers Copyright © 2012-2015 Palm Desert Rotary	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line303
__label__cc	0.574292	0.425708	Announcing the Tom Woods Book Giveaway Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:16 pm As regular readers know, I’ve become quite a fan of libertarian Tom Woods. He has a daily podcast which I listen to religiously, and he has published several books, many of which I have read, and more of which are on the “To Read” pile. He is the guy behind Liberty Classroom, and has prepared video/audio home school classes for high school students that can be appreciated by adults, about government and Western Civilization. I have purchased these courses and listened to more than 20 lessons in each course, and have learned a lot from each. I don’t agree with Woods about everything, but I agree with him on an awful lot. He’s a great and entertaining writer and communicator, and his books are jam-packed with useful information. Woods has a new book out: Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion . So far it looks like it’s great — and it’s only four bucks on the Kindle. So: I have decided to reward people who have helped me out by sending them a free copy of the Kindle version of this book. True, it’s only $4, but that bargain-basement price allows me to share the book with a lot of people. It’s a real book — the print version runs 347 pages, and it covers a wide range of interesting libertarian topics. Is there a catch? Well, sure, lots of ’em! First of all, if I send it to you, I’d like you to make a real effort to read it. It’s a collection of shorter pieces, so feel free to browse the table of contents and start with whatever seems the most interesting. Second, I’m going to limit the giveaway to the first 25 people who ask. (I may expand it to 50, but I have no plans to give away more than 50. I don’t have time for that.) Third, I am going to give priority to people who have helped me out — including subscribers, people who have made donations, and people who have signed up for Woods’s Liberty Classroom (I get an always-disclosed kickback from that). (Subscribers and people who have donated to me get the book, period, whether you’re the first person asking, the 26th, the 51st, or the 100th. Just tell me.) That’s pretty much it. Tell me you’re going to read it, be someone who has helped me out (or who will), and I’ll send you the book. Here’s what you have to do: email me at patterico AT gmail DOT com. Put “Tom Woods book” in the subject line. In the email, provide with with an email address that you have a Kindle or a Kindle app registered to. (You don’t need a Kindle to use a Kindle app.) Typically, that will be the email address that you use to access your Amazon account. When you send me the request, make sure to tell me that the email address you are providing is the one you have a Kindle app registered to. If you don’t tell me that, I am going to reply and ask you, because I’m not spending $4 without knowing for sure that it’s going to work. If you want to tell me in the email how you’ve helped me out, it couldn’t hurt your chances — depending on the volume of requests I get. I start a trial pretty soon, so give me a month, although my goal is to try to turn around requests as soon as I get them. This book really looks great, folks. There’s a lot of stuff on the free market and the Fed and libertarian ideas in general. And Woods (like yours truly) has had an Internet fight with Mark Levin and lived to tell the tale — and his responses to Levin are part of the book. Anyone with an interest in libertarian ideas at any level will no doubt find something to enjoy. Even if you’re not a libertarian — in fact, especially if you’re not a libertarian — give it a try. Let the giveaway begin! Did The CDC Clear Second Health Care Worker With Ebola To Board Plane? Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:31 pm [guest post by Dana] UPDATE: The CDC has confirmed that the second healthcare worker did indeed call the CDC several times before flying, informing them of her fever. NOTE: At the link, CBS news tries to provide some cover: Officials in the U.S. have been trying to calm fears over the Ebola crisis, but time and again events have overtaken their assurances. The second healthcare worker with Ebola is Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas. She flew across country on a commercial jet with 132 passengers on Oct. 13, with a low-grade fever. Just one day later she was symptomatic and went to the hospital. Dr. Thomas Frieden of the CDC was adamant that she should never have boarded: “She should not have been on that plane,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said Wednesday after the nurse was confirmed to have Ebola. Because Vinson, a 29-year-old nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, helped care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, Frieden said. And because another health worker who cared for Duncan had already been diagnosed with the virus. “The CDC guidance in this setting outlines the need for what is called controlled movement. That can include a charter plane, a car, but it does not include public transport,” Frieden said. “We will from this moment forward ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel in any way other than controlled movement.” However, there is a report that Vinson inquired about the safety of boarding the plan beforehand. And who did she ask? The CDC: CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. John LaPook reports that Vinson called the CDC several times before boarding the plane concerned about her fever. “This nurse, Nurse Vinson, did in fact call the CDC several times before taking that flight and said she has a temperature, a fever of 99.5, and the person at the CDC looked at a chart and because her temperature wasn’t 100.4 or higher she didn’t officially fall into the category of high risk.” If this is accurate, then the CDC is far less in control of this crisis than we were originally led to believe and everything becomes suspect. And further, this certainly calls into question the CDC “guidance” that Dr. Frieden referred to. Second Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola in Dallas Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:29 am The Texas Department of State Health Services has announced in a press release that a second health care worker has tested positive for Ebola in Dallas: A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has tested positive for the disease. The health care worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the hospital. Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored. The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus. The worker was among those who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was diagnosed with Ebola. The preliminary Ebola test was run late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and results were received at about midnight. As I told you last night, the Los Angeles Times has reported that the hospital was unprepared to deal with this, and essentially had no protocol. Nurses say: “There was no advanced preparedness on what to do with the patient. There was no protocol; there was no system.” This is in marked contrast to what Obama had promised on September 16, when he said: “We’re working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely.” Citizen, have no fear. 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__label__wiki	0.770954	0.770954	If You Want Obamavilles, Repeat What Hoover Did “The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover.” - Rexford Tugwell, economic adviser to and member of FDR's Brain Trust, 1946 Fact: Hoover expanded civil service coverage of Federal positions. Fact: Hoover canceled private oil leases on government lands. Fact: Hoover instructed the Justice Department and the IRS to pursue gangsters for tax evasion. Fact: Hoover set aside 3 million acres of national parks and 2.3 million acres (9,000 km²) of national forests. Fact: Hoover advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans. Fact: Hoover closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy. Fact: Hoover doubled the number of veterans' hospital facilities. Fact: Hoover wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender. Fact: Hoover created an antitrust division in the Justice Department. Fact: Hoover required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service. Fact: Hoover proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances (not enacted). Fact: Hoover organised the Federal Bureau of Prisons Fact: Hoover reorganised the Bureau of Indian Affairs Fact: Hoover instituted prison reform Fact: Hoover proposed a federal Department of Education (not enacted) Fact: Hoover advocated $50 per month pensions for Americans over 65 (not enacted) Fact: Hoover chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership Fact: Hoover began construction of the Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam) Fact: Hoover signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labour disputes. Fact: Hoover raised the tax rate on the "evil rich" from 25% to 63% while arguing for decreases in rates for the lower incomes. See the Revenue Act of 1932 and his speeches on progressive taxation. Fact: Hoover increased federal spending by 52 per cent from 1929 to 1933. Adjust to reflect deflation, and the Hoover figure is a disconcerting 88 per cent. Fact: Hoover massively increased infrastructure programmes. Fact:. Hoover recognised measures such as Federal and state and local public works, work-sharing, maintaining wage rates ("a large majority has maintained wages at high levels" as before), curtailment of immigration, and the National Credit Corporation and urged more drastic action. Fact: Hoover established a Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which would use Treasury funds to lend to banks, industries, agricultural credit agencies, and local governments. Fact: Hoover broadened the eligibility requirement for discounting at the Fed. Fact: Hoover created a Home Loan Bank discount system to revive construction and employment measures, which had been warmly endorsed by a National Housing Conference recently convened by Hoover for that purpose. Fact: Hoover expanded government aid to Federal Land Banks. Fact: Hoover set up a Public Works Administration to coordinate and expand Federal public works. Fact: Hoover issued an order restricting immigration to increase employment for citizens. Fact: Hoover made it a priority to weaken the "destructive competition" (i.e., competition) in natural resource use. Fact: Hoover granted direct loans of $300 million to States for relief. Fact: Hoover worked to reform the bankruptcy laws (i.e., weaken protection for the creditor). Fact: Hoover also displayed anxiety to "protect railroads from unregulated competition," and to bolster the bankrupt railroad lines. Fact: In addition, Hoover called for sharing-the-work programmes to save several millions from unemployment. Fact: In 1931, Hoover instituted a massive increase in government spending that included direct relief programmes and public works projects in order to provide jobs and security for the growing population of unemployed workers. Fact: Hoover supported the initiation of a national sales tax, a measure that failed in Congress. Fact: Hoover encouraged Congress to pass a farm act (the Agricultural Marketing Act), which would help farmers to increase efficiency in selling their goods and grant them loans. Fact: To give farmers some added protection from foreign competition, Hoover also supported raising the agricultural tariffs, though his poor political acumen was not able to convince Congress of his plan, and his tariff ideas failed in Congress. Fact: Hoover granted further rights to Native Americans, preserving national forests, and developing massive construction projects. Let's recall the words of Josh Marshall, a PROGRESSIVE and contributor at the PROGRESSIVE Talking Points Memo: "Hoover was part of the 1912 Progressive party and he was in key respects a Republican Progressive in the early 20th century meaning of the term -- which is to say he was a technocrat who believed in scientific management and things like that. It is also true that as the Depression deepened Hoover did take steps in the direction of government intervention in the economy...The straw-man version of Hoover's presidency, in which he sat back and did nothing for four years, waiting on the market to correct itself is a caricature." Hoover In His Own Words “We might have done nothing. That would have been utter ruin. Instead we met the situation with proposals to private business and to Congress of the most gigantic program of economic defense and counterattack ever evolved in the history of the Republic. We put it into action...” - Herbert Hoover, 11 August 1932 “No government in Washington has hitherto considered that it held so broad a responsibility for leadership in such times. . . . For the first time in the history of depression, dividends, profits, and the cost of living, have been reduced before wages have suffered.” “Some of the reactionary economists urged that we should allow the liquidation to take its course until we had found bottom... We determined that we would not follow the advice of the bitter-end liquidationists and see the whole body of debtors of the United States brought to bankruptcy and the savings of our people brought to destruction.” - Herbert Hoover, 4 October 1932 “They were maintained until the cost of living had decreased and the profits had practically vanished. They are now the highest real wages in the world.” -Herbert Hoover, 5 November 1932 "Creating new jobs and giving to the whole system a new breath of life; nothing has ever been devised in our history which has done more for . . . 'the common run of men and women.’” - Herbert Hoover 22 October 1932	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line314
__label__cc	0.546297	0.453703	You are here: Home / Countries / Germany The BMW Summer School 2018 was jointly set up in cooperation with the Franco-German University (UFA)... DHL Express strengthens unmatched intercontinental network with order of 14 new Boeing 777 Freighters “The acquisition of the 14 Boeing airplanes reflects a gradual replacement of our older intercontine... BMW Group CEO Harald Krüger voted most popular manager 2018 Glassdoor bases its ranking on evaluations by current and former employees, who post their feedback ... DHL and Accenture unlock the power of blockchain in logistics “The experiments with blockchain in finance are well known, but we believe logistics is an area wher... The BMW Summer School 2018 was jointly set up in cooperation with the Franco-German University (UFA), EURECOM, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and BayFrance under the umbrella of the German French Academy for the Industry of the Future by TUM and the IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom). 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This method is designed to generate the most objective evaluations possible and give potential job applicants a clearer picture of the company of interest. On winning the award, Harald Krüger spoke to Glassdoor about leadership, careers and his advice to those starting out in the career world: Mr. Krüger, what qualities do you think a good manager should have? Krüger: Good leadership is not j... Read More » “The experiments with blockchain in finance are well known, but we believe logistics is an area where the new technology will have a truly profound impact,” insists Matthias Heutger, Senior Vice President DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation. “Implementing productive solutions however, will require further technological development and, critically, collaboration between all stakeholders.” Blockchain is a new type of database system that maintains, records and authenticates data and transactions. In supply chains, products are assigned uniqu... 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By establishing a joint site for DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight, synergies between the different transport modes - land, air and ocean – are to be exploited even more effectively. “DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Freight are combining the individual strengths of their two networks at the new site in Fischamend,... Read More » Innovative sensor jacket trains industrial robots – Transparent Factory establishes partnership with Dresden-based start-up Wandelbots The plan: to efficiently train industrial robots using an innovative sensor jacket fitted with sensors and actuators. The activities in Dresden will cover the assembly, logistics and maintenance of Volkswagen’s electric Golf production. This young start-up, spun off from the TU Dresden, considers the partnership with Volkswagen to be a “breakthrough”. “For the first time, we have the opportunity to test out our product with a major industrial partner,” said Christian Piechnick, Founder and Managing Director of Wandelbots, at the US conferenc... Read More » Volkswagen Group realigns energy supplies: company power stations to change over from coal to gas The new high-efficiency gas turbines to be installed at the Wolfsburg power stations will durably reduce carbon dioxide emissions for heat and power generation by about 1.5 million tonnes per year. This corresponds to the current annual CO2 output of about 870,000 vehicles and represents a reduction of almost 60 percent compared with the previous emissions of the power stations at Wolfsburg. With reference to the German plants, the reduction in CO2 emissions amounts to about 50 percent. The systems are to be operated by Group company VW Kraftwe... Read More » BMW Group reports eighth successive record year despite high upfront expenditure In line with its Strategy NUMBER ONE > NEXT, the BMW Group continues to play a leading role in transforming the mobility sector with its future-oriented ACES programme: Automated, Connected, Electrified and Services. “We can look back on the most successful year in our corporate history and have achieved record levels for revenues and earnings for the eighth year in succession,” stated Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG in Munich on Thursday. “Since 2016, we have taken numerous strategic decisions to further grow... Read More »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line315
__label__cc	0.731664	0.268336	Spatially Enabling the Next Generation Internet David Engen This paper presents the results of the research done using Esri tools such as ArcIMS, MapObjects, ArcObjects, and SDE to spatially enable Web Services (GeoServices). It will discuss the various aspects of two new Internet frameworks Microsoft’s .NET strategy, and Sun’s J2EE. These results will then be used to help to develop the next generation of Internet Applications. The historical way of describing the Web as a tidal wave of change, has now given way to the analogy of the Internet being an Iceberg with most of the changes occurring beneath the surface in the infrastructure. To facilitate these underlying changes the Industry has focused on Web Services as a way to build the Next Generation Internet applications. Jack Dangermond defines “G.net” as an open and modular architecture that allows subsystems to be independently created and deployed in a distributed and “loosely coupled” Internet environment using standard XML protocols (1). The goal of this paper is to prove that Web services provide the best method of achieving the goals of “G.net”. Even before the Web was created, distributed applications were being built. The two most common distributed technologies used to build applications were CORBA and DCOM. CORBA was created by a large consortium of companies for use amongst many OS platforms, while DCOM was developed by Microsoft for their Windows platforms. To assist in the complexity of network programming both technologies abstracted away some of the complexity by using an Interface Definition Language (IDL), CORBA had IDL, while COM/DCOM used MIDL. The idea of a contract defining the interface between the client and the server is still carried forward today in the Web Services Model in the form of the WSDL; described later in this paper. Any distributed applications built with either of these technologies were notoriously hard to develop, easy to break, and difficult to deploy across a heterogeneous network. While looking for successful distributed applications note the two most successful global ubiquitous distributed applications ever built. The World Wide Web (WWW) and e-mail provides the inspiration that Web Services is based on and uses. Before Web Services, it was possible to build complex distributed systems built using CORBA, or DCOM but they both lack the ability to globally scale, across many different platforms using different programming languages, and be easy to use and understand. Unfortunately, there is no official definition of a Web Service, but there is general consensus of what it does. For example, Sun Microsystems (SunONE) defines “a Web service exhibits the following characteristics A Web service is accessible over the Web. A Web service exposes an XML interface. A Web service is registered and can be located through a Web service registry. Web services communicate using XML messages over standard Web protocols. Web services support loosely-coupled connections between systems.” (5) While IBM’s Web Services for J2EE, JSR 109 defines “for the purpose of this specification, a Web Service is defined as a component with the following characteristics A service implementation implements the methods of an interface that is describable by WSDL. The methods are implemented using a Stateless EJB, or JAX-RPC web component. A Web Service may have its interface published in one or more registries for Web services during deployment. A Web Service implementation, which uses only the functionality describe by this specification, can be deployed in any Web Services for J2EE compliant application server. A service instance, called a Port, is created and managed by a container. Run-time service requirements, such as security attributes, are separate from the service implementation. Tools can define these requirements during assembly or deployment. A container mediates access to the service.” (6) Microsoft defines “a Web Service as programmable application logic accessible using standard Internet protocols. Web Services combine the best aspects of component-based development and the Web. Like components, Web services represent black-box functionality that can be reused without worrying about how the service is implemented.” (7) Overall, these three major companies, and others seem to agree that Web Services seems to be a way of enabling components across the Web. A new Universal API with supporting technologies that allows applications to be developed using Internet based methods. Below is a graphical depiction of the Web Services architecture, which some refer to as a Service Oriented architecture. From a high level view, the Provider publishes their Web Services in the Registry, where the Requestor can find it. With the details provided by the registry the Requestor is able to bind to that service offered from the Provider and access the Web Service. The major advantage of Web Services is based on independence, not being tied to any specific implementation of the following: OS Independence: It is not tied to a specific Operating System. A Web Service can be called from any type of client to any type of server. The client and server don’t have to even be the same Operating System. Language Independence: It is not tied to any specific language. The client could be Microsoft .NET based client calling a Java based server. Transport Protocol Independence: It is not tied to specific message transport. Today you will find the most prevalent form of transport being HTTP. But it could use ftp, mail (SMTP), or any other type of messaging based protocol. Application Independence: It is not tied to a specific type of application. For example Office XP includes a toolkit to enabled Web Services so it can call any other Application that provides a Web Service. Besides being a loosely coupled solution, it solves the scalability issue by relying on the existing Transport Protocols, HTTP for the Web and SMTP used for e-mail. Another advantage of relying on existing HTTP transportation protocol is Web Services are “XML-based wire protocol, which is thus Web/firewall friendly”. (12) Companies with Web Services Presence The follow is a list of companies that have a Web Services presence. The list is not extensive, but does identify the key major players, and what they offer. Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com Microsoft is one of the leading Web Services companies in the world today; it originally developed the SOAP spec in 1998 which it later submitted to the W3C in late 1999 and joined IBM to co-develop the SOAP v1.1. The new MS .NET Framework and is primary development environment Visual Studio .NET have Web Services integrated into its core. Microsoft also supports it older COM based development environment with the Soap Toolkit. Microsoft’s first Web Services offered is “MapPoint .NET”, a good example of what competition is providing in Spatial Web Services (GeoServices). Information about Microsoft’s Web Services can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28000442 IBM: http://www.ibm.com IBM is also considered to be one of the leading Web Services companies. IBM has based their Web Services on the Java environment. For development and testing purposes the Web Services Toolkit is used as a platform for testing new specifications, such as the new WS-Security specification. The Websphere Studio provides its production development environment, with Websphere providing the production Application server. IBM is also very active participant in W3C Web Services Group and has donated SOAP4J to the http://www.apache.org which is the basis for Apache’s SOAP v2.2. IBM Web Services information can be found at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/. Sun Microsystems: http://www.sun.com Sun created the Internet programming language Java in the early 90s. Sun originally positioned their new language for web based client applications based on the applet technology, but is more prevalent today in servers using servlet technology. Today Java enhancements are developed by the Java Community Process (JCP) where IBM has submitted the JSR 109 Web Services for J2EE. Sun has a Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) which is used for development purposes. The advantage Sun has with Java is many companies such as IBM with Websphere, BEA with Weblogic, and Oracle with iAS provides a good choice of Java based production Web Services environments. Sun Microsystems Web Services information can be found at http://java.sun.com/webservices/ Systinet: http://www.systinet.com Systinet, formally called Idoox is a small company that provides a complete Web Applications and Services platform called WASP. They provided one of the first implementations of a local UDDI registry free for development use called WASP UDDI. Apache: http://www.apache.org Apache Open Software Foundation has many successful projects ranging from the http web server, to the Tomcat reference Servlet container. It has a new project called Axis, which is a rewrite of the Apache SOAP, and can be found at http://xml.apache.org/axis/index.html. One of the advantages of Axis project is source code is published allowing developers to know exactly what is going on. Xmethods: http://www.xmethods.com Tony Hong posted on the SOAP Builders Newsgroup about interest in starting an interoperability lab in Jan 31, 2001, at http://www.xmethods.net/ilab/. The web site created by Tong and James Hong, also publicly lists available web services and provides various programmatic interfaces such as SOAP, UDDI, WS-Inspection, and DISCO for these services. The various web services range from an Apache SOAP based eBay Price Watcher, to a FedEx\UPS Package Tracking service. The reason for bringing attention to this web site is the “PlaceFinder” web service by http://www.geographynetwork.com, one of the first Spatial Web Services found within its expansive list of usable web services. XML - The Catalyst XML is one of the main enabler for Web Services. For the purpose of the paper we will focus on a couple components that are critical to using and understanding Web Services. Note, these are not the only XML based languages, for example Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a new vector graphics file format based on XML that could be used to render Maps or complex mathematical models described more clearly by MathML. All these, and more XML based languages can be found in various forms of recommendation at the W3C website at http://www.w3.org. XML Basics The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) [ISO 8879] developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and became a recommended standard in February 1998. The Structure of XML documents are made up of entities in a markup format that provides the storage layout and logical structure (2). It is the XML specification that defines the constraints and structure for a XML file. XML can be thought of a common meta-language used to define other languages. Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification stated that “XML is the ASCII of the Future” describing the use of XML to define data being shared between other systems (3). Unlike HTML; which is a Markup Language to describe layout of a web document, the XML language describes a document’s content. The best way to understand this principle is to look at an example XML file. Below is an example ArcXML request. ArcXML is the protocol for communicating with the ArcIMS Spatial Server (4). <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8” ?> <ARCXML version = “1.1”> <REQUEST> <GET_IMAGE> <ENVELOPE minx=”-90” miny=”10” maxx=”-10” maxy=”30” /> </PROPERTIES> </GET_IMAGE> </REQUEST> </ARCXML> Take notice that the use of <item> markup and the following <item></item> structure defined in the XML specification. There is no definition of the <item> or how it is to be rendered. XML doesn’t set up the <tag> set or define the grammar for the language, it provides the basis for the other XML based languages covered below to be developed. XML Namespaces Namespace became a W3C standard in January 1999, and was developed to provide namespaces in XML documents. There was a “need to fully qualify XML elements and attribute names to prevent from confusing two elements that have same name but mean different things” (8). As with most XML languages it is easier to provide an example of what a namespace is. Below are two versions of the same fictitious XML document fragments that contain contact information for a Forest Tenure Licensee. With the second code fragment adding the namespace constructs. <permit> <contact> <key>123456</key> <ctc:permit xmlns:ctc=”http://www.gov.bc.ca/mof/tenure” xmlns:ts=”http://www.microsoft.com/tenure”> <ctc:contact> <ctc:key>123456</ctc:key> <ctc:name>John Doe</ctc:name> <ctc:address>Anywhere</ctc:address> <ctc:phone>(123)123-4567</ctc:phone> </ctc:contact> <ts:AAC> <ts:deciduous> <ts:volume>123456</ts:volume> </ts:deciduous> <ts:coniferous> <ts:volume>45678</ts:volume> </ts:coniferous> </ts:AAC> </ctc:permit> Notice in the second code segment the syntax to declare the namespace is “xmlns:prefix=”namespace” where the short prefix is used to declare what namespace each element or attribute belongs to. Also notice it is in the format of a web URL. Unfortunately people get the wrong impression that it must point to a valid address, when it only needs to be a unique identifier. So the xmlns:ts = ”http://www.microsoft.com/tenure” is valid, even though Microsoft probably doesn’t have this as a valid address. “Why namespaces? They are there to help computer software do its job” (9). Namespaces enable programs to parse concisely and completely define all elements of an XML file given. XML Schema Before XML Schema became a standard, Document Type Definition (DTD) was used to define types and provide a list of legal elements for HTML and XML documents. The newer XML Schema can be thought of as a superset of DTD which has some advantages over DTD such as, it is a valid XML document and uses namespaces. XML Schema became a W3C standard as of May 2, 2001. XML Schema is a very complex specification, broken in to these 3 parts including hundreds of pages of technical specifications for each part. It’s comprised of XML Schema Part 0: Primer, XML Schema Part 1: structures and XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. XML Schema is sometime referred to as XSD, Microsoft actually uses .XSD for it schema file extension. This schema can then be used to validate a group of documents based on this one schema or combined with other schemas through the use of namespaces. To help understand XSD functionality the following is a simple schema used to define the types, structure and validates the fictional Licensee from the earlier example, Code 3. <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”> <xsd:simpleType name = “AddressType”> <xsd:restriction base=”xsd:string”> <xsd:maxLength value=”50”/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> <xsd:complexType name = “contactType”> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name = ”name” type =”xsd:string”/> <xsd:element name = “address” type = “AddressType”/> <xsd:element name = “phone” type = “xsd:string”/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:simpleType name=”deciduousType”> <xsd:restriction base=”xsd:int”> <minInclusive value =”1”/> <maxInclusive value =”100000”/> <xsd:complexType name = “AACType”> <xsd:element name =”deciduous” type=”deciduousType”/> <xsd:element name=”contact” type = “contactType”/> <xsd:element name=”AAC” type =”AACType”/> </schema> Because this schema is a valid XML document. “This allows any schema-aware validating parser to validate an XML document against an XSD schema and report any discrepancies.” (10) A couple of points to take notice of the schema are: The use of namespace for xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” allows you to short form qualifier of “<xsd:item>” referring to the official W3C schema. The schema has changed a lot over the course of its development, so you might see a different namespace that refers to earlier versions of the XML Schema specification. The contact structure is defined to be made up of a sequence of elements. XML schema allows you to place a restriction of how many occurrences of elements or structures. The address string for the contact type has being given a maximum string length of 50 chars. The AAC element has being defined to use a range of 1 to 100000. A type could be defined to include a pattern, such as one for the telephone number string of (xxx)xxx-xxxx. Besides clarifying the type and structure for each element, XSD provides validation functionality that has traditional had been done in computer programs and applications. This separates validation from the individual programs and associates it more closely with data for all programs that use the data. An example of this could be a fictional schema created for a XML based shape file format that allows for any shape file to be checked against the http://www.Esri.com/schema/shapefile schema, always providing a way of validating any xml based shape file by any program. Core Web Services In the current W3C working draft the Working Group has jointly come to agree on the following working definition for a Web Service: A Web service is a software application identified by a URI, whose interfaces and binding are capable of being defined, described and discovered by XML artifacts and supports direct interactions with other software applications using XML based messages via internet-based protocols (11). There is a general consensus that the Core Web Services infrastructure is comprised of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is based on XML and describes a messaging format for machine-to-machine communication. (13) The Client crafts a SOAP message that the Server can understand and respond to. The Server has a manager that listens for requests that translates the request into a form it can understand. It then runs the correct service based on a list of services it has deployed and sends a response back to the client. Below is a graphically depiction of the structure of a SOAP message. Soap Envelope mandatory o It is the top element that contains the SOAP message. Soap Header optional o Provides the ability to extend the functionality with schemas, etc. Soap Body mandatory o It is the actual message. Soap Fault optional o It is for error message handling. As with most things is easier to show an example of a Soap Message. Below is a fictional example SOAP request message for the Geography Network findPlace Web Service. As stated earlier, SOAP can use any type of transport protocols. The first two messages show the different bindings for the same soap message. Binding with HTTP POST /Vendors HTTP/1.1 Host: www.gov.bc.ca Content-Type:"text/xml";Charset="utf-8" Content-Length: nnnn SOAPAction: <ENV:Envelope xmlns:ENV=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” > <ENV:Header> <xsd:Order xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" ENV:mustUnderstand="1"> </xsd:Order> </ENV:Header> <ENV:Body> <p:findPlace xmlns:p=”http://www.geographynetwork.com/PlaceFinder”> <arg0 xsi:type=’xsd:string’>Redlands</arg0> </p:findPlace> <ENV:Fault> <faultstring>Failed to Process SOAP Request</faultstring> </ENV:Fault> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> Binding with SMTP TO: <dpengen@gems5.gov.bc.ca> From: <david.engen@telus.net> Reply-To: <david.engen@telus.net> Date: FRI, 21 Jun 2002 14:00:00 Message-Id: <EA9B345D8D93E93B7A6E7@telus.net> The SOAP messages between the client and server can have two states, successful or fault. Below is an example of both types of SOAP messages. A successful SOAP response, using HTTP binding HTTP/1.1 Content-Type:"text/xml"; Charset="utf-8" <ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <l:FindPlaceResponse xmlns:l = "http://www.geographynetwork.com/services/v1/PlaceFinder"> <l:findPlace1SoapOut> <LocationInfo>-117.181667,34.055556</LocationInfo> </l:findPlace1SoapOut> </ENV:Body> A Fault Soap Message, using HTTP binding HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: "text/xml"; Charset="utf-8" <ENV:Envelope xmlns:ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" > <faultstring> Failed to Process SOAP Request </faultstring> </ENV:Envelope> Basically SOAP is a XML specification that defines the mechanism for the defining the structure of the XML documents used by the client to communicate with a server. Not all details were covered, for complete details on the SOAP v1.1 specification refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP Almost all distributed systems have an IDL language for describing the interface between the server and the client. In the Web Service model it is the Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). It’s pronounced by spelling out the letters or saying “whiz-dell” which nearly rhymes with “diesel”. (16) The current de facto standard is a W3C Note submitted by Microsoft and IBM, http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl. IBM’s director of e-business standards Bob Sutor predicts “WSDL will be the most widely adopted specification, to describe Web Services. Web Services will be fundamentally WSDL based. You have to use WSDL to describe and then build up from there.” (15) WSDL provides a solution for the following questions that arise in using Web Services. What are the services offered in your online business? How can you invoke your business services? What information do your business services need from the user when he or she invokes your service? How will the user provide the required information? In which format will the services send information back to the user? (18) In most cases Toolkits and Development Environments automatically generate the WSDL for a class to be enabled as a Web Service. This is considered the most important specification of all three Core Web Services, because it defines the interactions. Because of this importance, the topic will be covered in greater detail than the others in this paper. A WSDL document is comprised of the following elements as defined in the WSDL Specification. Types– a container for data type definitions using some type system (such as XSD). Message– an abstract, typed definition of the data being communicated. Operation– an abstract description of an action supported by the service. Port Type–an abstract set of operations supported by one or more endpoints. Binding– a concrete protocol and data format specification for a particular port type. Port– a single endpoint defined as a combination of a binding and a network address. Service– a collection of related endpoints. (17) To provide an example of each of the different elements types we will look at the PlaceFinder Web Service offered by the Geography Network. The full WSDL for the PlaceFinder Web Service file can be found at http://www.geographynetwork.com/services/v1/PlaceFinder.wsdl <types> <schema xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” <complexType name="LocationInfo"> <sequence> <element name="matchType" nillable="true" type="string" /> <element name="candidates" nillable="true" type="tns:ArrayOfLocation" /> </sequence> </complexType> </type> The first thing that needs to be defined is all the types used by the Web Services; you can see the types are defined by the XML Schema. The above segment is just a small section of the PlaceFinder Service WSDL. <message name="getVersion0SoapIn" /> <message name="getVersion0SoapOut"> <part name="Result" type="xsd:string"/> </message> The actually message is protocol independent; in the above message the getVersion0SoapIn has no arguments where as the response “Result” is returned as a string. <operation name="getVersion" parameterOrder=""> <input name="getVersion0SoapIn" message="tns:getVersion0SoapIn" /> <output name="getVersion0SoapOut" message="tns:getVersion0SoapOut" /> </operation> Notice that you take the earlier defined messages and group them into the input-output messages for the “getVersion” service. PortType: <portType name="PlaceFinderSoap"> </portType> The PortType groups all operations together. In the FindPlace service there are three operations defined, getVersion; as above, and two findPlace with different argument lists. <binding name="PlaceFinderSoap" type="tns:PlaceFinderSoap"> <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" /> <operation name="getVersion"> <soap:operation soapAction="getVersion" style="rpc" /> <input name="getVersion0SoapIn"> <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="http://www.geographynetwork.com/PlaceFinder" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" /> </binding> The transport binding extensions are SOAP 1.1, HTTP GET/POST and MIME. The specification also defines a framework to develop any binding extension. The above example is based on SOAP 1.1 binding, and a transport of HTTP. There are two style types of SOAP bindings, Document Style and remote procedure call (RPC) based. Basically the request and response of SOAP message for Document Style are encoded xml message, while the RPC style has input parameters and results send back in encoded response to the call; as defined in the W3C SOAP v1.1 specification, section 5. <port name="PlaceFinderSoap" binding="tns:PlaceFinderSoap"> <soap:address location="http://www.geographynetwork.com/services/v1/PlaceFinder"/> </port> As you can see the port definition has a unique and specifies a single address for binding. <definitions name="PlaceFinder" targetNamespace=http://www.geographynetwork.com/PlaceFinder xmlns:soap=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/”/> <service name=”PlaceFinder”> </definitions> The definitions element is the root element for all WSDL documents, a place where all the namespaces are fully defined. Finally the service name is for the grouping of all ports associated with a particular service. It is worth repeating, WSDL is considered the most important specification of all three Core Web Services, because it defines the interactions between the client and server. It is the document that businesses will physically exchange to enable Web Services. UDDI The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) project provides the registry for Web Services and is currently composed of over 200 different companies. More information can be found at http://www.uddi.org. If only a few companies were trying to manage Web Services between partners, using a registry is not very useful idea. It is only when we scale up to the size of the Web in the number of companies and interactions, does the need for the UDDI registry arise. The UDDI projects attempts to provide an independent open framework for describing, locating, and integrating Web Services based on existing standards, such as XML, HTTP, and SOAP. One example of a java based free for development and usage, is the WASP UDDI Standard server, which can be found at http://www.systinet.com/products/wasp_uddi/index.html To help define the type information found within the registry the analogy of the telephone directory helps to describe the three major types found within a UDDI registry. Basic contact information and identifiers about a company, including business name, address, contact information and unique identifiers such as D-U-N-S numbers or tax IDs. This information allows others to discover your web service based upon your business identification. (14) This is the <businessEntity>. There is also an entity <publisherAssertion> that describes a public relationship between two businesses. Information that describes a web service using different categorizations (taxonomies). This information allows others to discover your web service based upon its categorization (such as being in the manufacturing or car sales business). (14) This is the <businessService> offered by the company. Technical information that describes the behaviors and supported functions of a web service hosted by your business. This information includes pointers to the grouping information of web services and where the web services are located. (14) This is the <bindingTemplate> and <tModel>. The binding template contains a link to the details of how to get to the Web Service, while the tModel is a link to the actual details for the Web Service. The UDDI registry can contain optional textual descriptions of the various entities, but its main focus to provide the links (URI) to the actual Web Service details. The UDDI is comprised of a group of nodes that replicate the registry between themselves. There is no authentication needed for querying for information, but you need to authenticate for adding or updating information within a registry. You can query any node for same information, but the actually adding or updating the information is done at the same node that you where authenticated for. One misconception of UDDI registry is they have to be public. A group of companies can create there own private UDDI registry or create private registries of Web Services available within a Government. To actually use the UDDI server, two APIs the Inquiry and Publishing have been specified in the Programmers API as a series of SOAP messages that the UDDI server uses. Company’s have provide various toolkits to work with UDDI such as Sun with JAXR library that abstracts the details of the registry so it can work with other registries such as ebXML. Systinet provide a client library that allows you to interact with the UDDI without know details of the SOAP message, and will work with any UDDI server. Finally you could hand code the SOAP message directly to access the registry. Frameworks and Toolkits Microsoft .NET Framework & Visual Studio .NET Microsoft released the .NET Framework late last year, as a next generation platform for building Web Applications and Web Services. The ASP.NET framework serves as a platform for XML Web services in managed code. To differentiate XML Web services from regular ASP.NET pages, XML web services uses the .asmx extension. (20) When you create an ASP.NET Web Service project in Visual Studio, it automatically creates the necessary files and references to support an XML Web Service. To deploy an XML Web Service, you simply copying the .asmx files and any assemblies created by XML Web Service to a virtual directory on a IIS Web server. To use a Web Service within Visual studio you simply use the “Add Web Reference”. To use the PlaceFinder Web Service from the Geography Network add the URL http://www.geographynetwork.com/services/v1/PlaceFinder.wsdl com.geographynetwork.www.PlaceFinder placeFinder = new com.geographynetwork.www.PlaceFinder(); com.geographynetwork.www.LocationInfo locInfo = placeFinder.findPlace("Redlands"); com.geographynetwork.www.Location loc = locInfo.candidates[0]; Console.Write(loc.description1 + " is located at (" + loc.x + "," + loc.y + ")"); Above is some example console based C# code using the Web Service taken from http://www.geographynetwork.com/services/documentation/public_net.html As you can see Microsoft has gone to great length to make it easy to create and use Web Services within their Visual Studio Development Environment. Testing and Research were done with the Beta 1 ArcObjects Developer Kit for .NET at http://arconline.Esri.com/arcobjectsonline/GettingStarted/IntroDotNet.htm MS SOAP Toolkit The ASP.NET solution is geared to managed code, but a lot of COM based code exists today and will not be going away any time soon. To use COM based code Microsoft provides the SOAP Toolkit. The Toolkit includes: - Client side component used to invoke a Web Service defined by WSDL. - Server side component that maps Web services operations to COM object method calls - Components to process SOAP messages. - WSDL/WSML files generator tools. This toolkit was used to test Web Services enhanced MapObjects COM based solutions. Apache Axis The Apache Axis project is a complete rewrite of the Apache SOAP, originally based on IBM’s donated Java code base from SOAP4J. It is still in development stage, but is expected to be completed later this year. When complete, Axis will: Support SOAP 1.1, just as Apache SOAP 2.2 does. For example, Axis will completely support the SOAP concept of mustUnderstand headers. Axis's final release will have a few SOAP 1.2 features as well as partial support for pluggable XML protocols. Likely prove much faster and more resource efficient than Apache SOAP, since it uses SAX (Simple API for XML) instead of DOM (Document Object Model). SAX allows lazy parsing of XML documents, which in many cases is more efficient -- especially when the entire XML document does not need to be parsed or kept in memory for long time periods. Have a clean and simple abstraction for designing transports -- i.e., senders and listeners for SOAP over various protocols such as SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), FTP, message-oriented middleware, and so on. Also, the engine's core will be completely transport independent. Automatically generate WSDL (Web Services Description Language) from deployed services. The Axis alpha 2 version also comes with the wsdl2java tool for building Java proxies and skeletons from WSDL documents. Thus, you not only get the WSDL for an Axis-deployed service, but you can also build stubs and skeletons from the WSDL for extremely easy client code development. Note that the WSDL that feeds into the wsdl2java tool can originate from any source as long as it adheres to the WSDL specification. I'll show you an example of using this feature later. Support EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) deployment as services. This resembles a feature provided by some application servers, such as BEA WebLogic Server. Feature improved deployment support and the ability to drop Java files into a deployment directory and expose the classes as services. I'll show you an example of this later. Better interoperate with Microsoft's SOAP implementation and .Net services. Over the past year, Apache and Microsoft have undergone several iterations of their SOAP implementations; with each iteration, they become more interoperable with each other. For details, see the summary of the last Apache/Microsoft interoperability meeting. (21) It is all the above mentioned points that make it worth while to use the beta code. Below are some simple Web Service and a client examples. Notice that the code is clean and doesn’t contain any of the extra constructs needed to support SOAP with early versions. It closely follows the C# example given public class HelloServer public String sayHello(String name) System.out.println("sayHello(String name)"); return "Hello " + name Code 17 HelloServer.java <%@ WebService Language="C#" Class="HelloServer" %> using System.Web.Services; [WebService(Namespace="urn:HelloServer")] public class HelloServer { [ WebMethod ] public string sayHello(string name) { return "Hello " + name; Code 18 HelloServer.asmx To deploy the Java class as a Web Service you simple copy the java file to the server and rename the file extension from .java to .jws and it automatically generates all the supported files such as the WSDL for the class. IBM Web Services Toolkit IBM provides WebSphere Studio Application Developer and WebSphere Server to provide production quality Web Services Tools. The Web Services Toolkit is positioned as a place where IBM tests new Web Services and technologies, such as WS-Security WS-Inspection WSFL WorkFlow It is this toolkit with its inclusion of new specification WS-Security, WS-Inspection and Apache Axis that testing was done with Map Objects Java Edition to test build Spatial Web Services. One of the main reasons that Web Services is flourishing compared to the previous distributed solutions, is the promise of interoperability across a heterogeneous environment. Unfortunately the reality of this new technology is still far from being completely interoperable. IBM's director of e-business standards Bob Sutor believes the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) will help clear-up confusion over the remaining specifications. WS-I will help to ensure interoperability between vendor’s implementations of standards. (15) The organization was created in Feb, 2002 to promote interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. It can be found at http://ws-i.org. Beside the WS-I is the SOAP Builders Newsgroup which provided the original interoperability testing between groups in 2001, as described early in this paper about the Xmethods website. To provide proof that even Microsoft is co-operating in the interoperability issue; it has created a group of “How To” documents describing how to integrate Web services using various clients and server SOAP and WSDL implementations. Q307324 HOW TO: Integrate a .NET Client with an Apache SOAP 2.2 XML Web Service Q307318 HOW TO: Integrate a SOAP Toolkit Client with an Apache SOAP 2.2 XML Web Service Q307279 HOW TO: Integrate an Apache SOAP 2.2 Client with a SOAP Toolkit XML Web Service Q308438 HOW TO: Integrate a PERL/SOAP Lite Client with a SOAP Toolkit or .NET XML Web Service Q308466 HOW TO: Integrate an Apache SOAP 2.2 Client with a .NET XML Web Service Microsoft’s Developers Network, MSDN XML Web Services Interoperability Resources can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsvcinter/html/globalxmlwebsrvinterop.asp Today’s Interoperability issues can be grouped into 4 categories, with some examples of what the problems are: Transport Problems – HTTP header issue with SOAPAction with some client not able to send a null value. XML Problems – XML Schema complex constructs are difficult to implement, therefore it is best to keep your types simple. SOAP Problems - For instance, SOAP specifications state that if you receive a SOAP header with a mustUnderstand attribute set to "1," you must understand it, or fault. Many implementations didn't do this at first. (16) WSDL Problems – Some frameworks; such as .NET, generates multiple WSDL bindings, so you need to fully qualify which binding to use. As new versions of Frameworks and Toolkits are developed, the issue of working around interoperability issue will start to disappear. Enhancing Esri Products G.net An implementation of G.net can be comprised of ArcGIS, ArcSDE and ArcIMS. (13) An example of G.net is the Geography Network found at http://www.geographynetwork.com which an example of a Web Service called PlaceFinder can be found; more Web Services needs to be added, and managed properly through a UDDI service. The ArcGIS suite was developed using the ArcObjects. Esri has very recently released an ArcObjects Developer Kit for .NET that extends the ArcObjects Developer Kit released with ArcGIS 8.2 with .NET assemblies, documentation and samples for use within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The following description is from http://arconline.Esri.com/arcobjectsonline/GettingStarted/IntroDotNet.htm This release of ArcObjects for .NET is intended to support developers developing desktop GIS solutions. These solutions can be contained within one of the ArcGIS applications: ArcMap, ArcCatalog and ArcScene, or within a standalone application. The ActiveX controls released at 8.2 (MapControl and PageLayoutControl) are also supported. Typically a developer creates components that extend the ArcObjects architecture; Commands, Tools, Layers, Renderers, Extensions, etc. This release of the ArcObjects Developer Kit for .NET, like previous releases of ArcObjects, does not support the creation of server-based GIS solutions – these include Internet Map services, Web services, etc. No technical support can be provided for server developments; in addition such developments are in violation of your License Agreement. (19) Note that enabling ArcGIS as a Server is not allowed, but using Web Services within an ArcGIS client is. ArcView 3.x The ArcView desktop mapping software has the Avenue scripting language. If Web Services were added to Avenue, ArcView could then be enabled to use any Web Service. For example, a Web Service for temperature could be added to a view allowing temperature information to be displayed real-time. ArcIMS v4/MetaServer The ArcXML is the XML based protocol used to communicate between the client and the ArcIMS Server. A solution is to enhance ArcXML with Web Services standards would enable the ArcIMS Spatial Server to understand Web Services requests from any client. Besides the enhancing the ArcIMS Server, the enhancement of the Metadata Server is needed. The Metadata Server is the perfect place to put a UDDI registry, allowing querying for Web Services besides the metadata. ArcSDE Adding Web Services to ArcSDE could be done by enhancements within the existing client APIs of C and Java. RDBMS vendors have already starting to incorporate Web Services within their products which could be used. Map Objects COM/Java Map Objects can be used with Web Services applications today. Map Objects is just a programming library that can be combined with other libraries to develop spatial applications. In the case of COM based development you can use MS SOAP Toolkit v2.x, and any variety of Toolkits from Sun or IBM for the Java based development. ArcReader/ArcGIS Publisher To enhance ArcReader with Web Services is a little different in the fact the Web Service would have to be embedded into the published map files (PMF). The ArcGIS Publisher would have the Web Service enabled on ArcIMS to serve the Web Service. An enhanced version of the MetaServer (UDDI enabled) could provide a listing of Web Service available for that map extent. An ArcReader Map could then tie into real time information such as, lightning strikes for a time given, or current temperature for an area of interest. ArcExplorer The free ArcExplorer data viewer could also be enhance in similar fashion to the ArcReader solution as given above. ArcPad The mobile solutions can also be Web Services enabled through wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, or 802.11 based solutions. Another advantage of Web Services is the enabling of smaller form factor devices that might not be meet the requirements to run ArcPad, such as the RIM Blackberries, Palms, or Cell phones. The heavy lifting can be done on the ArcIMS server with the results be sent back to these devices. Future Web Services There is a lot of activity taking place in the Web Services area of interest. “IBM’s director of e-business standards Bob Sutor predicts between 20 and 25 XML – based specifications for web services”. (15) The good thing is you will not have to implement or use all specifications, to provide a Web Service solution. Some specifications will not be adopted, while others will be replaced with other specifications. Here are a couple of the newer specifications that will be important soon. WS-Inspection: was created to allow people to discover Web Services. It was not to replace UDDI, but as an addition to allow discovery at the server. It is meant as a replacement for the proprietary DISCO solution from Microsoft .NET framework. WS-Security: is a new specification released in April 2002 by IBM, Microsoft and Verisign to provide security to Web Services. To coordinate the Web Services standards the W3C ( http://www.w3.org ) has created the “Web Service Activity” which is composed of one Coordination Group and three Working Groups, to be completed by February 1, 2004. Web Services Architecture Working Group. XML Protocol Working Group. Web Services Description Working Group. IBM is leading the Web Services for J2EE, Version 1.0, a Public Draft v0.3 as of April 15, 2002 and can be found at http://www.ibm.com/webservices/pdf/websvcs-0_3-pd.pdf and should be available near the end of the year. Bob Stutor says “This year you will see people build on last years specifications like SOAP and by the end of 2002 people will use WS-Security. Next year transactions and workflow will be added to.” (15) Microsoft is creating the Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) based on the following specifications: WS-License WS-Referral WS-Routing One if the newest areas of interest for Web Services are in P2P – Peer Systems. A Peer to Peer Network is where clients group together in some fashion and collaborate on solving problems. At the 17th Esri European User Conference, I will be presenting a paper on “Spatially Enabling Peer Systems” and providing examples of how Models and Simulations can be integrated into Peer Systems using Web Services. The goal of this paper was to prove that Web Services provide the best solution for achieving the goals of “G.net”. Web Services provide unprecedented interoperability through both Microsoft .NET framework and Java based solutions. A Java client can talk to a .NET server or vice versa. Currently, Microsoft’s .NET provides the best, widely deployed client solution; while the Java based Severs from BEA, IBM, SUN, and Oracle provide better server solutions. The Next Generation Internet Applications are just starting to be built, such as Microsoft MapPoint .NET, the first Spatial Web Services offered. If the Esri product suite were Web Service (GeoServices) enabled, it would provide a powerful solution to Spatially Enabling the Next Generation Internet. (1) g.net – A New GIS Architecture for Geographic Information Services Jack Dangermond http://www.Esri.com/news/spring01articles/gnet.html (2)Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition) http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006 (3) XML: The ASCII of the Future? Steve Land, Senior Developer http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/xmlfinal.asp (4) Introduction to ArcXML http://arconline.Esri.com/arconline/documentation/ims_/webhelp31/elements/introduction.htm (5) Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Software Architecture An Open Architecture for Interoperable, Smart Web Services http://www.sun.com/software/sunone (6) Web Services for J2EE, Version 1.0 JSR 109, Public Draft v0.3 April 15, 2002 http://www.ibm.com/webservices/pdf/websvcs-0_3-pd.pdf Specification Leads Jim Knutson Heather Kreger (7) A Platform for Web Services Web Services Technical Articles Mary Kirtland http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/websvcs_platform.asp (8) Understanding XML Namespaces Yasser Shohoud http://www.learnxmlws.com/tutors/xmlns/xmlnsprint.aspx (9) XML Namespaces by Example Tim Bray http://www.xml/com/pub/a/1999/01/namespaces.html (10) XSD for Visual Basic Developers http://www.learnxmlws.com/tutors/xsd/xsdvbPrint.aspx (11) Web Services Architecture Requirements W3C Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20020429 (12)Axis: The next generation of Apache SOAP Tarak Modi http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2002/jw-0125-axis_p.html (13)What is G.net? An Esri Technical Paper http://arconline.Esri.com/arconline/whitepapers/ao_/G.net_techpaper.pdf (14) UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration Part 1 O’Reilly Network Tyler Jewell and David Chappell http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jws_6/index1.html (15) IBM Web services guru predicts WSDL future By ComputerWire http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25302.html (16) Examining WSDL Rich Salz http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2002/05/15/ends.html (17) Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 W3C Note 15 March 2001 http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl Authors (alphabetically): Erik Christensen, Microsoft Francisco Curbera, IBM Research Greg Meredith, Microsoft Sanjiva Weerawarana, IBM Research (18) IBM developerWorks: Web services: Deploying Web services with WSDL: Part 1 Bilal Siddiqui http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-intwsdl/ (19) ArcObjects Developer Kit for .NET http://arconline.Esri.com/arcobjectsonline/GettingStarted/IntroDotNet.htm (20) Getting Started with XML Web Services in Visual Studio .NET MSDN Visual Studio .NET Technical Articles Rob Caron http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchGettingStartedWithXMLWebServicesInVisualStudioNET.asp (21) Axis: The next generation of Apache SOAP Manager, Tenure Data Research Tenure and Engineering Branch Ministry of Forest, B.C., Canada 1450 Government Street, 3rd Floor V8W 9C2 Work e-mail: David.Engen@gems5.gov.bc.ca Home e-mail: david.engen@telus.net	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line317
__label__cc	0.680442	0.319558	I'm looking for a part-time remote job. I'm the author of: Mastering Redmine is a comprehensive guide with tips, tricks and best practices, and an easy-to-learn structure. Check the book's project or Social pages of the book: By buying this book you also donate to Redmine (see this page). Redmine › Project Sections To subscribe you need to register or sign in first. Section specific custom fields and Redmine 3.x support Here is version 0.1.0 of the Project Sections plugin, which supports Redmine 3.x, allows to have custom fields, which are available only for projects of selected sections, makes it possible to filter issues by section and includes Polish translation. Added by Andriy Lesyuk about 2 years ago Download Project Sections 0.1.0 It was a very long time, during which updates of this plugin were not released. Sorry, for that. Anyway, here is the much anticipated release! The new version of the Project Sections plugin, which is 0.1.0, supports Redmine 3.x (was tested on versions 3.3 and 3.4 and should also work under 2.5.xd). This release was sponsored by itratos Ltd & Co. KG. In particular, the version 0.1.0 supports the new layout of the project listing, which was introduced in Redmine 3.4.0. While (to be honest) I don’t like the way, in which now projects are split into columns, and find it weird (especially, because the project description often gets into the next column), the new version of the plugin now renders projects in columns too. So, this part of the functionality is now, at least, consistent (between Redmine and the plugin). The new style of the projects jump box (which is in the top right corner) is also supported (and extended) by the new version of the plugin. But, the fixes, that were dictated by changes in Redmine 3.4, are not the only new things in Project Sections 0.1.0. Thus, this version also comes with a couple of new features: The most noteworthy new feature is support of project section specific custom fields. This means, that it’s now possible to have project, version and issue custom fields, which will be available only for projects of the selected sections. I personally use this feature (on this website) to have custom fields specific to Redmine plugins (e.g., “Redmine page”, which is shown on the project overview page). Another small feature is support of the Project section issue filter. With this filter you can make your calendar, Gantt and issue listing show data only for those projects, which belong to the selected section. Thanks to Charline for the idea. Additionally, this release includes the Polish translation, which was provided by Jerzy Chlebda. Thanks, Jerzy! Finally, the version 0.1.0 comes with one, I believe, “degradation” (not a big one though). This and previous versions of Project Sections use the awesome_nested_set gem, which earlier was shipped with Redmine. Now, after Redmine removed it, this gem has to be installed separately, what makes the installation procedure of the plugin slightly more troublesome (you can check this procedure here). Luckily, if you upgrade the plugin from an older version, you don’t need to care about this gem, as it should already be installed. At last, I want to thank itratos Ltd & Co. KG for supporting this release.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line320
__label__wiki	0.550433	0.550433	SALERS PROVE THEIR HARDINESS OUT ON THE HILLS Drawn in by their easy calving potential, good temperaments and longevity, father and son team, David and Neil Austin who farm around 2650 acres in Kirkcudbrightshire, are firm converts to Salers cattle, running around 370 Salers and Salers cross Angus cows at Boreland of Girthon and nearby Rusko Farms, Gatehouse of Fleet. While the home farm at Boreland extends to 950 acres and comprises 240 Salers and Salers cross Angus cows, 180 Black Face ewes and 400 Mules, the addition of the neighbouring 1700-acre hill estate at Rusko Farms, which has been contract farmed since 2010, has enabled the family to expand and make full use of the Salers somewhat ‘easy-care’ attributes and to run their 300 pure Blackies. up on the hill cows with their April-May born calves Ref:RH1210170142 “Our main aim is to keep producing heifers and maintaining a high health status,” said Neil whose family bought their first Salers bull in 1990, with the first pure Salers cows originating from late Graham McClymont’s Cuil herd. Now, some 370 cows are run between the two units of which most are home-bred females from Boreland. “We need our cows to be easy calvers as the contract farm is six miles from home which allows us to check our calvers twice a day,” said Neil, who completed his agricultural studies at Harper Adams in 2000, just when the family took over the contract farming business. “Salers are a maternal cattle breed and are easy to work with; we run too many cows to take any risks, problem cows are identified and culled, we are busy enough to keep cattle with poor temperaments” The Salers breed which is recognised by its mahogany red coat, originate from the central region of France and are known for their good feet and legs and ability to survive in harsh environments making them a perfect breeding female for the hill farming climate. When Neil and his father took over the contract for Rusko Farms their 60 cattle comprised a mix of Blue Grey cross Simmental females which were proving difficult to work with due to bad temperaments and lack of handling. However, with the introduction of the Salers, supplied initially by the Boreland of Girthon herd and a change in calving policy from all year round to spring, life is now a lot better for the 130 strong Salers mixed herd. “Since the bad winter of 2012, we have realised life is so much easier calving cows all at the one time, instead of calving cows outside during the winter and often in bad weather, when many of the calves hideaway and are difficult to find,” explained David. “We have found Salers to be easy calvers with excellent longevity on average, our hill heifers calve at three years of age on the hill and produce around 10 calves before coming down to the home farm and having more where they can be more closely monitored,” said Mr Austin. The breed is proving particularly fertile too, with the Salers calving at Rusko having produced 126 live calves out of 134 cows this year, whilst also delivering tight calving patterns with 105 calves being born within the first three and a half weeks. They calve outside on their own too from the beginning of April, in a three-acre sand pit area which provides a good dry bed for new mothers, for around nine weeks. “We have found the ease of calving when put to a Salers bull is phenomenal,” added Mr Austin. At six to eight months of age, calves are brought down from the hills, weaned and brought to Boreland where they are in wintered on silage and straights. Last year the Austin’s sold 60 bullocks across April and August, averaging at £900 each with the first store sales in the spring at Castle Douglas where they were reaching up to 400kg in target weight with the rest selling in the August sale at around 450kg. “Typically, we look to sell our yearling bull calves at 400kg target weight in the spring.” said Mr Austin. The Salers breed minimises costs on the farm not only through stress free calving and longevity but also due to their foraging ability and winter hardiness. Salers can be kept out at grass year-round and this is a necessity for the hardier cattle grazed on the hill farm at Rusko which survive and develop well out on the hills yearround. On the home farm at Boreland the cows are kept out at grass in the summer and brought in and fed on silage and straights in the winter to ease management. “On the hill farm at Rusko the ground quality isn’t good enough to calve at two, at Boreland we have spring and summer calving which gives us flexibility to calve at two and half years.” said Neil. The Austin’s grow their own silage which has allowed them to roll 1700 bales at Rusko Farms and at the home farm they have had two cuts of silage from 220 acres which will feed the herd over winter. The Austin’s first sold bulling heifers at the society sale in Castle Douglas in 2015, 20 bulling heifers from the Rusko herd at 18-21 months went for £960-£980 each; in 2016 they sold 22 bulling heifers, whilst picking up the prize for reserve champion pen and increasing their prices to £1199 per animal and in 2017 they sold 33 bulling heifers to £1550 per animal along with in calf heifers to £1850 thus showing the improvement in the market of their stock. Neil Austin reveals plans for the future of their contract and home farm. “We hope to make improvements at Rusko Farms, better fencing would allow us to move more cattle in for grazing and create a more effective rotational grazing system.” Since taking over the contract farm in 2010 they had to boost their numbers by supplying cattle from their home farm so are now keen to improve their own numbers again and build up the Boreland of Girthon herd further. “We have moved away from fattening cattle to producing heifers as we want to keep building up and improving the herd.” said Neil Austin.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line330
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__label__wiki	0.792444	0.792444	Uconn Boneyard The official 2019-20 Women's Basketball schedule for the University of Connecticut Huskies. Generically gritty. UConn Women's Basketball on the Boneyard - About \| Facebook. Login to Web Mail Office 365 Learn more about Office 365»Gmail Learn more about G Suite»Login to Web Mail Office 365 Learn more about Office 365» G Suite Learn more about G Suite» Alerts Phishing Attack Guide Current Alerts & Outages ITS and other University organizations will never send uns. — Last season was not easy for Kevin Ollie and the UConn Huskies. 4,760 likes. (08-01-2019, 06:03 PM) CompSci87 Wrote: The BY has a 25-page thread tracking total wins by coach. com - Bearcat Basketball. To register and post on our boards. It follows the rise and fall of the varsity program, the rebirth of a club program, and the budding movement to re-establish a division one team at the states flagship institution. - A three-year show-cause order for the former head coach. 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UConn, Notre Dame extend series through 2024. dave gavitt court. The latest rumblings link UConn with a. Here is your complete UConn Huskies Women's Basketball schedule. (08-01-2019, 06:03 PM) CompSci87 Wrote: The BY has a 25-page thread tracking total wins by coach. The Story: UConn will pay a $17 million fee in order to leave the AAC early and join the Big East on July 1, 2020. Login with username, password and session length. Generically gritty. Their consensus seems to be that the outlook isn't great for UConn this year and so Tara will probably pass Pat first. Football • Recruiting 2018. The-boneyard. Some people have to dodge arguments with crazy uncles about politics or religion at the holiday dinner table. Past Seasons UCAP 2006 - 2007 UCAP 2007 - 2008 UCAP 2008 - 2009 UCAP 2009 - 2010 UCAP 2010 - 2011 UCAP 2011 - 2012 UCAP 2012 - 2013 UCAP 2014 - 2015 UCAP 2016 - 2017 UCAP 2017 - 2018 UCAP 2018 - 2019 UCAP Alumni Click here to view Alumni of the UCAP Women&#. At UConn, our faculty, staff, and students are dedicated to learning more about the world around them through research. Napheesa Collier was the key, posting 18 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and four. UConn is committed to fostering a multicultural and inclusive workplace that recognizes and embraces the unique talents and contributions of our diverse workforce. Akok already visited Providence (Sept. School and its former coach are feuding over his firing in March and how it contrasts with the. uconn boneyard \| uconn boneyard. Espinoza-Hunter, a freshman, has played seven games for the Huskies this season, averaging two points in seven minutes per game. UConn Huskies Football: Huskies football news, recruiting updates, and the latest rumors. By Doug Bonjour. The Formula; where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100. The University of Connecticut has selected SNY to be its women's basketball regional television broadcast partner for the next four seasons, pending finalization of an executed contract between the parties. 60% of websites need less resources to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Nothing compares to witnessing live college football, and with UConn Huskies football tickets you're set to experience one of the best teams the American Athletic Conference has to offer. PHILADELPHIA — Geno Auriemma took a new approach during the offseason. UConn Single Sign On serves as your login to many University. UConn next week hosts both Akok and fellow 2019 big man Qudus Wahab, after hosting Woodstock Academy (CT) big man Tre Mitchell this weekend. They went their separate ways as far as scheduling in 2007, though they will renew. The Boneyard Call Greg: 320-282-2759 Or email: [email protected] The trophy, which seemingly disappeared after. A dental hygienist who took her patients' advice to become a dentist and a brilliant UConn sophomore who has already invented a heart monitor battery charger will star in new radio spots on NPR to promote the UConn Foundation's scholarship drive. friartown sports forums. At UConn, our faculty, staff, and students are dedicated to learning more about the world around them through research. the-boneyard. No more daily schedule handed. com @NHRJimFuller on Twitter. UConn Huskies Football: Huskies football news, recruiting updates, and the latest rumors. I am fine with it,so long as there is a buyin and strong separation buyout and notice language. Get the latest UConn Football news, photos, rankings, lists and more on Bleacher Report. Now that the collective obnoxious cynics (hi!) have successfully bullied UConn into the. The latest Tweets from UConn Football (@UConnFootball). Operational since the 1930s, Witte's Marine Equipment company in Rossville served to dredge, salvage, and resell materials from the wrecked and disused vessels of the New York and New Jersey waterways. 521 field goal percentage, and leads the team in assists a game at 5. From cheering at Gampel Pavilion and Rentschler Field to participating in victory parades and rallies, UConn fans have some of the best school spirit in the country. schneider arena. UConn Women's Basketball on the Boneyard. Vanderbilt cornerback Tre Bell will transfer to Connecticut, Commodores coach Derek Mason confirmed Saturday. UConn Wins Opener vs. 9% via a hyperlink somewhere on the internet. 8/23/2019 - 2019 PG Jalen Gaffney (6-3, 170, 4★) has enrolled in school and been added to the official team roster. She was Coach Auriemma’s first recruit in his first year as Head Women’s Basketball Coach at UConn. UConn coach Geno Auriemma shared this key to telling if a potential recruit is the right fit for his program. Operational since the 1930s, Witte’s Marine Equipment company in Rossville served to dredge, salvage, and resell materials from the wrecked and disused vessels of the New York and New Jersey waterways. They lost their first two games of the 2016-17 season — to Wagner and Northeastern. ECU Student Section: The Boneyard, Greenville, North Carolina. To read our message boards and talk with other ECU fans, just select a board from the menu above. 1k Followers, 116 Following, 1,016 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from UConn Women's Basketball (@uconnwbb). Growing the board comes with a cost, but not a financial one. Welcome to the Official Twitter page for UConn Football. Former UConn star Napheesa Collier dropped by the UConn. Through donations to the Parents Fund, the Division of Student Affairs is able to enrich students' time outside the classroom through mental health and wellness programs, leadership training, late-night activities, community service opportunities, student organizations, cultural. 28) and will still trip to UConn (Oct. The-boneyard. Opinions on expansion from the UCONN fan blog Boneyard - UCONN. You can register to post (it’s free) using the “Signup” link. Some of the topics we get to are: McKenzie Milton's. Dan Hurley is going to UConn, Chris Mack is a Cardinal, and Jeff Capel is in at Pittsburgh. We look back at UCF's 56-17 win over Connecticut. The Formula; where c is a specific team's total number of commits and R n is the 247Sports Composite Rating of the nth-best commit times 100. UConn women's basketball guard Andra Espinoza-Hunter will transfer, according to a release from UConn Athletics. 1k Followers, 116 Following, 1,016 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from UConn Women's Basketball (@uconnwbb). UConn Huskies Football: Huskies football news, recruiting updates, and the latest rumors. com @NHRJimFuller on Twitter. friar recruiting. To read our message boards and talk with other ECU fans, just select a board from the menu above. A video posted to Twitter has some UCF and UConn fans riled up, and it's thanks to the appearance of the "rivalry's" Civil ConFLiCT Trophy. The overarching storyline for the NCAA women's basketball Tournament has remained the same since 2013: Can anyone beat UConn? At first glance, the answer is no. For the second consecutive season, UConn was picked to win the American Athletic Conference Regular Season Title, garnering 100 points in a vote of the league's coaches and UConn All-American F Breanna Stewart was honored as the unanimous choice for AAC Preseason Player of the Year, as announced by the conference on Thursday morning. Come cheer on the Huskies as we take over MSG and show the Orange that UConn is the 6th Borough!. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW: UConn will pay an additional $7 million on top of the $10 million exit fee to leave roughly two years earlier than contractually allowed. Operational since the 1930s, Witte’s Marine Equipment company in Rossville served to dredge, salvage, and resell materials from the wrecked and disused vessels of the New York and New Jersey waterways. The University of Connecticut and Tennessee women's basketball teams have had little in common the last decade. During that period, any NCAA member school employing him must restrict him from any athletically related duties unless it shows cause why the restrictions should not apply. Growing the board comes with a cost, but not a financial one. 2018-19 UConn WBB. Speed, Burst & Athleticism Are Just Three of the Many Traits Georgia RB Dante Black Will Bring to UConn. We look back at least week's win at UConn and peek ahead to this Saturday's game at home. UNCASVILLE - To win the American Athletic Conference Championship, the UConn women's basketball team had to play USF in the final for the fourth consecutive season. Mar 19, 2018 · Another top college basketball program could soon have a Hurley leading the way. Know Your Enemy: Providence Friars Posted by Unknown at. 4,760 likes. According to ADimeBack. How do you get the “good” posters while keeping out the riff raft, rogue posters who are fair weather or fans of other teams?. 8: 7669: Search Results related to boneyard uconn on Search Engine. 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Get the latest UConn Football news, photos, rankings, lists and more on Bleacher Report. Come cheer on the Huskies as we take over MSG and show the Orange that UConn is the 6th Borough!. uconn boneyard \| uconn boneyard. The first media availability of the women's basketball season (not counting the American Athletic Conference media day) wrapped up not that long ago and the Huskies were without All-American forward Gabby Williams and transfer Batouly Camara. UConn kicks off their 2019 football schedule on Thursday, August 29 at home in East Hartford against the Wagner Seahawks. By Jim Fuller, [email protected] schneider arena. William Brangham talks to. Stream live events, live play-by-play NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football, NCAA basketball, and Premier League matches. The 50 Year Storm is a documentary movie detailing the 50 year history of men's lacrosse at the University of Connecticut. Certain data provided by STATS, LLC © 2019 Verizon Media. Uconn Womens Basketball The Boneyard - You're seeking articles on our blog within the headline Uconn Womens Basketball The Boneyard of choices of articles that we got. On Friday night in Post #1 billyjack wrote: This deserves its own thread: Scosox mentioned this in the UConn Smoke thread (page 28) the Boneyard site has a thread that began at 11pm tonight, claiming UConn will join the Big East for the 2021 season. UConn Women's Basketball on the Boneyard. UConn Huskies have been around for quite sometime now and their history goes back to the 1930's, Huskies are a group of twenty varsity teams of men and women that take part in different forms of sports like basketball, tack and field, soccer, football, golf, swimming and tennis. In just his third game at UConn, Hurley led the unranked Huskies to an upset of No. 8/23/2019 - 2019 PG Jalen Gaffney (6-3, 170, 4★) has enrolled in school and been added to the official team roster. The trophy, which seemingly disappeared after. He does everything for this team. UConn Men's Basketball returns to the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, for another marquee showdown with rival Syracuse. They lost their first two games of the 2016-17 season — to Wagner and Northeastern. certified Diaco to English translator. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Over the years, I have appreciated his songwriting and personal story, and I have followed his musical career closely. If there are any additions or corrections to be added to this page, please let me know via e-mail at [email protected] She had missed the last five games, with UConn head. Other non-conference games on the schedule for UConn in 2019 include a. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. The Boneyard is a fan forum for UConn sports with the main fan forums devoted to Football, Mens Basketball, and of course the 10 times (as of this date) NCAA ch ampion Women's Basketball. 56 among all public and private universities, which places it among the top 5 percent of institutions nationwide. UConn men notebook: Former Husky student manager Mark Daigneault now on Thunder’s NBA staff. Unlikely, but interesting scenario: The AAC invites New Mexico State to join, replacing UConn. UConn Wins Opener vs. The UConn Pod: Realignment 2020 and Huskies in the WNBA. 20) and Pittsburgh (Oct. MORE: Five-star Wendell Moore commits to Duke In this week's Twitter Tuesday mailbag, we take a larger look at North Carolina's pursuit of two top-10 prospects, wonder if Indiana can clean up the state again, and break down whether UConn has what it takes to finish with a top-10 class. ALBANY — Sixty-two seconds after opening tip, Duke called for timeout. We use what's called "natural language processing" (NLP), which is a form of artificial intelligence that allows computers to read human language, to do this analysis. Seniors Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson led the way for the Huskies. UConn Women's Basketball on the Boneyard - About \| Facebook. 4 Louisville women's basketball will face No. At UConn, our faculty, staff, and students are dedicated to learning more about the world around them through research. UConn Women's Notebook: Samuelson still haunted by Final Four loss. #UConnNation. In honor of National Recovery Month, the CT Community of Addiction Recovery (CCAR) began hosting an annual "Recovery Walks!" celebration in 2000. Unlikely, but interesting scenario: The AAC invites New Mexico State to join, replacing UConn. myUConn Update ITS has launched an update to the university's mobile application, myUConn. Web survey powered by SurveyMonkey. 13), Syracuse (Oct. 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Mike Beaudry named starting quarterback at UConn; Eli Thomas' career at UConn is over less than a year after Veterans Peart, Williams looking to lay the foundation for. He talked about Marvin's development, his potential and much more. The latest Tweets from UConn Football (@UConnFootball). 986 likes · 2 talking about this. UConn announces agreement to play Boston College in football Mike Beaudry named starting quarterback at UConn; Ollie wins ruling on union protection in fight over firing. At UConn, our faculty, staff, and students are dedicated to learning more about the world around them through research. Sunday, the Huskies entered Trager Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky an unblemished 22-0. dave gavitt court. UConn and Notre Dame will play each other in women's basketball each season through at least 2023-24, the schools announced Thursday. Thank you for your interest in working at the University of Connecticut. UConn Baseball and Olympic Sports Use this board to discuss University of Connecticut athletic teams that do not have a board of their own. At UConn, our faculty, staff, and students are dedicated to learning more about the world around them through research. Mark Daigneault, who began as a student assistant at UConn, has moved up the coaching ladder and this. All rights reserved. In honor of National Recovery Month, the CT Community of Addiction Recovery (CCAR) began hosting an annual "Recovery Walks!" celebration in 2000. com at KeyOptimize. UConn Men's Basketball returns to the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, for another marquee showdown with rival Syracuse. She was Coach Auriemma’s first recruit in his first year as Head Women’s Basketball Coach at UConn. Nothing compares to witnessing live college football, and with UConn Huskies football tickets you're set to experience one of the best teams the American Athletic Conference has to offer. 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Applying for or Hosting an Unpaid Experience Learn about the various unpaid experiences at UConn Health such as internships, job-shadowing and volunteer assignments and the requirements, restrictions and process for evaluating these requests. 4 Louisville women's basketball will face No. The $17 Million Divorce. We look back at least week's win at UConn and peek ahead to this Saturday's game at home. Dedicated to fans of UCONN Women's Basketball who desire more interaction and less moderation. friartown sports forums. The Huskies football team might be an unmitigated disaster, but the basketball team embarks on the 2013-14 season with high expectations. Thanks to all of the dedicated UConn fans out there, we've been able to post over 1,800 game replays of the team you love dating all the way back to 1981. Storrs, CT. To read our message boards and talk with other ECU fans, just select a board from the menu above. dave gavitt court. Over the years, I have appreciated his songwriting and personal story, and I have followed his musical career closely. It’s pretty clear that no matter what people will try to argue, there’s a whole separate political game that’s being played here where the normal metrics of conference realignment (such as obtaining a new TV market) do not apply. Storrs, CT. This release has multiple new capabilities to enhance the user experience. On this episode of the pod, we discuss UConn's now-official exit from the AAC, the men's basketball non-conference schedule, Huskies in. 20 color vintage photographs that show how Saigoneses enjoyed Christmas in the 1960s and 1970s. The latest Tweets from UConn Football (@UConnFootball). The first media availability of the women's basketball season (not counting the American Athletic Conference media day) wrapped up not that long ago and the Huskies were without All-American forward Gabby Williams and transfer Batouly Camara. 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Login to Web Mail Office 365 Learn more about Office 365»Gmail Learn more about G Suite»Login to Web Mail Office 365 Learn more about Office 365» G Suite Learn more about G Suite» Alerts Phishing Attack Guide Current Alerts & Outages ITS and other University organizations will never send uns. 1 UConn gave coach Geno Auriemma his 999th victory with a 103-69 rout of DePaul on Friday night. com and a tweet from Ed. Dedicated to fans of UCONN Women's Basketball who desire more interaction and less moderation. Keyword Research: People who searched boneyard uconn also searched. edu%2Fspirit-pin-slogan-submission%2F. Welcome to the Official Twitter page for UConn Football. All rights reserved. A rare transfer in Geno Auriemma's program, she had 17 points and 8 rebounds as. Updated 7:14 pm EDT, Saturday, August 12, 2017. 1 UConn rolls DePaul. So instead of taking hard classes I don't need to, I've decided ease off a bit to focus on my grades and explore some interesting classes I wouldn't otherwise take as a history/poli sci major. This deserves its own thread: Scosox mentioned this in the UConn Smoke thread (page 28) the Boneyard site has a thread that began at 11pm tonight, claiming UConn will join the Big East for the 2021 season. She had missed the last five games, with UConn head. IF it's true, who does the AAC add to replace UConn or do they stay at 11 for both sports? I don't think there's any question that the AAC will kick out UConn football if their basketball programs go back to the Big East. UConn Single Sign On serves as your login to many University. - A three-year show-cause order for the former head coach. We may not see greatness like this again. 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Robert Farnon Dateline 2003 Centenary: 1917 - 2017 A Memory of a Modest Man My Lifetime's Appreciation of a Great Composer and Friend My Personal Wonderful Memories "Our Bob" Remembering Robert Farnon - the conductor A Personal Memory His Place in the History of British Light Music The 'Miniature Marvels' Man Some Fond Memories of Robert Farnon The Special Articles JIM (new articles) High Strung Beautiful Spring Butantan The Farnon Musical Lineage Haunted Heart At last, the Farnon filmography mysteries solved.. almost Up with the Lark Louisiana Hayride Ciao, Ciao Bambina (Modugno) My Waltz for You Dancer at the Fair Some Further Notes on Robert Farnon's "Seventh Heaven" Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra May Concert 2018 Piccadilly Playboy Classic Movie Thrillers Polka Dots and Moonbeams Cab Rank (van der Linden) Cocktails for Two Cornish Rhapsody Flowing Stream Going for a Ride Moonglow/Theme from “Picnic” The Bad and the Beautiful Robert Farnon’s 100th birthday My Object All Sublime Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra Concert – May 29th 2017 George Melachrino Elgar Complete Works for Wind Quintet Always Busy Dance of the Blue Marionettes Differing Versions of the Same Set Light Music Selections - An Update The Best of John Barry: From Bond to Born Free Cascades to the Sea Jan Stoeckart - Obituary Concert of British Light Music - February 26th 2017 London Fantasia The Goose Pimple Factor Or On The Bumpy Road To Mahler The Great British Mood Music Album - a comment The Great British Mood Music Album Peter Yorke's "In the Country" - Some Notes Melody of the Stars David Rose's "Gay Spirits," alternate piece with same title Lap of Luxury Frenesi By The Sleepy Lagoon Just William’s Luck Mind If I Make Love To You Caprice for Strings Notes and Suggestions on a Performance of Rutter's Requiem The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Mannequin Melody The Last Walz - The Strauss Family and Vienna - book review Tarantelle Styrienne (Debussy) Three English Dances Dance Of An Ostracised Imp Notes and Suggestions for a Performance of Camarata's Rumbalero Miloš: Blackbird – The Beatles Album Copland: Orchestral Works 1 Strolling Home Wagon Lit Notes and Suggestions on a Performance of Leroy Anderson's SleighRide Nooks and Crannies in the Field of Light Music Notes and Suggestions on a Performance of Leroy Anderson's Pennywhistle Song Notes on a Possible Performance of Four Leroy Anderson Musical Comedy Medleys (South Pacific, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, Brigadoon) Notes on a Possible Performance of Two Robert Farnon Selections, Consisting of Poodle Parade and Pictures in the Fire Notes on a Possible Performance of two Leroy Anderson selections, consisting of the Richard Rodgers Waltz Medley (1- Lover, 2- Falling in Love with Love, 3- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, 4- It's a Grand Night for Singing), and Song of the Bells David Ades (1938 - 2015) David Ades - a tribute by William Zucker David Clive Ades (1938 - 2015) Tribute to David Ades from John Wilson The World of Keith Mansfield Book Review - Those were The Days Listening to Light Music online Differing Versions of the Same Set Light Music Selections The 1992 - 2006 Index Jumping Bean Prior to 2003 - 2 Light Music CDs Up to December 2020 London Meetings May 6 LLMG October 9 LLMG October 11 LLMG May 10 - LLMG October 12 - LLMG More Legends London Meeting 1997 40th Anniversary London Meeting and Banquet in 1996 Legends of Light Music - intro David Ades Ronnie Aldrich Leroy Anderson Ronald Binge Stanley Black Howard Blake Leslie Bridgewater Frederick Charrosin Frank Chacksfield Francis Chagrin Eric Coates Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Frederic Curzon Harry Parr Davies Vivian Ellis Joseph Engleman Percy Fletcher Morton Gould Johnny Gregory Ronnie Hazlehurst John Holliday Roberto Inglez Albert Ketelbey Andre Kostelanetz Gordon Langford Dolf van der Linden Monia Liter Leighton Lucas Ray Martin [disc] Billy Mayerl Mitch Miller Cecil Milner Angela Morley Norrie Paramor Cyril Ornadel Tony Osborne Helen Perkin Donald Phillips Franck Pourcel Clive Richardson Roger Roger Edmundo Ros Conrad Salinger Raymond Scott Edrich Siebert Cyril Stapleton James Stevens Frank Tapp Phyllis Tate Billy Ternent Ernest Tomlinson Sidney Torch Cyril Watters Lou Whiteson Haydn Wood Peter Yorke Leon Young Victor Young Robert Farnon miscellaneous RFS 13-10-'13 Keeping Track - Dateline September 2009 Written by Super User. Posted in Reviews from issues of Journal Into Melody during 2009 "CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY" Film Soundtrack (Angela Morley) Conducted by Marcus Dods [USA] Film Score Monthly FSM Vol. 12 No. 8 [61:35 mins]. Angela Morley was still working as ‘Wally Stott’ when she composed the score for this film. This is the premiere release of the complete score, and the CD is limited to 1,500 copies making it an instant collectors’ item. But the important thing is the music, and we hear Angela creating some memorable tunes and glorious harmonies during a period when she had rebuilt her career as a major composer for films, following a self-imposed ‘exile’ due to her disappointment at what she regarded as poor sound quality in cinemas of the 1950s. The music was recorded at Anvil Studios, Denham and CTS London in June 1969. It has been magnificently restored for this CD, and it is such a pity that Angela was unaware before she died that it was ‘in the works’. She would have been delighted – not just with the sound, but also with the accompanying CD booklet which explains in considerable detail how the music fitted the film. I know that RFS members will rush to add this CD to their collections before all copies are sold. If you have problems finding a copy, the RFS Record Service will try to help, but this import may cost around £17. David Ades GREAT MOVIE THEMES 2 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Carl Davis Batman; The Pink Panther; Mission Impossible Suite; Love Story; Jurassic Park; Romeo and Juliet; Superman: March; The English Patient; The Godfather; Superman: "Can you read my mind?"; Pirates of the Caribbean; The Deerhunter: Introduction and Cavatina; The French Lieutenant’s Woman; Shakespeare in Love Naxos 8.572111 [68:44 mins]. It is great to be able to recommend this album by one of the UK’s leading symphony orchestras: a newly recorded release of a kind that in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s would have made regular appearances in the lists featuring the finest light music orchestras such as those fronted by Stanley Black, Percy Faith and Ron Goodwin. The RLPO under Carl Davis [composer of the penultimate track] play as to the manor born throughout. The brass excel, no more so than on Klaus Badelt’s Pirates, the knockout track for me and everyone else in my family who has heard it. Unsurprisingly three of the scores are by John Williams, with the others being by Danny Elfman, Francis Lai, Henry Mancini, Stanley Myers, Nino Rota [2], Francis Lai, Lalo Schifrin, Stephen Warbeck and Gabriel Yared. The recording, made in St George’s Hall, Blackburn, is very good with the percussion being particularly well-captured. This is my nomination for best bargain CD – at around £5 online – and also my Best Album choice. There is an earlier volume on Naxos 8.570505; I have heard excerpts and it sounds equally attractive. Peter Burt GOLDEN AGE OF LIGHT MUSIC : Light and Lively For full tracklisting see the Light Music CDs pages on this website. Guild GLCD5160 [79:05 mins] We light music enthusiasts have waited half-a-century for some decent recordings and then 60 come along together [well, almost!] With Guild’s latest offering [its 60th, yes 60th in the series] you get what it says on the tin … something "light and lively" [in the main], much needed feel good factors in the present climate. Thirty tracks at under a tenner strike me as pretty good value for money, even if we can’t claim it back on expenses! To say I enjoyed all the tracks may sound a little glib and twee, but I am at a loss to find anything unkind to say about this selection; something which will not gain me entrance to the Critics Club, no doubt. As with Guild GLCD5159 [reviewed below] there is a fine mix of the familiar and unfamiliar in terms of repertoire and performers. How good to hear names like The Amsterdam Symphonic Orchestra, Lou Busch, The Crawford Light Orchestra Joe Leahy, Michael Piastro, Boris Sarbek and Florian ZaBach for the first time [for me, that is] alongside the establishment of Chacksfied, Farnon, Faith, Hayman, Morley, Ornadel, Rose and Torch – for whom I had the experience of working with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Camden Theatre in the mid-1960s. As a percussionist just out of short trousers I found Sidney quite scary, but one cannot help be impressed by his versatile contributions, as organist, composer, arranger and conductor, to the light music world in general and, retrospectively, to the Guild series in particular. It’s interesting, by the way, to discover that Coronation Street wasn’t the only tune Eric Spear wrote, and that David Curry wasn’t just a conductor. The exceptionally informative notes, a splendid feature of the Guild series, also tell us that the Austrian Robert Stolz, who contributes the atmospheric African Moon to this disc, was featured on GLCD5118 in his more familiar role as composer and conductor of operetta. As David Ades writes: Stolz fled to the U.S.A. to escape the Nazis but returned to Vienna straight after the war, reclaimed his old house and continued to have a very successful career particularly as a conductor well into his 80s. A very big name in the Austrian capital alongside Brahms, Mahler, Mozart, Schubert, and the Strauss family, Stolz [middle name Elizabeth] provides a bizarre link between Petula Clark and Beethoven. As a young man he followed in the footsteps of the great German composer, and also those of Lehar, Millöcker, Offenbach, von Suppé and Zellar among others, as a major player in the history of Vienna’s iconic Theater an der Wien. And in 1961 Petula Clark and M.D. Peter Knight had a big hit with Romeo, based on Stolz’s quasi-foxtrot Salome. I would urge all light music lovers to invest in ‘Light And Lively’ immediately. It’s jam-packed with goodies, not least Gerard Calvi’s Madame De Mortemouille’s Ball, a singularly whimsical arrangement which just avoids being a wee bit silly, although it’s a mystery why Mr Calvi changed his name from Grégoire Elie Krettly. It’s an absolute cracker! Glyn Bragg GOLDEN AGE OF LIGHT MUSIC : More Strings In Stereo For full tracklisting see the Light Music CDs pages on this website. Guild GLCD5159 [77:07] Guild’s fabulously unique light music series seems now well established in the stereo era. With no less than 25 tracks this album offers a superb mix of familiar and unfamiliar music and performers. More knowledgeable light music fans than me will no doubt have heard many of the tracks in their original form but I was delighted to come across Buddy Bregman, Pierre Challet, the Clebanoff Strings and the Rio Carnival Orchestra for the first time. Once again I was struck by two things: the high quality of the orchestral playing, in particular the strings, and the brilliant inventiveness of the arrangements. There are too many gems to list but Les Baxter’s Harem silks from Bombay was surprisingly delicious, and the combination of Angela Morley and A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square is quite special – even ‘though I never was able to discover that particular bird in that particular part of London [nor blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover, for that matter.] I didn’t enjoy Percy Faith’s rather pedestrian version of Happy Talk from‘South Pacific’. The Gaslight Orchestra’s After the ball seemed slightly out of place and [dare I say?] I found Leon Pober’s The Ski Song a touch old-fashioned. But any lack of enthusiasm for the odd track is more than compensated for by the rest of the disc, which I can recommend wholeheartedly. Needless to say, transfers are of the usual high Guild standard and the liner notes are once again packed with well-researched information. Glyn Bragg JOHN IRELAND The Hallé Orchestra / John Wilson Mai-Dun, The Forgotten Rite, Satyricon Overture, The Overlanders Suite [arr. Sir Charles Mackerras], A London Overture, Epic March Hallé CDHLL 7523 [67:41]. Mr Ireland was born in Cheshire in 1879 and died in 1962. He destroyed all the music he wrote prior to 1908. After that his output included a number of attractive orchestral works, the most famous being included on this album superbly played by the North West’s very own symphony orchestra with our own John Wilson wielding the baton. Well worth acquiring and not only for the deserving to be more popular Suite, arranged from music for a 1946 Australian film [the composer’s sole film score] starring Chips Rafferty and produced by Sir Michael Balcon, Peter Burt DANCING ON A SUMMER LAWN The Palm Court Orchestra conducted by John Godfrey Pink Lady; A Perfect Day; I Love You Truly; Desire de Moment; Aloha Oe; The Melody; Valse Pathetique; The Little Grey Home in the West; Mighty Lak a Rose; Vision of Salome; La Première Fois; When Irish Eyes Are Smiling; Fairy Dream; The Whirl of the Waltz; When You Remember Vienna; Thrills; Hearts and Flowers; Dreaming; O Sole Mio. Dal Segno DSPRCD 401 [64:04] The orchestra on this CD is essentially a small group comprising a pianist, violinist, violist, cellist and flautist. Emanating from Sydney, they still play at tea gardens and small functions under the baton of Robyn Godfrey, John having died in 1996. Unfortunately the group, its music and recordings have suffered various tragedies over the years including the loss of most of its 15,000 library scores; the studio recordings on this disc are all that survive of their work. The music comprises ragtime, lots of English and European waltzes and light classics. The arrangements and music are sufficiently varied to avoid a degree of sameness. Maybe this album does not quite attain to the heights of Shelly Van Loen but it is immensely enjoyable particularly given the modest price. Ideal for listening to in the garden on a summer evening or doing what the title says! The label is somewhat obscure, but the CD can be obtained from MDT [tel: 01332 540240 or www.mdt.co.uk ] at £9.07 including p&p. Brian Stringer ANDR? PREVIN : THE GREAT RECORDINGS [The LSO Years 1971-1980] London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn EMI Classics 2 67969 2. A 10-CD boxful of delights from the prodigiously talented conductor-arranger, composer, pianist and TV personality born Andreas Prewin 80 years ago in Germany and addressed as Mr Preview by Morecambe and Wise. Along with the "heavier" items, which include Boléro, Enigma Variations, The Planets and Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, there are discs devoted to Tchaikovsky ballet music, Gershwin [Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, etc.] and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Choral music lovers are catered for by the sacred Belshazzar’s Feast and the secular Carmina Burana. With splendid playing, fine digitally remastered sound, well-filled discs, and a bargain price of around £3 per CD, this box will make an excellent Christmas gift. Peter Burt "THE CHAMPIONS" Original TV series Box Set Network DVD Catalogue Number 2959007. The Network DVD Original Soundtracks series have released music from ‘The Champions’, which includes Robert Farnon’s music, written especially for the ITC series. One of the tracks, entitled simply ‘Violin’ is a fragment from the Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra (a cue in the Chappell Recorded Music Library), but played unaccompanied. It also sounds like Raymond Cohen’s playing to me. The series now includes ‘Department ‘S’’, ‘Jason King’, ‘Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)’, ‘The Strange Report’, ‘Danger Man (Half Hour Black and White)’, ‘Danger Man (Hour Colour)’, ‘Man In A Suitcase’, and of course ‘The Prisoner’, of which RFS members are already aware. The next in the series will be ‘The Protectors’. The reproduction on all of them (with exception of the main titles from ‘Department ‘S’’) is extremely good. Franck Leprince Network DVDs are available from their website. Copies can also be obtained from the RFS Record Service. GOLDEN AGE OF LIGHT MUSIC European Tour For full tracklisting see the Light Music CDs pages on this website. Guild GLCD 5161 [77:47]. A European Tour, courtesy of one of Guild’s latest offerings with some evocative tunes to keep us company - starting in the capital with Voice of Londonby Charles Williams played here by his Concert Orchestra. This is a longer version than the original Chappell recording by the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra who used it to introduce their broadcast concerts. I had an idea it was also used many years ago by the BBC as intro music for a radio film programme introduced by Peter Noble, but I could be wrong. A non-stop trip to Scotland with Bob Farnon and his Orchestra allows us to hear two of his arrangements of traditional melodies from his suite "From The Highlands" – Comin’ Thru’ The Rye and My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose. However if there’s a further ‘tours’ CD I’ll ask David to stop off in the Midlands to hear Leslie Bridgewater’s homage to Worcestershire – Bromsgrove Fair – played by the New Century Orchestra conducted by Sidney Torch on FDH. Back-tracking down to Wales with the Melachrino Orchestra, Rhondda Rhapsody by the BBC producer Mai Jones used to introduce a feature in the show she produced "Welsh Rarebit" – a tuneful ‘Concerto’ style number reminiscent of the so-called ‘Denham Concertos’. Then we go across the Irish Sea for a sparkling version of Victor Herbert’s The Irish Have A Great Day Tonight from Mantovani and his Orchestra, before setting foot on the European mainland to the strains of Clive Richardson’s Continental Galop played by the Danish State Radio Orchestra. There are echoes of Clive’s Running Off The Rails (Locomotion) I’m sure. Werner Müller (alias Ricardo Santos and his Cascading Strings) provide a sound portrait of Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens with Heino Gaze’s Tivoli Melodie followed by a real lilting melody – Luxembourg Waltz by Geoffrey Everitt and Frederick Peter Hargreaves, played in fine style by Frank Chacksfield’s Orchestra. Did the two composers write anything else? I don’t know, but I’m sure somebody will! A fiery rendition of Fiesta In Seville by David Rose conducting his own orchestra gets the feet a’tapping, as does Tony Osborne’s Lights Of Lisbon with a wordless chorus. Is this a first for a Guild Light Music CD? When It’s Spring In Baden Baden played by the Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra (now known as the South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra) conducted by Hans Rosbaud is an absolutely delightful piece of light music – and to think the orchestra was originally a Spa municipal group of players! Where I live we used to have a Spa orchestra but it was a much more modest affair (more the salon type) disbanded many years ago. Another David Rose number Roman Holiday is a really catchy corker of a piece. Apparently Italian motorists are to be avoided at all costs, so I’ve read, so I wondered if David Rose had ever visited Rome because I’m sure there are echoes of frantic motor horns in the music – great stuff! Passe Partout by Victor Young from "Around The World In Eighty Days" is played in gradn style by the Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra – could they be the same players as are used on the ‘101 Strings; LPs? A very underrated series, in my opinion. Swiss Holidayby Joe Leahy, played by his Orchestra, is another tuneful, catchy item as is Swedish Polka by Hugo Alfvén. Although credited as the conductor it was Bengt Hallberg, a jazz pianist and arranger, who took the places of the aged composer on the podium, although I’d never heard of Hallberg anyway. Be that as it may, buy Guild Light Music CDs and not only are you entertained – you’re educated too! Track twenty-two has Victor Young and his Orchestra playing Sicilian Tarantella by Balsamo, Conn & Miller (who?!) which is a dead ringer for Henry Mancini’s score for "What Did You Do In The War Daddy?" made in 1966 about the same time as I bought the LP soundtrack, whereas Sicilian Tarantetta was recorded in 1956. The film is described in Halliwell as a ‘silly war comedy with insufficient jokes for its wearisome length’! So there! Georges Auric is a name I associate with British films of the 1940s such as "Dead Of Night", "Passport To Pimlico" and "It Always Rains On Sunday" – but here is his Pavements Of Paris played by Michel Legrand’s Orchestra. Our European Tour ends in Belgium with a quirky little number called The Spider Of Antwerp played by Guy Luypaerts and his Orchestra – another name I hadn’t heard before until it started to appear on earlier Guild Light Music CDs. But before Belgium we’re diverted to the Mediterranean – East Of Malta to be exact – Ronald Hanmer’s dramatic, slightly oriental piece from the Francis, Day & Hunter library, played by the New Century Orchestra with Sidney Torch conducting. Personally I think that would have given this CD a stronger finale than ‘Spider’. Either way, another scintillating choice to add to this ever gowing collection of light music, enhances as ever by Alan Bunting’s restoration magic. Ken Wilkins GOLDEN AGE OF LIGHT MUSIC Hall of Fame – Volume 3 For full tracklisting see the Light Music CDs pages on this website. GLCD 5162 [77:54]. "Hall of Fame 3" kicks off with Singing In The Rainplayed by the Conrad Salinger Orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman, which I must confess isn’t my favourite tune. I don’t know what it is, apart from being a bit repetitive – I was probably put off by Gene Kelly’s warbling on the film soundtrack! He should have stuck to dancing! In complete contrast track two is a corker of a performance from Percy Faith’s Orchestra of Spanish Serenade by Victor Herbert. It’s number one of ‘A Suite of Four Serenades’, the others being Chinese, Cuban and Oriental – the Spanish Serenade being particularly tuneful. The Percy Faith version is longer than the Paul Whiteman recording on Naxos which I have, but that includes the three other serenades. Did Percy Faith conduct the complete ‘Suite’? I bet PF expert Alan Bunting knows! Ron Goodwin’sLingering Lovers meanders along nicely on track three, courtesy of David Carroll’s Orchestra, followed by Philip Green’s Ecstasy which has (I think) a strong Spanish flavour, hence the ‘José Belmonte’ pseudonym I suppose. Richard Hayman and his Orchestra get into the swing of things with a sparkling, and at the same time exotic, rendition of Ernesto Lecuona’s Amor Que Bonito (Love And The World Loves With You), and in a similar vein Hugo Winterhalter adds another touch of Spain with his own composition La Muneca Espanola (The Spanish Doll). Now here’s where I disagree with David: he calls Charles Williams’ Columbia recording of his own Devil’s Galop the definitive version. My Chambers dictionary defines ‘definitive’ as ‘ final, expert, most authoritative’ – and the onlyDevil’s Galop that falls into that category is the Chappell version recorded at Levy’s Sound Studios. Nobody, but nobody, plays that piece like the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra – crisp drumrolls at the beginning and end, and a sparkly xylophone in the middle – and fast. No wonder BBC producer Neil Tuson chose it: he says in "The Inside Story of Dick Barton", published in 1950, "When I found the Galop (spelt incorrectly in the book with two ‘ll’s’) and heard that drumroll I could hardly believe my ears – so I lit a cigarette and relaxed!" In his defence, David says he included the well-known Columbia version because the original Chappell piece only lasted 79 seconds. No such reservations with Jumping Bean and Shooting Star – Decca and Columbia releases from 1948, and Elizabethan Serenade – Ron Goodwin’s Parlophone single from 1957. Crazy Violins is a tour-de-force in playing ‘out of tune; which, if you can actually do something reasonably well, is a hard thing to do – as Helmut Zacharias and his Magic Violins must have found out. It’s a delightfully eccentric melody written by someone called Wildman. Now would that be a pen name for David Rose, because hisMarch Of The Pretzels also uses the off-key violins sound in this very catchy piece played by his Orchestra. Eric Coates rounds off the main part of the CDD programme with his Rediffusion March – Music Everywhere with him conducting the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra. What busy musicians they were in those halcyon days of light concert music! Finally there is a tribute to George Melachrino in which he and his own Orchestra are featured on four recordings with the maestro as guest conductor on a fifth – made between 1947 and 1958. It begins with the Theme from Runnymede Rhapsody by the long-lived but rather neglected composer/conductor Reginald King. Then an arrangement by George of Bob Farnon’s Sophistication Waltz called by its original song title My Song Of Spring,followed by his own catchy composition Winter Sunshine. Then something I’ve never heard of: Aprite Le Finestre (Open The Windows) by one Virgilio Panzuti – this time George is conducting the San Remo Festival Orchestra. It was an Italian entry in the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, and also the winner in the San Remo Festival of the same year. Ten to one this is its first outing in yonks! And to round off the third Guild ‘Hall of Fame’ Richard Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto from the film "Dangerous Moonlight", the last of the featured Melachrino recordings with William Hill-Bowen at the piano Apparently the music became such an instant hit with cinemagoers that a record was rushed out to satisfy public demand, but it’s my contention that the issued disc was a rejected studio ‘take’ because the pianist, Louis Kentner, isn’t entirely in-step with the orchestra – which has probably added to the charm of the music! Ken Wilkins The above two Guild Light Music CDs are due to be released at the beginning of October. You can order copies in advance from the RFS Record Service. FINE TUNING The Music of Roy Dean : Warren Mailley-Smith [piano], Matthew Jones [violin], Susie Parkes [soprano], Frances Patton [mezzo], George Bartle [tenor], Henry Grant Kerswell [bass-baritone] Ceremonial March: Betjemania, A Century of Songs [12 songs], Lyric Suite: Three moons [32:17]. Roy Dean is an 82-year-old amateur composer who, since retirement from the Diplomatic Service, has gone into music. This CD, which admittedly offers short measure, presents a selection of his work which he admits is pastiche [‘though so much light music is] but is certainly tuneful. It begins with a cheerful march inspired by the former Poet Laureate, played here as a piano solo. The sequence A Century of Song is written in various 20th century song styles: music hall, parlour ballad, New Orleans, rock musical, Irish song, calypso, Country and Western, etc. The Three Moons, originally songs and shapely ones, are transcribed for violin and piano and the Joplinesque finale, Honeymoon Tune, rounds things off happily. Well performed, nicely recorded and enjoyable. Available from the composer at 14 Blyth Road, Bromley, BR1 3RX, £10 [including p&p] Philip L Scowcroft GOLDEN AGE OF SALON MUSIC The Schwanen Salon Orchestra, G. Huber Skater’s Waltz; Vienna, City of My Dreams; The Gypsy Princess: Potpourri; Jocelyn: Berceuse; Serenata; Portuguese Fisherman’s Dance; Salut d’amour; Il bacio; Blue Tango; A Waltz Dream, Act 1: Non sai mia bella: Leise, ganz leise klingt’s durch den raum; Mélodie in F major [Rubinstein]; Belle of the Ball; Blauer Himmel; Liebesleid; The Dragon Fly; Hexentanz / Funiculi, Funicula; Mattinata; The Opera Ball: A Private Room; Humoresque No.7 [Dvorak]; Dark Eyes; Romanian Gypsy Festival; A media luz; Puszta Fox; Thais: Méditation; Gerhard Winkler Medley; Harlequin’s Millions: Serenade; Das muss ein Stuck vom Himmel sein; South of the Alps: In a Port; Sie hören Paul Lincke: Sie hören – PotpourriNaxos 8.578003-04 Over two-and-a-quarter hours of salon music on 2-CDs affectionately played and well recorded. There are no big surprises here in this compilation from the previous four albums which the orchestra has recorded on Naxos going back as far as 2000. The potpourris are of quite reasonable length, unlike similar items that used to appear on 78’s which gave you about 15 seconds of one title before switching to the next. A pity that only one movement has been selected from Ernst Fischer’s delightful South of the Alps suite. However if the selection of titles appeal, and at around £11, then you can safely invest. Brian Stringer STAN KENTON’S MUSIC 1955 Artistry in rhythm theme, One o’clock jump, Alright, okay, you win, Egdon Heath, It’s only a paper moon, Come rain or come shine, Harold Arlen song medley, This can’t be love, Bernie’s tune, Opus in chartreuse, Lover come back to me, Learnin’ the blues, Blues in D flat, Theme Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY776 [54:22] Kenton fans will be disappointed with this one because the Musicians’ Union would not let him use his own band. Johnny Richards recruited as many good New York based players that he could; the line-up changed week by week cutting down on the tightness of the sound. Guests involved included Harold Arlen, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Ilinois Jacquet, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Raney, Buddy Rich and Joe Williams. Stan did all the announcements. The CD consists of two shows, the sound dodgy to say the least, some of the applause should have been edited. Two from the Kenton band book, Egdon Heath and Opus in chartreuse, fit uneasily in the show sounding quirky without the cohesion Stan’s full band could provide. Harold Arlen was a wonderful composer, here singing himself plus a couple from Julie Wilson. They really murder great tunes; the crime increased on As long as I live by including an organ. The jazz soloists on board do an over the top frantically paced Bernie’s tune. The penultimate number Blues in D flat includes most of the sessioneers in a jam session. In summary: if you listened to the original broadcasts, a memory jogger but little else! Paul Clatworthy EVELYN LAYE Queen of Musical Comedy I’ll See You Again, Vila, I Love You So, Lover Come Back To me, Dear Little Café, Zigeuner, Love Is A Song, Let The People Sing, I See Your Face Before Me, You’ve Done Something To My Heart etc.. 55 tracks in total Avid Easy AMSC 977 2 CDs [158:10]. Avid have already spoiled musical comedy fans with 2-CD sets devoted to three famous leading ladies - Jessie Matthews, Frances Day and Pat Kirkwood; now compiler Hugh Palmer has turned his sights on perhaps the greatest of them all, Evelyn Laye. To quote Avid’s own publicity: Arguably the most historic retrospective double-CD ever released in the United Kingdom, "Evelyn Laye – Queen of Musical Comedy" spans 71 years of the glittering career of the legendary British star whom the director Max Reinhardt called "that rare and Holy Trinity of the stage, a great singer, a great actress, and a great beauty".The 55 tracks, many of them never previously released, take her from her first major London hit as a 19-year-old Gaiety Girl in the 1920 revival of The Shop Girl to the last (and hitherto unreleased) studio recordings she ever made, in 1991, at the age of 91. Along the way are rare and unreleased performances from The Merry Widow, in which she took London by storm at the age of 22 in the 1923 revival, but from which she made no commercial recordings; two songs that she never recorded from her greatest international success in Noel Coward’s Bitter Sweet; unreleased soundtrack songs from her two Hollywood films, One Heavenly Night, with John Boles, and The Night is Young, with Ramon Novarro; an operatic duet from Verdi’s La Traviata, and even a stirring and hitherto unreleased version of Elgar’s ‘Land of Hope and Glory’. CD-2 contains still more unreleased treasures: versions of Joyce Grenfell’s ‘I’m Going To See You Today’ and Ivor Novello’s‘Love is My Reason’; an extreme rarity, ‘Liaisons’, recorded from the stage in live performance during her last musical, A Little Night Music, in 1979; duets from the 1980s with Sir Harry Secombe and with Roy Hudd, and two songs specially written for her in 1991 by her musical director, John Dalby, the second of which, ‘Thank You’, is a moving valedictory to her loyal public during a career that spanned nine decades. The detailed booklet contains just about everything you need to know about her career (and her often troubled private life) with copious recording information to satisfy those of us who like to know the source of the music we are hearing. This CD is a poignant example of the kind of valuable and historic archive that might be lost if changes in sound copyright law made such releases uneconomic. The major companies (and their accountants) certainly wouldn’t be interested in such a project. David Ades THE BOSWELL SISTERS The Music Goes Round And Round 19 tracks including the Title tune, The object of my affection, It’s the girl, Every little moment, Let yourself go, Top hat white tie and tails, It’s written all over your face, Coffee in the morning and kisses in the night, The lonesome road, When I take my sugar to tea, I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, Dinah etc.Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY775 [54:28] On this CD the sisters are mainly backed by members of the Dorsey Brothers various groups. They set the standard that many later vocal groups tried to compete with. Elle Fitzgerald is quoted as saying she used Connie Boswell’s voice as one to emulate. As with many of these historical issues, tunes are included that have not survived the passing of time; I only knew ten of the titles. Charming nostalgia all the way. Paul Clatworthy BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETS The Very Best Of Heartbeat, That’ll be the day, Peggy Sue, Oh boy, Rave on, Think it over, Brown eyed handsome man, Let’s make a fool of you, True love ways, Raining in my heart, Everyday, Wishing, Love me, …..Universal 1797581 [54:45 & 53:49] I enjoyed every one of these 50 tracks by the singer who, aged 22, was tragically killed in a ‘plane crash; a very talented pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll whose work, thanks to his interest in production techniques, sounds as fresh today as it did nearly 50 years ago. I find what has been called his "hiccoughing vocal style" most attractive. Mention, too, should be made of The Crickets in the success of this 2-CD set, available online at around 17 pence per track [a consideration in these straightened times]. Peter Burt BETTY HUTTON At The Saints And Sinners Ball 20 titles incl. My cuty’s due at two-to-two today, Banana boat [Oomba-oomba-oomba], Sleepy head, Hit the road to dreamland, Back home, Satins & spurs, This must be the place, Chicken hawk Sepia 1133 [53:30] Probably better known as a rather rumbustious character in movies, this is an interesting album. The first ten tracks are shared by orchestra conductors Nelson Riddle [4], Vic Shoen [4] and Billy May [2]. Tennessee Ernie Ford sings on two tracks, one of which is The honeymoon’s over that became a Top 20 single. Betty’s sister Marion also joins her on two tracks: Ko ko mo [I love you so] and Heart throb. The album from which the CD is named was recorded in 1958 and includes Whole world in his hands, When the saints come marchin’ in and Search my heart, which perhaps presages Betty’s later decision to dedicate her life to religion and teaching. Ray Pavene JANE RUSSELL Fine And Dandy 17 tracks incl. The Title tune, Take love easy, Love on the rocks, When a woman loves a man, Can’t we talk it over, You don’t know what love is, Love is here to stay, The one I love, You’re mine, you, Sepia 1132 [44:43] Miss Russell’s obvious physical attributes have probably rather overshadowed her ability as a singer. The first 12 tracks on this album date from 1958 and the disc became Jane’s personal favourite. The last five tracks – Sing you sinners,I’ve got the world on a string, One way ticket to the blues, Diamond’s are a girl’s best friend and One for my baby – have never been released before and there are, as the booklet notes put it, "some rough edges". Enjoyable, but short measure for this company. Ray Pavene KATE SMITH We Remember Kate Smith 26 tracks incl. Just in time, All the way, It don’t mean a thing, Thinking of you, The beat o’ my heart, Yes indeed!, High on a windy hill, Mr Wonderful, Love is a many splendoured thing, Comes love, Wish you were here, Come rain or come shine, …. Sepia 1134 [78:08] Well, I don’t remember her … but glad to make the singer’s acquaintance here. Born Kathryn Elizabeth in 1907, she had a good soprano voice, first used in church choirs, and was popular from the mid-‘20s into the ‘70s. She passed on in 1986. She had been training as a nurse before moving into show biz. The ever comprehensive booklet notes tell us that the great classical conductor Leopold Stokowski said of her voice: "Don’t ever take a lesson, Miss Smith. Your voice is a gift from God". She made Irving Berlin’s God bless America [track 25 here] into a substitute national anthem in WWII, during which she raised $600 million for GIs. Although she had sole performing rights to the song, proceeds went to the Boy Scouts. Here is a fine choice of quality songs and this full measure album can be recommended. Peter Burt ALMA COGAN Dreamboat: Her 31 Finest including Bell bottom blues, Half as much, The moon is blue, The little shoemaker, Canoodlin’ Rag, Little things mean a lot, Skokiaan, This old house, I can’t tell a waltz from a tango, Paper kisses, Blue again, Softly, softly, Mambo Italiano, Tweedle-dee, The naughty lady of shady lane Retrospective 4121 [76:17] This collection on a new label complements the broadcast selection from Sepia reviewed in JIM 178. Nine of the songs here were Top 20 hits including the title tune which made it to No.1 in April 1955. Frank Cordell and his Orchestra accompany on the majority of tracks although those of Ken Macintosh, Geoff Love and pianist Felix King are also featured. Penny-whistler Desmond Lane plays on Willie Can. The label did not reply to my e-mail so I cannot tell you who made the arrangements. This is something of a nostalgia trip for those of us who in the ‘fifties were a little bit in love with "The girl with the laugh in her voice". Peter Burt LISA KIRK Sings At the Plaza 22 tracks including I travel light, I’m sitting on top of the world, Yo’d be so nice to come home to, Anything goes, Hi-lili, hi-lo, How come you do me like you do, Why can’t you behave, Good little girls, Far away places and the Riviera, Limehouse blues Sepia 1128 [74:53] I must admit to not having heard of this lady before but the customary informative liner notes for this label tell me that not only was she a Broadway star but "truly the Queen in the golden days of night life entertainment". Nice personality and voice and well supported by her M.D. Don Pippin and The 4 Saints, the applause is deserved and not too obtrusive. In addition to the album titles listed above there are a further dozen musical theatre tracks such as Shaking the blues away, Little girl blue, But not for me, The lady is a tramp and My funny valentine. With Sepia’s generous timing and the price [around £8], well worth adding to your collection. Peter Burt BOZ SCAGGS Speak Low Invitation, She was too good for me, I wish I knew, Speak low, Do nothing till you hear from me, I’ll remember April, Save your love for me, Ballad of the sad young man, Skylark, Sense fine, Dandy, This time the dream’s on me Decca B 001202602 [52:30] Long overdue follow-up to his last CD, where singer Boz started to be more experimental. Inspired by ideas Gil Evans explored, Boz picks a wide range of ballads arranged by Gil Goldstein. His distinct vocalising gives a new slant to some well-known diverse songs. A very nice release with a few surprises in the repertoire, a real change of style first explored on his last album which left his early days as a singer of blues and rock and roll a distant memory. I hope all his followers have moved with him. Paul Clatworthy FRANK SINATRA Nothing But the Best 2-CD Set CD1: 22 tracks including Come fly with me, The best is yet to come, The way you look tonight, Luck be a lady, Bewitched, The good life, The girl from Ipanema, Fly me to the moon [in other words], Summer wind, Strangers in the night, Call me irresponsible, Somethin’ stupid, My kind of town. CD2: 12 tracks including White Christmas, Go tell it on the mountain, The little drummer boy, Do you hear what I hear?, The twelve days of ChristmasReprise 8122798853 [74:38 & 38:17] Perhaps not quite the best, but still very good. These are digitally remastered Reprise tracks from the ‘60s, including some Capitol re-recordings. Arrangers are Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Quincy Jones [with Count Basie and his Orchestra], Ernie Freeman, Billy Strange [with Nancy Sinatra], Gordon Jenkins, Skip Martin [the title tune], Claus Ogerman and Don Costa [including My way]. The final track, Body and soul, is a Torrie Zito arrangement conducted by Frank Sinatra Jr. and was previously unreleased. The 2-CD set also includes the "Rare and Unreleased" 12 Songs of Christmas with Frank being joined by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, and Bing Crosby. The main album is available separately. Peter Burt ANN SOUTHERN / DOROTHY LAMOUR Southern Lamour After you’ve gone, Another year, Always, The last time I saw Paris, You’ll never know, My man, Life is just a bowl of cherries … & 7 other tracks / You’re mine now, Did you ever see a dream walking? Why was I born, Can’t help loving that man, I can’t tell why I love you … and 5 other tracks Sepia 1127 [66:09] Two successful LP albums from 1957 by two of the silver screen’s songbirds. Ann Sothern was another new name to me but her 14 tracks, arranged and conducted by Ian Bernard, who composed the rather wistfulAnother year, make for very pleasant listening. Berlin, Kern-Hammerstein II, Brown-Henderson, Gershwin-Heyward, Rodgers-Hart, Arlen-Koehler and Porter figure among those supplying the words and music. There are some splendid instrumental soloists especially on Ballin’ the jack. Dorothy Lamour was, of course, known to me through the ‘Road’ films with Crosby and Hope. She, too, was a "proper" singer and her 10 tracks are arranged and conducted by Georges Norman. Again, good compositions equally pleasant to listen to, with Kern-Hammerstein II responsible for four of them, although P.G. Wodehouse also got in on one of them, Bill. For all their long film careers the two vocalists only worked together once, as chorus girls in the 1933 Busby Berkeley classic "Footlight Parade". Peter Burt BITTER SWEET Selections from the Operetta by Noël Coward, Vanessa Lee, Roberto Cardinali, Julie Dawn and John Hauxvell, The Rita Williams Singers and Michael Collins and his Orchestra Overture, The call of life, If you could only come with me, I’ll see you again, Ladies of the town, If love were all, Dear little café, Tokay, Kiss me, Ziguener, Finale … Sepia 1130[77:29] The first eleven tracks [of 23] above are by the artists listed and were recorded in 1958, the first stereo version of the 1929 show. They are followed by a selection played by the London Palladium Orchestra conducted by Clifford Greenwood just before the outbreak of war in 1939. Then there are the original London cast members, Peggy Wood, George Metexa and Ivy St Helier, singing the major hits of the show. Evelyn Laye, the original Broadway star sings I’ll see you again andZigeuner, and then we have four tracks from the Paris production of 1930 starring Jane Marnac and René Bussy. "The Master" himself completes the disc with his distinctive version of I’ll see from a recording made in 1954, exactly 25 years after the show was first seen. A veritable cornucopia of what was, as the detailed liner notes opine, "Coward’s first musical and arguably his best". Ray Pavene "My inspiration is you" ANNETTE HANSHAW. Moanin’ low, Loveable and sweet, Here we are, I get the blues when it rains, Mean to me, A precious little thing called love, My inspiration is you, My blackbirds ere bluebirds now, Forgetting you, From now on, Miss Annabelle Lee, Ever since time Began, Would you like to take a walk, Yes indeedy he do, The way I feel today, Nobody cares if I’m blue, If I had a girl like you, Telling it to the daises, Cooking breakfast for the one I love, I have to have you. Sounds of Yester Year DS0Y779 [59:00]. Old as I am there are not many tunes here that I know, Identifying titles is not helped by the fact that the sleeve puts many songs in a different order to the CD! Her "Betty Boop" voice puts her into my novelty catalogue although there will be many nannies and grandpas who would love a copy. Her main backing group goes under the name "The Sizzling Syncopaters"; other tracks have The Dorsey Brothers, Manny Klein, Adrian Rollini and Benny Goodman. Rated top notch in the 1920s her recording really sounds its age! Paul Clatworthy THE ORIGINAL BLONDE BOMBSHELL : EVELYN DALL VOL. 1 - Mrs. Worthington; Cohen The Crooner (MB/JC); Lulu’s Back In Town; The General’s Fast Asleep (RB);The Lady In Red; Wotcha Gotcha Trombone For?; Woe Is Me (JC); Cuban Pete; I’m All In; Lost My Rhythm, Lost My Music, Lost My Man; Organ Grinder’s Swing; Did You Mean It?; On The Isle Of Kitchymiboko; Swing Is In The Air; Sailor, Where Art Thou?; I May Be Poor, But I’m Honest (SB,LC); Rhythm’s O.K.In Harlem; Gangway; Swing High, Swing Low; Poor Robinson Crusoe; Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off (SB); Fifty Million Robins Can’t Be Wrong; It’s The Natural Thing To Do; No Songs About Love (KTMA); It’s The Rhythm In Me (KTMA); The Coster Rhumba (HFAS); You’ll Love The Army (KAWAG); Actions Speak Louder Than Words (KAWAG); Sitting On A Cloud That’s Silver-Lined (TF); Hey There Bellman (TF). MB – Max Bacon; SB – Sam Browne; JC – Jack Cooper; LC – Les Carew; RB – Rhythm Brothers. From film soundtracks of: KTMA – Kicking The Moon Around; HFAS – He Found A Star; KAWAG – King Arthur Was A Gentleman; TF – Time Flies (acc. Stephane Grappelli) Memory Lane MLCD00178:05. Memory Lane magazine, in what promises to be an exciting new venture, has just launched its own CD label, and this is the first release. It contains 23 tracks with Ambrose & his Orchestra covering just over two years from September 1935, and seven more from film soundtracks, and is sub-titled "The Complete Evelyn Dall Recordings" with a promise of more to come. By my reckoning around half these tracks have appeared individually on various CD reissues, but many are now out of print. To have Miss Dall’s complete output brought together in this way is a major step for which Ray Pallett and Dave Cooper deserve every support. The remastering has produced a very clear sound, and given the timbre of Evelyn’s voice I found it preferable to listen with the tone setting set towards the bass. It’s apparent that she had a considerable stage presence and a strong personality, which was perfectly suited to the material she was assigned. That included some real scorchers, which she sang as to the manner born, but she was equally at home in broad comedy and Latin-American numbers. The presentation is excellent, with an informative liner note and a reproduction of the original publicity for "The Coster Rhumba" (note correct spelling!). I would like to have seen composer credits included, and a slightly longer interval between tracks, but as the first of a new label this is impressive, and highly recommended. Barry McCanna The CD is priced at £5.99 inc. P&P to a UK address, or £7.99 inc P&P for air mail post to an address outside the UK. It can be ordered from Memory Lane, PO Box 1939, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 3UH. Payment can be made by sterling cheque to "Memory Lane", or you can log on to www.memorylane.org.uk where there is a PayPal facility. HANSEL AND GRETEL Original Television Cast Sepia 1125 [76:20] The music for ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was composed by Alec Wilder with words by William Engvick, who wrote the English lyrics to the Song from Moulin Rouge [Where is your heart]. It starred Rudy Vallee, Stubby Kaye and Paula Laurence. Coupled with this are five numbers from Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Yeoman of the Guard’ with Barbara Cook, Celeste Holm, Bill Hayes and Alfred Drake. Then there are 16 "Bonus Tracks" by such as Red Buttons, Barbara Cook, Eddie Bracken, Stubby Kaye, and Rudy Vallee, one of whose songs isThe pig got up and slowly walked away. Rather a mixture but, surprisingly, enjoyable. But I can’t see many sales outside the States – especially if they don’t read JIM! Ray Pavene "THE THIRD MAN" AND OTHER CLASSIC FILM THEMES including Passport to Pimlico, La Ronde, The Romantic Age, Whisky Galore, The Glass Mountain, Genevieve, La Strada etc.. Naxos 8120880.Featruing recordings by Anton Karas (zither), Mantovani, Charles Williams, Larry Adler, Percy Faith, David Rose and others. BILL SAVILL AND HIS ORCHESTRA "We Could Have Danced All Night"; "In a Dancing Mood". Original Decca LPs from the 1950s. A welcome reminder of "Music While You Work".Vocalion CDLK4397. INTERNATIONAL POP ALL STARS "Great Film Themes From Many Lands"; "Vibrations Around The World". Original Decca LPs from the 1960s. Featuring some pleasant surprises – pity all the arrangers aren’t known. Vocalion CDLK4394. More new releases noted by Wilfred Askew THE BEST OF BROADWAY VOL. 1 South Pacific 8 tracks with Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting & Gordon Macrae; Orchestra conducted by Dave Barbour and Frank DeVol [1950 Capitol album] Kiss Me Kate 8 tracks with Jo Stafford and Gordon Macrae; Orchestra conducted by Paul Weston [1949 Capitol album] DRGCD 19113 [45:41] MEL TORME SINGS HIS OWN CALIFORNIA SUITE The 1949 Capitol recording conducted by Hal Mooney plus the 1957 Bethlehem recording arranged and conducted by Marty Paich, in an attractive digi-pack with two booklets, one containing the lyrics of the two versions. Fresh Sounds FSR-CD 496 [67:14] VINTAGE CINEMA Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Selections from King Kong, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Spellbound, Sunset Boulevard, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place In The Sun, On The Waterfront, North By Northwest, El Cid, To Kill A Mockingbird and Taras BulbaTelarc CD-80708 [53:13] HENRI REN? AND HIS ORCHESTRA Compulsion To Swing In Rhythm A coupling of the two albums ‘A Compulsion to Swing’ & ‘Riot In Rhythm’: 24 tracks including The blue room, Cry me a river, Baubles, bangles and beads, Compulsion to swing, It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, Just a gigolo, ‘S wonderful, Nature boy, The hot canary, Blue chartreuse, The surrey with the fringe on top, Don’t cry Joe, Whispering … Jasmine JSCD 490 [63:46] RCA stereo recordings from 1958 JANE MORGAN Fascination : The Ultimate Collection Original Kapp recordings on 2 CDs: 56 tracks including The heart you break, Why [are there things we can’t explain], Why don’t you leave us alone, Give me your word, Flyin’ high, In Paree, Take me away, Let’s go steady, I’ve got bells on my heart, Only one love, I may never pass this way again, Catch a falling star, Where the blue of the night, Makin’ love … Jasmine JASCD 489 [149:58] THIS IS IT : The Best Of Jack Leonard and Tommy Dorsey 28 tracks including I’m in a dancing mood, Where are you, If my heart could only talk, You’re here, you’re there, you’re everywhere, Dedicated to you, Marie, Sweet is the word for you, Love is never out of season, Have you any castles, baby?, An old flame never dies, In the still of the night, Blue Orchids Flare ROYCD 281[77:47] BOB EBERLY Sings Tender Love Songs with the Enoch Light Orchestra 12 tracks from ‘Sings Tender Love Songs’ [1957] including Brazil, Moonglow, Tangerine, I understand, Amapola, Maria Elena, Green eyes, September song …13 tracks from ‘Best Of the ‘Fifties Singles’ including This much I know, Long before I knew you, Alone, I made a promise, You’ll never know how it feels, The beat o’ my heart, I’ll always be following you ... Flare ROYCD 276 [70:49] TEDDI KING ‘Round Midnight Extended album plus ‘Very Best Of The Singles’: 25 tracks including I concentrate on you, Little girl blue, It never entered my mind, What’s new, Prelude to a kiss, ‘round midnight, I saw stars, Love is a now and then thing /Are you slipping through my fingers, Mr Wonderful, There’s so much more, Married I can always get, Travelling down a lovely road, Say it isn’t so … Flare ROYCD 275 [77:05] MORTON GOULD Star Dust Symphony Blues In The Night, Birth of the Blues, Solitude, Old Devil Moon, Nocturne, Limehouse Blues, Mood Indigo, St Louis Blues, Sophisticated Lady, Big City Blues, Moonglow, Deep Purple, The Surrey With The Fringe on Top, Besame Mucho, I Get a Kick Out of You, Speak Low, Body and Soul, What Is This Thing Called Love, My Silent Love, That Old Black Magic, Night and Day, The Very Thought of You, Poinciana, You And The Night And The Music, Summertime, Star Dust, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Pavanne, Stormy Weather, Beyond the Blue Horizon, Cresta Blance Waltz, Where or When, Orchids in the Moonlight, Over The Rainbow, Time on my Hands, Holiday for Strings, I Love You, My Blue Heaven, Serenade in the Night, Mexican Hat Dance. 2 CDsJasmine JASCD 666 [148:17] LEROY ANDERSON Blue Tango Bells of the Ball, Promenade, Syncopated Clock, Serenata, Saraband, Waltzing Cat, Trumpeter’s Lullaby, Jazz Pizzicato, Jazz Legato, Plink Plank Plunk, Horse and Buggy, Phantom Regiment, Blue Tango, China Doll, Penny-Whistle Song, Irish Washerwoman, Bluebells of Scotland, Song of the Bells, Fiddle-Faddle, Typewriter, Girl in Satin, Sandpaper Ballet, Buglers’ Holiday, Summer Skies, Sleigh Ride, Last Rose of Summer, Forgotten Dreams Bygone Days BYD 77025 ELMER BERNSTEIN Staccato / Paris Swings Original Capitol LPs from 1959 and 1960 DRGCD 19110 [64:51] LES BAXTER & HIS ORCHESTRA Thinking Of You 2 CDs, 60 tracks including The poor people of Paris, Blue star, Zing zing – zoom, zoom, With my eyes wide open I’m dreaming, The Shrike, Tropicana, Ruby, Temptation / Unchained Melody, The nearness of you, The roving kind, Out of this world, The high and the mighty, The breeze and I, Shrimp boats, Blue Tango … Jasmine JASCD 672[159’48"] JEFF CHANDLER You And I : Sings Songs Of Love U.S. Decca recordings 1953/4 and Liberty recordings 1957/8 DRGCD 19110 [64:51] LOVE LETTERS FROM YVONNE DeCARLO / MAUREEN O’HARA SINGS ? their debut albums from 1957 and 1958 Flare ROYCD 278 [72:24] THE HOLLYWOOD LADIES SING - ELIZABETH SCOTT Lizabeth [1957] / DENISE DARCEL Banned In Boston [1958] Flare ROYCD 277 [64:06] New Year’s Concert 2020 Auber : Overtures Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice André Rieu And His Johann Strauss Orchestra - Happy Days Vaughan Williams - Orchestral Works Beatles Go Baroque ● 2 By Cialicaw on 2020-01-03 You may schedule your first… Weekend Inspiration LIX - Phlearn (Photo Gallery) By Richard Brook on 2019-09-25 Dear Mr. Ades, I hope… Ray Martin (Legends of Light Music) By L Griffiths on 2019-09-11 Hi there George was married… George Melachrino (Legends of Light Music) By pauline smith on 2019-09-02 Delightful written with all thanks… John Gregory (Legends of Light Music) By Benito on 2019-07-10 Thanks for finally talking about… Notes on a Possible Performance of two Leroy Anderson selections, consisting of the Richard Rodgers Waltz Medley (1- Lover, 2- Falling in Love with Love, 3- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, 4- It's a Grand Night for Singing), and Song of the Bells. 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The London Light Music Meetings Group Login Form RFS Hi to post comments, please login, or create an account first. We cannot be too careful with a world full of spammers. Apologies for the inconvenience caused. Keep in Touch on Facebook! If you have any comments or questions about the content of our website or Light Music in general, please join the Robert Farnon Society Facebook page. About Geoff 123 Geoff Leonard was born in Bristol. He spent much of his working career in banking but became an independent record producer in the early nineties, specialising in the works of John Barry and British TV theme compilations. He also wrote liner notes for many soundtrack albums, including those by John Barry, Roy Budd, Ron Grainer, Maurice Jarre and Johnny Harris. He co-wrote two biographies of John Barry in 1998 and 2008, and is currently working on a biography of singer, actor, producer Adam Faith. 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__label__cc	0.603617	0.396383	Home/Events/Stanford Rep presents: "Cowardy Custard: SRT's Noël Coward Cabaret" Stanford Rep presents: "Cowardy Custard: SRT's Noël Coward Cabaret" Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT) presents its 17th annual summer festival, this year celebrating the work of Noël Coward. Playwright, actor, director, songwriter and lyricist, singer and dancer, painter and novelist, Coward emerged as a performing “Renaissance man,” who shaped important aspects of English and American culture from 1920 – 1970. SRT's second-stage production is Cowardy Custard: SRT's Coward Cabaret directed by SRT veteran Brendon Martin. Song, dance, style, and flair mark this celebration of the many talents of Mr. Coward. Our Coward Cabaret stars Dante Belletti, Kiki Bagger, Andre Amarotico, and Samantha Williams. Saturday, August 15, 2015. 08:00 PM Nitery Theater Stanford Repertory Theater, Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Theater + Performance Studies, Stanford VPUE, Stanford Arts Institute stanfordrep@stanford.edu Tickets $15-$25 here SRT's Coward CabaretAugust 13 – 23, 2015Thu – Sat at 8 pm; Sat and Sun at 2 pm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line344
__label__wiki	0.858994	0.858994	More News + Views Italian Club: Pride, Place, War Court Street block named after immigrants Sacred March, Carroll Gardens Our video on local Italian-American ritual. Italian Treats at Court Pastry Italian shop owned by Zerillis for 68 years. Buschenshank Building Sells South Brooklyn Pizza owner gets $22M Shots Fired on Hoyt Street Teen fires gun around 1:30 p.m. Preschool Crowding Peaks Zoned siblings turned away for the first time. Demolition Coming to LICH Details in the works Meet Santa & Firefighters At Friends of Firefighters event, kids can sit in firetruck, support FDNY P.S. 58 Pulls Rabbit Out of Hat Principal, DOE find pre-K site on Union St. The Green Lady She’s a little magic. Catch a glimpse as we sit down with the real-life leprechaun of Carroll Gardens. Photos by Joshua Kristal. By Lisa M. Collins Updated. First published in South Brooklyn Post on Sept. 6, 2013 She goes by Sweetheart, but she is known as The Green Lady of Carroll Gardens. She wears the color green, often lime-tinted, sometimes with a yellow hue. Decked in overalls and feather boas and corduroy, her ensemble is like sunshine on grass. She’s worn all green, head to toe, every day, for 19 years. Locals occasionally glimpse her sprightly figure walking down the street, often with her dog, Dylan. There, and then gone. She is kind of famous – at least among Brooklyn children – who wonder if she is magic, and argue over whether or not her dog is also green, and whether or not she wakes up and goes to sleep green. “I’m addicted,” Sweetheart tells me, as we sit for a photo shoot in Nightingale 9 on Smith Street, after photographer Joshua Kristal and I devoured large bowls of Vietnamese-style Pho soup (mine, the pork, was infused with black pepper and roasted garlic and completely delicious). “I can’t even write on paper unless my pen has green ink,” she says, and then bursts into bubbling giggles – another trademark. She dies her underclothes green. It all started with green fingernail paint, she says, which spread till it encompassed her entirely. Why green, I ask? “I love it. It’s so positive. Dylan and I like making people happy,” Sweetheart says, that trademark twinkle in her eye. Sweetheart and Dylan Sweetheart will turn 73 in March. She recently had a metal plate removed from her head – she had an aneurism years ago, but was allergic to the metal, and finally got it replaced. Despite her age and this recent medical situation, she exudes a timeless, whimsical spirit. The green has become an increasing passion, Sweetheart tells me. She buys green clothes and socks and shoes and accessories but she also stirs a pot of dye each day to stain her garments and hair. Today she is wearing what could be considered her standard attire: green overalls, a couple of green shirts, green socks and green shoes, a green coat, a green choker around her neck and a green backpack. In the mornings, Sweetheart pulls her hair into little buns before dying her strands with green highlights, and accents the do with green butterfly hair clips, with sparkly little green pins adorning her clothes. Her green nail polish is neat and tidy and shiny. Sweetheart is an artist, a graphic designer. She worked for Ralph Lauren for many years, and painted all of the little horses for the logos used on the clothing and scarves, she tells me. She painted many things, and designs fabric. At one point, she had a large staff of designers working for her, but she tired of the hustle-bustle and downsized, she says. Now, she works out of her home and sells a line of vintage prints. “I make just enough money to pay the bills,” she says, and seems quite content with that. Sweetheart moved with her husband to Nelson Street in Carroll Gardens 28 years ago. She has a son, Sam Eaton, a mentalist and magician who performs a one-man show, The Quantum Eye, every Saturday, on Saint Mark’s Place in Manhattan. The show has gotten rave reviews during its 8-year-run (info below if you’d like to buy tickets). Sweetheart says she experimented for years before finding her comfort zone in green. For a while, she wore only 1930s print dresses. “I made hats to go with them,” she says. Then it was all silver for a while, and then pink, purple and blue, before she settled on green. I ask if she ever tires of green. “Oh no, never. It keeps getting better every day.” Sweetheart grew up on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada, above Maine, a very green place that is famous for its high cliffs and the fact that it experiences the largest tidal flow in the world, with more than 100 billion gallons of seawater crashing in and out of its coves every day. This Christmas, Sweetheart is back in New Brunswick, visiting her 103-year-old mother, who is soon to turn 104. “We look exactly alike,” Sweetheart says, though her mother does not dress in green. “Both of my parents were doctors. I’m so different than them. Dad was a surgeon and the best gardener in the province,” Sweetheart says. When Sweetheart was one week old, her dad went away to World War II. Her family grew most of their own food, eating vegetables from the garden, and her grandfather shot animals to eat. “My grandparents were people of the land,” she says. Her grandmother and she would sit on a rock and paint the sunset. “That’s what we would do. “That’s what I do.” In 1964, Sweetheart hitchhiked to New York City. “I wanted to be an artist,” she says. She lived for 13 years on McDougal Street in the West Village, down the street from Bob Dylan. She named her dog after him. It’s actually her son’s dog, she says. Now Carroll Gardens is home. Sweetheart has a garden in her backyard, and grows long skinny eggplants with little purple flowers, and prolific tomatoes. I ask what motivates her to dress in green every day. “It’s for other people. I like to make people happy. And for the children. I was really not an outgoing person. But I say hello to anyone who talks to me and I love it. The young children love it. “ Does Dylan follow suit? “I airbrush his tail and his ears when my son isn’t looking,” Sweetheart says, before bursting into giggles. In parting, she flashes her smiling eyes, which really do twinkle. Despite my fascination with her grass-hued passion, it’s the smiling sparkle in her eye that stays with me the most. To attend Sweetheart’s son’s magic show, which has rave reviews in the New York Post, New York Times and elsewhere: NAME OF SHOW: Sam Eaton’s The Quantum Eye – Mentalism and Magic Show www.TheQuantumEye.com Saturdays 5pm 80 Saint Marks Place, NYC 10003 ~ 90 minutes, no intermission Tags: Carroll Gardens, culture, elizabeth sweetheart, feature, The Green Lady < Carroll Gardens Sacred March P.S. 58 Pulls Rabbit Out of Hat > Beautiful article, Lisa! YOu managed to surprise a glimpse of a wonderful soul… Thank you & Merry Christmas!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line351
__label__wiki	0.731554	0.731554	Interview with Per Gessle about Gyllene Tider’s last album and tour – à la RoxBlog style June 28, 2019 June 15, 2019 by Patrícia Peres The guys in Gyllene Tider are busy rehearsing, but I thought it would be worth doing an interview with Per now that they have just released their last album and are preparing for their last tour. I hoped Per would have the time in between adding songs to the setlist and matching red Ferraris to Ferrari red drumkits and could answer my questions. I asked him about the recording sessions, each song on the new album, then about the 40 years passed and of course the tour and rehearsals. As usual, he was faster than a thrown guitar pick reaches the front row and has already sent me his detailed answers. Much appreciated! Enjoy! Patrícia Peres: – Hi Per! While listening to the new album, different Gyllene Tider eras and several branches of your songwriting tree came into my mind. It’s a great mix of the good old GT sound and fresh melodies, uptempo/midtempo hits and ballads, as well as fun and meaningful lyrics full of Gessleish rhymes. A bit more sentimental than what we are used to when it comes to GT, but it turned out to be a fab record! Congrats to you all, guys! Per Gessle: – Danke. Merci. Wunderschön that you like the album. We love it as well. It came very easy to us for some reason. PP: – Why the last album was the first one to be recorded outside Sweden? And why in France? PG: – It’s always a good idea for a band to get abroad to concentrate a little bit more than you normally do on your home turf. Most musicians and other lower habitants of this earth tend to want to go home after the last note is recorded and skip all the socializing which is key if you’re in a band. You have to hang out together, get drunk and act silly, play music, talking about stupid things from the past, argue about movies and politics etc. People our age have families and kids and other things on their minds apart from making music. I wanted GT to avoid all those everyday issues and stay focused on making a fine record. PP: – Anytime Gyllene Tider comes back, you record a new album. Why do you think it’s important? PG: – GT ceased to exist in 1985. Since we don’t really meet each other that much in between the reunions it’s crucial to get the artistic and creative forces boiling. Otherwise we would very easily become just another boring vintage band that plays our vintage hits. We love to play the hits but I also think it’s important for us to stand on our toes a bit and find out what we’re capable of in real time. PP: – You recorded very simple demos to let the band arrange the songs together. How was the process during the recording session? How the 5 of you could work out the best of sounds? PG: – Christoffer played a very important part in the recording process. You need a neutral force in the room. You have to have someone who says yes or no and it can’t be me just because I wrote the songs. It has to be someone the other guys listen to and respect in a different manner. That’s just how it works. Everyone in this band is very good at specific things but they’re also very good at staying safe and sound and not taking that many risks. I’m the same. I certainly need someone like Christoffer to demand that I step out of my comfort zone once in a while. So many times he’s heard qualities in my work I didn’t know existed. When you make an album it’s also crucial to be one step ahead all the time so you don’t wind up arranging and producing all the songs the same way. One of the things on the new album I’m most proud of is that it’s so diverse. It’s hard to do. PP: – You recorded 15 songs of which 14 made it to the album. What happened to that one missing? PG: – Hahaha, it will probably come out before xmas. It’s an uptempo one, very catchy. But it didn’t fit the album. We’re old fashioned. PP: – What is the reason for not using the very same title for the album and the first song? PG: – For me it’s a big difference between „Samma skrot och korn” and „Skrot och korn”. The album title hints the connection within the band and where we come from. The song itself is more of love song between two friends who for some reason don’t or can’t connect anymore. I wanted the album and the song to be separate. I’m a fuzzy kind, you know that. PP: – The second song, Det kändes inte som maj, a very GT-ish track, feels more like an opener. Do you consider this song to play live? Maybe even as an opener? PG: – Time will tell. It’s got a great beat. I wrote the verses in 2003 in Christoffer’s studio. I have a very simple recording of it with Clarence playing harmonica and Chris trying to follow my melody and chord progressions. It sounds really awful. But I loved the groove. I kept it and wrote the lyrics last year. PP: – The first single became Jag drömde jag mötte Fluortanten. Who chose it as the lead single and why this song? PG: – It very quickly became the band’s favourite song down in France. Probably because we managed to nail that groove we’ve never been able to nail before. It’s got a Van Morrison „Bright Side Of The Road”-feel to it which is very attractive. Light and fresh. Young and curious. PP: – You mentioned earlier that the song was inspired by Anders Herrlin’s dream. How should we imagine the process of an Anders dream becoming a GT song written by PG? PG: – I was just joking. Anders’ psychedelic Salvador Dalí-inspired dreams had nothing to do with it. I’m sorry, I just made that up. I’ve had the title forever and I just tried to write some interesting lyrics to those chords and the melody lines in the verse. It took six months but it was worth it. I think it’s a wonderful little song. Very few people write music like that these days. I’m of a dying breed, hahaha. PP: – What is your most vivid Fluortant experience? Did you always follow her advices? PG: – Not really but I liked it when she entered the classroom. Suddenly all went quiet and you could concentrate on the current Monkees single or something important. PP: – Någon att hålla i hand is a cover of Sven-Ingvars’ 1965 single (Brad Newman’s ”Somebody to Love”). Why did you want to make a cover on the last album and why did you choose this song? PG: – I’ve always loved that song. I always thought it was a Sven-Ingvars original but then I heard Brad Newman’s version which is a knock-out as well. I made a live acoustic demo in MP’s studio two years ago and it was really rewarding to sing. So when the GT-album popped up I suggested this song to the band and they loved it. PP: – Like in other songs on Samma skrot och korn, there is a little female addition in Vid hennes sida too. How did Helena and Malin-My came into sight for providing backing vocals on the last GT album? PG: – It’s hard for me to make recordings without female voices these days. I’m totally addicted. Probably because they blend so well with my own voice. Helena and Malin-My spent twelve hours in the studio in Skåne singing on most of the tracks. They sound really beautiful both apart and together. I could sit there and just listen to them forever. But then, while mixing, some guys in the band thought they changed the classic GT-sound too much so we skipped most of their backing vocals. Not that much was left. However, I’ve kept the alternative mixes with bigger vocal arrangements. Some rarities for the Ultimate GT-box in 2029, maybe? PP: – Haha. Note to myself to ask you about that box in 2029. Aftonstjärna to me sounds a bit like it could have been a Mazarin-song. Close to Gungar in my ears. The little references in the lyrics paint me a lovely picture of Åsa and you. What does she think about this song and the album itself? PG: – Oh I don’t really know. She probably thinks the album is a bit too serious. She likes it when I’m doing more „immediate” stuff, more uptempo and jolly. „Aftonstjärna” is actually my favourite track on the album together with „Vid hennes sida”. They are both important songs for me personally. I managed to create the lyrics and the music exactly the way I was feeling at the time. It’s very rare I’m able to do that. PP: – Vanliga saker is the most rocky song on the album. Fun to see a Gessleish reference to Swish and Bitcoin in the lyrics, the word connections you use there. Do you use such payment methods at all? PG: – No, never did. I don’t know how it works. PP: – Your lead vocals, then the whispering style and the choir, the instruments, everything fits in a great mix in Bjud till! How tricky was it to record this song? PG: – It was a throwaway for me until Anders came in and did some amazing programming on it. He and Christoffer just went crazy with it and suddenly it all made sense. It reminds me a bit of „Våldsamt stillsamt” from „En händig man” back in 2007. Same energy. All aboard for funtime. PP: – Våldsamt stillsamt indeed! I was thinking so hard which song it reminds me of! When I first listened to Låt denna trumslagarpojke sjunga!, the movie Dirty Dancing came into my mind. Probably because the melody reminds me of some DD soundtrack songs. And then I thought, hey, nobody puts Micke Syd in a corner! Beautiful vocals! Where has he been ”hiding” since Min tjej och jag? PG: – Things you can do with computers these days, hahahaha…. no… just joking. He did a great job. I thought it was a nice gesture to write him a song to sing on our last album. He always wants to be in the limelight and now the stage is his. For four minutes! How generous of me. PP: – Surprising to see Mannen med gitarr on the tracklist. You wrote it for Mazarin and on The Per Gessle Archives you said that Christoffer and Clarence hated it. How this song ended up here and what does Chris think about it now? PG: – Well, it didn’t fit into the Mazarin project at all, did it? I found the demo in my computer last summer and I really liked the lyrics and thought maybe GT can give it a shot. It’s got a typical GT-vibe to it and the arrangement came very easily when we recorded it. Great guitar-riff by MP and a very catchy chorus. It was just gathering dust anyway. Christoffer had forgotten all about it. He’s getting old. PP: – Bara i en dröm is just as much of an ukulele song as Tuffa tider. How about performing this song live and bringing your 2004 ukulele up on stage 15 years later? Does it still exist? PG: – Oh yes, my two ukuleles are still very good friends of mine. My idea for „Bara i en dröm” was not to make it acoustic at all. I thought of a full band with an accordion in the centre of attention. It didn’t really work out that well, maybe because that style is not really GT’s cup of tea. So we tried it as an acoustic song instead and it gave the album yet another musical spice. My guitar and vocals are recorded live on this one. Take number three. PP: – What happened to Henry over all these years? Is he over his disco era? Did he realize that he has to start a band to get rock ’n’ roll freak Hanna back? PG: – Henry is alive and well and still working on that plan of his. PP: – Allt det andra could have also been part of your En vacker… solo project. Curious how it sounded as a demo with an acoustic guitar only. And that makes me ask if you plan to release the demos to this album. PG: – Well, as you know I make acoustic demos of almost everything I write (except for Mono Mind!) so yes, eventually I will release the demos. If you’re interested in songwriting I think it’s very cool to be able to follow the path of a song from square one to the final version that gets released. „Allt det andra” was quite hard for GT to get into. It’s got pretty unusual chord progressions coming from me. But it turned out fine in the end. PP: – Final is a beautiful, but sad closing track. Why did you decide for an instrumental ending? PG: – I had a few instrumentals with me to France and everyone thought it was a splendid idea to close the album with some sort of an instrumental finale. The plan was that everyone should play one instrument each and see where it lead us. In the end we edited the track down from 5 minutes to what it is now. It was the last day in France. We did „Final” and „Någon att hålla i hand” in a couple of hours. It all went very fast. PP: – Except for Mannen med gitarr and the Sven-Ingvars cover, is there any other song you didn’t write exactly for this album? PG: – No, it’s all custom made for Gyllene Tider. „Vanliga saker” was the last one I wrote. I didn’t even have the time to make a proper acoustic demo for that one. PP: – Will there be a second single? Several songs sound radio compatible I would say. PG: – Oh, radio doesn’t really play our kind of stuff anymore. I think we will go with „Vid hennes sida” or „Skrot och korn”. Maybe both. It’s not important. PP: – What can you tell us about the cooperation with Petter Lindgård and Peter Zimny? PG: – Wonderful guys. Shit, it looks so hard to play those instruments!! They did an amazing job on every song they played on. PP: – After 40 years of success, how do you look back today at the times when Gyllene Tider got refusal letters and no airplay? In what way do you think it shaped the band’s future? PG: – I think it was good. When we eventually got a recording deal we were (almost) ripe. We had a few great songs, some really talented musicians in the band (not me!) and we were very focused. Timing is everything. We were lucky. PP: – You said in an earlier interview that you know it since 2013 that you would be out on a 40th anniversary tour this year. Did you sense it already then that it would be the last GT tour? PG: – Did I? Can’t remember that. We started talking about a new GT reunion in 2015 or 2016. The plan was to do it 2018 but I wanted to do the Roxette tour in Europe first. Also I’ve toured Sweden in the summer of 2017 so I didn’t want it to be too close timewise. We decided on a GT40 tour in 2019. I started writing songs for the project in the winter 2017-18. It wasn’t supposed to be the last tour but Micke wanted it that way. He felt like he preferred us to stop while we are still on top of our game, still alive all of us, still kickin’. It all made sense to the rest of the band so… here we are! Nighty nighty. PP: – Asking you as a fan of 3-chord, 3-minute songs: if you should summarize GT’s 40 years in only 3 words, what would you say? PG: – Oh my God! PP: – I think it’s always hard to put an end to something. How difficult was it for you all in the band to make the decision on your farewell? PG: – I’m not very sentimental when it comes to GT since the group broke up such a long time ago. Everything we’ve done ever since have been reunions and various special projects. It’s a wonderful band, quite unique and definitely something we will never see or hear again in our lifetimes but still… life goes on. I write my songs, I make my recordings, I make my concerts, I have so many other things I want to do with my music. It’s no big deal. I think the rest of the guys basically feel the same. I will still make my demos with MP. I will still be Anders biggest fan when it comes to his bass-playing and his amazing crazy brain. This is not the end of the world. PP: – Announcing a last album and a last tour. Does it put you under pressure in any way? PG: – I’m sure we’re gonna have a blast. Like Roxette, GT have an amazing following who’s been so supportive over the years. We owe it to them to enjoy ourselves and be at our best. It’s gonna be a wonderful tour, I will cherish every minute of it. PP: – We are talking about the last GT happenings and I tried not to ask this question, because everyone else already asked it, but: is it really the last one? I mean, look at The Rolling Stones! PG: – Hahaha, yes I actually think it is. PP: – Concert tickets are selling extremely well. How does it feel that so many want to see you guys on stage? PG: – Amazing. It’s very hard to sell these amounts of tickets we do on a national basis. We’re blessed. And it’s the fourth time we do it. Crazy. PP: – Still hard to believe that such an iconic Swedish band would end their 40-year-long career in Norway. Can we expect one real last show in Sweden still? PG: – No, looks like Oslo will be it. La det swinge, la det rock’n roll. PP: – Do you plan to record the shows for a future DVD? PG: – Yes, we do. We’ll record every show. No stone unturned. PP: – Gyllene Tider’s name is forever written in Swedish pop history and there won’t be any Swedish summer parties where Sommartider is not played. How does it feel being part of a nation’s life in this manner? PG: – Well, we all love hit records. They’re hard to make and hard to get and I’m the proud father of a few of them. I’ve been very lucky. Good feelings all around. PP: – You are at the rehearsals now since a few days. How is it going? PG: – It’s going great. We’re trying so many songs we’re all pretty dizzy right now. But it’s gonna be a killer concert, promise! PP: – So, happy rehearsing to you all! Make the setlist as long as possible! Haha. Thank you so much for taking your time during these busy days, Per. See you on tour! PG: – My pleasure. All pics in the article are taken from Gyllene Tider’s Facebook page. They were taken during the recordings of Samma skrot och korn. Categories Exclusive, Gyllene Tider, Interview, Per Gessle Tags Album, GT40, Gyllene Tider, Interview, Per Gessle, Rehearsals, Samma skrot och korn, Tour Post navigation Gyllene Tider’s last album is out! Per Gessle and Micke Syd on Musikplats	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line355
__label__wiki	0.504177	0.504177	Stop the Crop For a sustainable, GMO-free future What’s wrong with GM crops? Sustainable alternatives Campaign tools Watch the full film European Parliament ignores concerns about GMOs and food safety in the EU-US trade negotiations Thanks for tweeting your MEPs! Citizens' voice should be heard during the free trade negotiations!! The European Parliament has endorsed negotiations around the EU-US free trade agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This agreement threatens food safety in Europe by potentially opening Europe’s doors to a range of new GM crops. Find out more here. A lot of European citizens want a GMO-free Europe and called on MEPs to prevent free trade talks from imposing unwanted GM crops on Europe. CEO and FoEE believe it is crucial that the negotiations are transparent and democratic. Thanks to all who contributed online! The resolution approved by a majority of the Parliament includes a weak stance on GMOs as part of the EU-US trade negotiations – potentially allowing GM crops through the back door. The resolution “emphasises the sensitivity of certain fields of negotiation, such as the agricultural sector, where perceptions of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), cloning and consumer health tend to diverge between the US and the EU.” It also “stresses that the agreement must not undermine the fundamental values of either side, for example the precautionary principle in the EU.” The battle around these negotiations will be long and difficult, with the interests of big US and EU corporations competing with citizens' rights and environmental and food safety on both sides of the Atlantic. The mandate for the negotiations will be endorsed by the European Council on the 18th of June. This trade deal is a unique opportunity for the biotech industry to achieve – through closed-door and opaque negotiations – what they’ve been unable to get in Europe in a democratic way. Keep yourself updated and involved to stop GM crops in Europe! Sign up in the Stop the Crop website and follow us in Facebook! GMOfree movement Crunch time for glyphosate II Watch and Act Biotech lobby’s push for new GMOs to escape regulation - new report Crunch time for glyphosate WHO classification of Glyphosate alerts officials and markets Join Stop the Crop Tweets about "#stopthecrop" About the Stop the Crop campaign This website and film present some of the dangers of GM-crops, and call for people across Europe and beyond to take action to stop them. We need a future of food and farming that benefits people and planet, and not the pockets of big business. We need to stop GM-crops from spreading across Europe. You can sign up for updates and alerts opposite. Continue reading >> Contact us >> Terms & conditions - Privacy policy - Website & logo design by yichalal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line365
__label__wiki	0.903893	0.903893	Laber’s Gem Forces Rubber Match Tomorrow Afternoon Jake Laber (3-1) gave the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks (14-6) eight and one-thirds stellar innings tonight as they took the middle game of a three-game series against the Kansas City T-Bones (14-8), 3-1. Laber and Kansas City starter Ryan Knippschild (4-1) matched zeros through four innings before the T-Bones struck for their lone run in the fifth. Brian Joynt began the frame with a double before scoring two batters later on an RBI single by Eladio Rodriguez. A single by Jimmy Mojica put runners at the corners but Laber used a groundout and strikeout to end the threat. Kansas City managed just two more baserunners over the final four innings. Laber allowed the lone run on nine hits in the victory. Donnie Smith retired the only two batters he faced to earn his third save of the year. Knippschild allowed three hits over his first three innings before retiring 10 straight with the help of a double play that ended the third. The left-hander then surrendered consecutive singles and a walk to load the bases for Alan Rick with two outs in the sixth. Rick singled home the first two Fargo runs to give the RedHawks a 2-1 lead. A bases-loaded walk by Cory Patton two batters later pushed the final to 3-1 and chased Knippschild from the contest. Knippschild suffered his first loss of the season after allowing three runs on seven hits in five and two-thirds innings. Erik Hamren pitched the final two and one-thirds scoreless innings for Kansas City, surrendering just two hits. Keanon Simon saw his league-leading 21 game on-base streak end after a 0-for-four night. He had reached safely in each of the T-Bones previous games. Ray Sadler extended his hit streak to 13 games with first-inning single. He finished two-for-four. The two teams continue their first-place battle tomorrow afternoon as Kansas City sends Andrew Cruse (2-1, 0.36) to face Chad Rhoades (2-0, 1.42). First pitch is scheduled for 1:00. Catch all the action through streaming webcast at www.tbonesbaseball.com or on the radio at KXTR 1660 AM. Back to index...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line367
__label__cc	0.537841	0.462159	Title: Liv Kristine Subject: Vervain (Liv Kristine album), Legend Land, Vinland Saga (album), Theatre of Tragedy, Nymphetamine Collection: 1976 Births, Female Heavy Metal Singers, Living People, Musicians from Stavanger, Napalm Records Artists, Norwegian Expatriates in Germany, Norwegian Female Singers, Norwegian Heavy Metal Singers, Norwegian Pop Singers, Norwegian Rock Singers, Norwegian Singer-Songwriters, Norwegian Sopranos Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull Liv Kristine Espenæs (1976-02-14) 14 February 1976 Theatre of Tragedy .comlivkristine Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull (born 14 February 1976 in Stavanger, Norway), better known as Liv Kristine, is a singer/songwriter who performed and composed songs mostly for various subgenres of heavy metal music. She currently works in close association with her husband and leader of the German band Atrocity, Alexander Krull. She started her career in the music industry as a vocalist for the gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy, and is the current vocalist for the symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes. Private life 2 Contributions to music 3 Discography 4 Studio albums 4.1 Singles 4.2 EPs 4.3 Music videos 4.4 Other appearances 4.5 Interested in music from an early age, Liv Kristine joined the Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy in 1994 as a backup singer, but was soon sharing lead vocals duties with Raymond István Rohonyi.[1] She was fired from Theatre of Tragedy in 2003, a fact she learned about through the band's website.[2] She had been living in Germany since 1996 and collaborating with the death metal band Atrocity, whose singer Alexander Krull she married on 3 July 2003.[3] With the five musicians from Atrocity she formed a new band, Leaves' Eyes, in August 2003.[4] She has also released four solo albums, the most recent of which was released in October 2014 through Napalm Records. In 2005, Liv Kristine was nominated for a Grammy award with Cradle of Filth for the song "Nymphetamine".[5] Kristine has a soprano vocal range.[6] On 3 July 2003 Liv Kristine married Atrocity vocalist Alexander Krull.[3] They have a son, Leon Alexander.[3] Her younger sister, Carmen Elise Espenæs, is the vocalist of the German symphonic/folk metal band Midnattsol[7] and of the Norwegian gothic/folk metal band Savn.[8] Liv Kristine and her husband Alexander are vegetarians.[9] Contributions to music Kristine helped to pioneer the beauty and the beast vocals approach, later used by many other successful bands such as Tristania, After Forever, Epica and Within Temptation in their beginnings. The term "beauty and the beast" refers to an aesthetic contrasting "angelic" female vocals with male growls or aggressive singing.[10] Paradise Lost and The Gathering had already made use of this technique on some songs from their earlier albums but it was the Norwegian Theatre of Tragedy, Kristine's former band, that first released an entire album devoted to this approach with their self-titled debut in 1995. A simultaneous duet between soprano and death vocals can be heard in this 24 second sample from Theatre of Tragedy's self-titled debut album. Problems playing this file? See . A second album Velvet Darkness They Fear arrived in the following year.[11] Theatre of Tragedy's third album Aégis in 1998 saw the band "venturing into fresh musical territory".[11] The piano was replaced by electronic keyboards while Raymond Rohonyi opted to discard his death growls in favor of a "soft, spoken, sometimes whispering voice".[12] The music was more clean and soft,[12] "stripped of guitar harshness" but with a "near flawless execution" that "prompted many European critics to award Aégis perfect review scores".[11] For over a decade, this beauty and the beast aesthetic has flourished with many representatives across the European continent.[10] Cradle of Filth has also been known to make use of this approach through guest female vocalists such as Liv Kristine and Sarah Jezebel Deva.[13] A few critics have since lamented that the approach has been "done to death by countless bands"[14] to the point that it has become something of a cliché in the genre. Released: March 2, 1998 Label: Swanlake Formats: CD, digital download[15] Enter My Religion Label: Roadrunner Records Skintight Released: September 7, 2012 Formats: CD, digital download Peak chart positions "3am" 1998 — Deus Ex Machina "Take Good Care" "3am" – "Fanedition" "One Love" — non-album single "Fake a Smile" 2006 94 Enter My Religion "Over the Moon" "Trapped in Your Labyrinth" "Skintight"[20] 2010 — Skintight "Paris Paris" 2012 — Libertine "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. Fake a Smile Released: January 27, 2006 2006 — Enter My Religion "Skintight" 2010 Patric Ullaeus Skintight 2012 Libertine "Love Decay" 2014 — Vervain Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy band member 1995 [22] Theatre of Tragedy – Velvet Darkness They Fear Atrocity – Werk 80 additional vocals (appears also in "Shout" music video) 1997 [24] Theatre of Tragedy – A Rose for the Dead Theatre of Tragedy – Aégis Heavenwood – Swallow vocals on "Downcast" 1998 [24] Atrocity & Silke Bischoff – "Blue Moon" additional vocals (non-album single) 1998 [24] Atrocity – Non Plus Ultra 1989–1999 additional vocals 1999 [27] WeltenBrand – Der Untergang von Trisona vocals on "The Devil Gets the Profiteer" 1999 [24] Das Ich – Re-Laborat vocals on "Des Satans neue Kleider" (Atrocity Remix) 2000 [24] Atrocity – Gemini Theatre of Tragedy – Musique Atrocity – Thank You – A Tribute to The Sisters of Mercy vocals on "More" 2000 [24] Theatre of Tragedy – Inperspective Theatre of Tragedy – Closure: Live Theatre of Tragedy – Assembly Genius – A Rock Opera Part II vocals on "To Be Free" 2004 [31] Immortal Rites – Art of Devolution vocals on "Mirror Reflections" 2004 [24] Hortus Animae – The Lotus Eaters – Dead Can Dance Tribute vocals on "Summoning of the Muse" 2004 [32] Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine vocals on "Nymphetamine" (appears also in music video for the song) 2004 [33] Atrocity – Atlantis Umbra et Imago – Motus Animi "Ein letztes Mal" (Leaves' Eyes Remix) 2005 [34] Delain – Lucidity vocals on "See Me in Shadow" and "Day for Ghosts" 2006 [35] Atrocity – Werk 80 II (appears also in "Fade To Grey" and "The Sun Always Shines On TV" music videos) 2008 [36] Doro Pesch – Fear No Evil backing vocals on "Celebrate" 2009 [37] Legio Mortis – The Human Creation and The Devil's Contribution vocals on "Life Denied" 2011 [38] Bob Katsionis – Rest in Keys vocals on "Rendez-Vous in the Sky" 2012 [39] Týr – Valkyrja vocals on "The Lay of Our Love" Romanthica – Eterno vocals on "Despierta" 2013 [41] Primal Fear – Delivering the Black backing vocals on "Born with a Broken Heart" 2014 [42] Savn – Savn vocals on "I Am Free" 2014 [43] ^ "Liv Kristine – Official Website". Livkristine.de. Retrieved 2013-10-28. ^ "Ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY Singer Says She Was Betrayed And Deceived By Her Bandmates". ^ a b c Dunphy, John (15 July 2005). "Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull (Leaves Eyes) : Interview". Music Tap.net. Retrieved 2014-04-16. ^ Reesman, Bryan. "Atrocity: Twenty Years of Passion, Progression and Perseverance," Metal Maniacs, December 2006, p. 113 ^ "Artists – LIv Kristine". ^ Interview with Liv Kristine about 'Njord'- Metalexperience webzine, december 2009. Metal-experience.com (2009-12-16). Retrieved on 2012-08-05. ^ Nordlys – CD von Midnattsol. Emp.de (2007-12-27). Retrieved on 2012-08-05. ^ "Midnattsol, The Sins Of Thy Beloved Members Join Forces In Savn - Blabbermouth.net". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ Leaves´Eyes. Fourteeng.net. Retrieved on 2012-08-05. ^ a b Reesman, Bryan (November 1, 2007). "They Will Rise: Metal's female ranks on the move". ^ a b c Sharpe-Young, Garry. "Theatre of Tragedy". ^ a b Eldefors, Vincent. review"Aégis". Tartareandesire.com. Retrieved 2008-04-18. ^ Sharpe-Young, Garry. "Cradle of Filth". ^ Begrand, Adrien. "Blood and Thunder: The Great Beast Resurrected". ^ "iTunes – Music – Deus Ex Machina by Liv Kristine". iTunes. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "iTunes – Music – Enter My Religion by Liv Kristine". iTunes. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "iTunes – Music – Skintight by Liv Kristine". iTunes. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "iTunes – Music – Libertine by Liv Kristine". iTunes. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, K�nstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche – musicline.de". musicline.de. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "iTunes – Music – Skintight – Single by Liv Kristine". iTunes. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "iTunes – Music – Fake a Smile – EP by Liv Kristine". iTunes. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Velvet Darkness They Fear – Theatre of Tragedy – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Liv Kristine – Official Website » Discography". Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ http://www.massacre-records.de/bands/bands_releases.asp?bands=THEATRE+OF+TRAGEDY&orderno=200130 ^ "AFM Records AFM Records – Artists – Theatre Of Tragedy". Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Non Plus Ultra – Atrocity – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Musique – Theatre of Tragedy – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Assembly – Theatre of Tragedy – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Genius – Episode 2: In Search of the Little Prince – Genius,Daniele Liverani – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Dead Can Dance Tribute: The Lotus Eaters – Lotus Eaters – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Nymphetamine – Cradle of Filth – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "LEAVES' EYES Featured On UMBRA ET IMAGO Remix Album". bravewords.com. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Lucidity – Delain – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Werk 80 II – Atrocity – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Fear No Evil – Doro – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Legio Mortis – The Human Creation And The Devil's Contribution". Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Rest In Keys – BOB KATSIONIS". BOB KATSIONIS. 1 December 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Valkyrja – Týr – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=94045 ^ "Delivering the Black – Primal Fear – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. ^ "Savn – Savn – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 October 2014. French homepage of Liv Kristine Alexander Krull Thorsten Bauer Pete Streit Joris Nijenhuis Sander van der Meer Roland Navratil Mathias Röderer Chris Lukhaup Alla Fedynitch Martin Schmidt Moritz Neuner Nicholas Barker Peter Hörnung Seven Antonopoulos Lovelorn Meredead Symphonies of the Night Legend Land My Destiny At Heaven's End We Came with the Northern Winds: En Saga i Belgia "Into Your Light" "Elegy" "My Destiny" Eyes of Eden Enemy of the Sun Opiate for the Masses Carmen Elise Espenæs Nell Sigland Raymond István Rohonyi Frank Claussen Vegard K. Thorsen Lorentz Aspen Hein Frode Hansen Tommy Lindal Pål Bjåstad Eirik T. Saltrø Geir Flikkeid Tommy Olsson Theatre of Tragedy (1995) Velvet Darkness They Fear (1996) Aégis (1998) Musique (2000) Assembly (2002) Forever Is the World (2009) A Rose for the Dead (1997) Virago (1999) Closure: Live (2001) "Der Tanz der Schatten" Female heavy metal singers Norwegian female singers Norwegian heavy metal singers Norwegian pop singers Norwegian rock singers Norwegian singer-songwriters Norwegian sopranos Norwegian expatriates in Germany Musicians from Stavanger Napalm Records artists Norway, Aégis, Musique (album), Stavanger, Gothic metal Allmusic, Evanescence, Gothic rock, Death metal, Lacuna Coil Sweden, Oslo, Iceland, Russia, Finland Vervain (Liv Kristine album) Liv Kristine, Napalm Records, Gothic Rock, Alexander Krull, Leaves' Eyes Leaves' Eyes, Alexander Krull, Symphonic metal, Liv Kristine, Vinland Saga (album) Vinland Saga (album) Leaves' Eyes, Alexander Krull, Elegy (EP), Symphonic metal, Liv Kristine Nymphetamine Cradle of Filth, Extreme metal, AllMusic, Iron Maiden, Midian (album)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line374
__label__wiki	0.773864	0.773864	KAY KENYON A WORLD TOO NEAR Book cover art by Stephan Martiniere. Sprawling but still strong, A World Too Near continues Kay Kenyon's ambitious tetralogy The Entire and the Rose in good old-school white-knuckle style. With the establishment of the gloriously baroque artificial universe the Entire fairly well dealt with in Bright of the Sky, A World Too Near gives Kenyon more room to keep the story's forward momentum in play. The rest of this review will spoil a lot of revelations in the first book, which means all of you who haven't read Bright should take a hike, go read it, and come back here when you're done. The climax of Bright involved Titus Quinn's discovery that the stupefying achievement of the Entire's very creation was indeed too good to be true: so much energy is required to keep the Entire running that the Tarig have had to construct a device capable of nothing less than the complete absorption and collapse of our own universe, in an event that will transcend physics itself. The machinery has already been tested, sucking a few stars out of the cosmos in preparation for the upcoming Big Crunch. All this being a bad thing, Quinn — who give up his mission to rescue his daughter Sydney and returned to the Earth with the dire news — comes back to the Entire yet again, this time bearing a destructive nanotech device from his employers at Minerva to take out the Tarigs' universe-destroyer. But along for the ride, much to Quinn's profound chagrin, is Helice Maki, a ruthlessly ambitious young executive who quite literally knows no ethical restraint in her single-minded push for advancement and personal fulfillment. She has plans of her own in the Entire, and they don't involve Quinn. A lot of Kenyon's past work has had environmental themes, but I've never known her to be a writer who trades in overt social or political commentary. Still, now that I think about it, I suppose there is room to interpret the unfolding narrative of this series as a parable of our own fears about ecodisaster: the threat of global warming, or of peak oil resulting in a dwindling of precious resources on which we're already too reliant, followed by Malthusian freefall. Mostly, though, Kenyon keeps A World Too Near focused squarely on suspense, avoiding any overt polemical tubthumping. Her large cast of supporting players are given more breathing space here. With the burning question being to which universe are you loyal, if one has to die so the other can survive, characters don't always fall into the expected camps. Anzi, Quinn's traveling companion from the first book, has thrown her lot in with our universe, the Rose, while Helice would happily see the Rose collapse into oblivion simply so that she can enjoy the extended life expectancy of living in the Entire. Other supporting players reveal their own hidden agendas. Cixi, a chalin high prefect helping the Tarig to run their affairs from their floating city, secretly plots treason, manipulating Quinn's daughter Sydney (with whom she's in love) into a leadership position among the Inyx, in the hopes she'll rule as queen following the inevitable rebellion. Quinn's wife Johanna, long thought dead but in fact a concubine of a Tarig lord, works behind the scenes to get messages to Quinn, to help lead him to his goal. And even among the Tarig high lords, there is one traitor who repudiates the planned destruction of the Rose, and has unthinkably turned against his own kind. So there's more dimension to the characters and the narrative in this second volume. And there's a climax that's literally pulse pounding. It is true that, overall, the way in which Kenyon is splicing the ideas of SF onto the action and epic scope of high fantasy here results in a story that is best appreciated as pure escapism, without as much intellectual substance as you'll find in her earlier stand-alone novels. (Especially as there's enough indistinguishable-from-magic stuff going on the hard SF junkies might sneer.) The way Kenyon has Quinn and Anzi trudging wearily across the bleak alien landscape towards the citadel at Anhenhoon, where the device Quinn must destroy is housed, recalls all too vividly Frodo and Sam's trek across Mordor to destroy the One Ring, and the similar lonely quests of a hundred desperate epic fantasy heroes in a hundred knockoffs. So it must be said that at the end of the day, this series, exciting as it's turning out to be, is in many ways pure fantasy formula — just tricked out in the most gorgeous production values imaginable. But who cares if it's formula as long as the entertainment value is blowing your doors, right? A World Too Near is sweet, splendid entertainment. Kay Kenyon will have you solidly hooked with this series, and if you've never had her name down on your reading list before now, it's way past time you added it. Followed by City without End.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line375
__label__wiki	0.850071	0.850071	Modi, Trump share ‘warm’ phone conversation Wednesday, 25 January 2017 , 2:00 pm New Delhi, India: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged on Wednesday to work closely with Donald Trump after the new US president invited him to Washington, looking to ensure an upturn in ties survives a change at the White House. After their first phone call since Trump’s inauguration, the leaders of the world’s two largest democracies both indicated they had had a warm conversation and extended mutual invitations to their respective capitals. Modi was effectively barred from the United States for many years as punishment for deadly communal riots in the western state of Gujarat during his time as chief minister. But after his landslide election victory, Modi built a strong rapport with Barack Obama who became the first sitting US president to pay a second visit to India during the 2015 Republic Day celebrations. A surprisingly warm conversation in November between Trump and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif caused alarm in New Delhi which is trying to portray its rival regime in Islamabad as the ‘mothership of terrorism’. But official statements issued after Tuesday’s night phone call indicated that both men are keen to build on the recent improvement in ties. Writing on Twitter, Modi said he ‘had a warm conversation’ with the new US president and that they had both ‘agreed to work closely in the coming days to further strengthen our bilateral ties’. ‘Have also invited President Trump to visit India,’ Modi added after the White House revealed Washington had extended a similar invite. ‘True friend’ During the call, Trump emphasised that the United States ‘considers India a true friend and partner in addressing challenges around the world,’ according to a White House readout of the call. ‘The two discussed opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the United States and India in broad areas such as the economy and defense. ‘President Trump looked forward to hosting Prime Minister Modi in the United States later this year.’ During his election campaign, Trump courted Indian-American voters and even released a campaign advertisement in Hindi for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights—albeit in a thick US accent. Several commentators have argued that Modi and Trump should have a natural affinity as two political outsiders who have risen to power in part by castigating the traditional ruling elite on a nationalist platform. Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon described Modi’s victory in India’s 2014 general election as the first phase in a ‘global revolt’ against the existing order that culiminated with the outcome of November’s US polls. The new president’s hardline rhetoric towards Muslims during his campaign found favour in some quarters in India, which has had its fair share of tensions between the majority Hindu population and its Muslim minority. There are an estimated four million Indian Americans living in the United States according to 2015 census figures. While Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of a trade pact known as Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) caused some consternation in other Asian countries such as China and Japan, India was not part of the agreement. A report in Wednesday’s Hindustan Times said Trump’s reservations over an existing visa scheme allowing high-skilled foreign workers into the US could cause some friction but it quoted an Indian official as saying that ‘there is no other area of potential dispute’ with the new administration. Facebook accidentally ‘leaked’ moderators’ identities to potential terrorists Canada-Bangladesh Association (CBA) Got New Executives PM seeks global effort to block terrorists' weapon supply line Trump hopes to visit Bangladesh 11 killed, 27 injured in two road accidents in northern India	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line376
__label__cc	0.550905	0.449095	imperfectly formed My other hats The stories she wants to write, but probably won’t Posted in Flash Fiction by Cannylass Em is full of stories, but she only actually writes some of them. The charming ones, the jolly ones, the quietly observant and sometimes even insightful ones. The stories Em writes are sort of sweet and light, like After-Dinner Mints. She’s fond of these stories, as she may as well be, because she thinks she may never write the stories she wants to write. How to write the stories that broil with frothy rage? How to craft the stories full of hurt and savagery? Em writes about a sweet guy who is toying with the idea of growing a handlebar moustache, while inside her head the other stories slither with the serpents of her dreams. The story came Posted in Flash Fiction, Pen to Paper Challenge by Cannylass Last night on the edge of sleep was when the idea came. For a story. It was to do with bitten nails and wanting to scratch – a sort of kōan. The first two sentences presented themselves like smiling eager children, all polished and perfect. A gift. That was the moment to seize a pencil and write them down but she was so tired and her limbs felt heavy, her eyes heavier. She closed her heavy eyes and repeated the sentences to herself three times like a charm. She would remember it. In the morning she would wake up and the story would be idling like an engine warming up in a cold driveway waiting for her to get it down. She slept, the story safely inside her. In the morning, of course, it had gone. No surprises there really. Even studying her bitten nails could not summon it back. The story always calls the shots. When will you learn, lady? Lunch at Sopra Sandy was sitting at a table for six in Cafe Sopra at 1:02pm on a Saturday. She had decided to wear the red and back dress, the sleeveless one with the floral thing going on. And the patent leather red shoes with the heels. She was pleased with that decision. And the decision about the Barramundi with the kipflers and caperberries. She felt good on her second glass of bubbly. It was a celebration after all. Carol across from her was wearing her sunnies on top of her head like a tiara. Not sure what she thought about that. Carol asked about the thing at yoga. Sandy wasn’t inclined to discuss yoga with Carol or for that matter with Andrew or Gemma or Mel. Especially Mel. So judgemental. The waiter with the short strawberry blonde curls and the delightful smile brought another bottle of champagne. Domestic actually. Sandy liked that he was wearing shorts. Sandy likes summer and right then, right there, while Mel was waxing excitable about the new woman at the child care centre and how much little Roslyn responds to her – she really does, respond – Sandy cast her mind out like a fishing reel all through the summer, cast it so far it almost reached the end of February and she saw the first leaves changing in her mind’s eye before the third glass was poured. Transported It’s almost midnight at the bus station. If you were there you would see six people. A couple of old blokes wearing rugby jumpers (Carn the ‘Tahs!), a young mother and her daughter who might be ten or so, Kayla the driver, and Charlie. Charlie doesn’t care what game the girl is playing on her iPod touch. He doesn’t care to know what article the girl’s mother is reading that’s so funny she just snorted. He doesn’t care that Kayla is giving him the eye. And he doesn’t care about the rugby. Charlie is here so he can be alone. Not with his thoughts though – in fact just the opposite. He takes the bus for the sensory experience. Charlie likes that Greyhound bus overnight long haul feeling. The smell of boots and sweat and air conditioning. The taste of stale Cheezels bought from a bus station vending machine. The blurring of the townstreescarspeople out the window and the shuddering of his bones all the way down the Hume. Charlie loves the middle of the night comfort stop, the leg stretches, the watery coffee, the deep black silhouettes of gum trees at dawn. The Greyhound bus it seems is a healing place for a troubled soul. Charlie is counting on it. And maybe Kayla is too. Early, before sunrise, the tiniest hint of grey morning light in the sky. Let’s say around minus one degrees. That’s what it was when she checked the weather report last night. She is in bed under a doona and two woolly blankets. No beanie. Her head is cool and her body is warm. She’s comfortable except for the itches and she tracks them over her body, watching them and then noticing each one fade to gone. There’s one on her sternum right now just near her heart. It itches. She watches and sees clearly just for a second, the miracle of letting go, of being at ease. Still, mindfully awake. The dog stirs, scratches itches of her own, thumps off her bed onto the floorboards. Her claws tap to the kitchen door and back. The dog does this on purpose. She wants to go outside and sniff the morning air. She wants to squat on the mulch and pee. The dog has needs. It’s a battle of wills and, of course, the dog wins, but the woman doesn’t mind. She will remember that peacefulness for weeks and hang onto it when things go sour. She scratches her back, and the dog’s ears, and gets up to make the tea. Dennis and the terrible bike pants This is the story of Dennis and the terrible bike pants. Tanya is driving, some distance behind Dennis. She doesn’t know his name but that’s neither here nor there. She watches him cycling up the road and is transfixed by his really, truly ugly cycling pants. They have a pattern on them, though Tanya isn’t exactly sure you can call it a pattern. It seems to be a series of muddled fluro splodges. It looks like someone has thrown up on them after a children’s party. Why don’t they come to me for fashion advice? she wonders, remembering an encounter with a pasty Irish boy called Fergus, who she had transformed from dork to pasty Irish devil. Dennis knows none of this, and as he cycles up the road just metres ahead of the 2002 model Barina in which Tanya is critiquing him, Dennis imagines himself to be pretty fetching, particularly because he knows she is probably right now reading the ghostly COOGEE across his bum where his Speedos show through the cycling pants. Mmmm. Look out ladies. We have been at odds with each other for ages, disconnected and sore. It’s been a long time and we are not that sure why it even happened. We are tired though. Bone weary. We meet at a park where kids and dogs are playing. We meet so we can talk it through, to recover ourselves from the car crash we’ve created. It is hard to do. But it’s sunny and the dogs are playing in the off leash area and we have coffee and the winter sun on our backs. We look at each other and breathe. We see the hurt and breathe. We remember, but we see the past more clearly. We offer each other what we can – sorrow and honesty, gentle hands and tenderness. We lie on the grass like teenagers. We are relieved and so tired we fall asleep. When I wake up through a curtain of fringe I can see a Staffy looking over at us, laughing the way Staffies do. She thinks we are funny and so we are. Liesel is wearing a tight-fitting beige dress standing with a whole bunch of other girls wearing tight-fitting beige dresses, so that from a distance it looks like they are naked. Jacqui O sunnies and tzuged coiffs. tanned and taut and semi-tanked, swaying across Alison Road to the Randwick Raceground. Sarah doesn’t know them. She’s just watching this scene from her car at the traffic lights. Sarah feels a wash of disgust and a kind of shame by proxy. It’s a weird feeling to have but more than that, she knows it’s no good for her. And it’s no good for Leisel and her mates, thinks Sarah, who are probably right now discussing who’s brought the cocaine and who is most likely to get with Patrick. Sarah judges Leisel from the driver’s seat, and then she judges herself. I’m a judgemental cow, she thinks. The judgements are coming thick and fast now. Their skirts are too way short. The one with the raven hair is way too overtly sexual. They have no self-control. They have no self-respect. Sarah sits in her car wishing she could summon some compassion, some tenderness, some god-damn loving-kindness. The lights change and she drives on, her hard heart heavy in her chest. Occupational hazard Oliver is a cross-referencer. That’s what he does. Draws connections, collates information, makes indexes. It’s a hazardous occupation because Oliver can’t turn it off. He can’t help himself. He’s always cross-referencing the habits and proclivities of his old girlfriends and his new ones, or their namesakes in history or works of literature. He cross -references the names of his co-workers with figures from myth and popular culture, which once lead to a bit of an incident with Kim from Finance because of The Jungle Book and the Kardashians. He knows it’s sort of impolite, but it’s how he sees things, how he plots a chart to navigate the world, and he has an extraordinarily good memory for faces. And anyway, no one calls him Oliver except his Mum. They call him Ox, as in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary (ha!), but Yasmin, his latest paramour calls him Roget, which he loves, because it reminds him of Federer, who Oliver thinks is sportily debonair. So, is it a habit or a compulsion? Oliver is not sure, but he knows this. It wasn’t truly a problem till the day he met his new boss, Attila. Your driver today is Mohammed. He arrives in a black Toyota Aurion, polished and pristine. He is tidy in jeans and a blue t-shirt. He looks like a rugby league player you think, as he puts your bags in the boot. You get in and you tell him where to go. Domestic airport, Virgin. Mohammed says that he doesn’t know the way. It’s his first day driving for Uber. Geez. But it’s ok. He’s joking. Mohammed is a joker. But it’s not all laughs for Mohammed. He’s one week divorced from his Gucci-obsessed miserable wife. She doesn’t understand him. She thinks his lovely top of the line black Toyota is shit. She’s already dating a guy with a BMW and an investment property in Brunswick Heads. You don’t know her name, but you already don’t like her. Yes, of course, there’s always two sides, but you hate seeing Mohammed so sad that he overshoots the terminal and has to drop you at QANTAS, that’s how sad he is. Trish’s new feeling For Trish the holiday is only half the thrill. Unlike Pete who cannot get into a holiday until he’s got to where he’s going, Trish has had weeks of quiet and rising anticipation, imagining the palm trees and the scent of coconut oil and the cold, steely taste of the beer and the richness of the sunsets. Vorfreude, they call it. What a great word. But now they’ve arrived and their resort is way better than Trish ever expected it to be. This has never happened before. There’s crisp white bed linen and a charcoal coloured rug. There are handsome lampshades – nothing too frou-frou, deftly understated, in fact. There’s fancy tea and coffee and decent sized mugs, and real milk – not UHT – in the fridge. There’s a bath and bath salts scented like coriander and lemongrass, and complimentary kimonos to wear for the duration of your stay. And Trish now realises that this new feeling she’s experiencing, this delight at having found a hotel room that exceeds expectations, deserves its own word. Is she experiencing a feeling of hotelation? she asks Pete, but he’s crashed out on the banana lounge with a James Patterson paperback over his face, and he’s in no position to comment. Trees are best Maverick is a dog. She’s a kelpie-staffy cross, and she’s not a maverick. Maverick does whatever she is told. She is obedient. Really, Maverick is the best trained dog in the park. Probably in her suburb. Maverick doesn’t chase all the ibises trying to get stuff out of the bins. Maverick doesn’t bark at the parking officers booking everyone on the clearway. Maverick sits and stays and drops, and yes, Maverick rolls over. Maverick’s owner is called Prudence and she, of course, is heedless. Right now Maverick and Prudence are in the park wondering why so many of the trees have orange ribbons tied to their trunks. Is it the council or the Hare Krishnas? Either way, this makes them both unsettled. Trees are best unadorned, they both agree. Prudence sets about removing the ribbons with the tiny blade on the corkscrew she still has in her bag from the picnic last Sunday. Maverick follows Prudence around the perimeter of the park as she hacks through the ribbons and stuffs them in her bag. Prudence makes good progress all the way round to the last gumtree on the south side, where – uh-oh – she is spotted by the parking officer. Maverick hides behind Prudence’s legs and Prudence cheerily waves at the parking officer, whose name is Omar, though she doesn’t know this. Omar waves back, all casual and cheerful. How does she get away with it? Maverick wonders, and the ibises look on admiringly. (For Hannah) Sal’s poems Sal is a flight attendant and a poet. She offers travellers drinks and cheese platters with the quiet dignity of someone who writes gentle haikus at altitude. She writes a poem about ‘Mr Whisky’ in business class with the kind eyes and the dimpled chin. She writes a poem about the dark haired girl sleeping over three seats with her red Explorer socks on. She writes poems about the smell of rubber on hot tarmac. She writes poems about the tenderness of honeymooners. Sal composes the poems in her head. She gives herself five rows to compose in and then keeps on repeating the complete poem for the length of the aisle. That’s how she does it. Sal’s poems waste no space, they squander no time. And when everyone’s been fed and had their second cup of tea, when the lights go down and we all huddle under those tiny blankets, Sal carefully squeezes her finished poems into the gaps in the overhead lockers. Tracey wishes Tracey sits in the big tent at the music festival watching the band. Irish or Celtic, something like that. The music is good. Not so loud, the quality that it has above all is clarity. It rings like a bell in the night air, and the crowd is under a spell. Tracey is listening but more than that she is watching the family sitting in front of her, the very next row. Dad has just got back with two glasses of wine, and the mum is holding their child who must be maybe a bit shy of two, Tracey guesses. The mum is bouncing the child on her knee and the music is heart-achingly sweet and the child is so close, Tracey could reach out and touch him. She wishes for a moment that the woman would pass her this child, take a break for herself and her husband, kick back for twenty minutes with their wine and relax, and let her take care of this small, small boy who is wrapped up in a woolly blanket and a beanie and has sleepy eyes. Tracey sits and listens and aches and makes wish after wish. Marcus has an idea Marcus had come up with the idea on a holiday at Byron. He and four old mates from indoor soccer woke up beyond dusty one sticky morning and Stephan, who was the weather man on a commercial free-to-air network, fixed everyone a drink made of vodka, tomato juice, beetroot, spinach and chilli. Apparently he had got this secret recipe from the actor who plays the long-suffering patriarch crime boss on that show. Not the Sydney one. The Melbourne one. They got into a conversation about it at the Logies. Chris the goalie had challenged Steph straight up. That’s practically a Bloody Mary. Steph reckoned it was called a Bloody Oath, and Marcus didn’t care because he was thinking about his idea, the book he would write. A Guide to the Hangover Cures of the Rich and Famous. Stephan could be his introduction, Marcus’s way in to the world of celebrity drinking. He would take a micro-recorder and place it carefully on the bar – with their full consent of course – and he would capture the spritz of their conversations, the wit and the thrilling anecdotes full of names and faces. They would confide in him as if he were a bartender, worldly and simpatico and discreet. Marcus would listen to their secrets spill out of them. He would put an understanding hand on their shoulders and he would get them to tell him about the things they were ashamed of. As well as their tips for hangovers. Bloody oath, it was a good idea. What to make of Hamish Adam is not at all sure what to make of Hamish, even though Hamish just bought him a scotch and last week he paid him a compliment about his taste in shoes. Why the suspicion? Is it because Hamish is tall and muscular with a chest like a bar fridge? Is it because – not in looks but in some other hard to grasp way – Hamish reminds him of Morrisey who reminds him of Sebastian Flyte who reminds him of his uncle’s old, sad wolf hound called Tristan? For Adam, Hamish is always giddily receding down a hall of mirrors, a glass of Glenmorangie in one hand, and the other deep in the pocket of his linen trousers. Thing is, trust him or not, Hamish has a laugh that makes him very hard to resist. It’s a festival She is in the eighth row back from the stage watching the band. Listening to the band. It’s early afternoon and everything has really got going now. The queue for coffee is slackening off and the queue at the bar is getting longer. She has a cider, and why not. It’s a festival. There are sausage sandwiches and gozleme. There are kids running around the tent poles and teenagers and an old couple dancing up the front and a guy with hair like Michael Bolton. The cider is cold, the sound is good, and it’s so hot she takes her socks off surreptitiously. Michael Bolton turns at the precise moment she’s doing this, their eyes meet and then his travel down to her still hot bare feet. She flushes and the heat travels to her cheeks. She doesn’t fancy Michael Bolton at all, not a bit of it, but she feels caught out and kind of awkward. Suck back on the cider, love. Michael Bolton so doesn’t mind. The rot Terry is turning 43, but he doesn’t feel very much like a grown up. Most of the time even when he’s at work, even when he’s in a suit and tie, for heaven’s sake, he feels a bit like a gormless teenager. Naive and awkward. Goofy even. Terry’s wife Anna wears a suit to work too, but she is spookily efficient and seriously mature. Terry imagines what it would be like if they weren’t married. What it would be like working with her. He imagines her saving her secure files to come out of her office for his birthday cake and ten dutiful minutes of workplace bonding with the team. She’d have a thin slice and a cup of tea and she’d wish him many happy returns while assessing Terry’s haircut and shoes and thinking up clever questions for his performance review. Thank God we are just married he thinks, but the doubt has begun. Terry longs for Casual Friday and his oxblood red sneakers and doesn’t realise that the rot’s setting in, the way it does, the way it will. Ash and the twos Ash sits at a table in the beer garden of a pub called The Twa Corbies. He’s not bought a thing from them, not even a half, and so he sits there in the warm wind, with his paperback and takeaway hot chips, feeling pleasantly wicked. It’s two o’clock or so. Ash is watching two surfers head down the ramp into the water. The tide is going out, he thinks, as the two heroes of his novel are plunged into danger. Two seagulls are eyeing off his chips. The surfers are pointing at two other surfers who are already riding two small waves. A couple of Ash’s chips have fallen on the grass by his two feet, and the two seagulls swoop over to capture them. It’s all too much for Ash, the weight of all these signs and portents. He dashes into the pub where he buys two pints to see him through the rest of his paperback and maybe into the next one, because he never travels without two books. The things Robert hated This is what Robert was like. He bit his fingernails and drank too much coffee. He spent way too much time reading cycling magazines and not actually cycling. He secretly believed that Game of Thrones was the best book he had ever read and he knew that to say so out loud was asking for trouble. He enjoyed looking at his girlfriend’s girlfriend, and he hated how he often thought his father was, well, a fool really, when you take into account the feeble grasp of the real estate market and his Dad’s affectation of joining something described as the Country Club but which was located in the northern suburbs 20 minutes from the CBD on the train. Robert wore very hip stovepipe jeans, but felt it was really quite likely that he was just a dork who thought that wearing stovepipe jeans would give him street cred. It was a minefield. The things Robert hated about himself were mounting up. He was knackered noticing everything that’s wrong with him. So he grabbed his copy of A Clash of Kings and headed out for a double espresso. Martin on The Crack Cannylass on Contact Sarah Fernandes on Contact Cannylass on Buying a trench coat Cannylass on About For fresh small stories fairly often	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line378
__label__cc	0.555761	0.444239	Home News World China Removes the Words ‘Bible,’ ‘God,’ and ‘Christ’ from Classic Lit China Removes the Words ‘Bible,’ ‘God,’ and ‘Christ’ from Classic Lit Joyce Dimaculangan Chinese authorities have removed the words ‘Bible,’ ‘God,’ and ‘Christ’ from beloved children’s stories, including Robinson Crusoe and The Little Match Girl. China’s Ministry of Education said four literary classics written by foreign authors are included in the curriculum of fifth grade students to expose the children to other cultures. But, government officials have erased critical words used in these classics, reports Barnabas Fund. In atheistic China, these pure and innocent children have been taught to hate God. —Anonymous Chinese Christian mother In the 1718 novel Robinson Crusoe, author Daniel Defoe described how the title character rescued three Bibles in a shipwreck. Robinson Crusoe used the Scriptures as a moral compass throughout his journey. In China’s textbooks, instead of Bibles, Crusoe saved “a few books.” Meantime, in Hans Christian Anderson’s short story, The Little Match Girl, it has a line, “when a star falls, a soul goes to be with God.” China revised this line with “When a star falls, a person leaves this world.” Another children’s story, Vanka, by Anton Chekhov was also Sinicized. Every ‘Christ’ was erased as well as the part about praying in church. This is not the first time China involved children in its crackdown on Christianity. Last year, the communist country implemented the new Regulations on Religious Affairs, which require anti-Christianity lessons in primary schools, and grooming young kids to become atheists, reports Italy-based online news magazine, Bitter Winter. Chinese students are taught that Christianity is a xie jiao (cult) and members of such group are terrible and they must be hated. A son of a Christian woman worried that his mother might leave him someday. He said, “My teacher says that Christianity is a xie jiao. If you believe in it, you will leave home and not take care of me. You might set yourself on fire, too.” To avoid problems with the child, the mother hid all Christian materials at home. However, the boy saw a religious leaflet in his mother’s bag. So enraged, he got a knife and stabbed the leaflet violently. He told his mother to give up her faith since “Christianity is a xie jiao.” The Christian woman was alarmed at the sudden transformation of her child who was once well-behaved. “Before starting school, I told my child about God’s creation, and he believed it. But after being taught at school, my child is like a different person. In atheistic China, these pure and innocent children have been taught to hate God,” she said. Previous articleAmericans Trust Church More Than Technology —Pew Next articleKendrick Brothers’ ‘Overcomer’ leads August family-friendly spotlight Joyce has more than 15 years experience writing news, industry articles and blogs for the private and public sectors. Most of her career was spent writing technical documentation for a software company in the Philippines. She earned a B.A. in Communication Arts with a concentration in writing from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. During her leisure time, Joyce pursues her interest in reading fiction and playing with her dogs. She can be contacted at Joyce@onechristianvoice.com. Please check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Too often we don’t learn about our brothers and sisters in Christ until their funeral or memorial service. Christians Flourish in the UAE Welsh Council Meetings Still Open with Christian Prayers Chinese Christians Urged to Replace Jesus Images with Xi Jinping	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line381
__label__cc	0.691164	0.308836	Earthmoving Machines CastForge 2018 Posted by admin in News From 5th to 7th of June, Somel will be at CastForge fair: the first fair specialized in casting, forging and processing of the metal parts. The fair, which will take place at the impressive Stuttgart Exhibition Complex – Hall 6, is something totally new in the field of industrial events. Here, CastForge will show an extraordinary range of cast steel, grey cast iron and ductile cast iron products and items, as well as fusion of non-ferrous metals and forged parts. Come and visit us at Stand D35. Year 2016 has been entirely satisfactory. The performances of the world car market have improved month after month thanks to a constantly consolidating global economic context. Therefore, we resolutely aim at the industry model 4.0, in particular, at the automation, innovation, and at the capacity of satisfying a more and more complex market, in need of customizing our own offer. To this end, flexibility and quality are essential features that Simpro is guaranteeing to its own customers for over thirty years through its cutting-edge and tailor-made systems. In turn, its customers will be able to offer their final customers more and more reliable and innovative products. To keep abreast of the times, sharing ideas is of the utmost importance during those events in which all of the new technologies are presented to experts. Also this year, Simpro, Somel and Simpro do Brasil, leaders in their own fields of activity, have attended the most important trade exhibitions, where the meetings between customers, suppliers and competitors give the chance to promote the market modernization. That is why this new year 2017, which has what it takes to be another year of economic growth and technological progress, will get off to a good start. In the end, Simpro Group wishes everyone a new year full of success, in which one’s own hopes and dreams may come true. Posted by Administrator in News SOMEL will be in MIDEST: the sole international show to specialize in industrial subcontracting. Conceived both as a network and a catalyst for industry, it makes it possible to initiate, consolidate and develop opportunities of all kinds for collaboration between those involved in the design and production of made-to-measure parts or sub-assemblies. The show plays a decisive role in establishing relationships between customers and subcontractors, offering them an event that is both human in scale and friendly in atmosphere where they can evaluate and refine their panel of subcontractors, identify the right partners, forge the contacts that will be crucial to the success of their projects, gather information and discuss key industry topics and discover and gain an understanding of trends in technology and innovations.ù 6 — 9 December 2016, Paris, Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2016 Automotive Testing Expo Europe will once again run at the Messe Stuttgart and will feature record numbers of exhibitors. At the 18th Automotive Testing Expo Europe you can see the very latest technologies and services that are designed to ensure that the highest standards are met in terms of product quality, reliability, durability and safety. Over 330 exhibiting companies will be out to demonstrate that their products are able to help with the ultimate aim of eliminating recalls. These must surely be the drivers of any successful car industry; they represent fundamental features that are uppermost in customers’ minds, and are essential for brand loyalty and brand protection as well as global sales success. Products areas included: • Test simulation • NVH analysis • Occupant/pedestrian safety • Engine/emissions testing • Track simulation and laboratory testing • Dynamometers • Vehicle dynamics testing • Materials testing • Aerodynamic and wind tunnel testing • Vibration and shock testing • Acoustic testing • Environmental testing • Mechanical testing • Hydraulics testing • Electrical system testing • Reliability/life-cycle testing • Test facility • Automated test equipment (ATE) • Fuels and integrated systems testing • Test management software • Crash test analysis • Tire testing • Data acquisition and signal analysis • Impact testing • Electronics and microelectronics testing • Fatigue/fracture testing • Torsion testing • Component testing • EMC/electrical interference testing • Structural and fatigue testing • Impact and crash testing • Sensors and transducers • Test facility design • Quality testing and inspection • Telemetry systems • Vehicle simulation • Automatic inspection • Stress/strain testing • Calibration • Laboratory instrumentation • Software test and development • Quality management solutions Find us at stand 1550. FEIMEC — International Machinery and Equipment Exhibition First of all, Brazil needs to invest heavily in modernization of the own industrial technology, to switch from the second to the third technological evolution period, to replace traditional systems with numerically controlled machine tools, used independently until now. – Alfredo Ferrari, mechanical engineer and vice-president of ABIMAQ – With a gross domestic product around 2.3 trillion, Brazil is the seventh world economy, and it is the fifth most populated country. Despite an understandable stalemate in its economic development after the boom in the first decade of the new century, it represents a huge market capable of attracting investors from all over the world. The FEIMEC International Machinery and Equipment Exhibition, which will take place in São Paulo on May 3-7 2016, is a unique opportunity at a crucial time for the Brazilian growth prospects. All the major manufacturers will attend it to bring together supply and demand, to show new automation technologies and to promote that decisive shift in the production system towards a further technological evolution of industrial production systems. An evolution, which could give new impetus to a country — and to a whole continent — with an enormous economic potential still to be developed. Then, if the Brazilian future passes also through FEIMEC, Simpro, which has a special relationship with future and with Brazil, cannot miss it. To show once again its capacity to innovate, the infinite care for the customer’s productive needs and its usual reliability. See you at stand C158, where you can examine our products and our working methods, as the result of a thirty-year experience in manufacturing production systems for the automotive and railway industry. 1986 — 2016: thirty years of Simpro Thirty years have passed since Giulio Bianchini founded the company SIMPRO (Sistemi Macchine Produzione). In those years, FIAT manufactured well-known car models such as Panda (first version), Uno and Tipo. And Simpro was always in the front line, among the major suppliers of the Turin car manufacturer, with a view to providing technologic tools suitable for industrial production. Waxing, BIW and engine testing systems are the core business in which Simpro succeeded in the national and international scene. The 90’s witnessed Simpro’s gradual expansion. In those years, they got the first jobs for the most important car manufacturers worldwide, and Simpro do Brasil, the new plant that paved the way to the South American market, was founded. Always in those times, Simpro was awarded with important quality certifications, the internal engineering department was opened (currently the predominant section of the company), and Somel, a company from Levone Canavese, was taken over. In short, that was a crucial decade, very satisfying and difficult, that led Simpro to be successful in the world scene as a leading company in the industrial automation for the automotive field. The next decade witnessed the transfer of Simpro’s own expertise, accrued from the engine testing systems, from the car field to the railway sector. In fact, Simpro erected, from the initial architectonic design to the manufacturing of every test stand down to its last detail, the Centre for Experimental Dynamics in Osmannoro, Florence: a colossal project for a cutting-edge plant, of the greatest importance for the Italian research in the railway sector, unique in Europe, which involved the University of Pisa, Florence and Naples. But we don’t stop here. Simpro’s philosophy, aimed to reinvest the profits to keep growing and creating new jobs, leads the company to found Simpro India, as well as to form business partnerships in China and in the United States. After 30 years, the expansion process appears not to stop at all, and the future projects are more ambitious than ever: a new company site is being erected. A brand new building that will enable those guys who started up a business in a small warehouse of the Turin suburbs thirty years ago, to keep innovating, modernizing and cherishing the dream of an ever-growing sustainable industry. To bring honour to this thirty-year activity, Simpro has decided to consolidate its brand through those tools now indispensable for a simple, quick and effective global communication. The new website has already been operational for a couple of months together with the new Web page of the subsidiary company Somel. In addition to this, Simpro intends to strengthen its presence on the social networks: this will enable customers, suppliers and those who may be interested, to keep constantly connected and abreast of the Simpro world. NT Expo 2015 – São Paulo NT Expo is an event that will take place in São Paulo (Brazil) from 3rd to 5th November 2015 at the Expo Center Norte. This exhibition intends to put in touch men and technology, individuals and institutions, and all those who may be interested in investing in the railway future of South America. An extremely vast continent that, abreast with its own economic development, witnesses the growing need for an ever wider and more efficient railway network. The organizers assure that, during the 3 days of the event, customers and suppliers from companies working in the goods and passenger transport field can be met. A unique opportunity to gather up operators from all over the world and to put together supply and demand in a rapidly developing sector in need of investments. In addition to the obvious business benefits resulting from being present at such an important event, busy schedule of conferences about the most varied subjects, from the technological debate to the discussion with regard to the best production customs, can be attended. In short, this event unique of its kind will enable everyone to experience firsthand the state-of-the-art technology of rail transport as well as to witness the railway and subway development of South America. For a company like SIMPRO, active in the South American market for a very long time, the participation in this event is essential to show its own technology and keep on marking the evolution milestones of its fields of activity. IREE 2015 – New Delhi The IREE (International Railway Equipments Exhibition) is the only international event in India for the Railway and its related sectors. The exhibition – organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with the Ministry of Railways, Government of India – will take place in New Delhi from 14th to 16th October, 2015. In line with its expansion and evolving policy, SIMPRO will partecipate in the event with the purpose of broaden the range of its customers in Asia. In a sector, the railway one, in which SIMPRO has developed absolutely innovative technologies, that have revolutionized the ways of proceeding to the rolling stock testing and type-approvaling. In its area of expertise, manufacturing and maintenance one, and primarily in test benches, SIMPRO will present itself to the dynamic Indian market as worldwide leader and technological point of reference. The event will held at the Pragati Maidan (Mathura Road, New Delhi, 35 minutes drive from Indira Gandhi International Airport). You can find us at the Italian Chamber of Commerce stand. Testing Expo – China Automotive Testing Expo represents the most important event about automotive quality, safety, reliability, and durability. The exibition is the most useful platform to facilitate the launch of new technologies about automotive testing, to met new commercial partner and set collaborations. In the digital comunication age, exhibitions are almost the last not-virtual get-together moments where clients, sellers and products meet physically. The next event stage is Shanghai, in the heart of Chinese industrial system. The most popolous city of the world, with an estimated 45 milion inhabitants, is preparing to ospitate for the tenth time the exhibition, at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center (6F Building C, 70 Caobao Road). The numbers of last year are extremely cheering. Only in the first of three days, visitors were over three thousand, and in 2015 it will expect an equally huge turnout. According to organizers Visitors will be able to see the very latest test technologies and services that are being used in the full automotive production process. From the initial prototype analysis through to end of line inspection and quality assurance, and every procedure in between, exhibitors will display their very latest products that are all improving vehicle reliability, durability, safety and quality. Simpro, after the successfull partecipation at Stuttgart Automotive Testing Expo (16-18 June), is ready to join the other exhibitors – over 300 – whom will present themselves on the roaring Chinese market. It’s a unique opportunity to get in touch and face with a great – probably the greatest – expansion industrial system, which require the highest promptness from who, like Simpro, wants keep himself up-to-date about the most advanced professional stardard. Simpro will expose himself as leader and landmark of technological development in engine hot and cold bench test, in cavity waxing technology and body white assembly. For further informations it is possible to visit official Automotive Testing Expo 2015 – China website, where there is also an exhibitor list and a show layout. Simpro new web site Simpro web site is renewed. New graphics and a simplified navigation experience to give a more immediate and engaging first access to the Simpro world. The new website offer itself as a more interactive and accesible tool, to tell a story about a continuous growth, technological innovations, and collaborations with the most important automotive producers. Website is renewed also about the contents, giving Product displaying more space and visibility. Moreover, a mordenized News section will allow to clients, suppliers, and anyone want to approach to Simpro worldwide, stay updated about our activities and projects. Our intention is to continue innovation, in all respects, to keep up with technological and professional standards, if not even for dictate timing and ways, in order to offer clients skillfully made for best performances and maximum satisfaction. SOMEL S.p.A. Levone (TO), 10070 e-mail: somel[at]somel.it SIMPRO S.p.A. 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__label__wiki	0.808624	0.808624	An ‘oust oligarchs’ alliance DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 03/12/2012 An ‘oust oligarchs’ alliance The global “Occupy Movement” opened the struggle of the 99 percent disposed peoples of the world against the miniscule but powerful one percent that monopolize the globe’s wealth. That one percent is, of course, the oligarchy. Like the rest of the world, the Philippines has had its own share of oligarchs who mimic and implement the same paradigm of greed and exploitation that has dominated the world these past two and a half decades — since the time of Thatcherism and Reaganomics. Even though the Philippines’ own oligarchs may have spats — real or make-believe — with one another once in a while, all of them will always stand united when it comes to exploiting and exhausting the wealth and resources of this nation for their fat bank accounts and megalomaniac egos. At their core, these oligarchs are the centurions of the global oligarchy in the country, the local gatekeepers of finance capital holding rein through money politics and mass media control. And because of this, the people must recognize the need to oust this oligarchy in order to free this nation from the global masters determined to extract every bit of wealth and anima from us. Just the other day, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again had called for new taxes on the Filipino people. IMF mission leader to the Philippines Vivek Arora reasoned that it is required for “growth to be sustained over the medium term.” However, what they won’t say is that while the oligarchy revels at the government assets to be privatized for their benefit, as well as the taxes from the people that finance the bureaucracy implementing the global and domestic oligarchy’s will, the people suffer from over-taxation just so that both public and private sector debts can be financed. As I picked up a copy of the credo of a giant bank’s training manual which says, “We believe in the central role that private enterprise plays in economic development,” it is pretty clear that minions are being brainwashed to execute an ideology of servitude to the oligarchy. But pray tell us, is the United States of America, the Mecca of capitalism that allows Wall Street to be the central power in its economy, a shining example of economic development today? We have seen the US of A become an economic wasteland as neoliberal economists of the Reagan period transferred all power to private capital, which went on to seek profit for profit’s sake and against continuous development of that nation’s physical or “hard” industries, which then led private enterprises to shift to Third World labor to further increase their profits. So, should the Third World celebrate this? Are people too naive to realize that the Philippine oligarchy has also tapped into the much bruited about business process outsourcing (BPO) sector? Though prone to window dressing, there are times when correct views emanate from multilateral agencies, like that Asian Development Bank (ADB) study by F. Tech Tschang, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, stating that “the (Philippine) government should not rely on the (BPO) industry in dealing with the poverty situation in the country.” Further, Norio Usui, ADB Philippines senior country economist, said the economy must “walk on two legs,” one being the services sector and the other, the industrial sector (particularly manufacturing) in order to achieve growth. Of course, we should add the all-important factor: Agricultural development toward food self-sufficiency. Yet the Philippine oligarchy will have none of these since they are averse to investing in long gestation projects with substantial original capital (as opposed to borrowed capital using government “sovereign guarantees”). Hence, private enterprise can never be the central engine in economic development. As the state (i.e. the people and their territory) is the genuine agent of the people’s aspirations and will, it is the ultimate source of all capital. Witness several state-led economies (such as China, India, Venezuela, Brazil, Vietnam and Argentina) that have shown the way since the advent of the 21st Century: Have they not successfully established their own nation-state leadership paradigms, which the Philippines can learn from? So then, how do we make this work given the local oligarchy’s control of all institutions of state and government, not to mention its control of all mainstream tri-media instruments, as well as the educational system that shapes the minds of our youth? Ironically, the greatest ally of the people and the nation-state centered leadership will be the oligarchs themselves. As their ideology of greed inflicts greater and greater suffering on the population, intra-oligarchy rivalries will soon arise. In the interim, the challenge to the genuine leadership agents of the people is to maintain the audibility and visibility of their nationalist ideology and its promise of genuine change and benefit to the general welfare. The first priority, therefore, is to consolidate the diverse forces that represent the nationalist ideology into an alliance. From there, a consistent message, image and leadership must find constant projection in all forms of national media. Those alleged “retired military officers” plotting a supposed ouster of PeNoy would do well to consider not just booting out a single trapo but the entire oligarchy. They must also ensure that in the ensuing vacuum, all their efforts are in support of a nationalist leadership. Otherwise, the same domination from PeNoy and the oligarchy will remain. But no matter the great effort and sacrifice needed for this, we must remember that the time is now ripe. As the global and domestic situation mature toward an explosion of the people’s rage, we will hear more and more exclaim, “Patria o muerte, venceremos!” (Tune in to 1098AM, dwAD, Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m.; watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m., on “Anti-large scale mining is pro-people;” visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives) Defense takes offensive EDITORIAL 03/12/2012 Defense takes offensive Now it is the turn of Chief Justice Renato Corona to make himself heard in the impeachment trial regarding a list of charges already aired and dried before the public but which his accusers were having a hard time proving their charges in the Senate court. Corona has been making the rounds with media outlets during the 12-day break of the trial to match the publicity blast that the prosecution team has been employing against him since day one of the trial. Looking silly are the prosecution propagandists, especially Noynoy, through his mouthpieces slamming Corona on his media interviews, and accusing him of “defense by publicity,” with even Noynoy and his spokesmen accusing the Chief Justice of conduct unbecoming a chief magistrate, while conveniently omitting the fact that their client, Noynoy, is certainly guilty of conduct unbecoming of a president, as he takes, to this day, every occasion to demonize the CJ..... MORE Is NATO luring Russia into summit trap? Washington’s election-year offer to share with Russia data on a US-built European missile defense system will likely fail to address Moscow’s objections to the project, a Russian security expert says. Vladimir Kozin, a senior researcher at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISI), said Moscow’s lack of full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) precludes the military bloc from data-sharing sensitive information with Russia..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/politics/putin-obama-nato-summit-missile-defense-301/ Fakebook: Bogus NATO chief spies on his top-level friends NATO commander James Stavridis has fallen victim to spies who created a fake profile on his behalf on Facebook and sent numerous “friend requests” to UK military chiefs. UK media suspect reams of acquired personal data have flown to China. The sham account for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis is understood to have gathered a distinguished company of British high-level military officers and Ministry of Defense officials. While one might not go looking for sensitive information on a social network like Facebook, the site can certainly give clues to passwords for classified files, as it stores dates of birth, phone numbers and hobbies. It could also help build blackmail or espionage profiles by disclosing names, family members and friends and tracking locations..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/nato-spies-facebook-china-319/ Cross to bear? UK denies Christians right to wear crucifix The British government asserts that Christians have no right to wear a cross or crucifix at work and is eager to prove it in court. The case was initiated by two British women Nadia Eweida and Shirley Chaplin, after they were punished for refusing to take off their religious symbols. Nadia Ewedia is a British Airways employee, who was asked to cover her cross while at work, and was placed on unpaid leave when she refused to do so. Shirley Chaplin is a nurse moved to a desk position after she refused to remove a crucifix..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/uk-bans-wearing-cross-317/ More lawyering for the prosecution FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/12/2012 More lawyering for the prosecution One gets the feeling that Noynoy’s senator-judges and the prosecutors fear that the testimony of the Chief Justice’s wife, Cristina, may well clear the chief magistrate, Renato Corona, on his bank deposits which Noynoy and his lapdogs in the Senate and the prosecution thought all along would be the “final nail” in his ouster coffin. With the yellow media going all out to nail the Chief Justice with their highlight on Ana Guidote’s interview demonizing her uncle, followed up with an interview with another Basa, a Franciscan nun, equally meddling in painting the CJ negatively, along with broad hints from the prosecutors claiming they will be calling on these two to testify as its rebuttal witness, there went Franklin Drilon, lawyering for the prosecution again, saying that the two Basa women can be called to testify, because the CJ’s statements of assets and liabilities networth (SALn) mentioned the Basa-Guidote Enterprises Inc. (BGEI), as the firm that had loaned him P11 million, reflected as his liability..... MORE Noynoy went on a different blitz with senator-judges By Angie M. Rosales 03/12/2012 Military justifies presence in Hacienda Luisita The military yesterday justified its presence in the controversial Hacienda Luisita, owned by the family of President Aquino, in Tarlac province by citing support coming from 10 barangay chairmen inside the sugarcane farm, stressing that local residents want government troops in the area. Army 7th Infantry Division (ID) spokesman Maj. Enrico Gil Ileto said that the presence of government troops in Hacienda Luisita, which straddles the towns of Concepcion, Lapaz and Tarkac City all in Tarlac province, is also part of the military’s commitment to protect the people. “Our presence in that area is a testament of our commitment to protect the rights of the people as embodied in our Internal Peace and Security Plan ‘Bayanihan,’” Ileto said..... MORE JPE to judges: Respect Corona or I’ll resign By Angie M. Rosales 03/12/2012 IF DEFENSE PANEL PRESENTS CJ AS WITNESS JPE to judges: Respect Corona or I’ll resign Senate President Juan Ponce Enarile said yesterday he would put at stake his position as presiding judge of the impeachment court should any of the senator judges or the members of the House prosecution panel make acerbic remarks that will tend to disrespect Chief Justice Renato Corona if the defense panel decides to present him as witness during the impeachment proceedings that resume today. Enrile assured Corona, should he decide to appear and defend himself before the impeachment tribunal, that he will not allow the chief magistrate to be disrespected by senator-judges, adding that he will resign, should this happen. “I will not allow that. If they start making abusive statements against the Chief Justice, I will immediately resign as presiding judge. I will tell everyone in the court that our job is to render judgment but dignity should be accorded him,” he said..... MORE Help repatriate pregnant OFW, Binay tells RP Embassy in Saudi 03/12/2012 Help repatriate pregnant OFW, Binay tells RP Embassy in Saudi Vice President Jejomar Binay has sought immediate assistance from the Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia to help a Filipino woman, who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by a fellow Filipino in the Kingdom, where carrying a child out of wedlock is a capital offense punishable with death. Binay asked the embassy to facilitate the return of the Filipina, who is believed to be a victim of human trafficking. The Vice President declined to disclose her identity for security reasons..... MORE Deadline set for harvesting unlicensed fishcages 03/12/2012 Deadline set for harvesting unlicensed fishcages Fish cage owners and operators in Taal Lake whose applications for renewal of permits have been disapproved have only until March 29 to harvest their products, Task Force Taal Lake officials said. Task Force Taal also reminded the fish cage owners with disapproved permits, including those without licenses, that their fish cages will be dismantled starting March 30 and they no longer be allowed to operate in the lake. The task force issued the twin reminders following a warning Friday by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) that Taal Lake fishermen should be prepared for possible fishkills due to temperature changes caused by the scorching summer heat..... MORE Quarry to operate on Marikina faultline By Fernan J. Angeles 03/12/2012 Quarry to operate on Marikina faultline The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to give the green light to what stands to become the largest quarry facility in the National Capital Region (NCR) on top of the Marikina East Valley Fault — in spite of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) warning of an impending strong earthquake on a movement of the Marikina Valley Fault, Documents obtained by the Tribune show that a relatively big mining operation would soon be in place at a town located at the immediate northeast of Metro Manila. The documents, allegedly from the DENR, show that an investment company registered as San Rafael Development Corp. (SDRC) has started laying the groundwork of what could be the biggest aggregate excavation and production activity in the NCR. SRDC, through another entity referred to as Massab, has already secured a Mineral Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) clearing them to commence the quarry, production and sale of a mineral deemed as necessary in ensuring the structural integrity of infrastructure works..... MORE CA division hit for resorting to ‘procedural shortcuts’ By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/12/2012 CA division hit for resorting to ‘procedural shortcuts’ Lawyers of the Steel Corp. of the Philippines (SCP) have denounced the alleged irregularities over how a division of the Court of Appeals (CA) handled its case against the Banco de Oro Universal Bank (BdO). In a letter, SCP’s VP-Corporate Legal Counsel, Nonnatus Chua, urged CA’s Presiding Justice Andres Reyes Jr., to investigate Justice Normandie Pizarro, the ponente, together with the two other members of the Special Fourth Division, namely, Justices Rebecca de Guia-Salvador and Ramon Bato Jr., for allegedly committing “irregularities and procedural shortcuts” in violation of the 2009 Internal Rules of the Court of Appeals (IRCA) and railroading the case in favor of the opposing party (Banco de Oro Universal Bank or BdO)..... MORE Privatization of Water Districts opposed M E T R O F I L E 03/12/2012 Privatization of Water Districts opposed M E T R O F I L E The Philippine Association of Water District (PAWD) is opposing the proposed bills in the Senate and House of Representatives aiming to privatize the Water Districts in the country and the establishment of Water and Sanitation Regulatory Authority. According to PAWD national president Gilbert Camaligan, there is no reason to privatize the water districts as proposed by Sen. Edgardo Angara in his Senate Bill 2997 and House Bill No. 5497 of Rep. Romeo Federico S. Quimbo and Rep. Karlo A.B. Nograles. He added that the creation of Water Supply and Sanitation Companies, under the section 17 of Senate Bill 2997 which will allow the ownership of the properties of Water Service Providers, will not do any good to the public..... MORE An ‘oust oligarchs’ alliance DIE HARD III Herman T... Fakebook: Bogus NATO chief spies on his top-level ... Cross to bear? UK denies Christians right to wear ... More lawyering for the prosecution FRONTLINE Ninez... Noynoy went on a different blitz with senator-judg... JPE to judges: Respect Corona or I’ll resign By An... Help repatriate pregnant OFW, Binay tells RP Embas... Deadline set for harvesting unlicensed fishcages ... Quarry to operate on Marikina faultline By Fernan ... 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__label__wiki	0.928721	0.928721	Living in a fantasy world Written by Tribune Editorial Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:00 Living in a fantasy world Written by Tribune Editorial Noynoy’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) was, for the third time running, a rehash of his inaugural speech, using his usual meaningless “you are my boss” claim; his usual no wang-wang spiel, his Gloria and her allies corruption bashing and his mantra of change, which he now claims has already come about. As usual, his biggest claimed achievement was his fight against corruption, which hasn’t succeeded at all. His list of “achievements” is a big joke, considering the fact that these are expected of any administration which are no achievements to speak of, as these are what governments, locla and national are supposed to do, such as “roads are straight and level, and properly paved”; relief goods are ready even before a storm arrives, rescue services are always on stand-by; people are no longer left to fend for themselves, and all that blather that can’t be categorized as any form of presidential achievement as these are all micro projects in the scheme of governmental things. Repairing roads is an achievement for Noynoy? People are no longer left to fend for themselves? Crime is down? Corruption is over? Truth is, despite the figures presented by him, there was no road map presented. Where are we as a nation going? In the absence of a road map, obviously, the nation is still in the dark. Noynoy did give specific details on certain social programs, with a spin . How is he to achieve it, funding wise?.... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/1983-living-in-a-fantasy-world Nothing is possible under Noy Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares Nothing is possible under Noy Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares Nothing — especially unity among Filipinos — is possible under a Noynoy presidency, despite his State of the Nation Address (Sona) claim that nothing is impossible if “Filipinos see that they are the only ‘bosses’ of their government; they will carry you; they will guide you; they themselves will lead you to meaningful change.” While he speaks of united Filipinos, he continues with his way of constantly dividing the people into “them” and “us,” “us” being his allies that can do no wrong, even when they clearly have been committing too many wrongs; and “them” being his political foes, whom he blames tp hide all his failures. How does he expect to unite the people, when he keeps harping on the past, and gauges his so-called accomplishments and achievements on charging and jailing his political foes, while quickly absolving his friends and political allies, which too many see as a contradiction of his overrated daang matuwid that has gone wayward? His Sona harked back to ancient history, when he spoke of the martial law years that he and his family suffered under the Marcos dictatorship, even mentioning that he was a 12-year-old when martial law was imposed. He made it sound as if it was only he and his family who suffered under martial law, when many more Filipinos did — under even more tragic circumstances..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/1982-nothing-is-possible-under-noy Iran threatens to ‘strike out’ at any intervention in Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has friends in the region poised “to strike out” in the event of an intervention into Syria, says a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The warning was particularly sent to “hated” Arab countries. “None of Syria's friends or the great front of resistance has yet entered the scene, and in the event that this happens, decisive blows will be struck at the enemy, especially the hated Arab rulers,” Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, a spokesman of the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fars news agency. No country in particular was mentioned. Iran remains a key ally of official Damascus, while leaders of such Gulf countries as Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Qatar openly support Syrian rebels.... MORE URL: http://www.rt.com/news/iran-strike-intervention-syria-960/ Syrian rebels’ ‘liberate Aleppo’ campaign enters fourth day The Syrian army has had to evacuate residents from several areas in the commercial hub of Aleppo as sporadic gunfire intensified, reports RT’s Oksana Boyko. Other sources say attack helicopters were sent to deal with the rebels in the northern city. Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, had long remained immune to the 17-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. This held true until four days ago when rebels launched a “liberate Aleppo” offensive in the city of three million. “Sources in Aleppo report clashes in four suburbs. Residents took refuge at several university campuses,” reports RT’s correspondent in Syria, Oksana Boyko, in her Twitter microblog..... MORE URL: http://www.rt.com/news/aleppo-syria-rebels-helicopters-970/ Increasing traffic in the waters of Sri Lanka threatens blue whales Pravda photo Large numbers of animals have been killed by collisions with boats and propellers. Scientists fear that cetacean watching tourism is the cause... In early April, whale watchers off the southern coast of Sri Lanka had a disturbing vision: the lifeless body of a blue whale 60 feet long floating in the water about 20 miles offshore. The body was quickly becoming swollen and there were fish-louse sucking all the animal's skin. Even more disturbing was the condition of the tail which had been almost completely severed from the body. "It was very clear it was caused by the propeller of a boat," said Mazdak Radjainia, structural biologist and underwater photographer, University of Auckland, New Zealand, who found the whale by chance. "It must have been a very cruel death, because the damage was enormous."..... MORE Source: Pravda.ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/24-07-2012/121715-whales_alert-0/ Exclusionary economics: How Aquino and Arroyos economics are the same By IBON Features In his upcoming third State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Benigno Aquino III will surely attempt to highlight how the Philippine economy has improved under his watch to show how his administration is an improvement over its predecessor. Pres. Aquino will bring to the fore supposed economic successes such as the 6.4% first quarter growth in gross domestic product (GDP), increased budgets for social services, expanded coverage of the conditional cash transfers, and progress under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program. The president may also highlight the country’s so-called creditor nation status with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The SONA may also be an occasion to boast about more Filipinos being lifted from poverty, more lands distributed to farmers, and additional living allowances for workers. The reality behind the so-called gains must however be assessed before concluding that the Aquino administration has indeed been the much-sought change following former Pres. Arroyo’s legacy of corruption and erosion of the people’s general welfare. Nearly ten years of the Arroyo regime saw an unprecedented rise in joblessness and poverty, growing inequality, eroding domestic production and fiscal troubles all anchored on a chain of policies that catered to local and foreign business interests. Do current indicators show a reversal of trends? More importantly, have government policies done an about-face in favor of the Filipino people? Economic direction Like the Arroyo administration, the Aquino government has refused to reverse any of the neoliberal policies that have caused such damage to the economy. These policies have kept the Philippine economy underdeveloped and are designed to suit the needs of the domestic elite and foreign business rather than of the Filipino people. The entrenchment of globalization policies that have made the Philippine economy up for grabs by local and transnational firms cannot be downplayed. The removal of trade barriers has resulted in the unabated importation of cheap goods including those which the country can produce. The Philippines now has among the lowest tariffs in Asia. Under Aquino’s term, quantitative restrictions on the importation of rice are set to be lifted in accordance with commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO). The government has also become even more liberal towards investments in agriculture, industries and services..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/23/exclusionary-economics-how-aquino-and-arroyos-economics-are-the-same/ Groups hit Senate’s ratification of military pact with Australia MANILA — Solidarity Groups in Australia were quick to denounce the Philippine Senate as the latter ratified the Australia-RP Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) on July 24, 2012.The groups represent Filipino migrants in Australia, overseas Filipino workers and students, Australians of Filipino descent and citizens and residents of Australia. “Let us not embroil peace-loving Australians in internal conflicts in the Philippines. Filipinos and Australians have never been involved in any form of hostilities. The presence of Australian troops is a potential to a shooting war. A shooting war will raise animosities between our two peoples. Ten of thousands of Filipinos in Australia, migrants and citizens, will only fall victims to indiscriminate hate that may result from any escalation of armed hostilities in the Philippines,” they said. The Senate adopted the resolution concurring with President Benigno Aquino III’s ratification of the SOVFA through a vote of 17-1. The Senate adopted Senate Resolution 788 despite the protest of Senator Joker Arroyo. Arroyo’s position is that the SOVFA would not benefit the Philippines. “The Senate cannot simply not concur in treaties if other contracting parties have no consideration of the country’s interests. The Aquino administration only wants this ratified because of the country’s dispute with China over the West Philippine Sea,” he was quoted as saying in earlier reports. Arroyo questioned the Aquino’s support for the SOVFA and said that it was questionable why the Philippine government was enlisting the help of Australia when it is so far away and already an ally of the United States. “Although the agreement is not a defense pact, its symbolism cannot be lost on China. Let us not grab at straws. We must persevere,” he said on reports in GMA-7 news. Another senator who previously took a stand against the SOVFA is Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, but she was absent during the voting. Santiago based her opposition on her reading that the SOVFA was “vague” in its provisions and that it risks putting the Philippines at a disadvantage..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/07/24/groups-hit-senates-ratification-of-military-pact-with-australia/ Gov’t summons envoy over China build-up Written by Angie M. Rosales SENATE SIGNS NEW MILITARY TREATY WITH U.S. ALLY China’s presence build-up in the South China Sea has raised alarms in government, prompting the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to summon yesterday the Chinese ambassador to protest against China’s plans to establish a military garrison on the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. The DFA said it summoned Ma Keqing to lodge the complaint, and also to object to the arrival of a military-escorted Chinese fishing fleet near the contested Spratly Islands. As tension with China was again seen escalating, the Senate sealed the Palace’s ratification of another mutual partnership for the military, which some senators noting its urgency as a result of developments in the South China Sea. Voting 17-1, senators concurred with Malacañang’s ratification of the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) with Australia, which was signed some two years ago or during the Arroyo administration. The Chinese defense ministry announced plans to operate troops from Chinese-held Sansha or Woody Island in the Paracels on Monday, a month after Beijing designated the island as China’s administrative centre for both the Paracel and Spratly groups..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2006-gov%E2%80%99t-summons-envoy-over-china-build-up Noy playing safe on RH earned mostly rebuffs Written by Pat C. Santos President Aquino’s ambiguous one-liner to refer to the controversial bill on population control in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) the other day earned criticisms rather than approval from the Church which he is trying to appease but it failed to impress the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) which expressed regret over it. In an official statement posted in the CBCP website, Fr. Melvin Castro said it was clear that the proposed reproductive health (RH) bill or Aquino’s version of it called responsible parenthood is not about health but about birth control. “We are ending the backlogs in the education sector, but the potential for shortages remains as our student population continues to increase. Perhaps Responsible Parenthood can help address this,” was the only part in the Sona where Aquino referred to the bill. Deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said the President particularly wanted a consolidated House Bill 4244 to be passed by Congress even before the electoral climate steps in. Valte described HB 4244 as the consolidated version of six other legislative bills on the controversial reproductive health. The consolidated version has a new title too — Act Providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and for other purposes..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2004-noy-playing-safe-on-rh-earned-mostly-rebuffs 2 AFP officers charged with plunder, torture take key military posts Written by 2 AFP officers charged with plunder, torture take key military posts Written by Mario J. Mallari Daily Tribune photo Two senior military officers facing separate cases of plunder and torture took over key positions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) due to the scheduled forced retirement today of two members of the controversial Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class of 1978. Brig. Gen. Aurelio Baladad, of PMA Class of 1982 and incumbent deputy commander of the Army’s 9th Infantry Division, was elevated as acting chief of the 9th ID with the retirement of Maj. Gen. Josue Gaverza, of PMA Class of 1978. Also taking over as acting commandant of the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) was Brig. Gen. Benito de Leon, of PMA Class of 1981, replacing Rear Admiral Victor Emmanuel Martir, also of PMA Class of 1978 which became controversial for having former President and now detained Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo as honorary member..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2002-2-afp-officers-charged-with-plunder-torture-take-key-military-posts MILF slams police raid on Lanao del Sur base The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has asked the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team (IMT) to investigate the July 16 raid launched by the Philippine National Police (PNP) elite Special Action Force (SAF) at an MILF base in Lanao del Sur where they allegedly looted civilian properties. Muhammad Ameen, chairman of the MILF secretariat, said elements of the SAF, supposedly from Region X, conducted a raid at an MILF base in Lanao del Sur purportedly in pursuit of the members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). The MILF claimed that the SAF operatives raided the vicinity of the MILF’s Camp Darussalam in Butig, Lanao del Sur without prior coordination with the secessionist group...... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2000-milf-slams-police-raid-on-lanao-del-sur-base Supreme Court upholds JBC authority to process applicants for CJ Written by Benjamin B. Pulta The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed a petition questioning the proceedings before the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to screen the next chief justice. In a two-page resolution released by the high court yesterday, the SC en banc citing precedents upheld the JBC’s action in accepting applications and nominations for the position of chief justice as well as the President’s power to appoint one as the member of the SC. Petitioners in the case are Homobono Adaza, Alan Paguia, Herman Tiu Laurel and Uriel Borja..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/1995-supreme-court-upholds-jbc-authority-to-process-applicants-for-cj Malacañang announces new NBI director Written by Fernan J. Angeles Malacañang must have realized that the charter creating the National Bureau of Investigation specifically requires a lawyer for one to qualify as the agency’s director, compelling President Aquino to junk Deputy Customs Commissioner Danny Lim and instead appoint a government prosecutor as the permanent NBI director. Appointed to the top government detective bureau is Nonnatus Caesar Rojas who, incidentally, has been the NBI officer-in-charge replacing Magtanggol Gatdula who was fired in January after he was linked to the kidnap and extortion of an over-staying Japanese sometime last year..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/1993-malaca%C3%B1ang-announces-new-nbi-director VP Binay eggs PNP, NBI to step up hunt for Delfin Lee Written by Tribune Saying fugitive property developer Delfin Lee “is no Ping Lacson,” Vice President Jejomar Binay yesterday appealed to the Philippine National Police (PNP) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to redouble their efforts to capture Lee who faces arrest for syndicated estafa. The Vice President issued the appeal after lawyer Willie Rivera, Lee’s counsel, said in a television program that his client is still in the Philippines but is in hiding. Lee’s lawyer also likened the case of his client to Sen. Ping Lacson who went into hiding during the Arroyo administration. “Delfin Lee is no Ping Lacson. Senator Lacson was a critic of the Arroyo regime while Lee defrauded Pag-Ibig Fund of almost P6 billion by using fake borrowers and fake documents and destroyed the dreams of thousand of working Filipinos,” he said..... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/1994-vp-binay-eggs-pnp-nbi-to-step-up-hunt-for-delfin-lee Living in a fantasy world Written by Tribune... Nothing is possible under Noy Written by Nin... Iran threatens to ‘strike out’ at any intervention... Syrian rebels’ ‘liberate Aleppo’ campaign enters f... Increasing traffic in the waters of Sri Lanka thre... Exclusionary economics: How Aquino and Arroyos eco... Groups hit Senate’s ratification of military pact ... 2 AFP officers charged with plunder, torture take ... Supreme Court upholds JBC authority to process app... VP Binay eggs PNP, NBI to step up hunt for Delfin ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line387
__label__cc	0.573977	0.426023	This post has been reviewed by the Vancouver Media Co-op editorial committee. STORY publié le mars 2, 2010 by brianna chatwin Free Speech Zone: A Guerrilla Public Art Project In The Face Of Olympic State Security A first-hand experience of police repression during the 2010 games by Anti-Olympic Artist-Activist Jody Franklin by Jody Franklin →2010 Olympics Also posted by brianna chatwin: Aussi dans: GroundWire August 5 \| MMIWG2S Campaigns, Bill 21 Passes in Quebec, & Winnipeg’s Portage Place Sold Over 60 actions organized internationally in response to police raid of Wet'suwet'en GroundWire \| April 9 GroundWire \| March 26 GroundWire \| Housing in the Budget, Fontaine Boushie Protest Camp, International Women's Day GroundWire \| February 26 GroundWire \| January 15 GroundWire Year in Review: BLM, Colonialism 150, Anti-Racism protest, First Nations displaced by fire, Radio Centreville GroundWire \| December 18 Dec 4 \| GroundWire On Thursday February 25th, at 9:30am, Victoria-based multidisciplinary artist & community activist jody franklin attempted to initiate his guerrilla public art reclamation project Free Speech Zone on Beatty Street, but was threatened with arrest by police. Here is his story: Shortly before the Olympics began, a block-long public art mural on Beatty Street, one block from BC Place, was painted over, with the words "Beatty Street Mural Coming Soon" stenciled on the wall. The mural wall is City Of Vancouver property supporting a parking lot that was leased out to VANOC for the duration of the Olympics for the Canada Pavilion. My intention was to create a painting explicitly titled "Free Speech Zone," a cluster of faces saying anti-Olympics messages, right along the pedestrian corridor between BC Place and Stadium Skytrain station. My purpose in creating this piece was multifold: (1) to start a public dialogue on the suppression of freedom of speech during the Olympics; (2) to create imagery and messages that counter all of the official Olympics, government, corporate and nationalist propaganda that are pervasive in the downtown core; (3) to test the level of police involvement in the suppression of free speech during the Olympics; and (4) to reclaim a public art space that was erased by VANOC. It was a conscious decision to take this action in broad daylight, as I believe that neither public art nor dissenting expression should be criminalized, and I wanted to take an action that would inspire other artists to reclaim the same space in the name of public art. I arrived on site accompanied by two journalists from the Vancouver Media Co-op, and two friends. I made a brief statement to the media, and the moment I began to take my painting supplies out of my bag I was approached by three bicycle cops. When I explained my intention to reclaim the space for public art, the officers threatened to arrest me for mischief, and said they'd arrest me if I so much as opened a can of paint. I realized that doing this painting would be a potentially arrestable civil disobedience action, but I did not want to take an arrest without having my painting up on the wall, so I told the officers that I would not proceed. We left the site moments later. I left with my friends and the journalists on foot, and three police officers on bicycles followed us for three blocks. One of the officers got close enough to us that I turned around and asked "why are you following us?" He said because he believed I was going to go and try to paint somewhere else illegally. I told him that I was not going to do that. Six hours later, following an anti-Olympics protest in Grandview Park on Commercial Drive, a police officer approached me and asked to question me on the basis of him being in charge of "graffiti management" for the Vancouver Police. "My colleague pointed you out to me," he told me, and I was surprised to see the officer who threatened to arrest me, and later followed me, was on protest detail. On Friday night, the same officer tried to play "good cop" by riding up to me and trying to chat me up on the Critical Mass bike ride: four encounters with the same cop in the span of 36 hours. It was clear to me that this was an intimidation tactic, they were trying to get in my head to scare me away from continuing to find creative ways to dissent, question and resist the Olympics behemoth. Anti-Olympics protesters have been harassed, questioned, visited, subjected to surveillance and photographed by police officers for months, and the fact that the same police officer who threatened me with arrest the moment I tried to paint, and was later part of the contingent of officers policing the demonstration, may not have been a coincidence. I had been speaking openly in the Tent Village for two days about my intended action, I posted about it to two email lists, I alerted the Vancouver Media Co-Op, and I posted on Facebook, and my action was pre-empted by three police officers who were recognized as being part of the squadron of bicycle cops who had been monitoring all anti-Olympics demonstrations and the Tent Village for the past couple of weeks. On Saturday, Pivot planned an action at the Canada Pavilion to promote their Red Tents campaign for a national housing strategy. They received permission to temporarily wrap the entire block in tarps with messages primarily concerned with homelessness. Part of this block included the Beatty Street mural wall, and there were blank tarps available for people to paint, draw and write messages. I decided to take this opportunity to do a modified version of my intended Free Speech Zone painting, and I got to do it right in front of the mural wall. For the entire time I was working on my piece, I had anywhere from one to three cops standing behind me, and it crossed my mind that since I was on their radar in a big way at this point, they decided to station themselves close to me to prevent me from slipping behind the banner to paint directly on the wall. As part of one of my drawings, I wrote "stop police repression." I could hear one of the officers grumbling and mumbling to his colleagues about this statement. Five minutes later, he walked away and borrowed a spray paint can from one of the protesters, and tagged a tarp with "VPD ♥s everyone" in response to what I had written, and later tagged a second tarp "VPD ♥s everyone especially the homeless." As the tarps started to be pulled down, I walked past the lineup of hundreds waiting to get into the Pavilion, and noticed there was still a blank tarp that had not been painted on. I took a can of white spray paint out of my pocket, quickly scrawled a face, and in giant letters, I wrote "fuck the Olympics." This agitated several people waiting in line, and people started murmuring, and shouting at me. The cop who "♥s everyone" tapped me on the shoulder, and had three of his colleagues with him. He pointed out a toddler to me and said, "do you see that little boy over there? Do you think this is an appropriate message for him, or for your cause?" I almost burst out laughing as he went on about "protecting the children." I asked, "Is what I did illegal?" He responded in the negative, so I said, "thanks for your editorial comments, but I'm exercising my right to freedom of speech, and how other people react is not my problem." I moved on as they followed me down the street again, I guess just making sure I wouldn't write any more messages that would offend their sensibilities. In the end, I look at the whole mural action and follow-up as a kind of political performance art piece that succeeded in showing how the police have been put in the service of defending the Olympics from any form of freedom of speech that offers a dissenting perspective. Catch the news as it breaks: follow the VMC on Twitter. Join the Vancouver Media Co-op today. Click here to learn about the benefits of membership. mer, 03/03/2010 - 17:53 — Vancouver Anonymous (non vérifié) What a god awful Olympics. What a god awful Olympics. And now with the U.S. Navy permanently entrenched in the waters around Vancouver, perhaps people will begin to wonder if "where were they when Crosby scored" was worth the permanent security apparatus that now envelopes the Lower Mainland. Thanks Hockey fans. Sports! ven, 03/05/2010 - 12:50 — Vancouver Anonymous (non vérifié) You should have asked the cop You should have asked the cop if he thought the toddler could actually read. dim, 03/07/2010 - 15:42 — Vancouver Anonymous (non vérifié) officer loves everyone Just for the record, I was there and the officer didn't tell anyone they couldn't put whatever on the wall. He actually just asked if "Lick My Clit Vanoc" was appropriate for the families that were around. Especially given that the protesters seemed to want as much positive public interaction as possible. The officer walked away and it was actually one of the protesters, the gentleman who played the bagpipes, who covered the anti-vanoc comment. Was a good protest and got a good message across, but would it not have been more helpful to the homeless persons to use the thousands of dollars wasted on buying all that red tarp and wood on food and shelter? Just sayin' The odd thing about the last The odd thing about the last comment is that nowhere in the article or the photos do we see the words "lick my clit VANOC," nor is there discussion about it... this is really kind of left field. dim, 03/14/2010 - 21:47 — brianna chatwin for the record, a fun fact i was there too, at the moment the cop was spraying he heart's everyone - and afterwards he was so stoked on his paint job that he had one of his buddies take a photo of him posing in front of it. and he threw up a gang sign. i asked 'was that a gang sign you just posed with?' and he quickly reconfigured his fingers to a 'hang-loose' sort of position, fumbling with his words and actions, saying no it's a surfer thing because he's an old hippy and that he totally 'gets' us guys out here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line394
__label__cc	0.683753	0.316247	Wea??re altering the climate so severely that wea??ll soon face apocalyptic consequences. Here are 9 last-ditch ways we could hack the planet to reverse that trend. Business and Finance » Business and Finance. Main Aleksandar Georgiev/Getty Images Geoengineering is a term that refers to technology that can alter Earth's natural cycles to cool down the planet. It's being increasingly discussed as a potential way to address climate change. Putting mirrors in space, capturing carbon dioxide, and seeding clouds with particles are all ways of manipulating weather or the atmosphere. But some scientists and politicians think geoengineering could damage the planet or lead to war. Here are 11 strategies researchers have put forth to hack the planet and combat climate change. Oceans are hotter than they've ever been in recorded history. Ice Sheets are melting at unprecedented rates. Sea-level rise threatens countless species, coastal cities, and local economies. As researchers' warnings about the consequences of climate change get more dire, some scientists and politicians are suggesting we do more than just curb our greenhouse-gas emissions - they want to hack our climate. The technical term for this is geoengineering. The concept evokes fantastical images of weather-controlling satellites, giant space mirrors, and carbon-sucking tubes. But some techniques for modifying Earth's atmosphere aren't in the realm of fantasy. In fact, discussions about manipulating the atmosphere to cool the planet are growing increasingly mainstream. Climeworks, a company that captures carbon dioxide from the air, opened its first commercial plant in Switzerland in 2017. Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's largest incubator, has requested proposals from geoengineering-focused start-ups. And some political candidates, including presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, think the US needs to beat other countries to these technologies.Read More:Longshot presidential candidate Andrew Yang thinks rogue geoengineering could cause a war But other experts are less than convinced that these planet hacks are a good idea."The side effects may be almost as bad as the disease you're trying to cure," author and environmental activist Bill McKibben told Business Insider. What's more, McKibben said, geoengineering does little to address other problems that arise from greenhouse-gas emissions, such as ocean acidification. Here are 11 potential geoengineering methods that have been proposed so far. » At what point do we admit that geoengineering is an option? » It's time to overhaul our lives to save the planet » Earth is '1C away from threatening humanity' » Google Earth’s Timelapse update illustrates 30 years of climate change » Climate change may prevent volcanoes from cooling the planet » American scientists have found indirect evidence of the existence of life on Venus	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line395
__label__cc	0.722394	0.277606	The Mercedes Benz G Class 2018 Nenhum comentário em The Mercedes Benz G Class 201816/07/2018 The changes may not be obvious at first glance, the venerable Mercedes Benz G Class has received its biggest update since it was first launched in 1979. The Mercedes G Class, the three decade old off-roading icon has come up with new features and characters thanks to Mercedes-Benz World. Available in right hand drive and with a choice of one diesel or one petrol engine, the all-new G Wagen is offered with rugged, boxy, five-seat hand-built 4x4s on the driveway. This revival has brought about a couple of special edition run outs including the rugged G 500 4×4 squared and the 6-wheeler giant G. Jonh Doe AAccording to Mercedes Benz experts, The G-Class, the luxury off-road vehicle from Mercedes-Benz, has long been deemed a design icon. However, Mercedes has not significantly facelifted the G since 1979. Iconic elements continue to add essence to its distinctive appearance. The new G-Class comes equipped with the unique door handle and the characteristic closing sound, the robust exterior protective strip, the characteristic closing sound, the exposed spare wheel on the rear door and the prominent indicator lights. All such distinctive features seem to add essence to its special look. Tables inside a post Title Number 1 First Item 1 First Item 2 First Item 4 Second Item 1 Second Item 2 Second Item 4 Third Item 1 Third Item 2 Third Item 4 Fourth Item 1 Fourth Item 2 Fourth Item 4 Images Inside a post The unique design of the G-Class sums up the sensual purity and at the same time remains true to the character of the original. As a result, the door hinges located on the outside and the surface-mounted bonnet are taken to a newer heights. Best Time to Buy a Car. Check the Car’s History. Don’t Bring Up Your Trade-in. Tell the Dealership You’re Shopping Around. With its sublime character and high-quality elements, the G-Class has always managed to combine off-road character and luxury in a particularly harmonious way. Even in its standard specification, the G-Class’s timeless and authentic open-pore wood gives it an air of classic elegance. Its stylish elements include the decent use of high-quality metal or carbon fiber trim, and its leather seats. Equipped with 5.5 liter V8 AMG model, the G-Class delivers supreme driving experience at an impressive 416 hp and cranks out 450 lb-ft of torque at 2000 rpm. More so, the new G-Class features Benz’ nine speed automatic transmission. In spite of being available in other models, the torque converter and the transmission software have been specially modified for G-duty. To keep the vehicle in good shape, be sure to take it to the nearby Mercedes Benz repair Greensboro Free Web Content, North Carolina auto shop.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line396
__label__cc	0.511614	0.488386	Sign up to our seasonal newsletter Click to hide email subscription form VEWH What is water for the environment? Why do we need water for the environment? How do we know it works? Watering program Managing water for the environment How much water is available? Seasonal watering plan Rivers and wetlands Gippsland region Seasonal watering statements About VEWH Our Mission and Commissioners Meet the Glenelg River Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on LinkedIn Share this article by email Part of the Meet our Rivers series highlighting how water for the environment benefits your river The Glenelg River is both one of the most significant and one of the longest rivers in Victoria, home to a wide array of native fish and much valued by canoeists, anglers, farmers and tourists. The river rises in the Grampians National Park and flows west through Harrow and then south to Casterton and Dartmoor for around 500 kilometres. A short stretch of the estuary winds through South Australia before returning to Victoria to enter the sea at Nelson. The Glenelg River supports a range of Aboriginal cultural values along its length. The Glenelg River is an integral part of the Wimmera-Mallee waterway system, supplying water to communities in the north-western region of Victoria. The Glenelg River provides tourism opportunities and is an important ecosystem home to a range of rare and threatened species. Visitors to the river enjoy fishing, boat cruises, canoeing, birdwatching and camping. Many farmers rely on the Glenelg River for access to stock water and use the productive floodplains for grazing. Black swans on the Glenelg River at Moree Bridge, by Chloe Wiesenfeld The environment of the Glenelg The lower section of the Glenelg River is recognised as one of Australia's 15 national 'biodiversity hotspots', meaning that it supports natural ecosystems that are largely unspoiled with native plants and animals still present. One of the objectives of providing water for the environment in the Glenelg River is to provide a healthy habitat for native fish, platypus, the critically endangered Glenelg freshwater mussel and the endangered Glenelg spiny crayfish. Native fish species include river blackfish, estuary perch, tupong and three species of pygmy perch. Frasers Swamp, in the upper Glenelg system, is home to a healthy population of growling grass frog, a vulnerable species. Glenelg spiny crayfish, by Glenelg Hopkins CMA In 2017, the Glenelg River received much-needed relief from the dry conditions of recent years, with heavy rainfall in winter and early spring. Drought had reduced the river to a series of pools in some areas and the heavy rain in winter/spring 2016 and subsequent high river flows reconnected many parts of the river. This provided opportunities for native fish populations to recover and recolonise the river following drought. Delivery of environmental water over summer proved critical in supporting their recovery following these high natural flows. "Since we started delivering water for the environment we have fish like estuary perch and tupong moving back into their old range, more than 270 kilometres upstream from where they were just seven years ago," said Glenelg Hopkins CMA Water Resources Manager Bryce Morden. Blackfish numbers have doubled and water for the environment was also beneficial for the endangered Glenelg spiny crayfish, which suffered from poor water quality in the drought. The social importance of the Glenelg The river is popular with recreational anglers, who take part in several fishing competitions throughout the year. One of the high-profile events organised by the Victorian Fisheries Authority is the 'The Great Perch Search', where adult fish in prime breeding condition are caught by expert volunteer anglers from the Glenelg and Hopkins Rivers during winter. The fish are then flown to a hatchery in Narooma, NSW, where they help develop captive breeding methods for estuary perch. Dartmoor angling club fishing competition, by Glenelg Hopkins CMA Nature and landscape photographers enjoy capturing images of the Glenelg River. From January through to March 2018, Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority is running a Glenelg River Exposed photography competition to give amateur photographers an opportunity to showcase the river's beauty and benefits to people and animals. There are great places for canoeing, camping and picnicking along the Glenelg River. The river is a key feature of the Lower Glenelg National Park and offers exciting opportunities for canoeing through a natural environment for over 75 kilometres from Dartmoor to its mouth near Nelson. There are also plenty of camping spots along the way. Aboriginal Victorians have a close connection to the Glenelg River. In 2017, the Towards Cultural Flows project provided the opportunity for Traditional Owner groups Gunditj Mirring and Baregi Gadjin to reconnect with the river, in partnership with Glenelg Hopkins CMA. "The purpose of the Towards Cultural Flows project is to see what is significant about the river system for Traditional Owners and to look at where the CMA can potentially support their interests in the Glenelg River through environmental flows," said Glenelg Hopkins CMA Project Officer Jane Walker. Read a story on the Towards Cultural Flows project's participants: http://www.vewh.vic.gov.au/news-and-publications/stories/yarns-on-the-western-rivers Water for the environment was delivered to the Glenelg River in March 2017 to support cultural values, coinciding with the Johnny Mullagh Memorial Cup, an annual cricket competition. The Cup celebrates the first Australian Test team, who were all Aboriginal men from the Harrow area. Environmental flows improved the water quality for animals and native plants, many of which are sources of traditional foods and medicines. The freshening flows also improved the water quality and amenity for river users, cricketers and spectators enjoying the important weekend. The waterway manager for the Glenelg River system is Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (CMA). The CMA delivers water for the environment from Rocklands Reservoir to the Glenelg River to support a healthy waterway. The water storage manager is Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water while Southern Rural Water manages water resources downstream of Harrow. A total volume of 2,765 megalitres of water for the environment was delivered in 2016-17. One of Glenelg Hopkins CMA's projects is the Glenelg River Restoration, which is making river and soil health improvements to the upper Glenelg River. The project aims to establish partnerships with landholders to manage land to achieve both agricultural viability and ecological sustainability. For more information about water for the environment in the Glenelg River, visit http://www.vewh.vic.gov.au/rivers-and-wetlands/western-region/glenelg-river Map of the Glenelg system Page last updated: 12/12/19 Victorian Environmental Water Holder Banner footer: Photo: Lake Carpul, courtesy Mallee Catchment Management Authority	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line397
__label__wiki	0.519505	0.519505	The Texas Musicians Blog / Jesse Smith A place to post your calendar and for sale equipment, free. I also write about most any music subject. Guest contributors welcome. All comments will be approved unless they are spam or anonymous criticism. LEAVE COMMENTS The Texas Musicians Blog The Texas Musician Jesse Smith Famous Unknown Tomball Musician Posted by Tomballpi 0 comments Links to this post Labels: Jesse C Smith Jr You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker by Willie Nelson If you want to hear one of Willie's best. Cindy Walker, a country songwriter whose pure, plainspoken lyrics of romance, heartbreak and picturesque prairies were recorded by major artists like Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson, making Top-40 country or pop charts more than 400 times, died on March 23 in Mexia, Tex. She was 87, but did not broadcast her birthdate any more than the brief marriage she sometimes confirmed and sometimes did not. Her niece Carol Adams reported her death Even as country music veered in louder, brasher directions, her continuing appeal to traditionalists is suggested by Mr. Nelson's release of an album of her songs, "You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker." Sugar Moon 2:26 Labels: Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold, Female Vocalist, Jesse C Smith Jr, Light Crust Doughboys, Texas Musicians Blog, Willie Nelson Joe Cocker dies of lung cancer Ronald McWilliams told me.RIP Labels: Joe Cocker, RIP Forgotten Singers and Songwriters ? Gene Thomas! via Gene Thomas ~ the original by Darlene on 7/14/10 -This article was originally posted on Russ & Gary's "The Best Years of Music" Forgotten Singers and Songwriters – Gene Thomas! I do not know whether anyone reads my little stories, but I think this one is interesting. I own a series of CD's called the "The Golden Age of American Rock and Roll". Now I was transferring some of the music on Volume 5 to MP3′s (this series is excellent and has some rare songs) when I found something confusing. Let's be honest up front; I had transferred some music to mp3s. But as I was putting the CDs back in their cabinet, I noticed a track listed on the back of the CD cover called "Sometimes" by Dale & Grace. Now, if only I had looked at the liner notes for the CD, a "mistake" I am about to share with you would not have happened; but in the end it turned out to be a good mistake. Playing the mp3 "Sometimes" did not sound like Dale & Grace! Windows Media Player said the writer was Gene Thomas, so this got me going and I started some investigation. Well, after a large number of hours I discovered that this song was actually written and recorded by Gene Thomas in 1961, not Dale & Grace. There is very little on the Internet about Gene Thomas, so I broadened my search to include "Facebook". Then, on a whim I sent a facebook message to a Gene Thomas and would you believe I found the correct person! So what I am about to post to our Blog is really, Gene's very own words and comments. I have never met Gene, but he has been very kind and forthcoming to me, a total stranger, and that says a lot about his character. Forgotten Singers and Song Writers Gene Thomas Gene Thomas working the crowd A personal email from Gene Thomas to me, Gary Copeland: I was born in Palestine ,TX.(at home) Dec. 4th ,1938. father was a carpenter, among other things. Grew up on the move, as my family moved a lot, following work. changed schools constantly & after parents divorced when I was 12, my father was awarded custody of my sister & I. Lost interest in school. Ran off to live with my Mother in a small E.Texas town. Eventually dropped out of school in the ninth. Worked odd jobs as a teen in the 50′s. Having become intrigued with music as a young boy,I left to come back to Houston to play music. Not knowing how to go about recording nor finding any hope. Gave up & married. One day while visiting my -then wife's-cousin, he heard me 'plinking' on his wife's new organ, & asked if I'd like to cut a record. I said "Of course" & basically forgot about it. Later however, we did go to a local studio where we recorded "Sometime" which I had written a couple of nights before.(March 7, 1961-recording date) Long , long story short. no one in Houston ,TX. would play it. After a couple of months we took it to a small station (Texas city) From there it made it's way to KPAC , a station that covered a large area.(Beaumont, Pt.Arthur,Orange, Tx.) Made # 1 in 3 weeks on their top 20. from there it spread to become # 1 in all major Tx. cities. All this time I was working as a shipping clerk. Our distributor set up a deal with United Artists. the song had played out in the gulf coast by then. Still, with little promotion , it crept it's way to a wide area -slowly. By Oct. 61, it had hit in California,and in such diverse places as Jamaica ,where it was # 1. It eventually reached # 53 in Billboard Pop charts., in spite of lack of momentum. Roy Orbison heard it on one of his trips to the Houston area & contacted U.A. & asked to produce a session on me. And did —one in 62 & one in 63. We had little luck tho. One "Baby's Gone" reached the 80′s (don't recall the exact #) .He pretty well gave up ,due to lack of promotion by U.A. (It was # 1 for 5 weeks in Houston for instance) Back in Houston, I began focusing more on writing, due to the fact, I didn't like any of the songs offered by the Nashville publ. Remember. if you're low priority on a record co's roster, you get offered the lesser tunes. In ' 67 I wrote a song titled "Go with Me' & recorded it as a duo (Gene & Debbe) . It reached the billboard charts( don't recall the # -60 something I think?) Good enough to land a contract with Acuff-Rose in Nashville. Wrote & recorded "Playboy" which reached # 17 in Billboard Pop charts.( On the TRX label) Earning a BMI award & Gold Record. had a couple of other small chart. songs. But no equal to "Playboy' I wrote for Acuff- Rose and had quite a few artists record my songs. The biggest of which was Don Gibson & Dottie West's "Rings Of Gold" in 69. reached # 2 in country charts. ( BMI award) & Glen Barber's "Kissed By The Rain-warmed by The Sun' # 24 in Billboard Country charts. Well, I'm running on & on here, and I'm sure you're not interested in all this. BUT- my career (as it were) has been one mixed bag. Ha! Today I'm mostly retired & living in a small town in Texas with my wife of 33 years. I'm not in the best of health. Okay but not tops. (diabetes & such) . I make only very, very rare appearances, such as one coming up the end of this month. The 'oldie' show-up thing you know. Ironically, the biggest (tho-unknown) song I've written is a song titled "Lay It Down) Big overseas for 30 some yrs. It has been recorded by Kenny Rogers, Waylon Jennings, Lonnie Mack-my favorite, on his early "Hills Of Indiana' album" Buffy Sainte Marie. Tina Turner & so on. well I guess I'll let you up & let you ponder all this mess. wish you well, in making some kind of sense of it. This is difficult for an old one-fingered typist. take care & thanks, P.S The original official title was/is "Sometime" but actually should have been "Sometimes" in order to be correct. Don't know what happened there, but I guess "Sometime" it will remain. Kinda like your oldie glitch with the Dale & Grace thing, I guess. Things you can do from here: Subscribe to Gene Thomas ~ the original using Google Reader Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites Labels: Ed Starkey, Gene Thomas, Jesse C Smith Jr, Texas Musician, The Lonestar Cowboys, The Texas Musician Blog On the night of August 27th 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan died on a fog shrouded hill at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. By Robert Santelli On the night of August 27th 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan died on a fog shrouded hill at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI. Had Stevie Ray Vaughan not suddenly surfaced in the early 1980s, guitar in hand and a nearly uncontrollable urge to play it, then the blues might have willed him into existence. These, after all, weren’t the best times for the blues, which had been the bedrock of all American music for nearly a century. MTV was making pop music more physical and visual: Think Michael Jackson and Madonna. Most of mainstream rock was all about big sound, arena shows and elaborate stage sets. And new wave, though it rebelled against rock’s more ornate sounds and superstar mindset, was as style-conscious as it was interested in a simpler approach to making records. The blues connected to none of this. The 1960s had been the music’s last golden age, a time when masters like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and B. B. King played to eager young rock audiences fascinated by its emotional power, and guitar kingpins like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, Carlos Santana and Mike Bloomfield – a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – collectively created a new hybrid: blues rock. From blues rock came heavy metal and the likes of Led Zeppelin. But in the 1970s, rock also became increasingly diversified, with other new sounds and styles running rampant. It got crowded, with glam, country rock, Southern rock, singer-songwriters, funk, punk, reggae and disco all competing for attention and fans. This left little room for blues, and by the end of the decade, its status as a vibrant, relevant music tradition was being seriously questioned. What the blues needed most was an exciting new artist, one knowledgeable and passionate about its long and important history in American music, yet original enough to make a new mark. It needed someone dazzling enough to grab the attention of rock fans who had lost interest in the blues, yet authentic enough to keep longtime true blues fans in his camp. The music turned not to Chicago nor Memphis nor the Mississippi Delta – the traditional wellsprings of great blues – but to Texas, and in particular, to Austin, where it found Stevie Ray Vaughan. Texas already had a rich blues tradition before Vaughan arrived on the scene. In the 1920s, Blind Lemon Jefferson became one of country blues’ biggest stars. A decade later, T-Bone Walker introduced the electric guitar to the blues, dramatically changing its sound and scope. Lightnin’ Hopkins’ vast recording catalogue reflected his blues virtuosity on both the acoustic and electric guitar, while players like Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Johnny Copeland, Freddie King, and Albert Collins brought blues closer to R&B and rock and roll. Then, in the 1960s, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter and ZZ Top contributed to the blues-rock explosion. Vaughan’s name would be added to this distinguished list of legendary Texas blues artists. Born in 1954, Vaughan was raised in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. His earliest and most important influence was his big brother, Jimmie. “We shared a room that had a little record player in it,” recalled Jimmie. “He listened to the records I listened to – Jimmy Reed, Bill Doggett, Lonnie Mack. He watched me play the guitar. And he got hooked.” Jimmie left home at age 14 to pursue a music career, arriving by 1970 in Austin, a college town with plenty of music clubs and a small but growing blues community. Before he left, he gave 11-year-old Vaughan one of his electric guitars and the batch of worn blues records they had listened to together. “I gave him my Fender Telecaster. It replaced the cheap ones he’d been messin’ with,” said Jimmie. “He fell in love with it. I don’t think he ever put it down.” Vaughan quickly found that the guitar was an ideal emotional outlet, and that the blues was a music language he could easily translate on guitar. After high school, he joined Jimmie in Austin, anxious to grow his guitar talent and to play the clubs where Jimmie’s group, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, were tearing it up. “Stevie saw that the Fabulous Thunderbirds were playing every night in Austin,” Jimmie recalled. “And that’s what he wanted to do: play every night, anywhere you could. The idea was to play.” Vaughan played guitar with the Austin band the Cobras, but he was meant to be a bandleader, where he could more fully define the blues sounds he heard in his head. He formed the Triple Threat Revue with African-American guitarist W.C. Clark and local blues-rock singer Lou Ann Barton. When Barton and Clark left to pursue solo careers in 1978 and 1979, respectively, Triple Threat became Double Trouble. Now, with Chris Layton on drums and eventually Tommy Shannon on bass, Vaughan had his launching pad in place. “He was sorta like the rocket booster that you put on the spaceship to make it go a little further,” explained B.B. King, one of Vaughan’s early supporters. Layton was the perfect drummer for Vaughan: young, aggressive, and a blues lover. Bass player Shannon brought big-time experience to Double Trouble. He had played with Johnny Winter and knew the ups and downs of stardom. Vaughan also benefited greatly by being in Austin. Blues giants like B. B. King, Albert King, and Muddy Waters were finding work in Austin’s blues clubs, particularly Antone’s, which had become the centerpiece of the scene. Vaughan often opened up shows for his heroes, then later jammed with them, picking up advice and ideas. Vaughan might have remained merely a local or regional blues king had fate not intervened. In 1982, Double Trouble manager Chesley Milliken gave his friend Mick Jagger a live tape of Vaughan and the band. Impressed, the Rolling Stones singer invited Double Trouble to play a New York party, giving Vaughan valuable exposure far from Austin. That same year, legendary soul producer Jerry Wexler heard Vaughan and Double Trouble and got them on the Montreux Jazz Festival bill in Switzerland. That’s where David Bowie and Jackson Browne heard Vaughan; Bowie invited Vaughan to play guitar on his Let’s Dance album, and Browne offered up his California studio so the band could cut some demo tracks. Finally, John Hammond, the man who signed Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and many other greats to Columbia Records, brought Vaughan and Double Trouble to Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia. Texas Flood, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s debut album, came out soon after, earning critical acclaim. Showcasing Vaughan’s striking guitar solos and featuring the crackerjack backing of Layton and Shannon, the album won two Grammys and numerous other awards. The band’s followup, Couldn’t Stand the Weather, included “Voodoo Child,” the Jimi Hendrix classic that Vaughan made his own. Incessant touring lifted the album and brought in more fans. Keyboard player Reese Wynans, who’d briefly played in a band with future Allman Brothers Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley in the late 60s, was added to the group, broadening their sound. Vaughan was now being hailed as the “next Hendrix” and the "savior of the blues," a term not entirely an exaggeration. To their credit, Vaughan and Double Trouble were careful not to act the part. Regularly, Vaughan praised those great blues artists who came before him, and, whenever possible, he shared the stage with them. Albert King, in particular, was grateful for Vaughan’s rise to stardom and his friendship. The pair even recorded together. Two more studio albums, Soul to Soul and In Step, sandwiched a live album, Live Alive. More touring meant more time away from Austin and brother Jimmie, who had hit it big with the Fabulous Thunderbirds. The brothers were now blues royalty. But the fast life didn’t suit the Vaughans, particularly Stevie. Drinking and drugs began to get in the way of his music and his ability to cope with stardom. His marriage failed. His career faltered. He continued to rely on his guitar to get him through the increasingly frequent rough patches, but it was clear he needed help. Fortunately, he got it. He entered rehab, cleaned up, clarified his vision, and renewed his passion for the blues. In Step, released afterward, was a major success. A long anticipated album with Jimmie, Family Style, was completed. The Vaughan Brothers, as they would bill themselves, seemed poised for even bigger success when tragedy struck. On August 27, 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash just outside East Troy, Wisconsin, after performing with Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray. He was just 35 years old. Despite a quarter century since his passing, Vaughan’s presence is still felt – and missed – in American music. Nearly every blues artist today claims a Stevie Ray Vaughan influence. His intense performances, powerful solos, and deep, passionate love of the music keep his blues flame burning. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble received 18.3 million votes Labels: Amp Covers, Cal Sharp, Jesse C Smith Jr, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Musicians Blog, The Lonestar Cowboys, The Texas Musicians Blog, Tomball Texas Waylon Jennings : June 15, 1937 - February 13, 2002. Rest in Peace. 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__label__wiki	0.814643	0.814643	Chevron Can't Stop The Lies In a recent letter to the Canadian newspaper, The National Post, Chevron repeats its lies to distract attention from its own misconduct in the world's largest oil-related environmental disaster in the Ecuadorian rainforest. For example, Chevron representatives are fond of claiming that a number of U.S. courts have “found” that there was “fraud” in the litigation in Ecuador. This is completely false. When Chevron made this assertion to one journalist who included it in his story, his publication, Courthouse News, was forced to run a retraction once it realized the reporter had been misled, stating that while “[a]n earlier version of this article quoted a Chevron spokesman as saying that eight federal courts had found the Ecuadorean plaintiffs had committed fraud. In fact, the courts issued crime-fraud exception findings during discovery. Chevron’s fraud allegations against the Ecuadorean plaintiffs remain unproven.” See here. No U.S. court has made any final determination with respect to Chevron’s fraud allegations. In fact, 13 U.S. courts rejected or otherwise declined Chevron’s invitation to apply what is known as the crime/fraud exception. Such an exception requires a court to make only a prima facie showing that a fraud might have occurred if proven to be true. But no actual factual findings have been made. As one court succinctly put it: “The circumstances supporting [Chevron’s] claim of fraud largely are allegations and allegations are not factual findings." Another wrote that Chevron was making a "mountain out of a molehill." See here. Chevron tries to distract attention from these facts with statements replete with falsehoods; meanwhile, independent journalists have long confirmed the company’s hand in creating this unprecedented catastrophe. See these recent news reports from the Australia program Sunday Night; the American show 60 Minutes and this extraordinary video from the plaintiffs summarizing the evidence and Chevron’s corrupt attempts to derail the trial. A story in Vanity Fair on the courageous Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo, who was raised in abject poverty and who has been targeted with death threats, can be seen here. Chevron takes emails and other correspondence out of context and cleverly edits video to make it appear that our own experts do not believe there is contamination. Yet one of the most respected experts in the world on how contaminants travel in groundwater – Dr. Ann Maest -- testified under oath recently that there is massive contamination of water in Chevron’s concession area. See here and here. In a blatant act of deceit, in a blog Chevron leaves the false impression that Dr. Maest agrees with the company that there is no water contamination. See here. Chevron’s assertion that the plaintiffs wrote the judgment is a both a fabrication and a final act of desperation. For this argument, Chevron relies on more paid experts who analyze what they call “word strings” from an internal memo from the plaintiffs that appeared in a handful of paragraphs in the 188-page judgment. Yet arguments from the memo using the same language were submitted to court in numerous motions throughout the eight-year trial. It is completely plausible for a court to adopt arguments and language from briefs or other materials submitted to the court. The real and only fraud is Chevron's environmental crimes, its phony remediation, its manipulation of evidence during the Ecuador trial and its abuse of the rule of law by delaying and attempting to derail the trial during the eight-year-long proceeding. See here, here and here. These facts, as confirmed by Ecuador’s courts and independent journalists, are bad for Chevron. More to the point, they explain why the company tried to sabotage the proceedings in Ecuador, and how it will now try to convince courts it Canada that somehow it was the victim of a shakedown by indigenous groups in Ecuador. Don’t believe it. Also follow us on Twitter at @ChevronPit and like us on Facebook. Posted in 60 minutes, Chevron, Dr. Ann Maest, Ecuador, lies, pablo fajardo, remediation, Sunday Night, The National Post, Vanity Fair Chevron Lies Through Teeth About Groundwater Contamination In Ecuador The Ecuador indigenous and farmer communities who recently won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron have long maintained that the oil giant has been taking their comments out of context and is lying in its long-running effort to discredit the lawsuit. Here’s a good example. This week in a blog on its web site, Chevron claimed that Dr. Ann Maest, a prominent U.S. scientist who worked as an expert for the rainforest communities, testified under oath “that she was not aware of any scientific data indicating that drinking water wells have been impacted in any way by Texpet’s operations” in Ecuador. (Texpet is a Chevron subsidiary.) What Maest said during three days of deposition testimony was that there was extensive groundwater contamination at Chevron’s production sites, but that there was no data from the plaintiffs about contamination in drinking water wells because no such wells were tested. In her deposition, Maest repeatedly cites multiple and widespread instances of groundwater pollution at every single waste pit in Ecuador where such testing took place. Yet Chevron claims in its blog that "even the plaintiffs own scientists" agree with Chevron's fabricated theory that there is no groundwater contamination in Ecuador. Here are some relevant excerpts from the Maest deposition that Chevron failed to mention in its blog: “There has been some sampling of groundwater that's down gradient of pits, and they did find quite high concentrations of TPH [Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons] in groundwater.” (see 1/20/11 deposition, page 133) The plaintiffs found "elevated concentrations of total petroleum hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons...downstream of one of the separation stations in the concession." (see 12/8/10 deposition, page 161) Samples tested from the plaintiff's and Chevron proved that "there are also PHs [a type of oil hydrocarbon] that are high in soil and groundwater immediately under the…pits that were allegedly remediated". (see 12/8/10 deposition, page 203) Here is how Maest answered questions from a Chevron lawyer about groundwater contamination in Ecuador at a deposition that took place on December 8, 2010 (see page 212) -- an exchange Chevron ignored in its blog posting: Q. You had no worry about finding -- whether you were going to find it or not? A. No. We knew at that time that they (the plaintiffs technical team) had found groundwater contamination. Q. And where was that found? A. Under pretty much every pit that they looked at. Just in case you missed that last line: groundwater contamination was under pretty much every pit that they looked at. So much for Chevron’s claim that plaintiff's consultants agree with Chevron that there was no groundwater contamination in Ecuador. For more on how Chevron lies to shareholders about the Ecuador litigation, see this report from securities lawyer Graham Erion and this letter from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the company. Posted in $18 billion, Aguinda v Chevron, Amazon, Ann Maest, Chevron, contamination, Ecuador, oil pit, oil spill, oil well, plaintiffs, texaco, Texpet, tph The Canadian face of the biggest lawsuit in the world The Chevron Pit spoke with Jeff Gray of Toronto's Globe & Mail yesterday about the Ecuadorians' new lawyer, Alan Lenczner. Gray wanted to know why Lenczner decided to take our case. We told him: "Because he knows he will win, and Chevron will lose." After an indepth review of the Ecuador and U.S. court record on the case and a trip to Ecuador to view the contamination, Lenczner joined the legal team. “It (seeing the contamination) influenced my decision a lot. I just saw the devastation … and I’ve seen the plight of these people,” he said. “… Forget the noise about lawsuits and distraction and internal memos and everything else, the fact remains that this is a mess.” Read the story here: The Canadian face of the biggest lawsuit in the world Posted in Aguinda v Chevron, Alan Lenczer, Amazon, Amazon Defense Coalition, Chevron, Ecuador, energy, oil contamination, pollution, texaco Interesting Reads: BP Owes $192 Billion On Gulf Coast & Chevron's Secret Deal With Ivonne Baki Interesting reading on The Huffington Post and The Business Insider. See below. BP Owes $192 Billion for Gulf Oil Disaster, Not $15 Billion Settlement It's Seeking On Friday, the Financial Times reported that BP is hoping to reach an agreement with U.S. authorities which would require it to pay under $15 billion to settle all criminal and civil penalties arising from the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The Department of Justice is reportedly seeking $20 to $25 billion. Negotiations between the DOJ and BP are accelerating and "an agreement could be reached before the Democratic party's convention in September," the FT reported. While $15 billion sounds like a lot of money -- and it is -- it is a far cry from what BP owes for the many costs associated with the largest offshore oil spill in history. To date, a full accounting of exactly what BP should owe for its crimes in the Gulf has not been made public. Such an accounting is vital if we are to ensure that justice and restoration are delivered to the Gulf Coast and that such a catastrophe never occurs again. A straightforward application of just the most pertinent U.S. laws yields a fine of $192 billion. (For simplicity sake, I only address BP's fines.) Sound high? Here's why it's not. (read more) Why Chevron Fired Ogilvy Chevron knew full well that an executive at its PR agency, Ogilvy PR, had ties to the Andean parliamentary president in Ecuador, Ivonne Baki, and fired the shop because the agency failed to bend the Ecuadoreans to its will, not because it was a conflict of interest: That, in a nutshell, is the conspiracy theory alleged by The Chevron Pit, a blog maintained by rain forest activists who successfully sued Chevron for its pollution of the Latin American jungle. Chevron ostensibly fired Ogilvy after it discovered that one of its executives, Felipe Benitez, had given advice to both the Ecuadorean government and environmental groups hoping to preserve the Amazon. We pointed out that the move seemed weird because Benitez's LinkedIn profile listed the fact that he had those clients dating back to 2008, so this shouldn't have come as a surprise. Chevron Pit now alleges that Chevron knew about Benitez all along and was hoping that he could sway the government to not enforce an $18 billion judgment environmental activists won against the company for polluting the forest: There is simply no way Chevron could not have known that the firm of its lead lobbyist on the Ecuador matter was also representing Ecuador's government. In fact, we suspect that was all part of the "value" Ogilvy was offering Chevron for its fee of $600,000 per year. Posted in Aguinda v Chevron, big oil, BP, Chevron, contamination, Ecuador, Felipe Benitez, Financial Times, Gulf Coast, gulf oil spill, Huffington Post, Ivonne Baki, Ogilvy, oil spill, pollution, texaco Rattled Chevron Fires P.R Giant Ogilvy, But Questions Remain The pressure on Chevron over its $18 billion Ecuador environmental judgment appears to be rattling company management. We already reported how 40 institutional investors hammered Chevron in recent days over its bungling of the litigation, asking that the long-running case be settled before the oil giant suffers further damage to its reputation. Now we have the bizarre saga of Chevron firing its longtime lobbyist in Washington, the highly-respected and influential Wayne Berman, over something related to the Ecuador matter. The question is what is that something. Last week it was reported Chevron fired Berman's firm Ogilvy because one of the agency's low-level employees offered advice on environmental public relations at an event organized by Amazon Watch. Amazon Watch is that pesky group of environmental activists who have driven Chevron crazy for years over its failure to clean up its mess in Ecuador. (Note that the young PR executive who spoke at the Amazon Watch event did not even mention Chevron and Ecuador.) This week Advertising Age reported that Ecuador's celebrated Yasuni environmental project also "halted its relationship with" Ogilvy. The Yasuni is an area of oil-rich rainforest inhabited by two non-contacted indigenous groups. Ecuador's government is trying to raise money from governments in exchange for a promise never to let oil companies exploit the territory. We were surprised to learn that Ogilivy was representing Chevron -- a sworn enemy of Ecuador's government given their battles over who should clean up the oil pollution in the country -- and Ecuador's government at the same time. Is there a connection between the two? We think so. There is simply no way Chevron could not have known that the firm of its lead lobbyist on the Ecuador matter was also representing Ecuador's government. In fact, we suspect that was all part of the "value" Ogilvy was offering Chevron for its fee of $600,000 per year. Chevron Pit readers may remember postings from several months ago (here and here) about Chevron offering a bribe to Ecuador's government in exchange for killing or stopping enforcement of the $18 billion judgment against it for massive oil contamination. The bribe included a $500 million contribution to -- you guessed it -- the Yasuni project coupled with an effort to recruit corporations and governments around the world to raise more money. But the plot thickens. The person heading up the fundraising effort for Ecuador is Ivonne Baki, who has close ties to Chevron and has tried to intercede on Chevron's behalf before to kill the lawsuit. See this press release and this Miami Herald story. Baki was also reported to be floating Chevron's bribe offer to kill the case from her perch inside Ecuador's government. How is it that Oglivy and Berman, who have represented Chevron since 2004, acquired Yasuni as a client around the same time Chevron tried to bribe Ecuador through its Yasuni payment? Was Chevron subsidizing the Yasuni PR effort through its own payments to Oglivy as a way to curry favor with Ecuador's government to kill the lawsuit? Did Chevron use a young PR exec as a scapegoat to fire Oglivy because the Yasuni bribery plot turned south, possibly exposing company officials to liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Ivonne Baki -- Yasuni Ogilvy- PR Firm John Watson -- Chevron Posted in Ivonne Baki, john watson, Ogilvy, pollution Chevron Fires Big Shot Lobbyist Wayne Berman After He Hires Young PR Environmentalist Posted on Friday, June 01, 2012 Chevron may be huge, but it's full of people with small minds. The gigantic public relations firm, Ogilvy, hired a young man who has been involved in environmental causes, and Chevron went ballistic, firing the firm and along with it, Wayne Berman, a powerful and influential lobbyist in Washington, DC. Berman is an Ogilvy partner and has worked for Chevron since 2004. We hear Berman is not happy. Maybe more to follow? We know all about Chevron's revenge tactics. If you mess with them, you pay a price. See Bloomberg story below. Chevron Fires Ogilvy As Lobbyist Over Ecuadorean Dispute By Jim Snyder - May 31, 2012 8:00 PM ET Chevron Corp. (CVX) fired Ogilvy Government Relations as its U.S. lobbyist after a person affiliated with the firm spoke to a group advocating for residents of the Ecuadorean rainforest in a multibillion legal fight with the oil company, a person familiar with the matter said. On May 9, Felipe Benitez of Ogilvy’s public relations branch gave a presentation to San Francisco-based Amazon Watch on “strategic communications for environmental defense and protection on human rights,” according to that group’s website. Lloyd Avram, a spokesman for Chevron, which was Ogilvy’s third-largest lobbying client last year, said the company discovered a serious conflict recently. He declined to comment about the nature of the issue or the date Chevron ended its relationship with Ogilvy. Another person, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the conflict concerned Benitez and his talk to Amazon Watch, which advocates on behalf of indigenous tribes in the Amazon basin and has called damage from oil drilling in Ecuador “Chevron’s Chernobyl.” “Chevron discovered a material conflict of interest with Ogilvy,” Avram said in an e-mailed statement. “It could not be resolved and made our relationship with them untenable. Under the terms of our agreement, we terminated the relationship.” Ogilvy Revenue Ogilvy received $600,000 from Chevron in 2011 to lobby on energy, environmental, tax and financial policies in the U.S., according to federal lobbying records, making the oil company its third-biggest client by revenues, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political and lobbying spending. Ogilvy, the sixth-largest U.S. lobbying firm by revenue, according to the center, had represented Chevron since at least 2004, public records show. Ogilvy’s various units are owned by WPP Plc (WPP), a communications company based in Dublin. Avram declined to comment on Chevron’s plans to replace Ogilvy. While Chevron, based in San Ramon, California, doesn’t operate in Ecuador, it has become embroiled in a lengthy legal fight over the alleged disposal of toxic wastewater from drilling operations by Texaco Inc., which used to operate in the country and was acquired by Chevron in 2001. Previously, Benitez worked for Fenton Communications, and had helped Ecuador improve its global image, according to his page on Linked In, a social networking website. “Chevron informed Ogilvy & Mather of its decision to end its relationship with Ogilvy Government Relations because of a perceived conflict with Ogilvy PR,” Rachel Ufer, a spokeswoman for Ogilvy public relations, said in an e-mailed statement, referring to the parent company. “As this is primarily a personnel matter, we are unable to provide further detail.” Amazon Watch didn’t return a phone call seeking comment. Chevron is fighting an $18 billion judgment from an Ecuadorean court finding the company was responsible for damage. The company argues that Texaco performed all the environmental remediation under the terms of its contract with Ecuador. It has accused the plaintiffs’ lawyers and Ecuadorean officials of fraud and misconduct in the case. Ecuadoreans filed a lawsuit yesterday in the Superior Court in Ontario targeting Chevron assets in Canada as a way to begin collecting on the judgment, because the oil company has few assets in Ecuador. In Washington, Chevron spent more than $9.5 million on lobbying last year and keeps a team of outside firms to lobby on a variety of issues. More than 70 companies and trade groups paid Ogilvy Government Relations more than $20 million to lobby on their behalf in 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which is based in Washington. Posted in Chevron, contamination, Ecuador, energy, environment, environmental lawsuit, Felipe Benitez, lobbying, Ogilvy, pollution, Texaco Amazon Watch, Wayne Berman Chevron Lies Through Teeth About Groundwater Conta... The Canadian face of the biggest lawsuit in the wo... Interesting Reads: BP Owes $192 Billion On Gulf Co... Rattled Chevron Fires P.R Giant Ogilvy, But Questi... 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__label__cc	0.622442	0.377558	Enjoy the latest news about our clients and about The Concept Works! Art Imig's Sets Thursday Grand Opening of "Sheboygan Friendly" Store in Re-Energized Downtown Neighborhood https://i0.wp.com/theconceptworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Art-Imigs-logo.png?fit=438%2C72 72 438 Eric Woolson http://theconceptworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo.png Eric Woolson2017-08-22 21:38:552017-09-21 09:35:54Art Imig's Sets Thursday Grand Opening of "Sheboygan Friendly" Store in Re-Energized Downtown Neighborhood Iowa Ag Summit Releases Radio Ad Featuring Gov. Kim Reynolds https://i1.wp.com/theconceptworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/2017-Ag-Summit-Logo.png?fit=600%2C319 319 600 Eric Woolson http://theconceptworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo.png Eric Woolson2017-08-02 21:56:002017-12-18 09:28:17Iowa Ag Summit Releases Radio Ad Featuring Gov. 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__label__wiki	0.700859	0.700859	Home News 3rd bridge to link M’sia-Sg to be decided after feasibility study —... 3rd bridge to link M’sia-Sg to be decided after feasibility study — M’sian Home Minister A decision concerning building the third link may not be reached until after October of next year Facebook screengrab/Muhyiddin Yassin Home NewsAsiaMalaysia Johor Bahru— Malaysian Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said on Sunday, December 1, that the possible third bridge that would link Singapore and Malaysia would only be decided upon after a comprehensive feasibility study is done that would see how needful the link is to ease congestion of the traffic into Johor. Mr Muhyiddin said that the Government hopes to launch the “holistic research” on the matter early in 2020 when funding for the study is made available. However, the decision concerning building the third link may not be reached until after October of next year. He said, “This will be done after we received feedback from the holistic research, including the location of the third bridge, that will also be based on the research by a concession company. The research is expected to cost about RM5 million (S$1.64 million) and would take about nine months to be completed.” The Home Minister made these remarks after having led a committee meeting on the congestion issue at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex in Johor Bahru. Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Jamil Rakon and Malaysian Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad were also present at the meeting, the Malay Mail reports. This means, Mr Muhyiddin continued, that discussions with Singapore concerning building the link would not be begun until after approval from Putrajaya concerning the building of the third link. The Home Minister said that the government would seek the most feasible and practical methods to address the severe traffic problems in the southern part Johor. “Apart on the matter of the third bridge, another initiative that was brought-up in the meeting here today was to solve the current congestion issue by increasing the number of personnel at both CIQ facilities. This proposal includes increasing the number of both customs and immigration officers that will only be decided by the Public Service Department,” he added. The Singapore-Johor crossing is one of the most heavily traversed in the region, with over 450,000 people entering and exiting Singapore through both the Tuas Second Link and the Causeway every single day. Late last month, Mr Muhyiddin emphasized at the Johor State Assembly the need to build a third link connecting Johor Bahru with Singapore The Home Minister is the chairman of the Special Committee on Congestion at the Johor Causeway. According to Bernama, Malaysia’s national news agency, Mr Muhyiddin said that this link could either be a tunnel or a bridge, and that he has already told the federal government of this necessity. The Home Minister said, “If the state government supports this, I will ensure this initiative be started. Before, we used to have only one bridge. Then we had two bridges and now these two can no longer cope,” since congestion often builds up at the Second Link in Tuas as well as at the Causeway. The Home Minister echoed Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir Mohamad, who also recently called for a third link to connect Malaysia and Singapore, due to the large number of vehicles going back and forth between the two countries. -/TISG Read related: Malaysian Home Minister stresses need for 3rd link between JB and SG due to traffic congestion Malaysian Home Minister stresses need for 3rd link between JB and SG due to traffic congestion third link JB-SG Tuas Second Link	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line406
__label__cc	0.524536	0.475464	Viewing articles tagged with 'New Media' Prince Gallery, Hauser Pl. 16A, 1127 Copenhagen, Denmark Kristoffer Ørum: Invisible Objects Kristoffer Ørum's exhibition consists of a number of everyday objects: a video, a chair, a refrigerator door with milk, a dish with a watermelon, a bread box with brown bread, a sink with pasta and a number of PU foam objects - all of which emit through different wireless networks that are available within and outside the gallery. Van Abbemuseum, Bilderdijklaan 10, Eindhoven The 1980s. Today’s Beginnings? 'The 1980s. Today’s Beginnings?' explores the 1980s from six European perspectives, examining the relevance of this transformative decade for today. This collaborative project comprises a diverse mix of artworks, music, TV, graphic and archival material, exploring a wide set of socio-political themes through the lens of culture. Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Straße 18, D-10178 Berlin Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens Bringing together the practice of thirteen international artists, the exhibition 'Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens' appeals to the intuitive mind and creativity beyond referential thinking. Departing from the artists´ production, it navigates through narratives in the realm of surrealist animation, abstraction and subjects of 'New Materialism' embracing the logic of the internet. Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street, Singapore 187940 Practising habits of the day 'Practising habits of the day' is a group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore which investigates the choreography of repetitive movements that underlie our day, patterns and gestures and language routines. Annka Kultys Gallery, 472 Hackney Road, Unit 3, 1st Floor, London, E2 9EQ Molly Soda: From My Bedroom To Yours Molly Soda's first sholo show outside the US features twenty recent works by the Detroit-based digital artist realised across a variety of digital platforms, including videos, gifs and NewHive. Frutta, Via Giovanni Pascoli, 21 00184, Rome, Italy Lauren Keeley: In a Year Young British artist Lauren Keeley's images are composites of views and objects assembled and visualised in computer software, later rendered in found and screen-printed fabrics stretched across wooden panels. 'In a Year' at Frutta gallery showcases her latest, intricate works. BOM \| Birmingham Open Media, 1 Dudley Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 4EG BOM Fellows: Live R&D Visitors must be willing to interact, ask questions, and get their hands dirty - not always metaphorically. Marianne Templeton reviews Birmingham Open Media's Live R&D laboratory, where art, science and technology meet.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line415
__label__cc	0.716192	0.283808	Unit clashes for COM217 Fundamentals of Chemistry - LAB ANS101 Introduction to Livestock Science and Genetics Thursday 08:30 10:00 460.2.029 WS Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ANS311 Agricultural and Environmental Technologies Thursday 08:30 10:30 245.3.039 LECT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ANS366 Equine Nutrition and Health Thursday 08:30 10:30 235.4.008 LECT1 Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 BAR200 Developing Research Skills and Methods Thursday 08:30 10:00 450.4.031 WS Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 BED150 Understanding Teachers' Work Thursday 08:30 10:30 513.2.004 WS Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 10, 13 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2E BIO247 Biochemistry Thursday 08:30 09:30 351.1.001 LECT2 Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 BMS325 Histopathology Thursday 08:30 09:30 490.2.023 LECT3 Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 BSC100 Building Blocks for Science Students Thursday 08:30 10:30 122.2.022 LAB Internal 4, 6 to 8 - 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Semester 2 \| S2 COM101 Social Media Thursday 08:30 10:30 450.2.127 SEM Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 COM217 Online and Mobile Journalism Thursday 08:30 10:30 450.1.003 SEM Internal 1, 7, 11 - Semester 2 \| S2 CRE100 Foundation in Creative Media Thursday 08:30 10:30 513.1.003 TUT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 12 - Semester 2 \| S2 EDN168 Nurturing Creativity in the Early Years Thursday 08:30 09:30 250.3.024 LECT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 10, 13 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2E EDN236 Teaching The Arts in Early Childhood and Primary Thursday 08:30 09:30 460.3.032 LECT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 10, 13 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2E EDN342 Physical Performance Laboratory Thursday 08:30 11:30 513.1.002 LECT Internal 1 - Semester 2 \| S2E EDN357 Sports Practicum Thursday 08:30 09:30 250.3.023 LECT Internal 1 - Semester 2 \| S2E ENG125 Circuits and Systems I Thursday 08:30 09:30 250.3.106 SEM Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ENG299 Control Systems and Process Dynamics Thursday 08:30 10:30 340.2.026 LAB Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ENG339 Wind and Hydro Power Systems Thursday 08:30 11:30 340.2.010 LAB Internal 2 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ENG564 Instrumentation and Communication Thursday 08:30 11:30 340.2.027 LECT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 EXS205 Acquisition of Skills and Motor Control Thursday 08:30 10:30 412.1.021 LAB1 Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 GAD361 VR, Platforms, and Publishing Thursday 08:30 10:30 450.2.051 LAB Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ICT158 Introduction to Information Systems Thursday 08:30 10:30 240.2.051 LECT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ICT376 Mobile Application Development Thursday 08:30 10:30 245.3.062 LECT Internal 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ICT501 Business Analysis and Systems Development Approaches Thursday 08:30 10:30 235.3.010 WS Internal 2 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14 - Semester 2 \| S2 ICT513 Data Analytics Thursday 08:30 10:30 235.3.034 WS Internal 1 to 3 - 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__label__cc	0.691043	0.308957	Baptism and the Gospel So here's part of what I'm tackling on Sunday morning, just to get the little grey cells working. In Acts 8:26-39, we read of the encounter between Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, which eventually gets to this point: "The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who* is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus. [ie 'It's someone else'!] As they travelled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?” So here's the thing: how did Philip so present the 'good news about Jesus' that it led to the eunuch asking for baptism? See if you can come up with a short presentation that would do the same. * Shouldn't that be in English "about whom is the prophet talking"? Not so much an imagined presentation by Philip, but a note on the next question: It seems that the eunuch's question (“Look, here is water. Why shouldn’t I be baptized?”) anticipates a potentially negative reply by Philip. While it could just be a way of emphasising his desire to be baptised, I wonder if this question relates to the fact that, coming from Jerusalem, the (presumably Gentile) eunuch would also have had the further restriction of worship and participation in the Temple because of his altered condition. So he could be genuinely asking whether he could be baptized, as if Philip would keep him on the outside rather than welcome him into the fellowship. Anthony Smith 15 October 2013 at 11:57 I presume the eunuch didn't ask for baptism without being prompted. I.e., presumably Philip had said something not unlike what Peter said when he presented the good news about Jesus: "Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins" (Acts 2:38). Note the similar response to Philip's preaching in 8:12. Maybe the more remarkable thing is not that he asked for baptism, but that such a thing was even possible in a "desert place" (8:26)? But then perhaps the question for us is why would we never call for people to respond to a gospel presentation by being baptised? John Richardson 15 October 2013 at 12:04 Anthony, quite so. Why was baptism integrated into their 'gospel'. I think the answers lie in (amongst other places) Romans 6. Rev'd Reflections, a curate considers... 15 October 2013 at 15:32 Could Isaiah 52:15 also offer us some clues? "Sprinkle the nations"? Kip' I agree that it is likely that the eunuch was told baptism is the proper response and may indeed have been prompted. He still framed his response with a potentially negative response in view, whereas others baptised in Acts did not do so. In any case, the point remains that he may have felt himself unworthy of baptism, while today in the CofE it is approached often quite casually. Getting back to John's original question, it would have provided an opportunity for Philip to answer the eunuch with the reassurance we all need from the Gospel -- we bring our need of Him, He grants life and forgiveness. graham wood 16 October 2013 at 10:39 I re-post my comment on your earlier piece on baptism, and put my question slightly differently. How does infant baptism, or "christening" (as common practice in the C of E) meet the biblical criteria and pattern shown to us in the NT? Baptism is indeed important as JR points out, but christening? "The Church is the company of the baptized. But the baptized are baptized into Christ." In the context of the practice of the C of E, baptism includes infant baptism, or christening. I assume therefore that your premise above does not apply to infants. Perhaps you need to clarify what baptism is a little more in the light of this largely inexplicable practice. Even the great Bishop Ryle found this matter one of the "knots" he could not untie! Darren 16 October 2013 at 13:14 Graham, There are 2 issues there. 1. Baptising infants - good or bad idea 2. "Christening", offering the rite to non-church families, perpetuating their superstition. Believers getting their kids baptised because they are born into the people of God, and need to mature (yes - some don't stick the course, some adults baptised don't either). Is rather different to baptising people's kids who have no intention of even starting on it. Baptism as a "way in" seems to me bizarre Darren. Taking your second point first. The Christian church is not in the business of perpetuating superstition, least of all the supposed 'merit' in a rite of Christening ! Those who believe in this practice need to justify what the rite actually does for a child. Baptising infants? I think you are confusing believer's baptism with the rite of christening, and the latter has no NT precedent or teaching. I'm sure you know that christian baptism in the NT is always directed towards adults capable of discernment, and predicated on a basis of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ - and that without exception if you go through the many accounts in the Acts of the Apostles. As famously said of the error of christening - "grace does not run in the bloodstream". Of necessity an infant cannot exercise repentance and faith, and neither can it be exercised by proxy. (parents or 'godparents') Thus Jesus taught that spiritual life begins with a new birth (John 3:3) Perhaps John could clarify why this medieval rite is continued in the C of E? Graham - I suppose baptism of an infant "actually does" exactly what it does for the believing adult: marks them out as a member of the church and a recipient of the grace of God. Of course, sometimes it turns out that the mark was given in error. And sometimes the mark is withheld in error - a child may be marked out as belonging to the dominion of darkness by being denied the sign of baptism, but it may become clear in the course of time that the child was a genuine believer all along. I don't see why an infant cannot exercise repentance and faith. Why not? Does one need to reach a certain level of intellectual maturity in order to receive the new birth? There is more to this than just a few texts, but how children are viewed in the Bible. So, when we read about household baptisms, some are reading them as.. households, others as the consenting adults within. In the OT, look especially at Genesis 17:9-14, about circumcision, personal faith is in no ways negated, yet Abraham promises on behalf of generations yet to be born. In 1 Cor 10, crossing the red sea is seen as a kind of baptism, were the babies left behind in Egypt? 1 Cor 7 - sanctified children. Then there is the question of what baptism is. Is it "my response", or is it God's promise? This is why the Reformers kept the practice. They certainly had a good old think about it, for sure. Calvin and Bullinger wrote some good stuff on this. & it's not just the C of E who kept it. Presbyterians, and many independents and congregationalists too. Indeed, it was the majority reformed position for some time, certainly going right back. The only time I can think of that didn't practice, consistently, infant baptism, was the time around Constantine, when they had odd ideas about regeneration, so you got baptised as late as possible, so the effects ddin't wear off before you died. So, there is a HUGE difference between "Christening" & covenantal family baptisms. Grace does not run in the bloodstream... oh yes it does! Unless Malachi 2:15 & other large chunks of the Bible get chopped out! But they in no way negate personal faith. We have to make our own response, but God uses means and ideally, if parents are Christians - they are the means. When God gave Noah the rainbow as a covenant sign it is to remind God, not Noah, of his promise. So when people in unbelief take part in the sacrament, we're saying - God, don't forget to judge me. PS to above. I think whatever view we take, we need to be humble enough to say, "some of those baptists... they know what they're talking about" - & vice versa. But, then take ones view. BUT, to be disparaging about infant baptism, as Calvin points out, is to disparage how God works. Because even if now we should not baptise children, there was a time when the covenant sign was put on children. And Romans 4 makes it pretty clear that grace/faith thing is no different in OT & NT. Perhaps John could elucidate as to why this medieval practice continues in the C Of E? How, for example is it possible for evangelicals to get the biblical doctrine of believers baptism so wrong, as to confuse it with the anachronistic superstition of christening which it claims is baptism by another name. In order to explain the very simple truth of what baptism is, it is first necessary to expose the error of its counterfeit, and justify its practice. Phil Roberts 17 October 2013 at 21:37 All of our 7 kids were christened. It was a fantastic comfort to them when they were young to know that they belonged to a family of believers. I see it as a welcome by the Church of a new Christian. The baby is welcomed by the family of God and the other children and adults see this. The reality often is of course that the babies with their mums (mostly) are often pressured to go to a separate room for the next few years. In case the baby disturbs the proper worship of the adults and later the kids are further separated from the worship of adults. I want my kids in church. I want them to see me on my knees confessing my sins and asking for forgiveness. I want them to see me praising God. Mr Integrity 18 October 2013 at 00:09 Christening and adult baptism are both outward symbols of an inner faith. In the case of Christening it can only be a symbol of the faith of the parents and God parents who promise to raise the child in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. My preference is for Infant Dedication where there is no promise of salvation through the act but the emphasis is on prayer for the child and the parents. Philip, as said above, knew the Old Testament and all that led to the coming of the Messiah and the resurrection of Christ. This is the Gospel (Good News) that Philip spoke of. Mr Integrity. "Christening and adult baptism are both outward symbols of an inner faith". I totally disagree. There is not a hint of "christening" in the whole of the New Testament, and it should not be confused with the Christian act of believer's baptism. The whole swing of Scrpture declares unambiguously "believe and be baptised". One cannot be divorced from the other, and for this reason Phillip the evangelist baptised the Ethiopian. It is worth remembering that the Apostles and the church were only ever commissioned to baptise believers, but nobody else. Of necessity NT teaching about the nature of baptism (indicating a new spiritual birth and union with Christ) cannot be applied to infants. When "baptism is applied to infants it ceases to be A badge of discipleship (Charles Hodge) An outward sign of faith (John Calvin) A sign of regeneration (C of E Article 27). A mark of being ingrafted into Christ by faith alone. Therefore this superstitious practice should be exposed for what it is - merely the tradition of men which makes void the Word of God concerning Christian baptism Graham - if you don't mind me repeating my question - I don't see why an infant cannot exercise repentance and faith. Why not? Does one need to reach a certain level of intellectual maturity in order to receive the new birth? Richard Brown 18 October 2013 at 13:26 Is Graham Wood seriously suggesting that children should not be accepted as part of the church until they completely understand what they are doing? Perhaps not, but it certainly sounds that way. Even Baptists have a form of Christening liturgy, though they dare not call it by its name, and certainly not Baptism. However, the Ethiopian eunuch did not go through a Baptism preparation course in advance, nor Confirmation classes or Alpha, or anything that suggests that he knew what he was doing. But... he had discovered truth, and he trusted it, and that was worth more than anything else he might have learned later in life. With respect Anthony, the subject strap is Baptism and the Gospel, not the extent of infant perception. It must therefore be obvious that if an infant cannot even articulate or express thoughts then clearly they are not candidates for Christian baptism. Jesus did however invite little children to come to him - but that assumed a level of normal perception and understanding and a real relationship - nothing to do with intellectual maturity. As a matter of interest my six year old daughter was clearly taught and understood the Gospel and became a real believer at that age - she was baptised shortly afterwards. A very different thing to "christening". Perhaps you (or John?) could clarify what the rite of christening actually does for a child? Of necessity any answer must be far removed from the biblical truth of believers baptism. A last question. Where is there a single example in the NT of an infant being baptised please? Graham - with respect, I was responding to your comment about the extent of infant perception when you said "Of necessity an infant cannot exercise repentance and faith". I take it you are changing your position now, and saying that while infants can in fact exercise repentance and faith, they can't articulate or express that repentance and faith? My understanding of baptism in the Church of England is that if the candidate is unable to articulate or express their faith with their own mouth (e.g., an infant, or someone who cannot speak), then the godparents or sponsors speak on behalf of that person. Apart from that, there is no difference between the baptism of an infant and the baptism of an adult. Specifically, there is but one rite: baptism. There is no separate rite of "christening". Of course, with the baptism of an infant, there is some room for doubt, and it could well be the case that the infant, who is professing his/her faith through his/her godparents, is actually making a false profession of faith. But the same could be said of the eunuch. How could Philip be sure that this was a genuine profession? You might argue that the infant's profession of faith, as it isn't made through the infant's own mouth, is not sufficiently convincing. But the same could be said of the eunuch. Personally I would want to see him delay baptism for at least a short time, just to be a bit more certain that his profession is genuine. Wouldn't you? But maybe we're out of step with Scripture on that? As to what the rite of baptism actually does for a child, I attempted to answer that above (16 Oct, 15:41). Finally, as far as I can tell, there is no example of an infant either being baptised or being refused baptism in the NT. So there is no direct warrant either for baptising infants, or for refusing to baptise infants. Anthony. No, I have not changed my position. I simply reiterate the biblical basis of christian baptism, which according to the New Testament is to be administered solely to believers. Is not The Lord's instruction clear enough? See for example Mark 16:16 "he that believes and is baptised shall be saved" No, infants cannot express a faith by proxy, via godparents or anyone else, and there is no NT example of this anywhere. Reply to richard brown. I certainly do suggest that Richard. I think you are confusing the issue for christian baptism is not about acceptance in the church (however defined) but about the outward symbol of a new relationship with God. The Ethiopian who believed and was baptised had no "church" background, Richard Brown asked: "Is Graham Wood seriously suggesting that children should not be accepted as part of the church until they completely understand what they are doing?" Graham answers in the affirmative - and in doing so he puts himself starkly at odds with none other than Charles Spurgeon who wrote: "The church of God is a house for us and a nest for our little ones." Graham, you may be interested to know what occasioned Spurgeon to so completely give the game away. The above quotation comes from his "Treasury of David" commentary on Psalm 84:3. I'd ask you please to read the first three verses of that psalm and then carefully consider verse 3, particularly the phrase "where she may lay her young", which is what Spurgeon was looking at when he said that. One further note on this crucial phrase. John Gill was probably the greatest ever English Baptist theologian. He wrote a Bible commentary which ran to 10 million words. Would you like to know his take on that particular Bible phrase? Anon. Thanks for your comments, and yes, I have Spurgeon's Treasury, and am familiar with the Baptist Gill. I would demur from crossing the paths of these worthies, but then tat is not needed for this discussion. There are many related issues around Christian baptism, but the point I challenge is to do with the medieval tradition of "christening". A different matter entirely. Nobody asyet has been able to biblically justify this arcane practice, which itself mimics true Christian baptism Just to reiterate the basis of Christian baptism, the Apostles were only authorised by Christ to baptise believers - none other. See Acts 16:15 also. Graham - I'm going to bow out here, as I don't think the discussion is getting anywhere, but I'll leave with a quote from John Stott: "There is no baptism in the Church of England except the baptism of a professing believer, adult or infant." (Source) "There are many related issues around Christian baptism, but the point I challenge is to do with the medieval tradition of "christening". A different matter entirely." Is it? How exactly? It seems to me and others on this thread that you're opposing any concept or practice of infant baptism whatsoever. Correct us if we're wrong. In particular, why do you keep referring to it as medieval when you must know that it can be traced right back to the 2nd century? Obviously I'm not expecting anyone to take Spurgeon or Gill as infallible. However the fact that the otherwise extremely verbose Gill had absolutely nothing to say on the very telling phrase in that psalm, is at least suggestive isn't it? Besides, it was you who early in this thread claimed that Ryle couldn't untie the baptismal knot (which is simply your opinion, certainly not what he would have said). Whereas it seems pretty clear that Gill couldn't stand to defend excluding young children from church membership in the face of that psalm (and there are several other scriptures like it). So he basically said, "We cannot tell" (cf. Matt. 21:27, 1 Kings 18:21). Anon. My comments interspersed: "Is it? How exactly? It seems to me and others on this thread that you're opposing any concept or practice of infant baptism whatsoever. Correct us if we're wrong. GW. Yes, you are correct for all the reasons I have already given. GW. According to church historians infant baptism was introduced towards the end of the 2nd century. But Tertullian was the first of the early Fathers to mention it at all, and he strenuously opposed the concept. So yes, that dating does make it medieval, but not back quite far enough, for until that time it was unknown both to the NT and to primitive Christianity. That close my contribution - so we must agree to differ. Which historians? It's not you're mate Viola again is it? Tertullian (let's face it, not always the most sound) supported believers baptism. But the context of what he was saying was against delaying to the end of life, rather than anti-infant. Origen (also had some odd ideas) was baptised in 180AD, just 80 years after John's death. No practice or doctrine springs up over night. So, as Francis Shaeffer asked his baptist friends - where was the controversy when Baptism of believers children were introduced? Again, Calvin's comment on covenant signs (covenant generally), "Same in content, different in administration". Also, even if you take a Baptist line - fine. But Genesis 17, Abraham makes promises on behalf on his unborn descendants. He puts the covenant sign on them. Now, some baptists might say, that the different in administration means you have to be believing (same as I'd say it includes girls). But you can see God works through communities and families. The covenants all have "heads" whom God works through (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Phineas, David & Jesus) - one does something on behalf of others. So, Graham, in dissing Church history (& make sure you get a balanced history - Calvin, Puritians - saturated in early church stuff) - name sure you're not just being a 21st C individualist. My only contribution to this, given that I will not be able to persuade Graham, is the following, which isn't mine. You gotta love Luther: "True, one should add faith to baptism. But we are not to base baptism on faith. There is quite a difference between having faith, on the one hand, and depending on one’s faith and making baptism depend on faith, on the other. Whoever allows himself to be baptized on the strength of his faith, is not only uncertain, but also an idolator who denies Christ. For he trusts in and builds on something of his own, namely, on a gift which he has from God, and not on God’s Word alone." Luther's Works, Vol. 40:252. Martin Luther, vol. 40, Luther's Works, Vol. 40: Church and Ministry II ( ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan et al.;Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1999), 252. Graham, my comments after the carets. >> Reasons to which we may return to consider again. But if it's all one and the same, why bother making the distinction then immediately annihilating it? GW. According to church historians infant baptism was introduced towards the end of the 2nd century. >> Presumably depends on which historian. Objectively we can say that IB is first noted at that time; anything more we say about it is going to be an interpretation of sorts. But Tertullian was the first of the early Fathers to mention it at all, and he strenuously opposed the concept. >> Having re-read his quote I'm not sure about "strenuously". But the manner in which he refers to it indicates that it was already widely practised, therefore not suddenly introduced in his time. Moreover the grounds on which he advises delay seems to be some sort of baptismal regeneration, which modern Baptists would disallow. And isn't there another place where he actually allows IB? So yes, that dating does make it medieval >> Then you have an odd definition of the medieval period, which began at the earliest with the fall of Rome in 476. Tertullian wrote 300 years before this, and also well before the officialisation of Christianity from which a lot of declension arose. , but not back quite far enough, for until that time it was unknown both to the NT and to primitive Christianity. >> What evidence do you have for this? It's just an argument from silence. You could just as easily work it the other way. And if we must choose between two arguments from silence, it's preferable to think that the absence of any record of protest against removing the "infant church membership" of the Old Covenant strongly suggests that no such exclusion ever took place. >> I'm more than happy to differ from a position which, after an initial flourish of texts mainly confined to the Book of Acts, has nothing more to offer theologically and is powerless to resist the Biblical logic of classical Anglicanism and other historic Protestant confessions. PS as you've twice addressed me as Anon, please note that I continue to respect John's request to give my name. Joshua Bovis 21 October 2013 at 03:08 The question in your post is a brilliant one. From my background and experience, this pericopé has almost always engendered discussions about Biblical theology, and how Isaiah points to Christ and how Philip was a biblical theologian, (even though in my view the text I think is not explicitly clear that he made the link from Isaiah to Jesus, most likely but Luke says he 'began' with that very passage, so he could have ended with another passage of Scripture). How sad that the post seems to have opened up the door to the old chestnut of the pros and cons of paedo-baptism. For what it is worth John, perhaps the reason why we rarely think about the connection between the Ethiopian hearing about the Lord Jesus Christ and being baptised in the same encounter is due to the current practice amongst Anglicans of not baptising people the day they are converted. Instead we disciple them, do courses such as ' Just for Starters, or Christianity Explained' then baptise them. Perhaps we switch the order that Jesus gave us in Matt 28 (go, make disciples, baptise them, teach them to observe...; in practice we go, make disciples, them to observe...baptise?) Joshua: "Thoughts?" You complain about the "old chestnut of pros and cons of paedobaptism". John's original post strap is "Baptism and the GOSPEL", and that therefore raises profound questions as to what Christian Baptism is, as opposed to its counterfeit. One would expect such a frank and open exchange if our pursuit of the truth about the doctrine of Christian baptism clarifies. Few would actually choose to engage in a negative discussion about infant baptism (the NT does not waste our time on this either), but it would have been more helpful if John's original post reflected a biblical argument about the significance of baptism and the Gospel which the Ethiopian had just embraced. Without trivialising the subject, infant baptism may be compared to the illustration: Going to church (and being 'christened')doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. Multitudes of people who have been "christened in church" are deluded into thinking that somehow they are right with God through the rite. That is why the discussion and the implications for the Gospel is so important to open up. The onus of proof lies with those who practice this to justify it from Scripture. I maintain therefore that this is not a distraction at all, but a necessary and overdue debate. I cannot disagree with you at 10;32. Did I not say that my preference was for a form of dedication of infants and by implication, adult baptism to follow as a believer? I can't accept infant baptism as a symbol of redemption but I don't knock it. I wonder whether you have ever considered how many other social institutions of Christian worship and behaviour that we follow today are also not proscribed in the New Testament. Infant baptism it seems to me was introduced through a fear that the child might die unregenerate in a time when infant mortality rates were high. God's grace we know extends beyond that but the church may have considered the text when Jesus said 'Suffer the little children to come unto me'.. So, Graham, knock infant baptism as much as you like considering the misleading text in the prayer book but let us not forget that Infant Baptism in the CofE is a major point of contact with parents and family of the child and a great opportunity for the cleric to reach out to them.. No, I don't believe in building upon a lie, but it is up to the cleric to make the position clear that the child should be brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord and that the child must make their own declaration of faith. Mr Integrity. I take your points and yes, there are those Evangelicals who seek to explain the "knot" that the good Bishiop Ryle left tied. These are of course well intentioned but I suggest a very tiny minority within the C of E, when they teach against baptismal regeneration and insist upon personal conversion. However, the net result is a grossly unbiblical and misleading practice. Better by far, as Wm. Cunningham (Reformed commentator) suggests, which is that the only way to prevent such fearful mischief is to confine the sacraments - and this includes baptism, to those who profess faith. Yes I also agree with you about many other features of institutional church life which are not found in the NT - hence the need to be "always reforming". But I do not buy your argument about the rite being a " great opportunity ... "etc. On the same pragmatic basis should the Apostle Paul have waived his objection to Peter's compromise on the Gospel with the argument that it was on the surface a relatively trivial matter about breaking table fellowship with his fellow believers who were Gentiles. (Galatians 2:11-16? I think not! (Galatians 2:11-15 Ref to my Q above about history. Also, to say that a medieval practice continued is misleading. That's like saying praying is pagan - pagans do it. Or the medival practice of using bread in communion. It isn't only Anglicans in the Protestant world who practice infant baptism. And some explain it very well. Pratt, Strawbridge, Booth, Gatiss - recent attempts. Older attempts, Owen, Calvin etc. Pragmatism - with you on that. Brad maddox 12 November 2013 at 23:06 Trading is the Best Business Ever in the World.. 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__label__wiki	0.892602	0.892602	Event Section Lin and Zhu crowned Asian Cup champions Ahmedabad, September 17: The ITTF-ATTU 30th Asian Cup finals at the TransStadia here today threw up two new champions today, both from China, as Lin Gaoyuan won the men singles title and Zhu Yuling took the women singles crown home. In addition, they also received $7,000 each in cash, the winner’s purse. But the biggest bonus for both was the instant World Cup berths. Lin defeated compatriot Fan Zhendong, twice finalist, 4-2 but it was the women final between Zhu Yuling and Liu Shiwen, four-time winner, that brought the packed stadium down with the din created by the audience on a day India was playing Australia in the first one-dayer at Chennai. Zhu won 4-3, the match lasting 75 minutes. For the fans of India, especially the ones from Ahmedabad, it was a real feast served on a pltter with a variety of Chinese spread. In the men final, top-seed Fan was the favourite to win but the 20-year-old failed to raise his game against a more determined 22-year-old, who was making his maiden Asian Cup appearance. Matching stroke for stroke, the left-handed Lin played percentage game and drove well with fewer negative give-aways as compared to his rival, a former junior world champion. Unlike the women singles final, this one saw fewer rallies as the two preferred to go for the kill at the first opportunity. Fan did try his best to level the game 2-2 but once Lin went 3-2 up, it was a mere formality for him to finish off in style. Zhu reign supreme The fast-paced women singles final with full of long rallies was one of the finest in recent time. The top-seeded Liu, with four Asian Cup title wins to her credit, was in some discomfort despite beginning well. But she slowly clawed her way back with precise backhands and equally effective forehands to make it three games apiece. The fourth game win at 12-10 looked like giving her the confidence but the next one went the way of Zhu. In the decider, Zhu held five match points and playing close to the table, she tackled everything that was sent back to her. Of course, a couple of negatives from Liu too helped her inch closer to victory. In the end, it turned out be an anti-climax when the 22-year-old served for the Asian Cup title point as Liu’s return escaped the edge much to the elation of Zhu. For records, this was the sixth occasion when the second seed, who is world No. 3, had beaten the Liu, world No. 3, in their 13 meetings so far. Thus, she also snatched away Liu’s fifth shot at the crown. Tickets to World Cups Left-handed Ishikawa didn’t throw in the towel after being down 0-2. Showed a lot of patience and believing in her experience, the 24-year-old played the match the hard way and conquered Miu Hirano, the only Japanese to become the Asian Champion. In fact, Ishikawa’s deep returns coupled with her proper exploitation of the angles added meat. Yet, the 17-year-old world No. 6 fought back well to make it 3-3. In the decider, Ishikawa ran away with a sizeable lead and held four match points. All that Hirano could do was to bring them down but couldn’t stop Ishikawa from winning 4-3 and booking her World Cup berth as the third player. Like the women singles third position match, the men singles fight, too, was between lefthander Chen Chien-An of Taipie and right-hander Lee Sangsu of Korea and this time the right got it absolutely right, winning the bronze with a 4-2 verdict and getting World Cup ticket as a bonus. Sangsu was aggressive and in a hurry to finish off while the Taipei southpaw was unable to hit the groove as his rhythm going haywire. Cashing in on, the Korean surged with a 2-0 lead before Chen arresting it momentarily when he won the third game 12-10. But Sangsu pounced on the opportunities very early and thwarted all possible threats emanating from the left-hander. Women: Final: Zhu Yuling (CHN) bt Liu Shiwen (CHN) 6-11, 11-9, 11-8, 10-12, 11-7, 11-13, 11-6; Third Position: Kasumi Ishikawa (JPN) bt Miu Hirano (JPN) 9-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-3, 9-11, 11-8. Men: Final: Lin Gaoyuan (CHN) bt Fan Zhendong (CHN) 11-7, 7-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-5, 11-5; Third Position: Lee Sangsu (KOR) bt Chen Chien-An (TPE) 11-7, 11-7, 10-12, 11-3, 12-10. Rest of Information coming soon Manika all set to face best of Asia Relaxed Sharath hopes for a World Cup berth Positive Sharath confident of a WC berth Sharath disappoints; Harmeet, Manika progress Sharath WC hopes shattered, Manika lone Indian to enter challenge round Manika's efforts fall short of main draw needs Chinese men and women at it, yet again	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line425
__label__cc	0.722031	0.277969	Il Tricolore... The Final Stand? (PPV RP#1) phillipbaines Il Tricolore... The Final Stand? (PPV RP#1) Aug 21, 2011 5:30:08 GMT -5 Post by phillipbaines on Aug 21, 2011 5:30:08 GMT -5 {{A dense fog fills the air. Murky, unfiltered fog so far as the eye can see. This fog is symbolic of modern America and an uncertain future. This fog is also symbolic of the WCF's uncertain future. Speculation is running rampant about what will happen to WCF after Monday night's Revenge pay-per-view extravaganza has cleared the airwaves. None of that speculation and its related questions will be answered today, not here in this promo, yet even during uncertain times there is work that must be done. It is work that must be done because competitors who are wrought from American steel and iron balls have made a commitment to excellence. Within a matter of moments the fog of uncertainty is lifted and a clear blue sky is now visible, illuminated by the bright sun of summertime. Our ears can hear the melodic chirping of busy birds, both big and small with voices booming and timid. Our vision is gradually cast downward and we spy with our eyes the green, leafy crest of what appears to be a very formidable tree. This ain't a tree that you put in your living room to celebrate Christmas. This is a grown man's tree, the kind of tree that would destroy said home with its immense branches and behemoth trunk should it decide to collapse one of these days. We trace the branches at the very top of the tree with our eyes and gradually move downward with our line of vision. We view the patterns that have formed along the trunk of the tree as the result of striations in the bark. As our eyes move down the trunk of the tree our overall view zooms out and we gain a total perspective of this colossal tree. We see that it must stand at least one hundred feet tall if it stands an inch, and yet our eyes have not even reached the very foot of this tree that stands so beautiful, majestic and free. As we are taking in this wondrous display of nature in all of its splendor, we hear a male voice call out. A familiar voice to many of those who have been watching WCF promos in recent months...}} Phillip Baines: "Give us freedom. Give us will. Oh Father, give prosperity for all good people who follow the righteous path." {{This is indeed the strong, unwavering voice of WCF's reigning Hardcore Champion, Phillip Baines. The man is an atheist yet his words seem to form the basis of a prayer to a higher power, an unseen force who nestles us all in its protecting bosom. Has Baines lost his mind in the wake of recent events in WCF and the world at large? This is not clear but what is clear, as we now see the visual of Baines for the first time in this promo, is that Baines is a man who has been working hard this morning. Baines has sweat and dirt on his brow as he rests upon the trunk of that enormous tree with his head and back, stretching his legs out in front of him. Baines is wearing a soiled button-up short. His sleeves are rolled up and the top few buttons of the shirt are undone, revealing the extent of his heaving man-bosom. Baines may not possess the alluring feminine charms of his upcoming opponent, Ms. Kaylyn James Evans, but he is certainly giving Kaylyn so much a run for her money as any young man can. Baines's shirt is a similar shade of green to the leaves of the tree that he is resting upon, though the brown shade of the soil that has stained his shirt gives it an earthy feel. Baines is also wearing black jeans and boots to complete the ensemble. Baines has his eyes closed as he rests against the tree. Ever so suddenly he cricks his head to the left and then the right, accompanied by the sound of bones popping into place. Baines's face shows no hint of emotion. Not a smile, not a frown, not a hint of happiness nor anger. Suddenly he opens his eyes, those beaming blue eyes that could light a theatrical stage with their sheer liveliness. His jawline permeates a sly smile, a knowing smile, a world weary smile.}} Phil: "Am I supposed to be Chicken Little and proclaim that indeed the sky is falling? Is that what WCF's resident boss man expects me to do? How about it, Creeping Death? What's your pleasure and what's your game? Does it tickle you pink to threaten the livelihoods of the men and women who have referred to the Wrestling Championship Federation as their place of employment for months and even years? With the American economy continuing to limp along I would have thought that Mr. Death would be proud to refer to WCF as a shining beacon of American entrepreneurship. I guess this was just not to be. It was doomed to failure, and not because of a flawed business model, but because of CD's own insecurities. Yes, I am attacking you on a personal level, Creeps, because I see a man who is afraid to lead WCF through uncertain times. I see a man who feels threatened by the irrefutable force of the Alliance, a group so powerful that it has risen from the ashes of the 'old WCF' like the Phoenix of ancient folklore." {{Baines cricks his head again, but this time he's not cracking his neck. No, no... this time Baines is shaking his head in disgust.}} Phil: "When I look at Creeping Death today I see nothing of the man that he used to be. I see a defeated man, a broken man, a coward. Am I supposed to be devastated that you've decided to pull the rug out from under the collective feet of myself and my WCF co-workers? To be honest, I am devastated, to an extent. I guess that's the power that you wield over all of us, Creeps. I guess it's the power that you have to deprive us of something that we really and truly care about, something that we bleed for. Is that what you were going for, Creeps? If so, then congratulations." {{Baines claps his massive hands together with a thunderous rancor, in a slow and sarcastic fashion, as the expression on his face would indicate to the viewers at home.}} Phil: "You could never beat me in the ring, CD, but in some perverse way you have gained a psychological victory over me. I would call it a moral victory, but there's nothing moral about it. Your actions are as immoral as the actions of any D.C. politician." {{Baines grits his teeth, sucks in a deep breath through his nose and then lets out a burdened sigh.}} Phil: "Troubled as I am by your revelation, Creeps, I cannot allow it to distract me from the task at hand. I will be facing two opponents at Revenge who are most deserving of my complete focus. I must be head strong, strong like the bison. For all I know you're playing games and trying to get inside my head, Odin's head, the collective heads of the Alliance. Hell, for all I know you've lost your mind once and for all. After all, you've got how many different personalities? You might wake up on Tuesday morning in the emergency room that Odin's going to send you to and realize that you've made a horrible mistake by shutting down WCF. Whatever kind of trip you're on, CD, I cannot let it affect my mindstate heading into Revenge. That's why I'm here in the great wide open. The fresh country air is good for me." {{Baines smiles wide and eager as he gazes out upon his surroundings. We cannot see what he sees, but the reaction on his face tells us that he must be looking at something beautiful, the kind of picturesque scene that would inspire America's finest master painters.}} Phil: "Even before Creeping Death's announcement I had been feeling rather introspective lately. I've been looking deep within myself and thinking about who I am, what I represent, and the path that I've taken to reach this point in my life and career. I can state for the record that there are two times in which I've compromised my principles here in WCF. The first time occurred at XIII, which ironically took place at Des Moines, Iowa, the host city of Revenge. Back in May at the spectacle that is XIII, I killed a man. I killed Greenfever in the middle of the ring at Water Works Park. I've never felt good about that. I've never made peace with it. It can be said that my life was in danger that night because Greenfever was certainly trying to kill me, but I never should have accepted the terms of that match. I never should have stepped into the ring for a match that stipulated that one of the competitors must die. That's not an act of self-defense, that's an act of homicide." {{Baines hangs his head in sadness and in shame. The sadness and guilt permeate his being, like the ghostly spirit of a man who haplessly haunts an old estate because he can't move on to the next world. The shame and the guilt won't let him move on. They cling to him like static.}} Phil: "The other moment that I regret, a moment in time during which I compromised my principles, was when I attacked D-Day on Slam last month. I'm sure that many of you remember it. Day and Kaylyn had teamed up to face the duo of Odin and Oblivion in a huge tag team main event match on Slam, a preview of the Ultimate Showdown match that was to take place the following week. That was the night that I strolled down to the ring, bashed Obi's head in with the WCF World Championship and proceeded to whomp the shit out of D-Day. I bled Day like a stuck pig that night. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I might have killed D-Day that night if not for the intervention of Bobby Cairo. It's not that I was unjustified in attacking D-Day. It's that... attacking another man from behind isn't the Phillip Baines way and it never should be." {{Baines nods his head in hearty agreement with the statement that he just made.}} Phil: "In that moment I felt betrayed because D-Day had, in my eyes, turned his back on our friendship by agreeing to be Oblivion's mystery partner on Slam one week earlier against Buzzsaw Bundy and I. D-Day was the last man that I ever expected to team with Oblivion, the last man that I ever expected to upstage me and align himself with my arch-rival. I still remember the way that Day waddled down to the ring that night in the Hot Dog Mascot's costume to the laughter of the crowd in the WCF Arena. Then he unmasked himself and the crowd exploded with cheers. I nearly died in shock. Sure, Buzzsaw and I fought valiantly that night but it was not enough to overcome the swerve that had been perpetrated upon us. That match represents my one and only defeat in a WCF ring and you can better believe that I was filled with rage the following week when I attacked D-Day. My rage turned to wrath and unleashed itself upon the then-reigning WCF World Champion, much as my pride had caused me to accept a fight to the death against Greenfever at XIII." {{Baines breathes another burdened sigh that falls hot and heavy upon our ears, much the same way that a sweltering summer heat smothers the pores of our skin.}} Phil: "The funny thing is that I've had so much on my mind since joining the Alliance that I've barely thought much about my run-ins with D-Day in recent weeks. It wasn't until I was booked to face him in the Title Unification Bout that will take place at Revenge that I allowed my mind to wander down memory lane. For me the night D-Day 'betrayed' me really doesn't mean anything anymore. It's not a big deal for me, but I suspect that D-Day has a much different perspective. I was mad about it for a few weeks, but I got over it. However, the benefit of hindsight tells us that for D-Day that night was the tipping point. It started the Deruty/Baines rivalry in motion and it planted the seeds for D-Day's demise. It signaled the beginning of his downward trajectory. After all when I attacked D-Day that night on Slam to gain my revenge, what happened? Well, he dropped the WCF World Championship one week later at Ultimate Showdown. I don't take anything away from Odin's victory over Day because the man is obviously a beast, but D-Day himself blamed my attack against him on Slam for costing him the championship at Ultimate Showdown." {{Baines raises his brow, shrugs his broad shoulders and then drops his arms straight down to his sides.}} Phil: "As much credit as Odin deserves, I guess it can be said that I'm the man who truly brought D-Day's fabled fairytale to a screeching halt. WCF's American Hero was brought to his knees by WCF's Antihero. I'm not proud of it, my old friend Donald, but the facts speak for themselves and they speak loudly and clearly through my mouth. Much like the reports that WCF will be shuttering its doors on Monday night, there are also reports that you, D-Day, are considering hanging up the old cape. I'm not sure what to say about that. I'm not sure whether to take it seriously or dismiss it as internet rumor-mongering. I do know, for a fact, that Monday night's Revenge pay-per-view is an aptly named spectacle for a showdown between two men who have held a litany of animosity toward each other. If this is our final showdown inside of a WCF ring then I know that you're going to be like a wounded animal in that ring on Monday night. I know that you've got a sour taste in your mouth. I know that your pride is hurting the same way that mine was hurting after you and Obi beat Buzzsaw and I all those weeks ago on the Fourth of July Slam. I know that you don't want to go out on a losing note, in spite of, or should I say because of the losing streak that you've been on." {{Baines cradles one of his large, exceedingly masculine hands inside the palm of his other hand and cracks the knuckles on that hand into place. The loud, cracking sounds that this produces are well within the expected proportion for a man his size. Baines switches hands and repeats the exercise, cracking the knuckles on that hand as well. The look in Baines's blue eyes is fierce and focused.}} Phil: "I am not sorry to say, Day, that I will be doing everything within my power to close the doors on your career in one way or another on Monday night. Whether you're retiring under your own power, whether you're retiring because WCF as a whole is being retired by Creeping Death, or whether I'm just going to have to take it upon myself to retire you against your and everyone else's will, one way or another you're wrestling your last match on Monday night. That's not all, Donald. You will be returning home with your tail tucked between your legs in pain, humiliation and defeat. I'm a sentimental man in many ways, but when it comes to competition I do not back down. Prod me with a stick like a caged animal and I will grab that stick from your hands and shove it up your ass. Then I'll bust through the cage, pick you upside down and seven-twenty powerbomb you through the nearest table. It ain't an animosity thing, D-Day. It ain't a rage thing. It ain't a wrath thing. It ain't a pride thing. This is about competition, plain and simple. You are the man who has been placed in front of me at Revenge and as such I must destroy you. It's that simple. In light of this reality I cannot offer you my friendship, D-Day, but if nothing else you can take solace that I've told you the truth. The man who will defeat you on Monday night is an honest man, a man of integrity... a better man than you." {{Baines emphatically nods his head in affirmation of his words.}} Phil: "Yes, indeed. D-Day is the man who stands before me on Monday night, but of course he is not my only opponent in the match that will crown the first and perhaps last and only WCF Triple Crown Champion. As eager as I am to rip D-Day's head off at the shoulder, in the name of competition not spite, I cannot muster those same feelings toward Kaylyn James Evans. In fact Ms. Kaylyn leaves me feeling quite conflicted. I'm sure that I'm not the first man that she's done that to. Hell, we all saw how she fucked up Tommy Knoxville and Steve Thunder's careers after they fell for her charms. We all saw how she ended Jason Kash's long reign as TV Champion. We all saw how she defeated my Alliance teammate Ryan Blake to regain that championship last Monday on Slam. You can certainly take care of yourself as well as any man, Kaylyn. Although you and I have never had direct contact with each other, I have admired you from afar from the first moment that you set your dainty, Reebok-clad feet inside of a WCF ring. You're a special lady, Kaylyn. There's no denying that. You are certainly worthy of being in Monday night's unification match. You are a worthy adversary, a worthy challenger for such a prestigious championship." {{Baines licks his lips and brushes some of the sweat and dirt from his face and shirt, as if tidying himself up for Kaylyn.}} Phil: "You and I might not agree on much, Kaylyn, including whether Creeping Death is a slimy, sleazy piece of shit, but there's no doubt that you have defeated many top superstars in this company and earned your spot as a main event talent. You've shattered the dreams of many-a-man and even one woman, in Aubrey Summers's case. The problem for you, Kaylyn, is that regardless of whether I want to physically and mentally impale you with the power of my groin on Monday night, I know that I must destroy you the same way that I would destroy a male opponent such as D-Day. I know... it's a motherfucker of a bitch, isn't it? Pardon my language. I'm not meaning to offend your feminine sensibilities with the b-word, but fate is sometimes a cruel mistress. In the name of pure, unrelenting competition between elite-caliber foes, I must plant my size fifteen moon boot up your sweet, succulent ass. I must lift you high into the air and viciously drop you onto your pretty little head, which in turn will probably be dropped onto a table, ladder or chair since our match will be a hardcore affair." {{Baines glances down in front of him as if one bold, glimmering object in particular has caught his attention, though again we cannot see what he's looking at. We can only see that telling expression on Baines's face as he continues to lean against the base of that massive American tree.}} Phil: "In a different time and place you and I might have been lovers, Kaylyn, though instead we find ourselves as rivals who are united only by the spirit of competition and the desire to achieve championship glory, to appease our wildest wrestling dreams. I want you to know that I respect you as a competitor, Kaylyn. I respect you so much that I will be coming to rip you apart on Monday night in Des Moines, and I respect you enough to know that you'll be primed and ready to do the same to me." {{Baines flashes a smooth, flirtatious wink at you. No, not YOU you, unless YOU happen to be Kaylyn James Evans... }} Phil: "That respect goes for both of my opponents. It's been stated by some fans and pundits that because this Triple Crown Title bout is being contested under hardcore rules that I hold a distinct advantage over my opponents, After all I've been a dominant Hardcore Champion for more than four months now. I'm going to surprise a lot of people by disagreeing with that sentiment. You see one thing that I know is that you don't reach this level in WCF, this main event level by being a pansy who can't throw down when push comes to shove. And one thing that I will never do is underestimate my opponents. I know that I'm going to be in for the fight of my life on Monday night against Kaylyn and Day, regardless of any uncertainty that might be swirling around WCF these days. I know that I cannot let my guard down for one second in that ring on Monday night or I will fall prey to the same tactics that I have used to defeat four-and-a-half months worth of Hardcore Title challengers." {{Baines glances down at the ground in front of him once again, to a target in his line of sight that we the viewers still cannot see.}} Phil: "My most famous of those Hardcore Title bouts was the one at XIII against Greenfever that I referenced earlier. That infamous match, that infamous night was the last time that I was in Des Moines. Despite my ambitions to claim victory in the Triple Crown Championship bout, I won't be looking to bury an opponent after I get to Des Moines this time around. I will, however, bury something before I ever reach Des Moines. I will bury the past and all of the glories and burdens that the past carries with it." {{Our perspective zooms out and for the first time we see the greater area that surrounds Baines. In front of Baines we see a grave that has been dug and a large shovel sticking up from the grave. To one side of the grave we see a glimmering object, which is being illuminated by the sunlight that has managed to creep in through the leaves of that massive tree that stands behind Baines. The glimmering object is too bright for us to identify at first, but after a few moments the sunlight fades from view and the object becomes visible. It is the WCF Hardcore Championship belt, sitting to the side of the grave that Baines has dug. Baines nods his head in acknowledgement of the belt.}} Phil: "Today I will bury the past because the past must die. The last time they tried to unify the belts I got a bit annoyed. I felt that it was part of a conspiracy that aimed to target Ryan Blake and myself and punish us for our success, punish us for having the guts to stand up against a corrupt establishment. Maybe I was right about that and maybe I was wrong, but there's no point in fighting it anymore. On Monday night the WCF United States, Television and Hardcore Championships will be unified once and for all, and a Triple Crown Champion will finally be crowned. I think that more than anything all I ever really wanted was the chance to make peace with the sense of loss that I was feeling..." {{Baines walks up to the grave and kneels down beside it, in front of the Hardcore belt. The polished gold face plate of the belt is staring up at Baines as he stares back down at it. Baines smiles at the belt, like a young man smiling adoringly at his lover. Baines reaches down and grabs one side of the belt strap in each hand. He lifts the belt up to within a foot of his face. His expression turns to a hardened gaze as he stares at the belt for several moments. Gradually that hardened gaze softens and his eyes become watery. Baines plants a soft kiss on the face plate of the belt and then turns and places the belt down into the grave beside him.}} Phil: "Sleep well, my friend. You've earned it." {{Baines rises to his feet. He walks over and grips the iron eagle's talon that forms the handle of that old, heavy shovel that he used to dig the grave. He pulls the shovel up from the grave and begins draping dirt into the grave and covering his most cherished material possession in this world, the WCF Hardcore Championship belt. As Baines goes about his undoubtedly heart-wrenching burial work, our perspective gradually pans one-hundred and eighty degrees behind us, an area that Baines had been able to see the entire time while we could not. Upon reaching this new perspective we see row after row of tombstones and gravemarkers, as far as our eyes can see, several with flowers and other memorial trinkets placed on or in front of them. To the far sides of the burial grounds, mausoleums are visible. As we gaze upon the cemetery and the parishioners paying respect to their departed loved ones in the distance, we once again hear Baines's stoic and unwavering voice with that hint of New England accent.}} Phil: "As much as I love and cherish the Hardcore Championship, I know that the time has come to lay it down and let it rest. I know too that a new challenge awaits me on Monday night. The challenge of capturing a brand new championship, the WCF Triple Crown Championship, or "Il Tricolore" as WCF legend Slickie T has dubbed it. I will not kill my opponents to win this match and the championship that comes with it, not as I once killed to retain the Hardcore Championship. I will not kill because I do not have to. So much as I respect my opponents, Kaylyn Evans and Donald Deruty, I will defeat them because I possess inside of me a ferocious competitive spirit that cannot be tamed and the heart of a lion. So much as I respect both of my opponents, this is a profession in which we must sometimes hurt people that we respect. If Monday night's Revenge pay-per-view is indeed the final stand for WCF then the "Young Lion" Phillip Baines will stand tall as the final victor in the final match on the final night in Wrestling Championship Federation history. The past will have been buried, but the seeds of memory will grow and flourish for generations to come. That will be my legacy, the legacy of the Alliance and the legacy of WCF." {{As Baines's words fade so too does our vision, which becomes blurry at first and then fades to black... the blackness of death.}} Last Edit: Aug 21, 2011 22:58:33 GMT -5 by phillipbaines	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line428
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The four-point seat belt device (1) comprises a right waist belt (51R) and a left waist belt (51L), which press the waist of a passenger in the seat; a right shoulder belt (61R) and a left shoulder belt (61L), which press the shoulders of a passenger in the. This will prevent the belt from retracting too quickly. Before tRacing Seat Belt 4 Point Harness - Red of Racing Seat Belt 4 Point Harness - Red off a friend's hands, carefully consider the condition. The seat can then be used with a lap and shoulder seat belt as a booster seat. Prior to 1994, South Dakota had one of the lowest safety belt usage rates in the United States, with only 26% of front seat passengers choosing to buckle up. 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Unbuckling the belt and allowing it to retract fully deactivates the ALR retractor. Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions. Britax is the industry leader in car seat safety technology offering a full line of child seats including infant car seats, convertible car seats, combination s. She has a maximum all up weight of 4500kg so by mindful of license restrictions. Excessive Force Needed to Buckle Seat Belts. This type of seat belt uses one continuous length of webbing, an inertia reel, and a locking mechanism. The 68's with bench seats were rated for 6 passengers and received 3 sets of front belts (i. (b) Where a suspended seat is used, the seat belt shall be fastened to the movable portion of the seat to accommodate ride motion of the operator. Schroth's revolutionary 4 point harness designed to work with your cars stock seats now comes in two new flavors: Ford Focus and Fiesta. To reduce risk of serious injury or death:. Modern, stock three-point seat belts work well in many situations. With most items in stock and fast shipping, SeatBeltStore. These are the seat belts you would find fitted in most of today’s vehicles. However, safety is NOT a joke. A good day to see Universal 2' Strap 4 Point Quick Release Racing Seat Belt Harness Sport Set Red information because they received a good feedback from buyer. The results concluded that users of a three-point safety belt had a 60% lower serious injury rate and a 41% lower rate of all other injuries.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line443
__label__wiki	0.730628	0.730628	WEST ACTON RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION About West Acton West Acton Residents Association (WARA) was founded in February 2003 by Residents of Westfields Road. The first residents to join WARA lived mainly in close proximity to North Acton Playing Fields. However, it was decided to widen the area represented by WARA, particularly when a Planning Application was submitted for a Bus Depot at Gypsy Corner. 1) Changes to the 440 bus route Transport for London (TfL) have announced that two bus routes serving the Acton area will be launched before the end of the year. The 218 will commence operation on 7 December 2using single decker buses operated by Tower Transit. It would run every 10 minutes during Monday to Saturday day time, and every 15 minutes during Sundays and all evenings using single-deck buses. It would follow the existing alignment of route 440 between North Acton, Gypsy Corner and Acton High Street via West Acton. It would then follow the existing alignment of route 266 between Acton High Street and Hammersmith via Askew Road. 2) 2 Electric cars are available to hire per hour at the start of Saxon Drive Provided by https://www.blue-city.co.uk, the driving range of the car is approximately 130 miles when fully charged. Membership cost; £5 per month + 19p per minute of usage. 3) Some of the current applications, WARA seeks feedback from residents. New Planning application Holiday Inn (Red Hotel) along the A40 to be demolished and replaced with 45/55 Twin Tower. WARA objects, you can object too, do so if you can by the 18th June 2019, click here to view the application. A40 road closure. If the plans go ahead Ealing Council will see Park View, Court Way, Allan Way and Kathleen Avenue blocked off from the main arterial road. Resident’s views are sought, you can email relating to this issue to be directed to Colin McKenzie, Transport Planner (Cycle Infrastructure) at:MCKENZC@ealing.gov.uk. In any email to Colin, please also copy in: highwayservices@ealing.gov.uk Application Planning ref: 191885FUL, click here. Last year Quattro held a drop-in event at the pavilion in the playing fields outlining their proposal to move the concrete batching plant to Acton Goods Yard. Their current site was being taken over by HS2. Quatrro UK Ltd have now submitted a formal planning application to Ealing Council.The consultation end date is given as 15 August 2019, yet on the major site notice it is given as 23 August 2019. 4) Other relevant information A current consultation “demand responsive bus trial” is for Ealing and Brent could be extended to the WARA area. WARA on Twitter, https://twitter.com/WestActonRA For more information on Safer Neighbourhoods Information. Web design by Google Optimization © 2013 WARA. WEST ACTON RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION Web Design by Local Business Ranking	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line447
__label__wiki	0.663259	0.663259	Rainbow Rare Earths – Further operational progress at Gakara By Dr. Michael Green Rainbow is the only African producer of rare earths as well as having one of the world’s highest-grade rare earth element (REE) projects at 47-67% Total Rare Earth Oxide (TREO). The latest operational update was accompanied by news that the CEO and Chairman had between them acquired more than £32,000 worth of shares at 3p, which represents a premium to the current share price; and speaks volumes. This latest operational update brought investors up to speed on production, the exploration programme and cost control. It provided further evidence that new CEO George Bennet is really getting to grips with the Gakara Rare Earth Project in Burundi, in which Rainbow has a 90% stake. George is in the midst of ushering in a brand-new strategy which could well be transformational with the move to mechanised mining on a far larger scale. Not only is Gakara blessed with being one of the highest grade REE projects on the planet, but it has a total of 30 exploration targets – which represents extremely good fortune. In a gold licence, companies would be delighted to have 5 gold targets and very happy if 3-4 targets turned out positive. At Gakara, it seems that pretty well the whole area is mineralised. The mining permit extends over an area of 39km² where so far more than 1,000 occurrences of rare earths have been discovered on the surface. As exploration work at the main Kiyenzi deposit has revealed, mineralisation has been found to exist between the high-grade veins. Across the licence area, REEs have been discovered at each of the 30 targets. In fact, 7 of these targets were the sites of colonial/artisanal mines. At the same time, concentrate from Gakara contains very low levels of both uranium and thorium, which means that it is readily shippable on the open seas, with concentrate already successfully exported to China which rigorously enforces strict limits on the level of radioactivity. These negligible levels of uranium and thorium are a really important factor and will serve as a key differentiator between Rainbow’s REE concentrate and that of its competitors. Being benign, this gives the company a big advantage as in most global rare earth deposits, uranium and thorium are key elements that must be extracted, requiring additional expensive steps in the processing which adds large opex and capex costs to any project. Not much has been made about this factor, but it is likely to have large ramifications moving ahead. The big transformation to becoming a bigger scale mechanised operation means that Rainbow needs to get involved in painstaking geological work to establish a drill area that is able to support the new exciting strategy. The plan is now to define a larger orebody to JORC standards and then develop a mining plan to extract a far larger quantity by mechanical means. An exploration programme is currently being developed which will allow the definition of a deposit which would provide for a 10-year life of mine producing 10,000t per annum of concentrate. The exploration programme is to be supervised by Malcom Titley who the ex-head of the mining consultant CSA Global in the UK and by CSA Global itself. The JORC resource is expected to be completed in early 2020, which could ultimately show that Gakara represents a much bigger target. It is worth mentioning at this stage that CSA has worked on Lynas Corporation’s REE deposit in Australia. To date, production has really represented trial mining. The latest operational update brought news that since the end of the financial year, REE ships have continued with a further 100t of concentrate at 56% TREO dispatched in early October, with additional shipments of concentrate expected to be processed over the coming weeks. Although George has not been at the helm for that long, already he has reduced local costs by something like 40%, which will free up the company’s cash to develop the resource to its fuller potential. Management estimates the break-even level of concentrate production for the operation to be stable and support that the new strategy has been reduced from 270t to 110t per month of concentrate. The plan seems to be to target break-even at the local level by February 2020. There looks like a healthy news flow is in the pipeline. The new mining equipment is set to start being delivered in the next month or so, plus there will be drilling updates and assay updates from channel samples etc, which could all serve to refocus market attention on this undervalued REE play. We don’t have to go back that far ago when shares in Rainbow Rare Earths were back above the 7p mark, but currently the stock has slumped back to a lowly 2.58p. Align Research initiated coverage on Rainbow on 6th June 2019 with a Conviction Buy stance and a target price of 10.53p, when the shares were trading at 6.20p. At the current price, our view remains unchanged. Rainbow Rare Earths is a research client of Align Research. This financial promotion has been approved by Align Research Limited.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line453
__label__wiki	0.534676	0.534676	1899 Yale University Trophy Won by Charles Dupee AntiqueFootball Artifact of the Month pch@antiquefootball.com Questions or comments? Please email me at: Our July 2018 Artifact of the Month is a spectacular Yale University Foot Ball Association silver trophy loving cup awarded to Charles Dupee in May, 1899. Manufactured by the Derby Silver Plate Company, this quadruple-plated cup stands 11" tall and measures 10" handle to handle. Engraved on one side of the cup is the image of a football player punting a ball. while the opposite side contains the following inscription: Charles Dupee Charles "Charlie" Dupee was born on December 14, 1877 in Plainfield, New Jersey. He attended Yale University between 1897 and 1901, and played fullback for Yale's 1901 Freshman eleven in 1897. At 5'-10" and 158 pounds, Charlie played for the Varsity eleven from 1898-1901, battling Bulldog All-Americans George Chadwick and Malcolm McBride for a starting role. Despite his diminutive stature, "Duppy" proved to be one of the best punters in the country. During Yale's 1899 Spring practice, "Duppy" won the Bulldog's punting championship and was awarded this silver loving cup trophy. In a second competition in November, he outpunted Captain McBride during practice. In nineteenth century football, punting ("punt on") was a far more critical and frequently employed strategy than it is today. Before the forward pass and with rules that limited opportunities for long gains on the ground, football games were strategic, defensive, low scoring struggles in which control of field position often decided the final score. Rather than being limited to a 4th down concession, teams would punt the ball with regularity to relieve pressure on one end of the field and to pin an opponent deep on the other. Teams with superior punters could dominate the field position battle, which explains why Yale would award such a substantial trophy to the team's best punter. The slider is powered by Hi Slider, a easy jQuery image slider from hislider.com. Please enable JavaScript to view. 1900 Yale Bulldogs In 1900, Charlie Dupee and his Yale teammates went 12-0 and were crowned consensus National Champions by all major publications. During the course of the season, the Bulldogs outscored their opponents 336-10, including decisive victories over Princeton (29-5) and Harvard (28-0). Yale University Foot Ball Association Punting Contest Derby Silver Company Founded in 1872, the Derby Silver Company manufactured tableware, flatware, mirrors, combs, tea sets, and loving cups from their Shelton, Connecticut factory, located just 10 miles from Yale University. Derby was merged with the International Silver Company in 1898 and continued to produce silverware until 1933 when it fell victim to the Great Depression. Enlargement of Charles Dupee and Championship Ball Richmond Times, November 22, 1900 Yale Banner, 1901 Boston Daily Globe, November 9, 1899	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0074.json.gz/line455

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