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__label__wiki	0.533314	0.533314	Saguenay Cook Book - 1944 The Saguenay Cook Book Organization: Women’s Association of the Arvida Community First United Church Coordinates: The cookbook is housed at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec Address: 475, boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, Montréal QC H2L 5C4 Region: Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean Contact: www.banq.qc.ca Description: Typed cookbook, assembled and printed by the women at the First United Church in Arvida Made by: Unknown Materials/Medium: Paper Colours: Blue, black and white Provenance: Arvida, Quebec Size: approx. 21.5 cm x 14 cm Photos: Courtesy Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec The Saguenay Churches Cookbook Janet Torge The Saguenay Cook Book represents a very unique chapter in the history of English speaking people who have settled in Quebec. To understand its significance, one must go backwards in time to the creation and history of the town of Arvida, Quebec, the birthplace of the cookbook. The land around Arvida in the Saguenay district was first cleared in the mid 1800s by Simon Ross, an English-speaking fur trader and homesteader. Despite Ross’s background and language, life in the Saguenay region remained rural, francophone and sparsely inhabited for nearly 70 years after Ross arrived. In the late 1880s, James B. Duke and his brother, Buck, both Americans, formed the Duke Power Company and set about buying rights to various rivers and large lakes in the United States and Canada. They built power stations along these waterways and began to sell hydro-electric power to local companies and factories. In 1912, Duke bought the rights to the power on the Saguenay River and in 1925, along with William Price III, a controlling owner of Price Lumber, they organized the damming of Lac Saint-Jean to feed their power station at Isle Maligne. This hydro-electric venture created the world’s largest power station and set the stage for the transformation of the Saguenay Valley. Two years after the creation of the Lac Saint-Jean dam, Arthur Vining Davis, president of Alcoa Aluminum Company, came north to Quebec to construct the first aluminium smelter. Named “ARVIDA,” after Mr. Davis himself, the place became known as “The City built in 135 Days.”In a few months, 270 workers’ houses went up, along with Catholic and Protestant churches, banks and stores. Within a couple of years, there were schools, a hospital and a vibrant English-speaking community. Many of Arvida’s inhabitants were skilled workers recruited from the United States and other parts of Canada to the smelting plants. The New York Times described the settlement as “a model town for working families” and this reputation also brought in Europeans, trying to establish new lives from the rubble of their wartime experiences under the Nazis. During World War II, the smelter was expanded for the war effort and the factories along the Saguenay River became the largest aluminium production centre in the Western world. Because these products were so vital to the war, the town was continually guarded during the war by anti-aircraft batteries. The importance of their work did not mean, however, that the Arvida workers at the aluminium plant led prosperous lives during the war. On July 24, 1941, 700 workers walked off the job at the local Alcan plant. The following day, they were joined by 4,500 other workers from the region, and together both groups occupied the Arvida plant. It was, in fact, an illegal strike because their work was considered essential to the war effort. It took only a couple of days to bring the workers back on the job, and shortly after that they received a salary increase and cost-of-living bonuses. C.D. Howe, then Minister of Munitions and Supplies, told the media the strike was due to enemy sabotage but this theory was later rejected by a royal commission formed to settle the dispute. It was in this war-time atmosphere that the Saguenay Cook Book was published. Although organized by the women at Arvida’s First United Church, the contributors come from various towns and villages in the Saguenay region, and the family names are a mixture of both English and French origin. Reading through its pages, one can see the women’s impressive effort to maintain a day-to-day normalcy and good will “in this fifth year of war.” The content is sprinkled with hints on how to manage with the few resources and supplies available at that time: “Safe Substitutes : 1 square of unsweetened chocolate = 3 Tbsp. of cocoa and 1 Tbsp. Shortening.” “Penny Stretchers: Eat more of what you pay for. Cook beet tops, cauliflower leaves and stems, tough stalks of celery and outside leaves of lettuce… Waste nothing.” Many of the recipes seem completely foreign to our modern tastes. They speak to a simplicity of life and ingredients one can only imagine. For example, Bertha M. Rough offers up Liver Cakes: Put through the meat grinder: ½ lb liver (calf, pork or beef), 1 onion about 1 ½ inch in diameter, 2 or 3 slices cooked bacon (omit this if you have coupon trouble), ½ slice bread to absorb onion and liver juices. To this mixture add: 2 lbs flour, 1 well-beaten egg, salt and pepper. This should make a batter which can be dropped by spoonfuls into a frying pan, like griddle cakes. Remember that liver should not be over-cooked. This recipe, along with another called “Sausage and Banana Casserole with Rice,” from Mrs. Guy Beaudry, illustrate the valiant efforts of these women to put a good meal on the table with only a few items in the pantry. At the very end of the cookbook, there is a section, THE HOSTESS, where one gets a glimpse into the lifestyle – both real and imagined – of the good women of the Saguenay in 1944: The word ‘hostess’ has a new meaning to-day. Practically every homemaker entertains her friends in small or large groups – and charmingly. She does it where necessary with little or no help, but with a simple perfection that is the result of careful planning or of ever-ready hospitable resources; and of never attempting anything too elaborate or difficult. Simplicity is smartest to-day. The great points are to suit your type of party to your type of guests – and to plan only such parties as lie well within your reach as to expense, facilities and the work involved. Arvida merged with the city of Jonquière in the 1960s.The Arvida First United Church now has a French-speaking Baptist congregation and the Riverside Regional High School and the Riverside Regional Elementary still offer classes in English to over 500 students. Dwane Wilkin,“Upper Saguenay Heritage Trail”, http://quebecheritageweb.com/attraction/upper-saguenay Saguenay & Lac St-Jean History, http://www.saguenaylacsaintjean.ca/en/informations/histoire Duncan C. Campbell, Global Mission: The Story of Alcan. Volume 1: to 1950, 1985. Ingrid Peritz, "Saguenay 'utopia' dreaming big again", The Globe and Mail, 13 November 2010. Katherine Knight, Spuds, Spam and Eating for Victory: Rationing in the Second World War, 2011. Jill Norman, Eating for Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations, 2007. Dialogue on Aluminium: 110 Years of Aluminium in Canada www.thealuminiumdialog.com/en/aluminium--2/history/110-years-of-history-... Jonquière, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/jonquiere Janet Torge is one of those people who love to mix it up. She’s a TV documentary producer, writer, prenatal teacher, newspaper columnist, researcher, archivist and creator of Radical Resthomes, her housing vision for the future. Follow her exploits at www.torgeahead.com. Arvida Industry/ War/ I am the Saguenay Cook Book, created by local women in the region surrounding Arvida, Quebec, in 1944. Faced with war rationing, the women of the Saguenay were still able to produce a cookbook filled with nourishing recipes and wisdom on how to cope in difficult times. Each contributor gave a little of herself when she shared her recipe, and that's icing on the cake... (if you have a ration coupon for it)! The Saguenay Cook Book was published against the backdrop of World War II and labour disputes with the large aluminium employer of the region. The cookbook speaks to women’s impressive efforts to maintain day-to-day normality and good will in their community as the war dragged on around them. The content of the cookbook is filled with advice on how to manage a pantry, how to host a dinner party and how to use every edible item to produce a good meal for the family. Le livre de recettes du Saguenay Datant de 1944, je suis le livre de recettes du Saguenay, œuvre de femmes québécoises vivant dans la région autour d’Arvida. Aux prises avec le rationnement du temps de guerre, les femmes du Saguenay se montraient encore capables de créer un livre de cuisine rempli de repas nourrissants et de sages conseils à suivre en cas de périodes difficiles. Chaque cuisinière ayant donné un peu d’elle-même en partageant sa recette, c’est comme la cerise sur le gâteau… (si vous avez un ticket pour ça)! Le livre de recettes du Saguenay fut publié avec, en arrière-fond, la Seconde Guerre mondiale ainsi que les conflits qui opposaient les ouvriers et leur employeur, la grosse aluminerie régionale. Le livre de cuisine témoigne éloquemment des efforts impressionnants accomplis par les femmes pour maintenir un semblant de normalité dans la vie de tous les jours et pour faire preuve de bonne volonté alors que les conflits entouraient la communauté. Dans ce livre, on retrouve plein de conseils à propos de la gestion du garde-manger, sur l’art de recevoir à dîner, sur la manière d’apprêter toutes sortes de nourritures afin d’offrir un bon repas à la famille.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line2
__label__cc	0.701052	0.298948	CALL TOLL-FREE 1.800.ATN.5666 Reaching 87+ Million Households Targeting Over 75 of the Top National Cable Networks ATN INSIGHTS RFP FORM Each year we look back at the media landscape of the previous year. We do this to review what happened so we can brief partners on strategies that reflect what’s changed, and what’s new in the Television media landscape. The most significant development for 2018 was, of course, the 2018 mid-term Elections which resulted in a considerable jump in Political advertising activity, compared to the Presidential election of 2016. Our brief communicates these key points: Total Direct Response Advertising inventory increased 8.4% for the year despite a 7.6% decrease during the fourth quarter Political advertising was just one of many headwinds facing Spot DRTV advertising this year A new-generation of DRTV advertisers challenged Cable TV inventory National DigiNet TV emerged solidly as a vital DRTV media platform We believe 2019 will be a crucial transition into Advertising Year 2020 We recommend advertisers make the American Target Network® an essential part of their 2019 testing, and their 2020 strategies We’re now about ten months away from the earliest impact of the 2020 election, the dynamics of which are unknown. It could be a re-election campaign by the incumbent President, or it could be another land rush Primary season by both parties. There could be a well-financed Independent candidate or any combination of the above which might intensify the 2020 campaigns. All this will strongly impact how much affordable, efficient media airtime is available for response, and performance-based advertisers. Given that, our focus this year is testing, and improving strategies and tactics. DRTV campaigns will have more flexibility and more efficient media rates. Election campaigns and third-party spending will not stress 2019 inventory as they did last year. 1. Total Direct Response Advertising inventory increased 8.4% for the year despite a 7.6% decrease during the fourth quarter During the first three broadcast Quarters of the year (January through September 2018), DRTV advertising was up 14.1%. During the final Quarter (October through December), DRTV was down 7.6%. Spot TV avails fell 10.6%, primarily because of the elections. Cable TV fell 12.6%, but for other reasons. Nielsen Ad Intel Competitive Media Reporting shows Television inventory used by Direct Response Product advertisers increased by 364,055 30-second units compared to 2017. Nielsen defines this category, Direct Response Products, as advertising using clear and distinct calls-to-action and response devices (either phone number, or URL, or both). They measure inventory by 30-second equivalent ad units, which have traditionally been the common stock-keeping unit used by TV Stations, Broadcast and Cable Networks, and local cable Multi-System Operators. [] They also track the total number of commercial units and use that number, in combination with the 30-second measure, to estimate the average length of those commercials. [] We have noticed an industry-wide transition from the traditional 30-second ad to shorter commercials which, in turn, increases the amount of clutter surrounding all TV ads. 2. Political advertising was just one of many headwinds facing Spot DRTV advertising this year Political campaigns running in the top 50 Spot TV markets took 1,668,311 advertising 30-second units during 2018; 900,812 during the first three quarters, and 955,370 during the fourth. Add in third-party buys supporting ballot issues and campaigns, and the resulting inventory available for advertisers fell by 3.5% or 1,404,861 units throughout the year, and 8.4% during the fourth quarter. Complicating the situation was significant year-over-year growth of the Truck Dealer Association category (up 52.9%, or by 366,350 30-second units), advertisers like AT&T, Comcast, Spectrum, and Verizon Wireless classified as Internet Service Providers (up 27.9%, or 245,060 units), and Legal Service advertisers (up 5.5%, or 186,191 units). Add to those Truck Manufacturers, Warranty Services, and Auto Insurance category advertisers. All told, ten advertising categories, including Direct Response Products, raised 2018 demand for Spot TV by 3,434,403 30-second units, or 33.2%. 3. A new-generation of DRTV advertisers challenged Cable TV avails Nielsen tracked 822,229 more 30-second units on Cable for all product categories during 2018. That was an increase of 3.8% for the year. DRTV was the largest single product category on Cable, taking 1,915,921 units, which is a 3.6% increase for the year. Since there were no national offices up for election this year, 2018 related advertising was limited to political action and advocacy groups, and their campaigns used 11.9% fewer 30-second units than during 2017. It was demand growth from four specific product categories that impacted Cable DRTV, especially during the fourth quarter: The first category is Website advertisers, brands like Ancestry.com, Rover, and Zola.com, who nearly doubled their 2017 demand, by 101,607 30-second units. The next category is Computer Software, where brands like Intuit, Microsoft, NordVPN, and Stamps.com more than doubled their 2017 activity by taking 100,181 more 30-second units than 2017. Auto Insurance is the next category, which is home for brands like Allstate, Geico, Liberty Mutual, and Progressive. Their year-over-year increase was more modest, only a 19.2% increase, but that represented 92,026 units. The final category is Truck Manufacturers, and those advertisers increased their collective demand by 83,458 units, a 21.4% increase over 2017. What’s interesting about this list is, except for Trucks, we’re seeing significant pressure on Cable DRTV inventory from a new kind of advertiser, who has adapted DRTV strategies and tactics to build consumer-direct brands. By the time the fourth quarter came around these four product categories were joined by Motion Pictures (up 18.7% over 2017) and campaigns for new Pharmaceutical products. This squeezed legacy DRTV advertising inventory levels in the fourth-quarter 12.6% below the same period during 2017. 4. National DigiNet TV emerged solidly as a vital DRTV media platform In 2009, when the United States adopted the ATSC digital television standard, local TV stations got the ability to transmit contents using the digital sub-channels that came as part of their upgraded licenses. We refer to the networks distributed over those sub-channels as “National DigiNet TV.” [] DigiNet media provided 1,991,460 30-second units to all product categories during 2018. That number was up 379,580 units or 23.5% from 2017. Much of that growth is because both the Comet, and the Heroes and Icons networks achieved minimum reporting standards [] and were available in Ad Intel reporting. DRTV advertisers used 423,128 30-second units of available inventory (21.2% of total), making DRTV the largest Nielsen-defined product category in 2018 using DigiNet media. That is an 116,998 unit increase over 2017, making DigiNet media the third-largest source of media inventory used by DRTV advertisers. DigiNet inventory ranked behind Spot TV and Cable, but ahead of the combined Spanish Language Spot, Network, and Cable TV group. 5. 2019 will be a crucial transition into Advertising Year 2020 Given these developments, the question about the TV media landscape becomes what will happen in 2019. The obvious answer is that market conditions will cool off. That view may be too simplistic, however. We noted earlier that a new-era of consumer-direct brands is on the rise, mixing their particular kind of rocket science with close attention to media efficiency. They seem to be the new face of Direct Response TV. The scale of many of these brands allows them to pressure stations and networks for large amounts of airtime, making them another factor to monitor. The State of California will join the early-season Presidential primaries of 2012. 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__label__wiki	0.726396	0.726396	Hazing (Special Guest Star: Nick Jonas) This is the second part of three stories featuring Special Guest Star Nick Jonas. Thanks to Jimmy, ballbusterXXL and a lot of anonymous readers for some pretty awesome suggestions. Today Nick Jonas meets Kev, Ben and Colin to brush up his acting skills for a movie role. Previous part: Warning: Can contain traces of cum. Featured in this story: Ben, Colin and Kev (click for pictures) “Finally”, Kev grinned, rubbing his hands. “We’ve been waiting for this for quite some time.” The 20 year old jock was shirtless, wearing nothing but a pair of short sweat pants, showing off his muscular, athletic body. He ran his hand through his brown hair and smiled at his buddies. “Right?” Kev’s roommates Colin and Ben nodded. They were as old as Kev, and they were dressed just like him. Ben was a little more muscular, and he proudly displayed his bulging biceps, his six-pack abs and his perfect pecs. His black hair was cut short and he had a wide grin on his face. Colin wasn’t as beefy as Ben or Kev, but he had no reason to complain, either. His sculptured body looked like a greek god’s statue. His curvy blond hair stood on ends and he looked like he had just fallen out of bed. The three studs smiled at their guest. Nick Jonas smiled back at them. The handsome singer had started making a name for himself as a serious actor, gaining critical acclaim in a couple of small films. He had enjoyed the experience on the set, and he wanted to pursue his acting career. When he had asked us to help him broaden his horizons by taking a couple of lessons from our models, I had gladly accepted. After all, when do you get a chance to get to know a star like Nick Jonas up close? The four guys were standing in the middle of the studio. Nick had arrived wearing a smart suit but he had changed into sweat pants just like Kev and his buddies. He looked gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. His muscular chest, the big bulge in his pants, the stubble on his handsome face. I was sitting at my desk, trying not to look busy and failing in my attempt to calm the raging boner in my pants by doing the bookkeeping. With Nick Jonas in the room, it was hard to concentrate on anything else. “Yeah, I’ve been pretty busy”, Nick said. “But now I’m here and I’m eager to learn.” Kev nodded and put his hands around Nick’s shoulders. “That’s good. We’ve got a lot to teach you, right guys?” He looked at his friends. “You bet”, Colin chuckled. “When you’re out of here you’ll be an expert on hazing”, Ben grinned. Nick laughed. “Awesome.” “First thing you’ve got to learn”, Kev smiled and looked at him. “Never leave yourself open.” Nick raised his eyebrows. “Wha---“ Kev interrupted him by a well-placed slap to the nuts, making Nick’s bulge jiggle and eliciting a strained groan as the superstar doubled over, clutching his crotch. The three jocks burst out laughing, high-fives all around, as Nick looked at them, trying to smile through the pain. “Okay”, Nick mumbled, coughing. “Got it. Never leave yourself open.” Ben stood in front of him and smiled as Nick straightened, rubbing his aching nuts. “Lesson number two.” He waited for a moment. Nick looked at him expectantly. “Never leave yourself open”, Ben said with a shrug before raising his knee sharply, crunching Nick’s superstar spuds into his body. Nick let out a surprise yelp as Ben, Colin and Kev roared with laughter. The famous singer had a hard time staying on his feet but he somehow managed not to collapse. His hands were on his knees and he was doubled over, grunting and groaning in agony. Ben leaned over and placed his hand on the back of Nick’s head, making him look him straight in the eyes. “Got it?” Nick nodded, pressing his lips together. “Got it”, he said hoarsely. “Yeah, I got it.” “Good”, Ben grinned and playfully slapped Nick’s face. Nick grimaced. Colin walked up to him. “Lesson number three.” He smiled brightly. Nick looked up at him and quickly shielded his crotch with his hand. “Never leave yourself open”, Colin smiled. Nick’s face broke into a grin and he nodded at his guarded testicles. “Yeah, I got tha---“ Kev’s foot crashed into Nick’s balls from behind, sidestepping the testicular protection and slamming his foot toes-first into Nick’s ballbag. A loud smack echoed through the room as Nick’s eyes opened wide in surprise. The renewed pain in his precious jewels appeared in his beautiful blue eyes a split-second later. Nick gasped for breath, a wheezing groan coming from deep inside his throat where his relocated testicles had probably found a nice, new home. The room was filled with laughter as Ben and Kev and Colin high-fived and cheered, mocking poor Nick who fell to his knees, screaming in pain. “Never leave yourself open”, Kev grinned, nudging Nick’s shoulder. “Shoulda learned your lesson.” “Aww, look at his cute face”, Ben chuckled. “He should get an Oscar for that…” “He should”, Kev grinned. “Because Little Oscar down there is not gonna work for a while…” They roared with laughter, and even Nick chuckled. “No kids for you, buddy!” Colin said mock-pity in his voice, ruffling Nick’s hair. “Damn, you got me good”, Nick groaned and got up, grimacing as he reached inside his pants to rearrange his genitalia. “That’s what hazing is all about”, Ben grinned. Kev raised his hand. “Well, that’s not what hazing is about. Hazing is not about randomly hitting people in the nuts---“ “Even though that’s a big part of it”, Colin interrupted him. “A very big part of it”, Ben nodded. “Yeah, it is. But hazing is not just about randomly hitting people in the nuts”, Kev repeated, quickly moving on before Colin and Ben had a chance to chime in, “it’s a way of life. A philosophy.” “Randomly hitting people in the nuts is just a part of it”, Colin said, nodding gravely. “A very big part of it”, Ben said with a serious expression on his face. Kev looked at them. Then he brought his fists up, nailing his buddies square in the nuts with a double uppercut that crunched their tender nuts into their bodies, making them groan in pain and double over, cupping their crotches. “Where was I?” Kev said, turning to Nick. “Uh, randomly hitting people in the nuts?” Nick offered. Kev raised his eyebrow and kicked Nick’s throbbing nuts as hard as he could, lifting the handsome stud off the ground. He came crashing down and curled up in a ball, wailing in agony. “I think I’m gonna go get some ice”, Kev mumbled and disappeared into the kitchen. When he returned with a pitcher of iced tea and four glasses, Colin, Ben and Nick were nursing their balls, groaning in pain, but at least they were able to stand upright again. “You wanna learn about hazing”, Kev said after emptying his glass. “Yeah, I do”, Nick said. He hadn’t taken a sip from his glass yet. Instead he was holding it against the big bulge in his crotch. “I’m gonna do a movie about it.” “But you already did”, Colin said, scratching his aching balls. “What was it called again?” “Goat”, Ben said. “I thought it’d be funny but it was crap.” Nick chuckled. “Well, it wasn’t supposed to be funny.” “Yeah”, Ben said. “It was crap. I mean, I was waiting for someone to do the goat for ninety fucking minutes.” Kev chuckled. “The movie wasn’t about doing the goat, it was about a fucking a goat.” “Whatever”, Ben shrugged. “How can a movie about fucking a goat not be funny?” Colin chuckled. “Exactly”, Ben raised his arms in a desperate gesture. “Unbelievable! Total crap.” Nick looked at him for a moment. “Anyway. I’m gonna do another movie about hazing, and this one’s gonna be a comedy.” Ben shrugged his shoulders. “I hope it’s not crap.” “We’re gonna show you some hilarious stuff”, Kev grinned, putting his arm around Nick’s shoulders. Nick winced, covering his crotch protectively. “Don’t worry, man”, Kev chuckled. “We’re brothers, right?” Nick smiled weakly and scratched his neck. “Well, I thought---“ Kev smacked him in the nuts with the palm of his hand, causing Nick to double over and groan in pain. “Oh man”, Kev sighed as his buddies roared with laughter. “You’ve got a lot to learn.” While Nick was recovering, Kev turned to Ben. “The paddle, please.” Ben handed him a large wooden paddle that looked heavy and solid when Kev weighed it in his hands. “Paddling is a very simple way to discipline someone. I’ll show you.” He nodded at Colin. “Drop your pants, bro.” Colin squirmed. “Oh, man, it that---“ “Drop your pants, bro”, Kev repeated. Colin sighed. He knew what Kev expected him to do, and he dutifully turned around, bent over and pulled his pants down, revealing his bare ass. Kev looked at Nick and grinned. “Watch and learn.” With that he whacked Colin’s butt with the paddle. A loud, resounding THWACK echoed through the room and Colin let out an anguished howl. “Nice”, Nick grinned. “May I?” He looked at the paddle. “Sure”, Kev shrugged and gave Nick the paddle. Colin let out a groan but he bent over again. His butt was turning a bright shade of red. Nick smacked Colin’s ass with all the force he could muster. “Very good”, Kev said, nodding, as Colin screamed in pain. “Now do you know what’s even funnier than paddling an ass?” Nick grinned. “Paddling a pair of nuts.” Kev laughed. “Attaboy. You’re a fast learner!” He turned to Colin. “Do the goat, bro.” “No way”, Colin protested. “You said we’d---“ “Do it now!” Kev said sharply. “Oh, man”, Colin groaned. He tucked his nuts between his thighs and bent over again. The two meaty orbs were exposed right below Colin’s flaming red ass cheeks. Nick brought the paddle back, his eyes focused on the targets that were wedged between Colin’s thighs. Then he brought the paddle crashing down, hitting both of tender nuggets dead-on and flattening them like pancakes. Colin stumbled forward, coughing and gasping for breath before letting out an ear-piercing shriek and curling up on the floor. “That’s how you paddle a pair of nuts!” Ben laughed as he watched his buddy writhe in pain, kicking his legs and screaming like a banshee. Nick was grinning proudly, a look of deep satisfaction on his face. “Not bad”, Kev grinned, taking the paddle from Nick. “Now it’s your turn.” He looked at Nick expectantly. Nick stared at him. “What, you mean…” “Do the goat”, Kev said patiently. “Come on, turn around, bend over, drop your pants and show us your nuts.” He weighed the paddle in his hands and winked at Nick. “What goes around comes round, bro.” Nick groaned and complied, revealing his big, flaccid cock and a pair of very impressive balls that hung low in his sack. His beautiful, juicy balls were made to do the goat, and when he wedged them between his thighs and bent over, I looked at the most perfect goat I had ever seen. I almost creamed my pants. Kev was less impressed, apparently. With a swift, hard smack, he smashed Nick’s nuts with the paddle, causing the handsome superstar to join Colin on the ground, cupping his nuts, wailing in agony. Ben and Kev were laughing their asses off. “Let me have a go”, Colin croaked, his face a mask of pain. He got up and grabbed the paddle, waiting patiently until Nick was able to get up, too, and assume the position again. His nuts were beet red between his tanned thighs, which made the targets even more obvious. Naturally, Colin had no trouble hitting them both with a well-placed blow of the paddle that pancaked Nick’s nuts once again and made him drop to his knees, throwing his head back, his mouth wide open, squealing in pain. “And that’s the paddle”, Kev grinned. “What comes after the paddle you may ask. Well…” He looked at Ben. “Teabag him.” Ben chuckled and reached inside his pants, pulling out his sagging ballsack through the leg opening before rubbing it all over Nick’s face. “Make him taste your ball sweat”, Colin grinned. Ben laughed and dunked his balls inside Nick’s mouth. It was more reflex than malicious intent that made Nick close his mouth. To Ben it made no difference, though, when his balls were crushed between Nick’s teeth. Ben’s eyes grew as wide as saucers and he let out a wheezing groan when Nick chomped away at his manhood. “Ooooooooh!” Kev and Colin cringed in sympathy as they watched Nick chew on Ben’s nuts. With a miserable groan, Nick spat Ben’s nuts out again, allowing him to sink to his knees, staring down at his balls. There were teeth marks on them, and Ben looked like he couldn’t believe his eyes. “My balls”, he whispered in a toneless voice. “My beautiful balls.” Nick wiped his mouth with the back of his arm and managed a weak grin. “Not that beautiful anymore, buddy…” Kev and Colin roared with laughter. Kev nudged Nick’s shoulder and grinned. “Man, you’re good. Where did you learn that sort of stuff?” Nick chuckled. “I guess you’ll have to ask my older brothers.” He glanced at Ben and wiped his mouth again. “Their nuts taste better, though...” He grinned proudly when Kev and Colin burst out laughing. Ben was too preoccupied with his crunched nuts to react to Nick’s insult. “Okay”, Kev said. “We’ve got sacktaps, the paddle, the goat, and teabagging. I guess that’s Hazing 101.” Nick grinned. He got up, rubbing his balls. His pants were hanging around his ankles. “I think I’m well prepared for the movie. Thanks a lot.” “If you need something to put the cherry on the cake”, Kev smiled at him. “Just let me know.” Nick grimaced, cupping his sore balls. “Thanks, I think I’ve had enough for today.” He paused. “On the other hand: What do you have in mind?” Kev chuckled. “It’s a little game. But I can’t tell you what it is before you tell me if you’re in.” Nick hesitated. “Come on, bro”, Colin chuckled, patting Nick’s shoulder. “Kev’s games are fun.” “Alright, I’m in”, Nick said with a grin. “I love fun…” “Great”, Kev said. He looked at Ben. “What about you?” Ben got up, glaring at Nick. “Sure.” “The game is called ‘Soggy biscuit’”, Kev grinned. “I’m sure you’re familiar with it.” “Oh yeah.” Nick let out a laugh, jerking his limp dick a couple of times. “Where’s the biscuit?” Kev smiled at him. “Well, that’s the thing: We don’t have a biscuit.” Nick chuckled. “Okay, so what’s gonna be the target?” “Not what”, Kev smiled. “Who.” Nick raised his eyebrows. Kev winked at him. “And the answer is: you.” Nick's eyes widened. “No way---“ “Way!” Kev grinned and kicked Nick’s nuts with all the force he could muster. The handsome stud howled in pain and collapsed on the ground. A couple of minutes later, he was kneeling on the ground, his hands tied behind his back, his head held back by a piece of rope, his mouth held open by a dental gag. He was surrounded by Kev, Colin and Ben who were feverishly jerking their cocks, laughing and joking about Nick’s predicament. Nick’s eyes were darting from one fat cock to the next one. The dental gag prevented him from closing his mouth and he let out throaty grunts and miserable moans. “Aim for his eyes”, Ben grinned. “That’s way more fun than his mouth…” The three jocks laughed as Nick’s eyes widened with terror and he shook his head frantically. Kev placed his foot between Nick’s thighs and pressed against Nick’s junk, squashing his flaccid dick and his swollen balls under his sole. Nick let out a gurgling grunt. Kev chuckled, leaning forward and adding more weight to Nick’s testicles . “Look, it’s kinda like a kitchen trash can.” His fat, throbbing cock was glistening with precum as he stroked it with both of his hands. “Well, he is our cum dump”, Ben chimed in. Colin and Kev laughed. Kev made Nick grunt and groan and moan in pain by shifting his foot, stepping on his nuts, relieving the pressure, and then stomping down on them again. Nick’s eyes were wide open, filled with pain and anger, as he waited for the inevitable. Kev was the first to shoot his load. He let out a guttural groan and squished Nick’s nuts flat under his foot as he released a series of rich, creamy spurts of cream that splattered all over the handsome superstar’s face. Some of Kev’s cum landed right on target, splashing straight into Nick’s gullet and making him gurgle and choke. A big, creamy jet landed square on his face, dribbling to the sides and coating his cheeks. Another jet hit his left eye, making Nick blink and grunt. “Bull’s eye!” Colin cheered just when his own cock erupted with a rapid-fire salvo of salty spunk. Most of it went into his mouth but a few spurts hit him in the nose, making Nick snort and huff. “Hey, you missed his right eye”, Kev quipped. Colin’s orgasm had barely stopped when Ben added his load to the mix. “I’ll take care of that”, Ben grunted. The muscular hunk released a flood of sperm that all but drowned Nick in cum. Not only did he manage to land a very accurately placed spurt right in Nick’s right eye, he followed it up with another and another before switching to his left eye. Kev and Colin burst out laughing. When Ben was finished, Nick’s face was dripping with cum. He looked as if someone had emptied a bucket of creamy white goo over his head. Cum was pooling in his eyes, it was covering his hair and his face. “Great work, guys!” Kev chuckled, stomping down on Nick’s nuts one final time. Nick let out a gurgling grunt, blinking through the sticky veil of spunk. When the guys had freed the handsome singer after taking a couple of pictures, striking victory poses and smiling into the camera, showing off Nick’s cum-covered face, he curled up in a ball, groaning in pain. “You’ll be red-eyed for a while”, Kev grinned. “Yeah, and I don’t think you’ll have sex anytime soon”, Ben chimed in. “And you might see a couple of pictures posted on Facebook”, Colin added with a smile. “But look on the bright side: Now you know all about hazing”, Kev declared with a mocking laugh as he ruffled Nick’s cum-stained hair. Nick just let out a long, deep groan. “You’re welcome”, Kev chuckled. “Just call us if you need any more lessons…” - Logan faces off against Nick Jonas in an MMA fight. Labels: Ben, Colin, Kev, Stories 2017, Story: Special Guest Star: Nick Jonas, Warning: Can contain traces of cum Buster said... Um... hot! [looking for cum rag now] Ha! Thank you! Your comment made my day! :-)) Ballbusting Canucks: Show and tell – part 1 (writt... Ballbusting Canucks: A letter from Canada (written... Video links: Boys just wanna have fun (31) Fight club (Jeremy meets Logan) Video links: XXX (7) New poll: How old are you? Poll results: Favorite method Brotherly boxing bout: Punching bag (written by ba... Video links: Sack taps and dick slaps (3) From the web: Seagull rips off man's testicle as h... The pervert and the giant (Gareth and Ben meet Kev... Video links: Comedy gems (14) Best of the busts: August 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line19
__label__cc	0.733453	0.266547	Athletes, Featured You Can’t Buck with Sean Willingham Sean Willingham knows his way around an x-ray machine. For the last 16 years, he has been a star on the Professional Bull Riders tour, and he has the scars to prove it. As he enters his 17th, and possibly Athletes, Featured, Uncategorized Bode Miller: King of the Mountain When the greatest American skier of all time says he wants to talk, you listen. I met the two-time World Cup champion and five-time U.S. Olympian at the Bomber Ski boutique on Madison Avenue, where the brand was launching their Athletes, Boxing, Featured Regis Prograis: Boxing’s Rising Superstar Photographs by Chad Griffith Styling by Melina Kemph At 22-0, with 19 knockouts, there aren’t many super lightweight fighters eager to step In the ring with Regis “The Rougarou” Prograis. Now fighting out of Houston, the New Orleans-born prizefighter built a fast Jared Gordon Fights for His Life Photographs by Mark Peterson Special thanks to Church Street Boxing Gym “To err is human, to forgive is divine.” – Alexander Pope The last time Jared Gordon died was on Christmas Day of 2015. After his heart was restarted by an Emergency Medical Athletes, Basketball, Featured Enes Kanter: Forward Thinking Photographs by Chad Griffith Styling by Melina Kemph Featured Shirt and Jacket: Bonobos Did you know that you always wanted to become an NBA player? I actually wanted to be a soccer player growing up. Soccer was always the number one sport in Turkey. Athletes, Featured, Running Courtney Dauwalter can run farther than you Photos by Paul Nelson The Moab 240 is more than just an endurance race. It’s a test of how far the human mind can push the body through unconscionable pain. The 238.3 mile course winds through desert, canyons, up and down Wade Baldwin: Second Chance Much like the game of basketball itself, an NBA player’s career is all about adjustments. For Portland Trailblazers sophomore Wade Baldwin, adjustments have been a way of life through the course of his young basketball career. After forgoing his Junior and Athletes, Featured, Snowboarding Kimmy Fasani’s Steep Climb Transitioning from competitive snowboarding to film and backcountry projects, Kimmy Fasani has seen all sides of the downhill sport. At Burton Snowboards’ showroom in New York City, Fasani spoke to AQabout her unique path down the mountain. How did you get Boxing, Fashion, Featured, Lifestyle Shawn Porter: Dressed to Kill There are few prizefighters who have been nicknamed as accurately as “Showtime” Shawn Porter. With his punches in bunches style that challenges CompuBox to keep up with his fists, Porter has always shined brightly in main events. This Saturday, when Net Gains: beach volleyball star Brooke Sweat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line22
__label__wiki	0.6299	0.6299	Scotland's First War Of Independence The Further Adventures Of Wee Robert Bruce The Boy And The Well Of Memory» The Adventures Of Wee Robert Bruce More Adventures Of Wee Robert Bruce The Regal Storytellers Auch Books SS Crome This novel is a work of historical fiction by Konstantina Ritsou based on historical facts. For the first time the story of Andrew de Moray, is told. As comrade in arms of Sir William Wallace and co-commander at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, he is an unsung hero of Scotland’s first war of independence. This story does justice to his contribution in the fight from English tyranny and the inspiration he gave to those who carried the torch of freedom, beyond his death. In this novel the public life of the heroes, Andrew de Moray, William Wallace, Robert de Bruce, and other historical persons, is based, as much as possible, on historical facts. Their private life is historical fiction but still follows, as closely as possible, the stream of history, inspired also by some of the legends of the Scottish people. About the author Konstantina Ritsou The author is a medical doctor and worked in the past as a doctor in cytopathology. As a doctor she has worked in Sweden and UK, though mainly in Greece for the last three decades. She also holds a diploma of drama and specializes in acting, translating and directing theatre-mainly classical-including the works of Shakespeare, Molière, etc. She has directed and translated, in modern Greek, the tragedies Ion, Hippolytus, Alcestis by Euripides, and the Persians by Aeschylus. In Athens, 2009, Paroussia Publications released her historical novel “The Souls of the Lions seeking for justice” concerning the democracy of the de Witt brothers in Holland, in 17th century, which introduced the social insurance for the first time. In 2010, again by Paroussia Publications, this afore mentioned novel was published as The Lion Souls in an English translation by the author. She has performed many roles as an actress, although, of course, she was primarily devoted to her medical science until a serious health threat, an aneurysm, obliged her to retire from medical practice and to close her own theatre. Since then she has devoted most of her time to writing. You can buy your copy of The Boy And The Well Of Memory here, or for enquiries about additional copies go to the contact page or email us on: sarah.crome@hotmail.co.uk £9.99 + UK Postage (£2.99) £9.99 + EU Postage (£4.99) £9.99 + Rest Of World Postage (£7.99) Images from the Book Launch.... About \| Home \| Contact \| Our Books \| Buy The Books \| Copyright © 2020 Sarah Crome. All Rights Reserved. Sitemap \| Privacy Policy \| Website: Web Design with Seagull Designs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line24
__label__cc	0.601321	0.398679	Cathy Laudenbach Hou Leong What does it mean to be Australian? It seems as if Leong is posing this question to us in this series An Australian. In these photographs he assembles images that symbolise an essentialised… Dena Lester Dena Lester’s work blurs the boundaries between photography and painting. By printing photographs on canvas, and manipulating them by hand, Lester seeks to disrupt their immediacy and… Xiao Xian Liu "Xiao Xian Liu studies the differences and similarities between the East and the West on issues covering culture, tradition, politics, religion, identity, gender and so on. He is a lens… Marcia Lochhead "A fascination with the human body and visual metaphors for bodily fluids have been the prevailing themes underpinning Marcia Lochhead’s work for more than a decade of artistic practice… Nicola Loder Nicola Loder explores the unstable qualities of photographs in her work. Like memory, time, vision and ideology, photography is shown to be a slippery thing. In her long-term series, Tourist… Steven Lojewski Steven Lojewski’s photographic practice focuses on an exploration of cultural and geographic environments, attempting, through the camera, to make sense of his surroundings. He deals with… Angela Lynkushka Angela Lynkushka works in the genre of documentary photography, chronicling contemporary Australian life; recording people in their environment and culture. Her work explores the juncture between… Peter Lyssiotis Peter Lyssiotis is a photomonteur. In an era that is dominated increasingly by digital technologies, Lyssiotis continues to use a scalpel, scissors and glue to literally cut up and reconstruct… Anne Macdonald “My photographs record the allure of beauty, and the abject associations of aging and decay, in objects reminiscent of the body and mortality. Baroque drapes are symbolic of sensuous entrapment… Fiona MacDonald Fiona MacDonald is known for her exquisitely rendered installations of bodies of work that draw on local cultural traditions, social and natural history. Neglected archives and personal collections… Ruth Maddison Ruth Maddison’s photography offers intimate and personal glimpses into the daily lives of her subjects. People, their relationships and their communities are continuing preoccupations…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line25
__label__wiki	0.576808	0.576808	Arrow S3x01 “The Calm” News, TV, TV/Movies By Milo Milton Jefferies WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS! Okay, raise a hand if you didn’t see that ending coming? I’ll get to it in more detail, but wow. Arrow has proved to be capable of many twists in the past and that was just totally unpredictable and reinforced the element that nobody is safe. It was a major death sequence that was handled very well with a great shock impact. But first, let’s deal with the new cast additions, of which there were a lot to a series that’s already pretty packed. Sara Lance may be back, but don’t expect her to stick around for long… We got the new Count Vertigo, Peter Stormare, who is already a more preferable option to Seth Gabel’s Count, being his own character as opposed to just a Heath Ledger ripoff. He puts some fun charisma into the role with a much stronger casting choice. And he’s made even more terrifying by the manipulation of the Vertigo drug to show victims their worst fear, which adds another interesting layer of unpredictability that’s handled well by the writers and it was cool to see the Arrow fight off against his own fear, which was essentially becoming Oliver Queen. The most significant newcomer to the series however was Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer. Like Stormare, he puts a lot of effort into his role with some great chemistry and as he poses a business rival for Oliver it’s clear to see that he almost looks like the Sebastian Blood of this season, someone who Oliver will have to tackle outside of the costume. The high stakes premiere saw Palmer win over the Queen Consolidated Board, and there’s even a fun reference to “Star City”, the home of Oliver in the comics, which is what Starling could become. Arrow proves that it can balance tragedy and the more light hearted elements well in this series with an excellent display. The majority of the episode features the team working together, Diggle, Roy (whose superhero identity is presumably Arsenal), Felicity and Oliver showcasing them at their very best, with an excellent display of them working together as a team. They believe they have the criminals on the run, until the emergence of a new Vertigo threatens to undo the balance of the relative peace brought to Starling City. With any episode of Arrow, it’s important not to ignore the flashbacks. After two seasons on the Island a change in tone was needed, and it’s great to see more Amanda Waller showing that we may not quite be done with ARGUS just yet, be it in the past or present. The divergence to Hong Kong was handled very well and it was just the right change at the right time, exploiting a great new dynamic with several directions to go from here. Now I think we can get to the ending. With the addition of Arsenal and the already packed cast, it’s quickly become apparent that the return of Sara felt unnecessary, but welcomed, given that her character is a personal favourite of mine from this series. As a result, I was annoyed to see her killed off so quickly, but the way it was done was handled pretty well indeed. The major cliffhanger ending will no doubt set the tone for the next few episodes and it proves that the series is going to pull out all the stops in creating something that becomes more and more unpredictable as the show progresses, especially with the fact that Malcolm Merlyn and Ra’s Al Ghul are out there in the shadows, waiting to strike. There wasn’t really anything too negative about this episode as it balanced the light hearted stuff with the darker elements very well, even featuring a surprise cameo from Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen, to let viewers know where The Flash’s timeline fits in with Arrow. Going forward, it’ll be interesting to see how both series develop, and with an upcoming crossover featuring both characters quite early on, things could get pretty interesting indeed. In conclusion then, The Calm was an excellent premiere that shows Arrow has continued the form that it’s been in since pretty much the latter stages of season one, demonstrating a great level of consistency. There should be plenty of more awesome stuff on the horizon and next week can’t come quickly enough. TagsAmanda WallerArrowArsenalBrandon RouthCaity LotzDC ComicsFelicity SmoakGrant GustinGreen ArrowJohn DiggleLaurel Lanceoliver queenPeter StormareRoy HarperSara LanceStephen AmellThe CW Doctor Who S8x08 “Mummy on the Orient ... Everyone Deserves To Have A Comic Change ... Milo Milton Jefferies Outside of comics, Milo is into books/music/film/games/TV. He is a big fan of shows like The Magicians and Line of Duty, loves Civilization 6 and is a supporter of Arsenal FC. His favourite Marvel film is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and his favourite post-Nolan DC movie is Wonder Woman. Justice League #9 Prez #2 Green Lanterns #44 Preview: Justice League 3001 #3	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line29
__label__cc	0.516408	0.483592	Mosul is more than a climactic military battle Robert Burns Oct. 19, 2016 \| 12:09 AM More is riding on the battle for Mosul than the recapture of Daesh’s (ISIS) main stronghold in northern Iraq. Embattled Trump steps up 'rigged' election claims Donald Trump has stepped up claims the presidential election will be rigged against him, as polls showed support slipping away from the Republican candidate... Turkey frees US journalist who fled Syria The Turkish authorities have released an American journalist detained for the last two months after she fled Syria claiming to have been kidnapped by... Debate questioner Kenneth Bone becomes internet star Oct. 10, 2016 \| 09:23 PM While supporters of GOP nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton bicker following the second presidential debate, one participant is... Train derailment injures dozens, disrupts service on Long Island, N.Y. A Long Island Rail Road passenger train derailed Saturday near the community of New Hyde Park, New York, injuring as many as 29 people and halting service on... Defiant Trump seizes on Clinton sex scandal before debate Hours before a critical presidential debate, a damaged but defiant Donald Trump seized on never-proved sexual allegations against Hillary Clinton's husband.... Atelier Du Miel, a bee’s path through Lebanon Dana Halawi Oct. 10, 2016 \| 12:04 AM The increased number of illnesses over the past few years raised awareness about the importance of using natural remedies to boost the immune system and help... 2016 campaign can’t shake Bill Clinton’s scandals CATHERINE LUCEY Oct. 08, 2016 \| 12:09 AM Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with... Clinton tears into Trump on taxes Hillary Clinton tore into Donald Trump's tax history, business acumen and trustworthiness Monday, as she sought to capitalize on news that the New York real... Trump campaign defiant as tax questions swirl Donald Trump's campaign remained defiant Monday as the Republican presidential candidate dodged questions that he may have paid no income tax for nearly 20... Christie, Giuliani: If Trump didn't pay taxes, he's 'genius' Donald Trump may or may not have paid federal income taxes for years after losing nearly $916 million. 'All My Children' creator Agnes Nixon dies at 93 Agnes Nixon, the creative force behind the edgy and enduring TV soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children," died Wednesday. She was 93 Entire Australian state without power after massive storm The entire state of South Australia was without power Wednesday after being pummeled by a severe storm, with the blackout causing chaos as authorities warned... No plans to invite ex-lover of Bill Clinton to debate: Trump campaign Donald Trump has hinted he might invite a former lover of Bill Clinton to the first presidential debate, but his campaign said Sunday it has no such plans. Obama says Trump should visit to new African-American museum President Barack Obama scolded Donald Trump for his bleak description of America's African-American community as recent police shootings of black men - and... Obama: Trump should visit African-American museum President Barack Obama scolded Donald Trump for his bleak description of the African-American community as recent police shootings of black men – and the... Charlotte under emergency state after violence flares anew The U.S. city of Charlotte, North Carolina awoke under a state of emergency Thursday after one person was seriously wounded in a second night of violent... Kaine accuses Trump of inciting violence against Clinton U.S. Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine Sunday accused Donald Trump of inciting violence against Hillary Clinton after the Republican candidate... Arkansas college student wins Miss America beauty pageant An Arkansas business student who once kicked so high she gave herself a black eye was crowned Miss America 2017 late Sunday Third Spanish vote in a year would deliver hung parliament: poll Spain's third national election in a year would deliver yet another hung parliament and give rival parties no new options in terms of forming a government, a... First‹910111213141516171819›Last	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line44
__label__cc	0.715105	0.284895	Movies. Crime fiction. Baseball. Jazz. Cocktails. DVD: Pulp (1972) Get Carter isn’t just one of the great gangster movies. It topped at least one critics’ poll of the best British films of all time. A year after Carter’s release, star Michael Caine, writer/director Mike Hodges, and producer Michael Klinger reunited for Pulp. Which, to my knowledge, has never topped a critics’ list of any kind. A bare-bones DVD skulked onto the market last week. And while Pulp suffers in comparison to Carter – name a movie that wouldn’t – it’s still worth watching. Caine plays an author of paperback thrillers, churning out titles like The Organ-Grinder under an array of pseudonyms (Guy Strange, Dan Wild). He agrees to ghostwrite the autobiography of a faded Hollywood star with alleged Mafia connections and soon finds himself neck-deep in the kind of plot he usually dictates into a tape recorder. Hodges tries to pull off something difficult here, telling a noir tale while sending up the genre’s conventions. It doesn’t completely work, but there are enough smart moments to keep the action interesting. This is the Michael Caine that Craig Ferguson lovingly satirizes, in full ‘70s glory with wavy hair and thick-framed glasses. And while Mickey Rooney may not be believable as an Italian, he shines as the Cagneyesque actor driven by an aging male’s vanity and a celebrity’s narcissism. One member of the Carter team not brought back is composer Roy Budd. ‘Carter Takes The Train’ is one of the indisputably great main themes, so much so that it was reprised in the 2000 Sylvester Stallone Carter remake, where it was easily the movie’s best feature. Budd had a nice career doing jazz-inflected scores for Euro thrillers of the ‘70s, many starring Caine (The Black Windmill, The Destructors). I’ve been listening to them a lot lately. Good stuff. TV: Entourage Naturally, I love this HBO show. It’s about a kid from Queens named Vince whose effortless talent makes him the center of his universe. Frankly, I deserve royalties. I was willing to let Turtle’s fetishistic obsession with the Yankees go. There are a handful of Bronx Brombers fans in the Mets’ home borough. But I draw the line at this week’s episode, which featured a gratuitous anti-Mets joke. Vince Chase made a movie called Queens Boulevard, for Christ’s sake. There’s got to be at least one Amazins fan in his posse. If Jeremy Piven weren’t still bringing it as Ari Gold, I’d stop watching in protest. For one week. Miscellaneous: Links New York magazine’s new pop culture blog Vulture is fast becoming a regular stop. Roger Ebert shows what he’s made of. And personally, I would have looked for Superman first. Posted by Vince at 10:42 PM Labels: DVD, Movies, Noir, TV Tweets by @vpkeenan One-half of classic Hollywood mystery writer Renee Patrick (DESIGN FOR DYING, DANGEROUS TO KNOW, SCRIPT FOR SCANDAL). Tippling gadabout. Author of DOWN THE HATCH: ONE MAN'S ONE YEAR ODYSSEY THROUGH CLASSIC COCKTAIL RECIPES AND LORE, available at Amazon. Managing editor of the Film Noir Foundation's NOIR CITY magazine. vince (at) vincekeenan (dot) com TV: Neither Freak Nor Geek I knew when I got into... Magazines: There’s No Me In Us Weekly Yet there i... DVD: Cue The Queue Time to revive the storied tra... DVD: Pulp (1972) Get Carter isn’t just one of the... Website Update: Links I finally got around to twe... Miscellaneous: Links As Dark As They Come L.A.’s ... Miscellaneous: Links With Wordy Commentary First,... Miscellaneous: Links Normally, I’m thrilled when ... Movies: In Theaters Now A pair of winners. The H... Miscellaneous: Your Weekend Planner Readers in th... Book: The Wrecking Crew, by Donald Hamilton (1960)... Movies: Boston Blackie What interested me most in... Miscellaneous: Make Mine Music Link Still on dead... Upcoming: El Aura (U.S. 2006) Barreling toward a ... Movie: Johnny Cool (1963) Sicilian bandit Henry S... Movie: Dressed To Kill (1941) You’d think four Mi... Donald Hamilton, R.I.P. I suppose it’s only fitti... Movies: An F in Grindhouse 101 You bet I’m going ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line51
__label__cc	0.500812	0.499188	Beeps and Beers Chalgyr’s Game Room Staff Madden 15 – Xbox One Review October 20th, 2014 Pierre-Yves Uncategorized comments by Pierre-Yves on October 20th, 2014 Current manager and site administrator for Chalgyr's Game Room, I also review titles on the PS4, XB1, PC, Nintendo Switch and the handhelds. TagsEA Sports, Madden 15, Microsoft Xbox One, XB1, Xbox One Review Madden, like the sport it emulates, is a cyclical thing. Year after year teams trot out some changes (rosters, game plans or coaches) in hopes of achieving a better result that the prior year. Most of the time the teams are not dramatically different, and in the end fans still watch because each year unfolds differently – oftentimes in unexpected ways. Madden is perhaps a bit more predictable, but the parallels are certainly there. This year’s Madden trots out its best game of football in a few years. Of course, the key here is that these are steps, not sprints. Thankfully we are not talking about baby steps, because there are some notable improvements. Still, at the end of the day, we have the modes you would expect, the roster updates you would expect and a few new bells and whistles. That is enough for me to enjoy the latest iteration, which I have been playing heavily since its release and am finally going to write about. First and foremost, I find it amusing that a game featuring Richard Sherman of the vaunted Seahawks pass defense on the cover can have such a questionable pass defense game. Last year’s game was all about the running for me (though this was more true on the PlayStation 3 than the PlayStation 4). This year running is tough. It is also a good deal more realistic. In last year’s Madden 25 on the PS3, on All-Pro difficulty I can run for several hundred yards no problem. On the PS4 version, it was a problem – but All-Pro and Madden difficulty still yielded about 150-250 yards a game on default game clock settings. I use the Lions – who are first pass and run… well, fourth or fifth, because they pass first, second and third most of the time in real life as well. I routinely rack up a few hundred yards or so a game passing on All-Pro, but am thrilled if I can squeak out a hundred on the ground with my Bush/Bell tandem. The thing is, that feels right. I have a buddy who played the game and lamented these changes, but that is exactly how most Lions games turn out (except I win more). Some subtle tweaks to the Franchise Mode pay off nicely, however. Practicing is more streamlined (or can be completely skipped and letting the computer do it, so you are not ‘wasting time’), and player points pay out a bit more quickly and easily (again saving time), while simming games is also faster (once more a theme). The draft features storylines like years past, but with randomly generated characters, preventing people from using draft guides in public leagues like in years past. Deciding whether to boost a player’s confidence or their experience also helps balance the present against the future. Again, not a world of differences to be had here, but notable all the same. So playing as the Lions in my Franchise Mode has been producing the expected results. I have gone through all of the skills training, and played some random online matches, and they are all well and good, but when I am not in Franchise Mode I have been playing Madden Ultimate Team. In the past I did not sink much time into that mode, which is a mix of opening packs of football cards and playing fantasy football. Opening cards grants random players, which then are slotted into your lineup. Win games with this team and earn more coins for more cards. It is a microtransaction machine for EA and I sort of hate it and kind of love it at the same time. The weekly events and challenges keep it fresh, but it is geared to get people to spend money as well. I can best teams early on but the more difficult challenges are either locked out completely (until my team is good enough to reach certain criteria) or just gets pummeled (putting a 61-overall squad against a 92 overall squad on Madden difficulty without being able to use any custom playbooks is challenging to say the least). Still, I find myself going back to the mode every week to see what the new challenges are. All of these things aside, the gameplay is where Madden is at, and generally speaking it works well. There are some new touches (like the tackling cone which really feels more like a tutorial – tackling feels pretty much the same as always, it just gives you some extra guidance) to go with an impressive graphics engine. By now the Infinity Engine is pretty well-known for some of the crazy things it can bring about, because players are loose-limbed and not forced into canned animations. While the effect is generally more realistic (and entertaining when you pop someone up into the air on a particularly vicious low hit), this does leave the door open for some craziness as well. The announcing is… largely recycled from last year. I’ve been bemoaning this aspect of madden for about three years now, and there are lines ripped from the last game or two that show up again here. My son walks through the room finishing quotes when he hears one start at times (turns out, I play a lot of Madden. Who knew?). Considering how much better the announcing in FIFA and NHL 15 is, I am hopefully this is an area EA Sports addresses for Madden next year. I know it is time consuming, but in the world of immersion it is really helpful not to hear the same thing each and every game (sometimes multiple times a game). Madden is one of my ultimate guilty pleasures and there have to be some serious missteps to regret purchasing it most years. This is not one of those years, because the game itself is still the best it has been in a few years now. There is room for improvement sure, but just like I hope my Lions can find their way into (and maybe event through!) the playoffs, I believe Madden will keep taking forwards steps over the next season or two. Review by Nick Facebook Twitter Pinterest E-mail Previous article The Hero of Thedas - Dragon Age: Inquisition trailer Next article Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - PS3 Review Culdcept Revolt - 3DS Review Ys Origin - PS4 Review NEW VIDEO: South Park: The Fractured But Whole Other sites you should check out! Video: Seek Hearts and my love/hate relationship with Kemco January 17, 2020 Video by Matt S.Kemco sure does churn the retro-themed JRPGs out. Sadly, most of them are just not very good, and more closely resemble RPG Maker projects than anything. 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__label__wiki	0.787258	0.787258	Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome! George Gardner's St. Augustine Report/City of St. Augustine re: Saving Tens of Thousands of Dollars By Not Wasting More of Our Money on Flubdubs Table tabled in debate Ed Slavin, a frequent speaker at City commission meetings, urged "table the table," and commissioners did just that Monday after discussing commission room designs - and costs. The existing table has been on loan from Lightner Museum since 1972, and will be moved to the museum's new board room. A replacement table was estimated at $8,500, and room redesigns including a raised platform for commissioners, $20,000 to $25,000. Facing uncertainty in fundraising for the 450th commemoration, and a smaller city budget for next year, commissioners decided not to tackle the table at this time. Posted by Ed Slavin at 1:57 PM No comments: St. Augustine City Commission Votes Against Raising Our Taxes -- Thank You! City 'holds the line' on millage Staff says this risks deep cuts, layoffs Posted: July 25, 2011 - 11:11pm By PETER GUINTA peter.guinta@staugustine.com A St. Augustine City Commission tie vote on the 2012 tentative millage Monday could result in the city retaining its current property tax rate at 7.5 mills next year. That news may cheer taxpayers, but that level of taxation will hamstring the city's finances, according to Assistant City Manager Tim Burchfield. If that level is adopted, the city must cut $700,000 more from an already lean budget, he said. "We're bare bones now. There have been no raises. We're down to salary cuts," he said. "We'll either be forced into layoffs or will lose popular events like our fireworks." Burchfield had just recommended the tentative millage rate of 8.146 mills, which would have raised an additional $682,000. "We can balance the budget with 7.5 mills," he said. "But the higher millage would allow us to handle future unbudgeted expenses such as the M&M Market, Galimore pool, Excelsior Building, 450th anniversary and Spanish Quarter." He said the city's under time pressure to get its recommended millage to the state by Aug. 3. Later, during budget hearings scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 24 and 25, the City Commission may lower the millage rate from 7.5 mills, but cannot raise it. Mayor Joe Boles made a motion to approve the higher amount, seconded by Commissioner Errol Jones. However, commissioners Bill Leary and Nancy Sikes-Kline voted against. Vice Mayor Leanna Freeman was absent, so the tie automatically meant the 8.146 millage was defeated. City Manager John Regan, seeing a stalemate on the board, told them to come up with something. "We want to walk out of here with a number," he said. The city's recommended millage would stay the same. If it had been raised to 8.146 mills, a house worth $100,000 would pay $64 more. Burchfield said the city's taxable value of $1.116 billion is down from this year's value of $1.213 billion, so there is $100 million less value to tax. Leary said that with this vote the commission may be tacitly approving the big ticket items. "I'm not comfortable with that. I voted against the M&M Market and the Spanish Quarter. It's too big a drain. This is just not the time to be doing this. The votes are not here tonight," he said. Sikes-Kline said a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck. "There's going to be a tax increase by the county," she said. "We have a balanced budget. We have to hold the line (on raising taxes). We'll just have to keep cutting until we make it work." She said she believed the other commissioners -- Boles and Jones, apparently -- were using the threat of public safety layoffs to increase taxes. "I understand you want to close the Spanish Quarter," she said in an emotional blast. "You want to make this (city) a tacky tourist town. I'm really not happy with the way this is happening." Boles warned Sikes-Kline that once the tentative millage was sent to Tallahassee, "We don't get to do this again. (But) I don't have any problem going into our reserves. I don't see us going out for bonds for a while." Jones said more money was needed because the city hasn't budgeted street resurfacing, building maintenance, general maintenance or infrastructure improvements since 2007. "The work you see being done in the city, they're pulling that money from reserves," he said. "We have 31 percent fewer employees since 2007 and our reserves have decreased by 30 percent. (We're supposed to) save that money for a rainy day. Well, it rains every time a water line breaks." Posted by Ed Slavin at 7:38 AM No comments: St. Augustine Record Still Mum on National Historical Park and National Seashore, Neglects to Cover Emerging Democracy on City Commission Real newspapers lead their readers to learn more about their world, from City Hall to the Courthouse to the White House. Real newspapers lead their communities to change for the better. Real newspapers expose and fight wrongdoing, remembering that Justice Brandeis said, “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Real newspapers “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Real newspapers file Open Records and Freedom of Information Act requests. If stymied, they don’t take “no” for an answer – they appeal and sue and work tirelessly, doggedly to inform their readers. Then there is the St. Augustine Record, which sadly is no longer functioning much like a real newspaper in this down economy. Nearly run into the ground by the Morris family of Augusta, Georgia, the Record has seen declining news room budgets, declining full-time equivalent reporters and declining space for news (the “news hole,” in journalese). Led down the primrose path by the infamous Morris Communications empire, the WRecKord’s editors and reporters are burned out. Are they bored, or not allowed to report about citizens when we make our government responsive? Why is the Record still seemingly currying favor with government employee apparatchiks, like Paul Williamson and Tim Burchfield? See Peter Guinta’s story, above. When will the Record cover all of the news, including citizen participation? Last night, senior reporter Peter Guinta put his notebook on the chair beside him, taking nary a note, while the City’s abortive plan to waste money on an $8500 table was debated and trounced – and the City’s effort to raise our taxes failed on a tie 2-2 vote. Guinta’s story read like it was written by Williamson, making it sound like a bad idea that City Commission did not raise our taxes last night. I asked Commissioners to reject it a proposal for an $8500 table and talk of “reconfiguring” the Commission meeting room at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. I asked them to “table the table.” They did it. The “table was tabled.” The Record did not report it (see above), although former Mayor George Gardner did so in his City Hall newsletter today, and controversial former Commission candidate (and government contractor) Michael Gold wrote about it on his blog, Historic City News, using “table the table” in his headline. (Credit goes to Gold for opposing the $8500 table ab initio). The table was a dumb idea – the City could get one free. Lack of imagination in City purchasing officials still persists – they need to sharpen their pencils and stop wasting money on flubdubs. After a briefing by architect Jerry Dixon, all four City Commissioners present and voting agreed unanimously that there was no rush to spend tens of thousands of dollars – as architect Jerry Dixon suggested – to put City Commissioners on a raised platform, as if they were Spanish royalty, which would have required ramps or lifts for disabled persons. Dixon seemed out of touch with average citizens as he proposed spending tens of thousands of dollars to make the Commission meeting room less secure, with the Commissioners’ backs literally up against the windows. Dixon acted as if WILLIAM B. HARRISS were still the City Manager, and money could be wasted without Commission and public scrutiny. Those days are over. Democracy has broken out. But old habits die hard for some officials – City Commissioner Errol Jones thrice said the City’s current table was “very eloquent (sic).” Jones said the word “eloquent” thrice. Jones reportedly has a Master’s Degree and is the former “Dean of Students” (e.g., disciplinarian) at St. Augustine High School. When WILLIAM B. HARRISS was City Manager, Jones often and loudly defended every single controversial former City Manager HARRISS’ works and pomps to the point of insulting neighborhood residents, whether the subject was Amerigas trucks on Leonardi Street, illegal dumping in our Old City Reservoir, or the evisceration of the beautiful former Ponce de Leon Golf Course, which Commissioners annexed and allowed developer Chester Stokes to destroy in the name of mindless real estate speculation. Commissioner William Leary agreed with Jones that it was an “elegant table” and an “elegant room,” but he and Commissioners Nancy Sikes-Kline said the City need not waste any more money on flubdubs. Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline later said of the elegant (or “eloquent”) St. Augustine City Commission table, in place since 1972, “if only this table could talk.” The Record failed to appreciate the significance of Monday night’s vote – there is now a functioning democracy on the City Commission. No longer does the City Manager function as a dictator, with absolute power, electing and funding candidates and exercising a Philistine’s veto on projects (as HARRIS did on the Civil Rights Footsoldiers Monument). No longer does the St. Augustine City Manager violate Sunshine laws, “polling” Commissioners to see how they will vote. You can see the spontaneity at City Commission meetings now. Watching the St. Augustine City Commission grow into a functioning democracy last night, I was proud of our public officials. Much has changed in a few short years. The evolving St. Augustine City Commission is something to be proud of, not ashamed of. The situation reminds me of how proud I was to see the Anastasia Mosquito Control Commission grow with new leadership (Jeanne Moeller, John Sundeman, Janice Bequette and Catherine Brandhorst, et al.) Once citizens become active, speak out and elect candidates, we must keep them honest by attending meetings and speaking out – thanking them when they do a good job and asking them to do better. Check out former Florida U.S. Senator Bob Graham’s excellent 2010 book “America – the Owner’s Manual – Making Government Work for You.” As evidence of the sea change in City Hall, Folio Weekly today awarded City Commissioner William Leary a “bouquet” for his work on beautification for the 450th – encouraging people and businesses to do it without government expense. Foreign-funded developers and their enablers once ruled the roost in St. Augustine City Hall. When WILLIAM HARRISS (a/k/a “WILL HARASS”) was City Manager, our City government did things that would gag a maggot – like destroying a 3000-4000 year old Indian village archeological site next to St. Augustine High School. Why? Controversial New York developer ROBERT MICHAEL GRUBARD asked them to do so. When HARRISS was City Manager, citizens were threatened for participating in their government, and treated with disrespect, ridicule and disdain (as we were so often treated on matters of environmental pollution). With new City Manager John Regan, there has been a sea change – City Hall is listening to people and working to be a good steward. “It takes a village” – every citizen of St. Augustine deserves credit. We did it. We had what Andrew Young calls “soul force.” Our ideas have prevailed – the same ideals with which our Founders established this country 235 years ago. We now have a City government that increasingly inspires pride, not embarrassment. Not unlike a possum, we have awakened in a new world. Congratulations, St. Augustine residents – your government is no longer working against you – it is listening. Peoples’ concerns are being heard and heeded. We stopped a City tax increase last night. And we “tabled the table.” Next, there will be budget workshops and hearings. This time, we expect that our questions will be answered. In 2007, working with the advice of three (3) accountants and many knowledgeable City residents, I propounded some 140 questions on the City’s gold-plated budget. The questions were not answered. The questions were not acknowledged. Some City Commissioners said I asked “too many questions.” The Record ignored the questions, and demanded no answers. Tatterdemalion City Manager HARRISS never even thanked us for our efforts to build a better budget. Sadly, WILLIAM B. HARRIS was an habitual violator of the First Amendment and was repeatedly found by federal courts to have violated free speech rights – of artists, entertainers, Gays, Lesbians and others. We’re glad he “retired.” This time, we expect a new ballgame – our City Hall works for us (and not the way around). Expect City officials to ask questions, and hear answers. It’s our money. Now, if only the St. Augustine Record would provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of government meetings, quote citizens who speak, and cover all sides of every issue – that would be greatly appreciated. It is time for the Record to treat its readers as adults to be informed and inspired. And why is the Record still mum on the proposal for a St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore, which it first reported in June 1939 – 72 years ago --, when it was proposed in Congress by United States Senators Claude Pepper and Charles Andrews and U.S. Rep. Joseph Hendricks, with support of St. Augustine’s then-Mayor Walter Frazier. For years, the St. Augustine Record has never written a news story about it, and refuses to take an editorial position in favor of it. Why? I still believe in a place called Hope, and it is called St. Augustine. Expect the unexpected. Controversial Michael Gold has performed a public service by exposing proposed waste (by a City government that once gave his family business no-bid uniform contracts). Thomas Jefferson believed in the perfectability of humankind. Our planet’s major religious traditions teach forgiveness. Now, in that spirit, it is not too much to expect that the St. Augustine Record can support healing and growth by publicizing and supporting the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore. www.staugustgreen.com It is not too much to expect that the Record will report and editorialize on the park, which promises to save our economy, create jobs, celebrate our 450th anniversary and provide lasting environmental protection for future generations, preserving wildlife, marshes, beaches and forests forever? Is that too much to ask? What do you reckon? Summer Breeze:Spotlight on Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida Spotlight on Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida Posted on July 12, 2011 (Edit) By bhendrick Clean Up City of St. Augustine is a blog by resident Ed Slavin If you’re a frequent reader of St. Augustine news in print or online, you may have run across, or be familiar with, a blog called Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida. It’s a no-nonsense, bare bones website written by St. Augustine resident Ed Slavin. The blog is dedicated to community activism in the area. Slavin’s been at it (as well as a few other blogs) since 2006 and shows no signs of slowing down. Slavin, a former lawyer, is a controversial figure in the St. Augustine blog world, as he demands answers for pressing issues that public figures avoid answering (among a slew of other things). The blogger also criticizes questionable platforms put forth by public figures and other bloggers that support them… and endures criticism himself. In one case, Slavin was even arrested for making numerous (perhaps too many?) public records requests… to the sheriff. Civil disobedience? Slavin’s latest literary kick is over St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary commission. There are also several links to key topics, such as city preservation and the importance of national parks. Photo source: simoneladybug Copyright © 2011 · All Rights Reserved · Powered by WordPress and NCI · Privacy Policy · User Agreement · Fair Housing · Log in Huffington Post: U.S. House of Representatives' Extinction Amendment Puts All of God's Creatures in Danger Jamie Rappaport Clark Executive vice president, Defenders of Wildlife GET UPDATES FROM Jamie Rappaport Clark Extinction Rider Puts Us All in Danger Posted: 7/22/11 05:38 PM ET Enlightening Infuriating Wildlife , US Fish And Wildlife Service , Appropriations , Endangered Species , Extinction , Ornithology , Wolverine , Green News Get Green Alerts Submit this story When I began my career almost 30 years ago, peregrine falcons were in dire straits. For decades, these graceful birds of prey had been slowly poisoned by the widespread use of the harmful pesticide DDT, which altered their internal chemistry and made their egg shells thinner. As result, fewer eggs hatched and the population plummeted, wiping out the species across much of the United States. I spent a summer in college working with the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, where I had the chance to help make history. I was a member of a team of biologists that was releasing captive-bred peregrine falcon chicks back into the wild. Having disappeared east of the Mississippi by 1970, the species was about to take its first steps on the road to recovery, and I was helping make it happen. As a young biologist, I would have never dreamed that nearly 20 years later, I would be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and part of history again, as I announced the full recovery of the peregrine falcon. That incredible success was a direct result of the Endangered Species Act -- our nation's most forward-thinking and effective wildlife conservation law. Because of dedicated recovery efforts made possible by the act, peregrine falcons were able to fly off the endangered species list. And today, the species is thriving once again. Unfortunately, it seems like not too many of us remember these triumphant moments. Too many have forgotten how instrumental the Endangered Species Act has been in saving America's imperiled wildlife. Too many are willing to go backwards on our nation's commitment to good stewardship. Too many are ready to give up on preserving the entire web of life for our children and grandchildren. Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives plans to pass an ill-conceived budget bill for the Interior Department that would paralyze our nation's programs for protecting imperiled plants and animals. A provision included by Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), and approved by the Appropriations Committee on July 12, would block crucial life-saving protections for more than 260 "candidate species" currently awaiting listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act. Many of these species have already been waiting a decade or longer for protection as they continue their slide toward extinction. The lesser prairie chicken, for example, has been awaiting protection since 1998 when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service first added it to the candidate list. This colorful bird used to be abundant from southern Kansas to central Texas, but now exists in less than 15 percent of its historic range due to the ongoing destruction of its native habitat. Other species, such as the wolverine, were only recently added to the candidate list. Scientists estimate there are fewer than 300 wolverines left in the lower 48, living on isolated peaks across the Rocky Mountains. To make matters worse, wolverines are losing habitat quickly as global warming disrupts the annual snowpack that the species depends on for survival. The Extinction Rider, if passed, would prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from taking further action to save not only the wolverine and the lesser prairie chicken, but also the Pacific walrus, the red knot shorebird, the New England cottontail rabbit, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and hundreds of other species that need our help to survive. As a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I know first-hand how difficult it can be to watch these species struggle while the government fails them. During my tenure, Congress passed a moratorium on funding for endangered species similar to the Extinction Rider in the current proposal. The effect of that moratorium was to delay protection and recovery efforts far beyond the immediate fiscal year, because while we were forced to put vital programs on hold, imperiled plants and animals had to fend for themselves. Delaying much-needed protection for these imperiled species did nothing to suspend their slide toward extinction. It only ignored what science was telling us at that time. The recovery of the peregrine falcon is just one of many great victories that our country has been able to celebrate because of the Endangered Species Act. In its nearly 40 years of existence, fewer than two dozen species have disappeared out of nearly 2,000 that have been protected. Iconic species like the bald eagle, American alligator, Florida panther and gray whale might not exist today if it weren't for dedicated conservation efforts initiated under the act. But all those victories came after decades of careful planning and hard work. If we cut off funding now for protecting imperiled wildlife, there's no telling how long it will take to get back on track. And for many species on the brink, they don't have much longer to wait. 2007 St. Augustine Record Editorial re: National Park: Gift Idea for St. Augustine's 450th -- when will Record endorse the Park and Seashore? Support for National Park: Gift ideas few for city's big 4-5-0 Publication Date: 10/06/07 Gift ideas few for city's big 4-5-0 We asked readers last week to suggest the best gift for the city of St. Augustine's 450th birthday in 2015. We got a few. Perhaps most people don't think there's any gift to be had when you reach 450. Here's what readers told us: Editor: Our Minorcan family has lived here for some 230 years. For our 450th, to save St. Augustine, our city needs a national historical park, seashore and scenic coastal highway to showcase to the world and to preserve forever our precious cultural, environmental and wildlife heritage. Drayton Manucy Editor: I support Ed Slavin's Nov. 13, 2006 proposal for a St. Augustine National Historic Park, National Seashore and National Scenic Coastal Highway. This beautiful historic place must be preserved forever (or else our history and heritage and beauty will be destroyed forever). Congress must act swiftly. David Brian Wallace Editor: The newly formed Theatre Saint Augustine has planned a meeting for all members of the community to develop thoughts on how the artistic and historic community can work together towards events for the 450th celebration. The possible development of a revised Cross and Sword, Florida's state play, will be a focus of discussion at the St. Johns County Main Public Library, 1960 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., for Oct. 22, at 6 p.m., For additional information visit www.theatresaintaugustine.com Kiki Tovey Theatre Saint Augustine Those are some good ideas. We'd add, too, that perhaps city officials should visit Kansas City, Mo., where beautiful fountains and bronze statues of all sizes delight visitors and residents alike. Some commemorate events, others people. We've got some statues and fountains already but nothing like you will find in KCMO. The city is proof, you can never have too many fountains or statues. Click here to return to story: http://staugustine.com/stories/100607/opinions_10062007_037.shtml © The St. Augustine Record Secretary of the Interior Salazar Comes Close to Endorsing St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore – St. Augustine Record is Mum Renee Stone, Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar; John Regan, now City Manager, City of St. Augustine; Dana Ste. Claire, Director of Historic Tourism ; Ken Salazar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior; Joseph Boles, Mayor of the City of St. Augustine; Bill Leary, now St. Augustine City Commissioner and former employee of the Department of the Interior; and Ray Rivera, Director of External and Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior, photographed March 9, 2010. Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar and President Barack Obama Monday, July 18, 2011, was a great day in the history of making St. Augustine a better place. At Flagler College Auditorium, Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar came very close to endorsing a St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore Monday at the inaugural meeting of the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission, enacted thanks to the efforts of U.S. Rep. John Mica and Senator Bill Nelson. Congressman Mica lobbied hard for funds support for the Castillo San Marco Visitor Center. On the videotape of the 450th Commission meeting, Secretary Salazar can be heard referring to the “St. Augustine National Parks here” and praised the “leadership of Gordy Wilson,” longtime superintendent of Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and Fort Matanzas National Monument. Yes, St. Augustine currently has only two small national monuments – but we do need a St. Augustine National Historical Park and Seashore and Salazar’s remarks give us great hope for that goal. Secretary Salazar’s speech was ad lib – the Department of the Interior responded to me by E-mail yesterday that there was no prepared text. Again, Secretary Salazar referred to the “St. Augustine National Parks here,” telling us that the goal of a St. Augustine National Historical Park and Seashore is within our grasp. How do we get there? How do we get the park enacted? What do you reckon? Salazar’s speech suggests some answers. The Department of the Interior will work “hand in hand” with St. Augustine to celebrate a “national event.” St. Augustine is a “very special place,” Secretary Salazar said. In fact, St. Augustine, Florida is “one of our Creator’s most special places.” We agree. That is the premise of the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore Act of 2011. Secretary Salazar said the contributions of St. Augustine and Florida to our history need to be made “known to our Nation and are known to the world.” St. Augustine has “history that we carry in our hearts,” he said. We agree. Secretary Salazar talked about how much he loves his job and how he gets to “celebrate Yosemite, Acadia and the Everglades” in his job (as opposed to the Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, who gets to celebrate roads and bridges)(. Secretary Salazar talked about the inexorable link between outdoor recreation and tourism and growing the economy – “hopefully we’ll restore this economy to greatness” and “make it happen.” “Never since the Great Depression has America lived in such an unsettled economy,” Salazar said. Salazar talked about how important the Everglades are to tourism and the economy, noting it is a World Heritage site. Could St. Augustine one day become a World Heritage site? Why not? Salazar talked about how important is “the investment we make” in “one of the Creator’s most important places on this Earth.” He was referring to the Everglades, but in terms of history and the environment, he could easily have been referring to St. Augustine. Salazar said that the Everglades is “important to the economy of Florida – without it, the economy would wither.” Salazar then praised St. Augustine …. a jewel that tells the story of the founding of America, first city in America,” which “created much of the blueprint of what we now know as America.” “The history of this place… is not very well known throughout the United States … that history is important to tell.” Drawing affectionate and appreciative laughter from St. Augustine residents, Secretary Salazar told about how Director Eric P. Johnson of the Mission of Nombre de Dios and the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche (the Catholic shrine) told him Sunday night about how young Eric Johnson corrected his teachers about Plymouth Rock and Jamestown when he was in school, telling them that they were not where America began. Likewise, Secretary Salazar said, to gentle laughter, that he was among the tens of millions of Americans who were falsely given the impression their ancestors came over on the Mayflower. This was despite the fact that Salazar grew up in a Hispanic community some 265 miles South of Denver. In Salazar’s household, everyone spoke Spanish – his family has been in America for eight generations, and his ancestors helped found Santa Fe, New Mexico. Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar pointed the way toward a National Civil Rights Museum in St. Augustine said that, “We as a nation have been the beacon for the world in terms of the progress of humanity --- the arc of justice bends toward more perfect humanity, as Dr. King said – what is important for us is as we tell the story …” Secretary Salazar talked about the strong, inextricable, irrefragable link between economics, tourism and outdoor recreation. He spoke of working with 450th Commission Chairman Jay Kislak and other members of the National Parks Foundation to promote outdoor recreation and economic growth. Secretary Salazar kvelled that “Outdoor recreation alone creates 6.5 million jobs,” with some $700 billion added to the economy” from outdoor recreation. Salazar said that St. Augustine presents “a very important mission for me as Secretary of the Interior.” “As we struggle with the economic crisis of our time, we ought not to forget that we need to keep investing in the conservation agenda,” Salazar said. Salazar said that prposed 22% cuts in the National Park Service budget set forth in the House of Representatives in Appropriations Committee bill would “set back our efforts significantly.” Salazar asked everyone to support our National Parks and their “job creation agenda,” which is “so important to all America.” Salazar said he was “here in St. Augustine in large part due to the efforts of your Mayor,” Joseph Boles, who “came to my office,” saying he “would not be here today” but for Mayor Boles’ “advocacy along with the local leadership here” and Senator Bill Nelson. Salazar said he looked forward to “working here with you hand-in-hand, celebrating” the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine (2015) and the 500th Anniversary of Spanish Florida (2013), saying it would be a “wonderful several years,” promising to “work on this agenda. “ Salazar reiterated how America is the “beacon of the world,” with its message of “freedom and democracy,” stating that the job of “telling the stories of America” and of “St. Augustine is incredibly, incredibly important.” The Record barely reported what the Secretary of the Interior had to say. Then the Record was mum, and also did not report the fact that, when public questions were allowed, the audience applauded the request to make a presentation to the 450th Commission about the proposed St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore. George Gardner's St. Augustine Report/City of St. ... St. Augustine City Commission Votes Against Raisi... St. Augustine Record Still Mum on National Histori... 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__label__cc	0.632507	0.367493	Off-Topic Discussion Areas Singing for the Sake of the Song Pete Townshend....ouch this is bad Thread: Pete Townshend....ouch this is bad FreyFollower Border Rebel Northern Louisiana Re: Pete Townshend....ouch this is bad However he spins it, there's no way he can make his statements OK. If he truly wanted forgiveness, he would actually apologize. Being impatient or unfocused doesn't rationalize it, and simply calling his statements "careless" doesn't begin to cover how insensitive they were. "Be part of something good-- Leave something good behind." sodascouts Where Faulkner collides with Elvis What an awful thing to say. At least he's back tracked but... wow. Always in our hearts, Never forgotten UndertheWire Stuck on the Border It doesn't seem so bad to me and his own clarification on Facebook his expressed well. Remember that interviews can be misleading with questions that provoke answers that haven't been properly thought out. Over the years, I've mention a book called "Roadwork" which was written by an old friend of Pete Townsend, Tom Wright, and has lots of stories about The Who and other bands. What I remember is that the guitars that Townsend "wrecked" during concerts were glued back together and used again. Generally they broke in ways that could be fixed. And, of course, Keith Moon had many other uses for the glue. As for the child porn incident, I remember his explanation being that it was research to try to understand what had happened to him when he was younger. As "Tommy" is the story of a sexually-abused boy, it's clearly something he sees from the side of the abused. "Billy, whoever writes the songs, wins." WalshFan88 Originally Posted by UndertheWire You would think he would want to distance himself from that "information". So much for PTSD! Personally, I think you can do "research" on that kind of thing without downloading videos and photos of it actually happening to your computer. I'm sorry, but I don't buy it. I think at the very least he's a creeper. I do realize that Tommy has that topic as it's theme. I still don't excuse him for downloading the actual footage of it to his computer. Read about it all you want Pete, watch videos talking about the subject - but there was no legitimate excuse for having the actual content on his computer at least in my mind even if it was in his mind to research what happened. You'd think that you'd want to avoid trauma and flashbacks. -Austin- Resident Guitar Slinger Fan Of The Eagles 1972-2016 #NOGLENNNOEAGLES RIP Glenn Lewis Frey 1948-2016 "People don't run out of ideas, people just run out of time..." NightMistBlue Randyland If you read Roger Daltrey's autobiography (or even better, listen to the audiobook, which he narrates himself), he defends his friend and nemesis so passionately of this charge that I very nearly believe Pete is innocent. "Of COURSE he'd defend Pete!," I can hear you shouting, "that's his tour income and musical legacy on the line as well." And you are correct. But apparently it has been established as fact that Pete never downloaded any images from the web site; he simply entered his credit card info. It's very unfortunate what Pete said about his departed band mates, and he's apologized to their children. He says regrettable things, and certainly doesn't come across as the most charming guy in the world. It can't be denied that he's a musical genius though, surely one of the best songwriters of the rock era. I saw The Who (what's left of 'em) for the first time in concert 3 months ago, and they were amazing. I don't know how it's physically possible for a 75-year old man to sing with the power that Roger does, but somehow he does. And Pete is just brilliant as a guitarist, writer and singer. NMB - In an ideal world I'd love to believe it too. But it seems awfully fishy to me. It seems like a convenient out for him and his legal team. A good lawyer can get you out of what seems a lot. To an extreme example, look at the Caylee Anthony case. And to think of all of what went on behind closed doors with Casey and that attorney makes me sick. He knew she was guilty! Defense lawyers want one thing - make $. If it is in fact true that he didn't download it, that's good, but still - why put your credit card info on a child porn site for "research"? He says he was trying to expose some bank thing. To me it's a lame excuse. I think he probably quickly backtracked and got caught. How far deep in the well he got before he thought 'oh crap' is minutia. I think he was cleared on charges, but there are a lot of innocent people in jail and a lot of bad people running free. Michael Jackson was another who got off his charges too easy IMO. Vince Neil's negligence (to put it mildly) in the 80s killed another person and was lightly punished. Not very fair. I've read Roger's book as well. I still think Roger and Pete will stick up for one another. It's like brothers. They hate and love each other. I do think despite their differences they are in many ways inseparable. Just like Mick and Keith and Steven and Joe. They need each other more than they'd admit. Some songwriting partnerships are volatile and the dysfunction of it is what at least partly made/makes it great. And yes, it's still very icky to me and to me Pete is an insufferable character. Being a songwriting genius doesn't mean it's ok to be a miserable person to everyone around you. He's a malcontent. I could name others (and you can probably guess who), but I won't. That's leaving the creepy stuff out of it. He's just a jerk and while he's brilliant, that doesn't enable him to say those things. Apology my hind end! You mean it, and then quickly backtracked. I'm one who forgives people the first time but repeat offenders are wasting their breath trying to apologize to me for the umpteenth time. Save it for someone else. I would love to know how they in fact know he didn't download anything. Was the server hosting that stuff checked for download activity on his IP address? Because computers can be cleaned and hard drives destroyed. Forensic computer technicians aren't as good as you'd think they should be. There is some seriously powerful software out there that will wipe a hard drive beyond any recognition (same software and formatting style used when the government gets rid of hard drives/computers), and you can take it a step further and destroy the drive by crushing it (which he didn't likely do that part!). But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't download anything. Still, he put his own CC info on that website that was obviously for what it was. What did he think he was going to solve by doing that?! Absolutely nothing. Leave the criminal detective work to the investigators Pete, stay off the dark web, appreciate what you've been given, be kind, and play your damn guitar. Maybe then you'll be worthy of my respect again. EagleLady In The Hotel California I love The Who but Pete has always came off to me as a standoffish, arrogant person. and You're right Austin, He could've found other ways to explain what happened to him as a boy and not try to obtain child porn. KingWalsh Border Desperado Ya, that is so odd, the whole "internet search".....I feel bad for the trauma he experienced, however he seems so unlikable and it makes it hard for me listen to the Who sometimes for I am torn . He might regret playing with Moon and Entwhistle, but they are regarded as legends. Nobody played like either one of them, many probably listened to the Who for these two giants! It's almost like he's jealous they got the recognition they did. 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__label__cc	0.527525	0.472475	Crashing the Dance Best Week Ever: February 11-18 Reduce, reuse, recycle. This week we feature teams that have have been in previous versions of Best Week Ever. As usual, all data is through Sunday's games. Oklahoma - (was out; now #8 seed) After losing three straight and making the list on the way down, the Sooners reappear in the field. The latest CTD change helped; their sub-.500/even records against RPI Top 50 and Top 100 teams hurt, but only 14 teams have more wins against RPI Top 50 teams than Oklahoma's 4. Miami (was out; now #10 seed) Adding conference RPI and games +/- .500 hurt the Hurricanes last week, but including several new attributes boosted them back in much like it did for Oklahoma. Only 18 teams have more wins over RPI Top 100 teams than Miami's 7. Syracuse (was out; now #11 seed) Unlike the other two teams on this list, the Orange did something meaningful on the court to strengthen their profile. Despite losing at South Florida, the win over Georgetown put them back on the right side of the bubble. Their 6 wins over RPI Top 100 and 16-9 record against RPI Top 200 help for now, but as I wrote last week, they have every opportunity to put themselves squarely in the field with their upcoming schedule and no basis for complaint if they don't. Wake Forest (was not even close; now second team left out) Though not yet in the field, the Deacs made quite the leap this week. With wins at Florida State and at home over Duke, they sit just outside the bubble. Before starting their current 3 game winning streak, they were barely inside the top 100 in RPI. They now sit at #61 and a week of rest before heading into Chapel Hill. A win there, giving them two top 5 RPI wins, should put them into a good position down the stretch. Quite a season by an inspired team, and they should be even better next year. Florida (was #9; now out) I wrote several weeks ago that Florida's 5-1 conference start could show that the first two months of their season was more than smoke and mirrors. I also pointed out that if they stayed near the top of the SEC, the committee would likely overlook their weak non-conference profile. Well, after four losses in their last five games, including one last week to an LSU team that had just fired its coach, they are no longer near the top of the SEC and are now on the wrong side of the CTD bubble. But fret not for the three-peat: the Gators still have several opportunities to right their ship, but can they flip on the switch as last year's team could? Texas A&M (was #5; now #7) The Aggies situation is not nearly as dire as Florida's, but they dropped a few seed lines with a loss in their only game last week to Oklahoma State. Their lack of consistency I mentioned several weeks ago hasn't improved (still ranked 278th in consistency), and if they can't take care of business the next few weeks their profile could hinge on a final week showdown against Kansas. See anything wrong with this post? Have any suggestions? Let me know about it or suggest a change! Copyright © 2005-2016 Andy Cox. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line83
__label__cc	0.697458	0.302542	All names: Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 Subject: Person: Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 Waldo Frank papers Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967 Extent: 63 linear feet (132 boxes, 1 oversized folder) The papers document the literary career and the personal and professional life of twentieth-century American novelist and writer Waldo David Frank. Comprising correspondence, writings, publicity, writings by others, memorabilia, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings spanning from 1879 to 1977, the collection contains 132 boxes and 3565 folders. The correspondence documents Frank's personal and professional relationships with writers, editors, artists, friends, and family. Letters from friendships with other writers and artists such as Jean Toomer, Sherwood Anderson, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Mumford, Van Wyck Brooks, and Hart Crane document congenial collaborations, sharing of ideas, and disagreements. The writings contain his notebooks, major works, articles, essays, and early writings tracing Frank's works and ideas of society and culture with psychological and social themes of man and his environment. Frank's passion for the culture and study of Spain, Latin America, and Mexico is apparent in correspondence and his research, preserved through notes and photographs of South America and Mexico. Letters and photographs display Frank's relationships with family members, his wives (Margaret Naumburg, Alma Magoon Frank, and Jean Klempner Frank) and his children. The materials in this collection divulge not only the writings of Waldo Frank, but the struggles of the writer and his encounters with himself and society as he seeks his vision of truth in the world. He was courageous in the face of his critics and his political enemies even when experiencing both written and physical attacks. Even though Frank claimed he was an outsider he was embraced by the people and cultures he championed and studied. Although largely forgotten by the end of his lifetime, his correspondence, writings, and ideas remain, providing insight into literary circles, political ideas, and historical events in the United States and Latin America during the early- to mid-twentieth century. 63 linear feet (132 boxes, 1 oversized folder) Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967 Aguilar, S. A. de Ediciones. Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 Baekeland, Brooks Barnet, Aimée Barney, Charles G. Bazalgette, Léon, 1873-1928 Benardete, M. J. (Maír José), 1895- Bittner, William, 1921-1977 Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959 Boni & Liveright. Boussinesq, Hélène Broch, Hermann, 1886-1951 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 Brousseau, Jule Caplan, Debrorah Frank, 1931- Carnevali, Emanuel Charles Scribner's Sons. Clurman, Harold, 1901- Copeau, Jacques, 1879-1949 Cornell, Kathryn Snider Cox, Mary Hodge Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 Cuevas de Vera, Tota Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970 Dahlberg, Edward, 1900-1977 Dana, Marion Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Editorial Losada. Espinoza, Enrique, 1898-1987 Frank, Alma Magoon, 1898- Frank, Helene Rosenberg Frank, Jean Klempner Frank, Julius J., 1852- Frank, Michal, 1931- Frank, Thomas, 1922- Gide, André, 1869-1951 Hart Dávalos, Armando Hartley, Marsden, 1871-1943 Hennecke, Hans Houghton Mifflin Company. Iznaga, Alcides Jewish Agency for Palestine. Klein, George S., (George Stuart), 1917-1971 Klyce, Scudder, 1879-1933 Kurti, Kitty Larrea, Juan Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 League of American Writers. Lecuna, Vicente, 1870-1954 Literary and Theatrical Agency of the syndicate of Czech Authors. Léon-Felipe, 1884-1968 Mallea, Eduardo, 1903-1982 Malraux, André, 1901-1976 Marinello, Juan, 1898-1977 Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 Martin, William A. Matthews, E. de P., (Elva de Pue) Maurín, Joaquín, 1897-1973 McCourt, Edna Wahlert McKerr-Kaston, M. H. de Rohan Mishnun-Hardman, Virginia Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957 Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 Munson, Gorham Bert, 1896-1969 Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 Naruse, Seiichi, 1892-1936 Nation. Naumburg, Margaret, b. 1890 New Century Fellowship. New Republic. New York Times Company. Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997 O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979 Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963 Oko, Adolph S. (Adolph Sigmund), 1883-1944 Oko, Dorothy Kuhn Oliver, Maria Rosa, 1898-1977 Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 Openhym, Wilfred A. Oppenheim, James, 1882-1932 Ornstein, Leo, 1892-2002 Porset, Clara, 1895-1981 Pratt, Julia Follensbee Rees, Richard, 1900- Reyes, Alfonso, 1889-1959 Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 Rosenfeld, Paul, 1890-1946 Rougemont, Simone de Salvatierra, Manolo A. Sanín, Cano Baldomero, 1861-1957 Scott, Evelyn, 1893-1963 Seidenberg, Roderick, 1889-1974 Smith, Anthony Wayne Staininger, Otto Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Sánchez, Luis Alberto, 1900-1994 Tighe, Margot Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967 Whipple, Edward Willingham, John R. Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 Young, Ladine, 1906- Clippings (information artifacts) Contracts Correspondence Diaries Manuscripts, American--20th century Notebooks Photographs Poems Scrapbooks Typescripts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line86
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__label__wiki	0.537472	0.537472	Chapter 56: At Sea « Chapter 55: Accountability Red wakes on the morning of the cruise and quickly staggers into the shower so he can wash the grogginess away. They added an extra hour when setting their alarms to make sure that, short of some city-wide catastrophe, they’d have plenty of extra time to make it, but he doesn’t want to get complacent because of that. He dries his hair as quick as he can, noticing that it’s getting shaggy and making a quick memo to cut it when he returns, then gets dressed and heads down to the Trainer House lobby to meet Leaf, constantly checking the time and traffic on the route there to see how much wiggle room they’ll have before boarding starts. The elevator doors open, and Red is about to step forward when he looks up from his phone and sees Leaf, causing his forward momentum to halt as his heart thuds in surprise. Instead of her normal travel clothes, she’s dressed in an elegant black dress that leaves her tanned arms and knees bare, and her hair falls in a straight and shining curtain to her upper back. She turns at the sound of the elevator opening, then frowns. “Really, Red?” Red twitches, eyes guiltily jumping to her face. “I ah… I was…” “You’re wearing that? We’re going on a swanky cruise! Don’t you have any dress clothes?” Red blinks. “Dress clothes! Yes! I thought… that I’d change there…” His cheeks are burning as the elevator doors start to close. “Be right back…” He rushes back to his room, suddenly glad his mom convinced him to pack a few sets of some nicer clothing. After a few months on the road, the thin material of the button-up shirt and khakis makes him feel vulnerable… particularly once he puts his hat on, then takes it off upon realizing that it looks very out of place. Come to think of it, his white and red hiking shoes clash a bit too, but he doesn’t have anything else. Red quickly tries combing his hair into something neat, but eventually gives up on it once it’s passable and goes back downstairs with some trepidation. Thankfully Leaf smiles when she sees him. “Much better.” Her eyes flick down to his shoes, but she doesn’t comment, and soon they’re heading out onto the street to find their cab. To distract himself from looking at her, Red takes his phone back out as they ride and starts checking his sites while he can; internet signal on the ship will be spotty, and he’ll hopefully be too busy to want to surf the net anyway. What immediately catches his eye is a trend of headlines in his science news sub that follow a certain theme: Study finds link between psychic ability and pokemon size. New research on “psychic particle” shows link to gender. Are psychics from certain regions stronger? “Leaf, have you seen these?” She leans over to read from his tilted screen. “Huh. They’re all from the same couple of journals, too. You think they’ve been sitting on this stuff for a while?” “Maybe…?” Red starts reading the abstracts, his frown growing into a scowl. “I recognize these journals… they’re the ones that just churn out publications. One of them tried to get me to buy in after Pewter!” “That bad, huh?” He’s too preoccupied to respond to her tone. “Oh come on, look at this one, Psychic powers may be linked with nose size. Nose size! Off of a single correlation found in drowzee!” “Do they mention that it’s just drowzee in the article?” He opens the full text and does a search. “Yeah. Barely though. And people are already talking like it extends to woobats and spoinks.” “Hmm.” Leaf reaches out and pinches his nose. “Sorry Red, looks like you’re not a natural.” He bats her hand away. “This is serious, Leaf! They’re citing me!” “What, all of them?” She looks impressed. “Oh, you poor thing, how horrible.” His scowl completely fails to affect her as she gets on her phone and starts tapping on it. “I’m more interested in how they’re all coming out at once.” Red goes back to flicking from paper to paper, looking at their methodology. Evaluation of component parts… new interpretive technology… uncategorized matter, as shown by Verres experiments… It doesn’t take long for Red to figure it out; some of the smaller labs must have gotten together and churned through hundreds of captured pokemon data, applying Pallet’s new scanning tech to categorize it legibly, then used some algorithm to search through the massive amounts of data and spit out correlations that would be publishable. Barely. “I need to talk to someone about this,” Red says. “See if there’s something I can do…” “No time,” Leaf says, slapping his arm. “We’re here!” Red glances out the window just as the buildings on either side of the street fall away to reveal the massive, curving city harbor. Traffic picks up as they approach the docks where the SS Anne is waiting, with an intimidating amount of security already set up for early boarders. Red and Leaf thank their driver, then take their tickets out as they strap their bags on and make their way toward the line. “So what did Bill say?” Leaf asks. “About what?” Red asks, mind still on the articles. “Last minute instructions?” Red blinks. Right, Bill did say he’d send something like that… “I didn’t see anything…” He checks again, then sends Bill a quick message. He probably should have done that earlier, but he got distracted… There’s no response by the time they reach the front of the line, and their tickets are closely scrutinized once the cruise agent sees the two of them. Red starts to feel nervous as they speak into their phone briefly, and then he and Leaf are taken out of the line while someone calls Bill to confirm that he gave his tickets to them. “Still no response,” Red says, checking his phone. “What if he’s in some kind of work frenzy? Or asleep?” “Just be patient. We’ve got time to work whatever confusion there is out.” Leaf seems utterly calm and unconcerned, and he does his best to mimic her, impressed by her confidence or acting ability. Eventually he decides to cheat a little, and mirrors her mental state. Turns out she’s not acting at all, and soon the nervousness in his stomach fades. Eventually they’re let on and told to enjoy their stay, much to Red’s relief. Once they’re on board, however, it quickly becomes clear that they’ll continue to draw scrutiny for awhile yet; within the first hour they spy a few attendees in their mid to late 20s, but no one near as young as them, and dozens of others far older. They draw a number of looks as they make their way to their cabins. “Yeah, arriving in my travel clothes might have been a mistake,” Red mutters as he sees all the people wearing fancy suits and dresses. Leaf smiles. “Maybe they’ll stare less once we put our bags away.” It’s a good point; both have their fully loaded travel bags with them, while everyone else’s luggage apparently fits in a container ball or two at their belts. Red sees that most attendants have pokeballs too, though none others have six like he and Leaf. Their rooms are in the same hallway, with another door dividing them. Red wonders who the neighbor between them is, then enters his door and is taken aback by how fancy it is, even after seeing the other cruise attendees. He has a king sized bed, a huge wall monitor, and his own bathroom. Before Red can check out what looks like a whole separate room, the door opens and Leaf pokes her head in. “We have a living room!” Red blinks, then follows her to see that the door between them actually leads to a shared common space that’s twice as big as his bedroom and just as luxurious. He walks around the couches to inspect a bar stocked with not just alcohol, but a variety of soft drinks and juices. “Think anyone’s going to come and take the booze, now that they know we’re underage?” “Psh, whatever. We’re old enough to be trainers, we’re old enough to drink.” Leaf inspects one of the bottles, then puts it back. “That said, I’ve never liked the taste.” “You’ve had wine?” Red asks, impressed. “Beer, mostly. Grandpa gave me a sip now and then. He seemed to like the faces I’d make.” “Well, we can always experiment.” Red takes his phone out to snap a picture to Blue, then changes his mind. He doesn’t want to look like he’s bragging. Instead he checks the headlines again. “Come on, let’s go explore.” Red follows her out into the common areas, where a number of guests have already settled in to have snacks, play pool, or just sit and chat. The rear deck has an outdoor swimming pool that’s currently unused, and there’s a fitness center that they can see a single person already making use of, lifting weights at one of the machines. “Must be getting his daily workout in,” Leaf says. “Think they have pokemon training rooms here?” Red looks around until he spots someone in the staff uniform and approaches him, glancing at his name tag. “Hey, Paul? Quick question, do you guys have rooms for pokemon training?” The young man blinks. “No, sir. No pokemon battling is allowed onboard. This is a boat.” “Not for battling, I mean for just training.” “And… what would training entail?” “You know, training.” Red makes a careless gesture. “Like… target practice, or…” He trails off at the expression on Paul’s face. “Sir… this is a boat.” Red opens his mouth to say something about how they’re not going to be training a tyranitar or anything, then closes it, recognizing the futility. “We can run around with them though, right?” Leaf asks, sounding worried. “Just to get some exercise?” He hesitates. “I think it might be better not to, ma’am. It might upset the other guests.” “What if I did it early in the morning? Or late at night?” “I could ask the captain, and leave a message for you with his answer.” “Please do.” Leaf gives Paul her room number, and watches him head off with a troubled look on her face. “A whole week without being able to take a run with Raff would drive me nuts.” “I’m sure it’ll be okay,” Red says. “If not, we can just move the couches around to set up an obstacle course in our living room.” Leaf eyes him uncertainly. “Really?” “Why not? They gave us all that room, we might as well use it.” She grins. “Come on, let’s go watch cast off.” Leaf leans against the railing to watch the people boarding the ship, and Red mimics her. He recognizes a few faces here and there from various tech companies, but most are utter strangers to him, probably the high and mighty among the business world. Eventually the last few walk up the ramp, and the crew starts the process of unmooring the vessel. The ship shifts beneath his feet as it starts to move away from the pier, and Red looks up at Vermilion City to watch as it starts to slowly shrink. “It looks so big, from this angle,” Leaf says, voice quiet. “Yeah.” Red managed to see more of the city than Pewter or Cerulean, but there’s still whole districts and neighborhoods he hasn’t set foot in. “It’ll be weird coming back to a city after leaving it, for once. Want to explore a bit more when we get back?” “It’s a date.” Red’s cheeks heat at the choice of words, and he wonders whether it was intentional or not. He’s tempted to use his powers to check, and before he can really reconsider or stop himself his mind brushes hers. Cheerfulness. Excitement. Impatience. Some other stuff. Nothing like what he’s feeling. Red withdraws and chides himself for breaching her privacy, minor as it had been. He didn’t even get any kind of answer, really… and what kind of answer was he looking for, exactly? “We’ve got an hour to schmooze before the welcome speech,” Leaf says, breaking him out of his thoughts. “Want to go check out the breakfast buffet?” “Sure.” A moment’s indecision, then Red offers her his arm. She takes it with a grin, and his pulse kicks up as they walk toward the nearest dining area. Red knows he’s going to miss Blue and Aiko, but right now he’s absurdly happy that the coming week will just be him and Leaf. The main dining hall is packed for the welcome speech, which is itself fairly uninteresting to Red. Some talk about the history of the Cruise Convention, thanks to all sorts of people and organizations, blah blah. He perks up a bit when the day’s schedule is finally revealed to the participants, eyes scanning the big screen as he quickly jots down everything mentioned. Without any further instructions from Bill, he just has to make do with what he was told before, and take notes on all the tech he sees… and particularly any on storage technology. He wonders if the inventor even remembered that the cruise was today, or that he sent them. Eventually the host reminds everyone that recordings are strictly prohibited, and then the lights come on and people start to make their way to various exhibitions. “See you at dinner!” Leaf says as she springs up. “Unless you want to see the artificial meat replication exhibit too?” Red considers it, then realizes he just wants to spend more time with Leaf and shakes his head. “I think Bill will be more interested in the simulation stuff.” “Oh yeah, I was going to check that one out during the third time slot.” Red checks his notes. “I think I’m going to be at the ‘battle tech demo,’ whatever that is.” “Ugh. Pass. I guess I’ll see you later!” “Later!” Red watches her go, then gets up and makes his way to the room where the simulation technology is being showcased. It starts a few minutes after he arrives, and Red quickly jots down the basic premise; the makers are working on something that would allow a trainer to virtually interact with their stored pokemon in real time, rather than just use pre-set programs that borrow their likeness. “Once your voice and appearance are uploaded, you then provide samples of hair, skin, sweat, and clothing so that your pokemon can ‘smell’ you,” the presenter says as he moves his hands in a petting motion, encased in their shimmering gloves, while on the screen they see him petting his pokemon up close within the artificially rendered battle arena. “For all practical purposes, you’ll be able to train your pokemon in any way you can imagine, short of actual human simulation!” The following hour is spent going over technology specs and business models and compatibility with various existing software for training. A lot of it goes over Red’s head, but he dutifully writes down as much as seems important, feeling a bit like he’s in one of his nightmares about going to school and finding out there’s a test the next day on material he’s never seen before. Oddly enough he never had nightmares about the test itself, though occasionally he’d get ones where he finds out it was the day before and he missed it. He wants to ask how the simulation will handle situations that have never occurred before. After some initial stage fright, he forces himself to raise his hand along with everyone else asking about investment opportunities and production plans and visual fidelity. Time runs out before he’s called on, however, and Red drops his hand to applaud along with everyone else. The tech will probably be a big hit among civilians and parents who want their kids to get some practice interacting with pokemon virtually, but he can’t imagine that professional battle trainers or coordinators would be able to push the envelope with it. As the lights turn on, the presenter starts talking about the demo they’d be offering after dinner to those interested (and able to pay), and Red follows most of the crowd out as he checks the schedule, then heads to another auditorium. This one’s pretty interesting too; the stage has a pokeball mounted on the end of a robotic arm, with a camera and speakers on the end. “So picture one of these at every corner of your house,” the presenter says as the screen shows them what the camera sees. “Pokemon comes nearby?” A rattata mounts the stage and approaches the arm, which immediately swings around to point the ball at it. Soon there’s a ping, then the arm throws it and captures the tamed rattata. “No problem, right?” Red can see there’s some interest in the crowd. This tech has been around for awhile, though its reliability is still an issue, and it doesn’t work for pokemon in the air or that come underground, limiting its uses. This one seems more refined and flexible than the others… The presenter replaces the ball. “What about this one?” The sound of wings comes from behind them, air blowing Red’s hair, and everyone looks up to see a pidgey flying above, no doubt released by one of the assistants. The arm once again homes in on it as it gets close, pings a lock, then throws, quickly, accurately, catching the pidgey mid-air. The people below it flinch as the ball drops, but it suddenly zips back toward the arm as some thin fiber is reeled into the center. There’s applause this time, and the presenter takes the ball off, then turns it to show them the custom shell. “More accurate, responsive, and reliable than any on the market. But wait, there’s more!” A third ball is placed on the robotic limb, and another rattata is sent toward the stage. This time the ball doesn’t lock on to catch it; it releases an oddish. “Sleep Powder,” a voice commands from the arm, and the oddish sends some spores at the rattata, who quickly slumps to sleep. The arm withdraws the oddish, and the audience applauds again, louder. “Did I say every corner of your house?” the presenter asks. “Well now imagine a line of them around every town and city in the region! With seismic sensors and longer arms, our tech will be deployed by private citizens, governments, gyms, and rangers to finally bring us all what we’ve been dreaming of: peace of mind.” More applause, more questions, more notes, and then it’s off to the third presentation room, which has a pair of rattata facing each other on stage as if ready for a battle, and their trainers each wear some kind of headgear with a screen in front of one eye that reminds Red of Bill’s gear. He quickly finds his seat as the presenter steps to the front of stage. “Welcome everyone! We at Game Freak are happy to unveil our newest generation of simulation technology; rather than a VR game, we’ve been working on an AR program that will revolutionize pokemon battles the world over. For almost a decade now we’ve seen more and more professional trainers using some form of Heads Up Display to augment the amount of information they have during a battle. But what if we could give more immediate data about the pokemon battles themselves…?” Red watches as the big screen lights up to show a split of what the two trainers see on their small visors. The clear glass displays a green bar floating beside each of their pokemon, and Red grins as he sees where this is going. Blue is going to FLIP! Sure enough, as soon as one of the rattata is ordered to tackle the other, the hurt pokemon’s bar goes down slightly on both trainers’ screens. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is not pre-rendered. It’s a live calculation being made based on factors like species, mass estimation, contact type, velocity of contact type…” The rattata that was attacked is ordered to use Double Edge, a far more powerful version of the standard tackle. Red winces slightly at the bone-jarring impact that sends one of the rattata tumbling out of the small arena. Its trainer follows it with her vision, so that they can see its “health” drop quite a lot. Meanwhile, the attacking rattata’s trainer keeps his vision on his own pokemon, whose health has also dropped some smaller amount. Half? A little less? It’s hard to be sure with such a small bar and no numbers. “Currently, the technology relies on the careful testing and simulating of pre-registered pokemon that have fought dozens of times. Useful for trainers to have a visual representation of how hurt their own pokemon are while training. But that’s just what the launch product will feature.” The presenter paces the stage as the monitor changes from a perspective of the two trainers’ HUD to recorded footage from dozens of other tests. “Imagine what the analysis of millions of hours of battle footage from hundreds of thousands of battles, not just in our labs but also in the wild or gym arenas, will eventually let it do. We predict that within a year of widespread use, our algorithms will be able to provide an estimation of damage for every attack by any pokemon against any pokemon, not just based on how and where it was struck, but by aggregated data from every time that pokemon has been struck by that attack by that opponent in recorded history.” Red applauds with everyone else, though his gaze stays on the rattata that was tackled out of the arena as its trainer gives it some quick care before returning it to its ball. Watching the pokemon take such a powerful attack just to demonstrate some tech made him feel a pang of something he imagines is close to what Leaf feels when she watches trainer battles. He knows it’s silly, testing the technology would require all sorts of actual pokemon fighting each other, and it’s no less important than the training people put their pokemon through while not being recorded or analyzed. After a moment he begins to applaud a bit harder, already thinking of all the ways this tech could make pokemon battles safer, and give trainers in the wild an edge in determining not just how close their own pokemon are to serious injury, but how careful to be with an opponent that might die before it’s caught. The next couple exhibits are less interesting to him, one on travel technology and another on refined compression. Red does his best to follow along for the sake of the note taking, and practically forgets that he’s on a ship until he steps outside of the last one and sees that night has fallen on the ocean around them. He heads toward the dining hall to meet up with Leaf and compare notes. He notices that a lot of the people in the various lounge areas and then the dining hall are on their phones or laptops, and wonders how strict the NDA really is. It’s probably expected that many of them would already start talking with their various teams, as long as the information doesn’t reach the press before the companies are ready to go public. He half expects Leaf to already be typing up an article about the meat production, but instead he spots her still at the notebook writing stage. It takes Red a few minutes to decide what to eat with all the options that are on display, and he finally decides to grab a little of everything before heading to the empty spot at her table. “Hey. Pretty exciting stuff, huh?” he asks. “Exciting, yeah,” she says. “Sorry, in a bit of a flow… talk after?” Red stifles the little stab of hurt. “Sure.” He frowns at himself. Since when did he start feeling hurt from Leaf being productive? They spent whole weeks barely talking to each other, each lost in their own projects. Red takes his phone out to work on one of his, but is distracted by the notification of new trending articles. It must be from while they were still in reception range… He opens it and starts to read. Sure enough, more garbage. Psychic particle correlated with glucose… Psychic ability may be reduced by low melanin… Red blinks. Psychic power found to correlate with amount of gut bacteria?! He had made that exact joke, back in Viridian Forest! Red feels himself getting angry again. All this “knowledge” is useless; it’s like overlaying a graph of “deaths by wild pokemon per year” and another of “amount of pop music videos created per year.” Whether they’re correlated in a positive or negative direction, the information tells you nothing about any causal link between them. What’s worse is the imprecision of the headlines. He has to delve into each one’s methodology to figure out what exactly is meant by “psychic ability” each time the phrase is used. In Red’s papers, he was careful both times to specify in the title what was actually tested: strength of fear based mental projection for the spinaraks, and psychokinetic lifting strength for the abra. These headlines are all just treating psychic abilities like one unified thing, even as they specifically draw correlations between the Other category and various other metrics, then take his research about Other being linked to stronger psychokinesis as justification for the importance of their “study!” The sheer amount of these things that have come out in the past couple of days is itself a problem. He sees comments by people already complaining about how it’s clogging up news feeds. Sites that allow for user voting have thankfully responded swiftly, consolidating them all to mega-threads or downvoting them into oblivion, but that latter just risks a negative response to any future claim of measurable basis for psychic phenomenon! If someone had asked him yesterday whether he’d ever be upset at his research being cited in dozens of papers, he’d have said the more the merrier. But… not like this. His work is being used to justify all sorts of sensationalized nonsense. “Red?” He blinks and looks up. “Huh?” “I asked if you’re ready to go?” Red looks around. The dining hall is mostly empty, as is his plate. He barely remembers what he ate. “Yeah, sorry.” He gets up, and she follows. “Did you finish your notes?” “Yeah. You looked really focused on something, so I didn’t want to bother you.” He would have preferred the interruption to just getting more and more upset by headlines, but he can’t think of a way to say so. He doesn’t want to bring up the articles again, after she dismissed his anger earlier. Instead they walk the halls of the ship in silence, until Red forces himself to think of something else. “I just realized, we never signed a non-disclosure agreement or anything when we got on board… are we allowed to talk about this stuff to anyone, or post about it online?” he asks. “Since they don’t want us recording anything…” Leaf shrugs. “The majority of guests here are potential investors and collaborators. You only make someone sign an NDA if you have leverage over them or want it, which would be pretty counter-productive for the people the companies here want to work with.” “We’re kind of an exception to that, though, right?” “True. That might be why we had some trouble getting on board. But they let us on, so I don’t think they’ll have much to complain about if I write about some of the stuff we saw.” When they get back to their room there’s a note waiting on Leaf’s door. “We can let out ‘small’ pokemon at the pool area, but not in the halls, and not if it would ’cause a disturbance,'” Leaf reads. “Well, that’s something I guess.” The expression on her face belies her casual tone. It bothers Red that he won’t be able to spend much time with his pokemon for a week, but he knows that Leaf really values the time she spends working out and playing with them. “So, is Plan B a go?” Leaf’s slow smile brightens the hall. “Really? I thought you were joking about that. We really shouldn’t, they might get upset…” “So? What are they going to do, kick us off the boat?” Leaf snorts, and he shrugs. “At worst maybe one of the staff finds out and we just put everything back where it was.” “Alright, twist my arm why don’t you!” They go inside, then take a look around. “Let’s see, if we push all the furniture into the middle we’ll have a decent amount of space to run laps in…” “Yeah, and we can move those two couches back to back for a three-step obstacle, then stack the cushions for a small wall to climb.” “Yeah…” She’s quiet for a moment as she looks around the room, and for a moment he’s afraid she’s going to tell him to just forget about it. Then she turns to him with a grin. “Think they’ll give us extra pillows if we ask for them?” He grins back. “Can’t hurt to ask.” An hour later, the living room is transformed. To an untrained eye it may just look like they’ve just strewn things about at random, but the end result was each pillow, couch, cushion, leg rest, and garbage bin carefully placed from multiple tests and iterations. There didn’t end up being quite enough space for a satisfying outer track, so instead they set up a pair of parallel courses that go up and down the length of the room twice so that they can swap back and forth as they reach each end. Red leaps forward with wide side to side movements, bare feet landing on cushions that get progressively higher until he reaches the end, hands reaching up to brush the ceiling, then coming down to balance his landing. Pichu leaps straight from the highest cushions to Red’s shoulder, and he turns and steps to the side to start on the other track, which uses the couches as a three step, followed by the coffee table that he falls onto his belly to crawl under while Pichu leaps off his shoulder and races ahead to his bedroom door, which is propped open so he can jump and grab the top, brace his feet on the handles, and leap back onto the start of the other track, usually just as Leaf and Raff finish it and leap up the couches. Red starts to work up a sweat after a few iterations, but they’ve found the right rhythm to keep moving at a steady pace. After the training courses at Vermilion Gym, all the running isn’t too strenuous. “So how was the ball-made meat?” “Good!” Leaf crawls under the table as Raff jumps up to run atop it. “It’s been so long since I had any that it tasted strange, but I think that was just me. The fake oddish tasted better, and the others there seemed to like it!” “So you’re going to write a piece,” He huffs out a breath as he lands. “On that?” “Yeah! I already talked to some of the engineers… they’ve been making meat for years now, but it was never economic or tasty enough.” “Does it come out precooked?” “They make both! I tried to get some for you, but they said you can get some at lunch tomorrow!” “Will do!” Red uses his hands to vault over the couch without his feet touching it this time and stumbles, reminding himself to use more force on the next lap. “What about the other exhibits?” “Nothing too exciting. Some new aerial surveillance and signal relaying drones for better emergency control. Useful for things like the Viridian Fire.” “Or to start settling more of the wilderness. The automatic pokeballs will help with that too, so that it’s easier to set up defenses.” “Yeah,” Leaf says, and he hears her slap the ceiling behind him before she asks, “This whole island chain isn’t totally inhabited, right?” “No. There’s been talk of Kanto and Johto working together to push out past Mount Silver for new settlements, though some are worried they would be too far, and form a new region.” Red shrugs as he runs. “Some political thing I guess. Never really got it.” He notices that Pichu’s energy is flagging, and unclips his ball. “Pichu, return!” He reclips the ball and unclips another without slowing down, bracing his arm as he points it to the empty space beside the bar area. “Go, Nidoran!” His pokemon materializes, and Red says “Follow!” as he reclips the ball and starts leaping across the pillow path again. “But I don’t think it’ll happen anytime soon. Dad used to say there aren’t enough extra people yet who would want to live on the frontier until it stabilizes. What about around Unova?” “The frontiers around it have been slowly expanding,” she says. “But there was a big setback a couple years ago. Thundurus hit one of the cities there, forced it to be abandoned, and there were calls to stop trying to push further for a bit.” “Damn,” he pants. “And what do you think? Should they have?” “I guess it made sense, at the time.” She leaps over the couches, and takes a deep breath before diving under the table. “But… eventually… I hope… we try again!” The conversation lulls after that, the sounds of their movements and breaths filling the silence. The room is starting to feel hot and stuffy, and Red suddenly breaks from the course to go open the window, letting in the cool night air and smell of the ocean. He scratches Nidoran behind its ears, then approaches the obstacle course again and waits for Leaf to get to the opposite side before jumping back in. Nidoran has some trouble with the table, electing to run around it instead of trying to go under like Red or over it like Raff, and waits at the other end for Red to come out, somehow managing to look impatient. “Cheater,” Red accuses as he pushes himself back up. “Do you think our ancestors ever imagined something like this?” Leaf asks eventually. “That we’d grow so much, connect with each other across the globe, start pushing out?” “Maybe in a different way. Like a single empire sweeping across the island or continent, eradicating pokemon along the way.” Red can hear the frown in Leaf’s voice. “That’s horrible.” “Yeah. But much as we might treat them poorly now, people had even worse perspectives on pokemon before we were able to catch them.” “I know. Grandpa talks about what it was like growing up, and even then it wasn’t so bad as in his grandparents’ days. But people’s minds are changing, same as our tech. So as long as both keep changing…” Leaf runs out of breath, and on his next lap, Red sees that she’s stepped to the side to rest. He slows to a stop, then goes over to the bar and considers the options there. His hand hovers over the wine, curious, but then he grabs some juice for him and Leaf, as well as water and a bowl. He returns to the couch and hands hers over, then pours some water in the bowl for their pokemon. “Do you think one drives the other?” he asks as he takes a swallow, enjoying the way the breeze from the window feels on his sweaty face. “Like, people are more accepting of other cultures today than they used to be, but part of that comes from the ability to learn about and talk to people around the world, and travel being so much easier. If the tech for fake pokemon never advanced, would people’s morals have changed eventually?” “I’m not sure,” she says slowly. “There are other issues where it looks like cultures made moral progress without new tech, like most regions try to rehabilitate criminals rather than just punish them.” “Unless they’re Renegades.” “Sure, but even they’re killed more humanely now than they used to be, most of the time. So I want to think attitudes on eating pokemon might have changed on their own, but… morals are kind of a luxury, aren’t they? Like I know that people can only worry about not eating pokemon because they have other things to eat, now. Back then it was all about survival. But maybe they would eventually have realized what they were doing was wrong, but necessary.” She glances at him. “Taking for the sake of argument that eating pokemon is wrong.” Red shrugs. “I don’t want pokemon to suffer on ranches, I just… don’t really care if they do, I guess.” He frowns. “It sounds bad, when I say it out loud.” “Mmhm,” Leaf says with a raised brow, sipping her juice. “They’re just really delicious.” “Like really-” “Stop!” she says, pushing his shoulder… but she’s smiling. “You’ll try the fake meat tomorrow?” “Promise. I’ve got nothing against it.” “But will you stop eating real meat after?” Red tries to picture avoiding all meat. The food at Aiko’s was pretty tasty… but… “Is it… going to be available on the market?” “…How soon?” “Red!” “I’m trying to be realistic!” he protests. “I don’t want to give an overconfident promise and then break it.” “What about what we talked about in Vermilion? Can you at least keep to fish or something? Or just cut out any beef?” “I think I can do that, yeah.” Leaf turns to him. “Really?” She looks so excited that Red smiles, warmth filling his chest. “Yeah. You know what, I’ll try it all. As soon as the cruise is over, I won’t buy any more meat that’s not grown in a ball.” “Yay!” She wraps an arm around him and hugs him, causing heat to flush through his body and up his face. “You know it’s not actually grown in pokeballs, though, right? It’s just using the same tech.” “Ah. Makes sense,” he mutters as she releases him, quickly raising his bottle for another drink. “What about not eating any on the cruise too?” “Oh come on, they’re already dead!” “Fine, fine…” She’s still smiling, and the sight makes Red smile again too. “Fair warning that I might change my mind after I run out of my own stocks.” “Oh I know. But at least you’ve tried, then. And maybe you can just cut out one type at a time, see what works.” They sit together in silence for awhile, and Red slowly regains his energy. He takes Pichu out so he can do the same, and watches as his two pokemon explore their surroundings. Now that he’s not following the order to run around with Red, Nidoran looks the most spooked. His nose keeps twitching toward the open window, and Red wonders if he’s ever smelled the ocean before. “It reminds me of home,” he says suddenly. “The scent.” “Were you on boats often?” “No. But on a clear day you could smell the salt in the air from right outside my door.” “That sounds lovely. I wasn’t there for long enough to notice.” “We should go back sometime, when we can fly on our own pokemon. I know my mom’s not there anymore, but it’s strange to think that we’re going all over the region, and the place that Blue and I are most familiar with is the one you spent the least time in. Plus Aiko hasn’t been there at all, and she’d probably get a kick out of Pallet Lab’s ranch.” “That would be cool, yeah. I’d like to see where you and Blue grew up. Maybe someday I can give you guys the tour of Unova.” Just imagining it makes Red happy, and he smiles at her. “I don’t know if I mentioned it, but… I’m really glad you joined us, Leaf. I can’t really imagine the journey so far without you.” Leaf’s looks surprised, then pleased. She picks Raff up off the floor and puts him on her lap so she can inspect his fronds, and Red notices that the ivysaur is positioned so that his plant hides her face. “Well. That was sweet. And I feel the same, of course.” The warmth stays with him for the rest of the night. Red wakes to the smell of the ocean, eyes opening slowly as he moves one sore limb at a time. Eventually he checks his phone and sees that it’s near noon. All the presentations are between lunch and dinner, so he should probably get up soon. Instead he browses on his phone for a bit, first checking to see if he has any messages from Bill or Blue, then drawn irresistibly back to see if any new “research” on psychic particle or predictors has been published. There are some, and Red’s remaining sleepiness quickly fades as he searches through the headlines for anything remotely interesting. Eventually biology forces him out of bed, and from there it’s easier to put the phone away and get dressed. He goes through the transformed living room afterward, and spots the note on Leaf’s door telling him that she’s already out “schmoozing.” Shaking his head at her energy, he takes a walk around the outside of the ship, curious about what the other guests are doing and trying to avoid the temptation to look online again. He passes by various lounges, indoor and outdoor, and sees a lot of people either on their laptops, or in small groups and talking. Each time he tries to listen in as he walks nearby, it quickly becomes clear that they’re discussing some technology or aspect of business or investment that is way over his head, and he moves on before they can wonder whether he’s eavesdropping, interpreting the looks he gets as more wary or aloof than curious or inviting. Red starts to feel a bit isolated as he walks from one floor to the next, seeing all the people involved in their interesting conversations that he can’t take part in. Eventually he starts to specifically look for Leaf, until he realizes he can try to use his powers to pick her mind out. He needs to practice anyway, and it’s been awhile since he tried a broad reading of his surroundings. As he walks through a hallway and extends his senses outward as far as he can, he suddenly staggers and leans against a wall. His range is larger than before, and he senses minds in three dimensions for the first time. It feels like he’s standing in a storm, the mental impressions so spread out that their position is like a whole new level (or dimension, rather) of information for him to process. He doubts he could identify Leaf’s familiar signature even if she happens to be nearby. What jumps to his attention instead is the two psychic minds in the room above him. And a couple to his left… there are six in total… No, seven… nine… twelve… in all directions… Red’s eyes fly open, withdrawing his senses as he recovers from the strain. After a moment he walks to the nearest room where he sensed psychic minds and looks around at the crowd of people in various types of casually formal attire, trying to spot anyone with more obviously psychic clothing. He sees nothing. Why are there so many psychics here? Red starts to wander again, occasionally extending his senses out to find psychics in the same room as him to try and identify them. Their minds quickly vanish however, blocking themselves from his senses, and he eventually gives up, not wanting to be rude even if his curiosity is burning. Also now he has to worry about thinking the wrong thoughts at the wrong time… how could so many rich and important people be okay with this many psychics around? Maybe they don’t know… he should find someone to ask about it… “Good afternoon, everyone!” Red jumps as the PA system comes on. “This is your five minute reminder that lunch will be starting soon in the dining hall. That’s also where the programs listing this afternoon’s presentations can be found. Please make your way there if you’d like a copy!” Red watches the mass migration begin, though some people seem content to wait where they are for awhile longer, at least. He considers asking one of them, but decides to find Leaf first, now that he knows she’s likely to head to the lunch room. He should warn her of the psychics’ presence as soon as he can, since he knows how wary she is of them after meeting Giovanni. Red decides to try and maintain his mental shield as best he can. It’s a good way to get some extra psychic practice in, anyway. He doesn’t see her upon arriving at the dining hall, and goes to wait in line for the buffet, mind holding the default-mental-state shield in place as best he can while looking around. There’s a booth in the corner of the room where the artificial meat creators are offering samples, and he heads over after filling his plate. “Hello! Interested in getting a taste of the future?” “Yeah, my friend was raving about you guys last night.” “You must be Red,” one of them says with a smile. “We told her that you might enjoy them more fresh. What can I get you?” Red looks at the options. “Ah… pidgey nuggets?” He watches as they carefully serve him three. “You wouldn’t happen to know where Leaf is now, would you?” “Haven’t seen her yet today, sorry.” “No problem. And thanks!” He goes to find an empty table so that he’s easy to spot (and not because he doesn’t know anyone here and would feel awkward sitting beside them) and shakes some salt on his mashed potatoes, keeping an eye on the doors as he continues occasionally reinforcing his shield. Someone takes the chair to Red’s left, sitting with a contented sigh before they ask, “Could you pass that when you’re done, please?” “Sure.” He gives it a couple more shakes, then turns and hands it to the president, founder, and CEO of Silph Corporation holy shit. The old man is wearing a simple button up shirt, suspenders, a red bowtie, and a kindly smile. A cane rests against the table, a white hat beside his plate. “Thank you,” Mr. Silph says as he takes it from Red’s frozen hand. The Silph president gives it a few shakes over some strawberries on his plate, then places it aside. “Adds a bit of a tangy taste,” he confides upon seeing Red’s still-shocked expression. “You should try it, Mr…” “Verres. Red Verres.” Red hurriedly wipes his hand and offers it before he thinks of how presumptuous it might be. “Kazue Silph.” He takes Red’s hand in a firm grasp. “I know! It’s an honor to meet you! I use your products all the time!” Tone it down, Red. “Ah, a trainer!” The president’s eyes search Red’s briefly, then he releases his hand to begin eating. Red starts to dig into his food too. “I’d heard there was a young journalist on board, and thought it might be you.” “Oh, no, that’s my friend Leaf.” He looks around for her again, then turns back to the company president. “She’s a trainer too, though.” “I see. Well, I suspect she’s finding a lot of material to write on. Quite the interesting exhibits, wouldn’t you say?” “Oh, yeah. Is Silph going to be presenting something too?” “No, this year we’re strictly on the hunt.” He smiles. “Which technology are you the most excited for, so far?” Red considers it a moment, then says, “Probably the remote pokeballs? In the sense that it’s the one that seems like it has a lot of potential to save lives.” “Yes, that seems likely. Now, what about one that you predict most of your peers will purchase?” Ah. I’m a one-boy consumer panel. The thought reminds him that he should put his shield back up, and he takes a moment to do so while considering his answer. “Probably the AR visor,” he eventually says. “I don’t see how that won’t be a huge hit, unless it just doesn’t work reliably. I’m tempted to invest in it myself, if I have enough money to matter.” “Yes, that was my choice as well, assuming something else doesn’t come along that seems more commercially viable. Though these fake meats are intriguing.” He pokes his fork at a thin slice of some steak that Red assumes was ball-grown too. “Have you tried them yet?” Red shakes his head, then takes a cautious bite of his pidgey nugget, chews, swallows. “It… tastes like pidgey,” he says. Mr. Silph cuts a piece of his steak and tastes it, brow rising. “And this like tauros.” His jaw works as he chews. “A bit tough. Care to trade some for one of your nuggets?” “Oh, sure!” They do so, and sit for a moment chewing the pseudo-meats. “A bit dry too, right?” Red asks after a moment. “Or is that from the way it was cooked?” “No, you’re correct. Perhaps from insufficient fat generated in the meat.” He takes a sip of wine, and Red follows his example with his water. “Well, I’m sure they’ll be able to correct it eventually. In either case, the price of food will soon get much lower.” He eats the last of the steak, with some apparent satisfaction. “Which means more money for people to spend on Silph products,” Red says, smiling. Mr. Silph winks and takes another sip. “So, if you’re not here as a journalist or investor, what brought you to the Cruise Convention? It’s not often we have mere trainers here, let alone those so young.” “Well, I’m actually a Researcher too,” Red says. “Ah! Verres you said, yes? I thought your name was familiar. Something about psychic pokemon? There are quite a number of papers coming out now that cite you.” Any pleasure Red might have had at being recognized fades at the reminder. “Yeah.” “No, nothing.” He makes an effort to look cheerful as he starts eating again. “The accomplishment just feels a little muted, after seeing all the derivative discoveries that came out from a mindless algorithm.” “Nonsense. As a Researcher, shouldn’t the information be celebrated, regardless of the source?” Red frowns. “But all of it… or at least, the vast majority of it that I saw, it’s meaningless. They didn’t actually try to test specific hypotheses, they just threw a bunch of data into a computer and picked out the correlations that fell below the .05 or .01 threshold. It’s just… noise, noise that they get attention for without providing any real knowledge. Just look at the news sites, jumping all over every correlation and sensationalizing them!” The older man snorts. “Believe me, there is no love lost between myself and the press. Incentives, Mr. Verres, are what the world runs on, even more than money. And the incentives of journalism are inherently destructive toward any values of truth or clarity.” Red feels a bit of indignation at that, considering both his mother’s profession and Leaf’s current activities in the field. The Silph president chews some food while Red tries to think of a polite way to disagree, unable to before the older man continues. “But that’s often the case in a free society. That’s why we must understand the role journalists play, and approach them as warily as one would a combee nest while attempting to extract what honey their industry produces. The same goes for these mass produced studies. The incentives in science are to publish, and so publications are the first metric that matters, and so all else that matters falls under it in importance. True, the majority of them will be ultimately meaningless. But as a matter of efficiency, finding these correlations the way they have seems to have a minimal associated cost. Why not see it as a filter? A filter through which diligent researchers such as yourself may eventually gain some value, as you examine the data and consider new hypotheses?” Red doesn’t have an immediate answer to that, and takes a moment to think through his objection as he eats. “That sounds good when you phrase it that way,” he eventually admits. “The problem is that it’s sucking the air out of the room. All the researchers that are now trying to pick through the results are wasting time and energy and grant money on things that aren’t directed by any intelligence.” “That seems like a perfect opportunity for those with intelligence to stand out,” President Silph says, eyeing Red candidly as he eats. “Ignore these publications and continue on with your research as though they had not surfaced. Unless your ambition is already satisfied with what you’ve accomplished?” “No,” Red says with conviction. “No, I’ve got a lot more work to do.” “Then take the advice of an elder, not in age, but in facing adversity. Those things that vie for your attention, but do nothing to further your goals, should be cut out from consideration. Talent is easy to find, Mr. Verres. Great success comes first and foremost from the discipline to make productive use of your time.” “You’re right,” Red says, frowning at his plate. “I know it’s better to focus on my next project than worry about the impact of the last one. Not unless the impact was from a mistake I made.” “Do you think you made one?” “Not really…?” “Then there you have it. Let others chase false gold while you seek your own fortune.” Red smiles. “Is that a personal motto?” “I suppose so,” Mr. Silph says as he finishes his wine. “If a man can have more than one, it has a nice ring to it. But my real motto is ‘Every minute should be spent at least as deliberately as every dollar, and every dollar as deliberately as the first you ever made.’ And on that note, I see them putting the afternoon’s schedule out, and so my allotted lunchtime is over. But it was a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Verres.” He wipes his mouth with his napkin, then gets to his feet. “Perhaps we’ll talk again.” Red hurriedly swallows his mouthful. “The pleasure was mine, Mr. Silph. Thank you for the advice.” “Advice is also easy to find. Remember: discipline.” He puts his hat on and strides with purpose toward the exit, taking a folded program from the table by it. Red watches him go, then resolves to put his attention for the rest of the meal where it should have been; deciding what he’s going to do when he returns from the cruise. At first consideration, the question might be what research he’ll conduct next. But in truth, there’s a higher level question he has to answer, a choice centered around what goals he’s going to pursue. Is he a trainer at heart? A researcher? A psychic? Sabrina made it pretty clear that he’d have to stop being a trainer or researcher while studying with her, to have enough time for his lessons. If he decides to put one of those on pause, then becoming her pupil is the right choice. If he decides to just keep practicing his powers on his own for now, he should stay on his journey, where he can make progress in all three. He takes his notebook out and writes: Trainer – Increased survival skills, new sources of fortune? protect others Researcher – Learn secrets of the universe, leverage for fame and fortune, discover origin of species/change the world Psychic – Lots of mysteries to explore, unique skills and insights, accelerated self growth Red stares at the words. Taken as they are… he can’t imagine not continuing his research. He spends too much time thinking about things, working to test them, he doesn’t know if he could stop himself from trying even for a few months. And if he’s going to do it anyway, it would be a waste to never try and publish what he finds. And his psychic powers are a force multiplier; the things he gets from developing them are useful to practically everything he can think to do. It seems the aspect he loses the least in giving up… is his trainer activities. It makes sense. He’s not going for badges, he’s not trying to be a Ranger, and while he does enjoy training his pokemon, and teaching them unique commands or getting them to pull off strategies… it’s not like he’s amazing enough that only he can protect others in ways no one else can. Red leans back in his chair, gaze unfocused as he feels the decision crystallizing. It’s a little surprising how quickly he decided it, after waffling so much before. Well, that’s it, then. He’ll tell Sabrina that he’ll become her student. Which means he should keep practicing his powers. He lets his mental shield slip, then picks his spoon up and tries to feel the shape of it with his powers. His rock is in his bag, and maybe he just has some kind of block against beginner level techniques… Red’s still trying to sense the shape of the handle past where his fingers are when he spots Leaf walk into the cafeteria, talking to a pair of women with her notebook out. That’s not all I’d be giving up. The thought comes like a strike to his chest, concentration scattering as he suddenly imagines actually leaving the others in their travels. A hollow sort of fear fills him, a preemptive loneliness that he immediately backs away from. Leaf spots him and waves, then says goodbye to the other two to get food and join him. “Hey! How was your morning?” “Pretty short, but eventful,” he says, amazed at how steady his voice is given the sudden hole between his ribs. He latches onto the imagery and uses his powers to quickly contain it, cut off its effects on him for now, keep hidden the sudden insight at the center of it. “What have you been up to?” “Interviews!” Leaf puts her notebook on the table and starts to eat. “Lots of them. Everyone here is excited to talk about their work, it’s like trying to drink out of a firehose.” Red smiles at the mental image, and her excitement. “I’m glad you’re getting a lot of material. Maybe you can solve a mystery for me. Do you know why there are so many psychics here?” Leaf pauses with her fork halfway to her mouth, then looks around. “How many are there?” “Right now?” He quickly checks, trying to juggle the two different effects as grief starts to creep through all his use. “Um. Over a dozen in the dining hall.” She lets out a whistle. “That is a lot. Are they all clustered together? Like maybe they’re from some organization.” “No, as far as I can tell they only ever group in two or three at most.” “Are they ever in groups of just psychics, though?” “I don’t… remember?” Leaf flips to a new page of her notebook. “Draw it out.” “From memory?” “No, where they are right now. Maybe we can get some ideas.” He picks her pencil out of the spiral slowly. “It’s kind of hard to figure out people’s exact positions…” And he doesn’t know if he can maintain his concentration on the thing he’s containing in his chest that he can’t let out, particularly when the more familiar grief starts to come in force. Red buys time by drawing a rough approximation of where the tables around them are, then starts to focus on one table at a time, quickly sending his senses out to glimpse the minds at each before drawing circles and stars around where the minds are at each table. Like pings of radar, giving him a quick and fleeting glimpse of sensations that he then tries to remember and draw meaning from, all from minimal use of his powers. It’s hard, at times, to get a good read on exact position for each mind within a cluster, but he doesn’t worry too much about that. Instead he tries to make sure he only counts the people at each table rather than letting any minds from one blur into another table’s “zone.” He uses visual confirmation when he can to make sure each table has the right amount of people, though the occasional Dark mind throws him for a loop sometimes. By the time Leaf has finished eating, he’s sketched out about three layers of tables in every direction. The grief is manageable, and his chest-vault is secure. He stares at it while Leaf looks over his shoulder. “Not clustered, but also never alone,” Leaf points out. “And symmetrical,” Red says. “Look, every time there are two in one place, there are two non-psychic minds with them. Or three… the individual psychics break the pattern, but even they’re never totally alone.” “That might be unrealistic to expect, given how outnumbered they are,” Leaf points out. “Yeah. Feel comfortable asking someone?” “Sure. Who are you going to talk to?” “Uh… well, I don’t really know anyone here.” Leaf raises a brow. “Neither do I, Red. What you do is, you go up to them and introduce yourself—” He rolls his eyes. “I just feel awkward doing it.” “You mean you haven’t spoken to anyone else here yet?” “Of course I have,” he says automatically. “I spoke to… a couple of the people from the ball-meat company—” “—please don’t call it that—” “—and,” he says with some pride, “I may have had lunch with President Silph just before you arrived.” “Really? That’s awesome! What did you want to talk to him about?” Red opens his mouth, then closes it. “Career advice,” he says at last. Leaf gives him a level look. “He was actually very helpful.” “Uh huh. So what did he want from you?” “I think he just wanted my demographic more than me. But he was nice enough. Not a fan of journalists though, apparently.” “Well, that’s no surprise. Most rich and/or famous people aren’t, given how easy it is for some hack to just write whatever they want about them and have thousands of people lap it up without interest in any kind of clarification or rebuttal.” The bitterness in her tone takes him by surprise. “That’s fair, I guess.” “Sorry, famous grandpa, remember? Anyway, Silph has more reason than most, lately.” She chews her food, eyeing him speculatively. “Did you tell him your last name? Because he might be a little miffed from the article your mom published.” Red stares at her. “What article?” “You don’t read your mom’s articles?” “Hey, I’ve been busy. Do you read everything your mom puts out?” “…Fair. Anyway, your mom wrote about some corruption from Silph employees not long ago. Bribing a mayor and stuff.” “Huh.” Red considers the conversation in light of that. “I did tell him my name, but he didn’t seem to react to it. Not in that way, he actually recognized it from the science side of things.” “Oh. Well maybe he doesn’t pay much attention to articles about his company. I’m sure there are a lot, and he’s probably busy.” “He did give that impression, yeah.” Red shrugs. “I’ll ask my mom what she thinks after the cruise.” Maintaining the block around whatever’s in his chest has gotten slightly harder as the grief starts to build up at last. Just the mention of his mother makes him terribly homesick, for no particular reason. He clears his throat. “So what’s on the agenda today?” “Presentations for some kind of holo-communication device, automated potion dispersal? What does that mean… uh… improved scuba equipment, trainer coordination software…” She starts to take notes of questions she wants to ask of each presenter, forehead creased with concentration as she works. Red just stares at her, the words fading from his comprehension as he feels a warmth in his chest… She’s really pretty when she’s so focused. Red blinks, a sudden sinking feeling mixing with the warmth as the block around his chest suddenly cracks open, and the insight spills out to suffuse his thoughts. “Hm?” His gaze snaps to hers. “You okay? You spaced out a bit there, and looked like you just remembered something too late.” It takes a moment for Red to shake his head. “Nothing important, just trying to figure out what Bill would want us to attend the most.” Just realizing that I have a crush on you, Leaf, you’re smart and pretty and confident and good, and I like spending time with you, and- “Right. I guess we’ll just have to split up again to attend as many as we can.” –and leaving you is going to be the hardest part of going to learn from Sabrina, and I’m just realizing all this as I’m about to leave you, and now I don’t want to. “I guess so, yeah…” The block is completely gone, and now he feels hollow inside, even as he tries to convince himself that it will just be for a few months, maybe a year at most, that she would be fine with Blue and Aiko, that he would still be able to talk to her and occasionally see her… “That’s probably for the best.” Chapter 57: Autoargumentation »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line95
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__label__cc	0.673612	0.326388	Environmental Defense Applauds Flood Reform Bill June 1, 2001 Enviroshop Editor 2001, 51, Animal Rights & Environment, Environmental Defense, Issue Number, Jun 2001, Year On May 25th Environmental Defense praised Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Jim Leach (R-IA) for introducing legislation to boost and prioritize federal funds used to relocate frequently flooded homes. The Flood Loss Reduction Act of 2001 would set aside as much as 30% — up from 20% — of disaster relief funds for relocating flooded homes by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA pays 75% of the cost of relocating each home. The bill would also authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to spend $100 million annually to relocate flood-prone homes before floods occur. “People need real choices between returning to the river bottom or moving to higher ground,” said Environmental Defense attorney Scott Faber. “Federally subsidized flood control, flood relief, and flood insurance have lured people into harm’s way; now, Congress has a chance to end the cycle of rebuilding in the floodplain at taxpayer expense.” Co-sponsors of the bill include Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI). Rep. James Leach (R-IA), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Thomas M. Barrett (D-WI), Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR), Rep. Lane Evans (D-IL), Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-MN), Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Rep. Kenny Hulshof (R-MO), Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-MD), Rep. Leonard L. Boswell (D-IA), Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN). Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), Tom Petri (R-WI), John Shimkus (R-IL), Bill Luther (D-MN). Despite more than $30 billion spent on federal levees and dams since the 1930s, annual average flood losses have climbed to more than $4 billion annually as development has grown in floodplains. Many communities have begun to reject structural solutions like levees in favor of relocation, which permanently eliminates the threat of flood losses and long-term disaster relief costs. More than 25,000 homes, businesses and farms have been relocated, acquired or elevated since the disastrous Midwestern floods of 1993, when Congress first created the post-flood relocation program. The Flood Loss Reduction Act also directs FEMA and the Corps to develop a flood loss reduction strategy for the Upper Mississippi River valley, and to prioritize national flood loss reduction spending. Help reform flood policy Previous Post:HRC Questions Florida Lawmaker’s Judgment For Uncivil Civics Lesson Next Post:Southern California Faces Increased Threat From Global Warming	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line105
__label__cc	0.726036	0.273964	Something's fishy with the Kerry campaign. We all know that Sandy Berger is in deep, and now we have the Kerry campaign removing their plan to fight terrorism from their website. At first I thought Berger's actions were simply a cover your ass move, but now it seems there may have been more to it. Either way, someone's got some splaining to do... Geplaatst door Scott op 11:29:00 AM 0 reacties ALPE D'HUEZ AND INDEPENDENCE DAY. Armstrong crushed them all on Alpe d’Huez. Mind you, it may mean nothing to you over there, but over here that timerun up a 15,5 km long steep slope is mythical. You always have to be prudent, but I figure that Sunday, in Paris, history is going to be written. In the 101 years of its existence, no-one ever won the Tour more than five times. Watch out guys and gals! More news from the Magic Kingdom! People, July 21 is Belgian Independence Day. In 1830 we kicked the Dutch out of Brussels (they poured back in but, admittedly, the French helped us defeat them). I found this pearl of prose on the Daily Crap Online: Deze 21e juli staat in het teken van de 60e verjaardag van de bevrijding van België. Aan het defilé nam ook een Duits detachement deel. Means: This July 21st has as theme the Liberation of Belgium. A German detachment took part in the troop show. Belgian logic. Furthermore: Tanks waren er niet te zien. Dat heeft te maken met nieuwe politiek van het Belgisch leger om geen voertuigen met rupsbanden meer te gebruiken. Means: There were no tanks anymore. That is because of the new policy of the Belgian army not to use tracked vehicles anymore (in the troop show I might hope. Or would they mean on the battlefield too?) Sigh… To paraphrase Kim du Toit, the pussification of the Belgian Male continues. They ain’t got me yet however. And no pics today. The Blog Dictator thinks my ISP is screwed up. Michael, I weep for Belgium after reading this. Hopefully this national treasure can be saved before it is too late. Geplaatst door Anonymous op 4:31:00 PM 0 reacties Here is an interesting summary of last month's EU elections (scroll down to "Shock swing towards euroscepticism") - it looks as if the antis made some headway, particularly UKIP (a party which I suspect I'd support if I lived in the UK). Michael, I've been meaning to ask you. Where does Vlaams Blok stand on the issue of European integration? Geplaatst door Anonymous op 12:49:00 PM 0 reacties The Philippines cave and what do we get? More terrorism. Geplaatst door No op 12:28:00 PM 0 reacties Our very own Kevin has alerted me to this story about nuclear warheads being found in Tikrit, Iraq. If true, this will (obviously) have huge implications - particularly this November. Geplaatst door Anonymous op 10:36:00 AM 0 reacties The latest from Linda Ronstadt: "It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know." TOUR DE LANCE 2004 UPDATE; FRENCH WORKERS COME TO THEIR SENSES Piece of cake people. Piece of cake. Tomorrow is the BIG DAY!!! Timerun upon the dreaded Alpe d'Huez!!! Those mythical, terrible 15 and a half kilometers up a slope with an average climbing rate of 8%. You think that ain't nothing? Go try it yourself. Pray for your hero(es). Ladies and gentlemen, not long ago we talked about France's excruciating 35-hour week. The first cracks appear. Workers at a Robert Bosch car parts factory in France have voted to work longer hours in an effort to save jobs, the firm said on Monday, making them the first employees to vote to scrap France's 35-hour week. The decision sets a precedent that unions fear could eventually unravel France's 35-hour working week. Many employers want the law restricting work hours scrapped to increase the competitiveness of French industry. A large majority of the 820 workers at the German auto supplier's factory in Vénissieux, near the southern city of Lyon, voted in favor of working 36 hours instead of the current 35 without any compensation in wages, the company's management said. MFBB Joe Katzman at Winds of Change has this post on nuclear energy. Thought that you in particular might be interested in giving some comments, Scott. Geplaatst door No op 11:02:00 AM 0 reacties A potent strategy by the Democrats A pattern has arisen in the Democrats' efforts to discredit the president and win the White House in November. It's not necessarily a new strategy, but it seems to be gaining momentum as of late. The strategy is simple and centers around the "Bush lied" mantra that we've been hearing since the beginning of the Iraq invasion. Before the invasion, Bush outlined a number of reasons that he felt justified the invasion of Iraq. Among these reasons was Iraq's WMD program, which has become the centerpiece of the "Bush lied" movement. Since stockpiles of WMD's have not been found, the worst accusation is that Bush knew there were no weapons and went to war anyway, and at best, he took us to war based on faulty intelligence, which he should take full responsibility for. Never mind that there have been WMD's found in Iraq (just not sufficient quantities to satisfy opponents of the war) and David Kay's report concluded that Saddam had the infrastructure to be able to ramp up production of WMD's very quickly. Never mind that this report also concluded that there were very likely large shipments of WMD materials shipped out of Iraq before and during the invasion (some of the materials shoed up in a container ship in Holland.) Never mind that the famous "16 words" regarding Iraq's attempt to procure Uranium from Niger in Bush's SOTU address have recently been proven to be accurate. All that the left has had to do is raise the shadow of doubt and keep saying "Bush lied," or, as the Kerry campaign prefers, "Bush misled" (you've got to wonder about people who are so easily misled by a president that is supposed to be a simpleton.) It has become such a part of the public consciousness that the Bush administration looks ridiculous when they try to prove otherwise. The fact that the Bush administration has remained rather silent in light of recent findings regarding the "16 words" and statements from the 9/11 commission which support the validity of pre war intelligence (both from the US and abroad) suggests that they have already lost this debate on some level, regardless of the facts, and that any attempt to point to these facts just makes them look desperate. While it's no surprise this has happened given the support the Kerry ticket has in the media, it has proven to be an effective strategy. Repeat, repeat, repeat. If you repeat something enough it becomes fact to many people. Bush lied about Iraq, the economy is horrible, the environment has worsened; these are all cornerstones of the campaign against Bush, and are all patently false. Let's hope the Bush campaign can figure out a way to explain simple fact before it's too late. Does anyone else see the irony when celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg, Linda Rondstadt, Elton John and the Dixie Chicks, who owe their careers and cushy lives to a capitalist free market, suddenly start crying censorship when their actions cause their value in this market to drop? I just thought I'd ask. Geplaatst door Scott op 9:59:00 AM 0 reacties IN MEMORIAM COUNT KLAUS SCHENK VON STAUFFENBERG (1907-1944) Fate has offered us this opportunity, and I would not refuse it for anything in the world. I have examined myself before God and my conscience. It must be done because this man (Hitler) is evil personified. -Oberst Graf Klaus Schenk Von Stauffenberg On July 20, 1944, failed the last serious attempt to kill Hitler. It was carried out by a brave Colonel of the German Reserve Army, Count Klaus Schenk Von Stauffenberg. Somewhere around 12.37 Eastern European Time on that fateful day he entered the conference room in a wooden barrack in Hitlers supersecret Eastern Front Headquarters, the Wolfsschanze, near Rastenburg in East Prussia. The room was full of high-ranking officers, aides and bodyguards. He shoved a briefcase containing a powerful bomb, activated minutes before, under the table upon which large maps of the Ostfront were displayed. Soon thereafter he left under the pretext that he had to make an urgent telephone call. At 12.42 EET the bomb exploded. Scores of men were killed and wounded, Hitler, standing on the opposite side of a heavy wooden leg of the table and somehow protected by it since he was leaning heavily over it, survived. In the meantime, Stauffenberg, with incredible luck and courage, had managed to talk his way out of the compound and flew to Berlin, where his co-conspirators had managed to disable critical communication lines and put the Reserve Army, whose cadre contained many officers sympathetic to the cause, on high alert using the procedures of the so-called Valkyrie Operation – an operation initially designed to mobilize whatever reserve forces were available in Germany in the event of an uprising among the millions of slave workers in the country. Critical in keeping this Reserve Army under their control, and hence having the military clout to thwart any Nazi attempt to keep the conspirators from power, was the arrest of key Nazi figures. Perhaps the most critical of these was Joseph Goebbels, the Reichspropagandaminister. A bewildered Major Otto-Ernst Remer of the Wachbattailon Grossdeutschland, a decorated Eastern Front veteran, entered Goebbels office in Berlin’s Governments District. Being a military man through and through, he wanted indeed to obey his orders and arrest Goebbels. As fate would have it one critical phone line was still on and Goebbels was able to let Adolf Hitler talk directly to Remer. Albert Speer, Hitler’s Armament’s Minister, who was also present, watched transfixed as Remer, upon hearing the Fuehrer’s unmistakable voice, stiffened and upon Hitler’s request to quell the revolt, shouted: “Jawohl, mein Fuehrer”! Essentially the coup was foiled from then on. Accomplices in Paris were able to fool and even lock up die-hard Nazis but after that fateful phone-call all was lost. That same night, Von Stauffenberg was executed by a firing squad on orders of General Fromm, Chief of the Reserve Army, who was also a conspirator but tried to escape his fate by silencing as many as possible of those involved. Because Hitler stayed in power, millions would die still. The events of that distant July 20th once more emphasize the responsibility the world has in not letting dictators stay in power. Von Stauffenberg was a man who knew that responsibility. He was also a man who believed in God, family and country. Colonel Klaus Schenk Von Stauffenberg was a Rightwinger. Here's a great primer for the presidential election. It takes a while to load, but it's worth it. Geplaatst door Scott op 2:18:00 PM 0 reacties The Tour, Anik F2 and Norwegian Salmon Spaniard Aitor Gonzalez of the Fassa Bartolo Team won today’s stage from Carcassonne to Nimes. Thomas Voeckler keeps the Yellow Shirt, Lance remains at no. 2 still 22 seconds behind. No worries, today’s 14th Stage over flatland was a milkrun. If your Texan had wanted the shirt he’d have it. Still kudos for the young Frenchman though. I haven’t checked out French press but I figure he must be a national hero by now. Tomorrow is a resting day. Btw, Carcassonne. If you ever venture to France and you want to impress those at home with other stories than climbing the Eiffel Tower or visiting Chenonceaux Castle you might want to check out this magnificent must-see town with still intact medieval walls and towers. In 1997 UNESCO recognized it as a World Heritage Center. Nearby is also Cathar Country with lots of ruins of the Cathar Sect’s last strongholds, the most famous being Montségur. It is easily reached by plane, e.g. from my country there are regular cheap flights by either Ryanair ( from Charleroi) or Virgin (from Zaventem, Brussels). Today was a good day for ESA, NASA’s European counterpart, as an Ariane 5G rocket brought the largest telecommunications satellite ever – nearly six tons - into orbit. Launch took place on ESA’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana. Now why do I tell you this, have I become a space freak? Well, I might say I mention it, firstly, just to show you we in the EU are not sitting on our asses when it comes to space exploration. The European Space Agency is doing fine and its projects reach well beyond commercial space activities. An important part of NASA/ESA/ASI’s Cassini project to Saturn, the Huygens probe , which will land on Titan, is a 100% ESA project. There is also the Rosetta comet chaser, the Mars Express Spacecraft and ESA’s participation in the ISS, with a.o. the recent Delta Mission. Secondly though I thought it worthwile to mention since Anik F2, the satellite launched today, will provide North America with digital communications services and high-speed Internet access, so you will probably benefit from it. Anik F2 was designed and built by Telsat, the Ottawa-based Canadian company which made history in 1972 by launching Anik F2's far cousin, Anik A1, the world's first domestic communications satellite for geostationary orbit. "The Anik F2 Ka-band system will provide a large user base with small, low-cost terminals as well as with low airtime costs, while meeting the high performance requirements associated with high-speed interactive multimedia and Internet applications. The Ka-band payload on Anik F2 will provide an array of services — including retrieval/transactional (e.g., Internet access, e-commerce), conversational (e.g., video-conferencing, tele-medicine), messaging (e.g., fax, e-mail, file transfer), and distribution (e.g., video multicasting, caching) services — even though they have diverse characteristics3. Homes (telecommuting during the day and educational/ entertainment web browsing in the evening), schools accessing the Internet and small multi-site businesses are projected to be the primary potential user groups for this multimedia payload." I might clarify though that the actual building, operation and commercial exploitation of the Ariane launchers is the responsibility of the Arianespace company, although as said the place of launch is ESA territory. I must admit I don’t know exactly how it goes in the States, and whether those commercial launches you have fall under NASA’s responsibility or a private company’s, or both. Anyway, Arianespace has currently 50% of the global share in GTO (geostationary) launches. To top it all off, I might add that the new Belgian Foreign Minister is Karel De Gucht, former VLD chairman. As some of you may remember, your servant was a member of the used-to-be-centre-right-but-now-centre-left-as-a-result-of-the-greenhouse-effect VLD. Well, since there have been, on June 13th, not only European but also regional elections in Belgistan, there is a shakeup and/or departure of federal excellencies to either the European Commission or the regional governments. Our current FM, Louis Michel, aka MOAP (Mother of All Pompous Asses) goes to the European Commission and Karel De Gucht will assume the vacant post. I have no particular sympathy for Mr. De Gucht, although it pleads for him he took at least a token stance against the municipal voting rights for immigrants in spring, when greens, socialist AND Michel’s MR party forced that folly down our throats. Anyway, anybody at Belgian Foreign Affairs is better than Louis Michel, even a dog with a hat on. I just hope that the European Commission gives him a post in which he wreaks the least havoc. I suggest surveillance of salmon populations in the Lofoten fjords. Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaah, I know, poor salmon. Something's fishy with the Kerry campaign. We all... ALPE D'HUEZ AND INDEPENDENCE DAY. Armstrong cr... Michael, I weep for Belgium after reading this. H... Here is an interesting summary of last month's EU ... Imagine that. The Philippines cave and what do ... Our very own Kevin has alerted me to this story ab... The latest from Linda Ronstadt: "It's a real ... TOUR DE LANCE 2004 UPDATE; FRENCH WORKERS COME TO ... Joe Katzman at Winds of Change has this post on nu... A potent strategy by the Democrats A pattern ha... Does anyone else see the irony when celebrities li... IN MEMORIAM COUNT KLAUS SCHENK VON STAUFFENBERG (1... Here's a great primer for the presidential electio... The Tour, Anik F2 and Norwegian Salmon Spani...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line114
__label__wiki	0.69654	0.69654	We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics. If you continue to browse the International Law Office website, we will assume you are happy to receive all of our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy. We would like to ensure that you are still receiving content that you find useful – please confirm that you would like to continue to receive ILO newsletters. Forward Share Print Landmark decision puts the freeze on copying ice cream shop's trade dress Intellectual Property South Korea In the first South Korean ruling of its kind, the Seoul Central District Court recognised that a shop's general appearance and decorative elements are protectable trade dress under the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secrets Act. The operator of a dessert café chain sued the franchisor of a similar chain for unfair competition on the basis that the latter was copying its signature soft ice cream dessert and the unique appearance of its cafés. The plaintiff, Softree – a high-end dessert café franchise in South Korea – offered a signature dessert consisting of soft vanilla ice cream topped with real pieces of honeycomb and honey. The defendant, Milkcow, operated cafés which mimicked the plaintiff's café concept and sold the same dessert with a similar presentation. Softree sought an injunction against Milkcow on the following grounds: Milkcow's manufacture and sale of its honeycomb ice cream dessert infringed Softree's rights under the dead copy provision of the act (Article 2(1)(ix)). Milkcow's adoption of Softree's interior and exterior design components infringed Softree's trade dress under the catch-all provision of the act (Article 2(1)(x)). Softree Milkcow The act's dead copy provision prohibits selling, renting, displaying, importing or exporting a product which imitates the appearance of another person's product (eg, shape, pattern, colour, gloss or a combination of these attributes), with some limitations (eg, if the imitation product was manufactured more than three years after the original product was first made or if the product's appearance is common). The act's catch-all provision was introduced on January 31 2014 and prohibits interference with another person's right to profit by appropriating (without permission) for one's own business use anything which the other person produced through considerable effort and investment in a manner that contravenes fair commercial trade practice or competition. This broad provision is the only provision in the act which proscribes general acts of unfair competition; until this case, it had never been interpreted by the courts. Milkcow characterised Softree's product as merely a piece of honeycomb placed on top of ice cream, arguing that this was not a unique idea in the South Korean marketplace. Milkcow also argued that Softree's shop design elements were common designs. The court found in favour of Softree, noting that Milkcow imitated not only the idea of Softree's dessert, but also Softree's exact expression of that idea. The court further found that Milkcow was using exterior signage, menu boards, ice cream cone rings and a logo that looked very similar to Softree's, as well as identical ice cream cone and honeycomb displays. The court adjudged that these six components (compared in the following table) amounted to Softree's trade dress, as they gave Softree cafés their unique atmosphere. The court granted a permanent injunction against Milkcow's sale of its honeycomb desserts as well as its use of the six Softree shop design components described above, on the basis of the act's dead copy and catch-all provisions, respectively. In particular, the court held that it was unjust for Milkcow to adopt Softree's shop design elements, which were conceived and developed by Softree through substantial effort and investment. This case is significant, as it is the first South Korean decision to interpret the catch-all provision of the act and specifically to recognise that it protects a store's substantial effort and investment in designing its look and feel. For further information on this topic please contact Yong-Gab Kim, Young Joo Song or Angela Kim at Kim & Chang by telephone (+822 3703 1114) or email (ygkim@kimchang.com, yjsong@ip.kimchang.com or angela.kim@ip.kimchang.com). The Kim & Chang website can be accessed at www.kimchang.com. 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__label__wiki	0.687071	0.687071	Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil' Wayne, The New Poets? Started by IamAshley. , Feb 07 2013 10:51 PM IamAshley. Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you <3 Location:Planet Earth. Believe it or not. Fav Band Seondhand Serenade Fav Song Your Call, Secondhand Serenade In year 10 my school is doing a unit on poetry, and this year for the first time ever, we're looking at rap and deciding if we think it's poetry. So do you think that the lyrics of rap/hip hop, is poetry? Why/ Why not? EspoirTheMage EC's Welcome Wagon Location:Where the sticks run free around the jealous trees Fav Band -x- Fav Song Fields of gold-Sting depends on the lyrics really. lil' wayne thinks nigga rhymes with nigga Insane Pie Four String Samurai Sub Moderators Location:Las Vegas, Nevada US State:Nevada Fav Band Primus Fav Song Scar Tissue-Red Hot Chili Peppers What are you defining poetry as? Just rhyme or more? Definition: Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. First class fuck up. Fav Band - The way I see it, pop lyrics are a sub-category of poetry, so by definition you can say rap is poetry. But since it has the common name of rap, it doesn't really need to be referred to as poetry. Fav Band _ Please add your own opinions and thoughts, instead of quoting other sources. Sorry, but it irks me when someone starts a topic and doesn't indicate what they feel/mean when they're discussing something. It's pointless otherwise. Rap, in my opinion, is a form of poetry. It's not poetry in essence, but it is spoken word - so it's an extension, if you will. It has a beat, there is rhyme and movement or whatever it's called, therefore it is poetry but not in the typical sense as you know it. Excuse the font size, I have no idea what I am writing and I can't find my glasses so.. voila. Sorry Lavina. I saw that definition and agreed with it, I just thought it could explain it better than I could in my own words. inb4 Ashin saying something about someone calling her by her username. I wasn't aware that was her name... There is a lot that you are not aware about when it comes to the dark underbelly of EC. I do believe that rap/hip hop is a form of poetry, atleast "older" stuff is. Tupac, Notorious BIG, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, etc. ^Eh? She actually used my username, it made me happeh. I personally quite like rap and hip hop, I grew up on a lot of it, as well as rnb. I have deep roots in the genre, I tell ya. But seriously, it's a fun style of music. It's the beat, and the fact that you can dance to it, as well as there occasionally being some witty/funny lines in there. Despite what a lot of people think, rappers do tend to poke a lot of fun at themselves. I like the music because you can just enjoy it, revel in the feeling, not worry about messages. If that makes sense? I like the music to be able to dance around in my room and just make myself feel all loose and relaxed, music as well know depends on mood. I like Kanye West, Jay Z, Prof Green.. there's more but I forget. Maybe mainstream, but I don't know how or have the time to find similar artists I may like. I don't believe that there's anything of value to be found in most radio-played "rap", the likes of 50 cent and Jay Z or whoever, all of them. I'm not even a massive fan of rap personally, so I'm not going to pretend I know a lot. Sure, it's entertaining, i'm not denying that, but if you're talking about anything that's emotionally hitting or poetic, I don't think so. Then again, not all poetry is created equal and something being poetic doesn't necessarily mean it's well-written or good, or really has any redeeming value. I suppose it's very subjective. However, there's definitely an argument for some artists, such as Immortal Technique, as I beg anyone to listen to this song and not feel their heart break. It might be poetry in the traditional sense, but it's definitely emotional, more of a social commentary I suppose. You confused me a wee bit here. You don't think there's value to it, but you don't know about it? I think a lot of people confuse the fact that modern rap and hip hop, not all, aren't necessarily designed to be hard hitting or conveying a message. The theme for those genres has always fallen under a very similar category, that's what defines the genre, clearly not everyone will like that, but it's generally just that. However not to group all modern rap as meaningless entertainment, there are, obviously, rap/hip hop people who don't conform to the specific style. But I'm wondering what you mean by it coming under poetry? Do you mean poetry as the form or poetry as in the traditional sense, and the meaning behind it? It may not be grouped under the latter, but anyone can deny it all they like, but rap and hip hop are forms of poetry. They employ the conventions that are found in poetry, thus indicating they are as well. (see my previous post and Iamashleys copy/paste definition) If you don't think it's poetic in regards to 'meaning', then one should probably just label it as lacking in emotional engagement, instead. Y'know? It's fine chuck, you just missed an 'i' from my username, is all. Nigrescent Black Hole Location:- Fav Band Norah Jones Macklemore is an amazing rapper. He only recently became famous. He's an amazing poet too. Songs like Otherside, Life is Cinema, and The End. Also One Love. He's from Seattle here. For the Irish mods here... Macklemore has some music celebrating being Irish. "Irish Celebration" Some of the best poets in rap stay underground and it's unfortunate. They are never heard on radio. Check out Grieves he's rap/jazz mixed. Language Arts Crew, Common Market. I think the underground groups are more poetry because they aren't simply trying to please the masses of people to earn a dollar, it comes from the heart when they aren't "famous." ( All these groups are from where I am, rap is great here.) Immer nach Hause forum re-designers Fav Band Tom Waits Fav Song Neil Young - Thrasher That's why I believe it's pretty subjective, my own personal interpretation of something to be poetic is that it probably has to make some sort of emotional connection with me more so than 'this is pretty fun'. Mainstream rap doesn't make that sort of connection with me, other things might, like the Immortal Technique song. I would still primarily consider it music over poetry, obviously, but it has poetic links. Where do you draw the line, then? Can a single word that's sung in a particularly emotional way be considered poetry? Is a movie with a twist ending poetry? If a song is poetry, are the lyrics alone poetry as well? Or the music? Is footage of a baby animal being killed poetry? In this case, where does poetry end and sentimentality begin? I like Dance with the Devil, but I don't see how it's poetry. To me, it's a cautionary tale, a story with a twist ending in song form. I also don't see the point of singling out rap for this discussion and ignoring other genres of music and other artists. If you want to talk about poetry in music, there's one go-to guy and that's Leonard Cohen. introvertedactor Delicate Snowflake Fav Band 2NE1 Fav Song Jet F(x) By definition, if it has meter... it is poetry; say, Shakespeare is poetic. But morally, is it right to say that someone like Nicki Minaj sings poetry? Personally, I'd say no. DDdrummerGuy Spiraling Tempest Location:Behind you !!!!! you looked didnt you.... name im in Brisbane Fav Band Asking Alexandria Fav Song Dont go~ bring me the Horizon your best bet would be emniem, his lyrics, are easily desyphed, and can be easily understood But if you took a way the cussing it's be half the impact and quantity Bimp 2gr8ful2beh8ful Fav Band Worlds End Girlfriend I think a lot of people are confusing the word 'poetry' with the word 'poetic'. Similarly, 'poetry' is not synonymous with 'good'. Two Headed Bro basedyoloswag4lyf Fav Band Lil B 'The Based God' Fav Song Lil B - I'm God I still believe this is the finest example of poetry in rap to this day. jenniefromtheblock Tortured Rose Location:jesus Fav Band Avenged Sevenfold Fav Song Watching You - Rodney Atkins The way I see it is the older rap, as Alex stated earlier, can be considered poetry. Now, yes there is some stuff today that could be categorized as poetry, but when all they're rapping about is "bitches & hoes, getting drunk, smoking weed" and whatever else they seem to rap about, it's not considered poetry, in my book. I honestly can even stand rap, so I can't say I know much about it, though I used to listen to older rap when I was younger. Muse! Location:Mile High(; US State:Colorado Fav Band Bring Me The Horizon Fav Song Nicotine by Panic! At The Disco I believe all lyrics could be a form of poetry. And since we're specifically talking about rap, look at some Poetry Slams. Just put a beat to that and it could be what we consider "rap" I do not, however, believe that all rappers are poets. As stated, poetry is supposed to make you feel something. And when all a so-called "artist" raps about is money, weed, and girls that only makes me feel like I should punch them in the face. Looking at the big picture though, artistic standards are considerably dead so really any argument about what is or isn't poetry is subjective and can only ever be someone's opinion. Back to Literature → Entertainment → Literature	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line119
__label__wiki	0.835757	0.835757	British govt to put forward Brexit bill in June The statement came after talks between May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on a possible compromise. (File photo: AFP) AFP, London Wednesday, 15 May 2019 Prime Minister Theresa May’s government will publish draft legislation in the first week of June that would allow Brexit to proceed if approved by parliament, a Downing Street spokesman announced on Tuesday. The statement came after talks between May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on a possible compromise that would end a deadlock on Brexit in parliament. May met with Corbyn “to make clear our determination to bring the talks to a conclusion and deliver on the referendum result to leave the EU. “We will therefore be bringing forward the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning June 3,” the spokesman said, referring to a draft law based on the divorce deal agreed with EU leaders. May was seeking a “stable majority in parliament that will ensure the safe passage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and the UK’s swift exit from the EU,” the spokesman said. For the past six weeks, ministers and their Labour counterparts have been discussing how parliament might accept the agreement May struck with the European Union last year. Progress has been painfully slow, and there are growing calls in May’s Conservative party to abandon the process. But her ministers discussed at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday “the compromises which the government was prepared to consider” and agreed to keep talking, May’s spokesman said. They also said it was “imperative” that any exit plan be approved by parliament before MPs go on their summer holiday, which normally begins at the end of July. “What she (May) is working to do is to get a deal passed as soon as possible,” the spokesman said. MPs have already rejected May’s Brexit deal three times. She turned to Labour last month in the hope of finding a way through, but the party is insisting on a close trading relationship with the EU that many Conservative MPs reject. A Labour party spokesperson said Corbyn had raised “concerns about the prime minister’s ability to deliver on any compromise agreement”. “He raised doubts over the credibility of government commitments,” the spokesperson said, following statements by Conservative MPs seeking to replace May. After twice delaying Brexit, Britain is reluctantly taking part in European Parliament elections on May 23, almost three years after the referendum vote to leave the bloc. The government had hoped to get the London parliament’s agreement for the divorce deal in the coming weeks so British MEPs would never have to take their seats. But the goal outlined on Tuesday, of getting the bill to ratify the treaty passed by the end of July, suggests they will have to. “The factual position is if MEPs are elected and (the British) parliament has not approved a withdrawal agreement bill which has achieved royal assent by June 30, they will take their seats,” May’s spokesman said. Last Update: Wednesday, 15 May 2019 KSA 07:39 - GMT 04:39 In Brexit quagmire, UK parliament session hits longest in over 350 years Deadlocked over navigating Britain’s exit from the European Union, the country’s parliament session is now ... UK’s PM May presses Labour to reach Brexit deal British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday stepped up calls for Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to agree on a ... English voters punish both Britain’s main parties over Brexit English voters used local elections to punish both Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the opposition ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line121
__label__cc	0.596618	0.403382	EUROFOREST Portal EFI Macedonia FYR COST Action FP1202. Strengthening conservation: a key issue for adaptation of marginal/peripheral populations of forest trees to climate change in Europe (MaP-FGR) Data Source: EFI EUROFOREST Portal Title COST Action FP1202. Strengthening conservation: a key issue for adaptation of marginal/peripheral populations of forest trees to climate change in Europe (MaP-FGR) Creator Council for Research and Experimentation on Agriculture, Forestry Research Centre Description Marginal/peripheral forest populations (MaP) are at the edges of species ranges and contain an original genetic diversity due to unsuitable conditions for survival. The effects of climate change are likely to be stronger and more rapid in MaP populations than elsewhere. Studying adaptive processes in MaP populations is crucial and of mutual interest for European and non-European countries for understanding the evolution of species and developing gene pool (FGR) conservation, management strategies and networks to cope with global change. The main objective of the Action is to generate relevant knowledge on the role and use of MaP populations to adapt forests to global change using a multidisciplinary approach. Specific objectives are to: collect, collate, analyze and synthesize information from past and ongoing projects related to genetic diversity and impacts of climate change; record and list existing conservation efforts and status, in order to identify gaps and set conservation priorities; analyze and raise awareness on the role of FGR in the adaptation of MaP populations; perform meta-analysis of collected data to identify common trends on the dynamics of genetic diversity in relation to the response to the effects of global change; provide recommendations and guidelines for forest managers and national policy makers to conserve and sustainably use MaP FGR for forest adaptation and mitigation to climate change; highlight the potential of MaP populations for the adaptation to climate change in other networks dealing with FGR conservation; identify new research priorities on FGR for future projects; organize conferences, workshops and training schools for the scientific community, end users and stakeholders on the role of FGR from southern edge populations for adapting forests to global change. URL http://map-fgr.entecra.it/ Country EUROPE, EUROPEAN UNION Keywords forest genetic resources; climate change; research; networks Type Networks, EC-EU resources, Research institutions and departments Correct this metadata (a pop-up window) Published: November 18 2015 About \| Contact us \| Propose a link \| Provide news \| Disclaimer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line123
__label__wiki	0.584507	0.584507	Glendale Cherry Creek Colorado Chronicle the news source for the greater Cherry Creek area Colorado At Evans: Latest Stop On Valley’s Light-Rail Gravy Train Despite Colorado Center’s Classy Transit Connection New Adjacent Development Is Creating Corridor Sprawl by Glen Richardson “Ride the Rail to reduce traffic, air pollution and lower your stress.” Washed Up: This self-service carwash site has sold for $ 767,000 and is the location of a proposed second apartment complex on Colorado Blvd. Construction is expected to start early next year with completion in 18 months. Traffic Trouble: The Millennium Colorado Station apartment complex under construction at Colorado Blvd. south of Evans is already creating traffic gridlock. Millennial Map: Millennium Colorado Station’s massive development stretches along Colorado Blvd. to Warren Ave. and extends east from Colorado Blvd. to Ash St. It is at the Colorado Center more than anywhere else that Denver seemed to be getting transit right. The 13-acre office, retail and entertainment complex features a Light Rail Station, FasTracks, CarShare and an $ 8 million bike-pedestrian bridge across I-25. As a transit-oriented development (TOD), the venture east of Colorado Blvd. and north of Evans Ave. initially seemed to be the Valley’s perfect transit project. Wrong: TOD’s “evil brother,” transit-adjacent development (TAD) is literally taking over the adjoining neighborhood with a gargantuan development somewhat close to the Center’s transit, but not oriented to transit. Unfortunately in a city/county where developers have the final say, far more TADs than TODs are popping up along the Valley’s transit line. At nearly every station on any given line, you’ll find, at the least, clumps of new-fangled apartments and more often than not, fresh fast food chains and novel businesses. Developer Deal Being promoted as Millennium Colorado Station the new development is a colossal 580,000-sq.-ft., 350-unit apartment complex under construction a block south of Evans Ave. That’s in spite of the fact Colorado Station’s “General Development Plan” approved by the Denver Planning Board in 2006 clearly stated: “Development is to be concentrated closest to the station with a decrease in intensity in adjoining nearby neighborhoods.” Exploding on the east side of the heavily traveled traffic thoroughfare, the project stretches south along Colorado Blvd. to Warren Ave. A moneymaking way for the developers to leverage the potential of transit-oriented developments without any of the costs, the sprawling project extends east from Colorado Blvd. to Ash St. Furthermore, the apartment complex is likely to charge a premium rate claiming it is along transit routes. Houston-based The Dinerstein Companies ac Colorado Center Class: The Master Planned transit-oriented Colorado Center will have this retail “Main Street” section plus a residential tower with 189 apartments, 80 lofts. quired the old Criterion Shopping Center that later housed the Amish Furniture Gallery at 2154 S. Colorado Blvd. in the summer of 2017. The firm also purchased two adjacent homes on Ash St. where they began construction a year-ago September. Los Angeles real estate investment firm CityView is a partner in the project. South Broadway-based the Cuningham Group Architecture, who is designing the monster structure, describes it as, “a clean, modern design with a diverse mix of materials, including stucco, wood and metal.” Amenities will include a pool, wet deck, cabanas and outdoor kitchen. There will also be a fitness center, game room, bike room and pet spa. Completion of the project is anticipated for the second quarter of 2019. The median real estate price in the E. Evans and South Colorado Blvd. area is $ 1,264,045, which is more expensive than 99% of the neighborhoods in Colorado. The average monthly rental price is currently $ 1,925, based on NeighborhoodScout’s exclusive analysis. That’s higher rent than in 68.5% of the state’s neighborhoods. Neighborhood real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) or large (four or more bedroom) single-family hom Beauty & The Beast: Huge complex being crammed into area southeast of Colorado and Evans has replaced some businesses and homes while creating concerns for others. es and apartment complex — high rise apartments. Many of the residential homes are older having been built between 1940-1969. A number of residences, however, were built from 2000 to the present. The home and apartment vacancy rates are 10.7% in the area of E. Evans and S. Colorado Blvd. According to the NeighborhoodScout analysis, that rate is lower than 40.9% of the neighborhoods nationwide. The analysis indicates this is approximately near the middle for vacancies nationally. About Center, Station Centrally located between downtown and the Denver Technology Center, the premier transit oriented development has long been the home to a Dave & Busters plus Colorado Center Stadium 9 & IMAX. There are now three Class A Office Buildings on the site. The recently finished 400,000-sq.-ft. Tower III completed the office component of the project. Following Denver-based Tryba Architects Master Plan, there is more than one million square feet of additional development that will include a 205,000-sq.-ft. residential tower that will house 189 apartments and 80 loft-style units plus a fitness center. Also in the plans is a new, 24-hour retail “Main Street” section. Colorado Station is a side-platform light rail station operating as part of the E, F, and H Lines. Opened in November 2006 it now boasts 5,600 boardings and arrivals each day. Surveys show that 2% bike, 43% walk to transit and the balance drive to the station. There is an RTD Park-n-Ride lot two blocks east of Colorado Blvd. Located at 4401 E. Evans Ave. it holds approximately 400 cars. What’s Ahead? As cranes loom over the Colorado Blvd. skyline south of Evans Ave. residents and businesses are asking what will their neighborhoods become? The answer can likely be found surrounding RTD’s Evans Station, a light-rail station further west on Evans Ave. that opened in July 2000. A TAD Too Much: Projects such as this gigantic complex going up on Colorado Blvd. south of Evans leverage the potential of transit-oriented developments without the costs. There developers have requested permission to build up to eight floors at 2065 S. Cherokee St. in the Overland neighborhood. The 0.7-acre site is just northeast of the Evans Station, a site that has seen several apartment buildings sprout up. The latest zoning request would allow for a project similar to the Encore Evans Station, a 224-unit apartment complex that recently opened. Some may see it as gentrification, but intensive development with new apartments crammed in alongside or replacing businesses and historic homes appears to be the future of light-rail in Denver. With the city’s encouragement, neighborhoods can expect more and more “evil brother,” transit-adjacent development (TAD) projects hopping on the “light rail gravy train.” A TAD More Apartments Coming To Colorado Station A developer has submitted plans for a second apartment complex adjacent to the massive 350-unit Millennium Colorado Station going up on Colorado Blvd. Developer Austin Schmidt wants to build a five-story apartment building that would be surrounded by the enormous project under construction. The latest transit-adjacent development (TAD) is at the 0.28-acre site of a self-service carwash that has been on the E. Warren Ave. site for at least a dozen years. Schmidt and silent partners paid $ 767,000 for the lot. Schmidt admits proximity to the light-rail station two blocks north is what attracted him to the site. The five-story project would have 52 studio, one and two bedroom units. Parking would be on the floor and basement levels. The developer expects to break ground early next year with construction completed within 18 months. The post Colorado At Evans: Latest Stop On Valley’s Light-Rail Gravy Train appeared first on Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle. Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle Filed Under: Glendale News Tagged With: Colorado, Evans, Gravy, Latest, LightRail, Stop, Train, Valley’s Latest Leetsdale Development Is Flashback To Turf Battles Of Old For families living in the Virginia Vale and Hilltop neighborhoods it’s a nightmarish flashback to a development scheme that dates back more than 50 years. It involves a three-acre plot of land along Leetsdale Drive directly across the street from George Washington High School where developer Paul Naftel of Emerald Properties LLC is now proposing a Jimmy John’s be built where years earlier he proposed a McDonald’s. Saga of the disputed property goes back to the 1950s when development of the southeast Denver neighborhood was just beginning. Back then neighbors say many Denver high schools had small parks across the street — a legacy of Mayor Robert Speer’s City Beautiful campaign — and it was speculated then that the property was intended as a park. In the 1950s Denver Public Schools founded KRMA as an educational TV station. By 1987 the station and the school district ended their affiliation and as part of that transaction the three acres along Leetsdale was given to the station. Almost immediately the station wound up in a dispute with the local neighborhoods when it won approval for rezoning, and the developer proposed a McDonald’s on the site. Deal Stopped Earlier Ironically back then angry residents in Virginia Vale, led by President Deb Ward, blocked the development. Paradoxically, a realtor named Paul Aceto, who now purports he is President of the Virginia Vale Community Assn., signed off with the Planning Board on the latest plan. Aceto posted a small sign at McMeen Elementary School six days prior to scheduling a meeting and used a five-year-old email database to send announcements. He hasn’t, however, provided minutes or attendance information. Aceto says the previous Virginia Vale board and the current vice president extended the presidency of the neighborhood group to him in 2008. Nevertheless, several alarmed Virginia Vale residents testified against the plan at a hearing before the Planning Board in the Webb Municipal Bldg. on Sept. 3. “I am disgusted by the lack of notice to anyone in our neighborhood regarding this re-zoning. I only became aware of it when I happened to see the small notice posted two weeks ago. No one on our own or adjacent streets were previously notified,” Holly Brooks told City Planners. “Seven years ago many of us and our neighbors spent nearly a year in meeting rooms crowded to standing room only to reach a compromise with the same developer on use, lighting, landscaping and barriers protective of our neighborhood,” she recalled. “The developer’s latest proposal is everything we fought against last time, fast-food,” she angrily retorted. Aceto told the Chronicle at press time that “in lieu of the potentially serious consequences now apparent, the Virginia Vale Community Association is taking a different position on the development and sending a letter to Kyle Dalton at the Planning Board revealing the group is altering its support.” At the Oct. 15 City Council Meeting, however, Senior Planner Kyle Dalton told Council members and attendees that the VVCA by no means rescinded their approval. Rather, that he received a letter that said some of the people in our neighborhood had surfaced opposing the plan. Ward Speaks Up Former President Ward, who still lives in Virginia Vale but is no longer affiliated with the Community Association, tells the Chronicle that when Naftel originally tried to develop the triangular Leetsdale property, “we refused to allow a mixed use zone, only allowing a very specific PUD, which is why he is having to jump through hoops once again.” She recalls that Naftel’s spokesperson made it sound as if the community association was accepting rezoning at that time. “We most definitely were not,” she declares. The spunky Ward also says, “I would think that it would benefit all neighborhoods with these little odd bits of open land to not allow mixed usages, but stick with PUDs so that neighborhoods can maintain some control of what they will accept. Once a mixed use is allowed — especially the broader zones — I believe neighborhoods lose control for good,” she warns. The latest redevelopment plan also caught the attention of Reuben Drebenstedt, President of the South Hilltop Neighborhood Assn. Because of interest and concerns by Hilltop neighbors regarding the proposed zoning and development plans for the property he scheduled a meeting on Oct. 13 to discuss the proposal with the owner-developer and his architect. Drebenstedt expressed neighborhood concerns about high traffic on and off of Exposition and into adjacent neighborhoods. “School kids crossing Leetsdale through traffic, not using crosswalks; it will be a danger to them and autos,” he said. Drebenstedt also suggested too many businesses are being located on the small plot. A total of four spaces — the largest being 2,400 sq. ft. — are proposed on the property. Several attendees at the Hilltop meeting also articulated concerns that there would be a sharp increase of parked cars on Exposition plus increased loitering. At the South Hilltop meeting developer Naftel indicated a willingness to consider the options being suggested at the meeting. Nevertheless his architect Michael Rudd, who also attended the meeting, expressed doubt the City would give approval. Given that the current Mayor and city staff generally support developments rather than parks, it’s not surprising that the Planning Board staff recommended approval (only changing the PUD from 584 to PUD-G 10). Senior City Planner Kyle A. Dalton wrote, “The land or its surrounding environs has changed or is changing to such a degree that it is in the public interest to encourage a redevelopment of the area or to recognize the changed character of the area.” Changes identified in the surrounding area by the developer’s application include the redevelopment of Lowry, suggesting it created an increased demand for neighborhood commercial service uses, such as retail and restaurant. “Since the time of the previous PUD adoption, a mini-storage facility has been built, development trends have changed, and a new zoning code has been adopted,” the application states. Virginia Vale resident John Sturtz notes that despite Planner Dalton’s support of the developer’s argument that business in Lowry is reflective of the Leetsdale project, “it is blocks away and doesn’t reflect either this community, the environment around George Washington High School or our traffic issues.” The Denver City Council is tentatively scheduled to vote on the proposed development November 17. The post Latest Leetsdale Development Is Flashback To Turf Battles Of Old appeared first on Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle. Filed Under: Glendale News Tagged With: Battles, Development, Flashback, Latest, Leetsdale, Turf Glendale News Cycle Lane Lunacy? 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__label__cc	0.653053	0.346947	Filmspotting Forum Filmspotting Message Boards Write about the last movie you watched (2006-2010) Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 3921 Author Topic: Write about the last movie you watched (2006-2010) (Read 3710693 times) Katebo Rate the last movie you watched Finally just saw Adaptation. Wow. Yeah, everyone was right, it's that good. Better late than never? Check out Sound on Sight TV MagnusFromBerlin Quote from: "sdedalus" Have you seen Asano in Last Life In The Universe, by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang? A great movie, with some of Christopher Doyle's best cinematography. Asano's really good in it. I just got Ratanaruang's previous film, 6ixtynin9 from Netflix, gonna watch it in the next couple of days. Yes, I've seen it, good movie. "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" has a very simular pacing... 6ixtynin9 i don't know. sdedalus Objectively Awesome I have a prestigious blog, sir! The Fountain - Watched this last night and I've been kicking it around off and on all day today. I've decided UI can't really discuss it without giving away too many spoilers, so suffice it to say I liked it alright. It wasn't great, nor particularly profound, but I wouldn't call it pretentious either. I appreciate the sincerity and ambition behind it, and while I don't think the film is totally successful, I admire Aranovsky's effort. Visually it was somewhat interesting, but not especially beautiful. Both Jackman and Weisz were pretty good, which I've never thought of either of them before. Seattle Screen Scene "He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?" CSSCHNEIDER I Shoot Movies, Don't I? Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban Excellent film that is getting better with age. Its my favorite of the Potter films and is a technical masterpiece. This isn't just a good Potter movie or a good genre film, but a great stand alone film as well. Taste is discerning, not all encompassing. It's Not What You're Like, It's What You Like Know the Difference Between Arts and Crafts "Pain is Temporary, Film is Forever..." --John Milius Winner! BFCS Iconoclast Award 2007 This is a small little indie that's coming out in New York in a few weeks from Magnolia Pictures. It stars Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rossellini, and it's about how one of his buildings, a housing project, is going to be torn down and how it affects and reflects on his family. Too short, and not quite in depth enough, but quite interesting nonetheless. -Matt Singer Co-host, Filmspotting: SVU FilmspottingSVU.com Termite Art We're projecting that in Blu-Ray next week. Mark Cuban (who owns Magnolia Pictures and our theatre chain) is making a big deal about it. I think we're playing it in 8 different cities next week, all digitally projected Blu-Ray. CINECAST! You FLY, Clovis, & FroHam Fast Food Nation-While not as entertaining as Super Size Me but still informative and very insightful on the dark side of the fast food industry. The film has a great cast with the likes of Greg Kinnear, Ashley Johnson, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Ethan Hawke. The film though, does have its flaws in that it's a bit uneven in the stories they tell and also, the horrendous performances of Wilmer Valderamma and Avril Lavigne. They can't f*cking act. "I want to be bored"-Maggie Gyllenhaal winrit “Positively the same dame.” Deja Vu-Denzel Washington carries the film and I enjoyed it overall. Take your suspension of disbelief with you and don't worry about adding it all up, just roll with it. "Kickboxing. Sport of the future." DaveNJ Just saw The Rules of the Game for the first time. All I can say is this: wow. I loved The Grand Illusion, but this movie just ramps up the ambition so much more, and is so much more masterful. Taking on at least 8 serious characters, but no definable leads, creating a comic tragedy long before it was fashionable, and interspersing race, social, and, most importantly of all, class relations together to create a masterpiece. Renoir himself is fantastic as Octave, but every actor is great, especially the man who plays Marceau and the woman who plays Christine. Truly an achievement of cinema, and one of those movies I'll probably run out and buy as soon as I can. Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven-I am finally getting around to this series. It is really fascinating. I am interested to see how the documentary style changes over the years. Also, since the kids didn't really choose this for themselves I am interested to see how they will react to it as they get older. Very interesting. Help SMF 2.0.2 \| SMF © 2011, Simple Machines	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line146
__label__wiki	0.663161	0.663161	Views on Technology, Business, and Society Is Facebook the AT&T of the 21st Century? September 13, 2017 Hari Technology 1 Two communications giants. What makes them similar and different? AT&T as Ma Bell ruled the roost as the biggest communications company for over a 100 years. It had a plethora of technology inventions, 100 million subscribers, and over a million employees before its break-up in 1984. Today, Facebook has well over 2 billion monthly active users. Clearly, AT&T and Facebook differ in how they enable communications. Despite many differences, there are similarities between the former with roots in the 19th century and the 21st century infant. What are their similarities and differences? What are the lessons from AT&T for the 21st century behemoths in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Media industry? Ma Bell: More Than the Mother of Talk It is easy to be awed by AT&T’s telecommunications prowess alone and miss the true strength of AT&T. Over the course of the 20th century, AT&T’s influence went well beyond communications. Here is a glimpse of its power over the last century in technology assets beyond their business which was legally restricted to telecom before 1984. These are categorized into 4 areas: Communications: Classic telecom/phone services to modern day communications Computing: Personal, business, and cloud-based Content: Creation and delivery of content and content services Common R&D: Everything from semiconductor to information theory [Note: This is not a comprehensive list. A great graphic from New York Times is here] Broad and Deep Technologies, Limited Productization Some takeaways across technology and business: STEM Breadth and Depth: AT&T’s technology expertise ranged from scientific research to applied technology, thanks to Bell Labs. Their assets spanned communications (core business) to computing, content, semiconductor, and basic sciences. Inventions like the transistor paved the way for ICs and modern computers; Unix and C paved the way for distributed systems and Internet. Barred from Computing: AT&T held a treasure trove of patents across communications and computing. The 1956 consent decree with the government prevented AT&T from entering the computer business while preserving its monopoly in telecom. Western Electric division built and sold communications equipment. Enters Computing and Leaves: Divestiture in 1984 – a seemingly clever idea then – split AT&T up, but gave it the rights to enter other markets including computers. Heralded as an unshackling of the giant by some, the market expansions for the information age failed to materialize. Their hostile takeover and renaming of NCR to AT&T Global Information Services lasted 4 years, only to be spun out. Against that backdrop, let’s see how AT&T and Facebook compares across the three dimensions of communications, computing, and content. Communications: AT&T vs. Facebook AT&T had over 100 million subscribers in a world without cellular wireless communications and low tele-density. In a world with high wireless penetration, Facebook community has over 2 billion monthly active users (MAU). Its assets WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger has over 1 billion MAUs each (Note: These users overlap across the services and hence can’t be summed up). It was simple to count AT&T’s subscribers based on lines in use. Now we count usage, not simply registered users. Underlying connectivity technologies and tele-density in their eras make direct comparison of the numbers alone meaningless. Hence, these numbers simply illustrate the magnitude and impact of each in their epoch. Facebook’s Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP) aims to drive new approaches to telecom network implementation in a world of wireless connectivity, 5G, and IoT. Aquila is a solar-powered drone initiative that beams connectivity. These are just two of the initiatives aimed at global connectivity. Computing: AT&T vs. Facebook AT&T desired to monetize its computing and information services business, but prevented by regulation from 1956 to 1984. It had the technologies like transistors, Unix, C etc. that eventually propelled the drive to the Internet. For Facebook, computing and telecom network are simply enablers, not direct money-makers. Unlike its contemporary mega peers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google), Facebook is not offering a computing service. It is focused on lowering the costs to build and operate compute and network infrastructure. Facebook exerts considerable influence in cloud computing architectures via the Open Compute project (OCP). TIP is for communications what OCP is for computing. OCP and internal efforts like FBAR (Facebook Automated Remediation) to automate data center operations drive profits by keeping opex low and service availability high. Content: AT&T vs. Facebook In AT&T’s prime, analog broadcast TV was the norm. Media and telecom weren’t converged as we know it today. Most Bell Labs’ innovations were enablers for content creation and distribution. Facebook has just started to offer digital content through its Watch platform, moving it from offering user-generated content alone to professional, branded media. A comparison of Facebook with the AT&T reincarnation, “at&t”, and its pending acquisition of Time Warner is below, juxtaposed on top of the communications assets used to deliver them. Vertical Integration of Content and Communications AT&T buys Time Warner just to keep up with the Joneses (e.g. Comcast and NBC, Verizon and Yahoo)? Unlikely. The new AT&T may be preparing for a larger battle looming in the Telecom, Media, and Entertainment world. AT&T and Facebook: Apples and Oranges? What makes AT&T dissimilar from Facebook? Monetization: AT&T and Facebook are both communications service providers. The main difference is that AT&T monetized the communication services directly while Facebook monetizes them indirectly via advertisements. Innovation: AT&T brought inventions to market. Phone being the prime example. Facebook on the other hand is (so far) applying technology for the outcomes of social connectivity. This is also a reflection of their times. Vertical Integration: From Bell Labs to Western Electric, AT&T was vertically integrated from pure research to businesses. Facebook’s vertical integration from communications to networking and computing is via TIP and OCP. Their content to communications integration is just starting. Competition: Formidable competitors stand between Facebook and the next 100 years. AT&T dealt with a different competitive and regulatory environment. Facebook = AT&T Redux? The historical and current picture of their vast swathes of business is below. Given the similarities at the communication solution level, is Facebook really a second-coming of AT&T? Is it a progression from Grand Dame to Lady Belle? Old, New, Newer? Facebook’s ability and ambition to connect a planet of people and businesses in myriad forms and using that to propel it to create revenue streams is impressive. Despite the relative infancy of Facebook, their impact in the world of human communications is significant in driving social and business changes. Still, dominance in the 21st century will be different from what it was in the AT&T age. Whether Facebook will have the multi-generational, multi-century impact that Ma Bellhad on the world of communications, computing, and semiconductors is early to tell. People who know Bell Labs innovations and their profound impact in our daily lives may dismiss this notion right away. This comparison seeks to understand and inform future strategies of these two and other large players in technology, telecom, media, and entertainment. What do you think? Is the comparison apt? Does it do justice to each firm? Take a look here on how Ma Bell, Big Blue, and the Big 5, F-M-A-G-A(Facebook-Microsoft-Apple-Google-Amazon), of media and information technology stack up against each other. Originally published on LinkedIn M&A and Venture Strategy: IoT = IT + OT How the Big 5’s Mega Battle to Control the 3C’s is Unfolding How the Big 5's Mega Battle to Control the 3C's is Unfolding ▼Technology (13) IT + OT = IoT Couch Computing: A Dummy's Guide SDN & Biology Parlez-vous PaaS? 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__label__cc	0.682001	0.317999	He is Sufficient A personal walk in a wilderness of words « What is the gospel? Matthew 5:3 » Making the pot boil and bubble By ElShaddai Edwards \| Published: May 2, 2011 Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1 Examples of bubbling cauldron scenes — with or without witches — in classic literature are seemingly innumerable, and in the heart of the book of Ezekiel, we find that even the Bible contributes to the genre. The parable of the boiling pot graphically illustrates a message of judgement from God on the leaders of Jerusalem, who had been set siege upon by the king of Babylon. The parable itself is turnabout on an earlier vision, cf. Ezekiel 11:1-12, where the prophet hears the corrupt leadership compare the safety of the city to a boiling pot of meat. In this post, I am looking at the first part of the parable, Ezekiel 24:3b-5, comparing the classic KJV with two modern translations, the Revised English Bible (REB) and the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). My intent is such: compare the KJV to a translation example that emphasizes literary language (REB) and to an example of a translation that offers idiomatic English grammar (HCSB), with the idea to see what is gained or lost from an English styling perspective. First, I offer this caveat: I don’t know Hebrew, so I will not be comparing these translations to the original text, nor will I be referencing Strongs or somesuch tool. I wish to only consider the approach of the English translations and how they compare to themselves. Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it; Set a cauldron on the fire, set it on and pour in water. Put the pot on the fire — put it on, and then pour water into it! While each of the translations retains a sense of the repetition — Set on a pot, set it on, — both the REB and HCSB have introduced changes to the KJV text. First, in flipping the order of the noun (“pot/cauldron”) and preposition (“0n”) in the initial phrase, both translations saw fit to introduce a prepositional object (“the fire”) that is not in the KJV (or in most other non-functional translations that I consulted). While grammatically correct, the choice of “the fire” as the object may be viewed as somewhat arbitrary (unless there is a textual variant out there with this word choice) since there are other objects that could be equally used, e.g. “the pit”. The change in the HCSB seems entirely motivated by creating a more natural order to the English grammar. While this creates a phrase that sounds correct, I would argue that the addition dampens the immediate effect of the repetition. If the HCSB had simply translated the phrase as “put on the pot, put it on”, I might have suggested that the alliteration of “put/pot” created an even stronger reading than the KJV’s rendering. The same addition in the REB can perhaps be defended by considering the other changes in this verse. The REB has connected the second repetition of “set it on” to the last phrase, “pour in water”, creating a second line phrase that is equally yoked to the expanded phrase of the first line. Furthermore, the translation now begins each line with the same repeating verb, a strong device in English poetry. Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. Into it collect the pieces, every choice piece, fill it with leg and shoulder, the best of the bones; Place the pieces of meat in it, every good piece — thigh and shoulder. Fill it with choice bones. Compared to the KJV, the HCSB is fairly conservative in its treatment of v4. The verb “gather” has been updated to “place”, to a lesser effect to my ears, and dropping the word “even” fails to convey that the leaders of Jerusalem – the good pieces – were being included in the judgement along with people of the city. By dropping articles like “the” from the translation, the HCSB destroys the line meters — for example, the KJV finishes with verse with two lines of six syllables, while the HCSB now has uneven lines of 4 syllables and 5 syllables. It seems like it would have been a simple matter to selectively use articles to fill out the meters or just to preserve the KJV wording. The REB has again manipulated the wording to create stronger poetic effects in the English. First, in line 1, by shifting the phrase “into it” to the beginning of the line, the translation now ends lines 1 and 2 with the variants of “pieces”, creating another repeating effect. Next, perhaps this is a stretch, but if you read “every” in line 2 as “ev-er-ry”, then the REB translators have embedded a haiku in lines 2-4, with syllables of 5-7-5. Finally, using “best” instead of “choice” creates another alliterative effect with “bones”, something that’s echoed in the first line of verse 5 (see below). Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. take the pick of the flock. Pile the wood underneath; seethe the stew and boil the bones in it. Take the choicest of the flock and also pile up the fuel under it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it. The HCSB throws a curveball to the tongue with the superlative “choicest” standing oddly out from even the KJV. I’m not entirely sure what to think about that, other than to note that it is shared with the ESV and NASB, so it is presumably rooted in the ASV/RSV lineage, something that I would not have expected from the HCSB as a new translation. The REB’s rendering of “the pick of the flock” is a consonance effect with the “ck” sound and plays off of the alliteration of “the best of the bones” at the end of v.4, a connection that is underscored by the choices of punctuation that alter the actual construction of the phrases (compared to the KJV). I have to confess at this point that my interest in this overall passage was initially piqued by the REB’s alliterative rendering in v5: coming across “seethe the stew” was a magical bit of reading and I was curious to find the root of it in the KJV, though in true NEB/REB fashion, the words have been transformed into perhaps more idiomatic English poetry, though it’s doubtful that stew was in mind here (though spices are added later in v.10). Boiling meat bones to create soup stock is a time-tested practice that deserves something more inspired than the HCSB’s simple “cook the bones”… Finally, I would also bring in the venerable Jerusalem Bible (though sadly not its successor) at this point for a rendering of the third line that seems steeped in Shakespeare and appropriate to the genre: Take the best of the flock. Then heap wood underneath; make the pot boil and bubble until even the bones are cooked. With even this short look at a few verses, it seems easy to conclude that the REB makes attempts to render the text into English poetry, using standard devices such as alliteration, consonance, meter and repetition to create passages that sound as well as read to greater effect. The HCSB seems content to normalize traditional (KJV) renderings into standard English grammar, making it perhaps easier to read, but at the expense of the possible poetic effects, whether from the original Hebrew or in English itself. This is a common criticism of most modern English translations, deservedly so it seems, and one that the REB stands in stark contrast to. My preference is clear. This entry was posted in Translation and tagged ezekiel, HCSB, kjv, REB. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. Hana on What were you doing on December 17, 1994? Matt Goodall on William Barclay: theological hero or heretic? William Daniels on William Barclay: theological hero or heretic? AA on William Barclay: theological hero or heretic? Map on Blood moons and Jewish feasts Faith & Theology ©2007-2020 ElShaddai Edwards. Some Rights Reserved. Log in.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line152
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__label__cc	0.526179	0.473821	The Next 50 Years - Push for cheaper, more efficient sources of energy Published:Thursday \| December 20, 2012 \| 12:00 AM The Waterloo Guest House in St Andrew was one of the first homes to receive electricity in Jamaica. The Jamaica Public Service's (JPS) Old Harbour plant. - File Jamaica continues to celebrate 50 years of Independence. We have achieved a lot. However, there is much work left to be done if we are to progress as a country. We must begin to tackle Jamaica's chronic problems in a targeted and sustained way to make this country a better place to live, work and grow families. The Next 50 Years, a special Gleaner series, will spotlight some of the challenges we must fix in the coming years. We want to hear from you. Email us at editor@gleanerjm.com and join the debate. JAMAICA WAS one of the first countries in the world to receive electricity in 1892. This service was supplied by the Jamaica Electric Light Company from a plant at Gold Street, Kingston, and was quickly followed in 1897 by the West India Electric Company, which built the hydroelectric plant on the Rio Cobre at Bog Walk, St Catherine. The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company Limited emerged in 1923 and was granted an all-island franchise in 1966. The Government of Jamaica acquired controlling interest of JPS in 1970. In 2001, the ownership of JPS was returned to private hands with the sale of 80 per cent of the integrated utility to Mirant of Atlanta. Since then, the company's ownership structure has changed, with Korea's East-West Power and Japan's Marubeni Corporation jointly owning the 80 per cent of the shares initially acquired by Mirant. A 2011 study by the Jamaica Productivity Centre ranks JPS power-distribution operations among the least efficient in the region for total distribution losses, non-technical losses and reliability; and places JPS in the group with the highest electricity prices. Changes are clearly needed. An integrated portfolio of initiatives will be required, including: A more aggressive posture towards renewables and greater incentives and facilitation for conservation by consumers. This should be enabled through the establishment of energy service companies and the development of an energy-savings industry in Jamaica. A restructuring of the electricity sector that allows for controlled access to the electricity grid. This should create competitive forces and private-sector incentives that can lead to the wider-scale deployment of combined heat and power systems, which provide significantly greater fuel efficiency. More Lead Stories Prosecutor: Seasoned bank teller opened gate for fraud Payback puzzle - Pinnock reimbursed thousands of US dollars in questionable spending Deregistration fears plunge at UWI Blind teacher sees future in kids Port Royal turns into party central Guard killed in Westmoreland Race against time for Port Royal cruise pier Witness: Family wipeout made me to flip on King Valley Gang April 20 trial for accused who burned woman to death NDTC's Barry Moncrieffe dies at 78	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line167
__label__cc	0.543686	0.456314	On this page, I post short stories, excerpts, teasers... SILVER IN HER SIGHTS by Jan Jones When Tamsin got into Mum’s car outside school, Jodie was already ensconced in the front seat eating her tea. Jodie ate in concentrated silence, chewing each mouthful to exactly the right consistency before swallowing and taking the next bite. Poor Jodie, thought Tamsin, never getting any actual joy out of eating. Her younger sister ate until they reached the big roundabout, then shut her snack‑box. For the rest of the journey she sat quite still, letting her digestion rest, preparing for the practice ahead. In the back seat, Tamsin scrolled through her phone, clicked some music on and shut her eyes. Mum never provided tea for her because, of course, it wasn’t supposed to be necessary. Lack of food preparation supported the fiction that they would simply drop Jodie at the gym and go home. Yes, well. At the gym, Jodie moved purposefully to the changing room. Mum headed equally single‑mindedly for the viewing gallery. “I’ll just see her settled in, dear,” she said. Here we go again, thought Tamsin. She hoisted her school bag to her shoulder and followed, deliberately slow. By the time she’d dawdled to the viewing gallery, Jodie had already limbered up and was on her first double twist with full extend somersault. “Come on, Mum,” said Tamsin. “We’d better be off. The traffic will be getting heavy soon, remember?” “Mmm? Oh, yes.” Mum stood up, her eyes fixed on Jodie. “Yoo‑hoo!” The City Gym administrator hurried across, flushed of face, excited but slightly harried. “I’ve just had a call from Network East. They want to do a little piece on Jodie tonight, what with the Europeans coming up...” Mum snapped alert. “Tonight? Oh, well, I’d better stay.” Her coat flew to the chair quicker than oil running off a hot pan. “They won’t mention that Russian girl, will they? Did they say anything about her?” The other woman looked alarmed. “They only asked about Jodie. When she’d be here, what the lighting was like, whether they could park outside. That sort of thing.” Tamsin leant against the balcony. You couldn’t say she hadn’t tried. She always tried. She always gave Mum the chance to take her home in good time for a leisurely meal and a relaxing evening. And it wouldn’t be the least use, now, pointing out that Dad was coming here after work to take Jodie home. Mum simply knew Network East would want to talk to both of Jodie’s parents together. Tamsin gave a tiny, silent sigh. Plan B it was. As ever. “What about tea, Mum?” she asked. “And my homework?” “Sorry, dear? What did you say?” Mum’s eyes were on Jodie, doing her third double twist with full extend somersault. “I’ll go and get some chips, shall I?” “All right, dear.” Mum fumbled in her purse without looking and handed Tamsin a ten pound note. “D’you want some?” “No, I’ll leave it until later. Oh dear, I hope they don’t mention that Russian girl. It’ll upset her.” “I need to go to the library to look up stuff for my history homework. It’s quite a long essay. Is that okay?” “Mmm? Yes, of course, dear.” Tamsin had long ago given up reasoning with her parents when it came to Jodie’s gymnastics. Time was when the energy expended on her sister had made her bitter. She was over that now. At least Jodie did her daily practice here in the city nowadays. The city had a lot more resources than their small market town. An intelligent girl could get a surprising amount done in three hours - and Tamsin was nothing if not intelligent. Mum didn’t even turn around as she left. In the gym, Jodie ran lightly up to the vaulting horse and did her seventh double twist with full extend somersault. In the building society, Tamsin pushed the tenner across the counter and saw it added to her account book. You never knew what was going to come out of Mum’s purse. It appalled Tamsin, who couldn’t imagine a day when she herself didn’t know exactly how much money she had at any one time. In the gym, Mum rested her chin on her hands and admired Jodie’s new championship leotard. She’d known the rich cerise colour would look good on her daughter, and to her mind, the metallic purple zigzag stripe with silver edging really gave Jodie a touch of star quality. It had been a trifle expensive, but Dad had agreed nothing was too good for their little heroine. How fortunate that the TV crew were coming today. Jodie would look lovely on the television. In the burger bar, Tamsin slipped on her apron, washed her hands and started clearing tables with a speed which had the owner breathing a sigh of relief. It was his busiest time of day. She also swept the floor, refilled the condiments station, broke up an argument between two of the customers waiting in the queue and fixed the piped music so that it once more played cheerily overhead. “You are a star,” said the owner. “Are you sure you don’t want a permanent job?” Tamsin grinned. “You couldn’t afford me,” she replied and at the end of her ninety minute shift took her pay in cash and banked that as well. In the gym, the Network East crew tripped over beams and griped about padded flooring. In the library, Tamsin rapidly scanned the Financial Times and tapped notes into her netbook. She’d do the proper number crunching tonight at home. It was very satisfying how even the most modest savings could build up if you put your money in the right place. She got back to the gym just as Dad was parking the car. She dodged around the outside broadcast van, sped up the side stairs, jammed her headphones on and was studiously deep in her homework by the time he entered the gallery. “Network East, eh?” he said, sliding into the seat next to Mum, his eyes already on Jodie’s sixty-third double twist with full extend somersault. “They’re not going to mention that Russian girl, are they?” There were aggrieved noises from the TV crew. Could Jodie do something else now? Something with more audience impact? Assymetric bars, perhaps? Anything... “She won’t,” said Mum comfortably. “She’s thinking about this, you see. Getting the moves absolutely right.” “She won’t,” agreed Dad. “Never changes her mind. She’s like me. Knows what she wants to do and sticks to her programme.” A little more rumbling and the TV crew gave in, stomping upstairs to interview Jodie’s parents. Tamsin, writing an essay on how the politics of the inter-war years shaped the conflict to come with one hand, whilst tapping out the rhythm playing through her headphones with the other, laid a bet with herself as to how long it would be before they wound up with a question to her, and which of the standard ones they’d choose. “Jodie developed her interest in gymnastics very young, didn’t she?” “Oh, yes,” agreed Mum eagerly. “Her sister Tamsin used to go to the local gym club, you see, and of course Jodie would come with me to pick her up, and one day, well, honestly she was only two, and she did this perfect star jump off the trampette ‑ ” “So then, of course,” joined in Dad, “we started her in the Tots class - ” “Juniors by four ‑ ” “Personal coaching at six ‑ ” “City Gym ‑ ” “Ever so encouraging ‑ ” Tamsin’s pen travelled smoothly on as Mum and Dad itemised Jodie’s prowess over the years. The interviewer managed to wedge a question into the flow. “But surely your daughter’s success has meant a great deal of sacrifice on your part?” “Sacrifice?” Mum and Dad looked blank. “Long hours of practice? Travelling to competitions?” “Not really.” Mum sounded nonplussed. Out of the corner of her eye, Tamsin saw the director, a bored‑looking man in a turtle‑necked sweater, draw a hand across his throat. The interviewer gave a practised smile. “And you’ll be at the European Championships next month to cheer Jodie on?” Mum and Dad blinked that the question needed putting. “Of course.” Mum lowered her voice. “Not Tamsin. She’s got exams. She’s ever so disappointed.” She made the exams sound like an unfortunate rash. The interviewer flicked the faintest of sceptical looks in Tamsin’s direction. “Of course. Good luck with those. And what will it be for Jodie after the championships?” “The Olympics,” breathed Dad reverently. “She’ll be in peak condition by then.” “Peak condition,” echoed Mum. Her eyes shone. Behind them, the director sketched a lacklustre spiral. He’d heard it all before, filmed it all before. What he really wanted was to get home and put his feet up with a nice cup of tea that didn’t give him indigestion. “Well, we wish Jodie all the best and I’m sure we’ll be hearing more of her,” concluded the interviewer heartily. “A very talented and dedicated young lady.” Mum and Dad sat back, flushed and happy. The director went into a technical huddle with the cameraman and the sound technician. The interviewer, leaning over the balcony to watch the talented and dedicated young lady’s eighty-fifth double twist with full extend somersault, said idly, “Suppose she gave it all up tomorrow?” “Gave it up?” Mum’s face went slack with shock. “Yes,” continued the interviewer, still gazing down. “Make life easier, wouldn’t it? No more twice‑daily trips to the city. No more adapting your routine to fit in with hers...” “Well,” said Mum uncertainly, “it’s her choice...” “Oh yes,” said Dad, his face betraying blank devastation, “it’s always been her decision...” Only Tamsin smiled, her head bent over her essay. Tamsin could pick the lock on Jodie’s diary in two seconds flat and scan its contents in three. Mum and Dad had no idea of their youngest daughter’s game plan. Jodie would be fourteen by the next Olympics. She intended to get her silver medal (being, unlike Mum and Dad, entirely realistic about the Russian girl) and then retire in a blaze of glory. Gymnastics phase over. No fading star act for her. Silver medal, GCSEs, A-levels, Civil Service - and that was her life all neatly mapped out. The music crashed victoriously in Tamsin’s head. She smiled again as the cameraman lined up for a shot of her doing her homework. Jodie was just so boring. Who in their right mind would settle for a rule-driven, look‑alike executive post when they could be Something In The City? What sort of person was content to stay at home with their parents until the day of a nice white wedding in church, when instead they could be living in a streamlined Docklands apartment with their own portfolio, a helipad on the roof and a motor boat tied up to the front door? Who wanted a guaranteed pension when they could have adrenalin thrumming through their veins on a daily basis? All of this was Tamsin’s goal. She had a more magnificent horizon than the rest of her family put together. Tamsin glanced sideways at Mum and Dad, still gaping like stranded fish at the TV interviewer’s back, at the TV interviewer staring moodily down at Jodie, at the director and cameraman who had just missed the most effective piece of television they were ever likely to come across. It went to show that you should never be complacent. In one way, Jodie was spot-on: the right moves at the right time were what counted when you had silver in your sights. Tamsin smiled at the camera and said no she wasn’t the least bit jealous of her younger sister, she was proud of her. Then she put her pen and binder neatly away in her schoolbag and stood up. “What about tea, Mum?” she asked. “Shall I get some chips?”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line169
__label__wiki	0.683962	0.683962	With Few Exceptions, Good Riddance 2016 Wasn't going to post any kind of New Year's sentimentality this time around, but keeping it short let me just go on by saying that 2016 (with few exceptions) was absolutely a terrible year for the United States of America. We all know why. There are some people who just don't understand they choose against their own best interests to benefit the top one percent in this country, so next month we have to deal with insanity for the next four years. Enough said on that subject. In other areas, 2016 took away so many beloved people (entertainers, sports figures, etc.) we like to call celebrities. The list is simply TOO LONG this year to name them all, but some of the more famous (or most recent ones) included Pop music icons Prince and David Bowie, as well as singer/song writer George Michael, who died on Christmas Day. Also passing away last summer were NHL legend Gordie Howe and golfing ambassador Arnold Palmer. Carrie Fisher of "Star Wars" movie fame just passed away a few days ago and one day later her mother, singer/actress Debbie Reynolds died. Former U.S. Senator and astronaut John Glenn died in early December and so did former First Lady Nancy Reagan earlier this year. Again, so many names to list . . . And of course, boxing legend "The Greatest" Muhammad Ali died earlier this year as well. On a bright note (at least here in Chicago) the CHICAGO CUBS WON THE WORLD SERIES in 2016!!! That ended a 108 year sports championship drought for the historic franchise. All in all, 2016 was a horse shit year, so good riddance. Here's hoping that 2017 brings more cheer. Posted by Jim at 4:47 PM 3 comments: NFL - Week Seventeen Preview The Sunday Night Football game will be the one to determine the NFC North division champion as the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions play for all the marbles in Motown. These two teams met back in Week Three in Green Bay and the Packers won 34-27 in that game. Both the Packers and Lions are 9-6, but have been trending in opposite directions recently. Green Bay has won five straight games to vault back into contention in the NFC playoff race while backing up quarterback Aaron Rodgers' claim they could "run the table" and make the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Lions who looked so good just a few weeks ago, have lost two in a row and now have to win or else get a lot of help if they don't to make the playoffs. They lost to the Dallas Cowboys last Monday night, 42-21 and what made the beat down especially difficult is the fact the Cowboys had nothing to play for as they had already clinched the NFC East crown and home field advantage throughout the post-season. The NFC has two spots left to decide and this game will definitely solve one of those. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-7) and Washington Redskins (8-6-1) are both right there to snatch the sixth and final playoff spot away from the loser of the Lions-Packers tilt. The good news for both of the NFC North foes is they will KNOW what their fate is when the game begins. The Redskins host the New York Giants (10-5 and playoff bound) while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the disappointing Carolina Panthers (6-9), who find themselves on the outside looking in this season as far as the playoffs are concerned. The AFC playoff picture is set as far as teams go and the only thing to be decided is the seedings of the teams. The AFC West is still up for grabs as the Oakland Raiders (12-3) play on the road against the Denver Broncos while the Kansas City Chiefs (11-4) travel to San Diego in what should be an easy win. The Chargers have been awful in recent weeks and are coming off a road loss to the previously winless Cleveland Browns. The Raiders will be without their star quarterback Derek Carr for the rest of the season (and playoffs) as he suffered a broken leg in last week's win against Indianapolis. The other playoff bound teams in the AFC include the New England Patriots (13-2) who will be in Miami (10-5) to face the Dolphins, who are going back to the post-season for the first time in eight years. Pittsburgh (10-5) has the number-three seed locked up and the Houston Texas (9-6 and number-four seed) will likely face either Oakland or Kansas City in the wild card round. The following offers a look at all of the games for the season finale along with the Heftyinfo predictions as well. New York Giants (10-5) at Washington Redskins (8-6-1) - The Redskins must win or else. New Orleans Saints (7-8) at Atlanta Falcons (10-5) - The Falcons would wrap up a first round playoff bye with a win. Carolina Panthers (6-9) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-7) - Who would have thought the Bucs could be playing for a post-season spot in this one? Houston Texans (9-6) at Tennessee Titans (8-7) - The Titans choked away their shot at making the playoffs in last week's loss to the lowly Jaguars. The Texans are in the playoffs again. Baltimore Ravens (8-7) at Cincinnati Bengals (5-9-1) - Both of these teams have U-Haul trucks backed up to locker room already. Jacksonville Jaguars (3-12) at Indianapolis Colts (7-8) - Will this be Colts' Head Coach Chuck Pagano's last game with the team? New England Patriots (13-2) at Miami Dolphins (10-5) - This could be a good one as both teams have incentive to win. Chicago Bears (3-12) at Minnesota Vikings (7-8) - Who cares? Buffalo Bills (7-8) at New York Jets (4-11) - Bills coach Rex Ryan (and his brother Rob) were fired this week. Dallas Cowboys (13-2) at Philadelphia Eagles (6-9) - Take the Eagles, Cowboys will be resting key players. Cleveland Browns (1-14) at Pittsburgh Steelers (10-5) - The Steelers should win this one, even with the reserves in the game. Arizona Cardinals (6-8-1) at Los Angeles Rams (4-11) - Both of these teams used to play in St. Louis. Oakland Raiders (12-3) at Denver Broncos (8-7) - The defending Super Bowl champs would love to prevent the Raiders from clinching the AFC West in the Mile High City. Kansas City Chiefs (11-4) at San Diego Chargers (5-10) - This could be the Chargers last game in San Diego. Sentimental hog wash - Chiefs need to win this one. Seattle Seahawks (9-5-1) at San Francisco 49ers (2-13) - Seahawks roll ! Green Bay Packers (9-6) at Detroit Lions (9-6) - This game could go down to the wire. The Packers rate the edge. The Heftyinfo picks for Week 17 . . . . . (Home teams are listed in bold; Lock of the Week is listed in BOLD CAPS) Washington over NY Giants Atlanta over New Orleans Tampa Bay over Carolina Cincinnati over Baltimore Tennessee over Houston INDIANAPOLIS over Jacksonville New England over Miami Minnesota over Chicago NY Jets over Buffalo Philadelphia over Dallas Pittsburgh over Cleveland Arizona over Los Angeles Oakland over Denver Kansas City over San Diego Seattle over San Francisco Green Bay over Detroit Last Week's Record: 9-7 SEASON RECORD: 157-81-2 Lock of the Week Record: 16-0 NFL - Week Sixteen Review Following this weekend, the AFC playoffs picture is set while only two spots remain to be filled in the NFC as the 2016 NFL season goes into the final week. The Pittsburgh Steelers (10-5) wrapped up the AFC North division with a resounding come-from-behind win at home against the Baltimore Ravens, 31-27 as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw a four-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Antonio Brown with only nine seconds left in the game. The Ravens (8-7) squandered a double-digit lead as Pittsburgh rolled up 21 points in the fourth quarter as Roethlisberger had three touchdown passes in the victory, which was the sixth straight for the Steelers. Running back Le'Veon Bell had 122 yards rushing in the win and also scored twice. By winning 34-31 on the road in Buffalo on Saturday, the Miami Dolphins (10-5) are going to the playoffs. Kicker Andrew Franks nailed a game-winning 27-yard field goal in overtime. Earlier, Franks made a 55-yard FG as time ran out in regulation to force the overtime. Miami RB Jay Ajayi rushed for 206 yards and scored a touchdown while QB Matt Moore had two TD passes. Buffalo Bills QB Tyrod Taylor had three TD passes in the loss. The Houston Texans (9-6) clinched the AFC South division on Saturday night with a 12-10 win over stubborn Cincinnati. Texans kicker Nick Novak made two field goals and RB Alfred Blue made the difference with a 24-yard TD run late in the fourth quarter. Bengals kicker Randy Bullock missed a potential game winning field goal (wide right) as time expired. The fact Houston won the division with the win was made possible when Tennessee laid an egg in Jacksonville, losing 38-17 to the Jaguars, who ended a nine-game losing streak. In addition, Titans QB Marcus Mariota suffered a broken leg in the loss. The Jags defense limited the Titans to 263 yards in total offense. The Kansas City Chiefs (11-4) clinched a playoff spot with a 33-10 thumping of the Denver Broncos (8-7), which eliminated Denver from playoff contention. Two big plays made a big impact for Kansas City as Tyreek Hill ran 70 yards for a score and tight end Travis Kelce caught an 80-yard TD pass from QB Alex Smith. The New England Patriots continued to roll as they won at home, 41-3 against the hapless New York Jets. Tom Brady had three TD passes and RB LeGarrette Blount rushed for two more scores to pace the rout. The Pats defense came up with four turnovers in the game, including three interceptions. Oakland won a 33-25 home decision against the Indianapolis Colts, but lost QB Derek Carr (three TD passes) for the season to a broken leg. Running back DeAndre Washington had two scoring runs for the Raiders (12-3) as they maintain a one-game lead over the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West. The Atlanta Falcons won the NFC South division as they toppled the Carolina Panthers, 33-16 behind a pair of touchdown passes from QB Matt Ryan. The New Orleans Saints helped the Falcons clinch by beating the visiting Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-24 as RB Mark Ingram had two rushing touchdowns. Bucs QB Jameis Winston had a pair of TD passes and two interceptions in the loss. Tampa Bay (8-7) can still make the playoffs with a win in the final game and some help. QB Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are rolling. The Green Bay Packers (9-6) kept the pressure on the Detroit Lions for first place in the NFC North as they won at home, 38-25 against Minnesota. Packers QB Aaron Rodgers had 347 passing yards and four touchdown passes to earn the Heftyinfo NFL Player of the Week. Two of Rodgers TD passes went to WR Jordy Nelson, who had nine receptions for 154 yards in Green Bay's fifth consecutive victory. The Washington Redskins (8-6-1) kept alive their playoff hopes as they routed the host Chicago Bears, 41-21 on Saturday afternoon. Redskins QB Kirk Cousins had two rushing touchdowns and also a TD pass in the game as they piled up 478 yards in total offense while the defense intercepted five passes. Arizona surprised the host Seattle Seahawks, 34-31 as kicker Chandler Catanzaro made a 43-yard field goal as time expired to give the Seahawks (9-5-1) their first home loss this season. Cardinals RB David Johnson scored three touchdowns to help lead the way. Seattle QB Russell Wilson had four TD passes in the loss . . . The Dallas Cowboys (13-2) kept rolling even after clinching home field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs by throttling the Detroit Lions, 42-21 on Monday Night Football. QB Dak Prescott had three TD passes (including two to WR Dez Bryant) and RB Ezekiel Elliott rushed for two more scores to lead the way. Elsewhere Around the NFL . . . . . The Philadelphia Eagles beat the visiting New York Giants, 24-19 last Thursday night as RB Darren Sproles scored a touchdown. Giants QB Eli Manning was intercepted three times . . . The Cleveland Browns (1-14) finally won a game as the held off the visiting San Diego Chargers, 20-17 when Chargers kicker Josh Lambo shanked two field goals in the final minutes, including a miss as time was running out. Browns RB Isaiah Crowell scored two touchdowns in the win while the Chargers defense had nine QB sacks in defeat . . . The San Francisco 49ers snapped a 13-game losing streak by rallying late in the fourth quarter in a 22-21 win at Los Angeles. Colin Kaepernick had two TD passes in the win and the 49ers defense limited the Rams (4-11) to a paltry 177 yards in offense. WEEK SIXTEEN SCORES Philadelphia 24, NY Giants 19 Miami 34, Buffalo 31 (OT) Atlanta 33, Carolina 16 Washington 41, Chicago 21 Cleveland 20, San Diego 17 Green Bay 38, Minnesota 25 Jacksonville 38, Tennessee 17 New England 41, NY Jets 3 Oakland 33, Indianapolis 25 San Francisco 22, Los Angeles 21 New Orleans 31, Tampa Bay 24 Arizona 34, Seattle 31 Houston 12, Cincinnati 10 Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore 27 Kansas City 33, Denver 10 Dallas 42, Detroit 21 Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays and the rest . . . Labels: christmastime4u, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Nat King Cole, Seasons Greetings, Walter Tan NFL - Week Sixteen Preview Without question, the biggest game of the coming weekend in the NFL is the Christmas Day battle in Pittsburgh between the host Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens in what is the game that will determine the AFC North division champion. The Steelers (9-5) have won five straight games and the Ravens (8-6) are right there in the AFC North and with a win would sweep the Steelers and take over first place in the division. Another Christmas Day game later that evening takes place in Kansas City where the Chiefs will host the Denver Broncos (8-6), who are in desperation mode regarding their playoff chances with an 8-6 record and trailing the Miami Dolphins (9-5) and the Chiefs (10-4) for the final two AFC playoff spots. Both the Chiefs and Broncos recently lost to the Tennessee Titans (also 8-6) so it's a must win for the defending Super Bowl champion Broncos or else they can kiss their playoff chances goodbye. The Monday Night Football finale for the 2016 season is a good one as well as the Detroit Lions (9-5 and leading the NFC North) travel to face the Dallas Cowboys (12-2) as the 'Pokes look to wrap up the NFC East division title. The action for Week Sixteen gets started tonight as the New York Giants (10-4) face the Philadelphia Eagles (5-9) in the Thursday night tilt. The Giants have been rolling and their defense looks to dominate the struggling Eagles in this one. For a look at all of the action for Week Sixteen, the following offers a capsule style look at each game and is followed by the Heftyinfo predictions for the games. THURSDAY NIGHT GAME New York Giants (10-4) at Philadelphia Eagles (5-9) - The Giants are rolling and their defense is looking rather dominant these days. CHRISTMAS EVE GAMES Miami Dolphins (9-5) at Buffalo Bills (7-7) - The last gasp for the Bills this season and possibly for Coach Rex Ryan too? Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-6) at New Orleans Saints (6-8) - The Saints could very easily win this one and spoil any chances the Bucs have of making the playoffs. New York Jets (4-10) at New England Patriots (12-2) - The Patriots are looking to wrap up home field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. Tennessee Titans (8-6) at Jacksonville Jaguars (2-12) - The Titans have to be careful not to look past this game to the finale against Houston. Minnesota Vikings (7-7) at Green Bay Packers (8-6) - The loser of this game is out of playoff contention in the NFC. Take the Packers. San Diego Chargers (5-9) at Cleveland Browns (0-14) - This is the last chance the Browns have to win a game this season. Washington Redskins (7-6-1) at Chicago Bears (3-11) - The Bears can play spoilers for the Redskins playoff hopes. Atlanta Falcons (9-5) at Carolina Panthers (6-8) - Can Cam Newton and company play spoilers again as they did vs. the Redskins last weekend? It's possible. Indianapolis Colts (7-7) at Oakland Raiders (11-3) - The Raiders are already in the AFC playoffs while the Colts are fighting for their playoff lives. Take the Raiders. Arizona Cardinals (5-8-1) at Seattle Seahawks (9-4-1) - No tie game this time around . . . Seahawks roll ! San Francisco 49ers (1-13) at Los Angeles Rams (4-10) - Who cares? Cincinnati Bengals (5-8-1) at Houston Texans (8-6) - The Texans need this one and the Bengals are playing out the string. Caution Houston Texans. CHRISTMAS DAY GAMES Baltimore Ravens (8-6) at Pittsburgh Steelers (9-5) - The Steelers will wrap up the AFC North division in this game - Merry Christmas! Denver Broncos (8-6) at Kansas City Chiefs (10-4) - The Chiefs need to beat Denver again and prove they are the team that can contend with New England for AFC supremacy. MONDAY NIGHT GAME Detroit Lions (9-5) at Dallas Cowboys (12-2) - The Cowboys looking to win the NFC East division crown at home. The Lions must win to keep the surging Green Bay Packers at bay in the NFC North race. The Heftyinfo picks for Week Sixteen . . . . . (Home teams are listed in bold; Lock of the Week is listed in BOLD CAPS) NY Giants over Philadelphia Buffalo over Miami New Orleans over Tampa Bay NEW ENGLAND over NY Jets Tennessee over Jacksonville Green Bay over Minnesota San Diego over Cleveland Chicago over Washington Atlanta over Carolina Oakland over Indianapolis Seattle over Arizona Los Angeles over San Francisco Houston over Cincinnati Pittsburgh over Baltimore Kansas City over Denver Dallas over Detroit Last Week's Record: 12-4 NFL - Week Fifteen Review Three more teams joined Dallas in stamping their post-season tickets as the Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders each took care of business this past weekend by winning their games. The Seahawks blasted the visiting Los Angeles Rams, 24-3 limiting them to just 183 yards in total offense. Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson threw for three touchdowns to lead the way on offense as the Seahawks (9-4-1) clinched the NFC West division. The Oakland Raiders are playoff bound for the first time since the 2002 season as they squeaked by the host San Diego Chargers, 19-16 to improve to 11-3 for the season. Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski made four field goals and QB Derek Carr connected with wide receiver Michael Crabtree for a touchdown to make the difference. Chargers QB Philip Rivers had two TD passes in the loss. The New England Patriots won the AFC East for the eighth consecutive season as they beat the host Denver Broncos, 16-3 to improve to 12-2. LeGarrette Blount scored on a one-yard touchdown plunge and the Pats defense smothered the Broncos offense, forcing three turnovers and sacking QB Trevor Siemian four times. The Sunday night game saw the Dallas Cowboys (12-2) win a 26-20 thriller against the visiting Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Cowboys defense forced four turnovers (three interceptions and a fumble) while sacking Bucs QB Jameis Winston four times. 'Pokes QB Dak Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott (159 rushing yards) each scored a rushing touchdown to go with four Dan Bailey field goals to make the difference. Elsewhere Around the NFL . . . . . . . The New York Giants improved to 10-4 with a 17-6 win against the Detroit Lions (9-5) as QB Eli Manning threw for two touchdowns . . . The Pittsburgh Steelers (9-5) rallied past the host Cincinnati Bengals, 24-20 as kicker Chris Boswell made six field goals . . . The Houston Texans (8-6) rallied as well as they beat the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars, 21-20 behind backup QB Tom Savage leading the offense after starter Brock Osweiler was benched. RB Lamar Miller scored on a one-yard run to clinch the win. The Jaguars (2-12) fired Head Coach Gus Bradley following the loss . . . The Baltimore Ravens (8-6) kept pace with the Steelers in the AFC North as they held off the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-26 behind two TD passes from Joe Flacco. The Eagles decided to go for two points following a late touchdown, but the Ravens defense stymied the play to provide the win . . . The Tennessee Titans continued their "magic carpet ride" season going as they improved to 8-6 (tied for first place in AFC South with Houston) by beating the host Kansas City Chiefs, 19-17 as former Kansas City kicker Ryan Succop nailed the game winning 53-yard field goal as time expired . . . The Atlanta Falcons (9-5) claimed sole possession of first place in the NFC South with a 41-13 trouncing of the hapless San Francisco 49ers (1-13) as their offense piled up 550 total yards. Heftyinfo NFL Player of the Week Devonta Freeman (pictured lower right) scored three rushing touchdowns and went for 139 yards on the ground to lead the way. The Indianapolis Colts (7-7) kept alive their slim playoff hopes with a huge win, 34-6 at Minnesota. Colts QB Andrew Luck had a pair of scoring passes while the defense gathered three turnovers. The Vikings dropped to 7-7 (after a 5-0 start this season) and third place in the NFC North division . . . The Green Bay Packers (8-6) took over second place in the NFC North with a 30-27 win at frigid Chicago. Packers RB Ty Montgomery ran for 162 yards and two scores and Christine Michael rambled 42 yards for another TD to pace the offense. The Bears rallied back from a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter, but Packers kicker Mason Crosby drilled the game winning 32-yard field goal as time expired to give Green Bay their fourth straight win . . . The Buffalo Bills (7-7) kept the Cleveland Browns winless by virtue of a 33-13 blowout in Buffalo. Bills RB LeSean McCoy ran for 153 yards and two touchdowns to pace the rout . . . The highest scoring game of the weekend happened in Arizona as the New Orleans Saints topped the host Cardinals, 48-41 behind four TD passes from Drew Brees and a pair of scoring runs by former Cardinals RB Tim Hightower . . . The Miami Dolphins (9-5) leaped back into playoff contention in the AFC with a 34-13 rout of the host New York Jets (4-10) on Saturday night. Dolphins QB Matt Moore made his first start in over four years and had four TD passes while the Miami defense forced four turnovers, including three picks. The game was close (13-10 in favor of Miami) at halftime, but the Dolphins rolled the Jets with 21 points in the third quarter to get the easy victory . . . The Washington Redskins (7-6-1) blew a big game at home on Monday Night Football by losing to the Carolina Panthers, 26-15 that could very well cost them a wild card playoff spot in the NFC. The Panthers defense came up with three turnovers and QB Cam Newton had two TD passes while RB Jonathan Stewart ran for 132 yards to pace the offense. WEEK FIFTEEN SCORES Seattle 24, Los Angeles 3 Miami 34, NY Jets 13 Green Bay 30, Chicago 27 NY Giants 17, Detroit 6 Tennessee 19, Kansas City 17 Indianapolis 34, Minnesota 6 Baltimore 27, Philadelphia 26 Buffalo 33, Cleveland 13 Pittsburgh 24, Cincinnati 20 Houston 21, Jacksonville 20 Atlanta 41, San Francisco 13 New England 16, Denver 3 Oakland 19, San Diego 16 New Orleans 48, Arizona 41 Dallas 26, Tampa Bay 20 Carolina 26, Washington 15 NFL - Week Fifteen Preview Just three weeks to go in the regular NFL season and these are a few of the headliner games this weekend. Green Bay (7-6) at Chicago (3-10) - Packers should roll in this one, but the temperatures are expected to plummet to sub-zero wind chills in the Windy City after a good amount of snow this weekend. Could be closer game than most might think. Detroit (9-4) at New York Giants (9-4) - Two of hotter teams going right now in the NFL. This game will likely be a defensive battle. Tampa Bay (8-5) at Dallas (11-2) - This Sunday night game could go down to the wire, although if the Cowboys get out to an early lead, they could easily turn this one into a rout. New England (11-2) at Denver (8-5) - MUST WIN game for the host Broncos against Tom Brady and the Patriots, who are looking to build up a lead on Kansas City and Oakland (both 10-3) for home field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. Tennessee (7-6) at Kansas City (10-3) - The surprising Titans looking to prove they belong in the post-season talk, will get their chance to prove it against the surging Chiefs, who are one of the hottest teams in the entire NFL right now. Pittsburgh (8-5) at Cincinnati (5-7-1) - The Steelers should win this road game, but the Bengals would like nothing better than to put a dent in the Steelers playoff chances. Philadelphia (5-8) at Baltimore (7-6) - The host Ravens CANNOT be caught looking ahead to next week's huge showdown game (on Christmas Day) against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oakland (10-3) at San Diego (5-8) - Throw out the records when these two teams go at it. Raiders obviously playing for something, but never count out Philip Rivers and the 'Bolts at home, especially against their bitter rivals. Indianapolis (6-7) at Minnesota (7-6) - Must win game for both teams as the loser of this one is likely going to be OUT of playoff contention. Carolina (5-8) at Washington (7-5-1) - The Redskins need this one to stay in the thick of the NFC "wild card" playoff chase. Panthers are just playing out the string. The Heftyinfo predictions for Week 15 (Home teams are listed in bold; Lock of the Week is listed in BOLD CAPS) SEATTLE over Los Angeles Miami over NY Jets Green Bay over Chicago Houston over Jacksonville Buffalo over Cleveland Baltimore over Philadelphia Kansas City over Tennessee NY Giants over Detroit Minnesota over Indianapolis Arizona over New Orleans Atlanta over San Francisco New England over Denver Oakland over San Diego Pittsburgh over Cincinnati Dallas over Tampa Bay Washington over Carolina NFL - Week Fourteen Review The New York Giants knocked off the Dallas Cowboys 10-7 on Sunday night, marking the second win against them this season. The win improved the Giants to 9-4 for the season and prevented the Cowboys (11-2) from clinching the NFC East division. The Cowboys also saw their eleven game winning streak snapped. The Giants defense limited Dallas to 260 yards in total offense and also intercepted quarterback Dak Prescott twice. Meanwhile Eli Manning hooked up with wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. (pictured right) for a 61-yard touchdown and Robbie Gould kicked a 39-yard field goal to make the difference. Last Thursday night, the Kansas City Chiefs raced out to a big lead and defeated the Oakland Raiders, 21-13 to take over first place in the AFC West. Chiefs QB Alex Smith threw a 36-yard scoring pass to Tyreek Hill, who also returned a punt 78 yards for a touchdown to pace the win. Both teams are 10-3, but Kansas City swept Oakland in the head-to-head games. The Houston Texans pulled off a mild upset as they beat the host Indianapolis Colts, 22-17 as the defense forced three turnovers (two interceptions and a fumble) while kicker Nick Novak made five field goals. The win put Houston (7-6) into a first-place tie with Tennessee in the AFC South. The Tennessee Titans held off the Denver Broncos, 13-10 to forge a first place tie with Houston in the AFC South division as running back DeMarco Murray scored a touchdown and kicker Ryan Succop kicked two field goals. The loss dropped Denver to 8-5 for the season. The Detroit Lions (9-4) continued to roll as they beat the visiting Chicago Bears, 20-17 as QB Matthew Stafford scored on a seven yard run with three minutes remaining to play . . . The Green Bay Packers smashed the visiting Seattle Seahawks, 38-10 as the defense intercepted five passes and Packers QB Aaron Rodgers had three TD passes . . . The Pittsburgh Steelers (8-5) beat the host Buffalo Bills, 27-20 behind a huge day from Le'Veon Bell, the Heftyinfo NFL Player of the Week. Steelers RB Le'Veon Bell was dominant in win. Bell rushed for 236 yards (on 38 carries) and caught four passes for 62 yards while scoring three touchdowns to lead the way . . . The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-5) won a nail biter against New Orleans, 16-11 behind stellar defense that held Saints QB Drew Brees without a TD pass. Bucs RB Doug Martin scored the game's only touchdown as Tampa Bay stayed in a first place tie with the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South . . . The Atlanta Falcons blasted the host Los Angeles Rams, 42-14 behind two defensive scores and three TD passes from QB Matt Ryan to improve to 8-5 and remain in a first place tie with Tampa Bay. The Rams followed up the loss by firing Head Coach Jeff Fisher, who was in his fifth season with the team . . . The Washington Redskins topped the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-22 to stay in the NFC playoff hunt. 'Skins RB Robert Kelley scored on a 22-yard run and QB Kirk Cousins had two touchdown passes to lead the way . . . The Miami Dolphins improved to 8-5 with a 26-23 home victory against Arizona. Dolphins kicker Andrew Franks made a chip shot 21-yard field goal as time expired for the win . . . The Minnesota Vikings rolled to a 25-16 win at Jacksonville as kicker Kai Forbath made four field goals to help make the difference that improved them to 7-6 and keep them in playoff contention in the NFC . . . The Carolina Panthers drilled the visiting San Diego Chargers, 28-16 as they raced out to a 23-0 lead while intercepting Chargers QB Philip Rivers three times. Chargers RB Melvin Gordon and linebacker Joey Bosa left the game with injuries and were listed as day-to-day . . . The Cincinnati Bengals won a yawner at Cleveland, 23-10 that kept the Browns winless. Bengals QB Andy Dalton hooked up with tight end Tyler Eifert for two touchdowns to lead the way . . . The New York Jets roared back from a 14-point deficit to hand the host San Francisco 49ers their 12th consecutive loss in a 23-17 overtime game. Jets RB Bilal Powell (145 yards rushing) scored on a 19-yard run in the OT to win it. San Francisco RB Carlos Hyde rushed for 193 yards in the loss . . . New England Patriots QB Tom Brady carved up the NFL's best defense for 406 passing yards and three touchdowns as the host Patriots beat the Baltimore Ravens, 30-23 on Monday Night Football. Ravens QB Joe Flacco passed for 324 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the loss. WEEK FOURTEEN SCORES Kansas City 21, Oakland 13 Detroit 20, Chicago 17 Cincinnati 23, Cleveland 10 Tennessee 13, Denver 10 Tampa Bay 16, New Orleans 11 Pittsburgh 27, Buffalo 20 Washington 27, Philadelphia 22 Minnesota 25, Jacksonville 16 Houston 22, Indianapolis 17 Carolina 28, San Diego 16 Miami 26, Arizona 23 NY Jets 23, San Francisco 17 (OT) Green Bay 38, Seattle 10 Atlanta 42, Los Angeles 14 NY Giants 10, Dallas 7 New England 30, Baltimore 23 NFL - Week Fourteen Preview There are some key games on tap as Week Fourteen approaches the NFL schedule, with the Dallas Cowboys taking on the New York Giants in the Sunday night game. That game could be the one that gives the Cowboys (11-1) the NFC East division title as they seek their twelfth straight victory following a loss to the Giants (in Dallas) in the opening game of the 2016 season. The Giants are 8-4 and saw their six-game winning streak snapped last week in Pittsburgh. Other games with some big implications include the Monday night tilt in New England, where the Patriots (10-2) face the Baltimore Ravens (7-5), who currently share the lead in the AFC North with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the AFC South, the Indianapolis Colts (6-6) will host the Houston Texans (also 6-6) in a battle for first place. The Tennessee Titans (6-6) are the third team in the AFC South tied for the top spot and they will host the Denver Broncos (8-4) in a game that could go a long way to determine "wild card" positions in the AFC playoff chase. The Seattle Seahawks (8-3-1) will travel to play the Green Bay Packers (6-6) as they look to continue to cement away the NFC West division. The Packers have won two in a row and are back in the hunt for a wild card spot as they trail the Detroit Lions (8-4) in the NFC North race. The games get bigger and bigger as December ticks away toward the last game of the season in three weeks, so this weekend will help clear some things up as far as the playoffs are concerned. For a more detailed look at all of the games this weekend, the following offers a capsule style preview followed by the Heftyinfo predictions for the games. Pittsburgh (7-5) at Buffalo (6-6) - The Steelers rate the edge, but the Bills will not just roll over, especially at home. Denver (8-4) at Tennessee (6-6) - The Broncos need to continue to win to keep pace with Kansas City and Oakland in the AFC West race. The Titans likewise to keep up in the AFC South. New Orleans (5-7) at Tampa Bay (7-5) - The Buccaneers look to keep their "magic carpet ride" going against a desperate Saints squad. Washington (6-5-1) at Philadelphia (5-7) - This could be looked at as an elimination game. Arizona (5-6-1) at Miami (7-5) - Another good match up between two teams on the "playoff bubble." San Diego (5-7) at Carolina (4-8) - Who cares? Cincinnati (4-7-1) at Cleveland (0-12) - The Browns might actually win this game. The Bengals are banged up and RG3 is back at quarterback for the Browns. Chicago (3-9) at Detroit (8-4) - Can the Bears de-claw the Lions once again this season? The game is in Motown, so don't count on it. Houston (6-6) at Indianapolis (6-6) - The battle for first place in the putrid AFC South. Minnesota (6-6) at Jacksonville (2-10) - The Jaguars may be just the tonic the sagging Vikings need, but they better be ready to play. New York Jets (3-9) at San Francisco (1-11) - These two teams stink. Atlanta (7-5) at Los Angeles (4-8) - Falcons need to win this game, but the Rams defense keeps them in games. Seattle (8-3-1) at Green Bay (6-6) - The Packers need to win out to have a shot at the playoffs. The Seahawks are looking to stay ahead of the pack for a first round "bye" in the post-season. Dallas (11-1) at New York Giants (8-4) - Can the Giants beat Dallas once again and spoil their victory party for the NFC East title? Nope. Baltimore (7-5) at New England (10-2) - This is one of the better Monday night games this season and could very well go right down to the wire. The Heftyinfo picks for Week Fourteen . . . . . (Home teams are listed in bold; Lock of the Week pick is listed in BOLD CAPS) Kansas City over Oakland Pittsburgh over Buffalo Tennessee over Denver Tampa Bay over New Orleans Philadelphia over Washington Miami over Arizona Carolina over San Diego Cleveland over Cincinnati DETROIT over Chicago Indianapolis over Houston Minnesota over Jacksonville San Francisco over NY Jets Atlanta over Los Angeles Green Bay over Seattle Dallas over NY Giants New England over Baltimore NFL - Week Thirteen Review The Dallas Cowboys are the first NFL team to clinch a playoff spot after they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 17-15 last Thursday night, coupled with the Washington Redskins 31-23 loss at Arizona on Sunday. Despite gaining just 264 yards in offense, the Cowboys improved to 11-1 (eleven straight victories) as quarterback Dak Prescott threw a scoring pass to wide receiver Dez Bryant and running back Ezekiel Elliott scored a rushing touchdown. The Redskins had a 20-17 lead entering the fourth quarter but could not maintain as Cardinals QB Carson Palmer had two of his three TD passes in the final quarter to pace the 31-23 victory. The Detroit Lions served notice they are the real deal as they cruised to a 28-13 road win against the New Orleans Saints as QB Matthew Stafford (two TD passes) out dueled Drew Brees (three interceptions thrown) while kicker Matt Prater drilled five field goals to lead the way. Joe Flacco led the Ravens to easy win. The Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers both had easy victories on Sunday. The Ravens steamrolled the Miami Dolphins, 38-6 behind four TD passes from Joe Flacco, the Heftyinfo NFL Player of the Week. In addition, Flacco passed for 381 yards while the Ravens piled up 496 yards in offense. The Dolphins (7-5) saw their six-game winning streak snapped. The Steelers rolled the visiting New York Giants, 24-14 to snap the Giants six-game winning streak. Pittsburgh's defense limited the Giants to just 234 yards in offense while QB Ben Roethlisberger had two TD passes in the win. Elsewhere Around the NFL . . . . . . The Oakland Raiders (10-2) won their sixth consecutive game, rolling back the visiting Buffalo Bills, 38-24 by scoring 29 unanswered points in the second half. Raiders QB Derek Carr had a pair of scoring passes and RB Latavius Murray scored two rushing touchdowns to lead the way . . . The Kansas City Chiefs (9-3) kept pace with Oakland by getting a 29-28 win on the road against the Atlanta Falcons (7-5) thanks to a pair of interceptions by Eric Berry, who took one back for a TD and the last one for a two-point play to make the difference in the outcome . . . The New England Patriots (10-2) smashed the hapless Los Angeles Rams, 26-10 as LeGarrette Blount scored on a 43-yard run and the Pats' defense stymied the Rams by allowing just 162 yards in offense . . . The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-5) took advantage of a huge break (13-yard INT TD off a deflected pass) to thwart the snake bitten San Diego Chargers, 28-21. The win was the fourth in a row for Tampa Bay . . . Green Bay (6-6) won at home in a snow storm, 21-13 over Houston (6-6) as Packers QB Aaron Rodgers had two TD passes . . . The Denver Broncos won a yawner at Jacksonville, 20-10 as Bradley Roby took an interception back 51 yards for a score to make up for a putrid offense, which managed just 206 total yards . . . The Chicago Bears snapped a three-game losing streak with a 26-6 trouncing of the visiting San Francisco 49ers as RB Jordan Howard (117 yards rushing) scored three touchdowns while the Chicago defense allowed just 147 yards in offense and registered six QB sacks . . . Cincinnati also snapped a three-game losing streak with a 32-14 win against the visiting Philadelphia Eagles as Andy Dalton had a pair of scoring passes and kicker Mike Nugent made four field goals . . . The Seattle Seahawks (8-3-1) blasted the visiting Carolina Panthers, 40-7 on Sunday night as the offense rolled up 534 total yards while the defense forced two turnovers. Running back Thomas Rawls had a pair of rushing touchdowns in the win. However, Seattle's All-Pro safety Earl Thomas was lost for the rest of the regular season (or longer) with a broken leg . . . Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck threw for four touchdowns, including three to tight end Dwayne Allen as the Colts throttled the host New York Jets, 41-10 on Monday Night Football. The win propelled the Colts (6-6) in to a three-way tie for first place with Houston and Tennessee in the AFC South division. WEEK THIRTEEN SCORES Dallas 17, Minnesota 15 Chicago 26, San Francisco 6 Cincinnati 32, Philadelphia 14 Detroit 27, New Orleans 13 Denver 20, Jacksonville 10 Baltimore 38, Miami 6 Green Bay 21, Houston 13 New England 26, Los Angeles 10 Kansas City 29, Atlanta 28 Oakland 38, Buffalo 24 Tampa Bay 28, San Diego 21 Pittsburgh 24, NY Giants 14 Arizona 31, Washington 23 Seattle 40, Carolina 7 Indianapolis 41, NY Jets 10 College Football Top Ten Heftyinfo College Football Top Ten (Week ending December 4) 1. Alabama (13-0) 2. Clemson (12-1) 3. Ohio State (11-1) 4. Washington (12-1) 5. Michigan (10-2) 6. Penn State (11-2) 7. Oklahoma (10-2) 8. Wisconsin (10-3) 9. USC (9-3) 10. Western Michigan (13-0) NFL - Week Thirteen Preview As the calendar rolls into December, the playoff picture for the NFL is still very much up in the air as to who the contenders and pretenders are. The Dallas Cowboys (who beat Minnesota 17-15 on Thursday night) will be the first team in if Tampa Bay and Washington lose this weekend. That very well could be the case as the Buccaneers travel to play the San Diego Chargers, who always are in their games even with a 5-6 record. The Redskins have to go on the road against the Arizona Cardinals (4-6-1), who have been a disappointment this year but cannot be taken lightly. The NFC playoff picture has the Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks (7-3-1) as the top two teams to date with Atlanta and Detroit (both 7-4) right there in the mix. After that, there are many contenders/pretenders vying for the final two playoff spots with five game remaining in the regular season. In the AFC, the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots (both 9-2) are the top two seeds with Baltimore and Houston rounding out the top four division leaders. The last two spots (for now) are occupied by Kansas City (8-3) and Miami (7-4), two of the hottest teams in the NFL right now. Week Thirteen promises to be exciting in what many have considered to be a rather lack luster NFL season to this point. The following offers the capsule style previews for all of the action this weekend along with the Heftyinfo predictions for the games. Kansas City (8-3) at Atlanta (7-4) - This game is one of the better ones this weekend and should go down to the wire. Detroit (7-4) at New Orleans (5-6) - Saints QB Drew Brees coming off a very impressive showing last game . . . take the Saints. Los Angeles (4-7) at New England (9-2) - Patriots roll, even without All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski. Denver (7-4) at Jacksonville (2-9) - Upset alert! Jags could win this one . . . they are due. Houston (6-5) at Green Bay (5-6) - Packers need to win out to make the playoffs. They should beat the visiting Texans. Philadelphia (5-6) at Cincinnati (3-7-1) - The Bengals have been a huge disappointment this year. The Eagles look to be in a free fall following a very hot start to the season. Miami (7-4) at Baltimore (6-5) - Dolphins keep finding ways to win while the Ravens have been erratic this season. San Francisco (1-10) at Chicago (2-9) - The loser of this game stays in the hunt for the top pick in the next NFL draft. Buffalo (6-5) at Oakland (9-2) - The Raiders continue their winning ways in the 2016 season. New York Giants (8-3) at Pittsburgh (6-5) - The Steelers will snap the Giants winning streak. Washington (6-4-1) at Arizona (4-6-1) - This game is an interesting one for sure. Flip a coin. Tampa Bay (6-5) at San Diego (5-6) - Two very evenly matched teams in this game. Again, flip a coin in this one. Carolina (4-7) at Seattle (7-3-1) - The Seahawks got a wake up call last week in a road loss. The Panthers are just awful this year. Indianapolis (5-6) at New York Jets (3-8) - A yawner game for Monday Night Football. The Heftyinfo picks for Week Thirteen . . . . . (Home teams are listed in bold; Lock of the Week is listed in BOLD CAPS) Dallas over Minnesota Atlanta over Kansas City New Orleans over Detroit New England over Los Angeles Jacksonville over Denver GREEN BAY over Houston Cincinnati over Philadelphia Baltimore over Miami Chicago over San Francisco Oakland over Buffalo Pittsburgh over NY Giants Arizona over Washington San Diego over Tampa Bay Seattle over Carolina Indianapolis over NY Jets	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line174
__label__cc	0.663708	0.336292	Liisa Ahlfors Mökki / \ Дача No Man is an Iland – A Spatial Essay on Literary Islands A Study of Light and Darkness “And it has become incredibly important, also with regard to my roots and stuff. Just the other day I was thinking that I can’t wait to go there again, but what if the cottage burns down or something? Or if something else happens and it’s no longer there, what would I do?” A Finnish mökki and Russian dacha usually refer to a seasonal holiday home in the countryside. Mökki / \ Дача is a Russian-Finnish collaborative project of Liisa Ahlfors and Anastasia Artemeva which explores the similarities and differences between holiday homes in these two countries and cultures. The starting point for our collaboration were both personal and political. Our families did not have mökki or dacha when we were young, even though they are very common in both cultures. On the other hand, we have approached a phenomenon that has been discussed in the Finnish media in recent years, that of Russians buying land and holiday homes in lake areas that are considered a Finnish national landscape. With this project we wanted to examine the Finnish and Russian idea of mökki or dacha as an institution that expresses the national identity and question it by giving a voice to individual experiences and views of mökki and dacha on both sides of border. Using the material such as interviews, personal photographs, and stories collected from Finnish mökki people as well as Russian dachniks who have moved to Finland, we created an installation that served as a shared summer house in the middle of the city. Mökki / \ Дача is an attempt to create a space for cultural exchange with the aim of narrowing the gap between the two neighbouring countries, Finland and Russia. Thank you: Olga & Sergei Aalto, Anna Davydova, Maija, Olga, Tarja & Jorma, Elena Tuomimäki, Sanni Sandqvist, Suvi, Taina Valkonen, Vilma, and an anonymous contributor. For more information in Finnish and in Russian, please visit: https://mokkidatsa.wordpress.com Mökki / \ Дача at Gallery Huuto Uudenmaankatu in Helsinki, Finland, 21.6.- 9.7. 2017. At the opening, a punch of cranberry juice, Russchian soda and Koskenkorva vodka was served from a samovar along with cucumbers, strawberries and soy sausages. People from both side of borders shared summer cottage photographs from their personal archives via blog we created. Photographs we received were made into slides and viewed through a Halina Viewer from the USSR. Interviews of Finnish Vilma and Russian Olga, now re-located in Finland, were played through a radio set. These contacts were made at events we organised at The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas in Tampere, and at The Cultural Centre Stoa in Helsinki. The opening was a celebration of Midsummer's Day, a typical time to escape the city into the countryside and summer cottages. Journal where visitors could write their greetings.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line175
__label__cc	0.606024	0.393976	A history of Britain in 21 women, Jenni Murray The Resource A history of Britain in 21 women, Jenni Murray The item A history of Britain in 21 women, Jenni Murray represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. Murray, Jenni, 1950- Britain has been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. To say that it's high time that it was defined by its women falls some way short of an understatement. Jenni Murray, the long-time presenter of Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, draws together the lives twenty-one women to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history London, Oneworld, 2016 A history of Britain in 21 women Jenni Murray Great Britain -- History Women -- Great Britain Murray, Jenni 941'.0099 <div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.lbhf.gov.uk/portal/A-history-of-Britain-in-21-women-Jenni/RU24t73XAw0/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.lbhf.gov.uk/portal/A-history-of-Britain-in-21-women-Jenni/RU24t73XAw0/">A history of Britain in 21 women, Jenni Murray</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.lbhf.gov.uk/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.lbhf.gov.uk/">London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div> Data Citation of the Item A history of Britain in 21 women, Jenni Murray	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line176
__label__wiki	0.901533	0.901533	Jim Friedlich: Supporting Local Journalism in Philadelphia and Nationwide through The Lenfest Institute September 19, 2019October 1, 2019 https://ditxq5ujhvvv4.cloudfront.net/PhiladelphiaChannelJimFriedlich.mp3 Hosted by Robert Rimm This episode is brought to you by… Available from Arch Street Press Jim Friedlich serves as executive director of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, an innovative nonprofit organization that supports local journalism in Philadelphia and nationwide. Founded in 2016 by philanthropist Gerry Lenfest, the Institute announced in September of 2017 that it had awarded $2 million to support a broad range of Philadelphia-based news media and news-technology efforts. The grants included support of greater newsroom diversity at WHYY, coverage of solutions to violence in Philadelphia by WURD Radio, the creation of new journalism payment platforms by Technically Philly, the expansion of digital video efforts by MyNEWPhilly, as well as enhanced investigative reporting, new digital products and greater diversity at The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Institute is the owner of that newspaper, now the largest in America owned by a nonprofit organization, and leverages it as a “live lab” for innovative journalism efforts nationwide. Friedlich was a longtime executive at Dow Jones & Company, serving previously as group publisher of The Wall Street Journal for Europe, Asia and the Americas, in charge of global business operations. He was a cofounder of its digital edition, WSJ.com, and a board director of CNBC. Encore broadcast: first aired in January 2019. The Lenfest Institute for Journalism on Twitter The Lenfest Insitute for Journalism on Facebook	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line179
__label__cc	0.699296	0.300704	iRichiegroup iRG Media Dr. Richmond Annan honored as World Civility Ambassador April 27, 2017 By admin0 Comments RICHMOND ANNAN HONORED AS WORLD CIVILITY AMBASSADOR Dr. Richmond Annan is a Business Executive, an Entrepreneur, a Software Engineer, a Global speaker and a Pastor. He is a motivator and an influential leader, who serves with honesty, excellence, and integrity, he is a Global Advisor, an analytical and proactive thinker. He is a voice of positive change who has experienced the supreme power of God in several mighty ways; he is also the Director of Christian Leadership Institute in NJ, a founder of several ministries and a successful business owner. For more than two decades in the ministry, he continues to be a voice of positive influence, innovation and inspiration. He was the author of the book ‘Believe Again; your purpose is greater than your pain’ published on 24th of October, 2016, which was focused on “Words are the foundation of anything you do.” The second World Civility Day was held on the 13th, April 2017, which include a kickoff lunch and workshops. This event attracted hundreds of dignitaries geared towards the act of being civil in politics, classrooms, everyday life and workplace gathered at Indiana Welcome Center for the second World Civility Day, in which Dr. Richmond Annan was awarded International Honor Award. One of the messages from the World Civility Day Awards dinner and celebration was on how civility can change the lives of people around the world positively. Ambassador Dr. Clyde Rivers said “We need to understand the fact that every person is a gift”, “If you mistreat or mishandle your brothers and sisters, we lose their positive contribution”. He also said “We have a gift famine, not an economic famine. If we don’t treat people well, we lose their gifts and contributions. We need to learn and understand how to live the Golden Rule.” That is, do unto others as you want them to do unto you. The workshop section of the event was focused on Civility in the classrooms, Civility in the community, cyber bullying and ethics training for public employees. The Director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Hughes Chuck ascertained the day was fantastic and that dignitaries from 8 nations and 14 states were in attendance at the second World Civility Day workshops. The initiative and campaign for the Community Civility Counts were launched in the early part of 2015 as a collaboration between The Times Media and the Gary Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hughes expresses his satisfaction and credited the Chamber’s public policy chairman, Gordon E. Bradshaw for initiating a great idea and for designing a poster at the committee’s meeting held in 2015. The designed poster was fascinating to the founder and president of iChange Nations, Ambassador Dr. Clyde Rivers. The Community Civility Counts was a derivative after a careful study of many acts of cruel behavior and incivility said, Hughes Chuck. He also added that on behalf of the Gary Chamber and the entire Board of Directors and all members, that “I express special gratitude to our Civility partners from within the country and those who traveled from far and near to promote the act of kindness towards fellow human being. Source of biography and speeches: www.nwtimes.com/news Amb. Clyde Rivers on Golden Rule Business Day The First Civil Engineer in Ghana - Africa Brokers for Nigeria BLCO Crude Oil Outlook for US-Africa Business Relationship iCHANGE Nations (iCN™) Congratulates Ghana’s New President writeaessay on Brokers for Nigeria BLCO Crude Oil admin on Brokers for Nigeria BLCO Crude Oil © 2017 All Rights Reserved. iRichie Group Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line182
__label__cc	0.746101	0.253899	Meet Your Stage Guest For the 2019 Cape International Town Jazz Festival: Nubya Garcia Posted In: Entertainment \| Events Meet 26 year-old London-based Jazz goddess, saxophonist, flautist, and composer Nubya Garcia, who will also descend to Cape Town to feast the ears of Jazz lovers Described as the leading forces behind the resurgence of jazz-influenced sounds in the UK, Nubya is known for her afro-tinged jazz style and has a burgeoning reputation as a DJ as well. According to standard.co.uk this singer is the youngest of four and was already reading and playing music aged four. Aged 10, after stints on violin, piano and recorder, she picked up the saxophone and never looked back. From an early age, part of every weekend was spent at the Saturday Music Centre at her future secondary school, Camden School for Girls. She described to the site that Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage (1965) and Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue (1959), which her mum gave her when she was 13, as her gateway jazz albums.The singer also shared with eastsidefm.org about her musical origins, “My mum is from Guyana, which is at the top of South America right next to Venezuela and my dad is from Trinidad,” Garcia explains. “I think when you’re from England, but your parents are not from England, you want to connect to that. I discovered, or wanted to connect with [the music of their homelands], a lot later in life, trying to piece together bits about the Caribbean. So even reggae, from all across the Caribbean islands, and soca, that was a link to something that I hadn’t experienced. I went back, to Carnival in Trinidad [held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday] and got into the soca vibe and calypso. It’s an amazing breadth of music. It’s just so good! It makes you think of sunshine.” READ MORE: Bongani Radebe On His Inspiring Sax Story When this musician is not filling up London’s jazz venues she graces international stages with her presence and South Africa is no exception. If you need any more reason to head to the festival next month, the sound below should be convincing enough; Early Bird (Limited Weekend Passes) – R999 (SOLD OUT) Weekend Pass – R1290 (Click here to book via Computicket) Day Pass – R850 (Click here to book via Computicket) Rosies Stage Tickets – R20 per performance Additional source: eastsidefm.org Image source: eastsidefm.org TAGS:Meet Your Stage Guest For the 2019 Cape International Town Jazz Festival: Nubya Garcia K Danielles Media Add Comment Cancel Comment All The Stars Vanity Fair 2019 Oscar After Party Red Carpet Keeping Up With Success Tips From Kim Kardashian And Other Slayers 4 Reasons 2019 Is The Year For Sho Madjozi Yup, Comedian Chris Tucker Is Heading To South Africa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line183
__label__cc	0.74218	0.25782	Killer Couch Learn the Facts Home » What You Can Do » Resources MOMS (Making Our Milk Safe) Center for Environmental Health CEH–Twitter CEH–Facebook MOMS–Facebook Playing With Fire (Chicago Tribune five-part series May 2012) New York Should Ban toxic and Ineffective Fire-Retardant Chemicals (NewsDay 06/07/12) Chemicals in Furniture Target of California Lawmakers (San Francisco Chronicle, 06/25/12) Chemical Makers Fan Fear of Flames (The Los Angeles Times, 05/12/12) Flame Retardants: Do We Need to Worry? Harmful chemicals are showing up in everything from peanut butter to meat and fish (Discovery News, 05/31/12) California Proposing New Flame Retardant Regulations (Associated Press, 02/08/13) Brown Proposal Targets Flame Retardants (Los Angeles Times, 02/08/13) Sanjay Gupta: Safety of Flame Retardants in Question (CNN) Attack of the Killer Couch (MOMS) The Three Stooges of the Flame Retardant Industry (Center for Environmental Health) Worse Than Bedbugs, It’s the Couch Itself – Guest Blog by Kalliopi Monoyios 11/28/12 Is Your Sofa Safe? (The Los Angeles Times 06/28/12) Brown Takes Action on Toxic Flame Retardants (The Modesto Bee 06/24/12) Is Your Couch Trying to Kill You? (Bloomberg 06/24/12) Rolling Back Regs on Fire Retardants (Sacramento Bee 1/27/13) Are You Safe on That Sofa?, Nicholas D. Kristof (New York Times, May 19, 2012) Change Safety Standards for Toxic Furniture, Sarah Janssen (Sacramento Bee, 07/20/12) Chemical Burns, Arlene Blum (New York Times, 11/19/06) The couch CAT-astrophe, Arlene Blum (Huffington Post, 08/15/07) Flame retardant industry spent $23 million on lobbying, campaign donations (Environmental Health News, 11/16/11) Flame Retardants in Furniture Foam: Benefits and Risks, by Babrauskas V, Blum A, Daley R, Birnbaum L (2011) The Safe Kids Buyers Guide: How can you protect your family from toxic chemicals (Green Science Policy Institute) Identification of Flame Retardants in Polyurethane Foam Collected from Baby Products by Stapleton et al (2011) Children absorb tris-BP flame retardant from sleepwear (Science, 09/15/1978) Toxic Fire Retardants (PBDEs) in Human Breast Milk (Environmental Working Group) Toxic Fire Retardants in American Homes (Environmental Working Group) PBDEs linked to common birth defect in boys (Environmental Health Perspectives Online, 05/31/07) Fire Safety Buzzkill – Infographic by Kalliopi Monoyios Copyright © 2012-2013 Center for Environmental Health. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line185
__label__cc	0.744093	0.255907	Hidden Archives HomeAbout MeContact Me Video Et Taceo- How Francis Walsingham Saved England In 1588, England almost lost its independence. The very real threat of invasion was thwarted narrowly, and history as we know it was allowed to progress. Had events played out otherwise it is impossible to predict the path that history would have followed, but what is certain is that we would not recognize such a world. Many credit the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the superior tactics and seamanship of the English navy, and no doubt much credit is deserved by those who fought gallantly and A former soldier and military contractor, Stephen E. Seale also holds multiple degrees in history, and has an intense interest in the history not taught in textbooks. john dee	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line186
__label__wiki	0.527854	0.527854	American Voice Over Talent Lance Blair Script Timer Home » Twitter Advanced Search Tag: Twitter Advanced Search Twitter for Voice Over Make Twitter for Voice Over Your Platform Want to have an engaging social media presence? Use Twitter for Voice Over instead of having water cooler talk with voice over colleagues on Facebook. Personally, it’s my favorite platform because of the diversity of instantly available profiles. You don’t just see your friends, family, and work colleagues as on Facebook. It isn’t just experts and work-related articles as found on LinkedIn. The people who create content are very active on Twitter and they want to engage. Recently at VO Atlanta I had the pleasure to attend Heather Costa’s terrific presentation on making the most of Twitter. Follow her and these top Twitter voice over people. What I’m about to share here are the few tips that weren’t brought up in her presentation that I find helpful. If you’re just getting started on Twitter, I recommend the guide for doing so at Gravy for the Brain. Five Tips for Making the Most of Twitter for Voice Over 1.) Keep an even ratio of followers to those you are following. Rule number one for Twitter for Voice Over shows that you aren’t just following everyone and that your profile has a quality feed worth following. Whenever my number of those I’m following gets too high, I go through and unfollow those profiles which are the least active or who have become inactive. When I do that, I find that I get a few more followers as a result. Related to this, try to follow people who are active on Twitter and have high quality content worth re-tweeting or commenting upon. Also, be sure to follow people who are selective in who they follow. I followed a well known voice over coach who followed over 105,000 people, but didn’t vet them very well. As a result, my Twitter feed filled up with some toxic profiles. I unfollowed that coach! 2.) Improve the signal-to-noise ratio with Advanced Muting. Eliminating noise is done with Advanced Muting. If you don’t want to have your feed cluttered with political posts about the current president, just mute his or her name and terms related to their policies (note how I made this future-proof and non-partisan)! Make your feed your Twitter for Voiceover. Keep it from being hijacked by the agendas of others. 3.) Do advanced searches for what you’re looking for. One of the most powerful Twitter for Voice Over tools isn’t “under the hood” in the Twitter settings. It’s Twitter Advanced Search which lives at its own clunky URL here: https://twitter.com/search-advanced. It’s so powerful that listing all the capabilities would require its own blog post, so instead have a look at it below: Twitter Advanced Search is such a powerful tool it makes one wonder what other features they have hidden… 4.) Keep your Twitter unique from your other social media accounts. This should be an obvious point, but it is not adhered to enough. If I notice that most of someone’s tweets are just Facebook or Instagram posts bumped over automatically, I unfollow that Twitter Profile. It shows a lack of invested interest in engaging with others on Twitter, which is what Twitter for Voice Over should be all about. Similarly, I lose interest in profiles that have scheduled tweets for the very same reason. It shows a willingness to be heard, but not to listen. Scheduled tweets stand out to me like sponsored posts. The are obvious and lack spontaneity. 5.) Be yourself. Share your personality, beliefs, and interests. Nobody wants you to just talk about your business 24/7. I’m not particularly into finance, but I follow financial experts who share a healthy mix of their personal interests and thoughts along with their expertise. Ask questions. Be curious. Learn. If all you tweet about is your voice over talent, you’ll only be followed by other voice over talents. You already have Facebook for that! Now, if you are a little too personal or outspoken on Twitter in the past, there are two ways to clean that up. First, use the Advanced Search feature mentioned above. Second, if you want to blast out multiple old tweets from 2013 when you thought the world was flat, use the free multiple deleting tool Twitlan. Enjoy Twitter for Voice Over and I’ll see you in the Twitterverse: @V01C30V3R ! by lanceblair Twitter for Voiceover Twitter Advanced Muting Twitter Advanced Search	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line190
__label__wiki	0.969296	0.969296	ECOWAS Court Opens for 2016-2017 Term The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (CCJ) opened for its 2016-2017 Legal Year on Friday, September 30.The opening ceremony, held at the seat of the court in Abuja, Nigeria, afforded stakeholders an opportunity to receive the plans, programs, progress and challenges of the court for the past and new terms, and its up-to-date cumulative judicial scorecard. A dispatch from the Liberian Embassy in Abuja says officials of ECOWAS institutions, members of the diplomatic corps, senior officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria as well as officials from the Nigerian Bar Association, among others, attended the ceremony.Six of the seven judges of the court attended Friday’s opening ceremony, including Liberia’s Justice Micah Wilkins Wright, who was recently elected in June of this year as the court’s new Vice President.The others are Justice Jerome Traore (Burkina Faso), the former Dean of the Court, who was also recently elected as its new President; Justice Hameye Foune Mahalmadane (Mali); new Dean, Justice Friday C. Nwoke (Nigeria); Justice Yaya Boiro of Guinea; and Justice Alioune Sall (Senegal). Justice Maria Do Céu Silva Monteiro (Guinea Bissau), immediate past President, was absent due to family issues.This year’s theme is “The Role of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in The Fight Against Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Within The West African Sub-Region—A Perspective from GIABA.”Liberia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Prof. Al-Hassan Conteh, in his goodwill message commended the court’s diligent jurisprudence as set out in the official journals and law reports that the court regularly sends the ECOWAS Ambassadors for transmission to Member States.Ambassador Conteh, also the Coordinator of ECOWAS Ambassadors, stated, “Please rest assured that we [ECOWAS Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives] will continue to do our utmost in supporting the court by bringing our concerns to our Member States for swift ratification in keeping with Community Laws and the new vision of ECOWAS of People.”In his opening speech, the President of the Court said the selection of the theme demonstrates the court’s interest and determination to contribute its quota in the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism within the sub region.“The combined effort of these two forms of scourge is that they put the brakes on the economic development of our states. This double-headed scourge must therefore be combated at all cost; and the court, in its capacity as the principal legal organ of ECOWAS, cannot remain on the sidelines of this battle, which is being fought almost all over the world, and notably within our ECOWAS space, for almost two decades,” Justice Traore said.For his part, the Director-General of GIABA, Col. Adama Coulibaly, who served as the guest speaker, said that GIABA’s mandate is focused on ensuring effective implementation of acceptable measures on international anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism.Col. Coulibaly, who spoke through a representative, noted that GIABA is concerned about the fact that almost 15 years after the adoption of the ECOWAS Protocol for the Prevention of Corruption, the protocol is yet to be entered into force due to lack of ratification.GIABA is Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa.Providing the overall judicial statistics, the Chief Registrar of the court disclosed that since its inception in 2001, a total of 271 cases have been lodged before the court. He explained that since then 136 judgments, 100 rulings, 17 revisions of judgments and 4 advisory opinions have been delivered.“A total of 694 court sessions have been held,” Mr. Tony Anene-Maidoh informed the audience.The mandate of the ECOWAS court is to serve as an unbiased arbiter of justice in the ECOWAS sub-region by interpreting community legal texts, as well as arbitrating cases emanating from community institutions, Member States and community citizens. The court’s mandate is provided by the Revised ECOWAS Treaty, and its Supplementary Protocols and Regulations.A high percentage of the judicial activity of the court is based on its human rights mandate.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more Newcastle defeat ‘story of our season’, says Wenger Newcastle’s fourth successive win ended Arsenal’s unbeaten run of seven games in all competitions.“It’s been the story of our season, 70 percent possession, 1-0, lots of chances and then you wonder how you lose the game,” Wenger said.“We didn’t put our chances to bed and made unbelievable mistakes. These players are quality and we need to forget about today and focus on next game”Asked about Arsenal’s wretched away form, Wenger said: “It’s a lot about the head and sometimes there is no rationality in it. It doesn’t make sense.“We have to be realistic. We came out of it with no points and overall we thought we should have got three points.”The sixth-placed Gunners are 13 points behind fourth-placed Tottenham with only five games remaining in the race to qualify for the Champions League.Realistically, Arsenal already had no chance of making the top four and Wenger had been prioritising their Europa League campaign for several weeks.Arsenal saw off CSKA Moscow in the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday.They face Atletico Madrid in the last four and will qualify for the Champions League if they win the competition.With little to play for in the league, Arsenal were unable to find enough momentum to maintain their recent revival, even though Lacazette opened the scoring in the 14th minute.Just moments after he was left writhing on the turf following a crunching challenge from Kenedy, Lacazette exacted revenge.Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ran onto a long ball into the Newcastle area and picked out Lacazette, who stretched to volley home at the far post for his 13th goal of a difficult first season following his move from Lyon.Alex Iwobi almost doubled Arsenal’s lead moments later with a stinging strike that forced a good save from Martin Dubravka.Jonjo Shelvey’s long pass picked out Dwight Gayle in the Arsenal area and, with Gunners defender Shkodran Mustafi out of position, he was able to lay off to DeAndre Yedlin.Perez made a perfectly-timed run to meet Yedlin’s cross with a fine finish that flashed by Petr Cech at his near post.The Spanish forward’s third goal in his last three appearances was a clinical effort, but Wenger would have been furious with how easily Newcastle carved open his defence.Calum Chambers could have restored Arsenal’s lead before the interval, but the defender shot wide from Mustafi’s knock down.Ritchie tested Cech before 18-year-old Arsenal midfielder Joe Willock’s poor finish wasted an opportunity to mark his Premier League debut with a goal.Iwobi lashed narrowly wide from long-range as Arsenal chased their first away point of 2018.But it was Newcastle who landed the knockout blow in the 68th minute.More sloppy Arsenal defending let in Islam Slimani and his header was flicked on by Perez to Ritchie, who beat Cech from close-range.Ritchie clearly saves his goals for the big occasion, having scored the winner against Manchester United in February.Kenedy, on loan from Chelsea, came close to putting the result beyond doubt with a looping effort that hit the crossbar with Cech beaten.Lacazette should have equalised in the closing stages, but he shot into the side-netting.0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) 0Shares0000Newcastle United midfielder Matt Ritchie (R) ended Arsenal’s unbeaten run of seven games in all competitions with the hosts’ winner at St James’ Park © AFP/File / Lindsey PARNABYNewcastle, United Kingdom, Apr 15 – Arsene Wenger admitted Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat at Newcastle was “the story of our season” after the Gunners crashed to a fifth consecutive away defeat in the Premier League.Wenger’s side took an early lead through Alexandre Lacazette, but Ayoze Perez equalised before Matt Ritchie bagged the second half winner at St James’ Park on Sunday. read more Chelsea captain John Terry poised to return from four-week lay-off 1 John Terry has missed their last six games due to a hamstring strain Chelsea could have John Terry back for tomorrow’s FA Cup quarter-final at Everton, Guus Hiddink has revealed.The Blues captain, whose future at the club is still up in the air, has missed their last six games after picking up a hamstring strain against Newcastle last month.But Hiddink is set to include the 35-year-old defender in his squad for the trip to Merseyside if he comes through a final training session today.“He worked rather well in the past days, and he will be included in the list for travelling today,” said Dutchman.“Of course, he has not practised a lot in recent weeks and days, but it was intensified in the last two days.“Today I will see if he’s had a big reaction to yesterday’s training. I’d like him to travel to Liverpool anyhow.” read more Jesus Navas, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna and Willy Caballero to leave Man City Manchester City have announced the departure of four more senior players whose contracts come to an end this summer.Jesus Navas, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna and Willy Caballero will all leave as free agents, the club confirmed on Thursday.Their departures follow that of long-serving right-back Pablo Zabaleta, who announced prior to the end of the 2016-17 he would be moving on.City announced the latest exits at regular intervals throughout the afternoon.The developments could be the start of an overhaul of the squad at the Etihad Stadium as Pep Guardiola looks to rebuild following an underwhelming first season at the club.The future of influential midfielder Yaya Toure is uncertain too as his contract is also due to end.World Cup-winning winger Navas signed for City from hometown Sevilla in 2013. He made 123 Premier League appearances and helped the club win that competition in 2014. He also scored four goals and won the League Cup twice.There were reports he could be offered a new deal after Guardiola experimented with him at right-back towards the end of the season, but he was also linked with a return to Sevilla.City director of football Txiki Begiristain said: “Working with Jesus has been a pleasure.“His hard work, dedication, professionalism and desire to win have been apparent every single day.”Left-back Clichy featured in two title successes and both League Cup wins after his move from Arsenal in 2011.The Frenchman, 31, told the club’s website, www.mancity.com: “It’s been a special six years for me at City.“To win four major trophies and help establish the club as one of the top teams in English football has been an incredible journey that I’m proud to have been a part of.“It’s amazing to see where the club is today and I am sure there is plenty more success to come.”Goalkeeper Caballero was signed by Manuel Pellegrini in 2014 to provide tougher competition for then first-choice Joe Hart. He was then retained as back-up for Claudio Bravo after the Chilean’s arrival last summer, but was given a run in the side in the second half of the season.His proudest moment for City came when he saved three spot-kicks in City’s penalty shootout victory over Liverpool in the 2016 League Cup final.The Argentinian said: “It’s been a privilege to play for Manchester City.“To win the League Cup in such dramatic circumstances was special and it’s a day I will never forget.”Former Arsenal right-back Sagna also featured in that cup final and in total made 85 appearances for the club in three years.He said: “I have enjoyed every moment of my City career and will look back on my time at City fondly.”Other players who could leave the Etihad Stadium this summer include those who have spent the past season out on loan, such as Hart, Samir Nasri, Eliaquim Mangala and Wilfried Bony. The quartet are out-of-contract at the end of the season 1 read more COMEBACK KINGS SWILLY ROVERS WIN CUP FINAL BATTLE WITH TIGERS Ulster Senior League Chairman Johnny McCafferty presented the Cup the the winning Swilly Rovers captain Paul Fisher.SWILLY ROVERS 3KILDRUM TIGERS 2 Swilly Rovers Reserves came from behind to win the Ulster Senior League Division One Cup at Leckview Park last night (Thurs).Swilly, trailing by 2 goals to 0 at half time against Kildrum Tigers, were a different team in the second half and eventually ran out 3-2 winners after a brace from one of their senior team players Micheal Doherty.The “Tigers” raced into an early lead after 10 minutes, full back Kevin McBrearty with a fantastic direct free kick from 20 yards out and they went in at the break two goals to the good after a well struck strike from the edge of the box from Glenn Bovaird. Swilly were well in the game and could easily have scored at least three goals during the first 45 minutes but for an excellent display of goalkeeping by young Tigers net minder Michael Lynch. But 6 minutes into the second half and Swilly/s comeback was on. Micheal Doherty converted a penalty after Kildrum’s Conor Crossan handled the ball on the goal line.Referee Terance Moyne had no option but to send Crossan off and Doherty made no mistake from the spot kick.The Ramelton men equalised in the 75th minute thanks to a close range strike from Ryan Toland and got a deserved winner shortly after, Micheal Doherty with his second on the night from a direct free kick from the edge of the box. Afterwards Ulster Senior League Chairman Johnny McCafferty presented the Cup to the winning Swilly Rovers captain Paul Fisher.Man of the Match: Michael Lynch(Kildrum Tigers) Referee: Terrance MoyneAssistants: Stephen Toner and Michael LaganCOMEBACK KINGS SWILLY ROVERS WIN CUP FINAL BATTLE WITH TIGERS was last modified: July 6th, 2012 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:COMEBACK KINGS SWILLY ROVERS WIN CUP FINAL BATTLE WITH TIGERS read more GET THAT PERFECT GIFT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE ABROAD AS PADDYSNAX SET UP IN LETTERKENNY! 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GET THAT PERFECT GIFT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE ABROAD AS PADDYSNAX SET UP IN LETTERKENNY! was last modified: November 24th, 2012 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:GET THAT PERFECT GIFT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE ABROAD AS PADDYSNAX SET UP IN LETTERKENNY!PADDYSNAX.COM read more Lewis Unveils Men’s Golf 2017 Spring Schedule The Bulldogs will return to the Kingsmill Intercollegiate in Williamsburg, Va. on March 19-21 and the Hoosier Invitational on April 1-2 in Bloomington, Ind. Last year, Drew Ison put together a fourth-place finish at the Kingmill Intercollegiate and a 16th-place finish at the Hoosier Invite to lead the Bulldogs as the team finished fourth and 11th, respectively. DES MOINES, Iowa – Drake University head men’s golf coach Matt Lewis unveiled six-tournament schedule for 2017, highlighted by the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Golf Championship in Chicago (April 24-25). Drake will use the Tiger Invitational (April 10-11) in Columbia, Mo. as its final tune-up for the MVC Championship on April 24-25. Print Friendly Version The Bulldogs begin the spring campaign on February 25-27 at the Loyola Intercollegiate in Phoenix, Ariz. Drake then heads to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. for the Fort Lauderdale Intercollegiate, hosted by Loyola (Md.) on March 6-7. read more ARRESTED MAN RUSHED TO HOSPITAL ADMITS HE FAKED ILLNESS A MAN who feigned illness to escape garda custody has been fined for being drunk.Owen Hannigan, 33, appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with entering a house at Ballyraine Park – near his home – with intent to commit an offence.He was also charged with being intoxicated in a public place on February 5 this year. Inspector Goretti Sheridan told Judge Paul Kelly that Hannigan was extremely drunk and local people had called gardai.The home owners had asked him to leave, but Hannigan had refused.He was arrested and taken to Letterkenny Garda Station.However once there he appeared to take ill, said the inspector.“He was taken by ambulance by Letterkenny General Hospital but he later admitted he had feigned illness to escape garda custody,” said Inspector Sheridan.Hannigan apologised to Judge Kelly.He said he had been “extremely stupid” and “extremely drunk”.He said he had been at a house party at the address the day before, had lost his phone and his coat and had gone back to get them.Hannigan was fined €150 for being intoxicated.Judge Kelly struck out the charge of entering the premises without consent.ARRESTED MAN RUSHED TO HOSPITAL ADMITS HE FAKED ILLNESS was last modified: July 6th, 2015 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:BallyraineLetterkenny District CourtOwen Hannigan read more Bonner claims “hundreds of phonecalls made” to dump him off council Outgoing Fianna Fail county councillor Enda Bonner has claimed people within his own party used his health against him in a bid to oust him from his seat.The Dungloe man lost his seat in the Glenties Electoral area last Sunday.Bonner had not been selected to stand at the party’s convention some months back but party headquarters then put him on the ticket. However, the outgoing councillor said literally hundreds of phonecalls were made against him during the campaign.In a message to family and friends on Facebook this evening, he also claimed that his rivals used his health against him.He said “Unfortunately for me, we were not dealing with a fair fight in this election, I know everything that went on behind the scenes by people that I had called friends and colleagues for many years.“The numerous rumours, the hundreds of phone calls made campaigning against me, the using of my health as an election issue in an attempt to persuade people not to vote for me; everything possible was done to simply unseat me. “All I wanted was an opportunity to have a fair fight in an effort to get re- elected but others used their influence to make sure that their own preferred candidate got elected instead.”He said that following eight weeks of campaigning he said he received the greatest ever reception on the doorsteps of the areas he had canvassed.And he a pointed dig at those who crossed him he warned “That small group of people that worked against me unfairly in this election, would be better off to remember, that the general public never likes to be used unfairly, to advance one’s own agenda in whatever form that may take.”He added that he would sincerely like to thank all those who voted for him on polling day.“I want to say a special thank you to all those who helped me in any way during the election campaign, those that sent me messages, and those that phoned and contacted me directly; I honestly will never forget your kindness, welcome and help for me in this election. “It was a privilege serving my electoral area on Donegal County Council over the years, onto which I was elected by you the people and the communities that mean the most to me. My desire was always to serve the public, to serve the areas that mean the most to me, and as I have said previously, serving the people on Donegal County Council was my life.“I would also like to wish the 6 candidates who got elected in my area and all the other candidates elected across Donegal, and the country, the very best over the next 5 years.“Finally to my genuine friends, supporters, family and campaign team, thank you all most sincerely, you have never let me down, you are the greatest in my eyes and I will always remember you.”Bonner claims “hundreds of phonecalls made” to dump him off council was last modified: May 29th, 2019 by Staff WriterShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:donegalelectionEnda Bonnerfianna fail read more Warriors finalize Iguodala trade to Memphis, plan to retire his jersey Click here if you’re unable to view the photo gallery on your mobile device.For the second time in a week, Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob has retired a jersey number.Sunday, after the trade of Andre Iguodala to Memphis became official, Lacob thanked Iguodala for his six seasons with the Warriors and said “we look forward to seeing his number in the rafters at Chase Center.” Last week, Lacob said Kevin Durant’s No. 35 would not be worn again during his ownership.Iguodala, the 2015 NBA … read more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line195
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More Westminster Cathedral 42 Francis Street, Westminster, London SW1P \| 20 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Not to be confused with Westminster Abbey, the nearby Westminster Cathedral in Victoria is London's only example of neo-Byzantine architecture, described by the poet John... More The Supreme Court, the highest court in the United Kingdom, is housed in the former Middlesex Guildhall, an impressive Portland stone building by Scottish architect... More Cuming Museum 151 Walworth Road, Southwark, London SE17 \| 20 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall The worldwide collection of the Cuming Family accompanies exhibitions on the history of Southwark (from Roman times to the 19th century) in this unique museum.... More Central Hall Westminster Storey's Gate, Westminster, London SW1H \| 20 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Central London's largest conference and events venue has welcomed an array of illustrious speakers through the ages - including Gandhi, Churchill and the Prince of... More London > Attractions > Boats and Bridges Victoria Embankment, Westminster, London SW1A \| 20 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Westminster Bridge lies on the Thames between the Houses of Parliament and County Hall with the delights of the Southbank Centre and the National Theatre... More 74a Newman Street, Victoria, London W1T \| 21 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Charlie Fellowes and Jeremy Epstein's Edel Assanti Gallery has evolved since it was first set up in 2009, from a pop-up initiative to a project... More Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, Bankside, London SE1 \| 22 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall The London Dungeon closed its doors on its old Tooley Street home on 31st January 2013 (while London Bridge station is being redeveloped) and the... More County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, South Bank, London SE1 \| 22 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall The Sea Life London Aquarium features hundreds of varieties of fish and sea life from around the world. Here you'll come face-to-face with sharks and... More Shrek's Adventure Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, South Bank, London SE1 \| 22 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Having already been the subject of a West End musical back in 2011, the Shrek saga is now the inspiration behind a new London attraction.... More Clive Steps, King Charles Street, Westminster, London SW1A \| 22 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Winston Churchill directed the troops during World War II from a small warren of underground rooms, which are now open to the public.... More 4 Battersea Park Road, SW8 \| 24 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Helping out man's best friend since 1860, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has become a national institution. It has played a part in several historical... More Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, South Bank, London SE1 \| 24 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall The London Eye elbowed its way onto the capital's tourist scene as one of the statement pieces to mark the turn of the... More Near The Coriander - Vauxhall Tate Britain: Winter Commission Tate Britain 9 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Not only pretty to look at, Tate Britain's Winter Commission, created this year by British artist Anne Hardy is a ...More Steve McQueen: Year 3 Exhibitions \| Until 3rd May 2020 The Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker - well known for known for his films Hunger, Shame and 12 Years ...More Exhibitions \| Until 2nd February 2020 This autumn, Tate Britain showcases William Blake's work as he intended it to be shown in what will be the ...More London's Royal Parks Garden Museum 11 minutes walk from The Coriander - Vauxhall Discover the secret history of London's Royal Parks this winter with a new exhibition at the Garden Museum. 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__label__cc	0.601341	0.398659	Liberty Hill Independent \|\| Best of Liberty Hill \|\| Liberty Hill Living 2019 Independence Day Spectacular \|\| Subscribe \|\| Stars shut out first place Checkers Featured, Sports By The Independent, Liberty Hill Texas Stars vs Checkers (www.ThunderstruckPhotos.com) CEDAR PARK – Whether it is playing up to the competition or turning a corner, the Texas Stars were the ones who looked like the best team in the American Hockey league as they shut out the visiting Charlotte Checkers in a physical and often testy game in front of 5,601 fans Dec. 9. The Checkers came into Friday’s game sitting atop the Midwest Division and boasting the most wins (25) in the AHL Western Conference, but solid defense along with an outstanding performance by Stars’ goalie Tyler Beskorowany, who earned his first shutout of the year with 29 saves, lifted the Stars to a 3-0 victory. “I felt good and was seeing the puck well tonight not giving up too many second chances,” said Beskorowany. “My glove was working tonight, my blocker clearing the net and my stick…everything felt good tonight. I couldn’t ask for a much better effort than that.” Looking to take down the Charlotte Checkers for the second time in 10 days, things were physical early for the Texas Stars (10-12-0-1) as a fight broke at less than two minutes into the game between the Stars’ Brenden Dillon and the Checkers’ Brett Sutter. Both were sent to the box for five minutes for fighting. Charlotte outshot Texas 10 to nine in the first period, but the Stars had one shot that was better. Down one man with defenseman Dan Spang in the box for high-sticking, the Stars took advantage of a two-on-two break. With right wing Colton Sceviour splitting the defense with a quick backhand pass to left wing Francis Wathier, he opened himself up for a one-on-one with Checkers’ goalie Justin Peters and beat him after receiving the pass back from Wathier. The outlet assist was made by captain Brad Lukowich to give the Texans a three-point, short-handed goal and a 1-0 lead with 2:22 left in the period. The second period got started much like the first as a scuffle broke out and later a fight between the Stars’ enforcer Francis Wathier and the Checkers’ Nicholas Blanchard, but soon after the scoring began. With Chris Murray in the box for Charlotte for roughing and unsportsmanlike conduct, the Stars took advantage of a power play when Matt Fraser found himself one-on-one with the goalie Peters. With on fake, he fooled Peters and shot the puck past him, putting the Stars up 2-0. Texas then took a 3-0 lead after a rebound gave defenseman Hubert Labrie an opportunity to beat Peters, which he did by shooting the puck behind him and into the net with 12:21 left to play in the period. In the second, Texas outshot Charlotte 13-9. Forwards Travis Morin and Mike Hedden each added an assist on the play, helping Labrie with his first goal of the season. “That goal in the first was huge and then we got the second one, then the one by Hubie (Hubert Labrie) too,” said Stars Head Coach Jeff Pyle. “Timely scoring, good defense which I thought we stuck together as a team really well. When you do that type of stuff you are going to have success.” The final period saw a barrage of Checkers’ shots, all stopped by Beskorowany, including a diving save while he was already down. A few more scuffles also ensued as the Charlotte players became frustrated, not being able to put the puck in the net. “He made that huge save there in the third when he was down and the guy shot it…it was a real big save,” Pyle said of Beskorowany. “Even though we were up 3-0 it could change things around. He needs those kinds of saves. We played hard around the net and boxed out for him…but you are happy for him.” Beskorowany credited the defense for paving the way for the shut out and allowing him to get into a rhythm. “The team played well in front of me,” he said. “We had guys blocking shots and blocking out guys coming in front of the net, clearing the way for me to see the puck well. Our PK (penalty kills) was going all night…that was really good to see. We just did everything right tonight. Everybody is clicking from our grinders to our goal scorers.” The win stopped a five-game skid at the Cedar Park Center for the Stars. With the season still relatively young, Texas still has time to put the pieces together for a run at the playoffs. Coach Pyle remains positive for the outlook of his team as the season progresses. “It was a great team game,” he said. “We stuck up for each other, there were a couple of fights and I think the fans got their money’s worth. I’ve been staying positive with the guys. I said as long as we are doing things well, we are young and we’ll grow.” Following Friday’s win, the Stars dropped Saturday’s game to the Oklahoma City Barons 3-2, but will face them again Tuesday, Dec. 13 when they hit the road. The Stars will then visit the Houston Aeros on Friday, Dec. 16 for a 7:35 p.m. faceoff and will return home on Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. to take on the Rochester Americans. Treat the family to gingerbread houses Lady Panthers win big in home opener ... 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__label__cc	0.682094	0.317906	Mutual aid: a factor of evolution - Peter Kropotkin Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's massively influential work on mutual aid and co-operation as a factor in evolution, written in 1902. Text taken from the Anarchy Archives Mutual_Aid.pdf 1.55 MB Mutual_Aid.epub 249.51 KB Mutual_Aid.mobi 348.86 KB 1. Mutual aid among animals 2. Mutual aid among animals (cont.) 3. Mutual aid among savages 4. Mutual aid among the barbarians 5. Mutual aid in the Mediaeval city 6. Mutual aid in the Mediaeval city (cont.) 7. Mutual aid amongst ourselves Introduction › Mutual_Aid.pdf (1.55 MB) Mutual_Aid.epub (249.51 KB) Mutual_Aid.mobi (348.86 KB) Feb 22 2012 11:57 Humans are "naturally nice" argues new research: Biological research is increasingly debunking the view of humanity as competitive, aggressive and brutish. "Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies," Frans de Waal, a biologist at Emory University in Atlanta, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Monday. New research on higher animals from primates and elephants to mice shows there is a biological basis for behavior such as co-operation, said de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. Until just 12 years ago, the common view among scientists was that humans were "nasty" at the core but had developed a veneer of morality - albeit a thin one, de Waal told scientists and journalists from some 50 countries at the conference in Vancouver, Canada. But human children - and most higher animals - are "moral" in a scientific sense, because they need to co-operate with each other to reproduce and pass on their genes, he said. Research has disproved the view, dominant since the 19th century, typical of biologist Thomas Henry Huxley's argument that morality is absent in nature and something created by humans, said de Waal. And common assumptions that the harsh view was promoted by Charles Darwin, the so-called father of evolution, are also wrong, he said http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/201222023301844664.html Choccy De Waal has beeing arguing along those lines for years, much of his work has been on cooperative/pro-social behaviour. He was always critical of the notion of 'selfish genes' and particularly objected to that loaded metaphor. TRUE FACT I presented at the same evolution conference as him in NY a few years ago! I like the defence of Darwin. His legacy has been abused to death by the bourgeoisie solely because his (and Alfred Russel Wallace, his mate, cannot be left out of their massive achievement) analyses completely undermined the fundamentals of bourgeois ideology - as it still does today. Both were very clear on the importance of the positive animal instincts in the development of humanity (as was Marx). you know i'm down with that I've changed the picture accompanying this text. People think it's better? Mr. Jolly Good essay by Stephen Jay Gould about Kropotkin. Kropotkin Was No Crackpot http://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm Think this is well worth remembering, "Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms – if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. " Every challenge can be overcome: 6 ideas for getting started There is no time for hopelessness. Here are some ideas for what we can do – now – to fight back against the attacks we know are coming. After the next storm passes Article speculating on possible outcomes in Occupy, current anti-austerity struggles, and radical involvement. An article from US-based group, Unity & Struggle, on the prevalence of fast food work in the American economy. The libcom library contains nearly 20,000 articles. If it's your first time on the site, or you're looking for something specific, it can be difficult to know where to start. Luckily, there's a range of ways you can filter the library content to suit your needs, from casual browsing to researching a particular topic. Click here for the guide. If you have an ebook reader or a Kindle, check out our guide to using ebook readers with libcom.org. 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__label__cc	0.673862	0.326138	Jet Age Problems Rapid Approach of Jet Air Transport Era Air Traffic Problems and Advent of Jets Preparations for Use of Jet Transports With jet transport planes on order for all major U.S. airlines, civil aviation in this country is on the threshold of the jet age. Since last autumn domestic airlines and foreign air carriers serving the United States have signed contracts for some 200 Boeing and Douglas jet transports. Before those planes can be put into widespread service, many problems raised by their prospective use will have to be put on the way to solution. Jet Plane Orders and Scheduling of Jet Service No one anticipates that all the answers will be forthcoming in the next two or three years. The automobile age dawned more than half a century ago, and neither this country, where the motor car made its greatest advances, nor any other country has caught up with the problems it introduced. Economic and social adjustment to the spreading use of the automobile is a continuing process of which the end is not in sight. So it probably will be with jet planes and all aviation. But the tremendous speed that characterizes jet aircraft is symbolic of the urgency attaching to preparations for the jet age. The first jet service by an American air carrier probably will begin in December 1958, when Pan American World Airways expects to start using Boeing 707s on its transoceanic routes. The first domestic jet service is looked for in June 1959, when American Airlines plans coast-to-coast operations with the same type of plane. Even though commercial jets thus will not be flying here for another two or three years, many authorities fear the interval may not allow enough time to get ready. Jan. 18, 2019 Airline Industry Turbulence May 15, 2015 Airline Safety Oct. 18, 2013 Domestic Drones Mar. 07, 2008 Future of the Airlines Jun. 21, 2002 Future of the Airline Industry Sep. 24, 1999 Airline Industry Problems Oct. 08, 1993 Airline Safety Oct. 24, 1986 Airline Deregulation Oct. 19, 1984 Safety in the Air Nov. 26, 1982 Troubled Air Transport Industry Jun. 25, 1976 Air Safety Mar. 21, 1975 Air-Fare Control Jan. 27, 1971 Future of the Airlines Sep. 10, 1969 Jumbo Jets: New Travel Era Feb. 22, 1967 Airport Modernization Mar. 18, 1964 Supersonic Transport Race Feb. 07, 1962 Troubles of the Airlines May 11, 1960 Prevention of Air Accidents Sep. 17, 1958 Safety in the Air May 23, 1956 Jet Age Problems May 20, 1953 Safer Flying Feb. 26, 1947 Air Safety Jun. 08, 1944 Domestic Air Transportation Apr. 08, 1944 International Air Transport Mar. 02, 1939 Transatlantic Air Commerce Jul. 14, 1927 Commercial Aeronautics Jun. 20, 1925 Development of Commercial Air Navigation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line211
__label__wiki	0.875775	0.875775	10 years of Dekmantel Cinema, music and books Monday sounds Tuesday reads Wednesday site Thursday screen Xavier Dolan in focus at Cinemathéque “Jazz is always about future and youth” A new place for live music 落日 (The Fall of the SUN) From the West to the East in a book ArcoLisboa features 50 galleries MAAT opens three new exhibitions Mitsuko Uchida in Lisbon Piano player and conductor Mitsuko Uchida will be playing on January 15, 7 pm, at Gulbenkian. The artist will perform Wolfang Amadeus Mozart’s The Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, op. 16 and Robert Schummann’s The Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. The artist was born in Japan and naturalised in th UK. In an interview to The Guardian, she said she lives in Notting Hill with her piano studio opposite, in which she has four pianos, all Steinways. Over the years she has appeared with notable orchestras and has won awards and honours, including Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009. ©2016 mART Magazine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line213
__label__cc	0.649486	0.350514	CANADIAN MONEY® Press Releases and articles from ACCESSWIRE, FSCWIRE, and 24/7 PRESS RELEASE. MONEY® MONEY® News ME and MY MONEY® YOU and YOUR MONEY® ADMONEY® Advisor Channel BACK OFFICE® Canada Bank Funds Best Rate Around® Canadian Money Magazine Financial Content Guaranteed Investment Certificates Independent Pension Plan Investment Marketplace MONEY® Advertising MONEY® Clothing MONEY® Magazine Canada MONEY® Media MONEY® Video MutualFund.ca Mutual Funds Canada The American Dollar The MONEY® Channel The Montreal Star 24/7 PRESS RELEASE FSCWIRE NEWSFILECORP Archive for March 31st, 2016 Caribbean Resources Corporation Announces Results of Special Meeting of Shareholders Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – March 31, 2016) – Caribbean Resources Corporation (TSXV: CRC) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the proposed consolidation (as previously announced on March 14, 2016) of the Company’s issued and outstanding common shares on the basis of one (1) new common share of the Company for two hundred and fifty […] Posted: March 31st, 2016 under NEWSFILECORP. Jaguar Announces Sale of Equity Interest in Galway Metals Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – March 31, 2016) – Jaguar Financial Corporation (TSXV: JFC) (“Jaguar” or the “Company”) announced it has sold 7,169,000 common shares of Galway Metals Inc. (“Galway”) at a price of $0.12 per share and an additional 499 common shares of Galway at a price of $0.11 per share. After giving effect to […] By Caribbean Resources Corporation TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 31, 2016 / Caribbean Resources Corporation (TSXV: CRC) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the proposed consolidation (as previously announced on March 14, 2016) of the Company’s issued and outstanding common shares on the basis of one (1) new common share of the Company […] Posted: March 31st, 2016 under ACCESSWIRE. Ecuador Gold Announces Amendment of Outstanding Debentures and Closing of an Additional US$500,000 of Debentures Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – March 31, 2016) – Ecuador Gold & Copper Corp. (TSXV: EGX) (the “Company“), is pleased to announce that, further to the Special Meeting of the Company’s shareholders held on March 4, 2016, a majority of the minority shareholders approved the amendment of the terms of all outstanding senior secured convertible debentures […] By Ecuador Gold and Copper Corp. TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 31, 2016 / Ecuador Gold & Copper Corp. (TSXV: EGX) (the “Company“), is pleased to announce that, further to the Special Meeting of the Company’s shareholders held on March 4, 2016, a majority of the minority shareholders approved the amendment of the terms […] Mega View Digital Entertainment Corp. Closes Private Placement of Convertible Notes Mega View Digital Entertainment Corp. Closes Private Placement of Convertible Notes Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) – Mega View Digital Entertainment Corp. (NEX: MVD.H) (the “Company”) announces that further to its release of March 21, 2016, it has closed its convertible note private placement for gross proceeds of $50,000 (“Notes”). The Note may be repaid in cash […] Posted: March 31st, 2016 under FSCWIRE. Los Andes Announces the Final Assay Results from the 2015-2016 Drill Program at the Vizcachitas Deposit Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – March 31, 2016) – Los Andes Copper Ltd. (TSXV: LA) (“Los Andes”, or the “Company”) is very pleased to announce the final assay results from the current 2015-2016 diamond drill program. These demonstrate that the higher grades identified near surface extend below the historical drilling and supports the new geological […] Experience Art And Design, Inc. Exeutes Purchase Agreement To Acquire Multi Location Dry Cleaning Services Operation By Experience Art and Design, Inc. LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / March 31, 2016 / Experience Art & Design, Inc. (OTC: EXAD) has executed a Purchase Agreement to acquire a multi store dry cleaning services operation on the United States East Coast. The Closing is anticipated to be between May 31, 2016 and July […] By Los Andes Copper Ltd. VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 31, 2016 / Los Andes Copper Ltd. (TSXV: LA) (“Los Andes”, or the “Company”) is very pleased to announce the final assay results from the current 2015-2016 diamond drill program. These demonstrate that the higher grades identified near surface extend below the historical drilling […] IIROC Trade Halt – Newalta Corporation Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – March 31, 2016) – The following issues have been halted by IIROC: Company: Newalta Corporation TSX Symbol: NAL (all issues) Reason: Pending News Halt Time (ET) 15:49 IIROC can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension of trading in a security of a publicly listed company, usually in anticipation of […] © 2020 Canadian Money - Entries (RSS) - Disclaimer - Log in Powered by WordPress - Theme design by Andreas Viklund	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line227
__label__cc	0.553386	0.446614	Hi everyone ^^ I collect many things, but not only anime cels. I really love Dragonball serie as you can see, but also original arts from several authors, other anime series etc.. So I will share you some things on my page. For my other collections, please refer to my personnal website ! http://www.minouchecollection.com 8/29/2017 Updated the coming soon section, and trying to add little by little the # of each episode where each cel come from. It takes time to verify everything... Actually I did almost everything over the past years, but I never updated the gallery... so everything has to be done again... 5/22/2017 The Dragonballs sections are updated now, so I have more than 200 cels on this serie, and I also added others sections, for Comic original arts, for example. Enjoy watching ! 5/14/2017 Still updating -_- sorry for the inconvenience 5/1/2017 Currently updating the whole gallery... stay tune. Gallery Contents Links Send Feedback Title Last Updated **GONE** 00_Signed stuffs 8/25/2017 Ai Shite Night 10/19/2017 Akira Toriyama 5/31/2017 Alain Lachartre (Original art) 5/14/2017 Astro Boy (Osamu Tezuka) 5/14/2017 Beavis and Butt-Head 9/27/2017 Beverly Hills (B.C.B.G) 5/13/2017 Candy Candy 5/12/2017 Care Bears (Bisounours) 10/20/2019 Cat's Eye 5/13/2017 Clementine 5/13/2017 Cutie Honey 5/13/2017 Dinosaurs Attack 9/24/2018 Disney - Original Arts 2/25/2018 Dokyuusei (End of Summer) 5/12/2017 Dr. Slump 9/7/2017 Dr. Slump (layouts) Dragon Ball 01 4/18/2019 Dragon Ball 02 10/20/2019 Dragon Ball GT 5/21/2017 Dragon Ball OAV 8/12/2017 Dragon Ball Z - OAV 2/11/2019 Dragon Ball Z - OAV 12 4/3/2018 Dragon Ball Z - OTHERS 9/23/2017 Dragon Ball Z 01 - Freeza 7/25/2018 Dragon Ball Z 02 - Cell 5/14/2018 Dragon Ball Z 03 - Buu Fan cels 4/26/2017 Fathom (Comic) 5/14/2017 GaoGaigar 5/12/2017 Ghibli studios - Pompoko 5/14/2017 Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) 5/21/2017 Gundam Wing 5/13/2017 Hai! Step Jun 5/13/2017 Hakugei Densetsu / Moby Dick 5/14/2017 Hi no Tori (Tezuka) 5/15/2017 Hokuto no Ken 5/12/2017 Ie naki ko (Rémi sans famille) 9/22/2017 Kimagure Orange Road 5/30/2017 Kurenai Sanchiro (Judo Boy) 5/21/2017 Little Memole 5/22/2017 Lupin the 3rd 5/14/2017 Mandrake the Magician 7/21/2008 Max Perramon (original art) 5/14/2017 Naruto 5/21/2017 Neon Genesis Evangelion 5/13/2017 NOIR 5/11/2017 Osamu Tezuka - original art 10/3/2017 Pink Panther 5/12/2017 Princesse Sarah 9/8/2017 Rahan (Comic) 4/19/2017 Robot Archie (Comic) 9/17/2017 Rurouni Kenshin 5/13/2017 Sailor Moon 5/13/2017 Saint Seiya 5/10/2017 Saint Seiya - Sketchs only 5/21/2017 Saint Seiya (HANKEN) 6/16/2009 Sakigake!! Otokojuku 5/21/2017 Satoshi Kon (movies) 5/12/2017 SERIGRAPHIES - FR/BE 12/25/2009 Sherlock Holmes 5/12/2017 ShiShunki Bishoujo Gattai Robo 5/13/2017 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5/14/2017 Urusei Yatsura / Lamu 5/14/2017 Virtua Fighter (Serie) 5/14/2017 Wasterlain Marc arts 5/14/2017 Wizard of OZ (TV serie) 10/20/2019 Yakitate Japan! 7/1/2008 Curator: Minouche Gallery Created: 2/26/2008 8.64/10 8.80/10 8.74/10 30 votes Click here to rate Minouche Youpiland powered by rubberslug™ CLICK TO CREATE A FREE CEL GALLERY Rubberslug does not allow or recommend sales transactions through member sites.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line232
__label__cc	0.590449	0.409551	FY 2018 Budget Proposal For NASA By Keith Cowing on May 23, 2017 9:33 AM. NASA to Discuss FY2018 Budget Proposal, Provide Virtual Tours of Centers "Lightfoot will give a presentation at 12:30 p.m. EDT to NASA employees at the agency's Headquarters in Washington on FY2018 budget highlights, setting the stage for the coming year at NASA and spotlighting the past work that led to current achievements. This presentation will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website." Budget Documents, Strategic Plans and Performance Reports - NASA FY 2018 Budget Estimates - Agency Fact Sheet - Mission Fact Sheets NASA Excerpt: America First A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again "The President's 2018 Budget requests $19.1 billion for NASA, a 0.8 percent decrease from the 2017 annualized CR level, with targeted increases consistent with the President's priorities. ... Supports and expands public-private partnerships as the foundation of future U.S. civilian space efforts. The Budget creates new opportunities for collaboration with industry on space station operations, supports public-private partnerships for deep-space habitation and exploration systems, funds data buys from companies operating small satellite constellations, and supports work with industry to develop and commercialize new space technologies." Keith's note: The White House is not interested in a robust, meaningful education program at NASA: "Eliminates the $115 million Office of Education, resulting in a more focused education effort through NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Office of Education has experienced significant challenges in implementing a NASA-wide education strategy and is performing functions that are duplicative of other parts of the agency." Contrary to the clear intent of Congress to (once again) oppose that action: Senators to Trump Administration; Do Not Hurt Workforce By Cutting NASA Education Funding "Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), co-chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, are leading a group of 32 Senators in a letter urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to support NASA's Office of Education in the coming fiscal year." The White House is also putting its climate change denial rhetoric into effect: "Provides $1.8 billion for a focused, balanced Earth science portfolio that supports the priorities of the science and applications communities, a savings of $102 million from the 2017 annualized CR level. The Budget terminates four Earth science missions (PACE, OCO-3, DSCOVR Earth-viewing instruments, and CLARREO Pathfinder) and reduces funding for Earth science research grants." Yet they do not even know who does what in this regard: Trump's OMB Does Not Know Who Operates DSCOVR, earlier post "So NASA does not actually operate instruments on DSCOVR - NOAA does - but OMB wants NASA to "terminate" them anyway. And the money saved annually for NASA data analysis? $1.7 million. The cost for a single trip to Mar-a-Lago? $3 million. Priceless." OMB, NASA to Discuss FY2018 Budget Proposal, Provide Virtual Tours of Centers\n\n\"Lightfoot will give a presentation at 12:30 p.m. EDT to NASA employees at the agency's Headquarters in Washington on FY2018 budget highlights, setting the stage for the coming year at NASA and spotlighting the past work that led to current achievements. This presentation will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.\"\n\t\nBudget Documents, Strategic Plans and Performance Reports\n\n- NASA FY 2018 Budget Estimates\n- Agency Fact Sheet\t\n- Mission Fact Sheets\t\n\nNASA Excerpt: America First A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again\n\n\"The President's 2018 Budget requests \$19.1 billion for NASA, a 0.8 percent decrease from the 2017 annualized CR level, with targeted increases consistent with the President's priorities. ... Supports and expands public-private partnerships as the foundation of future U.S. civilian space efforts. The Budget creates new opportunities for collaboration with industry on space station operations, supports public-private partnerships for deep-space habitation and exploration systems, funds data buys from companies operating small satellite constellations, and supports work with industry to develop and commercialize new space technologies.\"\n\n Keith's note: The White House is not interested in a robust, meaningful education program at NASA:\n\n\"Eliminates the \$115 million Office of Education, resulting in a more focused education effort through NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Office of Education has experienced significant challenges in implementing a NASA-wide education strategy and is performing functions that are duplicative of other parts of the agency.\"\n\nContrary to the clear intent of Congress to (once again) oppose that action:\n\nSenators to Trump Administration; Do Not Hurt Workforce By Cutting NASA Education Funding\n\n\"Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), co-chairs of the Senate Career and Technical Education (CTE) Caucus, are leading a group of 32 Senators in a letter urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to support NASA's Office of Education in the coming fiscal year.\"\n\nThe White House is also putting its climate change denial rhetoric into effect:\n\n\"Provides \$1.8 billion for a focused, balanced Earth science portfolio that supports the priorities of the science and applications communities, a savings of \$102 million from the 2017 annualized CR level. The Budget terminates four Earth science missions (PACE, OCO-3, DSCOVR Earth-viewing instruments, and CLARREO Pathfinder) and reduces funding for Earth science research grants.\"\n\nYet they do not even know who does what in this regard:\n\nTrump's OMB Does Not Know Who Operates DSCOVR, earlier post\n\n\"So NASA does not actually operate instruments on DSCOVR - NOAA does - but OMB wants NASA to \"terminate\" them anyway. And the money saved annually for NASA data analysis? \$1.7 million. The cost for a single trip to Mar-a-Lago? \$3 million. Priceless.\" This page contains a single entry by Keith Cowing published on May 23, 2017 9:33 AM. Welcome To TrumpSpace (Its Really ObamaSpace) was the previous entry in this blog. NASA Is In Denial About Its FY 2018 Budget is the next entry in this blog.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line238
__label__wiki	0.568471	0.568471	Apple wants $2.5B in damages from Samsung, complains Samsung's patent demands are crazy www.bgr.com New Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930) are tangled in patent battles across the globe that seem like they might never end. This week, the tiresome tussles took an interesting turn when the details of settlement offers presented by each side were made public. Apple’s camp had some pretty stiff demands... apple patents cupertino california essential technology patent battles royalty fee royalty rates stiff demands tussles Google: Motorola patents and technology worth $5.5B of $12.4B acquisition 9to5google.com A new report from The Wall Street Journal today citing an SEC filing noted Google has put an exact value on the patents acquired in its purchase of Motorola Mobility. In the filing, Google claimed “patents and developed technology” acquired in the deal were valued at $5.5 billion, less than... exact value technology worth Comments on 'Google: Motorola patents and technology worth $5.5B of $12.4B acquisition': A new report from The Wall Street Journal today citing an SEC filing noted Google has put an exact value... Google has been tight-lipped on the reasons for its acquisition of handset maker Motorola, other than the buyout would “supercharge Android.” However, the Internet giant apparently had more plans than to load up on patents. Motorola’s intellectual property comprised less than half of Google’s purchase price — $5.5 billion of... Apple makes approximately $18.5 per device from app store purchases, gives $13 to devs thenextweb.com We only just reported that Apple has sold a total of 410M iOS devices, with more than $5.5B paid to developers. This news was announced during the company’s earnings call today, and is interesting in and of itself, but there’s something hidden in these numbers… The app store has been... margin of profit store purchases Comments on 'Apple makes approximately $18.5 per device from app store purchases, gives $13 to devs': We only just reported that Apple has sold a total of 410M iOS devices, with more than $5.5B paid to... Apple App Store Hits 650,000 Apps: 250,000 Designed For iPad, $5.5B Paid Out To Devs On its Q3 earnings call, Apple announced that there are over 650,000 apps on the Apple App Store, up from 600K in April of this year. Apple exec Peter Oppenheimer also mentioned that 250,000 of those apps were developed specifically for iPad. Perhaps more importantly to you hungry entrepreneurs, Apple... apple exec q3 earnings Comments on 'Apple App Store Hits 650,000 Apps: 250,000 Designed For iPad, $5.5B Paid Out To Devs': On its Q3 earnings call, Apple announced that there are over 650,000 apps on the Apple App Store, up from... Apple has sold 410M iOS devices, with more than $5.5B paid to developers Today at the company’s earnings call, Apple has announced a total of 410M iOS devices sold, with more than $5.5 billion in payments to developers. In addition, the company has also shared that there are now as many as 255k iPad apps in the App Store, a feat that Apple... earnings report industry estimates Comments on 'Apple has sold 410M iOS devices, with more than $5.5B paid to developers': Today at the company’s earnings call, Apple has announced a total of 410M iOS devices sold, with more than $5.5... Apple reports 25M user growth for iCloud since April, now at 150M users Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer reported that the company now has a total of 150M iCloud users, which is up from 125M users in April of this year. That’s a 20% growth in three months, compared to the roughly 17.6% growth in just 21 days earlier this year. That means that iCloud... Comments on 'Apple reports 25M user growth for iCloud since April, now at 150M users': Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer reported that the company now has a total of 150M iCloud users, which is up from 125M... Dell plans to build $5B software business Dell has reportedly set a lofty goal for its software segment, which it hopes to expand into a $5 billion business as the company continues to diversify its product offerings. The company's software head, John Swainson, has told Reuters the company is pushing for its software business to eventually make... john swainson lofty goal meaningful contribution software segment Comments on 'Dell plans to build $5B software business': Dell has reportedly set a lofty goal for its software segment, which it hopes to expand into a $5 billion... Targeting Families, Sidebark's Private Photo & Video Sharing App Debuts With Automatic List-Making Feature Want more proof that the private, mobile social networking space is exploding? Today, there comes yet another entrant into the game: an iOS and web application called Sidebark, which targets families and friends interested in sharing photos and videos privately via mobile. Because there are so many of these apps,... amp company camera button david cho founder david gmail google handy feature networking space school grad Comments on 'Targeting Families, Sidebark's Private Photo & Video Sharing App Debuts With Automatic List-Making Feature': Want more proof that the private, mobile social networking space is exploding? Today, there comes yet another entrant into the... A visual guide to undersea cables and their $5.5B price tag gigaom.com The U.S., the Netherlands, France, the UK and Germany are all mega users of bandwidth, using more than 10 terabytes of capacity to feed their web surfing needs. But the rest of the world is continuing to demand more broadband, and the industry of undersea cables and long haul broadband... cable construction international bandwidth nine years submarine cable map substantial investments terabytes undersea cable undersea cables Comments on 'A visual guide to undersea cables and their $5.5B price tag': The U.S., the Netherlands, France, the UK and Germany are all mega users of bandwidth, using more than 10 terabytes...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line239
__label__wiki	0.670146	0.670146	ANCIENT SPHERES �Ancient sphereS� is a Black Metal band from Costa Rica, Central America, founded in late 2010. In 2012 �Cold Winds from the North... Stacked in the Deepest Woodlands�, EP was released in Digital Format as an experiment. For June of 2013 �Tales of Suwoh� LP was release in digital and initiate the gigs for the band with the �Ancient Worship European Tour 2013� in Halle Germany and promotion in Czech Republic. For that year, two more gigs in Mexico, opening show to True Mayhem in Puebla in the �Pure Fucking Armageddon� tour. In 2014, Ancient Spheres participates as a guest on the "Alajuelita Metal Fest III" and "Holocaust II" in Costa Rica. For midyear toured Panama City and Boquete Chiriqui. It also participates in the "Under Black Metal Fest" in Costa Rica. By August, Guatemala for two dates "Ancient March to Isengard" in Guatemala City and "Oxidente Xela Rock Metal Fest 2014 3rd Edition" in Quetzaltenango. By September Honduras and El Salvador under the "Independence 2014 Metal Fest" tour. In January 2015 �Under the Spell of the Spheres� EP is produced but not released yet. Between March and July, the �In Conspiracy with the Night� is produced and will initiate the return to the shows. Yeudiel Chacón - Vocals/Bass; Adolfo Bejarano - Guitar; Raymondsz - Drums adolfo.bejarano@gmail.com Site of the band: http://www.ancientspheres.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line240
__label__wiki	0.510849	0.510849	How to Enter the Correct Values for the Fields of a Publication This page presents several guidelines to enter the correct values for the fields of the publications. The title of a publication is automatically formatted by the tools (BibTeX...). To prevent this formatting, you may enclosed the text by braces. "The JaSIM platform" is formatted as "The Jasim Platform" "The {JaSIM} platform" is formatted as "The JaSIM Platform" The list of the authors is a sequence of pairs Last name, First name. The online form provided by this website only supports this format. You must enter the last name, a coma, and the first name for each author. The online form will show you all the names from the database that are matching your input. Galland, Stéphane If the page field is an interval of page numbers, we recommend to indicate this interval with the BibTeX syntax: the double dash. Retrieved from "http://multiagent.fr/How_to_enter_the_correct_values_for_the_fields_of_a_publication" This page was last modified on 15 March 2013, at 10:03. This page has been accessed 9,854 times.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line242
__label__cc	0.597345	0.402655	Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 7 United States. Dept. of Justice 6 Anderson, William G. 5 Kennedy, Robert F. 5 Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 5 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 5 United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 5 King, Alfred Daniel 4 Niebuhr, Reinhold 4 Pritchett, Laurie 4 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) 3 British Broadcasting Corporation 3 Carmichael, Stokely 3 Speech 29 Published article 8 Published sermon 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Television public speaking 9 Direct action 8 School integration 8 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Childhood and Youth 7 Voter registration 7 Gandhism 6 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 6 Presidential Elections 5 Sit-ins 5 Civil Disobedience 4 MLKJP-GAMK, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Series I-IV), Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 5 Fulbright, J. William (James William) ''Martin Luther King says: 'I'd Do It All Again,' an Interview by Bradford Daniel'' Fort Worth, Texas. Sepia (December 1961): 15-19. Daniel, Bradford Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) McDonald, Dora E. Walker, Wyatt Tee Berry, Benjamin McMillian, Harold Jackson, William S. White, Madeline Anderson, Marvin Charles, Herbert McCall, Herbert Coles, Julius Martin Luther King, Jr. - Articles about MLKPP Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Interview by Inter-American University Students and Faculty San German, Puerto Rico 2 compact discs : digital Rummel, Joseph F. Mountbatten, Louis Tolstoy, Leo, graf Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich RBFP-INP Robert Brank Fulton Papers, In Private Hands 4/19/2011 alexmw Question & answer period following address to the National Press Club [Washington, D.C.] Franklin Savings & Loan Association, Florida Home Loan Bank Board American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Miami, Fla. Ghana, Africa Internal Conflicts MLKJP-GAMK Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Series I-IV), Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. WGAC-GAMK, William G. Anderson Collection, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. Interview by Donald H. Smith [Atlanta, Ga.] Smith, Donald H. Chandler, Gladstone Lewis [Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)] Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav) Adler, Alfred Watson, John B. (John Broadus) King, Martin Luther, III King, Dexter Collins, L. John (Lewis John) Boyte, Harry G. Williams, Aubrey Willis Golden, Harry Barry, Abner Horton, Myles Bowen, H. W. Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World. Grand Lodge Alabama State College (Montgomery, Ala.) United States. Court of Appeals (5th Circuit) League of Empire Loyalists Univerisity of Texas (Austin, Texas) University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.) University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.) University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.) National Insurance Association Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Co. Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) New York Times Company Southern Conference Educational Fund International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.) Atlanta (Ga.). Office of the Mayor Albany (Ga.). City Jail Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) Charlottesville, Va. Meet the Press Television Program Discrimination in public accommodations The Rhetoric of the Negro Evoked The Efficacy of Negro Nonviolent Resistance DHSTR-WHi Donald H. Smith Tape Recordings, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. UC344A, Tape 9, side 1, parts 1 & 2 2//7/1957 Scott, Obie King, Yolanda Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) [United States. White House] Brownell, Herbert [United States. Dept. of Justice] Maxwell, O. Clay Maynard, Aubre de L. [Harlem Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.)] Lee, Bernard Scott Kennedy, Robert F. Lincoln High School (Marion, Ala.) Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, Mass.) Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957 : Washington, D.C.) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Harlem Hospital Center (New York, N.Y.) Youth March for Integrated Schools Shaw University (Raleigh, N.C.) Marion, Ala. Tallahassee, Ala. Baton Rouge, La. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Critics Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Southern Christian Leadership Conference--meetings Interview by members of Seventh Grade class, George A. Towns Elementary School Enclosed in 640311-001. Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah) [Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)] Kelsey, George D. Williams, Adam Daniel (A. D.) Farris, Christine King King, Bernice A. Smith, Margaret Chase George A. Towns Elementary School Interview by Edward T. Ladd on Profile Ladd, Edward T. Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich) Clay, Cassius Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar Barnett, Ross R. WAII-TV Jacksonville, Fla. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Childhood and Youth March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 Strength to Love Crusader Without Violence ET-3 Galley, Interview by Alex Haley Published in 1/65 Playboy. Haley, Alex Hayling, Robert Bagner Playboy Magazine Chattanooga, Tenn. Afro-Americans - Civil rights Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail MCMLK-RWWL Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives and Special Collections, Atlanta, Ga. Interview by Alex Haley Playboy 12 (January 1965): 65-68, 70-74, 76-78. Nixon, Edgar Daniel [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)] Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)] Thomas, Rex [Associated Press ] Pearson, Drew Warren, Earl [United States. Supreme Court] Wilkins, Roy [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)] Young, Whitney M. [National Urban League] Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip) [Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids] Lelyveld, Arthur J. Goodman, Andrew Schwerner, Michael Henry Belafonte, Harry Sanders, Carl Edward Griffin, Marvin C. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids B'nai B'rith United States. Internal Revenue Service Mobile, Ala. Lucyville, Miss. Talladega, Ala. Hattiesburg, MIss. Hungary Revolution, 1956 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition John Brown's Body Go Down, Moses U.S. Constititution Interview on 12/27/67 by Gerald Priestland Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Tillich, Paul Carmichael, Stokely Fulbright, J. William (James William) [United States. Congress. Senate] Priestland, Gerald [British Broadcasting Corporation] Poor People's Campaign war and morals Bible, N.T. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Television public speaking Doubts and Certainties	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line250
__label__cc	0.523573	0.476427	IRSIM 9.7 IRSIM version 9.7 switch-level simulator IRSIM is a tool for simulating digital circuits. It is a "switch-level" simulator; that is, it treats transistors as ideal switches. Extracted capacitance and lumped resistance values are used to make the switch a little bit more realistic than the ideal, using the RC time constants to predict the relative timing of events. IRSIM shares a history with magic, although it is an independent program. Magic was designed to produce, and IRSIM to read, the ".sim" file format, which is largely unused outside of these two programs. IRSIM was developed at Stanford, while Magic was developed at Berkeley. Parts of Magic were developed especially for use with IRSIM, allowing IRSIM to run a simulation in the "background" (i.e., a forked process communicating through a pipe), while displaying information about the values of signals directly on the VLSI layout. For "quick" simulations of digital circuits, IRSIM is still quite useful for confirming basic operation of digital circuit layouts. The addition of scheduling commands ("at", "every", "when", and "whenever") put IRSIM into the same class as Verilog simulators. It is, in my opinion, much easier to write complicated testbench simulations using Tcl and IRSIM. I have used IRSIM to validate the digital parts of several production chips at MultiGiG, including the simulation of analog behavior such as PLL locking. IRSIM version 9.5 was a long-standing and stable version that corresponded to the relatively stable Magic version 6.5. When magic was recast in a Tcl/Tk interpreter framework (versions 7.2 and 7.3), IRSIM could no longer operate as a background process. However, it was clear that if IRSIM could also be recast in the same Tcl/Tk interpreter framework, the level of interaction between it and Magic would be greatly increased. I set about to create the "new" IRSIM, although it came along in fits and starts as I had time to work on it. Because the original "analyzer" graphic display window (and GUI, to a very limited extent) was written in Xt (the rather primitive window system that is an integral part of X11), it was scrapped for a while. In its place, I substituted graphs in "Blt" based on the same in "tclspice" (see SourceForge for the tclspice project). Unfortunately, "Blt" insists that all data vectors must be real-valued, which is 1) a severe waste of space for binary digital values, and 2) is unable to represent the concept of an "unknown" value that is so crucial to fast switch simulation. So, eventually I was forced to scrap BLT and actually sit down and code out a real Tcl-based analyzer window and GUI. The result is finally done in revision 9.7.3. The "analyzer" graphic display in IRSIM 9.7 The IRSIM command console in the Tcl/Tk based version 9.7 Last updated: August 5, 2016 at 7:18pm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line256
__label__wiki	0.77862	0.77862	“An important but seldom discussed aspect of the ethics of science is concerned with the integrity of the medium which conveys reports to the scientific community at large.” Therefore, model policy for publishing ethics is pending further discovery: What are scientific fraud? What are deliberate misconducts? How to provide an additional level of quality control to the model policy released by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)? Named nonhumans credit for scientists Miscellaneous nonhumans with anthropomorphic names are routinely credited as solo authors, coauthors and contributors in scientific publications. Such prosocial behaviors against social norms may disrupt the present-day canon of publication ethics, and further challenge inception architecture on augmentation of human abilities in a hybrid society. Our key findings are listed as follows: On the occasion of the 20th celebration of the COPE Report 1999, we recast the diachronic discourse of the phrase ‘publication ethics’ and its variations, which promises to articulate the unfolding chronological picture of publication ethics. Miscellaneous nonhumans with anthropomorphic names are routinely credited as authors or contributors in scientific publications. Such offenders require a collective response. Our findings show that prosociality theory is useful for understanding the motivation behind these empathetic behaviors. Entitlement to named credit should not be considered to be owed to primates only. If due credit is not extended to the rest of earth’s fauna, this implies stereotypical notions of anthropocentrism and dogmatism. The increase in the number of nonhuman protagonists raises intriguing ethical questions and ushers us in a sequential dilemma. Such prosocial behaviours against social norms may disrupt the present-day protocols of gatekeepers and the canon of publication ethics, which should be duly reinforced. We propose a generic fame model to illustrate the trajectories of the collaborative interaction between scientists and nonhuman protagonists, which cannot be explained by the well-accepted theoretical frameworks such as utility theory and reciprocal altruism. As the former Editor-in-Chief of Science, Dr. Bruce Alberts, remarked, “Scientists everywhere can and should do more to promote [scientific standards].”[i] This critical review is expected to provide a hallmark reference for reframing far-reaching discussions on both publication ethics and inception architecture on human-nonhuman collaboration in a hybrid society. [i] B. Alberts, Promoting Scientific Standards. Science 327, 12–12 (2010). Zhiwen Hu, Jian Zhang, Yongfeng Huang, Liang Chen, Chuhan Wu, Zhongliang Yang. Named nonhumans crossing the line. Science, 2019, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6452/426/tab-e-letters. Named nonhumans crossing the line.pdf (54 downloads) Zhiwen Hu, Yiping Cui, Jian Zhang, Jacqueline Eviston-Putsch. Shalosh B. Ekhad: A Computer Credit for Mathematicians, Scientometrics, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03305-7	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line257
__label__wiki	0.681631	0.681631	Altarage/Nihil/Sentinent Ruin Laboratories/2016 CD Review Altarage are a band from Spain that has been featured before in this zine and plays an avabt garde and bestial mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of their 206 album "Nihil" which was released by Sentinent Ruin Laboratories. A very harsh sound starts off the album before going into a very heavy and fast musical direction that also uses a great amount of blast beats and the fast riffs also use a great amount of tremolo picking and after awhile black metal screams make their presence known on the recording and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. A lot of war and bestial black metal elements can be heard in the bands musical style while the music is still very heavily influenced by the darker side of early 90's death metal and the songs also bring in a great amount of brutality while some songs add in a small amount of distorted drones and there is also a small amount of melody in some of the riffing along with some of the vocals using more of a growling approach and as the album progresses some of the slower sections of the songs bring in a touch of doom/death and the whole album also remains very heavy from beginning to ending of the recording. Altarage creates an album that takes war, black and death metal along with a touch of doom to create a very heavy and dark sounding recording, the production sounds very old school yet heavy while the lyrics cover darkness and occultism themes. In my opinion this is another great sounding album from Altarage and if you are a fan of avant grade, bestial black/death metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Wormborous" "Vortex Pyramid" and "Cultus". 8 out of 10. Diabolus Amator/Despotic Conjuring Of The Soulless/Luciferic Triumph Records/2016 CD Review Diabolus Amator are a band from Texas that plays a very raw and satanic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2016 album "Despotic Conjuring Of The Soulless" which was released by Luciferic Truimph Records. A very dark soundscape starts off the album before going into a heavier direction and also introducing high pitched black metal screams onto the recording and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can be heard and there are also some growling vocals being added into some parts of the songs. A great amount of tremolo picking can be heard in the faster sections of the songs and some of the riffs also bring in a small amount of melodies and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and they also bring in a brief ambient instrumental track before returning back to a black metal direction on the remaining songs while also bringing in a small amount of melodic guitar leads while other track also brings in a brief use of clean playing and thunder and rain sounds and there is also a brief use of spoken word parts and they close the album with a cover of inquisition's "Desolate Funeral Chant". Diabolus Amator plays a style of black metal that is very dark, raw and satanic while also having its melodic moments, the production sounds very dark and r aw while the lyrics cover Satanism, Luciferian, Occult and Anti Christian themes. In my opinion Diabolus Amator are a very great sounding raw and satanic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Pregnant Virgin Whore" "Invocation Of the Abyssic Dragon" and "Glory Unto Lucifer". 8 out of 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rA4ZvfOkQ&feature=youtu.be Posted by OccultBlackMetal at 11:11 PM No comments: Links to this post Aggressive Mutilator Interview 1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days? A: Hello and thanks for doing this interview with us. We are Aggressive Mutilator from Norrköping, Sweden. A two piece band started in 2012. Just right now we are planning to record 3 new songs plus a cover (the regulator by Bad Brains). If the recording goes well we will see if someone is interested in releasing this new opus, the title is gonna be "Monster decay”. 2. Your last demo came out in November, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the recording and also how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past? A: The earlier stuff are more standard primitive BM but on the latest one "Crude abomination” we have some strange elements added to the music. Some more melodic songs and not so primitive as before. 3. Since 2012 you have released a great amount of music, do you put a lot of time and effort into writing and creating music? A: On an emotional level we put much effort in doing the songs but the songs are also very spontaneous sometimes. But always with a horror agenda and dark artwork. I Always has been a big fan of ghosts, goblins, dark places, horror tales, monsters and darkness. 4. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music? A: About sickness, alienation, racism, hate, the society that goes in the wrong direction and WILL collapse. 5. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Aggressive Mutilator'? A: Actually I don’t remember, Maybe Jack the ripper? The ripper case is interesting because it is also the story of his victims. They must not be forgotten or the dreadful conditions they lived under. It is sad the he opened up the eyes to a world you would not have heard of if he did not committed his crimes. He did not inspire us to take this band name, but in a retrospective view the band name can refer to someone like him. A sick and twisted person who can’t handle the modern society. 6.Currently there are only 2 members in the band are you planning on expanding the line up in the future or do you prefer to remain a duo? A: It is very hard to find member that are into this kind of music. But we have some friend that will fit if there will be a live performance one day. 7. Over the years your music has been released on a decent amount of labels, can you tell us a little bit more about them? A: They are Ljudkassett and Bifrost records in Sweden. Wm Psycho record in Poland, American line prod. in Mexico and Stygian shadows prod. in Poland. They have all done very fine pro releases. It is also fun to reach out to different parts of the world. Sweden is not the centre of the world. There are many other great bands out there too. 8. On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of underground metal and punk? A: We received a lot of feedback from many places. That is really great and fun. It also shows that people are not interested in us as persons but interested in the music. Mostly metal fans have appreciated the music, not so many punk people have written us. 9. When can we expect some new music and also where do you see the band heading into musically during the future? A: Don’t know. We start with the Bad brains cover and then we will start play Reggae ;). Seriously speaking, we don´t like when you mix too many element in the music. It can work sometimes. But most of the times it gets strange. The most important thing is of course great songs, and then the production or the music style doesn’t matter. 10. What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays? A: Influences are Bathory, Nifelheim, Venom, Tribulation, Rush, Hellhammer, Master´s Hamer, Malokarpatan, Imperiet. Listening a lot to Blasphemy, Mystifier, Neil young, Chuck Berry, Grand belial´s key, Abcession (album: Grave offering)`, The Infamous Gehenna, Broken Cross and Queen these days. 11. How would you describe your views on Satanism and Occultism? A: We are not Satanist but like to flirt with the occult aesthetic. We don’t see a problem having a satanic aura around the music. We can also have a Nazi aura even though we are not Nazis. 12. What are some of your non musical interests? A: Video-Games, art, movies, books, the Swedish nature. 13. Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts? A: Thank for doing the interview. Please visit our bandcamp (www.aggresivemutilattorbandcamp.com) to see and listen to all our recordings, If you are in to under produced and ugly Black Metal this maybe is something for you. Feel free to email us if u have any questions. We have new output coming april 2016 "Crushed by tyranny" is the name of the recording. It will be a pro-tape on Iron county record in Hungary. https://aggressivemutilator.bandcamp.com/album/crushed-by-tyranny Kuoleman Galleria/Karsmys Kunnian/Inverse Records/2016 Full Length Review Kuoleman Galleria are a band from Finland that plays black'n'roll and this is a review of their 2016 album "Karsmys Kunnian" which was released by Inverse Records. Water sounds and aggressive spoken word samples start off the album before going into more of a heavier black'n'roll direction that also uses high pitched black metal screams and a small amount of death metal growls and the guitar leads are done in more of a melodic fashion and you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording. Melodic vocals can be heard in some of the songs along with a brief use of clean playing while the heavier riffs are very catchy and also utilize a great amount of energy and the music for the most part sticks to a mid paced musical direction and some songs also bring in a touch of punk and thrash as well a s a brief use of back up gang shouts and they close the album with a cover of Barathrum's "Last Day In Heaven". Kuoleman Galleria plays a style of black'n'roll that is very catchy with a lot of energy in mostly a mid tempo direction while other songs also display more of a melodic side, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in Finnish and cover Sarcasm and Dark Humour themes. In my opinion Kuoleman Galleria are a very great sounding black'n'roll band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Karsimys Kunnian" "Aivokuollut jattelija" "Elaman Irvikuva" and "Last Day In heaven". 8 out of 10. http://www.kuolemangalleria.net/ https://www.facebook.com/KuolemanGalleria/ Funeral Art/La Belleza Oculta/Weakie Discs/2015 Cassette Review Funeral Art are a solo project from Guatemala that has been featured before in this zine and plays a mixture of ambient black metal and funeral doom and this is a review of their 2015 album "La Belleza Oculta" which was released on cassette by Weakie Discs. Ambient style keyboards start off the album and they also use a variety of many different sounding keys and after the intro the music retains its ambient elements while also adding in programmed beats along with some operatic female vocals and saxophones and most of the tracks are very long and epic in length. After awhile guitars are added into the music and they start out using clean playing while also getting more distorted in some parts of t he songs and bringing in more of a raw and melodic style of black metal that also uses a small amount of programmed beats and the first 2 main tracks have intros before them while the later closes with an outro. As the album progresses grim black metal screams are added into certain sections of the recording and when guitar solos and leads are utilized they bring in a touch of post metal while also being very melodic at the same time to the songs and there is also a brief use of spoken word parts and the slower riffs also add some funeral doom influences in the songs when they are utilized and there are 2 bonus tracks with the first one being instrumental. On this recording Funeral Art plays a musical style that is mostly rooted in dark ambient while also mixing in elements of depressive black metal and funeral doom along with some soprano vocals to create something very original, the production sounds very dark and r aw while the lyrics cover dark, occult, and witchcraft themes. In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Funeral Art and if you are a fan of black metal, dark ambient and funeral doom, you should check out this cassette. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "La Belleza Oculta" and "Arcano I". 8 out of 10. https://weakiediscs.bandcamp.com/album/la-belleza-oculta Sarcalogos/Echoes Of Silence/2016 EP Review Sarcalogos are a band from Oregon that has been featured before in this zine and plays a very raw and satanic form of black metal and this is a review of their self released 2016 ep "Echoes Of Silence". Drum beats start off the ep along with some clean guitars a few seconds later before going into more of a fast and raw black metal direction that also brings in a great amount of blast beats, tremolo picking and high pitched screams and the music is very heavily rooted in the 90's second wave tradition. Death metal growls can be heard in some parts of t he songs along with the riffs also using a small amount of melody and you can also hear some elements of thrash in the bands musical style and one of the tracks is very long and epic in length and clean playing also makes a return in other songs and the tracks also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Sarcalogos creates another recording that is still very much rooted in the raw second wave tradition while also mixing in elements of thrash and death metal along with more clean parts which also makes the songs stand out a bit more, the production sounds very dark and r aw while the lyrics cover Suicide and Satanism themes. In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Sarcalogos and if you are a fan of raw and satanic black metal, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Daybreak Over A Sunken Kingdom(Floods II)" and "Soul Terror". 8 out of 10. https://sarcalogos.bandcamp.com Eldamar Interview 1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the musical project? - Eldamar is an Atmospheric Black Metal project formed around summer of 2015. It is a solo project that focuses on fantasy, inner emotions and nature. The whole intentions with Eldamar is that the listener can use the music as a kind of "escape". You can drift away in your own dreams and follow a story that is being loosely told or make up your own. You can look upon it as a journey. 2.Recently you have released your first album, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the recording? - In the first half of the album you really get the feeling of northern nature. You know, the hard rough winter spirit. You have good and bad things happening, and you can really feel it in how the songs progress, you have quiet and calm parts and some more aggressive and epic. The last part of the album has a different sound to it. It is even more epic and solemn. More Elven like than the others. That is the change and the biggest part of the story, like you entered a different realm. 3.Some of your lyrics deal with Heathenism and Nature, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in those subjects? - I wrote some kind of poem before uploading on SoundCloud to fit together with the music and my thoughts. It is simply that you should be grateful with your heritage. Take great pride inn the force that makes you alive. Have respect for everything that grows in nature. You do not harm a tree unless you have to. Honor your ancestors for what they have done. Keep with you their wisdom. Keep your soul clean and free until it gets chosen to rest, then get passed on... that is the way of things. 4.The bands name came from the writings of J.R.R Tolkien, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in this writer and also do you have any interest in any other fantasy writers? - Lord of the Rings is prety much the whole reason I did Eldamar. It is a very good story. It includes a lot of epic stuff on topp of the story. It was something I was fan of even before I saw the movies or read any of the books. You know when you are a little kid and are fighting with sticks in the forest. And when I finally saw it i fell in love with the whole atmosphere. What moved me the most was the music, and the Elves. I started to write in elvish and all that good stuff. I even took an elvish tattoo :P when I discovered that Heathenism had elves, it opened a big door. And I was combining it together. Alfheimr in Norse Mythology means Elvenhome witch again means Eldamar in elvish (Quenya). Another writer i like is JK Rowling. 5.With this musical project you record mostly everything by yourself, are you open to turning the project into a full time band or do you prefer to remain solo? - Not a full time band no. The music is not much of a live thing either. And I don't think I want it in other hands than mine. Things i can't record myself, I will just sample. - I have got a lot of request about signing Eldamar from a lot of labels. I have to go for my feeling in this matter. I asked about making a deal with Northern Silence Productions. They have a lot of followers, they sign bands that I enjoy and the idea seemed good. And they wanted to take me on. Just have to change the album art. Thats all. 7.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of black metal? - It has been very good. You know, the fans are enthusiastic. They like and sharing the music to others. There is a lot of great people who want you to get the right contacts and really want you to succeed. And i'm very grateful for that. I didn't think it would grow as fast as it is doing. 8.Are you also involved with any other bands or musical projects? - I just started to work on a new project with a good mate of mine. The project is called Askheimr. The old name for Askim, the town we are living in. This will be a live thing as soon we find members and have the songs done. And i will of course continue with Eldamar. 9.Where do you see yourself heading into musically during the future? - I believe it will be the same thing as now. I will se how far I can get Eldamar, at the same time I am working with Askheimr. - Prety much most black metal bands. But i was introduced to Lustre by my friend. I fell in love with his music and the genere. Then I started to listening to more atmospheric black metal like Elderwind, Caladan Brood and I wanted to take it further. So that's another reason for Eldamar. 11.What are some of your non musical interests? - Haha, that's not much. At the moment i am a welding apprentice. But it is mostly stuff like art, history, filosofi and a good party ;) - Well, I have to thank everyone for supporting me and help me through. I am really grateful. And I must say thanks for a nice interview. Hi Mathias Nocturnal Degrade/The Dying Beuaty/Self Mutilation Services/2015 CD Review Nocturnal Degrade are a band from Italy that has been featured before in this zine and plays a depressive from of black metal and this is a review of their 2015 album "The Dying Beauty" which was released by Self Mutilation Services. A very slow, raw, heavy and depressive black metal sound starts off the album and after a few seconds the drums get more aggressive and high pitched suicidal screams make their presence known on the recording while the guitars also use a great amount of tremolo picking and half of the tracks are very long and epic in length. Throughout the recording there is a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the riffs also mix in a lot of depressive sounding melodies while the faster sections of the music use a small amount of blast beats while also bringing back a bit of the old school style and when clean playing is added onto the recording it gives the music a touch of goth and dark wave. Whispers can also be heard in certain sections of some of the songs and when guitar solos and leads are utilized they add more melody onto the recording and as the album progresses more atmospheric and ambient elements are brought into the music and there is also an instrumental track before the songs make a return back to vocal tracks and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and the last song is an instrumental ambient piece. Nocturnal Degrade creates another depressive black metal album that is a lot more raw and less ambient influenced than the previous recording while still keeping around some atmospheric elements, the production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover suicide, life, decay, apathy, death and anti human themes. In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Nocturnal Degrade and if you are a fan of depressive black metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "In December" and "The Dying Beauty". 8 out of 10. Aether Interview 1.Can you give us an update on what is going on with the musical project these days? For sure. I just released two new singles, one is that Anomalia, you recently reviewed (thanks for that) and one is the collaboration with me and my friend Mäander. Anomalia also got a nice video with peices of dadaism filmlets of Hans Richter, an german dada artist from the last century. 2.Recently you have released a new single, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the song and also how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past? The main difference is: Anomalia is dance music. Since I was working on Aether, I went through problems with shitty synthie drums. But they are great for any kind of other music than black metal. So I decided to make beats and put a pretty nice Black Metal riff over them. The next point is, that I worked on the composition of Metamorphosis II for about two years, for Metamorphosis I about a half year. Anomalia just took about a day and it was written, but the mixing, the arrangement of the percussion and so took more than a month – for one song. Composition time and producing time switched. And the difference to Altar and Esoteric Violence is the whole concept. That's clear. I would describe the music as simple, but in many ways touching. You can hear the spontaneity of creating it, you hear the process of how I got into that sound, how I learned making it. 3.All of the songs are instrumental, are you open to using any vocals in the future? Yeah, maybe. But not in the way I used vocals on the Metamorphosis works. I would make samples, something fragmentary, teared apart. 4.You express some anti racist,anti fascist, anti homophobic, atheist, and anarchistic views, can you tell us a little bit your views? Gladly I will. As I couldn't think otherwise as the human I still am behind Aether and Ravachol, I couldn't imagine to not express my beliefs. Even if I got attacked for that via facebook after I told that the last time in an interview in the Trvefrykt Zine. Yes, I stand against discrimination, espacially discrimination of minorities and women. I stand against ideologies and religion. And I fucking hate fascists. 5.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Aether'? I had no special thought about that when I choose that name, but it seems to me that some possible associations appeared since then. Aether is a german name for the chemical ether that can be used as a drug that makes you sleep, but before that you get drowsy and euphoric. Äther is as well a obsolete physical conception about how light spreads. I think that meaning sounds good as something materialistic, but critical in not pointing out the width of materialism. That is something important to me: don't be perfect in concepting and creating music and art. If there is no conflict, then your stuff is boring. 6.With this project you record everything by yourself, are you open to working with other musicians or do you prefer to remain solo? Maybe. I don't know. I don't need other peaople for the music, but perhaps someone will participate for a guestpart, a collaboration or a feature. 7.Recently you did a collaboration with 'Maander', can you tell us a little bit more about it? Mäander is a friend of mine that started making noise music. We decided to meet up one day and jam a little with the new equipment he bought. So we recorded that jam and what came out is Esoteric Violence. I like doing noise and all that experimental stuff. It feels like action painting. And I love doing something like that with my friends. Greeting to you, Mäander! 8.Your last few releases where self released but you have worked with a record label before in the past, are you open to working with another label or do you prefer the DIY method a lot more? Yeah, it's much better to release via a label. Both labels i signed in – Negation Records and No Sleep Till Megiddo – are doing great work. And perhaps Metamorphosis II will appear soon. For Anomalia and that new material I'd love to find a label again. But the DIY method is also great if you just want to release something now For Anomalia there is a lot of nice feedback. But it is still a little too unknown although I try bringing it to the people in various ways. Thanks to all the feedback, help and responds to my people! 10.When can we expect another full length and also where do you see yourself heading into musically during the future? I definitely want to extend my way of Electronica Black Metal to record a full length album and to play it live. And there are two experimental splits in the queue. My influences are located in older and modern Black Metal, but also in classical works of Stockhausen and Mahler. I currently listening to Ancst, Fall of Efrafa, Norn, Naðra, Jungbluth, Ära Krâ and Kalte Tage. I like the actual german Black Metal innovations and that icelandic scene seems to be something great, too. I enjoy experiencing with film and filming. I read a lot and write sometimes. 13.Before we wrap up this interview,do you have any final words or thoughts? I just want to thank the people that are into Aether, the people got touched by my music and share it. Thanks. And fuck NSBM. Posted by OccultBlackMetal at 1:00 AM No comments: Links to this post Cult Of Erinyes Interview 1.Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days? Corvus: We are working on our third full-length. This is a (way too) long process, but we are seeing the end of the tunnel as we speak. 2.In February you have a new ep coming out, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the recording and also how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past? Mastema: Initially we felt that these songs were very close to our previous effort Blessed Extinction, and thus too different from what we had in mind for the future. But we also judged them too good to be just thrown away, that’s why we settled for an EP format. Now with some distance, I think the songs actually already represent an evolution from Blessed Extinction, though they were written during the same process you can feel we’re heading toward something else. They are a real ‘transition’ to what we want to do next. 3.This is the first release to come out in 3 years, can you tell us a little bit more about what has been going on during that time span? Corvus: We never stop the madness but decided to stay in the shadows for a while. When you have nothing to say, just stay quiet… Mastema: We have no agenda, this is in no way a ‘business’ for us, and thankfully we have a record label that thinks the same way. The next step will be a big one, so we don’t want to rush anything. But I can tell you we’re ready to move forward this year… 4.You label your music as 'ritualistic' black metal, can you tell us a little bit more about this term? Corvus: That label is not that important actually. But when I'm writing/recording music, I'm really in a bizarre yet simple, pure state of mind. Space and time become pointless. 5.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the newer music? Mastema: As I said the next record will be very ambitious. Musically it’s a giant leap forward, as Corvus did a fantastic job. Lyrically it will be a concept album about the second Roman Emperor Tiberius. I do not wish to reveal anything more at this point. Corvus: As intense and honest as possible. When possible we use videos. I think we did only 6 shows, and the best one was probably in Paris, with Aura Noir, in September 2011. I also enjoyed a gig in Genk, because I liked all the other bands (Code, Glorior Belli, Aosoth, Gorath). 7.Are there any touring or show plans for 2016? Corvus: One release show in Brussels and one show abroad (it will be announced very soon). Touring will probably never happen. Mastema hates playing live and I don't see the point of playing the same songs every night during 10-15 days. That must be boring. Mastema: “Hate” is probably too strong of a word. But I agree with Corvus, my main goal is recording the songs we’ve worked so hard on. The whole “behind the scenes” thing is what I enjoy the most, I don’t like moving out of the shadows. 8.The new ep is going to be released on 'Caverna Abismal Records', how would you compare working with this label to the other labels you have worked with so far? Corvus: I met Nuno from Caverna Abismal in 2014 and I have complete trust in him. He was the very first person who helped the band, back in 2010, when he released the tape edition of the Golgotha EP. That's a thing I'll never forget of course. So I'm more than happy to collaborate again, 5 and a half years later. 9.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your newer music by fans of black metal? Corvus: The EP is not out yet, but the first reviews came out and they are good. We can’t complain, of course, but I don’t care. 9.Are any of the band members also involved with any other bands or musical projects these day? Corvus: Right now, I'm also playing in Monads, Wolvennest, We All Die (Laughing), but also in three other bands which rather keep the identity of its members secret. Wolvennest just released its first full-length. Musically, it's definitely bizarre. You can listen to the whole album on Bandcamp, which is better than any shitty musical description. Mastema: I think Corvus is trying to settle a new record. He must be in 47 bands by now. Corvus: Black Metal will still be the core, musically, but I think the structures will become more and more bizarre. I do not want to push too much boundaries, but I would like to have saxophone, fretless bass, bizarre guitar sounds, weird clean vocals. I am now more confident about my guitar skills, and I'm sure it will help the band becoming more interesting, musically speaking. Mastema: This might sound arrogant, but I really feel the “musical culture” of Corvus and myself is our main quality. The next record will definitely be more adventurous than ever, we will try out lots of new things but there’s never been any doubt. We know when something sounds right, and believe me the new songs are incredible. This must be our best record so far, it’s our goal and we won’t be satisfied with anything less than that. 11.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on newer music and also what are you listening to nowadays? Corvus: Right now I'm only but listening to Savatage, one of the most underrated bands of all time. Brilliant songwriting, fantastic vocalist(s), incredible guitar player (Criss Oliva). Mastema: I listen to tons of music, constantly. Right now I listen to stuff like the latest Spektr, Borknagar and Mgla records. Prog rock/metal still does it for me: the last Steven Wilson album is nothing short of brilliant. And then there’s of course the old stuff I enjoy listening for the thousandth time: Metallica, Savatage, Mayhem, Exodus, Immortal, and so many others. 12.How would you describe your views on Occultism? Corvus: I am nothing. We are nothing. Consequently, my opinion has no value. But still I'll try to explain a part of it. To me occultism is a term that could define the people that refuse dualism as a way to understand the world and the universe we are living in. People who try to THINK and who accept that nobody has an answer, only a possible explanation. You may be right, but just don't think you are. Doubt is, and always will be the key. 13.I have read that the band is inspired by Nietzsche, do you also have an interest in any of the other philosophers? Mastema: Nietzsche was a big influence during the early days of the band, he’s not anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I still admire his work and I feel close to a vast number of his ideas, but he’s not an influence on our music and lyrics these days. Philosophy as a whole is not much of an influence anymore, actually. History is our main interest right now. Mastema: I’ve never been as confident as I am for our next album. The people who know what we do will be surprised… in a good way I hope. Brace yourselves. Eldarmar/The Force Of The Ancient Land/2016 Full Length Review Eldamar are a solo project from Norway that plays a very epic and atmospheric form of ambient black metal and this is a review of his self released 2016 album "The Force Of The Ancient Land". Ambient style keyboards start off the album using a variety of many different sounding keys which also leads up to more of a heavier and atmospheric musical direction that also introduces grim black metal screams onto the recording and clean singing female vocals are also added into some parts of the songs. A great portion of the tracks are very long and epic in length and the music at times mixes dungeon synth with black metal and the songs also have a few minutes where vocals are not used to build up upon the epic and atmospheric qualities of the tracks and there are also a couple of songs that avoid any use of heavy guitars or screams. A brief use of spoken word parts can be heard at times in some of the songs while one of tracks is all instrumental and one song also brings in a brief use of acoustic guitars while the whole album also sticks to a very slow musical direction from beginning to ending of the recording and there is also a brief use of melodic guitar leads. Eldamar creates a musical style on this recording that takes ambient and dungeon synth and mixes it in with an atmospheric and epic form of black metal to create a style of his own, the production sounds very powerful for being a self released recording while the lyrics cover J.R.R. Tolkien, Heathenism, Elven Magick and Nature themes. In my opinion Eldamar are a very great sounding epic and atmospheric ambient/black metal solo project and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Winter Night" "Valkrjur Ancient One" and "New Beginning". 8 out of 10. https://eldamar.bandcamp.com/album/the-force-of-the-ancient-land Speirling/The Piper/Ulthar Records/2016 Cassette Re-issue Review Speirling are a duo from the United Kingdom that plays a very old school and atmospheric from of black metal and this is a review of their 2008 album "The piper" which will be re-issued in 2016 by Ulthar Records. An almost silent sound starts off the album before going into a heavier direction which also introduces melodic guitar leads and spoken words onto the recording and all of the musical instruments all sound very powerful and after awhile high pitched black metal screams make their presence known on the recording. Sounds of rain and thunder can be heard briefly while some of the riffs also add in a touch of thrash and first wave black metal while the solos and leads also remain true to an old school style of metal and the riffs also use melody at times and some parts of the music bring in more of an atmospheric feeling. When synths are utilized as well as a brief use of classical guitars and when the music speeds up a small amount of blast beats can be heard while some of the fast tremolo picking brings in more of a raw style of black metal and throughout the recording there is a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and a couple of the tracks are very long and epic in length and a couple of the tracks also brings in a brief use of clean singing. Speirling plays a style of black metal on here that is very raw, old school and catchy while also having its melodic and atmospheric moments, the production sounds very powerful while the lyrics are a concept album based upon a piper neglected and raised by a community by people weakend and corrupted by Christianity and how he takes there children out of the light and into the darkness. In my opinion Speirling are a very great sounding raw, old school and atmospheric black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Filthy And Cold" "The Worlds Breaks" and "Born Again Damned". 8 out of 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2o2mJ9wvlk&feature=youtu.be Aether/Anomalia/2016 Single Review Aether are a band from Germany that mixes electronica and black metal together on thi song and this is a review of their self released 2016 "Anomalia". Distorted and electronic sounds start off the track and you can also hear some depressive black metal riffing in the music and after awhile melodic guitar leads are added into the music and the song is also 9 minutes in length and the whole song is also all instrumental with no vocals used and also sticks to a very slow musical direction. Aether plays a musical style on here that takes a very atmospheric and depressive form of instrumental black metal and mixes it in with electronica music to create an original style of there own and the production sounds very dark and raw. In my opinion Aether plays a very interesting mix of black metal and electronica on this song and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this single. 8 out of 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9C-klOYOIY Krater Interview 1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the band since the recording and release of the new album? While we write these answers there is one week to go until we will release our new record “Urere”. Krater gone through a lot of changes since the recordings, that took place during 2013 and 2015. We played a lot of gigs and toured with Endezzma, Total Hate and Thornesbreed. We have also signed a record deal with Eisenwald. In the recent past our guitarist Lupus left the band and was already replaced by an old friend of ours. 2. You have a new album coming out in February, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the recording and also how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past? With our last record “Nocebo” (2011) we have completely changed our sounds from the ground up. You can hear the difference through the years from release to release. Influences have changed and so has the musical taste in general. With “Nocebo” we tried to make a honest and aggressive record, in which we have absolutely succeeded. With a similar approach as "Urere," we took a similar attitude in making it extreme, but this time with even more intensity. Moreover we recorded the last two records on our own. Failures were made during the recording process of “Nocebo”. We learned from that whole process, and that’s where “Urere” shines by comparison. 3.This is the first album to be released in 5 years, can you tell us a little bit more about what has been going on during that time span? Read question number 1. 4.While the music on the new album is still very much rooted in black metal, you can also hear the influence of doom and death metal, what was the decision behind going into this musical direction? We don’t follow a strict line. One motive always was to create something dark and aggressive. Since “Nocebo” our material became faster and more aggressive. We emphasized that on “Urere." We try to let our intention speak. When creativity flows we capture it and keep the ideas over a certain time, expand them or let them go. But it’s always the first spark that counts. That spark still has to be there when it comes to recording stuff. Regardless if the idea exists only hours or years. The first song on our new record was written back in 2010 I think. 5.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the newer release? We try to bring our personal thoughts to paper. Sometimes you have no influence if they are sorted or not. So its up to every listener if they understand. If he made the same experiences we did, possibly then. It is a kind of presence that you try to give a voice with the combination of the music and lyrics. You have to exploit the meaning of the lyrics for your own. If you can connect to the lyrics on a personal level than that’s a real artistic endeavor that has been undertaken. 6.On the new album you had a song entitled 'Vexillum Luciferi', can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in Luciferianism and Occultism? When you read the lyrics of 'Vexillum Luciferi' you should recognize that this song is not only interspersed with occult motives. Generally particular writings have no influences on us and we would never use already formulated doctrines. But you can use them to get the inspiration to form a personal path. 7.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Krater', and also are you aware of the many other bands that have used the same name? Back in 2004 we choose the name referring to a part of a forest we frequented daily. That place looked like a crater which is Krater in german. There was a special kind of energy there. And we experienced some things we cannot clearly define. Also Krater is a very strong word. It’s the ultimate place when it comes to destroy and purge. The Chicxulub-crater in Yucatán with a diameter of 200 km is the result of of a meteorite impact and is the monumental contemporary witness of the annihilation of the dinosaurs. Also volcano craters can extinguish whole cities in just one moment. Also you can see it as a place of resurrection. Something you have to go through due to all the chaos and annihilation to become strengthened yourself. When we started the band back in 2004 we could find no other band with that name through the internet. It is kind of hard for us to put a value on concerts. The time you stand out there on the stage is fleeting and there are only a few moments you realize what you are doing. The most of the time you put yourself into your own world and you see through the images you had when you were writing the songs. So its almost impossible to comment on your own concerts. Maybe you get an own impression when you search to pictures of our past concerts you can find all over the internet. There are some local concerts planed in 2016. Also we will enter the stage at Phantoms of Pilsen which will take place in October in the Czech Republic. You can find all dates on www.facebook.com/abstrusekrater. Since we have a new strong lineup in 2016, we want to play more show in the next years. 10. On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your newer music by fans of black metal? Nocebo got overwhelmingly positive critiques back in 2011. Some magazines said it was the black metal record of the year for them. We previewed two new songs of “Urere” in early 2016 that were also recognized with high interest. 11. Are any of the band members currently involved with any other bands or musical projects these days? Every member is involved in other projects. They don’t play any role in the context of Krater. Krater has developed in a more clear direction with the last album. So the main concept will be aggressive and furious Black Metal. With our new guitarist there will also be new influences. We will see where this leads us. We cannot name that single musical influence from the last years because we don't concentrate that much on other bands or try to copy them. We are all shaped by the bands that were our first contact through extreme metal. So we also hear extreme metal nowadays, and other musical genres are also acknowledged by the band. Every member has his own preferences. Sometimes they coincide. Our record collections exist of records from the 50s to present releases. From Archgoat to Zeppelin. 14. Before we wrap up this interview, do you have nay final words or thoughts? On 26 of February we release our third full length record „URERE“ through Eisenwald. URERE (lat.) means „burning“. A blazing torch that starts as a smoldering ember and ends in a raging fire taking everything away. The honest fury that becomes an inner madness, burning you from inside. That’s what the lyrics and the musical directions means to us. Organizers and promoters that want to book us can contact us through krater_blackmetal@mail.de. Also we will release our second record “Nocebo” on tape in 2016. Mesarthim/Isolate/Avantgarde Music/2016 CD Review Mesarthim are a duo from Australia that plays a very atmospheric and depressive form of black metal and this is a review of their 2016 album "Isolate" which was released by Avantgarde Music. Ambient and space music sounds start off the album before going into more of a heavy and atmospheric music direction a few seconds later that also sees high pitched black metal screams making their presence known on the recording and they also have a very depressive tone to them and they also mix in tragic sounding keyboards. Most of the tracks are very long and epic in length and when guitar solos and leads are utilized they also give the music more of a melodic edge and they also mix in elements of synth pop and electronic music into certain sections of the recording and the songs stick to mostly a slow or mid paced musical direction and there is also a brief use of spoken word parts and they close the album with a couple of instrumental songs. Mesarthem plays a style of black metal that is very keyboard driven, atmospheric and depressive while also mixing in elements of ambient and space music to create a style of their own, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover cosmos and Existence themes. In my opinion Mesarthem are a very great sounding atmospheric and depressive black metal band and if you area fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Declaration" and "Abyss". 8 out of 10. Angelcide/Hunting Astral Prey/Elegy Records/2016 CD Review Angelcide are a solo project from New York that originally started out playing depressive black metal but has evolved into more of a blackened death metal sound over the years and this is a review of his 2016 album "Hunting Astral prey" which was released on Elegy Records. A very fast, raw and chaotic war metal sound starts off the album along with some blast beats, high pitched black metal screams and bestial death metal growls and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and melodies can also be heard in some parts of the songs. Some of the tracks are very long and epic in length while you can also hear a lot of tremolo picking in the faster parts of the songs and you can also hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording and when guitar solos and leads are utilized they bring in even more of a melodic style and the songs also bring in a great amount of diversity along with one track being instrumental while the main focus remains more on songs with vocals and there is also a brief use of clean playing being utilized at times and the last track brings in ambient style sounds. Angelcide plays a musical style on this recording that takes a raw and melodic style of black metal and mixes it in with death metal and a touch of war metal to create a style of his own, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover supernatural, evil and occultism themes. In my opinion Angelcide is a very great sounding mixture of black and death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Lurker" and "Raped Celestial Body". 8 out of 10. https://angelciderebirth.bandcamp.com/ Wode/Self Titled/Broken Limbs/2016 CD Review Wode are a band from the United Kingdom that plays an apocalyptic form of black metal and this is a review of their self titled 2016 album which will be released in April by Broken Limbs. Atmsopheric sounds and acoustic guitars start off the album along with some melodic riffing and the solos and leads also use a great amount of melody and once the music speeds up it brings in more of a raw style of black metal along with a great amount of blast beats and high pitched screams and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them. Most of the tracks are very long and epic in length and the fast riffs also utilize a great amount of tremolo picking and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the music also brings in a lot of 90's and Swedish influences while still also sounding very modern and as the album progresses clean playing can also be heard in certain sections of the recording. Wode plays a style of black metal that is very traditional, raw and melodic while also being very modern at the same time, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover the apocalypse, cosmos and death themes. In my opinion Wode are a very great sounding apocalyptic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Trails Of Smoke" and "Black Belief". 8 out of 10. FACEBOOK / BANDCAMP Palace Of Worms/The Ladder/Broken Limbs/2016 CD Review Palace Of Worms are a solo project from San Francisco, California that has been featured before in this zine and plays an atmospheric form of black metal and this is a review of his 2016 album "The Ladder" which will be released in April by Broken Limbs. A very exotic and melodic yet atmospheric sound starts off the album before going into a heavier direction and also introducing high pitched black metal screams onto the recording as well as retaining the melody and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can be heard and a good portion of the tracks are very long and epic in length. Death metal growls can be heard in some parts of the recording and they also mix in elements of ambient and clean singing male and female vocals at times and the fast riffs also use a great amount of tremolo picking which also gives the music more of a raw style and you can also hear an influence of doom metal in the slower sections of the music. When solos and leads are utilized they remain very true to a melodic style and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the synths when they are utilized gives the music more of an atmospheric style and there is also a brief use of spoken word parts and some songs also mix in a small amount of clean plying and each track also has a different sound to them and some songs also bring in session work from members of Abstracter, Pale Chalice, and Lotus Thief . Palace Of Worms creates an album that keeps the raw and atmospheric black metal roots of previous recordings while also getting a bit more experimental and adding in elements of death, doom metal, dark ambient, goth, progressive, and post rock to create something very original, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover nihilism and a hatred for humanity. In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Palace of Worms and if you are a fan of atmospheric black metal, you should enjoy this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "In The Twilight Divide" "Nightworld" and "Emphemeral Blues". 8 out of 10. Altarage/Nihil/Sentinent Ruin Laboratories/2016 CD... Diabolus Amator/Despotic Conjuring Of The Soulless... Kuoleman Galleria/Karsmys Kunnian/Inverse Records/... Funeral Art/La Belleza Oculta/Weakie Discs/2015 Ca... Nocturnal Degrade/The Dying Beuaty/Self Mutilation... Eldarmar/The Force Of The Ancient Land/2016 Full L... 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__label__cc	0.671776	0.328224	Wire we here? Jiajia and I were in ChongQing yesterday, applying for her UK visa. We had a scare to start with when, at Kunming airport, and purely by luck, we spotted that our two return flights had been switched. I was due to return to Kunming, but was assigned to a ticket to Shenzhen (to buy clothes for Ava’s store?) while Ava was due to fly on to Shenzhen, but was assigned to a ticket back to Kunming (to teach my English class?). It was the ticket agency’s fault, but they were reluctant to admit it and Jiajia had to insist they got us new correct tickets immediately. We have therefore lost £100 in re-ticketing costs but hope to be reimbursed later. The visa process has taken Jiajia and I many hours to complete: finding, creating, copying and collating 50-odd pieces of paper required to support her application form. Britain doesn't make it easy for visitors from outside Europe! The actual "handing in" part took just half an hour though, so we had some free time in the city before our onward flights. ChongQing is a dirty, untidy, noisy city [see the wiring in the photo above!] with typical weather conditions being smog, humidity and drizzle. Ava was very keen to try the famed ChongQing hotpot – the spiciest in China - and we found a nice place (complete with Christmas decorations!) that could do a half-and-half pot, so that I could eat in relative non-spiciness [see photo left]. It was a good meal, and much cheaper than the equivalent in Kunming. We should find out the result of the visa application in 2-3 weeks. When my school colleagues said they had clubbed together to buy me a wedding gift, I had visions of flowers, vouchers or a vase. I didn't expect a ball and chain, duly attached to my leg and which I was told had to be worn for the remainder of the teaching day. Highly embarrassing, but a vivid reminder that I am no longer a free man. Happily so, I hasten to add! Ava and I fly to ChongQing this evening to apply for her UK visa on Monday (with ball and chain removed!). Having had more than my fair share of blood pressure testing over the last few years, I decided to write to the science magazine I subscribe to and ask them how a blood pressure armband works. After a few months they finally printed and answered the question in the latest issue [see photo]. Fame at last! Well, well, wealth This shop claims that it's "full of cryptomorphic wealth". A prize for anyone who can guess what on earth it sells! Knot tied and not tired Despite finding ourselves locked into Ava's house this morning by her Mum (accident or sabatage?) we managed to escape (by throwing a key to a passing stranger!) and drive an hour through Kunming's suburbs to process our marriage application. Half an hour later, we paid the 9RMB fee (90p) and got our certificates. I'm technically a married man! It feels odd in some ways and much the same as before in others. I think it will be more meaningful when we celebrate it with friends and family later in the UK, and later still in Kunming. (The early wedding photos aren't looking too good however! Heehee!) My friend Emily is now frantically translating all of Ava's Chinese documents, after which Ava and I will fly to ChongQing at the weekend to apply for her UK visa. Ava will then fly on to Shenzhen to buy stock for her shop while I fly back to Kunming. Three weeks later, we should find out whether or not she has got a visa and, if so, we'll be flying to the UK two months today! Fingers crossed! Fire? All weapons... So, if you're ever caught in a raging fire, you can always reach for a ...hand grenade!? Exploding melons China's melons have hit the TV and radio recently ...and hit the tractors and greenhouses, too. It seems Chinese melons have been exploding in their hundreds in Jiangsu Province and nobody is quite sure why. Is it the new brand of seeds from "radioactive" Japan? Or the overuse of fertilizer causing too rapid a growth? Or the unusual weather? Whatever the cause, two-thirds of the crops in some areas have blown up and worried Government scientists are investigating. Only in China, eh? It's for cert Jiajia and I got our joint photo taken this morning. It's one of the many requirements before the local government will issue a Marriage Certificate. It took two minutes to snap the picture and then a further twenty minutes for the technician to alter it on his computer to make us look younger and less blemished! A very Chinese procedure. We hope to get our Certificate by the end of this month, although we've heard rumours that we will also both need a medical exam to check we have the requisite working parts!! Let's hope not! I snapped this odd picture the other day. The man was building a wall and adding the last of the bricks to the top, but whilst standing on a plank of wood that seemingly had no supports. Was he really just floating there? David Blaine, eat your heart out"! Brand band What do you get if you cross one of my favourite bands with one of Ava's favourite brands? Keane, that's what, peforming amidst holograms and fireworks last month in Beijing at the opening of China's first Burberry clothes store. Now why didn't we get an invite? A move in experience The reality of getting married and moving in with "a wife" became a little closer today with the arrival of two wardrobes to Ava's house today, one of which has been assigned to me and my things! Ava and I ordered them from the "fake IKEA" store a couple of weeks ago and the workmen who delivered and built them today completed the whole procedure in under an hour. Now I just have to fill them! Run over My gym subscription finally ran out today. The gym is too far away from Ava's flat, where I'll be moving to in a couple of months, so today was my last visit. The last three years of exercise has been a time of ups and downs, with frequent gaps in gym visits due to gout, dizziness, neck and chest pains and various injuries. But I can honestly say that whenever I've been fit enough to go, I've gone - and that was the only promise I made to myself when joining up. Over the three years I have lost 11kg (over 1½ stone) and certainly feel a lot fitter. My future options include joining the gym at the bottom of the hill where Ava's flat is, running around the courtyard outside her flat (500m a lap) or dusting off her running machine! Spielberg, eat your heart out Having returned from my Lattitude visit with some great video footage from threee seperate cameras, I've spent a few hours this weekend editing it all into two little movies ("Demonstration class" and "Interview"). I've not used Microsoft's "Movie Maker" software before, so it's been quite fun to teach myself how to add music, titles, cross-fades and little tweaks. I'm quite pleased with the results. Oscar nominations must follow... That's Latt Nat I travelled two hours south yesterday, driven by secretary "Winnie" from my school, to visit two of the Lattitude volunteers that I trained some three months ago. Despite arriving very late, Natalie had managed to keep the students in the class room and proceeded to teach a fabulous lesson, showing off her natural talents and many of the skills/games taught on the training course. Winnie and I recorded the lesson on DVD for future Lattitude training courses. Then, back at Natalie and fellow volunteer Zoe's flat, we recorded an interviewed with them about how they coped with life in China. In fact, they were both effusive in their love of the job, the location and the friends and colleagues they had there. Their enthusiasm was infectious and reminded me of how excited I felt I some 15 years ago, when volunteering in China. After a banquet with the headteacher and foreigner-liaison teacher, Winnie and I headed home, arriving back at school just in time for my weekly meeting and lesson. A long, but very worthwhile, day. Limos and lattes You start to believe that Kunming is no longer a "poor Chinese city" when you see someone pulling up to the city's first, and newly opened, Starbucks in a stretch limousine [see photo]. But then, seconds later, you spot an old and filthy lady carrying a 2m high pile of rubbish on the back of her tricycle. It's certainly a place of vivid contrasts. At least my school tries its best to balance these extremes a little; charging high prices for "VIP one-to-one lessons" to those that can afford it, whilst offering free training to English teachers in poor schools on the outskirts of the city. Ferreting out the bargains Ava, her Mum and I spent a fun afternoon yesterday checking out the recently relocated "Bird and Flower Market" in the north of the city. Amongst the rather more mundane sights were a few surprises, such as [see photo montage above, top left, clockwise...] a shop selling ferrets (I have a bit of a thing about ferrets - long story!), turtles of all shapes and sizes (and lizards too), mimosa (a plant which moves when you touch it), enormous goldfish (in huge fishtanks), pitcher plants (which live on trapped insects) and, is that marijuana? Pan fan JIajia and I went to see a temporary exhibition of works by the famous Chinese painter Pan Yu Liang today [see self portrait above]. She is considered to be the first female painter to combine traditional Chinese and western painting techniques. As a result, she was promptly kicked out of China and spent much of her life in Paris. Luckily for me, Jiajia herself is a very knowledgeable art graduate and was able to point out the different painting techniques and subject influences in the paintings, helping to bring the pictures to life for me. I really liked half a dozen but, with 80% of them being female nudes, they did start to look a bit samey after a while! A nice trip out, though.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line263
__label__cc	0.554876	0.445124	The Phantom Tollbooth - Heath, Brandon - Christmas is Here Heath, Brandon - Christmas is Here Written by Michael Dalton If Christmas songs seem stale, and you wonder if they can ever sound fresh, Brandon Heath and producer Ben Shive answer a resounding “yes!” Artist: Brandon Heath (www.brandonheath.net) Label: Provident Label Group Length: 10 tracks/34 minutes If I could purchase only one Christmas recording this year, it would be Christmas is Here by Brandon Heath. The cover of a smiling, scarf-draped Heath, Christmas album in hand, vinyl record spinning in the foreground, fireplace in the background, all hint of the rich nostalgia that you find here. This has all that one might want in a seasonal recording: new compositions and classics, humor and inspiration, playfulness and wonder; and not least of all, a talented producer, Ben Shive (Andrew Peterson), who is a master of retro sounds. Shive was at the helm of last year’s standout, Snow Globe by Matt Wertz, on which Heath was a guest. The opening “The Day after Thanksgiving,” could not be timelier. I need not inform anyone that Christmas started earlier than ever this year. This is a lighthearted plea to wait until after the day for giving thanks. “The Christmas Song” brings out the crooner in Heath, while “Momma Wouldn’t Lie to Me” has him fronting a swinging fifties sound. One of the last lines is so funny that I won’t reveal it. What would Christmas be without some surprises? The a cappella “Silent Night” with its background choir of female voices, sounds like a song from an old Hollywood classic, along the lines of White Christmas or The Bishop’s Wife. The horns and choir on the closing medley “O Come All Ye Faithful/Angels We Have Heard on High” make it stately. I enjoyed the occasional, restrained use of these items and strings. By far though, my favorite moments are the bluegrass-influenced tracks like, “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” which has never sounded better. The judicious use of Dobro highlights this aspect. The interplay of acoustic sounds in a rural style befits the more spiritually-minded tracks. This includes “Just a Girl,” a beautiful, imaginative look at the circumstances surrounding Christ’s birth. If Christmas songs seem stale, and you wonder if they can ever sound fresh, Heath and producer Ben Shive answer a resounding “yes!” Michael Dalton {module Possibly Related Articles - Also search our Legacy Site}	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line266
__label__cc	0.555425	0.444575	ENTRANCE PREREQUISITES FOR ENROLLING THE FIRST YEAR OF INTEGRATED ACADEMIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERISTY OF BELGRADE - FACULTY OF PHARMACY UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE 11000 Belgrade, Vojvode Stepe Street; phone interior 011/39 51 200; fax: 011/39 72 840; www.pharmacy.bg.ac.rs ENTRANCE PREREQUISITES FOR ENROLLING THE FIRST YEAR OF INTEGRATED ACADEMIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERISTY OF BELGRADE - FACULTY OF PHARMACY IN BELGRADE FOR 2015/2016 - SECOND ENROLLING DEADLINE- University of Belgrade – Faculty of Pharmacy enrolls in the first year of academic integrated studies (second enrolling deadline) for: - 5 students for the study programme Pharmacy in English (all self-financed). The enrolling of candidates will be carried out based on the schedule of final ranking list. The ranking list is established on the general achievement obtained in high school as well as the results from the entrance examination (maximum point 100). General achievement in high school includes the score of average grades from all subjects in I, II, III and IV year multiplied with 2. Accordingly, the candidate may obtain minimum 16 points and maximum 40 points. The entrance examination is written (180 minutes) including tests in Mathematics and Chemistry. At the entrance examination, the candidate may acquire maximum 60 points (30 points in Mathematics and 30 points in Chemistry). The candidates - citizens of the Republic of Serbia and foreign citizens - applying for the first year of academic integrated studies - Pharmacy in English - pass the entrance examination in the English language. The school fees for the study programme Pharmacy in English amounts 3.500,00 € in national currency equivalent RSD (paying in 4 instalments is admitted). It is accountable for both Serbian and foreign citizens. Applying of Candidates Applying of candidates in the second deadline of the competition will be carried out 01 and 02 September 2015 between 9-14h at the Department of Lecturing and Students' Affairs (counter hall) - Faculty of Pharmacy (450 Vojvode Stepe Street, Belgrade). Documents required for the Competition Serbian citizens submit the documents as follows: Registration form (provided at the Faculty) Photocopy of the original birth certificate (not required to be certified) and the original document which they have to present on insight Photocopy of the original certificates (not required to be certified) from the High School (four years duration) and the original documents which they have to present on insight Photocopy (not required to be certified) of passed bachelor examination (diploma) and the original document which they have to present on insight Certificate on the payment of 7.000,00 RSD on the giro account 840-1127666-05, code 189 (on behalf of the expensences of organising and carrying out the competition) Submitted photocopies of documents will not be returned to the owner (candidate). At submitting documents, candidate will receive the endorsed certificate of applying to the competition. This is the only evidence that candidate applied for the competition. Candidate will not be able to pass to the entrance examination without it. Foregn citizens submit the documents as follows: Photocopy of the original documents from the High School translated by court interpreter into Serbian language and validated at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, 22-26 Nemanjina Street, Belgrade, and the original documents which they have to present on insight Photocopy of the original birth certificate translated by court interpreter and the original document which they have to present on insight Certificate on the payment of 7.000,00 RSD (on behalf of the expensences of organising and carrying out the competition) Submitted document will not be returned to the owner (candidate). Entrance examination and examination results Registered candidates pass the entrance examination in Mathematics and Chemistry on 04 September 2015 between 10-13h. Candidates are obliged to be at the Faculty of Pharmacy at least untill 09:30 (450 Vojvode Stepe Street - Belgrade). The results of the entrance examination will be shown on the notice board and internet page of the Faculty on 04 September at 15:00. Ranking lists of candidates The preliminary list of candidates will be shown on the notice board and internet page of the Faculty on 7 September at 10:00. All complaints on the points acquired (from the preliminary lists) will be submited to the Commission for Enrolling Studies on 07 September 2015 between 9-11h. Complaints will be submited to the Archive of the Faculty on the specific form (provided at the Faculty of Pharmacy). The decisions of the Commission for Enrolling Students on the complaints submited will be reported on 07 September, 2015 at 11:30. If the candidate involved in the competition is not pleased with the decision, he/she may submit another complaint to the Dean of the Faculty on 07 September 2015 between 12-14h. This specific complaint referred to the Dean will be submited on the specific form (provided at the Faculty). The decisions on the complaints referred to the Dean will be reported to the candidates on 07 September 2015 at 14.30h. The final ranking list of candidates will be shown on 07 September 2015 at 15:30h. Enrolling of Candidates Enrolling of candidates from the final ranking list of integrated academic studies Pharmacy in English will be carried out on 08 September 2015 between 11-14h. Candidates who fulfilled the right to be enrolled and didn't enrolled on time will definitively lose the right of enrolling. Documents required for enrolling studies Candidates who fulfill the right to be enrolled will submit the following original documents: - original birth certificate - original certificate of completed High School - diploma on passed examination i.e. baccalaureate examination (only for the citizens of the Republic of Serbia) - original documents on completed education and their certified translation as well as the decision on their validation at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (for foreign candidates) - certificate on the payment of 2.200,00 RSD, on behalf of the expensences of enrolling procedure on the giro account, code 189 - two identical photos 3,5x4,5 cm - certificate on the payment of school fees (the first instalment): 874,00 € in national currency equivalent RSD on the giro account of the Faculty - 840-1127666-05, code 189 - studying contract (provided at the Faculty) - certificate of residence, for foreign candidates only (provided at the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Belgrade, Department for Foreigners, 35 Savska Street, Belgrade) - certificate of health insurance, for foreign candidates only (provided at the Department for Foreign Insurance, 30 Nemanjina Street, Belgrade). 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__label__wiki	0.52618	0.52618	J.G. Ballard From People on Psychedelics Revision as of 19:10, 24 February 2015 by Admin (Talk \| contribs) James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer. "I'm not a drug user myself, I once took LSD, which was a big mistake. I had a sort of classic bad trip in fact, a sort of psychotic episode that made me feel that literally I was losing my mind for a day. LSD relies on tilting or damaging the sensory apparatus so that all colours begin to sort of separate. It's like you look at the world as if through a prism. The colours of the spectrum begin to float apart, time slows down. The interiors of things like trees, or settees, begin to migrate to their surfaces. My imagination works in a completely different way so that LSD was really not the right drug for me. I think my drug is probably alcohol, which has been a good friend to writers since time immemorial. Ballard may have only taken one bad acid trip, and disavowed the impact of it on his imagination, but it was difficult for his countercultural readers to believe this, especially when they sopped up passages like this one, from Myths of the Near Future: "Sheppard hesitated by the water's edge, and then stepped on to its hard surface. He felt the brittle corrugations under his feet, as if he were walking across frosted glass. He'd almost ceased to breathe. Here, at the centre of the space ground, he could feel time rapidly engorging itself. The infinite pasts and future of the forest had fused together. A jewelled snake hung from a bough, gathering to it all the embroidered skins it had once shed. Sheppard stepped ashore and walked up the slope. A giant butterfly spread its harlequin wings against the air, halted in midflight." - Self on Ballard - BBC Radio 4, 26 Sep 2009. "JGB: I took LSD back in ’67. Up to that point I’d smoked a bit of pot. When I was a student at Cambridge, I regularly -– you could then in England buy amphetamines across the counter, in drugstores, without a prescription. And we took them regularly without even thinking about it, if you wanted to work all night, or just feel a bit keyed up. I’d had experiences with drugs, but then I took LSD -- I’ve never taken heroin, never have done. But then I took LSD, and had a classic bad trip, which I won’t bother to describe. "I had such a negative trip, a real paranoid journey of despair. It was over in a day, but little vents of hell went on opening for years afterward, as I gather they do. I don’t know, it sort of turned me against drugs. And then people started saying about an early novel of mine called Crystal World, which described a crystallizing world, going beyond time and space -– ah, that book was written after your LSD trip. I said no, that’s not true actually, it was written before my LSD trip. It confirmed, I felt, that human imagination can achieve anything that drugs can achieve. So, I stick to my whiskey and soda." - Don't Crash: The J.G. Ballard Interview Retrieved from "http://popwiki.net/popwiki/index.php?title=J.G._Ballard&oldid=212" Negative/difficult experiences About People on Psychedelics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line270
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__label__cc	0.651983	0.348017	Oberheim "Fed up with playing only one note at a time" advertisement, Contemporary Keyboard 1976 Oberheim "Fed up with playing only one note at a time" FourVoice synthesizer 1-page advertisement from inside front cover of Contemporary Keyboard magazine May/June 1976. I originally posted this ad with any blog content back in 2009. But, I've recently become more interested in Oberheim after a reader requested I post a few Oberheim ads and I realized that over the last couple of years, I've been jumping back and forth in the Oberheim ad-timeline, missing out a good chunck of the early 80s. But, I had to re-familiarize myself with Oberheim and thought I had better start back at the beginning... or at least as close to it as possible. And figured it would make a few good blog posts. This was Oberheim's first advertisement to appear in Contemporary Keyboard. It actually first appeared in the March/April 1976 issue on page 13, but in the next May/June issue the ad got the respect it deserved and jumped to the front inside cover. :) In that May/June 1976 issue, readers also got a more technical taste of SEM modules (back when they were just called EMs) in the Spec Sheet section. Oddly, it was only providing the specifications for the Two-Voice, but it does give some great historical information on prices, configurations, and technical details. Yummy with a capital "Y": "Oberheim Synthesizer. The Oberheim Two-Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer includes two synthesizer Expander Modules; an 8-position, 2-voice Mini-Sequencer with sample/hold; and a 2-voice, 37-note keyboard. Each Expander Module is a complete basis synthesizer and features two VCOs, a VCF, two envelope generators, an LFO, and a VCA. The 2-voice keyboard can operate in either polyphonic or monophonic mode. When operated polyphonically, two sets of control voltages from the keyboard drive the Expander Modules, while monophonic operation allows the performer to manipulate all four oscillators, two filters, and four envelope generators with a single control voltage. The Mini-Sequencer is an 8-position analog unit that also include a sample/hold circuit and a VCC (voltage-controlled clock). A 2-input mixer with master gain control for attenuating the output of the Expander Modules and headphone amp is also supplied. The Two-Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer can be purchased with a minimum configuration of one Expander Module for $1,195.00 list. An additional Expander Module can be attached for $500.00, as can the Mini-Sequencer for $300.00. The fully loaded package lists for $1,995.00. Oberheim Electronics, 1549 Ninth St., Santa Monica, CA 90401." The ad only ran twice, before being replaced with Oberheim's August-only run of their "Some things are better than others" advertisement that featured their whole family of products arranged in a rather spooky floating pattern. The following month, Oberheim wasted no time in promoting their new Polyphonic Synthesizer Programmer in their "Ultimate Keyboard Machine" advertisement, giving their synthesizers the ability to store patches. That ad ran in the September/October issue of Contemporary Keyboard, as well as in the September/October issue of Synapse. Readers of that September/October issue of Synapse were in for a special treat - a three-page interview with Tom Oberheim! CK readers had to wait until May 1977 for their turn. In the article (which you can read online thanks to Cyndustries.com), Tom touches on his 13 years of computer engineering, being a choir singer, synthesizer polyphony and even musique concrete. Best quote: "It's conceivable that you could have a voltage-controlled synthesizer some day for every key. But what if you wanted the ability to make each voice different? Can you imagine having seventy-two voices? Because I think in terms of having 72 expander modules there, or 37 modules, or even 30? There are synthesizers with 30-note keyboards; 30 expander moduels? Whew! I mean you couldn't, it's impossible!". I really want 72 SEMs now. :) The What's Happening section of this issue also included some Oberheim content. The section was still quite small with only a sentence devoted to each tidbit of news, with a few ... thrown in between. So all readers got on Oberheim was "...Oberheim has added a patch programming ability to their polyphonic systems...". Another quote that popped out at me in that What's Happening section was "...In a recent interview with Playboy, Davie Bowie said that his favorite group was Kraftwerk...". This surprised me! No - not that David Bowie/Kraftwerk thing - I totally get that. It surprised me that people really do read the Playboy articles! :) Labels: 1976, contemporary keyboard, fourvoice, oberheim, sem, synapse magazine, synthesizer, twovoice Korg Wavstation EX and Wavestation A/D brochure, 1992 Korg Wavstation EX and Wavestation A/D 8-page brochure from 1992. I gotta tell ya. I'm all Wavestation-ed out. It's been a good run of blog posts, but I think my curiosity has reached its limit. Actually - I thought I was already done with everything "Wavestation" on the blog. I even ended that last blog post with what I thought was a relatively witty Madonna/Britney Spears analogy that I was quite proud of. All wrapped up nice! :D But then I came across this brochure. Gah. Maybe it just looked too similar to the 1991 Wavestation/Wavestation A/D brochure I posted back in December, camouflaged, hiding from the world. Well, too bad. Like a crazy-assed Toddlers and Tiaras mother, I'm gonna shove this baby on stage whether it wants it or not. Again - I'm surprised this brochure didn't get produced until 1992. I always thought the Wavestation EX came out before the A/D, as a response to customer feedback that the original Wavestation didn't include drums and other more basic sounds. The last sighting of the Jan Hammer Wavestation ad that appeared in July 1991 included additional EX ad-copy: "Now with expanded memory and more sounds". Also, the ad that followed in August 1991 featured BOTH the EX and A/D, suggesting they may have come out at approximately the same time. The Wikipedia page for the Wavestation includes 1991 production dates for both, and always seems to list the EX before the A/D in tables and such. But then why did the Wavestation-Wavestation A/D brochure come out in 1991, but this brochure with the EX didn't appear until 1992? Also, why did the Spec Sheet for the A/D appear in March 1991 but the Spec Sheet for the EX didn't appear until November 1991. Was it just that the additional awesomeness of the A/D, including an extra RAM bank and analog inputs, give it a leg up in getting promoted over the EX? Huh. Hey - I seriously just noticed something on that Wikipedia page. Near the bottom of the page, it says that Korg's OASYS and Kronos also include wave sequencing and vector synthesis! I quickly jumped over to Ebay to check prices... oh. nevermind. The OASYS, released in 2006 still commands about a $5,000 price tag, and the Kronos is running at about $2,500. I think I'll stick with my Wavestation A/D. Okay, now my Wavestation curiosity has come to an end. And just in time - been getting a few requests lately - mostly for Oberheim stuff. Time to jump back into the 80s. I'll end with a summary of my Wavestation posts. A good run. :) July 1990: Wavestation 2-page "Make Waves" intro ad September 1990: Wavestation 1-page "Make Waves" ad April 1991: Wavestation "Portraits" Jan Hammer ad (July 1991 version includes EX info) August 1991: Wavestation A/D and EX "Top Ten Reasons" ad November 1992: Wavestation SR "15 Sounds" ad November 1993: Wavestation A/D and SR "5 And A Half Amazing Racks" ad And, don't forget about the brochures! 1990: Original Wavestation brochure 1991: Wavestation and Wavestation A/D brochure 1992: This Wavestation EX and Wavestation A/D brochure Labels: 1992, brochure, korg, synthesizer, wavestation, wavestation a/d, wavestation ex Korg Wavestation A/D and SR "Five and a half amazing rack systems" ad, Keyboard and Electronic Musician 1993 Korg Wavestation A/D and SR synthesizer "Five and a half amazing rack systems" 1-page advertisement from the inside front cover of Keyboard Magazine and page 79 in Electronic Musician November 1993. Man - is it nice out. And it's a long weekend. AND I have a geek date to play Legend of Drizzt. AND I'm currently building a new table-top to fit onto my studio desk. I've had one of those Quik-Lok WS500 workstation desks for quite a few years. Not the most stable workstations (people can't dance in my studio because it makes my Tannoy's and computer monitor bounce), but very useful and serves my needs. I used a Korg Z1 as a large master controller that sat on the upper arms, and then had a small wooden board on the table portion of the desk that held a keyboard, mouse, Mackie Control, and a various midi/audio in-out devices. Needless to say, it was getting very crowded. And now that I've recently upgraded to a laptop, I need to make room for that. So, I took out the Z1 and put the 17" laptop on the open arms. Nice fit. And my master keyboard has now become a much smaller Korg MicroKey and sits on the desk now - closer to me than the laptop keyboard. Figure I input notes a lot more than I use the laptop keyboard. We'll see. But, that small board was now really crowded with the addition of the keyboard. So, off to the store to buy a much larger 44"x30" piece of wood. Now everything fits nicely. The less cluttered look really makes me want to be in the room and create music again. I'll post a pic or two on my Retro Synth Labs blog in the near future. Anyways, point is this will be a short blog post for all the reasons above. And ptobably my next blog post too. :) Okay... time to be honest. I'm getting waaaaay past my comfort zone as I venture more into the early-90's. And I'm not just talkin' synthesizer ads - that includes many synthesizers as well. I found that by this time, more than a few of the big synthesizer companies were just pumping out too many of what I considered to be just derivative versions of previous synths (if I'm using the word derivative correctly?!?!). Sure they would add a few new features, more ram/voices/etc... but nothing really "new". E-mu was in full swing pumping out their Proteus series, Roland with their JVs, Yamaha with their SYs (actually, not too shabby), and of course Korg with their 0x/Ws. Don't get me wrong - they were nice sounding machines. They were workhorses. They were powerful. But I just didn't find them fun. Sure, there were a few interesting things popping onto the market - the Wavestation stuff, Roland JD800, E-mu Morpheus, Kurzweil K2000 and the Waldorf Wave - but they were the exceptions that proved the rule. Luckily there was more fun to come. I just had to wait for big and small companies a-like to get their butt in gear and release things like the Korg Prophecy, Doepfer A100 gear, QuasiMidi Raveolution, and Access Virus... it would just take time. Until then - we got this. Korg's 1993 holiday push for it's five and a half racks. It got good play in the November and December 1993 issues of Keyboard Magazine appearing on the inside front cover, but then got kicked into the back-half of the magazine in the January and February 1994 issues when Korg decided that their new Korg X3 workstation needed inside-front-cover attention. In Electronic Musician, the "Five and a half amazing racks" ad ran for a similar length of time, but never hit cover status as far as I can tell. Boo. At least Korg had the courage and respect (hee hee) to list the Korg A/D and SR first. Even before the newer X3R and 5R/W. Makes me happy. Korg was using the shotgun approach this holiday season - spraying pellets of rack-goodness at all types of musicians from the professional musician with a six-figure advance to the amateur home recordists in need of an under-$1000-all-in-one-box solution. And when I say all-in-one-box, I mean it. That little 05R/W had a built-in MIDI interface for MAC and PC. Okay, maybe the synth-gear world wasn't as stagnant as I made it out to be earlier. I'm not too sure how long the SR and A/D remained in production after this ad was released, but the Wavestation's Wikipedia page gives the Wavestation series an end date of 1994. Almost hurts to see the Wavestation brand end with this ad - sharing advertising with an X3R. Bah! It's kinda like Madonna sharing a stage with Britney Spears. :) Labels: 1993, electronic musician, family photo, keyboard magazine, korg, synthesizer, wavestation, wavestation a/d, wavestation sr Korg Wavestation SR "15 sounds" ad, Keyboard and Electronic Musician, 1992 Korg Wavestation SR "15 sounds" 1-page advertisement from inside front cover of Keyboard Magazine and page 48 in Electronic Musician, November 1992. Talk about good timing. This ran exactly a year after the last Wavestation A/D and EX ad ran in Keyboard, and just in time for the Holiday buying spree! And Korg probably figured out that since the Wavestation SR was a lower-cost rack-mount, it probably had a better chance of getting permission from the spouse for purchase and entry into the house. Plus I'm sure the spouse got something of equal value too... :) The ad had a good run. It spent the whole holiday season - November 1992- February 1993 in Electronic Musician (albeit not near the coveted front of the magazine), but Korg opted for a more spread-out approach in Keyboard. After appearing in the November issue, there was a month break before re-appearing in February and March. And then, didn't make another appearance until June. But, if you look a little closer, there often seemed to be a possible reason for its absence. And on purpose or not, it allowed the SR to lengthen its eye-ball run considerably in Keyboard. In the December 1992 issue, The SR turned up in the Spec Sheet section of Keyboard - a good replacement for an ad in my books - and free! I'm doubt Korg gets a courtesy call before a Spec Sheet blurb their gear appears, but it would have given them good reason to switch out the SR ad and use the Spec Sheet appearance as a substitute: "Korg rack-mount synth. Korg has introduced the Wavestation SR, a single-space rack-mount synthesizer with 550 sounds (600 performances with optional program card). With three RAM banks and eight ROM banks, the SR contains a collection of performances from the Wavestation library. The unit is also compatible with Wavestation program cards and Korg's 0/1W PCM cards. The SR's multi-sets can play a complex split layered performance on each of 16 MID channels. $1,399.00 Korg, 89 Frost St., Westbury, NY 11590. (516) 333-9100. Fax (516) 333-9108." That December 1992 as well as the January 1993 issues of Keyboard also had two other ads that may also played a role in giving the SR ad the boot. The first was that Korg included a two-page, horizontal ad for the O/1W that appeared on the inside-front cover and page 1 of the mag. You had to turn the magazine sideways to read the ad properly. A great way to grab attention. The second was an ad for the Korg M1-PlusONE - a board that put "four megabytes of killer new PCM sounds like screaming electric guitar, celestial ebony flute, classic rock organ, and world percussion" into your M1. The asterisk at the end of that sentence continues the voice list at the bottom of the page: Also contains new PCM samples of acoustic guitar, electric piano, solo violin, rap percussion, harp, analog synth, marimba, string bass, assorted ethnic percussion, glockenspiel, and more. Killer glockenspiel? Really? But I respect their attempt at keeping "synth hot-rodding" alive. :D Anyways, point being, that ad was "a sound partnership" ad by Korg and InVision Interactive (pun intended I'm sure). And maybe both this ad, and the O1/W two-pager in the mag, resulted in the SR ad getting punted. The SR ad then got great ad-space in the February and March 1993 issues of Keyboard appearing on the front inside cover and page 3 respectively. . The ad's April 1993 absence was no doubt due to Keyboard's cover feature that month - the "M1 Monster Sound Round-Up". Korg did the right thing by choosing to run a "lowest price ever" ad for the Korg M1 where the SR ad appeared the month before (page 3). Good work. The May 1993 absence of the SR ad was easily made up for by its appearance in the "Short Takes" review section of Keyboard. Jim Aikin's review actually clocks in at just under one page if you include the full length photo of the front panel running across the top of the page, and does more than any ad could have making people think "happy thoughts" about the SR: "The best thing about the Wavestation has always been its distinctive sound. Or sounds, actually. While it's known for rich, swirling pads, ferocious one-finger grooves, and hair-raising special effects, the kind of thing that other synthesizers can only do weak imitations of, it will produce detailed electric pianos, punch basses, crisp clavs, vibrant solo winds, and a wide range of other standard timbres just as easily. It's hard to program a Wavestation sound that doesn't have character." Can't beat that kind of introduction. The ad then made one final showing in June 1993, a full four months after it stopped running in Electronic Musician. Eight months long - not a bad run with only January and April missing out on anything SR-related. The Wavestation brand had now been running close to three years. Hard to believe Korg wasn't done with it yet... Posted by RetroSynthAds at 2:20 PM 1 comment: Links to this post Labels: 1992, electronic musician, keyboard magazine, korg, synthesizer, wavestation, wavestation sr Korg Wavestation EX and A/D "Top 10 reasons" ad, Keyboard and Electronic Musician 1991 Korg Wavestation EX and A/D "Top 10 reasons" 1-page advertisement from page 1 in Keyboard Magazine and page 23 in Electronic Musician August 1991. My brain doesn't always work properly. Names are a good example. Once I start using the wrong name for something, I can't shake it. Humans. Gear. Magazines. And even when I correct myself, its like I'm reinforcing the wrong name, not the right one. This may be why you will often read "Computer Musician", when in fact I'm referring to the magazine "Electronic Musician". I equate "Electronic Musician" more with computers, and as I write quickly, I'll often flip back and forth between the two names. Gah. I think I've cleaned up everything now. :) Anyways, you will remember that the last time the Jan Hammer "Portraits" ad ran, it included a small band of text that referenced the fact that the original Wavestation now had expanded memory and more sounds. I suggested that they were referring to the new EX version of the keyboard, and sure enough, a month later Korg came out with a new ad that promoted both the Wavestation EX AND the Wavestation A/D. But Korg seemed to be running out of steam with the Wavestation brand in terms of advertising. Or maybe it was just the fact that the Wavestation was so different from other synths that it was selling itself at this point. Either way, Korg didn't push the EX and A/D as much as the original Wavestation. The ad ran off and on between August 1991 and November 1991 in Keyboard Magazine, and only seems to have appeared once in Electronic Musician in August. A shame too, because I really like this ad. There is a lot to read - but it still seems short and snappy. And there also still feels like it has room to breathe. Good layout and design. Plus it includes a few surprises. For example, Reason #5 includes a 1-800 number you can call and LISTEN to a special phone demo. Brilliant. I don't recall see this when I originally saw the ad back in the day, and am kicking myself that I never had a chance to call that number. Another great surprise is Korg's promotion of 3rd party sound designers in Reason #10. Always good to give 3rd party developers some props. But the best is Korg's offer of a free video demo of the Wavestation. Again, never took advantage of that opportunity. Still kicking myself. Like the original Wavestation before it, regular readers of Keyboard would have found out about the A/D waaaay before the ad appeared. This was most likely due to its appearance at the January 1991 NAMM show. Although this time, the Wavestation A/D had to compete with a lot more new exciting gear for attention. The darling of Keyboard's NAMM article, titled "Retro Mania", was the new JD-800 and it's 59 sliders. And that opened the door to get Roland's other gear to the front of the line in the article too, including the JX-1, S-750, S-770 and Studio-M. Still, Korg's Wavestation A/D managed to get third-billing after Roland's Rhodes division. Not too shabby. The Spec Sheet for the A/D appeared a month before the NAMM report in the March 1991 issue, coincidentally right at the beginning of the Jan Hammer Wavestation ad-run. It is interesting to see that even as the latest A/D is being hyped at trade shows, the original Wavestation was still being hyped in ads. The Spec Sheet really gives a good introduction to the instrument: "Korg rack-mount Wavestation synthesizer. Korg's Wavestation A/D is a two-space rack-mount version of the Wavestation keyboard. It features 32 digital oscillators, 32 digital filters, and 64 envelope generators and LFOs. Wave sequencing allows each oscillator to play up to 255 different sounds, or waveforms, in sequence. A programmable and constantly varying mix of up to four different sounds, each of which may also be a wave sequence, is available within each patch. Up to eight of these patches can be layered across the keyboard with velocity switching. A stereo pair of analog inputs allows external sound sources to be processed through the Wavestation A/D's built-in effects. External sounds can also be used as waves for processing through filters, amplitude envelopes, and pan control. Each input can be independently controlled using MIDI volume data. new effects that have been developed for the analog inputs include two vocoders and a combined compressor/limiter-EQ-noise gate. About $2,400.00. Korg USA, 89 Frost St., Westbury, NY 11590. (516) 333-9100. Fax (516) 333-9180." Now, here is where things get a little out-of-step. Even though the A/D made it into the Spec Sheet in the March 1991, issue, it would be a full eight months before the EX upgrade would be announced in the Spec Sheet section. A full three months after this ad started to run. This promo also included some good reference info including prices for both the EX model and the upgrade for the original Wavestation: "Korg Wavestation upgrade. Among the 119 new sampled waveforms within the Wavestation EX are piano, drums and percussion, guitars, basses, flutes, and alto sax, bringing the total number of waveforms to 484. The EX comes with a program card containing 50 new performances, 35 new patches, and 32 new wave sequences. Also new are eight effects algorithms, including vocoder, pitch-shift, and stereo compressor/limiter with gate. $2,333.00; upgrade for current owners $110.00. Korg. 89 Frost St., Westbury, NY 11590 (516) 333-9100. Fax (516) 333-9108." I think I've mentioned it before, but if I haven't screamed it from the highest mountain top, I'm a big fan of the Korg Wavestation A/D. I've had one for quite a while, and while other rack gear has been moved from my main rack to the secondary "grave yard" rack, the rack screws on the A/D have never been unscrewed. I still spend hours online looking for new information on this synth, but one of my favorite stories appears on the Wikipedia page for the Wavestation, and explains how the A/D prototype was first developed using a hacksaw and a Prophet 2000 sampler. "The Wavestation A/D was the brainchild of Joe Bryan, then-Senior Design Engineer at Korg R&D. A guitar player, he wanted "something that worked with a simple midi guitar that would merge the guitar, synth and effects, and could be controlled from one or two buttons on the guitar." The idea was of little interest to his colleagues at first. Nevertheless, he found a prototype of a Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000 sampler and literally hacksawed the analog-to-digital converter circuitry from it, soldered that and a digital interface to the Wavestation's ROM bus to create the first prototype of the Wavestation A/D. The prototype convinced Bryan's colleagues of his idea." After this ad appeared, the Wavestation brand would go silent for exactly a year. Just enough time for mommy and daddy Wavestation to do what comes naturally (in the presence of engineers)... ...give birth to baby. Labels: 1991, electronic musician, keyboard magazine, korg, wavestation a/d, wavestation ex Korg Wavestation "Portraits" ad featuring Jan Hammer, Keyboard, Electronic Musician 1991 Korg Wavestation "Portraits" 1-page advertisement featuring Jan Hammer from inside front cover of Keyboard Magazine and Electronic Musician, April 1991. Hard to believe that by the time this Jan-Hammer-endorsed advertisement appeared, the Wavestation had already been in reader's minds for over a year. Sure, the introductory Wavestation ad may have first ran only nine months prior in July 1990, but readers of magazines such as Keyboard and Electronic Musician were hearing the wave-sequenced-buzz of vector synthesis technology months before. For example, the original Wavestation Spec Sheet appeared a full four months earlier that the intro ad in the March 1990 issue of Keyboard Magazine. And Keyboard knew Korg had something special on their hands, because they opted to print a relatively large photo of the keyboard below the blurb. Only a few pieces of gear get that kind of star treatment: "Korg WS Synthesizer: The WS Wavestation synthesizer is the first offering from the Korg R&D group in San Jose, which comprises mainly former Sequential Circuits personnel, including founder Dave Smith. The WS incorporates 32-voice, 16-bit digital vector synthesis, which was originally developed by Sequential for the Prophet-VS. Over 500 multisampled waveforms and sounds are included and can be linked together into user-programmable wave sequences. Dual programmable multi-effects, both joystick and wheel controllers, a 61-note velocity- and pressure-sensitive keyboard, 240 x 64-pixel graphic LCD, and RAM and ROM cards ports are included. About $2,500.00 . Korg USA, 89 Frost St., Westbury, NY 11590. (516) 333-9100." This is an awesome Spec Sheet that not only provides some good technical information and preliminary pricing info, but also shows that either Korg was taking good advantage of the Dave Smith connection in it's promotion of this synthesizer, or that Keyboard knew their shit when it came to the design of the instrument. My guess is probably both. :) But that wasn't the only early sighting of the Wavestation. Not even close. If you were lucky enough to pop in to the January 1990 NAMM show, you were way ahead of the game. I don't think I would be out of touch with reality if I said that the Wavestation was one of the top darlings of the show. Unfortunately for readers, NAMM news at the time didn't usually hit the gear mags until a few months later. In the case of the Wavestation, that was April - a month after the Spec Sheet appeared. The April 1990 issue of Electronic Musician listed it under the heading "The Ten Products People Told Us We Had To See", recognizing it both for the addition of Sequential's vector synth technology and for its PPG-style waveform "scanning". Interestingly, in the same NAMM article, EM also gives nods to the newly introduced Yamaha SY22, another synth offering vector synthesis, by including "...it's good to see that this type of synthesis didn't get lost in the cracks of MIDI history". Agreed! Keyboard's April 1990 NAMM report gave the Wavestation top billing in the synth section of the article, and introduced the instrument with "Perhaps the most intriguing keyboard...". Not a bad start. They also reported on its PPG- and Sequential roots, also noting it's Prophet-VS-style joystick, and its MIDI-synchronization capabilities. Side note: I would be remiss if I didn't point out that my man-crush (As my GF refers to Trent Reznor) was also featured in this issue of Keyboard Magazine, posing with his Emax sampler... But that is enough history for one blog post... This ad is a major shift in direction from the previous "Make Waves" advertising campaign. And I'm not just talking about design - but also the addition of an endorsement deal from none other than Jan Hammer. Personally, I only knew him from his Miami Vice soundtrack days (looks like he kept a shirt or two from the show), and even though I wasn't a fan, I sure as heck knew the soundtrack. Even more so, the music video. Not so much for his use of the Wavestation. This ad continued to run for four months - April to July - and in that last showing in the July issue of Keyboard, we see a slight addition to the ad. Let me read that again for you: "Now with expanded memory and more sounds" Whaaaaaat? That's right. As far as I can tell, that is the first sign that the new EX version of the Wavestation is just around the corner. It would still be a good four months before the Spec Sheet for the EX upgrade would appear... but this post is getting a little long, so will save that for my next one. Oh - and end with this... :D Labels: 1991, electronic musician, keyboard magazine, korg, synthesizer, wavestation, wavestation ex Korg Wavestation "Make Waves' ad, Keyboard/Electronic Musician 1990 Korg Wavestation "Make Waves" 1-page advertisement from inside front cover of Keyboard Magazine and Electronic Musician Magazine September 1990. Well, we are already into the second month of 2012 and I have yet to circle back to the Korg Wavestation family of ads - an obsession that started at a much younger age, but was again re-ignited late last year when I posted the 2-page "Make waves" introductory ad. And what I later referred to my resulting behavior as "page-flipping/ebay-buying/scanning marathon sessions that could well provide blogging fodder well into mid-February". This second advertisement, a direct descendant of the first, had began to appear in Keyboard Magazine immediately following the two-month run of the Wavestation intro ad in the September 1990 issue. Yup - the issue that had Public Enemy on the cover! The ad continued to run constantly between September 1990 and March 1991 in the coveted front inside cover page of the mag, usually next to an ad for the Korg S3 drum machine or a T-series ad. And you have to remember - this is the 90s. There was another musician's magazine out there catering to the synth crowd - Electronic Musician. And Korg made sure they gave them some Wavestation ad-revenue-love as well. The same two-page intro ad appeared on similar real-estate in that magazine on the front-inside cover, and this one-page version of the ad carried on the tradition appearing on the inside front cover as well. Nice. With such a long ad-run, Korg was wise to modify the advertisement during the second-half as more and more accolades for the Wavestation started to roll in. It was always a small change, but I think enough to keep the ad from becoming invisible to readers. The first change in the ad appeared in January 1991 when the very top of the ad was sacrificed for a call-out box that included positive comments from Keyboard and Electronic Musician magazine. I can't explain it, but I always feel uncomfortable whenever I see another magazine's name in Keyboard. Or Keyboard's name in another music magazine for that matter. I don't know why - it just feels dirty or something. Is this just me? Anyways - more on those reviews in a later blog post. In that same January 1991 issue, it was announced that the Korg Wavestation had won the "Hardware Innovation of the Year award", as determined in the 15th annual Keyboard Magazine readers poll. This nod to the Wavestation's beautiful internal and external design was immediately put to good use by Korg in the second modification to this advertisement that appeared in February and March 1991. Again, bragging rights were added as a top of the page cut-a-way. The ballots appeared in the October 1990 issue of Keyboard, under the "Hardware Innovation" category (explained under the question: "Which hardware product set the standard this year against which others are judged?"). The Wavestation had some stiff competition, including the Alesis 1622 mixer, Buchla Thunder, Kat Drumkat, Lone Wolf Miditap, MOTU MIDI time piece, and Yamaha SY77. Readers also could write in their own piece of kit if they so chose. And, on a similar note - guess who appeared under the "New Talent" category? Trent Reznor! We know the results of the Hardware category, but how about new talent? Drum roll please.... Jane Child. Wait... what? She beat out Reznor by a fairly large margin apparently. And at a distant third was Oleta Adams, the "lounge gig refugee" discovered by Tears for Fears. Not sure how I feel about that. Grrr. It is hard to believe, but by the time this ad ended its run in the March 1991 issue of of Keyboard, it had actually already been a year since the Wavestation first appeared in front of reader's eyes. "What?" - I can hear you say it now. Okay, I can't really hear you, because that would be weird. But yeah - a year! The ads may have only started running in July 1990, but readers got a preview much earlier. More on that in my next blog post. Labels: 1990, electronic musician, keyboard magazine, korg, synthesizer, wavestation Jeremy Lord Synthesizers SkyWave, International Musician & Recording World (US) 1978 Jeremy Lord Synthesizers SkyWave synthesizer 1/2-page advertisement from page 77 in International Musician & Recording World (US), February 1978. I actually started writing this blog post back in September 2011 with my original intro made reference to Thanksgiving in Canada. But I kinda forgot about it after I sent a few emails off to people in the hopes of getting more info on it. I guess I never got anything back, and the post fell to the sidelines for a while. Oooops. Anyways, I've blogged about many of my favorite imports like the Thunderchild, Scorpion Stage (twice), and the more common Wasp synth, but this Skywave was one of my all time favorite import obsessions - for a while anyways. You may have heard about the Skywave. Probably from someone trying to impress you with their synthesizer knowledge. Me? -I knew absolutely nothing about it except the existence of an actual ad. Ziltch. Nadda. So, as usually happens in these types of situations, I focus first on the ad itself. This 1/2 page advertisement isn't exactly "art" with all the different font sizes and styles popping up everywhere, but the ad-copy itself becomes "art" to me because of that heaping pile of gorgeous, ridiculously yummy historical and technical information. This was obviously the introductory ad for the Skywave, with its main purpose to get people out to the Frankfurt Spring Fair - and in particular Custom Sound Ltd's stand in Hall 5 to hear Case Bakker of H.B. Electronics demo the beast. The title includes the word "rugged", and the word is mentioned again in reference to the flight case. Both references suggest Jeremy Lords Instruments was targeting touring musicians. The ad also provides some juicy historical pricing and technical info. A recommended retail price of 599 pounds (including flight case!). Nice. Two VCOs Square wave modulation Graphic Waveform controls (?!) Mixer section External i/p Touch operated illuminated selectors VCF and VCA ring modulator Output EQ Four LFOs 49 note keyboard And, most interestingly, a "3 dimensional joystick that controls keyboard modulation, pitch bend and sound volume". Sounds like a formidable opponent to some of the other synths available at the time. But, alas, finding a real Skywave in a retail shop was probably as rare as this ad, and as rare as finding information online about the instrument. Sequencer.de has a Skywave page with some specs, and a nice color photo of a Skywave showing off the lovely yellow and red accent colours. Another side view photo, along with a few other stats (only 10 made!) can be found on the blog side of the same site. I found and interesting comment in the Theremin World forums made in 2008 by what looks to be a former employee, that explains what happened to the synthesizer and the company: "I watched this happen synthesis, when low cost plastic keyboard synths from Japan wiped out the British Analogue Synthesiser producers (I was working for Jeremy Lord Synthesisers, which changed to making medical products as Lord Medical, because there was a near total collapse in sales of the expensive Sky-Wave Synthesiser)" But the majority of information that pops up when you do an online search for the instrument is Jeremy Lord's son, Simon William Lord. His Wikipedia page describes Simon as "an english musical composer, record producer and musician" who has been involved in a number of projects, including a solo effort where he goes by the name "Lord Skywave". And not surprisingly, Simon has used a Skywave synth in his music. His personal Web site, simonwlord.com, includes a few songs from the Lord Skywave album released in June 2008, and states on the site that the album includes the Skywave synth. In fact, Simon's connection to his father (and the fact he used compositions from his grandmother) is such a great sound bite (pun intended) that the Skywave connection is picked up in many reviews. Gigwise.com, for example, really grabs onto this marketing hook in it's review of the album - and in the end gives it 4.5 out of 5 stars. And that isn't the only good review. According to the Wikipedia page, NME gave it 8/10, and Mojo gave it 4/5. Not too shabby. I found some more recent solo work described as "Acoustic/Psychedelic/Screamo" on his MySpace page. And he has another MySpace page featuring some more collaborative "Electro/Pop" work under the name Black Ghosts. Black Ghosts seems to be getting popular amongst the kids. I spent a little bit more time online because I wanted to track Simon down and ask him a few questions about his father as well as his own impressions on the sound of the Skywave. But so far, no replies. :( If he does get back to me, I'll be sure to post an update to the blog. Posted by RetroSynthAds at 2:30 PM 2 comments: Links to this post Labels: 1978, international musician and recording world, jeremy lord synthesisers, skywave, synthesizer Oberheim "Fed up with playing only one note at a t... Korg Wavstation EX and Wavestation A/D brochure, 1... Korg Wavestation A/D and SR "Five and a half amazi... Korg Wavestation SR "15 sounds" ad, Keyboard and E... Korg Wavestation EX and A/D "Top 10 reasons" ad, K... Korg Wavestation "Portraits" ad featuring Jan Hamm... Korg Wavestation "Make Waves' ad, Keyboard/Electro... Jeremy Lord Synthesizers SkyWave, International Mu...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line293
__label__cc	0.50765	0.49235	Hypocrisy Of America’s Experimental Ebola Drug By Theophilus Ilevbare It is puzzling why over a thousand Africans had to die before talks of a vaccine hit the airwaves. by Theophilus Ilevbare Aug 17, 2014 These days, nothing strikes a bout of panic and paranoia than the thought of Ebola Virus Disease. It’s been decades since a disease or calamity of such proportions threatened our relationships, businesses, sports and our very existence. Doctor holds up treatments on tray In the midst of all the trepidation came a ray of hope – an experimental secret serum, manufactured by California based biopharmaceutical giant, Mapp. It has been administered to two Americans and a Spanish Priest (first European), all infected in Liberia. The Priest lost the battle against Ebola despite receiving the experimental solution after he was flown back to his country, Spain. However, the health of Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary aid worker, Nancy Writebol, has improved tremendously to reinforce the efficacy of the drug, ZMapp. After the malady had claimed the lives of over a 1000 people in Africa with just about the same number presently inflicted with the disease, the American government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), on compassionate grounds, sent experimental samples to Liberia for trials on Ebola patients. It is puzzling why over a thousand Africans had to die before talks of a vaccine hit the airwaves. It is safe to conclude that had the two Americans not contracted the virus we won’t be close to any drug of any sort. Before now, the research for a cure has been shrouded in secrecy by the Americans. That the ailment had no cure and is a fast moving outbreak gives a technical knockout to the argument of ethics – that the vaccine should first be tested on compatriots of the researchers and manufacturers in America. The laboratories of American pharmaceutical companies were not short of promising research experiments of vaccines or drugs. They weren’t eager to develop a vaccine if they aren’t sure who would buy it. With just over a thousand deaths, it’s just a blip compared to the mortality rate of other diseases. For instance, Malaria kills a child every minute. Compare the death rate of Malaria with other deadly diseases you’ll discover why GlaxoSmithKline and other Pharmaceutical giants are making billion dollar investments, researching and working day and night for vaccines for malaria. Ebola is horrifying, but it’s also sporadic — between the big 2001 outbreak and this one, only a few dozen people have gotten sick every year or two. The current outbreak has spread among a handful of poor countries that all have weak health infrastructure. America and the rest of the developed world knew the deadly disease had no known cure but since it has mainly being affecting only Africans in several outbreaks since 1976 it wasn’t worth any serious research investment. Ebola vaccine not the answer? But even if any of the drugs on trial work, it would be a stretch to say we could confidently use it to prevent another Ebola outbreak. The experimental Ebola vaccine, ZMapp, or any other one for that matter, it appears might not even be the answer to the ravaging strain of the virus. A well-funded and researched vaccine would have done the magic like it was the case for smallpox and polio which put an abrupt end to outbreaks. The exigency of a cure for the scourge has made relevant authorities approve the use of some experiment solutions on compassionate grounds. Anyone receiving a rushed mass vaccine like this is putting an enormous amount of trust in Pharmaceutical companies and the government because there is no way to know the long term effects of the disease. It can’t be easily ascertained at the moment. The fears of its long term effect exist no matter how infinitesimal it might seem. The memory of all the kids, who now suffer from a severe form of narcolepsy due to the swine flu vaccine that was hurriedly created a few years ago, remains evergreen. Before we can say uhuru, the efficacy of such a drug should cut across the various strains of Ebola. The current outbreak is the Zaire virus, but previous outbreaks were Sudan and Cote d'Ivoire strains. The drugs being bandied about might not be the quintessential Ebola elixir that we crave. Most of the experimental drugs are solutions to fight the Zaire virus strain. These experimental drugs can kill the present virus in the body system and prevent it from infecting others but it does not in any way make us completely immune from the virus, that is, another outbreak. Containing the scourge would have been much easier with vaccination at the early stage of the outbreak; it is difficult to stop the epidemic in fast moving diseases like Ebola. According to Community Health professionals, most vaccines take a few weeks to provide immunity, and even then, they don’t always control the disease spread. A recent WHO statement submitted that even if any of the drug or vaccine is successful, it will take at least six months to contain the outbreak. During the early weeks of the pestilence, villagers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea blocked streets, preventing doctors and health workers from gaining access to Ebola patients. This will pose a problem to vaccination if it eventually becomes available. We heard on good report that at a point, soldiers were deployed to hospitals to prevent locals from forcefully taking away Ebola patients. There are still remote villages and communities in Nigeria that resist polio vaccination. They see it as an unwarranted intrusion from the ‘white man’. Imagine what would happen if we tried to pre-emptively vaccinate thousands of people who not only are skeptical of Western medicine but have never heard of Ebola. Fighting the epidemic must involve a multi-pronged drug. ZMapp serum, other drugs from Canada and the one by some Nigerian doctors in the diaspora, focuses on eradicating the disease after infection. What the global community needs is a vaccine to prevent the infection from getting into the body, that is the development of antibodies within the subject rather than injecting them from outside the body. The serum is by no means the end of Ebola but it leads us away from ineffective containment of the deadly virus disease. The use of vaccine or drug might not be the fastest way we bring the spread of this highly infectious malady to a stop. Nevertheless, the Ebola story is not all gloomy as 40 percent of victims are surviving. For now, Ebola patients will jump at the chance to live free of the virus than worry about any side effects in the long term or another outbreak in the future. This is hoping that these limited doses of the vaccine will not distract and ultimately derail effort to curb the frenzied outbreak using tried, tested and true methods like rapid identification and isolation of the sick and providing basic supportive care for patients, finding and educating who’s been in contact with them and strict hospital infection control. With these, Ebola can slowly but surely be driven away. Please follow the writer on Twitter @tilevbare. Theophilus Ilevbare PUBLIC HEALTH Nigerian Doctors Strike: Patients In Ondo Hospitals Cry Out For Doctors PUBLIC HEALTH Ebola: Lagos Confirms 2 People That Came In Contact With Dead Liberian Victim Down With Fever PUBLIC HEALTH Millions Pour In For Nigeria’s Ebola Campaign PUBLIC HEALTH No Cases Of Ebola In Nigeria In The Last Week, Health Ministry Says PUBLIC HEALTH Ebola Patients In West Africa Weeks Away From Serum Treatments Corporations Environmentalists Task Agip On Oil Spill Site Clean-Up In Bayelsa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line296
__label__wiki	0.543463	0.543463	Muse/News: Radical times, art world internships, and online wives The summer edition of the Stranger’s Art & Performance Quarterly is out! Recommended SAM shows in the visual arts listings include Hear & Now, 2018 Betty Bowen Award Winner: Natalie Ball, Victorian Radicals, Zanele Muholi, Material Differences: German Perspectives, You Are on Indigenous Land: Places/Displaces, and Claire Partington: Taking Tea. They also recommend upcoming events Summer at SAM and Remix. Fine Art Connoisseur, 425 Magazine, and Seattle Gay Scene are also among those who look forward to getting radical with the Victorians when our major exhibition opens this Thursday night. The Stranger’s Jasmyne Keimig looks—and looks again—at Cecilia Vicuña’s first major US solo exhibition, now on view at the Henry Art Gallery. The Seattle Times’ Brendan Kiley reports on the formal launch of the Art Workers Union (AWU), formed by and for security guards at the Frye Art Museum. Margo Vansynghel for Crosscut on the future home of an incredible archive of Black Panther newspapers; a satellite of Estelita’s Library, it will be the first “tiny cultural space” from the Office of Arts & Culture. The newspaper collection, says Dixon, preserves “an important, critical part of American history. To see that [this] time existed and that it’s captured in the pages of these newspapers so that people can actually see and read what we said—not what someone else is interpreting from afar—but what we said, how we articulated revolution in this country, that’s the importance of them.” From the Los Angeles Times: The Natural History Museum of LA County announced a major rethink of the La Brea Tar Pits site; the Olympic Sculpture Park’s designer Weiss/Manfredi is one of three firms making proposals for the project. Hyperallergic’s Kealey Boyd on Margaret Kilgallen’s first posthumous museum exhibition—now on view at the Aspen Art Museum—and the artist’s “unique mix of folk, feminism, and street art.” Artsy’s Benjamin Sutton examines “how internships are changing the art world,” detailing various initiatives at the Getty Foundation, Souls Grown Deep, and Artpace. “Museums desperately need talent in all sorts of positions—curators represent a fraction of the staff of museums,” Anderson said. “We’d be thrilled if an accountant emerges from [the Souls Grown Deep initiative] and finds their way into the museum profession, but they’re an accountant who has knowledge and experience in a particular cultural remit that otherwise they may not have.” Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online. – Rachel Eggers, SAM Manager of Public Relations Image: The Long Engagement, ca. 1854–59, Arthur Hughes, British, 1832–1915, oil on canvas, 42 1/8 × 21 in., Lent by Birmingham Museums Trust on behalf of Birmingham City Council, Presented by the executors of the late Dr. Edwin T. Griffiths, 1902P13, © Birmingham Museums Trust, Courtesy American Federation of Arts. Posted in: SAM News / Tagged: Betty Bowen Award, Black Panther, Cecilia Vicuna, Claire Partington, Hear & Now, La Brea tar pits, Margaret Kilgallen, Natali Ball, Remix, Summer at SAM, Victorian Radicals, Weiss/Manfredi, Zanele Muholi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line297
__label__cc	0.501983	0.498017	STUMBLING IN THE DARK January 9, 2012 Jeff Elliott Leave a comment You took a risk driving, riding a buggy, or even walking at night in Santa Rosa’s 1908 neighborhoods; streets were frequently dark because the electricity was off, and unwary travelers might crash into wet-cement barriers or hit the piles of building materials that were obstructing streets and sidewalks. So bad was the situation that the Press Democrat – loathe to expose any flaw in the town whatsoever – openly called for contractors to put out 19th century kerosene lanterns to alert the public to the dangers. The PD was prodded to mention the issue after a woman was thrown from her buggy and seriously injured when the horse became spooked by an unexpected encounter with a pile of stuff blocking the street. The newspaper also complained that there was some sort of wire fence across the freshly-poured sidewalk at College and Mendocino Avenues “which could not be seen even with the light burning, [and] was a snare when the light was out.” This item states that “the electric lights [are] going out nearly every night for a time,” and the previous article revealed there was a steam whistle for summoning a lineman to “answer lamp kicks at all hours of the night” (“kick” was common slang for “complaint” at that time, so I presume that meant customers were reporting electric outages and providing light bulbs was a service of the electric company). Santa Rosans were understandably angry that the power company couldn’t keep the lights on, and a couple of weeks after these incidents, the Chamber of Commerce demanded answers from the superintendent of the Santa Rosa Lighting Company. Alas, he told them, he only did as he was so ordered by a PG&E engineer in another county: “I receive a message from Napa to cut out the street lights until further notice. Out they go.” WARNING LIGHTS SHOULD BE PUT OUT A number of building and sidewalk contractors are growing careless and indifferent regarding the matter of putting out lights at night where obstructions are left in the streets and sidewalks. The matter is one of importance as was shown last Saturday night when a runaway was caused which resulted in a lady receiving a compound fracture of her arm and a fine buggy was demolished. With the electric lights going out nearly every night for a time, contractors should use lanterns. A wire fencing was left across some new walks on Mendocino street at College avenue Thursday night which could not be seen even with the light burning, was a snare when the light was out. A number of other obstructions were left unguarded in different parts of the city. – Press Democrat, October 2, 1908 WHAT’S NEW IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, 1908 November 1, 2011 Jeff Elliott Leave a comment A century before the Ridgway Historic District was recognized, there was a burst of construction between 1905-1908 that defined the neighborhood. Mendocino Avenue was shaping up to be a boulevard of grand homes, even mansions, that could rival the best offerings on McDonald Ave. There were already two houses designed by Brainerd Jones: The Lumsden House (currently the Belvedere), and the spectacular, lost Paxton House. In 1905 another Jones design was added with the construction of Comstock House, and in 1908, the Saturday Afternoon Club, on the Josiah Davis street extension of Mendocino. The same year the James R. Edwards family, good friends of the Oates’, built the fine brown shingle Craftsman style house that still stands at 930 Mendocino. And although not new, across the street from the Edwards family was a stately three story Queen Anne that was a jewel in its own right. (RIGHT: Frank Todd home at 1101 Mendocino Avenue, as seen in 1915. A few years later it was demolished to make way for the new high school. CLICK on images to enlarge. Photograph courtesy Sonoma County Library) The real activity, however, was taking place in the streets west of Mendocino Ave. Bungalows and cottages were popping up on once-vacant lots, and older properties were being remodeled. Some of the new cottages were being built specifically for the tourist trade: “It is expected that there will be a good demand for first-class, modern-built homes…to accommodate the rush of California-bound Eastern tourists this Spring,” the Press Democrat reported. Only a few houses built in this period survive, including the trio at 1217, 1219, and 1221 Glenn St. described in an article below. The builder was W. E. Nichols, a contractor whose name can still be found pressed into sidewalks throughout older parts of Santa Rosa. Nichols, who lived at 414 Carrillo Street, has appeared before in this journal, including a 1907 pitch to the City Council that they should strongarm homeowners into laying sidewalks (and presumably, hire him to do it). He also placed an unusual ad in the paper after the Great Earthquake, announcing that he was “open to any kind of legitimate business proposition.” The oddball in this neighborhood is the circa-1880 Greek Revival two story house at 1290 Glenn St. The block between Benton and Berry Lane (now Ridgway) was once part of a small farm, and this was the farmhouse. Originally it faced the other direction, with an address on Healdsburg Ave. (which became Mendocino Ave. in 1906). At some point, probably around WWI, they moved it nearly a block west – typically with mules pulling a platform over rolling logs – while spinning it completely around. Quite a trick, that. The James R. Edwards are now comfortably installed in their handsome new residence on Mendocino avenue. They have certainly good reason to be proud of their new home and the friends who have been privileged with an inspection of the interior furnishing and arrangement cannot say too much in compliment of the taste displayed. – “Society Gossip”, Press Democrat, November 22, 1908 IMPROVEMENTS IN SECTION OF CITY Many Changes Noted Which, When Completed, Will Add Much to the Looks of Things Henry C. Colwell, of 1109 Morgan street, is dividing his property into lots for sale, and will move his residence forward, placing it on cement foundations and will make a number of other improvements. Burton H. Gilkey, of 1009 Morgan street, is completely remodeling his home and making a modern cottage home with all the latest improvements for comfort and health. H. O. Malott, of Morgan and Tenth streets, has gravel on the ground will have cement walks laid on both streets along his property at once. Considerable new cement walk is being laid in that vicinity. The concrete foundation has been laid for an eight-room, two-story home for Mrs. M. L. Waters-Thorne at Morgan and Berry lane. The concrete blocks for the basement will be laid next week. Several of the old cottages on Davis street, near Ninth, are being remodeled, and made into attractive homes, while one new one [sic] has been built adjoining them. The improvements add to the appearance of the street greatly. Cement walks are being laid on Carrillo, College and Tenth streets, where not already laid, from Healdsburg avenue to the railroad. Property-owners on cross streets are preparing to do likewise as soon as the work is completed. This will make that portion of the town very attractive for residence. – Press Democrat, August 9, 1908 NEW RESIDENCES ON GLENN STREET Glenn Street, between Carrillo and Howard streets, which has recently been put in order and macadamized, is to be built up and improved. W. E. Nichols has already erected three large and commodious cottages of six rooms each and basement story containing all modern and up-to-date improvements and accessories for comfort and convenience. He will continue to erect more houses on the adjoining property. The present cottages are good and strongly built in the Mission Renaissance style of architecture and consist of three distinct and separate styles. The inside finish will be of natural woods polished. H. O. Tiffany and Co., Santa Rosa painters, have the contract for this work and it will be finished first-class. It is expected that there will be a good demand for first-class, modern-built homes of this description and Mr. Nichols is ready to fulfill the demand by erecting cottages to accommodate the rush of California-bound Eastern tourists this Spring. – Press Democrat, December 20, 1908 PAVEMENT ENSLAVEMENT October 4, 2010 Jeff Elliott Leave a comment Emotions ran hot in 1907 Santa Rosa over three topics: Prostitution, the near-collapse of the entire economic system, and sidewalks. The first issue is easy to understand; the City Council legalized prostitution that year without public discussion, and the churches were up in arms. People were also upset about the bank panic, of which much will be written about later. But…sidewalks? Every month or so during this era, the newspapers reported that angry citizens, sometimes entire neighborhoods, were appearing at Council meetings to protest the laying of concrete sidewalks. One of the early entries on this blog was about the sidewalk-haters on Benton Street, who turned out in 1904 to speak out and also present petitions. But the articles never explained why seemingly everyone was so upset; all coverage just ended by noting that the issue was “referred to the street committee.” Arrggghhh! Finally, a pair of little items printed in 1907 were the Rosetta Stones. As was already guessed, sidewalks were being added to Santa Rosa slowly, and on a street-by-street basis. This makes eminent sense; the entire city couldn’t be sidewalked all at the exact same time because there just weren’t enough cement contractors (and the workforce was one short that year, due to dope fiend Joseph N. Forgett being in the slammer). But the reason everyone was so mad was because the property owner was held responsible for doing the work. If the sidewalks weren’t in by deadline, the town could hire a contractor – who just might be a high-priced friend of a city official, perhaps? – and put a lien upon the property for the amount of the bill. Now the widespread public outrage is understandable; the sidewalk ordinance mandated both giving away a portion of your property in a kind-of eminent domain, and that you paid for the privilege. Or else. Still, some people bucked the law. Later that year, a contractor appeared before the Council and asked for the city to crack down on his neighbors on Carrillo Street. “The poor had laid their walks and the rich had not,” he complained. Can’t we all just get paved? The matter was referred to the street committee. SHOULD LAY CEMENT SIDEWALKS AT ONCE From many sections of Santa Rosa property owners are calling on the city council to order cement sidewalks constructed on the thoroughfares. At the present time cement is cheaper than it has been for many months past, and it has been suggested that now is the time for the property owners to make their contracts and save money. Many miles of these splendid sidewalks have already been laid in the City of Roses, but there are numerous streets that should be completed with these walks at once. – Santa Rosa Republican, July 17, 1907 WILL RUSH WORK ON WALKS Residents on Carrillo street between Ripley and Morgan streets are losing no time in getting cement walks laid after the adoption of the resolution of intention a week ago by the City Council. Most all the lots on both sides of Carrillo street in that block now have gravel on the ground for the walks. As yet there is no sign of action between Morgan and Glenn streets. Property owners all over the city where walks have been ordered laid will find it much cheaper to do the work by private contract than to allow the city advertise and let contracts and place a lien upon the property. MUCH BUSINESS IS DONE BY THE CITY FATHERS Property Owners Protest A protest, numerously signed, was read from property owners of Morgan street against the laying of cement walks on that street between Ninth street and Berry Lane. At the last meeting a petition was presented asking the council to order the laying of the walks. Those protesting urged that there were sidewalks needed on other streets between Morgan street and the court house, which should be laid first. Referred to the street committee. Nichols Makes a Speech W. E. Nichols, the contractor, adressed the council. He said he wanted to see rich and poor join hands when it came to laying cement sidewalks. Up on Carrillo street on his block, he said, “the poor had laid their walks and the rich had not.” He asked the council to order the city attorney to proceed against those who had failed to do their portion of sidewalk construction. The matter went to the street committee. The street commissioner is preparing a list of property owners who have not complied with the council’s order regarding the laying of walks on a number of streets. When that is handed in there may something doing. The matter of new walk laying City Attorney Geary stated that in view of the present stringency of the money market he would not advise the council to impose more taxes on the people than at present.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line299
__label__cc	0.577987	0.422013	Chapter 3 Ethics in research. Published byRoderick Joseph Modified over 4 years ago Presentation on theme: "Chapter 3 Ethics in research."— Presentation transcript: 1 Chapter 3 Ethics in research 2 Every social scientist needs to consider how to practice their discipline ethically. Whenever we interact with other people as social scientists we must give paramount importance to the rational concerns and emotional needs that will shape their responses to our actions. It is here that ethical research practice begins, with the recognition that our research procedures involve people who deserve as much respect for their well-being as we do for ours. 3 Historical Background Formal procedures for the protection of participants in research grew out of some widely publicized abuses. The Nuremberg War Crime Trials and Hitler’s experiments The Tuskgee syphilis experiments in the 1930’s Out of these and other experiments that violated human rights, the US created a National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 4 Three basic ethical principles Three basic ethical principles for the protection of human subjects were established: Respect for persons: Treating persons as autonomous agents and protecting those with diminished autonomy. Beneficence: Minimizing possible harms and maximizing benefits. Justice: Distributing benefits and risks of research fairly. 5 Federal regulations require that every institution that seeks federal funding for biomedical or behavioral research on human subjects have an institutional review board (IRB) that reviews research proposals. IRBs at universities and other agencies apply ethics standards that are set by federal regulations but can be expanded or specified by the IRB itself. 6 Ethical principles The American Sociological Association (ASA), like other professional social science organizations, has adopted, for practicing sociologists, ethics guidelines that are more specific than the federal regulations. Professional organizations may also review complaints of unethical practices when asked. The complete text of the Code is also available at this site. 7 Ethical guidelines To protect research subjects To maintain honesty and openness To achieve valid results To encourage appropriate application 8 Protecting Research Participants The Code’s standards concerning the treatment of human subjects include federal regulations and ethics guidelines emphasized by most professional social science organizations: Avoid harming research participants Obtain informed consent Avoid deception in research, except in limited cases Maintain privacy and confidentiality 9 Avoid harming research participants Although this standard may seem straightforward, it can be difficult to interpret in specific cases and harder yet to define in a way agreeable to all social scientists. Does it mean that subjects should not be at all harmed psychologically as well as physically? That they should feel no anxiety or distress whatever during the study or only after their involvement ends? 10 Obtain informed consent To be informed, consent must be given by persons who are competent to consent, have consented voluntarily, are fully informed about the research, and have comprehended what they have been told. 11 Avoid deception in research, except in limited circumstances Deception occurs when subjects are misled about research procedures to determine how they would react to the treatment if they were not research subjects. 12 Maintain privacy and confidentiality Procedures to protect each subject’s privacy such as locking records and creating special identifying codes must be created to minimize the risk of access by unauthorized persons 13 Maintaining honesty and openness Protecting subjects, then, is the primary focus of research ethics. But researchers have obligations to other groups, including the scientific community, whose concern with validity requires that scientists be open in disclosing their methods and honest in presenting their findings. Biases or political motives should be acknowledged, since research distorted by political or personal pressures to find particular outcomes is unlikely to be carried out in an honest and open fashion. 14 The act of publication itself is a vital element in maintaining openness and honesty, since then others can review procedures and debate with the researcher. In spite of this need for openness, researchers may hesitate to disclose their procedures or results to prevent others from “stealing” their ideas and taking the credit, thus using openness as a method for resolving a scientific dispute. 15 Achieving valid results It is the pursuit of objective knowledge – the goal of validity – that justifies our investigations and our claims for the use of human subjects. We have no business asking people to answer questions, submit to observations, or participate in experiments if we are simply trying to trumpet our own prejudices or pursue our personal interests. 16 Encouraging appropriate application Scientists must consider the uses to which their research is put. Although many scientists believe that personal values should be left outside the laboratory, some feel that it is proper—even necessary – for scientists to concern themselves with the way their research is used. Social scientists who conduct research on behalf of specific organizations may face additional difficulties when the organization, instead of the researcher, controls the final report and the publicity it receives. 17 Different kinds of research produce different kinds of ethical problems. Most survey research, for instance, creates few if any ethical problems, and can even be enjoyable for participants. On the other hand, some experimental studies in the social sciences that have put people in uncomfortable or embarrassing situations have generated vociferous complaints and years of debate about ethics 18 Research ethics should be based on a realistic assessment of the overall potential for harm and benefit to research subject. The decisions about ethical procedures are not just up to you, as a researcher, to make. The ethical propriety of your research will be guarded by an institutional committee, following professional codes and guidelines; but still, that is an uncertain substitute for your own conscience. Download ppt "Chapter 3 Ethics in research." Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Health Promotion Research Research Methods in Crime and Justice Chapter 3 The Ethical Principles that Guide Researchers. Chapter 10 Ethical Issues in Nursing Research. Perspectives for Assessing Ethical Acceptability Utilitarian Perspective - the good of a project is defined. Making Sense of the Social World 4th Edition Ethics in Social Science Research and Experiments. Ethical Considerations when Developing Human Research Protocols A discipline “born in scandal and reared in protectionism” Carol Levine, 1988. Ethical and Legal Implications of Practice Chapter 5. Research Ethics The American Psychological Association Guidelines Behavioral Research Chapter Three Ethical Research. The process and problems of social research Ethics in Research The Ethical Standards of the American Psychological Association (2002 Ethics code, to be effective June 1, بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. THE TITLE “INTRODUCTION” 1 Ethics in Psychological Research  Ethics – __________________  Research ethics – responsibility of researchers to be honest and respectful of all individuals. Human Subject Protection Judith Birk IRB Health / Behavioral Sciences. ETHICAL RESEARCH © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Ethics in research involving human subjects Slides to accompany Weathington, Cunningham & Pittenger (2010), Chapter 2: Ethics and Research 1. 1 Psychology 2020 Unit 1 cont’d Ethics. 2 Evolution of ethics Historic Studies Tuskegee Syphilis Study ( ) Milgram’s Obedience Study (1960s) METHODS IN BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH NINTH EDITION PAUL C. COZBY Copyright © 2007 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1 Wheaton College INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD (IRB)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line301
__label__cc	0.614198	0.385802	Record Planned Deficit May Climb Even Higher Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed a 2010 budget law that anticipates a record budget deficit of CZK 162 billion (€6.2 billion), or 5.7% of GDP. After signing the budget bill January 10, Mr Klaus criticized the massive shortfall and declared he would not sign any bills that might increase it. The caretaker Czech government originally drafted the 2010 spending plan with a deficit equivalent to 5.3% of GDP. The lower house then made last-minute changes to the draft, increasing the deficit by 0.4% of GDP (see Regional Risk Watch, 11/2009). The Czech Finance Ministry plans to issue CZK 153 billion in bonds to help cover the shortfall and will finance the remainder by taking out long-term loans. Overall, the Finance Ministry plans to borrow up to CZK 280 billion this year in the framework of its state debt-financing and management strategy Starting in January, the Czech Republic will raise taxes as part of an austerity package that aims to generate CZK 23 billion for the budget. The value-added tax will rise 1% and consumer taxes will go up as well. Alcohol, cigarette and automobile prices will be most affected. The Czech Republic's 2009 budget deficit was more than five times the original target. At the outset, former Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek’s budget included overspending of CZK 38.1 billion. MPs raised that figure to CZK 52.2 billion in November 2008 to cover pensions. The final 2009 deficit came in at CZK 195 billion. The Czechs simply cannot allow this to happen again. Lawmakers are already planning to break the record for overspending this year. But since 2010 is an election year, it will be no surprise if they surpass their goal. This risk has been detected by both President Klaus and interim Prime Minister Jan Fischer. The PM is planning to hold meetings on the budget with leaders of the main political parties in the coming days. However, Mr Fischer proved to be a weak advocate for fiscal discipline during the debates over the budget. Given the impending election, it is questionable whether Mr. Fischer’s resolve will become any firmer. Efforts to combat the deficit are looking increasingly desperate. The country appears to be further from adopting the euro than any of its regional peers. Peter Kreko, Krisztian Szabados , Fiscal Policy GDP Growth in the Visegrad Four The second season of patrolling in Hungary Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in Central and Eastern Europe Change of Government – A New Hope? Major lessons of elections in the Czech Republic Euro adoption – Prospects and threats: CZECH REPUBLIC Jobbik won its first individual constituency – reasons and consequences Fidesz’ defeat in Veszprém – causes and consequences Five statements about the municipal elections Jobbik extended its influence in the municipalities Fidesz overwrites the rules of the municipal elections The EU will survive	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line310
__label__wiki	0.934057	0.934057	We (Still) Need a Woman for the Job: The Warrior Woman, Feminism and Cinema in the Digital Age Lee-Jane Bennion-Nixon October Love Song: the 51st Viennale Against Auteurism: Cinéma Militant: Political Filmmaking and May 1968, by Paul Douglas Grant Michael Sandlin Two Ordinary People; One Special Day Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mekas, Jonas Genevieve Yue Violence, East and West: The Last Samurai Alain Silver This is an extract of the third edition of The Samurai Film to be published by Overlook Press later this year. More information at SamuraiFilm.com. A glossary of Japanese terms used throughout the article is below. Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness. In the same way, feeling, perception, formation, and consciousness are emptiness. – “The Heart Sutra” of the Prajnaparamita The howls of stray dogs and the tramp of clogs pierce the air. – “The Flower of Hell” (theme song from Lady Snowblood) Over the course of its six parts, the Sword of Vengeance series tested the limits of the samurai genre and viewer expectations in the early 1970s. Neither the Lone Wolf with child nor the four-wheeled arsenal which doubles as a baby-cart are that extreme or outlandish in comparison to other samurai films. What distinguishes this series, what causes Itto Ogami to diverge from the road followed by so many antecedents, is the treatment and concentration of violence that surrounds the central figure. Itto presages this in the flashback to his wife’s death: “They will pay with rivers of blood”. In the course of six episodes, “they” is never really defined. For Itto, as with Kyoshiro Nemuri, killing is an existential expression. No amount of killing can calm Itto’s disturbed mind, can erase the image of neither his dead wife nor the red fingerprints on his child’s cheek. These vestiges of a past life, bloody emblems confusing death and innocence, drive Itto forward like an automaton. But Itto has no destination. The inhumanity of Itto’s attitude does more than colour the Sword of Vengeance narratives. It reduces them to the black-and-white of the comic book page. A chilling moment, as when Itto throws a kozuka back into an antagonist’s scabbard, is no longer just a typical genre touch, a demonstration of almost preternatural skill. Nor is it purely parody, but rather a radical deconstruction of what is typical in the genre. All that remains are the constructs, an “empty form” far different from the sense of the oft-quoted passage from the “Heart” sutra. For two decades, from the mid-1970s until the mid-1990s, images of the samurai were often relegated to the small screen or appeared in mixed-genre productions. While still at work on the Zato Ichi series, Shintaro Katsu began producing and starring in the short-lived Sword of Justice (Goyokiba) films focusing on the exploits of constable Hanzo “the Razor”. The influences are clear from the title sequence of the first Sword of Justice in which a Starsky and Hutch like theme plays over a TV-style cop montage of Hanzo’s “beat” in Edo. Director Kenji Misumi includes a lot of foreground clutter and careful compositions, but the pointedly off-beat elements – not the least of which are Hanzo’s priapism and investigative self-torture – overwhelm any imposition of visual nuance. While acting as executive producer for the Sword of Vengeance movies starring his brother Tomisaburo Wakayama, Katsu also produced Oshi Samurai (Silent Samurai), a television series with Wakayama portraying a mute shokin kasegi or bounty hunter named Kiichi Hogan. Based on a story by Hideo Gosha about a swordsman whose throat is slit as a child by a renegade Jesuit priest, Katsu employed the feature film technicians from his Daiei productions and directed the first episode himself (and also appeared as the quasi-villain Manji). With violence somewhat sanitised for television and, in Hogan, a lead figure more restrained that the remorseless Itto Ogami, Oshi Samurai‘s style (its third episode was directed by Kenji Misumi) mirrors that of contemporary features. Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime, Toshiya Fujita, 1973) and its 1974 sequel reflect the various narrative and stylistic influences on the genre at the time the Sword of Vengeance pictures were in their initial release. A pre-cursor to Gosha’s Death Shadows (and even Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita [1990]), Yuki, the title character and “a child of the netherworlds”, is born in prison and raised to avenge the murder of her family during the draft riots of 1873. As a young woman Yuki embarks on her campaign armed only with a shikomi-zue concealed in an umbrella, which is somewhat anachronistic in the gun-toting days of the early Meiji era. Nonetheless Yuki manages an effective vendetta. Several elements from the episodic plot to the dark glistening interiors of the women’s prison and the frequent zooms into tight shots of eyes suggest the influence of Sergio Leone; but Lady Snowblood is a world removed from Once Upon a Time in the West. During her quest, she encounters a journalist (and would-be novelist) who dies helping her bring the last culprit (coincidentally his father) to justice. Despite being shot then stabbed (by the daughter of an earlier victim) and collapsing in the snow at the end of the first feature, Yuki is miraculously revived for a sequel. Of the various productions of the 1970s, the original Last Samurai (Okami yo Rakujitsu O kire, 1974; the last film directed by Kenji Misumi) most clearly anticipates the narratives of the late 1990s to present. Epic in length (over two and a half hours), Last Samurai follows Sugi Toranosuke as he is caught up in the violence of the bakumatsu but survives it ultimately to exchange his sword for a razor and become a barber in post-restoration Edo. From the furious sword fight at the festival in the title sequence, Misumi, as usual, treats violence as endemic to Tokugawa Japan. Another samurai, Hanjiro Nakamura readily mixes his sensory experiences: first some killing then some sex with Ohide, a “working girl” whom Sugi has rescued. Estranged from his family, Sugi is embarrassed to be a low-class or farm samurai and does not take “privileges” for granted in the manner of Hanjiro. Flashbacks reveal the rest: as a disinherited child, Sugi was so oppressed by his uncle that he attempted suicide. When he saw a ronin named Ikemoto cut down six men, Sugi adopted him as his sensei. In present time, Sugi is asked by Ikemoto to protect Reiko, a woman being tracked by the Satsuma clan. In Kyoto, Sugi wants to join a faction, but Ikemoto forbids it: “I didn’t teach you to use the sword for fighting…so don’t waste your life”. Sugi nearly crosses swords with the shinsengumi unit of which Soji Okita is captain. Then a random encounter on the street unites the four principals as Hanjiro gives Sugi money from Ohide, who has become a Buddhist nun. Hanjiro’s character – which is based on an actual follower of Saigo Takamori and prominent figure in the bakumatsu – is nostalgic about Satsuma but, now that the clan has firmly aligned themselves in favour of the restoration, is eager for more combat. Reiko, who is now a geisha, reports back to Ikemoto then meets Sugi in a graveyard to deliver another letter again urging that he return to Edo. The argument between Reiko and Sugi, framed so that they are hemmed in by headstones, visually recalls the carving that Sugi made when his father died. When Sugi learns that Ikemoto is the target of an ambush, he rushes to intercede but arrives too late to save him. In a low-budget, albeit stylised, staging of the historic battle of Toba-Fushimi (1), the sword-wielding shogunate loyalists are mowed down. Sugi has taken Reiko back to Edo but their domestic bliss is short-lived when she is fatally attacked by army thugs. Although he tracks down the killers and mutilates their leader, Iba, Sugi renounces the sword. The sixth year of Meiji finds all the surviving characters transformed. Ohide is leaving for England; Sugi is a barber; and Hanjiro must shortly return to Satsuma with the disgraced Takamori. When Sugi learns that Hanjiro was responsible for Ikemoto’s death, he goes to Satsuma to kill him but stops short. In his last picture, after a score of chambara where sword-skill was the only hope for survival, Misumi opts for an ironic twist in The Last Samurai: characters must either perish or accept that, as Sugi proclaims, “it’s no longer the age of the sword”. Also released in 1974, The Last Swordsman (Okita Soshi, Masanobu Deme) focuses on the actual shinsengumi captain, and minor character in The Last Samurai, Soshi or Soji Okita, one of many members of that militia who were appointed by the daimyo of the Aizu han. The opening sequences reveal the economic difficulties of the members of the Tennen Rishu-ryo school, where Soji is a star pupil. The actual Soji was a budo prodigy who joined the dojo at age nine and was a master at 15. The opening sequence features an extreme long-shot of an as-yet unidentified Soji running down a road, using step-printing and European music to complicate the genre reading. Soji meets another Tennen disciple and a deadly fight with anonymous assailants ensues. Afterwards an exhausted Soji makes clear that it has been his first real combat: “I haven’t even killed a cat before”. When so many of the Tennen adherents leave to join the low-paying shinsengumi, the dingy and unappealing interior of their dojo suggests that it’s a step up in pay. Once in Kyoto, they became “the wolves of Mibu”, a fearsome epithet from the Kyoto district where they were housed, which they earned through their bloody encounters with the Choshu retainers. Such devices as choker close-ups and step-printing – which creates eerie slow-motion death scenes – establish an undertone of fatalism and constriction. Unusual icons such as blood-drenched flowers and black-and-white dream imagery of innocent children and hanged men create a visual disequilibrium that reflects the narrative situation. Soji is the one who must track down his friend and pupil from the days at the Shieikan dojo, Seisuke Yamanami, who has tired of the violence and deserted. Soji could let Yamamani escape, and no one would know but giri forbids it. Shortly after he serves as the kaishaku for Yamanami’s compulsory suicide, Soji’s health starts to deteriorate. Compounding the discovery that he is fatally ill with tuberculosis, the woman he loves is cut down by a cadre of ishin shishi. Although he avenges her killers, Soji’s anonymous death in a rural mill is grimly inglorious and ironic. In style and narrative, both The Last Swordsman and The Last Samurai anticipate numerous later releases from Samurai Fiction (SF: Samurai Fiction, Hiroyuki Nakano, 1998) and Taboo (Gohatto, Nagisa Oshima, 1999) to When the Last Sword is Drawn (Mibu Gishi Den, Yoji Takita, 2002) and the American The Last Samurai (Ed Zwick, 2003). It may be that the violence and self-parody of the samurai film of the 1970s did more than deconstruct the genre expectations of the audience. In fact, the evolution of chambara as a whole over the end of the millennium was somewhat retrograde. As with the American Western, there were fewer and fewer samurai films made. Of those produced in the 1980s, only a few such as Gosha’s Bandits Vs. Samurai Squad and Hunter in the Dark or Kagemusha give evidence that the expressive potential of the genre had not been entirely exhausted. Still, it is significant that a filmmaker such as Gosha could carry forward the powerful themes of Goyokin and Tenchu more effectively in The Wolves (Shussho Iwwai, 1971), a yakuza film, than in his more recent, traditional chambara. Of the few theatrical productions of chambara undertaken in the past 25 years, even fewer have reached the Western viewer. Most of the directors of the “program” period films for Daiei, Toei, et al, have died or retired. The new generation works in television or in other genres. In 1974, Columbia Pictures released a re-edited and dubbed version of Sword of Vengeance III under the title Lightning Swords of Death. After the successful television adaptation of the novel Shogun in 1980, an independent production company dubbed, re-cut, and re-scored Sword of Vengeance I and II to create Shogun Assassin. The success of both Shogun and Shogun Assassin in their respective media caused a minor resurgence of interest in samurai films or, at least, in shoguns. For instance Shogun’s Destiny and Death of a Shogun (Kosaku Yamashita, 1980 and Sado Nakajima, 1979) – the latter, like Kagemusha, containing a favourable portrayal of Ieyasu Tokugawa – were released in the United States. The scarcity and uneven quality of samurai productions in the 1980s evinced a decline in the samurai film as a vital genre. Shintaro Katsu’s last appearance in chambara was as the hapless, drunken ronin “Bull” Goemon in the flaccid remake of Ronin-gai (Kazuo Kuroki, 1990). “Times have changed”, he observers early on; “Even horse traders like you can be given the chance to hit samurai”. It is a far cry from Izo Okada on the cross, when Katsu’s “Bull” pierces himself with a broken sword to kill his arrogant samurai employer standing behind him. Directors such as Shinoda and Okamoto moved away from chambara entirely. The former’s Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (Sakura No Mori No Mankai No Shita, 1975), a supernatural fable of a bandit and a witch, has a few chambara elements, like Double Suicide, but avoids genre typing. With the exception of the second remake of Judo Saga (Sanshiro Sugata, 1975), Okamoto has made a dozen films outside the bujutsu milieu. Masaki Kobayasbi’s long-planned epic of l0th century Sino-Japanese wars was shelved due to loss of financing. Occasionally, the residual influence of chambara was evident in films of other genres. This is not a reference to the spate of martial arts or kung-fu films from a variety of Asian producers, films whose often contemporary setting and always clear-cut oppositions of good-and-evil never probed an era, a social structure, or an expressive tradition in the manner of the best samurai films. Perhaps the attitude of chambara, like the practice of swordsmanship, does require more than “empty form”. Many Western filmmakers incorporated elements of chambara source material into their movies from the 1960s onwards. The first example is even earlier than that: John Huston’s The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958), shot in Kyoto and starring John Wayne as Townsend Harris, the ambassador forced upon the Tokugawa through gun-boat diplomacy. Filtered through its American star’s point of view and focused on his titled, cross-cultural romance with the geisha, Townsend survives a cholera epidemic and a failed attempt by ninja assassins which leads to seppuku by the chief conspirator. Such plot points derive from a long-standing Western bias to seek out the “inscrutable” aspects to Asian traditions. Eventually filmmakers adopted not just the plots in the manner of The Magnificent Seven transposing Seven Samurai or The Outrage (1964) onto Rashomon, but also, as Sergio Leone had done in Fistful of Dollars, began looking for style points as well. The most outrageous, of course, is Tom Laughlin’s Master Gunfighter (1975), in which the creator of “Billy Jack”, the successful series about an outcast American Indian martial artist, transposed Gosha’s Goyokin into the American West but opted to have his gunfighters pack samurai swords as well as six-guns. While Laughlin aimed at reconstructing Goyokin shot-for-shot (and kept a portable editing room on location so that he could refer to a print of Gosha’s film whenever necessary), most of Gosha’s visual tropes and his character Magobei’s sense of angst are lost in translation. Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 1982) uses period and mythic figures to create a traditional, martial arts story. But the similarities to certain samurai films – the epic structure, the chanting narrator, the sword-play, the supernatural interventions, even the insistent drum beating on the music rack – are all merely borrowed from Kurosawa of 25 years prior. A better example of the samurai ethos, at least, can be found in Walter Hill’s Hard Times (1975). In the context of the Depression-era South, Charles Bronson portrays a street fighter named Chaney with the same understated intensity as Mifune. Hill’s plans to make “The Last Gun”, a Western whose man character was named “Ronin”, fell through in the late 1970s, so despite more obvious allusions to chambara in other films – The Warriors (1979) and the Yojimbo remake, Last Man Standing (1996) – it is Bronson’s portrayal that resonates most powerfully with antecedents in the samurai genre. As actor and director, Clint Eastwood has also repeatedly attempted to recreate that ethos. His portrayal of Leone’s gunfighter, known as the “Man with No Name” (despite the fact that had a name in the first two pictures) evolved significantly in Eastwood’s later work. In just his second film as director, High Plains Drifter (1972), Eastwood portrayed the mysterious hired gun known only as the Stranger, whose arrogant disdain and sexual rapacity types him as both samurai and devil, a Kyoshiro Nemuri on horseback. Four years later, the merciless but fair-minded title character in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) reaffirmed Eastwood’s character roots in the outlaws of chambara, which culminate in his portrayal of the aged gunfighter in The Unforgiven (1992). Eastwood even permitted moments of outright parody in Pale Rider (1985) where his Sanjuro-esque Preacher has a bokken-style combat using axe handles. Much has also been made of the relationship of the George Lucas Star Wars trilogy to samurai film and Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress in particular. Certainly Lucas’ Jedi warriors follow a bushido-like code and have the ability to wield light sabers like a daitos to vanquish dozens of assailants. Darth Vader lacks only a fylfot on his cape to type him as helmeted variant of Nemuri or the evil swordsmen of the Daibosatsu Toge adaptations. Still, the best examples can be found in the earth-bound science fictions of the Australian production Mad Max (1979) and its first two sequels, The Road Warrior (1981) and Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Both contain overt allusions to chambara from character names and hairstyles to asides by a police dispatcher. More substantively than Mad Max, The Road Warrior borrows heavily from the situations of Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. It even uses an antiquated optical device, the wipe (as does Lucas in Star Wars), also a Kurosawa favourite, for transitions. Ultimately, however, what distinguishes The Road Warrior from Conan and Luke Skywalker are the attitudes of the title characters. Mere allusions or stylistic homages to the samurai film have as much dramatic impact as a group of men playing mah-jongg (which is also a reference in The Road Warrior). When Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky enters the narrative, he does so like Mifune in Yojimbo, like a stray dog. It is that attitude which types him, although a figure in a science fiction narrative, as a lineal descendant of the ronin Sanjuro, and ironically one of the few to grace the screen in recent years. Whether that impact will carry over into the third sequel in 2004 remains to be seen. The most recent foray into the “samurai homage” sub-genre is Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), which in some ways outdoes Tom Laughlin. As a noir samurai film, Kill Bill is burdened by Tarantino’s usual fractured narrative and kitchen-sink approach, a grab-bag from The Killing to the Sword of Vengeance series with a tip of the hat to Vicente Aranda’s La Novia Ensangrentada (1972), a whole different genre, thrown in. The parody elements – from the pre-title fake “Shaw Scope” logo and “Feature Presentation Banner”, scratched up as if purloined from the projection booth of some drive-in, to the extended anime sequence that fills in the back story of Oren – are purposefully over the top. The gun in the box of “Kaboom” cereal is about as deft as this movie gets, for Tarantino appears to be reaching for the American-take-on-the-samurai analogy of Last House on the Left (1972), Wes Craven’s modern-day, blood-and-guts variant on Bergman’s Virgin Spring (1960). The problem is that, while the exploration of a character’s revenge for the death of a child, has dramatic resonance from Sweden to Japan, the chivalric code that requires and controls vengeance looks different from a 21st century perspective. Moreover, as far as disjunctive style and narrative is concerned, Japanese filmmakers have already thoroughly deconstructed the genre on their own, directly, through the ninkyo eiga, and in all manner of commercials and music videos. The use of Ennio Morricone themes and other allusions on the soundtrack notwithstanding, the saga of “The Bride with No Name” – whatever her name is, in case the audience should fail to notice, is “bleeped” out in the first sequence – is as far from Leone as it is from Gosha; and the pre-existence of Kill Bill does not create an effective link to a series figure, to Nemuri or Zato Ichi or even Crimson Bat Oichi. Any audience understands from genre expectation, if not from the existence of Volume 2, that the Bride who would not die in the flashback cannot die in the extended combat at the end. Possessing the same preternatural sword skills as countless samurai figures, the Bride’s unbreakable blade slices through scores of black-suited minions as easily as Itto Ogami disposed of Yagyu-clan ninja. Of course, in Kill Bill the namesake of the legendary Iga ninja, Hanzo Hattori, is an Okinawan sword-smith who makes the Bride’s blade. Given this “legendary” context, even those who did not notice that Oren’s name was already crossed off the list as the saga began, must certainly expect the Bride, newly spattered with the blood of others, to conquer every antagonist. Hattori’s Japanese voice that coaches her at the end of the first sequence, exhorting her to “kill whoever stands in your way”, has become a voice inside. But all the elements, the ninja-style concealment in the eaves, the long stretches of black-and-white photography, the young combatant spared with a Sanjuro-like admonishment, add up only to the expected result. While the period martial arts films of Hong Kong and mainland China share many of the attributes of the samurai film, particularly the ninja sub-genre, the operatic complications and physical magic of the swordplay movies – as evident in the recent crossover success Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – overwhelm any version of giri-ninjo conflict which its characters might confront. A contemporary action film like Kiss of the Dragon (2001) is actually generically more proximate to chambara. Although seeking to clear himself of criminal charges, the protagonist’s attack on the headquarters of a crooked police detective self-righteously defies all odds in order to rescue a child. The bare-handed combat after he stumbles into a roomful of Parisian cops in white karate uniforms is closer in staging and tone to such defiant figures as Sanjuro or Itto Ogami than any scene in Kill Bill. There are certainly antecedents to the recently released The Last Samurai. Besides Okamoto’s East Meets West and Red Sun, there is Bushido Blade (1979) where sailors from Perry’s black ships and a shogunate retainer (portrayed by Mifune) search for a stolen sword intended as a gift for Townsend Harris. Journey of Honor (Shogun Mayeda, 1991) depicts events prior to the battle of Sekigahara and a trip to Spain by the son of Ieyasu Tokugawa to obtain muskets for his father’s faction. Guns are also at the crux of The Last Samurai. While somewhat at variance with the Kojiki (2), the narration which opens The Last Samurai tells of how Japan was formed when the gods tempered a sword in the sea and the drops which fell from it created the island nation. After this mythic invocation, the scene shifts to 1876 San Francisco, where the former cavalry Captain Nathan Algren gives a drunken demonstration of his proficiency with a Winchester. His back-story as a “hero” is parcelled out over several conversations about Custer and the 7th Cavalry and physically intrudes into the narrative in the form of flashbacks to a massacre at an Indian camp. After he is hired to go to Japan with a former Colonel and a single non-com to train the Imperial army, the plot that unfolds might well have been pitched as Dances with Wolves meets Ran with a bit of Star Wars and They Died with their Boots On thrown in. The antagonist of the Emperor is a former minister, a reactionary Samurai named Katsumoto who disdains Western arms. The real “Katsumoto”, Saigo Takamori, who lead the Satsuma Rebellion in 1876-77 and was a minor character in Kenji Misumi’s The Last Samurai, may have been more of a neo-imperialist than a bujutsu purist (3). When untrained troops are, despite Algren’s protest, sent out against him they turn and run. In the slaughter, many are killed and a wounded Algren is taken captive. While Taka, Katsumoto’s sister and widow of a samurai killed by Algren, tends the captive’s wound, there are more flashbacks to Indian camp killings as his recuperation is compounded by the delirium tremens of alcoholic withdrawal. While Algren screams for saké, his journal is being read by Katsumoto. The winter spent in Katsumoto’s mountain village is the narrative core of The Last Samurai. With scenes and characters all but transposed whole from Dances with Wolves, new journal entries provide a voiceover narration: Algren acquiesces to requests for conversation by Katsumoto (who has heard of Custer and the Indian wars); Algren picks up Japanese during meals with Taka and her sons; Algren is chaperoned by an older samurai whom he calls “Bob”; and Algren gets some harsh bokken lessons from Ujio, Katsumoto’s angry lieutenant. Certainly when the voiceover remarks about being taken in “as if I were a stray dog”, there are some telling allusions to the genre traditions of chambara but much of the process of “going native” is generic. Although the circumstances which bring him to the village are clearly different, as with Kevin Costner’s portrayal of Lt. Dunbar amongst the Sioux, Tom Cruise’s Algren is won over by the noble savagery and sense of tribal community in the samurai enclave. Over the course of several months, Algren’s skill with the bokken also grows prodigiously. With Taka’s sons acting as his mushin-no-shin coaches by calling out “no mind”, Algren visualises a series of moves, a bit like Ichi in Zato Ichi in Desperation, and remarkably achieves a draw in a practice duel with Ujio. While the village enjoys a puppet play, as with the sneak attack by the rival Pawnee in Dances with Wolves, a squad of ninja assassins strike; and Algren joins the defense. In an extended sequence of classic chambara Algren first protects Taka and her family then fights side-by-side with Katsumoto until the ninja are defeated. At this point, the genre indicators – if not the movie publicity – are clear: there is no turning back for Algren from the path to full investiture as a samurai. Returned to Tokyo when Katsumoto agrees to discuss resuming his position as government minister, Algren is offered direction of the Imperial forces by Minister Omura, who hired him in San Francisco. Before refusing Omura, Algren understates Katsumoto’s threat: “He’s a tribal leader. I’ve know many of them”. As he packs to leave, Algren learns of Katsumoto’s arrest and realises he cannot abandon him. When confronted by Omura’s sinister aid and three henchmen, Algren chooses not to draw his pistols but still kills them all in a frenzied display of niten-ryu or two-sword technique using blades snatched from the hands of his assailants. After Algren mentally replays the combat in a slow-motion, monochromatic, “no minded” flashback, Omura’s man rises up to say the day of samurai is over and be beheaded. While the use of genre expectation can be effective dramatic shorthand, the thumbnails that act as mile markers on Algren’s path are somewhat disjointed. When Algren talks to Katsumoto about the Spartans at Themopylae, the conversation is more about myth-making than tactics. The last battle is an extended and bloody affair that is conspicuously epic in scale and seeks to resonate with pictures as diverse as Ran and Lawrence of Arabia but ends up being mostly The Charge of the Light Brigade. Making Katsumoto and his followers, a small band of 300 or so outsiders, defiant to the death is certainly more melodramatic than the thousands who fought (and died) on each side at the historical battle of Tabura-zaka and is also in keeping with the chambara spirit of hopeless causes typefied by the saga of 47 ronin. Certainly also, Japanese filmmakers from Misumi’s The Last Samurai to When the Last Sword is Drawn have distorted the actual events at Toba-Fushimi to emphasise the hollow triumph of technology over tradition. But the Western viewer is unlikely to perceive a sub-text in which the slaughter of the last of the fierce traditionalists under the withering fire of a Gatling gun could be read as a mass funshi, a suicide out of righteous indignation, to protest the government’s policies. Who, in fact, is to be perceived as the last samurai of the title? Clearly Katsumoto qualifies, whether it’s striding into the council of ministers with two swords in his sash in defiance of the 1876 law or riding into battle to embrace “a good death”. But Katsumoto’s persistent vision, the primordial scene of a white tiger fighting off a slew of warriors which comes to him in a Zen trance during an early sequence, also dies with him. Part of the new myth constructed by the filmmakers of this Last Samurai is in the link which Katusmoto saw when Algren fought against his warriors at their first encounter and the banner of the tiger attached to the broken lance with which Algren flailed. The transference of that vision, as Algren helps the defeated Katsumoto perform an impromptu seppuku on the field of battle, defines the real last samurai. In terms of narrative, Algren is as unlikely a surviror as Dunbar was at the beginning of Dances with Wolves. In terms of genre and myth, the expectations and impact are much the same. While the narration gives the audience alternate possibilities of Algren’s fate, the images are of him returning to the village. As last man stranding, Algren becomes the unlikely, very Western repository of the samurai spirit embodied by Katsumoto and his men. Glossary of Japanese Terms The fall of a military regime, used to designate the restoration of power to the Meiji dynasty in 1867. bokkenor bo-ken A wooden sword. “The martial path”; the martial arts, methods of fighting with and without arms in which the samurai was rigorously instructed. bujutsu “The martial art”; synonymous with budo. The alternate spelling “jitsu” is also used, sometimes more generally, as in jujitsu. “The way of the warrior”, an unwritten ethical code to be followed by all samurai. bushi A warrior; bu: “martial”; shi: “knight”. A realistically staged display of sword fighting in a Jidai-geki or period drama; in motion pictures, a generic designation for a samurai film. A provincial lord who ruled a hanor province in the manner of a European duke. Literally “long saber”, a sword with a blade length of at least two and a half feet (measured in shaku – see below) but possibly over three feet, traditionally associated with the samurai, who was the only person privileged to carry it. Modern daitoshave 40-inch blades. See also tachiand katana. A gymnasium or place of religious meditation. “Right reason”; the dutiful service which bushido directs the warrior to give to his family, clans and lord. Large domains or provinces, which became prefectures after the Meiji restoration. “Stomach-cut”, a reversal of the ideographs for seppuku; a common or vulgar term for ritual-suicide. ishin shishi “Men of high purpose”, young, low-ranking samurai from the outside provinces who supported the bakumatsu. The second in hara-kiri, the man who decapitates the performer after the stomach-cut has been accomplished. Originally designating a medium sword blade, between about two shaku long and shorter than a daito. Only samurai could carry blades longer than two shaku. Modern katanashave up to 30-inch blades. Alternate: uchigatanaor “inside sword” in the otoshi-zashi. kozuka A small knife or dart kept in a special compartment of the scabbard. mushin no shin “No-mindedness”; the mind capable of movement from unconscious thought to action; de-concentration. A class of spies and assassins that originated in the 12th century, often depicted as clad and hooded in black and wielding exotic weapons. ninjo Man’s will; the personal or conscientious inclination which is often opposed or constrained by giri or duty. ninkyo eiga “Chivalry films”; referring to a type of yakuzafilm. Epitomised by Gosha’s The Wolves, which explores the “ethics” of gangsterism. niten-ryu “Two-sword style”; a method of fighting simultaneously with both swords developed by Miyamoto Musashi. “Man on the wave”; a disenfranchised or masterless samurai; variant from the late Tokugawa era: roshior “wave knight”. Literally a “servant”; warriors retained in the service of a clan. A master, a term of respect for a teacher. “Cutting the stomach”; reversal of the ideographs in hara-kiri; formal term for ritual suicide. A unit of linear measure. A modern shakuis 30cm or just under 12 inches (11.96). shikomi-zue A cane sword. shinsengumi “New group of select [men]”; citizen militia, quasi-unofficial police and vigilantes for the Tokugawa in Kyoto during the bakumatsu. A generalissimo or field-marshal; the office held by the non-Imperial, hereditary rulers of feudal Japan. shogunate Period of de facto rule by a shogun. A daitohung from sash or slung over the back. Literally “8-9-3” from a losing card combination; in feudal society a member of a roving group of gamblers (bakuto) or pimps (ponbiki). Suburbs of Kyoto where the Boshin War began in January 1868 when shogunate and shinsengumi fighters lost to a smaller ishin shishi force equipped with more firearms and cannon. In the actual creation myth two divine beings, the male Izanagi and the female Izanami, stand on the Floating Bridge of Heaven, and Izanagi thrusts through the viscous waters with the Ama-no-Nuboko, a jeweled spear. When he draws it back the drops that fall from the tip coagulate into the island of Onokoro. The couple settle on the island and ultimately Izanami gives birth to the rest of the islands and sundry gods of the sea and wind. In one variant, all the islands of Japan are formed from the drops that fall from the Ama-no-Nuboko. Takamori Saigo was one of the ishin shishi from Satsuma who helped bring about the bakumatsu. After leading the Imperial forces during most of the Boshin War, he was appointed minister of the Army in the first cabinets of Prince Mutsuhito/Emperor Meiji and acted as head of the Imperial Guard. Rebuffed in 1873 over his plan to invade Korea, Saigo resigned and returned to Satsuma where he founded a private academy. When some of his followers attacked a government arsenal, he was forced into open rebellion. In the actual climactic battle of Tabura-zaka hill, which ended the Satsuma Rebellion of 1876-77, Saigo was indeed wounded and did commit suicide with his own sword. While Katsumoto’s force is depicted as a small band of mountain samurai armed only with swords, lances, bows and arrows, and a cavalry unit, Saigo’s rebel army, which numbered 10,000 men, wore uniforms not samurai armor, carried muzzle-loading rifles, had no cavalry, but did field a couple of artillery pieces. They faced a better equipped force more than twice their size in a battle that left over 7,000 dead. After death, Takamori was pardoned by the Emperor, valorised as an example of the warrior ideal, and a statue (ironically in Western garb) was erected in his honour in Satsuma. “Ujio” would appear to be based on Hanjiro Nakamoto, a key character in Kenji Misumi’s The Last Samurai, who died in the battle. “Omura” is actually Okubo Toshimitsu, a wealthy Satsuma samurai who worked with Takamori during the Bakumatsu but opposed the war with Korea. He was assassinated in 1878 by six Satsuma clansmen seeking revenge for his “betrayal” of Saigo. Argento, Dario 2003 World Poll – Part 1 Alain Silver is a Santa Monica-based writer/producer of independent feature films, whose books include genre surveys on the samurai film and the vampire film, director studies of Robert Aldrich and David Lean, and seven volumes on film noir. From Auto-ethnography to Autobiography: Representations of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Jie Li Sean Cubitt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line311
__label__wiki	0.571391	0.571391	Living in Southern California a few decades ago, I had the privilege of building some robot action props for several movies. The prop people from one of the films, Revenge of the Nerds, needed two identical remotely-controlled action prop robots — one of which is shown in Figure 2 — and two extra non-functional but identical-looking props to represent the single robot ‘built’ by the two star nerds in the first of the film’s series. The production company waited and waited to give me the ‘go ahead,’ and finally told me to start and have the robots completed in just a few weeks. With such a close deadline, I told them I would have to hire a friend who was temporarily out of work to assist me, as I had a full time job at Rockwell. They tossed a nice amount of money my way to get them completed, and we met the deadline. That seemed to be the way that movie productions operated in those days. A bit later in the film industry, along came CGI robots such as the NS- 3 humanoids from the film, I, Robot. I loaned about a dozen ‘antique’ 1980’s robots to the prop people for that movie that never made it on screen. With today’s computer graphics imaging technology, movie robots are now a bunch of 1s and 0s on a hard drive somewhere. A few action props are still used in movies, such as BB8 in the latest Star Wars episode that will arrive in movie theaters this December. One of the film’s stars, Oscar Isaac is shown in Figure 3 with a working BB8. The action prop was created by utilizing Sphero’s technology. BB8 will be seen as a CGI robot throughout the film, but many close-up shots will show this amazing rolling bot as a physical being with the robot’s head staying on top of the revolving sphere. The Robot Hut I do miss the old days when people actually built movie props like those shown at the Robot Hut. The A friend, Ryan Smyth invited me to go there this past April, and four of his friends went with us. After driving almost 400 miles and eight hours from the Portland, OR area (I live just north of Portland, in Washington), we arrived at the small country road that leads to the museum owner’s farm. Upon reaching the farm, one would never know that the new red by Tom Carroll g{xÇ Now a n d TWCarroll@aol.com I do not believe that there is a reader of this magazine who has not looked at a robot in a movie and wondered if they might also have a similar robot for their own. So, I cannot imagine a better demonstration of the ‘then and now’ of robotics than a museum dedicated to robots — from early movies to today’s blockbusters. Before delving into the Robot Hut Museum, I would like to discuss the evolution of robot action props into computer-generated images of robots for movies. We all know that the ‘robots’ shown in movies in the past were either people stuffed into uncomfortable robot suits or were remotely-controlled action props. Whether the robot was a gigantic monster like the robots in Pacific Rim, cute little roving garbage can-sized bots like R2D2 in Star Wars, or even the not so friendly police robots such as the ED-209 in Robo Cop shown in Figure 1 — we were enthralled with them all. Figure 1 - The ED-209 police robot from the film, Robocop. Figure 2 - One of four action props from the film, Revenge of the Nerds. Figure 3 - Oscar Isaac with the BB8 robot at the Star Wars Film Celebration in Anaheim.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line312
__label__wiki	0.637964	0.637964	2009 Golden Bowl Tournament: Sugar Bowl Semifinal January 6, 2010 by Morgan Wick Sugar Bowl: #6 TCU v. #2 Cincinnati In real life, the impact of this game, as the “non-traditional” championship game compared to the “traditionalist” Rose Bowl, has been blunted by both teams losing their bowl games. And since TCU beat Florida (in the quarters), who beat Cincinnati (in real life), it would seem to suggest TCU will be the favorite. Which is exactly what happened – and they did it in such a way that, without the knowledge that the real life Horned Frogs lost to Boise State and combined with the convincing quarterfinal win over Florida, it may be hard to call the Rose Bowl winner a convincing favorite. TCU sure doesn’t look like a mid-major team. Cincinnati had the ball to start the game, and Tony Pike had a 15-yard completion to Mardy Gilyard on second down, followed by an Isaiah Pead run to midfield for six yards, but he was stopped behind the line on second down and the Bearcats were forced to punt. TCU went three-and-out with a fumble and Cincinnati looked to have the early momentum. But they went three-and-out as well, and on the Frogs’ next play from scrimmage Joseph Turner pounded ahead for an 18-yard gain, putting TCU across midfield after a face mask penalty. TCU couldn’t do anything and was forced to punt, but Cincinnati didn’t get very far either despite an 11-yard Pead run and an 8-yard run by Jacob Ramsey that both went for first downs. TCU went three-and-out again, but Pike was picked on the very next play, and TCU had the momentum for good. Andy Dalton made a long completion to Jeremy Kerley, and Matt Tucker pounded ahead for a six-yard touchdown to take the early lead. The teams traded three-and-outs across the quarter break. Cincinnati managed to pick up a first down but a big sack of Pike helped force a punt despite crossing midfield. A Dalton pass to Evan Frosch and 7-yard Tucker run crossed midfield, but the drive stalled and TCU punted the ball back. But after the defense forces yet another three-and-out, the ensuing punt is returned almost to midfield, and a completion to Bart Johnson for 23 yards pretty much puts the Horned Frogs in field goal range, allowing them to take a 10-point lead. The Bearcats then engage in their most productive drive of the half: after a second down sack pinned the Bearcats behind their own 20, Pike makes a 27-yard completion to Gilyard and follows that up with a 15-yard Pead run and a 17-yard completion to Ben Guidugli that puts them inside the 30. But a Ramsey 8-yard run is negated by an illegal motion penalty the following play, and Pike is sacked out of field goal range on third down, forcing a turnover on downs. Dalton makes a long completion to Logan Brock but can’t do anything with it, but while Guidugli makes a long completion there isn’t enough time to do anything with it. Cincinnati enters the break down 10-0 and unable to so much as attempt a field goal, and pundits note that TCU is winning the game because their defense is outplaying the Bearcat defense. TCU gets the ball to start the second half and makes the most of it, the highlights being a long completion to Kerley and Dalton dancing inside the pylon for eight yards, ultimately setting up a field goal that gives TCU a 13-point lead that seems twice that size. Things seem to go well for Cincinnati at first as well, with a 25-yard completion to DJ Woods, but another pass to Armon Binns results in what replay confirms as a fumble, giving TCU the ball right back. TCU can’t do much more than a pass to Johnson across midfield, and punts the ball into the end zone, starting another productive Bearcat drive, starting with another long completion to Gilyard, 17 yards on third and 12. Jamar Howard gets involved for the next first down, and Gilyard makes a nine-yard completion for another first down, but once again the Horned Frogs lock down inside the 40 and force Cincinnati to go for it on fourth down, this time getting a sack that gives TCU great field position to start the final period. By the end of the day, Pike is sacked nine times by eight different players and, combined with four rushing attempts, loses a total of a whopping 62 yards on the ground by himself. Turner would be named the MVP for his 17 rushes for 81 yards and a touchdown, emblematic of TCU’s overall rushing success, but the defense is the real star of the day. TCU misses the field goal created by the turnover, but Pike throws his second interception, Ross Evans quickly redeems himself, and TCU, as though they weren’t in command already, puts the game away for the remainder of the final period, scoring a touchdown after Cincinnati punts on their next drive only to see it returned inside the 30, and scoring another touchdown, Turner’s, later on. Cincinnati is unable to score all day, or even attempt a field goal, and notice is served to Alabama and Texas that they do not have the de facto national championship game. Final score: TCU 30, Cincinnati 0 Preview of the Golden Bowl coming either if and when I simulate a bowl only affected by the Golden Bowl Tournament, or when posting my final rankings. Categories Golden Bowl Simulated CFB Playoff Post navigation The AFC Wild Card Race As I See It Predictions for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2010	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line315
__label__wiki	0.696961	0.696961	New found hope EDITORIAL 12/30/2009 New found hope The nation is facing 2010 with a sense of hope that seems to have been lost for almost a decade based on surveys and more significantly, a kind of electricity everybody feels radiating in the air. The nation became victim of the grandest of all deception in 2001 when, exploiting a manipulated sense of an immoral government, conspirators led by the self-righteous lot of businessmen, civil socialites and the Church hierarchy backed by the military, grabbed power from popularly-elected President Joseph Estrada. Hope was replaced by a sense of resignation as Gloria, who was supposed to be the self-righteous conspirators’ anointed, turned out to be their evil creation that exceeded all the nation’s worst fears of a politician unfit to don the mantle of power. For close to nine years, the nation .... MORE An Estrada surge on eve of campaign Another annus horribilis Disasters waiting to happen Just one wish An Estrada surge on eve of campaign PIPELINE Antonio Gatmaitan 12/30/2009 Antonio Gatmaitan At about the time when things were winding down, Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations, the two respected and widely accepted pollsters published assessments of the 2010 presidential elections, two days apart, a fortnight ago. Electoral track record..... MORE Another annus horribilis ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/30/2009 n an exquisite display of her knowledge of Latin, Queen Elizabeth II, in her annual New Year message to the British people, spoke of 1997 as an annus horribilis for the United Kingdom. That was the year in which Princess Diana, the estranged wife of the Prince of Wales, met her tragic death on an August night in a Parisian tunnel. .... MORE No action MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 12/30/2009 The ambush of a convoy of vehicles containing 52 passengers in Dingras, Ilocos Norte, killing councilor candidate Joen Canete, a barangay chairman and wounding seven others, including Provincial Board Member Robert Castro, confirms the presence of private armies in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and Abra who are politically connected..... MORE An Estrada surge on eve of campaign PIPELINE Anto... Another annus horribilis ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero ... No action MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 12/30/2... Disasters waiting to happen C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S J... Just one wish HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 12/30/2009 The year that was SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 12/3... Zimbabwe: Journalist Facing Public Violence Charges Acquitted - [New Zimbabwe] Harare magistrate, Richard Ramaboa has acquitted a freelance journalist, Doubt Asima who landed in the dock after he tried to assist a woman...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line330
__label__wiki	0.52302	0.52302	Correct procedure EDITORIAL 01/20/2010 Correct procedure Predictably, the supporters and candidates of Nacionalista Party (NP) president Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar came to his defense, blasting the Senate committee of the whole’s report, signed by 12 senators, censuring Villar for the many anomalies and “pecuniary benefits” he and his corporations enjoyed to the detriment of the Filipino people, in relation to the C-5 road project, whose alterations from the original project, by virtue of Villar’s position and power, dunned the Filipino people of P6.22 billion. “It is all about politics, and lies,” the NP candidates and supporters claimed. Sen. Miriam Santiago, an NP senatorial bet, was.... MORE Useless debate By any name, a midnight appointment Clear conflict of interest And the surveys say... Save lives Useless debate FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 01/20/2010 The Judicial Bar and Council (JBC) has decided to open the nominations for the post of the chief justice (CJ), in preparation for the retirement of Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who is set to leave the high court by May 17. That should end the arguments and demands from several sectors for the JBC not to come up with a list this early, to deny Gloria Arroyo the opportunity to appoint the next CJ.... MORE By any name, a midnight appointment ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 01/20/2010 Hearing and reading all the justifications being offered in support of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s plan to appoint a successor to Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice (CJ) Reynato Puno before his May 17 retirement, I am reminded of what the Bard of Avon said about roses. A rose by any other name is still a rose, wrote William Shakespeare about what is arguably the world’s best-loved flower. I was reminded of Shakespeare’s declaration because Ms. Arroyo’s lackeys are calling her plan.... MORE Clear conflict of interest MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 01/20/2010 The Senate committee of the whole found Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. guilty of improper and unethical conduct in using his position to pressure the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and allocate funds in the budget to reroute the C-5 bypass road to pass through his properties and subdivisions. The Senate report signed by 12 senators asked Villar to refund P6.2 billion to the National Treasury. The report said Villar violated Section 14, Article VI, of the Constitution for intervening in the project of the DPWH for his “pecuniary benefit.”.... MORE Useless debate FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 01... By any name, a midnight appointment ZOOMING IN Ru... Clear conflict of interest MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernest... And the surveys say... C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonath... Save water HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 01/20/2010 Save lives SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 01/20/2010 Ahead of tinder box Virginia gun rally, Trump says Constitution under attack - President Donald Trump took aim at Virginia Democrats and their push to stiffen the state's gun laws, saying that the U.S. Constitution was under attack ju...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line331
__label__wiki	0.952877	0.952877	No more excuses EDITORIAL 04/30/2011 No more excuses Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez has resigned from her post and obviously, Noynoy must be overjoyed by the latest turn of events. He immediately accepted Merci’s resignation. But now that Merci is gone, he may be facing an even bigger hurdle as he no longer has that excuse he always uses to blame his failure to get rid of corruption in his government, due to what he and his allies call their major “stumbling block” now that she has resigned. When scandals start to rock his government too, who else will he be blaming for the corruption?.... MORE Good choice? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/30/2011 Good choice? The Makati Business Club (MBC) is really riding high under the Noynoy administration, what with an additional appointee to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner in Gus Lagman. Lagman was reportedly apppointed by Noynoy on the strength of his IT credentials. Fine. But his track record — at least during election quick counts in the past — always held a partisan color and this may prove disturbing to many when election time comes. True, Lagman did question the reliability of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in 2010 as well as the anomalous Mega-Pacific deal during the time of Benjamin Abalos Sr. And Lagman, even as a commissioner, pushes the release of the source code and other documents which Jose Melo and his Comelec commissioners refused to release, despite a Supreme Court order for the Comelec to free these. But it has also been noted that, despite all his and his Namfrel colleagues’ opposition to the PCOS machines, they all seemed to have stopped all complaints after their candidate won the Comelec “unofficial” precinct count that was pretty questionable. Even the provincial and municipal count failed to match the precinct count, as there was a clear 4 to 5 million votes in excess of the official precinct ballot count..... MORE Bosnian Croats feel squeezed in Muslim-shared entity focus 04/30/2011 Bosnian Croats feel squeezed in Muslim-shared entity MOSTAR — More than 15 years since the end of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war, Muslims and Croats still avoid each other in this picturesque southern town. They were allies against the Serbs during most of the conflict, but also fought each other for a period, notably in the region around Mostar. Under the Dayton settlement they were forced into an autonomous but shared federation, with the Serbs having their own entity, the Republika Srpska. Now demands are building among Croats to be given their own autonomy amid feelings that the majority Muslims are squeezing them out of a voice..... MORE CHR Decision on Fil-Am Activist Case to Perpetuate Impunity – Rights Groups Human rights group Karapatan said that with the CHR resolution, “the crime of torture will have its heyday under the Aquino administration.” The Commission on Human Rights’s (CHR) report on the abduction of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas and two others has drawn criticisms from human rights groups. Roxas, a member of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-USA chapter, and her two companions Juanito Carrabeo and John Edward Jandoc were forcibly taken by armed men on May 19, 2009 in La Paz, Tarlac. Roxas suffered torture for six days before she was freed by her captors. In her affidavit and subsequent testimonies before the CHR and Congress, Roxas maintained that her captors were members of the military. In its recent findings, however, the CHR said there is insufficient evidence to support Roxas’s allegations that members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) took her and subjected her to physical and mental maltreatment. Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) bewailed the CHR resolution saying it “practically clears” the military of any wrongdoing. While the CHR resolution states that there is “enough evidence to find that complainant has suffered cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment by persons unknown,” it also states that there is insufficient evidence to support Roxas’s claim of torture because, according to the rights body, there was not enough evidence to determine the identities of the abductors. Melissa Roxas testifies during the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) investigation on her abduction and torture in 2009.(Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / bulatlat.com) “In the light of the lack of evidence against the persons who inflicted the physical and psychological maltreatment on the complainant, it is not possible for the Commission to reach any findings on torture, the definition of which includes elements of State party or agent and certain intentions, purposes and motivations,” the CHR resolution said. The same report states: “The CHR has received information that indicates the possibility that members of the NPA committed the kidnapping and other human rights violations on Roxas et al. These sources have been found to be credible. However, no specific names of individuals have been provided to the CHR, thus the Commission, with its limited resources, is unable to further follow up and identify specific persons as the possible perpetrators.”.... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/27/chr-decision-on-fil-am-activist-case-to-perpetuate-impunity-%e2%80%93-rights-groups/ Kin, Writers and Artists Launch Campaign for Release of Detained Poet Ericson Acosta “His works as a writer, poet, thespian, singer and songwriter have remained relevant especially to the succeeding generations of UP activists in and out of the university. His bias for the poor and oppressed dates back to his campus days.” Mrs. Liwayway Acosta is graceful in keeping her pain hidden; but sometimes it becomes too much and tears fall and she struggles to regain her composure. For over two months now, Mrs. Liwayway and her husband Isaias Acosta and have been worried because one of their two children, their son, writer and poet Ericson, 37, had been detained and falsely and maliciously charged with illegal possession of firearms in Catbalogan, Samar. Both mother and father are now at the lead of a campaign pressing for their poet-son’s immediate release. “At least we know that he’s alright and that he’s not being hurt. That was our greatest worry in the beginning. Our son is made of stronger stuff and we know that he’s holding up in prison. This is not the kind of thing that will break Eric,” said Mrs. Acosta. Mr. Acosta in the meantime is the unashamedly proud father. He even has a list of his only child’s achievements since grade school, and at the drop of a hat can enumerate the various literary, theatrical and scientific awards Ericson has received since he was in shorts and attending grade school in St. Mary’s College,and eventually when he went to the University of Sto. Tomas for his secondary education. “He has never been anything but a good son, an intelligent student, and a loving parent to his own son Emmanuel,” said Mr. Acosta. Artists Rally Behind Campaign for Poet’s Release Two weeks ago, the family and Ericson’s friends and former colleagues officially launched the Free Ericson Acosta campaign in Quezon City. It was a reunion of sorts for Ericson’s friends from his university days, and an event that saw some of the most respected names in the Philippines’ literary circles placing their support behind an artist who chose a path of human rights activism. Family, friends and supporters from the art community commit their support to the Free Ericson Acosta Campaign. At the lead are father Isaias Acosta and mother Liwayway (not in picture)..(Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com) At the time when Ericson was arrested earlier last February 13, he was a freelance journalist documenting the human rights situation in Western Samar. He was arrested in the company of various community leaders from a farmers’ organization who staunchly defended him and affirmed his work as a writer. During the campaign launch press conference, Ericson’s former editor-in-chief in the Philippine Collegian Michael John Ac-ac said that the former had true artist sensibilities and that he, Ericson, honed it through the years by voracious reading, prolific writing and by constantly discovering developments in the cultural scene. URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/27/kin-writers-and-artists-launch-campaign-for-release-of-detained-poet-ericson-acosta/ Think Tanks Refute Malacañang’s Arguments Against Wage Hikes “Since July 2010, skyrocketing commodity prices coupled with stagnant wages have eroded workers’ wages in lightning speed, which is unmatched by the previous administration,” said EILER executive director Anna Leah Escresa. As Malacañang thumbs down the demand of government employees in the country for a substantial wage increase, research groups have taken turns debunking government claims that salary and wage hikes are impossible to implement given the current economic conditions. Current Wage Provides Only 41 Percent of What Families Need The IBON Foundation said the value of the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila has dropped and is only able to provide for about 41 percent of the amount needed for a family to live decently. This is less than the figure 10 years ago, in 2001, wherein the minimum wage was about 52 percent of the cost to live decently. According to the IBON Foundation, the daily minimum wage of P404 (US$9.39) is just 2/5 of the estimated average family living wage (FLW) of P988 (US$23) in the National Capital Region (NCR) as of March 2011. The family living wage is defined as the minimum amount needed for a family of six members to meet their daily food and non-food needs plus a 10 percent allocation for savings. The latest living wage estimates are based on the 2008 family living wage computation of the National Wages and Productivity Commission of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). According to IBON data, the daily minimum wage of P265 (US$6) in 2001 was half of the amount a family needed to live decently, which was then pegged at P509 (US$12). (Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com) As the DOLE and the wage boards deliberate on whether to give a wage hike next month, the research group urged government to raise wages to a decent level and approximate the wage increase to the estimated family living wage. Nonstop Price Hikes Adding to the urgency of a wage increase, a labor research group said, is the fact that the combined wage increases in the past decade had been totally eroded within only eight months by nonstop price hikes under the Aquino administration..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/23/independent-think-tanks-refute-malacanangs-arguments-against-p6000-and-p125-salary-wage-hikes/ Media Groups Urge Aquino to Take Concrete Action to Stop the Killings “As we pause from daily routine in this period of spiritual contemplation and renewal, we ask once again that you draw strength from our advocacy to end the impunity that has punished the Filipino people for so long.” MANILA – In an open letter, media organizations called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to take concrete action to put a stop to the killings of journalists. The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, Inc. (FFFJ), a national network of press oriented organizations, together with other media organizations and mass communication professors and students, said the action should “send a signal that the executive will do all that is necessary and within its power to counter impunity.” Six journalists have been murdered since Aquino assumed the presidency. An unidentified gunman shot at broadcaster Miguel Belen of Camarines Sur on July 9, 2010; he later died on July 31. On January 24, Gerardo Ortega was gunned down in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. A woman broadcaster Marlina Flores Sumera was shot dead on March 24. The FFFJ noted that the first two killings are work-related and said that the murder of Sumera could also be work- related..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/21/media-groups-urge-aquino-to-take-concrete-action-to-stop-the-killings/ Merci resigns By Arlie O. Calalo and Gerry Baldo 04/30/2011 SAYS NATION, INSTITUTION, FAMILY COME FIRST Merci resigns By Arlie O. Calalo and Gerry Baldo 04/30/2011 Catching her detractors by surprise, embattled Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez yesterday personally submitted her resignation to President Aquino 10 days before her impeachment trial at the Senate would have started, earlier scheduled for May 9, when sessions resume. Gutierrez submitted her one-page resignation letter to Aquino around 10:30 a.m. in Malacañang and proceeded to her office in Quezon City where she held a news conference wherein she read a prepared statement regarding her sudden decision to resign from her post. In her letter to the President, she said her resignation will take effect on May 6 or three days before her impeachment trial at the Senate was set to begin. Scheduled to retire in December 2012, Gutierrez stressed that her “undivided loyalty” was to the Filipino people, and not to the former President, although she said she is grateful to the former President for having appointed her to this post.... MORE High court reverses Desierto ruling on behest loans 04/30/2011 High court reverses Desierto ruling on behest loans The Supreme Court has reversed the 1998 ruling of the Office of the Ombudsman as it ordered to indict officials of a local company for an anomalous behest loan it allegedly obtained 35 years ago. The high court’s First Division, through Associate Justice Jose Perez, reversed the findings of former Ombudsman Aniano Desierto who had dismissed the case along with 17 others filed by the Presidential Ad Hoc Fact-Finding Committee on Behest Loans. Desierto dismissed all of these cases on the ground of prescription and insufficiency of evidence. Named respondents in the particular case were Mohammad Ali Dimaporo, Abdullah Dimaporo and Amer Dianalan, stockholders and officers of the Mindanao Coconut Oil Mills (Mincoco), a domestic corporation established in 1974..... MORE Police confiscate guns from Cagayan farmers By Ted Boehnert 04/30/2011 Police confiscate guns from Cagayan farmers By Ted Boehnert 04/30/2011 TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — Policemen confiscated several firearms believed to be unregistered owned by three farmers in a remote town here last Wednesday, police report said. Senior Supt. Mao Aplasca, Cagayan police director, identified the farmers as Solito Cabbuag, Loreto Cabbuag and Jayson Banad, all residents of Barangay Mauanan in Rizal town, Cagayan Valley province. According to Aplasca, confiscated were M16 Armalite rifle with 14 alloy magazines and 300 live rounds of ammunition, a 12-gauge shotgun with 6 live rounds of ammunition and a .22 caliber pistol with a magazine and 38 live rounds of ammunition. The guns and ammunition were confiscated based on a search warrant issued by Judge Edman Castillo of Tuao Regional Trial Court Branch 11, Tuguegarao City.... MORE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110430nat10.html Know RH, RP bills first before supporting them, urges solon By Angie M. Rosales 04/30/2011 Know RH, RP bills first before supporting them, urges solon Amid the increasing tension between the Malacañang and the Catholic Church on the raging debates over the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill or Responsible Parenthood (RP) bill, a senator is appealing to the public to get themselves fully educated to the issue before taking any position on the matter. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV made the call as he took note of the apparent misconception of some individuals as to the advantages and disadvantages of the bill. “The public is unwittingly supporting the RH bill because they are being led to believe that the measure would control population growth and allow access to contraceptives. “But the thing is, contraceptives can be accessed freely now and the Department of Health (DoH), in fact, has been distributing contraceptives even without the RH bill. Also, there is no provision in the RH bill that would help control the population,” he said..... MORE Over 1 million toddlers enrolled in DepEd’s kindergarten schools By Jason Faustino 04/30/2011 Over 1 million toddlers enrolled in DepEd’s kindergarten schools By Jason Faustino 04/30/2011 Over one million pre-school children signed up during the early registration campaign conducted last January giving the Department of Education (DepEd) a head’s up before universal kindergarten is implemented in all public schools starting June 2011. Education Secretary Armin Luistro said the universal public kindergarten program for five-year-old will give new entrants to basic education the proper preparation on the rigors of schooling. “Studies have shown that school children who went to pre-school are better prepared for schooling and have greater chances of finishing school.” Universal kindergarten is the first step under the 12-basic education programs of the government which aims to prepare high school graduates for the world of work, for college education and for the global arena. “We always say that education is a great equalizer. This universal kindergarten program will do just that as it democratizes access to pre-school education which used to be enjoyed only by those who can afford it in private schools,” Luistro said..... MORE Security at Laperal Compound tightened By Pat C. Santos 04/30/2011 Security at Laperal Compound tightened Concerned over the safety of informal settlers at Laperal Compound in Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City, Mayor Jejomar “Erwin” Binay has reiterated his appeal to the 400 families whose houses were razed by fire recently to avail themselves of the relocation sites and financial support offered by the city government. This came after Binay ordered the Makati police to enforce tight security measures to prevent residents from rebuilding their houses after a violent confrontation they had with police-backed demolition team. Binay said the compound is a danger zone and forbade residents to return after last week’s fire that razed more than 900 houses and left some 2,700 families homeless..... MORE Good choice? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/30... Bosnian Croats feel squeezed in Muslim-shared enti... CHR Decision on Fil-Am Activist Case to Perpetuate... Kin, Writers and Artists Launch Campaign for Relea... Think Tanks Refute Malacañang’s Arguments Against ... Media Groups Urge Aquino to Take Concrete Action t... Merci resigns By Arlie O. Calalo and Gerry Baldo ... High court reverses Desierto ruling on behest loan... Police confiscate guns from Cagayan farmers By Ted... Know RH, RP bills first before supporting them, ur... Over 1 million toddlers enrolled in DepEd’s kinder... Security at Laperal Compound tightened By Pat C. S...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line332
__label__cc	0.748486	0.251514	Search Profiles/Reports Search Titles Search Keywords & Descriptions Search All Any date Today and... This Week and... 1 Month Ago and... 3 Months Ago and... 6 Months Ago and... 1 Year Ago and... Working with the Taneja Group on the Customer Validation report was a true pleasure. We are very happy with how it turned out and have received numerous glowing praises on the quality of the work and value of the customer research findings. Many thanks for creating such an excellent demand generation resource, and for the webinar where you presented the findings of the report. Both assets have become very valuable tools for our demand generation efforts. Sr. Product Marketing Manager Page 149 of 154 pages ‹ First < 147 148 149 150 151 > Last › Sun AppIQ Announcement - Opinion Sun and AppIQ have announced a broad strategic relationship whereby Sun plans to offer co-branded management solutions leveraging AppIQ’s Storage Authority Suite under its StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager framework. As part of the deal, Sun and AppIQ have agreed to jointly develop new management solutions based on AppIQ’s technology platform. Publish date: 04/01/04 Cloud Management / Cloud Platforms and Apps EMC Acquires VMWare - Opinion On December 15th, EMC announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire VMWare, a privately held software company based in Palo Alto, California, for $635M in cash. The deal represents EMC’s third, major software purchase in less than six months, the previous two being Legato and Documentum. Taming The Distributed Enterprise WAFS In many respects, the branch office is still the “wild frontier” of enterprise IT: an uncharted, unknown territory best left to the adventurous. This frontier mentality is especially evident in the world of storage. There are over 1 million corporate branch offices in the United States, most of them utilizing some manner of file serving technology. Cloud Management / Data Center Systems / Cloud Platforms and Apps Candera: Storage Tiers and ATA - Technology Brief Taneja Group sees many end users deploying multiple classes of storage devices, or “storage tiers” in order to increase the economies and overall utilization of their storage environment. In most of these cases, we see users leveraging lower costs ATA and serial ATA (SATA) arrays alongside more expensive fibre-channel storage fabrics. Cloud Management / Primary Storage / Cloud Platforms and Apps	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line335
__label__cc	0.528324	0.471676	View Larger Return to Kimbolton 379th Bomb Group head home, escorted by P-51s of the 4th Fighter Group, following a 1944 mission into Germany by John D. Shaw Flying Fortresses of the 379th Bomb Group head home, escorted by P-51s of the 4th Fighter Group, following a 1944 mission into Germany. Based at Kimbolton, the 379th flew more sorties and dropped a greater bomb tonnage than any other group in the Mighty 8th Air Force. Carol Dawn, the lead plane in this painting, flew over 120 missions, the third highest of its group, before returning intact to the U.S. after completing its tours of duty with multiple crews during the second World War. Four squadrons made up the 379th, including the 524th, 525th, 526th & 527th, and logged some of the most colorful and celebrated missions of any American heavy bomber unit. There are 75 Artist Proofs available - Includes additional 12”x 16” Companion print “CAROL DAWN”, autographed by B-17 Carol Dawn’’s Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner Joe Carroll, 379th BG, 527th Sq, & biographical profile. Overall size: 35.5”x 16.5” • Image Area: 30”x 10.5" Archival Paper giclee prints $250.00 - Artist Proof Giclee on Paper	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line337
__label__wiki	0.532749	0.532749	info@dh2019.org DH @ UU: Examples Local Organisers ADHO DH2019 Sponsors Info for Sponsors Partnership Brochure Late Breaking Poster Session CfP English CfP Español CfP Deutsch CfP Français CfP Italiano Programme (ConfTool) Programme (Event Pilot) Programme (Skeleton) Focus on Africa SIG Workshops Short Papers Deputy Mayor’s Speech Wilhelmus Challenge LO’s List of Restaurants What to do in Utrecht DH2019 Fun Run Travelling to the Netherlands Transportation in Utrecht Utrecht Region Pass Final revision of abstracts Guidelines for session chairs ADHO Bursaries Africa Bursaries Huizinga bursaries SIKS bursaries The latest overview of the DH2019 programme is available in ConfTool. Blackwell, Christopher William (1,3); Smith, David Neel (2,3) Discoverable Data Models and Extended Text Properties in the CITE Architecture The CITE Architecture is a generic framework for identification, retrieval, and alignment of information about things humanists study. The challenge of a _generic_ framework lies in how it can handle the innumerable specific kinds of data likely to appear in any non-trivial digital library. This paper will describe the implementation of Discoverable Data Models and _Extended Text Property Types_ serialized in the CEX line-oriented, plain-text format and implemented in applications. Specific examples will be (a geo-spatial data in different formats (b) textual data in different markup encodings, and (c) image collections, where the same image may be exposed as a JPG on a filesystem, via the IIIF-API, or as a DeepZoom file. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0111.html Bellia, Angela Towards a New Approach in the Study of Intangible Cultural Heritage Archaeoacoustics is used as a new method for the analysis of historical heritage, enabling the evaluation of the sound quality of an archaeological site by using auralisation techniques, which allow cognitive and physical elements to be reproduced and combined. Research has followed different approaches: from the analysis of the relationship between architecture and acoustics in their current condition, to the anechoic recordings of music to be used in the auralisation of sacred places. Using archaeoacoustics as an emerging discipline that involves the study of ancient sites, this paper aim to assess whether performative spaces in Sicily and South Italy were built in a precise place for their acoustical qualities, and to understand the reasons that led ancient cultures to create these spaces, as well as reconstruct how they experienced them. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0117.html Bermúdez-Sabel, Helena (1); Díez Platas, María Luisa (1); Ros, Salvador (1); González-Blanco, Elena (2) Towards a Common Model for European Poetry: Challenges and Solutions This paper stems from the analysis of multiple poetic resources that were available on-line, as well as the results of methodological discussions with scholars of European Literature. The goal was to retrieve the informational needs of all these different sources in order to build a common data model for European Poetry. Thus, by implementing a reverse engineering method, we have created the Domain Model for European Poetry, which is an important milestone for making existent poetry resources interoperable. In this paper, we will present some of the challenges we encountered while conceptualizing the information relevant to poetic analysis and how we have worked around them. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0142.html Li, Weixuan (1); Piccoli, Chiara (2); Heuvel, Charles van den (1,2) Embracing Complex Interfaces Linking Deep Maps and Virtual Interiors to Big Data of the Dutch Golden Age. Although semantic web technologies are gradually introduced in the digital humanities and cultural heritage institutions the representation of linked data is still very abstract and hardly allows for interactions by researchers or other users.Here we present the first experiments with the creation of complex 2d/3d/4d interfaces on top of the Semantic Web, that express uncertainties in/allow users to interact critically in multiple ways with data. The 2D interface aims to preserve and present the complexities rooted in historical sources through deep mapping. It aims at the visualization and analysis of migration pattern of the creative individuals within Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. The 3D/4D interfaces, which anchored at the GIS deep map layers, will act as an interactive hub to connect the heterogeneous data that are available on 17th century creative industries in a spatially coherent context. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0145.html Antonietti, Laura Modelling The Editorial Reading Process: The Case Of Giulio Einaudi Editore The paper will present the results of the analysis and the modelling of the editorial reading process within the Italian publishing house Einaudi in the aftermath of World War II, an activity that resulted in the production of reading reports, containing summaries and evaluations of the proposed work. The presentation will highlight the fundamental contribution of tools and methods of DH in the context of my research. I will discuss data modelling and encoding as speculative activities of epistemological value. In fact, by modelling the reading process, I was able to understand and represent its complexity; in addition, by encoding the documents I was able to focus in a consistent and speculative matter on aspects such as textuality, style, rhetoric. The potential of the DH tools and methods have yet to be exploited and applied to this research field: at present there are no digital editions of reading reports. Dollman, Melissa Changing Lanes: A Reanimation Of Shell Oil’s Carol Lane From 1947 to 1974 Shell Oil Company sponsored a public relations program that engaged single and married women drivers. They especially targeted married women who helped plan leisurely road trips for their families, and single “gals” who wanted to see the country. Over twenty different women portrayed its figurehead, the pseudonymous Carol Lane. I am researching each of the over twenty women who portrayed Lane and her audiences and associates using prosopographical analysis. On an ArcGIS platform I am developing my eventually public-facing digital dissertation whereby I present data (4000+ magazine and newspaper articles, books, films) I have collected, input myself, and am utilizing in a number of ways including data visualization and videographic criticism. I look forward to input on the efficacy of a variety of multimedia factoids I am utilizing and offering such as maps, census tables, and raw, searchable, related data in an (currently) Airtable database. McKay, Cory (1); Cumming, Julie E. (2); Fujinaga, Ichiro (2) Lessons Learned in a Large-Scale Project to Digitize and Computationally Analyze Musical Scores This paper presents insights we have gained from working on the SIMSSA (Single Interface for Score Searching and Analysis) project, which seeks to digitize historical musical manuscripts, use machine learning to convert the notation to searchable symbolic representations, automatically tag the results in musicologically meaningful ways, perform statistical analyses on data extracted from the music and make the resulting data and technologies easily accessible to other researchers. This paper emphasizes insights we have learned while working on this project that are meaningful not only to computational musicology and music information retrieval researchers, but also to those working in the digital humanities in general. We first focus on approaches to dataset construction and machine learning, and then explore approaches to making research data, software and results available, usable and attractive to other researchers in the humanities, including those not yet accustomed to computational approaches. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0154.html Ferreira-Lopes, Patricia Simulating Historical Flows And Connection. The Artistic Transfer During The 15th To 16th Century In The Iberian Peninsula. The Late Gothic period (fourteenth-sixteenth century) was a phase of transition in Europe – with social, political, economic and cultural changes. Within this framework, Europe was the scene of a significant amount of mobility of artists that in some way materialised the production of architecture without borders: a "Pan-European style" [1] capable of reproducing and adapting models in different places. This paper will present the project ArTNet “Analysing artistic transfer network. A social and spatiotemporal study of Late Gothic architectural production in the Iberian Peninsula” which was designed to identify, record and analyse artistic transfer network transcending the building scale to better understand the process of Late Gothic architecture production in the Iberian Peninsula. An integral view bringing together several factors is being studied by multiscale models, combining HGIS and Graph model, and analysis (such as SNA, spatial statistics, map visualisation and spatiotemporal analysis). https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0164.html Arthur, Paul Tracing the Development of Digital Humanities in Australia This paper discusses the development of digital humanities in Australia, with reference to major projects, events and the establishment of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). It begins by providing an overview of national exemplar projects, events and policies that predate the founding of the association in 2011, as well as significant activities and initiatives that formed a basis for the Australian field. The paper outlines the history of aaDH as a regional association, reflecting on its directions over the past decade, and describes the parallel development of large-scale research infrastructure that has supported the field’s further growth. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0171.html Hu, Jiajia Using Network Analysis to Do Traditional Chinese Phonology Study Traditional Chinese Phonology, lacking of alphabetic system of phonetic notation such as IPA, had to deal with large written materials in Chinese characters, and used Chinese characters as a tool to analyze sounds of words. This brings up a significant feature of its study, that is, the relationships of words’ sounds are more important than their phonetic values. Xìlián (literally: "inter-link") is one of the most important methods in traditional Chinese phonology. Its fundamental is to build networks of Chinese characters having same syllabic elements. This paper takes Xìlián of Fǎnqiè in Guǎngyùn as an example to show how to use network analysis and visualization software to improve traditional Chinese phonology study. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0173.html Williamson, Elizabeth Encoding Early Modern English Drama: Embedding Digital Approaches In Undergraduate Literature Courses. This paper offers a pedagogical case study whereby students were introduced to the complexities of text encoding as a way to destabilize the revered canonical text and teach digital critical literacy, as part of a first year Shakespeare module. I will argue that there is a particular synergy between the existing concerns of the Shakespeare course and those of digital publication, where the latter finds a natural fit in conversations on book history, text technologies, and editorial agency. Neglecting to discuss the digital provenance of a text online and the multiplicity of agents involved in producing any text obscures the encoding as well as editorial choices made at every stage of its creation. This is a conversation that we need to begin early on in students’ academic career, to situate digital critical literacy within an existing tradition of literary criticism. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0189.html Vignale, François (2); Benatti, Francesca (1); Antonini, Alessio (1) Reading in Europe - Challenge and Case Studies of READ-IT This paper aims to present the READ-IT project and the first set of case studies collected by DH and HSS researchers. Use-cases are key in the project’s strategy as they are essentials both to the definition and the validation of READ-IT data model and framework. The case studies include different sources, such as social media, students’ diaries and letters, from the 18th up to today, in Czech, French, German, Italian and Dutch. Each of them is supported by a specific dataset and a specific research question. In this context, this original validation process must be able to demonstrate the relevance, robustness and ability of both the general concept and the data model to process a wide variety of sources. Then, this model should be transferable to other DH projects where the experiential dimension is present. Shang, Wenyi (1); Zhang, Jingzhou (2); Huang, Win-bin (1) Modelling Poetic Similarity: A Comparative Study of W. B. Yeats and the English Romantic Poets Observing poetic similarity is a method in comparative studies of poetry, indicating interrelationship among works and poetic influences among authors. This research explores the poetic similarity between the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and four related English Romantic poets, whose influence can be discerned in Yeats’s poetry. Adopting digital approaches, we build a model to quantitatively analyze the poetic similarity among authors in three aspects: intertextuality, formal elements (including rhyme type, meter style and enjambment), and sentiment. After analyzing 1090 poetic works by Yeats and four English Romantic poets and interpreting the results, we find the poetic similarity between Yeats and Blake to be the most significant, corresponding with previous literary critics’ views and leaving room for further explorations. The research's findings assist previous literary studies and its methods may shed light on further studies concerning Yeats’s complex relationship with Romanticism. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0207.html Mei, Ching-Hsuan; Hung, Jen-Jou Exploring Intertextuality in the Mahoyoga Section of the Rin chen gter mdzod Although Tibetan scholars have already noticed the phenomenon on textual reused of treasure literature (gter ma), it remains difficult to conduct a big scale of compare reading and further identify repeated sentences and locate their origin. Deducing from previous studies, we estimate that there might be thick intertextuality embedded in the writings of treasure texts than those already noticed. There is no systematic analysis on big Tibetan textual collections in academic circle so far, thus we propose to apply digital textual analysis technology to deconstruct the great corpus of Tibetan treasure—Mahayoaga section in the Rin chen gter mdzod. Considering the amount of data, we try to implement digital technology to compare each phrasing in order to detect reused sentences, thus we can further interpret the so-called intertextuality in Tibetan treasure literature. After a trial period of this research project, we find it is an approachable goal. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0210.html Kräutli, Florian; Valleriani, Matteo; Lockhorst, Daan Calculating Sameness: Identifying Image Reuse In Early Modern books We extracted around 16.000 images and diagrams from a corpus of university textbooks published between 1472 and 1650. Some of these images appear several times throughout the corpus. We present how we identify and analyse recurring images using an image hashing algorithm and a data visualisation tool. The reappearance of images, combined with bibliographic metadata, can offer insights into the kind of knowledge that is being taught, which images have been successful, as well as which images might have been exchanged between different printers and publishers. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0222.html Waxman, Joshua A Graph Database of Scholastic Relationships in the Babylonian Talmud Envisioning the dense scholastic interactions of the Babylonian Talmud as a multi-generational social network, we built a social network graph of the Talmud. We performed Named Entity Recognition on statement-aligned Hebrew and English texts to produce graphs of rabbis (nodes) and their interactions (edges). The new graph database, currently available online, delivers visual and color-coded information about scholastic generation, teacher-student relationships, and both local (page-level) and global (Talmud-level) interactions. By making a wealth of knowledge accessible and highlighting relevant relationships, this tool can provide valuable insights into the complex dynamics of Talmudic discourse. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0229.html Wevers, Melvin (1); Smits, Thomas (2) Advertising Gender - Using Computer Vision to Trace Gender Displays in Historical Advertisements, 1920-1990 This study applies computer vision techniques to examine the representation of gender in historical advertisements. Using information on the relative size, position, and gaze of men and women in images, we chart gender displays in Dutch newspaper adverts between 1920 and 1990. In this short paper, we operationalize aspects of Erving Goffman's theories on gender displays in two ways. First, Goffman argues that ``differences in size will correlate with differences in social weight." Using facial recognition software, we select adverts that include people and then run gender detection software to estimate whether men or woman were represented in the images This allows us to visually represent the changing faces of men and women in adverts. Part of the process also entails a reflection on the possible bias in these algorithms. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0236.html van Lange, Milan Mikolaj Tantrums and Traitors: a Diachronic Analysis of Emotions in Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals and Collaborators In this study emotions in discussions about the punishment of collaborators and war criminals in the Netherlands are investigated by analysing the verbatim minutes of parliament. The application of text mining techniques to this digitised historical text corpus allows for a diachronic perspective on a historical case study. With this paper, I present the historical case, the materials and techniques used, and some insights based on preliminary results. I will also address general advantages and limitations of using text mining in historical research. Aim of this investigation is to explicitly investigate and discuss the validity of the use of emotion lexicons in diachronic historical research. Bonora, Paolo; Pompilio, Angelo E Pluribus Unum: a Uniform DL Solution for Historical Data Management, Archiving and Exploitation of Opera The paper will present the results of the Corago LOD project, promoted by the Department of Cultural Heritage Studies of the University of Bologna, which has applied the Semantic Web technologies to digital archives about Opera. While use of DL for content management within CH is now consolidated, the project studied what the use of formal ontologies means from the end user's point of view. The complexity of the domain an those deriving from the adoption of the CIDOC CRM and FRBRoo as reference ontologies motivated the investigation of newer strategies to navigate the knowledge base. The identified solution is the introduction of an abstraction layer where the domain expert defines the way information is going to be presented to end users. We will illustrate how this approach allows the creation of applications that make knowledge easily usable by the human actor while maintaining the interoperability prerogatives of Linked Data. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0253.html Kruijt, Anne VinKo: Language Documentation Through Digital Crowdsourcing This talk aims to discuss and introduce the VinKo platform as a linguistics fieldwork tool and crowd-sourced data base. VinKo is an online platform used to collect data from the Trentino/Alto Adige region (Italy), a linguistically complex region, via innovative crowdsourced methods on a digital platform. It is used to collect oral data from the Germanic and Romance variaties spoken in the area in order to gain further insight into the different aspects of multilingualism and microvariation. The data collection is done through a simple interface, which facilitates easy collaboration with speakers and speech communities, and aims to return all collected data to the community in a meaningful manner. Online use of minority languages plays an important role in increasing its prestige and visibility, and it can greatly contribute to the maintenance of the variety by the increasing awareness and pride of the own language. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0255.html Rybicki, Jan Analysis of Writer-Text-Translator Social Networks This paper is an analysis of the connections between writers, their texts and their translations through social network analysis. Data on writers and translators was obtained from UNESCO’s Index Translationum, a large database of existing translations of texts from numerous domains. The data for this study was limited to literary translations into Polish, a total of almost 18,000 individual editions of novels or collections of short stories by 8290 authors and 6582 translators from 155 languages. This produces a complex mesh of writer-to-translator connections, which is analyzed using the Fruchterman-Reingold force-directed algorithm. Interesting phenomena can be observed using such a visualization of otherwise unaccessible links between items in the database. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0257.html Homburg, Timo Paleo Codage - A machine-readable way to describe cuneiform characters paleographically This publication introduces a new system to describe cuneiform characters in a machine-readable way. It includes paleographic information such as relations of cuneiform wedges to each other so that the computer can reconstruct and analyse the characters described. This system provides the first chance to assign each cuneiform character a unique character description based on the characters shape which is easily understandable and valid across all cuneiform languages in all epochs. The system is showcased on a subset of characters currently encoded in the Unicode standard highlighting different positioning variants found in the whole Unicode character set. As a first application a similarity graph based on the new encoding system has been developed and is presented. In addition a web application to create own encodings according to the new system is available for testing and an Android app for character recognition is currently modified to improve accuracy in character detection. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0259.html Palladino, Chiara; Bergman, James; Trammell, Caroline; Mixon, Eleanor; Fulford, Rebecca Using Linked Open Data to Navigate the Past: An Experiment in Teaching Archaeology Linked Open Data is a powerful tool for navigating through the complexity of the inherently multifaceted reality of archaeological sites, which results from the intersections of space, materiality, language, visual culture, history, text, and so on. However, LOD also poses the challenge of how to manage such complexity in a meaningful way. In this paper, we report on an experimental project developed during a Classical Archaeology course in 2018, during which we researched four different Graeco-Roman sites, with the goal of reconstructing the main aspects of their material history through exclusively LOD-based resources. Dumouchel, Suzanne (1); Giglia, Elena (2) CO-OPERAS IN: Integration And Cooperation To Face Fragmentation And Address Complexity In The SSH Complexity in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can take the shape of the fragmentation of research fields, across many disciplines and subdisciplines, usually grounded in regional, national and linguistic specific communities. “Big data” does not apply to SSH, where data can often need to be very precisely qualified, described, curated and managed: they are smart and small data, which means they have to be specifically managed, all the more so in the perspective of being integrated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) landscape, as a major component of the IFDS. This short paper will present CO-OPERAS - Open Access in the European Research Area Through Scholarly Communication -, which is an Implementation Network (IN) within the GoFAIR initiative, as a tool to face this issue. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0263.html Basaraba, Nicole Creating Complex Digital Narratives for Participatory Cultural Heritage Many digital humanities projects have produced digitised archives and museums are increasingly integrating digital media into their visitor experiences. Some of these valuable historic databases have provided public access but can lack sustained public engagement. As Schreibman (2017) argued, public participation in cultural heritage can generate new ideas and could challenge the top-down division between researchers and the public (p. 281). In a move towards this notion, this paper proposes a novel approach to producing interactive digital narratives (IDN) that converge expert-produced content and user-generated content (UGC) with the aim of creating participatory cultural heritage narratives that also maintain narrative control. Examining the potential of IDN formats for creating cultural heritage narratives involves many facets of complexity and this paper will discuss these complexities in the context of how cultural analytics (Manovich, 2007) can be used to create IDNs. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0276.html Vigliensoni, Gabriel (1); Daigle, Alex (1); Liu, Eric (1); Calvo-Zaragoza, Jorge (2); Regimbal, Juliette (1); Nguyen, Minh Anh (1); Baxter, Noah (1); McLennan, Zoe (1); Fujinaga, Ichiro (1) Overcoming the Challenges of Optical Music Recognition of Early Music with Machine Learning Several centuries of manuscript music sit on the shelves of libraries, churches, and museums around the globe. On-line digitization programs are opening these collections to a global audience, but digital images are only the beginning of true accessibility since the musical content of these images cannot be searched by computers. In the SIMSSA (Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis) project we aim at teaching computers to read music and assemble the data on a single website. However, the automatic retrieval and encoding of music from score images has many complexities. In this paper, we describe our current workflow to perform end-to-end optical music recognition (OMR) of early music sources. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0287.html Hulden, Vilja Labor Witnesses at U.S. Congressional Hearings: Historical Patterns This paper examines what metadata about Congressional hearings can tell us about shifts in the relative power of workers in American society over time. The metadata contains 941,302 instances of testimony between 1877 and 1990; it includes information about the witnesses appearing before Congressional committees as well as about the subjects of the hearings. This data is juxtaposed with strike and union density data to suggest that labor has been most consistently represented at Congressional hearings when a) it has engaged in electoral politics and b) it has possessed demonstrable strength in civil society as measured not only by isolated incidents but by consistent penetration. Future work hopes to juxtapose these data sets with actual legislative outcomes; merely being heard does not, after all, necessarily translate into being listened or deferred to. Such juxtapositions could help elucidate whether organizational strength converts to important outcomes as well as presence at hearings. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0296.html Grincheva, Natalia Re-inventing the Past Through Singapore Memory Project: Socio-political Complexities of Digital Crowd-sourcing Techniques In my presentation I will explore how online audiences experience time in digital museum communities, and how these experiences change their cultural perceptions and identities. The project will focus on the online museum case study: Singapore Memory Project (2011-2015). It is an online national initiative for public memory preservation. It was facilitated by the National Libraries and Museums Board in 2011 to collect and provide access to Singapore’s culture through crowd-sourcing. Employing interviews with governmental officials and museum managers, as well as content discursive analysis of the online memory portal, in my research I analysed how this digital space reconstructed time through museum narratives communicating political messages across borders. I also explored how these narratives were aligned with national and foreign policy objectives of the country revealing social and cultural complexities of the memory crowd-sourcing exercise. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0304.html Granholm, Patrik Manuscripta – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden This paper presents the guiding principles and ongoing development of Manuscripta, a digital catalogue of medieval and early modern manuscripts in Sweden, which started as a project specific database but has since evolved to become a national infrastructure. The manuscript descriptions are encoded in TEI, which is a highly suitable metadata format for detailed, scholarly catalogues since the hierarchical structure of TEI corresponds to the four parts traditionally used in cataloguing: description of contents, codicological description, provenance, and bibliography. The digitised manuscripts are presented using the IIIF API, and the images are available free of restriction under the CC0 public domain dedication. The infrastructure is built entirely using open source software, and the source code, together with the TEI-files, are available on GitHub. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0306.html Smeets, Roel (1); Sanders, Eric (1); van den Bosch, Antal (1,2) Modelling Conflicts Between Characters in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction. Conflicts have been regarded as one of the driving forces behind narrative action. Bonds and conflicts between characters are indicative of hierarchical oppositions between represented identities. Drawing on extensive metadata of 2137 characters in a corpus of 170 novels, the present paper models conflicts between characters in present-day Dutch literary fiction. Using insights from network theory and narratology, this talks addresses conflicts between two characters (dyads), as well as between three characters (triads). First, a conflict score is introduced through which the more powerful party between two hostile characters can be determined. Second, the amount of social balance between subnetworks of three characters is tested. The results of these two approaches are interpreted in light of existing theories on conflicts in narratives. It will be argued that conflict situations co-shape the ideological representation of characters in literature, which can be mapped on a large scale with our approach. Thwaites, Denise (1); Pailthorpe, Baden (2) Blocumenta: An Experimental Art Project on the Blockchain From ‘Bitchcoin’ and ‘CryptoKitties’ to distributed ledgers for nuclear non-proliferation, feverish adoption and experimentation with blockchain technology is matched only by the promissory hype that accompanies it. This paper presents the aims and background of _Blocumenta_ - an experimental contemporary arts project that seeks to hold this technology to its promise, exploring if and how distributed artistic communities could be developed through new blockchain funding and archiving systems. Departing from an initial stage of creative engagement and aesthetic experimentation across arts and tech communities, _Blocumenta_ interrogates whether a distributed, autonomous and trustless contemporary art economy and archive can overcome the centralised power dynamics of the global contemporary art world, enabling new digital resources for writing Art Histories. Combining a cryptocurrency crowdfunding structure with a decentralized app, _Blocumenta_ will establish a distributed autonomous art organisation (DAAO) exploring alternatives to the implicit power dynamics of traditional archives, and the chaos of Web 2.0. Benardou, Agiatis Immersive Experiences And Difficult Heritage: Digital Methods As Re-interpreters Of Historically Contested Sites Immersive experiences describe all forms of perceptual and interactive use of technologies that blur the line between the physical world and a simulated or digital world, ie create a hybrid reality aiming at embracing all spheres of the user’s attention. Lately, methods of immersive experience such as virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, as well as mixed methods (ie analogue and digital combined), are all means of memory re-composition in the cultural heritage domain. The proposed talk will use the infamous Block 15 of the Haidari Concentration Camp in West Athens, the largest and most notorious concentration camp in wartime Greece, as a case study of a largely neglected site of difficult heritage and will attempt to showcase that immersive technologies would be best fit to make accessible, highlight and re-interpret both the site and the narrative surrounding it. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0316.html Konstantelos, Leo (1); Pittock, Murray (1); Benardou, Agiatis (2); Economou, Maria (1); Hughes, Lorna (1) A World of Immersive Experiences: The Scottish Heritage Partnership The Scottish Heritage partnership is a nine-month AHRC-funded initiative aiming to address the existing practice and future potential of immersive experiences and technologies in the collections and heritage industry in Scotland. Its key research question revolves around measuring the success of approaches to immersive technologies at major heritage sites in Scotland, both in terms of outcomes against business plan expectations and in terms of visitor response, and the kinds of future development supported by the evidence. Development of an evidence-based, decision-making model is currently under-way and will be presented at DH2019. Formulated as a policy and risk assessment document, the model is meant to help heritage institutions identify the kinds of future immersive experiences that are supported by our evidence; as well as assess how to develop effective, meaningful content into leading edge inclusive and impactful immersive experiences. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0320.html Du, Keli A Survey On LDA Topic Modeling In Digital Humanities LDA topic modeling is a statistical method that discovers hidden themes and topics from a text corpus. It has been widely applied in digital humanities in the past several years. In practice, topic modeling is more complex than just training and visualizing topics. There are several factors, which may influence the results of topic modeling. As far as I know, there are no common understanding of how to handle these factors as we are using topic modeling. In this paper I therefore propose to look at the approaches from the books of abstracts of the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations between 2011 and 2018, in order to provide a comprehensive overview of how the majority of humanities scholars understands and uses topic modeling. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0326.html Thompson, Mark L.; van der Woude, Joanne Atlantic Journeys through a Dutch City's Past: Building a Mobile Platform for Urban Heritage For five centuries, the Dutch city of Groningen has been connected to the Americas and the broader Atlantic World. Yet this profound connection remains little known. In order to address this problem, our consortium is developing a mobile application called “Amerigo” that will identify, map, and demonstrate Groningen’s links to the Atlantic World using techniques of digital mapping, storytelling, and curation. When tourists, residents, scholars or students walk through the city with Amerigo, they will read, hear, see, and co-create the stories of real historical characters from Groningen’s past. At the same time, by drawing on data produced within the application, the researchers will analyze how this diverse audience engages with urban space and culture, fellow participants, and the application itself. This innovative combination of features promises to make Amerigo at once a useful medium for historical research and an experimental platform for studying public engagement with urban heritage. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0331.html Garcia-Fernandez, Anne (1); Cogitore, Isabelle (1,2) Laboratoire numérique pour l’étude de paratextes : l'exemple de Tacitus On Line Nous proposons d'exposer une modélisation et des outils de visualisation pour l’étude de paratextes. À partir du corpus des commentaires de Juste Lipse aux Annales de Tacite, nous défendons l’intérêt de proposer des solutions propres aux objectifs scientifiques du projet tout en respectant des standards et permettant la documentation et la réutilisation des outils. Notre démarche est fondée sur les principes suivants : le questionnement préalable de la nature de l'objet d'étude et sa définition ; la volonté de servir avant tout les objectifs scientifiques du projet ; et la mise en place de solutions permettant la réutilisation tant des données que des outils et méthodes. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0342.html Tonra, Justin (1); Davis, Brian (2); Kelly, David (1); Khawaja, Waqas (3) Poetry In Motion: Quantified Self Data And Automated Poetry Generation _Eververse_ is a project which synthesises perspectives from disciplines in the humanities and sciences to develop critical and creative explorations of poetry and poetic identity in the digital age. Deploying tools and methods from poetic theory, data analysis, and Natural Language Generation (NLG), which is the automatic production of natural language output from a non-linguistic data source. _Eververse_ uses data from quantified self (QS) devices to automatically generate and publish poetry which correlates to the wearer/poet’s varying physical states. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0348.html Miyake, Maki Applying Measures of Lexical Diversity to Classification of the Greek New Testament Editions The study focuses on decision tree models based on several measures of lexical diversity, aiming at classifying genres of authorship attribution and critical types in various editions of the Greek New Testament. We use measures of lexical diversity that are not significant correlation with tokens. After creating training and test subsets from several editions, we apply two classification algorithms such as Classification and Regression Tree and Random Forest. We then figure out the classification accuracy with the token-independent measures. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0354.html Dumont, Stefan; Grabsch, Sascha; Müller-Laackman, Jonas Four Years of correspSearch – Challenges, Potentials and Lessons of Open Data Aggregation Over the last four years our project has successfully aggregated metadata for about 52000 letters. Most of the data is obtained from external contributions ranging from a wide variety of scholarly editions and institutions. All metadata is openly accessible and licensed CC0. With this recap we aim to infer successful recipes and practices for the decentralized aggregation of domain specific open metadata. Furthermore we will show the possibilities which arise from the aggregation of such metadata on a bigger scale and discuss ways to manage as well as explore the complex realities of our data. Tsui, Lik Hang (1); Chen, Jing (2) Defining and Debating Digital Humanities in China: New or Old? In the global context, no single unified definition of digital humanities (DH) is possible. The scholarly context that DH was defined and debated in the Greater China region is starkly different from that in Western academia, owing to the unique features of humanities data in Chinese, especially for texts. With special focus on the context and cultural politics of the conditions in which DH emerged and the contestations that it encountered, our paper unravels the complex issue of DH emerging as a scholarly field in China from a historical standpoint. All in all, the paradigm shift in China is slowly taking place, but it is a delayed one given the amount of preparation that the “prehistory” phase has seen. DH has become a canopy term for Chinese scholars to reconceptualize, recatergorize, and repackage old projects and academic practices from the “prehistory” phase. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0362.html Galleron, Ioana Stylometric Analyses of Character Speeches in French Plays This paper tries to answer the question wether literarary characters have a style of their own, or if the stylistic specificities of the author that created them is prevalent over all other types of linguistic differences. In order to do so, it puts together a corpus of 8 plays from 1630 to 1740, and extracts speeches of 82 characters. These are further analysed with the stylometric library under R developped by Eder et al. The visualisations thus built show that, more often than not, characters from the same play do not appear together, nor do they display a clear historical split. The paper will identify the main specificities, and will try to propose some explanations of these linguistic dissimilarities, https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0368.html Aitken, Brian; Alexander, Marc; Dallachy, Fraser (Re)connecting Complex Lexical Data: Updating the Historical Thesaurus of English The University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English (HT) arranges all the recorded words in the last millennium of English into almost a quarter of a million concepts. The work of half a century, it is available online (at www.ht.ac.uk) and a second edition is underway. This edition draws upon editorial work conducted by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its ongoing third edition, and thus a crucial activity in creating the new edition of the Thesaurus is the meshing of the Glasgow database with the separate data held by the OED. This paper describes the processes developed by the HT editorial team to tackle the complex task of linking these datasets, allowing rapid updates to be made to the HT and the OED. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0395.html Mishina, Ekaterina "Open List": How to Collect Primary Data on Soviet Terror “Open list” (http://openlist.wiki) is a public database on wiki-software, which contains information on political terror victims on the territory of former USSR from 1917 to 1991. “Open list” works like Wikipedia. Every person in database has his own page consisting of two parts: biographical card with personal data and a field for the publication of documents and biographical texts. Crowdsourcing is very important part of a project. There are several possible activities for our users: they can find appropriate pages for unsorted photos, parse data from biographies to field in biographical form or define and merge duplicate pages. Our volunteers decrypts information from archival documents and create new pages in a list or contribute to existed for united electronic “Book of memory” of Moscow and Moscow region, which "Open list" compiles itself. Our aim is to normalize data in biographical fields to make academic research easier. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0399.html Mondaca, Francisco; Rau, Felix; Neuefeind, Claes; Kiss, Börge; Kölligan, Daniel; Reinöhl, Uta; Sahle, Patrick C-SALT APIs - Connecting and Exposing Heterogeneous Language Resources In this paper, we present a strategy for the integration of existing heterogeneous language resources like texts and dictionaries by connecting these resources and making them available for internal projects and third party applications through APIs. We describe our approach in the context of the C-SALT (Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts) initiative, where projects and resources hosted at the University of Cologne covering South Asian languages are presented. To illustrate the potential use of our setup, we first introduce VedaWeb, a web-based platform that provides access to ancient Indian texts written in Vedic Sanskrit, the oldest form of ancient Indo-Aryan. Then we describe the C-SALT APIs for Dictionaries. These APIs make several large Pāli and Sanskrit dictionaries available. Building on that, we present the architecture behind these APIs and finally we summarize by analyzing the potential role of APIs in Digital Humanities projects. Povroznik, Nadezhda Georgievna Documentation of Digital Heritage Information Resources: Expanding Access for Research and Education This paper discusses the latest approaches to developing information systems for digital cultural heritage on a global scale, including the creation of catalogs and infrastructure for resource documentation. Digital cultural heritage resources are diverse in content, origin, purpose, scale, technology and user audience. Documentation systems are essential to facilitate advanced digital humanities research and to provide greater user access to digital heritage information resources. Such documentation system has been developed. The platform includes a wide range of characteristics related to describing information resources for digital cultural heritage. The resource meta-description structure includes 39 fields that represent 3 groups of data: 1) Data on the creators of the information resource; 2) General information about the information resource; 3) Content description metadata. The method and solutions proposed to expand possibilities for finding thematically similar information resources, and provide a global model to make such resources more accessible for research and education. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0403.html Alassi, Sepideh (1); Schweizer, Tobias (1); Hawkins, Michael (2); Iliffe, Robert (2); Rosenthaler, Lukas (1); Mattmüller, Martin (3); Harbrecht, Helmut (3) Newton virtually meets Euler and Bernoulli Today there are many online digital editions available but each presented in an individual platform without any connection to other editions. Having access to the data of similar digital editions together with a graph representing the semantic connections of data through one single platform will facilitate historians' research dramatically. In our project we aim to provide such a platform without locally storing all digital editions. The generic features which will be developed for this project will enable the user to access the data of other digital editions on demand, preform search queries on all connected digital editions, annotate the data, etc. As prototype we have chosen to connect the base platform the _Bernoulli Euler Online (BEOL)_ to _The Newton Project_ because both these projects contain digital editions of early modern mathematics which are significantly related and the data in both projects are in structured XML format. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0421.html Anderson, Carrie J. (1); Kehoe, Marsely L. (2) Batavia and the Gold Coast: Mapping Textile Circulation in the Dutch Global Market The Dutch Republic established its importance on the world stage through its early successes in global trade, becoming for a time the preeminent circulator of luxury and wholesale goods for the European market. Our project is a collaboration between specialists in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC), who have both worked to establish the centrality of trade and the circulation of goods to Dutch Golden Age art history, and now join forces to bring the previously siloed considerations of these companies, East and West, together, through the examination of different modes of textile circulation. Our project, Batavia and the Gold Coast: Mapping Textile Circulation in the Dutch Global Market, seeks to make connections between economic, social, and visual data—which so often exist as discrete epistemological categories—through the development of an open-access database and an interactive map. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0427.html Meneses, Luis (1); Martin, Jonathan (2); Furuta, Richard (3); Siemens, Ray (1) A Framework to Quantify the Signs of Abandonment in Online Digital Humanities Projects Previous work presented in Digital Humanities 2017 and 2018 has explored the abandonment, and the average lifespan of online projects in the digital humanities. We believe that managing and characterizing the degradation of online digital humanities projects is a complex problem that demands further analysis. In this abstract, we go one step further into exploring the collectively shared distinctive signs of abandonment to quantify the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects. For this purpose, we have created a framework that collectively quantifies the signs of abandonment in online digital humanities projects. Our study incorporates the retrieved HTTP response codes, number of redirects, a detailed examination of the contents and links returned by traversing the base node, external resources, HTTP headers and linked files. We intend this study to be a step forward towards better preservation mechanisms and for adopting strategies for the planned obsolesce of digital humanities projects. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0429.html Smith, David Neel A Corpus-linguistic Approach to the Analysis of Latin Morphology This paper presents a corpus-linguistic approach to the analysis of Latin morphology using an automated system for building morphological parsers. It differs from current approaches in two ways. First, to address the complexity of Latin as it is documented across millenia, it supports parsers tailored to particular corpora. Building parsers is straightforward. A lexicon and set of inflectional rules are maintained in delimited text files following a specified orthography. From these files, the build system composes source code and compiles a parser. Second, a corpus selected for research or teaching can be fully characterized morphologically in terms of citable results. The output of the parser uses URNs to identify lexical entities, morphological forms, and the inflectional rules and stems used to match lexical entity and form with a surface token. This approach is illustrated by applications to corpus-linguistic research, validation of digital editing, and Latin pedagogy. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0434.html Ullyot, Michael The Augmented Criticism Lab’s Sonnet Database Sonnets are reducible neither to formal definitions (14 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter) nor to generic definitions (first-person reflection or argument, often with a volta): the many exceptions to these ‘rules’ make sonnets both flexible and prodigious. But how would our understanding of sonnets change were we to move beyond major authors (Petrarch, Shakespeare, Rilke) and anthologized selections to read every sonnet printed in European literary languages? For instance, is the sonnet a form, or a genre? What rhyme scheme do most sonnets use? Who is the most innovative sonneteer, and who the most typical? And what does the ground truth of all those sonnets do to our standard definitions of this form-genre hybrid? This paper describes a database that aims to compile every extant sonnet, in order to quantify their features through time. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0448.html Jänicke, Stefan (1); John, Markus (2); Geßner, Annette (1) The Value of Tag Cloud Visualizations for Textual Analysis In digital humanities applications, tag clouds are often used as a means of distant reading. By dissolving the structure of texts, the frequencies of different words can be determined and visualized with font size. But, there are crucial theoretical problems in the design of tag clouds that question their benefit for text analysis tasks. In this paper, we evaluate the value of several tag cloud visualization techniques that have been designed to support research tasks in various digital humanities scenarios. We base our analysis on the King James Bible being the most influential English translation. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0449.html Grossner, Karl; Mostern, Ruth M. World-Historical Gazetteer This paper reports on World-Historical Gazetteer (WHGazetteer), a three-year project funded by the US National Endowment for the Humanities, now two-thirds complete. WHGazetteer is a scholarly infrastructure project intended to support historical research across many disciplines. It is principally a web-based software system for aggregating open access data about places and linking it with data about historical entities associated with those places. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0452.html Ries, Thorsten Born-Digital Archives A Digital Forensic Perspective on the Historicity of Born-digital Primary Records The proposed paper will scope the complexity of born-digital archives from a digital forensic, historical and philological perspective. Personal digital archives, institutional repositories, web archives, email archives and social media archives create(d) digital primary records that the historical humanities struggle to fully recognize as documents in their own right. The historicity of the forensic materiality and structure of the born-digital record is a concept still to be methodologically and theoretically understood in the humanities and in archival science. The purpose of this paper is to argue that forensic materiality and analysis is methodologically relevant for critical appraisal and understanding of production processes of born-digital sources in the humanities as a whole, including history, social history, political and culture studies (including literature, art history etc). https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0460.html Peng, Yi-Fan (1,2); Liu, Chao-Lin (1) Some GIS-Based Analysis of the Complete Taiwan Poems We analyze the poets and their poems in the collection of the Complete Taiwan Poems. This collections mainly include classical Chinese poems that were produced between 1661 and 1945 in Taiwan. We focus on the spatiotemporal analysis of the poets and poems, and provide three application examples in this proposal. The examples include the analysis of the distribution of birthplaces of the poets of different time periods, the distribution of place names in poems of different time periods, and the temporal distribution of place names that were mentioned in poems of a specific poet. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0466.html Iashchenko, Iuliia Remember How: The Place of Visualization in Preserving the Memory of Repressions of the USSR Against the Volga Germans This article discusses some of the possibilities of visualization and representation of historical events that are associated with repression against the Volga Germans in the USSR during the Second World War. In particular, special attention is paid to the role of historical electronic maps and the use of geo-information technologies in the preservation of historical memory. At present, issues of ethnic and political repression in the USSR are studied rather fragmentary, both in Russia and in Europe as a whole. Today, the problem of repression against the Volga Germans has two aspects, firstly, necessary the direct study of repressive practices, deportation processes and secondly, preservation of the memory of victims of repression, the creation of dialogue in society. Achieving these goals is impossible without the use of information technology, especially when it comes to preserving memory and representing historical events in public space. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0501.html Vandenbunder, Jeremie; Bendjaballah, Selma; Garcia, Guillaume; Cadorel, Sarah; Groshens, Emilie; Fromont, Emilie; Juillard, Emeline Former aux Methodes en Sciences Humaines et Sociales avec Bequali Cette communication vise à présenter la banque d’enquêtes qualitatives beQuali et ses apports pour la formation aux méthodes en SHS. Il s’agira ainsi de donner quelques éléments de contexte concernant la banque d’enquêtes et de décrire ses différentes activités. Ensuite, nous souhaitons mettre en lumière les usages possibles de beQuali pour la formation méthodologique et les diverses problématiques qu’ils soulèvent en termes de pédagogie, d’accès aux données et de contextualisation de ces dernières. En définitive, cette présentation courte vise à présenter, via l'exemple de beQuali, les possibilités ouvertes par le numérique pour explorer et exploiter les corpus complexes que sont les enquêtes qualitatives dans un contexte de formation universitaire. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0502.html Morent, Stefan Sacred Sound – Sacred Space: In Search Of Lost Sound The project investigates the interacting of architecture of sacred spaces with sound and the relations between concepts of sacred spaces and their socio-cultural construction and religious experience as well as the shaping of liturgical forms. Such complex systems of relations are particularly demanding if sacred buildings don't exist anymore or at least not in their original form. New approaches of research are provided by recently refined methods of virtual reconstruction of historical acoustics based on reconstructed 3D-models of the architecture. This research project will explore the contextualization of liturgical singing in its original sound space. The innovative character of the research project consists in the combination of musicological, liturgical and ritual studies with techniques of Digital Humanities. Investigations will be conducted on the churches of Cluny II and III, St. Peter and Paul at Hirsau, St. Gall and the UNESCO World Heritage monastery Maulbronn. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0518.html Wiering, Frans A Mobile Website To Support Teachers In Discussing Terrorism In The Classroom This paper describes an project that aims to increase the societal resilience against terrorism in Dutch primary and secondary education. It supports teachers by providing them with reliable and compact information, practical support for discussing the topic in class, interpretation of recent developments, and local support. The focus of the paper is on the mobile website that was developed for this project using human-centred design methodology. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0526.html Vogeler, Georg Implementing the Assertive Edition for Historians – Some samples Historians have since long considered historical documents as an information carrier. Editing documents for historical research thus often meant to create modernized or abridged texts and offered a wide range of tools to access the content of the texts (abstracts, rich indices or commentaries). In the digital world this approach has ended in a type of digital scholarly edition which is still lacking an accepted term: drawing from the Semantic Web it could be named “semantic edition”, in the context of “fact-checking” it might be termed “factual edition”, or putting it into logical reasing the term could be “assertive edition” (Vogeler 2018). The paper will discuss implementation samples and discuss the key issues of the technology stack involved. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0532.html Junginger, Pauline (1); Ostendorf, Dennis (2); Avila Vissirini, Barbara (2); Voloshina, Anastasia (3); Kreiseler, Sarah (4); Dörk, Marian (2) Close-Up Cloud: Gaining A Sense Of Overview From Many Details We present a visualization technique for the exploration of digitized cultural collections that proposes a novel approach towards the overview. Overview and detail are typically positioned as opposites in the visual representation of information spaces. However, when visualizing image collections annotated by art historians, there is an opportunity to reveal the visual details of individual images while at the same time exposing iconographic patterns prevalent within a collection. As part of an iterative research and design process in collaboration with a museum of arts and crafts, we have devised a visualization technique that arranges detailed close-ups into frequency-based collages. The resulting visual interface is designed for open-ended exploration of digitized glass plate negatives without requiring prior knowledge about the collection or the need for entering search queries. We implemented the concept as a web-based interface and evaluated the potential of the approach. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0534.html van Cranenburgh, Andreas (1); Koolen, Corina (2) The Literary Pepsi Challenge: intrinsic and extrinsic factors in judging literary quality In this paper we develop a new survey, based on fragments from the novels used in the National Reader Survey, to collect evidence that text-intrinsic characteristics play a role in ratings of literary quality, and investigate exceptions where we suspect various biases may play a role (cf. Koolen, 2018). The results will tell us more about how perceptions of literariness are formed and which particular textual aspects play a role. They will also enable a direct comparison between the performance of humans and a computer model on this task. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0557.html Ros, Ruben; van Eijnatten, Joris Disentangling a Trinity: A Digital Approach to Modernity, Civilization and Europe in Dutch Newspapers (1840-1990) This paper fleshes out the relations between the conceptual trinity of modernity, civilization and Europe (MCE) using digital history techniques. Based on a dataset of four Dutch newspapers that span the period 1840-1990, we show how conceptual connections between the members of the MCE trinity are highly restricted. N-gram frequency measures and collocations are employed to map the word usage and, building on recent advancements in diachronic vector semantics, we use word embeddings to study changing relations between modernity, civilization and Europe. These methods show how the trinity is characterized by intermittent and alternating connections, but not by perennial semantic boundaries. Given that these results differ from research based on elite discourse, this paper demonstrates the need for digital research into conceptual interrelationships. Neuefeind, Claes (1); Schildkamp, Philip (1); Mathiak, Brigitte (1); Marčić, Aleksander (2); Hentschel, Frank (2); Harzenetter, Lukas (3); Breitenbücher, Uwe (3); Barzen, Johanna (3); Leymann, Frank (3) Sustaining the Musical Competitions Database: a TOSCA-based Approach to Application Preservation in the Digital Humanities This contribution presents an approach to the preservation of web-based research applications in the DH (e.g. databases, digital editions, interactive visualizations, or virtual research environments). Our approach is based on TOSCA, an OASIS standard for modeling, provisioning, and managing cloud applications in a standardized and provider-independent way. We describe the key concepts of our approach in the context of an exemplary use case application, where the application's topology is modeled in a TOSCA-compliant way. Our use case is the Musical Competitions Database, a web application providing comprehensive information about music related competitions from 1820 to 1870. With this contribution, we want to trigger a discussion about the applicability of methods and technologies of professional cloud deployment and provisioning strategies to problems of long-term availability of research software in the DH-community. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0574.html Puren, Marie; Vernus, Pierre Improving the understanding and preservation of European Silk Heritage. Producing accessible and reusable Cultural Heritage data with the SILKNOW ontology in CIDOC-CRM Silk was a major factor for progress in Europe, mostly along the Western Silk Road’s network of production and market centres. Silk, however, has become a seriously endangered heritage. Although many European specialized museums are devoted to its preservation, they usually lack size and resources to establish networks or connections with other collections. The H2020 SILKNOW project aims to produce an intelligent computational system in order to improve our understanding of European silk heritage. This computational system is modelized and trained thanks to these datasets, mapped according to the SILKNOW ontology. In this paper, we will present how we have defined this data model, and how we have specified the entities to be represented by the ontology and the existing relationships between these entities. The design and implementation of the SILKNOW ontology representing the model is based on CIDOC-CRM. Li, Hui Dishes on the menu: Turning Historic Menu into Menu Network Historic menus contain abundant information about changing regional tastes, the ingredients of popular dishes, the arrangements of different meals, and fascinating stories behind the menu. However, research upon the modeling, measurement, and analysis of menus network is still at its very beginning. In this paper, we aim to propose a menu network that closely resembles today's social network based on the metadata and content of menus. We set the formalization and standard for the basic elements in most menus, and introduce our menu network, which integrates temporal, geographical, economic and textual information into a graph structure. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0583.html Cornell, Deborah A (1); Callaghan, Samantha (2) Transatlantic Collaboration in Digital Humanities Collaboration is fundamental to digital humanities work and DH researchers and practitioners spend significant effort, time and resources on collaborative processes. Additionally collaboration is frequently necessary and actively encouraged by funders (AHRC, 2019; NEH-DHAG, 2019) and yet little formal discourse and attention is given to this topic in DH publications and project reports (Griffin and Hayler, 2018; Lawrence, 2006). In an attempt to address this lack of dialogue, this short paper introduces a project that aims to map and document the collaboration of multiple diverse partners, in a large-scale distributed digital humanities project. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0588.html Bourgatte, Michael Prendre en Compte le Contexte d’Usage et le Contexte Technique dans le Développement du Service d’Annotation Vidéo Celluloid Nous présenterons ici les résultats d’un projet de recherche intitulé Celluloid ayant pour objet les usages de l’annotation vidéo en contexte d’éducation ou de recherche. Définie en ce sens très large, l’histoire des pratiques d’annotation est aussi ancienne que celle de la production intellectuelle. Cette pratique est toutefois prolongée et renouvelée avec l’apparition des outils numériques. Dans le cadre du projet Celluloid, nous sommes partis de l’observation de pratiques d’enseignants-chercheurs, puis nous avons analysé et comparé les dispositifs proposés par plusieurs plateformes d’annotations vidéo. Ce travail nous a permis de mettre au jour les difficultés que rencontrent les enseignants et les chercheurs pour conduire des projets éducatifs ou de recherche faisant appel à la vidéo. Il a également révélé que les choix ergonomiques et technologiques qui sont faits par les développeurs freinent les dynamiques collaboratives. À partir de ces analyses, nous avons donc développé un outil adapté. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0598.html Boukhaled, Mohamed Amine; Fagard, Benjamin; Poibeau, Thierry A Predictive Approach to Semantic Change Modelling The availability of large textual corpora spanning several centuries makes it possible to observe the evolution of language over time. This observation can be targeted towards the search for general laws of language evolution. In this contribution, we propose a computational model that can predict the semantic evolution of words over time. Computational modeling of language change is a relatively new discipline in the world of Digital Humanities, which includes early works that aimed at characterizing the evolution through statistical and mathematical modeling and more recent and advanced works involving robotics and large-scale computer simulations. Semantic change, on which we shall focus in this work, aims at modelling at a macro-scale all kinds of changes affecting the meaning of lexical items over time. Our aim is to capture the systemic change of words meaning in an empirical model that can also predict such change, making it falsifiable. Ilvanidou, Maria And The First One Now Will Later Be Last, For The Times They Are A-changin': Modeling Land Communication In Roman Crete The present contribution has a twofold aim: on the one hand it will seek to demonstrate how the use of digital tools and methods enabled the reconstruction of the Roman road network in Crete back in 2005, while on the other hand it will showcase how the rapid developments in digital tools often deems research in the field of the Humanities outdated and obsolete. Such an initiative as the integration, connection and modeling of complex data on Roman road networks in the digital domain was indeed quite innovative back then. An analogue approach would still have been up to date and re-usable. Sustainability of this Roman roads modeling project has proven to be next to impossible. Therefore, one could argue that, what the digital so generously offered my work, it has taken it back rather fiercely. Vaara, Ville; Hill, Mark; Tolonen, Mikko Publishers, Printers and Booksellers - Implications of Properly Structured Metadata for Digital History With any computational analysis of a large historical dataset, there is a strong temptation to approach the dataset as holistic representation of the language and intellectual landscape of its era. However, as digital history projects are often criticised for naive and historically laxed approaches to sources resulting in simplification of complex phenomena, such an approach will not hold water. In this paper we demonstrate how proper use of metadata is necessary for serious corpus control and digital source criticism. This work makes two specific contributions to the history of the book and digital history. First, we present a general methodological approach for creating a historical biographical database out of a bibliographical catalogue. Second, we demonstrate solutions for forming a uniform dataset from a noisy and heterogenous starting point. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0650.html Fragkiadakis, Manolis (1,2,3) To Sign or not to Sign: Automated Generation of Annotation Slots for Sign Language Videos using Machine Learning Over the last years various corpus projects documenting sign languages have started all over the world. During the annotation process of these corpora the researcher has to determine the precise time a sign occurs and properly gloss it. Consequently, the annotation process is extremely labor intensive, but a condition for a reliable quantitative analysis of the corpora. The aim of this project is to develop a tool that automatically annotates the signs and their phonological features in a video. The first part towards automatic annotation is to recognise the exact time-frame a sign occurs. To remove the redundant information from the raw video a pose estimation framework (namely OpenPose) has been used. The extracted hand locations have been used to train four different classifiers. The result of this process is a tool that uses XGBoost to accurately predict the span of a sign and automatically create the annotation slot. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0660.html Islam, Jumayel (1); Xiao, Lu (2); Mercer, Robert E. (1); High, Steven (3) Tension Analysis in Survivor Interviews: A Computational Approach Tension is an emotional experience that can occur in different contexts. This phenomenon can originate from a conflict of interest or uneasiness during an interview. In some contexts, such experiences are associated with negative emotions such as fear or distress. People tend to adopt different hedging strategies in such situations to avoid criticism or evade questions. In this work, we analyze several survivor interview transcripts to determine different characteristics that play crucial roles during tension situation. We discuss key components of tension experiences and propose a natural language processing model which can effectively combine these components to identify tension points in text-based oral history interviews. The model provides a framework that can be used in future research on tension phenomena in oral history interviews. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0661.html Thomae, Martha E.; Cumming, Julie E.; Fujinaga, Ichiro Taking Digital Humanities to Guatemala, a Case Study in the Preservation of Colonial Musical Heritage The goal of this project is the preservation and dissemination of Guatemala’s colonial musical heritage by applying music information retrieval tools to a group of Guatemalan manuscript sources while maintaining the original sources in their homeland. These sources are written in mensural notation, a music notation style used in Europe throughout the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In this paper, we will present the step-by-step process that will unravel the accessibility barriers of this repertoire: (i) lack of high-quality digital images, (ii) notation style, and (iii) layout. This process will result in the digitization and encoding of the repertoire as musical scores in a machine-readable file format, which would facilitate its dissemination, study by musicologists, and appreciation by the general public. We expect this research to be used as a model for the digitization of the mensural repertoire of other countries that were once part of the colonial past. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0664.html Kiessling, Benjamin (1,2) Kraken - an Universal Text Recognizer for the Humanities Kraken is a language-agnostic optical character recognition engine that can be applied to both printed and handwritten texts with relatively modest training effort. It includes a number of features making it of special interest to digitization work in the humanities. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0673.html Liu, Chao-Lin; Chang, Wei-Ting; Zheng, Ti-Yong; Chiu, Po-Sen Toward Building Chronicles from Biographies in Local Gazetteers: An Application of Syntactic and Dependency Parsing Statements in a typical personal chronicle are short and informative. The goal of creating chronicles from biographies led us to the very challenging task of sentence compression. We used the biographies of the Taipei gazetteers as the testbed, and abbreviated sentences based on the results of constituency and dependency parsing of Stanford tools. We shortened the original sentences by heuristically dropping some nodes in the parsing results. Although we have gathered invaluable experience in this preliminary exploration, we accepted only 45% of the shortened sentences that our program produced. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0682.html Weinfurtner, Anne; Dorner, Wolfgang; Graf, Simon How to Better Find Historical Photographs in an Archive - Geographic Driven Reverse Search for Photographs This contribution presents web map based retrieval techniques that allow to store spatial data included in historical photographs with the aim to better satisfy the information demand for spatially oriented and object centric disciplines. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0687.html Ströbel, Phillip Benjamin; Clematide, Simon Improving OCR of Black Letter in Historical Newspapers: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTR Models on Low-Resolution Images We showcase the usefulness of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models when it comes to the recognition of black letter in historical newspapers. We illustrate how simple the production of a ground truth, the training and the evaluation of such HTR models are with the help of the integrated platform Transkribus. Our paper highlights that a model trained on only a limited amount of data achieves state-of-the-art performance and beats commercial software like ABBYY FineReader by oftentimes large margins. We are particularly interested in how HTR models trained on medium-resolution data perform on high-resolution images and we are able to show that the performance is comparable, which means that costly and time-consuming re-digitisation processes are not required in order to improve OCR quality. Moreover, we investigate the transferability to other newspapers. In short, our findings demonstrate how digital humanists can improve their source material for text mining with a reasonable effort. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0694.html Bon, Bruno (1); Alexandre, Renaud (1); Nowak, Krzysztof (2); Vangone, Laura (1) VELUM : Towards Innovative Ways of Visualising, Exploring and Linking Resources for Medieval Latin This paper aims to present the _Velum_ project, which is a first step towards an innovative digital environment for the study of the language and culture of medieval Europe. The medieval civilization can only be investigated by means of the study of traces that have survived to our times. The best source of our knowledge is the texts, preserved in huge quantity and variety. Written mainly in Medieval Latin, they have not benefited from recent advances in computational linguistics. To challenge this situation we will build a large and balanced corpus of Medieval Latin texts composed between 500 and 1500 AD all across Europe. It will be annotated with PoS, lemma, time and place labels. Tools allowing efficient statistical analysis and data visualization will be developed. The texts and tools will be made freely available to the scientific community, to help researchers answer their own questions or discover new ones. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0695.html Rajan, Vinodh (1); Stiehl, H. Siegfried (1,2) Advanced Manuscript Analysis Portal (AMAP): An Interactive Visual Language Environment for Manuscript Studies Application of digital methods in the fields of Digital Paleography and Manuscript Studies has long been a challenging task as one requires programming experience to use the methods and create computational solutions. Recently, Visual Language-based applications like AppInventor have gained a lot of attention. By using an intuitive visual syntax, they let non-programmers to create computational solutions easily. However, Visual Language (VL) environments do not exist for Manuscript Studies. In this context, we introduce AMAP, a Visual Language environment for programming with DIA methods. It offers a largely self-usable toolbox that humanists can use to build solutions themselves. We initially outline the need and motivations for developing AMAP and further elaborate on the design and implementation of AMAP along with its potential applications. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0696.html Barget, Monika Renate; Schreibman, Susan; MacCarron, Pádraig Complexities And Compromise – User-Centred Interfaces For Public Humanities projects Drawing on recent experiences of the Letters 1916-1923 team in re-designing their project website, this paper will elaborate how changing user expectations, academic standards and special requirements of source material can be reconciled in the creation of database driven interfaces designed for public humanities projects. Digital Humanities scholars agree that interfaces are “part of the design” and need to visually tell the project’s story. But despite extensive theoretical discourse on user-centered designs, many DH projects still tend to fall short in practice. This paper will explore these issues theoretically and practically by describing some of the initial problems and design choices made in the course of the recent Letters 1916-1923 re-launch, thus contributing to an on-going discourse. The results of onsite user testing, in particular, have shown how user expectations have transformed since the first release of the website in 2015, and these findings may benefit similar public humanities projects. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0706.html Atanassova, Rossitza Ilieva A National Library’s digitisation guide for Digital Humanists This short paper will give practical advice about the Library’s digitisation planning process for scholars who wish to use digitised resources in their research. The information will help scholars understand the institutional context, the roles involved in digitisation, the preparation stages and documentation required, typical timelines and the decision-making that happens at different stages. With this knowledge it is hoped that DH scholars will be better prepared for the process and will factor it in their research funding proposals. They will also gain an understanding of the Library’s considerations and policy for making available for reuse existing digitised resources and how scholars could request this for their projects. In making the policy and processes at the institution more transparent, the presentation will expose some of the hidden labour undertaken by cultural heritage staff to enable Digital Humanities (DH) research. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0713.html Bardiot, Clarisse (1); Broadwell, Peter (2); Oiva, Mila (3); Suarez, Pablo (4); Wevers, Melvin (5) The Leonardo Code: Deciphering 50 Years of Artistic/Scientific Collaboration in the Texts and Images of Leonardo Journal, 1968-2018 Leonardo (1968-present), published by MIT Press, is the leading international peer-reviewed publication on the relationship between art, science and technology, making it an ideal dataset to analyze the emergence of such complex collaborations over time. To identify and analyze both the visible and latent interaction patterns, the research employs different granularities of data (article texts, images, publication dates, authors, their places of affiliation and disciplines) as part of a multimodal approach. Using a convolutional neural network, we examined the features of the images to analyze the modes of representing (and actually doing) art, science or engineering. We paired these features with information extracted using text mining to examine the relationships between the visual and the textual over time. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0714.html Škvrňák, Jan (1); Škvrňák, Michael (2); Ochab, Jeremi K. (3) How To Detect Coup d’État 800 Years Later The thirteenth century in the Czech lands is undoubtedly the most interesting period for the nobility. In the first half of the century an almost invariable group of noble families around the monarchs was established so that the impossibility of political upheaval led to the uprising of part of the nobility and the civil war between 1248-1249. Having collected data on approx. 2300 noblemen from 568 charters, with the use of social network analysis we attempt to describe polarization within the nobility and explain which noblemen joined the uprising in the ranks of Přemysl Otakar II (Ottokar II.) and how their position in the social network influenced their chances to be appointed to high-ranking positions within the kingdom after the coronation of Přemysl Otakar II. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0731.html Backman, Agnieszka; Petrulevich, Alexandra Norse World – The Complexities Of Spatiality In East Norse Medieval Texts The Norse perception of the world project sees East Norse (Old Swedish and Old Danish) literature as a mine of information on how foreign lands were visualised in the Middle Ages: What places were written about and where? How do place names link different texts? The study of spatial thinking and knowledge in medieval Scandinavia and its development as an area of enquiry have been hampered by a dearth of information on place names in literary texts. Any research aiming to uncover what pre-modern Scandinavians understood about places abroad requires as a minimum an index of foreign place names in East Norse literature, an infrastructure that has not existed until now. To answer questions like those above and more the project has created the online resource Norse World (uu.se/norseworld) consisting of a MySQL database, compatible with both GeoJSON and JSON-LD, with interactive search and mapping using the Leaflet library. Vaara, Ville (1); Ijaz, Ali (1); Tiihonen, Iiro (1); Kanner, Antti (1); Säily, Tanja (1); Lahti, Leo (2) The Emerging Paradigm of Bibliographic Data Science In order to facilitate research use of library catalogues, we recently proposed the concept of _bibliographic data science_. This aims to improve data reliability and completeness through systematic and reproducible harmonization, deriving from the paradigms of open science and data science. We have constructed a comprehensive bibliographic data science ecosystem that facilitates semi-automatic harmonization and enrichment of bibliographic entries. The work is based on an iterative process where research use often leads to new enhancements in data processing. The overall ecosystem integrates a number of distinct workflows that are dedicated to harmonizing specific subsets of the data collections. Further algorithmic tools support the integration with other data sources, such as full text collections, and final statistical analysis, visualization, and summarization of the data. As such, bibliographic data science can advance the methodological and conceptual basis in book history and digital humanities. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0740.html Takeda, Joey (1); Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (2) One More Time With Feeling: Revisiting XPointers to Address the Complexities of Promptbook Encoding TEI has long supported the use of XPointers (Grosso et al. 2003), but they are seldom implemented or recommended as a method of linking TEI documents (Cayless 2013). We make the case that they may still a viable option for TEI projects, by means of a real-world example in which XPointers are necessary: the Waterloo-based Stratford Festival Online (SFO) project, which aims to encode the Festival’s world-class collection of theatrical promptbooks (Malone 2013; 2018). To represent the complex ontologies of the contents of promptbooks, our research team is developing an approach that uses two data files linked by stand-off markup and XPointers, one for the verbal text that a stage manager uses as a timeline during a performance, and the other for the non-verbal events the stage manager enacts or monitors (Roberts-Smith, Kaethler, Malone et al. forthcoming). This short paper is illustrated by a sample implementation in XSLT. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0741.html Molineaux, Benjamin Joseph The Corpus of Historical Mapudungun: This paper presents the challenges and prospects of building the Corpus of Historical Mapudungun, focusing on the difficulties of materials and methods used to reconstruct the history of a Native American Language. Special focus is placed on sound change – particularly epenthesis – in a language with abundant complex morphological structure (aka polysynthesis). https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0742.html Gabay, Simon (1); Riguet, Marine (2); Barrault, Loïc (3) A Workflow For On The Fly Normalisation Of 17th c. French If NMT has proven to be the most efficient solution for normalising pre-orthographic texts, the amount of training data required remains an obstacle. In this paper, we address for the first time the case of normalising modern French and we propose a workflow to create the parallel corpus that an NMT solution requires. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0744.html Uyola, Rosalie DHK12: Open-Access Digital Humanities Curricula for K-12 Schools DHK12 is a free, unrestricted, online open-access collaborative network of educators who seek to: use digital tools to make the humanities come to life for students draw on the scholarship of women and people of color to diversify curricula support students as they do the work of historians by creating knowledge. This year, DHK12 is in the process of launching two digital projects -- built by students, the people who will need the tools to deal with the complexities of the future -- that will contribute to public scholarship in digital indigenous studies, digital black studies, Africana and diasporic studies, digital queer studies, and digital feminist studies. With these interdisciplinary and transnational, student-driven digital archive projects (currently in progress; please see full abstract for project descriptions), we will build complex models of memory and commemoration, analysing our data with computational methods and communicating the results to a broader public. Karrouche, Norah Still Waters Run Deep. Including Minority Voices in the Oral History Archive Through Digital Practice While digital archiving practices in the Netherlands have provided better access to oral history collections, the effort has also demonstrated that the voices heard in those oral history projects are predominantly white. This paper argues that the composition of the Dutch oral history archive is in dire need of revision and seeks to generate a dialogue on how to remedy this silence. In a discipline that has traditionally prided itself on its emancipatory potential, ethnic minorities and formerly colonized peoples in particular have received relatively little attention. First, I closely examine the state of the art of digital oral history in the Netherlands. Second, I will explore how digital research infrastructures and repositories can contribute to a more inclusive archive through closely collaborating with community archives https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0763.html Bukula, Andiswa; Steyn, Juan The Complexities Of The Representation Of Xhosa Protagonists, Represented By Male And Female Authors In IsiXhosa Dramas Using Computational Methodologies This paper will report on a research that has already been carried out for a Masters study, using a manual process, but now will use computational methods, to analyse the data. The research will look at the representation of women protagonists in isiXhosa dramas as presented by male and female authors, and look at the different ways in which these authors of different sexes depict these women differently due to the influence of their different sexes. The computational tools that will be utilized will include, the use of Voyant Tools, analysis using regular expressions as well as testing the feasibility of BookNLP when used with conjunctively written languages. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0765.html Mimno, David (1); Martin, Meredith (2); Algee-Hewitt, Mark (3) The Sonnet Stretcher We present a tool for viewing patterns in the position of words in poems. Given a collection of 10,000 English-language sonnets, we stretch each poem to fit a standardized square, with each line fully justified. We then create a visualization for each distinct word showing the position of all instances of that word. For example, we find that "start" and "apart" appear almost always at the end of lines, and that "start" rarely occurs in the first line. The visualization allows scholars to gain an abstracted view of poetry without losing the poets' individual choices about word placement. This tool can help scholars generate and test theories about the interplay of rhyme, meter, syntax, and emphasis. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0775.html Lavorel, Marie The Living Archives Of Rwandan exiles And Genocide Survivors In Canada: Une Nouvelle Façon D’explorer, Sur Une Plateforme Numérique, Les Récits De Vies De Survivants De Violence Le centre d’histoire oral et de récits digitalisés de l’Université Concordia à Montréal en collaboration avec l’association des Parents et amis des victimes du génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda (Page-Rwanda), représentant les survivants du génocide de 1994 vivants désormais à Montréal, ont décidé en 2016 de créer une plateforme numérique pour partager et explorer 31 interviews (vidéos) de survivants. Ce projet de recherche et de création (financé par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada 2016-2019) en humanités numériques est une occasion de renouveler non seulement la recherche collaborative en histoire orale et digitale mais également de développer de nouvelles façons d’utiliser et de transmettre les archives vidéo de récits de vie. Cette plateforme « d’archives vivantes » répond à un grand besoin de développer de nouvelles méthodes d’accès, de partage, de visualisation, de cartographie, d’écoute et d’analyse des histoires de enregistrées des survivants de violence de masse. Eisazadeh, Negin (1,2); Bordalejo, Barbara (1) Digital Documentation of Abandoned Heritage. The Case of Château de Noisy Urban exploration or urbex is the exploration of human-made spaces that are generally inaccessible and hidden away from the general public. Recording the visit of these ‘forgotten’ spaces through photography is a main component of this phenomenon which has resulted in a wealth of urban exploration photos and videos of abandoned sites. This research focuses on the documentation and information management of abandoned heritage sites and looks into the potentials of the rich collection of existing digital urbex resources for their preservation by exploring their content and new means of representation and engagement. These photos and videos can shed light on these unknown places, and with the right utilization can not only document and digitally preserve some aspects of the valuable heritage but also can bring public attention to heritage sites that may still be saved from deterioration and revived. Larrousse, Nicolas; Marchand, Joel A Techno-Human Mesh for Humanities in France: Dealing with preservation complexity Nowadays, as the use of digital data for research in Humanities has become the norm, researchers are dealing with a huge amount of data. As a consequence, the risk of data loss is increasing. Another difficulty is to provide full access to this flood of data to users often located in distant areas. These problems can no longer be addressed individually by researchers or even at a laboratory level: it is therefore necessary to use a technical infrastructure with specific skills to provide stable preservation services. This paper will present the implementation of a preservation system in France, branded “Huma-Num-Box”, which aims to address these challenges. This solution is proposed by Huma-Num, the French national infrastructure dedicated to Digital Humanities. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0799.html Andrews, Tara Lee; Safaryan, Anahit; Atayan, Tatevik Continuous Integration Systems for Critical Edition: The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa We present here a project to prepare the digital critical edition of the Armenian-language Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, which is due to finish its first stage in April 2019. One of the central features of our project was to adopt a continuous integration (CI) system in order to manage the work across these stages in a sensible manner. The primary challenge we then had to overcome was the need to ensure that the data was cleanly maintained from beginning to end, as the nature of CI design does not allow for modifications in the middle of the pipeline. While our implementation of the CI pipeline does not carry us all the way to the finished edition, we believe that this would be a very desirable future direction. Lorenzini, Matteo; Rospocher, Marco; Tonelli, Sara Computer Assisted Curation of Digital Cultural Heritage Repositories The objective of metadata curatorship is to ensure that users can effectively and efficiently access objects of interest from a repository, digital library, catalogue, etc. using well-assigned metadata values aligned with an appropriately chosen schema. However, we are often facing problems related to the low quality of metadata used for the description of digital resources, for example wrong definitions, inconsistencies, or resources with incomplete descriptions. There may be many reasons for that, all completely valid, e.g, in many cases those who host a digital repository have few human resources to work on improving metadata, and often data providers are not themselves the metadata creators. Taking as reference the framework developed by Bruce and Hillmann (2004), in this paper we present our ongoing work, which aims at defining computable metrics to assess metadata quality and automatize metadata quality check process. Van Galen, Quintus (1); Hall, Mark (2); Nicholson, Bob (1) Durchdruck im Fokus: Visualising the Spatiality of Articles in Historical Newspapers This paper presents a tool for visualising the positioning of historical newspaper articles within their original source. It extracts the article bounding box from the metadata, normalises the coordinates of said bounding box, and plots these on a heatmap. This tool allows researchers to investigate the complex context of the source material on which they rely, by gaining them understanding of the editorial context in which the article apeared. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0818.html Impett, Leonardo Laurence Early Modern Computer Vision Computer vision necessarily embodies a theory of vision (primarily a neuroscientific one): conversely, important discoveries in the theory of vision have come from computer vision algorithms. This paper describes a project, Early Modern Computer Vision, which therefore attempts to prototype a computer vision (that is to say, a way for machines to read images) which is based on Italian theories of optics, vision and visual art of the 16th century, as an experimental apparatus to investigate those theories. I present a passage by Michael Baxandall in which he suggests something similar in the 1990s (though he didn't attempt technical implementation), and sketch an initial prototype for an Early Modern Computer VIsion: a digital colour-space based on Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's Temple of Painting (1590). https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0820.html Alshanqiti, Ahmed Mohammed Waqf Libraries And The Digital Age This short paper raised as a part of my ongoing PhD thesis that aims to introduce and study the concept of a Digital Waqf Library. The paper argues that the current rules and guidelines of the concept of Waqf needs to be reviewed and updated in order to adapt with the digital age and the new digital innovations. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0846.html Sowerby, Zachary David Encoding Ancient Greek Music The goal of this project is to create a digital framework by which to study the entire surviving corpus of the music of Ancient Greece. Surviving examples of the notation, although scattered and quite fragmentary, provide a rich picture of ancient song, with information concerning lyric, pitch, rhythm, meter, section, dynamics, and instrumentation. This open-source project uses aligned digital diplomatic editions of the surviving notated music sources to perform computational analysis on the different aspects of this complex corpus to further the study of this once-lost tradition. Existing initiatives for encoding music are not designed to handle either the ancient notation or the competing music theories written by ancient musicologists. The music encoding system specially developed for this project was developed to both create a one-to-one semantic correspondence with the source material and be machine-readable. The code is designed to coordinate and manipulate the data for analysis. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0848.html Cummings, James; Kirkley, Laura; Sousa Garcia, Tiago; Turner, Mark New Approaches to Women’s Writing Virtual Research Environment The New Approaches to Women’s Writing (NEWW) Network brings together scholars from across the globe to research women writers’ transnational collaborations and reception histories from the early modern era to the twentieth century. The aim is not only to recuperate national histories of women’s writing but also to establish how feminist ideas were disseminated as texts crossed national and linguistic borders. This short paper seeks to introduce the NEWW network and its pilot virtual research environment as it seeks to develop this further. Wendell, Augustus; Ozludil, Burcak Agent-Based Modeling in Art History: Simulating an Insane Asylum This short paper reports on the development of a framework and system that incorporates agent-based modeling (ABM) in art/architecture historical research and scholarship. ABM is a computational process simulating agents and their behaviors; the relationships between agents; and the interaction between agents and their environments. In our prototype of the Istanbul Toptasi Insane Asylum (functioned 1876-1924), we model medical and daily routines of the asylum inhabitants. This setting presents both a computational and philosophical challenge considering that agents are typically assumed to be active, autonomous individuals with decision-making capability in a non-restricted environment. In contrast, the asylum is a highly regulated environment with unpredictable (and arguably irrational) agents. The asylum presents a productive case study of applying ABM to art/architectural history as the movement of agents provides insight into the functioning of a nineteenth century imperial medical facility. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0851.html van den Heuvel, Henk (1); Draxler, Christoph (2); van Hessen, Arjan (3); Corti, Louise (4); Scagliola, Stefania (5); Calamai, Silvia (6); Karouche, Norah (7) A Transcription Portal for Oral History Research and Beyond Over the past 2 years a number of researchers from various backgrounds have been working on the exploitation of digital techniques and tools for working with oral history (OH) data. The Transcription Chain (TC) can be considered as a couple of concatenated different software tools that ingest Audio and or Video documents and output Time-stamped Transcriptions (TT). In this proposal, we see a TC as a set of web based tools, running on one or more computer servers “in the internet”. A TC typically uses different tools that run on different servers in different countries. The TC was implemented as a OH Transcription portal by developers of the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) in Munich. In this contribution we address the implementation of the portal (and its URL), the first experiences as reported in a follow-up CLARIN workshop in Munich, and our future plans with the portal. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0854.html Hughes, Lorna (1); Benardou, Agiatis (2) “The Ties That Bind': The Creation, Use, And Sustainability Of Community Generated Histories The use of digital content, tools and methods allow new insights into historical research, through enriched engagement with primary sources via digitization and datafication, advanced approaches to data analysis and visualization, and immersive approaches. In response to these digital opportunities, research on the First World War has seen a digital 'big bang': the period from 1914-19 has greater digital coverage than any other historical period. This paper will address the theme of community generated content (CGC) in the context of digital First World War initiatives across Europe, and explore the value and digital legacy of community generated content that is, methodologically, of significance to broader issues around using and sustaining digital histories. It will discuss the sustainability and use of GCG in historiography, and as a disruption in the research life cycle. Larrousse, Nicolas (1); Jacobs, Christophe (2); Jacobson, Michel (1); Kagan, Gilles (1); Marchand, Joel (1); Masset, Cyril (1) “Un Manuscrit Naturellement ” Rescuing a library buried in digital sand This long story about preservation of human thought began during the Middle Ages, with the creation of manuscripts by copyist monks. An agreement was signed with the Ministry of Culture and IRHT to digitize all the manuscripts stored in French public libraries. In 2018, this corpus is among the most important digitized medieval source representing more than 6000 manuscripts: this is still a work in progress! The fantasy of digital immortality is widely shared, but in reality, digital resources are highly fragile. In short, over many years, we have built a very safe and costly digital necropolis progressively covered by layers of digital sand rather than a clean organized library. This paper will present the consecutive operations made during the preservation project of this very valuable collection of manuscripts. Schwartz, Michelle (1); Crompton, Constance (2) Where Our Responsibilities Lie: People, Method, and Digital Cultural History As cultural historians, should our responsibility be to the people in our historical data set or to our methodology? Is it possible to, as they say, have it both ways, and if so, what do Digital Humanities methods offer us as we seek to responsibly represent political history? In digitizing and digitally remixing a primary source data, should we value data collection consistency or value recovering information that the original methodology could not capture? We plan to report on the data collecting practices of a TEI-based Canadian history project. In this short-presentation, we will report back on the findings of this research into methodological best practice and will demonstrate the affordances of the alpha version of our public history site. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0874.html Schwartz, Daniel L. Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations: A Linked Open Factoid-based Prosopography This paper explores the development of a prosopographical database for the field of Syriac studies called SPEAR: Syriac Persons, Event, and Relations. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic used in the Near East between the 3rd and 8th centuries and continues to be used liturgically by Christians in the Middle East and India as well as expatriate communities in Europe and North America. This project employs a factoid-based approach to prosopography. Where most factoid-based prosopographies organize data in a relational database, SPEAR encodes prosopographical data from primary source texts in TEI XML using a customized schema designed to facilitate linking this propopographical data to other linked data resources and for serialization into RDF. SPEAR shows how a prosopography project can employ TEI, field-specific scholarly standards, and Linked Open Data to produce a highly structured and semantically rich database that maintains close ties to the texts from which it is derived. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0875.html Camps, Jean-Baptiste (2); Ing, Lucence (2); Spadini, Elena (1) Collating Medieval Vernacular Texts: Aligning Witnesses, Classifying Variants This paper presents first results of an ongoing research on automatic categorization of variants within automatic collation. Performing the normalization phase using NLP tools, instead of doing it manually, not only speeds up the task, but also allows the identification of fine-grained categories. The case studies shows strong and weak points of this proposal and of the different technical solutions for its implementation, in particular with regard to NLP tools. This study also allows to compare the results in the alignment obtained using no normalization, manual normalization, automatic normalization and fuzzy match parameters. Eventually, this research forces us to reflect upon the importance of having software components which are open and modular, in order to modify and improve them and to include them in computational pipelines. Logan, Peter M (1); Greenberg, Jane (2); Grabus, Samantha (2) Knowledge Representation: Old, New, and Automated Indexing Historical documents are probably the most common source material for digital humanities projects. And yet many of these projects lack adoption of controlled terminologies to represent their content and aid search, discoverability, and use. Automated indexing programs exist and may represent a solution to this problem, but they also raise other questions: when generating subject metadata terms for historical documents, should you use current controlled vocabularies, like the _Library of Congress Subject Headings_? Or will you get different results by using an older controlled vocabulary from the same time period as the documents? Our presentation describes the results of our experiments comparing the output of current and historical vocabularies to automatically index historical documents, and discusses our findings. Adelmann, Benedikt (1); Andresen, Melanie (1); Begerow, Anke (2); Franken, Lina (1); Gius, Evelyn (1); Vauth, Michael (3) Evaluation of a Semantic Field-Based Approach to Identifying Text Sections about Specific Topics With the increasing availability of large corpora, humanist scholars gain opportunities to choose their material in a more data-driven way. How can we identify texts or text sections relevant to our research question if we abandon prior knowledge as a determining factor? In this paper, we explore the potential of semantic fields for finding text sections about a topic of interest. Additionally, we want to address the major issue of evaluating a task involving a great deal of interpretation. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0895.html Seydi, Masoumeh (1); Romanov, Maxim (2) Al-Ṯurayyā, the Gazetteer and the Geospatial Model of the Early Islamic World From a historian perspective, information about places whose locations are not easily comprehensible with certainty, alternative names for places, evolution of names over time, and the specific historical contexts in which names were used, are of great importance. Places of cultural meaning or administrative units meet the needs of historians, rather than physiographic landforms on which many existing digital gazetteers and data models focus. Al-Ṯurayyā provides an extensive gazetteer of the early Islamic Empire with over 2,000 toponyms and almost as many route sections from Georgette Cornu’s Atlas—where the primary attribute of collected objects are their geographical coordinates and their place in the Empire’s administrative hierarchy. Beyond the gazetteer, al-Ṯurayyā implements a spatial model that visualizes settlements, routes, itineraries, regions, and networks; additionally, it can perform specific queries that are meant to help to analyze specific historical events and phenomena through resulting visualizations. Houston, Natalie M An Evaluation of Rhyme Detection Using Historical Dictionaries As part of a larger project in distant reading nineteenth-century British poetry, a method for detecting line-end rhymes was devised that utilizes rhyme dictionaries published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This method was proposed in order to account for historical debates about the definition of poetic rhymes in English as well as historical changes in pronunciation. This paper describes an evaluation of this approach that compares it to a method commonly used in computational analysis, which is based on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, in order to understand what significant differences occur. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0945.html Mol, Angus A. A. Gaming Genres: Using Crowd-Sourced Tags to Explore Family Resemblances in Steam Games. As is the case in the production and consumption of other forms of (entertainment) media, a video game’s genre classification is a topic of much debate among creators, critics, and consumers. These language games are not new: the complex classification of games was already used as a discussion of generalities in language by Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations. This paper will provide the results of an ongoing project that puts Wittgenstein’s concept of game families into practice as a way to explore the complexity of genre in this medium. To this end data has been collected from the digital distribution platform Steam. A user-based tag recommender system is used to explore game families and genres through network community detection algorithms. To illustrate ongoing work, two case-studies will be presented: one of games that are tagged as “historical” and another highlighting Steam’s 100 best-selling games. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0946.html Carbe', Emmanuela (1); Giannelli, Nicola (2) A Digital Platform for the “Latin Silk Road”: Issues and Perspectives in Building a Multilingual Corpus for Textual Analysis This contribution briefly illustrates the project of a digital platform for a large corpus of Latin texts and documents from medieval and early modern times, its architecture and some of its early results: the preliminary goal consists of a digital library platform, with freely searchable text as well as accessibility to all metadata related to the resource. More other tools will be added to the preliminary and elementary ones, in order to pursue a more granular text analysis, including its semantic declination. Also, front-end projects for authenticated users of the digital platform will be proposed. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0947.html Zuanni, Chiara Data in Museums: Digital Practices and Contemporary Heritage This short paper focuses on new forms of curation emerging in museums in relation to digital data. It explores the acquisition, collection, management, use, and preservation of born digital data in museums, while discussing how these practices affect museum notions of digital heritage. The paper will first highlight recent examples of collecting and exhibiting strategies targeting digital data, and social media data in particular; secondly, it will discuss how user generated content add new layers to the online lives of museum collections and can therefore be included in object biographies; thirdly, it will focus on the curatorial challenges the inclusion of digital data within collection management systems poses to existing data models and vocabularies. In doing so, the paper will consider issues of digital preservation, ethics, and heritagisation, cutting across the fields of digital humanities, museology, and critical heritage studies. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0958.html LAMÉ, Marion (1,2); PONCHIO, Federico (3); PITTET, Perrine (4); MARLET, Olivier (1) OpenTermAlign : Interface Web d’alignements de vocabulaires archéologiques hétérogènes. Les outils d'alignement terminologique à disposition des archéologues et de leurs collaborateurs dans la chaîne de production et de publication de la connaissance scientifique en ligne permettent différentes modalités de travail. Ainsi il est possible d'aligner une terminologie source vers une terminologie cible déterminée (BBTalk vers le métathésaurus Backbones), vers des terminologies de structures homogènes (ex. : entre thésaurus - outil VISTA), vers des structures différentes (ex. 3M de structure xml vers l'ontologie formelle du CIDOC-CRM). Afin de faciliter l’alignement entre des terminologies peu ou pas structurées, sans organisation standardisée de la connaissance (ex. cluster de mots-clés) et produites selon les processus métier des archéologues nécessitant une certaine liberté linguistique, il n’existe pas à ce jour, d'outil intermédiaire offrant les mêmes fonctionnalités et une compatibilité avec ces outils tout en accompagnant de manière simple le processus d'alignement et le dialogue entre les différents acteurs (archéologues et experts de l'organisation de la connaissance, informaticiens). https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0959.html Wu, Shang-Yun (1,2); Wu, Cheng-Han (1); Pai, Pi-Ling (3); Wang, Yu-Chun (5); Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han (1,3); Fan, I-Chun (3,4) Climate Event Classification Based on Historical Meteorological Records and Its Presentation on A Spatio-Temporal Research Platform To trace the occurrence and impact of climate disasters, many clues can be found in the rich records left by historical materials. "China's Three Thousand Years of Meteorological Records" extracts meteorological descriptions from 8,228 historical sources and organizes these descriptions by regions and dates. T The "East Asian Historical Climate Database" is compiled based on chorographies and official histories. This study develops an event classification method based on the meteorological records in the early Qing Dynasty in this database. By representing classical Chinese texts into word embedding vectors and the k-means algorithm, we overcome the difficulty of analyzing classical Chinese and not having enough training data. We then integrate the classification results with the map and timeline to develop a Spatio-Temporal search interface, which facilitates climatologist to access and analyze data according to the three dimensions of time, area and event categories. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0968.html Stell, John Qualitative Space of Poetry We report on experiences using qualitative spatial representation (a technique from artificial intelligence) to represent spatial form in poetry. This allows the two-dimensional structure of text to be represented computationally by describing spatial relations between lines and between blocks of text. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0974.html Higgins, Devin; Calvert, Scout; Nicholson, Shawn Disciplinary Topologies: Using dissertations to map deviant interdisciplines With this proposal we explore the question: How can we characterize disciplines by looking at the discursive flows between scholars in university departments, and thus describe interdisciplinarity amid shifting topologies of knowledge? Taking as a provocation the premise that “every field of knowledge is the centre of all knowledge” (Frye 10), we explore paths of connectedness between disciplines, as constructed from a dataset of approximately 5,000 theses and dissertations (ETDs), in order to elucidate the boundaries, shapes, and concentrations of disciplinary knowledge in the making. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0977.html Casties, Robert A Database of Islamic Scientific Manuscripts — Challenges of Past and Future I will present the database of the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI) which aims to make accessible information on all Islamic manuscripts in the exact sciences (astronomy, mathematics, optics, mathematical geography, and related disciplines), whether in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or other languages from the 9th to the 19th century. The first version of the database was built in 2006 using a flexible graph-like data model that developed and expanded over time. The database and its web presentation are now being migrated to new standard tools like a Drupal web frontend, a CIDOC-CRM based data model and a ResearchSpace based backend. The new Drupal frontend is already online offering access to more than 6900 witnesses of 2300 texts and an experimental area with access to the graph database. The ISMI project aims to be a continuing and growing resource in the future and we invite all interested to participate. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0978.html Nijboer, Harm (1); Brouwer, Judith (1); Bok, Marten Jan (2) Unthinking Rubens and Rembrandt: Counterfactual Analysis and Digital Art History In this paper we analyze the centrality of Rubens and Rembrandt in their artistic communities. We argue that counterfactual analysis is key to understanding their roles in the art worlds of Amsterdam and Antwerp in the seventeenth century. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0980.html Akdag Salah, Alkim Almila (1); Ocak, Meral (2); Kaya, Heysem (3); Kavcar, Evrim (4); Salah, Albert Ali (1) Hidden in a Breath: Tracing the Breathing Patterns of Survivors of Traumatic Events Many people experience a traumatic event during their lifetime. In some extraordinary situations, such as natural disasters, war, massacres, terrorism or mass migration, the traumatic event is shared by a community and the effects go beyond those directly affected. Today, thanks to recorded interviews and testimonials, many archives and collections exist that are open to researchers of trauma studies, holocaust studies, historians among others. These archives act as vital testimonials for oral history, politics and human rights. As such, they are usually either transcribed, or meticulously indexed. In this project, we look at the nonverbal signals emitted by victims of various traumatic events and seek to render these for novel representations that are capable of representing the trauma without the explicit (and often highly politicized) content. In particular, we propose to detect breathing and silence patterns during the speeches of trauma patients for visualization and sonification. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0982.html Pytlowany, Anna A European-Hindustani Dictionary? Reflections on Methods This presentation is the first report on the project “Hindi Lexicography and the Cosmopolitan Cultural Encounter between Europe and India around 1700” from Uppsala University (UU). The primary goal of the project is to produce an online dictionary (Latin-Hindustani-French) on the basis of the unpublished 'Thesaurus Linguae Indianae' by François-Marie de Tours (1). The shortcomings of the Uppsala project will guide the design of an extended cross-linked online dictionary of early modern Hindustani based on little known wordlists and vocabularies compiled by European merchants and missionaries in the 17th c. India. The novelty of the approach resides in combining multilingual sources describing a foreign language to create a ‘pan-European perspective’, which may offer new comparative insights for the historical linguistics of target languages. If successful, this approach can be applied to other early modern vocabularies constituting unique and valuable descriptions of non-European languages. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0988.html McKee, Sarah E. DH And The Evolving Monograph This presentation will begin with a brief overview of the history and theoretical underpinnings of the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative at Emory University. This four-year experiment seeks to find best practices for supporting faculty in the development of digital monographs, including securing funding and collaborating with publishers to create works that extend beyond the form of a traditional book. The focus will then shift to several case studies of digital monographs currently under development by Emory faculty. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0989.html Sanders Garcia, Ashley From the Margins to the Center: A Method to Mine and Model Complex Relational Data from French Language Historical Texts This project employs the spaCy Python library to build an information extraction system to mine personal relational data in French language sources. As a test corpus, it uses four digitized, OCRed, and hand-cleaned nineteenth-century French chronicles of Ottoman Algerian history in order to model socio-political networks and uncover the positions and roles of women in this society. The challenge is to extract not only named entities and their relations to one another, but to extract unnamed persons and their relationships as well. Those who remain unnamed are most often women, servants, slaves, and Indigenous people – the very people about whom scholars are most anxious to know more. This short presentation will share the complete information extraction code, its accuracy, the resulting visualizations, a brief analysis from the case study, and additional use cases that extend far beyond the initial case study to other languages and textual sources. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0994.html Peroni, Silvio The Open Citations Movement Purpose: This article introduces the benefits of releasing a huge set of open citation data as public domain material. Findings: The open citations movement has reached an extensive media coverage since the launch of the I4OC, and several projects and datasets have been release so far so as to leverage the open citation data available online. Implications: The open citation data available is still far from being competitive with well-known proprietary citation databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. However, recently, several federated and interlinked open citation database have been released and are accessible and interoperable with each other by means of the Web technologies. Value: Open citation data makes a positive disruption in the world of scholarly communication, since they change entirely how we face to science, its evolution, and all the related context, such as research assessment evaluations, science of science, bibliometrics, and future scientific discoveries. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1000.html Ijaz, Ali Zeeshan (1); Roivainen, Hege (1); Lahti, Leo (2) Analytical Edition Detection In Bibliographic Metadata Analytical bibliography's aim is to understand books and other printed objects as artifacts and how they were produced. Bibliographic metadata can represent important historical trends and resolve issues such as the ordering of editions. In this paper, we present the state of the art analytical approach for determining editions and their ordering. By providing harmonized data and information on historical developments in book production, this will be a great aid for projects aiming to do large-scale text mining. Contemporary text mining approaches do not utilize edition level information to the fullest extent and therefore are limited in their scope. Using the ESTC metadata, we have developed harmonizing techniques that convert free-form text into more coherent entries for statistical analysis. Furthermore, a new gold standard was developed for validation purposes, with multiple layers of information. The use of this data would significantly enhance the understanding of early modern publishing. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1002.html Sturgeon, Stephen The Digital Humanities Certificate Option: What's At Stake? This short paper will first trace the roots of the digital humanities certificate option as it is now most commonly conceived to Lisa Spiro’s 2010 post on 'Opening Up Digital Humanities Education', summarize how her ideas were then developed by scholars such as Lynne Siemens and Kara Kennedy in journal papers, and move on to examining how these ideas were put into different kinds of practice at institutions like Texas A & M University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Virginia. This short paper will then turn to my own experience as the developer of a digital humanities workshop series who then participated in an attempt to standardize it for university accreditation as a certificate program, focusing on issues of labor equity, fair intellectual representation, the complexity that conversations about these can take on, and conditions for librarians and campus partners to agree to when developing curricula together. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1020.html Lavorel, Marie (1); Bourgatte, Michael (2) Annoter Des Contenus Audiovisuels: Récit D’une Collaboration Entre Montréal Et Paris Une équipe pilotée par Michael Bourgatte au sein du Département d’Humanités numériques de l’Institut Catholique de Paris a réfléchi au déploiement d’un service d’annotation open source qui puisse être utilisé à la fois par des enseignants chercheurs et des étudiants. Le résultat est l’outil technologique Celluloid, plateforme d’annotation vidéo collaborative. Sous la coordination de la chercheure Marie Lavorel à l'université Concordia à Montréal, une plateforme numérique d'archives vivantes dédiée aux survivants du génocide Rwandais vivants à Montréal est actuellement développée et a pour objectif notamment de créer ou d’adapter des outils technologiques afin de naviguer, annoter, visualiser, cartographier un corpus d’entretiens vidéo qui constitue l’unité de cette plateforme. Dans ce contexte, Michael Bourgatte et Marie Lavorel, ont pris contact afin de voir les possibilités d’adaptation de l’outil Celluloid sur la plateforme livingarchivesvivantes.org. et de tester l’outil dans différents cadres d’utilisation tant au sein du milieu académique que du milieu communautaire. Steiner, Christian Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages: Corpus, Analysis, Visualization Cooking traditions, whether they are regional or in a larger context, are one of the most distinguishable items of European culture and an important part of European identities. But how did they become to what we know them now? How did they develop and what were their influences? Cooking recipes are culturally charged transient texts, which are best diachronically and spatially analyzed by strongly relying on digital humanities methods. In my presentation I will explain the core of our digital research strategy, the Semantic Web and the idea of Linked Open Data, and why we chose this focus. I will also talk about the possible analysis methods that will arise from the described workflow and the technical environment (GAMS) we are placing the project in. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1026.html Mandell, Laura C (1); Tarpley, Bryan (1); Brown, Susan (2); Laiacona, Nicholas (3); Moore, Shawn (4); Pratt, Lynda (5) Cutting the Gordian Knot: Sustaining Digital Scholarly Editions After explaining the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and the ARCScholar Digital Publishing Cooperative, we describe a collaboration with Texas A&M University Libraries (TAMU-L) to develop a model for library acquisitions of digital scholarly editions at low cost to the library. We argue that ARC's work with TAMU-L offers a model for sustaining digital editions in perpetuity, and ultimately, creating ways for future scholars to discover editorial commentary via the semantic web. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1027.html Hladík, Radim (1,2); Štechová, Markéta (3) Semantics of Shame in Social Media Discussions of Reality TV Fans We examine the discussions on the Facebook Page of the Czech Reality TV show Výměna manželek (Wife Swap). A commercial TV Nova acquired the originally British program for the Czech market in 2005. In 2018, the show is in its 10th season and consistently ranks among the most popular prime-time programs. We intend to find out if the show’s viewers active on social media partake in the shaming of lower class participants on the show. Specifically, we map the semantic space of “shame” in the comments associated with negative sentiment, interrogate the space for class-based content, and compare it with the alternatives. We find that the viewers engage in the shaming of reality show characters by affirming personal hygiene as the demarcation line between acceptable and unacceptable poverty. Farrell, Jeremy From Reductionism to Complexity: A Digital Corpus for Sufism One of the great promises of digital corpora is the possibility of conducting rigorous empirical investigation of complex data sets related to the evolution of societies, including those in the pre-modern age. The realization of this ambition is subject, however, to several well-known historiographical and technical barriers. As for the first concern, critiques of narrative modes of history have called into question the its reliability as a basis for conducting research into the complexities large scale societal change. With respect to technical challenges, the demands of harnessing the multitude of available are rarely met by traditional database solutions. This paper proposes a solution to these dilemmas by compiling non-narrative data structures found in literature produced by early members of early Sufism into a non-relational database in order to facilitate the computational analysis of the formation of this religious movement. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1034.html Casenave, Joana Mise en Discours de l’Information et Parcours de Lecture dans l’Edition critique numérique Les éditions critiques traditionnelles, imprimées sur papier et regroupées dans des collections spécialisées, répondent à des codes stricts de structuration du contenu. Lorsque l’on passe au support numérique, ces conventions disparaissent en partie. A l'écran, il s'agit donc de reprendre les normes élaborées pour l’imprimé et de les faire évoluer afin qu'elles s'adaptent aux particularités du format numérique. Les éditeurs qui s’occupent des artefacts scientifiques numériques doivent donc d’une part reprendre certains codes sémiotiques du livre imprimé pour les adapter au nouveau format, et d’autre part inventer de nouveaux codes propres à l’environnement numérique. Dès lors, il importe particulièrement de guider l’utilisateur dans son appréhension de l’édition. Mais comment l’éditeur met-il en discours l’information qu’il souhaite présenter aux lecteurs ? Dans cette communication, nous allons nous concentrer sur l’un des aspects de cette représentation et mise en discours de l’information, qui est traduit par l’élaboration de parcours de lecture spécifiques. https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/1035.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line338
__label__wiki	0.61495	0.61495	Broadband TV, Event, Featured Articles, Film, Games, Industry, Machinima, Mixed Reality, On-demand, Production, Project, Virtual Worlds No Responses » Jim Shomos, innovative Australian writer/producer and also LAMP mentor, is about to launch his latest collaboration Mordy Koots, on an unsuspecting public. Gary blogged about the project last month & prior to their shoot in a post entitled Thumbs-up for Aussie innovation live action film-in-game looking at Mordy as a new genre, other examples and what it may mean for indie producers. globally. Jim just sent us this press release which details the screen launches in November, the production process and a teaser of some cool guest appearances… Australia‟s most famous brothers, the Jacobson‟s, this week wrapped shooting for their groundbreaking new comedy series, Mordy Koots which will be launched on November 16 at Sydney‟s Popcorn Taxi. The 10×3 minute series will be available to download for free from ninemsn. Popcorn Taxi will screen all 10 episodes followed by a Q&A with Clayton and Shane Jacobson. Posted by Gary at 1:57 pm Tagged with: accident, actor, Adventure, American WW2 air force, Australia, australian writer, bill and ted, Blazing, blockquote, Bondi Junction, Boots, camilleri, Chandon, character, Charlie, cinema, cinemanova, Cinemas, class, Clayton Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson (Kenny), Collaboration, comedy, comedy inc, Damian Walsh-Howling, entertainment, episode, Europe, feature, Fiona Harris, Game, Gary, genre, guest, guest appearances, height, img, innovation, Jason Gann, Jim Shomos, Kenny, Koots, lamp, Launch, likeable guy, Machinima, Matrix, MOGIE, Monday, NineMSN, NSW, opinion, Pictures, Popcorn, popcorntaxi, producer, Rob Carlton, Rob Taylor, Rogue, Shane Jacobson, Skithouse, Sydney, talented actor, terrific performances, Terry Camilleri, Thumbs-up, Thursday, Ubisoft, Underbelly, USD, Walsh, watching, whole, Wilfred, Women, Writer /Producer, www.mordykoots.com Podcast – Writing for Games Games, Podcasts No Responses » “Games don’t need a story – writers in the games industry are essentially unnecessary” Mark Laidlaw, VALVE Jackie Turnure presented by AFTRS LAMP as part of its Friday Futures Series. Taken out of context, this comment could be dynamite, but the point made by Mark and many of the speakers at the Writing for Games conference is that the most important question game players ask is ‘is it fun to play?’. This statement goes to the heart of the need for games writers to understand that they serve the player. Storytelling for games only works if it is immersive and interactive. Forget this and you’re not writing a game. How story works in a game, the role of the writer, and how to technically script a game are all topics Jackie Turnure will be touching on in her 1 hour overview of the 2006 Austin Texas, Writing for Games Conference Summary of the presentation Jackie Turnure is one of the mentors at LAMP and lecturers at AFTRS in the area of games, online role playing, extended reality and virtual worlds (full bio below). This talk combines much of her knowledge as professional writer gained from her experience in the interactive industry along with a recent trip to the Austin Games Conference where she met and heard some of the best Games Writers in the World. She referred to presentations by four key writers who presented at the conference. The first Mark Terrano of Hidden Entertainment talked in his keynote about stories that are like home movies, meaningful to them, about not using other mediums to analyse or design games and most importantly for would be writers to actually play games to understand them. He finished on the importance of embracing user content, the personal experience, people want to personalize. Alexis Nolent a writer for Ubisoft made a key point that a writer is involved through the whole game production process not just at the beginning. Games are not remembered for the writing, gameplay is. But gamers often complain about bad story so it is critical to embed writers with the level designers to produce strong narrative at all points. The third writer was John Sutherland from Microsoft who talked about conflict is important for drama. “Try selling the superman story without kryptonite”. Story will emerge from conflict and for MMO’s once the conflict is set up the writer has to learn to let go, as the players themselves create the story. Rules of games, do – if possible, show – if you must, tell -last resort. Rafael Chandler from Media Sunshine made a point in his talk about the production process, that gamers dont want story, they already have it. The final speaker was outside the writing stream. Raph Koster is renowned for dropping bombs in conferences and his main point here was that the ‘big’ games are finished. Console games and gigantic MMO’s are finished, ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’. His point was that games become services not products and that publishers and games creators will start to fragment with many hundreds and thousands entering the market creating small, niche services. For this talk Jackie finished on her own ‘busted myths’ that she gleaned from the conference. They included myths such as: Games = shooters Games aren’t stories Audience contribution is new Interactivity breaks emotional engagement Conflict = combat Personalised content is not story Story is king and had some good news to finish on. Traditional skills do cross over in story, emotional engagement, genre, character, conflict, structure and dialogue and her final, final message was about the new skills many writers need to develop: Balancing narrative with agency Player is the protagonist Making navigation transparent Controlling rhythm and pacing Incorporating personalisation Encouraging real world interaction PDF (83k) of the Powerpoint MP3 recording time 41:15. (9.5MB) Click to listen All LAMP podcasts are also published through the iTunes store. With script editing and writing experience in both traditional and new media, Jackie Turnure brings a unique perspective to the role of narrative in cross media production. For the last 15 years she has been working across film, television, games and online production, with a particular focus on animation and children’s content. Jackie received her Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communications) from Sydney College of the Arts and her Master of Fine Arts (Film Production) from San Francisco State University. She spent nine years in the US teaching screenwriting at New York University, Hunter College and the Academy of Arts College, San Francisco. During that time, Jackie wrote and directed eight short films and videos that have won awards and screened internationally. After returning to Sydney, Jackie produced and directed three 3D animated kids’ games for PC, “Bananas in Pyjamas ” It’s Party Time”, “Oz – The Magical Adventure” and “Oz – The Interactive Storybook”. The games have won numerous awards and been distributed in 18 countries. Jackie lectures part time at AFTRS, was an industry mentor at the NSW Film and Television Office’s Indigenous Writers Workshop, ran a Game Design Workshop in FTI in Perth and gave a workshop on Alternative Narratives for the Australian Writer’s Guild.In addition, Jackie works as a script editor and story consultant on feature films, animated television series and animated games. She recently completed story producing and writing 3 episodes on Deadly, a half hour animated TV series based on the books by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman. Jackie is currently script editing and voice directing Stolen Life, an animated feature produced in Machinima, written and produced by Peter Rasmussen. 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__label__wiki	0.780885	0.780885	F1: ‘don’t write off Sebastian Vettel’, says Mercedes chief Toto Wolff Category: TW Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images Red Bull to decide 2020 driver line-up after the US Grand Prix One-Minute Read Wednesday, September 11, 2019 - 12:10pm Wolff backs Vettel Sebastian Vettel had a race to forget at the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix last weekend but the Ferrari driver is being tipped to bounce back by Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff. F1: Sebastian Vettel ‘not worried’ by form but is his Ferrari future at risk? F1 2019 season guide: standings after the Italian GP, next race, calendar, drivers, TV Quoted by RaceFans.net, Wolff said of the German: “I would just say don’t write him off. Because he’s a four-time world champion and the difference between the great ones and the good ones is that the great ones are able to get back up again. And I have no doubt that he can do that. “He had a spell of bad races and now it will be about the ability to get himself back where he deserves to be and today for sure is a bad day for him.” No Mercedes return clause for Ocon RaceFans.net also reports that Esteban Ocon will not have a Mercedes return clause in his deal at Renault. Frenchman Ocon is currently reserve driver at the Silver Arrows but from next season he will link up with Renault as Daniel Ricciardo’s team-mate. Mercedes boss Wolff said: “No, there is no clause. He is a full-fledged Renault works driver for the next two years and with certain option afterwards on both sides. No clause to come back in 2021.” Red Bull decisions after US GP Red Bull Racing will decide who will drive for the team in 2020 after the F1 United States Grand Prix on 3 November. They have already made a change in mid-season with Alex Albon replacing Pierre Gasly, who has been demoted back to Toro Rosso. F1i.com reports that while Max Verstappen’s seat for next season is “signed and sealed” it will likely be a straight shoot-out between Albon and Gasly as to who will be his team-mate. Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko told Speedweek: “We will evaluate who will drive where in 2020 after the race in America.” F1 Formula 1 F1 in focus Read more https://www.theweek.co.uk/formula-1/103224/f1-news-sebastian-vettel-toto-wolff-ocon-renault-red-bull-driver-line-up-2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line347
__label__cc	0.692018	0.307982	Category: Carlson, Tucker Cable Television, Carlson, Tucker, Fox News Channel, Gutfeld, Greg, Television, The Five (TV Program), Trump, Donald J, United States Politics and Government, Watters, Jesse Critic’s Notebook: In Conservative Prime Time, It’s Now Fox and Enemies Spread the loveTweet Mr. Carlson is more fleur-de-sel-of-the-earth. Graced with the prep-school diction of a heel from a 1980s college comedy, he’s leaned into a smirky, confrontational persona since the… By Steve Avery May 3, 2017 Leave a comment 21st Century Fox, Cable Television, Carlson, Tucker, Fox News Channel, Murdoch, Lachlan, Murdoch, Rupert, News and News Media, News Corporation, O'Reilly, Bill, Sexual Harassment, Television Murdoch’s Defiance Over O’Reilly Gives Way to Pragmatism Spread the loveTweetMr. Murdoch did not build a worldwide corporate empire without making a few hard choices along the way. Fox News may be a major profit center, but Mr.… Carlson, Tucker, Fox News Channel, News and News Media, O'Reilly, Bill, The Five (TV Program) For Fox News, Life After Bill O’Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson Spread the loveTweetFox News’s prime-time dominance over the last 15 years is a mantra inside the network. But last month, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC surged past Mr. Carlson at 9…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line352
__label__wiki	0.7252	0.7252	Art & Stage Connor Beaton Connor is based on the East Coast and is passionate about contemporary Scottish politics and culture. Edinburgh Film Festival to focus on Korea and Sweden by Connor Beaton The Edinburgh International Film Festival will feature two national focusses this year, offering festival audiences the chance to see UK premieres of “the best recent work” from South Korea and Sweden, the festival organisers announced from Cannes today. The Focus on Korea line-up boasts films “from the commercial mainstream to independent cinema”, including Ryoo Seung Wan’s espionage thriller The Berline File, O Muel’s debút feature Jiseul, Chung Ji-young’s National Security, Shin Su-won’s Pluto, and Virgin Forest, which will be shown alongside two new shorts: Homo Coreanicus, an allegorical story about Korean society; and Day Trip, a collaboration between Stoker’s Park Chan-wook and his brother, Park Chan-kyong. The Focus on Sweden has a similarly diverse line-up, including Mia Engberg’s Belleville Baby, Mikael Marcimain’s Call Girl, Måns Månsson’s debút flick Roland Hassel, emerging Swedish director Karzan Kader’s Up & Away, and Fredrik Edfeldt’s Sanctuary. There will also be a screening of Mauritz Stiller’s 1919 film Sir Arne’s Treasure with live musical accompaniement. Speaking from Cannes, EIFF Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara said: “Our Focusses on Korea and Sweden are major components of EIFF’s programme this year. These are undoubtedly two of the most consistently interesting national cinemas, both with a great abundance of filmmaking talent. We have an outstanding selection of stimulating and challenging films from both countries and we’re very happy to be showcasing them.” The Focus on Korea is supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korean Film Council, and the Korean Cultural Centre UK. The Focus on Sweden is supported by the Swedish Film Institute. You can find out more about Edinburgh International Film Festival on its official website here. Share: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit 4% to 1,000 subscriber goal Tweets by @thetarge © The Targe, 2013–14 Read about our ethics policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line357
__label__cc	0.680322	0.319678	theUMB Godly Sex is Great Sex. Sex & Religion The Undefiled Marriage Bed How to Strip A Christian in Prison Misogyny and Malarkey Shopping with Your Husband Kids vs. Marital Intimacy Can Parents Sleep Naked? Raising Kids without Body Shame Unexpected Erotica Raya’s Dance Truth or Dare App Irreverent Holidays Pseudosexual Home » Christian Living » Misogyny and Malarkey – The Head Misogyny and Malarkey – The Head Posted on Thursday, May 23, 2019 by Phil in Christian Living We’ve seen that God made Adam and Eve distinct but equal, and that the Genesis 3:16 reference to man being over woman was part of sin’s curse, a curse we’ve been partially (and eventually will be fully) freed from thanks to Christ. This does nothing to support an interpretation of superiority. As written in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, “Without her he is not man in the generic fulness [sic] of that turn. Priority of creation indicates headship, but not, as theologians have so uniformly affirmed, superiority. Dependence indicates difference of function, not inferiority.” Men and women are distinct but equal. Does that mean, then, there’s no submission requirement for Christian women? Or does it simply mean they’re created equal but still remain positioned differently according to gender? The Head of the Household This leads us to one of Paul’s teachings found in Ephesians 5. This chapter has long been used to communicate that wives (and therefore women) are positionally beneath their husbands (and therefore men), as God has placed man as the “head of the household”. Let’s look at what Paul actually wrote in Ephesians 5:22-24 (NASB): Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Man, if that doesn’t sound like positional authority, I don’t know what does. However, there’s a strong argument for a bit of rethinking this term “head”. When we hear “head”, we think in terms of hierarchy. The “head” of a company is its CEO, the person in charge. The “head” of state is its president, monarch, or other highest authority. The “head” is, very simply, the sovereign ruler. However, we must recognize this headship for the idiomatic expression it is. There are other kinds of “head” in our language that we’ve adopted over the years. Other Heads The “head” on a mug of beer is the frothy bit at the top. The “head” of an arrow is the piercing end that makes it lethal. The “head” of a river is its source, its origin, where its waters come from. The “head” of a drum marks the ends (both of them) of the instrument. As we can see, each of these examples reveals something about position (top, point, source, end), but nothing about authority or influence. The head of a beer sits there looking pretty, unmoving, until it dissipates. The head of an arrow has some say in its use, but only if the tail — where it derives its power and guidance — flies true. The head of a river determines the starting point, but gravity, terrain, and other environmental factors take over from there. The head of a drum does absolutely nothing until someone hits it, and then it only makes a bunch of noise. Frankly, looking at each of these other “heads”, I see many men I’ve known (and been). That’ll preach, but it’s not the point I’m making. The issue is that the head of something is positional, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything about sovereignty. It may communicate something about function, but not about command. The general Jewish philosophy at the time of Paul’s writing was that the heart, not the head, commanded intellectual leadership over the body. The head held certain responsibilities — it was the source of life, a seat of the soul — but it wasn’t the sovereign ruler of the body. It merely provided another (admittedly crucial) function. Symbolically, the head (kephalē) represented a point of origin, a source like in a river. This marks a position certainly, but it’s a position more as a landmark than as authoritarian governance. In this origin-oriented headship, the church comes from Christ and Eve (and her daughters) comes from Adam (and his sons). This is about delegation of responsibility, of function, not our modern notions of hierarchy. Not Off the Hook So should wives submit to their husbands? Well, yes. Paul’s words are still clear on this: “Wives be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” My wife’s not off the hook; she’s to submit herself to me as an extension of her submission of obedience to Christ. I am the “head” and her positional responsibility involves this voluntary submission to the head. But before you assume this is more misogyny, let’s look at the rest of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians which the misogynists try to ignore. Husbands aren’t off the hook either. Whereas my wife submits her will to me in respect, I’m to submit my very life to her, as Christ did for the Church (v. 25); I’m responsible for empowering her walk like Christ did (vv. 26-27); and I’m responsible for cherishing and nourishing her in love (vv. 28-29). In short, she’s only supposed to treat me like Jesus, but I’m supposed to be like Jesus, worthy of such treatment. Talk about a burden of responsibility! Mutual Submission We submit to each other, and if it’s to be even remotely one-sided, it is I who should submit more to her. This mutual submission and demand for special treatment by husbands is mirrored in another set of verses often misused to subject women beyond the biblical mandate and give men license to abdicate responsibility. In 1 Peter 3, the apostle tells women to submit to their husbands, even to the point of and to letting their godliness be a testimony to a wayward husband by being more spiritually mature than him. But we men have no right to mistreat her — we’re supposed to be understanding and delicate with her (which gave rise to the misquotation “women are the weaker sex”). Then, just in case we might misinterpret his statement, Peter says we should honor her as an equal, a co-heir in the kingdom. Just to drive the point home, he adds a warning that our prayers can be hindered if we drop the ball on this whole honor/equality thing. Once again, we see the Word depicting two genders that are equal yet distinct. In marriage, I serve as the head of my wife, and she submits to me, but I also submit to her. We both have different roles to play in this body, and both are vital. The idea I see portrayed in Scripture is that if ever I put myself above her — be it out of selfishness or entitlement or ignorance — then I have utterly failed in my responsibility as the head of the household. This mentality isn’t leadership by modern ideas; it’s servanthood. It’s slavery. Which is, by the way, God’s idea of leadership. So, yes, I’m the leader of my home. I’m the head. But I’m not sovereign. There is only one Sovereign in my home, and I’m just as far from not being Him as my wife. 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__label__wiki	0.853389	0.853389	Neighbourhood life, “I was not supposed to sing and yet here I am singing!” Céline Gillain on being a product of the culture we live in and seeing depression as a form of resistance An in-depth interview with the Brussels-based producer, culled from our last ever print edition. How Leuven-based Pieter Eykens’ two labels – Onderstroom and Aguirre – cover a broad spectrum of the underground Almost any and every record collector who’s into new or cold wave, synth-pop or minimal synth owns at least one release from Onderstroom, whilst those who follow contemporary experimental music will certainly possess an Aguirre record. What few people might know however is that both labels are operated by the same person. “We’re not a record label. 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__label__cc	0.64899	0.35101	Saturday morning caffiene fueled rant: How much is the NBA hurting? They are actually considering whoring out their jerseys for ad space. Why is the NBA hurting? Sports marketing specialists are working around the clock to figure that out. I can tell you why the NBA is hurting in six words: People don’t like to watch a&&holes. Speaking of Kobe Bryant . . . unlike with Jim Braddock in “Cinderella Man,” do you think in seventy years anyone will want to see a movie about the life of Kobe Bryant? Narrator: “Kobe went through some tough times after his rape trial. Due to his being dropped by nearly all of his sponsors, at times Kobe’s entourage was whittled down to ten or even eight money- grubbing, sleazy sycophants in diamonds and mink coats. And that is including his wife.” This really just in: In an interview, Jerry Springer was highly critical of the quality of British TV. That has to hurt. That’s like President Bush correcting your diction. 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Never heard of it." “I’m fine, what concerns me are your sexual needs.” And the number one thing that Britney Spears husband, Kevin Federline, has never said: “Well, I’m off to work, dear.” A survey reveals that men use their cell phones more than women; that’s true, but men use their cell phones differently. Guys want to pretend they are a colonel in battle and make short quick calls: “Send cover. Over” Women have a bad habit of actually having these things that take forever. What are they called? Oh yeah: Conversations. Guys just hate that. What we do here is what we like to call getting all up on it, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers Rough one I’ll be honest, I had a rough day yesterday; somebody leaked my “what not to do” in-house comedy video to the San Francisco Chronicle. Compensating maybe? Truck commercial slogans that run during sports all sound like guys bragging about their sexual prowess to women. “It’s not more than you need, just more than you’re used to.” And “Loaded with everything you want and more.” And of course, “Like a rock.” Place your bets Closing arguments on the Michael Jackson trial today. Odds are at this time next week Michael will be having dinner with Robert Blake, playing golf with O.J. and ordering room service with Kobe Bryant. Uh, thanks for sharing? Britney Spears said that sex during her pregnancy is “crazy good.” This statement was rather alarming to Britney’s husband, Kevin Federline, as he has not actually had sex with Britney since she became pregnant. When asked to analyze Britney’s statement, a psychiatrist proclaimed Britney “crazy not so good.” Well, at least he isn't bitter Britney Spears proclaimed that sex during her pregnancy is “crazy good.” When asked to comment, Britney’s husband, Kevin Federline, said; “I guess you could call it crazy good, if by crazy good you mean repeatedly getting crushed by a heavy nutty broad who is eating and spilling Cheetos and pickles on you during sex, then yeah, it’s crazy good.” A retrospective of the explosion of the punk/surfer/skateboard culture in current society: It’s wild how things happen. The skateboard movie “Lords of Dogtown” is about the Zephyr skateboard and surf team from Santa Monica, California in the Seventies. This was the birthplace of the rebel, in-your-face school of surfing and skateboarding that is so prevalent now. Prior to that, surfing was all about the mellow Beach Boys/Gidget/Beach Blanket Bingo scene. Why were these Z-boys, as they are called, rebel surfers? Because they were poor and from a bad neighborhood that happened to be on a great Southern California surf break. That part of Santa Monica, believe it or not, was nasty and trashed. That is Dogtown. It was hard core blue collar and poor folks and drug addicts and alcoholics. Their kids, these Z-boys, actually surfed through the wreckage of a broken down amusement park pier. (It was as if it was a movie set created by Tim Burton for a Mad Max surfer sequel with a sound track by the Nine Inch Nails) The Z-boys hated the “rich kid” Malibu and La Jolla Beach Boy-type surfers of everywhere else. This is where the current huge skateboard/surf culture was born and it would probably have died a natural death if it wasn’t for one character in a movie: Sean Penn’s Jeff Spicoli in “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” His dead-on portrayal of the punk/stoned surfer – spawned from the minions of the Z-boys - intrigued an entire generation and thus created the character that launched a zillion people who over-use the word Dude. No lie, I was in the perfect position to witness this entire phenomenon evolve. I was in Long Beach in ’77 to see the Z-boy culture slowly take over, but strictly limited to, the local surfing culture, and then, after “Fast Times,” when I went back home to Chicago, I saw Illinois kids, who never stepped on a surfboard in their lives, wearing Vans sneakers and saying; “Whoa, Dude. All I need is a cool buzz, a tasty wave and I'm fine.” Now because of the cross-over with snowboarding and the explosion of skateboarding and it’s resultant boarderline-gang what-are-you-looking-at?-fashion, the look, bad attitude and culture of punk/gang skateboarders is, like it or not, here to stay. And why wouldn't it be? It is the perfect storm for teenage angst: fun, surf, danger, sports, partying, rebellion, funky-fashion and getting girls all rolled into one scene. And it started with about ten derelict stoners ditching school and sparking up in a ghetto'd-up surfboard shop in Santa Monica in the early Seventies. Gnarly. Say what? You want me to bring it? You got it and it's coming about Now O'Clock, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers No excuse whatsoever Did you hear about that insulting, repulsive and disgusting video by the San Francisco Forty Niners? But enough about their 2004 season game films, their P.R. guy made an ill-conceived, tacky video. My boys are getting older The Eagles “Farewell 1” tour was on NBC last night. I love the Eagles but they are getting up there in age; “Take it Easy” isn’t just their hit song, it’s their geriatric doctor’s orders. There are now three generations of Eagles fans. There are new, young fans, middle-aged fans and slightly older fans that can remember when, to hear an Eagles album, you had to use one of those Flintstone Bird-beak record players on a record made of rock. When told that the Eagles used to put out albums on records, one college student asked; “Really? What kind of record? A national record or a world record?” The Eagles “Farewell 1” tour was on NBC last night. I love the Eagles but they are getting up there in age; now before the Eagles can play “Best of My Love” they have to take Viagra. The Eagles are getting older so they had to update some of their hits. For example, “Tequila Sunrise” is now called “Metamucil Sunrise.” Their song “Already Gone” is about their backs. Oui? Non. Non? Oui. If French President Jacques Chirac wanted the European constitution to pass in France he should have told the French that the U.S. didn’t want it. How much do the French hate Americans? The French would vote to take a bath if Americans told them not to, that’s how much they hate us. Since you askededededededed: For the public record, as a comedian writer, I was appalled by the insensitivity and crassness of the San Francisco Forty Niner media video. Oh, that reminds me. Did you hear the one about the white Forty Niner P.R. guy who thought he was a comedian? Turns out he can’t dance to save his life either. Hey, Pal, Kirk Reynolds, let’s make a deal, we here at A.l.B.b. won’t try and promote the San Francisco Forty Niners and you shouldn’t try to make comedy pieces. Capice? We can only hope and pray at this point that there isn’t rioting and death in the streets over the Forty Niner video as there was with the “Newsweek” Koran-desecrations flap. Since you asked; As my beloved Cubbies are in town, I am reminded of a scene that happened last year and I want your opinion on it. First of all, most Padres fans are great. But there I am walking into a popular eatery near Petco Park when a beered-up Padre fan spots my Cubs hat and yells; “Hey, you like the Cubs so much why don’t you move to Chicago?” To which I replied; “Because this is a free country, otherwise you would be forced to go move to the town of Drunk Morons.” lexkase@san.rr.com My question is, too harsh? Since you asked again: So I’m not politically correct. If that makes me a bad person then, great, I’m a bad person. One less thing to worry about. My belief is that honesty and words are valuable and anything that restricts either, I’m against. That and political correctness has ruined some potentially great jokes. So it is knowing that I am not politically correct when I say I think this entire trophy for participating crap is, although well intended, sending our entire overly-entitled society into a tail-spin from which it cannot recover. My six-year-old daughter was in the Gold Medal reading program. She was proud, as was I, when she qualified for her gold medal. Then I am informed that I am to attend the Gold Medal ceremony at her school. This does not please me. Though I am exceedingly proud of my daughter and want to show my support, events at her school tend to be long, boring and hot and stuffy. Four things I don’t do well. What the heck, I figure. Since probably not many kids got their Gold Medal it shouldn’t be too bad. Do you want to guess how many of her school’s 512 kids got a gold medal? 500. And I know there are more than 12 kids that don’t speak English. Why not save time and trouble and just have a ceremony chastising the 12 kids who didn’t get a medal? One kid in particular got a Gold Medal. This kid, well, I would not bet a dime that he could even hold a book correctly let alone read one. One day this kid was at the local kiddy pool. He was standing in water only a few inches deep, just enough to get his feet wet. He gets it in his mind he wants to dive in it. Before anyone can get up to stop him, he leaps up in the air to do a cannon ball. As he basically just landed butt first on hard cement, it caused him great pain and he naturally started to cry. He was fine and his Dad comforted him. Just when I was thinking this may have been the stupidest act I’ve ever seen any kid try – and this is coming from a guy who, when a kid, let a car tire roll over his foot. Luckily Mom wasn’t into car maintenance and the tire was soft – when, low and behold, no sooner then we were all back in our seats, the kid DID IT AGAIN. And he won a Gold Medal in reading. Oh, I know they didn’t just get all up on it in here, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers Looking on the bright side. Get it? The Bright Side? Oh, I kill me . . . In health news, the FDA is investigating claims that Viagra can cause blindness; the good news? When you’re blind on Viagra, you won’t run into the wall. The FDA is investigating claims that Viagra can cause blindness. When told Viagra can cause blindness, Star Jones new husband proclaimed; “Oh, sweet relief, I hope so.” Hey Ranchers did you hear that Viagra can cause blindness? Ranchers, I’m over here. Did you hear? Stevie Wonder took Viagra. Now he can see. Uh, Sir, that’s not what the, oh forget it . . . It was awkward when President Bush was asked if he had seen “Revenge of the Sith” Bush said, no, he still hasn’t seen the one before it: “Revenge of the Fith.” Indianapolis News flash This just in: due to the angry objections of a tiny minority of a Native American tribe, next year’s Indianapolis 500 will now be called the Native American-polis 500. Hate that when that happens Did you have a good Memorial weekend? I had a rough Memorial Day; I burned all the hamburgers and hot dogs at our barbeque because I couldn’t see them: I’d gone temporarily blind from Viagra. President Bush gave the commencement address at the Naval Academy. It was a little awkward when Bush said; “The time has come for you to stop studying your Navels and get out in the real world. Well, now, that makes sense Oliver Stone was arrested for his second D.U.I. and drug possession. At least this explains “Alexander” the guy obviously filmed it stoned off his ass. Rookie mistake Danica Patrick who led three times for 19 laps finished a close fourth in the Indianapolis 500. It was so close in the end Danica, regretted having stopped earlier in the race for a Non-fat Caramel Latte at Starbucks, or she could have won. Another news flash from Indianapolis This also just in, due to the angry objections of a tiny minority called “Citizens for Indiana Traditions,” the now-titled Native American-polis 500 will, once again, be called the Indianapolis 500. We can dream, can’t we? You know, San Diego has proven they can host the Super Bowl, the World Series. So who knows, maybe someday we can host the Indianapolis 500? While they were at it The French voted down the European Union constitution. In addition, the French also voted down the general theories and practices of both hygiene and politeness. In addition, the citizens of Paris voted down the union of Paris Hilton and Paris Lastis. This now just in: An angry minority of the severely mathematically challenged have demanded that the 500 be removed from the name Indianapolis 500 so now it is known as the Indianapolis Long Race. That explains it Hotel heiress and "The Simple Life" reality TV star Paris Hilton is engaged to her boyfriend, Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis. Apparently what attracted the two is that both Paris’ loved they way the other Paris called out the name Paris during sex. Can’t wait for the wedding and the cocked-puppy confused look by Paris Hilton when the minister asks; “Do you, Paris, take thee, Paris to love Paris for as long as Paris lives, Paris?” This won’t be a wedding, it will be a “Who’s On First?” routine. “Do you, Paris, take Paris . . .” “Who, me, Paris?” “No, not you, Paris, the other Paris.” “Me, Paris?” “No, not you, Paris, Paris.” OK, this is getting old This now just in: An angry minority of grade school math teachers demand that the 500 be returned to the Indianapolis Long Race, so now it is called, once again, the Indianapolis 500. ESPN has been advertising their broadcast of the Scripps spelling bee championship by showing the contestants: “Wedgie. W-E-D-G-I-E. Wedgie.” Cost cutting Northwest Airlines has stopped giving out free pretzels in order to save money; They’ll still give you the salt from the pretzels, they’re not that cheap, just not the pretzels. Not flying solo it appears A new book claims that American aviator Charles Lindbergh had three German mistresses simultaneously and seven secret children. Clearly, flying is about the only thing Lindbergh did single-handed. Oh, just get it over with for the love of decency This just in: an angry group of Indianapolis area sign makers are upset over having to change the signs from Indianapolis 500 to Native American-apolis 500 back to Indianapolis 500 to Indianapolis Long Race and finally back to Indianapolis 500, again, so they have decided to name next year’s race: JIMMY. Not contrite A Senate committee is considering a bill that would offer a formal apology from the government to American Indians. I’m not sure the apology is sincere: “Dear American Indians. The U.S. Government is really, really sorry. Now can we tax your gaming profits?” And maybe Gilbert Godfrey Paris Hilton says that that she would rather date someone who can make her laugh than someone who is good looking. With the possible exception of Carrot Top. Now you are just trying to piss us off This just in: A group titled “The Name is James” have objected to the Indianapolis sign makers changing the name of next year’s race to JIMMY, so, oh forget it . . . Yes, it’s been awhile but I have a new pet peeve: People who let you stand in back of them because you think they are in line, but they are not, as it turns out, in line. Hey, human cholesterol. You think I just want to stand in back of you for fun? Why do you think I am in back of you? Because you look like you’re standing in line. No? You're not in line? Then tell me you’re not in line or GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line369
__label__wiki	0.542384	0.542384	Stompin’ on it and rompin’ on it, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers We kid the Commander in Chief President Bush proudly claims he speaks a little Spanish. Yeah, Bush went on to say that, because he can speak two languages, that makes him bi-lingatious. So that also makes Bush bi-illegible. The Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, have signed NFL-drug-banned Ricky Williams. This makes the third drug-banned player from the NFL the Argonauts have signed. Incidentally, Argonauts is a term from Greek mythology that means: Willy Nelson. Timing is nothing A Dutch cycling union cleared Lance Armstrong of doping charges stemming from the 1999 Tour De France. Apparently this Dutch cycling union is a division of FEMA. A Dutch cycling union cleared Lance Armstrong of doping charges stemming from the 1999 Tour De France. In addition, the Dutch cycling union also discovered that Bruce Willis was actually a ghost in “The Sixth Sense.” Jumping on the bandwagaon Despite their controversial anti-President Bush statements, the Dixie Chicks latest album, “Taking the Long Way” is the number one selling album. In a related story, has-been, brother-band Hansen said their next album is titled “President Bush is a Freakin’ Idiot.” With the Rolling Stones, the Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, the latest trend in popular music are anti-President Bush songs. It was a little embarrassing, when asked if he considered these songs blasphemous, Bush said; “They do play them a little loud, yes.” The divorce settlement between Jessica Simpson and Nick Lache is getting ugly; it was a little awkward, when asked if there was any chance of an appeasement, Jessica said; “No, I’m not even pregnant.” Batchomper D.C. comics announced they are reintroducing Batwoman as a lipstick lesbian; Holy Melissa Ethridge, Batman. The new lesbian Batwoman is going to battle her lifelong rival: Xena, The Princess Warrior. On a personal note, I would just like to say to DC Comics, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. The question now is how much longer are Batman and Robin going to stay in their bat cave closet? Batwoman as a lesbian? Come on, who in the world wants to watch a gorgeous lesbian in a tight lycra suit beating upand tying up Catwoman? OK, that was a stupid question. Forget I said that. It’s not like we haven’t had gay comic characters before. I mean look at Popeye. The guy is a vegetarian sailor whose motto is “I am what I am.” It just doesn’t get any gayer than that. Barry and Soccer? Closer than you might think Owners of the Oakland Athletics have received permission to place an MLS team in the Bay Area. You know what the new Bay Area soccer team has in common with Barry Bonds? Neither one wants to touch the ball with their hands. Why do so many celebrities feel compelled to shove their political and personal beliefs down our throats? I’m not a Country Music fan by definition, but I like a good country song. But I honestly don’t give a red state’s hoot if Toby Keith likes President Bush or if Natalie Maines doesn’t. So why won’t they both shut up about it? As someone working hard out in the distant fringe of the entertainment business, I will never understand why anyone would go out of their way to alienate a big percentage of their potential audience. Look at Jeanine Garofalo. She went from being a damn good comedian to being the punch line of all whiney, Goth, hyper- sensitive, politically correct, pain-in-the-ass jokes. Do I care if somebody who laughs at my jokes doesn’t have my exact same political views? Hell no, not that there are that many who laugh at my jokes anyway. The point is, even back when Crosby, Stills and Nash did the really great song “Four Dead In Ohio” I remember thinking: do those big shot music stars actually think that we don’t already know that four college kids getting shot to death by the National Guard isn’t a horrible thing? As someone who has performed, albeit limitedly, in public on many occasions, both in comedy and on the harmonica, I know that it takes a lot of confidence and guts to stand up there and put it all out on the line. Maybe a little cockiness and arrogance comes with that. And since I’ve never performed for more than about 1,000 people tops, maybe, as the number of people these stars perform for swells, their confidence and arrogance has to swell as well. That part I understand. But when that arrogance extends so far that this famous person who - because of their god-given skills in the lucrative field of entertainment – probably didn’t finish high school, when they assume they know more than I do about what I should believe in, it is time for them to focus back on what made them famous and maybe sit down an eat a piece of shut-the-hell-up cake. Nobody ever, after a hard days work, shelled out big money to be entertained and then thought: “Gosh, I sure hope Carrot Top espouses his views on the trouble in the Middle East.” Lord knows I loves me some Boss, and if you ever want to see a 50,000 person love-fest, catch Bruce Springsteen, like I did in 1985, at the Meadowlands in his beloved home state of New Jersey. But when Bruce started a long rambling speech on who-remembers-what, it was so tensely quiet, you could hear the eyeballs rolling in frustration. And this is a crowd where each and every one of these people would take a bullet for Bruce. Believe me, I am not talking about the celebrities who walk the walk and do great things with their celebrity, like Oprah, Lance Armstrong and Bono and, yes, I have to say it, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I am talking about the Michael Moore’s and the Barbra Streisand’s and the Bill O’Reilly’s and the Rush Limbaugh’s, and especially the Tom Cruise’s – how can that little pygmy be so good in the movies and so bad in real life? - who want their opinions blasted in our faces merely for the sake of promoting themselves and inflating their over-sized egos. If you are so uniformed and so easily swayed that sweet, cute, talented, but probably-not-a-member-of-Mensa Dixie Chick singer Natalie Maines can change your opinion on the evils of war and or the capability, or lack thereof, of our current President, you have more problems than which way to lean on politics. You probably want to seek professional mental help. Just don’t tell Tom Cruise. He hates that crap. Oh it gonna be like that now and again, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers Scientists have confirmed that HIV originated in Chimps. When asked to comment, one Chimpanzee said; “It’s hard out here for a Chimp.” Record breaking A baby in China was born with three arms; experts predict that, in a manner of a few months, the three-armed baby will be able to deliver the world’s first high fifteen. And take two Jennifers Ben Affleck spent Memorial Day in the hospital with a severe migraine. Ben will be fine, doctors ordered Affleck to rest and to never, ever, watch a replay of his movie “Gigli” again. Chainsaw’s assist The Phoenix Suns tied the Dallas Mavericks 2-2. Mavericks guard Jason Terry said that he always sleeps in the game shorts of the opposing team. Except when they play Detroit, because nobody wants to sleep in Piston pants. Amazing indeed It was amazing, as soon as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby was delivered, the severed umbilical cord was named “People” magazine’s most beautiful umbilical cord. Paris Hilton has an album coming out that she says is a combination of pop, hip hop and reggae; see, now I thought Paris’s album would be a fusion of Ska and Punk or Skank. Sue, sue, sue de ‘ho Lark Voorhies, who played Lisa Turtle in “Saved by the Bell” is suing “The National Enquirer” for libel for saying that she had a drug problem. In addition, Lark Voories is being sued for having portrayed Lisa Turtle on “Saved by the Bell.” We kid the trekkies A study claims that, for men, sexual intercourse with a partner is four times more satisfying than masturbation. To which Trekkies asked; “What’s sexual intercourse with a partner?” Again, we kid Christies is going to have a huge Star Trek memorabilia auction. Trekkies will be able to bid millions for famous Star Trek items that will continue to not get them laid. The nerve Wednesday was Katie Couric’s last day on the “Today” show. Katie is leaving her show with class and warm feelings. To which Star Jones replied, “Can you believe that bitch?” Not a good sign Pitcher Roger Clemens will rejoin the Houston Astros in mid-June. This amid rumors that Clemens sat out the first part of the season due to a hushed-up steroid suspension. Clemens was so angry at the steroid charges, he threw a ball clean through a two foot concrete stadium wall. A little bit of funk The Senate passed a hasty token bill that makes English the official language of the United States; it was awkward, when told this English language law was perfunctory, President Bush said; “It does have some funk to it, don’t it?” The Senate passed a bill that makes English the official language of the United States; the actual fine line wording of the bill makes the official language English and whatever the hell it is that President Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger speak. The White House claims that President Bush speaks Spanish. He doesn’t speak Spanish well, so that makes Bush illegible in two languages. We steppin’ off wit’ da goooooood foot in here, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers Bradelina’s spawn Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a baby girl they named Shiloh; Shiloh is an old Hebrew name that means: my parents are way hotter than yours. This is one kid who will have no problem finding a play group. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a baby girl they named Shiloh Nouvel. Shiloh is Jewish and Nouvel is French, so that means the child will be excellent at negotiating deals for surrender. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a baby girl named Shiloh Nouvel; five minutes after Brad and Angelina’s baby was born, ironically, it was adopted by a starving African couple. Brad and Angelina had a baby girl, Shiloh. It won’t be easy being Brad and Angelina’s kid. “So what did you do in school today? Oh you made a clay pot? That’s great. Me? Oh, “People” magazine’s sexiest list, $20 mil for a movie and a Nobel Peace prize nomination. The usual.” Can you imagine being the principal at Angelina Jolie’s kid’s school? “Yes, I know this is the twentieth time this week I’ve called you in, Ms. Jolie, but I want to keep you up to date on just how well little Shiloh is finger painting. She is a genius.” How would you like to be Shiloh’s first grade teacher on Parents night? “Shiloh is a good listener, she helps me out during clean up and . . . my god you two are so freaking hot!” It will be great to be Brad and Angelina’s kid for the annual school fundraiser. “Thanks to Shiloh’s parents, Brad and Angelina, this year’s kissing booth earned just over $22 million dollars.” How would you like to be another parent on career day with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? “Yes, I am a brain surgeon, and what I do is, oh, who gives a crap?” Bailing on Bonds Barry Bonds passed Babe Ruth with his 715th home run but nobody seems to care. It shows that, if you got to where you are by using steroids, people don’t like it. Which may also explain Governor Schwarzenegger’s low approval rating. Despite the recent alligator attacks in Florida, for every person killed by an alligator, 200 are killed from crashing into a deer. So Disney’s “Bambi” is being made into a horror sequel: “Bambi’s Revenge: Steer Clear of the Deer.” So that’s why A study claims that, for men, sex is four times more satisfying than masturbation. That’s why a lot of guys feel that, in order to improve masturbation, they have to practice, practice, practice. In Florida, three people were killed by alligators in one week; it is so bad, today somebody saw an alligator with matching human shoes and human handbag. What a coincidence The Dallas Mavericks lead the Phoenix Suns 2-1. Mavericks guard Jason Terry revealed that he always sleeps in the game shorts of the opposing team. Which is wild because Paris Hilton also sleeps in the game shorts of the opposing team, except Paris does it while they still wearing them. So I am playing Checkers last night outside on a beautiful Memorial Day night - after my awesome bacon avocado burgers - against Virg with Ann Caroline waiting to play the winner. In Checkers, I move really fast because I like to think it throws off my opponent. So Virg asked; “Why don’t you slow down and think about your move?” So I told her that the reason I move so fast is because I am sort of a Checkers genius and, like Bobby Fischer with Chess, I can play at much higher speeds than most people. As if on cue, Virg double jumped me for a King. Without missing a beat, Ann Caroline said; “Whoa, how about that, Mister Genius?” In order to get even, let me say to anyone reading this out there in Internet land - including my beloved A.L.b.b. regular readers, all ten of you - that, although she does look adorable when she sleeps, complete with her arm around her blue plush bunny, Blueberry, Ann Caroline does, however, snore like a drunken sailor. Any other seven-year-olds want to mess wit’ da kid? Huh? Yeah, I didn’t think so.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line370
__label__cc	0.606562	0.393438	Şalgam - Adana's Medicinal Miracle Şalgam (pronounced shalgam) is a drink that provokes a strong reaction for all who have tasted the blood-red brew. For most who live in the southern Turkish city of Adana, şalgam is a staple on the table at almost every meal. For expat Adanalılar (those who were born in or those whose family heritage is from Adana) the thought of şalgam elicits a mouth-watering memory of sharing a meal, most likely Adana Kebab, with friends and family in their beloved hometown. However, most foreigners to Adana, both Turkish and internationals alike, who taste it for the first-time recoil in disgust, promising to never drink it again. Like in most situations, I was the oddball. I loved it from the first taste and am a member-in-good-standing in the “No Kebab Meal is Complete Without an Acılı Şalgam Club.” At this point you must be asking yourself, “What is it? It must be something incredibly strange to draw this sort of reaction.” Well, it’s not that odd at all. It’s simply salted, fermented black carrot and turnip juice. See? Not weird at all. Last week, I spent some time in downtown Adana with Gökhan Bey at Arzu Şalgamı. He sells only two things—şalgam and simit (a sesame-covered bagel that is famous in Turkey) —and he sells A LOT of those two things. In the half hour we spent together, I’m guessing over 50 people visited his street-side şalgam bar. Some ate a simit, others didn’t, but everyone enjoyed a glass of the 1.25 TL (about 30 cents) şalgam. Over several glasses of his very spicy mixture, Gökhan Bey espoused the benefits of Adana’s famous elixir. It contains lactic acid, which aids in digestion. It’s full of vitamin B, which calms nerves. It promotes stomach and liver health. It contains calcium, potassium, and iron, which strengthen bones and teeth. To sum up, şalgam is the definition of healthy. You can enjoy a glass of şalgam with our black carrot spears in your drink. I have no idea if these health benefits are real, but Gökhan Bey believes it! Şalgam is served both acılı (spicy) and acısız (non-spicy). The acılı version is made exactly like the acısız, but with a spicy red pepper liquid concoction added. Depending on the brand or who makes it, the spiciness can range from a slight tickle-on-the-taste-buds spicy to “I need a drink to wash down this fire in a cup” spicy. Şalgam is sold in bottles in grocery stores or at street vendors, like Arzu Şalgamı, all over Adana. In this picture, Gökhan Bey adds the spice mixture to a customer's drink. There are no scales, measuring cups, or any other precise measurements. Gökhan Bey just knows when it is the perfect amount of spice. At this point you must be asking yourself, “What does it taste like? It must taste incredibly strange to draw this sort of reaction.” Well, it’s not that odd at all. It’s simply tastes like salty, spicy (if you go with the acılı), slightly spoiled pickle juice. See? Not weird at all. If you enjoyed your glass of şalgam on the street, you can take home a jug to friends and family. Gökhan Bey sells his pride and joy in 1, 2, 3, and 5 liter jugs, and ships all over Turkey. I'd like to sincerely thank Gökhan Bey for the time we spent together. If you are ever in Adana, I HIGHLY recommend you visit Gökhan Bey at Arzu Şalgamı. He is located just next to the Yağ Cami on downtown Adana (https://goo.gl/maps/uSArU6XUy9T2). national beverage day black carrot black carrot juice turnip juice	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line383
__label__cc	0.681985	0.318015	Crew News Recurring and Guest Stars News Wayward Sisters (Supernatural spin-off) Season Twelve Episodes Winchester Radio Podcast Season Two Episodes Season Three Episodes Season Six Episodes Season Seven Episodes Season Eight Episodes Season Nine Episodes Season Ten Episodes Season Eleven Episodes Season Thirteen Episodes Season Fourteen Episodes Season Fifteen Episodes [ January 17, 2020 ] Supernatural 15×10 Promo “The Heroes’ Journey” News [ January 13, 2020 ] Supernatural episode, ‘The Gamblers,’ airs January 30 Episodes [ January 8, 2020 ] Promo Photos for Supernatural’s January 16 episode, ‘The Trap’ News [ January 6, 2020 ] Supernatural episode, ‘The Heroes’ Journey’ airs January 23 (episode synopsis) Episodes [ December 23, 2019 ] Supernatural episode, ‘The Trap,’ airs January 16 (episode synopsis) Episodes HomeEpisodes Hook Man The infamous “Hook Man,” a vengeful spirit who kills his victims with a shiny hook that serves as his hand, terrorizes a small college town in Iowa. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) learn that all the victims are connected to the daughter of a local minister and race to find and destroy the Hook Man’s bones before he comes for them.… Read More Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) come to the aid of Sam’s old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn’t commit. The brothers discover a shapeshifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers’ race to stop the shapeshifter takes a terrifying turn when he shifts into the likeness of Dean.… Read More In suburban Nebraska, a group of partying high school teens jokingly dare their friend Charlie (guest star Marnette Patterson) to look into the mirror and repeat ‘Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary,” not knowing this will unleash a series of mysterious murders. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) realize that Bloody Mary has the power to travel through all reflective surfaces when she is hunting a victim. Worried that teens are accidentally summoning Bloody Mary, Sam and Dean race to destroy the violent spirit before she can kill again.… Read More Phantom Traveler On TransNational flight 2485, a man possessed by the spirit of the Phantom Traveler causes the plane to crash, leaving only five survivors left alive. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) must exorcise the angry spirit before it attacks the survivors. The brothers realize the only way to do that is to take the battle to the skies.… Read More Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate a series of mysterious drownings written off as suicides. They discover the spirit is an angry little boy with the power to travel through water who is taking revenge on certain town inhabitants for a dark secret buried long ago.… Read More Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) follow the coordinates left in their father’s journal and land in the middle of the woods where they investigate the disappearance of several campers. The two brothers soon learn they are dealing with a Wendigo, a creature made famous in Native America legends. A Wendigo is a former human whose cannibalism has transformed him into a creature with superhuman strength and speed that feasts on human flesh. Two brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki, “Gilmore Girls”) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles, “Smallville”), witness their mother’s paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more than to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from their father’s eerie phone message, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a violent and vengeful spirit called the “Woman in White.”… Read More WinchesterBros on Twitter WinchesterBros on Facebook WinchesterBros on Youtube Latest Winchester Radio Podcast The Heroes' Journey The Gamblers Mailing Address for Supernatural Cast and Crew Supernatural Films 8085 Glenwood Dr. winchesterbrosnews@gmail.com TAG Graphics Eldwenne’s Fantasy Con Quest Journals Family Don’t End with Blood THE ONLY BOOK ACTUALLY WRITTEN BY SUPERNATURAL'S ACTORS - JARED, JENSEN, MISHA AND MANY MORE! Supernatural Box Supernatural Conventions Copyright © 2005-2019 WinchesterBros and MediaBlvd	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line384
__label__wiki	0.679659	0.679659	Sign up here to edit wiki Page authors Michael Kot e‎ > ‎7‎ > ‎ HBase is modeled after Google BigTable and is part of the world's most popular big data processing platform, Apache Hadoop. But will this pedigree guarantee HBase a dominant role in the competitive and fast-growing NoSQL database market? Michael Hausenblas of MapR argues that Hadoop's popularity and HBase's scalability and consistency ensure success. The growing HBase community will surpass other open-source movements and will overcome a few technical wrinkles that have yet to be worked out. Jonathan Ellis of DataStax, the support provider behind open-source Cassandra, argues that HBase flaws are too numerous and intrinsic to Hadoop's HDFS architecture to overcome. These flaws will forever limit HBase's applicability to high-velocity workloads, he says. Read what our two NoSQL experts have to say, and then weigh in with your opinion in the comments section below. For The Motion Michael Hausenblas Chief Data Engineer EMEA, MapR Technologies Integration With Hadoop Will Drive Adoption The answer to the question is a crystal-clear "Yes, but…" In order to appreciate this response, we need to step back a bit and understand the question in context. Both Martin Fowler, in 2011, and Mike Stonebraker, in 2005, took up the polyglot persistence argument that "one size does not fit it all." Hence, I'm going to interpret the "dominant" in the question not in the sense of the market-share measures applied to relational databases over the past 10 years, but along the line of, "Will Apache HBase be used across a wider range of use cases and have a bigger community behind it than other NoSQL databases?" This is a bold assertion given that there are more than 100 different NoSQL options to choose from, including MongoDB, Riak, Couchbase, Cassandra and many, many others. But in this big-data era, the trend is away from specialized information silos to large-scale processing of varied data, so even a popular solution such as MongoDB will be surpassed by HBase. Why? MongoDB has well-documented scalability issues, and with the fast-growing adoption of Hadoop, the NoSQL solution that integrates directly with Hadoop has a marked advantage in scale and popularity. HBase has a huge and diverse community under its belt in all respects: users, developers, multiple commercial vendors and availability in the cloud, the last through Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example. Historically, both HBase and Cassandra have a lot in common. HBase was created in 2007 at Powerset (later acquired by Microsoft) and was initially part of Hadoop and then became a Top-Level-Project. Cassandra originated at Facebook in 2007, was open sourced and then incubated at Apache, and is nowadays also a Top-Level-Project. Both HBase and Cassandra are wide-column key-value datastores that excel at ingesting and serving huge volumes of data while being horizontally scalable, robust and providing elasticity. There are philosophical differences in the architectures: Cassandra borrows many design elements from Amazon's DynamoDB system, has an eventual consistency model and is write-optimized while HBase is a Google BigTable clone with read-optimization and strong consistency. An interesting proof point for the superiority of HBase is the fact that Facebook, the creator of Cassandra, replaced Cassandra with HBase for their internal use. From an application developer's point of view, HBase is preferable as it offers strong consistency, making life easier. One of the misconceptions about eventual consistency is that it improves write speed: given a sustained write traffic, latency is affected and one ends up paying the "eventual consistency tax" without getting its benefits. There are some technical limitations with almost all NoSQL solutions, like compactions affecting consistent low latency, inability to shard automatically, reliability issues and long recovery times for node outages. Here at MapR, we've created a "next version" of enterprise HBase that includes instant recovery, seamless sharding and high availability, and that gets rid of compactions. We brought it into GA under the label M7 in May 2013 and it's available in the cloud via AWS Elastic MapReduce. Last but not least, HBase has -- through its legacy as a Hadoop contribution project -- a strong and solid integration into the entire Hadoop ecosystem, including Apache Hive and Apache Pig. Summarizing, HBase will be the dominant NoSQL platform for use cases where fast and small-size updates and look-ups at scale are required. Recent innovations have also provided architectural advantages to eliminate compactions and provide truly decentralized co-ordination. Michael Hausenblas is chief data engineer, EMEA, at MapR Technologies. His background is in large-scale data integration research and development, advocacy and standardization. Against The Motion Co-founder & CTO, HBase Is Plagued By Too Many Flaws NoSQL includes several specialties such as graph databases and document stores where HBase does not compete, but even within its category of partitioned row store, HBase lags behind the leaders. The technical shortcomings driving HBase's lackluster adoption fall into two major categories: engineering problems that can be addressed given enough time and manpower, and architectural flaws that are inherent to the design and cannot be fixed. Engineering Problems -- Operations are complex and failure prone. Deploying HBase involves configuring at a minimum a Zookeeper ensemble, primary HMaster, secondary HMaster, RegionServers, active NameNode, standby NameNode, HDFS quorum journal manager and DataNodes. Installation can be automated, but if it's too difficult to install without help, how are you going to troubleshoot it when something goes wrong during, for instance, RegionServer failover or a lower-level NameNode failure? HBase requires substantial expertise to even know what to monitor, and God help you if you need regular backups. -- RegionServer failover takes 10 to 15 minutes. HBase partitions rows into regions, each managed by a RegionServer. The RegionServer is a single point of failure for its region; when it goes down, a new one must be selected and write-ahead logs must be replayed before writes or reads can be served again. -- Developing against HBase is painful. HBase's API is clunky and Java centric. Non-Java clients are relegated to the second-class Thrift or REST gateways. Contrast that with the Cassandra Query Language, which offers developers a familiar, productive experience in all languages. -- The HBase community is fragmented. The Apache mainline is widely understood to be unstable. Cloudera, Hortonworks, and advanced users maintain their own patch trees on top. Leadership is divided and there is no clear roadmap. Conversely, the open-source Cassandra community includes committers from DataStax, Netflix, Spotify, Blue Mountain Capital, and others working together without cliques or forks. Overall, the engineering gap between HBase and other NoSQL platforms has increased since I've been observing the NoSQL ecosystem. When I first evaluated them, I would have put HBase six months behind Cassandra in engineering progress, but today that lead has widened to about two years. Architectural Flaws -- Master-oriented design makes HBase operationally inflexible. Routing all reads and writes through the RegionServer master means that active/active asynchronous replication across multiple datacenters is not possible for HBase, nor can you perform workload separation across different replicas in a cluster. By contrast, Cassandra's peer-to-peer replication allows seamless integration of Hadoop, Solr and Cassandra with no ETL while allowing you to opt in to lightweight transactions in the rare cases when you need linearizability. -- Failover means downtime. Even one minute of downtime is simply not acceptable in many applications, and this is an intrinsic problem with HBase's design; each RegionServer is a single point of failure. A fully distributed design instead means that when one replica goes down, there is no need for special-case histrionics to recover; the system keeps functioning normally with the other replicas and can catch up the failed one later. -- HDFS is primarily designed for streaming access to large files. HBase is built on a distributed file system optimized for batch analytics. This is directly responsible for HBase's poor performance, particularly for reads, and particularly on solid-state disks. Just as relational databases haven't been able to optimize btree engines designed 30 years ago for pre-big-data workloads, HDFS won't be able to undo the tradeoffs it made for what is still its primary purpose and close the gap on critical functionality: -- Mixing solid state and hard disks in a single cluster and pinning tables to workload-appropriate media. -- Snapshots, incremental backups, and point-in-time recovery. -- Compaction throttling to avoid spikes in application response time. -- Dynamically routing requests to the best-performing replicas. The same design that makes HBase's foundation, HDFS, a good fit for batch analytics will ensure that it remains inherently unsuited for the high velocity, random access workloads that characterize the NoSQL market. Jonathan Ellis is chief technology officer and co-founder at DataStax, where he sets the technical direction and leads Apache Cassandra as project chair. Subpages (1): x	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line386
__label__wiki	0.55559	0.55559	Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge On November 9, 1989 the East Germany's Communist rulers opened the Berlin Wall as the aftermath of Perestroika and Glasnost and also by the continuous pressure of the Easter German Public. The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who played a key role in this historic event got a hero's welcome yesterday. I still recall some events relating to the Berlin Wall that took place when I was a medical student. When the time I crossed the Berlin Wall in 1988 to enter the West Berlin I had a gut feeling that this wall would not last forever. Being a non White and not look like a German I had no problems with the East German border guards. They allowed me to cross the Wall. But Vethalik who was from Riga had a little trouble and the East German Authorities triple checked his documents in order to make sure that he was not an East German in disguise. But eventually Vethalik was released. Many East Germans whom I have met at that time were eager to cross the Berlin Wall and go to the West Germany. I specifically remember the words of a young East German whose name was Heinrich. He was so fascinated by the musical show conducted by David Bowie near the Berlin Wall West side. He said to me “my dream is to go to cross the Wall some day and start a new life in West Germany ” Although he had thought that there was a heaven in the Western part we knew the mental picture he had was not hundred percent accurate. The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, 1961. This decision was made by the Communist parties of the German Democratic Republic (GDR ) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union met in Moscow and they decided to close the open border between East and West Berlin. The wall separated many families. Dispute the restrictions many people fled the Eastern part and entered the West. Then the GDR took stern measures. They built a concrete wall which earned the name Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the “Anti Fascist Protection Wall" by the GDR. The total border length around West Berlin was 155 km . There were 302 watch towers and 20 bunkers. Nearly 192 persons were killed on the Berlin Wall when they tried to defect to the West side. In 1953 East Berliners rised up against the totalitarian system but the uprising was crushed with the help of Moscow. In 1955, the USSR declared that the GDR was fully sovereign. However the Red Army troops remained in East German territory, based on the four-power Potsdam Agreement . The German Democratic Republic, which had been founded on 7 October 1949. Many Germans who opposed Hitler's NAZI policies supported the new regime. The were willing to develop GDR in an anti-fascist model. But strict censorship alienated the people and the regime. GDR became another totalitarian sate. The East German secret service also known as STASI controlled the people with an iron fist even interfering in their private lives. STASI recruited a large number of agents and some calculations have concluded that in East Germany there was one informer to every seven citizens. One should not forget that there was a positive side of East Germany as well. In the GDR everyone had a legally guaranteed security of tenure and ownership to the properties where they lived. The unemployment rate was low and free education and health care was guaranteed. GDR achieved many victories in international sports. But East Germans may have valued freedom as an utmost valuable component in their lives. Therefore during the Wall's existence there were around 5,000 successful escapes to West Berlin. In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in 1987 Ronald Regan said to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall that stood an obstacle to the human freedom. The disintegration of the wall brought with it the freedom to travel the world and, for some, more material wealth, but it also brought social breakdown, widespread unemployment and social insecurity. Berlin Wall taught us a lesson . Freedom is not cheep. Its expensive. Ajith Dharma. December 14, 2017 at 3:53 PM Lot of memories. I heard Most people lives in Leipzig area wanted Eastern system back. Lot of factories closed etc and western German companies cheated them. But almost of them in unison hate Stazi. We always went to East berlin to have a better meal when we changed the marks to east german currency. Thattayagekolama December 14, 2017 at 10:58 PM කරුණාකර මෙම ලිපියේද සිංහල පරිවර්ථනයක් පල කරණ්න! Psychology of Meditation දේසේ හැටියට බාසේ මේ චායාරූපයේ බොඩි ලැංවේජ් දෙස බලන්න The Atrocities Committed Against Humanity අරක්කු බීම බීජ ව්‍යාප්ත නිලධාරී Suicide Bombers of LTTE and Posttraumatic Phenomen... මරණ සතරක් ඇති මිනිසෙක් The Psychology of Nazism තිඹිරියාගම බණ්ඩාර ගේ හෙළිදරව්ව ශිරෝමි ප්‍රනාන්දු හෙවත් ලංකාවේ Shirley Temple තව පොඩ්ඩෙන් සිරිල් වික්‍රමගේට බඩුම තමයි Euthanasia: Political, Social and Health Dilemma The Brooklyn Bridge ආචාර්‍ය මර්වින් ප්‍රනාන්දු පියතුමා ගේ නික්ම යාම මගේ කවිය A street walker සිංහල කඩයකින් බඩුවක් ගන්න ගිය විට මුදලාලි සහ ගෝලයෝ... The Human Brain and Human Mind	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line389
__label__wiki	0.760531	0.760531	Dublin trip planner London Itinerary Planner Trip Planner : Europe / Ireland / Province of Leinster / County Dublin / Dublin Specialty Museums Nightlife Parks A history spanning over a thousand years, vibrant nightlife, and a mix of Georgian and modern architecture make Dublin a popular European tourist destination. Founded as a Viking settlement in the 9th century, this sprawling urban center often surprises visitors with its sheer size. Nearly 2 million people live in the greater Dublin region, which represents well over a third of Ireland's total population. The city center, however, remains a relatively compact area, easily explored on foot or by bicycle. To experience the garrulous locals and their culture in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, spend some time in a traditional pub--a staple of Dublin's social life and a favorite stop for the majority of the city's foreign visitors. Dublin is in County Dublin. 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Founded as a Viking settlement in the 9th century, this sprawling urban center often surprises visitors with its sheer size. Nearly 2 million people live in the greater Dublin region, which represents well over a third of Ireland's total population. The city center, however, remains a relatively compact area, easily explored on foot or by bicycle. To experience the garrulous locals and their culture in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, spend some time in a traditional pub--a staple of Dublin's social life and a favorite stop for the majority of the city's foreign visitors. Best Neighborhoods to Visit in Dublin Grafton Street: With its historic architecture and colorful atmosphere, this pedestrian road and its surrounding area top many Dublin itineraries. Renowned as one of the best shopping areas not just in Dublin but in the whole of Ireland, the street is also home to many of the city's famous restaurants and cafes. Temple Bar: Located right in the center of the city, this neighborhood is the home to some of Dublin's most popular pubs, bars, and clubs. After dark, this is the place to go if you're looking for a party, while during the day you can browse numerous quirky shops and galleries. O'Connell Street: One of Dublin's best-known streets and its main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street is a busy road lined with hotels, restaurants, and theaters, as well as some of the city's most famous monuments. The Liberties: Just outside the center of the city, this is the neighborhood where history meets the vibrant energy of modern-day Dublin. With some of the city's oldest buildings located here, this is of the best places for historical sightseeing in Dublin. Merrion Square: Renowned for its blend of greenery and Georgian architecture, Merrion Square is famous as the place where Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats once lived. Today, it's one of the best places in Dublin to go for a relaxing stroll without getting too far away from attractions located in the city center. Popular Dublin Tourist Attractions Guinness Storehouse: Taking a tour of one of the world's most famous breweries remains among the top things to do in Dublin for any beer lover. Kilmainham Gaol: From the late 18th century to 1924, this notorious prison held, among others, many of the prominent fighters for Irish independence. Today, you can take a tour of the facilities and experience what life was like behind the prison's walls. St. Stephen's Green: Scenic and tranquil, St. Stephen's Green is one of Dublin's most beloved parks. This is a great place to relax, enjoy nature, go for a picnic, or bring your kids to play. Trinity College Dublin: Experience the lively campus atmosphere and admire the architectural beauty of Ireland's most famous educational institution. Over four centuries old, the university has an incredibly rich library that, among other treasures, holds the celebrated Book of Kells. Jameson Distillery Bow St: A distillery from 1780 until 1971, this iconic building is now a very popular tourist spot. See the original stills, learn the history of whisky making in Ireland, and don't miss the chance to try some Irish coffee. Dublin Zoo: For those who admire wildlife, Ireland's largest zoo is the place to visit in Dublin. Over a million visitors stop by the zoo every year to see everything from traditional Irish farm animals, to some of the world's most exotic creatures. Glasnevin Cemetery Museum: This museum preserves the memories of the 1.5 million people buried at Dublin's largest cemetery. Here you can hear the stories of the people who shaped Irish history and trace your own Irish heritage at the genealogy research center. National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology: From ancient Egyptian and Roman, to Celtic and Viking, the museum is a true treasure chest of archeological artifacts. It is also one of the perfect places to explore the age of Viking rule over Dublin. Phoenix Park: Admire a collection of historic buildings and elegant monuments while strolling or riding a bike through one of Europe's largest walled parks. With a series of gardens and lakes, as well as resident deer and birds, the park is a true oasis of nature. Chester Beatty Library: Not to be missed by any history and art enthusiast in Dublin, this museum houses an extensive collection of religious artifacts and artworks from a range of cultures. Especially renowned is its collection of Islamic and Far Eastern items, the museum holds everything from original manuscripts to decorative arts. Planning a Dublin Vacation with Kids Things to do in Dublin with Kids In addition to its history and architecture, Dublin is also known for its warm and welcoming atmosphere, making it a great spot for a family vacation. The city boasts a range of kid-friendly attractions for young travelers to enjoy while traveling with their parents. If the weather is nice, there are plenty of things to do outdoors, such as visiting Dublin Zoo or St. Stephen's Green. While you can easily see the city on foot, you can also go for more kid-appealing tours of Dublin, such as Viking Splash Tours. History enthusiasts of all ages will be thrilled by Dublin's architecture and sights like Dublin Castle, but there are also several museums where you can get a first-hand experience of the city's past. One of the best is Dublinia, where the whole family will be transported right to the heart of medieval Dublin. A great place to visit in Dublin with younger kids is Imaginosity, a museum where the youngsters can enjoy numerous interactive activities and displays. Tips for a Family Vacation in Dublin Tourism in Dublin experienced a boom at the beginning of the 21st century, making the city a well-suited destination for travelers of all tastes and ages. Finding good family accommodations should present no problem, and plenty of the city's restaurants have special kids' menus and areas where youngsters can play. Home to over a million people, Dublin provides all the amenities a family with children might need. Dublin is very easy to navigate on foot or with a stroller. You can also use public transportation for longer distances or if the weather is not suitable for walking. Driving, however, can be a hassle because of the narrow one-way streets and frequent traffic jams in the city center. Renting a bike is a much better option for getting around if you're visiting with older kids. A drawback of Dublin's increased popularity with tourists, big crowds often gather around main attraction and form long wait lines. If you're travelling with younger kids, make sure to keep an eye on them so they don't get lost in crowded areas. Dining and Shopping on Holiday in Dublin Cuisine of Dublin From international specialties to traditional Irish dishes, Dublin boasts a vibrant culinary scene that suits all tastes and budgets. You can choose from a large number of fast-food establishments, trendy bistros, gastropubs, and fine-dining restaurants. All over the city, more and more emphasis is being put on Irish cuisine. Plenty of restaurants serve soda breads and Irish stews prepared using centuries-old methods, but many of the city's chefs also like to add their own modern twists to traditional recipes. Use your vacation in Dublin to try some of the local seafood specialties the city is famous for. A truly authentic seafood dish, and an absolute must-try, lobster cooked in cream and whisky serves as one of the city's signature delicacies, known as the Dublin Lawyer. No trip to Dublin is complete without tasting local whisky and beer, which remain integral parts of the city's authentic cuisine. Most beer and whisky enthusiasts take tours of Guinness Storehouse and Jameson Distillery Bow St, but there are also several smaller breweries and distilleries worthy visiting during your exploration of Dublin. One of the first places keen shoppers head to is the famous Grafton Street, but there are plenty of other shopping destinations worth visiting in Dublin. Another shopping area in the city center is Henry Street, where you can find a variety of stores selling everything from clothes and accessories, to electronic gadgets. If you're looking for original designs, artwork, and souvenirs, check out the stores at Temple Bar. On Saturday mornings, this area also hosts one of the city's main farmers markets. Bargain hunters on a holiday in Dublin rarely miss a chance to unearth treasures at Dublin Flea Market. Know Before You Go on a Trip to Dublin History of Dublin Much of Dublin's earliest history is shrouded in mystery. Though Greek geographer Ptolemy wrote about a settlement called Eblana that might correspond to County Dublin, few historians agree that this village was a precursor of modern Dublin. Nevertheless, archeological evidence does prove that this area contains some of the oldest settlements in Ireland. Most historians agree a Viking settlement called Dyflin was founded in the place of the modern city around mid-9th century CE. During this period, Dublin was ruled from Thingmote, located on the site of today's O'Neill's Bar and Restaurant. In the 12th century, the Norman invasion of Ireland turned Dublin into the seat of English power in the region. Based around Dublin Castle, medieval Dublin was a relatively small and close-knit city, despite the English efforts to introduce new settlers from England and Wales. The best place to visit in Dublin for medieval history enthusiasts is Dublinia: Experience Viking and Medieval Dublin, which captures the true spirit of the time. English rule over Dublin became much stronger from the 16th century onward, when the whole of Ireland was controlled from London. The religious turmoil of 16th-century England quickly spilled over to Ireland and Dublin. Trinity College Dublin was built as a center of Protestant learning, despite major opposition by the city's Catholic majority. In the face of ever-present sectarian unrest, Dublin's population and economic importance grew, and by the 1700s the city became one of the largest centers in the British Empire. New developments like O'Connell Street and Merrion Square sprang up, enhancing the city's appearance and making it resemble other European capitals. In the 19th century Dublin saw a constant growth of Irish nationalism and calls for the country's independence. These notions culminated in the early 20th century, the period masterfully described in James Joyce's "Dubliners." Dublin provided a stage for political and armed conflicts for decades, before finally becoming the capital of the Republic of Ireland in 1937. Much of the city's former glory had disappeared by that time, and throughout the 20th century Dublin struggled with economic hardship. At the end of the 20th century, Ireland went through a major economic boom which greatly affected its capital. In addition to the construction of modern buildings, efforts have been put into preserving the city's historical heritage. Today, taking a tour of Dublin allows visitors to experience the city's perfect mix of old and new. Holidays & Festivals in Dublin The atmosphere in Dublin is always lively, but it usually reaches its zenith during the annual festivals and holidays. Just like everywhere else in Ireland, Christmas and Easter are major religious holidays in Dublin, though they inevitably take second place to St. Patrick's Day. Celebrated on March 17, the biggest Irish holiday is marked with colorful parades, street performances, fireworks, and endless amounts of beer. Dublin's artistic heritage is celebrated throughout the year through numerous festivals. Many film buffs plan their trip to Dublin for February, when the city hosts its International Film Festival. Some of Ireland's, and the world's, best writers come together in June for Dublin Writers Festival. Every September and October, the city hosts Dublin Theatre Festival, the oldest festival of its kind in Europe. Dublin Travel Tips Climate of Dublin Dublin shares many of its weather features with the rest of Ireland, though the city's climate tends to be a bit sunnier and drier. July and August are the warmest months of the year, with average temperatures around 16 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit). January is the coldest, with temperatures staying around 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit). Though not as wet as some other parts of the country, Dublin regularly sees over 100 rainy days per year. Summer is the most popular time for a Dublin vacation, offering fine weather for pleasant sightseeing. Transportation in Dublin As Ireland's main transportation hub, Dublin is easy to get to by plane, road, or sea. Inside the city, however, public transportation can be a little hectic. Even though a system of commuter rail does exist, it's not particularly branched out, so transportation in the center mainly relies on busses. Bus lanes are numerous, but traffic jams in the center can affect their timetables. Riding a bike remains one of the most economical ways to tour of Dublin, but cycling infrastructure is somewhat lacking--don't be surprised if you find that you often have ride in traffic to go between destinations. If you decide to drive in Dublin, prepare for big jams and not a lot of parking space. Bear in mind that the Irish drive on the left side of the road. Best things to do in Dublin The Best Cultural Activities in Dublin The Best Things to Do in Dublin with Kids The Best Tours in Dublin The Best Museums in Dublin Places in Dublin Images and information provided through Inspirock ®Ireland Trip Planner	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line393
__label__wiki	0.728854	0.728854	Archivesaacnanhai2019-11-27T22:43:24+11:00 Date: 27th October – 8th November Professor Liu Shu Yong, known as Lao Shu in China, is not only a famous and Well-admired photographer and painter, he is also a prolific Writer and an influential scholar. Date: 6th October – 13th October Invisible, innate, and formless, violence is manifested in various manners regardless of time, place, relationships, and circumstances. COLLECTIVE REALITIES Date: 04 August 2017 – 26 August 2017 Collective Reality refers to a cluster of socially accepted notions which make up our experience of the world and allow us to process what would otherwise be senseless. ELEFTERIA VLAVIANOS Date: 2 June – 26 June 2017 541 Art Space presents the work of award winning artist Elefteria Vlavianos in their upcoming show, Re-Articulation. Elefteria was born in Zimbabwe of mixed Armenian and Greek heritage, her works draw on her multicultural heritage to investigate connection to place, culture and identity. Date: 5 May – 27 May 2017 541 Art Space presents our latest collaborative show, Love Letter 2017, Be With You. Inspired by her hardworking cohort, curator Yves Lee founded the exhibition series in 2014, and has held previous shows at the 541 Art Space Gallery. In the South-West of China Date: 20 April – 29 April 2017, Monday through Saturday. 541 Art Space presents our latest international exhibition, Vigorous Growth of Art in the South-west of China. This unique show promotes cultural and academic dialogue between Australia and China. Masterpieces of Qishe Ya-ji Date: 31st of March – 12th of April, Monday through Saturday. 541 Art Space presents our latest collaborative exhibit, Chinese Contemporary Ink \| Masterpieces of Qishe Ya-ji. This unique exhibition aims to promote artistic and cultural dialogue between Australia and China. Date: 24th February – 20th March, Monday through Saturday. 541 Art Space presents our latest collaborative exhibit, ‘Rhythm’ curated by Sophy Feng. This unique exhibition explores the boundaries of art, translating sound and lanscape into abstract compositions. Rhythm is an opportunity for art lovers to explore a series of spherical metaphoric landscapes, and witness music transformed into tangible ceramic bodies. Date: 20th of January – 18th of February, Monday through Saturday. One of Sydney’s most unique contemporary artist, Fan Dongwang, has come together with 541 Art Space to present their latest exhibition Icons of Identity, a bold body of paintings and drawings that explores Australia’s diverse cultural identity through the juxtaposition and the reshaping of traditional Chinese traditional imagery against western cultural icons. Date: 8th – 29th October 2016 541 Art Space presents our latest collaborative exhibit, The Way. This unique exhibition speaks of our continuous journey from the past to the future, with artwork presenting brief glimpses of the present and what it means to know our present self. Date: 3rd September – 25th September Love Letter was founded in 2014, shown its first group of artists in 2015 at the Articulate Project Space. This year, ‘Love Letter: I Believe in Second Chances’ will feature 13 new fresh artists from Sydney, Chicago and Berlin at 541 Art Space. Date: 12th – 28th August 2016 A group show featuring a range of artists working with colour in excitingly diverse styles and cross mediums. Together addressing the countless possibilities of pigment and the emotive narratives that grow from colour. Date: 1st June 2016 Ganbold Lundaa and Daniel O’toole upcoming group exhibition ‘re-portrait’ opens 1st June at 541 Art Space in the city… Date: 12th April – 25th April 2016 The title “ZaoHua” that is given to this exhibition of Chinese contemporary art is derived from a traditional creative theory in Chinese painting which is described by the Tang dynasty painter “Zhang Zao” as “the inspiration for art comes from zaohua (nature)…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line397
__label__wiki	0.808464	0.808464	Phono del Sol The Bay Brewed Reviews & Photos Live This Month Marissa Nadler supporting Mercury Rev at the Chapel By Tim Draut\|October 15, 2018\|Comments Off on Marissa Nadler supporting Mercury Rev at the Chapel (photo: Ebru Yildiz) In support of her eighth album release, Marissa Nadler will be performing the opening set for Mercury Rev's 20th Anniversary of Deserter's Songs celebration at the Chapel on Tuesday, October 16. Marissa Nadler released her new album For My Crimes on September 28 via Sacred Bones and Bella Union. The title track, which is also the lead single, features vocals from Angel Olsen. Nadler's latest dream-folk effort also features collaborations with Kristin Kontrol, Sharon Van Etten, Mary Lattimore, and Janel Leppin. Watch the video for "For My Crimes" below, as well as the video for "Blue Vapor." Marissa Nadler recently performed a WNYC Soundcheck session, offering a glimpse into her current live show. Mercury Rev will headline the Tuesday night show in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their classic 1998 art-rock breakthrough Deserter's Songs. The band's October tour began with a set at the Desert Daze festival, and will continue on with Marissa Nadler through Portland and Seattle. Mercury Rev, Marissa Nadler 9pm, $30 Tags: Marissa Nadler About the Author: Tim Draut Pizza connoisseur and blogger extraordinaire. Sign up for our biweekly newsletter for top show picks, news, and ticket giveaways straight to your inbox. Dan Deacon gets (almost) acoustic, plays Fillmore in March Premiere: Sound Minerz ponder the many meanings of success on “F.A.M.E.” We paired our favorite local bands with astrological signs The Seshen make the call on “Don’t Answer” Awkward Convos with Beejus: Osagie the Great Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: April Magazine, Katzu Oso and more Noise Pop drops 4th wave of artists: Washed Out, Quinn DeVeaux, Blushh and more Starcrash crash-lands at DNA Lounge on Thursday Your Fearless Leader release “Lime” Giveaway: You’re Going To Die’s 10-year anniversary with Rainbow Girls + Whiskerman Founded in 2006, The Bay Bridged is a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization utilizing new media and presenting live events to support the San Francisco Bay Area’s indie rock, folk, and pop music communities. Our mission is to maintain a dedicated public education campaign to encourage public appreciation of San Francisco Bay Area independent music and to provide unique opportunities for local musicians to perform, receive exposure, collaborate, and create original works. Today marks the 47th anniversary of @springsteen 's debut album, 'Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.' (1973). Check o… https://t.co/K50T5gEVev "Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore." https://t.co/S0XONaoGzk #gratefuldead #nye… https://t.co/nAe1kQHjaV Copyright 2016 The Bay Bridged \| All Rights Reserved \| Privacy Policy Website by Shiri Design Studio \| Hosted by Sliver Systems In a new location, Treasure Island picks up where it left off Read previous article Photos: Andrea Gibson opens for Ani DiFranco at the Fillmore	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line401
__label__cc	0.721405	0.278595	BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP - ON THE RADAR. Around about this time last year I did a blog post on my most anticipated games of 2015. Two of the games I acquired; "A Victory Lost" and recently "Victory in Europe". The other two games featured in the post; "Warriors of Japan" and "Hands in the Sea" have yet to be released. I thought that I would do a similar post on what is on my gaming radar at the moment. Not all of them new games, but all tugging at the purse strings and whispering softly in my ear "Pull the trigger Dec, you know you want to, go on just squeeze the trigger". It is then that I see my poor children and wife and think........ I wonder, how long could they do with out food and clothes. With it being the two hundredth anniversary of Waterloo I have had a nosey at some recently released games on the subject. Waterloo 200 , pictured above is a block wargame by Italian company "Vento Nuovo games". It is a two or three player game, one controls the French Army and the other one/two control the Seventh Coalition. The rules are 6 pages long, 10 with the optional rules and it plays in 90-120 minutes. Another Waterloo game and one getting a lot of buzz at the minute is W1815 . W1815 could best be described as a wargamers filler, as it simulates the key events of the battle of Waterloo in 15\20 minutes. It was a kick starter by Finish company U&P games, which sold out rather quickly and a second printing will be available in September. Hearts and Minds is an older card-driven game by Worthington games, covering the American build up of troops and arms in Southeast Asia. "Goooooood mooorning Vietnam", who can think of this topic without that quote coming to mind. It uses the CDG events, points system found in Twilight Struggle, a game I have enjoyed playing in the past. Old school hex and counter "Bitter Woods" has caught my eye also. Originally published in 1998 the latest version Bitter Woods Designer Edition looks wonderful and with larger counters my poor eyes will be relieved. It covers the "Battle of the Bulge" recreating the initial German success and allied counter attack. Plexi glass will be required as the map is paper in this version. I have had a lot of fun recently playing the Spanish Civil War themed "Popular Front". As a result I have been looking out for a similar light, multiplayer wargame and spotted Quartermaster General. Quartermaster General is a two to six player, fast-paced (90 minutes), area control, card driven game that puts the players in command of the major powers during the Second World War. According to reviewers, while the game is simple to play it also has surprising depth. Finally, recently released Triumph and Tragedy by GMT games looks interesting and initial reports are very positive. Its a three player game, covering the competition for European supremacy during the period 1935-45. There are three ways to win: militarily, economically, and by developing the Atomic Bomb. The art work is striped back and a little uninspiring for my liking but with hidden movement, blocks and card play it tickles my fancy. Labels: Board game Conrad Kinch said... Dammit Declan! I need another Waterloo game like I need a hole in the head. 15 minutes you say...curiousier and curiousier. I am also intrigued by the Quartermaster game - I've always wanted to include logistics as a mini game in a wargames campaign. "You know you want to Conrad" the little voice whispered. Yep think W1815 is worth getting for a quick game while waiting on someone to come or if you finish a longer game early and have a half hour to spare.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line404
__label__wiki	0.727887	0.727887	[wednesday, january 17, 2007] Primetime Ratings Report for the Week of January 8, 2007 ABC spins the numbers for the week of January 8-14. CBS Moves Into Sole Possession of First Place in Adults 18-49 at Season's Mid-Point CBS spins the numbers for the week of January 8-14. 'My Name Is Earl' and 'The Office' Score Their Highest 18-49 Ratings and Total Viewership of the Season, with Both Comedies Winning Their Slots in Adults 18-49 and Other Key Demos NBC spins the numbers for the week of January 8-14. Quick Take for Monday, January 15, 2007 (Based on Fast Affiliate Ratings) ABC spins the numbers for Monday, January 15. NBC's 'Golden Globes' Telecast Dazzles the Competition NBC spins the numbers for Monday, January 15. Oxygen Scores with Tease The series opened to a 0.52 household ratings while lead-out "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" drew a 0.50 household rating. 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__label__wiki	0.546104	0.546104	Complete listing of music from of Charmed Episode 1: Charmed Again Part 1 Song 1: Depeche Mode - "I Feel Loved" Song 2: Eddi Reader - "Bell, Book and Candle" Song 3: Stevie Nicks - "I Miss You" Song 4: Tantric - "Breakdown" Episode 3: Hell Hath No Fury Song 1: Lily Frost - "Who Am I" Episode 4: Enter the Demon Episode 5: Size Matters Song 1: Dave Navarro - "Hungry" Song 2: Fuzz Townsend - "At Auntie Tom's" Song 3: Mazzy Star - "Into Dust" Song 4: The Crystal Method - "Name of the Game" Song 5: R. Wolf & M. Constantini – “Liquid Wonder” Song 6: Dave Navarro – “Hungry” Episode 6: A Knight to Remember Song 1: Mazzy Star – “Into Dust” Episode 7: Brain Drain Episode 8: Black as Cole Song 1: Heather Nova - "Like Lovers Do" Episode 9: Muse To My Ears Episode 10: A Paige From The Past Episode 11: Trial By Magic Episode 12: Lost and Bound Episode 13: Charmed and Dangerous Song 1: Natalie Imbruglia - "Goodbye" Episode 14: The Three Faces of Phoebe Episode 15: Marry Go Round Episode 16: The Fifth Halliwheel Song 1: Groove Armada - "Goodbye Country" Song 2: Groove Armada – “Join Hands” Song 3: Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head" Song 4: Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On" Song 5: Rebekah Ryan - "Big Trouble (Lots of Fun)" Episode 17: Saving Private Leo Episode 18: Bite Me Song 1: Dropline - "Fly Away From Here (Graduation Day)" Song 2: Rusted Root - "Welcome to My Party" Episode 19: We're off to See the Wizards Episode 20: Long Live the Queen Song 1: Sarah Polley - "Courage" Episode 21: Womb Raider Song 1: Our Lady Peace - "Stealing Babies" Episode 22: Witch Way Now Song 1: Ozzy Osbourne - "Gets Me Through" No redistribution of this page without permission	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0075.json.gz/line408
__label__cc	0.608553	0.391447	Warren — Musings —08.25.2014 07:57 AM Thank you, Kathleen Wynne (and others) sezme says: For those like me who weren’t familiar with the acronym, I looked it up so you don’t have to: Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women. As the husband of a beautiful aboriginal woman I think Wynne is trying to score political points with the no minds who think a government inquiry is going to solve what no government inquiry can ever solve or resolve. I honestly think that the call for such an inquiry is rank racism from start to finish. As my dear wife, who grew up on one of the most dangerous reserves in Alberta says, “Fix the broken reserve system and the death rate amongst aboriginal women will drop to the same rate as the rest of Canadian society”. que sera sera says: Rank racism is pretending MMIW are a byproduct of a broken Reserve system rather than a broken Canadian society whose government demonstrably treats aboriginals as worth less than other Canadians. Rank racism is when the Government of Canada withholds millions of relevant documents and refrains from investigating & charging the perverts responsible for decades of child abuse in Indian residential schools. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-taken-to-court-over-release-of-residential-schools-documents/article5904543/) Rank racism is pretending sexually & physically abused Indian children, warehoused in residential schools under the authority of Canada, are not entitled to the same legal rights as any other Canadian child. There is no statute of limitations on child abuse. I suspect when the Government of Canada consistently fails to hold itself to account for its ongoing industrial crimes against aboriginals, it will consistently fail to hold anyone else to account either. Another nail in the Conservative’s electoral platform: Justice for all Canadians except aboriginals. Sometimes it is better to keep your thoughts to yourself and thought a fool than to express them on the net and remove all doubt. que sera sera just removed all doubt. First of all it is not the government’s to provide one’s every need. Somewhere along the line each individual has to get to work and contribute to the betterment of the society in which (s)he lives. One of the biggest problems my wife’s former reserve has is too much government interference and too little individual contribution. With her ‘Indian Card’ my wife is entitled to more goodies, benefits and programs than the average non native could ever imagine. My wife being an independent sort REFUSES!!!! to accept any of those benefits. She has fond memories of the proud man her Dad was and how he provided for his family through hard work and natural smarts. She also remembers how ‘welfare’ destroyed her extended family with constant ‘partying’ and general sloth. Her cousins kids wound up in foster care because of the booze and drugs her cousins consumed. Several of those kids have fetal alcohol syndrome. One of the kids has to be fed through a tube because his brain was so destroyed by mom’s boozing drugging ways that he can not swallow. He is now twelve years old and when it is our turn to take care of him we still have to change his diapers. My wife often refuses to visit her extended family on the reserve because the family members have destroyed their own home. One cousin got a new house from the government and within two years the house was unfit for human habitation. In other words don’t lecture me with you ‘progressive’ shibboleths. They are part of the problem not part of the cure. Pretending your family problems are any more egregious or troubling than someone else’s family problems suggests you might need to get out more often, Joe. Blaming your family problems on “too much government interference” suggests you might want to loosen the tinfoil hat a bit and seek psychological help. Pretending your family members anonymous anecdotes fairly represent an entire ethnic/tribal group suggests you might be a few french fries short of a mchappy meal. Are the voices in your head bothering you? Kaspar Juul says: You are familiar with Joe’s concepts of science, history, research, scientific peer review and proof? Unquantifiable anecdotes and opinion trump reality and he doesn’t want any “progressive shibboleths” to wake him from that fantasyland Attack! says: sorry, but among other things, this assumes that most of the Aboriginal women who’ve been murdered or have gone missing are from reserves: that’s very unlikely, as the numbers include Metis, and even among FN’s, only, what, about half of them have lived on reserves, these days. sorry, but among other things, this assumes that most of the Aboriginal women who’ve been murdered or have gone missing are from reserves: that’s very unlikely, as the numbers include Metis, and even among FN’s, only, what, about half of them have lived on reserves, these days. Unfortunately, the RCMP report does not give any kind of breakdown on this, however. I know I’ll get flamed for this, but until someone is ready to be decidedly politically incorrect and fully and publicly examine all the issues both on reserve and off, a public inquiry will be nothing more than a fluffy PR exercise. Take BC. It was determined that one of the reasons so many aboriginal girls went missing on the highway of tears was that a high percentage of them hitch hiked to other towns. The first nations answer was that the government should pay for a bus service for the girls. Really? How about some serious, honest self evaluation to see why so many girls feel they need to leave where they were. david ray says: You really are an idiot. WE take holidays and paid vacations on lands WE stole from the Indian nations and the vanquished left to rot / on empty parking lots WE dared to call reservations give them back their land it was theirs for thousands of years and long after WE are gone / their song will be sung it’s in the trees, it’s in the land you can’t take that from the Indian man WE are only / hollow grains of sand We stole? This isn’t America. KevinT. says: Uh, yeah. That wasn’t informed. davidray says: what is the opposite of stole? It’s give and no First Nations sentient being ever willingly gave a nugget of land to the white man invaders that wasn’t subsequently taken by force of arms. Just because we were taught revisionist history as written by the murdering white man does not obviate the simple fact that WE stole the land. It does NOT belong to us and every dime ever earned from it should be returned to it’s rightful owners preferably from Kevin O’Learys ass. In a few years from now when climate change returns us all to the hard scrabble lives of our own ancestors it will be interesting to watch the land return to the only ones capable of respecting it. we’ll soon be shaking our fist / on a sinking ship as we disappear into the mist / and we won’t be missed cause the sun will burn and then kiss /every place we did exist and grass will grow and water flow and fill every hole we dug down below VC says: I think it is you, Matt, that needs “some serious, honest self evaluation” because you are pretty fucking ignorant when it comes to Aboriginal issues. First of all, it makes no difference and matters even less why Aboriginal women “feel they need to leave where they were” (which I presume you are implying the reserve). If they felt the need to go grocery shopping or go on vacation or visit a friend, they can enjoy the freedom of mobility in Canada. More germane, they should be afforded the right to the security of person that all Canadians enjoy: if Aboriginal women feel some need to leave where they were (as you put it), they shouldn’t be abducted or murdered and we shouldn’t draw some causal relationship. We don’t kill Indians just because they are ‘off the reservation.’ Second, yes, Aboriginal territories were stolen; hence the creation and ongoing land claims process. I say all this as a FN individual and father of 2 Aboriginal daughters (they are both FN and Inuit). I hope they never have their freedoms challenged on such racist attitudes assumptions, yet I recognize that there are assholes like you out there that take issue with their existence. When my 18 year-old niece leaves our reserve next Saturday to begin university in Ottawa, I’ll hope no one questions her preferences and the choices she has made. I’m sure assholes like Matt would scrutinize why she “feels the need to leave from where she is,” but I hope she overcomes this additional racist obstacle. If calling me racists helps you sleep at night, knock yourself out. Actually, Matt, he didn’t call you “racist”, he called your attitudes “racist”. He called you “pretty fucking ignorant” and “asshole”. Looks like a pretty good call to me. Ms. Wynne is looking to play politics with as many issues as she can. I see through that and as some others here suggest the problem is much bigger than an inquiry. It also believe it could be a diversion from the issue of the opening of the books First Nations have to now present. davie says: As Joe and Matt, above, have shown, there are various individual opinions as to what is the cause, and what the remedy might be. On other comment boards regarding this issue, there are many individual opinions and speculations about what has been happening. (My own contribution would be that we might look at the murdered and missing women in the maquiladora area on the USA/Mexican border for at least some answers.) However, not too many individual opinions get turned into remedies. What a public enquiry would do is give some organized ‘gathering together’ of what information is available, including opinions of individuals, and a public enquiry’s recommendations would have a bit more weight on levels of governance, from federal to band office. Surely we can do more than just bandy opinions while these crimes go on. the cause is not an opinion but an emotion. Humiliation. WE stomped on their pride WE skinned the buffalo alive WE murdered his bride then stole the scraps from his table you only have to watch any episode of “Game of Thrones” to get an approximation of the attitudes the white invaders brought with them to this hemisphere but not to worry Nature will soon sort us all out and return all to those who respected her. Don’t know what she’ll do all the crap we’ll leave behind but I don’t think she’ll be stopping for any selfies. I’ll add a bit to argue for the public inquiry. I personally knew two women who simply disappeared, both on spring evenings in a northern city, in broad daylight, walking from one house to another in their neighbourhoods. One was in her late 20’s, the other in her early 40’s. It is not just run away teens this is happening to. I also knew teens, also Aboriginal, who either disappeared, or were murdered. There are various opinions both above my comment, and after, as to ’cause.’ The cops can look after the criminal investigations and references to the courts. But a public inquiry could investigate, and report publically on cause, whether one cause, or a number of causes. A public inquiry can make recommendations about public policy for all our levels of government. Hopefully, the rest of us would hold our governments accountable for considering and putting into action. The alternative is to leave it as is, with cops investigating each individual crime, and no change in overall patterns. Another alternative is to leave it up to a bunch of party appointees in the Prime Minister’s Office (no matter who the prime minister is) working in camera. Danny Aldham says: Canada is one of the richest, most affluent & beautiful countries in the world. We have so much to be proud of. But we have a few of things to be ashamed of. Two that bother me the most are our treatment of people with mental illnesses, and our relationship with our native Aboriginal communities. To drive through the downtown east side of Vancouver is to be ashamed that both of these issues are so painfully obvious and not being addressed. On the Aboriginal issues, we need to recognize this is a huge problem with no simple solutions. Throwing more money at a system that does not work is not a solution. I think a good first step is to address education. (But really, if everyone in Attiwapiskat had a PHD would it still not be an economic basket case?) The current government proposed a decent first step of passing education to local bands. It was agreed to by AFN Shawn Atleo, but then discarded after pressure by Pam Palmater and the people looking for a perfect solution, and more money. It was a classic case of letting the perfect kill the good. This is a really hard problem, made harder by the threat of being called a racist by anyone that even discusses the issues. How we move forward is just as tough. Where to start? But do we really expect that a Public Inquiry or a Royal Commission will solve anything? We had one on the West Coast after the Robert Pickton case and I don’t see anything that came from that. The Aboriginal issue! Who the fuck says that. It’s not an issue. Of course we are wealthy because we stole everything. Short lesson. Where is wealth generated. it’s pulled from the ocean it’s dug from the ground it’s cut down it’s grown on a farm. that’s five percent of the population. so what are the rest of us doing? Stealing and then shuffling the records we write to document the thievery. It’s what we do. It’s all we do. No city can sustain itself so resources have to be moved from rural to urban. If those who generate wealth refuse then it’s taken from them by force. and that is the real issue. Thanks for sharing your song. A little more beauty in this world can only help. Sharon Quinn says: The brutal truth is that aboriginal-on-aboriginal violence is likely the cause of Tina’s death. It’s likely she was killed by somebody she knew in the Winnipeg aboriginal community…. just as most murders of white girls is by somebody white they knew. The police treat such murder investigations equally and the higher death rate amongst aboriginals can be traced to prostitution and drugs. That’s something nobody wants to talk about because it’s considered “racist”. Aboriginal girls like Tina living on their own are ripe for exploitation and abuse. If you haven’t lived in Winnipeg and lived with this abysmal situation, you and Wynne shouldn’t pontificate politically about it…. over the corpses of missing and murdered aboriginal girls who fled the reserves to live in an urban hell at the hands of those who exploit them. Why do I suspect that Warren will not post my comments for political reasons?! Jon Adams says: “That’s something nobody wants to talk about because it’s considered “racist”. ” Uh. No. That’s not considered “racist.” That’s considered “blaming the victim.” The brutal truth is that aboriginal-on-aboriginal violence is likely the cause of Tina’s death. It’s likely she was killed by somebody she knew in the Winnipeg aboriginal community…. just as most murders of white girls is by somebody they knew. The police treat such murder investigations equally and the higher death rate amongst aboriginals can be traced to prostitution and drugs. That’s something nobody wants to talk about because it’s considered “racist”. He posted it twice and it’s still a crappy read The Doctor says: My problem with a lot of the dialogue on this issue of an inquiry goes to what the proponents of such an inquiry HONESTLY think it would achieve: 1. It will miraculously dig up new facts and new theories about this problem that nobody else has ever imagined, and we’ll have miraculous new insight into this issue as a result. 2. It will serve essentially as a PR platform and bully pulpit for various people (especially First nations activists) who want to make First Nations issues top of mind to the greatest extent possible. Personally, I think alternative #1 is a pipe dream, and it’s alternative #2 that’s really driving the thinking and motivation behind a lot of people who are pushing for a big-ass public inquiry here. I guess if this is, in your opinion, such an important issue that it doesn’t matter how efficiently taxpayers’ money is spent in furtherance of getting as much light as possible shone on this issue, then I suppose it make sense. Part of my problem with that approach is I just find so many public inquiries so damn wasteful. The prime direct beneficiaries are these squadrons upon squadrons of laywers who are either hired directly by the inquiry or by the innumerable interested parties. Go check out the cost of some of these public inquiries held in the past (e.g., Dubin Inquiry, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples etc.). Isn’t there some more rational, efficient way to achieve this goal? Christain says: Aboriginal women living on the margins die because life is dangerous on the margins. It is dangerous for everybody. We cant have an RCMP surveilance operation up and down the highway of tears because they’ll call that racial profiling. Justin and Kathleen are dining out on an easy to score points on issue and some FN and progressive types are being had. Meanwhile they support policies that help see the 1% hoard wealth at the expense of the poor and marginalized which creates the conditions for their victimization. What a fucked up shell game it all is and as usual many FN people are the rubes. Along with the dimwitted media believer asses who vote Liberal and Conservative as the wind (Wynne) blows. Other Hockey Dad says: Dear davidray – I’ve never stolen anything from anybody. Shut your trap and stop accusing me of crimes I didn’t commit. If you feel oh so guilty about your crimes feel free to wander into the nearest cop shop and confess your theft. But I’m not your accomplice – you speak for you. I think David Ray should change his name to Madigan. Cause there he is , mad again. Dave, lighten up a bit, we don’t want you to have a jammer. This is generally a bit more civil site. Try to tell us what you suggest is a solution. Without frothing at the mouth. Shut my trap Hockey Dad.. that’s very Bertuzzi of you. Must be fun in your house. In the meatime of course you’re a thief. Everything you’ve ever owned, do own or ever will own is because someone stole it and let you suckle on the leftovers. Oh, and as Warren sometimes says to those who comment anonymously.. go fuck yourself and that goes for John boy below. Thanks for retracting your accusation that I’m a thief – “because someone stole it”. Clearly not me, but another “someone” out there. Appreciate that you saw your error. If you’re getting that upset either you’re guilty as sin or you need help Brine says: How about this then… aboriginals were conquered by the Europeans, just as one aboriginal group would previously conquer another aboriginal group. As such, the land was no more ‘stolen’ by the Europeans than it was by the previous conquering group. How about that… an unquantified statement attempting to rationalize 19th century colonialization and subsequent treatment of first nations by a sockpuppet. How about that. The Europeans could have wiped them all out, like the vanquishing tribes did to the tribes they defeated. Instead, they sat down with the vanquished and made treaties with them. Doesn’t sound like theft to me. “Doesn’t sound like theft to me” No it sounds like quite the fairy tale you’re spinning Brine. So I assume you signed over the deed to your house and land to the nearest native band? Your employer direct deposits your paycheque into the bands bank account? Little over three decades ago and I was standing in the downtown park in my little city to watch a protest parade roll by. The parade was all farm vehicles, protesting lack of provincial government support for farming, especially grain farming. I was standing beside an Aboriginal man, a fellow I knew only slightly. As the parade slowly, slowly rolled by, I heard him say, “Are they afraid someone is going to take their land?” I glanced at him, and I am sure he was holding back his smile…a rueful smile…but a smile. Within the past year I noticed the kerfuffle in reaction to kids in Saskatchewan, first Aboriginal, then others, wearing a tee shirt that said, “Got land? Thank an Indian.” It drives some people nuts when anyone suggests that the development of concepts of land ownership has a history. For Matt and Brine Words fail re your last comments so why not let someone respond who said it so much better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rh6qqsmxNs OPEN CHALLENGE TO MATT AND BRINE AND OTHER HOCKEY DAD AND OTHER SINGLE NAME ANONYMOUS POSTERS IF WARREN ALLOWS THIS POST TO STAND. Especially Brine who thinks conquering Europeans were kind enough to offer treaties to the few Natives they did not kill. How about the next time Warren gives one of his impromptu SFH concerts we offer you the opportunity to publicly pontificate, elaborate and extemporize your views re conquering and vanquishing European colonialists to whoever is assembled. If you agree then I will invite representatives from Idle no More, Akwasasne and Attawapiskat and a few Natives from here in Kingston. Furthermore please post your real name first and last in your next post so I can advise you at to when such an event will occur. My name is David Ray and you can reach me at Davidray.ca@gmail.com to make arrangements assuming Warren concurs. I also think we could turn this into a terrific fundraising event with good food, t-shirts and merry making for all assembled. To Brine. Especially Brine. I’ve taken the liberty of copying your last two posts as shown below and saving them offline. I think I’ll have them printed at Staples and blown up into posters. Do you think 20 X 24 would be the right size or would 30 X 36 be a tad too much for public display when you get your chance to speak. I bet we could sell a bunch of them. “The Europeans could have wiped them all out, like the vanquishing tribes did to the tribes they defeated. Instead, they sat down with the vanquished and made treaties with them. Doesn’t sound like theft to me.” “How about this then… aboriginals were conquered by the Europeans, just as one aboriginal group would previously conquer another aboriginal group. As such, the land was no more ‘stolen’ by the Europeans than it was by the previous conquering group.” –Posted by Brine no last name at Warrenkinsella.com aka not a blog 🙂 TrueNorthist says: One thing you can take to heart my friend, is that his views are increasingly in the minority. I feel your frustration at the slow pace of change but be aware, things are changing. Some will never shed their prejudices, but their time is steadily slipping by and their influence is almost spent. Do not let yourself be drawn into their ever shrinking circle of anger and pain. Oh sorry, not politically correct enough to appease your white liberal guilt? Ok, here’s another little secret: they’re not really nations, despite what people like you and Pam Palmater might think. Now, go and blow another gasket. One thing that isn’t a secret is Brine is a fool Thanks for the invitation, but I’m good. You already said “someone else” stole stuff from the aboriginals BEFORE I WAS BORN (can you understand the chronology here???) so I’m good with your earlier retraction. I do know that in my lifetime copious amounts of dollars called taxes have been forcibly taken (stolen?) from me and sent to the first nations in a futile attempt to redress the past wrongs you speak of. But I seem to be continuously paying for the sins of my forefathers. Can you offer a timeline when I might be off the hook for that? Can you suggest an amount that might balance the scorecard? Or do you need to haul me up on some stage, shout at me, and beat me up for your score to be settled? Anyways, I will say, I feel kind of bullyed by your last two posts….you might want to think that “offer” through a bit. You should also re-read what I’ve written. I’ve said nothing about European encounters with First Nations. I merely objected to you suggesting that WE are all thieves of some kind and I’m not willing to wear that white man’s guilt BS. Moral outrage and a claim of being bullied. You’re a cornucopia of conbot chestnuts. The blowing a gasket part is pretty funny considering you demanded a personal retraction. I’d love to see you attempt to sue for defamation on that one. Just reading that you are suing because of “something the Europeans did.” I don’t think I’ve ever read a more ridiculous reaction. By the way, no less than progressive luminary Andrew Coyne thinks a public inquiry would be a waste of time: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/25/andrew-coyne-problems-behind-aboriginal-murders-wont-be-solved-with-a-public-inquiry/ A whole lot of being seen to be doing something to make assuage ‘progressives’ guilt, kind of like Alan Rock and the gun registry. Progressive luminary Andrew Coyne? that’s hilarious. Is brine usually stored in tinfoil? Well, to be honest he’s the least ‘mean’ of the Post’s collumnists. Ha, I always though of him as more perturbed. the offer stands. name please. People like Matt, Joe, OHD, Brine appear unaware that their gratuitous ugliness and ignorance about a specific segment of Canadian society reveals not only their feelings of guilt & worthlessness, but also the obvious fact that they are threatened & terrified of members of that specific minority group. More intellectual pygmies cowering under their metaphorical beds making scary internet noises hoping the monsters go away. Good grief. Sadly it is often fearful, threatened, angry, irrational men found guilty of ritually slaughtering innocent women from the very group that terrifies them. No wonder they & their brethren are so against a public inquiry on MMIW. Now I’m not only a thief, but I partake in ritual slaughter too. Superb debate tactic. I’m done with morons here who can’t read or parse the very focused debate points in my posts. Lots of instructive material here I’ll review with my teenagers as to how progressives will twist and spin to try to force guilt onto them for things they had no hand in, just because they live in the suburbs and have white skin. You are a sensitive diva Boy you sure can dish it out, but you also sure as hell can’t take it. You call your viceral outbursts “very focused debate ponts”? Really? Buddy, you need to step away for a bit and cool off. 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Her point was made and her unparalleled brilliance was spelled out plainly in those nominations. 2. The Wins True, Beyoncé did not take home any of the “top” category wins for the night (more on that later too), but she did go home 2 Grammys richer with wins for Best Music Video and Best Urban Contemporary Album. Beyoncé has now won 22 Grammys, ranked as the #2 winningest female artist of all time (behind Alison Krauss), and has racked up the most Grammy nominations of any female artist with 62. She is also tied with Adele for most Grammy wins in one night with 6. 3. That Performance In a night that featured tributes to Prince and George Michael, multiple appearances by Adele and Bruno Mars, and a Chance The Rapper team up with Kirk Franklin and Tamela Mann, Beyoncé’s awe-inspiring performance of “Love Drought” and “Sandcastles” was the high point of the night. From an unabashed celebration of her pregnancy to her golden goddess attire to the dancers bowing at her feet, Queen Bey stayed true to her name. And that chair lean had us all holding our breath, both out of fear and in sheer astonishment. Still, with all of that going on, Beyoncé delivered a vocal masterclass free of charge for all those in attendance and watching around the world. 4. Beyoncé’s Family Showed Up Everywhere Outside of Beyoncé herself, Bey’s family was basically the focus of the night. Solange took home a Grammy and got some air time introducing a performance Blue Ivy had folks talking over her pink Gucci suit. Was it a tribute to Prince? Probably, which makes it that much doper. It was fly and fashion forward and your favorite Kindergartner could never. Jay-Z was teary eyed and snotty-nosed after watching Beyoncé’s performance. She even had her mama take the stage to introduce that gloriousness with her own heartfelt words. When the Knowles-Carter clan has a family reunion, they can’t rent out a hall or reserve a section at the park like most of us. They make arrangements to be at the Grammys, slaying red carpets, taking home coveted awards, leaving the stage on fire. 5. Adele Honoring Her During Her Acceptance Speeches Disappointingly, Adele took all 3 top category wins for the night (Song, Record, and Album of the Year). But before she could even launch into her thanks, she had to give honor and respect to Beyoncé. Adele publicly said that Beyoncé was who she herself would have picked, asked what more Beyoncé would have to do to win, and even ended up breaking one of her Grammys in half to share. And what did Beyoncé do? Smile, shed a tear, and be gracious. Cuz she knew she deserved it too. 6. Her Losses That’s why, on a night that was supposed to be about Beyoncé’s wins, the real story is Beyoncé’s losses. Just like the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Beyoncé’s multiple losses related to a critically acclaimed and commercially successful album that deftly crossed genres, provided a deep look into her personal life, and was vocally impeccable shows just how pervasive and petty white preference can be and how impossibly high the bar is for Black people. It’s why she wasn’t nominated for guitar and twang barn burner “Daddy Lessons” in any Country categories. It’s why 20 of Beyoncé’s 22 Grammy wins have been in R&B categories. It’s why Black musical prodigies like Prince and Kendrick Lamar have all fallen victim to a racist blockage when it comes to awards outside of R&B and Rap categories. Beyoncé’s losses show that the Grammys have a race problem, without any shadow of a doubt. If Lemonade was anything, it was a celebration of blackness. 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