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__label__cc	0.527642	0.472358	Machiavelli, Niccolo 2 National Press Club 2 United States. Internal Revenue Service 2 Anderson, William G. 1 Atlanta (Ga.). Office of the Mayor 1 Block, Herbert 1 Bonfield, Arthur E. 1 Bootle, W. A. 1 Federal intervention 3 Electoral politics 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints 2 Poverty 2 MLKP-MBU, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass. 6 RFKAG-MBJFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass. 6 BMPP-MBJFK, Burke Marshall Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass. 3 RWP-DLC, Roy Wilkins Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 3 DDEP-KAbE, Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower Miscellaneous Papers, 1957-1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kan. 2 GRDJ-DNA, General Records for the Department of Justice, United States National Archives and Records Service, National Archives Library, Washington, D.C. 2 JFKWHSFHW-MBJFK, White House Staff Files: Harris Wofford, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Mass. 2 name:(United States. Dept. of Justice) HWC, Harry Wachtel Collection ''In A Word--Now'' New York Times Magazine, 29 September 1963, pp. 91-92. Rabinowitz, Joni King, Slater Jackson, Elza Thomas, Robert Chatmon, Thomas Colbert, Robert Woodall, Luther United States. Fair Employment Practices Committee ''Hammer of Civil Rights'' The Nation 198 (9 March 1964): 230-234. Thompson, Allen C. President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity United States. Internal Revenue Service Fumbling on the New Frontier United States Criminal Code, Title 10, Section 241-242 EPP-GEU-S Eliza Paschall Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. CSfIL, International Longshoreman's and Warehousemen's Union, San Francisco, Calif. folder King, Martin Luther 1961-1967 8/3/2011 jmkunz Draft, Address to the Platform Committee of the Republican National Convention 9/1/1939-9/2/1945 Communist Party of the United States of America Republican National Convention (1964: San Francisco, Calif.) United States. Marshals Service RHP-WHi, Ralph Helstein Papers, 1933-1985, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. UAWRCR-NNU-LA, United Automobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers of America, District 65, Cleveland Robinson Papers, New York University, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, N.Y. ''Boycotts Will be Used,'' Interview U.S. News and World Report, 24 February 1964, pp. 59-61. Council for United Civil Rights Leadership ''The Luminous Promise'' The Progressive 26 (December 1962): 34-37. Lincoln, Abraham [United States. White House] Block, Herbert [Washington Post] Schlesinger, Arthur Meier [Harvard University] Sanders, Carl Edward [Georgia. Office of the Governor] Weltner, Charles Longstreet [United States. Congress. House of Representatives] Allen, Ivan [Atlanta (Ga.). Office of the Mayor] Meredith, James [University of Mississippi (Oxford, Miss.)] Griffin, Marvin C. Mississippi. National Guard Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) Atlanta (Ga.). Office of the Mayor Georgia. Office of the Governor University of Mississippi (Oxford, Miss.) Fulton County, Ga. 3/13/2017 tenisha ''Equality Now: The President Has the Power: Equality Now'' The Nation 192 (4 February 1961): 91-95. Emerson, Thomas Irwin Bonfield, Arthur E. Wright, J. Skelly Bootle, W. A. Christian Education Press United States Commission on Civil Rights United States--Armed Forces United States. President's Committee on Government Employment Policy United States. Department of the Treasury United States. Bureau of Narcotics United States. Alcohol Tax Unit United States. Secret Service United States. Federal Housing Administration United States. Public Housing Administration United States. Urban Renewal Administration United States. Department of Agriculture United States. President's Committee on Civil Rights Forgotten Remedy for the Voteless Negro The Measure of a Man SDLC-INP Stanley D. Levison Collection, In Private Hands M2 #242	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3458
__label__cc	0.716546	0.283454	Grist for the Hard SF Mill The BBC has a fascinating article about real-life asteroid mining today. Apart from being, to me, an amazing story about human ingenuity, and proof that future resource constraints will just make humanity cleverer and more ambitious in all manner of ways - there are two things about the story that strike a chord with me. If you look back historically at what has caused humanity to make its largest investments in exploration and in transportation, it has been going after resources, whether it's the Europeans going after the spice routes or the American settlers looking toward the west for gold, oil, timber or land. That's an elementary lesson in setting design (people don't settle new lands for the hell of it), but also for game design. What do characters do in a Traveller game? Go after resources, or do something related to that. How will society develop? It will be focused on resources. So the message to GMs is: think about where the resources are in your subsector and how they are connected. Everything should come after that. Second, this: Water from asteroids could be broken down in space to liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for rocket fuel. Water is very expensive to get off the ground so the plan is to take it from an asteroid to a spot in space where it can be converted into fuel. This ties oddly into conversations I've been having by email with Patrick recently, but the future is water. I don't think we'd end up using ice as currency, because it would be too useful as fuel (it's a bit like using steel for currency a la Dragonlance), but you can easily imagine wars over otherwise completely insignificant icy rocks orbiting Uranus some time in our semi-distant future, can't you? Labels: random ideas, science fiction, speculation I'm moving house this week and have a lot on at work, so posting will continue to be sporadic over the coming days. Apologies. As a teaser, Patrick came up with a great way of hacking the Diaspora rules for a Moons of Jupiter game, and I'll explain how that works at some point. Po Fe and Xolo Centuries ago, a eunuch mercenary-turned-warlord called Po Fe had the archmage Gulvedra take the soul from his body and put into a ruby as big as a large man's fist. Through this, Po Fe thought he could cheat death - Gulvedra would later remove Po Fe's soul from the ruby and put it into a younger, fitter, more virile body than Po Fe's original ageing and genital-less form. But Gulvedra did not keep his side of the bargain, and he planned to use the ruby containing Po Fe's soul for other, more nefarious ends. Po Fe's followers managed to rescue the ruby but, lacking Gulvedra's skill, they were unable to transpose Po Fe's soul to another human body. Eventually, they constructed a giant puppet, 20' high, and placed the ruby within it, and thus Po Fe finally did achieve an immortality of a kind. Po Fe can control his puppet to a point, though he cannot speak. He communicates with crude sign language and by writing in sand. This saps his energy and quickly exhausts him, at which point his helpers use cranes and pulleys to help his movements. His followers later constructed for him a companion - a giant wooden puppet dog called Xolo. Seven of these followers volunteered to have their souls imbued into this creature, and they have animated it ever since. Since they are seven in number they do not tire in the same way that Po Fe does, and they will protect him to the death if he is attacked. Po Fe Armour Class: 3 Hit Dice: 8+4 Move: 60' (20') Attacks: 2 fists Damage: 2d8/2d8 No. Appearing: 1 Save As: F8 Morale: 7 Treasure: Nil Intelligence: 12 Alignment: Neutral XP Value: 775 Special: Po Fe quickly tires. After d6 rounds he will be exhausted and be unable to fight. Move: 120' (40') Attacks: 1 bite, 2 paws Damage: 2d8/1d6/1d6 Labels: monsters, npcs, yoon-suin Old Dice I'm moving house at the moment, and you know what that means - opening cardboard boxes that have been dragged down from the loft and examining the contents with a mixture of laughter, puzzlement (why did I keep this?) and nostalgia. One thing that has emerged from this scraping-over and sifting-through of old mathoms is my first set of dice. These things were bought when I was about 13 (before that I borrowed friends' dice as quid pro quo for the fact that I had the AD&D 2nd edition books) and they were carried religiously around the town I grew up to a collection of living rooms, friend's bedrooms, and basements for games of D&D, Cyberpunk 2020, Shadowrun and MERP. Since then they have travelled all around the world, until they wound up almost forgotten at the bottom of a large box which also contained other ancient relics from a bygone age: GURPS 3rd edition and Changeling: The Dreaming. In Training Day the Denzel Washington character at one stage says to the Ethan Hawke one, "Any good narcotics officer must know and love narcotics." Well, I'm of the opinion that any good role player must know and love dice. Old friends, I salute you. The appealingly retro sweet tin the dice are housed in, held together with sticky labels because at one stage I had so many dice crammed inside it wouldn't stay shut. The inside of the tin. I could have sworn I had Warhammer 40,000 scatter dice and autofire dice as well, but they appear to be casualties of the dice tin's odysseys around the world. The dice themselves. They are cheap and nasty, almost whorish gem dice with suspicious rolling actions and a weightless, soul-less, tacky feel. But time has given them character and significance. Labels: dice, nostalgia Traditional RPGs are Wood One of my weekly without-fail podcast listens is BBC Five Live's World Football Phone-In. This week somebody called in and asked Tim Vickery, the "football in South America" correspondent, the simple question: why he loved football. He gave a lot of reasons, but one which struck a chord with me was that he said, in the modern age, there is so much interaction with gizmos and gadgets that sometimes it is nice to just go home after a day's work and touch something that is made out of wood. To him, football is like wood. It is something from an age before computers, before iPads, before mobile phones, and before the internet. To play or watch football is to connect with the past, but also to the world of physicality and physical objects. It is to feel something natural, tangible, ancient. Something that was around before you were born and will be around long afterwards. I think role playing games have a similar attraction. There is something about the simplicity of the implements - dice, pencils, paper - that has an actual touchable, holdable charm. They are not the ephemeral, non-corporeal, soul-less products of the computerised age. They are something older and weightier and nicer. There is a trusty, prosaic feel that you get from rolling the dice and scrawling things in pencil that a computer interface can't emulate. This is why, for me, there is always going to be something unsatisfactory about online gaming, something missing. (Even though it has its obvious advantages.) It's not just the face-to-face interaction: Skype or Google+ hangouts give you that. It's being able to pick up the dice and roll them and let everybody else see the result. It's being able to pick up a piece of scrap paper and pencil out a map. It's being able to decorate your character sheet with doodles of your character. It's being simple in an age of increasingly complex things. I don't know what goes on inside my computer, and I'm fundamentally alienated from it as a result. Dice and pencils are understandable. Labels: nostalgia, random blatherings Yellow City Crab Fighting In the Yellow City, crab-men are an untouchable underclass of slaves, as often used for food as they are for forced labour. One of the most popular pastimes in the city is crab-fighting, in which two crab-men are forced to wrestle for the crowd's amusement. "Stables" of crab-men fighters are everywhere in the city's riverside regions, each comprising a handful of fighters and a large number of trainees, overseen by their human owners. A crab-fight is nowhere near as violent as the city's other favourite bloodsport, club-fighting (in which two humans fight with bamboo staves), and generally speaking ends when one of the crab-men ends up on his back, his less-well protected belly exposed. At the worst the loser is boiled alive and eaten, but generally this is a rare occurrence. Crab-fights often involve a number of fighters on a "winner stays on" basis, with the winner of the first fight taking on a new challenger, and continuing until defeated, whereupon his vanquisher stays on to meet the next challenger. Crab Fighting Rules Each crab-man has three combat stats: Strength, Skill, and Speed. These are rated d12, d10 and d8 in whichever order is preferred. Each round, the players roll initiative - i.e. their Speed dice. The winner (highest number) gets to choose whether Strength or Skill is going to be crucial this round. Then fighting begins. Here, each player rolls their relevant dice, for Strength or Skill. The highest one wins. If the loser has less than half of the total of the winner, he loses immediately - he is tossed onto his back. If he has half or more of the total of the winner, he is still in the round, but is in a weakened position. The winner now gets to roll an additional d6 together with his stat dice and add the totals for the next roll. The players roll again. Once more, if the loser has less than half of the total of the winner, he loses immediately, and if he has half or more of the total of the winner, he stays in the round but the winner gets to roll an additional d6. Additional d6s are not cumulative - a winner does not get to roll 2d6 if he wins for two consecutive throws. One the dice have been rolled three times, and there is still not a clear loser, a second round begins and initiative is rolled again, and the process is repeated. Titchy is fighting Bull. Titchy has Speed d12, Skill d10, and Strength d8. Bull has Strength d12, Skill d10, and Speed d8. Initiative is rolled. Titchy rolls 5 on his d12 and Bull rolls 3 on his d8 - Titchy has initiative. He decides he's going to make it a contest of Skill. Both players have a Skill of d10. Round 1 starts. Titchy rolls 10 and Bull rolls 9. Titchy has won but not definitively. Next round, he gets to roll d10+d6, and Bull must stick with d10. They roll again. Titchy gets 9+5 on his d10+d6, making a mighty 14. Bull needs to get at least a 7 to stay in the fight. But he rolls a measly 1. He is tossed onto his back and Titchy wins to fight the next challenger. Mammoth is fighting Baboon. Mammoth has Strength d12, Speed d10, and Skill d8. Baboon has Skill d12, Speed d10, and Strength d8. Initiative is rolled. Both are rolling d10s for Speed; Mammoth scores 2 and Baboon scores 10. Baboon chooses Skill. Round 1. Baboon rolls 8 on his d12. Mammoth needs at least a 4 on his d8 to even stay in the fight. He manages to get a 4, just barely surviving. But next throw Baboon will be rolling d12+d6 and Mammoth will be stuck on a d8. They roll again. Baboon scores a pathetic 1+2 making 3, and Mammoth scores 3, matching it. It's a stalemate and neither player can add a d6 next throw. Baboon is back to d12 and Mammoth is back to d8. They throw again. Baboon gets 7 and Mammoth gets 5. Baboon is the winner, but not by enough of a margin to defeat Mammoth outright. It is the end of the round. Round 2 now begins, with Mammoth and Baboon both again rolling d10 for Speed to determine initiative... You get the idea. Full disclosure: the crab fighting rules are partly a bastardization of the combat rules for In A Wicked Age. Labels: sub-games, yoon-suin Two Themes are a Couple, Three are a Crowd In the comments on my post on Shadowrun a few days ago, John wrote the following: Cyberpunk is already a mash-up of hardboiled fiction and science fiction. Fantasy and hardboiled both combine well with science fiction on their own, but trying to combine fantasy with hardboiled without seeming frivolous or banal is a major undertaking in itself. Throw in s.f. as well and you've got a major oversaturation of themes going on. This got me thinking: perhaps John is right, and mashing up two themes works fine, but adding a third causes the edifice to collapse under its own weight? Are there any famous or successful three-way, or four-way, genre mashups? An experiment. Roll 3d10 and mashup the genres in this table. What do you get? 2, 7, 3: Noir, gothic horror, hard SF. There's a female vampire disguised on a space ship and gradually killing off the crew, and there's a whiskey-soaked detective on board who is in love with her and trying to solve the crime at the same time; the way he solves the mystery is through application of a clever scientific theory. Yeah, I can see how that wouldn't work - gothic horror and hard SF cancel each other out; if the vampire is really supernatural it isn't hard SF any more, but if there is a scientific solution then it isn't actually really gothic horror. Though both work well with noir. 10, 2, 3: Victoriana, noir, hard SF. A steampunk setting in which the details are meticulously laid out so that every element of the steam-powered world makes perfect sense. A whiskey-soaked detective attempts to solve a murder, but the solution revolves around understanding something specifically to do with steam engines. That kind of works, actually, though I'm taking a very loose definition of "hard SF". You'd have to really like steam engines, and really understand what they're capable of and what the implications would be. 10, 9, 6: Victoriana, literary fiction, western. A steampunk western in which nobody does anything except mope and ponder the imponderables while having ennui-inducing sex and taking mild intoxicants. Could sort of work if the writer made great play of the fact that steam, social conservatism and violence are sort of like the human condition. But would be boring and wasteful of its setting. Maybe John is onto something. Labels: genre, random blatherings, random generators Moons of Jupiter Planetcrawl A long, long time ago (I can still remember how those blog entries used to make me smile) I wrote about the Solar System and its vastness, pondering: In light of [the sheer size of space], and the fact that the solar system contains 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, 335 moons and millions of asteroids, minor planets, comets, trojans, centaurs and the like, you really have to wonder why science fiction has obsessed for so long about interstellar and intergalactic empires. Isn't the solar system big enough? It strikes me now that the answer is fairly obvious: aliens. There aren't any in the solar system, or at least not ones we can wage war on/fuck/misunderstand, so SF authors by necessity need to look beyond it if they want Klingons. But the fact remains: the Solar System is massive. Consider this for a second: the distance between Jupiter and Saturn is from 600 million kilometres to 2 billion kilometres. Jupiter has, at current count, 66 moons. Saturn has 62. Uranus and Neptune have another 40 between them. There have been 1,200 Transneptunian Objects recorded. There is a lot of stuff out there to get lost in. Indeed, the question I am currently considering is not so much "Why bother with what's outside the Solar System?" as "Couldn't you just set a game among the moons of Jupiter or Saturn?" The moons of Jupiter vary hugely in size - from massive rocky Ganymede, bigger than Mercury, to tiny Cyllene, only 3km in diameter. They also vary in character: Icy Europa may have a great warm ocean beneath its surface which harbours life, while Io is a world of magma and volcanoes. Probably only 4 - the Galilean moons of Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto - are "settle-able" in the SF sense, but think of the potential in the 58 others. Secret bases for space pirates. Impossibly ancient and haunted alien monuments. Mines to be warred over. Space stations right and left. Orbital rigs for siphoning gas from Jupiter itself, built on construction bases bigger than cities, that circle elliptically around Callisto. The thing about the Moons of Jupiter Planetcrawl is that the distances make sense. These moons are generally about 200,000 km apart at their closest (although of course, at the opposite ends of their ellipses, they are a heck of a lot further), which is traversable in a few hours at the speed of, say, Voyager 1. An inter-lunar craft would probably be a lot slower, because Voyager 1 is a big fat cheat and has the benefit of decades of acceleration, but still - it's the sort of travel that is do-able in the Star Trek "set a course for Ganymede and we'll be there by Friday" sense, and is imaginable without too much handwaving if you want your SF hard. And since your scope is somewhat restricted, you can actually flesh out your locations in a lot of detail - you don't end up with Traveller-esque abstraction in which each solar system has a single interesting planet about which there is a single interesting fact and a single culture. You can go deep: what's going on with Callisto? How does that affect what's going on with Io? What's with the planetary war on Europa and will the Jovian orbiters get involved? I happen to have recently bought Diaspora. Maybe the planets are aligning. Labels: diaspora, science, science fiction On Shadowrun It's often said that good science fiction is about taking an idea that is initially preposterous and playing it straight. For this reason Shadowrun should really work. The idea is as preposterous as you can get and therefore, you would assume, has the potential to be genuinely interesting if taken seriously. (I don't mean being played seriously in-game; I just mean the actual setting itself.) Unfortunately it always came across to me as being cartoonish and frivolous, as if the designers knew, in their hearts of hearts, that what they were coming up with was really rather silly indeed - or else a rather cynical attempt to gain popularity through combining two contemporaneous fads (epic fantasy and cyberpunk). Then again, my perception of the game may have been skewed by the gaming group I was in when I was 15 and Shadowrun was at the height of its popularity - the main raison d'etre for the group was actually smoking weed, if anything, which as well as robbing you of your ambition does not generally make for good gaming. (Don't do drugs, kids.) I think the most interesting take on Shadowrun would be to make it more fairy-tale and supernatural. It's the future, we all have BlackBerrys in our heads and submachineguns which fire cyanide-tipped bullets and the Chinese and Brazilians have taken over the world, and yet at the same time...there are fucking elves around. And not your D&D "Legolas from the LOTR films" elves - your actual sidhe of myth and legend, who steal babies in the night and replace them with changelings, who trick you of your money and sanity just for laughs, or spirit you away for what seems like hours but actually turns out to be years. Or redcaps who lurk in dark alleys waiting to let your blood so they can dye their hats. Or Gibson-esque Voodou Loa who gain actual spiritual form from the worship of their immigrant followers. Or Wiccan gangsters who use magick. The key to all this would be the interplay between the fairy and the technological, and the failure of high-tech to deal with the fact that there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. You know like how, in a cyberpunk game, the black ops wing of a sinister corporation could hack into your personal emails to find out your movements, or wait for you to come online and then fry your brain with hunter-killer software? Well, what would they do if you never came online because you use magick to communicate with your cronies? Wouldn't that sinister corporation want magick users itself? Played straight, it works, see? Labels: campaign settings, shadowrun, things to try Of All The Splatbooks I've Loved Before: The Complete Thief's Handbook I'm conflicted about the 2nd edition "Completes". For every good idea, there was a bad one, and I think there was something damaging about the mentality of endless rules-based customization (as opposed to imagination-based customization) they promoted. Instead of just imagining that your thief was a burglar, you now had a mechanical justification for it, which actually functioned to restrict options by sending the message that in order to do something interesting with a character class there needed to be a TSR-sanctioned way to do so. Rather than extremely broad character classes functioning as a canvas on which a player could paint almost whatever he wanted, suddenly people were rushing to the breast of Mummy TSR to suckle on her dangling teats for their imaginative milk. However, one thing that the earlier Completes had in common was promotion of random generation as a means of sub-creation. This was an unqualified good. And it gave me an abiding love for the random generator which I don't think will ever go away. A good set of random generator tables is a game unto itself. It makes DM prep genuinely enjoyable, because it allows you to roll lots of dice and surprise yourself with the results. This is intrinsically fun, but it does something extra - it, in turn, sets off creative sparks in your own mind as you attempt to weld the results together into something that fits. This gives the campaign world detail and throws out, like confetti, hooks for the PCs to get caught on. Let's illustrate this through reference to the The Complete Thief's Handbook's Random Thieves' Guild Generator. I will now use this generator to create a thieves' guild for the town of Swiftly, which I have just thought up (and stolen the name of from the title of a book I recently read). Swiftly is a river port, and it's a decent sized town - we'll say a population of 8,000. Here goes: First, we find out how wealthy the town is. It's on a trade route, it has a port, and it's a major town, so it gets some bonuses for this. The final result of 19 - it's very wealthy. Naturally Swiftly is plush with cash from all the goods and money changing hands. Next, we determine the attitude of the law. I have to know the dominant social alignment, but we'll call that neutral. I roll a 20, which means the law is corrupt. Obviously, the wealth in the town makes it easy to buy off judges. Or maybe the judges are just merchants - they're one and the same thing, and merchant courts run the legal system itself. After that, we find out the relationships of the thieves to the merchants, and to other guilds. Again, we get some modifiers here because the law is corrupt, the society is rich, and so on. The result is a "standoff". The merchants are not in cahoots with the thieves' guild, but nor are they hostile. Their relationships with the assassins and bards' guilds are indifferent, but there is hostility with the beggars' guild. (I love, by the way, how it is taken for granted that these other guilds exist.) Beggars and thieves don't get along in Swiftly. We now find out how many thieves there are in the town. The population is 8,000, and it is wealthy, and the law is corrupt, so the number is 2d10+3+10%. So that makes 15, rounded down. Some of these may not actually be in the guild itself - we'll find out shortly. Now, the characteristics of the guild. I roll a 4, which indicates the leader is a guildmaster. A little disappointing, because if you get a 20 you get to roll on a special sub-table including results like "the guildmaster is a dragon". But you don't want to overdo things. We then turn to the nature of the rule, which is based on three axes: strong/weak, cruel/just, and despotic/populist. The leadership rolls reveal it to be weak, fairly cruel, and fairly despotic. A further roll, on another table, indicates that the membership is cohesive. From this a picture emerges of a rather pathetic guildmaster who resorts to cruelty and despotism in an attempt to hold sway. The thieves in the guild remain cohesive, perhaps because life is good in Swiftly (it is so rich, and the law is so corrupt), and perhaps because none of them are particularly willing to challenge the guildmaster. They'd prefer to avoid being head of the organisation and thereby becoming targets themselves. They like the easy status quo - the guildmaster is not powerful enough to be anything more than a nuisance - and they are willing to let him be the fall guy if necessary. The number of thieves in the guild is 75% of the population of thieves as a base rate, with -10% because leadership is weak, making it 65%. That's 9.75, rounded up to 10. The members are neutral to the 5 thieves who are not in the guild. The picture of a relatively lazy, laid-back guild solidifies. The thieves of Swiftly have it so easy, it isn't worth fighting - except, apparently, with beggars. We now find out the levels of the thieves in the town. There are 2 of level 4, 1 of level 3, and 5 of level 2. The other 7 are 1st level. It makes sense for one of the 4th level thieves to be the guildmaster, with a the 3rd level guy/girl as his lieutenant. The remaining 4th level thief, and 4 of the 2nd levellers, would be independent - being of a certain level of competence, they don't need the guild and prefer to keep all their loot to themselves rather than pay guild fees. The 1st levellers are all good members - probably mostly youngsters. And there you have it. The next steps would be to flesh out the names, personality and equipment of the higher-level thieves, think up a reason for the war with the beggars' guild, perhaps jot down some other NPCs - notably corrupt merchant/judges, high-up beggars, and so on - and there you have it: a finished thieves' guild. About 10 minutes' work, and something for the PCs to interact with should they ever end up in Swiftly. Incontrovertible evidence that random generators are your friend. Labels: random generators, sourcebooks The Minimalist Approach In a bid for minimalist efficiency, I am going to attempt to transfer all my notes (and computer files) on Yoon-Suin into this squared/graph note pad and set of index cards. Bottle of wine, cakes and so on are optional extras. The idea is to be able to carry round the entire thing in one hand, and flip through it at will. I am, from now on, travelling light. Labels: light blogging, yoon-suin The Platonic DM The people at Story Games have been going OSR-crazy, it seems. There are at least half a dozen threads about either the OSR generally or OSR games on the top page. (Although to be fair, it seems one of them was Zak baiting the site's denizens.) This one asks what makes an old school game old school - what are the mechanics? - and it inspired me to give a response: GM neutrality is the bedrock on which old school play is founded. The GM is objective arbitrator, referee, judge. He is neither against the players nor for them. He presents them with the world they interact with, and he provides the consequences for their actions. I elaborated a bit further: No human being can be totally neutral, but he can try. That's really what it's about. There will always be some level of illusionism, because in giving the players freedom they'll go where you don't expect, so you have to just make shit up (NPCs, locations, etc.). You try to do this as "neutrally" as possible by thinking to yourself, "Okay, in this game world, what would happen? What would be here?" Not what would be "fun", not what would be a challenge, not what would kill your players, not what would make a good story... but what would happen. Random generators help a lot to keep you honest. Roll the dice and go with the results, and don't ever fudge. That's what I think it's all about, really. If I was listing DMing best principles, or drafting a manifesto, there would probably only be three points: Try as hard as you can to be neutral. Think about what would happen, not what would be fun, what would be a challenge, what would kill your players, or what would make a good story. Just what would happen. Use lots of random generators to keep yourself honest. None of these points are actually realizable 100% of the time. We are human beings, and human beings are flawed. But you can try as hard as you can, and you'll get better at it. (As Zeb Cook put it, you need to "Take the time and effort to become not just a good DM, but a brilliant one." A big element of that is training yourself to be neutral. At least as far as my own DMing preferences go.) The platonic DM is, basically, a deistic God who is utterly objective and dispassionate. And being a deistic God is not really such a bad thing to aspire to. Labels: advice, rpg theory, system The Yuthada Vaanara of the Eastern Barats The foothills of the Eastern Barat range, which extends southwards from the Mountains of the Moon, are home to hereditary bandit clans who make their homes in the thick forests and range far and wide to raid farms and river traders. They breed and train captured apes who they use as shock troops. Each clan might have a herd of 100 or more of these apes - or yuthada vaanara as they are known - and they are typically allowed to roam free around the clan's territory to scare away intruders. When the time comes for a raid, the clan gather up as many adult males as they can using special calls and whistles (each clan has a different variant) and lead them to the attack. Yuthada vaanara are fearsome in battle. They target the eyes, jaws, and hands, and typically horribly disfigure those they leave alive. They have dark green fur which camouflages them well in the undergrowth, and they move with alarming speed. Hit Dice: 2+1* Attacks: 1 bite/2 fists No. Appearing: 2d8 Intelligence: 3 XP Value:50 Special: In forests, ranged attacks against a yuthada vaanara are at -2 due to their speed and camouflage. If the bite attack does the maximum damage (8), it randomly removes the left eye, right eye, left hand, or right hand (roll a d4 to determine). Labels: monsters, yoon-suin GHOST/ECHO, Dice Strategy and Negotiation We spent the evening playing a one-shot of GHOST/ECHO. (This was an episode in my group's shared world, which we have given the banal but accurate description "To The Stars", and which I have posted about here and Patrick has posted about here.) We had fun with it and came up with something that was serious and ridiculous in equal measure, in fitting with the setting as a whole. I think I can characterise my group's style as being full of great, sometimes profound, setting ideas but unable to take actual play very seriously at all. I think that combination works well. In any case, GHOST/ECHO is a minimalist game par excellence - it fits on two sides of A4 paper, on which nary a centimetre is wasted, and it has only one, simple mechanic, which can be boiled down as follows: If you want to do something in any kind of situation of conflict, challenge, or difficulty, roll 2d6. Then assign one die to the "danger" and one die to the "goal". High is good and low is bad. So if you get 6 and 5, you could assign the 6 to the "danger" (meaning you escape harm) and the 5 to the "goal" (meaning you succeed); if you get 3 and 4 you can assign the 3 to the danger (meaning you take some harm and the danger remains) and 4 to the "goal" (meaning you have a partial success), and so on. It gets most interesting when you get 6 and 1, obviously. What I like about this is that it forces you to make choices - to strategize - with your dice rolls. In some situations you might want to sacrifice success to escape harm, whereas in others you might want to succeed so much that you take whatever harm is coming your way. You have to be tactical with your luck. I like that mixture of decision-making and randomness. You can't govern the dice results and they force you to make tough choices, but you do get a choice. Because it's so abstract, it also forces you to make everything up as you go along. "Harm" and "success" can mean almost anything you want to construe them to mean, and will probably end up being dictated by GM fiat - although the players can offer their own suggestions and perhaps negotiate. This makes the game a bit like what I imagine MAR Barker's Perfected Games Rules to have operated like in practice, though of course in a slightly more complicated fashion. Yet more evidence for the fact that if you scratch a story-gamer you will find an Old School Revivalist and vice versa - they just don't know it yet. The game itself encourages a make-it-up-as-you-go-along, by having only the most thinly described implicit setting, which is essentially constructed of keywords that you give your own meanings to. Whether you appreciate this or not is, of course, a matter of "YMMV" - as I believe the kids put it. We tend to roll with that sort of thing because we're laid back about rules and fiat, but I understand not everybody necessarily feels that way. In any case, it's free and takes about 2 minutes to read. Can't say fairer than that, now, can you? Labels: apocalypse world, ghost/echo, rpg theory, systems Of All The Splatbooks I've Loved Before: The Compl...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3460
__label__wiki	0.573084	0.573084	10 Yoon-Suin Dungeon Ideas Dwarf fortress infested with Tulpas. Secret crystal dragon treasure stash guarded by enchanted beasts (shishi, chinthe, etc.) Observatory taken over by its automata caretakers. Mine whose slaves have uncovered ancient magicks transforming them into ab-humans. Great forge on the coast which uses sea water for cooling: it has created steam devils as a side effect and they have killed the owners. Tomb of an ogre-mage trader on the back of a wandering giant tortoise. Maze built by fakirs out of giant butterfly wings as a meditation aid to walk through 'mindfully'. Major rakhosh's dwelling place: on the underside of a giant waterlilly leaf in a vast lake. Quarry originally used for making statues; galeb duhr have been disturbed and they now use the quarry to store 'statues' of their own in the form of corpses. Inverted pyramid home of an archmage which balances on a mountain peak which rises through the middle of a glacier. Risus-based Hairy Maclary Story Game Hairy McLary from Donaldson's Dairy Charismatic Leader 4 Hercules Morse As Big as a Horse 4 Bottomly Potts Covered in Spots 4 Muffin McLay Like a Bundle of Hay 4 Bitzer Maloney All Skinny and Bony 4 Schnitzel von Krumm With a Very Low Tum 4 Scarface Claw The Toughest Tom in Town 4 It practically plays itself! Posted by noisms at 03:58 No comments: Links to this post There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans... On G+ somebody asked about an underwater campaign setting I was supposedly writing, called "Unit Swim" or "Union Swim" or something. This tickled me tremendously, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about Behind Gently Smiling Jaws a bit - which I haven't done in a while. One of the rules I made myself promise I would follow, pretty early on, is that nothing in BGSJ would come from or be based on other existing works of fantasy. It all had to be either completely novel or based off real world history or legend. This has worked well in large part, but has created a real sticking point in one area of the world map - the Underwater Ziggurats. These are remnants of alien cities on the sea floor which the crocodile supposedly saw in some lost era, akin to Atlantis - the conceit being that aliens did actually colonise the ocean bottom millions of years ago and the crocodile was witness to this. It's based on the Yonaguni Monument/Formation. So far so good, but it turns out it is really difficult not to turn this area of the campaign setting into Deep Ones and Cthulhu and Father Dagon. Coming up with a concept of aliens living in underwater cities which owes nothing to Lovecraft is hard. His work is practically the first and last word on the subject. I'm working on it. Another stumbling block is more practical: format. I know that producing an eight-volume slip case is a really bad idea. A really, really bad idea. A really, really, really bad idea. But sometimes bad ideas sound very good - like that decision to eat a Double Decker after lunch, or that decision to miss the last train home on a night out, or that decision to have a cigarette when you know you shouldn't.... The multi-volume slip case idea just will not relinquish its hold. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - World Landscape Campaign Setting A world landscape is a made-up backdrop of beautiful European scenery in a painting. They are arguably examples of the shadow fantasy genre. Here is one: A: The Gerontocracy of Basiney. A city where one in a thousand citizens is born an immortal struldbrug, who gradually accrues more and more wealth until he wields immense power and influence (but is too decrepit to enjoy it). A place in which corporatism not merely dominates but has run amok, like renaissance Florence or early modern Amsterdam as imagined by Gordon Gekko. B: The Platinum Mountain. Ruled by a white dragon demigod who spins platinum thread, mined by his dwarf serfs, into webs and coils which he then magically animates into automata to serve him. C: Servasser, the Sea Wolf Port. A fishing settlement which now lies largely abandoned; the population of fishermen and fishwives were infected by lycanthropy which spread through them like a plague. Now they inhabit its dilapidated ruins and raid the surrounding seas to assuage their ravenous hunger. D: Gwenteliver's Castle. A fortress owned by the storm giant Gwenteliver, who surrounds herself with human slaves who she gradually interbreeds with giant insects, reptiles and other beasts. Her collection of art is unrivaled and strongly desired by almost all the Gerontocrats of Basiney. E: The Smugglers' Cove. A small, secluded bay where smugglers from the neighbouring land of Celquinox come to liaise with rogue traders sneaking goods for trade past the tax collectors of Basiney. The people of Celquinox are a race of mutes who extend their necks with metal bands until their vocal chords no longer function; they employ their children to communicate on their behalf with strangers, and talk to each other with secret gestures they do not teach to outsiders. F: The Entrance to the Spirals. An underground network of caves extending far beneath the surface of the earth, created in the ancient past by a burrowing worm which dug in endless repeating spiral tunnels. Somewhere these spirals connected with the tunnels of underground denizens such as the duergar, neogi, kuo-toa and the like, and they now throng with busy subterranean life which boils up from the bowels of the earth towards the surface. Because Allah Loves Wondrous Variety I do the odd bit of volunteering with a local wildlife conservation trust. A lot of this involves what is euphemistically called "grassland management" - what this typically means is cutting and raking up vast swathes of grass and other vegetation in order to allow tiny and obscure native species of plants to flourish. We arrive at some very remote and windswept location and destroy the peace for a day with strimmers, leaving it looking like a sheep that's been sheared - where once there was a jungle of plant life, now there is an open and empty patch of stubble. Like the deforestation of the Amazon in miniature. (But the main thing is that there's now a bit more growing space for a rare little flower that looks like a blob of moss and which nobody except a few enthusiasts has ever heard of.) What I've learned from all of this is that, just when you think you have a feel for how much variety there is in the natural world, you find out you don't know the half of it. Grasslands are unbelievably varied. Today I was in a more-or-less unique habitat - a strip of land about a mile long and no more than 100 yards wide along the side of a river. Mine run-off containing traces of heavy metals such as cadmium and lead had been put into the river during the industrial revolution and gradually this had seeped into the banks at various locations up and down its length. While the river is now pristine, the heavy metals have remained in the soil. This was one such location, and it had resulted in a blend of plant life that you would find nowhere else on earth - including a sub-species that you find literally nowhere else other than these slivers of land on the upstream banks of the Tyne. And that was just in the afternoon. In the morning we had been at an abandoned quarry where the limestone scree happened to produce the perfect conditions for a certain rare alpine flower. The site could have been no more than 400 yards in diameter. Go outside of that limit in any direction and you would be in a different habitat altogether and noticeably so. The world is a patchwork of different environments so multitudinous it is almost mind-boggling. When creating a hexmap we tend to paint in very broad brush strokes - forest, grassland, desert, etc. This makes life easy, but causes us to miss out on some benefits that thinking in very granular detail could bring. Consider: what different types of grassland might exist in a world where there is not just mine run-off but also materials left over from magical duels? What types of unique habitats might sprout up around the corpse of dragons? What might the existence of a megadungeon do to the area around the entrance? And what kind of druids, treants, and other guardians would exist to protect these unique environments? Good DMing Advice; or, God Loves a Trier One of my favourite bits of DMing advice comes, in all places, in the 2nd edition DMG. Zeb Cook (I am paraphrasing because I don't have it to hand) basically foreshadows some OSR thinking in one place only, which comes in his discussion of stat requirements for character classes. Don't let players access any class they want, he recommends; keep the stat requirements for rangers, paladins and so forth strictly. Encourage players to play the stats they are given, so to speak. Let the dice fall where they lay; so your PC didn't end up getting the 17 CHA required to be a paladin. Stop being titty-lipped about it - you can play a fighter who always wanted to be paladin but failed (or hasn't yet succeeded). In other words, a fighter who wants to be paladin is already way more interesting than a paladin. That's a PC with a ready-made goal and pretty much ready-made personality too. He may not have special paladin powers but being "awesome" isn't what the game is really about. It is more about trying hard and applying yourself and getting involved. You can tell 2nd edition was very much focused at a younger audience - this is the kind of advice that's important for kids, whereas adults should in theory at least have already learned those lessons. But the wider point holds for all ages: it's good for starting PCs to have goals. It makes the PC part of the world and gives the player an impetus to drive things along, which helps the DM tremendously. Nevelskoy's Privateers The realm of the Tsar has finally finished its vast Westward expansion and made its way to the mouth of the Amur River and the great island of Sakhalin. Nothing of this is known to the inhabitants of the Japanese islands, but the world has far from lain still since their isolation began. Now Russian explorers, adventurers and pirates are beginning to make their way across the Sea of Japan - albeit in small numbers. Here is an expedition of such men: a blend of banditry and science with a common aim of invasion and theft. Leader: Gennady Nevelskoy. A fur trader, explorer, pioneer and buccaneer who has spent two decades charting the waters of Kamchatka and Sakhalin and trading with their natives. Now he has headed south to Vladivostok and formed an expedition to try to capture Nipponese to bring them to the Tsar - or, failing that, to bring back treasures at the very least. HD 4, AC 16, AB +5, ATT Sabre, two pistols, Move 120 Can fire both pistols in the same round if both shots are directed at the same target Possessions: Splint mail armour, sabre, two pistols with ivory butts [350 sp each], powder and 50 shots, gold signet ring [300 sp], ruby-studded gold thumb ring [1,000 sp], silver belt buckle [50 sp] Second in Command: "Fyodor" the Koryak. A native of Kamchatka who Nevelskoy befriended in his youth; the two saw in each other a desperation to make the world their own, and quickly became partners. Fyodor's real name was unpronounceable to Nevelskoy, who called his comrade after Saint Fyodor the Black, a Duke from the middle-ages who married a Mongol princess. Fyodor comes from the warlike Koryak tribe and wears the lamellar armour of his people; in a fight his brown eyes shine with dangerous glee. HD 5, AC 20, AB +6, ATT Axe, javelins, Move 120 Fights in a frenzy; once in melee he does not retreat and fights to -9 hit points Possessions: Axe, 4 javelins, lamellar armour (seal leather and metal), religious charms (reindeer horn carvings of indistinct figurines) Clergyman-scientist: Kirill Laxman. A Lutheran priest from Finnmark who came as a missionary to Siberia and hence to Japan. While nominally aiming at conversion his true passion is the recovery of flora, fauna and ancient artefacts which he can take back home to his museum in Irkutsk - or even to the Tsar in St Petersburg. He is middle-aged, bespectacled, and balding, but as tough as a life spent in the wilds of Siberia would suggest. HD 3, AC 14, AB +1, ATT Pistol, knife, Move 120 Possessions: Spectacles, binoculars, note book, St Christopher necklace [100 sp], pocket watch [priceless in Japan], hide armour Geographer: Vasily Golovnin. A minor nobleman and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, aiming at least notionally to chart the coastline of Nippon and, in particular, easy landing locations. In connection with this he wants any and all information available about the lay of the land, the locations of rivers, and so on. However, he also has an alternative secret goal which is to do away with Nevelskoy and Fyodor, paid for by the duo's enemies and rivals in Vladivostok. He plans to do this through concealing their deaths as an accident or, at last resort, poisoning their food. He is tall, thin, with an unhappy straight line of a mouth and sunken eyes. HD 3, AC 16, AB +1, ATT Pistol, sabre, Move 120 Possessions: Telescope, compass, charts of Kamchatka and Sakhalin, hide armour, vial of arsenic Crew: A mixture of outlaws, runaways, dispossessed noblemen, brigands, adventurers, escapees, mercenaries, thugs and petty criminals, united under Nevelskoy’s man’s-man leadership toward the common goal of getting rich off the exploitation of exotic wildernesses. They are as tough as hard leather, as mean as snakes, as gluttonous as dogs, and as clever as magpies. There are 24 of them in total. HD 1+2, AC 16, AB +2, ATT Sabre, axe or spear; and/or musket, Move 120 Ship: The Speshnoy is a small sloop with a shallow hull capable of being moored on land. It carries supplies of rations, fresh water, rope, and other such items. It also contains 6 sacks of gunpowder, each weighing 10 kilogrammes [worth 200 sp each], and 56 one-litre flasks of vodka [worth 50 sp each]. Locked in a chest, to which only Nevelskoy has the key, is 20,000 sp worth of gold bullion in irregular small slabs, for bribes and emergencies. Camp: The Russian crew have created a camp in a cove on the beach. The Speshnoy has been dragged ashore and there are tents placed in a semi-circle around it; there are always four guards on watch during the night. During the day the crew roam the forests nearby in groups of 3-6, hunting, foraging, and searching for natives to kidnap or items to steal. Labels: the valleys of the winter people Dictionary Monsters For years now, off and on, I've been meaning to write this post - but kept forgetting. Patrick's most recent post gives me the necessary spur to do it. It all began back when I was living in Japan. My then-girlfriend had this electronic dictionary which resembled a mini-laptop; it contained more or less every English and Japanese dictionary ever published, and allowed you to search and cross reference between them in very powerful ways. (It was the kind of thing now rendered defunct by ubiquitous smart phones and Google; dictionary websites and Google Translate are much more superficial but allow the language learner to translate simple words and phrases just as quickly if they don't mind some inaccuracies and decontextualisation.) One day I was bored for some reason and started looking up simple words in it in pocket dictionaries, like "cat" and "table", wondering how they had been defined. I suppose I was entertained by the sheer redundancy of having the word "cat" in your bog-standard definitional dictionary; in what universe are there people who are good enough at English to be able to read and understand the definition of "cat", but who don't already know what a "cat" is? Of course, such words are in there because of the need for completeness and because the mother of all dictionaries, the OED, is not really a catalogue of definitions but a catalogue of word histories and genealogies. But you get the idea: it's interesting to imagine an obscure people living in a parallel reality who understand our language but are fascinated by concepts such as "cat" and "table" as they page through our dictionaries. (If you're curious - or if you are one of those people in that parallel reality - a cat is a "small animal with soft fur that people often keep as a pet" and a table is a "piece of furniture that consists of a flat top supported by legs".) The interesting thing about these definitions is they don't really tell you a great deal. They flirt at descriptiveness without being particularly descriptive. A cat is a "small animal with soft fur" - so it could have six legs or two; it could have a single cyclopean eye; it could have no head at all but eyes and mouth located in its torso. Looked at this way, dictionary definitions are quite inspiring and lead to all sorts of flights of fancy. Consider: "A domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractable claws, and a barking, howling, or whining voice." "A tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping." "A gregarious burrowing plant-eating mammal, with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail." "An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen." "A long limbless reptile which has no eyelids, a short tail, and jaws that are capable of considerable extension." "A large perching bird with mostly glossy black plumage, a heavy bill, and a raucous voice." "A heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically having a grey and black coat." What images do they call up in your mind, once you've got past the actual image of the real-world creature referred to? What does the large perching bird say with its raucous voice? Why does the heavily built weasel wear a coat? Why is such prominence given to the domesticated carnivorous mammal's non-retractable claws? What direction to the long limbless reptile's jaws extend in? Seen in this way, the dictionary becomes a source of great inspiration for monster design. You could, if you were minded to, create an entire setting that way: replacing all the real world animals with new creatures based only on their dictionary descriptions. A world in which people farm sheep and cows but they're not our sheep and cows; hunt foxes but they're not our foxes; put down traps for mice but they're not our mice....and so on and so forth. Alternatively, it's just a way to come up with something different when the juices aren't flowing. What's in the next cavern in the dungeon? Ok, a snake...but its jaws extend forwards. Old Farts Solve Mysteries The other day I was sitting in a cafe in Hexham, a rather eccentric old market town in Northumberland, just watching the world go by. Like everywhere in Northumberland, Hexham is a weird mix of the very wealthy and the very rural - two worlds co-existing side-by-side, one in which everybody is a solicitor who shops at Waitrose; the other in which everybody is a farm labourer whose parents are cousins. (China Mieville missed a trick with The City & The City - he should have set it in the English countryside without a doubt.) A group of old men - old farts, let's face it - were sitting on the next table on the pavement, having what seemed like a regular meeting. They were old friends who may very well have been meeting up for a cuppa every day for the last 40 years; that was the kind of vibe they gave off. However, you couldn't, if you had tried, come up with four more different characters. One of them was big, Jabba the Hutt corpulent, wearing a black waxed jacked despite it being summer, and with his thinning hair plastered to his scalp with styling gel in a manner that suggested he had scooped fistfuls of the stuff out of a bucket and lathered his head with it an hour previously. But, to top it off, he had somehow managed to get what looked like a half dozen or so pigeon feathers stuck into it. He didn't seem to be aware of this, and his friends were seemingly too polite to tell him, but they were right there, plain as the nose on your face. I imagine his name was Derek. Next to Derek was another portly character but one who carried it with that sort of rotund dignity which some older men can pull off - he was the kind of guy who would pat his stomach after dining on a dessert of a cheese platter and port and announce "I always say that a belly on an older man signifies a certain joie de vivre!" He was wearing an expensive blazer and a turtle-neck sweater and had a neat beard. He looked like a retired art salesman. Let's call him Jeremy. Standing chatting to them, obviously not quite having got round to ordering a drink yet, was a more wiry character dressed head to foot in expensive cycling gear as though he had literally just finished completing a stage in the Tour de France five minutes earlier. Skin-tight blue lycra, slipstream helmet, the works. He had the body that most fit 55-60 year old men have: skinny everywhere except an overhanging pot belly they can never get rid of. He was plainly having his mid-life crisis 15 years too late. He looked like a Brian. And pulling up a chair as I sat there was somebody we'll call Gary - tall, thin and slightly dreary, a long drink of water. He was an ageing hippy sort, wearing a colourful woollen garment I can only describe as a smock, sandals, and ragged denim shorts. He was the kind of guy who has thumb rings. I think he may have been wearing a CND badge. What I am absolutely sure of is that he was carrying a Waterstone's bag and brought out of it to show his friends a biography of Bob Marley he had just bought. I felt immediately like somebody ought to write a novel about Derek, Jeremy, Brian and Gary. They were, clearly, a cabal of wizards, vampires, or occult investigators. Why else would they be meeting up like that, except to discuss the sacrifice of virgins or plot the assassination of a shaman in Mongolia via astral projection? Better yet, they were self-evidently NPCs in a campaign of Call of Cthulhu, instantiated into our reality from a gaming session taking place among a group of teenagers in a flat nearby. These gamers had concentrated so hard, and smoked so much weed, that their shared imaginings had actually manifested themselves corporeally in the form of these men sitting in Hexham high street. That could surely be the only explanation, couldn't it? The good thing about Call of Cthulhu and World of Darkness, I always think, is that you only have to really look just around the corner for inspiration to smack you in the face. With D&D you have to work a little bit harder. Fantasy is one thing. The real world is a much stranger place. There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustace... Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - World Landscap...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3461
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That set up an historic showdown between prime minister and parliament in a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability. More than three years after the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, the outcome of the Brexit crisis remains uncertain, with possible outcomes ranging from a turbulent no-deal exit to abandoning the whole endeavour. Leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage speaks onstage on August 27, 2019 in London. Shortly after crossing the floor Phillip Lee, who supports a second European Union referendum, released a strongly-worded statement announcing he had joined the centre-left Liberal Democrats. "For all the uncertainty that lies ahead, markets see a Boris Johnson led no-deal Brexit as the worst-case scenario and thus treat anything that undermines that as pound positive", said Joshua Mahony at IG. Former editor-in-chief of Human Events and Breitbart News London Raheem Kassam told Salon by email that "the defection of Lee and possible defections of others have been an entirely foreseeable eventuality of Johnson's firmer stance on Brexit than his predecessor Theresa May's". "The Prime Minister does not want an election, he wants four weeks of negotiations to get a deal, so if MPs vote for another pointless delay they will have to explain to people what they are doing". Rebels within Johnson's party are working with opposition lawmakers to try to force him to delay Brexit if he can not agree on divorce terms with the European Union in time. The source told the newspaper: "If MPs vote against the Government tonight they will effectively be handing Jeremy Corbyn control of the negotiations". Labour's shadow Northern Ireland secretary Tony Lloyd later said that Labour would first push to have legislation passed blocking a no-deal Brexit. Parliament returned to session for the first time since the prime minister moved to suspend the lawmaking body, beginning around September 9 and leaving it in recess until October 14 - or for more than half the weeks remaining before Johnson's deadline. An early election could give Johnson a majority, although it is also a big risk, as the political landscape was deeply fragmented by the 2016 referendum. A cross-party group of lawmakers is arguing in a Scottish court that Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for part of the period before the Brexit deadline should be overturned. Fears of an abrupt "no-deal" Brexit were rising elsewhere. The Prime Minister said he would table a motion under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act on Tuesday night. In what was seen as a swipe at the Prime Minister's controversial right-hand man, Dominic Cummings, he said: "I am going to defend my party against incomers, entryists, who are trying to turn it from a broad church to narrow faction". "So the outlook for sterling is very much determined about the probabilities of a no-deal Brexit". Apple event: New iPhone, more to be unveiled in September Barcelona offer €170m to buy Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain Hurricane Dorian: More than 600 Labor Day Flights Canceled Marcus Rashford receives online racist abuse after penalty miss against Palace U.S. doesn't have a 'tariff problem', it has 'a Fed problem' Boris Johnson urges Trump to remove `considerable barriers` for United Kingdom trade U.S. envoy meets with Afghan president in Kabul Trump Rushes to Prepare Federal Response to Hurricane Dorian Alexis Sanchez struggling at Manchester United wasn’t his fault, implies Pep Guardiola Buffalo Bills Release RB LeSean McCoy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3467
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__label__cc	0.7469	0.2531	My opinions on matters of the day that, generally, have pissed me off. Being described as a 'Surly Curmudgeon', by those who meet me on a good day, I have a poor regard for the human species. This is my place for my free speech- not bloody yours. Crap under your own rock. Royal wedding video Posted by Oswald Bastable at 09:07 No comments: The sort of reaction that royal-loving sycophants induce Why Harry Potter is not set in the USA Labels: Friday Frivolity I'm sick of weddings already What colour is the sky on YOUR planet? "...Last week, the Tauranga-headquartered business unveiled $85,000 two, three and four-bedroom models with the same footprint, accepted by the Department of Building and Housing (DBH) for Christchurch earthquake victims, and said the first place was up to show an 83sq m temporary family house. But the designs drew criticism for lacking aesthetic or environmental attention. Andy Watson of Christchurch, a architect graduate, criticised Jennian's designs, saying they offered no flair and little environmentally. "It would be worth pursuing what criteria the DBH used to choose this design. It obviously has absolutely no design criteria and unfortunately Christchurch is going to be left with a bunch of very ugly, useless boxes in a couple of years time," said Watson, of MAP Architects..." Step this way for a sound slapping. This is temporary accommodation, designed to be assembled for minimal cost and in a short time. They will always have a future use as cabins, batches, rentals and for the great many who don't give a stuff as long as it is a roof over their heads. Is the little whiney bitch pissed that his design wasn't picked? Personally, I would be happy with a fitted out shipping container, if the alternative was a leaky house with no working dunny, heating and bits falling off it, going into a VOTD winter. Posted by Oswald Bastable at 20:06 1 comment: One of the reasons we get walked over Is because of public bloody apathy to all matters political. I was one of the other members of the public at these meetings- we numbered about the same as the one the chap in the link attended. $17 megabucks on infrastructure works, a thirty year plan and just over a dozen members of the public bother to take an interest. (It was actually not a bad plan) It's my opinion that folks have been conditioned by the media to switch off to all matters political 'because they can't change anything, anyway'. Time to snap out of that mindset- because the powers-that-be are working that to their advantage! Don't you hate the meddling state "...The Land Transport Safety Authority takes a dim view of any roadside signs that could distract drivers. The regulations are pretty clear: "A person must not install on a road, or in or on a place visible from a road, a sign, device or object that is not a traffic control device, but that may be mistaken for a traffic control device."... ...Unfortunately, the Labour Party still didn't get it. General secretary Chris Flatt huffed that it was all a dastardly plot by National Party bloggers and right-wing groups to ruin the campaign. "Any reasonable person would see that the nature of the writing and the `vote Labour' on there indicates they're not traffic control devices," he insisted, and vowed party supporters would continue using the signs, though they had been told to be more cautious near roads..." Now don't you just hate it when silly little regulations interfere with your plans. I mean, you KNOW that in the real world no harm will come from what you do- and your great idea is torpedoed by a technicality in law. Suck, doesn't it. I could ALMOST fell sorry for Liarbore IF THEY HADN'T INFLICTED SO MUCH OF THIS LEGISLATION ON US ALL!!! But they did and so do Liarbore-Lite. All this legislative stifling to save us from ourselves suddenly collides with their grand idea and its's unfair! Yes- it is! Folks like me have been complaining about this sort of bullshit for years, while you smarmily imposed more and more restrictions on what we were permitted to do with our lives, money and time- for the greater good. So eat shit and suck it up! Rotten eggs "...A jumbo 1kg egg customers were used to seeing at The Warehouse was no longer offered, because of lower demand and community support for its removal, The Warehouse's Nick Tuck said. "We received feedback from customers that it was not the politically correct thing to place an egg of that size in front of a child..." Did you hand-wringing fucks ever consider that the big egg could be shared? That it does not have to be consumed in one sitting? That it's none of your friggin' business if someone does want to scoff the whole lot in one go? Posted by Oswald Bastable at 18:47 3 comments: The biggest lie of the last century Was that Hitler and the Nazi's were right-wing. A long article here, but well worth a read. Sub-Calibre "New Zealand embassy staff in Argentina have visited a former top public servant being held in a Buenos Aires jail accused of trying to smuggle five kilograms of cocaine in a false-bottomed suitcase..." Top public servant= naive and stupid. It takes a donkey to be tricked into becoming a drug mule. If someone this gullible is the best the public service can attract with their inflated salaries- best we get the axe out and send them all fruit-picking, where they can try and learn an honest living! "...Armstrong is the former deputy chief executive of the Maori Language Commission. She had been a contractor at Wellington Maori education and language company Haemata since February..." 'Nuf said... "An attack by the New Zealand SAS which killed a group of Taleban fighters responsible for the death of a Kiwi soldier was not a "revenge killing", says Defence Minister Wayne Mapp..." The whole 'revenge' angle is a media beat-up. It's just taking care of business- what they are in that shit-hole to do. But it's nice when business and pleasure coincide... VOTD damage Some great shots of the cliffs of Bank's peninsula. I always said folks live under or on the edge of a cliff were barking mad. Mind you, to be fair-I used to climb them... Not really better late than never "...Justice Christine French sentenced Malcolm George Chaston, 40, to preventive detention when he appeared in the High Court at Rangiora this afternoon for the knife murder of 27-year-old Pickering on February 8, last year.... ...He had a total of 17 prior offences, seven of them violent and two sexual. These extended over 25 years..." Under 'Three Strike' this shit-head would have been out of circulation. THIS is why we need Three Strikes (that and because we are too soft to execute the fuckers) Was it something they ate? Looks like the Tandoori Palace down Ferry Rd (VOTD) is still in business... Village of the Damned at it again You do have to wonder if this is quite over yet. I'm of two minds on this. There are many people I'm hoping are OK and many that I'm waiting for a house to fall on... When bureaucracies attack "Earthquake refugee villages will be built in eastern Christchurch next month, with the Government considering hiring security guards to keep the peace..." News flash- You ALREADY have a group of paid enforcers of the peace, known as 'Police'... Cretins... So a school has now allowed ugliness enhancements. As far as I am concerned, anyone who pays money to get metal stuck through their face for the hell of it is as mad as a snake! As for bloody great rings through snouts and lips- are they rooting up the garden at home? Could be, as I see quite a few porkers sporting this sort of hardware. It's not clever, does nothing for the looks and it sure as hell doesn't make you an 'individual', 'express your individuality' or make a fashion statement other than you will willingly make yourself look like one of Dr Frankenstein's creations. Use the money to buy some decent skincare products. (That's soap to you hippies) It's OK when WE do it! Another one untouched by the ravages of intelligence "...It was alleged the teenager took the sneakers from The Warehouse and was being spoken to by the store's security staff when he leapt over a railing, falling two storeys..." All for Warehouse shoes. Oh well, another boy for Darwin... PT Barnum was right "Real estate records come and go with startling frequency and this $US6 million (NZ$7.65 million) sale might not sound like much of a record, until you find out Planet Calypso is a fictional place on the Entropia Universe social gaming site. Yes, somebody has actually spent $SU6 million on thin air..." More here: Yes, there is a sucker born every minute. In very hot water So...wretched crustacean... will you now speak of your troop movements? Dietary drama queens Now the 'poor' are reduced to eating dog food. As if we haven't heard that one before. A quick check of Countdowns on-line store shows that budget pet food is 91 cents, while budget baked beans are 75 cents for a 400 g can. So it's not a strictly financial choice here. I suspect a bit of drama-queening going on. Or they actually like dog food. I'm thinking they need neutering, chaining up and registering, too... Labels: Tui Ads Zed takes out the trash- again! "Clayton Weatherston did not get a fair trial because the media facilitated an attack on the law itself - the defence of provocation - even while he was giving evidence, the Court of Appeal has been told..." Getting stabbed 200 times is not 'fair'. Shit like Weatherston should thank their lucky stars that the like of myself don't get listened to by our political masters. Or he would have been swinging in the breeze, hanging from a length of hemp rope... Ingrates "Petronella Nyamangwanda escaped Zimbabwe for a better life but she has ended up living in a dingy Lower Hutt house, struggling to make ends meet for the past decade..." I have heard this story many times. Someone gets out of a third world shithole and complains about their lot in NZ. Was it REALLY so bad where they came from? That is the question I would ask. And I have no time for the natives who rejected the evil white man and his ways and then come wanting to live here, because they have fucked a previously prosperous country up... I was skeptical, but... Self-inflating mattresses actually work! I didn't think something so thin would keep my arse from the rocks I was sleeping on, but it did. Now to replace my mummy sleeping bag- it's warm but you feel like you have been swallowed by a giant anaconda! What so many don't know Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief: Democracy: a: government by the people; especially :rule of the majority. b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government. b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law. Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals. I have often been accused of being 'undemocratic' Damned right! The RMA is in direct opposition to reconstruction "Lyttelton Port of Christchurch has been ordered to stop dumping earthquake rubble in the harbour in breach of its consent..." The grey-shoe wearers are doing what they do best. Fucking up life and business for the productive. Their precious consents have been breached and they take this sort of carry-on personally. After all, consents and red tape validate their flawed existence. I say throw the council fuckers in the harbor- or their own failed sewerage system... Dead crim- best kind Police shooting victim laid to rest Excuse me? VICTIM? What a load of arse. The only victim is the poor sod who will now be under the microscope for doing his duty and putting a rabid animal down. This trash reporting spits in the face of every TRUE victim of crime... The new government department, CERA- tasked with rebuilding Christchurch, has hit the ground running! Effective immediately throughout the Canterbury province, personal and company taxes are halved, in a bid to retain key staff and promote business growth. GST is reduced to 10%. In another unexpected move, All RMA requirements are suspended on any reconstruction, demolition or land remediation work. More breaking news here. I Like Money! The Meddlers In Time series here- FREE Just click the image If you like this blog, then try here: Crusader Rabbit- Click the pic Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/ Don't bother with Tips- buy a download of my book- only $0.99 US! "Motella" - News, Views and Politics of New Zealand's Motel Industry In his Father's Footsteps Barbed Wire and Bracelets Avian Triumvirate CrusaderRabbit Dodge Winston's Blotter Strong Horse Meet Progressives GECKO WITH CANON Gecko Is Moving. Try The Crow! Johnny Optimism Knuckledraggin My Life Away Part I You're in the wrong place Make It Right! 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__label__wiki	0.673029	0.673029	Last modified 206 days ago (June 26, 2019) Return to Peabody Gazette-Bulletin Seniors again without a cook By ROWENA PLETT For the third time this year, Marion Senior Center is without a cook. For unknown reasons, temporary cook CJ Vanderzanden quit Tuesday. Senior center president Sue Clough said everyone was disappointed. “We appreciated having him,” she said. “He did a good job. We’re sorry it didn’t work out.” Lucille Bitner, who had worked as a cook for more than two years, quit suddenly for health reasons in April. Vanderzanden was filling in temporarily after a newly hired cook quit after two days. The North Central-Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging is responsible for filling the position. The agency sent out a statement Tuesday that said, in part, “We are pleased to work with senior center leaders and wonderful volunteers to provide Friendship Meals to older Kansans and caregivers. We are aware of a recent transition at Marion Senior Center and are unable to comment on personnel matters.” The agency will advertise the position again. Senior center president Sue Clough said Vanderzanden didn’t say anything about quitting. “All we can do is talk with someone who might do it,” she said. “I have talked with two people who said they will think about it.” Until a new cook is found, meals on wheels recipients will get frozen meals every day, and diners will have to go elsewhere. Bitner said the job as cook was rewarding. A substitute cook was available whenever she took a day off. In addition to preparing food, Bitner kept records. The first thing every morning, she checked temperatures in the main freezer and refrigerator and recorded them. She kept lists on each refrigerator and freezer of their contents, checking off the items as they were used. This helped her know when to order replacements. If something went wrong and food spoiled, she recorded food that was thrown out. Canned goods and commodities were recorded as she received them. Leftovers were labeled and dated, including the date three days later, by which they had to be used. She took an inventory of the food on hand every six months. As an employee of North Central-Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging, the hours for which she was paid depended on the number of meals she prepared. She relied on volunteers to help her. She made sure everything was done by 10:45 a.m. for meals-on-wheels deliveries. Her biggest challenge was to make sure meat was ready on time. For example, a 20-pound roast had to be taken out of the freezer and placed in the oven on low heat to cook all day. Frozen rolls were placed in pans, covered with plastic wrap, raised in a warm place, and baked. If serving cake, she made it early enough to cool and frost it. She also heated the steam table, where hot food was placed until serving time. Meat had to be kept at 165 degrees and served in uniform amounts. If “Jell-O” salad or “Jell-O” cake was on the menu, it was prepared the previous day to allow time for setting up. She also prepared coolers for meals on wheels, one for hot food, and one for food and drinks kept cool with ice packs. After meals-on-wheels were picked up, tables were prepared. Cleanup after the meal included sweeping and mopping the floor and taking out trash. “I had some really good assistants,” she said. “I enjoyed working there.” Last modified June 26, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3482
__label__wiki	0.906184	0.906184	Hindus 'being heard in VPA change' - BD govt claims Source: Bdnews24.com Url: http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=161801&cid=2 Dhaka, May 21 (bdnews24.com)--The government is taking the recommendations of the Hindu community seriously in amending the Vested Property (Return) Act to make the stronger and more effective, deputy parliament leader Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury has said. Speaking at a meeting at the Dhakeshwari national temple, Sajeda also criticised hartal call of the main opposition BNP. She claimed the hartal has been called for June 27 on orders of the Pakistanis to delay the war crimes trial. The AL presidium member said, "A large part of the Hindu community is being tormented in the name of Enemy Property Act since the 60s. "Though the Awami League government passed the Vested Property (Return) Act in 2001, the subsequent government did not take any steps to implement the law. The caretaker government made it more complicated by issuing a fresh ordinance." "The process of passing the Act in the parliament is on-going", she said. After the India-Pakistan war in 1965, the Pakistan government had seized huge assets of the Hindus dubbing them 'enemy' property. The still gives the state power to deprive a Bangladeshi citizen of their property. The VPA has long been criticised in Bangladesh and abroad as a major violation of the rights of minorities, who had property seized in the past simply on leaving the country. Later, the AL government took the initiative to return those assets by passing the Vested Property (Return) Act. "The Hindu community has had immense contribution in the liberation war. There would be cooperation from the government to resolve all their problems," said information minister Abul Kalam Azad. State minister of religious affairs Shahjahan Mia said, "The process of forming Hindu Foundation is underway in line with the demand of the Hindu community." He also promised necessary steps to recover the grabbed land of the Dhakeshwari Temple. The chief adviser of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad, retired major genral CR Datta, Bir Uttam, inaugurated the conference. The local MP, Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin spoke among others. Criticising the hartal called by BNP, Sajeda said,"They have called the hartal in the name of price hike. But hartal will further increase the prices." Those who allowed Jamaat-e-Islami leaders to use the national flag in their house and cars would also be tried, said Sajeda. Sincerity of a govt. should be proved in her work, not in statement. Rudra Krishanu said... waiting for the implements of our leaders' commitments. We are hopeful. Hindus 'being heard in VPA change' - BD govt claim...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3493
__label__wiki	0.691869	0.691869	Torches(HKTDC Enterprise, Vol 04,2006) Bright Business The Dynamo LED Light (left), from John Mfg Ltd, is a hand-cranked model featuring functions such as AM/FM radio and digital alarm clock A torch has a place in every home and in the toolbox of every maintenance worker - and Hong Kong responds to this demand with an enormous range promising to please one and all. For example, with more than 40 years in the business, John Mfg Ltd has made an international name for itself as a high-quality manufacturer of electronic and electrical products. Lighting products are the firm's focus, with items ranging from cold cathode fluorescent lanterns, rechargeable lanterns and security lights to waterproof lanterns and tool kit lanterns. A new product that is selling well is the firm's Dynamo LED Light, a hand-cranked rechargeable emergency torch. "When the electricity fails, there is no concern about the batteries being flat," says sales manager Susan Chan. "This convenient light source sells for about US$7 each FOB Hong Kong." Chan says that, responding to consumer demand, the firm is focusing more on outdoor and emergency lighting. "Other interesting developments and growth areas include multifunction lighting that includes radio, cassette player, digital clock and hand-cranking features, with LED lighting sources." An ISO 9001- and ISO 9002-certified company, John Mfg can produce more than 1.2 million pieces monthly at its two factories in Shenzhen on the Chinese mainland, which altogether occupy 900,000 square feet and employ 3,000 workers. About 95% of the firm's products carry the Johnlite brand name, with the remainder OEM/ODM orders. Exports go worldwide, and the two biggest markets are the US and Europe. Chan says that the minimum order is 1,000 pieces for delivery 30-40 days after order confirmation. Established in 1953, Sonca Products Ltd lays claim to being one of the world's largest portable lighting product manufacturers. Its battery-operated OEM and ODM flashlights and lanterns, as well as products under its own Sonca brand, are exported to more than 120 countries. One popular model is an eight-inch, contour-shaped Power Select Light that runs on any type of battery. "This is a universal light, so a person can use two AA, 2C or 2D batteries. This makes the light very useful for emergency purposes," says marketing manager Melinda Yiu. A six-inch model operates on either two AAA or two AA batteries. In general, FOB Hong Kong unit prices range from US$1 for a key chain flashlight to US$15 for a top-of-the-line aluminium LED flashlight. Sonca offers the full spectrum of LED, xenon, krypton and halogen lighting systems in minimum order quantities of 1,000 pieces for delivery 45 days after order confirmation. Production reaches 180,000 torches per day at manufacturing plants in Shenzhen that have 20 assembly lines and employ more than 4,000 workers. For hands-free work outdoors, Just (HK) Ltd's headlamp, with an adjustable nylon strap, features a parabolic projector lens and 1W LED that projects light up to 100 metres. The FOB Hong Kong unit price for this model is about US$6.50. "The advantage of the lens is that it can focus light into a narrow beam that can penetrate fog or rain much better than a normal reflector lamp," explains managing director Kung Chi Hung. This model also has an IC chip that allows the user to dim or brighten the light. "It can be operated with 100%, 50% or 10% power," says Kung, "to facilitate long distance searching or reading close-up." The lighting, electronic product and giftware company, which was established in 1994, manufactures 100,000 OEM and ODM medium- to high-end products per month at its factory in Guangdong Province on the mainland. Lighting related items, priced from US$2.50-6.50 FOB Hong Kong, account for about 50% of production. Minimum order is 3,000 pieces, with exports mainly destined for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany and France. Delivery time after order confirmation is 30 days. Kung says that Just (HK) is a design leader that won recognition three times in the Hong Kong Governor's Design Awards in the 1990s, when it also received a German Plus Design Award. Rechargeable LED torches are the stars at Quantum Lighting Products Ltd, and the company has 15 cyber-style aluminium models on offer at FOB Hong Kong unit prices of US$18-25. "Our recharging system is similar to that of a mobile phone. Simply plug in the connector and it charges in 3-4 hours," says sales executive Betty Tsui. "Each model can be ordered in three sizes and in 1W or 3W LED ratings." These torches are water resistant, have design circuitry that protects against short circuits, feature high and low beams and are available in black, silver and titanium finishes. Established in 2003, the OEM/ODM company produces some 75 different LED torches at prices ranging from US$5-40. The minimum order requirement is 1,200 pieces, and delivery time after order confirmation is 45 days to markets in the US, Europe and Japan. With such a variety of torches to choose from, Hong Kong manufacturers are certainly illuminating business opportunities. WRITTEN BY ANDREA PAWLYNA John Mfg Ltd Yau Lee Centre 45 Hoi Yuen Rd Email: johnlite@johnlite.com Web: www.johnlite.com Just (HK) Ltd COL Tower World Trade Square 123 Hoi Bun Rd Email: office@just-hk.com Web: www.just-hk.com Mingle Instrument Ltd Unit A, 22/F CDW Bldg 388 Castle Peak Rd Tsuen Wan, New Territories Email: sales@mingle.com.hk Web: www.mingle.com.hk Quantum Lighting Products Ltd Efficiency House 35 Tai Yau St Email: sales@quantumlight.com.hk Web: www.quantumlight.com.hk Shing Fung Metal Fty Perfect Ind Bldg Email: sales@shingfung.com.hk Web: www.shingfung.com.hk Sonca Products Ltd Kwong Sang Hong Centre 151-153 Hoi Bun Rd Email: info@sonca.com Web: www.sonca.com HKTDC Export Index 3Q19: Hong Kong Exports Struggle as China-US Trade Tensions Escalate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3501
__label__wiki	0.507004	0.507004	Break through breast cancer Irish scientists have identified why there is a high relapse rate after chemotherapy in women who have the most aggressive form of breast cancer. Up to now, triple negative breast cancer TNBC is one of the most aggressive and difficult to treat. It accounts for around 15 per cent of all breast cancers diagnosed and occurs more frequently in younger women. Farrah. Age: 21. Breakthrough Breast Cancer was a United Kingdom charity whose mission was to "save lives through improving early diagnosis, developing new treatments and preventing all types of breast cancer". Breakthrough Breast Cancer was envisioned by Bill Freedman and his children. Freedman's wife, actress Toby Robins —died from breast cancer in Many patients who are diagnosed with a common type of early-stage breast cancer may not need chemotherapy. 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__label__wiki	0.751093	0.751093	Anchoring Tri(8-Quinolinolato)Iron Onto Sba-15 for Partial Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol Using Water as the Solvent Xiaoyuan Yang , Jing Liu , Qiubin Kan , Jingqi Guan Tri(8-quinolinolato)iron complex immobilized onto SBA-15 catalyst has been synthesized through a stepwise procedure. The characterization results indicated that the BET surface area, total pore volume and average pore width decrease after stepwise modification of SBA-15, while the structure keeps intact. Catalytic tests showed that FeQ3-SBA-15 catalyzes the oxidation reaction well with 34.8% conversion of benzyl alcohol and 74.7% selectivity to benzaldehyde when water is used as the solvent after 1 h reaction. In addition, homogeneous catalyst tri(8-quinolinolato)iron exhibits very bad catalytic behavior using water as the solvent. SBA-15 8-quinolinol iron benzyl alcohol benzaldehyde Xiaoyuan Yang Jilin University, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry of Jilin Province, College of Chemistry, Changchun, 130023, PR China Qiubin Kan Jingqi Guan Jilin University, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry of Jilin Province, College of Chemistry, Changchun, 130023, PR China, guanjq@jlu.edu.cn 1. Prakash, S., Charan, C., Singh, A.K. & Shahi, V.K. (2013). Mixed metal nanoparticles loaded catalytic polymer membrane for solvent free selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde in a reactor. Appl. Catal. B: Environ. 132, 62-69. DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2012.11.001.[Crossref] 2. Yu, X., Huo, Y., Yang, J., Chang, S., Ma, Y. & Huang, W. (2013). Reduced graphene oxide supported Au nanoparticles as an efficient catalyst for aerobic oxidation of benzyl alcohol. Appl. Surf. Sci. 280, 450-455. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.05.008.[Crossref] 3. 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__label__wiki	0.612554	0.612554	Description of Rio Santa Cruz Expedition in Narrative… & Diary April & May, 1834 Robert FitzRoy & Charles Darwin Footnotes in Narrative by FitzRoy, in Diary by Richard Darwin Keynes (Diary editor). Footnotes [in brackets] by web site editor. From time to time, FitzRoy and Darwin describe the same incident, but do not agree on the date. Frequent use of dashes in Darwin's Diary are as seen in the printed edition. See also Google Earth image of Rio Santa Cruz. Hand symbol on chart points to “Indian Pass,” which is presumably the point where Benjamin Franklin Bourne crossed the river, as described in his The Captive in Patagonia. Narrative of Voyages … Robert FitzRoy An examination, or rather a partial exploring, of the River Santa Cruz had been long meditated. During the former voyage of the Beagle, Captain Stokes had ascended the rapid current as far as a heavy boat could be taken; but his account served only to stimulate our curiosity, and decided my following his example. Three light boats were prepared (whale-boats strengthened): as much provision as they could stow with safety was put into them, and a party of officers and men selected. Lieut. Sulivan, having to take charge of the ship during our absence, could not go; neither could Mr. Steward, or Mr. King, who were required to attend to duties on board; but Mr. Darwin, Mr. Chaffers, Mr. Stokes, Mr. Bynoe, Mr. Mellersh, Mr. Martens, and eighteen seamen and marines prepared to accompany me. [No entry today.] Early on the 18th we left the Beagle, and with a favouring wind and flood tide sailed up the estuary, into which the river flows. This wide and turbid estuary receives a torrent which rushes throught a confined opening into the ocean, during seven hours, and is opposed and driven back by the flood tide during about five hours of the twelve. On each side of both the estuary and river lie extensive plains or arid desert land: these plains are not, however, on the same level; for, on the northern bank the land is very little raised above the level of high spring tides; while, on the southern side of the river, high, perpendicular cliffs form a striking contrast: but after ascending these heights, by any of the ravines which intersect them, one finds a dead level expanse, similar in every respect to that on the northern shore. In the horizon, another ‘steppe,’ or parallel plain, at a higher elevation, is seen; which, at a distance, appears like a range of hills of equal height. Excepting in the porphyry districts, all the eastern coasts of Patagonia, and the little of the interior which I have seen, seemed to me to be a similar succession of horizontal ranges of level land varying in height, intersected here and there by ravines and water-courses. There are, certainly, hills in many places which appear when one is passing at sea, or in the distance, conical, or at all events peaked; but even those hills are but the gable ends, as it were, of narrow horizontal ridges of land, higher than the surrounding country. The cliffs on the south side of the river have a whitish appearance; and are similar to those on the outer coast, which were said by Sir John Narborough to resemble the coast of Kent. Their upper outline, when seen from a distance, is quite horizontal. Brownish yellow is the prevailing colour, lighter or darker, as the sun shines more, or becomes obscured. Here and there, in hollow places and ravines, a few shrubby bushes are seen. But over the wide desolation of the stony barren waste not a tree…not even a solitary ‘ombu’…can be discerned. Scattered herds of ever wary guanacoes, startled at man's approach, neighing, stamping, and tossing their elegant heads; a few ostriches striding along in the distant horizon, and here and there a solitary condor soaring in the sky, are the only objects which attract the eye. Certainly, upon looking closely, some withered shrubs and a yellow kind of herbage may be discerned; and, in walking, thorns and prickles assure one painfully that the plain is not actually a desert: but I am quite sure that the general impression upon the mind is that of utter hopelesss sterility. Is it not remarkable that water-worn shingle stones, and diluvial accumulations, compose the greater portion of these plains? On how vast a scale, and of what duration mush have been the action of those waters which smoothed the shingle stones now buried in the deserts of Patagonia. A kind of elder, growing here and there in Patagonia and the Pampas. See page 93 [not included here]. Fresh water is seldom found in these wastes; salinas† are numerous. The climate is delightful to the bodily sensations; but for production of earth, it is almost as bad as any, except that of the Arabian, or African deserts. Rain is seldom known during three quarters of the year; and even in the three winter months, when it may be expected, but little falls excepting on rare occasions, when it comes down heavily for two or three days in succession. Sea winds sometimes bring small misty rain for a few hours, at any time of year, but not enough to do good to vegetable productions. The only animals which abound are guanacoes, and they care little for fresh water, for they have often been seen drinking at the salinas. The puma probably quenches its thirst in their blood; of other animals, supposed to require much liquid, there are none in these regions. † Salt depositions or incrustations. The climate is healthy and pleasant; generally a bright, sunny day is succeeded by a cloudless and extremely clear night. In summer the heat is scorching, but not sultry; and in winter, through the weather is sometimes searchingly cold, especially during southerly winds, the air is always elastic and wholesome. Changes of wind are sudden, and cause rapid, though not very great, variations of temperature. Sometimes the sky is slightly or partially overcast, occasionally clouded heavily; but on most days there is bright sunshine, and a fresh or strong westerly wind. The confluence of a continental torrent of fresh water, with great tides of the ocean, which here rise forty feet perpendicularly, has embarrassed the mouth of the Santa Cruz with a number of banks. They are all composed of shingle and mud, and alter their forms and positions when affected by river floods, or by the heavy seas caused by southeast gales. Into the entrance of the Santa Cruz, the flood time sets about four knots an hour; one may say, from two to five knots, according to the time of tide, and the narrower or broader part of the opening; and outwards, the water rushes at least six knots on an average in mid-channel. Ther eare places in which at times, when acted upon by wind or unusual floods, it runs with a velocity of not less than seven or eight knots an hour—perhaps even more; but near either shore, and in bights between projecting points, of course the strength of the outward as well as inward current is very inferior. In such a bight, almost under some high cliffs on the southern shore, the Beagle was moored, and it is easy to conceive the different view presented in this situation, with forty feet change in the level of the water. At high water, a noble river, unimpeded, moves quietly, or is scarcely in motion: at other times, a rushing torrent struggles amongst numerous banks, whose dark colour and dismal appearance add to the effect of the turbid yellow water, and naked-looking, black, muddy shores. The boats sailed on between some of the banks, with a fresh southerly wind, disturbing every where immense flights of sea birds. Now and then a monstrous sealion lifted his unwieldy bulk a few inches from the stony bank, lazily looked around, and with a snort and a growl, threw his huge shapelessness, by a floundering waddle, towards the water. As far as Weddell's Bluff* we sailed merrily; but there took to the oars, because the river makes a sudden turn, or rather, the river Santa Cruz (properly so called), enters the estuary of the same name from the southwest, as far as can be seen from Weddell's Bluff:—but a little beyond where the eye reaches, it takes a westerly direction. Another river, the Chico of Viedma, also enters the estuary at this place from the northwest. Here, a little above the Bluff, the water was fresh on the surface, and sometimes it is quite fresh, even into the estuary; but in filling casks, or dipping anything into the stream for fresh water, it is advisable not to dip deep, or to let the hose (if one is used), go many inches below the surface, since it often happens that the upper water is quite fresh, while that underneath is salt. This occurs, more or less, in all rivers which empty themselves into the sea: the fresh water, specifically lighter, is always uppermost. * Named after the enterprising southern navigator. Wind failing us entirely, we pulled to the southwest. On our left, high cliffs continued, and at their base a wide shingle beach offered tempting landing places, with many spots extremely well adapted for laying a vessel ashore, to be repaired or cleaned; on our right, a low shore extended, rising gradually, however, in the northwest,† to cliffs like those near Keel Point. † On the south side of the northwest arm of the Santa Cruz. The flowing tide favoured us until five, when we landed on the north shore, at a spot where the rise and fall of the tide had diminished to four feet. Here the river was six hundred and forty yards in breadth, running down at the rate of about six knots during a part of the ebb, and from two to four knots an hour during the greater part of the flood tide. It was perfectly fresh to the bottom, and in mid-channel about three fathoms deep; but this depth extended very little way across, the deep channel being extremely narrow, but more than twenty yards in width. The distinct difference between the opposite banks of the river had been diminishing, until at this spot* both sides were much alike. We had left the cliffs and salt water, and had fairly entered the fresh-water river. Instead of having a wide extent of dismal-looking banks and dark-coloured muddy shores, we were at the side of a rapid stream, unvarying in width, on whose banks shrubs and grass agreeably relieved our eyes from muddy shingle covered with hosts of crabs. * The northern bight, or cove, a few miles north-eastward of Islet Reach. In the morning three whale-boats started under the command of the Captain to explore as far as time would allow the Santa Cruz river: During the last voyage, Capt. Stokes proceeded 30 miles, but his provisions failing, he was obliged to return. — Excepting, what was then found, even the existence of this large river was hardly known: We carried three weeks provisions & our party consisted of 25 souls; we were all well armed & could defy a host of Indians. With a strong flood tide & a fine day we made a good run, soon drank some of the fresh water, & at night were nearly above the tidal influence. The river here assumed a size & appearance, which, even at the highest point we ultimately reached, was scarcely diminished. It is generally from three to four hundred yards broard [sic], & in the centre about seventeen feet deep; & perhaps its most remarkable feature is the constant rapidity of the current, which in its whole course runs at the rate of from four to six knots an hour. The wter is of a fine blue color with a slight milky tinge, but is not so transparent as would be expected; it flows over a bed of pebbles, such as forms the beach & surrounding plain.— The valley is in a very direct line to the westward, in which the river has a winding course, but it varies from five to 10 miles in width, being bounded by perfectly horizontal plains of 3 to 500 feet elevation. Our first night passed well, for there were plenty of bushes to supply us with fire-wood. Early next morning, some of the party went upon the nearest hills to look for guanacoes, when they saw that although the surface of the country appeared to an observer near the river to be irregular and hilly, upon ascending the heights it became apparent that the stream ran in a large valley; that the general character of the country was similar to what I have already described, and that those which had appeared to be hills were the terminating sides of extensive plains, whose level was about three hundred feet abot the river. Near the fresh water, shrubs, bushes, and grass were not scarce; but every where on the higher ground a sterile, stony waste met the eye. Mr. Stokes† and I went on the heights, to obtain a vew of the river; and for a considerable distance we could trace its windings, but were sorry to see a great number of small islands, thickly covered with brushwood, which seemed likely to impede our progress is obliged to track‡ the boats. † It was his office to make a map of the country we passed through. ‡ Pull, or tow them along by a rope. The southerly wind blew keenly over the high land, and the surface of the ground was frozen hard; but the air was healthily fresh and bracing. Where, indeed, could it be purer than on these dry hills? At first setting out we tried the oars, but very soon found them unable to contend with the strength of the stream; so landing all our party, except two in each boat, we made the boats fast to one another, at a few yards apart, in a line ahead: and then taking the end of a coil of whale-line ashore, half our party fixed themselves to it by laniards of broad canvas straps, which passed across their breasts and over one shoulder, and walked together steadily along the river's bank. The bight of the line was passed round a stout mast, stepped in the headmost boat and attended by the two men, who veered away or shortened in the line as the varying width of the stream, or frequent impediments rendered necessary. In this manner, one-half of our party relieving the other about once an hour†, every one willingly taking his turn at the track rope,* we made steady progress against the stream of the river, which rather increased in rapidity as we ascended, until its usual velocity was between six and seven knots an hour. While among the islands which I mentioned tracking was difficult and tedious, many were the thorny bushes through which one half of the party on the rope dragged their companions. Once in motion no mercy was shewn: if the leading man could pass, all the rest were bound to follow. Many were the duckings, and not trifling the wear and tear of clothes, shoes and skin. At intervals stoppages were made for refreshment and observations. † [For an hour and a half, according to Darwin.] * Mr. Stokes alone being excepted, as his duty required continual attention. Three chronometers were carried in the boats, with other necessary insruments: among them two mountain barometers, with which Mr. Darwin and myself wished to measure the height of the river above the level of the sea, and the heights of the neighbouring ranges of hills above the level of the river. This afternoon we picked up a boat-hook upon the south bank of the river, which was immediately recognized to be one which had been left by accident sticking in a mud bank, by the party who accompanied Captain Stokes in his excursion up this river in the year 1827. It was very cold at our bivouac this night, being a sharp frost: and while observing the moon's meridian altitude, dew was deposited so fast upon the roof of the artificial horizon, and froze so quickly as it fell, that I could hardly make the observation. My sextant was injured a little by the frost, for not having been used before in very cold weather, the brass contracted so much as to injure the silvering at the back of the index glass, and slightly change the index error. In so strong a current it was of course quite impossible either to pull or sail so that the three boats were fastened astern of each other, two hands left in each, & the rest all on shore to track, [we brought with us collars all ready fitted to a whale line].* — As the general arrangements were very good for facilitating the work, I will describe them; the party which included every one, was divided into two spells, (at first into three) & each of these pulled alternately for an hour & a half.† — The officers of each boat lived with, eat the same food, & slept in the same tent with their crew; so that each boat was quite independent of the others; After sunset, the first level place where there were any bushes was shosen for our nights lodging. The boats-crew took it in turns to be cook; immediately the boat was hauled up, the cook made his fire, two others of the men pitched the tent, the coxswain handed the things out of the boat, & the rest, carried them up to the tents & collected fire wood. — By this means in half an hour, every thing was ready for the night. A watch of two men & an officer was always kept, whose duty it was to look after the boats, keep up the fires & look out for Indians; each in the party had his one hour every night. * The words in brackets have been marked for deletion in pencil. † [About once an hour, according to FitzRoy.] During this day we tracked but a short distance, for there are in this part many islands, which are covered with thorny bushes, & the channels between them are shallow, these two causes hindered us much. In the morning it was so cold that our usual ablutions were shunned, and all were anxious to have the first spell at the rope in order to warm themselves, though few had slept many minutes, and many had hard work the previous day. The thermometer was at 22° Fahr.—nothing,—§ indeed warm weather to Polar voyagers, but to us, accustomed to temperate climates, it appeared a severe degree of cold. § The “nothing—” may be an accidental insertion. 20th. As we were going along the bank of the river, which to our great benefit was becoming more accessible and clearer of bushes, we saw some dark coloured animals crossing the stream at a distance, but no one could guress what they were until the foremost of them reached the shore, and rising upon his stilt-like legs, showed himself to be an ostrich. Six or severn of these birds were swimming across: till then I had no idea that so long-legged a bird, not web-footed, would, of its own accord, take to the water and cross a rapid stream: this, however, was a certain proof to the contrary, for nothing had disturbed them that we could discern. As far as we could tell, at so great a distance, they seemed to be of the kind which the Spanish-Patagonians call ’Avestruz-petis.’ They were, however, far too wild to be approached with a gun. We saw smoke at a distance and anticipated meeting Indians, in the course of our next day's journed. The country around continued similar to that already described: but island no longer impeded our progress, though some high cliffy banks gave us trouble. At the next place where we passed a night, Mr. Darwin tried to catch fish with a casting net, but without success; so strong a stream being much against successful fishing. A very sharp frost again this night. The net and other things, which has occupied but little room in the boat, were frozen so hard as to become unmanageable and very difficult to stow. We passed the islands & set to work; our regular days work, although it was hard enough, carried us, on an average, only ten miles, in a straight line, & perhaps 15 or 20 as we were obliged to go. — A large smoke was seen at some distance, & a skeleton & other signs of horses; by which we knew that Indians were in the country. Beyond the place, where we slept was completely terra incognita, for there Capt. Stokes turned back. —in the course of the day an old boat-hook was picked up (with the Kings mark). One of the boats crew, who had been up the river on the former voyage, remembered that it was then lost. So that the boat-hook after lying 6 or 7 years in Patagonia, returned to its proper home, the Beagle.— Both this & the last night was a severe frost & some of the party felt the cold. We proceeded as usual, dragging the boats up the stream (or rather torrent, for it never ran less than six knots, and in many places more) at the rate of about two miles an hour: and as we were approaching near to the smoke, we chose our position for the night, rather more cautiously then usual, upon a little peninsula. In the morning, tracks of a party of horses & the long speak or Chusa which trails on the ground, were found; they were so fresh that it was generally thought they must have reconnoitred us during the night. — Shortly afterwards we came to a place where there were fresh footsteps of men, dogs, children & horses at the edge of the river & beneath the water; on the other side of the river there were also recent tracks & the remains of a fire: it is very clear that this is the place where the Indians cross, it much be both a difficult & dangerous passage. The Spaniard who lives with the Gregory Bay indians told me that they crossed in the manner which the Gauchos call “a pilota”; that is the corners of a hide are tide up & thus a sort of canoe is made which generally is pulled over by catching hold of the horses tail. — After a mile or two beyond this there were for many days no signs of men or horses. — We saw however fresh smoke of the party whom we left behind, from which I think they never saw us, but that we accidentally passed within a day or two's march of each other. — The Spaniard told me he believed there were no, or very few Indians at S. Cruz; perhaps they are the same small tribe which occassionally frequent Port Desire, & whose lame horse was seen up the river. — A guanaco was found dead under water, but in a shallow place; the meat was quite fresh: upon skinning its head, a bruise was found, we imagine that the Indians must have struck it with their balls & that going to the water to drink, it died. — Whatever its end might have been, after a few doubtful looks it was voted by the greater number better than salt meat, & was soon cut up & in the evening eat. We had not avanced a mile this morning, when fresh tracks of Indians, on horseback, trailing their long lances, aroused our utmost vigilance. We thought they had been reconnoitring out party, at day-light, and perhaps such was the case. The smoke of their fires was seen behind the nearest range of low hills, on our side of the river, being then on the north bank, but the boats had been tracking on either side, as better ground for walking was found. Proceeding on, a dead animal was found in the water, which proved to be a guanaco; how it came by its death did not appear, as it showed no external wound, but some of our party, hungrier or less squeamish than the rest, immediately proposed dividing and eating it; and hunger carried the day: the dead animal was hauled on shore, cut to pieces, and distributed. The guanaco steaks were much relished by all except two or three, who could not conquer their antipathy to supposed carrion. Our meal was eaten close to the place where we thought a tribe of Indians was encamped: and, in consequence, our arms were kept in readiness, and a careful watch set. Afterwards cautiously proceeding, we arrived at the spot whence the smoke had issued, but saw no human beings: though marks of very recent fire, and numerous tracks of feet upon a soft muddy place at the side of the river, showed that a party of Indians had lately crossed over, and a smoke rising at some distance on the southern shore, pointed out where they were gone. At this spot there was about an acre of good pasture land, by the water side: and the breadth of the river itself was something less then usual, reasons which had induced the natives to select it as a crossing place.* To pass a river runing at the rate of six or seven miles an hour, and about two hundred yards in width, can be no easy task to women and children. But as we saw many prints of very small feet on the muddy bank, both women and children must have crossed at this place with the men. How did they get over? There is no wood, neither are there rushes with which they might make balsas.† Perhaps some of the women and children were put into rough, coracle-like boats, made of hides,‡ and towed across by the horses, holding by whose tails the men swam and perhaps many of the women. This method of holding by the tail, while swimming, is said to be better than resting a hand upon the horse's neck and holding by the mane. None of the Indians sit upon their horses while swimming. * Marked ‘Indian Pass’ on the plan. † Floats or rafts. ‡ “Me envió tres indios nadadores, provisto de cueros y palos para formar una pelota.” (Diario de Viedma, p. 58.) This day we passed two places which we considered rapids, the stream of the river ran so violently, and we had so much difficulty in passing, even with all hands upon the rope. Besides the strength of the stream we had to contend against high cliffs, over whose upper edges it was difficult to convey the two-line: yet we made good about twelve miles in the day. the night of the 22d was not so cold as the preceding, but we always found the nights wintry though the days were warm, so much so, indeed, that we were often annoyed by the heat of the sun. So winding was the course of the river that we certainly walked double the distance which was advanced in a direct line: yet very little of interest, as a pictureque subject, had been seen; for no country excepting a desert could wear a more triste and unvarying appearance. Immense accumulations of shingle, rounded stones, imbedded, as before mentioned, in diluvial deposition, form the level plain, or valley, through which the river pursues its very winding course. The width of this vale varies from one mile to five miles, and the level of shingle plain is from three hundred to one thousand feet below that of the adjacent higher, but still horizontal ranges—whose broken-down ends, or sides, form the boundaries of the valley through which the river flows. Those of the higher ranges look like hills when one is in the valley, and it is not until after ascending to their summits that their real nature is seen; when, instead of being inclined to consider those heeights as hills, one becomes disposed to think the valley of the river a vast excavation, cut down below the level of the neighboring country. But on theheight, or in the valley, all is an unprofitable waste. Scarcely, indeed, could we find bushes enough, even near the river, to make our nightly fires, after the third day's journey. The wiry, half-withered grass upon which the guanacoes feed is so scanty, that they are obliged ton wander over much ground in search of their food. Those few stunted bushy trees which are found here and there, near the river, are a kind of thorn trees, the wood of which is extremely hard and durable.* The night of the 22d we passed by the side of a little cove, which sheltered the boats from the strength of the stream: and, as all hands were tired, we rested during the morning of the following day. * A guanaco was shot this day by the running fire of several guns. He was soon cut up and stowed in the boats. The country remains the same, & terribly uninteresting. The great similarity in productions in a very striking feature in all Patagonia, the level plains of arid shingle support the same stunted & dwarf plants; in the valleys the same thorn-bearing bushes grow, & everywhere we see the same birds & insects. Ostriches are not uncommon, but wild in the extreme. The Guanaco, however, is in his proper district, the country swarms with them; there were many herds of 50 to 100, & I saw one, with, I should think 500. — The Puma or Lion & the Condor follow & prey upon these animals; The footsteps of the former might almost everywhere be seen on the banks of the river. The remains of several Guanaco with their necks dislocated & bones broken & gnawed, showed how they met their deaths. Even the very banks of the river & of the clear little streamlets which enter it, are scarcely enlivened by a brighter tint of green. The curse of sterility is on the land. — The very waters, running over the bed of pebbles, are stocked with no fish: Hence there are no water-fowl, with the exception of some few geese & ducks. After noon we went on, and at dark stopped on the south shore. Scarcity of fuel and a cold night, made it necessary to take good care of the wood when cut. There may be honour among thieves, but there was little to be found druing a cold night among our party, for the fire of those who happened to be on watch was sure to blaze cheerily, at the expense of the sleepers. A little incident occurred here very unimportant certainly to those unconcerned, yet of much consequence to us: we left our stock of salt behind, and a spade, which latter was much wanted for earthing up the sides of our tents, to keep out the cold wind. Rested till noon, to clean arms, mend clothes & shoes, the latters already began to show symptoms of hard work. I noticed more than usual a curious effect of the river water being so much warmer than the air over it.† At daybreak, and until sunrise, the river was smoking, quite as if it were boiling. This day we passed some earthy cliffs between two and three hundred feet in height, and where they came in our way it was extremely difficult to manage the boats and tow-lines; but by veering out at those times a great length of rope, our object was accomplished without any disaster. Near these cliffs the valley of the river begins to contract and become more irregular, and the sides or breaking down of the higher ranges become more abrupt and are nearer to the river. In most places we found a cliffy side opposite to a low projecting point of shingle, but in some spots that we passed both sides were high, and we had no choice on which to take the tow-line. The difference, also, between the level of the higher ranges and that of the river, was observed to be much increased. Like the old navigators approaching an unknown land, we examined & watched for the most trivial signs of a change; the drifted trunk of a tree, a boulder of primitive rock were hailed with joy, as if we had seen a forest growing on the stony ridges of the Andes.— But the most promising, & which eventually turned out true sign, was the tops of a heavy bank of clouds which constantly remained in nearly the same place.— These at first were taken for mountains themselves, instead of the clouds condensed by their icy summits. A Guanaco was shot, which much rejoiced those who could not compel their stomachs to relish Carrion. On this day our best shots succeeded in killing two guanacoes, but they died out of our reach, and probably became food for pumas, instead of man. The order of our march was usually one or two riflemen in advance, as scouts—Mr. Darwin, and occasionally Mr. Stokes, or Mr. Bynoe, upon the heights—a party walking along the banks, near the boats, ready to relieve or assist in tracking, and the eight or ten men who were dragging the three boats along at the rate of about two miles an hour over the ground, though full eight knots through the water. Difficult places to pass—delays caused by embarking and disembarking frequently to change banks, and avoid impediments—the necessary observations, rest, and meals, occupied so much time that we did not average more than tweleve miles in one day: and even that small distance was not accomplished without making both shoulders and feet sore. This day I found, for the first time, some interesting work; the plains are here capped by a field of Lava, which at some remote period when these plains formed the bottom of an ocean, was poured forth from the Andes.* This field of Lava is on a grand scale; further up the river it is more than 300 feet thick, & the distance from its source is great.— The most Southern Volcanic rocks in the Andes hitherto known are many hundred miles to the North, not far from the island of Chiloe.— The Lava caused many small springs,† the valleys here were greener & I recognized many plants of Tierra del Fuego.— The Guanaco was in his element amongst the rugged low precipices. It is curious how in many cases the scenery is totally dependent on the geology; some of the valleys so precisely resembled those at St. Jago, that if I could have added the warmth of a Tropical day I should have looked about me to recognize old-frequented spots.‡ * Note in margin: ‘Action of current. Origin of Valley’. † Note in margin: ‘Cause of springs’. ‡ See pencil drawing by Conrad Martens labelled ‘Valley with a small stream running into Santa Cruz River, the hills crowned with Volcanic Rock, the most southern yet discovered. April 26’ (CM No. 173, Beagle Record p. 200), and watercolour developed from it (CM No. 174, Beagle Record, p. 205). FitzRoy wrote of it: ‘The glen above … breeding place of lions.’ [See FitzRoy April 26 entry for complete text.] When the scene was engraved by T. Landseer as ‘Basalt Glen—River Santa Cruz’ in Narrative, the lions were duly added. [actually, one lion (puma) and three prey resembling deer.] In the distance some very level topped, dark looking cliffs, were seen at the summits of elevated ranges, which Mr. Darwin thought must have a capping or coasting of lava. Of course we were very anxious to verify a fact so curious, and at noon were quite satisfied that it was so, having approached to the foot of a height thus capped, whose fragments had in falling not only scattered themselves over the adjacent plain, but into the bed of the river, in such a manner as to make the passage exceedingly dangerous; because large angular masses, in some places showing above the stream in others hidden beneath, but so near the surface that the water eddied and swelled over them, menaced destruction to the boats as they were with difficulty dragged through the eddying rapid; sometimes the rope caught under or around one of those masses, and caused much trouble. Near the spot where we stopped at noon there is a glen, quite different in character from any place we had passed.* Indeed, upon entering the lava district, or that part of the country over which lava formerly flowed, there was no longer a Patagonian aspect around. Steep precipices, narrow, winding vallies, abundance of huge angular fragments of lave, a more rapid and narrower river, and plains of solid lava overlying the whole surface of the country, make this district even worse in its appearance than the eastern coast of Patagonia. Excepting in an occasional ravine nothing grows. Horses could not travel far, the ground being like rough iron; and water, excepting that of the river and its tributary in Basalt Glen, is very scarce. * ‘Basalt Glen.’ The glen above mentioned is a wild looking ravine, bounded by black lava cliffs. A stream of excellent water winds through it amongst the long grass, and a kind of jungle at the bottom. Lions or rather pumas shelter in it, as the recently torn remains of guanacoes showed us. Condors inhabit the basaltic cliffs. Near the river some imperfect columns of basalt give to a remarkable height, the semblance of an old castle. Altogether it is a scene of wile loneliness quite fit to be the breeding place of lions.† † “Leonum arida nutrix.’ No signs of human visitors were discovered: indeed, the nature of the country must almost prevent horsemen from traversing these regions, there is so little food and such bad ground: only in glens or ravines such as this can any grass or bushes be found. Guanacoes absolutely swarm upon the heights, a consequence probably of their being undisturbed. They spread over the face of the high country like immense flocks of sheep. During a long walk this evening Mr. Stokes and I were repeatedly disappointed by the mirage over an extensive stony plain, between two bends of the river. We were tired and very thirsty, and went from one apparent piece of water to another, only to be tantalized and to increase still more our dilemma. [No entry today. Previous entry dated “25th & 26th.”] [In the final footnote in the April 25th entry above, it is unclear what Martens' “the most southern yet discovered” phrase signifies. In context, it would seem to refer to the “Volcanic Rock,” but it probably refers to the “small stream.”] Similar country. On the banks of the river some drift wood was found; the trunks of trees of considerable size. Small trees had been found lying by the side of the river, from time to time, but none so large as these, some of which were almost two feet in diameter, and about thirty feet in length. the wood appeared to be ‘Sauci,’ of the red kind. That these trees had been drifted from a great distance was evident, because they were much water worn. The bed of the river is rather narrower hence the stream more rapid; it generally runs nearly 6 knots an hour.—in the channel there are great blocks of lava—which together make the tracking both laborious & very dangerous.— Yesterday two holes were knocked through the sides of one of the boats, but she was got on shore & repaired, without any further damage.— I shot a condor, it measured from tip to tip of wing 8 & ½ feet;—from beak to tail 4 feet.—Thay are magnificent birds; when seated on a pinnacle over some steep precipice, sultan-like they view the plains beneath them. I believe these birds are never found excepting where there are perpendicular cliffs. Further up the river where the lava is 8 & 900 feet above the bed of the river, I found a regular breeding place; it was a fine sight to see between ten & twenty of these Condors start heavily from their resting spot & then wheel away in majestic circles. In passing a rapid, whose difficulties were much increased by rugged blocks of lava lying in the bed of the river, one of our boats was badly stove and barely rescued from sinking in the middle of the stream: fortunately we got her on shore and there patched her up. There was still no change in the scenery, nor any signs of inhabitants: and our work was as monotonous as heavy. Found a tripod of wood, fastened together by hide; it had floated down the river; the first sign of the reappearance of man. While upon a high range of lava-capped land, Mr. Stokes and Mr. Darwin descried mountains in the west, covered with snow. At last, then, the Andes were in sight! This was inspiriting intelligence to the whole party; for small had been our daily progress, though continual and severe the labour. The river increased in rapidity, while but little diminuition had taken place in the quantity of water brought down: the breadth was rather less, certainly, but the depth in most places greater. No fish had yet been caught; indeed, only two had been seen, and those seemed to be like trout. From the high land, we hailed with joy the snowy mountains of the Cordilleras, as they were seen occassionally peeping through their dusky envelope of Clouds. 30th & May 1st The snowy summits of the distant Cordillera were more distinctly seen from the heights, near the river, that rise about a thousand feet above its level, which, there, is about three hundred feet above that of the sea. Two guanacoes were shot with my rifle by H. Fuller, & who hastened to the boats for assistance. Some of our party went directly with him to bring in the animals, but condors and cara-caras† had eaten every morsel of the flesh of one; though the other was found untouched and brought to the boats. Four hours had sufficed to the cara-caras and condors for the cleaning of every bone.‡ When our party reached the spot some of those great birds were so heavily laden that they could hardly hop away from the place. The guanaco that was eaten by the birds must have been, by his size, at least fifty pounds heavier than any shot by us in Patagonia, therefore about 300 lbs. Mr. Darwin and Mr. Stokes had much amusement with these animals, upon the heights. Being so much tamer there and more numerous, whole flocks were driven by them into narrow defiles, where dozens might have been killed had ther been more people with guns, lassoes, or balls. * My steward. † A carrion-eating eagle. ‡ The animal thus eaten lay on high ground: the other was in a hollow. Though the bed of the river is there so much below the level of the stratum of lava,* it still bears the appearance of having worn away its channel, by the continual action of running water. The surface of the lava may be considered as the natural level of the country, since, when upon it, a plain, which seems to the eye horizontal, extends in every direction. How wonderful must that immense volcanic action have been which spread liquid lava over the surface of such a vast tract of country. Did the lava flow from the Cordillera of the Andes, or was it thrown out from craters in the low country? Its position with respect to the subaqueous deposits, its horizontal surface and cellular texture, are reasons, among others, for thinking that it was thrown out of the earth, while these plains were covered by a depth of sea. * From ten to twelve hundred feet. The valley, or channel of the river, varies here from one mile, or less, to about three miles; but it looks narrower, owing to the deception caused by high land on each side. Some of the views are certainly striking, and, from their locality, interesting; I could not, however, have believed that the banks of any large fresh water river could be so destitute of wood, or verdure of any kind, or so little frequented by man, beast,* bird, or fish. * Excepting guanacoes. We continued to get on but slowly. The Captains servant shot two Guanaco. Before the men could arrive to carry them to the boats the Condors & some small carrion Vultures had picked even the bones of one clean & white, & this in about four hours.— The Guanaco probably weighed 170 or 180 pounds.— When the men arrived, only two Condors were there & some small Vultures within the ribs were picking the bones. The weather was invariably fine during the earlier part of our journey; but this day it began to change, and two or three gloomy days were succeeded by a few hours of only small rain, and by some strong wind. This night we slept at the foot of the heights whose summits were covered with snow, but the temperature was many degrees warmer than that of the first nights, when it froze sharply. There was no particular frost after the 21st of April. [No entry today. Previous entry dated “30th & May 1st.”] May 2nd & 3rd We had great difficulty with the boats on the 2d, the river being contracted in width, without any diminution of the body of water pouring down. The river was here very tortuous, & in many parts there were great blocks of Slate & Granite, which in former periods of commotion have come from the Andes.* Both these causes sadly interfered with our progress.— We had however the satisfaction of seeing in full view the long North & South range of the Cordilleras.— They form a lofty & imposing barrier to this flat country; many of the mountains were steep & pointed cones, & these were clothed with snow.— We looked at them with regret, for it was evident we had not time to reach them. We were obliged to imagine their nature & grandeur, instead of standing as we had hoped, on one of their pinnacles & looking down on the plains below. During these two days we saw signs of horses & several little articles belonging to the Indians, such as a bunch of Ostrich feathers, part of a mantle, a pointed stick. From a thong of cows hide being found; it is certain that these Indians must come from the North.— They probably have no connection with those whose smoke we saw nearer to the Coast; but that during the Summer they travel along the foot Andes, in order to hunt in fresh country.— The Guanaco being so excessively abundant I was at first much surprised that Indians did not constantly reside on the banks of this river; the cause of their not frequenting these plains must be their stony nature (the whole country is a shingle bed) which no unshod horse could withstand.— Yet in two places, in this very central part, I found small piles of stones which I think could not have been accidentally grouped together.— They were placed on projecting points, over the highest lava cliffs; & resembled those at Port Desire, but were on a smaller scale; They would not have been sufficient to have covered more than the bondes of a man. * Pencil note in margin: ‘Character of upper plain altered’. May 3rd On the 3d, we found more open country, the lava-capped heights receding gradually on each side, leaving a vale of flat, and apparently good land, from five to fifteen miles in extent. The width of the river increased; on its banks were swampy spaces, covered with herbage; and low earth cliffs, without either shingle or lava, in some places bounded the river. A little further, however, the usual arid and stony plains of Patagonia were again seen, extending from the banks of the river to ranges of hills, about fourteen hundred feet above its level, on which the horizontal lava-capping could be distinctly discerned. In the distant west the Cordillera of the Andes stretched along the horizon. During three days, we had advanced towards those distant mountains, seeing them at times very distinctly; yet this morning our distance seemed nearly as great as on the day we first saw their snow-covered summits. A long day's work carried us beyond the flat and into the rising country, whose barren appearance I just now mentioned. We were all very tired of the monotonous scene, as well as of the labour of hauling the boats along. [No entry today. Previous entry dated “2nd & 3rd.”] Our provisions having been almost exhausted, and the river as large as it was beyond the lava country, our alloted time being out, and every one weary and foot-sore, I decided upon walking overland to the westward, as far as we could go in one day, and then setting out on our return to the Beagle. I was the more inclined to this step, because the river here made a southerly bend, to follow which would have required at least a day, without making much westing, and because I thought that some of our party might walk in that time at least twice as far as they could track the boats, and then return before night. To have followed the course of the river two days longer, we should have needed all the small remaineder of our provisions, and probably without being enabled to see further than we might by one day's walk directly westward. Leaving those who were the most tired to take care of the boats, a party set out early, in light marching order. A large plain lay before us, over which shrubs, very small trees, and bushes were sparingly scattered; yet parts of this plain might be called fertile and woody, by comparison with the tracts between us and the eastern sea-coast. At noon we halted on a rising ground, made observations for time, latitude, and bearing; rested and eat our meal; on a spot which we found to be only sixty miles* from the nearest water of the Pacific Ocean. The Cordillera of the Andes extended along the western side of our view; the weather was very clear, enabling us to discern snow-covered mountains far in the north, and also a long way southward; hence much of the range was visible, but of the river we could discern nothing. Only from the form of the land could we conclude that at the end of the southerly reach I have mentioned, the direction of the river is nearly east and west for a few miles, and that then it may turn northward, or rather come from the north along the base of the Cordillera. [Actually, about one hundred and sixty miles distant.] There are many reasons for inducing me to suppose that it comes not only from the north, but from a considerable distance northward. At the place were we ceased to ascend the stream, the Santa Cruz was almost as large as at the places where we passed the first and second nights near the estuary. The velocity of the current was still at least six knots an hour; though the depth remained undiminished. The temperature of the water was 45°, while that of the air was seldom so high, even in the day-time, and at night was usually below the freezing point. Trees, or rather the trunks of trees, were found lying upon the banks, whose water-worn appearance indicated that they had been carried far by the stream. The water was very free from sediment, though of a whitish blue colour, which induces me to suppose that it has been chiefly produced by melted snow, or that it has passed through lakes in which the sediment it might have brought so far was deposited. If filled from the waters of the nearer mountains only, its temperature would surely be lower, approaching that of melted snow: it would also, in all probability, bring much sediment, and would therefore be muddier, and less pure in colour. When one considers how large an extent of country there is between the River Negro and the Strait of Magalhaens, and that through that extensive region only one river of magnitude flows, it may be difficult to account for the manner in which the drainage of the eastern side of the great Cordillera is carried off, or where the melted snow and occasional heavy rains disappear. The Gallegos [ie, Rio Gallegos] is small,though it runs into a large estuary. The Chupat river is very small; that at Port Desire is scarcely more than a brook. At times, it is true, these smaller rivers are flooded, but their floods (added to their usual streams) seem unequal to carrying off the continual drainage of the Andes. South of the Negro only the Santa Cruz flows with a full and strong stream throughout the whole year, and my idea is that the sources of the river Santa Cruz are not far from those of the southern branch of the Negro, near the forty-fifth degree of latitude; and that it runs at the foot of the Andes, southward, through several lakes, until it turns to the eastward in the parallel of fifty degrees. In Viedma's Diary I find that he heard from the Indians at Port San Julian (in 1782) that the river Santa Cruz flowed from a large lake near the Cordillera of the Andes, and that there was abundance of wood on its banks. In consequence of this information, he went, in November, with a party of Spaniards and Indians on horseback, to explore this lake. In his way, Viedma crossed the river Chico, which flows into the estuary of the Santa Cruz, just above Wedell Bluff. The Chico, though small at times and then fordable, was subject, the Indians said, to great floods in the spring, when the melting snows of the Cordillera over-filled a lake, far in the northwest, whence this river ran. Afterwards, Viedma crossed the river Chalia, which they told him rose in another lake near the Cordillera, was likewise subject to floods, and emptied itself into the Santa Cruz: when he passed, it was only up to the horses' knees (after searching many leagues, however, for a ford), but at his return it was deeper. This Chalia can be no other thant the stream which flows through Basalt Glen, a mere brook when we saw it in the dryest season of the year. Viedma reached the lake,* and found every thing correspond[ed] to the description; for it was deep and large, surrounded by snow-covered mountains, on which were many forests. * Called Capar, or Viedma. MS Chart. Some persons have doubted whether there is ever much drainage to be carried off from the eastern side of the Andes, between the parallels of forty and fifty; but if they will take the trouble to read Viedma's Diary, and some other notices to be found in the work of Don Pedro de Angelis, I think they will be convinced that there is always a considerable drainage, and that at times there are heavy floods to be carried off. Reference to the accompanying plan will show our position when we halted, and I decided to return, not having explored, I should think, more than one-third of its course.* At that place the level of the river was found to be four hundred feet higher than that of the sea at the entrance; and as the distance is about two hundred miles,† the average descent of fall of the water must be near two feet in a mile, which, I apprehend, is unusually great. I could not, indeed, believe that the computation and data were correct, until after repeated examination.‡ Two barometers were used at the river-side, and a very good one was carefully watched on board the Beagle.§ Certainly, the rapid descent of the river, in many places, was such, that even to the eye it appeared to be running down-hill; and this remark was often made in the course of our journey. * [FitzRoy was actually less than seven miles from the source of the river.] † Following the course of the river. ‡ The data will be found in the Appendix. § At the level of the sea. Two days before we reached our westernmost point,* many traces of old Indian encampment were seen; but excepting at that place and at the spot which we passed on the 22d, no signs of inhabitants were any where found. Scarcity of pasture, and the badness of the ground for their horses' feet, must deter Indians from remaining in this neighbourhood; but that they frequently cross the river, when travelling, is well known. * [See Darwin's May 2 entry for more on this.] The quantities of bones heaped together, or scattered near the river, in so many places which we passed, excited conjectures as to what had collected them. Do guanacoes approach the river to drink when they are dying? Or are they washed together by floods? Certain it is they are remarkably numerous near the banks of the river; but not so elsewhere. I can hardly think that the guanaco is often allowed to die a natural death; for pumas are always on the alert to seize invalid stragglers from the herd. At night the guanacoes choose the clearest places for sleeping, lying down together like sheep; and in the day they avoid thickets, and all such places as might shelter their ever-watchful enemy. Condors, also, and fierce little wilde cats* help to prevent too great an increase of this beautiful, inoffensive, and useful animal. * Though the wild cat could not injure a full-grown animal, it might destroy a young one with great ease. Late on the 4th we returned to our tents, thoroughly tired by a daily succession of hard work, and long walks. At this bivouac we were about one hundred and forty miles, in a straight line, from the estuary of Santa Cruz, or from Wedell Bluff; and about two hundred and forty-five miles distant by the course of the river. Our station at noon on the 4th, was eight miles in a straight line farther westward, and about thirty miles from the Cordillera of the Andes.* The height of those mountains was from five to seven thousand feet above our level, by angular measurement with a theodolite. * [Actually, about 6-½ and 80 miles, respectively.] The Captain determined to take the boats no further; the mountain[s] were between 20 &30 miles distant & the river very serpentine.— Its apparent dimensions & depth nearly the same; its current equally strong.— The country & its productions remained equally uninteresting.— In addition to all this our provisions were running short; we had been for some days on half allowance of biscuit.— This same half allowance, although really sufficient, was very unpleasant after our hard work; & those who have not tried it will alone exclaim about the comfort of a light stomach & an easy digestion. It wss very ridiculous how invariably the conversation in the evening turned upon all sorts, qualities & kinds of food. The Captain & a large party set off to walk a few miles to the Westward.— We crossed a desert plain which forms the head of the valley of S. Cruz, but could not see the base of the mountains.— On the North side, there is a great break in the elevated lava plain, as if of the valley of a river.— It is thought probable that the main branch of the S. Cruz bends up in that direction & perhaps drains many miles of the Eastern slope of the chain.— We tookd a farewell look at the Cordilleras which probably in this part had never been viewed by other European eyes, & then returned to the tents.— At the furthest point we were about 140 miles from the Atlantic, & 60 from the nearest inlet of the Pacific.* * At their furthest west, the party were probably within a few miles of Lago Argentino, which connects with Lago Viedma and Lago San Martin, and which was first described by J. H. Gardiner in 1867. FitzRoy read a paper about the expedition to the Royal Geographical Society on 8 May 1837 (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 7: 114-26). Early on the 5th we began the rapid descent. Sometimes the wind favoured, and we passed the land at the rate of ten knots an hour; sometimes dangerous places obliged up to turn the boat's head to the stream, pull against it, and so drop down between the rocks. Though easy, the return was far more dangerous than our ascent of the river. Our first day's work in returning was a distance of eighty-five miles, which had cost us six days hard labour in ascending. Before sun-rise, we began our descent. We shot down the stream with great rapidity; generally at the rate of 10 miles an hour; what a contrast to the laborious tracking.— We effected in this day what had cost us five days & a half; from passing over so much country, we as it were condensed all the birds & animals together & they appeared much more numerous. Next day we made good about eighty-two miles; We again equalled five & a half days tracking: the climate is certainly very different near to the mountains; it is there much colder, more windy & cloudy. and on the 7th we reached the salt water. Although we made such quilck progress in returning, our halts for observations were similar to those made in going. While descending the rapid stream, so quickly and quietly, we saw many more guanacoes and ostriches than we had seen before; but our flying shots only frightened them, and time was too precious to admit of any delay. Only one fish was got, and that was a dead one, which had been left on the bank: it was similar to a trout. Not more than half a dozen live fish were seen, and none could be caught either with hooks or nets. Leaving a very small party near Wedell Bluff to look for guanacoes, I hastened on board with the boats; Slept at the place where the water ceases to be fresh.— A tent & party was left to try to shoot some Guanaco. and with the ebb tide reached the Beagle before noon on the 8th. Almost every one is discontented with this expedition; much hard work, & much time lost & scarcely any thing seen or gained.— We have however to thank our good fortune, in enjoying constant fine dry weather & blue skys. To me the cruize has been most satisfactory, from affording so excellent a section of the great modern formation of Patagonia.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3516
__label__cc	0.666536	0.333464	Night‎ > ‎Character Rules‎ > ‎ Player characters in this campaign are assumed to be special, even unique persons with a distinct reason for fighting against the minions of Night. There should be an event in your past which caused you particularly to hate Night and all that fiend stands for whether a murdered relative, confiscated property, or having a parent or grandparent who was a Knight of the Chalice. An intense loathing of evil in general, and of Night in particular, is a prerequisite for player characters in the campaign. At some time after that intense hatred developed, but still before the start of the campaign, every player character had another experience. It may have followed immediately on the first event, or come some years later, but it is the event which directly precipitated the start of your adventuring career. While in the woods or hills for some reason, you encountered a black unicorn. You had never seen or even imagined a creature of such beauty before. It moved with easy grace, yet powerful muscles rippled underneath its glossy black coat. You stood entranced while the beast approached silently. It stood face-to-face with you, its gentle brown eyes looking deeply into yours. You felt naked, yet unashamed, and you felt no fear, even as it lowered its horn to softly touch your shoulder. Power seemed to flow from its horn through your body, and your heart seemed to burn within you. Slowly the unicorn turned to return to the woods, and you noticed for the first time a long, angry red scar behind its left shoulder blade. Then it was gone. The encounter with the unicorn left you with three lasting results. First, there is a mark on your shoulder where the horn touched you, a dark red blotch that looks something like a cup or chalice. Second, though the unicorn said nothing, you felt at the time and still feel a sense of calling, as if you had been specially chosen as a champion of good to fight the forces of evil in the world. Third, you have a special magical ability to aid you in that fight. Roll 1d8 for the character's special gift: Alter appearance as change self, level 5 caster, duration 1 turn + 1 rd./level Banish evil 1/day, either dispel magic (base 100% chance, cast as priest of same level) or remove curse Detect magic 10%/level, at will Healing cure 1d6 + 1/level 1/day, remove paralysis 1/day, cure disease or cure blindness 1/day Prayer 1/day Protection from evil as paladin (15' radius for paladins) Resistance 50% immunity to charm spells cast by evil creatures (elves 100% immunity) In addition to this particular ability, the character also has the ability to recognize another character with a Gift at a range of up to 60'. This is involuntary; the character simply becomes aware that another person nearby has been touched by the Black Unicorn, and that other person immediately comes to the attention of the character.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3517
__label__cc	0.597507	0.402493	The Prince and the Page By Yonge, Charlotte Mary Title: The Prince and the Page Author: Yonge, Charlotte Mary Subject: Literature, Literature & thought, Writing. Publisher: World Ebook Library Yonge, C. M. (n.d.). The Prince and the Page. Retrieved from http://schoollibrary.com/ PREFACE: In these days of exactness even a child's historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de Montfort drawn by his wife's own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte's History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of the story. The household accounts show that Earl Simon and Eleanor of England had five sons. Henry fell with his father at Evesham. Simon and Guy deeply injured his cause by their violence, and after holding out Kenilworth against the Prince, retired to the Continent, where they sacrilegiously murdered Henry, son of the King of the Romans—a crime so much abhorred in Italy that Dante represents himself as meeting them in torments in the Inferno, not however before Guy had become the founder of the family of the Counts of Monforte in the Maremma. Richard, the fourth son, appears in the household books as possessing dogs, and having garments bought for him; but his history has not been traced after his mother left England. The youngest son, Amaury, obtained the hereditary French possessions of the family, and continued the line of Montfort as a French subject. Eleanor, the only daughter, called the Demoiselle de Montfort, married, as is well known, the last native prince of Wales, and died after a few years. · PREFACE · CHAPTER I—THE STATELY HUNTER · CHAPTER II—THE LADY OF THE FOREST · CHAPTER III—ALTON LODGE · CHAPTER IV—THE TRANSLATION · CHAPTER V—THE OLD KNIGHT OF THE HOSPITAL · CHAPTER VI—THE BEGGAR EARL · CHAPTER VII—AMONG THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE · CHAPTER VIII—RICHARD'S WRAITH · CHAPTER IX—ASH WEDNESDAY · CHAPTER X—THE COMBAT · CHAPTER XI—THE VIEW FROM CARMEL · CHAPTER XII—THE GARDEN OF THE HOSPITAL · CHAPTER XIII—THE BEGGAR AND THE PRINCE · CHAPTER XIV—THE QUEEN OF THE DEW-DROPS · CHAPTER XV—THE BEGGAR'S DOWRY · CHAPTER XVI—THE PAGE'S MEMORY	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3521
__label__wiki	0.97991	0.97991	Exclaim!'s Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, Part Two Best of 2018 By Exclaim! Staff You waited, and it's here: today (December 5), we're counting down the Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2018, from 10 to 1. We kicked things off yesterday (December 4) with our Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums, 20 through 11, and now we're wrapping it up; Over the next two weeks, Exclaim! will be rolling out our annual, genre-specific album lists for the Best of 2018 including the best of folk and country and the best metal and hardcore. Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2018, 10 to 1: 10. Low (Sub Pop) Minnesota juggernaut Low waited until their 25th year of existence before transmogrifying their genetic code as substantially as they have with Double Negative, their 12th album. It's apparent immediately with the transfixing triptych of "Quorum," "Dancing and Blood" and "Fly" that the band are working in a defiantly experimental mode, disfiguring their signature melodies by wrapping them in a womb-like cocoon of bombast and decay. This is a statement as powerful as it is profound. The album itself is a two-year long collaboration with producer BJ Burton, who's as responsible as Low are for the blown-out beauty of this ferocious exercise in studio-based songcraft. For all of its primordial fervour, Double Negative is maintains enough of the band's sonic identity to deftly navigate the sea of chaos and keep the ship upright. This is a rapturous song cycle, the product of exquisite talent that has achieved something truly remarkable. Bryon Hayes 9. Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love (Warp) Yves Tumor is as much a mystery as a musician. Since his early contributions to projects from NON WORLDWIDE and Mykki Blanco, the artist (allegedly) named Sean Bowie has proven elusive in both style and persona. So it's something of a surprise that Tumor's Warp Records debut is both accessible and bracingly direct. Overwhelmed with such weighty topics as codependence and police brutality, Safe in the Hands of Love is a desperate plea for connection amid psychological and political turmoil. Its broad musical vocabulary spells everything out in a variety of ways — techno beats that pump like pistons ("Honesty"), string-sampling alt-rock ("Noid") and melancholic acoustic guitar ("Recognizing the Enemy") — but the vocals are its most expressive flourish. Crying out for lost brothers on "Lifetime," Tumor's singing is stirring in its vulnerability. The musician behind it all may remain inscrutable, but Safe in the Hands of Love more than suffices as a defining statement. Matthew Blenkarn 8. Blood Orange Negro Swan (Domino) Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) employs dynamism like few others. As a songwriter, producer, director and performer, he's an artist that fluidly becomes both the symptom and a panacea to the anxiety that comes with the everything-all-at-once time we exist in. Negro Swan is an important album; here, Hynes zooms in on his disinherited self to reflect on a nerve-wracked, complicated society and articulates his experience through a gorgeously evolving sonic atmosphere, drifting through luscious jazz, charismatic indie, erudite hip-hop and poignant R&B. Peppered throughout is activist Janet Mock, who appears in spoken word snippets that lend lucidity to Hynes' introspection. Coming from Hynes' self-described thought process as a bunch of "open browser tabs," Negro Swan is an existential, empowering album, a beautiful stream of conscious work of art for an infinitely scrolling generation. Levi Manchak 7. Janelle Monáe (Wondaland) As with everything Janelle Monáe does, Dirty Computer is defined by her exacting standards and specifications. Yet, no longer constrained by her formerly ubiquitous black and white tuxedos or beholden to Fritz Lang-meets-Southern Belle android personification, her third album sets her programming free to create the innovative pop record that she was destined to create. Dirty Computer finds Monáe at her most human, speaking freely on sexuality, self-determination and liberation of the "highly melanated" — yet feeling fully accessible for all. Much like her late mentor Prince, there's a genre fearlessness that weaves its way across tracks like the sensationally provocative "Pynk," the anthemic "I Like That" and the scorching, funky "Make Me Feel." Bolstered by savvy appearances by music stalwarts Brian Wilson, Pharrell Williams and Stevie Wonder, Monáe knows where she stands in the music continuum and continues to forge ahead, fearlessly, towards greatness. Ryan B. Patrick 6. Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears (Transgressive) On Let's Eat Grandma's darkly radiant second album, the UK psych-synth duo make their atypical pop resonate with uncommon emotional intelligence. Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth have a knack for how messy human moments actually feel; as a result, I'm All Ears spins ever-inventive instrumentation and lyrical prowess into luminous spirals of sound. "Hot Pink" glides in on neon synths, slyly questioning gender roles before abruptly jackknifing into a combustive, mechanical crunch of a chorus. "Falling Into Me" pulses with the tension between longing and affirmation. Opener "Whitewater" could pass as the overture for a spooky space castle, while "Donnie Darko" uses its 11-minute runtime to conclude the album in a swirling, surreal slow-burn. I'm All Ears is unpredictable pop at its best: perplexing and affecting in equal measure. Paul Blinov 2018 IN LISTS More Low More Fucked Up More Beach House More Robyn The Blaze, DJ Koze, Laurel Halo and Jon Hopkins All Took Gentler Electronic Paths This Year Best of 2018 It happened slowly but steadily over the last few years: tempos slowed, beats softened; in the underground, ambient music saw a sharp rise,... R&B Artists Like Leon Bridges, H.E.R., the Internet and Khalid Pick Up the Guitar Again From its inception, the genre known as R&B has relied on the venerable guitar for its unique bass-heavy sound and entrancing chord structure... Troye Sivan, SOPHIE, Tirzah and Empress Of Represent the Future of Pop Best of 2018 While a whiff of nostalgia hung across the 2018 pop landscape, the past 12 months were nevertheless a banner year for forward-thinking pop m... Here Are All of Drake's 2018 Music Videos, Ranked When he wasn't dropping one of his own five Scorpion music videos, Drake was popping up in somebody else's this year. As 2018 comes to an en... Exclaim!'s Top 11 EPs of the Year Best of 2018 Now that we've given each genre that Exclaim! covers its Best of the Year due, we're turning our attention to a shorter but no less beloved... More Best Of 2018 Mar 16 @ 7:00PM - Blood Orange Toronto @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre (Exhibition Place) Blood Orange \| Tei Shi Feb 15 @ 7:00PM - U.S. Girls Toronto @ Paradise Feb 16 @ 7:30PM - U.S. Girls Montreal @ Le Ministère Apr 16 @ 7:00PM - U.S. Girls Vancouver @ Imperial Apr 04 @ 7:00PM - Yves Tumor Vancouver @ Fortune Sound Club Apr 16 @ 7:00PM - Yves Tumor Toronto @ Mod Club Theatre Apr 18 @ 8:00PM - Yves Tumor Montreal @ L'Astral	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3527
__label__wiki	0.730591	0.730591	NASS All Things Sundial Sundials - World's Oldest Clocks North American Sundial Society NASS Policies The Compendium Past Compendium Sundial Repository Shadow Catchers All Things Sundial Ancient Sundials Old and Historic Sundials Dials of Interest Memorial Dials Lost - Damaged - Restored Sundials Solar Alignments Time - Transits - Longitude Two Worlds - One Sun Digital Sundials Dial Links General Sundial Links Sundial Artisans Sundial Software Ancient Astronomers Historic Sundials Sundials of Interest Earth Time and Motion Meridiane and Noon Lines Making and Using Sundials Sun Transits and Eclipses Digital and Virtual Sundials 3D Printing Tutorials NASS Conferences Sawyer Dialing Prize Sundials for Starters Schmoyer Sundial Sundial Garden Sundial Construction Draw a Sundial Cut-Out Sundials Sundial Mathematics Sundial Registry View All Sundials Map of Sundials Submit a Sundial Sundial Discovered in Madaba Map Mosaic Published: Sunday, 22 December 2019 01:29 \| Print \| Hits: 205 We've reported on ancient mosaics from Turkey showing sundials (Antioch Mosaic Sundial - 2016). Now from the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education in Poland ( Archaeology News - Ancient Sundial and Science in Poland ) another ancient mosaic sundial has been discovered: Sundial in the Madaba Map, a great mosaic located in Jordan. The sundial is located next to the gate on the left. Credit Wikipedia/public domain. Professor Marek T. Olszewski from the University of Warsaw was re-examining a number of mosaics dating back to the 2nd century AD when he made his startling discovery. One of the mosaics from the 6th century AD which was discovered by the Gate of Damascus in Jerusalem, Olszewski noticed that between a richly dressed women, a mysterious object is visible, which scientists at the beginning of the 20th century described as an oil lamp or column. Olszewski said: ”After careful analysis and comparison with a sundial discovered during excavations, I came to the conclusion that this mosaic and other ones similar to it depict sundials.... Another sundial "tracked" by the Polish researcher is located in a wall mosaic in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere church in Rome. This mosaic was created during the time of Pope Paschal I (817-824). Prof. Olszewski also noticed a previously unknown sundial in the Madaba Map - a huge floor mosaic, which is currently stored in the church of St. George in Madaba, Jordan. It shows a map of the Middle East from the Byzantine period. This is the oldest cartographic depiction of the Holy Land, including Jerusalem and dates back to the 6th century AD. Yet another depiction of a sundial comes from Tarsus (Mersin) in Turkey, where a figural mosaic (ca. 2nd-3rd century AD) shows a sundial on a column and a crow sitting on it. A man tries to scare off the bird by throwing a pouch at it (crow was a symbol of a bad omen). Professor Olszewski has now discovered eight previously unknown sundials in the designs, taking the total number known to 15. Time and Cosmos Published: Tuesday, 06 December 2016 04:48 \| Print \| Hits: 2077 Horizontal Gnomonic Dial (Inv. 3075) by permission Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli Statuette of Atlas Bearing a Hemispherical Sundial Sir John Soane's Museum, London The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (15 East 84th Street in New York) is hosting an exhibition "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity" open to the public from now until April 23, 2017. From their on-line invitation, "This exhibition aims to explore the ways that time was organized and kept track of in the Greco-Roman world, and how it was conceived in relation to the Cosmos. The objects displayed include artifacts illustrating the technology of ancient time-reckoning and the perception, visualization, and social role of time and cosmos..." This is exemplified by a wonderful horizontal gnomonic sundial using a vertical gnomon shown at left. It was found at Pompeii around 1865 and became part of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli in 1867. "Despite the fact that it was found in Italy, the inscriptions on it are in Greek, perfhaps reflecting the status of Greek as the langauage of science in antiquity. The summer and winter tropics (solstices), equinox, and seasons are reasonably declined. The hour lines however reflect temporal hours rather than the hour angles we would draw todayl. Read more: Time and Cosmos Athens Tower of Winds Opens to Public Published: Saturday, 27 August 2016 20:49 \| Print \| Hits: 5548 In the old Roman Agora on the slope of Athen's ancient Acropolis hill is the Tower ofWinds. Today, completing two years of restoration, the interior was re-opened to the public this summer in August, 2016. The Tower had been closed for the last 200 years. The story of the Tower starts in the first century, BCE, probably during the reign of Julius Caesar. The Tower was designed by Andronikos Kyrrhestos (Andronicus of Cyrrhus), an astronomer and maker of celestial instruments. Andronicus constructed a white marble sundial for the sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite on the island of Tinos. The sundial becamse so famous that Andronicus was invited to Athens where he erected the magnificent 14 meter Tower called the Aerides (the Winds) . It was built on the eastern side of the Roman Agora in Athens and meant to have utilitarian value. "No one knows who funded its lavish construction - the octagonal monument is made almost entirely of Pentelic marble, the same used for the Parthenon and rarely found in buildings other than temples," said Stelios Daskalakis, head conservator. Atop of the octogon tower now rests the fully-preserved roof made of 24 marble slabs, resting on a Corinthian capital. Once a bronze statue of Trition, the god of the sea, was set on the roof to turn in the wind as a weather indicator. By night, water flowed through a hydro-mechanical system designed by Andronicus from a cylinder inside the Tower. The water level lead to an exterior indicator creating a night time clock or clepsydra. During the day the Tower was a public time teller with eight sundials. NASS_Theodossiou_Tower_of_Winds.pdf [ ] 960 kB Read more: Athens Tower of Winds Opens to Public Kanaloa Stone Endangered Published: Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:22 \| Print \| Hits: 5193 Kānaloa Stone Shadow Alignment Photo: Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission On Kaho'olawe, the smallest island of the Hawaiian island chain only 7 miles from Maui, sits an endangered and sacred rock, the Kānaloa, with petroglyphs and a row of 32 cupules (man-made depressions) along one edge. “It has significant celestial alignments with the rising and setting of the sun,” said Michael Naho'opi'i, Executive Director of the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC). It appears that there is a relationship between the shadow of a stick held vertically along lines etched in the stone and the cupules. Documented as Site 110 feature BU, the Kānaloa stone is relatively flat and rests on a natural pedestal that when tapped, resonates with a bell-like ring. But its petroglyphs and alignment cups may soon topple into a nearby and ever growing ravine. In 2010 the Commission approved "The Cultural Use Plan: Kūkulu Ke Ea A Kānaloa" with one of the recommendations to preserve and stabilize the stone. The first phase of the plan has been to document the stone's celestial alignments and quantify the erosion forces acting on its base. Read more: Kanaloa Stone Endangered Antioch Mosaic Sundial Published: Saturday, 30 April 2016 20:52 \| Print \| Hits: 3683 The Daily Sabah reports a 2,400 year old mosaic discovered during excavations in Turkey's southern Hatay provice that shows a skeleton that according to archeologist Demet Kara fromthe Hatay Archeology Museum has an inscription that translates from ancient Greek to say "Be cherrful, and live your life." Perhaps more interesting to sundialists is the mosaic further right. It is of a Roman attending the bath. Demet Kara explains, "...there is a sundial and a young clothed man run[s] towards it with a bare-headed butler behind. The sundial is between 9 and 10 am. 9am is the bath time in the Roman period. He has to arrive at supper at 10am. Unless he can, it is not well received. There is writing on the scene that reads he is late for supper and writing about time on the other." Kara added, "[This is] a unique mosaic in Turkey. There is a similar mosaic in Italy but this one is much more comprehensive. It is important for the fact that it dates back to the third century BCE...Antiocheia was a very important, rich city. There were mosaic schools and mints in the city. The ancient city of Zeugma in [the southeastern province of] Gaziantep might have been established by people who were trained here. Antiocheia mosaics are world famous." http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/04/22/2400-year-old-mosaic-found-in-southern-turkey-says-be-cheerful-enjoy-your-life http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/be-cheerful-live-your-life-ancient-mosaic-meme-found-in-turkeys-south.aspx?PageID=238&NID=98201&NewsCatID=375 New Insights into Ancient Sundials Published: Sunday, 10 August 2014 02:33 \| Print \| Hits: 5623 Larisa N. Vodolazhskaya of the Department of Space Physics at Southern Federal University (SFU), Rostov, has brought two ancient time keepers together with a new and startling result. The story starts at the turn of the end of the 19th century with the discovery of an L-shaped bar found in the tomb of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BCE). that appeared to be a sundial. In the 1930's a "user manual" of sort was found carved on the tomb ceiling of Seti I (1290-1279 BCE) at Abydos. The ideal L-shaped bar had lines engraved with distances from a starting mark of 3, 6, 9, and 12 units. The Seti I text describes these spacings as "an established procedure". But what is the procedure? Read more: New Insights into Ancient Sundials al-Biruni's Cosmos 13th Century BCE Ancient Egyptian Sundial Discovered al-Shatir Sundial Technology Challenge of 1371 Gardom's Edge Monolith Pantheon Sundial Early Astronomers SelectSundials Copyright © 1995-2016 North American Sundial Society. All Rights Reserved Policies Terms of Use NASS Officers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3531
__label__cc	0.653509	0.346491	by Dr. Howard Johnson. First printed in EDN magazine, December 6, 2001 At a microscopic scale, no surface appears perfectly smooth. All materials exhibit surface irregularities and bumps. One measure of surface roughness is the rms (root-mean-square) height h of the surface bumps. At low frequencies, the depth of penetration of current (the skin depth) exceeds h. Low-frequency currents, therefore, submarine below the surface bumps, unaffected by surface roughness. Effective losses are calculated using the material resistivity and skin depth as if the surface were perfectly smooth. High-frequency currents, on the other hand, remain tightly bound to the surface at all times. At frequencies so high that the skin depth δ shrinks to less than the rms bump height h, the current follows the contours of the surface, over hill and down dale, as it flows along the conductor. At these high frequencies, the apparent resistance of the material, and the effective signal loss at such frequencies, increases to a value representative of the additional distance over which the current must flow to traverse the contours of the surface. How severe is the surface-roughness effect? Example: If the average inclination of the conducting surface is 60° (as if patterned with an infinite array of equilateral ridges perpendicular to the direction of current flow), the ultimate increase in surface resistance is 100 percent (double). That's a pretty severe effect. An infinite array of equilateral 3-D pyramids induces a less severe effect, because, as anyone who hikes in the wilderness can tell you, you don't have to traverse every peak to make your way through the mountains. At what frequency does surface roughness take hold? The onset frequency for an rms surface roughness of h=1 micron is 4.37 GHz, decreasing with the square of h, like this: At the onset frequency, the effective resistance of the conductor has progressed 60% of the way from the low-frequency asymptote (no effect) to the high-frequency asymptote (full effect). How rough is FR-4? The roughness of the copper layers used in pc-board materials is often rated in terms of the average peak-to-valley height. Typical roughness treatments suitable for use with FR-4 dielectrics produce heights of 6 to 18 microns. Even if you choose the low end of this roughness range, an average peak-to-valley height of 6 microns corresponds to an rms height of about one-fourth that value and an onset frequency of slightly more than 1 GHz. At less than 1 GHz, you don't notice the roughness effect; at greater than 1 GHz, you do. The peak-to-valley height tells you at what frequency roughness may become noticeable, but does not tell you how severe the effect will be. Accurate knowledge of the roughness effect is obtained only by measurement. What can you do to make things better? The exact dependence of skin-effect resistance on surface roughness defies analysis, as it depends not only on the height of the bumps but also on their horizontal extent, spacing, and exact shape. Long, sinuous undulations cause few problems, whereas short, choppy, steep-faced bumps significantly increase the path length of the current. Talk with your pc-board vendor about the variety of available surface treatments that are compatible with your dielectric material. Vendors of pc-board materials refer to the toothing profiles of their cores when speaking about surface roughness. Toothing profiles are purposefully etched into the copper to facilitate adhesion between layers. You may have little choice about the surface treatment used on the inside surfaces of a core layer; the core manufacturers make them pretty rough. You can control the surfaces on the outside of the core that your pc-board fabricator processes. Stack your board so these heavy current-carrying surfaces are on the bottom (reference-plane-facing side) of your highest-frequency traces. On that side, the current density is the highest, and surface roughness matters the most. PC-board fabricators have access to many surface treatments. The RTF (reverse-treat foil) process makes a surface that looks like the Himalayas. Sulfuric-peroxide treatments add a dense forest of bushy trees to the landscape. The black-oxide treatment produces square-looking crystalline shapes. One of the most aggressive treatments, from the standpoint of good surface adhesion, is the double-treat process (Figure 1). It grows long, dendritic fingers that stick straight out from the copper surface but leaves the underlying surface fairly smooth. Of all the choices, I like this one best. My theory is that current on a double-treated surface will remain mostly bound to the smooth underlying surface, flowing like a river around the dendritic columns. Figure 1—Dendritic fingers produced on the surface of a PCB trace by the double-treat process stick up like dead trees in the middle of a river (photomicrograph courtesy of Teradyne).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3534
__label__cc	0.507076	0.492924	About SDCNG Market Connections Search SD Businesses Post an Open House Post Rental Availability SDNEWS.COM La Jolla Village News Beach & Bay Press Peninsula Beacon Visitors' Guides / Digital Archives articles ads businesses events profiles Holiday Food & Toy Drive Concert at OB Farmers Market on Dec. 12 by BART MENDOZA San Diego Community News Group Published - 12/08/18 - 08:02 AM \| 2346 views \| 0 \| 54 \| \| Larry Teves, aka Chicken Bone Slim, will play at the Holiday Food & Toy Drive Concert. The OB Farmers Market holds its annual Holiday Food & Toy Drive Concert from 4 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 12. Taking place at the intersection of Newport Avenue and Bacon Street, the free outdoor event will feature numerous local performers playing short, semi-acoustic sets of seasonal favorites. Beyond providing a fun soundtrack to your Farmers Market shopping experience, the concert will also serve as a drop-off point for holiday donations. "We are looking for non-perishable food items, unwrapped toys and money," said event organizer Michael Head, best known as guitarist of local favorites, the Country Rockin' Rebels. "This will all go to a group of OB families in need, chosen by the OB Town Council. We’ve gathered quite a haul over the years and I’ve personally seen the help that it brings. It’s amazing to see," Head said. This year's talent line up includes Head and band mate Kris Wott (5:30 p.m.), as well as Travis Oliver (4 p.m.), Dave Gilbert (4:30 p.m.), Jefferson Jay (5 p.m.), Alicia Previn (6 p.m.) and Chicken Bone Slim (6:30 p.m.) "For a special show like this, I look for musicians willing and able, even motivated, to give back to the community," Head remarked. "Artists are an important part of that community and they are almost always ready and able to help where they can. That’s what makes musicians so cool - they are typically some of the most giving people." He points out that "OB-based musicians are a focus of this show, as they always seem to want to help, but we’ve had performers from all over San Diego. Head notes the event will have a varied song list. "Most of the acts, but not all, focus on holiday tunes. This is great to get people in the holiday spirit of giving. Any music seems to help, and the OB audience is quite supportive no matter what." Larry Teves, aka Chicken Bone Slim, is a Farmers Market regular. He considers the weekly event special. "The OB community supports the market and that’s one of the reasons it’s such great community," he said. "It’s always nice to see so many old and new friends there – you can’t keep me away." His reasons for being part of this year's holiday concert are succinct. "Because music needs ears, artists need love, and you reap what you sow," he said. Alicia Previn concurs. "Music is such a great way to bring people together," she noted. Previn has played the event previously. "It's always fun performing at an outdoor holiday happening. People are usually in great spirits and it's wonderful to think that we can help someone, even just a little, by playing these songs." For his part, Travis Oliver is looking forward to the camaraderie of the event as well as hearing new takes on old favorite tunes. "I enjoy being part of the creative gift given to this community," he said. "It’s a joy to witness and experience the variety of art the collective group brings to the event. Its a unique kaleidoscope of holiday music that shifts like the sands of our beaches and tides of our ocean." Despite the hard work of putting together a show such as this, Head is happy to be able to contribute to those in need just in time for the holidays. "Just knowing that every little bit helps and that everything is actually going to an OB family in need, is great," he said. "Being a full-time musician is a lot of hard work but also you realize you’re pretty lucky to be doing something that really matters sometimes. It’s pretty cool," Head said. Holiday Food & Toy Drive Concert: Wednesday, Dec. 12 at OB Farmers Market, Bacon and Newport. 4 to 7 p.m. www.oceanbeachsandiego.com. Copyright 2020 San Diego Community News Group. All rights reserved. Comments are back! Simply post the comment (it'll complain about you failing the human test) then simply click on the captcha and then click "Post Comment" again. Comments are also welcome on our Facebook page. Airport Authority approves $3 billion redevelopment plan by DAVE SCHWAB San Diego Community News Group 01.15.20 - 03:30 pm Copyright 2020 San Diego Community News Group. All rights reserved. UC San Diego study: Shutdown of coal-fired plants in U.S. saves lives, improves crops San Diego Community News Group 01.12.20 - 09:00 am Copyright 2020 San Diego Community News Group. All rights reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.596838	0.596838	The obsession with how many titles we have 124 posts • Page 3 of 3 • Previous 1, 2, 3 Re: The obsession with how many titles we have I think my response to the OP is that if there is a hardware obsession by other fanbases, it is an obsession with their own hardware, not necessarily an obsession with our lack of hardware. That is to be expected, championships should be enjoyed obsessively If a discussion is about how much success a town has had in sports, trophies pretty much start and end the discussion. I have no problem with that. That is a historical discussion. The only time trophy-talk is obtrusive is when it occurs in the middle of a conversation about how well a team has performed over a specific time range. Most NFL discussions surround the current year and might include the last couple of years. If trophies are brought into the discussion, that isn't a sign of trophy-obsession, it's a sign of someone who has lost the argument within the current scope and needs to shift terrain to somewhere more favorable i.e. the historical scope. Silver Supporter BreesIsOverrated wrote: I just find it funny that fans from the 49ers and other fanbases obsess that we haven't won a Super Bowl yet.... and that our city supposedly sucks as a sports town. I know we only have one major modern Pro title (1979 NBA)... but I never see the same thing being said about well... pretty much any other city. What makes us so much more hated than San Diego, Phoenix, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Nashville, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Atlanta, New Orleans, Cincinnati...etc and many more that have accomplished in most cases the same or LESS than our city has? It's like they have some personal vendetta against Seattle winning another title. They hate us because Russell Wilson will blow away their stinking five golden rings. This is what it's like being at the top--get used to it. Lords of Scythia HansGruber wrote: Sgt. Largent wrote: BreesIsOverrated wrote: This is the dumbest argument ever. MLB has no salary cap, NFL does. And spend it wisely? Give me a break... Ok then, lets see how the Yankees would do with a $23 Million payroll instead of a $228 Million payroll. Money is everything in maintaining a championship franchise in the modern MLB. THAT'S the dumbest argument ever. I guarantee you if the M's had the biggest payroll we wouldn't be saying "oh well we're not very excited about this World Series championship, we had an unfair advantage." We'd be dancing in the streets just like Yankee fans do. But that's what I expect out of Seattle fans, we're great at justifying mediocrity for our sports teams. Falls right in line with all the other loser mentality excuses like "the league hates us"..............."the media hates us"..............."the refs hate us"................and all the other hairbrained conspiracy theories people puke up on here. One thing matters, and ONLY one thing. Rings. Doesn't matter how you get em. Period. Yours is kind of a dumb argument because you are arguing something entirely different than what he said, and you never disproved his point. He said baseball championships are bought. Which they are. We all know who will be in the World Series before it ever happens, and there are only a few teams worth watching, who all continually try to outbid each other for a championship. Are you arguing that is false? Not true at all. Look at these recent World Series winners, eight of them since 1998 have won with less than a 100 million payroll YEAR WINNER W-L PAYROLL 2007 Red Sox 96-66 $143,026,214 2006 Cardinals 83-78 $88,891,371 2005 White Sox 99-63 $75,178,000 2004 Red Sox 98-64 $127,298,500 2003 Marlins 91-71 $48,750,000 2002 Angels 99-63 $61,721,667 2001 Diamondbacks 92-70 $85,247,999 2000 Yankees 87-74 $92,938,260 1998 Yankees 114-48 $63,159,898 Does it help to have a big payroll? Of course. But to say you can buy a World Series is ridiculous. It still takes properly managing, GM'ing, signings, farm system, luck with injuries, etc. Sgt. Largent NET Pro Bowler Yankees were 1st in MLB in payroll in 1999 and 2000... 2nd in 1998. You didn't factor inflation at all. The only outlier is the Marlins, pretty much every other winner is nowhere near the bottom for payroll. BreesIsOverrated NET Practice Squad This whole argument depends largely on your perspective. For the casual/bandwagon fan, it seems the most important thing watching the favorite team win NOW. History is irrelevant. For the football fan in general, seeing great football plays , regardless of the team (to some degree). For the franchise and seasoned fans, wins are most important, but not always this week; the overall picture is bigger than one week. This is where the history becomes valuable, and the supposed argument that "5 rings" matters a bit. The franchise and city it's tied to are bigger than the individual players or fans, and the logo/uniform takes priority over everything else. For the league, they don't care who wins, so long as it increases revenue. If the product they're marketing is less than profitable, then they could conceivably find a way to make it more so, even if that means giving some teams more difficult schedules, changing rules that seem to favor a certain team's approach. My take. Flame away. Ad Hawk Baseball has more teams in the playoffs and world series in the last 20 years than either basketball or football, and by a considerable margin. The only thing the uncapped payroll does is make it nearly impossible for the bottom 3-4 to compete with the rest of the league. Except, Pitt made the playoffs, the Marlins have two WS, and even KC is close. Tical21 Ninerg wrote: Let's compare to another sport. Do you think Yankee fans ignore their past championships? They still take great pride in the championships that were won going back to the Babe Ruth era. They would laugh at Boston, their most heated rivals, and accuse them of being cursed since had not won any titles since they let Babe Ruth go. This makes them stupid. (I hate both the Red Sox and Yankees FWIW, and think that people who think that the Sox are somehow way nobler than the Yankees because they've won fewer titles are really dumb.) To still bask in a title won during your time as a fan is one thing. To bask in titles won before you were so much as a clump of cells is another. Do I sit around being really proud about the USA's accomplishments in the Revolutionary War? "Take that, redcoats!" That crap has nothing to do with me. Titles your team won before you were ever a fan have nothing to do with you. You can be glad, I suppose, that your team has a storied history (and yes I'm glad that the Revolution went well, as far as that goes), but to throw that in anyone else's face in the present day is just incredibly dumb and makes no sense. MidwestHawker dopeboy206 wrote: Deleted due to language Cap went into effect in 1994 after they won and they were busted for cheating the cap. That's why the other owners kicked DeBartolo out of the club. Well, that and the criminal stuff What were they cheating? Just curious. I was young at the time and still in grade school so I wouldn't know. dopeboy206 dopeboy206 wrote: 49ers cheated the cap to sign Deion Sanders from the Saints, Ken Norton Jr from the Cowboys, and a few other players. More info here: http://articles.philly.com/1994-09-27/s ... ken-norton Most old-school fans who were around back then remember it well. They had to cheat to get the ring in 1994, and it pissed off the other owners so bad that they continued to sue DeBartolo until he finally gave the team to family members. The 49ers were the epitome of bought and paid-for championships. They're the primary reason the salary cap was implemented (along with Dallas and Washington). And since the salary cap? JACK SQUAT. They've won nothing. There weren't even any 49er fans left in San Francisco (except for the older folks). That entire fanbase is a joke, and even gets laughed at in the Bay Area. Don't believe me? Go down there to a sports bar and watch what happens when one of the 49er posers talks trash to a Raiders fan. It's hilarious. HansGruber I guess, for fairness, I should also mention that the only SuperBowl championship John Elway ever won was when Denver was cheating the cap as well. So it wasn't just the 49ers. The Broncos cheated the cap, and were never heard of again too. You're sense of Niner history never ceases to amaze me. The idea that other owners pushed Eddie D out because of things that he did prior to 1994 is absurd. But please, don't let me intrude on your delusions NET Rookie BreesIsOverrated wrote: Yankees were 1st in MLB in payroll in 1999 and 2000... 2nd in 1998. You didn't factor inflation at all. The only outlier is the Marlins, pretty much every other winner is nowhere near the bottom for payroll. How'd you get from "you can buy a world series title" to "it's only fair if bottom of the payroll teams win?" Here's the facts, the Yankees have had the highest payroll in baseball for like 100 years now, and only have what, 26 titles? That's only a 25% success rate. So no, you can't always just buy yourself a title. But to get back on track, I have no problem with other fanbases obsessing over titles..........cause that's all that matters. There are no qualifications as to who should be able to enjoy them, or when you were born, or how they were won, or what sport they were won in. That's the beauty of sports, taking pride in your teams win or lose. Ad Hawk wrote: This whole argument depends largely on your perspective. Agreed. In example; If my Dawgs won the next 5 nattys, none of them would be more important to me than '91. They would all have the exact same value in my heart, in my head. It's about team legacy, past, current and future. I sincerely doubt any of us would be so quick to dismiss our 5 rings if we had them. Correct me if I'm wrong. HawkWow Location: The 5-0 NorCal wrote: You're sense of Niner history never ceases to amaze me. The idea that other owners pushed Eddie D out because of things that he did prior to 1994 is absurd. But please, don't let me intrude on your delusions I never stated DeBartolo was pushed out for spending BEFORE 1994. The owners just got pissed and created the salary cap. DeBartolo was pushed out because of what did IN 1994. Jerry Jones was largely behind that movement, still angry that the 49ers signed away Ken Norton Jr. with a BS contract that paid a performance bonus against the previous season (what should have counted as guaranteed money). I understand how that might confuse you since you've only been a 49ers fan for 2 years now. Had you actually watched football in the early 1990's, you would recall very clearly all the news about the owners trying to push DeBartolo out of the league for cheating the cap. Jerry Jones went on national TV and said in no uncertain terms that your owner was a cheat, that the contract he signed with Norton was cheating, and that the owners were looking into it. Then, mysteriously, DeBartolo is summoned to New York, pressured to sell the team, refuses to do so. A few years later, he's caught buying off some senator, and guess who headed up the council that forced him to give up control of the team? You guessed it - Jerry Jones. Of course, the last thing I expect of any 49er fan is to know anything at all about football history. Your fanbase is the most casual fairweather fanbase in the NFL, with most of your own fans not knowing a single thing about your own history. Like I said before, your own city laughs at 49er fans. Go to any sports bar in the Bay Area it's a running joke that a 49ers fan is a Giants fan when they're doing well, a Sharks fan when they're doing well, and a Raiders fan when they're doing well. Admit it - the last time you were a serious football fan, you were wearing a black and silver Gannon jersey and rooting for the Raiders in Superbowl 37. It doesn't bother me teams talking about past Championships. England will always talk about the 1966 World Cup and teams like Ajax who won four European cups, Celtic with one in 1967, a lost final and several semi finals. These teams are all unlikely to win these Championships any time soon, if ever but the fact is they won them when so many big teams/countries have not. When the Seahawks win a championship, i'll probably hark on about it forever, no matter how good or bad the teams of the future are. Glasgow Seahawk The most hilarious thing? The 49ers kept on cheating the salary cap (and losing) all the way up to 2000, when it was finally proven by the league: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/footba ... salarycap/ http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/2- ... 766725.php Guess who headed up those investigations? Tom Benson of the Saints. Why would he care? Because the 49ers cheated the cap in 1994 to sign Deion Sanders (and win the last SuperBowl they would ever win), and he was pissed ever since. There was even a rumor that the investigation into DeBartolo's corruption scandal was prompted by Tom Benson getting into the ear of some very influential friends. DeBartolo was so hated by other owners in the NFL that they voted unanimously to take over control of the 49ers and sell the team. That was when DeBartolo finally gave the team to his family. What's funny is that 49ers fans aren't even aware of this stuff. I can keep posting articles all day long. Because I was actually around back then and remember all of it. See, many of us Seahawk fans have been fans since we were young kids. And we have always been fans. We were fans in 1992 when our team sucked worse than the Mariners. We stayed fans. Most Seahawk fans know a lot more about NFL history than 49er fans because unlike 49er fans, we don't change allegiances every year based on who's playing well. I know, I know... you really have liked the Giants forever. Well, expect for back in the 90's, when you were an Athletics fan. And somewhere in there you were a Raiders fan, so you're kinda an NFL fan, right? Last edited by HansGruber on Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:48 pm, edited 1 time in total. So wait if they cheated to get Deion then they won 1 title in the salary cap era right? dopeboy206 wrote: So wait if they cheated to get Deion then they won 1 title in the salary cap era right? Yes, they won the 1994 Superbowl, first year of the salary cap. Later proven to be cheating the cap. So not sure if that counts, since they were not playing under the cap. I think what makes me laugh is when the Niner fans say we are 0-37 when they were 0-35. We should have had SB XL in year 28. ZorntoLargent The funny part is between Jerry and Benson is they have tried to leverage everything they could as an advantage, Jones wanting to use advertising revenue and not share merchandiseing income, Benson with the Bounty gate situation. Yet those two had created the biggest uproar over it and as you stated led commitees to oust someone that was more creative at circumvention then they were. .NET Hijacker Location: Renton Wa. chris98251 wrote: The funny part is between Jerry and Benson is they have tried to leverage everything they could as an advantage, Jones wanting to use advertising revenue and not share merchandiseing income, Benson with the Bounty gate situation. Yet those two had created the biggest uproar over it and as you stated led commitees to oust someone that was more creative at circumvention then they were. Yeah. Tom Benson even went as far as attacking DeBartolo on a personal and business level. I read somewhere that Benson was the one that got in the feds' ears about the political corruption scandal. He was pissed off about Sanders. And then Jerry came along and signed him. It's a funny club. MidwestHawker wrote: You're a weirdo. Most people pump their fists at Revolutionary War victories. HansGruber wrote: I guess, for fairness, I should also mention that the only SuperBowl championship John Elway ever won was when Denver was cheating the cap as well. So it wasn't just the 49ers. The Broncos cheated the cap, and were never heard of again too. What are you talking about, Hans? Elway won 2 SBs--SB MVP in the second one. HawkWow wrote: We got cheated in 91 having to co-champ it. What would've happened if they let us play Miami? Miami sure as hell didn't want to find out. That debacle was a huge step towards a BCS playoff. All the old guys grasping at "tradition" who run the NCAA have to die off before we can get a true playoff system in college football.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3536
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__label__cc	0.748954	0.251046	The Smiley Smile Message Board Non Smiley Smile Stuff Author Topic: Campaign 2016 (Read 222542 times) SMiLE Brian Smiley Smile Associate Re: Campaign 2016 Well life goes on, thankfully the election cycle from hell is over... And production aside, I’d so much rather hear a 14 year old David Marks shred some guitar on Chug-a-lug than hear a 51 year old Mike Love sing about bangin some chick in a swimming pool.-rab2591 ♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇 The Dr. of Wilsonomics 🍦🍦 Hi...how are you? ☮☮ The fallout is worse than the lead-up to it. I'm getting attacked from both sides RIP Daniel Dale Johnston ( 1961-2019) Fear 2 Stop: eating all of Elon Musk's nightmares as he sleeps "I've never heard such ear-pleasing screams before!" Quote from: Celsius is For Cowards on December 27, 2005, 11:56:27 AM "I’d rather die than owe the hospital Till I get old/ I get adrenalin straight to the heart/ like Uma Thurman overdosing kick-start/ Anaphylactic and super hypocondriactic " ^ This fake quote brought to you by "Oyster Pudding™ ....the Pudding with the Pearl inside!" There's disagreeing with Clinton's positions. There's also standing by while you see her ripped to pieces with lies. Knowing they are lies. Knowing they are to the degree that the opponent's supporters are calling for her to be hung, shot by a firing squad, "lock her up", "Trump that bitch", and not speaking out. This is what at least some subset of women feel: that it's very familiar for a woman who makes a public stance to be shamed and for no one to defend her, for fear of being shamed themselves. That the men that we think are allies stand by and watch silently. Then, when it's over, for them to say it was her fault. Maybe while you express your empathy for the people doing the shaming, you can also have some empathy for the person shamed, and the people who are vicariously feeling it as another incident like so many they've experienced personally and like their friends have experienced. I was asked earlier if I would feel the same way about Clinton if she were a man. My response is - no. Because this would have been a wholly different campaign if she were a man. Maybe hjs policies would've been paramount in my mind, as they were earlier in the campaign (though I still would've thought it's an easy choice between him and Trump). But the way she was treated, and the silence or even piling on by people who should know better made me realize increasingly that the fact that she's a woman is what was determining people's reactions against her. Obama and Clinton are extremely close in policy, yet people were so much more ready to stand up for him over the birther or whatever issues, even if they disagreed with his policies. The public pillorying of Hillary Clinton determined my level of support for her. And the lack of defense by people who consider themselves thoughtful is extremely disappointing. Knowing they are to the degree that the opponent's supporters are calling for her to be hung, shot by a firing squad, "lock her up", "Trump that bitch", and not speaking out. That is absolutely horrible. Regardless of how I feel about her and Bill, there's no excuse for that. SloopJohnB the opponent's supporters are calling for her to be hung, shot by a firing squad, "lock her up", "Trump that bitch" Funnily enough, Twitter is full of Hillary supporters calling for the assassination of the new President. I don't know where, but their music sends me there Pleasure Island!!!!!!! and a slice of cheese pizza. Quote from: SloopJohnB on November 10, 2016, 02:08:12 AM Which is awful. But I certainly should have been more clear, given people's penchant to draw an equivalence between Trump himself egging on violence at his rallies and a few Clinton supporters being violent at his rallies: the Trump supporters who said she should be hung and executed by a firing squad were elected republicans whom Trump included at his rallies even after they'd said such things. "Lock her up" was a chant at his rallies that he explicitly echoed a few times. "Trump that bitch" was the most popular t-shirt motto sold at his rallies and it was frequently chanted without discouragement from the candidate. And Trump himself and his official campaign were the purveyors of many of the lies It was not just a Twitter swarm, which is a disgusting cultural phenomenon, but an integral part of the opponents campaign. Disgusting people exist everywhere, but this level of disgusting has never been led by one candidate against another and supported by so many people with so few willing to denounce it. The media, so terribly biased for Clinton, barely mentioned it in their various and multiple pieces about the wrongs of Donald Trump. And, btw, he is not the new president. « Last Edit: November 10, 2016, 03:35:06 AM by Emily » Logged SinisterSmile Quote from: Emily on November 10, 2016, 03:26:02 AM But I certainly should have been more clear, given people's penchant to draw an equivalence between Trump himself egging on violence at his rallies and a few Clinton supporters being violent at his rallies: the Trump supporters who said she should be hung and executed by a firing squad were elected republicans whom Trump included at his rallies even after they'd said such things. "Lock her up" was a chant at his rallies that he explicitly echoed a few times. "Trump that bitch" was. It just something some ransoms person said, but the motto on the best selling shirt at his rallies. It was also chanted at his rallies. It was not just a Twitter swarm, which is a disgusting cultural phenomenon, but an integral part of the opponents campaign. Remember that time people in the Clinton campaign admitted on camera to paying homeless people to stir up trouble at Trump rallies? Quote from: SinisterSmile on November 10, 2016, 03:29:23 AM Remember that time when irritating someone was not the same as orchestrating a nationwide misogynistic smear campaign? I think you should answer my question first. Your question isn't pertinent to the comment that you quoted. In facrt, it's a repeat of the comment my comment was responding to. It's another false equivalence used to duck the topic. You were one of the specific people in here participating in the smears. The Captain's response to that was one of the few in this thread that anyone bothered to indicate even recognition of that BS for what it is. Wait, I was participating in smears? Anti-woman smears, what? This is news to me. You're welcome to point it out. The whole Clinton's too weak to be president. This is like "wait, Trump's a bully?" Seriously. You mean when I posted a video of her fainting? When she had numerous coughing fits? When I mentioned the fact that she had a brain clot liken 3 years ago? When she needs 2 people to help her climb a single step? When she can barely talk at a rally for more than 20 minutes? When one her last rallies lasted 7 minutes because it rained? When I mentioned that her top aid Huma is quoted as saying 'she's often confused'? I pointed this out because I hate women? « Last Edit: November 10, 2016, 03:58:31 AM by SinisterSmile » Logged Exactly then. When someone apparently having joint problems and fainting when she has pneumonia and having a medical incident years ago becomes "she's too weak to be president" despite the fact that running a presidential campaign, testifying for however many hours perfectly lucidly, and the hours she kept when SoS were more than most of us can do and more than the president has to do while in office. Yes. That. It was utter bullshit and it was used, caught on, and spread as a misogynist meme. I'm sorry that your candidate didn't win, but I don't hate women. I'' sure you don't believe you do. Just like people who compare Obama to an ape or constantly respond to concerns about law enforcement with their obsession with "black-on-black" crime don't have a racist bone in their body. Your hallucination of me sounds like a horrible person, but it's not who I am. The majority of people deny being racist or misogynist, but if you deny the impact of those things in society or on the campaign, you are not able to recognize it outside yourself, so how would you be expected to recognize it inside yourself? I certainly didn't expect a stranger on a Beach Boys forum to tell me that I'm secretly a woman hater. Chocolate Shake Man SinisterSmile, do you really believe it's a coincidence that the two major critiques against Obama and Clinton (both of which mostly emanated from Trump) were that he wasn't an American and she was weak? You don't think both of those critiques played into entrenched stereotypes about race and gender in America? Quote from: Chocolate Shake Man on November 10, 2016, 04:27:37 AM Chocolate Shake Man, do you think I hate women? It is funny how people who claim they are anti-PC are the most offended people of all. I don't know you at all. Now that I've answered yours can you answer mine? Sure thing. Trump branded Hillary as crooked, not weak. Trumps major critique of Obama was a lack of change and Obamacare. 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__label__wiki	0.709722	0.709722	Monday Memo: Sundance Takes On Gun Control Issue by Jordan M. Smith \| Monday, January 25th, 2016 Still from AJ Schnack's SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT Despite the outrage over racial exclusion in this year’s Oscar nominations and the Academy’s announcement that they will be swiftly enacting a whole host of changes to ensure greater diversity in the make-up of future votes, in the doc world, all eyes have been fixated on this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. While Anthony Kaufman looked back at the films that had a lasting impact from last year’s fest in Filmmaker Magazine, everyone from Tom Roston to Christopher Campbell, through Kenneth Turan, Amy Taubin, Trevor Groth and Brooks Barnes have been listing their most anticipated films of the fest, each noting a variety of exciting docs on the horizon. At indieWIRE, Eric Kohn outlined why Sundance continues to be such an important beacon of cinema in a sea of international film festivals, while our own Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen spoke on WNYC this about why New Yorkers should care about the happenings in Park City this week. Looking at the festival’s lineup as a whole, one will soon notice that this year’s hot button issue weaving throughout a whole host of films is that of domestic gun violence, and not the gratuitous action film type. Leading the conversation are non-fiction films like AJ Schnack’s SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT, Kim Snyder’s NEWTOWN, Stephanie Soechtig’s UNDER THE GUN and less directly, Robert Greene’s KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE. Writing for The Los Angeles Times, Steven Zeitchik explores the depths of this topical programming decision, noting, “When the Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday, it will do so with a rare accumulation of movies about the subject of gun safety. All of them hope to raise questions, if not provide solutions, in a place that has long been a ground zero for cultural movements.” Brooks Barnes of The New York Times awknowledged that “This year Sundance programmers, with deep commitment to freedom of expression, and their selected filmmakers seem to be taking a position that real guns, not the movie kind, ought to be more tightly policed.” Likewise at Nonfics, Christopher Campbell also took notice of the program, stating that “This time it’s about the issue of real gun violence in America — the problem with constant mass shootings and the debate over gun control and the 2nd Amendment.” Back here at Stranger Than Fiction, we are ramping up for our 2016 Winter Season, which begins next Tuesday at the IFC Center with Craig Lowy’s high flying OXD: ONE EXTRAORDINARY DAY, about Elizabeth Streb’s Extreme Action Company and their attempt to perform on some of London’s most beloved landmarks. Season tickets, as well as individual tickets, are currently on sale. As an aside, I’d also like to point out that this week Thom Powers launched the online home of his soon to be released new documentary focused podcast, Pure Nonfiction. Returning to the topic of Sundance, indieWIRE’s Chris O’Falt outlined the wrinkles that Netflix and Amazon have added to the already complex distribution market at the festival. On the topic of distribution, WNET announced “the launch of its first theatrical imprint, American Masters Pictures, for documentaries co-produced by the American Masters series, executive produced by Michael Kantor,” with a trio of docs already primed for release following their Sundance debut. Vimeo also announced this week they pledge to fund the development of projects by female filmmakers via their new Share the Screen initiative, stating, “Gender inequality in filmmaking isn’t simply a woman’s problem: it’s everyone’s problem. When diverse voices are given equal consideration and weight, more informed artistic decisions are made, better stories are told — and it’s also the right thing to do as human beings.”. Giving a free sneak peak into the offerings within the festival’s New Frontier section via the their Virtual Reality app NYTVR, The New York Times released a trio of documentary VR shorts in Danfung Dennis’ AMERICAN BISON, Nonny de la Peña’s KIYA, and Gabo Arora and Chris Milk’s WAVES OF GRACE. Reviews galore are also starting to pour out of Park City. I logged a pair of reviews over at IONCINEMA of Pieter-Jan De Pue’s THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED and Maya Goded’s PLAZA DE LA SOLEDAD, while two takes on Kevin Macdonald’s SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO-QIANG came in from The Guardian’s Jordan Hoffman and Christopher Campbell of Nonfics. Hoffman also reviewed Penny Lane’s mischievously funny NUTS! Bilge Ebiri of Vulture raved about Jeff Feuerzeig’s AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY, Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times spoke with Will Allen of HOLY HELL, The Hollywood Reporter’s Daniel Fienberg warmly regarded the first 30-for-30 miniseries, Ezra Edelman’s O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA, and Brooks Barnes of The New York Times previewed Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey’s MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES. Looking to other festivals, New Directors/New Films has named their first eight selections, including a pair of harrowing docs in Zhao Liang’s BEHEMOTH and Pietro Marcello’s LOST AND BEAUTIFUL. Hot Docs launched a trio of announcements that Steve James will be their 2016 Outstanding Achievement Recipient, Rosie Dransfeld wil be honored with a Focus On Retrospective, and this year’s Made In program will highlight docs from Australia. Hot Docs’ Doc Soup was also among the many funding and development programs that opened their doors to submissions this week. The Sheffield Doc/Fest and Just So Film Fund launched a new short film funding program titled Postcards with a simple submission process: “The brief is simple: short form documentary ideas (1-5 minutes aprx.) that concern themselves with form and not just content. To submit ideas for the fund please email postcards@justsolondon.com with a single page outline of your idea including links to previous work. The deadline for the first round of submissions is 31 January 2016.” Seed & Spark have also gone live with their new Filmmaker Gift Box which “contains products, services, and festival waivers from our incredible film partners that every successful Seed &Spark crowdfunding project gets when they reach 500 followers.” Both UnionDocs‘ Summer Documentary Intensive and IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs are also now open for submissions. Additionally, Chicken & Egg Pictures announced their latest round of funding winners, as did the TFI Doc Fund. And with an eye on those pesky budget lines, Film Festival Secrets have listed 10 ways to stretch that festival submission budget. For those unable to make it to Park City this year, look no further than Kartemquin Films’ ongoing 50th Anniversary screenings, this week streaming HUM 255 [1969] for free. Filmmaker Jim Casey also posted a new half hour long doc on his Vimeo page titled STANLEY KUBRICK: THE LOST TAPES. I’ll leave you this week with a trio of cinephilic gems in Eric Hynes‘ non-fiction examination of the Oscar nominated THE BIG SHORT at Film Comment, Robert Greene‘s extensive Best Docs of 2015 piece at Sight & Sound, and the digital reboot of University of Michigan’ Film Criticism journal. Until next time, if you have any tips or recommendations for the Memo, please contact me via email here, or on Twitter,@Rectangular_Eye. Tags: 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Craig Lowry, Gun Control, Gun Violence, Hot Docs, Jordan M. 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__label__wiki	0.773389	0.773389	Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns - Navigation WHY THE SIMPLE LIFE? THE TRIO OF TOWNS FARM TO HOME Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns - Prologue "I want to become a farmer!" Since you were little, your family's never lived in one place for very long, always moving to wherever your father's job has taken you. Wherever you went, you always enjoyed trips out to the country, where you'd pet the animals, taste fresh-grown food, and dream of a slow, steady life. Now that you're old enough, and as your family's about to move again, you've just announced to them that you're striking out on your own, determined to become the farmer you've always wanted to be. Your father has his doubts, to say the least, but he's willing to let you try. Your journey brings you to a unique spot in the countryside, where three different towns with three very different cultures converge as friends and neighbors. Westown, with its cows and corrals, has everything the classic frontier settler needs. Right next door is Tsuyukusa, which serves as the very model of a traditional Far Eastern village. Rounding out the neighborhood is Lulukoko: a warm, friendly paradise to rival any tropical island. Situated at the crossroads of these diverse places, it's up to you to learn the ropes, tend your own farm, care for your crops and animals, navigate the complexities of different cultures, prove yourself to your family, and just maybe raise one of your own while you're at it. What new story will you write in this trio of towns? XSEED Games site Marvelous USA site ESRB E10 ©2017 Marvelous Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed to and published by XSEED Games / Marvelous USA, Inc. Nintendo trademarks and copyrights are properties of Nintendo. ©2017 Nintendo. The ESRB rating icons are registered trademarks of the Entertainment Software Association.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3546
__label__wiki	0.659543	0.659543	Business Agents From the Desk of the Secretary Treasurer Monthly Stewards Report Local 200 Members at Work Joint Council #39 TEAMSTERS LOCAL 200 AT THE ADMIRALS LOCAL 200 MEMBERS, RETIREES AND GUESTS ENJOY A BEAUTIFUL DAY ON THE LINKS! TEAMSTERS ENJOY BREWER WIN AT ANNUAL TAILGATE EVENT Local 200 & 344 Retiree Chapter 2013 LOCAL200/LOCAL344 PICNIC 2012 RETIREES CLUB PICNIC RETIREE'S WALL ADDITION Local 200 Merchandise Teamsters understand the value in union membership. Higher pay, better benefits, and a greater voice in the workplace are standards set by union members that won’t be given up without a fight, even after the Supreme Court’s decision in the “Janus v. AFSCME” case. While it is true that this ruling may create temporary roadblocks, public employees throughout the United States need to remain unified. 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__label__cc	0.74758	0.25242	TWS Recipes My Malta LvB Restaurant Experience Today I am going to dedicate this review to one of the most incredible restaurants I had visited these days. I had a chance to speak to LvB’s owner Toni Ventura and the head chef Ryan Gialanze about their newly launched concept, get to know about the gastronomical experience that they offer and find out about their ideas regarding the local food industry. I must say, this was one of the most mysterious conversations I had so far, which makes it even more interesting to write about! If you are curious, you should definitely continue reading! First things first, let’s make the name of the restaurant clear – the abbreviation of LvB means ‘Lobster versus Beef’, a simple yet fancy combination known as Surf-n-Turf worldwide. Though this concept is no longer a discovery for a larger-scale gastronomical arena, it is, however, quite unique for the local food industry. Coming from a family-run retail business, Toni Ventura analysed the restaurant industry and realised that the local diners had started expecting a lot more than just a good meal – they were after a new experience. Given a steady growth of restaurants appearing on the market, Toni felt the need for differentiating himself from the crowd. He knew that in order to succeed he needed to be original and that was the time when he got inspired by the lobster and beef concept. Even though he was never a chef himself, Toni wanted to create something simple, yet original. ‘I imagined it to be a fancy New York Deli style restaurant, where I would serve pastrami with lobster benedict’, says Toni. He then decided to leave the price of the beef normal, while reducing the lobster price, hoping that people would reciprocate one day. ‘And it really worked out’, admits Toni. LvB was opened as recently as on the 2nd of February 2017, just half a year ago. ‘Even though there were a lot of risks involved, the way I overcame them is still my biggest accomplishment’, says Toni Ventura. It has been a month since Toni has got introduced to Ryan Gialanze, the present chief of LvB. Only by listening to their story one can instantly become inspired – it’s not a common practice to develop such a synergy at work between the two different personalities. The secret lies in finding a balance and in smart allocation of responsibilities – while Toni is a business-oriented individual, Ryan is the one in charge of the kitchen. He is the person who comes up with the items on the menu, some of which are being updated as often as once a week. ‘I am happy to be working with Toni. We are a team’, says Ryan. Toni and Ryan acknowledge a variety of restaurants in Malta, yet they do not consider themselves to be competing with others. ‘We are here not to compete, but to work together towards educating people about food, bringing them an experience that is set at a high level, while keeping our business sustainable’, points Ryan. As we all know, food sustainability is currently one of the most serious social concerns and I was pleased to hear I found a restaurant that shares this opinion. Toni and Ryan’s aim is to order only as much products and ingredients as they will actually serve, not more than that. ‘Like this we are not only reducing the food waste to the minimum but also saving a lot of costs’, argues Toni. ‘When people come to our restaurant – that means they have chosen us. Yes, they are willing to spend money, but, most importantly, they are willing to spend their time. This is what matters the most and this is why we strive to give them something back, a new incredible experience’, says Ryan. Being humble and attentive to each and every customer that comes to dine at LvB, you shouldn’t doubt that you would be receiving an exceptional service. Ryan himself comes to every table to explain his dishes – the kind of attitude that I personally admire so much. LvB has reevaluated its original direction to become a restaurant serving only the tasting menus, which, by all means, requires a lot of confidence. At the moment, you can find three menus – lobster and beef 5 and 7 course menu and vegetarian 7 course menu. It might be surprising to find a whole menu consisting of 7 vegetarian different dishes in the restaurant called ‘Lobster versus Beef’. However, I must assure you, as a person who loves to eat both meat and seafood, the items on this menu are mouth-watering to say the least! What do you think about sous vide pumpkin and chickpea dahl with coconut and coriander? Do the variations of beetroot with cashew cheese and truffle sound as delicious to you as they do to me? I appreciate their vegetarian menu even more, because it was created as something separate, not additional. Something as good as meat or fish. Well, I am definitely trying them next time when I come to LvB. With regards to the original lobster and beef menus – I can say that both 5 and 7 courses are outstanding and must-try. Lobster Ceaser Salad served with Spanish Iberico ham and black caviar, pork belly with apples and samphire, rockfish with crab, water spinach and parsnip topped with bisque are just three items of the lists. Not to mention the artistic and aesthetic plate presentation – all together the experience is mind-blowing. Though it is not in my intention to spoil a surprise, the wine selection at LvB is planned to experience some changes in the nearest future. With the assistance of a professional sommelier, Toni and Ryan are willing to add value to the variety and types of wine they offer at LvB. There are even bigger and greater plans that the guys are preparing for us and this information will be revealed in the nearest future. I told you, our talk was a mysterious one, so my advise would be to keep yourself updated for more news! I never stop wondering, whether creativity is something that is inherited by birth or developed during the lifetime. Although both Toni and Ryan have been creative and passionate about cooking since their early childhoods, they both feel that experience and practice had a role in their development. While Ryan has realised that cooking is his calling at a young age, Toni has changed his direction from running a family retail business to opening his own restaurant with a fresh approach. It gets me fascinating to hear stories like these – how inspiring it is to do something you truly love? I wish everyone to find their passion and embrace it, like Toni and Ryan did. Hope you have enjoyed reading my article and I will be looking forward to receiving your insights! LVB Restaurant Go: 65/66, Merchants Street, Valletta, Malta When: Tuesday-Sunday 19:00-23:00 Enormous thanks to Aygul Yunusova for all her help. Small beer party with Plait I am sure you guys have already heard about the new concept called Plait, Malta’s first subscription box. Being launched only this June, Plait promises to become a truly successful and locally popular trend! I find the idea of subscription boxes particularly interesting. Although I do enjoy choosing products myself, sometimes I just don’t have enough time on my hands to do so. Plus, I am eager to try new things, of course. Therefore, subscribing to a monthly or even weekly box means convenience, as it is delivered straight to your door with a variety of carefully selected and hand-picked items. Without doubts, you also have to be sure in the quality of goods that are included in the box. The concept of subscription boxes is totally new to Malta, while it is well-known and practiced around the world, especially across big cities, like London. Therefore, this business phenomenon has been receiving a lot of attention since it has appeared on the local market. When I got to know about Plait, I headed over their website, which is very simple to use, yet informative and organised in the most clear and straightforward manner. In a nutshell, there are 4 distinct types of subscription boxes that Plait offers: organic produce, wine, beer and Maltese foods. With the thought of supporting the local produce, the founders of Plait have created an organic crate with locally produced, pesticide-free vegetables delivered door-to-door up to once a week. Isn’t this amazing? If you have been following my blog for some time, you should know how much I am after the local and everything that follow a farm-to-table approach. In addition to the organic produce, there is a food crate that was created for those, who are nostalgic of Maltese products. I find this idea particularly lovely – what can be a better cure for homesickness for those Maltese living abroad than the traditional food? There is also a wine crate that is updated monthly that could be delivered in the box of 3, 6 or 12 and you have an option of choosing some exclusive wines. These are not just any types of wine but sommelier-selected ones. As explained by Daniel Fenech, the co-founder of Plait, the idea behind this is to introduce the customers to new unique wines, even some hidden gems, instead of offering what is already known and common. And finally, Plait also offers a beer crate, which has the same ideology – only the exclusive and rare types of beverages that cannot be easily accessible from the local outlets. These are mostly exported from small breweries of Belgium, rising stars of the market. When browsing these Plaits, we decided to go for the last one. Though I’m not a beer enthusiast myself, I was still curious to try what Plait has to offer – especially when I happened to have a selection of Belgian cheese that could be a perfect match for the beer. Hence, I figured that it was a time for a beer party! So, I gathered a small crowd and prepared some snacks for the beer tasting. Well, yes… If you are organising a proper tasting, then you are not supposed to serve things like salty crisps, meat or cheese but only a plain bread or unsalted crackers. At the same time, you don’t want to leave the crowd hungry – and that’s what I did. As for the comments, I prepared a tasting grid for my guests to make some notes about the appearance, aroma, flavour, finish, body of each beer etc., as well as a small memo on how to taste the beer. Before we started our beer tasting session, I had noticed that the Plait’s package quality was a nice and satisfying start itself. Made from high quality cardboard and designed in a minimalist style, this box will definitely be reused in my house! In total, we tried 12 types of beers. There were 5 beers from June crate Vedett IPA De Koninck Wild Jo Chimay Blue La Trappe Trappist Tripel And 6 beers from July crate, which we had an exclusive opportunity to try on the same day. Liefmanns Kriek La Chouffe Sobeil Chimay White Bornem blonde Augustjn We had so much fun tasting all these beers even without the special beer glasses! All of us was very serious about this…We started from mildest moving to the strongest ones. We studied the beer, described its head (foam), as well as the colour and the clarity. Then we studied the “lace”, which refers to the traces left by foam. Super serious study. Look at my crew. We swirled the glasses, brought them up to our noses and then inhaled detecting the aroma of each beer. Swirled them again, took sips and finally described the flavours, whether they were long or short. We determined the body of the beer – was it velvety and thick or light and thin. Last point but most important one was whether we liked it or not. I think I will not stress you out with the description of each type of beer we tried during our tasting session. I am positive that you should order this Plait and try it yourself! Studying the notes of my lovely friends, I figured out that our favourites were VEDETT IPA, DE KONINK WILD JO and BOULEVARD – THE CALLING. Most importantly, we were very satisfied with what we got because the guys from Plait chose some really interesting beers that would not normally be found in supermarkets. In conclusion, I would like to wish a big success and brilliant achievements to Daniel Fenech and Daniel Zammit. Let Plait prosper and surprise us with new crates in the future! Special thanks to Aygul Yunusova for help and Luke Azzopardi for photos of my crew. Cooking class at Taro’s Kitchen I must admit, I spent a really wonderful time last Saturday. I attended a cooking class at Taro’s restaurant kitchen. It’s not a secret that I love cooking, as well as looking into the restaurant kitchens. Totally love it! Therefore, it was my pleasure to take part in a cooking class with Adrian Buttigieg organised by Taro restaurant. It was my first visit to this place, so I didn’t manage to try their food earlier. Hence, I was very curious, especially knowing that the chef had reached a semi-final stage of yet another prestigious competition (San Pellegrino Young Chef of the Year Competition). Even before everything had started, I was attracted by the newly installed dry aging cabinet with impressive collection of meat. While I was studying what this cabinet contained, other participants had started to gather around the table in the hotel lobby. We were welcomed with a light but diverse breakfast to suite everyone’s taste. While we were enjoying snacks along with our morning coffee, the chef introduced himself and we had a nice and relaxed chat about the event, food scene in general and in Malta in particular. After the talk, we moved to the most anticipating part of our day – cooking! We went to the kitchen, got our aprons and took up places on our cooking stations and then the team was introduced to us. Chef explained what we were going to cook today, gave us necessary safety instructions and the fun began! Prawn & preserved lemon tortelloni and ox-tail & celeriac agnolotti were on the menu as starters, followed up by the local seabass cooked two ways with wild Gozitan asparagus and chocolate fondant to finish. We started with fresh dough for pasta to allow the gluten to rest a bit, then moved to making the filing for our tortelloni and the prawn bisque. All the time we were guided very thoroughly by the chef and the team. They were constantly explaining to us the importance of right techniques and methods of cooking, as well as sharing some tips on how to choose the fresh produce. Future prawn bisque was bubbling on a stove of the hot kitchen and we were smashing these prawn shells to get all those flavours and inhaling the appetizing aroma. Then we switched to another entertaining task – the filleting of round fish. I must say everyone done well thanks to a few helpful tips we were thought earlier. And later we discussed different ways of cooking this delicate fish, as well as other species. We prepared the fish fillets to be cooked al cartoccio and moved to my favourite part, pasta making!!! I do fresh pasta at home quite often but it is so much fun to make it in a big cheerful company! I think next time I need to gather the crowd to roll out some spaghetti! So we roll and we roll, we fill and we cut. As Adrian noticed, everyone’s way of closing tortelloni was different. As different as how different our hands were. Our pretty tortelloni were filled, sprinkled with semolina and were ready to be cooked. After that, they were thrown in the boiling water for a few moments, then they were finished in strained prawn bisque. I must confess, that the scenes like these take my breath away! We moved to our desserts. Shawn Zammit, the pastry chef, taught us how to make this classic dish, chocolate fondant. Though I am not keen on baking too much and have more experience with savory food, I had no difficulties to prepare, cook and, most importantly, to release the fondant from it’s case. All thanks to Shawn’s guidelines. I have to say that a few hours of cooking flew by and we were quite excited to try all the food we prepared and cooked! The table on the terrace was arranged for us, wine was opened and we were ready. Our beautiful tortelloni arrived from the kitchen plated nicely. They tasted excellent, the dough was cooked just right and at the same time delicate filling wasn’t overcooked, so we could enjoy this nice combination of prawns and preserved lemon rinds we appreciated so much when trying them raw. One of our beautiful participants was allergic to prawns, so ox-tail & celeriac agnolotti were cooked for her. Unfortunately, I didn’t try it, though definitely I had to! They looked mouth-watering! Next we tried seabass cooked two different ways – al cartoccio and pan seared seabass served with some wild Gozitan asparagus, herb emulsion, roasted potatoes and seriously good, super tasty roasted fennel. We compared the textures and discussed which one we liked and which method we preferred. Yes, to cook, to eat and to talk about food, this what we like to do! And it feels so good when you are in the right company! It was time for dessert. Gooey chocolate fondant was a very good finishing note to our lunch. And I think, everyone was happy because properly cooked classics make you happy, don’t they? Rich but balanced, it was a delightful. In conclusion, I want to say that it was a remarkable experience, we learned something new, had a great food and spent wonderful time in a very enjoyable company. It is a pleasure to meet a person so passionate about his profession, like Adrian and such a close-knit team. I hope there will be more events like this and I will be looking forward for it. And I will definitely come to try their menu! Team: Adrian Attard, Ryan Galea, Shawn Zammit Pub style food and craft beer! FromOurSea is heading to Valletta! Pub style food and craft beer! The 6th event of FromOurSea was fully booked in just 6 hours! fish4tomorrow went for something rather different this time and chose a charming city pub as a place for their 6th edition of FromOurSea events. Intriguing, isn’t it? It is going to be the first event hosted at the pub and serving pub style food. However, the main focus remains the same – it’s all about the celebration of sustainable and seasonal fish sourced locally and in environmentally friendly manner. The aim is to show you that you can truly enjoy the sustainable fish recommended by their Quick Fish Guide in various delicious ways. And I must say I am very looking forward to try it out! Joining up with Think Catering, fish4tomorrow team will be offering a three-course menu followed by a dessert. Each course will be paired with a local craft beer from brewers: the visitors will be offered to start their gastronomical experience with Lord Chambray’s beer, followed by the medium-strength Stretta Craft Beer, finishing off with the dark beer from Phoenix Raw brand. The event is going to take place at Il-Pup, Valletta, which is the latest food concept by Think Catering Group that has successfully introduced Rocksalt in Sliema. By the way, this is where one of the FromOurSea events took place at, which represented 11 tapas menu items paired with wine. As you can guess, the 6th edition is going to be casual – beer and fish. As Steve de Domenico, the co-owner of Think Catering Group I had a pleasure of having a conversation with yesterday, told me it’s going to be a socializing event. Instead of an ordinary “sit-down” gastronomical experience, Il-Pup is going to open its doors for the people willing to chat and get to know new interesting people, while eating something really good and tasting a selection of local beers. Basically, the guests will be offered some nibbles and tapas items at the bar, which will later be followed by the rest of the courses at the allocated tables. It’s still a secret though what the menu going to like exactly. What I got to know that at the moment there are 15 types of sustainable fish in Malta waters, 3 of which are being out of the season. The event hosts are going to come up with the dishes according to the fish availability. But if you want a little teaser: the dishes are going to be inspired by British, Indian and Maltese cuisines. I strongly support the sustainability movement in general, especially when it comes to Malta. I encourage everyone to try new fish and taste new flavours: one shouldn’t be misled by the ordinary. In conclusion, I would like to say big thanks for fish4tomorrow and Think Catering for bringing up this amazing opportunity of getting people together for such a unique food experience. I will certainly be waiting for new events to come. Keep tuned and don’t miss the next one out, people! Huge thanks to Aygul Yunusova for help. Kurt Micallef. Interview with a chef Radishes cooked in smoked butter, charred leeks, pickled mustard seeds, fermented radish, sauce made from dried ham I like getting to know new people, especially chefs; their ability to turn the simplest ingredients into complex, layered dishes is truly inspirational. For me, this kind of knowledge is almost sacred. There’s nothing more enjoyable than meeting people who have a passion for food, who are continuously searching for the best flavour combinations and ways to take their ingredients to the next level. When I first came across Kurt’s profile on a social network, his plating and choice of ingredients immediately caught my eye. Obviously, I had to start following him. After enjoying several his posts, I finally had the opportunity to visit him and find out what makes him tick. Even though he initially veered away from local cuisine when he started cooking, this talented young chef eventually found his identity in Maltese food. Inspired by his grandmother’s recipes, Kurt went back to his roots and decided to shake them up a little, reinventing traditional Maltese dishes using locally produced, seasonal ingredients. What’s more, he uses different cooking techniques from around the world to really give his local dishes some global flair. “At the beginning of summer, I got some baby figs and I took inspiration from a Japanese fermented plum. Really salty and fruity at the same time. So I did something similar with those baby figs and it turned out really great!” I can’t think of a better way to summarize Kurt’s creative approach to food- he’s already done it for me! I strongly believe that Kurt’s approach should be encouraged more: reinventing, developing and improving Malta’s great local produce in order to truly bring out the best of what this island has to offer gastronomically. This is a story of a local chef, Kurt Micallef, who makes use of established recipes in a modern way; who searches and finds a balance between tradition and creativity. Getting to know about Kurt and his culinary vision was a truly fascinating experience, which I am happy to write about today. Currently working at The Arches restaurant, Kurt gladly shared his story with me, talked about his inspiration and plans for the future, as well as some predictions for the local food scene. Like most teenagers finishing school at the age of sixteen, Kurt was forced to make some serious decisions about his next steps into the world. Though he always knew he wanted to be involved in the catering industry, spending 4 years studying at the Institute of Tourism Studies in Malta sounded less than appealing to a teenager. Instead, Kurt decided to start working at the Westin Dragonara Hotel as a purchasing manager. He spent the next four years gaining on-the-job experience, meeting chefs and becoming familiar with the food and hospitality business. Even though the easy routine of this 9-to-5 office job was comforting, his mind was made up: he wanted to become a chef. Not one to do things by halves, Kurt left Malta and enrolled in a nine-month course at one of the best European cooking schools: Le Cordon Bleu in London. “Everybody was telling me not to do it. Everybody knows that kitchen jobs don’t get paid well. You really need to struggle for the first ten years of your career and reach a higher level,” Kurt recalls- but it wasn’t enough to put him off his dream. Despite the warnings from his family and friends, he successfully finished his studies, mentored by a former sous chef to Alain Ducasse, and completed his training at L’Autre Pied, Marylebone. Talking about his career experience, Kurt strongly emphasised the impactful value of training gained at In De Wulf, the Michelin star restaurant owned by Kobe Desramaults in Dranouter, Belgium. The restaurant focused on high-end food, using local produce from the neighbouring village, and that is precisely what caught Kurt’s attention and influenced him the most. In De Wulf offered an old-style cooking presented in a modern way- that same balance between tradition and creativity that Kurt now strives for in his work. Achieving this balance isn’t as straightforward as it might seem; one has to keep it as simple and classic as possible, building the dish around a couple of main ingredients, yet keeping the flavours that patrons are familiar with. “It is easy to get misled today”, Kurt argues. The food industry is developing at an enormous speed and people are being influenced by social media and new trends, which makes it harder to sustain one’s personal identity. Kurt has found his identity in Maltese cuisine, which he also calls his heritage. “It makes sense”, he says, “there is a foundation that you can build on, rather than starting something completely new”. Being inspired by his grandmother, Kurt tries to make her recipes lighter and more “restaurant-friendly”. Essentially, he deconstructs the traditional plates, taking the dishes and giving them a modern twist, while trying, as much as possible, to retain the classic elements. “In Malta it’s difficult to make people eat something if they don’t know what it is. In general, they are not that adventurous when it comes to food. You give them something they can relate to, like a local dish or a childhood memory.”, explains Kurt. When reinventing Maltese dishes, Kurt uses seasonal ingredients that are produced locally and, fortunately, Malta is rich with seafood and vegetable varieties. Although the food scene in Malta is experiencing a steady improvement nowadays, things may not be moving as quickly as they seem. “There are not a lot of local producers pushing it forward. Unfortunately, there are only a couple of guys who try to introduce new varieties of vegetables and herbs”, says Kurt. He argues that schools should introduce food education in their curriculum, at least to teach children about where certain ingredients come from. “One time I met this guy in the restaurant and he was surprised to find out that chips come from potatoes”, he laughs. When creating his dishes, Kurt tries to keep them as natural and as classic as possible. “I try to find two ingredients that go really well together. I want to bring something that people might be familiar with and at the same time unfamiliar, but nothing completely crazy”, he says. When cooking for a group of people or friends, Kurt carefully considers their allergies and taste preferences. “I usually focus my meal around six dishes. I start with a couple of snacks, the first bite that wakes you up. Usually it’s something acidic. Then I drop it down a bit, like a vegetable course or fish, to keep it light. Then follow it up with some meat, game birds maybe, smoke…” It’s clear from the way he speaks that coming up with his menus is a particularly passionate subject for Kurt- “That’s the interesting thing. You can’t keep it one note, that’s the beauty of the tasting menu. You have different dishes. I don’t believe that you should have five senses in one dish. If you a have a tasting menu with all that in one course, it’s going to be too much. When I do the desserts, I do two usually – first of all, I always do a fruit desert, right after the main, something fresh and light. Then I do something a bit more powerful.” The conversation took a decidedly futuristic turn as we discussed the possible forecast for the food world in general, as well as the local food scene. In Kurt’s opinion, the Maltese food scene is improving at a steady rate. “The younger generations opening up new places, perhaps even casual ones, the food truck revolution that we are currently witnessing in Malta are proof that changes are taking place in the local food industry,” argues Kurt. He also thinks that South American and Asian food-related movements are going to experience a boom in the very near future. Having said that, I couldn’t agree with him more when he expressed his concerns regarding other important issues: “We have to adjust food waste soon and be sustainable, support local producers, take care of the environment.” Kurt argues that we should use not only prime cuts of meat but others too: the internal parts of the animal, for instance, which are not that popular today “They are very tasty if you prepare them right. It needs a little bit more work, but the final product is amazing. I’d rather have that than a prime cut. I don’t find it interesting”. When it comes to fish – “Recently I’ve tried a new fish, it’s called Rosette in Maltese. Small fish. Delicious. One of the best fish I’ve ever tried. You have to look for and try new things. When it comes to fish, you should use local fish. Even though it’s expensive, the taste is far better…” Foraging is another thing which Kurt appreciates a lot. Three times a month he meets up with his friend, who is something of an expert in the field and they search for fresh ingredients. “I was one of those people who was sceptical that mushrooms grow in Malta, but last year we gathered 20 kilos of mushrooms”. Kurt’s dream is to open his own restaurant, offering a delectable tasting menu to its customers. Meanwhile, he is working diligently towards making his dream come true, gathering feedback from his clients and friends. All I know for certain is that we’ll hear about Kurt’s success in the nearest future. I wish him all the best of luck with his bright career! Interview with Adrian Hili Seems like the army of Terrone’s fans is growing bigger and bigger with every day. I’m so glad to receive a lot of positive feedback about this place from you guys! And I am even more glad that some of you have visited this place for the first time after reading the article on my blog! This is why I felt it would be interesting to introduce you to the owner of this restaurant, Adrian Hili, as an addition to the restaurant review post. You also will find a featured recipe by him in the following post, a really easy to make and delicious fish. Keep on reading! Tell me about your career path. How did it all get started? From the young age, I was always encouraged to get into the kitchen with my parents. I grew up in Australia, where quite regularly we used to have people coming to visit us, especially on Sundays for lunch. So, I was used to help my parents in the kitchen, podding broad beans or cleaning fish, cooking something with my dad. My dad was the one, who had and still has that passion for cooking. He was the one who inspired me to get into the kitchen, always encouraging to try new things and new ingredients. Then I had love for the sea and interest in the seafood that inspired me to get into the restaurant business. Professionally I’ve started with a part-time at my uncle’s restaurant on Amalfi Coast in Italy back when I was 16 or 17 years old. He had a pizzeria attached to the restaurant and basically I used to help my uncle there and eventually developed an interest in pizza, which sort of developed into other things. I worked in several kitchens in Australia, I also worked at front-house and managed a couple of restaurants for the next 7 or 8 years. When I came back to Europe, I decided to stay in London, where I developed an interest in regional, real food. Six and a half years in River café in London gave me a lot of insights, and I think I learned more during that time than during the previous twenty-five years of my life. We used to do two menus a day, every day the menu was used to change twice. So that’s what inspired you to come up with a new menu on a daily basis for your own restaurant, isn’t it? Definitely. It inspired me to be fully immersed in what I do as well. It’s not just a job, it’s passion, it’s a way of life. Do you prepare a menu a night before? I start thinking about it a night before. 20-25 % of what I include in my menu depends on the available ingredients. Sometimes I do the reprint, if something finishes, or something new comes in. What about the breakfast menu? Do you also change it every day? No, that’s seasonal. Is this new concept of yours becoming popular? We did our first week quite successfully – we had thirty covers on Saturday, maybe a bit more on Sunday. What it your favourite cuisine? It’s a difficult question. I love rustic Southern Italian food but I also love North-African food, Middle Eastern food, Asian, Thai… It’s fantastic! I love food that is vibrant and colourful but, at the same time, it’s fascinating to have a few very simple ingredients bind to make something delicious. The food is not just about the taste, it’s also about your eyes, all the senses. Were you training in Australia? Yes, I studied at University for Business Management majoring in Hospitality. I did the first two years in Australia, Brisbane, then I dropped out and I moved into the state and that’s when I started real cooking. I finished my University Degree in London three years later. Was it difficult? I don’t think so. For me Business Degree is common sense. If you show an interest in something – it’s not difficult. Hospitality was something I always liked and was very interested about. How and why did you open Terrone? When working at River café in London for six and a half years, it was getting to the point when I wanted to do something on my own. My own menu, my own staff, my own influence, place and it just didn’t feel good doing it in London, as well as I didn’t want to get back to Australia, as it was too far away for me. I have family here and I like Malta. I talked about moving to Malta with my dad and we decided to have a look at it. My uncle helped me to find a place for the restaurant and after a month of negotiation with the landlord, we concluded the deal and opened Terrone in two months. This place was completely different from what you see right now. There was no deck in the front. I expanded everything out here and designed pretty much everything myself. What are your future plans for your restaurant? Keep going, working and taking every day as it comes. Running a new menu every day. I’m really happy about how far we came in these two years. And I just want to keep on improving every day, keep on bringing the best produce, developing interesting and exciting menus every day, fill the place every day, breakfasts and weekends. That would be ideal for me. What kind of food does your restaurant serve? Rustic Southern Mediterranean food would be my definition. It’s about simplicity. It’s always about the couple of ingredients making something fantastic and it’s always about using what’s in season. Where do you get your ingredients from? I get them from all over. I mean mostly I’m getting them from Malta. I get fresh products at my door step. There are three ways I get my greens. I have a couple of farmers. One farmer, who brings me spinach, ruccola, parsley and these kind of greens, my bulky greens, as I call them. I have another farmer, who brings my salads, my microgreens, he’s literally a kilometer away. Fantastic stuff. And then I have a farmer who supplies me with my core vegetables – zucchini, aubergines, peppers. As much as I can, I buy everything local. If I have to, I go somewhere in Italy. Some of the vongole and mussels we get from Puglia or Sicily. How do you choose your suppliers? I will always pay for a better quality. If two people have the same product but one has it more expensive but with better quality, I’ll go for that one. I need to find a balance between the quality and cost effectiveness. What do you consider the best dish on your menu? One of my favourite dishes is baby cuttlefish because it triggers all the senses that I’ve spoken about before. I’ve learned this dish from someone else, it’s not something that I’ve created myself. In order to create a new dish, one has to create a new ingredient. It’s nice to look at and tastes and smells amazing; it has a lot of different textures. What would be your tips for running a successful restaurant? Working for yourself. At least for the first 2-4 years have enough money to pay for everything yourself. What are the main factors that differentiate restaurant business in Malta from other countries you have worked in? I think every clientele in any country has its own set of attributes. So, first you need to understand the market. I think Malta’s food scene is still developing in a way. Malta has the best raw produce in the world, not just in Europe. Malta has fantastic vegetables, amazing seafood – our fish is fantastic. I’ve noticed that there has been an improvement in the local restaurant industry in the last two years, yet there are more things to work on, educate the people regarding the food. I want people to enjoy and eat well, enjoy the food and the atmosphere. Get the tastiest recepies right to your inbox! Copyright 2020 Maria Shebets	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3555
__label__wiki	0.834354	0.834354	HFT.TV Microsoft, Too, Says FBI Secretly Surveilling Its Customers Home / News Stories / The Internet / Microsoft, Too, Says FBI Secretly Surveilling Its Customers By Free Thinker Radio In The Internet A breakdown of the number of National Security Letters the FBI has issued to Microsoft targeted accounts (“identifiers”) for user data. Source: Microsoft Microsoft said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is secretly spying on its customers with so-called National Security Letters that don’t require a judge’s approval, a revelation Thursday that mirrors one Google announced two weeks ago. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft announced that the type of accounts the feds are targeting with National Security Letters, warrants or court orders include Hotmail/Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Account, Messenger and Office 365. The announcements by the two tech giants mark the first time U.S. companies have divulged they were secretly responding to National Security Letters and coughing up user data to the bureau without probable-cause warrants. And the Microsoft announcement comes six days after a federal judge declared National Security Letters unconstitutional and gave the President Barack Obama administration 90 days to appeal the ruling. The NSLs, which have been issued nationwide hundreds of thousands of times, are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and businesses like Google and Microsoft to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more as long as the FBI says the information is “relevant” to an investigation. “Like others in the industry, we believe it is important for the public to have access to information about law enforcement access to customer data, particularly as customers are increasingly using technology to communicate and store private information,” Microsoft said. Free Thinker Radio (1/13/20): Propaganda Is All Around You Free Thinker Radio (1/10/20): Live with So/Below, Iran, and more! Free Thinker Radio (1/10/20) Feat. So/Below, Discussion on Iran, and more! Free Thinker Radio 1/21/18 Activism News Youth in Society FAA allows Arlington, Texas police to join countless others flying drones domestically Gardasil: New Study Brings More Safety Questions to Light	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3560
__label__wiki	0.941717	0.941717	Venom 2 Has Found Its Director It may not have been critically well-received, but given the ridiculous amount of money Venom made in theaters, it’s hardly surprising that Sony is moving forward with a sequel. However, because he’s been busy with another Sony picture, Zombieland: Double Tap, director Ruben Fleischer will not return to helm Venom 2. Instead, that job is being passed to Andy Serkis. It was reported last week that Andy Serkis was being look at to direct Venom 2, among other candidates like Rupert Wyatt and Travis Knight. Now, THR has dropped the news that Serkis has signed a deal to tackle the next cinematic adventure of the symbiote-powered Eddie Brock, played by Tom Hardy. While Sony hasn’t commented on this hiring, Andy Sekris confirmed that he will indeed direct Venom 2 on Instagram, as seen below, making this his biggest directorial project yet. Andy Serkis is best known for his acting work, whether his face is scene like in Black Panther or he’s motion capture performing like in the Planet of the Apesreboot movies. But behind the camera, he’s been building a solid directing resume over this decade. In addition to reprising Gollum in the first Hobbit movie, Andy Serkis also served as the second unit director on the entire Hobbit trilogy. Four years after The Battle of the Five Armies, he made his full directorial debut with Breathe, which starred Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy. Serkis then delivered last year’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, which featured motion capture performances from himself, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch (among others), and was originally going to be put out by Warner Bros, but was ultimately released by Netflix. Andy Serkis will be bringing Venom 2 to life using the script written by Kelly Marcel, who co-wrote the first Venom movie with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, and whose credits also include Saving Mr. Banks and Fifty Shades of Grey. No specific Venom 2 plot details have been revealed yet, but given that Venom’s mid-credits scene introduced Woody Harrleson’s Cletus Kasady, an imprisoned serial killer, we can reasonably assume the sequel will see Cletus following in his comic book counterpart’s footsteps and becoming Carnage. Like Venom, Carnage has frequently fought Spider-Man over the years, but one can argue that he and Venom have an even greater antagonistic relationship. Along with Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson reprising their respective roles, Michelle Williams will also be back as Ann Weying, a San Francisco district attorney and Eddie Brock’s ex-fiancée. Venom 2 will be the third movie in Sony’s own cinematic Marvel universe, with the Jared Leto-led Morbius serving as Movie #2. Venom 2 is expected to be released in theaters on October 2, 2020, so keep checking back with CinemaBlend for more coverage. In the meantime, find out what’s headed to the big screen later this year in our 2019 release schedule. You can watch Venom on m4ufree Previous Posts Avengers: Endgame Writer Co-Signs Peggy Carter Funeral Theory Next Posts 8 Best Websites to Watch Free Movies Online in 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3561
__label__wiki	0.592282	0.592282	Shedding Light on Lowell’s Shadowing Policy Entering Lowell, you are a little fish in a big pond. The first few months can be brutal academically and socially, and hurtling into freshman year with no idea what to expect can make it so much worse. However, some students do know what’s ahead. A small population of eighth graders are able to shadow Lowell every year with friends and family members, leaving the playing field unequal. We should reimplement a shadowing program to combat this problem. As of now, shadowing at Lowell sits in a gray area. There is no official way for students to sign up for shadowing, but those who have connections within the school are able to shadow friends or family. This wasn’t always the case; Lowell offered shadowing several years ago, but the administration shut down the program because the demand for it was too high. Now the school only officially offers tours and Eighth Grade Night. Several other public high schools in San Francisco, including Ruth Asawa SOTA, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, along with various private schools, allow eighth graders to shadow before they send in their applications every December. This process immerses students in the school’s community, whereas school tours only scratch the surface of the complex high school experience. Principal Andrew Ishibashi, who made the final decision to discontinue shadowing, was mainly concerned with Lowell’s inability to accommodate all prospective shadows. “Lowell is a very popular school, and we couldn’t accept everybody,” he said. According to Ishibashi’s approximation, Lowell used to receive 3,000 shadowing applications and had to reject at least half. Ishibashi was specifically concerned about refusing minority students. “If the door is closed in your face when you already feel like people don’t care, and like you’re not wanted at a school like Lowell, that’s hurtful,” he said. Ishibashi recalled trying multiple methods to expand the number of shadows Lowell could host, but the influx became a space issue and a distraction. He ultimately decided that shadowing was too much of a strain on the Lowell community. While Ishibashi’s sentiment towards minorities is appreciated, eliminating shadowing has in some ways been harder on minority students. With no policy in place, Lowell students have begun hosting shadows without the administration’s consent. Within this unofficial system, you can only shadow Lowell if you know someone attending the school, often a family member. This requirement of knowing a Lowellite in order to shadow restricts prospective Latinx and African American students, given how these groups combined only comprise 12 percent of our student body, according to the Lowell High School Profile 2017-2018. In addition, shadows of minority races are more recognizable as non-Lowell students because the population of their ethnicity at Lowell is so small. One anonymous sophomore encountered this issue while hosting an African American shadow. “If you see someone who is African American, it’s really easy to recognize that they don’t go to the school,” she said. She was reprimanded for bringing an unauthorized shadow on campus by a security guard who identified her shadow as a non-Lowellite. As for the distraction factor, the issue could be reduced by simply accepting fewer students, instead of attempting to host as many shadows as possible. That way, shadowing would be less frequent and disruptive. Though some families may be upset about not being able to shadow, letting in some students is better than none. By developing a concrete policy instead of leaving students to their own devices, the administration could dictate a specific set of rules for shadows’ behavior. Sophomore Mark Verzhbinsky agrees on the benefits of clearer guidelines. Verzhbinsky shadowed his older sister and admitted he probably distracted her classmates, who were interested in meeting their friend’s brother. He believes this problem would be eliminated if students shadowed random volunteers, keeping the process impersonal. In order to keep the system more equal, shadows could be chosen through a lottery system. That would eliminate the inequity surrounding the way students can shadow now. Lowellites who have shadowed multiple schools claim that they gained a lot of good insights from shadowing. Freshman Virginia McDonough, who shadowed multiple private schools as an eighth grader, appreciated having the ability to shadow. “It gave me a better view of the classrooms and how I would fit in to the school,” she said. “It showed me whether or not I liked the teaching style or how I would do in the environment.” In a survey conducted by The Lowell in March that aimed to collect student data and opinions about the usefulness of shadowing, other students responded similarly to McDonough. “You learn so much about the people and it helps you determine whether you can picture yourself there or not,” one student said. Another said shadowing “created a more genuine idea of the student experience.” McDonough wishes she could have shadowed at Lowell, finding the information she gleaned from attending Eighth Grade Night insufficient. Because of her lack of exposure to the school, she felt confused upon entering freshman year. “I didn’t get to know where anything was or experience any of the classes [during Eighth Grade Night]. That was kind of hard,” McDonough said. Verzhbinsky compared shadowing and touring Lowell, outlining the differences between the experiences. “It’s either looking in from the outside through a filter, or actually being on the inside,” he said. In addition to helping prospective students gauge their compatibility with the community, McDonough believes that a shadowing program at Lowell could help clear up some misconceptions. Lowell is seen as a rigorous academic environment, and allowing eighth graders to shadow could illuminate other aspects besides our competitive nature. “[Shadows] could see what other students are actually like, what the classrooms are like…It’s not just people studying and crying in the bathrooms,” McDonough said. While many like McDonough find Lowell less intense than expected, for some the opposite is true. Lowell is stressful, and understanding that sometimes requires seeing the workload and classes with one’s own eyes. The aforementioned survey by The Lowell revealed that seeing difficult academics first-hand would have dissuaded some applicants. “Seeing how crowded it is all the time, how classes work compared to other schools…might have made me reconsider,” one student said. “If I [had] shadowed, I probably wouldn’t be at Lowell,” another said. Though the former shadowing policy was discontinued with good intentions, eliminating a program because not everyone can be accepted is not a reasonable solution. Lowell doesn’t shut down because we can’t accept all ninth grade applicants, so why should we follow such a cut-and-dry policy when it comes to other aspects of our school? Even if we can’t accept everybody, the experiences gained by those who shadow, whether positive or negative, greatly helps them along in the high school admissions process. We shouldn’t rob those students of this golden opportunity. Skipping the Smoke: SFUSD should cancel school on unhealthy air days Spiking the competition: Senior spearheads varsity team to championship title Lowell holds first-ever schoolwide NCAA signing day for five Lowell athletes Tackling football stereotypes: Sophomore takes on varsity football Growing up on Golf: A look at one of Lowell’s best golfers Shoplifters will not be prosecuted Why I support legacy admissions TO THE EDITOR: Make school lunches unhealthy Why I love Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat SO much Spring Lookbook JV Volleyball prevail over Washington to win the All City championship game Eucalyptus Drive shooting prompts students to reevaluate school safety procedures Not just for kicks: Sophomore runs her own sneaker reselling business How Margaret Atwood changed my perspective on literature PHOTOS: Lowell Cardinals fall to Lincoln Mustangs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3562
__label__wiki	0.873407	0.873407	Review & Track Premiere: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Grandmother Posted in audiObelisk, Reviews on February 20th, 2019 by JJ Koczan [Click play above to stream ‘Cinitus’ from Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree’s new album, Grandmother, out Feb. 28.] It’s not just that the direction Germany’s Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree take on their second album, Grandmother, is unexpected. It’s that they take that direction so well and so completely. The Stuttgart-based four-piece of guitarist/vocalist Simon Weinrich, guitarist Lucas Dreher, bassist Christopher Popowitsch and drummer/vocalist Marc Dreher made an impressive debut in 2017 with the similarly concisely-titled Medicine (review here), and thereby reveled in an expansive take on heavy psychedelia. Song structures were fluid, tones by and large were warm, and where vocals came up, they added to the overarching atmosphere of mellow exploration. In short: cool vibe, good record. The kind of thing that would make you want to chase down a follow-up. Now, with Grandmother — a word that, like “medicine,” is bound to evoke some kind of image or emotion or at least association in the mind of just about anyone who sees it — the four-piece present through Pink Tank Records four tracks over the course of an expansive 45 minutes, infused with a linear dynamic split between its two sides. I’m not ready to call it post-metal, but there are times where its post-heavy psychedelia comes close, though as they show in the consuming 17-minute opener and by far longest track (immediate points) “Cinitus,” they’re no less likely to drone out on some cosmic doom à la the criminally undernoticed Mühr than they are to burst into a cacophonous echo of space rocking thrust before crashing into a massive roll and devolving to interweaving wisps of guitar effects. Really, “Cinitus” is an album unto itself — or at least an EP — but paired with the seven-minute “Craving” on side A, which presents a more straightforward linear build with vocals more direct in the mix, it highlights the scope that Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree have so readily taken upon themselves. It’s not just about sounding big or broad — though they have both at their disposal, certainly — but about emotional conveyance through aesthetic expression. It is gorgeous and complex in kind. Like a relationship. Like family. It’s never all joy, and it’s never all misery. It’s a concept or a theme that runs deep enough to encompass anything, and at the same time still be open to the interpretation of the listener. As “Cinitus” careens its way toward the massive rolling slowdown that hits just before the 10-minute mark, a stretch of vocals seem to call up from beneath the guitar to provide an essential human presence ahead of the drift to come, and it’s one more way in which the band showcase the thoughtfulness of the shift in sound presented throughout Grandmother. This is not the clumsy donning of a style. This isn’t a band trying something on to see how it fits. One gets the sense that somewhere in the two short years since Medicine, Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree decided they wanted their sound to do something else, and as a unit, they consciously made a choice to work toward that. Their success in that regard is writ large throughout “Cinitus” and “Craving,” as well as “Grandmother” and “Dionysus” on side B, which both run about 10 minutes to convey something of an evening out even as their structures remain varied within themselves, with the former patiently moving through a spacious progression underscored by tension in the drums and rumbling low end, while the band hold back the full blastoff for the latter — though perhaps the closer’s most effective moment is the stretch in its second half where it drops the wash of noise and lets the vocals carry a moment of clarity ahead of the finale. Either way, the ambient sense of Grandmother is crucial to its execution throughout, and for all the consciousness that may be at work in the band’s growth from the first album to the second, they don’t at all lose sight of the emotional context they’re bringing to the proceedings. In the pulls of the guitar in “Cinitus” or the way “Grandmother” resolves itself in a combination of stomp and surge before a last wash of cymbals and resonant guitar gives way to a sampled rainstorm, the songs are as much gut as brain. It’s the malleable direction of one over the other that makes Grandmother such a resounding offering. The pairing of the title-track and “Dionysus” is especially telling in that despite their similar runtimes — recall “Cinitus” is more than 10 minutes longer than “Craving” back on side A — they’re deceptively different in the ground they cover. If one puts a narrative of mourning to the progression of songs, then the reference to the goddess governing wine and song — Bacchus to the Romans — might be seen as a repast, especially after that rainstorm. But either way, it is where Grandmother finds its ending, and there is a palpable sense of letting go as the last verse recedes just before it hits 7:30 and begins to transition into the last wash that serves as its culmination. Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree are never out of control, in that moment or elsewhere, and that’s something they reinforce with a last return to the quiet guitar line that serves as central figure to the closer as they make their way out. But that sense of control, too, is fluid, and if anything has carried over from the band’s prior outing, it’s their ability to hold sway over longform structures, toying with the listener’s consciousness while retaining a full hold on what they’re doing. They have taken on this breadth of approach in such a way that makes it easy to think they’ve “found” their niche and will from here work to refine it. That might happen, or it might not. But for a band who already seemed so sure of their take to turn elsewhere is remarkable. It shows not only are Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree capable of such a thing, but they’re bold enough to actually do it and pull it off. As to where that might take their craft going forward, they’ve also just made themselves far less predictable, which is another of Grandmother‘s noteworthy achievements. Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Grandmother (2019) Grandmother by Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree on Thee Facebooks Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree on Bandcamp Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree at Pink Tank Records Pink Tank Records on Thee Facebooks Tags: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree Grandmother, Germany, Grandmother, Pink Tank Records, Stuttgart Quarterly Review: Thou, Liquid Visions, Benthic Realm, Ape Machine, Under, Evil Triplet, Vestjysk Ørken, Dawn of Winter, Pale Heart, Slowbro Posted in Reviews on December 10th, 2018 by JJ Koczan We meet again! The second week of this amply-proportioned Quarterly Review begins today as we move ever closer toward the inevitable 100-album finish line on Friday. There is an incredible amount of music to get through this week, so I don’t want to delay for too long, but as we look out across the vast stretch of distortion to come, I need to say thank you for reading, and I hope that you’ve been able to find something that’s kicking your ass a little bit in all the right ways so far. If not, well, there are 50 more records on the way for you to give it another shot. Thou, Magus How can something be so raw and forward thinking at the same time? Baton Rouge’s Thou might be the band of their generation who’ve added the most to sludge in terms of pushing the style in new directions and shaping genre to their purposes. Magus (on Sacred Bones), their fourth or fifth full-length depending on whom you ask, is an overwhelming 75-minute 2LP of inward and outward destructive force, as heavy in its ambience as in its weight and throat-ripping sonic extremity, and yet somehow is restrained. To listen to the march of “Transcending Dualities,” there’s such a sense of seething happening beneath the surface of that chugging, marching riff, and after its creeping introduction, “In the Kingdom of Meaning” seems intent on beating its own rhythm, as in, with fists, and even a stop-by from frequent guest vocalist Emily McWilliams does little to detract from that impression. Along with Magus, which rightly finishes with the lurching threat of “Supremacy,” Thou have released three EPs and a split this year, so their pace runs in something of a contrast to their tempos, but whether you can keep up or not, Thou continue to press forward in crafting pivotal, essential brutalizations. Magus by Thou Thou website Sacred Bones Records website Liquid Visions, Hypnotized Sulatron Records‘ pressing of Liquid Visions‘ 2002 debut, Hypnotized, is, of course, a reissue, but also the first time the album has been on vinyl, and it’s not long into opener “State of Mind” or the grunge-gone-classic-psych “Waste” before they earn the platter. Members of the band would go on to participate in acts like Zone Six, Wedge, Electric Moon and Johnson Noise, so it’s easy enough to understand how the band ties into the family tree of underground heavy psych in Berlin, but listening to the glorious mellow-unfolding-into-noise-wash-freakout of 15-minute closer “Paralyzed,” the appeal is less about academics than what the five-piece of vocalists/guitarists H.P. Ringholz (also e-sitar) and Kiryk Drewinski (also organ), bassist Dave “Sula Bassana” Schmidt (also Fender Rhodes and Mellotron), drummer Chris Schwartzkinsky and thereminist Katja Wolff were able to conjure in terms of being both ahead of their time and behind it. As the album moves from its opening shorter tracks to the longer and more expansive later material, it shows its original CD-era linearity, but if an LP reissue is what it takes to get Hypnotized out there again, so be it. I doubt many who hear it will complain. Liquid Visions on Thee Facebooks Sulatron Records webstore Benthic Realm, We Will Not Bow The second short release from Benthic Realm behind a 2017 self-titled EP (review here) finds the Massachusetts-based trio of guitarist/vocalist Krista van Guilder (ex-Second Grave, ex-Warhorse), bassist Maureen Murphy (ex-Second Grave) and drummer Dan Blomquist (also Conclave) working toward a refined approach bridging the divide between doom and darker, harder hitting metal. They do this with marked fluidity, van Guilder shifting smoothly between melodic clean singing and harsher screams as Murphy and Blomquist demonstrate like-minded ease in turns of pace and aggression. The penultimate semi-title-track “I Will Not Bow” is an instrumental, but “Save us All,” “Thousand Day Rain” and closer “Untethered” — the latter with some Slayer ping ride and ensuing double-kick gallop — demonstrate the riff-based songwriting that carries Benthic Realm through their stylistic swath and ultimately ties their ideas together. If they think they might be ready for a debut full-length, they certainly sound that way. We Will Not Bow by Benthic Realm Benthic Realm on Thee Facebooks Benthic Realm website Ape Machine, Darker Seas Maybe Ape Machine need to make a video with cats playing their instruments or something, but five albums deep, the Portland outfit seem to be viciously underrated. Releasing Darker Seas on Ripple, they take on a more progressive approach with songs like “Piper’s Rats” donning harmonized vocals and more complex interplay with guitar. It’s a more atmospheric take overall — consider the acoustic/electric beginning of “Watch What You Say” and it’s semi-nod to seafaring Mastodon, the likewise-unplugged and self-awarely medieval “Nocturne in D Flat (The Jester)” and the rocking presentation of what’s otherwise fist-pumping NWOBHM on “Bend Your Knee” — but Ape Machine have always been a band with songwriting at their center, and even as they move into the best performances of their career, hitting a point of quality that even producer Steve Hanford (Poison Idea) decided to join them after the recording as their new drummer, there’s no dip in the quality of their work. I don’t know what it might take to get them the attention they deserve — though a cat video would no doubt help — but if Darker Seas underscores anything, it’s that they deserve it. Ape Machine – Darker Seas by Ape Machine Ape Machine on Thee Facebooks Ripple Music on Bandcamp Under, Stop Being Naive Stockport, UK, three-piece Under bring a progressive edge to their pummel with their second album, Stop Being Naive (on APF), beginning with the deceptively thoughtful arrangement of crushing opener and longest track (immediate points) “Malcontent,” which unfurls a barrage of riffs and varied vocals contributed by guitarist Simon Mayo, bassist Matt Franklin and drummer/keyboardist Andy Preece. Later cuts like “Soup” and “Grave Diggers” tap into amorphous layers of extremity, and “Happy” punks out with such tones as to remind of the filth that became grindcore in the UK nearly 40 years ago, but while “Big Joke” rolls out with a sneer and closer “Circadian Driftwood” has a more angular foundation, there’s an overarching personality that comes through Under‘s material that feels misanthropic and critical in a way perhaps best summarized by the record’s title. Stop Being Naive is sound enough advice, and it comes presented with a fervent argument in its own favor. Stop Being Naive by Under Under on Thee Facebooks APF Records webstore Evil Triplet, Have a Nice Trip Trimming the runtime of their 2017 debut, Otherworld (review here) nearly in half, Austin weirdo rockers Evil Triplet present the six-song/38-minute single LP Have a Nice Trip on Super Secret with classic garage buzz tone on “A Day Like Any Other,” a cosmic impulse meeting indie sneer on opener “Space Kitten” and a suitably righteous stretch-out on “Aren’t You Experienced?” — which is just side A of the thing. The pulsating “Open Heart” might be the highlight for its Hawkwindian drive and momentary drift, but “Pyramid Eye”‘s blown-out freakery isn’t to be devalued, and the eight-minute capper “Apparition” is dead on from the start of its slower march through the end of its hook-topped jam, reminding of the purpose behind all the sprawl and on-their-own-wavelength vibes. A tighter presentation suits Evil Triplet and lets their songs shine through while still highlighting the breadth of their style and its unabashed adventurousness. May they continue to grow strange and terrify any and all squares they might encounter. Have A Nice Trip by Evil Triplet Evil Triplet on Thee Facebooks Super Secret Records website Vestjysk Ørken, Cosmic Desert Fuzz To a certain extent, what you see is what you get on Vestjysk Ørken‘s debut EP, Cosmic Desert Fuzz. At very least, the Danish trio’s three-tracker first outing is aptly-named, and guitarist/vocalist Bo Sejer, bassist Søren Middelkoop Nielsen and drummer Thomas Bonde Sørensen indeed tap into space, sand and tone on the release, but each song also has a definite theme derived from cinema. To wit, “Dune” (11:41) samples Dune, “…Of the Dead” (9:13) taps into the landmark George Romero horror franchise, and “Solaris” (14:15) draws from the 1972 film of the same name. The spaciousness and hypnotic reach of the latter has an appeal all its own in its extended and subtle build, but all three songs not only pay homage to these movies but seem to work at capturing some aspect of their atmosphere. Vestjysk Ørken aren’t quite rewriting soundtracks, but they’re definitely in conversation with the works cited, and with an entire universe of cinema to explore, there are accordingly no limits as to where they might go. Something tells me it won’t be long before we find out how deep their obsession runs. Cosmic Desert Fuzz by Vestjysk Ørken Vestjysk Ørken on Instagram Vestjysk Ørken on Bandcamp Dawn of Winter, Pray for Doom I have no interest in playing arbiter to what’s “true” in doom metal or anything else, and neither am I qualified to do so. Instead, I’ll just note that Germany’s Dawn of Winter, who trace their roots back nearly 30 years and have released full-lengths on a one-per-decade basis in 1998, 2008 and now 2018 with Pray for Doom, have their house well in order when it comes to conveying the classic tenets of the genre. Issued through I Hate, the eight-track/51-minute offering finds drummer Dennis Schediwy punctuating huge nodder grooves led by Jörg M. Knittel‘s riffs, while bassist Joachim Schmalzried adds low end accentuation and frontman Gerrit P. Mutz furthers the spirit of traditionalism on vocals. Songs like “The Thirteenth of November” and the stomping “The Sweet Taste of Ruin” are timeless for being born too late, and in the spirit of Europe’s finest trad doom, Dawn of Winter evoke familiar aspects without directly worshiping Black Sabbath or any of their other aesthetic forebears. Pray for Doom is doom, because doom, by doomers, for doomers. The converted will be accordingly thrilled to hear them preach. Dawn of Winter on Thee Facebooks I Hate Records website Pale Heart, Jungeland Semi-retroist Southern heavy blues boogie, some tight flourish of psychedelia, and the occasional foray into broader territory, Stuttgart three-piece Pale Heart‘s StoneFree debut long-player, Junegleland is striking in its professionalism and, where some bands might sacrifice audio fidelity at the altar of touching on a heavy ’70s aesthetic, guitarist/vocalist Marc Bauer, key-specialist Nico Bauer and drummer Sebastian Neumeier (since replaced by Marvin Schaber) present their work in crisp fashion, letting the construction of the songs instead define the classicism of their influence. Low end is filled out by Moog where bass might otherwise be, and in combination with Hammond and Fender Rhodes and other synth, there’s nothing as regard missing frequencies coming from Jungleland, the nine songs of which vary in their character but are universally directed toward honing a modern take on classic heavy, informed as it is by Southern rock, hard blues and the tonal warmth of yore. A 50-minute debut is no minor ask of one’s audience in an age of fickle Bandcamp attentions, but cuts like the 12-minute “Transcendence” have a patience and character that’s entrancing without trickery of effects. Jungleland by Pale Heart Pale Heart on Thee Facebooks StoneFree Records website Slowbro, Nothings UK instrumentalist three-piece Slowbro‘s full-length debut, Nothings, brings forth eight tracks and 51 minutes of heavy-ended sludge rock notable for the band’s use of dueling eight-string guitars instead of the standard guitar/bass setup. How on earth does something like that happen? I don’t know. Maybe Sam Poole turned to James Phythian one day and was like, “Hey, I got two eight-string guitars. So, band?” and then a band happened. Zeke Martin — and kudos to him on not being intimidated by all those strings — rounds out on drums and together the trio embark on cuts like “Sexlexia” (a very sexy learning disability, indeed) and “Broslower,” which indeed chugs out at a considerably glacial pace, and “Fire, Fire & Fire,” which moves from noise rock to stonerly swing with the kind of aplomb that can only be conjured by those who don’t give a shit about style barriers. It’s got its ups and downs, but as Nothings — the title-track of which quickly cuts to silence and stays there until a final crash — rounds out with “Pisscat” and the eight-strings go ever so slightly post-rock, it’s hard not to appreciate the willful display of fuckall as it happens. It’s a peculiar kind of charm that makes it both charming and peculiar. 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It’s their first record with the name, but the history of the three-piece who made it — often-chapeau’ed guitarist/vocalist Marc Bauer, organist Nico Bauer and drummer Sebastian Neumeier (since replaced by Marvin Schaber) — goes back a decade to their teenage beginnings as the band White Daze. Also, in the case of Marc and Nico being brothers, you know, childhood and all that. But Pale Heart, who derive the new name from a critique of the ravages of capitalist greed on the human soul — Marx would groove — are a different animal altogether, with the varied keys and synth taking the place of bass in covering low end with the guitar while furthering the melody and Marc‘s vocals as a steady focal point over the swinging, adaptable drums of Neumeier. Whether they’re chilling out slow on “Little World” or dug into the heavier push in the second half of seven-minute opener “Time to Love” — immediately contrasted by “Evil Man” — or basking in the psychedelia and well-earned organ/synth solo in the 12-minute “Transcendence,” Jungleland isn’t by any means a minor journey at nine songs and 50 minutes, but it stands itself out via songcraft and naturalist, smooth performances. And if their new video for “Flying High” makes you want to get down by getting all dragged up and putting on a show, fucking a. Seems to work pretty well for my man with the cigarettes on his pizza, so all the better. The song, like much of the record it represents, is a hookfest, catchy to its core and given nuance in the sonic space where bass might otherwise reside by Nico‘s Rhodesing and Moogery. As the penultimate cut on Jungleland, it’s somewhat buried behind the aforementioned “Transcendence,” but it’s an uptempo kick right when the album needs it and provides a bridge to the easy-rolling closer “Cry of Desperation” that follows. No complaints, in other words. The production is organic but not strictly retro, and across the record the band flesh out sundry moods and funky nods while holding to the central bluesy feel. It’s a vibe album. It vibes. It wants you to vibe with it. And it makes a convincing case for doing so. In that, “Flying High” is a more than worthy representation, and even if you don’t have nailpolish handy (why not?), the clip is also fully enjoyable with a cup of coffee, or maybe a slice of cigarette-free pizza if that’s your thing. I’m happy to host the premiere. PR wire info on the band follows the video itself, which is right down there in that box that looks like a video. Go figure. Please enjoy: Pale Heart, “Flying High” official video premiere Founded in 2008 under the moniker WHITE DAZE, the trio, consisting of brothers Marc and Nico Bauer, and Sebastian Neumeier, found its home within the soulful Blues Rock-spheres of the olden days. And without exaggeration: It’s this baseline feeling that makes the 70ies come alive right in front of you. Forged from the present and fed by the past, their sound isn’t just a combination of those two worlds. It’s an elegant amalgamation that also evokes something new. Sebastian Neumeier isn’t a member of PALE HEART anymore, but it’s him playing the drums on “Jungleland”. Under the name PALE HEART the band reforms as a trio, this time with Marvin Schaber as the drummer. And good times are ahead: Their new material sounds full, earthy, and gritty, felt to the bone by each member and performed with maximum authenticity. Blues, Rock, Soul, Prog sounds and faintly psychedelic melodies, never too serious despite its depth, never too easy despite its groove. PALE HEART don’t make music to be cool, to get girls, or to be celebrated on hipster blogs. PALE HEART strive to make music because it’s fulfilling. And have adopted an even more free, passionate, and uninhibited sound in 2018. PALE HEART ON TOUR 11/10/2018 Weil der Stadt – Groove Tonight 11/24/2018 Memmingen – Kaminwerk 11/30/2018 Regensburg – Alte Mälzerei 12/07/2018 Stuttgart – Merlin 12/11/2018 Aachen – TBA 12/12/2018 Köln – Blue Shell 12/13/2018 Bayreuth – TBA 12/22/2018 Stuttgart – Waagenhallen 12/26/2018 Erfurt – Museumskeller 01/05/2019 Ulm – Hexenhaus 01/07/2019 Bamberg – Live Club 01/19/2019 Winnenden – Juze Pale Heart is: Marc Bauer (Guitar, Vocals) Nico Bauer (Hammond Organ, Fender Rhodes Piano, Moog Synthesizer, Moog Bass) Marvin Schaber (Drums, but former drummer Sebastian Neumeier plays on “Jungleland”) Pale Heart on Instagram Pale Heart on Bandcamp StoneFree Records on Thee Facebooks StoneFree Records on Spotify Tags: Broken Silence, Germany, Jungleland, Pale Heart, Pale Heart Jungeland, StoneFree Records, Stuttgart Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Medicine: Walking Trails Primarily, Medicine feels like an exploration of depth. Not just in the sense of asking how low they can go in terms of tone, but what kind of distance can they set up between those lows and highs, how far can a song stretch from one end to the other before, like taffy, it is pulled apart. Excitingly, the cumbersomely-named Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree (as opposed, one assumes, to doing so in the lion’s skull, à la Earth) never find out, and their five-song/46-minute first full-length stands among 2017’s strongest — and most weighted — heavy psychedelic releases as a result. The Stuttgart, Germany, four-piece recorded Medicine late in Fall 2016 at Milberg Studios and issued it themselves digitally and on CD in January, but a Pink Tank Records vinyl edition brings it to a well-deserved wider distribution and positions the work of guitarist/vocalist/cover artist Simon Weinreich, guitarist Lucas Dreher, bassist/graphic designer Christopher Popowitsch and drummer/vocalist Marc Dreher (relation to Lucas presumed) as particularly satisfying in its blend of extended, jammed-out instrumental sections and denser tonality. Without losing sight of their core mission, Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree proffer liquefied flow between and within their tracks, coming across as cohesive and patient as a cut like the 14-minute penultimate “Sail Away I” demonstrates in unfolding lines of intertwining guitar and bass held together by the underlying drums on a steady, immersive build that’s warm, headphone-ready, melodically rich and hypnotic without being meandering. Medicine works quickly in that song’s echoing spaces and those of the 10-minute opener “Every Night I Walk the Same Trail of Thought” to earn a place as one of the best debuts of the year. One can hear the influence of Colour Haze in some of the more open stretches, and that never hurts, but even more than the Munich-based progenitors of the style, Medicine directly reminds of the 2010 debut from Dutch trio Sungrazer. That’s not a comparison I make lightly, and while some of the fuzz that coats the driving first crescendo (preceding the crashing second one) of “Sail Away I” might draw a sonic line in that direction, it’s one even more about the act of blending heavy rock and psych impulses in a specific way and with an overarching naturalism that becomes a righteously defining element. If I note that Medicine might be the most engaging heavy psych debut I’ve heard since Sungrazer‘s self-titled, it will invariably sound like hyperbole, but I’m hard pressed to think of more than a handful of first offerings that have brought forth the same clearheaded idea of what they wanted to do and realize it in the same way. If nothing else, it sets Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree on a path of becoming a truly special kind of band, and one whose impact, in the tradition of Samsara Blues Experiment or Black Moon Circle or others building memorable songs out of jams, may resonate over a longer term. Structurally, Medicine benefits greatly from starting its two sides with the longer pieces. “Every Night I Walk the Same Trail of Thought” begins so quietly that at first one might be tempted to double-check that it’s actually playing, and while neither “Burn the Sun” (7:40) nor “Medicine” (6:38) slouches in terms of runtime, there’s a notable departure from the shimmering guitar that sounds the opener’s first notes toward crunchier-riffed push as “Burn the Sun” gets moving. There’s still space for space, to be sure, but even as the guitars air out leads late before turning to the heads-down riff that brings the song to its end, there’s an undercurrent of low-end heft behind them that makes for both counterpoint and complement. Likewise, the title-cut and centerpiece launches open and jammy to foreshadow some of the post-rock elements still to come in closer “Sail Away II” (6:54), but makes its way after the two-minute mark via feedback into a heavier plod that would seem to be the source of the band’s claim on an aspect of doom within their approach. It’s slow and heavy, anyhow. In context, the mood doesn’t necessarily feel down or dark in the way one might expect, but to quibble about self-imposed genre tags feels like missing the point. There’s a fluidity there. Better to go with it. And Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree make a convincing argument for doing so, which turns out to be one of Medicine‘s great strengths. Its tracks earn the listener’s trust such that following the band along the trail they’re walking becomes an absolute joy rather than something done tentatively, and the jammier vibe of “Sail Away I” and willful delve into post-rocking drift in “Sail Away II” gracefully expand on what side A accomplishes before them, “Sail Away I” resolving itself in blown-out echoing vocals and a nodding apex, and the finale holding to its peaceful guitar progression even as some of Medicine‘s heftiest lumbering plays out beneath. That last emphasis on the two sides meeting head on in Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree‘s work serves to highlight the duality at work across the album’s entirety, but it’s not a staid thing by any means, and it wouldn’t work if it was. The band are clearly comfortable in adjusting the balance to suit the needs of their material, and whether that’s done consciously in arranging parts and pieces or something that just comes out of different jams, it’s no less crucial to Medicine‘s ultimate success. There’s a telling moment after “Sail Away II” has blissed itself into final lines of fading guitar when we hear a chair creak and what sounds like drum sticks get laid down. It’s over. These quick, last few seconds are an effective acknowledgement that Medicine is intended to convey a live experience — it may well have been recorded live, I don’t know — and Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, who’ve already proliferated such an organic chemistry, seem to hint that along with the exploration of spaciousness at work throughout their material, the corresponding message with that is that the direction in which they’re headed has been plotted naturally, i.e. in an unforced manner. One can only hope they continue to tread the path Medicine lays out before them. Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Medicine (2017) Medicine by Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree Tags: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree Medicine, Germany, Medicine, Pink Tank Records, Stuttgart Deaf Proof and Holistic Hobos Release Split Posted in Whathaveyou on June 23rd, 2016 by JJ Koczan One never really knows where German outfit Deaf Proof are going to wind up on a release until they get there. This time around, the Freiburg trio come down to earth to meet up with the progressively-styled Holistic Hobos for a three-tracks-each split offering that brings out a heavy side of both. For Holistic Hobos, this marks their first outing since their 2013 Let Loose be Free EP, while Deaf Proof take a much different turn than the extended improv jams they brought out for 2015’s Blood Red Sky Sessions (review here), going for a more straightforward overall sound. It’s my first listen to Holistic Hobos, and gives a positive impression of the four-piece. The two bands complement each other well on the six tracks, as you can hear via the players below, hoisted from the respective Bandcamp pages. Note that the physical version is CD digipak and that it’s limited to 100 copies. Just in case you were thinking you had time on it, you probably don’t. Release announcement looks an awful lot like this: Deaf Proof Holistic Hobos Split Two heavy rocking bands of stony south-west-german origin gather to release some of their new tunes together on a split album. Come on, there’s a fuzz-split-monstrosity emerging from south-west Germany: The Holistic Hobos from Stuttgart present their latest compositions. These are quiet psychedelic, sometimes grungy and with NWOBHM-style twin-guitars, always diversified and heavy. In the end it’s more than stoner and doom, if Baroness comes to your mind, this is more than reasonable. The Freiburg trio Deaf Proof puts aside the jammy moments and most of the FX this time, only the fuzz pedal is cranked to 11, so the boys are rockin’ straightforward and kickin’ ass hard: Ouch ;) ! Hard facts: Limited, hand numbered digipak, 100 pieces, 50 per band, buy for 7€ + shipping via stuff@deafproof.de or contact: https://www.facebook.com/holistichobos. https://deafproof.bandcamp.com/ https://holistichobos.bandcamp.com/ Deaf Proof, split with Holistic Hobos (2016) Deaf Proof Holistic Hobos Split by Deaf Proof Holistic Hobos, split with Deaf Proof (2016) Deaf Proof / Holistic Hobos Split by Holistic Hobos Tags: Deaf Proof, Deaf Proof Holistic Hobos split, Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany, Holistic Hobos, Stuttgart	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3565
__label__cc	0.570504	0.429496	The Paranormal Site All Things Paranormal UFO’s/ALIENS OCCULT/MAGICK PARANORMAL ENCYCLOPEDIA PARANORMAL LOCATIONS BY STATE The Latest in the paranormal October 10, 2019 in CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Sinkhole Sam, The Kansas Lake Monster September 28, 2019 in OCCULT/MAGICK: What is Abacomancy, And How Do I Use It? September 25, 2019 in GHOSTS: Do Ghosts Haunt The Kiowa Creek Bridge, Bennett Colorado September 17, 2019 in CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot In Arizona: The Mogollon Monster March 4, 2017 in CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Wolf Woman Of Mobile December 18, 2016 in UFO's/ALIENS: David Wilcock and Corey Goode Discussing Full Disclosure November 2, 2016 in UFO's/ALIENS: AlienCon 2016 September 23, 2016 in UFO's/ALIENS: UFO Evidence? Flying Saucer Caught on Video September 2016 September 22, 2016 in CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Is This a Video of a Thylacine? August 26, 2016 in GHOSTS: Stay the Night at One of These 3 Haunted Hotels Home » CRYPTOZOOLOGY » Bigfoot In Arizona: The Mogollon Monster Bigfoot In Arizona: The Mogollon Monster Posted in CRYPTOZOOLOGY Is there a Bigfoot in Arizona? Sightings and pictures could suggest yes. The Mogollon Monster is a legendary, Bigfoot like creature that is reported to exist in the Mogollon Rim area, eastern and central parts of Arizona. Some descriptions of this cryptid vary, but footprints, images and hair samples believed to be from creature have been reported. Some locals from the area claim to have had encounters with it on multiple occasions. Red marks areas of sightings. Much like Bigfoot, the Mogollon(mug-ee-yun)’s height is estimated to be over 7 feet and it’s powerful frame is covered with a shaggy reddish brown or sometimes black hair minus it’s face and hands. Another similarity to other bipedal cryptids is an overwhelming odor, like that of a skunk. This seems to be a common thread to these types of sightings. Other reported behaviors & attributes: Loud, terrible sounding scream. Sounds like a woman’s scream. While hidden will throw rocks at tresspassers in it’s territory. Nocturnal. Can be violent due to it’s territorial nature. Footprints measuring over 20″ & massive stride between steps. Curiosity. It has been reported to have a look at campsites while campers are asleep. Omivorous. In Legends The Mogollon legends from Native American tribes in Arizona are many, from old tales of large, fur covered men who inhabited the region’s canyons and forests to a story of a chief who’s wife was taken by another man. The chief then enlisted the help of a medicine man to turn this man into The Mogollon Monster. Other legends include an ancient chief being exiled from his tribe and to exact revenge he had the spirits transform him into a creature to harrass those who wronged him. A pioneer who escaped being attacked by local natives and ran into the forrest where he went insane and was cursed by the spirits, and a white man who was flayed of his flesh then hung in a tree where he was stretched to over 7 feet for his crime of murdering a native female. Reported sightings The earliest recorded sighting could be from The Arizona Republic newspaper. In 1903, I.W. Stevens recalled an encounter with the creature around the Grand Canyon. “[It had] long white hair and matted beard that reached to his knees. It wore no clothing, and upon his talon-like fingers were claws at least two inches long.” “Upon further inspection he noted ‘a coat of gray hair nearly covered his body, with here and there a spot of dirty skin showing.” He later stated that after he discovered the creature drinking the blood of two cougars, it threatened him with a club, and “screamed the wildest, most unearthly screech”. In the 1940’s, a cryptozoologist named Don Davis, claims to have spotted the creature while on a trip with the Boy Scouts. “The creature was huge. Its eyes were deep set and hard to see, but they seemed expressionless. His face seemed pretty much devoid of hair, but there seemed to be hair along the sides of his face. His chest, shoulders, and arms were massive, especially the upper arms; easily upwards of 6 inches in diameter, perhaps much, much more . I could see he was pretty hairy, but didn’t observe really how thick the body hair was. The face/head was very square; square sides and squared up chin, like a box.” A Whiteriver, Arizona local named Margorie Grimes, says she has had encounters with the the creature on multiple occasions between 1982 and 2004. Other tribal members of the White Mountain Apache Nation have experienced sightings as well. The reports were from respected members of the community, not people who would make hoax calls. Tangible Evidence During the mid 2010’s , in the White Mountains, strands of hair, and footprints were discovered. Plaster casts were made by tribal police, and the hair was sent to the Department of Public Safety to be examined in the high tech crime lab. It was determined that the fur sample was animal, but no further testing was done. Scientific Counter Arguments As with all accounts of strange creatures, there is very little hard evidence of the existence of The Mogollon Monster. Stan Lindstedt, a biology professor at Northern Arizona University, doesn’t give much merit to the stories of the creature. He believes that it’s more myth than reality. It’s believed that for animal of it’s size to exist without leaving more tangible evidence behind, is highly unlikely. The scientific community at large is in agreement with him in believing that most sightings are simply other natural wild animals… or hoaxes. Listen to the first few seconds of the video. If you have never heard this before, it would be very unsettling. As far as the noise the creature makes, the sound that is close to a woman’s blood curdling scream, mountain lions make a sound that is extremely close to that & If you’ve never heard that sound before, it can be shocking to hear. Fun With The Mogollon Monster As with most local cryptid creatures, the areas they are famous for find ways to entertain the stories with festivals and events. In the town of Pine, Arizona, there is a very challenging trail race, named “The Mogollon Monster 100” that is 106 miles long and runs all through the Mogollon Rim. It isn’t a race for the feint of heart. I haven’t heard reports of a sighting during the race, but it’s an annual event, so maybe one day! cryptid The Wolf Woman Of Mobile Cryptid Creature or Feral Person? New Bigfoot Statue Installed in Maine Museum Cryptid Expert Loren Coleman Places Elwood Strange Creature Caught on Video Puppet on a String or a Cryptid? 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__label__cc	0.639416	0.360584	- Where Hate does not Live! Celebrating our 20 year Anniversary (1997-2017)! We are not affiliated or endorsed by U.S. Government. Do you approve of the job President Trump is doing? Should Trump end the DACA Program for illegal immigrant children? Do you think they should raise age to buy rifles to 21? Trump Officials Signal Trump may end DACA Trump Officials are saying that it is imminent that Trump will rescind the DACA protections put in place by Obama Administration. The changes to the program which protects illegal immigrant children will probably come by Monday. Donald Trump Jr. agrees to Senate Interview Donald Trump Jr will have a transcribed interview with Senate Judiciary Committee Panel. They are looking to get information from him about meetings he may have had with Russian Groups before the election. Trump Approval Ratings near low Trump approval ratings have truned down and are close to historic lows. The Rasmussen Poll shows his approval rating at 42% and the Gallup Poll shows his approval rating at 35% in their latest poll numbers. Joe Biden criticizes Trump for handling of Charlotteville Former Vice President Joe Biden did not mince words in a commentary posted in The Atlantic yesterday. He said the following, "Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate." and "If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation". Trump again calls for Mexico to pay for wall Trump tweeted the following Sunday morning. “With Mexico being one of the highest crime nations in the world, we must have THE WALL, Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.” Trump Renews Call that U.S. may Pull out of NAFTA President Trump tweeted this morning that he may pull U.S. out of the NAFTA Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada. The 23 year old agreement will be entering a second renegotiation period next week. Ending the NAFTA agreement was one of Trump's biggest election promises. Trump Lamabasted on Sheriff Joe Pardon There has been a lot of criticism on Capitol Hill towards President Trump on his pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Senator Blumenthal tweeted the following. "Under cover of hurricane and Friday night darkness, Trump pardons Arpaio and flouts rule of law - already producing backlash." Senator Chuck Shumer also tweeted. "As millions of people in TX and LA are prepping for the hurricane, the President is using the cover of the storm to 1/ Pardon a man who violated a court's order to stop discriminating against Latinos and 2/". Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe Trump White House announced on Friday night that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been given a pardon. Sheriff Joe had been found guilty early this year of disobeying a Judges Order. RNC votes To Condemn White Supremacists The Republican National Committee voted unanimously in Nashville Tennessse to condemn White Supremacists. The resolution contained the following, " Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and others are repulsive, evil and have no fruitful place in the United States." Science Envoy writes Scathing Resignation Letter toTrump Professor Daniel M. Kammen resigned from his position at the State Deprtment, Among other things he wrote in the letter posted on Twitter was the following, "My decision to resign is in response to your attacks on core values of the United States. Your failure to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis has domestic and international ramifications.". Trump Hints at Government shutdown to get Mexican Wall Built. President Trump is putting out the notion that he may shut down the governernment if he does not get the funding for the wall he wants. Trump is trying to get his biggest campaign promise fulfilled to his hardcore supporters that want a wall built on the Mexican border. Trump Administration in Transition after Firings and Resignations There have been big changes at the the Trump White House over the past week since the debacle over the handling of the Charlottesville protests. Trump fired Steven Bannon who had helped get Trump elected and was a favorite of the conservative movement. Trump also dissolved the business advisory councils that were set up with prominent Business CEOS after several of them resigned in the aftermath of his remarks after the Charlottesville protests. © 2020 - WhiteHouse.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3572
__label__wiki	0.674039	0.674039	What is ‘Traditional Islam’? Response to Modernism Response to Extremism Intellectual Sciences Cosmology & Science Spiritual Psychology Transmitted Sciences Islamic Law & Practices Principles of Islamic Art Pictorial & Plastic Arts Intra-Religious Dialogue Transcendent Unity of Religions In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought December 20, 2019 /in Islamic Philosophy /by simar Arabic and Persian terms have been transliterated in accordance with the system employed by the (), with the following major exceptions: (1) no distinction is made in transliterating consonants shared between Arabic and Persian; (2) complete transliterations of book and article titles have been retained throughout; (3) in contexts where transliteration is not an absolute necessity (i.e., book/article titles and technical expressions), certain terms that appear on the word list, namely hajj, imam……(download below) In_Search_of_the_Lost_Heart_ExplorationsDownload Tags: Atif Khalil, Muhammad Rustom, William C. Chittick http://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Topkapi-Palace-in-Istanbul-Turkey-harem.jpg 681 1024 simar http://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Beige-Shahada3.png simar2019-12-20 14:18:562019-12-20 14:18:57In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought An Interview with Ekrem Demirli, Turkey’s Leading Scholar of Ibn ʿArabi and Qunawi The End of Islamic Philosophy by Mohammed Rustom The Dialectic of Gratitude (Shukr) in the Non-dualism of Ibn al-ʿArabī by Atif Khalil The Bodily Positions of the Ritual Prayer by William Chittick Love in Islamic Thought - William C. Chittick Our “Share” in this World By Mohammed Rustom FEATURED ARTICLES & MEDIA Support this site by trying the Brave browser © 2020 Copyright - TraditionalHikma.com. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. est. 2015 The Islamic Notion of Beauty – William Chittick Theodicy and the Problem of Evil(RIS Lecture series) Dr. Seyyed Nasr	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3579
__label__wiki	0.556927	0.556927	Solitary Anthophorid bees By Geoff Tribe (Images by Jenny Cullinan and Karin Sternberg) There are over 100 species of bees in southern Africa belonging to the family Anthophoridae which has a world-wide distribution. Anthophorid bees generally resemble the basic stout form of small carpenter bees but with abdomens that are usually striped in shades of black and grey. The flight of these hairy bees is fast and erratic and accompanied by a shrill hum. All African species nest in the soil, usually in sandy banks where they construct a deep central burrow from which leads short side burrows that end in cell chambers in which their brood is reared. The female bee provisions the brood cells which are lined with a wax-like material with a mixture of nectar and pollen, onto which she lays an egg. Some species construct an entrance made of soil particles cemented together with saliva which projects from the soil. Males of many anthophorid species have antennae that are unusually long and thus anthophorids may also be known as ‘long-horned bees’. One species found in the Cape Peninsula closely resembles the dark Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) except for its longer antennae and slightly smaller size. Males of anthophorids may form ‘sleeping clusters’ where they congregate by attaching themselves to a twig within a bush by means of their large mandibles. One such cluster consisting of 68 males of the same species was located one evening after the sun had set in the Natal Drakensberg near Cathedral Peak forestry station in about 1986. A large number of anthophorids are known as ‘cuckoo bees’ but their behaviour is not that of true parasites. This cleptoparasitism is widespread in the Anthophoridae and related families where the female enters a brood cell already provisioned by a host female and lays an egg of her own. The ‘cuckoo’ females lay an egg on the accumulated larval provisions of other bee species instead of provisioning their own nests. The egg or young larva of the host bee is either killed directly by the female cuckoo or killed by the ‘cuckoo’ larva. One such ‘cuckoo’ species found commonly in the south-western Cape is Thyreus delumbatus which ‘parasitizes’ Anthophora and Amegilla bees where they enter their nests to deposit their eggs. This ‘cuckoo’ bee is slightly smaller than a honeybee and has a ‘fish-bone’ pattern in black on its otherwise powder-blue body. There are also cuckoo wasps such as the bright metallic green Stilbum cyanurum which lay eggs in nests of solitary wasps and bees, their larvae also feeding on the host’s provisions or larvae. These cuckoo wasps are extremely hard and strongly sculptured to withstand attack by the hosts, and are able to roll up into a ball in self-defence. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2015 by ujubee. ← Sub-Social Allodapine Bees Leafcutter Bees of the Tribe MEGACHILINI → We are so excited to share the magnificent world of wild bees with you. Every bit of support helps. Donate to the work of Ujubee If we can learn from bees in the wild and what they need to be healthy, we can better understand what bees need to flourish when we keep bees. Fundamental to this is the protection of wild bees in their unique biomes, safeguarding their diversity and gene pool for the future. Support our work by making a donation. Contact Ujubee We'd Love to Hear From You * Where Blue is a Rare Colour in Nature. Roella recurvata and its Blue Pollen. Do drones accompany absconding and migrating swarms? Swarming Bees and Pseudoscorpions Honeybees and The Great Fire of 1869 extending from Swellendam to Uitenhage Pollination by deception daniel on Do drones accompany absconding and migrating swarms? ujubee on Poisonous Honey called ‘Noors’ Louis on Poisonous Honey called ‘Noors’ Ashu Wani on Swarming Bees and Pseudoscorpions ujubee on Swarming Bees and Pseudoscorpions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3588
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__label__cc	0.501113	0.498887	Top10Tech Tech News, Reviews and Deals From Around The Web Top10Tech Lists Category: International Relations International Relations, Missiles and Missile Defense Systems, Moon Jae-in, Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Donald J South Korea Suspends Deployment of U.S. Antimissile System Spread the loveTweet Photo Protesting the American missile defense system, known as Thaad, in Seoul, South Korea, last week. Credit Yonhap, via European Pressphoto Agency TOKYO — South Korea’s newly… By Steve Avery June 7, 2017 Leave a comment Australia, China, International Relations Australian Politics Is Open to Foreign Cash, and China Has Much to Gain Spread the loveTweet China’s attempts to translate its economic might into political influence have caused unease in many countries. But the challenge is acute in Australia. Many Australians view good… International Relations, natural gas, Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Shale After Initial Jolt on Qatar Tensions, Energy Markets Settle Spread the loveTweet “It is very difficult to see how this break in diplomatic relations would lead to a disruption of oil supplies,” said Paul Stevens, a Middle East oil… Alternative and Renewable Energy, Bloomberg, Michael R, Carbon Dioxide, environment, Global Warming, International Relations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United States Politics and Government Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord Spread the loveTweet It was unclear how, exactly, that submission to the United Nations would take place. Christiana Figueres, a former top United Nations climate official, said there was currently… Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates, Gentiloni, Paolo, International Relations, Italy, Politics and Government, Razov, Sergey, Rumors and Misinformation, russia, Trump, Donald J, United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government With Italy No Longer in U.S. Focus, Russia Swoops to Fill the Void Spread the loveTweet A deliberate, gray-haired career diplomat, Mr. Razov has been plugging away at building relationships with Italian politicians, organizing concerts for Italy’s earthquake survivors and visiting Italian regional… By Steve Avery May 29, 2017 Leave a comment Abbas, Mahmoud, Arab-Israeli War (1967), East Jerusalem, International Relations, Israel, Jews and Judaism, Netanyahu, Benjamin, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Trump, Donald J, United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government, West Bank, Western Wall (Jerusalem) Preparations for Trump’s Visit Expose Political Rifts in Israel Spread the loveTweet Expectations are low for any major breakthrough during Mr. Trump’s nearly 36-hour visit to Israel and the West Bank, but neither Mr. Netanyahu nor President Mahmoud Abbas… Assange, Julian P, Assaults, Classified Information and State Secrets, Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates, Ecuador, International Relations, London (England), Sex Crimes, Sweden, Wikileaks Julian Assange Rape Inquiry Is Dropped but His Legal Problems Remain Daunting Spread the loveTweet His advocacy of disclosure has become intertwined with politically motivated leaks and stolen information technology, used by states and criminals alike. Timeline Julian Assange: A Legal History… China, Elections, International Relations, Kim Jong-un, Moon Jae-in, north korea, Nuclear Weapons, south korea, Trump, Donald J, United States International Relations South Korea’s New President, Moon Jae-in, Promises New Approach to North Spread the loveTweet “The alliance with the United States is and will always be the foundation of our diplomacy and national security,” Mr. Moon was quoted as telling Mr. Trump.… Increased Numbers Turn to Mobile Billing Rare Shows Off a Nine-Minute Treasure Hunt in Sea of Thieves God of War’s E3 Trailer Shows Off Combat, a Sea Monster, and More Assassin’s Creed: Origins Announced, Has an $800 Legendary Edition Nintendo is Making a Full Pokemon RPG for the Switch Microsoft Announces Age of Empires: Definitive Edition – A 4K Remaster of the Strategy Classic Grab this Tiny Phone and Tablet Stand that Can Fit in Your Wallet for Just $19.99 Metal Gear Survive Delayed to Early 2018 Planet Coaster’s Free Summer Update Will Add New Rides and Player-Controlled Fireworks Atari is Teasing Something Called an Ataribox Copyright © 2020 Top10Tech. Powered by WordPress and Arouse.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3592
__label__wiki	0.54026	0.54026	Kerala Makes It To Cnn's List Of 19 Places To Visit In 2019 Tours & Travel Blogs Coolest Place Monuments and Historical Tips to Tour Top Kerala Monuments And Historical Places To Visit Hill Station For South India For Honeymoon Vacation Snow In Munnar, The Temperatures Reach Minus Three Degrees Importants Of Digital Campaign For Kerala Tourism Now Interview With Kasia Writes Top Places To Visit Alleppey In 1 Day Beautiful Nature To Visit Packing Listing For Kerala Trips Kochi: Heritage Train Run Top Summer Holiday Destinations For Family Top Places To Visit In Kovalam Kerala Is Ninth In CNN's List Of 19 Places To Visit In 2019 Around the World In 2019, Kerala has been placed on the list of the most wanted travel destinations in World that CNN has prepared.kerala is listed on the list of beautiful 19 tourist destinations. The most interesting thing is the fact that most of the places are included on the way back after a disaster like a flood and a tremor or the places had events that captured the attention of the whole world. The position of Kerala is ninth in the list. CNN estimates that in the aftermath of the 2018 floods, many tourist attractions in Kerala have been escaped. CNN list refers about Cochin and the Solar Systems in Nedumbassery Airport. They say that Kovalam is good for surfing and the Varkala beach is the perfect place for mental Relaxation. The lakes, the houseboat journeys, the Munnar tea estates, and Periyar National Park were just some of the factors that helped Kerala achieve this achievement. The list also shows that should not forget to taste the prawn's curry of Kerala. Christ Church in New Zealand is ranked first in the list, here a total of 185 people lost their lives in the 2011 earthquake. Egypt, Fukuoka, Japan, Ghana, the United States Grand Kenyan, Hawaii Islands, Scotland Standing Stone, Israeli Jawf, Liechtenstein, Peru, Lima, New York City, Mexico, Osaka, Oman, the Bulgarian Plovdiv, French West Indies, St. Kirschbaum, Florida Space Coast,And Weimar in Germany are the other places in the list. Kerala is the only state in the list from India. Kerala has been listed by the international media organization CNN, Minister Kadakampally Surendran said in the Facebook page that for the Kerala Tourism this is an appreciation, which suffered a flood disaster. Kerala Tour Pakages Kerala Houseboat Holidays Kerala Tour Package For Couple Lovely Munnar Holidays Kerala Backwater Holidays Cochin Alleppey Goa Itinerary For 5 Days South India Holidays 15 Days & 16 Nights Budget India Tour Packages Budget Rajasthan Tour Package Srilankan Tour Package Singapore Holiday Packages Thailand Pattaya Holidays Malaysia Vacation Holidays Maldives Tours In 2019, Kerala has been placed on the list of the most wanted travel destinations in World that CNN has prepared.kerala is listed on the list of beautiful 19 tourist destinations. Kerala is the only state in the list from India	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3593
__label__cc	0.600838	0.399162	Terms: scientific instruments -- electrical Terms: Spencer Lens Company Carl Zeiss, Inc., New York (3) Spencer Lens Company, Boston (3) Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation, New York (2) American Scientist, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1) Carl Zeiss, Inc., Oberkochen, Germany (1) Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd., York, UK (1) Griffin & George Limited/England; The Ealing Corporation/ Natick (1) Ivan Sorvall, Inc., Norwalk, CT (1) MCI, Inc., Livermore, CA (1) New York Biological Supply Co., New York (1) Národní Technické Muzeum, Prague (1) Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo (1) R. Winkel Ltd., Göttingen, Germany (1) Sherer-Gillett Company, Marshall, MI (1) Société d'Optique et de Mécanique de Haute Précision, Paris (1) Standard Scientific Supply Corp., New York (1) The Baird Associates, Cambridge, MA (1) The Eppley Laboratory, Inc., Newport, RI (1) W. G. Pye & Co., Cambridge (1) Wild Heerbrugg Limited, Heerbrugg, Switzerland (1) Carl Zeiss Inc., Jena (4) C. Reichert (2) photography -- aerial (2) Science - Education (1) Microscopes - Polarizing (1) Olympus Optical Co. (1) Aquaria and Terraria (1) New York Biological Supply Co. (1) Société d'Optique et de Mécanique de Haute Précision (1) Ivan Sorvall, Inc. (1) Petrography (1) American Optical Company, Scientific Instrument Division (1) Wild Heerbrugg Limited (1) Yale College -- History (1) Teaching Apparatus (1) Aquaria-Terraria-Vivaria and Living Material; Supplement A (To Cat. No. 7) Book of accounts and notes - by whom? Carl Zeiss Branches and Sales Offices (+ Business Reply Card) A Catalogue of Laboratory Apparatus A Catalogue of Laboratory Apparatus: A selection from the NIVOC Range of Laboratory Equipment manufactured by The George & Becker Division of Griffin & George Limited, England, marketed int he United States of America by The Ealing Corporation (clipping from catalogue: Culpeper Microscope photo, Axiomat adv.) A Cold Cathode X-Ray Diffraction Tube	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3600
__label__wiki	0.897177	0.897177	Judge charging jury in case of teen found stuffed in burned-out suitcase Published Wednesday, January 6, 2016 TORONTO -- A Toronto judge is charging the jury in the 21-year-old case of a teenager found stuffed in a burned-out suitcase. Apart from the standard instructions to jurors, the judge has been outlining evidence of the horrific abuse Melonie Biddersingh suffered before she died. Her father, Everton Biddersingh, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in her death in September 1994. Superior Court Justice Al O'Marra noted a central issue is the credibility of two key witnesses: the teen's older brother and her stepmother. The brother, Cleon Biddersingh, testified how the accused would kick and stomp the victim, starve her, and flush her head in the toilet. He also testified Elaine Biddersingh was the "mastermind" in the family who believed her 17-year-old stepdaughter was possessed by the devil. "She began to lose weight. He could see her bones and ribs," O'Marra said in recounting the sibling's testimony." "Elaine would call Melonie the devil and say she was evil and wicked." Charges including aggravated assault and criminal negligence were stayed against Cleon Biddersingh, who also testified his sister was weak, incontinent, in pain, and suicidal. He also said he sometimes hit his sister at the urging of his father, but never to hurt her. O'Marra noted several apparent inconsistencies in the brother's testimony, saying it was up to them to decide what to believe. In closing arguments Tuesday, defence lawyer Jennifer Penman urged jurors to acquit Everton Biddersingh, 60, of deliberately killing his daughter, saying the evidence instead points to his wife as the culprit. Elaine Biddersingh faces her own first-degree murder trial this spring. Penman portrayed Elaine Biddersingh as an evil, demon-obsessed religious fanatic and the likely killer. The Biddersinghs were arrested in March 2012 after a tip that finally allowed them to identify the victim's remains and lay charges. It's not certain how the teen died, but it appears she either starved to death or drowned. The defence maintains the latter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3602
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__label__cc	0.624286	0.375714	Forget-Dubois, Nadine \| Bogdanova, Olga Y. DOI Доступ к ресурсу на сайте издателя 10.1016/j.paid.2015.02.006 Why children differ in motivation to learn: Insights from over 13,000 twins from 6 countries Kovas, Yulia V. Boivin, Michel Petrill, Stephen A. Plomin, Robert Malykh, Sergey B. Spinath, Frank Murayama, Kou Ando, Juko Bogdanova, Olga Y. Yamagata, Shinji Shikishima, Chizuru Spinath, Birgit Thompson, Lee A. Tikhomirova, Tatiana N. Tosto, Maria Grazia Tremblay, Richard E. Vitaro, Frank Garon-Carrier, Gabrielle Brendgen, Mara Dionne, Ginette Forget-Dubois, Nadine Galazhinsky, Eduard V. Gottschling, Juliana Guay, Frederic Lemelin, Jean-Pascal Logan, Jessica A. R. Томский государственный университет Факультет психологии Кафедра общей и педагогической психологии индивидуальные различия кросс-культурные исследования 10.1016/j.paid.2015.02.006 Little is known about why people differ in their levels of academic motivation. This study explored the etiology of individual differences in enjoyment and self-perceived ability for several school subjects in nearly 13,000 twins aged 9–16 from 6 countries. The results showed a striking consistency across ages, school subjects, and cultures. Contrary to common belief, enjoyment of learning and children’s perceptions of their competence were no less heritable than cognitive ability. Genetic factors explained approximately 40% of the variance and all of the observed twins’ similarity in academic motivation. Shared environmental factors, such as home or classroom, did not contribute to the twin’s similarity in academic motivation. Environmental influences stemmed entirely from individual specific experiences. Personality and individual differences. 2015. Vol. 80. P. 51-63 Факультет психологии Why children differ in motivation to learn: Insights from over 13,000 twins from 6 countries	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3604
__label__wiki	0.581887	0.581887	Fatigue after traumatic brain injury: exploring novel methods for diagnosis and treatment Berginström, Nils Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine. 2019 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)Alternative title Trötthet efter traumatisk skallskada : utforskande av nya metoder för diagnostik och behandling (Swedish) Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common causes of disability and mortality. While some patients recover quickly, especially at the mild side of the injury severity continuum, many will experience symptoms for years to come. In this chronic phase, patients report a wide array of symptoms, where fatigue is one the most common. This fatigue makes huge impact in several areas of these patients’ lives. Despite the prevalence of fatigue after TBI, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Further, there are no standardized way for assessment and diagnosis, and there are no treatments with satisfying empirical support. The aim of this thesis was to examine the effects of the novel compound OSU6162 on fatigue in patients with TBI, and to explore functional and structural brain imaging correlates of fatigue after TBI. Methods: Studies I and III were based on a placebo-controlled, double-blinded clinical trial examining the effects of the monoaminergic stabilizer OSU6162 on fatigue in patients in the chronic phase of traumatic brain injury. In study I, self-assessment scales of fatigue and neuropsychological tests were used as outcomes, while functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal was the primary outcome in study III. Studies II and IV used cross-sectional designs, comparing patients with TBI with age- and gender matched healthy controls. Study II examined whether fMRI BOLD signal could be used to detect and diagnose fatigue in patients with TBI, and study IV whether white matter hyperintensities (WMH) contribute to lower cognitive functioning and presence of fatigue after TBI. Results: Study I revealed no effects of OSU6162 during 28 days of treatment at maximum doses of 15 mg twice daily on measures of fatigue or any other outcome. The results from study II indicated that fatigue after TBI is linked to alterations in striato-thalamic-cortical loops, and suggested that fMRI could be a promising technique to use in the diagnosis of fatigue after TBI. In study III the results revealed effects of treatment in the right occipitotemporal and orbitofrontal cortex. In these areas, the BOLD response was normalized in the OSU6162 group as compared to healthy controls, while the placebo group showed a steady low activity in these areas. The regional effects were located outside the network shown to be linked to fatigue in study II, which might explain why there were no effects on fatigue after treatment with OSU6162 in study I. Study IV showed that WMH lesions increased with increased TBI severity, but the presence and extent of lesions did not explain lower neuropsychological functioning or fatigue in subjects with previous TBI. Conclusions: In summary, although no effects on fatigue after treatment with OSU6162 were seen, the results provide support to the theory that fatigue after TBI is linked to alterations in striato-thalamic-cortical loops, and on how fatigue after TBI could be assessed or diagnosed using fMRI. Structural damage within white matter was however not related to fatigue. Umeå: Umeå University , 2019. , p. 59 Umeå University medical dissertations, ISSN 0346-6612 ; 2000 Traumatic brain injury, fatigue, OSU6162, randomized clinical trials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, neuropsychology, structural magnetic resonance imaging, white matter hyperintensities URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-155409ISBN: 978-91-7601-979-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-155409DiVA, id: diva2:1278847 2019-02-08, Aulan, Vårdvetarhuset, Umeå, 09:00 (Swedish) Lexell, Jan, Professor Institutionen för Hälsovetenskaper, Rehabiliteringsmedicin, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sverige. Nordström, Anna, Professor Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Nordström, Peter, Professor Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine. Nyberg, Lars, Professor Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiation Sciences. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). 1. The effects of (-)-OSU6162 on chronic fatigue in patients with traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial Open this publication in new window or tab >>The effects of (-)-OSU6162 on chronic fatigue in patients with traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial Nordström, Peter Schuit, Robert Nordström, Anna 2017 (English)In: The journal of head trauma rehabilitation, ISSN 0885-9701, E-ISSN 1550-509X, Vol. 32, no 2, p. E46-E54Article in journal (Refereed) Published OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of the monoaminergic stabilizer (-)-OSU6162 on mental fatigue in patients with traumatic brain injury. SETTING: Single-center Neurorehabilitation Clinic. DESIGN: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS: Sixty-four subjects with traumatic brain injury were randomized to treatment (n = 33) and placebo (n = 31). MAIN MEASURES: The effects of (-)-OSU6162 at a dose of 15 mg twice a day were evaluated using self-assessment scales and neuropsychological tests measuring mental fatigue. RESULTS: No difference between groups was observed on any scale at baseline. At follow-up, both groups showed significant improvement on the Fatigue Severity Scale and the Mental Fatigue Scale (both Ps < .01). Similarly, the performance of both groups increased significantly on many neuropsychological tests. However, no significant between-group difference in changes on these scales was observed before or after adjustment for confounders except for one neuropsychological test favoring the control group. Sensitivity analyses showed significantly greater changes in levels of prolactin and folic acid and heart rate (all Ps < .05) in the treatment group. The mean plasma concentration after 4 weeks of treatment was 0.14 (range, 0.01-0.32) μM, which was lower than expected. INTERPRETATION: Treatment with (-)-OSU6162 had no significant effect on mental fatigue in patients with traumatic brain injury compared with placebo. clinical trials, fatigue, mental, randomized, traumatic brain injury urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128140 (URN)10.1097/HTR.0000000000000236 (DOI)000395944700006 ()27120292 (PubMedID) 2. Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect Chronic Fatigue in Patients With Previous Traumatic Brain Injury: changes linked to altered Striato-Thalamic-Cortical Functioning Open this publication in new window or tab >>Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect Chronic Fatigue in Patients With Previous Traumatic Brain Injury: changes linked to altered Striato-Thalamic-Cortical Functioning Ekman, Urban Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB), Physiology. Karolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden. Eriksson, Johan Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB), Physiology. Andersson, Micael Nyberg, Lars Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiation Sciences. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB), Physiology. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine. 2018 (English)In: The journal of head trauma rehabilitation, ISSN 0885-9701, E-ISSN 1550-509X, Vol. 33, no 4, p. 266-274Article in journal (Refereed) Published Objective: To investigate whether functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used to detect fatigue after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Setting: Neurorehabilitation clinic. Participants: Patients with TBI (n = 57) and self-experienced fatigue more than 1 year postinjury, and age- and gender-matched healthy controls (n = 27). Main Measures: Self-assessment scales of fatigue, a neuropsychological test battery, and fMRI scanning during performance of a fatiguing 27-minute attention task. Results: During testing within the fMRI scanner, patients showed a higher increase in self-reported fatigue than controls from before to after completing the task (P < .001).The patients also showed lower activity in several regions, including bilateral caudate, thalamus, and anterior insula (all P < .05). Furthermore, the patients failed to display decreased activation over time in regions of interest: the bilateral caudate and anterior thalamus (all P < .01). Left caudate activity correctly identified 91% of patients and 81% of controls, resulting in a positive predictive value of 91%. Conclusion: The results suggest that chronic fatigue after TBI is associated with altered striato-thalamic-cortical functioning. It would be of interest to study whether fMRI can be used to support the diagnosis of chronic fatigue in future studies. Wolters Kluwer, 2018 fatigue, functional magnetic resonance imaging, neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-140021 (URN)10.1097/HTR.0000000000000340 (DOI)000442745900013 () Västerbotten County CouncilTorsten Söderbergs stiftelse 3. Pharmaco-fMRI in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial With the Monoaminergic Stabilizer (-)-OSU6162 Open this publication in new window or tab >>Pharmaco-fMRI in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial With the Monoaminergic Stabilizer (-)-OSU6162 Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine. School of Sport Sciences, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Medicine. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiation Sciences. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section of Sustainable Health. School of Sport Sciences, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of monoaminergic stabilizer (-)-OSU6162 on brain activity, as measured by blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in patients in the chronic phase of traumatic brain injury suffering from fatigue. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with traumatic brain injury received either placebo (n = 24) or active treatment (n = 28). Healthy controls (n = 27) went through fMRI examination at one point and were used in sensitivity analysis on normalization of BOLD response. DESIGN: Randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled design. MAIN MEASURES: Effects on BOLD signal changes from before to after treatment during performance of a fatiguing attention task. RESULTS: The fMRI results revealed treatment effects within the right occipitotemporal cortex and the right orbitofrontal cortex. In these regions, the BOLD response was normalized relative to healthy controls at the postintervention fMRI session. No effects were seen in regions in which we previously observed activity differences between patients and healthy controls while performing this fMRI task, such as the striatum. CONCLUSION: (-)-OSU6162 treatment had influences on functional brain activity, although the normalized regional BOLD response was observed in regions that were not a priori hypothesized to be sensitive to this particular treatment, and was not accompanied by any effects on in-scanner test performance or on fatigue. dopaminergic agents, functional magnetic resonance imaging, randomized controlled trial, traumatic brain injury Neurology Neurosciences Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelseTorsten Söderbergs stiftelseKnut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationVästerbotten County Council 4. White matter hyperintensities increases with traumatic brain injuryseverity: associations to neuropsychological performance and fatigue Open this publication in new window or tab >>White matter hyperintensities increases with traumatic brain injuryseverity: associations to neuropsychological performance and fatigue Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Medicine. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrative Medical Biology (IMB), Physiology. Objective: To examine the prevalence of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as compared to healthy controls, and to investigate whether there is an association between WMH lesion burden and performance on neuropsychological tests in patients with TBI. Methods: A total of 59 patients with TBI and 27 age- and gender- matched healthy controls underwent thorough neuropsychological testing and magnetic resonance imaging. The quantification of WMH lesions was performed using the fully automated Lesion Segmentation Tool. Results: WMH lesions were more common in patients with TBI than in healthy controls (p = 0.032), and increased with higher TBI severity (p = 0.025). Linear regressions showed that WMH lesions in patients with TBI were not related to performance on any neuropsychological tests (p > 0.05 for all). However, a negative relationship between number of WMH lesions in patients with TBI and self-assessed fatigue was found (r = –0.33, p = 0.026). Conclusion: WMH lesions are more common in patients with TBI than in healthy controls, and WMH lesions burden increases with TBI severity. 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__label__cc	0.609103	0.390897	Youth Enterprise Mani (Peanut) Arachis hypogaea Linn. Luo hua sheng (Chin.) Batung-china (Sul.) Mani (Span., Tag.) Peanut (Engl.) Earth nut (Engl.) Goober (Engl.) Ground nut (Engl.) Monkey nut (Engl.) Hua sheng (Chin.) Mani is an annual, spreading, hairy, branched herb, with stems 30 to 80 centimeters long. Leaves are pinnate, 8 to 12 centimeters long, with a clasping petiole base and the sheath produced in 2 linear-lanceolate stipules. Leaflets are in two pairs, oblong to obovate, 2 to 5 centimeters long. Flowers are axillary, few, fascicled, yellow, about 8 millimeters long. Pods ripen underground and are oblong, leathery, reticulate, 1 to 5 centimeters long, containing 1 to 3 seeds that are oval and smooth. Cultivated in the many parts of the Philippines for its edible seeds. Has a high protein and fat content, with considerable carbohydrates and a fair source of calcium and iron. The seeds yield arachis oil, colorless and with a pleasant taste. The fixed oil is 43 to 45 percent. Peanut oil contains glycerides of palmitic, oleic, stearic, lignoceric, linolic, and arachidic acids. Three alkaloids have been isolated: betaine, choline, and arachine which may be a cause of poisoning in animals. Phytochemical study yielded isoflavonoid, 1-pentene-3-ol, geraniol. Study yielded a new 3,9-dihydroxy-4, 8-dimethoxycoumestan. (4) Oil is considered aperient, demulcent, emollient and pectoral. Considered aphrodisiac, decoagulant, anti-inflammatory, peptic. Nutritional composition - Seed In grams (g) or milligrams (mg) per 100 g of food. - 500 calories per 100 g - Protein, 29g; fat, 45 g; carbohydrate, 15 g; fiber 2.7 g. - Minerals: calcium 49 mg; phosphorus 409 mg, iron 3.8. - Vitamins: A, 15mg, B1, 0.79 mg; B2, 0.14 mg; niacin, 15.5 mg, vit C, 1 mg. Parts used and preparation Seeds, oil. - Seeds are edible. - Kernel of the peanut used for oil extraction; an ingredient in many food products: peanut butter, candies and desserts. - Peanut oil used for salads; an inexpensive substitute for olive oil. - Peanuts also contain resveratrol, touted for its varied health benefits. - Teaspoon of oil in milk used for gonorrhea. - Oil used for bladder conditions. - In China, used for gonorrhea and rheumatism; also used for insomnia. - In Zimbabwe, used for plantar warts. - Oil used in liniments and ointments. - Lower grades of oil used for making soap and illumination. - Peanut cake makes excellent cattle feed. - The leafage makes good fodder and hay for livestock. - Some portion of the oil is used in the manufacture of some textile fibers. - Peanut shells are used in the manufacture of plastic, wallboard, abrasives and fuel. Also, used to make cellulose (for use in rayon and paper) and mucilage (glue). • Diabetes and HDL-C: Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Consumption Improves Glutathione and HDL-Cholesterol Levels in Experimental Diabetes: Peanut consumption may improve oxidant-antioxidant status without increasing blood lipids. Increased HDL-C may have cardioprotective benefits in diabetics. (1) • Hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic: Aqueous extract study in alloxan-induced diabetic rats caused a significant decrease in fasting blood sugar, decrease in TC, triglycerides, LDL and HDL-C. (2) • Antioxidant / Antiinflammatory: Biosynthesis Enhancement and Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Activities of Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Arachidin-1, Arachidin-3, and Isopentadienyl resveratrol: Peanuts yield bioactive stilbenoids, which except for resveratrol have not been investigated The study showed all the test stilbenoids to have potent antioxidant and antiinflammatory activities. (3) • Antioxidant / Luteolin: Methanolic extracts of peanut hulls (Spanish variety) exhibited strong antioxidative activity; further study showed luteolin as the active antioxidative flavonoid present in the peanut hulls. (5) • Immunochemical Studies: Study yielded 14 antigenic constituents in A hypogea seeds. Arachin contains 4 antigens and conarachin contains 2. (7) • Decrease Fat Absorption / Decreased lipolytic Activity: Study of peanut shell extracts showed inhibitory effect on lipid metabolic enzymes and also increased fecal fat suggesting use in reducing dietary fat absorption. The reduction of intracellular lipolytic activity may reduce circulating levels of free fatty acids. (8) • Sedative / Sleep Effects: Study on peanut leaf aqueous extracts (PLAE) showed a mild hypnotic effect on sleep ameliorations. As a mild tranquilizer, the PLAE significantly elevated GABA-mediated neurotransmission and reduced Glu/GABA in target brain region, suggest some efficacy on spontaneous sleep improvement. (10) • SIRT1 Gene / Resveratrol: SIRT1 is a gene found in humans and mammals, a principal regulator of lifespan, involved in repairing damage from free radicals and boosting mitochondrial energy production. It is activated by caloric restriction or by resveratrol. Resveratrol is believed to modulate the growth of cancer cells. Resveratrol is naturally found in grapes (providing the anti-aging attribute to red wine), some green teas, and even peanuts. Study is being designed to determine if A. hypogaea extract can be a source of resveratrol. (12) • Peanut Phytoalexins / Stilbenoids / Sleep Effects: Study evaluated peanut phytoalexins, together with related natural and synthetic stilbenoids. Results suggest peanut stilbenoids, as well as related natural and synthetic stilbene derivatives exhibit a wide range of biologic activities. (14) • Effect on Metabolism of Osteoblastic Cells: Study evaluated the effects of A. hypogaea extracts on metabolism of osteoblastic cells. A hydroalcoholic extract stimulated the proliferation and differentiation of ROS cells and differentiation of without effect on osteoblastic cells. The action was attributed to phyto-estrogens, notably isoflavones and/or to non-estrogenic substances. (15) Allergy & toxicity Allergy: Peanut allergy is common and can be severe, occurring with a prevalence rate of 0.5% in the general population, accounting for 10-47% of food-induced anaphylactic reactions. Symptoms vary from mild urticaria to severe systemic reactions that can be fatal. Hypersensitivity starts in childhood and usually lasts the lifetime. For many, the history is obvious, commonly occurring in atopic individuals with other food allergies; laboratory will reveal a peanut-specific IgE antibody. Although immunotherapy is promising, present treatment consists of strict avoidance and self-injection of epinephrine. (Allergen Data Collections) (6) Toxicity / Aflatoxins: A concern is the possible contamination of damaged or spoiled seeds with teratogenic, carcinogenic aflatoxins – the principal toxins aflatoxin B and G, and the less toxic dihydro-derivatives, aflatoxins B2 and G2, formed by aflatoxin producing molds (Aspergillus flavus, etc). Arachin, with 4 antigens and conarachin with 2 antigens are also reported. source Wildcrafted. Source: stuartxchange Additional Sources and Suggested Readings (1)Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Consumption Improves Glutathione and HDL-Cholesterol Levels in Experimental Diabetes / EMEKLI-ALTURFAN Ebru et al / PTR. Phytotherapy research / 2008, vol. 22, no2, pp. 180-184 (2)Hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects of aqueous extract of in normal and Alloxan-induced diabetic rats / L.S. Bilbis et al / Phytomedicine, Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 553-555 / doi:10.1078/09447110260573191 (3)Biosynthesis Enhancement and Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Activities of Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Arachidin-1, Arachidin-3, and Isopentadienylresveratrol / Ju-Chun Chang et al / J. Agric. Food Chem., 2006, 54 (26), pp 10281–10287 DOI: 10.1021/jf0620766 (4)A New Coumestan from Arachis hypogaea L. / Hong Wei FU et al / Chinese Chemical Letters Vol. 16, No. 7, pp 918-920, 2005 / http://www.imm.ac.cn/journal/ccl.html (5)Natural antioxidants: chemistry, health effects, and applications / Fereidoon Shahidi Allergen Data Collection: Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) / Gary Bannon, M Besler, S Hefle, J OB Hourihane, S Sicherer / (7)Immunochemical Studies on Arachis hypogaea Proteins With Particular Reference to the Reserve Proteins. I. Characterization, Distribution, and Properties of α-Arachin and α-Conarachin / J Daussant et al / Plant Physiol. 1969 April; 44(4): 471–479. (8)Effects of Arachis hypogaea nutshell extract on lipid metabolic enzymes and obesity parameters / Diego Moreno et al / Life Sciences • Volume 78, Issue 24, 8 May 2006, Pages 2797-2803 / doi:10.1016/j.lfs.2005.11.012 (9)Arachis hypogaea - L. / Peanut / Plants For A Future (10)Sedative effects of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) leaf aqueous extracts on brain ATP, AMP, Adenosine and Glutamate/GABA of rats / Xiao-Yan Zu et al / Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE) / doi: 10.4236/jbise.2010.33036 / Published OnLine Mar 2010 / The Free Library (11)Peanut history and it's phytochemicals / MDidea (12)Utilizing Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Extract as a Potential Source of Resveratrol in Activating SIRT1 Gene / (13)Arachis hypogaea L. / Chinese names / Catalogue of Life, China (14)Biological activity of peanut (Arachis hypogaea) phytoalexins and selected natural and synthetic stilbenoids / Sobolev, Victor, Khan, Shabana, Tabanca, Nurhayat, Wedge, David et al / Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 59:1673-1682. (15)Stimulatory Effects of the Extract of Arachis Hypogaea (Fabaceae) on the Proliferation of Osteoblastic Cells in Vitro / Koffi Kouakou, Dominique Egrise, Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes, Seraphin Kati-Coulibaly / J. Phys. Pharm. Adv.. 2013; 3(5): 139-147doi: 10.5455/jppa.20130504070917 Health Benefits of Peanuts link In winter season peanut is widely used, and I personally love to eat it in cold weather... health benefits of peanuts are numerous.. cara mengobati biduran link nice from information, i'm very like and thank you for sharing UNWELL Secretariat Bahay Kubo Components Of Intellifod Kalabasa Kamatis Kondol Labanos Luya Mustasa Patani Ra 8423 Sibuyas Singkamas Sitaw Sub Health Condition Talong	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3608
__label__wiki	0.698117	0.698117	Home / Across Americas China's top soldier visits US By CHEN WEIHUA in Washington (China Daily USA) General Fang Fenghui, the chief of general staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army, will visit the United States this week to meet his American counterpart and tour defense facilities, according to the Pentagon. It will be one of a growing number of high-level exchanges between the two militaries amid an increasingly complex security situation in the Asia-Pacific region. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said on Friday that Fang will arrive in San Diego on Tuesday, where he will be hosted by the US 3rd Fleet, and tour aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and littoral combat ship USS Coronado. Fang will also visit the US Marine Corps recruit depot there. Fang’s visit is at the invitation of General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who went to China in April of last year at the invitation of Fang. The two will meet on Thursday at the Pentagon, where the Chinese general will receive a full military honors arrival ceremony, according to Kirby. "General Dempsey looks forward to the opportunity to meet again with General Fang and to continue their conversation on improving our mil-to-mil relationship with China,"Kirby said. Bonnie Glaser, a senior advisor for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said signing agreements on notification of major military activities at sea and operational safety at sea is the highest priorities for the two militaries. "The two militaries have been in negotiations since last year and hope to complete the agreements for signing during General Fang’s visit,"she said. High-level military exchanges have been on the rise in the last two years. Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama agreed to increase high-level military exchanges when they met at the Sunnylands estate in California last June for an informal summit aimed at building a new type of major country relationship. Just a month ago, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel paid his first visit to China since taking office in February 2013. He met Chinese leaders and visited the PLA troops and academy. US Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno went to China in February, following trips there last September by US Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh III. On the Chinese side, Defense Minister Chang Wanquan visited the US in August, followed by a trip in September by PLA Navy Commander-in-Chief Wu Shengli. Fang’s visit will also come just less than two weeks before the start of the 2014 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval exercise, set for June 26 and August 1. China and Brunei will be participating in the exercise for the first time since it was launched in 1971. The PLA Navy will send four ships — a destroyer, a frigate, an oiler and a hospital ship — to the largest naval war game, which will involve 23 nations and 47 surface ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 troops. Former US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta extended the invitation during his visit to China in September 2012. In February of this year, PLA soldiers also for the first time joined the annual multilateral Cobra Gold drills held in Thailand, led by the US and Thailand. In the past, US and Chinese militaries had only engaged in bilateral and multilateral humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and anti-piracy drills in Hawaii, Southeast Asia and off Somalia. However, Fang’s visit will also come at a time when tensions in both the South and East China Seas have intensified, especially between China and two US allies, Japan and the Philippines, over maritime territorial disputes. While the US is eager to reassure its allies of the security alliance, many in China believe the US messages have emboldened its allies in the region to take a more confrontational attitude in the territorial disputes. China has long regarded the US as biased toward its allies on issues in the South and East China Seas. It also expressed strong opposition at US arms sales to Taiwan, its military surveillance off China’s coast and certain US laws that restrict US-China military exchanges. The two militaries have been aiming at each other strategically with the US launching an Air Sea Battle concept to thwart China’s Anti-Access/Area Denial strategy, the two strategies many worry will lead to a Cold War type of rivalry. In a talk last week, James Steinberg, former deputy secretary of state and now a professor at Syracuse University, and Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said both sides should exercise restraint in defensive actions that might appear threatening. "This might mean Chinese willingness to slow the rate of its military buildup rather than race for parity. And for the United States, it might mean modifying its Air-Sea Battle concept, beginning with a more benign name such as Air-Sea Operations and a more inclusive approach toward implementation, to emphasize defensive objectives instead of offensive operations, which some Chinese view as seeking the ability to deliver a pre-emptive, knockout blow,"said the two, co-authors of the new book Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century. 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__label__cc	0.697359	0.302641	Sensor Site and Platform Selection ScottyS (Talk \| contribs) m (→‎Contacts) '''Scotty Strachan - Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno - scotty at dayhike.net''' '''Adam Kennedy - Andrews Forest LTER - adam.kennedy at oregonstate.edu''' ==Overview== back to EnviroSensing Cluster main page Fig. 1 Typical environmental sensor deployment with science packages, support systems, and communication systems. Photo 2013 Scotty Strachan, NevCAN Sheep Range Blackbrush station 4.1 Environmental Concerns 4.2 Site accessibility 4.3 Science platform selection 4.4 Support system specification 4.5 Site layout 5.1 Common Points of Failure 6 Case Studies The primary editors for this page may be contacted for questions, comments, or help with content additions. Scotty Strachan - Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno - scotty at dayhike.net Adam Kennedy - Andrews Forest LTER - adam.kennedy at oregonstate.edu Selection of exactly where and how to acquire data via in-situ sensing efforts is a crucial point in the science process where environmental research is concerned. Decisions made when choosing sites, sensor packages, and support infrastructure in turn place boundaries on what the final science deliverables can be. Data types, quantity, and quality are more or less set in stone during this process. Initial costs, timeframes, and sustainability are also determined by these choices. Selections need to be made based on the desired science products, but also in consideration of a wide array of variables ranging from land ownership and access to equipment budget and maintenance capability to previous research and construction/deconstruction logistics. Setting up terrestrial sensing systems is a major infrastructure commitment with budgetary and environmental concerns, and every effort towards maintaining a robust, low-impact, and long-term data stream should be made. Because each region possesses unique geography, there is no “one size fits all” solution. Instead, a series of considered decisions need to be made, with the goals and capabilities of the research team clearly defined. Fig. 2 Progression of work in selecting a site and designing a science deployment. Identifying both the deployment strategy (site, process) as well as the physical hardware (sensor platforms and support infrastructure) for environmental sensing is usually a daunting task. Very often the decision tree for choosing exact locations and deployment schemes is dependent on interacting factors (such as permitting/geography/access; Fig. 2). There is also a vast array of possible sensor/hardware packages available for a multitude of science applications. It is critical that Principal Investigators (PI’s), logistical techs, and sensor specialists work together to develop specific deployment plans and alternatives, ideally in the pre-proposal stage. Planning topics must by needs include science objectives, operating budgets, proposed locations, seasonal weather patterns, power sources, communications options, land ownership, distance from managing institutions, available personnel/expertise, and potential expansion/future-proofing. All of these categories are equally critical for discussion as proposed instrumentation projects move towards implementation. Site visits, permit/agreement negotiations, equipment specifications, and deployment timeline need to be initiated concurrently and naturally are very interdependent (Fig. 2). The P.I., together with the technical personnel, should identify likely site candidates for the deployment based on local topography, permit/agreement availability, logistical access, and availability of services (such as power and communications). Portions of the plan (such as some purchasing decisions) should remain flexible until the precise sites, permits/agreements, and data flow plan have been positively determined. Environmental conditions have considerable bearing on science application, platform design, construction logistics, access restrictions, equipment reliability, and maintenance cost/longevity. Conditions for in situ sensing can vary tremendously from region to region, and so siting and equipment must be selected accordingly on a case-by-case basis. Local topographic variables include: northern versus southern exposure, which can affect snow persistence and hours of direct sunlight; and valley/sink versus ridgeline settings, which can affect what type of daily temperature cycles and winds are encountered. The differences in airflow, wind exposure, cold sinks, snow drifts, sky exposure for solar panels, and possible radio/communications pathways are all important variables when selecting a site and what type of equipment will be deployed. Dominant vegetation conditions and potential long-term growth can alter sensor readings via shading effects, affecting temperature, radiation, and snow-related measurements. Radio communications are also affected by vegetation, with most microwave frequencies used by high-speed data radios being strongly attenuated by trees and brush. Vegetation can also be a long-term hazard in the forms of fire fuels and deadfalls. Visibility and the visual impact of deployments should be considered for both security and aesthetic considerations. Sometimes reduction of visual impact is required by landowners, but in general it is simply good practice. Metal structures can be camouflaged with paint to reduce visibility, structure heights may be reduced to blend with vegetation, and ground disturbance can be kept to a minimum to avoid biasing certain types of measurements and erosion. Dominant weather conditions determine what levels of seasonal access are available, what structural designs should be used, and what sort of equipment should be purchased. Extreme temperatures, tropical storms, lightning, snow depth, riming/ice, UV exposure, high humidity, wind speeds, salt water exposure, flooding, and stream depth variation are all examples of conditions which will influence design and deployment plans. Wildlife can provide hazard considerations or be affected by proposed deployments. Bird perching and flight paths, cattle, soil invertebrates, rodents, and large mammals can all disturb or be affected by a monitoring installation. Landowners will have either regulation or preferences concerning these factors, and proactive steps on the part of the science team to minimize opportunity for animal conflicts are suggested. Sensitivity to local political and social issues also need to be considered, as in the end, these data are really supposed to serve the local populations as well as the scientist and funding agencies. Site security is of course a primary concern when engineering a deployment. Hazards to sensors include natural disturbance/disasters such as wildfire, flooding, extreme winds, and mass wasting. Planners should be aware of all these possibilities and at least examine the likelihoods of these event at sites which have been evaluated from the scientific point of view. Human theft/vandalism is another potential cause of sensor disturbance or failure. While remote deployments are nearly impossible to secure physically, measures such as camouflaging, informative signs, fencing, and lockboxes may be employed to mitigate hostile or irresponsible passers-by. Fig. 3 Seasonal access may vary highly depending on location, limiting the types of maintenance possible at any given time. Locations for in-situ sensing must be accessed for survey, construction, and maintenance over the life of the project. Seasonal conditions, roads, and topography determine what types of access may be used during different times of the year. Categorical considerations include: Vehicular access. Commercial vehicle/equipment, 2WD auto, 4x4 truck, ATV, snow machine, boat, helicopter. Non-motorized access. Hiking, skiing, pack animals, snowshoeing. Access improvements. Road building, trail building, trail demarcation, safety rails, harness anchor points. Seasonal access. Define access by Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter seasons. This is directly related to local weather/topographical conditions. Construction access. Heavy equipment, special equipment, heavy loads, and heavy foot traffic are all likely possibilities depending on monitoring design. Minimal impact considerations. Can traffic/access be directed in a way to minimize environmental impact (e.g. erosion, vegetation)? Solutions include boardwalks, bridges, raised steps, delineated pathways. Science platform selection Fig. 4 Science instrumentation specification must be driven by both research objectives and environmental/logistical constraints. Once the science objectives and siting conditions are known, an itemized list of sensor and support system platforms/hardware may be assembled that best fits the application and budget. Primary considerations include reliability, comparability with other similar field systems, technological (e.g. programming) requirements, budget, and system flexibility (upgrades, expansion, telemetry options, etc.). Accuracy, precision, and expected period of use prior to calibration or replacement may also be a consideration. In some fields of study, there are only one or two alternatives to choose from in terms of scientific instrumentation, whereas in others there can be an impossible array of choices. Often options can be narrowed by researching what equipment/standards are used by existing installations to which comparability is desired. Once a science data acquisition platform and sensor array is chosen, remaining support systems are then designed around this core equipment. Support system specification The subsystems of structure, electrical power supply, and data communications are all designed to best support projected science platforms on the sites chosen. While some vendors offer “all-in-one” packages supplied with standard instrumentation, it behooves the research team to assess whether these solutions are adequate for their chosen site and objective. Quite often multiple science packages are deployed and require design of “purpose-built” systems sourced from multiple vendors. Structures – these are the building-blocks of any remote data acquisition site, including tripods, towers, poles, buoys, solar panel racks, storage boxes, fencing, concrete pads, and the like. Quite often a single tripod or tower does not have adequate space or structural integrity to support all of the sensors, antennas, solar panels, batteries, and other items, so a typical site design incorporates multiple structural components. Power generation and storage – for sustaining long-term reliable data streams, power independence is critical. Stations should be capable of generating and storing their own power locally, as well as taking advantage of any grid or other power available within budget and design restrictions. Because the majority of related electronics are ultimately powered by DC voltage, having a generation system and DC battery bank for every site (and sometimes discrete subsystems) is recommended to minimize data gaps. If available, tying grid power as an alternate DC charge source is preferred. Independent generation sources are most commonly PV arrays (solar), wind, or water turbines. For reasons of cost, reliability, and maintenance issues, PV (solar) is recommended as the primary on-site generation source if environmental conditions allow. Incorporating simplicity, redundancy, and excess capacity is important for long-term reliability. Data communications – Use of real-time data transmission (in addition to local storage capacity) is strongly desirable to enable remote system health monitoring, troubleshooting, and minimize data gaps. This is usually performed using in situ radio communications (whether vendor-specific or building a general-purpose field IP network. Communications systems need to be robust, secure, and have low power requirements. (Refer to “Data Acquisition and Transmission” Best Practices for further detail.) Construction details – When selecting and designing the science packages and support systems, several details of construction should be considered when providing specifications for and purchasing hardware. Wiring management should involve protective conduit and pull/storage enclosures to avoid exposure to damage and seasonal degradation. Wire lengths, enclosure sizes, and mounting locations should be planned for accordingly. Anchoring for support structure should be designed to withstand worst-case weather/environmental conditions. Use of corrosion-resistant metals for structure and hardware such as galvanized steel and aluminum will greatly reduce failure or ongoing maintenance problems. Fig. 5 Carefully planning a site layout in advance can prevent surprises and setbacks during installation. The site layout at first seems trivial, but in fact can be very important where interaction of the various subsystems are concerned, influencing reliability and data quality. Deployment design of science sensor packages to optimize measurement quality should be determined first, followed by placement of support systems and additional structure. Solar arrays need to be optimized for sun exposure, minimal shading, and snow-shed angles. The impacts of site structure on measurements (such as wind eddies, incoming/outgoing radiation, camera viewsheds, or precipitation catch zones) need to be considered as well as impacts to visibility if in a frequently-visited area. Power and data cable runs should be protected and kept as short as possible, voltage drop over long runs can be a consideration in layout and design. Stipulations in site permits may be drivers of site layout and construction. Once the site layout is designed and mapped, specification of construction materials, sensor cables, and other supplies may be optimized. Fig. 6 The approach to deployment should be as durable, reliable, and flexible as possible to accommodate unforeseen conditions and changing science objectives or technology improvements over the long term. Selection of deployment sites, science platforms, and support systems are interacting processes which can require some iteration before arriving at the final determinations. Unless the science objective is extremely narrow or exceptional in nature, it is unlikely that any one of these decisions can be made in a vacuum without considering the others. With this in mind, the following overarching recommendations can be emphasized: P.I. consultation with system/hardware/construction specialists while in the proposal phase will minimize budget surprises or platform compromise later in the process. Data quality and longevity should be the ultimate goals when designing the deployment. Making choices for more robust and widely-used core systems and sensors will ensure that data comparability is maximized and hardware problems corrupting data or creating gaps are minimized. Purchase of reliable and known equipment is not as expensive as repairing/replacing equipment halfway through the study or losing valuable data. When data quality and continuity is paramount, use of replicate sensors or stations may be required. Planning for real-time connectivity is crucial for reducing field maintenance time and data gaps. Optimal siting for science objectives can often be impeded by permit requirements and landowner preferences, so starting the conversation with the landowners early in the process may improve the chance of getting the locations/deployment types that are desired. Standardizing sensor and support hardware, software/programming, and structural designs across multiple sites minimizes maintenance issues as well as construction costs and design time. Assessing access capabilities to the sites will allow for planning of emergency maintenance access, procedures, and costs. Overbuilding structure, power capacity, and site infrastructure (cabling, networking, etc.) will prevent problems in the case of unforeseen events or site expansion. Common Points of Failure Power problems are one of the most frequent causes of total system failure. Battery fatigue, loose connections, and electrical shorts need to be anticipated and prevented where possible. Power systems need to be protected, over-engineered, and replicated wherever possible. Temperature extremes of heat or cold can cause electronic or mechanical failure of individual sensors and systems. Insulating enclosures, ventilating enclosures (active or passive), and placement of equipment in sheltered zones can help alleviate these problems. Humidity and condensation can be a serious issue for electronics longevity and circuit performance (including accuracy). In zones of high average humidity, sealing enclosures and providing some means of reducing humidity (i.e. desiccant packets) is desirable. Sensors can be disrupted by wildlife actions and fouling. Hardening of sensor systems (e.g., armoring cables, fences) can help with some problems. Near-real time data feeds allow rapid detections of problems that do occur. Lightning hits or near-misses is a common problem with exposed or mountainous sites. Extensive grounding (exposed copper wire network) and use of surge protection throughout the power system and at ends of long power and data cable runs will compartmentalize the site electrically and protect as many components as possible. Lack of data storage replication can cause loss of data - by incorporating high capacity storage on-site (datalogger) as well as off-site (database), this problem can be mitigated. Personnel turnover coupled with lack of process and hardware documentation can lead to data discontinuity or equipment failure (see Sensor Management and Tracking for additional details). NevCAN Transects or Walker Basin (Scotty) --- To be completed, will include a station design and systems, maintenance/access plan, data flow, and some photos/diagrams. Andrews Research Sites (Adam) --- To be completed Sevilleta - Renee to complete with multiple case study examples Retrieved from "http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Sensor_Site_and_Platform_Selection&oldid=46703"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3619
__label__wiki	0.51959	0.51959	[QUOTE]Originally posted by AmHaYs87: [QB] News Release Alliacense Appoints Andre-Pascal Chauvin Vice President to Manage European Licensing Activities from Newly Established Paris Office CUPERTINO, Calif. - April 19, 2007 - Alliacense, a TPL Group Enterprise, today appointed Andre-Pascal Chauvin Vice President, Licensing with primary responsibility for implementing licensing programs in Europe and managing the newly established Alliacense office in Paris. Chauvin brings extensive intellectual property (IP) management experience to his new post including 18 years with Alcatel Group (now Alcatel-Lucent) where for the past seven years he served as Vice President responsible for the global IPR Strategy and Valorization Department. Commenting on the appointment, TPL Group Chairman Dan Leckrone said, "Our Alliacense team continues to attract world-class talent with successful track records in establishing, building, and demonstrating the value of IP Assets in technology-based industries. We're confident that Pascal will effectively spearhead the expansion of our IP licensing programs in Europe, while supporting our worldwide activities in London, Lugano, Vienna and Sofia as well as in Taipei, Taiwan and Chennai, India." The appointment of Chauvin and establishment of the Alliacense office in Paris reflect the growing global interest in TPL's Technology Portfolios. According to Mike Davis, Alliacense Senior Vice President of Licensing, the overwhelming advantages of TPL's Technology Portfolios continue to attract major companies around the world. He noted that since January 2006, HP, Casio, Fujitsu, Sony, Nikon, Seiko Epson, Pentax, Olympus, Kenwood, Agilent, Lexmark, Schneider Electric, NEC Corporation, Funai Electric, SanDisk and, most recently, Sharp Corporation have all purchased licenses to use TPL Technology Portfolios managed by Alliacense. During Chauvin's last 11 years at Alcatel, he served in key management positions, initially as Secretary General of Alcatel Labs, the French subsidiary of Alcatel Telecom. In developing the IPR Strategy and Valorization Department to include 15 experts in marketing, patents and negotiations, he implemented strategies to maximize the value of Alcatel's IP assets including approximately 17,000 patents and applications. Accordingly, he was instrumental in generating substantial licensing revenue, and refocusing the IP Group on business value while he also engaged several strategic litigations resulting in major benefits for Alcatel. Earlier in his career, Chauvin served as CFO for three subsidiaries of the Alstrom Group and as Deputy Director for SPIE-Batignolles Civil Engineering. Chauvin is a Board member of the Licensing Executive Society in France and regularly participates as a speaker and instructor in international licensing seminars. A former Labour Court Magistrate in the Paris area, he holds degrees in Finance and Economy from Institut Etudes Politiques de Paris. About Alliacense Alliacense is a TPL Group Enterprise executing best-in-class design and implementation of intellectual property licensing programs. As a cadre of IP licensing strategists, technology experts, and experienced business development/ management executives, Alliacense focuses on expanding the awareness and value of TPL's intellectual property portfolios. Founded in 1988, The TPL Group has emerged as a coalition of high technology enterprises involved in the development, management and commercialization of proprietary product technologies as well as the design, manufacture and sales of proprietary products based on those technologies and corresponding IP assets. For more information, visit [URL=http://www.alliacense.com.]www.alliacense.com.[/URL] __________________ [/QB][/QUOTE]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3623
__label__cc	0.625353	0.374647	IMAGE IN NEUROLOGY Atlantoaxial instability as the presenting feature of Morquio syndrome Deepak S. Amalnath, S. Kalaimani, Tarun Kumar Dutta Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India Date of Submission 29-Dec-2013 Date of Decision 26-Dec-2013 Date of Acceptance 13-Jan-2014 Date of Web Publication 17-May-2014 Deepak S. Amalnath Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry - 605 011 Amalnath DS, Kalaimani S, Dutta TK. Atlantoaxial instability as the presenting feature of Morquio syndrome. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2014;17:202-3 Amalnath DS, Kalaimani S, Dutta TK. Atlantoaxial instability as the presenting feature of Morquio syndrome. Ann Indian Acad Neurol [serial online] 2014 [cited 2020 Jan 19];17:202-3. Available from: http://www.annalsofian.org/text.asp?2014/17/2/202/132630 Atlantoaxial instability with high cord compression is an important type of craniovertebral junction anomaly. Here, we report a boy who presented with new onset episodes of transient quadriparesis on neck flexion. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed hypoplastic dens with anterior beaking of vertebrae. X-ray pelvis showed femoral head hypoplasia. These radiological features were characteristic of (mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS; Morquio syndrome). Case Repor An adolescent presented with complaints of recurrent episodes of sudden loss of power of all the limbs for the past 4 months. These episodes lasted for a few seconds after which his power improved. He also noticed progressive difficulty in cycling. He did not have any sensory loss or bladder disturbance. On examination, he had wasting of the intrinsic muscles of his hands and mild proximal weakness of the shoulders and hips with brisk tendon reflexes. There were no sensory or cerebellar signs. He also had kyphosis, broad fingers, and flatfoot. In view of the skeletal features, MPS was suspected. X-ray of the spine showed flat vertebrae with anterior beaking [Figure 1]. MRI [Figure 2] and CT of the cervical spine [Figure 3] showed atlantoaxial dislocation due to hypoplastic odontoid process, which was causing compression of the cervical cord at the foramen magnum [Figure 4]. X-ray of the pelvis [Figure 5] showed bilateral hypoplastic femoral heads which are classically seen in MPS. Figure 1: Vertebrae with anterior beaking Figure 2: Cord compression at foramen magnum Figure 3: Hypoplastic odontoid processs separated from the body of axis Figure 4: Axial section showing hyperintensities in the spinal cord due to compression at the foramen magnum Figure 5: Bilateral hypoplastic femoral heads In view of the typical radiological features, a diagnosis of Morquio syndrome with compressive myelopathy due to atlantoaxial instability was made. The patient is planned for spine stabilization surgery. MPS-IVA, also known as Morquio-Brailsford or Morquio A syndrome, is a rare lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase. Patients with Morquio syndrome have severe bone deformities, but with preserved intelligence as compared to other types of MPS. Hypoplasia of the odontoid process is seen in almost all patients. [1] This causes cervical instability and high cord compression. This can present with chronic compressive myelopathy as well as sudden cord compression. [2] Other neurological manifestations can be due to spinal canal stenosis (focal or diffuse). The mainstay of treatment is cervical fixation by fusing the vertebrae to stabilize the atlantoaxial joint. Patients with Morquio syndrome have to be screened for the potentially lethal condition of atlantoaxial dislocation. 1. Solanki GA, Martin KW, Theroux MC, Lampe C, White KK, Shediac R, et al. Spinal involvement in mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (Morquio-Brailsford or Morquio A syndrome): Presentation, diagnosis and management. J Inherit Metab Dis 2013;36:339-55. 2. Li MF, Chiu PC, Weng MJ, Lai PH. Atlantoaxial instability and cervical cord compression in Morquio syndrome. Arch Neurol 2010;67:1530. [Figure 1], [Figure 2], [Figure 3], [Figure 4], [Figure 5] Amalnath DS Kalaimani S Dutta TK	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3635
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__label__wiki	0.904076	0.904076	Bayou City Concert Musicals Private Performances Bayou City Concert Musicals has built a reputation for presenting quality musical theatre. BCCM’s production of FOLLIES was called a “stirring testament to the depth of talent found in the Bayou City” by Outsmart Magazine. Houston Chronicle critic Everett Evans called the 2005 production of ASSASSINS “darkly brilliant” and the Houston Press said the 2006 production of FIORELLO! was “a landslide victory for everyone.” The 2008 production of PAL JOEY was equally well received. Houston Press critic D. L. Groover called the production an “unbeatable rendition of the classic 1940 show…it will be hard to forget.” Critic Everett Evans of the Houston Chronicle wrote “…the fabled but seldom-seen PAL JOEY was a blast for nostalgia buffs – snappy in dialogue, snazzy in song and dance.” The 2009 production of ON THE TOWN drew the largest audience in BCCM’s history. More than 1,200 Houstonians attended the five performances in the 300-seat theater. The Houston Press said BCCM’s production “brought us as close as we’re probably going to get to what all the excitement was about” (referring to the original Broadway production). Critic Groover also wrote that Krissy Richmond gave this seminal work a coherent dance plot that actually kissed the score.” About the 2010 production of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, Everett Evans of the Houston Chronicle commented: “Move over, diamonds, Bayou City Concert Musicals is the new best friend of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. It’s the sparkle of the cast, led by Carolyn Johnson’s innocently predatory Lorelei and Krissy Richmond’s vivacious Dorothy that sells the endeavor.” The 2011 production of FINIAN’S RAINBOW received arguably the best reviews in BCCM’s short history. D.L. Groover in The Houston Press called the show “an absolute delight.” He wrote that BCCM’s production was “its own rainbow: rare, bright and magical to behold.” The Chronicle’s Everett Evans felt much the same way, calling the show “genuinely enchanted, and enchanting.” The only negative he found was “that the run is so brief.” Categories Abous UsLeave a comment Inspired by New York’s City Center Encores, Bayou City Concert Musicals produces unabridged concert stagings of under-performed musicals for Houston audiences, while casting local professional actors and musicians in the performances. The concert musical form is unique, and BCCM is the only theatre group in Houston to perform exclusively in this concert musical format. We perform award-winning classic musicals that were produced on Broadway from the 1940s to the 1980s. At a BCCM concert musical, audience members see a fully-staged and choreographed production of the original script. All performers are costumed and off-book. There are no elaborate sets. Chairs and small tables (and maybe an occasional ladder) simulate the settings with no loss of enjoyment by the audience. A full orchestra playing the original orchestrations is positioned on the stage behind the actors. BCCM’s annual concert musical is performed at the Heinen Theatre on the central campus of the Houston Community College. The historic Heinen, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, is a jewel of a theatre. Originally a synagogue, the Heinen accommodates 300 with exceptional sight lines and comfortable seats. Audience members must use their imagination to “fill in” the scenery. This format allows the story, the music and the performances to shine. Many BCCM patrons have reported that they didn’t miss the sets; in fact, they found themselves even more drawn into the substance of the work. Proceeds from the annual concert musical go to small local charities, usually those that support the local arts community. Currently, BCCM is supporting the Tim Harris Memorial Fund, a philanthropic arm of the Houston Professional Musicians Association. The Tim Harris Fund provides financial resources to local musicians who have suffered catastrophic illness or injury. BCCM also presents two cabarets each year, one in February and another in May. Each cabaret is presented on three consecutive Monday evenings. The cabarets are performed at The Performance Centre at The Ensemble Theatre. Each cabaret focuses on the music of a specific American composer. BCCM is committed to casting only local Houston talent for both the concert musical and the cabarets. The talent pool in this city is exceptional, but local performers have little opportunity to perform in the masterworks of the American musical stage. BCCM provides that opportunity. PRAISE FOR PAST BAYOU CITY CONCERT MUSICALS SHOWS FOLLIES (2000) “…a multi-faceted gem…sparkled with personality and talent. [Paul] Hope worked wonders adapting the ambitious show.” — Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle “…as richly realized as any in recent memory. …stirring testament to the depth of talent found in the Bayou City, as well as their matchless star wattage.” — D.L. Groover, OutSmart Magazine FALSETTOS (2001) “…a fresh, intimate look at this 1992 Tony Award® winner. …everything a contemporary musical should be, but rarely is.” — Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle SHE LOVES ME (2003) “…everything a musical should be… a talented and personable company…” — Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle 70, GIRLS, 70 (2004) “…many standout numbers and comic bits… Joshua Wright brings supple voice and live moves to Go Visit Your Grandmother, teamed with Nancy Taylor’s spry Granny, matching Wright’s taps on her walker for a show-stopping duet.” — Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle ASSASSINS (2005) “…darkly brilliant… potent, goosebump raising moments, not only in the material, but the performances…” — Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle “…exceptional, knockout cast under Paul Hope’s uncomparably fluid direction…” — D.L. Groover, Houston Press FIORELLO! (2006) “…classy, clever, beautifully put together… incredibly cast by a who’s who of Houston musical glitterati…a landslide victory for everyone.” — D.L. Groover, Houston Press CENTERStage News from BCCM – July 2007 Categories ShowsLeave a comment Iration, Cypress Hill Top Belly Up’s Boomshaka at Pechanga Arena Cardi B and Anuel AA join Fat Joe for “YES” video Watch Cole Swindell Raise a Little Hell in New Video for “Drinkin’ Hours” Past Shows from the 2014 – 2015 Season Concert Musical	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3641
__label__cc	0.609682	0.390318	Windermere bed and breakfast & hotel accommodation About Windermere Towns near Windermere Visit Windermere Cumbria and the surrounding villages and stay in bed breakfast, hotel or holiday home accommodation provided by BedPosts members. Windermere is a popular tourist centre, surrounded by easily reached vantage points which give glorious views of the countryside and the lake Windermere. Town combined with the older Bowness on the largest English lake, which is narrow and beautiful, with wooded banks, and splendid views of the fells. Orrest Head, a 784ft hill north of the town, provides one of the most spectacular panoramas. Another easy climb is to the top of Biskey How, a 300ft hill just east of the Windermere suburb of Bowness, which has quaint narrow streets and the 15th century St Martin's Church which has some good stained glass, and beautiful views across the lake. The church also contains a wooden equestrian statue of St Martin, in the church of which he is the patron saint, it is of a very rare kind and was carved locally in the early 17th century. Bowness is the headquarters of the Royal Windermere Yacht club. The A592 which goes along the east side of the lake cuts well inland in many places, but there are still some excellent viewpoints. Among the best of these is the 1054-ft peak of Gummer's How, 6 miles south of Windermere, which can be reached by taking the side road at Fell Foot. There is a Climb of about half a mile to reach the top. There are also splendid views from the terraces of Brockhole, the Lake District National Park Visitor Centre, which stands in 30 acres of lakeside grounds 2 miles north west of Windermere. Broughton in Furness Bowness-On-Windermere Far Sawrey Ferney Green Gillbank Grassgarth Heaning Heathwaite High Cunsey High Green High Wray Ings Near Sawrey Town End Town Head Troutbeck Troutbeck Bridge Information for visitors to Windermere seeking B&B, hotel or self-catering cottage accommodation; and for accommodation-providers new to this site: If you seek accommodation near Windermere in Cumbria you have come to the website of a “club” of providers who offer affordable quality accommodation around UK in hotels, bed and breakfasts, guesthouses, inns, and restaurants plus self-catering cottages and apartments . Windermere bed breakfasts Windermere guesthouses Windermere vacation rentals accommodation Windermere accommodation Windermere self catering Windermere cottages Windermere lodges Windermere luxury bed and breakfast Windermere cheap hotels Windermere self catering cottages Windermere inns	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3643
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__label__wiki	0.576185	0.576185	Wendy's Uses 'Coming of Age' Footage to Promote Value Meal While it seems most commenters don't like it, a new video on YouTube takes old TV show footage (or at least we think that's what it is) and turns it into a a voiced over Wendy's commercial which points to BBV99, a site with a few good goofs that continues the mission of promoting Wendy's 99 cent Better Value Meal. The site was created by MRM Worldwide. The site is also being promoted with banners on YouTube and elswhere. Topic: Online, Video Strawberry Frog Makes James Bond Heineken Commercial It's common knowledge that everyone in advertising would rather be shooting a movie than making boring ads that appear on the small screen so it is without surprise Strawberry Frog is hyped about its new Heineken commercial which was shot on location during the filming of the the next James Bond film., Casino Royale. A YouTube video takes a behind the scenes look at the very normal and un-Agency.com-like approach Strawberry Frog took for the creation of the commercial. Actors are featured. Set designers and assistant directors are interviewed. Strawberry Frog Head Creative Dude Kevin McKeon waxes eloquently about th genesis of the project. Come on. Before you say anything, you know you wish you were in Kevin's shoes. Topic: Agencies, Commercials, Video Video Offers Insight Into World of YouTubers If you've ever wondered why anyone would sit in front of a webcam, talk randomly about almost nothing and then upload it to YouTube for all to see, dive deep into the world of social media with this video about the whole trend. Sure, there's a bunch of wackos out there and most of the stuff is irrelevant but that's not the point. The point is, styles of personal conversation are changing and there's no going back. I once had an art director ask me to stop sending him emails because the notification of arriving emails distracted him from his work. Can you imagine a world without email? Perhaps there will be a day when we can't imagine a world without this new form of video communication. Topic: Consumer Created, Online, Social, Video Coke Wakes Up, Smells Social Media After having dissed the whole Diet Coke Mentos geyser thing saying the "craziness with Mentos doesn't fit with the brand personality" then giving in and quickly implementing a lame contest, Coke is now back in full force with Poetry in Motion, a video contest fronted by the very people Coke dissed in the first place, Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of one of the craziest Diet Coke/Mentos geyser videos. The two now appear in a video urging people to submit videos and teasing us with the fact the pair will release their latest video October 30, sure to be even more massive than their original geyser work Topic: Brands, Consumer Created, Good, Social, Video PGM Artists Parodies YouTube With PhilTube Fans of YouTube may not have to worry about their baby getting sucked up into the Google void and corporatized because now we have PhilTube. Some dude named Phil has created a YouTube look alike and has videos up that poke fun at popular videos such as the Star Wars Kid and LonelyGirl15. Of course, this isn't the next YouTube at all. It's the creation of Phil McIntyre to parody YouTube, poke fun at social media and to promote PGM Artists, his company that represents production companies to agencies and media companies. If you didn't know who Phil McIntyre or PGM were, you'd have to do a bit of digging to see what PhilTube is all about but as promotions go, we applaud it. There's no fist bumping here - although, perhaps PhilTube should spoof the Agency.com video - and the content is amusing enough. We're told Hart+Larsson is behind he creative on this one. Topic: Good, Online, Promotions, Social, Spoofs, Video Geico Caveman Battles News Anchors For Respect Bill Green points us to yet another entry in the increasingly popular Geico Caveman saga. In this latest commercial, our caveman friend is subjected to unfeeling, uncaring news anchors who frustrate the poor guy even further. He's got a nice rant in the middle of the spot though. Bill also tells us there's another clip that appears to be a movie trailer for the campaign. We don't know if these will sell any insurance but we cerainly are entertained by them. Topic: Campaigns, Commercials, Good, Strange, Video Luggage Tagged, Streets Teamed, Coke Fried, FIFA Viraled - If you travel a lot and you're bored with your bland luggage tags or you don't have any at all, you might want to check out some new tags that are decidedly more colorful than your standard, bland tags. - Mango Moose Media in Mississauga Ontario has launched StreetTeams, a service that makes it easy for media buyers to "buy" street teams just like they buy other media. - As if Coke wasn't already unhealthy enough, it's now a frying agent for any thing from bananas, to twinkies to cookies to pickles. - RSS reader Newsgator has added Google AdWords to it's pages. Launched Friday, it's in test phase which will continue into next week. - Not that this is is indicative of any role they may have played in their clients' successes but BBDO's work was the most viewed work on AdForum in the third quarter. - Here's a collection of videos Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam worked on as part of their work for the Electronic Artists' game FIFA 07. Topic: Brands, RSS, Specialty, Video, Viral Mazda Celebrates Hard Top's Twelve Second Erection Time While there might be some situations in which it's perfectly acceptable to impress one's girlfriend by saying, "Babe, this thing gets hard in 12 seconds," one might want to choose one's words a bit differently when explaining to a non-girlfriend the hard top of one's new Mazda MX-5 opens in 12 seconds. That concern didn't seem to bother Mazda Europe, it's agency JWT-Dusseldorf nor Maverick Media, the company that created three videos touting the 12 second closing time of the car's convertible hard top. The campaign, called 12 Second Thriller consists of videos (with agonizingly slow load times), posters, wallpaper and tools to create your own non-sensical 12 second trailer. While the speed of up and down times may be fun to celebrate, it's the lasting durability that counts most. Topic: Brands, Commercials, Online, Video Kids Say 'No Stank You' in Anti-Smoking Campaign "You Stank!" Or rather, "No Stank You!" is the rallying cry in a Washington State Health Department ant-smoking campaign that focuses on the negative social and cosmetic aspects of smoking. With lots of weird videos, interviews, TV spots, radio spots and a huge collection of downloadable, spreadable messages, the campaign is way more fun that the TRUTH campaign by far. Scare tactics ain't everything my friends. This one works. Topic: Best, Campaigns, Commercials, Online, Radio, Television, Video Presidents And Mermaids Rock For Windows Live Expo That agency with the strange name - Wexley School for Girls - has come up with an interesting promotion for Microsoft's Windows Live Expo.Through a partnership with the band Presidents of the USA and MercyCorps, the program will also raise money for various global communities. The Presidents have created a new video based on their new song, "Zero Friction," with the help of Windows Live Expo. Every item featured in the video will be available on Live Expo for sale. All proceeds from the sales will benefit MercyCorps. Neat. Random note. The mermaids in the middle of the video and pictured here work at Wexley School for Girls. Kinda makes us want to work there too.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3652
__label__cc	0.744128	0.255872	#Audiobook Review: Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory #historicalfiction #excerpt #BibPleaseReview Title: Three Sisters, Three Queens (The Tudor Court #2) Author: Philippa Gregory Publisher: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Acquired Via: Personal Collection “There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman and her sisters. We never take our eyes off each other. In love and in rivalry, we always think of each other.” From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the upcoming Starz original series The White Princess, a gripping new Tudor story featuring King Henry VIII’s sisters Mary and Margaret, along with Katherine of Aragon, vividly revealing the pivotal roles the three queens played in Henry VIII’s kingdom. When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined—with Margaret’s younger sister Mary—to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret and kills her husband James IV of Scotland. But Margaret’s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son. Mary steals the widowed Margaret’s proposed husband, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss, and passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king. Philippa Gregory's books have been - and will continue to be - some of my favorite guilty pleasures. I'm behind on her War of the Roses series, but there was no way that I could pass up one of her Tudor novels. Three Sisters, Three Queens follows the life of Henry the VIII's oldest sister, Margaret Tudor, and it is quite unlike any other Gregory book that I've read. In most of Gregory's books, the protagonist is extremely likable, and there's a healthy dose of sexytimes. In Three Sisters, Three Queens, Margaret is quite disagreeable, and there are only a few, very brief, sex scenes. Margaret spends the majority of the book obsessed with how her sisters - Katherine of Aragon and Mary Tudor, and their lot in the world. She only seemed to be happy and loving whenever she was better off than them or if they were showering her in gifts. Her love/hate sentiment toward Katherine is one of the biggest recurring themes in the book. It did make the book drag sometimes, but I'm always interested in experiencing a different sort of character - in this case rather unpleasant woman. Margaret's multiple husbands is also a big deal in Three Sisters, Three Queens. As a Tudor princess early in a new ruling dynasty, she was expected to only marry whomever would be most advantageous to her family. Her first marriage to James IV of Scotland was just that. However, he subsequent marriages were both scandalous because she married for love both times, but divorced Husband #2 (Archibald Douglas) to marry Husband #3 (Henry Stewart). Margaret seeking a divorce coincided with Henry VIII's increasing disinterest in being married to Katherine, and the world was watching to see how everything worked out for her. It is interesting to see that Margaret was able to get her divorce, yet Henry was unable to get the Pope to issue his. I enjoyed the narration of Three Sisters, Three Queens. Bianca Amato did a great job reading the various parts, and each of the three sisters was distinct from the others. Her depictions of the men did not stand out to me, but they didn't sound goofy. (Believe me when I say that happens all the time.) Honestly, I always looked forward to Margaret receiving a letter from or visiting with Katherine because I loved Amato's accent for her. I would definitely listen to more books that Amato narrates. Overall, Three Sisters, Three Queens was a fun fictional read, and it led me to read quite a few articles online about Margaret Tudor and her two husbands. I cannot wait until Gregory's next book is released. - 3/5 Stars - Pre-Order Links Amazon \| Audible \| Barnes & Noble \| Book Depository \| Fishpond Google Play \| iTunes \| Kobo Labels: Audio Excerpt, Audiobook, Excerpt, historical fiction, Philippa Gregory, Review, Simon and Schuster #Audiobook Review: Three Sisters, Three Queens by ... Review: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake #yalit ... Early Review: The Continent by Keira Drake #yalit ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3658
__label__cc	0.725625	0.274375	WP1- Project management WP2- Detection and identification of relevant pathogen and associated risk factors WP3- Mechanisms allowing pathogens of interest to survive outside the host WP4- Pathogens of interest: identification of intrinsic virulence factors and effects on host defense m WP4-T1 Development of experimental disease models WP4-T2 Effects of pathogens on host defence mechanisms WP4-T3 Characterization of pathogen virulence factors WP5- Pathogen control and eradication: development of methods, field tests and recommendations WP6- Dissemination and exploitation Participants : 1 - IFREMER 2 - CSIC 11 - ATLANTIUM Experimental disease (bacterial and viral) models will be developed and used in order to explore the susceptibility of mussels and Pacific oysters to selected pathogens including OsHV-1 and Vibrio species and to study pathogen/host interactions in controlled conditions. Experimental disease models will provide contrasted biological material in terms of disease susceptibility such as infected versus non-infected animals, susceptible versus non-susceptible animals of the same species (families displaying different susceptibilities to mortality/infection with OsHV-1 and Vibrio species) and resistant versus susceptible species (mussels versus oysters) for the following tasks (WP4, Tasks 2 and 3). Several infection protocols will be used such as injection and cohabitation in order to determine the effect of pathogens on bivalve mortalities but also on the host immune response and on the expression of virulence factors. The techniques that will be used have been already described (Gagnaire et al., 2007; Gay et al., 2004, Schikorski et al., in press). Samples will be collected, distributed and used for the following tasks. Biohazardous material used in laboratory assays will be autoclaved at 121 degrees for 30 minutes. Shellfish waste will be placed in a bin lined with an absorbent pad bottom and top, and sealed with a lid. The bins will be removed by an approved contractor for waste disposal and taken for incineration. As UV (HOD power) inactivates the pathogens by causing damage to the DNA or RNA, the capacity of DNA repair of OsHV-1 and Vibrio species will be explored. The short-term and the long-term effects of the UV inactivated pathogens on bivalves will thus be assessed through experimental trials. Bivalves will be subjected to pathogens (OsHV-1 and Vibrio species) that were exposed to the HOD germicidal power by using a static UV setup -Collimated Beam Apparatus (CBA) -.based on monochromatic (Low Pressure UV lamps) UV light and polychromatic (Medium Pressure UV Lamps). Participant 11 will manufacture and supply the UV devices (CBA devices) to Participants 1 and 2 and will prepare the protocols for UV illumination tests on the target pathogens for evaluating. Participant 11 will participate at part of the tests and will train the local researchers to operate the CBA devices. In addition Atlantium's researchers will participate in analysing the results and preparing the reports for generating the data for other WP's mainly WP7	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3661
__label__cc	0.633024	0.366976	Staged Readings For the Pros – Round Two – New York City! In mid-September, Karen and I hosted a dinner and table reading of the script around Karen’s dining room table. It was a lovely reunion of past cast members, as well as a way to polish our book before NY. At the end of September, we flew to New York to cast the show. It was pouring with rain, but we hardly noticed! We were at Ripley-Grier rehearsal studios, overlooking Broadway, auditioning actors and singers for our first New York reading. As soon as the casting notice went out, Playbill.com reported on it! “Dan Fogelberg Musical Will Get NYC Staged Reading” (click red link to read). There we were, the whole team sitting behind a long table: Karen and I, co-producer of the NYC presentation Warren Adams, director Lynne Taylor-Corbett, musical director Michael Moricz, and casting director Carol Hanzel. A number of the actors from our previous West Coast readings submitted auditions on video. Harley Jay, our wonderful “Sean” in the LA/San Diego readings, flew to NY to audition in person. Of course, to Karen and me, Harley IS Sean, and happily, our colleagues agreed! He was cast before he left the building. We were over the moon to have Harley in NYC with us (to see why visit www.harleyjay.com). The rest of the talented actors were cast out of New York City and we ended up with a terrific ensemble. Hours after we locked them all down, Playbill.com ran another piece that Part of the Plan had been cast (click red link to read). Karen and I flew home to Los Angeles and began to prepare for our return trip to New York, where we would present our show to investors and producers. We had plenty to do to keep us busy and stave off the nerves: there were invitations to send, rewrites of the book (hearing auditions helped us realize some changes to be made), and new music to arrange. We brought on guitar virtuoso Laurence Juber, of Paul McCartney and Wings fame, to work with Victor on several songs that were guitar-driven, and the results with these two were breathtaking. The musical interpretations of our story and Dan’s songs was one of the great creative experiences of our lives. What a gift to work with such musical masters. Then, of course, there was the matter of selecting a location for our two showcase performances. We settled on St. Luke’s Theatre in the heart of Broadway’s theatre district. We’d seen another staged reading there that our director had put up in the Spring. It’s a real theatre, on a great street, and we were thrilled. We arrived back in New York at the end of October and settled in for a week of rehearsals at Ripley-Grier Studios, which was beginning to feel like home away from home. The rehearsal process was extraordinary. To watch Lynne and Michael collaborate was a humbling experience because they are so, so good. There is nothing like seeing seasoned professionals at work; to know they understand the heart of the story and communicate it to the actors so beautifully. Creative ideas were flowing, rewrites were happening on the fly, and music was being further shaped and enhanced. Michael added his own magic, and put together a band! There are never enough hours for rehearsals, but after 29-hours with our actors, the equity maximum allowed, it was curtain up! “Part of the Plan” played to packed houses and received standing ovations for both shows! After the second performance, Warren threw us a cast party at E&E Grill, and we could barely keep our feet on the ground. The show just seems to get better and better. So many of the audience were blown away, asking us “What do you need?” and “How can we help?” That was exactly the purpose of this adventure. Once again, Dan was smiling down on us. That brings us to today. Over the last few weeks, Karen and I have formed our own production company, and with a shout-out to our lovely friend and kind supporter, Lesley Hamer, we’ve named it K-Squared Entertainment. (Get it? Kate…Karen…K-Squared? Wait’ll we unveil the logo!) We are also forming a company called Part of the Plan, LLC that will allow us, along with partners and investors, to raise the capital we need to workshop and then mount our first commercial production!!! And, of course, there’s the seemingly endless prospect of rewrites and polishes to make Part of the Plan the best it can be. With the help of the Dan Fogelberg Foundation (thank you Deb Jelinek and Eric Mills), we have cross-referenced the U.S. cities where the majority of “Dan Fans” reside, along with large baby boomer populations (the primary theatre-going audience), and have come up with our own list of cities in which “Part of the Plan” could potentially premiere! We are hoping that our next blog posting will announce a full production of “Part of the Plan” at a live theatre near you. If you have thoughts on where that might be, reach out and let us know! Ever On!!! - Kate Atkinson Victor & Laurence at work... Harley & the cast rehearsing Leader of the Band... A few photos from rehearsals at Ripley-Grier Studios... Dynamic Duo... MD Michael Moricz and Director Lynne Taylor-Corbett Dave Thomas Brown, Christian Mardini, & Harley Jay Kate, Harley, and Karen at Cast Party Having too much fun… Will Reynolds (Jake) and Richard Crandle (Max/Jackson) & Kate NYC Presentation Co-producers celebrate a job well done Ron Gannon IT'S Great to see it in action...Thank you Susan Clements link please offer a show in Des Moines, is or Omaha, Nebraska. Thanks for your consideration. Susan Mary Jo Kovach CHICAGO!! I miss Dan and his beautiful ephemeral voice. God bless you for your passion in bringing his songs to life. I hope Atlanta is on your schedule. He played here every tour and always sold out. James J I'll second this request....Fox theater perhaps? We bring you greetings from the north! Michigan, Dan has lots of fans and played here several times. Please, Philadelphia! Part of the Plan would do so well here! Fox theater in Atlanta please :) The Weidner Center in Green Bay, WI is a wonderful venue with acoustical perfection. The Performing Arts Center in Appleton, WI hosts many large Broadway productions. Dan fan from the beginning! Both are wonderful venues! Has to play in Peoria of course. Can't see any other first choice. Lisa Gordon Please keep me posted if "Part of the Plan" the musical opens in New York Lisa Mendosa Wow! That little snippet of Leader of the Band, sung in a way that I've never heard nor envisioned, just gave me chills - a very good sign! This is going to be quite a tribute to Dan - master musician, singer and songwriter - and shine a well-deserved light on his music and legacy. So grateful for your vision and hard work!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3676
__label__wiki	0.580362	0.580362	Tryst Cafe owners bring their healthy, from-scratch dishes to Chandler Article Georgann Yara \| Photography Tryst Cafe The sunrise to beyond sunset buzz fueled by a steady stream of hungry patrons grabbing seats for breakfast, lunch, happy hour and dinner is the result of Tryst Cafe owners Lisa and Sami Khnanisho simplifying their lives. And the veteran restaurateurs, who in January opened the second location of their popular eatery that flaunts organic and healthy dishes in Chandler, wouldn’t have it any other way. After the success of their first location in the Desert Ridge area of Phoenix, developers Valley-wide approached the Khnanishos lobbying to be their next spot. But when the Khnanishos saw the space that would become Tryst’s new home along Gilbert Road just south of Ocotillo Road, one word kept echoing in their minds: Location. Location. Location. “So many people walk here. It’s a wonderful diverse, family, community-oriented community. We’re so happy that we’ve chosen this area,” Lisa says. “There are a lot of chains, and we knew people were looking for something mom-and-pop.” Palate-pleasers include: a super-loaded avocado toast topped with micro greens, asparagus and garbanzo beans; roasted buffalo cauliflower; a Reuben anchored by house made corned beef on marble rye; and the Hawaiian Breakfast, comprised of two fried eggs, house-smoked kalua pork or Portobello mushrooms, cabbage, jasmine rice and won ton chips. The theme extends to the bar, which is stocked with organic tequila, vodka, and other pick-me-ups. In 2010, the Khnanishos were in the middle of running and selling their previous restaurants. They sought to relax a bit after growing their casual eateries Sami’s Gyros in Tempe and Mama Gina’s Pizzeria in Glendale’s Westgate Entertainment District, which they started and have since sold. As Lisa says, “We wanted to simplify.” They set their sights on the trending frozen yogurt market, which was a relatively easy venture compared to what they were used to. But when they saw the Phoenix space planned for their shop, simplification took on a different definition. “We knew it was a much larger location for what a yogurt place would be,” Lisa recalls. “In the plaza, there was an organic cleaners, and that sparked the organic angle.” They planned on doing just breakfast and lunch. Again, in an effort to simplify. But satisfied regulars wouldn’t hear of it. Requests sparked menu expansions to dinner and happy hour. Clientele feedback also initiated the effort to accommodate gluten-free and vegan diets. About 95 percent of the menu is (or can be made) gluten-free, including bread and tortilla dishes. All recipes are developed by Chef Rosario Cortez and Lisa. Sami and the rest of team sample them and offer feedback on what works and what needs work. With a capacity of 180—more than double that of the Phoenix restaurant—the larger Chandler location allowed them to offer amenities they’ve wanted to but could not before. A huge patio with lounge seating begs patrons to kick back with a glass of wine and an appetizer or two. There’s also a fire pit to warm things up during the chillier months. A private seating area holds up to 20, ideal for meetings or a small intimate gathering. A coffee, smoothie and protein shake bar was created to also accommodate members of neighboring EOS Fitness. There are monthly events, like wine tastings and, in May, an organic vodka tasting that will showcase craft cocktails to complement different vodka flavors. Sure, it may not seem like the simple life. But every day, they experience the satiating reward of the more demanding entrepreneurial path they’ve embraced. “It’s a very challenging business, but also very fulfilling,” Lisa says. “When customers take those bites and they love it, that’s incredibly satisfying to me.” Tryst Cafe is located at 4205 S. Gilbert Road. TrystCafe.com.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3686
__label__wiki	0.746791	0.746791	Fenwick adopts sustainability plan for town’s future When planning for the future, not everything has to be about growth. In adopting the new Fenwick Island Community Sustainability Plan, the town council is planning for the continued health and vibrancy of Fenwick Island. According to DNREC... Friday, November 22, 2019 - 11:44am Ocean View approves bid to repair damage on Melson building The Town of Ocean View will spend $324,000 to repair damage and to remove and replace siding on the Wallace A. Melson Municipal Building. Because no one oversaw construction and the original siding was nailed to the concrete block with... Millsboro council approves design for new town hall Following months of discussion and special meetings, the Millsboro Town Council has unanimously approved a new, two-story town hall, designed with a barn feel and featuring the symbolic mill wheel outside. It will be built at what town... Dagsboro continues Main Street electrical wiring replacement Dagsboro is continuing to replace aging electrical wiring throughout the town, approving repairs at its Monday, Nov. 18, town council meeting for what Town Administrator Cynthia Brought called “the worst” section. The council voted to... Millsboro council approves hiring of new police officer The Millsboro Town Council, at their special meeting on Thursday, Nov. 14, authorized Police Chief Brian Calloway to begin the process of hiring another officer. “This is to set the stage — depending on what the Indian River School... Coastal Hwy. drainage project planned at Rt. 54 intersection It’s dangerous to drive across flooded roadways. But people don’t feel they have a choice when Coastal Highway floods at the Route 54 intersection. Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) is... Friday, November 15, 2019 - 5:02pm Fire Control Tower #3 begins next phase of restoration The Delaware Seashore Preservation Foundation, the Fort Miles Historical Association and DNREC’s Division of Parks & Recreation was set to enter the next phase of World War II Artillery Fire Control Tower #3 restoration this week. Tower #3 is... ‘Think Beyond Pink’ women’s health conference set for Oct. 19 Think Beyond Pink — Beebe Healthcare’s annual women’s health empowerment and wellness conference — will return to the South Coastal Library in Bethany Beach on Oct. 19 to discuss key women’s health issues in the community. Hosted by Beebe... Area welcomes Wall That Heals Two simple words. A recurring theme of The Wall That Heals. Words that Vietnam veterans longed to hear; words that some 58,000 men and women never made it home to hear. Words that echoed across the... Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 10:32pm Millsboro council makes progress on town hall design It’s likely the new Millsboro Town Hall will have two stories when it’s built downtown, and the police station, currently located on Main Street, will move into the existing town hall building. That was the consensus when the Millsboro... Ocean View revs up for Cops & Goblins event The fifth annual Cops & Goblins Halloween celebration is planned for Saturday, Oct. 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. in John West Park. In the event of rain, it will be held the next day. Guests can masquerade in costume and enjoy free... Millsboro to pay some of art league’s costs Following testimony from area residents who praised the Greater Millsboro Art League, the Millsboro Town Council this week agreed to pay utility costs for the building, which is owned by the Town, so art league staff can afford monthly rent and... Millsboro council whips through myriad issues The Millsboro Town Council, on Monday, Oct. 7, approved the 2019 Whiskers for Wishes Campaign. Police Chief Brian Calloway, during his monthly report to the town council, announced that officers, as well as town government employees, may... Race to Find Ace continues as owners turn to psychics, 'dog whisperer' Reward for lost dog now up to $6,000 It’s been nearly three weeks since Ace, the 5-year-old Labrador retriever with the gentle disposition, darted out of his owner’s house and took off on what his owners, George Elliott and Nicole Peterdozzi, thought was a run. He had done it... Cozy Critters on probation after child’s fall into septic tank Cozy Critters Child Care near Ocean View has been placed on probation for one year by the State of Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, following an incident there on Aug. 16 in which a toddler fell into an open septic tank. The child... Homeowner group objects to wind-farm proposal A homeowners’ group has raised a series of objections to a proposal by a wind-farm developer for an estimated $15 million to $18 million project in Fenwick Island State Park. The Fenwick Island Society of Homeowners (FISH), which... Frankford seeks intersection safety help from State A recent fatal accident at a Frankford intersection has spurred the Town to seek help from state officials to make the spot safer. Bruce Eckerd Jr. died Sept. 26 when he was driving westbound on Daisey Street at the intersection with Route... Bridge repairs will require a detour for southbound Route 113 traffic Motorists should expect a significant impact to their U.S. Route 113 driving experience in the coming weeks: the southbound lanes of Route 113 will be fully closed in Millsboro, from Radish Road to Handy Road, from Nov. 3 to 17, with an... Dufour sworn in as Millsboro police chaplain Millsboro Police Department officer Matthew Dufour stood facing his father — the elder Defour newly sworn in as the police department’s first chaplain — and saluted him. The Rev. Rod Dufour, smiling, returned the salute, and the two hugged... The Wall that Heals The Wall that Heals is a 3/4-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Wall lists each casualty recorded through the war. The replica is made of Avonite, and travels around the country, visiting communities, allowing... Longwood Gardens veteran named DBG director of horticulture Ray Sander, president of Delaware Botanic Gardens (DBG) announced this week that the DBG Board of Directors has appointed Brian W. Trader, Ph.D., as the new DBG deputy executive director and director of horticulture, effective Aug. 1. “As... Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 10:38am Breaking news: IRSD referendum fails, 55-45 percent The 2019 referendum has FAILED in Indian River School District, by roughly 55-45 percent. The unofficial count was 3866-3202 voting against the Major Capital Expense question and 3836-3124 voting against the Current Expense... Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 8:36pm Ocean View continues hotel/lodging discussions Last month, the Town of Ocean View was approached by Bob Thornton of Silverstock LLC, requesting the Town consider an ordinance that would allow for hotel/lodging uses in the Town’s Mixed-Use Planned Communities (MXPC) zone, through the granting... Frankford residents urged to apply for housing rehab grants Mike Jones of Sussex County’s Community Development office gave a presentation at the Frankford Town Council meeting on Monday, Jan. 7, informing the council and residents that the organization has $64,000 to spend on housing rehabilitation... Gallery One artists explore ‘The Color Purple’ Gallery One in Ocean View this week announced the theme of its January/February exhibit: “The Color Purple,” which will be open to the public Jan. 3 through Feb. 27, 2019. Purple has been seen symbolically as the color of royalty, power... Bethany to ask for public comment on proposed pedestrian pathway It’s a project that’s been percolating in the town for a few years, but Bethany Beach officials in January will formally discuss the proposal for a pedestrian pathway on Collins Street, between Kent Avenue and E. Half-Moon Drive, and possibly... Dagsboro approves changes to water rates The Dagsboro Town Council held a public hearing on Monday, Oct. 22, to listen to residents on their support or opposition to the proposed change in the water rates. After close to 30 minutes of discussion, council members unanimously voted... Bladder dam plan resurrected in Bethany While the issue of “Harry’s bladder” has become a source of humor in Bethany Beach in the years since former Bethany Beach town councilman Harry Steele first championed a bladder dam to help address the town’s recurrent flooding problems, as of... South Bethany police concerns loom, but new hires are in works Troy Crowson pointed to the headline story in this month’s The Police Chief magazine: an article on retaining employees with non-paycheck items, such as take-home vehicles, and opportunities for advancement and education. “We had all this... IRSD restores teacher raises, creates first admin salary scale When Delaware state auditors opened the books at Indian River School District in 2016, they found several major problems. IRSD has worked to solve its weak financial policies and alleged financial mismanagement. In September, the school... Millville officials look at ‘small-scale’ shopping areas in town Millville Town Council made a move at its Tuesday, Oct. 23, workshop meeting toward changing its zoning code to set perameters for “small scale” shopping areas. The council discussed a draft ordinance that would amend the Town’s zoning... Frankford hosting Fall Festival downtown this Saturday A full day of fall fun is on tap in Frankford this weekend as the town hosts its annual Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 27. Children 12 and under are invited vie for prizes in the costume contest. For the 2-and-under and 3-to-4-year-old... Trick-or-Treat times for 2018 Most local towns and neighborhoods are celebrating Halloween on Wednesday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. Any household giving out treats should turn on an outdoor light. Official Trick-or-Treat times are as follows: Bethany Beach... Pets and humans reading for parade in Bethany this weekend For the eighth year, Bethany Beach celebrates the spooky season with its Wags, Witches & Warlocks event, this year benefiting the Brandywine Valley S.P.C.A.’s Georgetown facility. Wags, Witches & Warlocks is scheduled for Saturday... Masiello brings law-enforcement experience to South Bethany council Gerald “Jerry” Masiello has joined the ranks of South Bethany Town Council. He was appointed Oct. 12 to fill a seat that Wayne Schrader vacated, for personal reasons, several months into his two-year term. Masiello will serve until the... MSO to perform second concert series of the season On Nov. 1, 3 and 4, the Mid Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will perform its second concert of the fall season, spotlighting Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante” with duo Kurt Nikkanen, concertmaster of New York City Ballet, on violin and Jonathan... Large-scale exercise prepare emergency personnel for the unthinkable With gun violence a reality in today’s world, local law enforcement, emergency responders and hospitals are hoping such a tragedy never reaches our area, but are preparing for the worst. On Oct. 13, agencies across southeastern Sussex... ‘For one night only, the spirits take over’ Selbyville Haunted Library returns on Oct. 31 When the Selbyville Public Library opens for two hours on Halloween night, it will be completely transformed inside. The Selbyville Haunted library will return on Wednesday, Oct. 31, during trick-or-treating hours of 6 to 8 p.m. Police departments urge citizens to ‘Take Back’ medications The Ocean View Police Department is one of many in the state and across the nation participating in the U.S... Gallery One to focus on ‘The Shape of Things’ in November Gallery One in Ocean View this week announced the theme of its November exhibit, “The Shape of Things,” which will be open to the public Oct. 31 through Dec. 4. Gallery One artist Joyce Condry recalled “a beginning drawing class decades... Trick or TreeT tree-planting Golf tournament honors doctors from Delmarva Services The 19th Annual Jean & Joan Golf Tournament was rained out on Thursday, Sept. 24; however, more than 100 guests still enjoyed dinner, a live auction and awards at Kings Creek Country Club. This year’s tournament honored doctors from Delmarva... Bethany Beach looking at old answer for floods Bethany Beach floods some times. As a coastal town that is only a few feet above sea level at its highest point, Bethany Beach certainly has a problem with flooding, particularly after intense storms that dump inches of rain in a short... Reddington honored by Hide Association Last month, Ocean View resident John Reddington was the 31st person to be inducted into the U.S. Hides, Skin, and Leather Hall of Fame. “One every year is given out and I never thought I would get it,” said Reddington. “I was just the... Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 9:52am Millsboro-area woman’s grandson arrested for her murder The Delaware State Police have charged 30-year-old man in connection with the death of his grandmother in Millsboro, which authorities have ruled a homicide. According to police, their investigation began on Saturday, Oct. 20, around 10:33... Community partners looking to give dose of ‘Reality’ It starts out innocently enough — an invitation to a classmate’s house for a party. A few wrong turns, an overdose and — poof — life will never be the same. Some community partners in Sussex County are hoping to have an impact on youth and... Verizon, South Bethany discuss best path to service improvements As Verizon Wireless continues its quest to improve mobile coverage across coastal Delaware, they have begun discussions at the Town of South Bethany. In the past year, Verizon’s Bonnie Metz also helped the Town of Fenwick Island write a... IRSD partners with $tand By Me to offer free scholarship workshop The Indian River School District is partnering with $tand By Me to host a free scholarship workshop and fair on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Indian River High School in Dagsboro. The workshop is aimed at helping high school... Godwin School recognized A plaque dedication and open house were held Oct. 6 at the Godwin School on Route 20, which was named to the National Register of Historic Places. Originally known as School District #190, the Godwin School opened around 1987 for white children... Think Beyond Pink conference at library set for Saturday Think Beyond Pink — a women’s breast health and wellness conference hosted by Beebe Healthcare’s Women’s & Children’s Services and Tunnell Cancer Center — is set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 9 a.m. to noon at the South Coastal...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3689
__label__wiki	0.758904	0.758904	Metallizing Offers Long-Term Protection for the Lavaca Causeway Concrete Coatings Articles By Karen D Fisher on 11/4/2019 10:42 AM Photos courtesy of M&J Construction and Texas Department of Transportation Atlantic Design Abingdon, MD 21009 Marco Group 3425 E Locust St. M&J Construction Co. Coatings contractor Safespan 252 Fillmore Ave. Coatings manufacturer 101 W Prospect Ave. Cleveland, OH, 44115 Coatings client The Port Lavaca Causeway, stretching between Port Lavaca and Point Comfort, Texas, is the longest bridge in the massive Lone Star State. The 2.25-mile (3.62 km) span allows passage over Lavaca Bay, while also allowing ships to access nearby Texas ports. The causeway was built in 1961, but by 2016 it required some major rehabilitation work, prompting the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to budget more than $16 million for the project. The causeway consists of 194 simple prestressed beam bridge spans and one three-span continuous steel girder unit. The substructure is reinforced concrete supported on pile-cap footings bearing on driven precast/prestressed concrete piling. The rehabilitation, which has continued into 2019, covers five items: 1. Address reinforcing steel corrosion/resultant concrete distress (cracking/spalling) by completing concrete structure repair and wrapping columns with carbon fiber reinforced polymer. 2. Address cracking along main reinforcing steel in concrete pile caps by supplementing footing with steel-reinforced concrete encasements. 3. Add zinc spray cathodic protection (CP) on bent caps with elevation nearest water to curtail future corrosion-related distress. 4. Clean and metallize all existing steel rocker bearings to protect. 5. Clean and apply thermal spray aluminum (TSA) coating to three-span continuous steel unit. “There was a lot of metallizing on that job,” said Nik Parianos, superintendent of painting and metallizing for M&J. “It’s a good product.” A report1 written for the Federal Highway Administration provides an explanation of the process: Metallizing is a type of thermal spray coating (TSC) that produces a durable metal coating. The TSC metal typically applied to steel structures such as highway bridges is either pure zinc or a zinc/aluminum alloy. A feed wire of the TSC metal is heated to a molten state by flame or electric arc and propelled by air spray onto a surface. The metal solidifies upon contact with the substrate to form a durable metallic coating. Prior to TSC application on bridges, the surfaces are cleaned thoroughly using abrasive blasting. The Hard Part First When Parianos and his crew of eight to 12 people arrived on the jobsite in March 2017, they tackled the most difficult part first: CP on the 16,604 square feet (1,542.6 m2) of concrete pier caps. However, close to the abutments, each end of the bridge had about five caps that were buried in the dirt. “I had to dig that out to about 2 ft [0.6 m] below the caps so I was able to pressure wash it,” recalled Parianos. “Just a regular shovel and a lot of guys. Working with the tides, it took me a couple days just to dig. That was one of my biggest problems.” The crew then began surface preparation. The first step was pressure washing using Honda 5,000 psi (34.5 MPa) machines. Then came the sand blasting: Size 20/40 silica sand from Sand Express was put into a 6-ton Marco pot with a dryer system and an accompanying Sullair 1,600-cfm (2,718.4 m3/min.) compressor. While Texas requires only a 150 psi (1.0 MPa) result from a dolly pull adhesion test on concrete, pressure washing prior to blasting leads to superior adhesion. “I didn’t want to pressure wash,” said Parianos. “But it gave a better quality. We got a dolly pull of 450 psi [3.1 MPa], which is three times higher than what the state asked for on those concrete pier caps.” CP on concrete required installing a steel tie-bar to the concrete reinforcing steel (rebar) and connecting it to the thermal spray zinc (TSZ) applied on the concrete surface with a bolt and washer. The M&J crew then drilled through the concrete caps and into the rebar to connect the rebar to the TSZ. As Parianos explained, “I fill that [drilled hole] in with epoxy. Then I blast it, I put my metal plate — it’s like a washer plate — on it, and I bolt it down. When I metallize the cap, that’s what creates your positive anode. It goes around the whole cap to keep it from rusting — keeps the rebar from rusting and keeps the concrete from deteriorating. After you metallize it, you have to put a water-based zinc spray on it, which dries within minutes, and that seals everything up.” For the metallizing of the concrete caps, M&J used a Thermion Precision Arc 4.8 with a 99 percent zinc wire feed. A generator from United Rentals supplied the necessary 200 to 250 kW for three Thermion machines. Although the American Welding Society (AWS) joint standard requires an average thickness of 10 mils (254.0 microns) of metallizing material, most contractors and their clients will accept a range of 8 to 12 mils (203.2–304.8 microns). Finally, Sherwin-Williams’ Zinc Clad XI was sprayed on with a Graco Xtreme at an average thickness of 1.5 to 2.0 mils (38.1–50.8 microns) to seal the thermal spray coatings on the reinforced concrete pier caps. Rockers and Shoes According to Parianos, the next part of the job called for M&J to “clean and metallize all existing steel rocker bearings,” but again, it wasn’t quite so simple. “There were about 3,000 sets of shoes and rockers combined,” he said. “They’re not just rocker bearings. They’re also just regular shoes that don’t move.” Proper surface preparation was essential for this work, and Parianos has high standards. Though most specs call for a minimum surface profile of 2.5 mils (63.5 microns), “I won’t let my guys metallize any less than 3 [mils, or 76.2 microns],” said Parianos. The joint standard NACE No. 12/AWS C 2.23M/Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) Coating Systems (CS) 23.00:Specification for the Application of Thermal Spray Coatings (Metalizing) of Aluminum, Zinc, and Their Alloys and Composites for the Corrosion Protection of Steel contains requirements for the application of zinc and aluminum alloys to steel substrates using thermal spray. To start, silica sand was again used to abrasive blast the rocker bearings and the shoes to an anchor profile of at least 3 mils. Parianos recalled, “We only needed 500 [psi, or 3.4 MPa, from the dolly pull] on the rocker bearings, and we were getting well over 1,000 [psi, or 6.9 MPa].” Per Parianos, some challenges included putting a containment on each pier, working from pick boards on barges below the bridge, and then moving that equipment as they went. The M&J crew ran cables and connected safety crosslines to personal safety belts for their fall protection. But as soon as the waves would get high, the crew would have to shut down operations for the day. “Water and power don’t mix,” commented Parianos. It was also during this time that Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, but as Parianos recalled, “the only thing I had to drop were my 30 pick boards.” Spanning the Gap The final part of the project, said Parianos, was to “clean and apply TSC aluminum to the three-span continuous steel unit.” This was on the highest part of the bridge, which he estimated reaches 70 or 80 feet (21.3 or 24.4 m) in the air. M&J’s crew members installed Safespan to have a hard deck under the working area, as well as impermeable tarps along the vertical sides. Other personal protective equipment (PPE) included Nova last hoods by RPB Safety during the blasting and metallizing, respirators from 3M, fall protection lanyards, gloves, safety glasses, and work boots. TSC operations create metal dust, which can be harmful if inhaled. As Parianos pointed out, “With the metallizing, you can’t wear a regular half-face respirator or a full-face. Everybody needs to be in supplied air. The metallizers are in it, my vacuumers, my blasters.” A #25 steel grit blasting abrasive helped achieve the proper profile on the steel, meeting NACE No. 1/SSPC Surface Preparation (SP) 5: White Metal Blast Cleaning. Because the steel had existing lead paint underneath an original aluminum coating, M&J had to contain it using a reclaiming unit from Atlantic Design. “It’s got the vacuum on it, separates all my waste, then it takes my grit back into the pot for my guys to continue blasting,” Parianos said. Pure aluminum (99 percent) feed wire was used on the steel spans with the Thermion machines. Lastly, Sherwin-Williams’ Macropoxy 920 Pre-Prime was applied using Graco Xtreme sprayers to an average wet film thickness of 1.5 to 2.0 mils (38.1 to 50.8 microns). This penetrating sealer reaches all the way to the substrate, filling the porosity of the TSC. Long-Lasting for the Long Haul When it comes to preserving bridge structures, metallizing the concrete and steel surfaces offers long-term protection against corrosion. Upfront costs may be higher than with other coating methods, but the cost across the entire life cycle should be far less. After this project, TxDOT should have a long-lasting coating system on the Port Lavaca Causeway and far less maintenance over the coming years. 1 “Cost Effective Alternative Methods for Steel Bridge Paint System Maintenance, Report IX: Field Metallizing Highway Bridges,” Corrpro Companies Inc., 2001. Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission from Infrastructure Insights (August 2019). 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__label__wiki	0.987535	0.987535	Return to the Continuum home page Clicking on images provides larger ones. Get awesome Sonic the Hedgehog vinyl figures at Entertainment Earth! CLICK HERE X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE ROUNDUP Hugh Jackman, producer and star of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, began the U.S. promotions for the film on Tuesday by leaving his handprints and footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. "It's an honor I'll never forget," said Jackman, who was accompanied by his wife and two children. "Thank you all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart." Jackman also noted he was just a couple of blocks away from one of his other dreams, where he hosted the Academy Award. Jay Leno from NBC's The Tonight Show emceed the ceremonies; Jackman was scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show on Tuesday. Among those attending the ceremonies were Brett Ratner, Jackman's director in X-Men: The Last Stand, and Avi Arad, former head of Marvel Studios. Click on the thumbnails for larger images. In other X-Men Origins: Wolverine news: * Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will.i.am, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and director Gavin Hood are expected to be in Tempe, Ariz., on Monday for the premiere event. Tempe was the winner of the Hometown Premiere contest. MARVEL COMICS FOR JULY Marvel Comics has provided The Continuum its solicitations for July. For a rundown, with images, CLICK HERE. For a rundown of trade paperbacks, with images, CLICK HERE. RADICAL PUBLISHING FOR JULY Radical Publishing has provided The Continuum its solicitations for July. FAMILY GUY: "PETER'S PROGRESS" Fox has released two images from "Peter's Progress," the Sunday, May 10 episode of Family Guy. Here's how the network describes the episode: "Peter has his palm read by a psychic who reveals that he had a fascinating past life as Griffin Peterson, a dignified gentleman who vied for the love of Lady Redbush in 17th century England and in the newly founded American colony of Quahog. It was a time of great love and adventure where King Stewart reigned supreme, the smartest dog in the room was the court jester, army lieutenants were merely boys and even old England loved How I Met Your Mother (Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris and Josh Radnor guest-voice)." DC COMICS FIRST LOOKS For a cover and five-page preview of Teen Titans #70 from DC Comics, CLICK HERE. For previews of Marvel Comics titles arriving in stores on April 22, CLICK HERE. For previews of IDW Publishing titles arriving in stores on April 22, CLICK HERE. For previews of BOOM! Studios titles arriving in stores on April 22, CLICK HERE. For previews of Image Comics titles arriving in stores on April 22, CLICK HERE. For previews of Archie Comics titles arriving in stores on April 22, CLICK HERE. For previews of DC Comics titles arriving in stores on April 22, CLICK HERE. JULY SOLICITATIONS ROUNDUP For previously posted July solicitations, click on the publishers' names below: * Archie Comics. * Bluewater Productions. * Dark Horse Comics. * DC Comics. * Moonstone Books. * Top Cwo Productions. COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES If you missed The Continuum's coverage over the past month, following are links. Click on the date to get the day's full report. * Thursday, April 16: Batman: The Brave and the Bold, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, DC Comics First Looks and Marvel Comics First Looks. * Wednesday, April 15: Image Comics First Looks, Smallville, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Marvel Comics First Looks, Archie Comics First Looks and DC Comics First Looks. * Tuesday, April 14: Top Cow Productions roundup, Lauren Shuler Donner talks X-Men: First Class, Hellboy II: The Golden Army on Cinemax, Marvel Comics roundup, DC Comics roundup and DC Comics First Looks. * Monday, April 13: The Dark Knight on HBO, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Carpica, DC Comics First Looks and Marvel Comics First Looks. * Sunday, April 12: Family Guy and Dragonball: Evolution box office. * Saturday, April 11: DC Comics First Looks, Dark Horse Comics First Looks and Smallville. * Friday, April 10: Marvel Comics First Looks, BOOM! Studios First Looks and Zenescope Entertainment First Looks. * Thursday, April 9: IDW Publishing First Looks, Top Cow Productions First Looks, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, March sales leaders, Family Guy and Dollhouse. * Wednesday, April 8: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Simpsons, Heroes, Warner Bros. Animation, Archie Comics First Looks and DC Comics First Looks. * Tuesday, April 7: Dark Horse Comics for July, Family Guy, The Phantom, Dollhouse, Iron Man: Armored Adventures and DC Comics First Looks. * Monday, April 6: Green Lantern: First Flight, Heroes, Bluewater Productions for July, Smallville, Family Guy, Marvel Super Hero Squad, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, DC Comics First Looks, Marvel Comics roundup and Frank Springer dies. * Sunday, April 5: 28 Days from BOOM! and Fox Atomic and Watchmen box office. * Saturday, April 4: Image Comics First Looks, Marvel Comics First Looks, Dark Horse Comics First Looks and DC Comics First Looks. * Friday, April 3: Marvel Comics First Looks and BOOM! Studios First Looks. * Thursday, April 2: IDW Publishing First Looks, Top Cow Productions First Looks, Moonstone Books for July and Heroes. * Wednesday, April 1: Heroes, Aspen Comics First Looks, Archie Comics First Looks and Red 5 Comics for June. * Tuesday, March 31: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Vertigo trades in the fall, Dragonball: Evolution, Heroes, Antarctic Press for June, Mercury Comics for June, Dynamite Entertainment's Green Hornet and Marvel Comics First Looks. * Monday, March 30: Avatar Press for June, Dabel Brothers Publishing for June, Arcana Studio for June, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and Bluewater Productions' Female Force. * Sunday, March 29: Oni Press for June, Devil's Due Publishing for June and First Looks. * Saturday, March 28: BOOM! Studios for June, Zenescope Entertainment for June, Aspen Comics for June and The Incredible Hulk on Cinemax. * Friday, March 27: Marvel Comics First Looks, BOOM! Studios First Looks, Marvel Super Hero Squad, Bongo Comics for June and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. * Thursday, March 26: Famly Guy, IDW Publishing First Looks, Image Comics for June, Image Comics First Looks and Dark Horse Comics First Looks. * Wednesday, March 25: IDW Publishing for June, Dynamite Entertainment for June, Cartoon Network's Firebreather, Smallville and Archie Comics First Looks. * Tuesday, March 24: Marvel Comics for June, Top Cow Productions for June, Dragonball: Evolution, Freedom Formula movie, Heroes and BOOM! Studios First Looks. * Monday, March 23: DC Comics for June, The Phantom TV movie, Marvel Comics First Looks and Watchmen: Tales of the Freighter. * Sunday, March 22: Watchmen box office and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. * Saturday, March 21: Dollhouse, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica, Marvel Comics roundup and BOOM! Studios First Looks. 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__label__cc	0.723437	0.276563	You are here: Home -› Technology -› VPN compucom @ VPN technology yes , we can Securely Connect your different Offices in various locations together using VPN technology , also with the moving executives, users and even with your business Partners. So that wherever you are – you are always connected with your office and your people and your business. You are always inside!!! Contact compucom today for a consultation and quote! 1. What is VPN? 2. What are the key benefits of VPN technology? 3. What are security measures available with VPN? 4. How compucom can help you with VPN technology? A virtual private network (VPN) helps organizations securely and cost-effectively extends connectivity and improves speed. A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. It aims to avoid an expensive system of owned or leased lines that can only be used by one organization. The goal of a VPN is to provide the organization with the same, secure capabilities, but at a much lower cost. It encapsulates data transfers between two or more networked devices not on the same private network so as to keep the transferred data private from other devices on one or more intervening local or wide area networks. There are many different classifications, implementations, and uses for VPNs. Benefits - Securely Connecting Offices, Users and Partners. A VPN (virtual private network) is a private network constructed within a public network infrastructure, such as the global Internet. Businesses can use a VPN to securely connect remote offices and remote users using cost-effective, third-party Internet access, instead of expensive, dedicated WAN links or long-distance remote dial links. 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However, SSL-based VPNs use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and so may be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks because TCP connections do not authenticate. Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is used in Cisco's next-generation VPN product, Cisco AnyConnect VPN, to solve the issues SSL/TLS has with tunneling TCP over TCP. Microsoft's Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) works with their PPTP and in several compatible implementations on other platforms. Microsoft introduced Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. SSTP tunnels Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) or L2TPtraffic through an SSL 3.0 channel. MPVPN (Multi Path Virtual Private Network). Regular Systems Development Company owns the registered trademark "MPVPN". Secure Shell (SSH) VPN -- OpenSSH offers VPN tunneling to secure remote connections to a network or inter-network links. This should not be confused with port forwarding. OpenSSH server provides limited number of concurrent tunnels and the VPN feature itself does not support personal authentication. Tunnel endpoints must authenticate before secure VPN tunnels can establish. User-created remote access VPNs may use passwords, biometrics, two-factor authentication or other cryptographic methods. Network-to-network tunnels often use passwords or digital certificates, as they permanently store the key to allow the tunnel to establish automatically and without intervention. A VPN Extends Security for Remote Users An SSL VPN and an IPsec VPN have become the primary VPN solutions for connecting remote offices, remote users, and business partners, because they: Provide secure communications with access rights tailored to individual users, such as employees, contractors, or partners Enhance productivity by extending corporate network and applications, Reduce communications costs and increases flexibility. The two types of encrypted VPNs are: Site-to-Site IPsec VPN: This alternative to Frame Relay or leased-line WANs allows businesses to extend network resources to branch offices, home offices, and business partner sites. Remote-Access VPN: This extends almost any data, voice, or video application to the remote desktop, emulating the main office desktop. A remote-access VPN may be deployed using SSL VPN, IPsec or both, depending on deployment requirements.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3693
__label__wiki	0.730199	0.730199	corporate-sellout.com Apple Arguing on the Internet Batman Censorship Copyright Law Corporate Greed Corrupt Politicians Creators' Rights DC Doctor Who Fanboys Frank Zappa HowTo Language Linux Marvel Nintendo Nostalgia PC Gaming Reviews Storytelling Stupid Politicians Thadecdotes UI Design Windows Full Archives... Apple Arguing on the Internet Batman Beer Cellular Telephones Censorship Computer Security Copyright Law Corporate Greed Corrupt Politicians Creators' Rights DC Digital Distribution Doctor Who DRM Emulation Fanboys Final Fantasy Frank Zappa Game Mods HowTo IT Jack Kirby Language Linux Local Business Marvel MST3K Nintendo Nostalgia Obama PC Gaming Race Reviews SNES Sonic Storytelling Stupid Journalists Stupid Politicians Thadecdotes UI Design Weather Wedding Windows Xbox The Return of MST3K -- Part 1: Our Story Thus Far Categories: Movies, Stream of Consciousness, TV It's a great time to be a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan -- though there are those who disagree. MST3K is coming back. Shout! Factory bought the rights to the series, and creator Joel Hodgson is running a Kickstarter to fund new episodes. He's passed his goal of $2 million, which will be enough to set up the infrastructure and shoot three episodes; he hopes to raise at least $5.5 million, make a full season of 12 episodes, and convince TV executives that there's enough of a fanbase to pick up the series. Joel has announced that the new host will be Jonah Ray. I'm not familiar with Mr. Ray or his work, but a lot of people on the Internet seem very angry about this. Some people are angry about the selection of Jonah Ray in particular; some are more generally uneasy that it just won't be the same show. And it won't. And that's tricky. Joel has to thread the needle here: the reason he's bringing back the MST3K name, brand, and characters is because there's nostalgia and goodwill attached to them (both on his part and the fans'), but, at the same time, this will by its nature be a different show. I'm looking forward to it (and I haven't pledged yet but I plan to), but it is an unknown quantity. Joel notes, rightly, that every cast member on MST3K got swapped out at one time or another. Nervous fans note, rightly, that it never happened with the entire cast at once, let alone the entire staff. So far, only one person from the old show is involved with the new one, and that's Joel himself -- and he won't be hosting it. So we're not just looking at an entirely new cast, we're also looking at an almost-entirely-new writing team. Will it feel more like the old MST3K than Cinematic Titanic did? More than Rifftrax does? Well, obviously that question is something we won't know until we actually see the show. It's also entirely subjective. Over the next couple of posts, I intend to go into my subjective opinions about those topics and others. Sodium, won't you? Tags: Arguing on the Internet, Digital Distribution, Fanboys, Kickstarter, MST3K © 1994-2018 Thaddeus R R Boyd	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3696
__label__wiki	0.512616	0.512616	Rush Limbaugh and Fox News: Dying Along With Aging White Men Today's post is a two-fer, first an article by Greg Miller at Addictinginfo.org, "Rush Limbaugh: Republicans Are Not Criminals. Democrats Make Them Look That Way," followed by a piece by Jack Mirkinson at Huffingtonpost.com, "Frank Rich: Fox News Is Dying." While both pieces look dissimilar, they follow a trend started by yesterday's piece, "Aging White Radicals: The Real Reason the Republicans Are Completely Stuck," and will continue for several days...but on with the first story by Miller: Rush Limbaugh goes off on Democrats, complaining that they are unfairly targeting Republicans and conservatives for criminal enterprise. Illustration cc 2011 Donkey Hotey via Flickr. "Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his radio broadcast that Republicans and conservatives are the targets of criminal investigations. It’s true. Republicans and conservatives are being arrested, indicted, investigated and in some cases convicted and jailed at an alarming rate in the public spectrum. "As Rush was broadcasting today the word came down that a once rising star, Ryan Loskarn, aide to Lamar Alexander, was found dead due from an apparent suicide. This following an arrest and grand jury indictment for child porn possession and distribution. "Rush didn’t bother to mention that one. But he did bring up Dinesh D’Souza. Who is in hot water over illegal campaign finance fraud. And, Bob McDonnell who was indicted for illegal money being funneled into the Governor’s mansion through inappropriate, unethical gifts that exceed triple the average working class citizen’s annual income. Oh, and Rush Limbaugh tiraded against subpoenas for Gov. Christie’s staff for 'traffic jams.' "Today, I warmly quote Rush Limbaugh. "I couldn’t help but laugh at Rush Limbaugh’s misplaced quote. For a constitutional patriot and voice of the American public you would think he would have a better idea of how the justice system works. These conservative colleagues of Rush Limbaugh aren’t being painted with a scarlet letter with no more than speculation. Nope. These folks got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It just so happens that this time someone other than one of their own is counting the cookies. Rush Limbaugh. "High road or low road? "Rush Limbaugh could point out the hypocrisy of Republicans campaigning for a straight and narrow conservatism while breaking rules and laws. Or, Rush Limbaugh could point out that conservatives often use scripture and coddle to the faith based for support. And those same right wingers are subsequently caught breaking 'God’s' law at the expense of the masses for short term personal gain. He could demand that Republicans walk their talk. And that the real problem with the Republican Party is both the message and the messenger. But he didn’t. "Rush Limbaugh blamed the system rather than the criminal. And was it because the system is broken? Hell no. He whined and complained because he sees this as a witch hunt. Rush Limbaugh didn’t stand up for truth, justice and the American way. Rush Limbaugh pointed the finger of blame at the prosecutors instead of those being prosecuted. And it has nothing to do with justice. It has everything to do with partisan politics. Republicans are great at politics. Rush Limbaugh is a master of rhetoric. But their policies suck and the runaround from Rush is as transparent as the accused’s crimes "Republicans. It’s the message AND the messengers. "Reince Preibus said today, "'I’ve said many times before that the policies and principles of our party are sound. However, as we look to grow the ranks of our party, we must all be very conscious of the tone and choice of words we use to communicate those policies effectively.' "You would think that the talking heads would shut up long enough to hear what each other are actually saying. The message is flawed. The messengers are scum bags. The whole thing is coming apart like the seams of Rush Limbaugh’s pants. Its hysterical. "The way we know nothing has changed within the party is that no one within the conservative movement takes responsibility for a damned thing. This isn’t Christie’s fault. This isn’t D’Souza’s fault. And it sure isn’t McDonnell’s fault. NO! This is Obama’s fault. Eric Holder is the evil right hand of an oppressive dictator. Just listen to the link above. "Forget that whole thing about winning elections or the due process that all accused are sharing. NO WAY! Rush Limbaugh said it, so it must be true. Democrats are ruining America. Regardless of those stupid fact things and evidence that lead to the accused like a trail of electronic bread crumbs. Forget all that. "Just the facts. By Rush Limbaugh. "The fact as Rush Limbaugh sees it is simple. Democrats are trying to make Republicans look like dishonorable criminals. Well, Rush, here’s the thing. You ARE dishonorable criminals. We don’t have to make you look that way. All we have to do is get the hell out of the way and let the people finally see it for themselves. Over and over again as Republicans lose their grasp on positions of power the curtain begins to fall on the once great and powerful Oz. Want to see more of it? I sure do. And you can rest assured that when it happens that Rush Limbaugh will be there to whine about it from his own little broadcasting cubicle. Which takes us to the second article: "Fox News may be the dominant cable news channel by far. Its executives may be the subject of intense scrutiny whose every move is watched carefully and who inspire massive biographies. Its on-air talent may dominate headlines for days on end merely by discussing Santa Claus. "Despite all that, New York magazine columnist Frank Rich posited a provocative theory in the title's latest issue. Fox News, he wrote, is in terminal decline: "'In truth, Fox News has been defeated on the media battlefield—and on the political battlefield as well. Even the 73-year-old wizard of Fox, Roger Ailes, now in full Lear-raging-on-the-heath mode as portrayed in my colleague Gabriel Sherman’s definitive new biography, "The Loudest Voice in the Room," seems to sense the waning of his power. The only people who seem not to know or accept Fox’s decline, besides its own audience, are liberals, including Barack Obama, whose White House mounted a short-lived, pointless freeze-out of Fox News in 2009, and who convinced himself that the network has shaved five points off his approval rating.' "Fox News has certainly seemed attuned to some of its problems. Last year, the network underwent its biggest schedule overhaul in recent memory, with the centerpiece being the the replacement of the more doctrinaire conservative Sean Hannity with Megyn Kelly at 9 PM. Fox News has maintained its huge ratings lead over CNN and MSNBC; in one sense, it faces no mortal threat for the time being. "But Rich opined that the network's ratings mask more existential problems, including a rapidly aging, overwhelmingly white, politically cocooned audience, the rise of the Internet as a dominant form of communication, and what he called Fox News's 'inability to navigate the conflict between the [Republican] party Establishment and the radical base that is dividing the conservative ranks.' That theory becomes more persuasive if you accept the narrative that many, including Sherman and CNN chief Jeff Zucker, posit: that Fox News exists more as a political operation than a news channel. Read the full piece here. The demographics are killing the ratings for Limbaugh and over at Fox News, and the Civil War raging between the establishment GOP and the Tea Party Conservatives is also a problem as we see the Conservative media's "...inability to navigate the conflict between the [Republican] party Establishment and the radical base that is dividing the conservative ranks." We warned the GOP about this before, and the next few articles will be devoted to the future of the Republican Party and Conservatism amidst the craziness of the Tea Partiers, the inmates who have taken over the asylum. "People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise." Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Labels: beat_conservatism, conservative_hate_speech, demagoguery, demagogues, fox_news, gop_civil_war, hate, propaganda, rush_limbaugh	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3700
__label__wiki	0.501716	0.501716	Successful Ditching Off Hilo, Hawaii This is complied from news reports and personal messages to Equipped To Survive™ from the pilot involved. Links to related information on his site are included. Hilo, Hawaii (April 12, 1997): Passengers on an Aloha Airlines flight helped locate two people floating in a raft Thursday after their twin-engine Piper Navajo ditched in the Pacific 30 miles of the coast of Hawaii. Shortly after the plane went down northeast of this Hawaiian island, Aloha Airlines Flight 404 from Honolulu to Hilo joined in the search and pilot Bob Bryant asked passengers to keep their eyes open for the plane. "We circled a couple of times when I saw two persons on a life raft," said passenger Ronie Cabison. Five rows back, passenger Anthony Locricchio noticed the bright florescent green sea dye the pilot used to mark the site of the crash. The Aloha jet remained in the search area 30 miles offshore for a half hour and did not leave until a Coast Guard C-130 Hercules arrived. The two people aboard the downed plane - pilot Kenneth Landau, 28, of Alameda, Calif., and passenger, James I. Branch, 27, of Australia - suffered only minor injuries and refused medical treatment. The two had taken off from Hilo bound for Hayward, Calif., when one engine failed. They immediately turned back, but the plane was laden with extra fuel for the long flight to the mainland and was too heavy to maintain altitude on one engine. Since they were still in contact with Air Traffic Control, emergency search and rescue (SAR) operations were begun immediately, including notification of the Aloha jet approaching Hilo for landing to look for survivors. The pilot successfully ditched the aircraft and both pilot and passenger were able to get out safely. Lucky for the pilots, they had two life rafts on board, because one was holed when the plane rolled over and sank. Because they were close to shore and were immediately located, they had to wait only two hours for rescue. (NOTE: What follows are excerpts from messages received from the pilot, Ken Landau. Ken has just begun a job that includes light aircraft deliveries throughout the Pacific, including Australia. We had been discussing over the past month the purchase and outfitting of a Winslow two person double tube life raft for his use on these flights.) "Thanks for your response to my long Email. I have been out of town for a week. Surprisingly enough, I had to ditch a Piper Navajo in Hawaii a few days ago. Fortunately, it was an easy ditching and an easy rescue. I was using a borrowed EAM liferaft and was in the water for only 2 hours. The good news is that I learned some things about water survival. I suppose that I am also lucky that I did not lose a newly purchased Winslow raft. Some of the insights that I gained: I got seasick twice in 2 hours. I would not have had the energy to erect a canopy. I was quite seasick after all. I got very cold even though I was only 30 miles from Hawaii and it was sunny and 75 degrees. I think that I will equip my raft with some sort of sack that I can crawl into. An inflatable floor would probably also have helped. I am pretty thin and generally tend to get cold quite easily. Sea Dye is very painful to the touch. Some spilled in the raft, and it was stinging both of us pilots. The Coast Guard C-130 dropped us a radio. Their aim was bad, and we had to paddle about 150 feet with our hands (two of us in an EAM-5). A 2-tube raft is worthwhile. We had two identical EAM-5 rafts. The rafts were just single-chamber non-approved EAM rafts. Suitable for our 2-hour stay, but not so reliable nor comfortable. One sprang a leak due to the airplane rolling over and cutting into the raft. So, we both went into the other raft. Ferry flying is more dangerous than I imagined. I was quite lucky to be in close VHF contact with ATC before I ditched. I have been in areas where nobody was within 300 miles of me, and I couldn't reach anyone on 121.5 or any other frequency. This convinces me of the need for communications while in the raft. An ELT and a Comm would satisfy this need. Ken Landau" Ken's lessons learned follow closely the recommendations found here on Equipped To Survive . For additional information related to this subject follow these links: How to ditch your aircraft and survive. The latest techniques and equipment. An exhaustive review and evaluation of aviation life rafts for light aircraft through business jets. A comprehensive review and evaluations of aviation life vests. If you or someone you know has experienced a survival situation, please see how you can share it to benefit others. « Prev. ETS Home Page Search ETS More Features Gear & Equipment Aviation Survival Marine Survival Urban Survival Doug's Kits Disaster Prep Commercial Kits Manufacturers Retail Suppliers Skills & Technique Survival For Kids Schools & Courses Publications Survival Links Survival Forum Interactive Fun Other Links Letters & Stuff About ETS ETS Foundation SELECT AND USE OUTDOORS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND TECHNIQUES AT YOUR OWN RISK. Please review the full WARNING & DISCLAIMER about information on this site. Publisher and Editor: Doug Ritter Email: Doug Ritter URL: http://www.equipped.org/kenditch.htm Revision: 001 April 14, 1996 Email to: info@pulvertech.com © 1997 Douglas S. Ritter - All rights reserved. Check our Copyright Information page for additional information.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3704
__label__cc	0.535687	0.464313	Home Business HOW WILL AUSTRALIAN SMART CITIES DEFEND AGAINST HACKERS? Posted By: RAJOWAN Son: May 5, 2019 1:29 pm In: Business, Common, Expo & Conferences, Featured, Global News, Hacking, Military & Defense, Tech., Web Tech #thenewscompany : Australian metropolises being wired up as ‘smart cities’ face an emerging security threat. While many of these technologically advanced metro areas will benefit from improved surveillance and physical protection, they could also be a lure for hackers. The potential for cyber criminals to do damage grows as more and more urban control systems get connected, says Reuven Harrison, chief technology officer and co-founder of the network security company Tufin. “Hackers that find a way in through vulnerabilities in one system could then move laterally through various infrastructural data centres to gain access to citizens’ sensitive personal information,” he says. The threat isn’t just about personal information, either. In December of 2014, hackers besieged 23 nuclear reactors in South Korea. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power said there was no danger to the power plants, but the cyber criminals were able to make away with non-critical data. And while Australians need not worry about nuclear plants going offline, the episode showed how easy it was for hackers to break into critical infrastructure. That’s a concern for places such as Brisbane, Adelaide, Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Canterbury-Bankstown, which were all shortlisted for Australian Smart Cities Awards last year. It’s also potentially a worry for communities benefiting from initiatives such as the $50 million Smart Cities and Suburbs Program launched by the Australian government in 2016, or private-sector projects spearheaded by tech giants such as Bosch. Much of the investment needed for smart cities goes into installing Internet-of-things (IoT) devices such as sensors and automation systems. And these are already being targeted by criminals. In August 2016, for example, connected devices such as home routers and IP cameras were overrun by an IoT botnet called Mirai. Infected devices were then used as hosts for distributed denial of service attacks. Mirai is still out there, being updated every day. Faced with such pervasive threats, what should Australia’s smart city planners do? Perhaps the most important step is to recognise that the scope for modern-day urban security has increased. Not only will smart cities need to guard against hazards such as hostile vehicle attacks and drone-based airport intrusions, but also potentially cyber criminals from anywhere in the world. Hence security professionals will need to include cyber protection in any civil defence plans. “Clearly, ensuring any connected systems and services are effectively secured at all times must be a priority,” Harrison says. “Every time a new system or device is connected to the network, or something is changed, it can potentially introduce new vulnerabilities elsewhere in the network,” he notes. It is also important to bear in mind that the sheer scale of smart city IT infrastructures might require more extensive forms of cyber protection than those used traditionally today. Just ensuring sensitive data is encrypted effectively, networks are segmented properly, and access is strictly controlled can result in hundreds of changes a day to various firewalls and systems across a smart city network, Harrison points out. Public-sector systems “The potential for human errors and omissions is huge and is becoming ever huger as the complexity of public-sector systems and networks grows,” he says. As a result, he believes, the process of monitoring and approving network access will have to go from human hands as smart cities evolve. This means those in charge of networks will need to automate the design, provisioning, analysis, and auditing of network security changes in applications and networks. Orchestration tools can be set up to understand a smart city’s security and compliance policies and ensure every component of its sprawling networks continually adheres to them. But it’s a process that IT and security experts need to grapple with today, not tomorrow. According to Jason Hart, an award-winning cyber security expert, when it comes to guarding smart cities the security community is already playing catch-up with hackers. “We’re already too late,” he says. “The basics have not been implemented.” There’s a reason why the Security Exhibition & Conference, the leading industry event for security professionals in Australia, is pushing IT defence at its Cyber Zone in 2019. The smart cities of tomorrow won’t just be subject to physical dangers but will also have to face the threat of hackers already targeting the Internet of things. Visit Security in July, the largest trade event for the security industry, to see all the latest access control products and services available. 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__label__wiki	0.737498	0.737498	1868: Michael Barrett, the last public hanging in England 1879: Alexander Soloviev, bad shot 1925: The Sveta Nedelya bombers Three perpetrators of Europe’s most spectacular terrorist attack were hanged on this date in 1925 in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia — after each stood on the gallows for forty minutes while the names of their victims were read to them. Those 40 minutes of victims had unknowingly begun their path to Calvary two years before, when the Bulgarian military overthrew the post-World War I civilian government. Though the Communist party stayed out of this putsch — it was a peasants‘ party that was toppled from power — the reds responded a few months later with their own countercoup: the September Uprising. Septemvri 1923, by Ivan Milev. Perhaps topical to the horrible events yet to come in this post, also check out his 1926 Our Mothers Are Always Dressed In Black. The eventual Cold War Communist government of Bulgaria would officially regard September 1923 as “the first anti-fascist uprising” — an ex post facto interpretation that would be aided by the Bulgarian dicator‘s eventual affinity for the World War II axis, and by the “White Terror” unleashed by the military after it routed the Communist revolt. Harried and hunted, and their underground leadership succumbing to assassinations, the Communists conceived a punchback as devastating as it was contrary to the standard Leninist line on terrorism. On April 14, 1925, a Communist agent assassinated Gen. Konstantin Georgiev. Memorial marker for Konstantin Georgiev. Photograph by Miko (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0]. Shocking as this murder was, it was only the overture — and Gen. Georgiev was only the bait. Two days later — Holy Thursday — a huge crowd turned out for the general’s funeral in Sveta Nedelya Church, perhaps Bulgaria’s most important cathedral. Unbeknownst to them, they shared the sacred vault with 25 kilograms of explosives packed into a column under the church’s dome. When detonated during the service, it brought the dome down on the congregation. “A tremendous explosion occurred and all became dark,” a former War Minister told the London Times correspondent. “Fortunately, I was standing almost below a pair of arches and I escaped without injury, not even losing my balance. A minute later the fumes began to disperse and, with six or seven others, I found myself standing while every one else was lying on the ground. Fragments of masonry were falling from the walls and the roof.” One hundred fifty people died and another 500 were injured when Sveta Nedelya’s roof fell in — though amazingly, none of the many top state officials attending were killed. (And Tsar Boris III was not even in attendance.) Sveta Nedelya after the explosion. Like Samson, the bombers brought the walls down on their own heads, too. Already none too lenient with the subversive element, the dictatorship directly implemented martial law and began rounding up suspected fellow-travelers, “disappearing” hundreds in the process. (One notable victim was poet Geo Milev, who never returned from a May 15 police interview; his remains were discovered 30 years later in a mass grave.) The lucky ones managed to escape to Yugoslavia and thence to the Soviet Union. But three men* implicated in the plot remained to face the more decorous vengeance of the judiciary: Lieutenant-Colonel Georgi Koev, Marko Fridman, and Petar Zadgorski. The last of these was a sexton at Sveta Nedelya whose role as the inside man was essential to infiltrating the deadly package into the sanctuary. * There were actually eight death sentences at this proceeding, but five of them were delivered in absentia … an absentia caused, for three of the five, because they had already been murdered during the post-bombing crackdown. Part of the Themed Set: Terrorism. 1919: Frank Willis, but not by Bill Fisk - 2019 1661: Archibald Campbell - 2018 1791: Thomas Mount of the Flash Company - 2017 2013: Orelesitse Thokamolelo, bad in-law - 2016 1994: Charles Rodman Campbell, hanged in Washington - 2014 1541: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury - 2013 1776: Benjamin Harley and Thomas Henman, Smugglerius? - 2012 1941: Mirjam Sara P., T4 victim - 2011 1797: Gracchus Babeuf, for the Conspiracy of Equals - 2010 1525: Thomas Müntzer, prophet of the Peasants' War - 2009 1610: Francois Ravaillac, because Paris was worth more than a mass - 2008 1859: John Brown’s body starts a-moulderin’ in the grave 1814: Six slaves in Guyana 1922: Joseph O’Sullivan and Reginald Dunne, helping spark the Irish Civil War 1986: Andrew Sibusiso Zondo and two other ANC cadres 1906: Ivan Kalyayev, moralistic assassin 1982: Khalid Islambouli and the assassins of Anwar Sadat 1931: Bhagat Singh Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Bulgaria,Capital Punishment,Cycle of Violence,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Murder,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Terrorists Tags: 1920s, 1925, communism, communists, geo milev, georgi koev, marko fridman, may 27, petar zadgorski, sofia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3723
__label__wiki	0.863457	0.863457	Home News How to Protect Your Child’s Inheritance from a Future Divorce - 338 Total Views How to Protect Your Child’s Inheritance from a Future Divorce Published: June 20th, 2018 \| Written By: Duncan Hughes Follow @familylawxpress Select to highlight: Tags \| People \| Institutions \| Precedents \| More than 50 per cent of wills are being contested in courts, typically by family members fighting over how parents’ estates should be divided between siblings. Disputes over potentially trillions of dollars worth of savings, investments and assets are generating a mini-industry of lawyers offering “no win, no fee” offers to aggrieved family (or friends) of the deceased who think they deserve more. Courts are unwittingly encouraging the litigation boom by ruling in favour of the parties bringing the actions in about three of four cases, according to University of Queensland research. “While nearly 60 per cent of Australians have a will, many still remain vulnerable to having their wills contested,” says Adnan Glinac, Australian Unity’s general manager of life and super. “Ensuring safeguards are in place so that the money goes where it is intended is a big part of estate planning. This means financial structuring to protect the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next.” He recommends reviewing a will every three years and making required amendments with a codicil, a document that makes minor changes. Greater control Grantley and Judy Selth, a retired couple from Mount Eliza, 48 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, are aware of what a poisoned legacy a deficient will can leave and are determined they will have the final say over their estate. The couple, who have three adult children aged between 39 and 45, have added a testamentary trust to their will that provides a greater level of control over the distribution of assets to beneficiaries. It’s estimated about $2.4 trillion worth of assets – equivalent to the gross domestic product of Spain – will be transferred from Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) to their successors. But big estates are creating even bigger headaches for brawling beneficiaries, which courts often have to resolve. For example, successful television producer Reg Grundy died in 2016, aged 92, leaving his second wife Joy beneficiary of his $715 million estate, including a luxury mansion in Bermuda. Her husband’s only child from his first marriage, Viola La Valette, is contesting the will in a court case scheduled for later this year. The estate of famous racing car driver Peter Brock took several costly Supreme Court appearances, teams of lawyers and nearly a decade to settle between his second wife and children from the previous marriage. Modest assets Lawyers are even fighting it out over modest estates when families believe parents failed to adequately consider a loved one’s needs. Julie Ward, chief judge in equity for the NSW Supreme Court, recently ruled on a case involving a son contesting an estate that included just $8000 cash and a 99-year leasehold in a retirement village bequeathed to his second wife. “It cannot seriously be suggested that community expectation would be that the deceased should put his long-standing wife in a position where she is required to vacate her villa in the retirement village,” Judge Ward said. Legal fees can rip shark-bite size chunks from an estate that different sides are attempting to maximise for their own benefit. For example, a barrister will cost between $5000 and $10,000 a day in court. Instructing solicitors will add to the legal bills arranging the action, briefing counsel and preparing pleadings, briefs and mediations. Some solicitors will charge $9 for merely reading clients’ email – a reply costs extra. A typical dispute costs individuals and the estate about $26,000 and takes nine months to resolve, according to University of Queensland research. “Contested estates end up a free-for-all,” says Glinac. “Your wishes and what’s outlined in your estate often is not met,” he says. “It happens a lot.” Blended families are adding to the toxic mix of bitter disputes as children of one, or both, partners dispute a will. “Often traditional will structures lack the flexibility to meet the changing needs,” Glinac says More equitable The Selths believe their testamentary trust strategy will make it more transparent and equitable for all beneficiaries. Grantley, a former dentist who retired about eight years ago, says: “We had a will but it didn’t embrace everything we wanted. We knew where we wanted the money to go but we wanted to be sure the beneficiaries were our kids but that they were protected in the case of divorce.” Their testamentary trust, which was written with the assistance of a lawyer, holds their financial assets until the children reach 50. “We told them all. We felt they should know if anything happened to us where the will was kept, what was in it and that there was no disagreement,” says Grantley. Testamentary trusts have tax advantages because income distributed to minors is taxed at full adult marginal rates, according to chartered accountant William Buck. Each beneficiary is eligible for the $18,200 tax-free threshold and the relief afforded by the lower tax scales. The income distributed is known as “excepted trust income”. Beneficiaries under 18 who receive income from other types of trusts only receive $416 tax-free before penalty tax rates apply. Judy says a key consideration was devising a strategy that lowers the risk of disagreements between siblings. “I don’t think there is any way they could dispute the proportions they’re getting,” she says. “It’s set up evenly, and they know that. There is no point not telling them and them fighting over the assets. Until they’re 50 they’ll just be able to draw income from the trust.” The assets include property, which will have to be sold and split three ways, and shares held in a self-managed superannuation fund. Testamentary trusts can be tailored to meet the executor’s requirements. For example, under a discretionary trust the beneficiary has the power to remove and appoint the trustee, including appoint themselves to manage their inheritance inside the trust. 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__label__wiki	0.674028	0.674028	Home - Makes - Jaguar - 2013 Jaguar F-Type 2013 Jaguar F-Type Pictures, Specifications, Information Vehicle Type: 2 door sports car convertible Engine: V8 supercharged Displacement: 5.0L Transmission: eight-speed 'Quickshift' transmission 0-60 mph: 4.2 seconds Jaguar's sporting heritage is one of the most illustrious and most enviable of all automakers, and the Coventry-based company has built some of the most iconic sports cars of all time. But it's not since the 1970s that we've seen a genuine sports car come from Jaguar, and they've been banking on that sporting heritage for far too long. The XK8 of the 1990s and the modern XK have looked the part, and certain high-performance versions of them have gone like stink, but for quite some time now the world has deserved a genuine sporting Jaguar (the super-expensive XJ220 not included). For 2014, the prayers of enthusiasts everywhere have been answered. The F-Type is here. Right at first glance, the new car is painfully pretty, just as you'd expect from a Jag. But even though it does have a classic shape and profile, it's not a shameless retro copy of an old E-Type. This car has its own character. On the inside, it has the modern but restrained layout that is characterizing Jaguar interiors these days. For example, there are large, simple analog gauges instead of digital readouts but at the same time there is no classic wood trim to be found anywhere. Nobody should be surprised at the F-Type's fantastic looks. The question is whether or not this long-awaited car has go to match its show. The F-Type comes in V6, V6 S and V8 S packages. The standard car has a 3.0 supercharged liter V-6 that makes 340 horsepower and 332 lb/ft of torque. This will get it to sixty in a little over five seconds and bring it to a top speed of around 160 miles per hour. Not bad for the base model. One step up from the $69,000 V6 is the $81,000 V6S, which has bigger brakes, bigger wheels, and a limited slip. Horsepower is 380 and torque is 339 lb/ft., which is enough to give it another ten miles per hour over the standard car. At the very top of the range is the V8 S, with its 5.0 liter supercharged motor that makes 495 horsepower and 460 lb/ft of torque. Zero to sixty and top speed are reportedly 4.2 seconds and 185 miles per hour, respectively. The F-Type is a relatively heavy car at 3,500 to 3,600 pounds, but the extra power and the stunning looks make it a prime competitor for cars like the Porsche Boxster, and people eager enough to see a sporty Jag will find it a tempting alternative. The only problem is the question of whether or not it's sporty enough. An unfortunate but not exactly surprising reality is the fact that it only comes with an eight-speed automatic (with paddle shifters) and the interior seems a lot more refined than is necessary for a genuine sports car. Perhaps a more raw "R" variant will come along in the future, but for now these three choices will have to do. Image Credits: Jaguar Jaguar F-Type 20" OEM Wheels - Clears Carbon Ceramic Brakes! Wind Deflector for Jaguar F-Type with emblem logo and LED lighting feature Jaguar F-type Other 20 inch OEM Wheel 2014-2018 Genuine Jaguar F-Type AWD Carbon Fiber Fibre Bonnet Louvres Vents. Pair Neu! NEW JAGUAR F TYPE HID XENON HEADLIGHT LEFT T2R18051 OEM 14 15 16 2014 2015 2016 2017 Right Passenger Seat Adjustment Door Lock Switch T2R27177 Jaguar F-Type 2014-19 Front Left Driver Door Window Mirror Switch C2P21422 Jaguar F-Type 2014-15 XK New Genuine JAGUAR F-TYPE STEERING WHEEL airbag. T2R18498PVJ 2016-2017 Jaguar F-Type Navigation Radio Control OEM Steering Wheel Clockspring Signal Wiper Switch Lever C2Z5018 Jaguar F-Type 2015 2016-2017 Jaguar F-Type AUX USB Port OEM Right Rocker Panel Side Skirt Trim Molding T2R10391 Jaguar F-Type Coupe 2014-19	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3727
__label__wiki	0.860182	0.860182	The Pulp Podcast Rory Taillon Brings ‘Only Whispers’ to Fredericton Category: music May 23, 2018 221 Ottawa’s Rory Taillon will be playing a handful of performances this week as part of the Living Roots Music Festival’s 2018 lineup. Ottawa’s Rory Taillon returns to Fredericton this week for performances under the Living Roots Music Festival banner. A past performer of the festival, Taillon is back again this year in support of his latest album, Only Whispers, his third full-length album and possibly his darkest to date. “It was my first album in a few years and it’s a collection of songs that I thought would work best with how I wanted to put the album together and record it,” said Taillon. “It’s a very dark album, which is not uncommon for me, but I wanted to put it all out there in a way that suited this particular collection of songs best.” Following the opening track Smile, with its dark and menacing mix of heavy guitar and vocals that offer Taillon a chance to showcase his powerful depth and range as a singer, the album continues on through a range of stripped-down instrumentation guided more often than not by a considerably softer dynamic. “This album is different for me because it’s the first ‘solo’ album,” said Taillon. “My other releases where a combination of band and solo tracks, but this one is strictly solo with some guest musicians adding character to some tracks.” With the exception of just two tracks, the bulk of Only Whispers was recorded by live-off-the-floor in the back room of a church. “I wanted the album to be able to capture what my live show is like, but because of my volume and dynamics it has always been a challenge,” said Taillon. “To record, I set up the way I would at a show and performed. I then plugged in a few extra parts afterward over the foundation of guitar, vocals and drum.” Taillon has three performances at this year’s festival with shows at Grimross Brewing Co., Wilser’s Room and the Barnhouse Pub Family Restaurant in Keswick. Performing on bills with TWIN, Irish Mythen, Colin Fowlie and others, Taillon’s mix of folk and alt-rock influences are a perfect fit for the festival’s diverse lineup. “I don’t think most folk listeners would consider me folk, even though I’m just one guy and an acoustic guitar,” said Taillon. “I can be a little more intense and aggressive than what most would consider folk, but it’s not rock either. When deciding on what genre we could tell people the album is, we decided to go with alternative-folk.” Upcoming Performances: May 24 \| Barnhouse Pub Family Restaurant \| Keswick, NB May 25 \| Grimross Brewing Co \| Fredericton, NB May 26 \| Wilser’s Room \| Fredericton, NB May 27 \| Railcar Brewing Co. \| Perth-Andover, NB Photo by Natalie Austin Tags: featured, Living Roots Music Festival, Rory Taillon stage 45 January 2, 2020 45 January 2, 2020 Theatre Workshop: Auditions and Submissions stage 188 December 31, 2019 188 December 31, 2019 Best Theatre of 2019 stage 129 December 3, 2019 129 December 3, 2019 TNB’s Holiday Tour Begins at the Fredericton Playhouse – Dec. 12 Support Grid City Magazine January 29 – February 2 Subscribe to the Web Series Serialized Novel starting September 8 © Copyright 2020 Grid City Magazine. Proudly designed by Theme Junkie.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3742
__label__wiki	0.542504	0.542504	VIDEO: Metallica perform North American tour finale in Edmonton hennemusic streamed Metallica’s North American tour finale from Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, AB on August 16, and official video of the full show is available. Over more than two hours in length, the 18-song set mixed classic tracks with tunes from the group’s 2016 release, “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.” “What a summer!!,” says the band. “Thank you to some of the craziest, most passionate, intense avid fans on the planet!! This has been another memorable and special summer run for us seeing so many new faces along with lots of old friends as you welcomed us back for our first tour of North America in over eight years.” Metallica launched the summer shows in support of “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD on May 10 after hennemusic streamed their final rehearsal for the trek from the same venue on May 9. The veteran metal band’s tenth album recently achieved platinum status in the US for sales of 1 million copies. Metallica will now enjoy a two-week break before launching a European arena tour at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 2. hennemusic LIVE: Watch Metallica perform North American tour finale in Edmonton PRO VIDEO: Metallica perform Enter Sandman in San Diego PRO VIDEO: Metallica perform Halo On Fire in Phoenix VIDEO: Metallica preview Carpool Karaoke appearance Search Metallica at hennemusic Labels: Metallica	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3743
__label__cc	0.668688	0.331312	A Park Day in November?! Post sponsored by Wubble Ball. I received product and/or monetary compensation, but all opinions are my own Hi! It's Jilly. Today it was unseasonably warm, so we took full advantage and headed to the park! We made sure to bring our Wubble Ball to play with. The kids have such a great time with it. They like to throw it up in the air, kick it, and hit it with the top of their heads! It's cool because it comes with its own pump, and if it happens to break or get a leak it comes with a lifetime replacement warranty. All you have to pay is the $6.99 for shipping. After playing with the Wubble Ball we played on the playground for a while, then went exploring in the woods next to the river. Kids need the opportunity to play and explore nature. I think they learn so much just climbing, hiking, digging, etc. We had a fun afternoon. It was so nice to get outside. I'm happy all the Fall colors are still out. I love Fall! What's your favorite season? Do you have a Wubble Ball? How's the weather in your neck of the woods? Follow me on Facebook or Twitter so you don't miss the next post! More cool things about Wubble Ball: Target selected the Wubble™ Bubble Ball as a 2014 Top Toy for the Holiday Season. It was listed among other popular toys and games that are sure to be on every holiday wish list. Wubble Bubble Ball is a Family Fun Toy Of The Year Award Winner. The 25 winners are featured in the November 2014 issue of Family Fun Magazine. Inspired by his children's wish for a real bubble to play with, NSI President Frank Landi developed the Wubble™ Bubble Ball to keep children's love for fun, active play alive. Wubble has won numerous toy awards, including an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award, a National Parenting Center Seal of Approval, a Mr. Dad Approved Award, a Parent's Choice Award and the Dr. Toy Best 100 Picks Award and more! Wubble Ball is available at Target, Toys R Us and online atwww.wubbleball.com. Wubble Ball is on Twitter (@WubbleBall) and Facebook (facebook.com/wubbleball).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3744
__label__cc	0.653732	0.346268	"How can I gain skills if I don't practice?": the dynamics of prohibitive silence against pre-marital pregnancy and sex in Zimbabwe SOURCE: PLoS One TITLE AUTHOR(S): J.Chikovore, L.Nystrom, G.Lindmark, B.M.Ahlberg KEYWORDS: FATHERHOOD, HIV/AIDS, PREGNANCY, RISK BEHAVIOUR, SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR, YOUTH, ZIMBABWE DEPARTMENT: Social Aspects of Public Health (SAPH) Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 7570 Young people face sexual and reproductive health (SRH) problems including Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is critical to continue documenting their situation including the contexts they live in. As part of a larger study that explored perspectives of men to SRH and more specifically abortion and contraceptive use, 546 pupils (51% female; age range 9-25 years) from a rural area in Zimbabwe were invited to write anonymously questions about growing up or other questions they could not ask adults for fear or shame. The pupils were included following descriptions by adults of the violence that is unleashed on unmarried young people who engaged in sex, used contraceptives, or simply suggested doing so. The questions by the young people pointed to living in a context of prohibitive silence; their sexuality was silenced and denied. As a consequence they had poor knowledge and their fears and internal conflicts around sexuality and pregnancy were not addressed. Current action suggests concerted effort at the policy level to deal with young people's SRH in Zimbabwe. It nevertheless remains necessary, as a way to provide support to these efforts, to continue examining what lessons can be drawn from the past, and how the past continues to reflect in and shape present dynamics and relations. There is also need to look more critically at life skill education, which has previously been described as having failed to address adequately the practical needs of young people. Life skill education in Zimbabwe has rarely been systematically evaluated. A fuller understanding is also needed of the different factors co-existing in contemporary African societies and how they have been and continue to be constituted within history, and the implications to the promotion of adolescent SRH. The use of dual or two methods for pregnancy and HIV prevention amongst 18-24-year-olds in a cross-sectional study conducted in South Africa Adolescent pregnancy and associated factors in South African youth Rapid appraisal of substance abuse and HIV awareness messages in poster communication to disadvantaged youth in South Africa Youth voices about sex and AIDS: implications for life skills education through the 'Learning Together' project in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Building protective factors to offset sexually risky behaviors among black youths: a randomized control trial Age-disparate and intergenerational sex in southern Africa: the dynamics of hypervulnerability South African national HIV prevalence, incidence, behaviour and communication survey, 2008: a turning tide among teenagers? Behaviour changes in sexual behavioural practices among South African youth 'Die mense sal dit nog aanvaar': perceptions of teenage pregnancy in South Africa Innovative mobilization strategies for attracting at risk youth and young adults to participate in community-based voluntary counselling and testing in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa (Project Accept - HPTN 043) HIV and youth: a behavioural perspective Young South Africans' views on, and perceptions of, abstinence and faithfulness Risk group or group at risk South Africa youths' higher-risk sexual behaviour: an eco-developmental analysis Abstinence among SA youth: is there buy-in? Determinants of age at sexual debut and associated risks among South African youths Sexual risk, serostatus and intimate partner violence among couples during pregnancy in rural South Africa A community-based study to examine the effect of a youth HIV prevention programme in South Africa HIV knowledge and sexual risk behavior among pregnant couples in South Africa: the PartnerPlus project	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3750
__label__wiki	0.661762	0.661762	home > review > archive > R: Racing Evolution home news reviews previews articles about gift shop buy games search \|\| Get Prices R: Racing Evolution game: R: Racing Evolution posted by: GF! Back Catalogue 10/2004 => 1995 date posted: 12:00 AM Wed Jan 21st, 2004 last revision: 12:00 AM Wed Jan 21st, 2004 By Eric Qualls After a year of hype and anticipation, R: Racing Evolution is finally out. Well, maybe it didn't get all that much hype, but I, at least, was really looking forward to it. After spending some time with it, however, all I can really say is that I hope Namco gets cracking on Ridge Racer 6 pretty soon because their attempt at simulation style racing with R: Racing Evolution is a pretty big disappointment. The handling of the cars is funky, there is no sense of speed at all, and it is just too darn easy to win. Some things that Namco tried to implement to spice up the genre are pretty cool, but the bottom line is that there are simply better racing games available and R: Racing Evolution isn't worth your time. The gameplay in RRE is sluggish and rather boring. This is a sim style racer, but even the king of all sim-racing games, Gran Turismo, let you powerslide a bit. In RRE your car is stuck down to the road and the only way to get around corners is to drive like a robot. Having to slow down and drive perfectly through the apex of each corner slows the already slow game down to a crawl. There is absolutely no sense of speed in the game, and even though your speedometer may say 40 or 50 mph as you turn though a corner it really feels like you are just inching along. Your opponents in each race fail to offer any kind of challenge whatsoever, so even though it feels like you are crawling around the track like a slug you are always able to pass by the other cars and race into the lead. This game is way too easy, and that really is the biggest problem with RRE. There are a few cool twists that Namco put into the game that make the races a little bit more interesting. The first of which is the pressure meter. As you follow rival cars around the track, a little bar appears onscreen and gradually fills. When it fills up, that racer is more likely to make a mistake and you'll be able to pass them as they scrape the wall or spin out on the next corner. Another interesting idea is that you can make adjustments to your car during a race. With the directional pad, you can adjust steering and braking sensitivity along with spoiler angle and power distribution. It doesn't really make much of a difference, but it is fun to be able to recognize a problem, make an adjustment, and get through the next corner a little bit more smoothly than you would have otherwise. Whether you take advantage of the pressure meter or real time setting or not doesn't have much of an impact, sadly, because like I said above the game is already too damn easy for its own good. There are three different types of races in RRE, but none of them are very well done. There are circuit style races where you just make your way around a track. Rally races let you take to the dirt for some point-to-point races, but the stiff control and lack of a decent powerslide suck the fun out of the races. The game also has drag races, but they have been simplified far too much and literally all you have to do is hold down the accelerator and press the button for a nitrous boost when an onscreen indicator tells you and you win easily. There are other games that do all of these race types a lot better than RRE and it is in those games that you should invest your time and money because R: Racing Evolution can't deliver. There are several modes and a ton of races to beat if you can stomach the so-so racing, though, so if you can get into the RRE style of driving there is a lot to do in this game. There are arcade, time attack, and versus modes, but they are nothing compared to the two main modes. In the Racing Life mode, you take on the role of a young Japanese woman named Rena as she climbs through the ranks of the racing circuit and becomes a star. The game is broken up into chapters and there are high quality cutscenes in between each chapter that tell about Rena's friends, rivals, and everything else. You are following a story so you don't get much choice as to what cars you'll be driving or what tracks you'll be racing on and pretty much the only way to advance the story is to win. If storyline driven racing isn't your cup of tea, you can tackle the Event Challenge mode. In this mode, you can buy new cars and perform upgrades to them so you can compete in a number of different challenges. Despite what the ads for R: Racing Evolution would have you believe, the Event Challenge is the real meat of the game rather than the Racing Life mode. There is more to do and you have far more control over everything and it is simply more interesting than slogging through a story that isn't very well put together anyway. Unlike Namco's Ridge Racer series, RRE features licensed cars and more than ten real world tracks. Races take place on the street circuits of Monaco and Yokohama as well as the Phillip Island and Suzuka racetracks among other exotic locales. There are over thirty cars to unlock from manufacturers such as Dodge, Honda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and many others. The car and track selection isn't as large as other recent racing games, but the tracks that are here are all well put together. Even though your favorite car might not be in here, it is easy to find something you'll like. Graphically, R: Racing Evolution looks good but it could have been better. The cinema sequences are absolutely gorgeous, but the in-game graphics are a bit hit or miss. The tracks are detailed and look very good. The cars also have a lot of detail, but they don't really look like they are actually connected to the road and it looks more like they are floating. Also, there are a lot of places where you can see seams between polygons and it makes the game look really poor when you can see big ugly white lines all over the place. When the game is standing still, it looks awesome, but when it is moving a lot of little glitches pop up and that is never a good thing to look at. It still looks good overall, but it isn't anything spectacular. The sound also fails to impress. There is a lot of spoken dialogue in the Racing Life mode, and most of it is pretty good. Comments from other drivers tend to repeat far too often, but the voice work sounds good overall. Something funny that I noticed is that your pit crew reacts the same way whether you are following a male or female driver. The reason why this is funny is that the focus of the storyline in the game is the rivalry between your female character and another female driver, so it would have made sense to have different phrases for men and women considering that the two main characters in the game are women. Oh well. The music in the game isn't quite up to par with what Namco has produced for past racing games, but it sounds good and really gets you in the mood for the races. The engine noises are absolutely horrible and sound so bad that it is actually distracting. Every car sounds like a gas powered weed whacker. Overall, R: Racing Evolution is a disappointment. There are plenty of modes and races to compete in, but the racing itself is too stiff and boring. RRE tries to straddle the line between arcade and simulation and completely fails to offer either the speed of arcade racers or the depth of simulations. There are better racing games available that are more deserving of your time and money than RRE. Give R: Racing Evolution a rent if you must, but I can't recommend it for a purchase. First Impressions: Too Human The Simpsons Game: Best. Simpsons Game. Ever. Get a Little Gore from Your PSP with God of War: Chains of Olympus Lost: Via Domus Review BioShock DLC and Plasmid Details Xbox Games Grew 77% Over System Life-Cycle, Suggests 360 DVDs Are (Mostly) Big Enough for Next-Generation (feature) Should You Buy An Xbox 360 Hard Drive? 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__label__cc	0.537938	0.462062	Ganeys Tenwek PAACS Spiritual Ministry Complete language school....check! They say it takes a million mistakes to learn a language. If that's true then we're about halfway there! We just finished language school this week and moved back to Tenwek. It's nice to finally be able to settle in our new home, but we will miss the friends we made after three months at Brakenhurst. Julius was one of the guards on the compound. He would draw pictures of animals and leave them on the porch for Eden. He also tried to teach Caleb how to jump like a maasai warrior. Caleb would try, with much enthusiasm, however his feet would't leave the ground and then he'd fall on his bum. Rose would help with laundry and cooking while we all had school. She really loved Caleb. He would always try to 'help' her in the house, usually making a bigger mess. Our last day of class with the language school staff and a couple of the students there. Mike and I are now trying to figure out a way to talk the school into moving next to Tenwek. We will miss them. While we are so excited for the next phase of life in Kenya, we are sorry that it takes us away from the friends we've already made. IT'S HERE!!!!!!!! Container Coming Monday! Mike flew to Mombassa last week and by God's grace was able to clear the shipping container thru customs. A heavy storage fee was charged due to a mistake by the US shipping company. But no additional taxes or fees were charged! A HUGE relief to have that hurdle completed. A big answer to people's prayers came not only in the news above...but also in helping us avoid "extra fees". One person tried very hard to convince us he needed a "little something extra" to allow us thru the process. Amazingly he once had to bring his own son to Tenwek for help - and the boy recovered. Somehow that "extra" fee disappeared and we were granted clearance. So grateful for God's provision and your support! The container is due to reach our home at Tenwek Monday. We pray it will arrive safely and on time. It will take a large group of people and a few tractors to transport the items to our door down the hill (far too steep and small of a road for a tractor trailer) and to the other two families who shared the container with us. Excited for our move to be finally complete!!! Will You Pray with Us? The container we shipped to Kenya back in October is 'stuck' at the coast. It was supposed to be transported to Nairobi where we could clear it through customs. However, things are not quite going according to plan. Mike and another missionary are flying to Mombasa tomorrow to see if they can get it cleared quickly and efficiently. Each day that it is sitting at the dock we are being charged a fee. We know there are bigger things going on in the world right now, but will you pray with us that this doesn't turn into a long, slow and painful thing. Please pray that we have favor with the customs agents, and can bring the container to Tenwek without exorbitant fees. Thank you in advance for your prayers. Mike (pediatric surgeon) and Julie (nurse/mother to two) living in Kenya, East Africa Serving with World Gospel Mission PO Box 948 Marion, IN 46952 MedSend	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3752
__label__cc	0.696603	0.303397	Peter Chai Memorial Websites / All Memorials / Chai, Peter In Remembrance of Peter Chai We would invite you to share your remembrances, stories of Peter and condolences and saddess. Peter was born on November 8, 1967 in New York. He was a brilliant thinker and mentor to many, a loving father, husband, brother and friend. He leaves behind his wife, Annette, and daughters, Nona and Emma, and sisters, Sungji and Charlene. We will all miss his bright light. Peter passed away quietly at his home in Japan on June 12th, 2009. I know things just happen in life sometimes and it's so hard to accept that, especially in times like these. Some of you know that I just saw Peter for a few days last week when he came to visit me for my birthday. I have never felt happier for him or prouder of the amazing person that he was and the choices he was making. He left me filled with so much hope for the future. I see this not as an ending of the hope, but a beginning of the sharing of open hearts that Peter brings together. Thank you for sharing with us in remembering my brother. DAY OF SERVICE DETAILS: Location: 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church Chapel (http://www.fapc.org) Address: 7 West 55th Street, NY, NY 10019 Celebration of Life Reception Location: Hurley's Saloon Main Bar (48th Street btwn Broadway and 8th Avenue) Address: 232 West 48th Street, NY, NY 10036 Paul Rolles (Friend) "10 years. my dear dear friend. raised a glass or three with Will just now and laughed about how you would have viewed the last 10 years. Still feels funny you arent on the end of the phone. Couldn’t get to Hurleys but promise to get there soon. " Will Shu "Peter - still thinking about you man. Caught up with Rolles recently, well we are neighbours and talking about old times. Miss you" "Miss you a lot Peter...so many fun times, so many good memories...that trip to Japan was one of the best times I've ever had. Hope you're well dude." "What with sharing good times with friends at Christmas I'm thinking about you. Hope you are having fun where ever you are. Miss you a lot. - Paul" Marc Baloch (work ) "I just wanted to touch base again and look out for how Peter is doing when I saw this memorial site. I am very sorry for the loss of Peter and wish that his energy and positiveness will always be remembered. " Robert Palache (Friend and co-worker) "I only heard about Peter's death recently. I last saw him in a bar in tokyo in February 2008. He wanted to go on to the next watering hole; but rolles, oehm and I didn't have the stamina. The man was irrepressible. I shall say kaddish for you. " (former co-worker) "I was saddened to hear of Peter's passing, and offer my deepest condolences to his friends and family. His energy, intellect and enthusiasm will be missed. May he know only peace and joy." (college friend) "We were piano buddies in college. He would listen attentively to my not so perfect Pathetique and complement it so ever kindly. Peter's specialty was Debussy's Clair de Lune. He played it so wonderfully that I fell in love with Debussy ever since. I loved it so much that I ended up taking piano lessons 15 years after my cornell days just so that i can play Debussy as well. Peter was always kind, always available, and always gentle." Michael Kumar (colleague) "My sincere condolences to Peter's family for their loss. I had the pleasure of knowing and working with Peter at Lehman and at Morgan Stanley. The simplest way to describe Peter is to say that he was a "great guy", he was talented and hard working professional who always cared about his colleagues, friends and familly, he will be missed." Justin Hogan "Peter and I have been friends since 1993. I met Peter playing tennis when he was an Analyst at Morgan Stanley and later ended up working with Peter. Peter was an amazing guy – a great friend, father, husband, and just an all round terrific person. I’m so sad to just be hearing about this terrible news. My best wishes go out to Annette, the daughters, and the entire family. I’ll always remember the fun weekend summer afternoons playing tennis with Peter in Westchester. Peter – we all miss you terribly. Guest Book (68 entries) 10 years. my dear dear friend. raised a glass or three with Will just now and laughed about how you would have viewed the last 10 years. Still feels funny you arent on the end of the phone. Couldn’t get to Hurleys but promise to get there soon. Paul Rolles (Friend) Peter - still thinking about you man. Caught up with Rolles recently, well we are neighbours and talking about old times. Miss you Miss you a lot Peter...so many fun times, so many good memories...that trip to Japan was one of the best times I've ever had. Hope you're well dude. Will Shu (friend) What with sharing good times with friends at Christmas I'm thinking about you. Hope you are having fun where ever you are. Miss you a lot. - Paul I just wanted to touch base again and look out for how Peter is doing when I saw this memorial site. I am very sorry for the loss of Peter and wish that his energy and positiveness will always be remembered. Marc Baloch (work ) By: Tom Chilton Visits: 14276 "It has been a while since I viewed this website. I looked over the pictures and reflected on how much happiness Peter brought to everyone. Peter, miss and love you always." Michael Yaffe "Dear Annette, Nona and Emma. We were shocked and very sorry to hear about Peter's passing. No doubt he is greatly missed. We wish you strength, support and love. Liliane, Danny and May Oks Croton on Hudson." Liliane Oks "My wishes for Annette, Nona, Emma, Charlene & Sungji - may you find peace with Peter's passing and always find a smile in the memories. I send my heartfelt love to all of you." Dev Manseta "I love my brother and miss him terribly. He was one of the most loyal, hardworking, kind, charismatic and fun-loving persons I have ever known. His light lives on in his family and friends. Annette, Nona, and Emma are in my thoughts and prayers." sungji chai http://www.ilasting.com/peter.php	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3757
__label__cc	0.560665	0.439335	Name: Julie Cross Audience: Young Adult; Born: 1980 in Heidelberg, Germany -- Blog -- http://juliecross.blogspot.com/ -- Twitter -- http://twitter.com/Juliecross1980 -- Julie Cross on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=julie++cross E-Mail: -- Juliecross1@live.com Cross lives in Champaign, Illinois. Julie Cross was a YMCA Gymnastics Program Director, which means she worked with lots of teenagers, who help to inspire the characters she created, last year she retired to write full time. ''Tempest'' is her first novel for young adults. 'Tempest ' Starred Review, Kirkus 2016 ILLINOIS READS Book 'Letters to Nowhere ' RITA Finalist, 2014 Speaking Engagement Availability (Yes) For Interview Requests email [mailto:Rachel.Ekstrom@stmartins.com Rachel.Ekstrom (at) stmartins (dot) com] Chasing truth / "When former con artist Eleanor Ames's homecoming date commits suicide, she's positive there's something more going on . The more questions she asks, though, the more she crosses paths with Miles Beckett. He's sexy, mysterious, arrogant ... and he's asking all the same questions. Eleanor might not trust him-- she doesn't even like him-- but they can't keep their hands off of each other. Fighting the infuriating attraction is almost as hard as ignoring the fact that Miles isn't telling her the truth ... and that there's a good chance he could be the killer"--Page 4 of cover. Halfway perfect Eve's time as a fashion model nearly destroyed her and now she is determined to build a career behind the camera after landing a photography internship in New York City, bringing her face to face with her dark past, her ex, and an up-and-coming male model named Alex who is falling for her. Letters to nowhere Createspace,. . Seventeen year old Karen Campbell has just lost both her parents in a tragic car accident. Grief stricken and alone, her gymnastics coach opens his home to Karen, providing her a place to live while she continues to train, working toward a spot on the world championship team. Coach Bentley's only child, seventeen year old Jordan is good-looking and charming enough to scare away a girl like Karen--someone who has spent ten times more hours on balance beams and uneven bars than talking or even thinking about boys. But the two teens share a special connection almost immediately. It turns out Jordan has a tragic past of his own, grief buried for years. As Karen's gymnastics career soars, her nightmares and visions of the horrible accident grow in strength. She can only avoid facing her grief for so long before it begins to surface and ultimately spin out of control in a very dangerous way. Can discovering love and lust (simultaneously) help with the grieving process or will it only provide a temporary distraction while waiting for reality to hit full force? Off the ice / "Claire O'Connor is back in Juniper Falls, but that doesn't mean she wants to be. One semester off, that's what she promised herself. Just long enough to take care of her father and keep the family business-a hockey bar beside the ice rink-afloat. After that, she's getting the hell out. Again. Enter Tate Tanley. What happened between them the night before she left town resurfaces the second they lay eyes on each other. But the guy she remembers has been replaced by a total hottie. When Tate is unexpectedly called in to take over for the hockey team's star goalie, suddenly he's in the spotlight and on his way to becoming just another egotistical varsity hockey player. And Claire's sworn off Juniper Falls hockey players for good. It's the absolute worst time to fall in love. For Tate and Claire, hockey isn't just a game. And they both might not survive a body check to the heart. "-- Page [4] of cover. Tempest / St. Martin's Griffin,. . After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over again, learns that his father is a spy, and discovers powerful enemies of time who will stop at nothing to recruit him for their own purposes. Tempest : Findaway World, LLC,. . Timestorm : As Jackson recovers from his brush with death, surrounded by his father, Courtney, Holly, and a few of the original time travelers, it becomes clear that they need to stop Thomas' and Dr. Ludwig's experiments at Eyewall Headquarters, triggering a war Jackson was born to fight. Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, after an accidental run in with Holly, the girl he altered history to save, Jackson is once again reminded of what he's lost. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents find themselves under attack--Page 4 of cover. Whatever life throws at you Entangled Teen,. . Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas is too young to remember her dad's glory days as a pitcher for the Yankees. So when her father is offered a coaching position with the Kansas City Royals, Annie is intrigued to see the baseball side of her dad. Of course, knowing he'll be a mentor to hot young rookie pitcher, Jason Brody, certainly makes it more enticing. After an awkward first meeting with Brody involving very little clothing and a much-too-personal locker room interview, Annie's convinced she knows Brody's type: arrogant, self-involved, bossy. As her dad grows closer to the pitching phenom, the friction between Brody and Annie increases. But when opening day arrives and it looks like both her dad and Brody may lose their dream jobs, Annie steps up and offers support. She and Brody call a truce that grows into friendship--and beyond. Falling for a rising star who's quickly reaching a level that involves rabid female fans is not what Annie would call smart, except suddenly she's getting hints that maybe this crush isn't one-sided after all. Could someone like Brody actually fall for a girl like her?--Publisher website. You before anyone else New York City model Finley is fed up with hearing the same feedback at castings: she needs to take some serious action to wipe the good girl stamp from her resume if she wants to launch to stardom. Enter Eddie Wells. He's shallow, predictable ... and just as lost as Finley feels. Deep down, Finley is drawn to Eddie's bravado, his intensity. Except Eddie is hiding something. A big something. And when it surfaces, both loving and leaving Finley will become so much harder--	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3758
__label__cc	0.699973	0.300027	Smartpage Wepage Wepage Site Become a Sales Partners Join the iMobile team New service! iMobile has launched “Wepage,” a free website creation service. Reach out to the world from Japan with our service, available in both Japanese and English. https://site.wepage.com Edit pages simultaneously with other users, create your own designs, and connect with the world.Easily connect to social media platforms from within the service! On July 11 2016, Wepage will have a change of service name and domain. OLD NAME: Wepage OLD DOMAIN: https://wepage.com NEW NAME: Wepage Site NEW DOMAIN: https://site.wepage.com Mobile Inc. (headquarters: Kioicho Park Building 1st floor, 3-6 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094), which already provides website creation and management services for 10,000 small to medium size companies, has launched their first website creation service targeted towards regular consumers, “Wepage.” The service is being promoted both abroad and in Japan, and is expected to have 3 million users worldwide by the end of 2016. [Background] Although social media use by both individuals and organizations continues to rise, the information uploaded is delivered piece by piece, lacking an overall sense of continuity. In America and other countries, there are limits to the ways one may express themselves using social networking services, which has led to an increased use of websites that allow individuals or companies to express themselves freely. According to a survey of 1,125 people carried out by iMobile Inc. in April of this year, 60% of users are interested in website services that they would be able to run themselves. With this in mind, iMobile used their knowledge and understanding of website creation and management for small to medium size companies to create “Wepage,” a website creation service that allows users to design their websites freely and to share information, whether as individuals, as a group of users, or as an organization. “Opinion poll regarding websites and social media,” April 2015. Carried out online with 1,125 male and female participants. 1. Web creation platform that uses Cloud services. Automatically ensures websites are compatible with smartphones. 2. Websites can be built without any technical knowledge. Create and manage your website by editing a visual preview - the website will look exactly like what you see on your screen. Real time updates let you see who is editing, and which parts have changed, straightaway. Share IDs and passwords to simultaneously work on page updates without having to deal with any major CMS. 3. Users can invite others and edit simultaneously in groups, allowing information to be shared across the world. Privacy settings mean that you can share personal memories such as photos of children or wedding albums with your friends and family. 4. Unlike templates from traditional services, “Wepage” allows users to build their website freely by selecting the parts they want to include. Layout:10 patterns; menu: 55 designs, each with 12 color variations; header: 55 designs, each with 12 color variations; background: 104 patterns. There are also 60 different preset designs available. 5. The service can be accessed in either Japanese or English, allowing individual users to share their interests and activities with other users around the world. iMobile is also planning to release social networking apps for smartphones, e.g. instant messaging apps, and will be expanding their paid content delivery services for small and medium size businesses. For inquiries regarding this press release, please contact: Ms. Nishiyama, Marketing and PR, iMobile Inc. Email: info@wepage.com Phone: 03-6743-7711 (switchboard) Copyright (c) 2015 - 2020 iMobile Inc. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3759
__label__cc	0.530341	0.469659	Today was yet another black day in the history of Mumbai ! Mumbai and its surrounding areas have been struggling to see peaceful life over the last couple of weeks but peace seems to have gone out of this city. First, the riots in Bhiwandi, then the Minatai Thakre statue issue and the most gravest incident - 7 serial blasts this evening. Most of you would have watched / heard the news about the serial blasts which rocked the western railway suburban trains this evening. All of these blasts happened between 18.30 hrs to 19.00 hrs and more than 350 people are reported dead. Landlines / mobiles were jammed and there was a chaos situation all across Mumbai. As the blasts ripped apart train compartments, mangled bodies of passengers were hurled out and survivors, many of them bleeding profusely, jostled to come out, leading to chaotic scenes. The blasts occured at Matunga, Mahim (central Mumbai), Bandra, Khar (in north-west Mumbai), Borivili, Jogeshwari and Mira Road railway stations (in north Mumbai). This was the peak period when most of the people would be returning home from their offices. It is suspected that Lashkar-e-toiba would have executed this barbaric act. Most TV channels were beaming these news and our Netajis would have wanted to rush to Mumbai. However, I am sure that the citizens of Mumbai would plead the netajis to stay wherever they are instead of coming down to Mumbai and adding to our woes. It is very evident that they will do more harm than help to the people. The already strained police force will have to cater to their security instead of focussing on their tasks. Hospitals will turn into security zones, losing their capability to cater to the casualties effectively. On Sunday, the so called patriotic Shiv Sainiks raised havoc when the statue of Minatai Thakre was defaced. I just hope that the guys who were so concerned and enthusiastic enough to fly down from places like Aurangabad and putting buses on fire will now come forward to serve the citizens of Mumbai with a similar vigour too. 'Amchi Mumbai' as they call it ! From whatever little television reports that I saw, even this time, the common man of Mumbai has come down to work rapidly to help the affected people. The sarkari machinery has been slow and uneffective as usual. For those who are stranded in South Mumbai and have a difficulty finding accomodation for the night, here are a couple of places to stay Luckily, the Central Railways were majorly unaffected and I could reach home safely, albeit a bit late than usual. I am confident that the Mumbai will bounce back to normalcy tomorrow [or rather have we become so insensitive ?] and there will be business as usual [except for the families who have suffered]. Posted by Shishir Dhulla at 11:06 pm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3762
__label__cc	0.645247	0.354753	Relationship between bone mineral density and oral health status among iranian women Fahimeh Rezazadeh1, Sara Emad2, Mohammadreza Emad3 1 Oral and Dental Disease Research Center, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2 Student Research Committee, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Date of Acceptance 10-Nov-2018 Mohammadreza Emad Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz Background: In the present research, we aimed to evaluate dental and periodontal condition in relation to bone mineral density (BMD), to determine the possible association between oral health status and bone density. Methods: Fifty-nine women aged older than 30 years, who had BMD assessment, were enrolled in the study. They were given dental and periodontal examination by the means of oral hygiene index (OHI), periodontal disease index (PDI), and decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT). Participants answered a questionnaire regarding oral hygiene condition, socio-economic status, and physical activity level. Their BMD using dual X-ray energy absorptiometry in femoral and spinal regions was also recorded. Result: In this research, there was a negative correlation between DMFT and T-score of spine and femur but not with Z-scores. There was no association found between PDI and T-scores or Z-scores for BMD (P > 0.05). In addition, there was a significant negative correlation between number of missing teeth and T-score of both femoral and spinal regions; however, such an association was not found with Z-scores. In addition, a strong positive correlation was observed between OHI and DMFT. Conclusions: This investigation suggests a negative association between bone mineral status and oral health condition regarding DMFT and number of missing teeth. It could be concluded that inadequate bone mass could coexist with higher number of missing teeth or a worse oral health condition; nevertheless, further studies are required to assess these relationships precisely. Keywords: Absorptiometry, bone density: Oral health, dental caries, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan, osteoporosis, periodontal diseases Rezazadeh F, Emad S, Emad M. Relationship between bone mineral density and oral health status among iranian women. Int J Prev Med 2019;10:149 Rezazadeh F, Emad S, Emad M. Relationship between bone mineral density and oral health status among iranian women. Int J Prev Med [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 19];10:149. Available from: http://www.ijpvmjournal.net/text.asp?2019/10/1/149/266134 Periodontitis and osteoporosis are considered as major issues in public health,[1] and reduction in bone mass is the common feature of both diseases.[2] In osteoporosis, the bone loss is systemic; however, in periodontitis, it is localized and limited to the alveolar bones.[3] Osteoporosis and osteopenia are characterized by deterioration of bony microarchitecture.[4] It should be mentioned that osteopenia is indicative of moderately low bone density, whereas osteoporosis is the marker of severe bone loss. Osteopenia can cause osteoporosis if treatment was not received.[5] Periodontal diseases are highly prevalent, and it has remained a major cause of tooth loss in adults. It is found that periodontal diseases have a prevalence of 5% to 55% in adults depending on the severity and measurement techniques.[6] It is described as gingival recession (GR) at a relatively early stage with dentin hypersensitivity, followed by bone loss, tooth mobility, and finally, tooth loss in late stages. Hence, it can affect chewing and speech function, esthetics, and finally, decreases the quality of life. As a matter of fact, osteoporosis shares common etiologic features with periodontal disease such as bone loss. In addition, some metabolic processes can affect bone and teeth simultaneously. Some authors suggest that there is association between systemic and alveolar bone loss.[7],[8],[9],[10] It is proved that low bone density may cause faster resorption of alveolar bone;[7] nevertheless, there are some studies reporting reverse results.[6],[10] Moreover, a number of previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between tooth loss and systemic low bone mineral density (BMD),[11],[12],[13] whereas there are also some investigations that do not support this idea.[9],[14] Hence, it is not clear whether bone diseases such as osteoporosis or osteopenia could have certain oral implications or not. As skeletal bones and teeth are tissues with similar structures, both can be affected by similar metabolic disturbances, so it could be assumed that the same processes could lead to bone loss and teeth caries.[15] In addition, it is proved that lower bone density detected by Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is related to lower alveolar bone mass, and a correlation between bone mineralization parameters and oral health indices is found. Therefore, there comes a hypothesis that strategies to prevent osteoporosis could lead to reduction of tooth loss and periodontal problems.[16] Although the role of osteoporosis in the loss of alveolar bone, tooth loss, and the dental caries has not been obviously clarified, this relationship remains a matter of interest among researches. Therefore, in the present study, we aimed to determine the relationship between skeletal BMD and oral health condition in women older than 30 years. This cross-sectional study was performed between June 2016 and February 2016, on patients referring from physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of Shiraz medical schools (Shiraz, Iran). This study was approved by the local ethics committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Totally, 59 women older than 30 year (mean age of 49.2 year) were recruited in this investigation. They had undergone DEXA. Subjects with metabolic or systemic diseases that might cause secondary osteoporosis or the ones used medicines such as bisphosphonate, anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, high blood pressure medications, smokers, and also patients with less than 10 teeth were excluded from the research. Women were enrolled after signing informed consent forms and their personal information remained confidential. The participants completed a questionnaire regarding their menopause status, demographic information, dental hygiene status. and physical activity level. According to the questionnaire, each individual was assigned a score ranging from 0 to 11 (higher scores indicate better oral hygiene status). The questions we used were about frequency of brushing teeth, using dental floss, mouth wash, and performing routine dental checkups. In the next stage, we recorded BMD status measured by DEXA. Body areas used for this measurement included lumbar spine (L2-L4 segment) and femoral neck. The final BMD diagnoses were categorized into three groups: normal, osteopenia, and osteoporosis. Further, the state of the teeth was evaluated, and all examinations of the oral cavity were carried out by the same trained dentist. We recorded decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) index on the basis of World Health Organization.[17] The state of the periodontium was assessed using periodontal disease index (PDI).[18] Finally, we used oral hygiene index (OHI ) to evaluate the individual's oral hygiene condition quantitatively.[19],[20] According to this score, patients were categorized into three groups of oral hygiene condition: (score: 0 to 4 = good, 4.1 to 8 = moderate, and 8.1 to 12 = poor). Data were statistically analyzed using SPSS, version 22 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The Chi-square test and independent samples t-test were used to compare the group differences for qualitative and quantitative variables, respectively. In addition, regression test was used for assessing the correlation between variables, and one-way ANOVA was utilized to find out whether there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups. In all statistical analysis, P<0.05 was considered significant. The results of our examination show that 64% of participants had diploma or lower degrees, 87% of them earned maximum of 500$ monthly, and only 27% performed routine exercise. Regarding patient's BMD test, 26% of individuals were diagnosed with osteoporosis. According to the OHI scoring, oral health status of 86.4% of participants was good. A strong negative correlation was found between OHI and oral hygiene scores, which was obtained from the questionnaire (r=−0.389, P = 0.002). There was a significant negative correlation between DMFT and T-score of both spinal and femoral regions. (Pearson Correlation; r=−0.280, P = 0.032 and r=−0.284, P = 0.029, respectively) [Graph 1] and [Graph 2]. There was no significant correlation between DMFT and Z-score of both femoral and spinal regions. (P = 0.759 and 0.522, respectively). In addition, there was no correlation between DMFT and BMD diagnosis (osteoporosis, osteopenia, or normal) (one-way ANOVA; P = 0.19). Number of missing teeth was negatively correlated with T-score of both femoral and spinal regions [Graph 3] and [Graph 4] (r=−0.277, P = 0.034 and r=−0.390, P = 0.002, respectively). While, there was no significant relationship between number of missing teeth and Z-score of both femoral and spinal regions. (P = 0.430 and 0.081, respectively). Moreover, number of missing teeth was significantly correlated with BMD diagnosis (osteoporosis, osteopenia, or normal) (P = 0.021). PDI was not significantly correlated with T-score nor with Z-score of femoral and spinal regions. (P = 0.326 and 0.078 for T-score and P = 0.871 and 0.532 for Z-score). In addition, a meaningful correlation between PDI and BMD diagnosis was not found (osteoporosis, osteopenia, or normal) (P = 0.529). There was a strong positive association between age and two other criteria: DMFT and PDI [Table 1]. A similar positive correlation was observed between OHI and DMFT (r = 0.440, P = 0.008). Table 1: The correlation of age with DMFT and PDI As skeletal bones and teeth are tissues with similar structures and origins, there are diseases such as Hypophosphatasia and Cherubism, which can affect both tissues simultaneously.[10] The idea of our study comes from this fact that both bones and teeth can be affected by similar metabolic disturbances, and the same process could be responsible for bone loss and teeth caries.[21] In this study, 87% of participants earned less than 500$ monthly, which is considered as poverty line in Iran. In addition, about 90% of them were married and more than 60% had diploma or lower degrees. Therefore, we can declare that majority of respondents were socio-economically equal. Moreover, the overall oral hygiene status of the subjects was defined as good (86.4%; according to the scoring of OHI values). Hence, it can be claimed that we could minimized the interfering effect of oral hygiene condition on our results. Furthermore, none of the participants did smoke. That is because of the fact that smokers are more likely to deal with periodontitis[22] and smoking can also result in reduced BMD.[23] It is assumed that hormone therapy and bisphosphonate drugs may affect the process of bone loss and slow down the progression of periodontal disease.[24] As a result, none of the subjects were on a regime of regular medication to limit interventional factors as much as possible. The result of this study showed that there was a significant correlation between the number of missing teeth and diagnosis of BMD test. This could suggest that bone diseases such as osteoporosis or osteopenia may lead to tooth loss due to periodontal disorders or dental caries. Further data showed a negative correlation between number of missing teeth and T-score of femur and spine, but such correlation was not found with Z-scores. It can be justified that T-score is related to senile or primary osteoporosis, whereas low Z-score is indicative of secondary osteoporosis. Hence, it can be concluded that low BMD due to secondary osteoporosis is not associated with periodontal diseases. However, there is relationship between primary osteoporosis and oral health condition. In addition, we observed a strong negative correlation between DMFT and T-score (in both femoral neck and spinal region). Hence, it is suggested that dental problems appear more often in women with lower bone density when compare to young, normal, sex-matches adults. Similar to our study, a relationship between femoral BMD and teeth state (regarding DMFsurface (DMFS) and number of missing teeth) is reported. However, the correlation between lumbar BMD and the PDI was described negative which differs from our results.[24] This could be as a result of unequal sample sizes or different study groups. Another investigation on postmenopausal Brazilian women found a significant association between DMFT and BMD, which is in line with our findings. This study suggests that women with poor oral hygiene may indicate higher rates of lower bone densities.[25] However, our result contradicts with a study that described no association between DMFT and BMD.[26] This study was done on both genders during growth (aged 14–18 years), whereas our participants were women older than 30 year. This factor could be supposed as the major cause of difference in our findings. It was observed that as age of the subject increases, OHI, DMFT, and PDI values grow which could be as a result of aging phenomenon. In this study, we did not find a significant relationship between PDI and BMD, revealing that low bone density cannot cause periodontal diseases (confirmed by a high scored PDI); nevertheless, this is a controversial issue. There are some studies which reported that BMD and periodontal diseases are not significantly correlated.[14],[27] In addition, it is proved that there is no such an association in elderly women.[9] However, our findings are in contrast with some studies showing that there is an association between skeletal BMD and periodontal diseases: A negative association is proved between BMD and periodontal indices.[5] Another study exhibited that periodontal disease severity is significantly different in osteoporotic and non-osteoporotic individuals, and the risk for osteoporosis was higher among patients with severe periodontal disease.[3] It is suggested that there is a relationship between periodontal disease and BMD.[13] In addition, in other studies a significant association between osteoporosis and periodontal disease (tooth loss, probing depths, and clinical attachment levels) was established.[28],[29] According to the results, it is notable that skeletal BMD is related to PDI but not to a statistically significant level. Because the P value of the correlation between PDI score and BMD in our study was equivalent to 0.07, there is a possibility that by increasing the sample size, P value becomes significant. We were aware of the fact that greater sample sizes could lead to more valid results; but, because of certain reasons, population of this study could not be greater. One of them is numerous exclusion criteria, and another one is ethical issues, which prohibit us from ordering BMD test for a patient who suits our criteria. Finally, it was found that in observed group of women older than 30 years, dental caries and tooth loss seem to be associated with lower bone density. Although the mechanism of this relationship is unclear, it is known that cross-communication and patient referral between physicians and dentists should be highlighted. Additional data depict that skeletal BMD was related to bone mineral status but not to a statistically significant level, implicating that there was no pronounced correlation between PDI and skeletal bone mass in this study. Nevertheless, the slight negative correlation indicates that decreased BMD could be an alarm to periodontal diseases. To the best of author's knowledge, in Iran, similar study using same indices has not been performed yet. This issue needs further investigations, particularly longitudinal, and to consider the effect of geography and population. To follow this field of research, it is suggested to use more precise indices with larger populations. Moreover, it is highly recommended to conduct case-control studies categorizing bone density status in to three groups including normal, osteopenia, and osteoporosis and to evaluate the effect of secondary osteoporosis separately. Considering variety of contributing factors, it is difficult to establish a certain association between systemic BMD, tooth loss, and tooth decay; however, research is highly in progress. Consequently, as oral and dental conditions are related to bone mineral status and also many people visit their dentist more often than their physician; dentists have a major role in detecting people who are prone to bone disorders or are already involved. In this situation, dentists can refer patients to the physicians to ensure them about their bone health status. Although scientists are hopeful that treatments for bone diseases could promote oral health status, more investigations are required to confirm that. The authors thank the vice-chancellery of Shiraz University of Medical Science for supporting this research. This article is based on the thesis by Sara Emad from Shiraz Dental School (Grant#11176). 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__label__cc	0.553652	0.446348	Somebody’s Knocking’… Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow up – unless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and the shadow of the Bomb, and the Cold War, unless you could see the dark side emerging. And on a quiet tree-lined dead-end street, in the dark damp basement of the Chandler house, it’s emerging big-time for teenage Meg and her crippled sister Susan – whose parents are dead now, who are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant Aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons – and finally an entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and evil. Features an introduction by Stephen King. Limited Editions also feature afterwords by Christopher Golden, Lucy Taylor, Edward Lee, Philip Nutman, and Stanley Wiater, and are signed by all contributors, including Neal McPheeters, who provided the cover art. Ladies’ Night is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of sheer nerve-rattling terror, deemed too violent for mass-market publication. In this modern tale of the ages-old battle of the sexes carried to the extreme, Jack Ketchum again provides readers with an excursion into horror as relentless as a John Woo film. A word of caution, this book contains scenes of extreme violence, and is definitely not for the faint of heart. The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard The Exit At Toledo Blade Boulevard collects thirteen Ketchum tales, including six new stories never before published, an essay on the author’s strange and wonderful experiences with the author Henry Miller, special new Ketchum introductions to each piece, and an introduction by master storyteller Richard Laymon. If Memory Serves The Great San Diego Sleazy Bimbo Massacre To Suit The Crime When The Penny Drops Winter Child Henry Miller and the Push (non-fiction) 隣の家の少女 (The Girl Next Door) (Japan) Japanese edition of The Girl Next Door, translated by Hiroshi Kaneko. Το κορίτσι της διπλανής πόρτας (The Girl Next Door) (Greece) Greek edition of The Girl Next Door, translated by Nick Roussos. (Nick Roussos later did a revised translation in 2011). The Dust of the Heavens The Dust Of The Heavens is a short non-fiction piece, written about one person’s slow descent into madness. When Sara Foster is kidnapped in front of an abortion clinic in broad daylight, taken off a busy Manhattan street by a pair of total strangers – Stephen and Katherine Teach – she is three months pregnant wth her married lover’s child. Her abductors seem to know that. They also seem to know where she lives, where she teachers, where she was born, who her lover is – even where her father plays golf on the weekends. They tell her about a mysterious worldwide Organization devoted to white slavery and what happens to those slaves who try to run away. What happens to their families and those they love. That’s what Sara is now. Their slave. They show her what happens if she tries to disobey. She sleeps in a coffin-like box in the basement. She’s fed according to their whim. Abused according to their whim. They involve her in a brutal murder. That’s just the beginning. Because Stephen and Katherine Teach have terrible plans for Sara. And her baby. Like his novels Joyride, Stranglehold, The Girl Next Door, and Cover, Right To Life is a descent into madness and human evil which is all the more harrowing because it’s based on fact. Sara’s ordeal really happened to somebody just like you and me and it’s one that is vividly rendered. So consider yourself warned. This is disturbing graphic writing. Not for the timid. Like life. Broken on the Wheel of Sex Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard. The Hang Up Skin Game Bosom Buddies (aka The Burn Artist) The Rubdown Fixing Her Plumbing (aka Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names) Dancing’ (aka Old Men Dancing) The Christmas Caller Head Games (aka East Side Story) The Making of a Religious Cult (lettered edition only) 老人と犬 (Red) (Japan) Japanese edition of Red, translated by Hiroshi Kaneko. (with Edward Lee) Masks is a limited edition chapbook co-authored with Edward Lee produced for ChillerCon in October of 1999 by Sideshow Press. Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition This edition restores cuts made for the original Ballantine paperback edition. From the Afterword: “I have very few regrets as a writer…A particularly graceless line here and there. An occasional bad edit. And that’s about it except for what happened to Off Season. What happened, exactly, was negotiation. When Marc Jaffe at Ballantine bought the book it was on the condition that I’d be willing to rewrite. And I was. Of course I was. It was my first novel and I was delighted to have the contract. Did they think I was crazy? I’d rewrite in a minute. We were all very much aware that the book was over-the-top violence-wise, that it had the kind of teeth pretty much unseen before in mass-market fiction. It was just that quality that they were buying. But I knew I’d have to make some cuts. I just wasn’t prepared for them to want so many. …There were times we fought through paragraphs line by line. Word by word. …This went on for a couple of weeks. By then my manuscript was sporting a lot of red ink. [The editor’s] notepad had a lot of scratch-outs. When it was over I went home and a few weeks later produced [this] version of Off Season… The original I tossed in the garbage. Yeah, yeah, I know. You don’t have to tell me. I’m an asshole. What can I say? Father And Son is a limited edition chapbook of a previously unreleased story, only available through Camelot Books, as part of a promotion.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3775
__label__cc	0.709158	0.290842	Colourful London February... and it's all a bit grey and gloomy and cold and dull out there. So cheer yourself up with this palette of London jewels. Top: Fitzrovia, Hoxton, Fulham, Holborn Middle: Wapping, Bow, Old St, Camden, Bottom: Spitalfields, Vauxhall, Kilburn, Covent Gdn All taken from my Flickr Photostream Labels: colours, doorways and entrances, gasometers, gates, mythological beasts, post boxes, reliefs Woolwich past and present My recent to the Cinema Museum reminded me that last summer I was in Woolwich admiring the wonderful façades of the old cinemas there. Woolwich town centre is a mix of all sorts of everything. People are not going to the cinema so much these days, so the lovely old picture palaces are being now used for other things. As far as I can ascertain The Grand, converted from the ABC Regal on the site of the old Hippodrome, has been revamped into an arts venue. The Grade II Listed Granada with its gothic interior has was converted into a bingo clu b(it still says GALA BINGO on the tower) but it is now home to a church. The gorgeous Art Deco Coronet/Odeon (built 1937 and also Grade II Listed) with its curved tiled frontage is now known as Gateway House and home to The New Wine Church (do they worship the grape?) The Empire is now long gone, having been demolished. More info and some great archive images about these cinemas here. See also The Theatres Trust. Below are some of the photos I took last summer, which include two of the above- mentioned cinemas mixed in with shots of other interesting architectural features which can be found close by. The northern end of Powis Street contains some lovely buildings including a ornate terracotta fronted theatre and what I think was a department store that resembled cinema architecture (middle and top left). This area is under renovation at the moment; the scaffolding is up and there are signs alluding to new shopping malls. I hope the plans enhance rather than destroy all of this fabulous history. The Cinema Museum Tucked away in what's left of Lambeth's Old Workhouse is an Aladdin's cave of pre digital film and picture palace ephemera called The Cinema Museum. This private, not for profit, charitable museum is the on-going life's work of Ronald Grant, ably assisted by Martin Humphries. Ronald's passion for all things cinematic began when he was a child and, just like the boy in Cinema Paradiso, he sat with his local projectionist, gradually picking up the tricks of the trade that would form the first part of his working life at cinemas in his native Aberdeen. Over the decades he has collected all sorts of wonderful cinematic items, thus saving them from destruction or landfill. I was shocked to learn that it was actually Odeon's policy when selling their lovely old buildings not to allow items to be taken or resold for salvage; eveything was destroyed. It hardly bears thinking about. I think that's worse than the wanton vandalism that took place inside Islington's Carlton Cinema a few years back. AlthoughI ham heartened by this information about a project for renovation in conjunction with a proposed new glass building at the rear (oh gawd, here we go again). Ronald and Martin have managed to salvage a lot of wonderful gems from the much-missed cinema palaces of yesteryear. You'll find posters, projectors, lenses, cannisters, signage, textiles, uniforms and more. They also show films in the mini cinema. On Saturday we were treated to four gems including 'The Last Tram', a film about, you've guessed it; London's last tram ride (excerpt here). I thought it was a rather poignant choice seeing as we were watching it via a process that isn't used any more (film) in a museum dedicated to an old way of life that is also practically deceased. Picture palaces used to employ a large uniformed staff and be packed full all day, with more people queuing round the block. Then, once inside, they'd join a film perhaps half way through, not really understanding what was going on until the film came back on again hours later! The museum also contains three rooms packed to the ceiling with books, papers, magazines, photos and prints, plus another room stuffed full of filing cabinets containing The Ronald Grant Archive, which helps to fund the museum collection. At the centre of the building is the old workhouse chapel with its very high ceiling which now used as a cafe and display area. This large space is available to hire for events. Looking up, I noticed a wonderful coincidence – the original roof trusses contain a circular motifs that look just like film cannisters! Thanks to Caroline for inviting me along. An afternoon well spent. Labels: cinemas, museums, signs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3777
__label__wiki	0.942082	0.942082	LAT ramps up celebrity staffing By Kevin Roderick \| March 30, 2009 11:38 AM The Times is moving "celebrity justice reporter" Harriet Ryan from Metro downstairs to the newly ascendant entertainment team. The former Court TV senior correspondent will be "part of our expanded coverage of what has been called the 'celebrity-industrial complex,'" says the editor memo. Editor Kelly Scott also moves back to Calendar from the National desk. Memo follows: From: Turner, Craig To: yyEntertainAll Subject: Kelly Scott and Harriet Ryan join the entertainment team We're happy to announce that, effective today, editor Kelly Scott and reporter Harriet Ryan join the second floor entertainment team from the National desk and the Metro staff, respectively. For Kelly, it's a homecoming. She is remembered here with admiration and affection from her earlier stints as movie editor and Sunday Calendar editor. She reports that she's "had the formative Calendar experiences:" she's been screamed at by Harvey Weinstein, lectured by Warren Beatty on exactly how he wanted to be photographed and walked the red carpet at the Oscars right behind Claudia Schiffer. For the last few years, Kelly has been an assistant National editor, working with various national correspondents and helping edit our coverage of the historic and incredibly lengthy 2008 presidential campaign. Before joining the Times in 1990, Kelly was entertainment editor at Newsday in New York and started her journalism career as a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas. She asked us to tell you she is "thrilled to return to Calendar." To start, Kelly will help out with our arts and culture coverage and captain our effort to enhance coverage of celebrity life in SoCal. . . . Which brings us to Harriet. Since joining the Times in June, Harriet has been our "celebrity justice" reporter, filling in readers on the full-employment for lawyers project that is the Britney Spears lawsuit, covering the Phil Spector murder trial and introducing us to Samantha Ronson's encounters with the legal entanglements of tabloid stardom. Before joining the Times, Harriet spent eight years as a correspondent at Court TV, where she covered some of the most notorious trials in the country, including Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and the Phil Spector's first trial. She authored a book on what she called her most interesting case, "Murder in Room 103; The Death of an American Student in Korea and the Investigators Search for the Truth," published in 2006. She started her career at the Ashbury Park (N.J.) Press and earned a BA in English from Columbia. In addition to continuing to cover stars behaving badly, Harriet will be part of our expanded coverage of what has been called the "celebrity-industrial complex" that surrounds certain members of the local citizenry. Harriet will move downstairs once the Spector trial ends. Please welcome them both. Sallie Hofmeister Asst. Managing Editor, Arts and Entertainment Craig Turner Arts and Entertainment Editor Recent LAT stories on LA Observed: Why the LA Times' new theater column needs a new name Helping in Houston, new lion cubs, Garcetti's back Memo: New LA Times publisher drops web widget Warren Olney leaving KCRW's radio lineup LA Times purge 'capped a month of newsroom turmoil' As the L.A. Times turns ... Previous story: Sam Zell's Brazil connection Next story: Busted: parking in the yellow	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3788
__label__wiki	0.530644	0.530644	Chicago Fire Festival Preview - REDMOON ANNOUNCES 15 NEIGHBORHOOD HOSTS Image by Lin Ye Redmoon Founder and Executive Artistic Director Jim Lasko and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events today announce the 15 neighborhoods that will serve as official neighborhood partners for the Great Chicago Fire Festival, hosting Community Engagement Summer Celebrations leading up to the Festival culmination, a performance and pyrotechnic spectacle on the main branch of the Chicago River, October 4. The 15 city neighborhoods, anchored by 35 different civic and cultural organizations, will partner with Redmoon to present free, public events and art activities from June through September. This announcement follows a citywide request for proposals from community-based organizations issued by Redmoon last November. The 15 official Great Chicago Fire Festival neighborhoods are Albany Park, Austin, Avondale, Bronzeville, Englewood, Humboldt Park, Little Village, North Lawndale, Old Town, Pilsen, Roseland, South Chicago, South Shore, Uptown and Woodlawn. The 15 Fire Festival neighborhoods will host Redmoon artists at various Community Engagement Summer Celebrations to engage the public as empowered citizens through art. Activities will include: Neighborhood Barbeques – Based around the celebration of food, Redmoon will bring into each neighborhood its newest food serving device, the 15-foot-tall and 15-foot in diameter BBQ Cyclone Grill, a motorized carousel featuring a total of 9 Weber Grills in three elevated grilling stations and a wireless DJ station and speakers. Over fresh and healthy creations, Redmoon will build new relationships with community members in a fun and casual setting. The Neighborhood Barbeque parties will also feature… Grill Master Contest, where community members who love to grill can step up to show their skill on the Cyclone Grill. Bake-Off Contests, where local bakers can compete for a slot to sell their baked goods on the riverside at the Great Chicago Fire Festival. Open Sculptural Build. Working with Redmoon artists, community members can participate in decorating sculptures that will be part of river spectacle on October 4. Interactive Photo Booth/Workshop – Redmoon has transformed a horse trailer into a massive photo booth, which will be transported to all 15 neighborhoods throughout the summer. Photos of community members will be displayed along the Chicago River at the October 4 spectacle. Redmoon hosted a meet-and-greet with the organization partners March 26 at the Chicago Cultural Center to introduce them to one another, provide additional information about the Great Chicago Fire Festival and answer questions. “Cultivating the collaborations with our neighborhood partners has been a tremendous experience for our team,” said Jim Lasko, Executive Artistic Director at Redmoon. “We were so inspired by the responses to the RFP that we thought it was best to include all community based organizations that applied for our inaugural year. The geography of the organizations shaped the map of our 15 neighborhoods, and we could not be more excited about the diversity and reach these collaborations lend to the festival.” “The 25th Ward has been proud to call Redmoon one of our residents since they moved to Pilsen last year,” said Alderman Danny Solis. “They bring their art to the people and the people to their art. Now, here we have the Great Chicago Fire Festival, a new event taking Redmoon’s inclusivity and epic-scale vision to a new level, inspired by the most ‘Chicagoan’ values of resilience and renewal. I’m proud that Pilsen can be one of the 15 anchor neighborhoods and I can’t wait to see how this project grows and expands in the coming years.” “The 27th Ward is excited to participate in the Great Chicago Fire Festival,” said Alderman Walter Burnett. “This festival will unite not only people within a given neighborhood, but also different neighborhoods in a new way. It’ll stretch across so many areas, linking people from all walks of life and from all sections of the city, under one positive, constructive and creative endeavor. The Pilsen community is proud to be involved.” Partner Organizations by Neighborhood Civic and cultural organizations from each official neighborhood serve as Redmoon’s anchor for these new partnerships, communicating and bringing community members into the festival activities. They include: Albany Park: Family Focus Roosevelt High School/Nuestra Familia and North River Commission Austin: Youth Outreach Services Avondale: Avondale Neighborhood Association Bronzeville: Quad Communities Development Corporation and South Side Community Arts Center Englewood: Family Focus Englewood and CeaseFire of West Englewood Humboldt Park: West Town Bikes, Near NorthWest Arts Council, Chicago Public Library (Humboldt Park and Bucktown-Wicker Park branches), CeaseFire Humboldt Park and McCormick Tribune YMCA Little Village: Villarte North Lawndale: Family Focus Lawndale, St. Anthony's Hospital and Altus Academy Old Town: Near North Unity Program, Old Town Triangle Association and Old Town Art Fair, Old Town Merchants & Residents Association Pilsen: Changing Worlds and Chicago Urban Arts Society Roseland: CeaseFire of Roseland South Chicago: South Chicago YMCA and Under the Bridge Studios South Shore: Red Clay Dance Company Uptown: RefugeeOne and Uptown United Woodlawn: Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts of the University of Chicago and Apostolic Church of God Non-Geographic Partners: The Happiness Club, St. Therese Chinese Catholic School – Chinatown, Young Chicago Authors, and Free Spirit Media About the Great Chicago Fire Festival Redmoon, known for Spectacle Art and free summertime community performances, partners with the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) to present the inaugural Great Chicago Fire Festival, a new and totally free urban ritual celebrating Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods and powerful spirit of resilience. The Festival culminates Saturday, October 4 at sundown, when thousands are expected to gather on Chicago’s newly developed riverfront to watch a spectacle featuring floats with acrobatics, live music, wild mechanical objects and the community-built sculptural artwork, all combining in a performance between the Columbus Street and Dearborn Street bridges, complete with a dazzling fire finale. The Great Chicago Fire Festival is supported by The Boeing Company, The City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, The Chicago Community Trust, and a grant from ArtPlace America, a collaboration of leading national and regional foundations, banks and federal agencies accelerating creative placemaking across the US. For more information on the Great Chicago Fire Festival, visit www.chicagofirefestival.com About the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is dedicated to enriching Chicago’s artistic vitality and cultural vibrancy. This includes fostering the development of Chicago’s non-profit arts sector, independent working artists and for-profit arts businesses; providing a framework to guide the City’s future cultural and economic growth, via the 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan; marketing the City’s cultural assets to a worldwide audience; and presenting high-quality, free and affordable cultural programs for residents and visitors. About Redmoon Redmoon's mission is to transform the experience of Chicago through free large-scale theatrical events that promote community, creativity and an empowered democracy. Redmoon burst into Chicago’s cultural consciousness with its award-winning production of Moby Dick in 1995. While the indoor productions continued to receive critical acclaim and popular support, Jim Lasko chose to focus the theater’s energy outdoors, where Redmoon sought to deploy spectacle to bridge difference and transform the ways that people see and understand public spaces. Over the past 23 years, Redmoon has become a highly valued Chicago institution with its high-profile collaborations, vibrant outdoor performances and authentic community partnerships. In 2009, Lasko joined forces with long-time collaborator Frank Maugeri to co-lead Redmoon as it garnered international attention for its unique productions, site-specific performances and participatory events. Since 1991, Redmoon has performed for more than 250,000 people in 30 different neighborhoods in 116 public spaces. For more information on Redmoon and its programs, visit the Redmoon website. Photos by Al Zayed unless otherwise indicated. All images courtesy of Redmoon.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3789
__label__cc	0.529212	0.470788	Search Results: 'Retreat' 1,127 results for "Retreat" Count it all Joy (The Retreat) By Veronica Klepadlo This is a Women's Retreat Workbook. With the purchase of a minimum of 35 books and expenses Veronica Joy will teach your retreat. This retreat is sure to restore the Joy of the Lord in your heart. Spiritual Retreat Field Guide & Journal By Dara Powers Parker & Jim Ailor This little field book will guide you on your personal spiritual retreat. With suggestions and readings, the Spiritual Retreat Field Guide will help you ask, pray, listen, worship, and commune. It... More > includes blank pages for journaling.< Less Creating Love: A Law of Attraction Retreat By Matthew D. Matthias "Creating Love" is a personal retreat experience, packaged and waiting for you. It contains all that you will need to have a deeply insightful and uplifting retreat experience on the topic... More > of love. Working with the Law of Attraction, on this retreat you will learn to harness your own power to create the relationships that you desire. By consistently and quietly raising your awareness of how you are creating your current love experiences, the retreat helps you to begin creating the abundant love that you have been looking for. Retreats by White Cloud House are personal retreats that assist you in creating a retreat atmosphere in your daily life, no matter where you live or how busy your life is. This retreat is composed of five sessions that may be carried out over a five day period or over a weekend. More than a book, this is an entire experience!< Less Never Retreat, Never Surrender, BMB By M.E. Bernhardt A detailed memoir about the life and death of Ben Blanchard, his close relationship with his family and the inspirational mantra he adopted in his battle with cancer. Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat By Lama Zopa Rinpoche Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a Medicine Buddha retreat held at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California, from October 26 to November 17, 2001. Edited by Ailsa Cameron,... More > this book covers an amazing range of topics. The book is not meant as a coherent presentation on any particular topic; however, one is rewarded by just opening it and reading anywhere. Lama Zopa is a clear and effective teacher, and his stories are endlessly entertaining and inspiring. The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, its spiritual director, to make available in various ways the teachings it contains. Please visit us at www.lamayeshe.com.< Less The Defiant: (Never Retreat Book #1) By Theresa Messenger Has time finally run out for Captain Catelyn Reese and the Defiant rebels hiding on planet Los Dabaron's secret outpost? Captain Cat may be in over her head when the Confederacy's goons show up to... More > capture the rebel bases and kill anyone who resists. Even with her friends, her people are outnumbered and outgunned. Wielding her greatest assets—her wits, her steady hand with a gun, her sneaky ship, and her band of unusually gifted outlaws—may not be enough. Their vow to never retreat, ever, is put to the test. But what the Confederates really want may not be Los Dabaron. Do Cat's greatest allies come in the form of greedy profiteers? A captain among them owes her big; even so, trusting him may be a big mistake. It's a dire situation for those who are truly The Defiant.< Less Soul Retreat - Your Personal Journey By Jestacia Jones This personal life-balance journal shares tips & inspiration on how to listen to the wake-up call within. :) About Jestacia Jones President of J’lore –holistic health & beauty... More > company. Jestacia Jones is a minister, author and servant leader who worked as an educator in the fashion and beauty industry for almost two decades, assisting clients to enhance their true beauty from the inside out. Jestacia is currently pursuing her doctorate in naturopathic medicine and previously worked as a celebrity make-up artist/image consultant for CNN and its affiliates, Macy Gray at the Grammy’s, Jane Fonda, T.D. Jakes and professional hair and skin care company AVEDA. Both a licensed aesthetician and an aesthetics instructor, Jestacia – in true entrepreneurial spirit as well as ministry-mindedness – has created a holistic line of aromatherapy products, and medicinal teas to balance the emotional and physical well-being. www.soulretreat.me< Less Unplug Personal Retreat Kit: The Healing Ladder By Rhonda Jones Everything you need to create a personal and transformative retreat that you can do at home or locally. The retreat book format is spiral-bound. << < 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 > >>	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3800
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This investigation re Nations today, most commonly such as China, Iran, and Burma has become infamous for their wide use of internet censorship and filtering within borders. This paper intends to focus on an open source program deemed the most sophisticated anticensorship prog 212 essays "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." -Jim Morrison If you have a flock of followers on Twitter, and you read every blog and newspaper you can get your hands on, chances are you're a good candidate for a university degree in media studies. Media studies degrees are staggeringly diverse,encompassing everything from electronic media and film to journalism and public relations. But no matter which specialty you choose, you'll get a firm grounding in the production and reception of media content, and you'll learn how the industry functions. Good writing will be absolutely critical to success in a media studies degree. 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__label__cc	0.515887	0.484113	Merchants Of Air Poster Wall Audio & Video Zone A Small, Neat Journal Bottom Of The Pops Merchants Of Air releases Logos and banner Brieviews, label special: Sepulchral Silence (part 1) Webzines likes us usually pay a lot of attention to bands but not that much on labels, which is a shame if you ask me. After all, the people behind those labels often work very hard to get their releases to the fans and quite sometimes under pressure from bands with high expectations and demands. So when English label Sepulchral Silence contacted us about their releases, I decided that this was the perfect time to do something different with our 'brieview' series. Sepulchral Silence was founded at the end of 2015 and already has some interesting albums on their bandcamp page. Let's get into a nice overview, shall we? Obscure Insania - Sodoma Sodoma by Obscura Insania Stoner doom from Venezuela with Spanish vocals and fingerlicking riffing, I guess there are worse way to start this brieviews-series. The intro is promising, diving right into the fuzzed-out groove of the stoner doom scene, and the rest of the songs follow that example, highlighting in songs like 'Testigos de la Miseria' and 'Fragmentos de la Nada'. Yet, something I absolute love about this album are the apparent influences from grunge rock. At least one of the band members has spent the nineties listening to Alice In Chains and company. Also, at least one of them has been a sludge-fan, presumably the vocalist. In all, this is certainly a must-have for fans of groovy stoner doom. Dystehist - Ad Divinvs Malvm Caro Factvm Est blackened death metal Ad Divinvs Malvm Caro Factvm Est by Dystehist American horde Dystehist drags this review series into the extreme underground with their twisted but controlled chaos. Blending often industrial sounding death metal with some furious blast beats and strange, haunting musical passages, these guys created something mesmerizing and intense, something scary even. The tempo rarelyt stays the same for more than a few seconds. The thick, dissonant riffs punch, kick and gnaw and the deranged vocals bash on your conscience. Then there are the drums, which are fucking sick. For fans of technical death metal, this definitely is an excellent addition to their collection. For others, this will definitely destroy your nerves... Sharked - Generalized Death Drive Generalized Death Drive by Sharked This French horde wrote the perfect soundtrack for the lawnmower scene from the Braindead movie. What you get on this ep is nothing short of brutal annihilation, loaded with thrash riffs, a frenetic tempo and insane growls and screams. The intensity is suffocating, often balancing on the edge between death metal and grindcore. The songs are also quite short, resulting in a tremendous assault of death metal blitzkriegs. Finally, there are some electronics being used, perhaps to enhance the atmosphere of the record but they're always suppressed by the massive beatdowns of the rest of the music. Only recommended if you like your extremes extreme... Malphas - Malphas Malphas by Malphas Right, on to that other extreme, black metal. The cover tells me that this is quite an atmospheric album but once the music kicks off, I'm engulfed in the old school of the genre. This act from Michigan, US, comes up with a sound that is quite similar to the glorious acts from back in the days. Inspired by the likes of Immortal, Lord Belial, 1349, Dimmu Borgir and Mayhem, this one-man act certainly impressed me. Although bleak, eerie and at times quite brutal, this album is well-varied (even in the vocals) and definitely worth banging your head to. My favorite track here is 'The Necromancer' but all tracks are well-written and highly varied. Certainly recommended stuff... Aka Funeral - Stormy Tide Stormy Tide by Aka Funeral Brazilian bands sure know a thing or two about extreme metal, and with this ep they prove exactly that. No intro, no dreamy atmospheric elements, just bleak riffs, blast beats and haunting screams. However, it does feel like these guys have been listening to some ancient heavy metal bands as well, as they know quite well how to perform epic instrumental passages with brilliant guitar solos. Yes, I was quite surprised by that aspect, especially since most of the music here is fierce old school black metal. 'Faceless' is my absolute favorite here, a massive blackened anthem, ferocious, clawing, scratching. If you're a fan of black metal, you have to listen to this thing, for sure!!! Axsem - La Tierra de los Sacrificios death metal / grindcore La Tierra de los Sacrificios by Axsem An unreadable bandname, skulls covered in blood and a title that doesn't predict a lot of pleasantries, we must be dealing with some brutal death metal here. And yes, this Argentinian quartet smashes some thick riffs, brutal growls and punishing drums through our throats, obviously inspired by acts like Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation and Obituary. The whole thing begins with quite disturbing samples before blasting out in an asphyxiating tempo. The vocals contain an array of growls, screams and pig squeals while the horrifying riffs beat you down quite effectively. Here and there you can find a bit of melody, but don't get distracted by that little bit of friendliness. This thing is out to destroy you. Consider this a warning... The Last King - The Last King The Last King by The Last King The intensity never ends on this edition of brieviews, as we return to the US (Milton, NH to be exact) where we check out the untitled debut of melodic deathcore act The Last King. Now, on a personal note, I'm not really a fan of deathcore but I do respect the tremendous amount of vicious energy these guys produce. This has all the right elements to get the deathcore youngsters engaged in a sick, deviant moshpit. This is pure aggression, pure insanity and pure power. I'm going to stop listening to it because I'm slightly going mad. Yes, that is a compliment, I guess. I need a smoke now.... Koldkrypt - Fullmoon Fullmoon by Koldkrypt Wow, this is something interesting, a one-man black metal act from France, coming up with somewhat melodic yet still raging black metal. Obviously, there are plenty of one-man black metal acts but for some reason this one stands out for me. The music is quite repetitive, but in a good way. It makes the whole thing pretty damn immersive, almost hypnotic at times. I always find it fascinating to see that one man can produce (mix, write, record...) such an epic album and for that Koldkrypt definitely earned my respect. So if you're in for bleak, minimal, somewhat melodic and atmospheric black metal, you have to give this a chance. You definitely won't regret it... support Merchants Of Air, check out our shop Well, time for a little breather, a moment of peace and quiet, a relief from all the sonic violence I've already been through today. Because, my god, some of you people can make vicious music, how the hell can you keep up with all of that? Where does all that energy and aggression come from? Not that I mind by the way. In fact, I kinda like doing this, which is why I am still writing even though there's currently no music playing. Only the sounds of birds, wind and an occasional passing car float through the air right now. It's alright, we'll get back to the madness soon... Magnitudo - Si Vis Pacem sludge / post-metal Si Vis Pacem by Magnitudo This one is probably my favorite release in this edition of 'brieviews', mainly because I'm a fan of everything slow and heavy. This album sure is slow and it sure is heavy. Massive riffing, efficient drums and harsh vocals make up the majority of this album. The rest consists of psychedelic passages and tiny little breathers. You might need those to keep up with the intense energy coming from the whole thing. Fans of acts like Conan, Yob or Dopethrone can't go wrong with this one. So yes, I urge you to dive into the thick, muddy and fuzzed-out sound of these Italians. After all, they're Italians and we all know that some of them have pure doom running through their veins... Allaxull - Evangelio de Brujos Evangelio de Brujos by Allaxull These Mexicans claim to create "possessed black metal" and, judging from what I hear on this bizarre piece of work, that might be spot-on. After a strange intro, the evil quartet treats us to some of the most chaotic, deranged and frightening pieces of black metal I've ever heard. They are influenced by everything between King Diamond, Sodom, Emperor and Darkthrone but what they make is harsh, noisy and ritualistic. "True black metal" as some may say, directly honoring the intensity of those old school releases. Even the production quality comes very close to those old, obscure albums with it's sharp and pungent sound. Recommended? Yes, but only for the true die-hards in the blackened scene. Nostra Dementia - Vestiges... Vestiges... by Nostra Dementia I can't find a lot of information about this act and that's a bit of a shame because this album is a stunning piece of work. I've been a fan of atmospheric and depressive black metal back in the days but this album tops a lot of those old releases. From the very beginning, this act takes the listener on a journey through a strange, eerie world. I know, most depressive or suicidal black metal bands do that but they rarely sound as deeply emotional as this one. Besides, by dragging in elements from doom, punk sludge and post-metal, as well as coming up with original melodies and almost gothic orchestral arrangements, this act created their own identity, more varied, more haunting and bleaker than ever before. Giger - Giger sludge / stoner / doom Giger by Giger Nope, this is not the famous sculptor and painter, HR Giger, this is a torpid and sluggish doom band, coming up with three monolithic tracks. On this ep, they slam a decent amount of fuzzed-out, downtuned and immersive guitar riffs in your face, add an array of battery rams and top it of with harsh, rough vocals. That being said, the whole thing comes with enough variation to keep you balanced between stoned head nodding and fiercely headbanging. Finally, there seems to be some kind of garage rock attitude to the whole thing. I can't really grasp it, I don't know where it comes from but it definitely sounds like these guys had a lot of fun recording this... Tzaak - Gjemt Ondskap Gjemt Ondskap by Tzaak Again, we're facing an obscure but highly interesting black metal release, a one-man act from Norway this time. If you're a black metal fan, you absolutely need to check this one out. It's a awesome blend of depressive or suicidal black metal with the black 'n roll from bands like Khold or Abbath's I, topped off with some brilliant atmospheric passages. The long tracks on this album have an excellent drive. There's no need to lose himself in continuous blast-beats and that I quite admire. Besides, the level of variation is perfect, leaving plenty of room for hypnotic headbanging sessions. I have no favorite track here, as I'm nominating the whole thing to go into my best-of-2016 list... Broken Brain - Broken Brain death metal / thrash metal Broken Brain by Broken Brain Four guys from Valencia, Italy, who play a gore induced mix of death metal and hardcore, I'm not sure that this is going to be my cup of tea. On the other hand, I always quite enjoyed the aggressive, short outbursts of brutal death metal in the past and this album kinda reminds me of that era. True, the music is quite elementary, influenced by thrash metal but the old school feeling of the whole thing is highly enjoyable. Besides, I'm quite that songs like 'Day Of The Dead', 'Burn Away' or the punky 'hard times' are perfectly suited to start some moshpits, even in your living room if you're into that stuff. Perhaps I should just call this "party death metal". Votan - At One With the Serpent At One With the Serpent by Votan American acts often have a different approach to certain musical styles and black metal doesn't escape that trend. Hailing from Corpus Christi in Texas, Votan comes up with twisted, often chaotic black metal, interlaced with elements from pagan metal, thrash metal and death metal. The result is simply epic, constantly balancing on the edge between melodic and fierce and easily keeping the listener in its grasp. There's a certain greatness coming from this album, probably caused by the concurrence between the keyboards and the riffing. Yet, it still sounds somewhat experimental and that's a good thing. I surely want to see these guys in Europe soon... Noise-rock minds	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3802
__label__wiki	0.508513	0.508513	Welcome to my Metazoic site! This site discusses the existence of the creatures to come along after humans will be extinct. I first became interested in a world after man when I acquired my first copy of Dougal Dixon's After Man: A Zoology of the Future in 1992. However, I unwittingly created creatures that did not exist from the time I was about 8 years old. But it was after I obtained a copy of that book (now a collector's item) that I decided to take these same creatures I created as a child and make them more realistic in an evolutionary sense. Though it may be hard for a lot of us to grasp, humans will soon become extinct. One of the biggest factors of how this will happen is the current overpopulation rate. Which is why I don't contribute to the population. I created this world with little more than mammals fulfilling all ecological niches with the help of some friends. I even gave the era of the age after man a name, I called it the Metazoic, derived from the words for "After-era" (Meta, meaning after, and zoic meaning era). We are now in the Cenozoic era. To view all the animals I have created since I began this project, you can go to the "Meet the Mammals" section of this site. To discuss your own ideas about what you think will happen in the future world, and share your ideas with others, please feel free to leave a comment. One more thing, some of you may find this site quite offensive, and you have a right to your own opinion. But please respect my right to have an opinion too. I'm not saying there is no GOD, I believe it was HIM who got the ball rolling. But I believe after that, evolution took over. There is so much more evidence of evolution than there is of creation. Even that going on right under our noses. Other than that, enjoy yourself and visit our many links. Koalas At Risk From Extinction It seems Australia's cuddliest creatures are now at risk. They are dying out apparently due to global warming depleating the supply of nutrients in the Eucalyptus leaves these animals feed on. Koalas are among the World's fussiest eaters, and certain individuals will only eat certain varieties of these leaves. If that tree dies out, that koala will die too of starvation. I am the same way, I just discovered I am diabetic, and everyone tells me if I want to live, I need to change my eating habits and consume more healthy foods. I cannot do it because I find most vegetables disgusting!!! I only like peas, carrots, corn, potatoes and sometimes celery. But I cannot make a meal of that!! And I was brought up that dinner has to include meat and bread. I'd personally rather die than switch to a vegetarian diet!! But anyway, this was the article I got from Discovery News. P.S.: Ignore the fact the title refers to them as koala "bears"!! They are NOT bears! It always chaffs my ass to hear people calling them that!!! http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/11/koala-bear-endanger.html Koala Bears at Risk for Extinction, Group Says Julie Shingleton, AFP Dec. 11, 2008 -- Australia's iconic koala will become extinct in some areas of the country if the federal government does not take urgent action, conservationists have warned. A group of Australian scientists will meet with government officials in Canberra on Friday in a bid to hammer out a national koala conservation strategy to keep key populations of the animals from dying out. Less than 100,000 koalas are left in the country, compared to millions before they were heavily hunted for fur in the 1920s, said Deborah Tabart from the Australian Koala Foundation. "The population of koalas in southeast Queensland has decreased from 10,000 to less than 4,000 in a decade," Tabart said. The population in the southeast Queensland area known as the Koala Coast has fallen by at least 26 percent to 4,611 animals since a 1996-1999 survey as development encroached on their natural habitats, she said. "We know that there are even less now, in the order of 3,800," Tabart said. Kat Miller of the World Wildlife Fund also warned that koalas could be on their way to extinction along with several other Australian species."There are more than 1,700 federally-listed threatened populations of animals in Australia. There is an extinction crisis in Australia. The koala may well be the next one to go downhill." The Australian Koala Foundation is urging Environment Minister Peter Garrett to declare the southeast Queensland koala population as critically endangered under law in a bid to protect their habitats from further developments. "This is the most important thing Minister Garrett and his department can do right now to show he is serious about saving the koala," said Tabart."These declines just cannot continue if we still want to see our beautiful icon here." Climate change has also played in the decline as it altered the nutritional make-up of their staple food, gumtree leaves, Tabart said. Post mortems of around 700 koalas in southeast Queensland have found that most were "wasted" when they died. "The impact of climate change on the nutritional value of eucalyptus leaves has been proven to affect koalas," she said. Garrett has said he had charged Australia's Threatened Species Scientific Committee with assessing the risk to the koala but warned that he needed to await the committee's report before he could act. "This is a clear indication of how seriously the Australian government is considering reports from the Australian Koala Foundation and others on diminishing koala numbers in some regions," the minister said. Posted by Dee TimmyHutchFan at 11:21 AM Try a low-carb diet rich in healthy fats, protein and complex carbohydrates. They work very well for diabetics. Dee TimmyHutchFan said... I need to find out the difference between healthy fats and unhealthy fats. So far, I've been avoiding anything that doesn't say '0% Trans fat'. Here is a link for you to get started http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_diet_fats.htm I wouldn't worry too much about animal fats and dairy products such as butter. As long as you eat plenty of nutrient-dense vegetables, fruits, certain tubers (carrots, sweet potatos ex.) nuts and fungi (mushrooms), they are fine as a good portion of your diet. Avoid trans fats or partially hydrogenated Oils (same thing basically). What is still misleading about saturated fats is while it is true they raise your levels of "bad" cholesterol, nobody talks about how they also raise your levels of "good" cholesterol by an equal or greater amount. Rule of thumb; eat like a "caveman". Remember, we humans were hunter-gatherers for well over 2 million years. We ate lots of fresh meat and vegetables during that time period. Even today, the average hunter-gatherer diet is never less than 50% meat based. That is much higher than anything you find among agriculturists. As a diabetic, your goal will be to eliminate as much processed carbohydrates as possible from your diet. the only sugars and starches you should be consuming should be from the fruits and vegetables you eat. I wish you luck and good fortune Well thank you Raymond for your help. The info has been very enlightening. :) I do appreciate it. Metazoic Site Navigation Meet The Mammals The Metazoic World About Good Survivors Evolution Vs. 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__label__wiki	0.672476	0.672476	Presentations in Hepatology: Long-Term Entecavir Treatment Associated With Histologic Improvement in Asian Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B Long-term entecavir (Baraclude, Bristol-Myers Squibb) therapy induces durable virologic suppression and his-tologic benefit, including reversal of fibrosis or cirrhosis, in both HBeAg-positive and -negative chronic hepatitis B. Tong and colleagues evaluated long-term histologic outcomes following entecavir therapy in a nucleoside-naive Asian patient population. The investigators analyzed patients who completed the clinical trials ETV-022 or -027 and subsequently received entecavir 1.0 mg daily in the rollover study ETV-901. The group included 31 patients with baseline and follow-up biopsies, including 24 patients with HBeAg-positive disease. At baseline, the mean HBV DNA level was 9.5 log10 copies/mL; mean ALT was 127 U/L; mean Knodell necroinflammatory score was 7.5, and mean Ishak fibrosis score was 2.2. After a median entecavir treatment duration of 283 weeks, histologic improvement was observed in 100% of patients, representing an increase from the 71% histologic improvement rate observed at Week 48. The mean reductions from baseline in Knodell necroinflammatory score at Week 48 and at long-term follow-up were 3.4 and 6.2, respectively. The proportion of patients with improvements in Ishak fibrosis score was 29% and 87%, respectively, and the mean change in Ishak fibrosis score from baseline was -0.2 and -1.5, respectively. The proportion of patients with HBV DNA levels less than 300 copies/mL was 68% at Week 48 and 100% at long-term follow-up; ALT of no more than 1 times the upper limit of normal was observed in 61% and 77% of patients, respectively. No new safety issues were reported. Efficacy of FTC/TDF Administered With or Without Hepatitis B Immune Globulin in Patients Undergoing Orthotopic Liver Transplantation The randomized trial Study 107 is evaluating fixed-dose FTC/TDF with or without hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) for the prevention of hepatitis B recurrence in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The trial enrolled 40 patients with chronic hepatitis B who had undergone OLT, received at least 12 weeks of post-transplant prophylaxis, including HBIG, and had no evidence of chronic recurrence after transplant. Patients had not received TDF or FTC/TDF after transplant. Other eligibility criteria included creatinine clearance of at least 40 mL/min, adequate organ function, and no co-infection with hepatitis C, hepatitis D, or HIV. All patients received FTC/TDF and HBIG for 24 weeks and then were randomly assigned to continue FTC/TDF plus HBIG (19 patients) or switch to FTC/TDF alone (18 patients) for an additional 72 weeks, for a total treatment period of 2 years. In a safety analysis, no FTC/TDF-related serious or grade 3/4 adverse events were reported. Grade 2-4 adverse events considered to be related to FTC/TDF included 1 case of a moderate increase in creatinine level/decrease in creatinine clearance and 1 case of moderate ulcerative colitis. Three patients did not receive the full 24 weeks of therapy: 1 patient discontinued due to an increase in ALT/aspartate aminotransferase, 1 patient discontinued due to worsening colitis, and 1 patient died from a stroke. Serum creatinine and creatinine clearance remained stable; 4 of 24 patients with a baseline creatinine clearance of 50-80 mL/min (17%) had creatinine clearance of less than 50 mL/min. No patient had detectable HBV DNA levels (>169 copies/mL) or hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positivity. Presentations in Hepatology Presentations in Hepatology: Telaprevir, Peginterferon Alfa-2a, and Ribavirin Effective in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C With Suboptimal Response to Peginterferon/Ribavirin Presentations in Hepatology: Rifaximin Associated With Quality-of-Life Improvements in Patients With Hepatic Encephalopathy Presentations in Hepatology: Venous Ammonia Concentrations Predict Breakthrough HE in Patients With HE Receiving Rifaximin Presentations in Hepatology: Efficacy of Rifaximin in Patients With Minimal HE Tissue Plasminogen Activator for the Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: VentUation/Berfusion Scans In: Main Tags: Hepatic Encephalopathy, Hepatology, Ribavirin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3809
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__label__wiki	0.636332	0.636332	WHIRLD TOUR 2010 - LIVE FROM SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE, LONDON Symphonic Prog 4.51 \| 200 ratings \| 6 reviews \| 73% 5 stars Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music Buy TRANSATLANTIC Music Live, released in 2010 1. The Whirlwind (79:52) 2. All Of The Above (30:19) 3. We All Need Some Light (8:40) 4. Duel With The Devil (28:31) 5. Bridge Across Forever (6:03) 6. Stranger In Your Soul (30:00) Total Time 183:24 Bonus features on DVD: DVD2-3 Documentary DVD2-4 Band Interview DVD2-5 The Return Of The Giant Hogweed - Neal Morse / vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar - Roine Stolt / lead guitar, vocals, mixing - Pete Trewavas / bass, guitar, vocals - Mike Portnoy / drums, vocals - Daniel Gildenlöw / acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, percussion, vocals - Steve Hackett / guitar (DVD bonus track) Live recording of 2010 Tour closing concert in London 3xCD Radiant Records - 3984-14957-2 (2010, Europe) 3CD + 2DVD Inside Out Music - 0505429 (2010, Europe) DVDs contain film with same track list plus bonus track and extras Thanks to progshine for the addition Buy TRANSATLANTIC Whirld Tour 2010 - Live From Shepherd's Bush Empire, London Music No release results - showing artist results instead More Never Is Enough Insideout Music 2011 $31.14 KaLIVEoscope - Digipak Edition (3CD/DVD)` Metal Blade 2014 $23.00 Metal Blade 2003 $9.64 IMPORTS 2009 $9.33 BRIDGE ACROSS FOREVER More places to buy TRANSATLANTIC music online Buy TRANSATLANTIC & Prog Rock Digital Music online: AmazonMP3: Search for TRANSATLANTIC DRM-Free MP3 Downloads @ Amazon.com MP3 TRANSATLANTIC Whirld Tour 2010 - Live From Shepherd's Bush Empire, London ratings distribution Good, but non-essential (6%) TRANSATLANTIC Whirld Tour 2010 - Live From Shepherd's Bush Empire, London reviews Even if this is one of the "longest" live albums of the music history, it will have one of my shorter reviews. It's simply perfect. Good sound quality, the crowd giving the sense of a live exhinition without disturbing the performance (and the listener), The Whirlwind album played without interruptions and with a bit of "interactivity" with the people that makes it "live". Then some of the most famous Transatlantic songs (only 5 because of their length) with one of the best versions of "All of the Above". I can't imagine a live performance longer more than 3 hours, I don't know if the material is taken from different gigs, however should you have to drive for a long travel, don't forget to take this album with you. 1 star each 35 minutes, it makes 5 Posted Monday, November 8, 2010 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #308876) When I think of TRANSATLANTIC the word "epic" often comes to mind. I mean just check out this triple live album with an opening 80 minute track followed by a 30 minute song. Oh yeah there's a couple of other 30 minute tracks on here as well. Epic ! I still feel honoured whenever I hear the music of this group knowing that Roine Stolt and Neal Morse are together in the same band.That still freaks me out a bit being a big fan of early SPOCK'S BEARD and early THE FLOWER KINGS. And yes the fact that MARILLION's bass player and DREAM THEATER's former drummer are also part of this, well that's epic ! On this concert it's even more mind blowing because PAIN OF SALVATION's leader Daniel Gildenlow is here as sort of a Jack of all trades playing guitar, keys and singing. "The Whirlwind" is here in it's entirety and man they don't disappoint. An almost 80 minute ride. Love when it kicks in around a minute and the boys let their hair down. Especially the guitar and organ.Vocals arrive at 6 1/2 minutes. So good. A change after 9 minutes as we get a calm. It does build as the vocals get more passionate and the bass becomes chunky while the organ peels off some heavy runs. Another calm 15 minutes in then the bass comes in as the crowd claps along. Great section. Other highlights are when Roine comes in vocally around 23 1/2 minutes, then it turns heavy with mellotron. It becomes pretty intense around 29 minutes. A beautiful passage after 34 minutes with tender vocals. Roine is lighting it up 39 minutes in. It turns heavy again 51 1/2 minutes in and then the vocals come in followed by mellotron 53 1/2 minutes in. Love the guitar 55 minutes in and check out Portnoy 59 minutes in. We hear some samples followed by reserved vocals then the tempo picks up. How good is this ! When the heavy jam stops after 67 1/2 minutes the crowd roars it's approval. It then becomes ballad-like for some time then Roine returns on guitar. What a song ! "All Of The Above" starts off disc two. Lots of cheering to start then the band kicks in. Nice bass 2 minutes in as it settles back. It kicks back in before 3 1/2 minutes and vocals come in before 5 minutes. Check out the Portnoy / Stolt section before 8 1/2 minutes. Piano and chunky bass follow.The crowd sings along when the vocals return after 14 minutes.It starts to pick up 18 1/2 minutes in then we get a reprise at 20 minutes. Nice. It settles again after 25 minutes as the crowd sings along. It kicks back in at 26 minutes. So freaking good ! "We All Need Some Light" is where the band takes a break except for Morse and Stolt who continue until the band returns. I love the keys here before the band returns.They remind me of the band BAUER.Vocals after 3 minutes.Why is this so emotional ? Great sound before 7 minutes. "Duel With The Devil" is one the crowd is really into. Some ripping organ and guitar after 2 minutes.It's funny when they do that DEEP PURPLE bit with a brief "Highway Star" section. Portnoy puts on a show after 11 minutes. Love Roine's guitar 15 minutes in and when he finishes someone from the band yells "Mr. Roine Stolt !". Disc three begins with "Bridge Across Forever" which is mostly reserved vocals and piano. "Stranger In Your Soul" is the 30 minute closer. It kicks in right away with drums then a full sound. It settles after 2 minutes with reserved vocals and piano. It kicks in again with a heavy sound around 5 1/2 minutes. Amazing sound 8 1/2 minutes in and after 10 minutes and 13 1/2 minutes. Another calm follows as contrasts continue. Kicking ass 21 minutes in. It's so moving after 24 minutes.The crowd refuses to stop going crazy long after this song ends. Just an emotional ride with lights out instrumental work too. If your even remotely a fan then this is well worth picking up. 4.5 stars. Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2011 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #490995) There's so much about Transatlantic which ought not to work. Their album covers are among the tackiest in the business. Their lyrics make me cringe. 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The rocky bits just carry you along, the ballads bring a tear to your eye, and all the grand climaxes simply make you wish you were right there among the fans, in the concert hall. In the past twenty years or so many acts have tried to recreate the thrills and triumphs of classic symphonic prog. Many bands have attempted to reach those rare heights but collapsed under their own weight. Transatlantic themselves, I think, would be the first to admit they're not achieving something original. They're working in a specific tradition but invariably do so in high spirits. It's this which lifts their work above the throng. The music rocks hard. While not exactly refined, it sounds truly uplifting. (And to my relief there are few, if any, attempts at imitating "The Battle of Epping Forest" type of humour.) It seems unlikely that WHIRLD TOUR 2010 will appeal to anyone in your family (or among your friends) who's not yet a prog-head. But if you need a soundtrack for your next three-hour car journey ALONE, this album might be just what you need. Posted Friday, April 27, 2012 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #745066) Review by ProgShine COLLABORATOR Errors & Omissions Team Since this live album was announced I wanted it really bad. Not really the audio CD but the DVD. They didn't come to play where I was living so the DVD would at least give me some 'news' on their live set. It turned out that I couldn't find the DVD at the time for a decent price and then I ended up forgetting about it... Fast forward to 2014, Radiant Records was doing some Clearance on their stock and they have this triple cd for 3 dollars. No second thoughts, bought it. Talk about Transatlantic is quite hard, and this 3 hours set is everything you could want from the band in the live department up to that point. The band record their concert in their 'The Whirlwind tour' so nothing more common than having 'The Whirlwind' (full with 79:52) played in its entirey. But the band didn't left any of their epics off and we have an amazing version of 'All Of The Above' (with 30:19), 'Duel With The Devil' (with 28:31) and to close everything 'Stranger In Your Soul (with 30:00). The band is playing flaless (as usual) and the addition of Daniël Gildenlöw as a backing musician is always well welcomed. This is indeed a hell of a live set! Go for it! Posted Thursday, June 5, 2014 \| Review this album \| Report (Review #1185236) I think what strikes me most about this album is how it makes it plainly obvious how this bands first song (first that listeners would have heard on their first album) is still easily their best. My opinion, of course, but shared by others I know that like this band. The performance of that so ... (read more) Report this review (#388231) \| Posted by infandous \| Friday, January 28, 2011 \| Review Permanlink This is perhaps the best live DVD I've got. Transatlantic hit exactly the songs I want to hear: all of the 30+ minute epics are played in this epic-ly long concert. It's stunning to see them perform each of the songs straight through without interruption. How do they have the stamina to tackle ... (read more) Report this review (#319958) \| Posted by jkugelman \| Sunday, November 14, 2010 \| Review Permanlink Post a review of TRANSATLANTIC "Whirld Tour 2010 - Live From Shepherd's Bush Empire, London"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3833
__label__cc	0.667764	0.332236	Angel Show with Cristina Here is the podcast from August 29! We welcomed back Angel Communicator, Tarot Reader, Reiki Master and Psychic Medium (whew!) Cristina, from Angelic Tarot with Cristina! Cristina is one of the most positive people I have come across on Facebook, and it was wonderful to have her back on Psychic Tapestry. We talked about angels and Archangels, how to communicate with them (and why). Plus, we also talked about the Full Moon, the upcoming Feast Day for Michael and the importance of meditation! Cristina also answered questions from the chat room, Facebook and Twitter, as well as callers from Arizona, Florida, Washington, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, New York, Illinois, California, Indiana, Canada and the UK! Cristina also had a special message for someone who may not have been listening live, but would be listening to this podcast! You can connect with Cristina on her Facebook page HERE or through her website HERE! Love Show with Toni DeMaio and Julia Hoffman from 8/28 Here is the podcast from August 28! This is Psychic Tapestry's new show with Psychic and Author Toni DeMaio, focused on matters of the heart. This week, we were joined by Spiritual, Intuitive Transpersonal Practitioner Julia Hoffman! Toni shared her story of past lives that has led her to her current path, and Julia explained her method of integrating Eastern and Western Psychology with Spirituality. We also answered questions from the chat room, Facebook and Twitter, and talked to callers from Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, Michigan and North Carolina! Plus, Toni, Julia and Ken all gave a final reading to someone who may not have been listening live, but would be listening to this podcast! Jonna K the Happy Medium Here is the podcast from August 15! We welcomed back Evidential Psychic Medium Jonna K ("The Happy Medium") for a Mediumship Show! We talked about the importance of smudging, and how often you should do it. We also talked about empaths. And Jonna broadcast her part of the show on Periscope! Jonna also answered questions from the chat room, Facebook and Twitter, as well as callers from New Jersey, Alaska, New York, Ohio, North Carolina, Canada, Massachusetts, Florida and Texas! Jonna also had a special message for someone who may not have been listening live, but would be listening to this podcast! You can connect with Jonna K on her Facebook page HERE or through her website HERE! Love Show from 8/14 Here is the podcast for August 14! This is Psychic Tapestry's new show with Psychic and Author Toni DeMaio, focused on matters of the heart. For three Saturday's in February, Toni was a guest on Psychic Tapestry, taking your calls on love, and offer her intuition and guidance, along with using her Angel Cards. The response was so overwhelming, that we decided to make a separate show completely devoted to that topic - finding love, attracting love and learning to love ourselves. The Love Show now airs every Friday! On this show, we talked about pendulums again, and our own Psychic Tapestry pendulums (find out more HERE)! And we also answered questions from the chatroom, Facebook and Twitter, and we talked to callers in Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania! Plus, Toni and Ken had special messages for someone who may not have been listening live, but would be listening to this podcast! Toni DeMaio and Julia Hoffman Here is the podcast from August 1! Psychic and Author Toni DeMaio joined us once again for a Saturday version of our Friday Love Show, but this time, we were also joined by Spiritual, Intuitive Transpersonal Practitioner Julia Hoffman! Toni shared her story of past lives that has led her to her current path, and Julia explained her method of integrating Eastern and Western Psychology with Spirituality. We also answered questions from the chat room, Facebook and Twitter, and talked to callers from Florida, Illinois, California, New Jersey and Alberta, Canada! Plus, Toni, Julia and Ken all gave a final reading to someone who may not have been listening live, but would be listening to this podcast!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0081.json.gz/line3837

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