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__label__cc	0.712416	0.287584	aileencampbell.comsitemap Aileen Campbell MSP World-leading targets will make Scotland greener, faster Scotland will stop contributing to climate change within a generation under new, tougher, climate change proposals. The planet faces a global climate emergency and a new carbon neutral target is being set in a move to safeguard it for future generations. Amendments to the Climate Change Bill have been lodged to set a legally binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 at the latest, with Scotland becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The existing targets proposed in the Bill were already world-leading. In response to calls from young people, scientists and businesses across the country, Scottish Ministers have adopted the advice of independent experts, the UK Climate Change Committee. This means that in addition to the net-zero target for 2045, Scotland will reduce emissions by 70% by 2030 and 90% by 2040 – the most ambitious statutory targets in the world for these years. The Committee’s recommended targets for Scotland are contingent on the UK adopting a net-zero greenhouse gas emission target for 2050. Fri, 24. January, 13.00 - 14.00 Tesco, Lesmahagow Taylor's Cafe, Strathaven Thornton Road Community Centre, Blackwood Tweets by @ClydesdAileen Please subscribe to Aileen's email newsletter to keep up to date with her news and campaigns. Aileen Campbell MSP, Kirkton Chambers, 12 Kirkton Street, Carluke ML8 4AB • 01555 750 249 • This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Website designed and hosted by Craig Mackay Design.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line5
__label__wiki	0.598706	0.598706	Update: CRE respond to Minister's Wrong Figures COMMENT: ABC Complaints Review Executive (CRE) have provided a response to our complaint regarding factual errors in a story featuring interviews with climate change Minister Penny Wong and Macquarie University's Tim Flannery. The report transcript included the following statement from Minister Penny Wong: "We've got around 85 per cent of the world's economies signed up to the Copenhagen Accord." and the following statement from Professor Flannery: "I think he's done a pretty good job overall and the Copenhagen Accord shows that. We've got something like 80 countries now signed up to that."The UNFCC indicate that currently 40 Annex I countries and 30 non-Annex I countries have provided targets under the Copenhagen Accord (see UNFCC website HERE). Number of countries in the UN: 192, Number of countries listed by UNFCC as providing emission targets under the Copenhagen Accord: 70: or 36%. We requested that ABC append the report with a statement indicating the number of countries that have provided targets under the Copenhagen Accord to this report to clarify Minister Wong's apparently misleading statement. ABC have refused to do so, thus helping to promulgate factual inaccuracies. The ABC's Complaint Review Executive report is posted in full below: Received 23 April, 2010 REVIEW OF COMPLAINT A request for review was received on 6 April 2010. It was acknowledged on 6 April and the complainant was advised that the Complaints Review Executive would aim to complete the review by 4 May 2010. On 19 February 2010 The World Today included a report – Head of UN climate change team calls it quits. The complainant wrote on 21 February 2010 regarding a report on The World Today. He stated that that the ‘UNFCC (sic) indicate that currently 40 Annex I countries and 30 non‐Annex I countries have provided targets under the Copenhagen Accord.’ He believed that – ‘In light of this both Minister Wong and Prof Tim Flannery’s statements are in‐correct. Although Prof Flannery’s is acceptable in context. The ABC reporter should have had these facts at hand and questioned Minister Wong on her stated figures. Instead factual errors were allowed to be reported.’ He also considered that ‘Knowledge of the number of countries that provided emission targets would have allowed the reporter to pick up errors made by the interviewees.’ ABC Audience & Consumer Affairs (A&CA) responded on 29 March advising that the ‘views of Senator Wong and Tim Flannery are their own, they are not the views of the ABC’. A&CA advised that ‘For the purposes of section 5 of Editorial Policies, the comments of contributors are not considered factual content.’ A&CA wrote that they ‘believe the interviews were suitably questioning, on the issue that was the focus of the report; the continuity of negotiations over a global climate treaty following the departure of the top UN official on climate change.’ Following a further exchange of emails on 29 March about the relevant section of ABC Editorial Policies the complainant requested a review by the CRE. On 5 April he also emailed his request direct to the CRE. Basis of Assessment Stories on The World Today are categorised as News and Current Affairs content and must meet editorial standards set out in section 5 of the ABC’s Editorial Policies. Section 5.2.2(d) of the Editorial Policies says: Editorial judgements are based on news values, not for example on political, commercial or sectional interests or personal values. In addition the ABC’s Code of Practice Section 3 ‘News and current affairs content’ notes: 3.2 Every reasonable effort, in the circumstances, must be made to ensure the factual content of news and current affairs is accurate and in context 3.4 Editorial judgments will be based on news values The context of the story was a follow up to the announcement the day before of the resignation of Mr Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/18/2824113.htm The interviewer was seeking responses to the announcement by interviewing the Federal Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, and the Chair of the Coasts and Climate Change Council, Professor Tim Flannery. While the focus of the interview was not about the numbers of countries who had signed up to the Copenhagen Accord, both interviewees referred to this as part of their responses. The references were not precise: ‘We’ve got around eighty five percent of the world’s economies signed up’ (Minister Penny Wong) ‘We’ve got something like 80 countries now signed up..’ (Professor Tim Flannery) Professor Flannery also referred to Mr Todd Stern, the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change who he said was predicting ‘we’ll be at 100 countries within the next few weeks’. The complainant has provided this link to challenge the figures expressed, with an expectation that the interviewer would choose to pursue this issue: http://unfccc.int/home/items/5262.php The story heading was ‘Head of UN climate change team call it quits’ and the clear line of questioning concerned the impact of the resignation, the qualities required by a new chief negotiator and the likely impact of a new appointment. While it was open to the interviewer to challenge the particular references, the particular angle and substance of the news story was the resignation of Mr Yvo de Boer, and what the change to such an important position would mean. The resignation is the heart of the brief story, the essential news value. In previous determinations by the CRE regarding the interpretation of ‘factual content’ provided by third parties, it has been considered that the comments of contributors are not subject to the same requirements for accuracy as ABC staff who are required to meet the standards of the ABC’s Editorial Policies. In this case, the program’s decision to seek comment from two credible and recognised speakers was sufficient to satisfy the ABC’s requirement that every reasonable effort be made to ensure accuracy (Ed: Sir Marc: ACCURACY?-both "credible" speakers got their figures astoundingly wrong!). Having assessed the content, considered the listener’s concerns and reviewed the ABC’s response, I consider that ABC editorial requirements were not breached. Therefore the complaint is not upheld. COMPLAINTS REVIEW EXECUTIVE Posted by Marc Hendrickx at 12:05 AM Labels: penny wong Picking Nature's Cherry ABC audiences and Fairfax readers deserve better Publish or perish? Weather whisperers say one thing, ABC says another... Suddenly not so salty Burning Up Burn up Media Watch crafts an appealing narrative Butterfly study: a case study in confirmation bias... Missing News: More Curry for IPCC Update: ABC reply to Chinese whispers complaint Update: Facts Toasted in reporting Rio Roast oaks "useless as a temperature proxy" yet used in ... Update: Oil spill-PM the winner Update: Sir Bob Okay at Auntie Where's the science? Activists hijack climate chan... Missing News: Climate Science: Giving the IPCC Cur... Missing News: Homeopathy-no effects beyond placebo... Sensationalist headline for CSIRO study on ocean s... Contrasting headlines on the same day-don't count ... Lateline: unsceptical journalism in action? Whitewashing the whitewash Update: Upheld complaint on corals posted From the vault - who failed astronomy 101 GENE WARS MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL - errors included Shen Neng 1 - How significant the damage? Update: Rio facts were roasted From the vault - funny how they always seem to err... Some models are better than others Shen Neng 1 - How much oil? Part 2 - PM a winner w... Shen Neng 1 - How much oil? Update: ABC News: a case study in Confirmation Bia... Update: ABC happy with mediocre methane report DBCDE confirm ABC's chamber of secrets closed for ... Missing News: Circling the Bandwagons-IPCC tempera... Update: ABC deny error in reporting on Mann inquir... Update: Missing News: No change in Global Tropical... From the vault - Easter Friday, Saturday From the vault - any Catholics left at the ABC? 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__label__wiki	0.59973	0.59973	Academy for the Psychoanalytic Arts Rethinking psychoanalysis as being outside of a medical model Origins of the Academy Academy Outreach Project Academy Members Academy Membership 2018 - Kalt, Ph.D. 2007 - Young, Ph.D. 2003 - Tenbusch, Ph.D. 2001 - Kavanugh, Ph.D. 1999 - Kavanaugh, Ph.D. Legal, Ethical, And Professional Issues LEAP Privacy Petition McDowell-Who Controls Quality Control Of National Interest Recommended Practices - Bohart Titles A - E Acocella - Empty Couch Arrigo - Martial Metaphors Black - Medicating Normality Black - Prescription for Scandal Bohart - Recommended Practices Britzman - Question Child Burckhardt - Scientific Approach Burman - Beyond the Baby Burman - Emotions in the Classroom Covits-Œdipus Cruice-Con-Verse-ations Cruice-Question-ing Dauphin - Tantalizing Times Dauphin-Are you an Analyst Dauphin-Self-Directed Education Double-The Limits of Psychiatry Eckerman-Foucault Elkins-The Failed Titles F - J Farber-Institutional Mental Health Flader-Slips of the Tongue Fores-Chemical Imbalances Fox- Achieving Ideological Change Fox-Challenging Basic Assumptions Galves - Debunking the Science behind ADHD Healy - Academic Freedom Dispute Healy - Psychopharmacology Hut - Turning 'The Hard Problem' Upside Down Hyman - Demeaning the Analysand Hyman - John Dorsey Hyman - Minimalist View of Psychoanalysis Hyman - Psychoanalysis Not Health Care Hyman - Standing Firmly On All Sides of the Issues Hyman - The Clinical Importance of the Unconscious Israel - On Mandatory CLE Titles K Kaloianov - Dialectics - Part II Kaloianov -Dialectics - Part I Kavanaugh - Other As Phallus Kavanaugh - Bodies of Knowledge Kavanaugh - Certificate in Psychoanalysis Kavanaugh - Codes of Silence Kavanaugh - Developing Competencies Kavanaugh - Free Association Kavanaugh - HIPAA-cratic Oath Kavanaugh - Impossible Patient Kavanaugh - Industrializing and Deprofessionalizing Psychology Kavanaugh - Influences from Philosophy Kavanaugh - Leaving Eden Kavanaugh - Mandatory Continuing Ed Kavanaugh - Moving Forward Kavanaugh - Narrowing Scope of Psychoanalysis Kavanaugh - On Psychoanalytic Supervision Kavanaugh - Postmodernism Pyschoanalysis Kavanaugh - Psychoanalysis in Crisis Kavanaugh - Psychoanalytic Education Kavanaugh - Psychoanalytic Thinking Kavanaugh - Rethinking Influence Kavanaugh - The Neurosciences Kavanaugh - The Quest in Psychoanalysis Kirk - Myth of DSM Reliability Titles L - N Langan - Closer Examination Larivière - Invention of Oneself Larivière - Sunland Seminars Larivière - Sunland Seminars III Larivière - Sunland Seminars V Larivière - The Analyst as Novelist Larivière - Writing Cures Levi - Pinocchio McCubbin - Sweet Words McCubbin - Meeting Needs McDougall - Prologue from the Theaters of the Mind McDowell - Archive Proposal McDowell - Quality Control Milchman - Foucauldian Analysis Moncrieff - Psychiatric Imperialism Titles O - S Ott - Autobiographical Dialogue Ott - On Being Human Ott - On Relating Parker - Critical psychology Perry - Women, Gender Ragland - Transferring Reavey - Curing women Rose - Power and Subjectivity Rose - Power in Therapy Saxe - Consequences Youth Violence Saxe - Psychoanalytic Consortium Scheff - Biological Psychiatry St. John - Mindless Psychology Steedman - The World Turned Within Szasz - Mental illness Titles T - Z Tyler - Making Better Children U'ren - Psychiatry and Capitalism Vida - Frontier of Psychoanalytic Understanding Young - Abbreviating Psychology Young - Petitioning for Involuntary Hospitalization Home » Library » Titles A - E » Martial metaphors and medical justice: Implications for law, crime, and deviance Martial metaphors and medical justice: Implications for law, crime, and deviance by Bruce Arrigo The presence of martial metaphors and war-making discourse embedded within the national psyche are well documented (e.g., Sherry, 1995). America's preoccupation with militarization eclipses many facets of institutional life and human social behavior. Some noteworthy examples include the social construction of: (1) women, gender, and sexuality (Higgonet et al., 1987); (2) lesbian and gay identities (Berube, 1990, Murphy and Poirier, 1993); (3) race and ethnic history (Takaki. 1998; Natty, 1986); (4) economics, science, and technology (Markusen et al., 1991; Lotchin, 1992; Mendelsohn et al., 1988); and (5) political culture (Gillis, 1989; Gibson, 1994; Hunter, 1991). Interestingly. we know little about the presence of martial metaphors in the construction of medicine (cf. Sontag, 1989 on AIDS and attitudes toward the state). Moreover, we know even less about the impact of these metaphors for medical justice2 This deficiency in the literature is significant. As Ericson (1994:153) warns, "the military model is as pervasive as the medical model in efforts to colani[z]e the control of crime and other forms of deviance." If his cautionary observation is remotely correct, what does it portend for our understanding of medicine and medical justice, particularly when these social realities are anchored by martial images and saturated in war-making discourse? Arguably, the implications for the control of crime/deviance are considerably recast as the overlapping and interdependent effects of the medical and military models fashion alienating, marginalizing, and oppressive meanings for citizens who are "combating forms of dis-ease." This essay is an attempt to shed light on this under-examined question, One access point for an assessment of martial metaphors, medicine, and justice is found in the postmodern, deconstructive methodology of Jacques Derrida (1976, 1978, 1981, 1992, 1997). Derrida's contributions to this enterprise are significant on two fronts. First, as Young (1990: 98-99) explains, deconstructive analysis allows us to unveil the structures, embedded in discourse, that deny and repress difference.3 This is what Derrida (1976) calls the "metaphysics of presence." Second, deconstruction directs us to the "free play of the text" (Milovanovic. 1994: 102). In other words, once a narrative (such as the discourse of medicine) is constructed, the story "insists" and is forever incomplete (Derrida, 1973). This insistence is a recognition that the narrative always signifies more than what is intended. Teasing out several of the implicit meanings and unstated assumptions within the text on military rhetoric and medicine will help advance our investigation of the effects these meanings and assumptions have for the construction of law, and the control of crime and deviance. In part one of this essay, selected insights from Derrida's deconstructive philosophy are outlined. In part two, Table 1 is presented. The Table lists several everyday martial metaphors and then demonstrates how these images have found their way into the discursive text of medicine. Several observational comments concerning the manifest meanings for these warmaking metaphors in medicine are offered. In other words, the surface level intent is identified so that a coherent narrative can be constructed (Jackson, 1991). In part three, a Derridean critique of war text is presented, based on the previously delineated deconstructive principles and mindful of the underlying, unstated messages and/or values embedded in the text. Table 2 facilitates this investigation. In part four, the implications this deeper textual analysis holds for the nature of law and the control of crime/deviance are provisionally described. In order to situate the overall study, however, some general comments on the genealogy of martial rhetoric and medical justice are warranted. ON FOUCAULT, THE SOCIAL CONTROL THESIS, AND PUBLIC HYGIENE It is difficult to say with precision the point at which commentary on war-making discourse in medicine was first examined with any degree of precision or depth. This notwithstanding, the insights of Michel Foucault (e.g., 1965. 1972, 1973, 1977, 1990) are perhaps, if nothing else, the most illuminating and most critically inspired. Foucault's investigation of disciplinary institutions (e.g., the penal, the psychiatric) was a deliberate effort at de-bunking the purpose of confinement. In short, he reasoned that institutionalization was a form of controlling (or isolating) the socially undesirable, that is, it was a state-sponsored method of "policing public hygiene" and ridding society of difference (Foucault, 1990: 134, 1965, 1977). Although his comments are somewhat limited to the policing of difference through psychiatry and penology (cf. Foucault, 1973 on medical perception), his notions have implications for the archeology of medical justice and military metaphors in general. According to Foucault, the medical function of psychiatry (i.e., public hygiene) was linked to the management function of policing (i.e., social control and order). This union enabled medicine to advance its "true vocation;" namely, cleansing public morality (Foucault, 1990:180). This "assault" on immorality gave rise to the founding of psychopathic hospitals. These corrective treatment facilities sanitized, de-pathologized, and normalized maladaptive behaviors through sustained psychotherapeutic interventions (Arrigo and Williams, 1998:5). As a result, all problems of social hygiene were "captured within the medicalized psychiatric web of stabilization and homogeneity" (Foucault, 1965:34). Foucault's (1965, 1973) examination of medicine and the mentally "diseased" resonate with his study of crime and criminality (Foucault, 1977). "The arrival of psychiatry into criminality- provided a new direction for the examination of mental illness and crime... where attention could be focused on the individual; that is, the criminal, as opposed to the crime itself" (Arrigo and Williams, 1998:6). Much of the analysis on criminal pathology explored the question of "dangerousness." This is what Foucault (1990) refers to as the "psychiatrization of criminal danger" (p. 128). In this exploration, Foucault contends that insanity, that is, the irrationality of the minds of crazy people, became the justificatory cause celebre for medicine's policing and controlling of difference. Indeed, as Foucault (1990) explains: [Insanity] is hidden; it represents a danger in that it is beyond the actor's responsibility; beyond his control because he is frequently unaware of it .... [Psychiatry] has invented an entirely fictitious entity, a crime which is insanity, a crime which is nothing but insanity (p. 132). Thus, following Foucault, medicine's introduction into the study of criminality created a new crime: "the unpredictable and latent danger of the insane constituted a crime in itself" (Arrigo and Williams, 1998:7). In the wake of this perceived public threat, medicine's responsibility was to it supervise...whatever was in a state of disorder, whatever presented a danger" (Foucault, 1990: 188). Confinement of individuals followed the identification of dangerousness, though not necessarily because of a clear act of criminality. In this regard, dangerousness functioned as a metaphor (Arrigo, 1996) where the police and psychiatry amounted to "institutions intended to react to danger" (Foucault, 1990:188). Absent proof that one was a threat to another, one could still be confined, institutionalized, as a danger to one's self (Arrigo, 1993: 7-27), As Arrigo and Williams conclude (1998:7): "Thus, any form of danger [became] justification for involuntary (criminal/civil) confinement. Accordingly, psychiatry [became] a 'social police.'" There is one more dimension to Foucault's critique worth noting for purposes of our investigation on military metaphors and medical justice. Underpinning his assessment of disciplinary institutions is a rich and provocative theory on the inextricable relationship shared among power, knowledge, and truth (Foucault, 1980). Space limitations do not permit a more detailed examination of these notions; however, some comments are warranted. Medicine became an all-encompassing, monolithic expression of power "not because it embraced everything but because it came from everywhere" (Foucault, 1980: 93, 1973). For example, "psychiatry was a legitimated form of disciplinary control through the instrumentality of scientific discoveries and medical breakthroughs" (Arrigo and Williams, 1998:8). Indeed, society's comprehension of mental illness, disease, incompetence, dysfunction, dangerousness and the like, as connected to insanity, was "inventively transformed into clinical and psychopharmacological strategies of social control" (Ibid). These strategies of control, of policing public hygiene, operated as "weapons of attack and defense in the relations of power and knowledge" (Sarup, 1993:66; emphasis added). The presumed truth of psychiatry, as a weapon of attack, justified and legitimated the deprivation of citizen liberties. As Sarup (1993) notes: Whereas we might normally regard knowledge as providing us with power to do things that without it we could not do, Foucault argues that knowledge is a power over others, the power to define others. In his view knowledge ceases to be a liberation and becomes a mode of surveillance, regulation, and discipline (p. 67; emphasis added). Foucault's (1972) archeology of knowledge, particularly when applied to medicine, demonstrates how medical justice, "speaks a [certain) truth, exercises power accordingly-, and produces a disciplinary society in which people [a]re normalized and de-pathologized" because of their differences (Arrigo, 1993: 49, 135). Indeed, the new, inventive technologies of epidemiology, forensic psychiatry, neuroscience. and the like, as state-endorsed emblems of power, harness knowledge and truth giving way to the homogenization of morality and to the policing of public hygiene. Thus, following Foucault, we see how military metaphors play a prominent role in describing his genealogical methodology. Notions of policing, strategies of surveillance, practices of defense and attack are important dimensions to his treatment of medicine and medical justice. Although Foucault's more historical comments are instructive for suggesting some of the linkages between the military and medical models, his treatment of this phenomenon is sketchy at best. The core of Foucault's critique centered on the sedimented and oppressive function of disciplinary institutions. In order to advance the analysis on martial rhetoric, medical justice, and their implications for law, crime, and deviance, the insights of Derrida are useful. The principles descried below are perhaps the most rudimentary for understanding Derrida's deconstructive methodology. However, they are sufficient for purposes of examining how war-making metaphors operate in medicine. ON DERRIDA AND DECONSTRUCTION; SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES For purposes of my investigation, this section will describe three overarching tenets contained in Derrida's deconstructive philosophy. Although these tenets are presented in summary fashion, their applicability to the overlapping effects of the military and medical models are easily discernible. These principles include: (1) the reversal of hierarchies; (2) differance; and (3) the trace. In subsequent sections of the article, reference to additional Derridean concepts will facilitate a more thorough analysis of the text on martial rhetoric and medical justice. Reversal of Hierarchies - In written or spoken texts, terms or words take on value. This valuation is always in relation to the term's position or opposition to other terms. "One [term] becomes dominant, the other repressed" (Milovanovic, 1994: 101). For Derrida (1973, 1978, 1976) this is the manifestation of "the metaphysics of presence" In other words, given every opposition, some terms are dominant, privileged, active, and present while others are subordinate, devalued, passive, and absent. This creates hierarchies (e.g., good/bad, right/wrong, objective/subjective, fact/fiction, health/disease). Hierarchies are fundamental to all phenomena. According to Derrida (1976, 1973), however, everything is a "text;" that is, a story or narrative that unfolds. A text can be twisted, contorted, and "reversed" to reveal the oppositions embedded in words. Reversing the hierarchies allows one to understand what is present and absent, what is empowered and disempowered, what is privileged and de-valued in the written or spoken word. Differance - Moreover, through the deconstruction of a text, the interdependent quality of these oppositions can be made explicit (Balkin, 1987: 746-751). This interdependence is expressed in how terms (oppositions) both "differ" from and "defer" to one another (Derrida, 1973, Sarup, 1989).' This is what is meant by the neologism differance. Indeed, within any hierarchy (e.g., man/woman), although the two terms are different from one other, each defers to the other, implies the other term, while, at the same time, deferring to the other. thus demonstrating dependence on the other term (Milovanovic, 1994: 101, Henry and Milovanovic, 1996: 83). The Trace - We note, then, that within any opposition, differance also implies the mark of the other, the trace of the other word, in the hierarchy. "Within each term of a hierarchy, one ...contains the hidden trace of the other" (Milovanovic, 1994: 101). The trace is what maintains the value position relationship between the two terms. Indeed, following Derrida (1973), we can say that the articulation of any term (presence) implies the hidden term (absence), and that meaning "insists" through the interdependence of each. As Sarup (1989) explains: "Each sign in the chain of meaning is somehow scored over or traced through with all the others, to form a complex tissue which is never exhaustible" (p. 36).5 For a Derridean deconstructive methodology to be effective one must discern the term that is absent and de-valued in a hierarchy; that is, the repressed, hidden word that sustains the term that is felt as present. This deconstructive reversal requires that one make visible that which is concealed, As Balkin (1987) indicates: "[a]ny social theory must emphasize some human values over others. Such categorizing necessarily involves a privileging, which in turn can be deconstructed. But the goal of deconstruction is not the destruction of all possible social visions, By recalling the elements of human life relegated to the margin in a given social theory, deconstructive readings challenge us to remake the dominant conceptions of our society" ((p.763; emphasis added). ON MARTIAL METAPHORS AND MEDICINE: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS Table 1 identifies a limited series of popular military metaphors and juxtaposes each against their medical model counterparts. This listing is not exhaustive and is based on popular media images (Barak, 1994). The chronicling of metaphors is an extension of my prior work on medicine, law, and crime (e.g., Arrigo, 1993, 1996). The comments that follow Table 1 represent a surface level analysis on the power of martial rhetoric to shape, in part, our understanding of medicine and medical justice. Although somewhat contrived, these ten sets of metaphors reveal how war-making discourse and militarism inform our understanding of medicine and, by extension, medical justice. In what follows, five interpretive statements are made about how martial rhetoric contributes to our knowledge of medicine. While these observations are speculative and provisional, they demonstrate how the military and medical models in fact collapse into one another. Indeed, as I present my summary statements, consider how different these comments are from the mission and function of the military in American society. 1. Disease and contagion are identifiable, knowable, and controllable. It is possible to combat various forms of illness and pathology. TABLE 1: 2. Disease is debilitating and life threatening. It invades the human body and must be eliminated or neutralized, otherwise it will take over one's life. 3. If it is not curtailed or stopped, disease can be destructive not only to our bodies but to the public health of society. 4. Controlling disease requires constant vigilance; that is, it requires a policing of public hygiene through the gathering of clinical studies and testable data conducted by trained physicians and other doctors. 5. Based on the available medical information, illness can be treated, arrested, cured, and the war against disease can be won even if an operation by a specialist is required. It is worth noting that even on the basis of a surface level analysis, there are several very revealing aspects of war-making discourse in medicine. Clearly, if we were to substitute, for example, the words "disease" or "illness" with the words "enemy" or "foe" throughout the summary statements presented above, the conclusions we would reach would be quite applicable to the generally agreed upon purpose and operation of the military. Further, the ease with which the military model can be collapsed into the medical model (and vice versa), given the brief listing of metaphors as chronicled above, lends credibility to Ericson's (1994) warning concerning the pervasiveness of their capacity to control crime and other forms of deviance. Indeed, although not specifically identified in the Table, the presence of martial rhetoric in medicine represents a potent force by which strategies for surveillance, notions of defense and attack, and practices of policing can be legitimately enacted and enforced (Foucault, 1965, 1973, 1977). Finally, and perhaps most speculatively, the text of medicine and militarism represents an established defense, indeed a "community," whose primary purpose is to identify what is right and wrong, what is safe and unsafe, what is good and bad for our individual and collective health. This message suggests that medicine knows how to correct, control, and treat, the illnesses that afflict us so that we can be restored, made well, and can shed our disease. DECONSTRUCTING MARTIAL RHETORIC AND MEDICAL JUSTICE By returning to the essential Derridean principles previously outlined and by applying them to Table 1, a more detailed sequencing of comments concerning medical justice is possible. Although these observations are also preliminary, they do set the stage for our assessment on the nature of law and the control of crime/deviance given the presence of martial rhetoric in medical discourse. In order to provide a more systematic deconstructive evaluation, I examine how each tenet relates to particular facets of Table 1. Reversal of Hierarchies Given the presence of martial rhetoric in the medical model, it remains to be seen what terms are present and what terms are absent in the text constituting the "medical metaphors" of Table 1. Following Derrida's deconstructive philosophy, by reversing the hierarchies one can decipher several oppositions embedded in the metaphors, thus learning more about what is valued and what is devalued in the text in question. Although this process is inexhaustible (Sarup, 1989) and undecidable (Derrida, 1973), several noteworthy oppositions are discernible. Table 2 lists several medical terms/phrases that assume metaphorical dimensions. These metaphors are the most prominently featured in Table 1. Table 2 also includes their opposites. Overt images of war and violence, and covert images of death and destruction underscore the medical metaphors. These impressions both saturate and conceal the more absent and repressed terms embedded in the hierarchies. The opposites listed in Table 2 include such notions as peace, health, well-- being, and rest. These more hidden value positions differ substantially from the privileged terms; however, their absence helps maintain the terms that are felt as present, active. dominant. Further, by sustaining the images of war, violence, disease or, conversely, by focusing on the reversal of hierarchies (i.e., peace, serenity, health) we see how the valued and de-valued terms in the hierarchy defer to one another. Thus, we acknowledge the interdependence of the terms in each hierarchy. Meaning insists in the present/absent terms constituting each hierarchy. The military rhetoric embedded in the medical metaphors described above has value insofar as the trace (or the mark) of these terms contains their opposites. To illustrate the reversal of hierarchies, differance, and the trace function, let us look more specifically at one metaphorical term. The suggestion that one's "body is under siege" implies that the soma, as a fortified place, is encircled by an opposing armed force intending to take it, usually in some violent way. This siege of the body is persistent; that is, the intent is to gain control and to overtake the body. The absence of the body's siege is to displace control, to be at rest with the soma, to let go of one's fortification, to allow the body to experience its own peace, to simply be without insistence. Both descriptions are embedded in each other's value position, though they differ considerably. To speak deconstructively of the body under siege we must speak of its tranquility as well. Each term is the trace of the other and their respective articulations reveal the interdependence of both in the hierarchy. MILITARY METAPHORS IN MEDICAL JUSTICE: IMPLICATIONS FOR LAW, CRIME, AND DEVIANCE Given our provisional deconstructive analysis on martial rhetoric and medicine, the questions remains: what effects do these meanings and assumptions have for the construction of law and the control of crime and deviance? To address this matter, I examine Derrida's notion of community and hospitality and link them to the problem of difference and power as previously delineated in my Foucauldian genealogical critique. This Special Issue contains a series of articles examining the militarization of crime and its control (see also, Kraska, 1996, Kraska and Cubellis, 1997; Kraska and Kappeler, 1997). The present article, however, more subtlely canvasses this terrain by examining the interdependent and overlapping effects of the military and medical models for purposes of justice. Both disciplinary "regimes" are institutions. As such, they are analogical to Derrida's (1997) notion of community. Derrida displays an antipathy for the notion of community. Essentially, the word connotes "fusion" and "identification" (Weber, 1995: 46). More specifically, though, Derrida's etymological examination of the word suggests the following: [C]ommunio is a word for military formation and is a kissing cousin of the word 'munitions': to have a communio is to be fortified on all sides, to build a 'common' (com) 'defense' (munis), as when a wall is put up around the city to keep the stranger or the foreigner out. The self-- protective closure of 'community,' then, would be just about the opposite of ..preparation for the incoming of the other, 'open' and 'porous'to the other. ... A 'universal community' excluding no one is a contradiction in terms; communities always have an inside and an outside (as cited in Caputo, 1997: 108). Thus, the word community implies a more negative effect. "it suggests injustice, inequality, and an 'us' versus 'them' orientation" (Arrigo ad Williams, 1999:8). Medical and military communities, then, are designed to exclude some others. Following our Derridean deconstruction of medical metaphors, these others represent those who are different in some respect; that is, those who experience dis-ease. Disease represents the common foe of the military/medical community. Disease seizes the body and must be policed and combated. Disease is that against which the militarized medical community wages war. This war, however, is a fight against that difference which disease signifies (e.g., the mentally ill, the physically disabled, the elderly) (Arrigo, 1996). And, to the extent that martial rhetoric informs medicine, this war proceeds through hospitality to the other. This hospitality is what Derrida (1997:110) terms the "welcoming of the other; the invitation to the stranger." But how does the community of militarized medicine host the difference of the other, the difference that is the dis-ease of the stranger? According to Derrida (1997), the etymology of hospitality is also problematic. The word hospitality derives from the Latin hospes, which is formed from hostis, which originally meant a 'stranger' and came to take on the meaning of the enemy or 'hostile stranger' (hostilis) + pets (polis, poles, potentia) to have power (pp. 10- 111). The military and medical communitys' hosting of the other's difference is a display of power. Thus, "being 'hospitable' is an effort to welcome the other while maintaining or fortifying the mastery the host has over the domain" (Arrigo and Williams, 1999:9). Under these conditions, hospitality is never truly hospitable. Derrida (1997:112) refers to this predicament as the "impossibility, of hostil-pitality" (emphasis added). The community that is medicine, informed by military metaphors, can never truly host that difference which disease embodies. The "common defense" of medicine is fashioned around the notion of inhospitality or hostilpitality. The power that this community represents, vanquishes those whose difference challenges its authority. Thus, the nature of law and the control of crime and deviance in medicine, given the presence of martial rhetoric, functions to advance the policing of public hygiene consistent with the power/knowledge claims of privileged science. Following Foucault (1965, 1973, 1977), medical science is the avatar of truth and, as such, law defers to its pronouncements to advance the episteme of medical justice (Arrigo, 1996: 47-93). The control of crime and deviance in militarized medicine is transformed into the surveillance and discipline of disease through the corrective regime of medicine. All forms of illness symbolize disunity, disorder, pathology, and they are brought under the hospitable and normalizing force of medicine. Accordingly, the health hazards of crime, drugs, and violence, in short, the war against disease, is arrested. This arresting is the injustice that is done to those who are the strangers, the enemies (i.e., those excluded from) the community because of their insistence on being who they are; namely, different. Derrida (1997) reminds us that "pure unity... is a synonym of death" (p, 13). The presence of military metaphors underscoring medicine and medical justice, have significant implications for the control of disease. Simply put, the difference that disease signifies is policed, patrolled, surveillanced, and corrected. The intent of this article was not to suggest that all forms of such disciplinary regulation are or are not appropriate, rather, the fundamental question provisionally examined here goes to the force and scope of militarized medical discourse to cleanse that which does not already fit into its normalizing, unifying logic. Clearly certain expressions of dis-ease ought not be subjected to the corrective power of medicine. What remains uncertain, however, is whether it is possible to strip the medical and military models of their capacity to colonize the control of crime, the nature of law, and the presence of deviance. This is the project that awaits. This is a project whose time has come. Perhaps it is possible not only to except some manifestations of difference, some forms of dis-ease, some expressions of social undesirability, but to revel in the disunity that they represent. This may very well be the only way to forestall the "death" that militarized medicine would otherwise inflict upon us. It may very well be the pathway to peace, health, serenity. [Footnote] 2 There are a few isolated studies. especially including the work, of Szasz (1963, 1987) and Arrigo (1993, 1996), These projects. though, tend to focus on metaphors in psychiatric justice only. For an analysis of how the language of crime and medicine produces sustained trunscarcerative practices see Arrigo (1997). 3 Criminological scholarship has only recently explored this phenomenon. For additional theoretical analysis see Arrigo, 1995: 449-451: Arrigo and Bernard, 1997: 52-54. 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Institute of Psychology. Law, and Public Policy, 5130 E. Clinton Way. Fresno. CA 93727. (209) 456-2777 Ext. 2290. Email: barrigo@mail.cspp.cdu This paper was previously published in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology; DeKalb; Winter 1999; 27 (2): 307-322, and has been reproduced with permission. Bruce A. Arrigo, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, with additional faculty appointments in the Psychology Department, the Public Policy Program, and the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. Formerly the Director of the Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy at the California School of Professional Psychology-Fresno, Dr. Arrigo began his professional career as a community organizer and social activist for the homeless, the mentally ill, the working poor, the frail elderly, the decarcerated, and the chemically addicted. Dr. Arrigo received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and he holds a master’s degree in psychology and in sociology. He is an internationally recognized scholar who has authored more than (100) journal articles, chapters in books, and scholarly essays. These works explore interdisciplinary, applied, and policy topics in criminological theory, law and psychology, and problems in crime and social justice. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of thirteen (13) books; including, Madness, Language, and the Law (1993), The Contours of Psychiatric Justice (1996), Social Justice/Criminal Justice (1998), The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences (with T.R. Young, 1999), Introduction to Forensic Psychology (2000), Law, Psychology, and Justice (with Christopher R. Williams, 2001), The Power Serial Rapist (with Dawn J. Graney, 2001), Punishing the Mentally Ill: A Critical Analysis of Law and Psychiatry (2002), Criminal Competency on Trial (with Mark C. Bardwell, 2002), Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Exploration in Law, Crime, and Society (in press), Criminal Behavior: A Systems Approach (in press), The French Connection: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change (with Dragan Milovanovic and Robert Schehr, in press), and The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos (with Stacey L. Shipley, in press). Dr. Arrigo was the Editor of Humanity & Society (1996-2000) and is founding and acting Editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly, Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice. He is a past recipient of the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award (2000), sponsored by the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association through the Law-Psychology Division (Div. 41) of the APA. This autobiographical information was supplied by the author at the time this paper was contributed to the Academy Library. 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__label__wiki	0.577929	0.577929	Obituary index B. Harlean Veech Send a link to a friend Share [January 21, 2017] CORNLAND - B. Harlean Veech, 81, passed away at 10:05 a.m. on December 29, 2016, at Vonderlieth Living Center in Mount Pulaski. Visitation: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 4 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home Funeral home: Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski B. Harlean Veech, 81, passed away at 10:05 a.m. on December 29, 2016, at Vonderlieth Living Center in Mount Pulaski. Harlean was born on March 28, 1935, in Lincoln; daughter of John Harris and Anna Elizabeth (Field) Bryson. She married Delmar Lee Veech on October 3, 1953, in Cornland. He preceded her in death on May 26, 2016. Harlean is survived by her children: Marcia (Chuck) Meyer of Indianapolis, IN, Monica Edgecomb of Rochester, and Jason (Annette) Veech of Springfield, her sisters, Sheila (Kent) Anderson of Sunrise Beach, MO, and Carla (Wayne) Clark of Lake Fork, one sister-in-law: Priscilla Veech of Forsythe, nine grandchildren: Amy (Jason) Dumo; Emily (Jim) Willan; Matthew (Julie) Shelton; Casey (Ethan) Murphy; Jenna Edgecomb; Mollie (Sean) Finn; Kyle (Nicole) Veech; Jadon Veech; Gage Veech; five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband. Harlean began her career after graduation from high school as a bookkeeper at Springfield Marine Bank in Springfield. After moving to Florida, she worked as a Teller at Community Federal Savings and Loan Association in Jupiter, Florida. Upon returning to Illinois in 1965, she built a 35-1/2-year-long career as Postmaster for the U.S. Postal Service in Cornland, Illinois. During her latter postal career, she owned and operated Flowers & Fantasies in Mount Pulaski, Illinois, for seven years. Through the years, Harlean served in many civic and social organizations within her community. During her postal career, she served as: Secretary/Treasurer of the Illinois Branch of the National League of Postmasters; Secretary of the National League of Postmasters’ Executive Board in Alexandria, VA; and Director of Meetings and Conventions for the National League of Postmasters for 30 years. She received many prestigious awards during her postal career, one in particular, the Oscar Pogue Award—the highest honor awarded to any member of NLP. Harlean and Delmar enjoyed traveling to many national cities, took many cruises and visited ancestors in Ireland. Services for Harlean will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, January 5, 2017, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski with Mark Weber officiating. Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 4, 2017, also at the funeral home. Burial at Mount Pulaski Cemetery will follow the service. Memorials may be made in Harlean’s name to the Mount Pulaski Christian Church or donor’s choice. Serving as her pallbearers are; her grandsons, Matthew Shelton, Kyle Veech, Jadon Veech, and Gage Veech, her grandson-in-law, Jim Willan; her nephews, Darren Anderson and Chad Clark; and her nephew-in-law, Doug Marlin. Click here to send a note of condolence to the family of B. Harlean Veech Did you know..... ...You can send a condolence note to families via email? Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Peasley, Quiram-Peasley and Holland Barry & Bennett funeral homes have this option available. Click on the name of the appropriate funeral home (in the line above) and insert the family name to send a note. < Obituary index	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line39
__label__cc	0.690585	0.309415	The Horde levels 50-60 guide has been rewritten and revamped. My 1-60 Horde leveling guide is now completely updated for the 1.12 Drums of War patch. As you can see it is about 15% larger than the 40-50 guide (single largest guide page yet). There is also a lot of route changes. I moved the entire Silithus section from level 55 to level 58, which allowed me to include a lot more quests for that zone. There is also a lot of other improvement to the route, including adding a lot more quests into the guide, mostly from Moonglade, Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands. This will make the final level 59 grind much shorter. Zygor Guides is an in-game software strategy guide for World of Warcraft. Every guide comes complete with the Guide Viewer, which displays step by step instructions of what quests to accept, how to complete objectives, when to use items, and more. Our gorgeous waypoint arrow will point you exactly where to go at all times and the model viewer will display fully rendered 3D models of NPCs and objects mentioned in the guide. Nov 10 How to get to the broken isles Hello I am a lvl 100 hunter and I want to go the broken isles. You see after using my character boost,finished my mission on attacking the horde and getting my new bow I wasn't able to go to the broken isles. I heard you were able to get to lvl 110 if you go but I am not able to get there. There are no portals,no ships and no mission's for me to get to. Please tell me a way to get to the broken isles for the allianceTerthelard12 Nov 10 Nov 15 4 Garrison Mounts You Can get with ease Hi guys, I decided to make a video about the Garrison Invasion mounts and how you can get them. The percentage of mount drops are pretty high, so if you want to learn more check out this video I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpITHj8d16w&t=10s With that same character, I made another guide about what buildings I choose and routes I take to make gold using a Draenor Garrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8BcMEBpZ6o&t=19s Let me know what you think!Druidria0 Nov 15 World of Warcraft Classic is currently in beta, which means some players are getting a chance to experience a much older version of the MMO ahead of its release. WoW Classic is based on how WoW played in August 2006, back around update 1.12. Back then, things were different. Tauren hitboxes were much larger, sitting could cause certain combat effects to not trigger and completed quests were marked with dots and not question marks. Strange days. Well, I think, a “wall of of text” is not defined by the amount of characters. To create a wall of text you need two things: lots of characters, and lots of missing line breaks / paragraphs. I’m completely aware of that, and I’m always trying to section and format my texts in a manner that makes it usable for readers ;) I think the limit of 990 chars is not contributing to avoid walls of text. (It’s easy to build a a wall of text with only 500 chars, but I think you got what I mean…) Nov 6 Who is this? in Westfall, there is a quest called "livin' the life" where you have to go into a cave and hide inside while you listen to a conversation between Glubtok (a boss in deadmines, who is a giant two-headed ogre) and a "Shadowy Figure"(it's a female btw), you can actualy see the figure, it looks like a priest in shadow form or something like that. In the Dead Mines dungeon, there is a worgen boss who is named admiral something dont remember, and once you kill him, he says "You will never find her, until it is too late." I believe he's talking about the shadowy figure. Just wondering but who exactly is "she" or the "shadowy figure"?Rubberchops6 Nov 6	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.734107	0.265893	Main » 2019 » December » 4 » Forex forecast and recommendations today 04.12.2019: EURUSD - Is Trump threats are serious ?, GBPUSD Forex forecast and recommendations today 04.12.2019: EURUSD - Is Trump threats are serious ?, GBPUSD Events that should pay attention today: 18:00 MSK. US: ISM composite index for the non-productive sphere. The euro dollar forex trading forecast for EURUSD: Donald Trump on Tuesday continued their threats. At this time, under the hand hit France and China. Trump has performed in London at the NATO conference, where he said that the second economy of the Eurozone does not behave properly and may fall under the tax. About Beijing US President said that he could wait for the conclusion of the transaction is still a year or two, they say it's not in a hurry, and America gets a good fee from China. Is Trump serious threat? In my opinion, no. A few hours after these statements by US President said the United States and France could agree on trade, since the problems are not as big as it may seem at first glance. About China Trump said that he could sign the agreement, but it should be good. Trump is almost three years as president and his strategy has always been in this period is the same: first intimidate and then sit down at the negotiating table and to negotiate for itself on favorable terms. So this time it all intimidated, and after a while said that he was ready to negotiate. How this process will affect the value of the euro. Euro correlated with gold, and precious metal earlier in the week showed an increase of "threats Trump." Who can turn the gold market down and against this background, the euro will show a decline. EURUSD recommendation: Sell 1.1091 / 1.1114, and take profit 1.1046 Pound to dollar forex forecast GBPUSD today 04/12/2019 The British pound is now the strongest currency in the market. Early parliamentary elections will be held in the UK on December 12, and the lead in many polls the ruling party led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Investors are positive on the pound, as the process is complete BREXIT waiting, which began in the summer of 2016 and in three years had all bored. Jones promises to withdraw Britain from ES January 31, 2020 - he believes the market is growing and the pound. Johnson was carried out its promise? Definitely can not say, because once he had missed when promised complete BREXIT October 30. But investors are now looking at the pound is optimistic and ready to buy a pound of December 12, inclusive, that is, before the voting day. GBPUSD recommendation: Buy 1.2985 / 1.2970, and take profit 1.3038 Dollar against the yen forex prognnoz USDJPY today 12/04/2019 At present, formed a mixed background. On the one hand, it is possible to expect reduction of quotations on the background of the negative dynamics of the debt market, where the yield spread on 10-year United States and Japan, government bonds shows a decline the last two trading days. On the other hand, I expect the downward trend in the precious metals market, which may cause the growth of a given currency pair, as USDJPY has a strong inverse correlation with gold. USDJPY recommendation: flat 108.34 -108.91 FreshForex analyst Views: 27 \| Added by: mik \| Rating: 0.0/0 Only registered users can add comments. [ Registration \| Login ]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line44
__label__cc	0.736959	0.263041	Board index » Research GUESTS AND MEMBERS CAN POST HERE. Not moderated, so you are on your own. Spambots and stalkers and anti-semites will be deleted and banned without notice. Else, try to be thoughtful, protect your own privacy, don't swear much (makes one appear infantile), but I won't censor. POLICE YOURSELF. Mark 13's version of Matt24 Post subject: Mark 13's version of Matt24 PostPosted: 19 Jan 2017, 08:10 I first checked the CNTTS apparatus for Greek variants which can affect syllable counts (leaving out some, cuz they looked like they were based on Latin texts), and made a master WITHOUT metering it. Doc (you need to get the Bibleworks fonts at http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html to use it) Mark13MeterTemplate.doc [99.5 KiB] PDF (which if you convert to doc, you'll have the fonts embedded). Mark13MeterTemplate.pdf [278.79 KiB] Will work on the meter, but now you can too.. without the hassle of formatting the text. Lessee what we come up with? Post subject: Re: Mark 13's version of Matt24 This seems to be my smoking-gun proof that whoever did Beza's text, COUNTED SYLLABLES to get that first amen legw humin. Since no scribe even knew syllable counting existed, seems pretty likely that the way to PROVE THE AUTOGRAPH is to find a copy that proves SYLLABLES WERE COUNTED. See, here's the pic in BW9, see how that codex is not like the others, its lines go by CLAUSE, see https://twitter.com/brainouty/status/822447866853687297 Or a clearer way to see the Beza codex for 13, how the writer begins lines by clauses, http://www.brainout.net/BezaeD05M05A-Mk13-2.jpg . Notice how nearly every line begins with a conjunction or prep. That's what you'd need to do if COUNTING SYLLABLES PER CLAUSE. But I see no syllable counts there. Yet that style of listing the text lines is so unusual yet cannot be alone, I bet there are other mss 'out there' which do the same: some, maybe even have counts in the margins? I hope it violates no copyright laws to show the pic, since its point is to demo the text's uniqueness, not make money on it. Just compare the draft of Mark 13 I'm working on now at the first 119 syllables versus Matt24 and Luke 21. Again, I inserted all the relevant CNTTS variants in BW9 into the Mark 13 text, and then struck out the ones I didn't count, just as in the Template.. but here I counted some of the variants. Here's the pdf for Mark 13 I'm working on. COUNT THE SYLLABLES to the last amen legw humin and see how they SEVEN. Mark13Meter.pdf [294.23 KiB] I'm revising them again in the latest videos, but here again are the latest uploads for Matt24 and Luke 21: Matt24-25ParsedR5.pdf [270.24 KiB] Luke21Meter.pdf [114.39 KiB] The revisions don't change the syllable counts above, but I'm breaking Luke into more visible clauses, fixing Matt25:30b to 14, etc. Totals at right columns remain the same. If you'd rather have docs, and you have BW fonts, let me know. As refresher, here's how that syllable accounting works to validate text, cross-ref, dateline, and count prophecy annually, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN5Sd0t30tA&list=PL1bv_xPIih3fs-vKfMgiVbt4fmi3Xs3Yf&index=68 Ok, so I metered Mark 13 using the Template you provided. Thank you so much, it made it so much easier. I tried to follow the Westcott and Hort 1881 manuscript (simply because I find it reliable in many cases), but did deviate in two instances. I used ποιήσουσιν (4 syllables) rather than δώσουσιν (3 syllables) in Mark 13:22, and I omitted the αὐτοῦ (2 syllables) in Mark 13:27b. I made these changes, because they appear to work better with the meter, but the whole thing might work better if we use a combination of different variances. Mark 13:30 ends at 1052 syllables (because of the hoti). I don't know what to make of that. Also, Mark 13:32b-35 is a solid 126. I find that a bit odd, so I'm wondering if some of those clauses could be broken down even further to yield more sub-sevening. I will experiment with that later. Mark13MeterWestcottAndHortStyle.pdf [227.16 KiB] HEB 4:12 The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, of the joints and marrow, and is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Okay, so what are you using as the meaning of the two datelines? 42 years before 69 AD is what? And how is it that 42 relates to the text of admiring the buildings? 126 years before 69 AD is what? How does it relate to the disciples? Ending count is 1246 so 1276 AD. What's important about that? 42 years prior to 69 AD could be the start of our Lord's ministry in 27 AD, since He is the true Temple. Then 126 years prior to 69 AD could be the division of the Hasmonean kingdom into 5 districts by Aulus Gabinius in 57 BC. Since Judah fell with the destruction of Temple in 70 AD, maybe the second dateline is playing off the disintegration of the Hasmonean kingdom. The other meter you want to proof is the total. What does it mean? 1246 is 1050+196. Why? I'm doing the same: why is 'my' 1281 the total? 1050+231, so I can claim Mark's evoking the meter of Daniel 9:24-27, but why the PAST total, and why include the 14? If I then add up all the uniquely-occurring initial NT dateline meters I get the same 231 total, including the yet-future '7' dateline meter of John's Gospel. Okay, but is that coincidence or intentional, and why? Again, when you get the right answer, everything is supposed to click in place like a finished jigsaw puzzle. I don't see where we got that yet. Luke 21 alone seems 'done', but I wonder, since it doesn't add more than its own initial years-to-pre-Church Mill as its total (1050+35), whereas Matthew and Mark go past those values. Well, first look at the meters you got. 42 in the context of admiring Temple Building makes no sense to me, as 42 is a positive meter, Jacob leaving Haran with two families, 21 years after he entered to get but one wife. But then Eph1 talks of two walls, so if admiring one temple led to two... Then your 126 meter in connection with naming four of the apostles, could be a kind of memorial. At least two of them are dead when Mark writes: Peter's meter (and Jude's too, he being brother of dead James and BOTH of their names being Jacobus in Greek).. is 126, 28x2=56+70 in 2nd Peter, https://vimeo.com/channels/bibledatelinemeters/122425890 So there is some possibility those meters are the right ones? Okay, to your question: thinking over 'your' 196 versus 'my' 231 as the overage ending in Mark. 196=7+14+21+28+35+42+49. All the meters come from these, and all of them are used as dateline meters in the Bible I've seen so far. So 7+49=56, so the total doesn't need to go that far. As you do the actual addition, you'll see the others at each +. 231, is Dan9:24-27 meter, http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf. I did a video on it where I got interrupted by God in the middle for making mistakes and didn't edit that out (too long, sorry) vimeo copy (its playlist won't embed) https://vimeo.com/channels/dan9meter/78470213 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDYmgBx58tM&index=35&list=PLFF2856603C945631 So it's as if, at 231, Mark ends with a meter mnemonic as an epilogue, reminding the reader of God's response to granting Daniel's prayer for more time and Temple Rebuilding. Idea that the close of the 1050 'play' is that God will grant Church more time maybe based ON Daniel's prayer, since after all Christ dies at the start of the 62nd week not the end. The sum is also equal to the initial NT dateline meters, 7+14+21+28+35+42+49+56+35 . What's interesting here is the doubling of 35 and that JOHN'S GOSPEL alone has a 7 initial dateline meter.. not written yet. So if the prophecy of dateline meters comes true then again you know Mark's Gospel Chap 13, comes from God. I wonder how many of the meters use this same style, if indeed this is the style. For Matt24's 63 ends up being a prophecy of Luke's meter but also other NT books (not all of them, unless you break the 63 into 7s). Luke ends with 35, which ties back to his initial chapter meter, and of course Matt24 does too. Bigger point is for sure, that these numbers are deliberate. Whether we can say the above meanings are the right interp of them, is a whole diff kettle of fish. Here's an interesting (copyrighted) writeup by a Cambridge guy on how the Franks reacted to some strange weather they experienced in 830-875 AD. Compare that to the same periods in each Luke, Mark, and Matthew. The meter doesn't match but does help us to see what people were thinking that does fit the text. http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/ce120500.html Post subject: Re: REVISED Mark 13's play on Matt24 PostPosted: 06 Feb 2017, 19:43 Okay, I needed to make changes due to the variants. Some of them I'd ignored, were so universal and made the meter work so aptly, it seems almost certain that Mark intended them. Much better sevening resulted, with patterns I didn't notice before. Same name, but the online version posted earlier is still preserved. Here, only in this forum, is the revision. Some meters still bother me. But it's a lot closer, probably, in this revision. Total meter is unchanged, cuz it's a shorthand metaphor for granting a new 490 through to the end of CA, to say '231'. Compare this gif of the rise of the Mongol empire and its stopping, to the similar years in Mark 13. https://twitter.com/ThingsWork/status/8 ... 3627040770 Now compare to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... imated.gif Notice that Mark amalgamates both Matt25 virgins and three-slaves parables in that ending. Looks like Mark might be focusing on the Eastern Empire, whereas Luke is focusing on the West? So Matt 24-25 is tracking general Church trends, as a master theme, while Luke tracks West and Mark tracks East? That might explain why John never wrote about the Olivet Discourse, but instead was given the Book of Revelation. He was give the three strand of prophecy woven together into one. Yeah. So in light of that, look at this bio on the last real BYZ emperor, search on 'Emperor and Church' or 'unity' and be prepared for a Rev17 shock, http://www.roman-emperors.org/manuel2.htm Remember, these were the guys who ALWAYS HAD AND COULD READ the Greek. Kill me now. Now posting the Mark 13 videos, starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQ687qJyPY&list=PL1bv_xPIih3fs-vKfMgiVbt4fmi3Xs3Yf&index=86 Latest Mark 13 pdf now online, http://www.brainout.net/Mark13Meter.pdf and is NOT the same as the original uploads in this thread. Am still editing it also. As far as mapping out how Mark diverges into the history of the East starting in 325 AD, there's too much to explain. He first plays with the locations when Constantine and his sons all die, which most people TODAY wouldn't even understand why, that's a witty segue. The chronology of the rulers is important. Scroll down to 'THE EASTERN EMPIRE' to know what to look up, here: http://www.roman-emperors.org/impindex.htm Also Siege of Constantinople (many times in history), Byzantine Empire articles in Wiki are helpful, plus many of the 'timeline of Constantinople' or 'Byzantium' sites (some better than others). Okay, turns out Mark 13 is doing for Byzantine history what Paul did for Western Rome, and it's a biting annual prophetic satire. Example: Mark 13:34's phrase 'and He gave to His slaves' marks the Latin sack and takeover of Constantinople in 1204. Many specifics like that one. Here's the revised meter, but am still going through the anaphora keywords so the text will change again. Mark13MeterR.pdf [441.67 KiB] In case I forget, the latest versions will be http://www.brainout.net/Mark13MeterR.doc (if BW fonts) and http://www.brainout.net/Mark13MeterR.pdf For like Paul (so the reader would see it quickly), Mark constructs anaphora out of keywords, starting with Blepw; it starts with very alive Titus' future death as the first occurrence of Blepw; next is Septimius Severus; next Blepw is the 'center' on the yet-future Constantine; but Blepw does not cover his own death, but when he kills Licinius his brother-in-law, his own wife and son Crispus in rapid succession. So he's seeing their deaths which he caused, and they're not seeing anything, get the pun? The ide occurrences also seven to Blepw, but I don't see any Bible stress. They are all turning points in Byzantine history, usually from recovery back to decline. Death is stressed each time, of the Emperor in question, though the first ref is to Nero who doesn't die at the benchmark, but killed his mother then. Of course, Nero is newly dead when Mark writes, so the connection will be a pregnant one. So later they will be added, so the 'nest' depicted in the Notes of the pdf will be changed. Just as Paul had done with the eta's in thelematos, Mark uses Blepw to show reversal by a successor. The successor might be bad or good, but Blepw rulers tagged were all reformers. This tagging continues with the kurios and huios keywords, as each such time was a turning point in getting Bible manuscripts out of Byzantium and into the West. Scholars know this already, but they don't know Mark is tagging the years it happened, using the same meaning of those tags as in Matthew 24-25! I wonder now what Luke might be tagging, tho he uses almost none of these keywords, if I recall correctly. Last edited by brainout on 14 Feb 2017, 04:59, edited 1 time in total. PostPosted: 04 Mar 2017, 04:53 Update: http://www.brainout.net/Mark13MeterR.pdf now has Byzantine History, revised meter which is spot on re that history, balances more obviously to Matt24/Luke21 as well, astonishing stuff. The above playlist now has 96 vids, so 10 more on Mark 13 and how Rev17 uses it, with many more to come. I'm blown away at how much difference the variants make and how so much clicks into place when the right ones are found. Had to revamp Matt24 and Luke 21 as a consequence: http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR6.pdf http://www.brainout.net/Luke21Meter.pdf Mark 13's Meter was updated, so use the link again if you want to see it, http://www.brainout.net/Mark13MeterR.pdf . Can now download en masse from the downloads directory, http://www.brainout.net/downloads . PostPosted: 08 Oct 2017, 03:01 Series will resume after October 15th, with a much-more indepth 'Quantum Bible' showing all the related passages for the Constantine-Justinian I period. PostPosted: 23 Jul 2018, 10:48 I also have to redo ALL of the Revelation 17 videos. 7-syllable error moves all the syllable counts up. Words philas and blasphemias each have NO elisions, so add one syllable each when you get there. Current 227 should be 5 higher, math error, so it becomes 234 with the elision corrections. So make those changes. Ruins all the Rev videos I've done but the NEW results are FAR BETTER and more biting sarcasm, so worth it (i.e., musterion standalone word now references the Council of Nicaea and Constantine dies at 'whore'. Shortcut, use current Rev17R.pdf and just add 7 syllables to the 227, read as if those extra seven were there, as the corrected year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line46
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__label__wiki	0.569068	0.569068	Letter from CEOs Global influence and vision Climate protection Fuels and raw materials use Sustainability with concrete Home Introduction Letter from CEOs Global influence and vision Key issues — Safety — Climate protection — Fuels and raw materials use — Air emissions — Local impacts on land and communities — Water — Supply chain management — Sustainability with concrete — Working with others Contact Us Search Safety is an issue of utmost importance. With a common goal to improve health and safety performance, CSI members are working tirelessly to improve this, not only for their own employees but also for contractors and suppliers. The CSI has delivered on its promises to develop a common reporting protocol for employee safety. It has also delivered safety programs to educate contractors and drivers – which are identified as key areas of concern – to improve safety and particularly to reduce the number of fatalities. The ultimate mission of the CSI and its members is to completely eliminate fatalities. + - Employee lost time incident frequency rate (per million manhours, directly employed) for all activities Click to collapse The CSI guidelines for measuring and reporting safety were published for the first time in 2005. Before that, the data collected covers only cement activities instead of all different types of activities of member companies, i.e. aggregates, readymix, etc. Hence, only data from 2005 onwards are presented here to provide a comparable basis. “Lost time incident frequency rate” in the diagram refers to the number of employee lost time injuries in hours per 1,000,000 manhours of directly employed full-time employee. + - Employee fatality rate (per 10,000 directly employed) for all activities Click to collapse “Fatality rate” in the diagram is calculated based on total number of fatalities in all activities (cement, aggregates, ready-mix, etc.) per 10,000 directly employed full-time employees. + - Total number of fatalities for all activities by employment type Click to collapse Number of companies reporting all activities: 12 11 11 12 14 14 With fluctuation in the early years, a mild decreasing trend is noted in fatalities of companies’ own full-time employees and contractors from 2008. However, fatalities of third parties increased during the same period. Even after taking into account the factor of better and wider scope of reporting, the situation still warrants more efforts to improve companies’ performance in the area. There is still a long way to go, but the first step is to ensure that, within the next 10 years, the average safety performance of CSI members will, as a minimum, match that achieved by the leading industrial sectors. To achieve this, the CSI is enhancing members’ efforts by collecting and sharing information on incidents, focusing on sharing and discussing good safety practices on critical activities, to address the root causes of fatal accidents and their ultimate prevention. The CSI is partnering with the Global Road Safety Partnership, which operates in 30 countries, bringing governments, businesses and civil society organizations together to help tackle the man-made, global road accident crisis, particularly in emerging regions. This partnership will assist in tackling road safety fatalities, a major cause of fatalities in the cement industry.The CSI is strengthening and expanding its network of country level workgroups with its members to address safety issues at the local level. So far, local initiatives are operating in India, China, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico and Thailand.The focus of the CSI’s work in the past has been on safety, with good reasons. Nevertheless, a healthy work force goes hand-in-hand with safe operating practices. The CSI has therefore embarked on a scoping exercise to identify how a coordinated approach to health issues could bring added value to members and to the cement sector as a whole. Go to www.wbcsdcement.org/safety to find out more on CSI's work on health and safety. Your feedback: Would you like a response? Do you want to receive news and updates on the CSI? Safety Climate protection Fuels and raw materials use Air emissions Local impacts Water Supply chain management Sustainability with concrete Working with others Safety Climate protection Fuels and raw materials use Air emissions Local impacts Water Supply chain management Sustainability with concrete (English & Japanese) Download the summary report (English, Chinese, Japanese, Portugese, Spanish & Thai) The CSI is a sector-project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Visit the CSI official website. An IMS Consulting Service	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line59
__label__cc	0.554289	0.445711	In the Hotel Lobbies of Sam Shepard and Sally Rooney Author: Ariel Katz \| Hotels by nature are spaces of temporary, transitory, and hard-to-classify encounters. Setting a story in a hotel frees characters to have discussions they might otherwise not have, to do things they might otherwise refrain from doing. Revisiting Alice Munro’s “Material” Munro raises questions about the relationship between two things that often coincide in writers: the first is a certain amount of self-indulgence and self-mythologizing; the second is the difficult work of putting aside the ego and observing the world. Domestic Whimsy in Fascism’s Shadow Natalia Ginzburg’s 1963 novel is a record of a lost world and a lost way of life. Its insistently domestic narrative style, in its humanizing particularity, is also an act of resistance against the ascendant totalitarian ideologies looming over its characters’ lives. Exploring the Self in Orlando and The Puttermesser Papers Virginia Woolf and Cynthia Ozick both feature protagonists who flaunt societal gender-based expectations like marriage and children in their mock-biographies. How Can We Be Happy in a World Full of Suffering? Olivia Laing, in her new novel, writes of a feeling that resonates: “She felt blank. She felt blank and mildly hysterical, she was itching to do something but it wasn’t clear what.” Eudora Welty and Place in Storytelling In her essay “Place in Fiction,” originally delivered as a lecture at Duke in 1955, Eudora Welty almost immediately positions place as an antidote to broad generalizations about human experience. Foreignness and Familiarity in Mavis Gallant’s “Mlle. Dias de Corta” Mavis Gallant’s “Mlle. Dias de Corta” unfolds more like a novel than a short story. It’s a second-person address to a tenant the narrator, an aging, xenophobic French widow, had twenty years before—a young actress, Alda Dias de Corta, whom the widow took in “for companionship rather than income.” Reading Herzog in 2018 Saul Bellow’s novel is often characterized as a rich portrait of a mind in crisis. It’s also an exploration of the role of history—and memory—in personal life. Photography and Language in John McPhee’s “Under the Cloth” The view camera creates a particular kind of image through extreme pause and meticulous composition; by writing about a view camera, McPhee creates a particular kind of essay, one that uses the techniques of both view camera photography and narrative. The Cocoon and the Vista: Rebecca Solnit and Czeslaw Milosz on Vastness Both Solnit and Milosz transform picturesque vistas into fully alive places on the page. Their methods are instructive not only for writing about place, but as tools for toggling between any set of Big Questions and the particulars of moving as a body through streets.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line70
__label__wiki	0.550042	0.550042	Tag: Jeremy Paxman Come Off It, Paxo! If You Earn a Million a Year the Licence-Payer Has a Right to Know Last night’s Newsnight saw Old Malvernian millionaire interrogator Jeremy Paxman clashing with Old Etonian millionare Mayor of London Boris Johnson. But according to Paul Waugh the most exciting bits of the interview weren’t included: In what insiders described as “fantastic political theatre”, Mr Johnson clashed repeatedly with his interviewer over his stance on an EU referendum, on his membership of Oxford University’s Bullingdon Club and on David Cameron’s public image.” Mr Johnson raised the issue of Paxman’s pay, saying: “You are paid elephantine sums by the taxpayer.” Paxman replied: “If only that were true. You don’t know [what I earn]. I should stop making assertions.” In unscreened exchanges, Mr Johnson pointed out that Londoners could see how much he earned as Mayor but licence-fee payers were not allowed similar transparency. At one point, Mr Johnson said: “Why don’t you get a proper job?” When asked about drunken antics in his Oxford days, the Mayor replied: “Ask me a serious question…” Splendid stuff and I quite agree with those “Mayoral Aides” (Boris?) who are urging that the full interview be put up online. What interests me especially is the question of Paxo’s alleged £1 million salary. It interests me first as a nosey bastard. It interests me second as a licence-fee payer. But most of all it interests me ideologically. They can be terribly grand BBC presenter types – the Paxos and Dimblebys – when quizzed about their personal lives. The salary issue, especially, they seem to think is tantamount to asking the Queen whether or not she goes to the loo. And up to a point I agree with them. A BBC political interviewer’s private life, in so far as it does not bear on his public role as frank and fearless interrogator of slippery MPs, is none of our ruddy business. Where it is our business, though, is in cases like the Paxo/Bozza clash above. The ideological undercurrent to Paxo’s line of questioning (he may not share it but tough: that’s his karmic price for working for the pinko BBC) goes like this: “You are a toffy public school boy. David Cameron is a toffy public school boy. You were both in the Buller. You both earn way, WAY more than the national average. How can throwbacks like you possibly be fit to run modern Britain?” This tack is outrageous and deserves to be challenged at every turn, as vigorously as possible. (Can you imagine a similar line of questioning being adopted if Boris’s and Dave’s “crimes” were to be, say, black or female or homosexual or physically handicapped?) Boris was quite right to make his response personal, for an ex public schoolboy on a million a year (or whatever Paxo earns) by asking such a question lays himself open to a charge of hypocrisy. No more do Boris Johnson’s or David Cameron’s class, background and income rule them out of being great, effective and morally decent politicians than Paxo’s class, background and income rule him out of being a first rate interviewer. If Paxo wishes to be impertinent (and disingenuous) on this score, then he should damned well expect some impertinence back. Wind Farms: Will Paxo ride to his brother’s rescue? Boris Johnson for Prime Minister Maybe we’d be better off if David Cameron had gone to Harrow BBC endorses tax avoidance. Good. Now can we stop paying our licence fees? Posted on October 21, 2009 April 12, 2017 Author JamesCategories blogTags Boris Johnson, class, David Cameron, hypocrisy, Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight On telly Jeremy Paxman is a terrifying figure: combative, irascible, impatient, contemptuous and ungenerous. (For an example of the latter, do check out how he begins his interview with right wing US commentator Ann Coulter – who promptly wipes the floor with him). But in real life he is an absolutely sweetheart. On several occasions I’ve watched him compere charity quizzes and prove himself to be such a cuddly, good-natured, double-cheek-kissing, borderline luvvie I wondered whether perhaps he suffers from Jekyll/Hyde syndrome. Either that or the Paxman you see on TV is some kind of evil killer replicant version of the real Jezza, with all the human qualities removed. It’s this nice, sensitive side of Paxman, I hope, which will ride to the rescue of his brother James – currently fighting a valiant campaign to prevent a wind farm blighting a beauteous stretch of Devon overlooking Dartmoor national park. Presumably the brothers get on (I’m way too scared to ring up and ask, in case the evil TV replicant answers the phone) and go to stay with one another. In which case, Jezza will surely have been to his brother’s Dartmoor pad, noticed the region’s rugged magnificence, and been struck by the fact that what the area really doesn’t need is nine wind turbines on 120 foot high sticks dominating the horizon and quite removing all sense of the natural from the landscape. And will thus be compelled to lend his weight, as a public figure, to this tremendously worthwhile cause. Or will he? Paxman is an ostensibly bright man. But unfortunately there are an awful lot of ostensibly bright people who have been taken in by Al Gore’s Man Made Global Warming Myth, in much the same way as many global “intellectuals” were seduced in the Thirties (and Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and Noughties if your name’s Professor EL Hobsbawm) by Josef Stalin. Even more unfortunately, Paxman works for the BBC where to question the Al Gore version of “climate change” is about as career safe as it would have been for an ambitious SD officer in Nazi Germany to start championing the human rights of Jews, gypsies and homosexuals. A bit like the Queen, leading BBC interviewers have to adopt a guise of impartiality so it’s not always easy to know what they really think. (Actually I lie, it’s pimpsqueak: they’re tree-hugging pinkoes, every man Jack of them). When I Googled to find what Paxo’s views are on “climate change”, all I could find was a piece he wrote in the BBC’s in house magazine Ariel, in which he lambasted his employers for their ecological hypocrisy. He wrote: “It strikes me as very odd indeed that an organisation which affects such a high moral tone cannot be more environmentally responsible.” “The BBC’s environment correspondents, even the makers of series like Planet Earth, are trapped in a bizarre arrangement in which they travel the globe to tell the audience of the dangers of climate change while leaving a vapour trail which will make the problem even worse.” How are we to interpet this? The charitable interpretation is that he is not taking a stance on “climate change” per se, merely on the inconsistency of the BBC’s attitude, viz: ‘If you really believe all this green drivel you’re spouting, at least show some kind of intellectual and moral consistency.’ What makes me fear that Paxo is very much part of the problem not the solution, however, is his apparent belief in ‘carbon credits’. Elsewhere in the article, he complains that BBC staff are being forced personally to fork out for the cost of carbon-offsetting the air-, land- and sea-miles for all their BBC junkets to the Olympics, Glastonbury, and God knows where else. He speaks as if, somehow, this were a bad thing; as if – heaven forfend – it ought to be the licence-payer who ought to be funding these carbon-offsets. “Come off it, Jeremy!” as I’m sure his killer TV replicant would say under different circumstances. There are varying levels of credulousness and air-headed stupidity among warmists. But only the really thickest of thick actually believe that paying fifteen quid so that some bloke in India can plant a mango tree so as to carbon-neutralise the cost of your eco-junket in Copenhagen is anything other than silly, pointless and redolent of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Still, here is the perfect opportunity for Paxo to prove me wrong. Go on Jezza! Come out for your bro! Speak up against the wind farm menace! Otherwise, it may be that I shall be forced to distrust anything you say on any subject ever again, for I will know that you are not the questing, intellectually fearless empiricist you claim to be but, well frankly, that you’re just another of Al Gore’s useful idiots. We need to talk about wind farms… Come off it, Paxo! If you earn a million a year the licence-payer has a right to know. ‘Wind farms cure cancer, save kittens, create world peace’ says new wind industry report The best article on wind farms you will ever read Posted on August 11, 2009 April 22, 2017 Author JamesCategories telegraphblogTags Jeremy Paxman, TV	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line78
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__label__cc	0.508529	0.491471	We are working on the Arabic content for this section Home \| My Account \| View Cart \| Checkout — Main Menu —About Us - About Derek Prince - What We Do - Statement of Faith Where We Work - Middle East - - Algeria - - Kuwait - - Egypt - - Lebanon - - Iraq - - Syria - - Qatar - - UAE - - Oman - - Bahrain - - Yemen - - Saudi Arabia - Worldwide Resources - Free Teaching Letters - Daily Devotional - Self Study Bible Course - - Introduction - - Abbreviated Names Of Bible Books - - Foundation - - Deeper Life - - Israel:God’s Chosen People - - The Future - Mobile App - Latest News Get Connected - Give - Contact Us Store About Derek Prince Free Teaching Letters Self Study Bible Course Abbreviated Names Of Bible Books Deeper Life Israel:God’s Chosen People Daily Devotional : Derek Prince Daily Devotional - Posted on 12 Sep 2013 Derek Prince (1915 – 2003) was born in India of British parents. Educated as a scholar of Greek and Latin at Eton College and Cambridge University DPM TV Watch Derek Prince videos on YouTube. "Reaching the unreached... Teaching the untaught" We have books, audio, videos and many more resources to bless your life. Come search our online store for a wide variety of foundational topics. Derek Prince in Middle East Derek Prince Ministries owes much of its origins in the Middle East. Almost immediately after his powerful experience of conversion, Derek Prince was shipped off to North Africa aboard a troop ship. Speaking of his three years in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and the Sudan, he says he was “discipled in the desert.” He studied his Bible with the same diligence and thoroughness he had applied in his academic career. After three years serving the British Army in North Africa, Derek was posted to Jerusalem. There he met and married a Danish lady, Lydia Christensen, the mother of a small children’s home. The family spoke Arabic, and Derek practiced his Arabic with them. At the same time he began teaching himself Hebrew. Together the family saw the rebirth of the state of Israel in 1948 and lived through the War of Independence. After working and ministering in many nations, Derek died in his sleep at his home in Jerusalem on the 24th of... Christians in war-torn Iraq are seeking comfort in God’s word Dear Friend, Pastor Rashid lives in war-torn Baghdad. He and others in his church are refusing... © Copyright Derek Prince Ministries - All rights reserved. Cookie policy \| Terms and Conditions \| Privacy policy \| Sitemap	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line83
__label__cc	0.56545	0.43455	Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure (USA) Awards DHA City Karachi After a year-long evaluation, the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure in Washington DC, USA, has given the “International Award” to Defence Housing Authority City Karachi (DCK). According to the DHA spokesperson, the award was received by DCK project director Brig Mohammad Rafique at a ceremony held at the Metro Centre in Washington DC. The award has also been conferred upon the DCK’s lead consultants Osmani and Company (Pvt) Ltd with their international associates Prof Spiro Pollalis, Doxiadis and RMJM. During the ceremony, the institute’s chief executive William Berterra appreciated the leadership role taken by Pakistan in sustainable planning of cities. He reiterated adopting a sustainable infrastructure for a whole city had been done for the first time and appreciated Pakistani engineers and planners for achieving this gigantic task within 12 months. He said DCK had now become a sustainability benchmark, which will be followed in developing other cities around the world. Meanwhile, Brig Rafique said this was just the start of a long partnership between DHA and the institute and the authority would continue to work on sustainable infrastructure and promote sustainability for the betterment of every Pakistani. Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure is an internationally recognized organization that has developed and maintains a sustainability rating system for civil infrastructure in the world, and was founded by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the American Public Works Association (APWA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Top 10 Features of Sustainable Infrastructure of DHA City Karachi (DCK) DHA City Karachi – Sector 3 Map Sustainable Transportation in DHA City Karachi (DCK) – All You Need To Know! Jawed Khan, Houston, USA says: Congratulation to all DHA city Karachi team members. Keep up good work. « The Creative Mind – Redesigning Pakistani Design Education [Polling] DHA City Karachi (DCK) New Price Calculation Formula » Top 10 Features of Sustainable Infrastructure of DHA City Karachi (DCK) DHA City Karachi – Sector 3 Map Sustainable Transportation in DHA City Karachi (DCK) – All You Need To Know! DHA City Karachi – Sector 5 Map DHA City Karachi – Sector 7 Map	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line85
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__label__wiki	0.957904	0.957904	Strange and Forgotten Console emulators From Emulation General Wiki Console generation: First (1972–1980) – Second (1976–1992) – Third (1983–2003) – Fourth (1987–2003) – Fifth (1993–2001) – Sixth (1998–2013) – Seventh (2005–2017) – Eighth (2012–) – Console Boom – Strange and Forgotten Consoles Atari consoles – Microsoft consoles – NEC consoles – Nintendo consoles – Sega consoles – SNK consoles – Sony consoles Beneath the clean and successful exterior of gaming giants like the Super Nintendo and PlayStation lies the Gap of Vidya: a realm populated by unwanted and forgotten consoles of old, immortal in their plasticity. Here we may receive knowledge of their eternal fate. Not everything on this page can or will be emulated. If it's a video game console from the third generation and beyond, it's on this page for your viewing pleasure. See also Console Boom emulators for the 70s and 80s consoles. 1 Consoles 1.1 Third generation 1.2 Fourth generation 1.3 Fifth generation 1.4 Sixth generation 1.5 Seventh generation 1.6 Eighth generation 2 Handhelds Consoles[edit] Third generation[edit] MAME support Action Max None None VHS tape console released in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder. It relied on a light gun and score counter for all of its 5 games, which could not really be lost. There's an add-on for the multi-arcade LaserDisc emulator DAPHNE called SINGE. We're in murky waters here, so run this at your own risk. Cinemassacre Demonstration Amstrad GX4000 Good TOSEC/✓ A consolized version of the Amstrad CPC. Atari XEGS Preliminary Yes A repackaging of the Atari 8-bit computer line marketed as a game console. Notable for having possibly the worst physical design ever. It has preliminary support in MAME, as does the 65XE computer it's based on. Overview CGR Review BBC Bridge Companion Good Yes Casio PV-1000 Good No-intro A 1983 console pulled from shelves very quickly. Like many others, its titanic failure makes it a rarity nowadays. Commodore 64 Games System Good Yes A hacked up console version of the regular Commodore 64, released only in Europe. Failed hilariously due to its outdated tech (1984 hardware in 1990!), the fact that the normal Commodore 64 was already sufficient, and a bad case of the 'no games'. Dendy Decent Yes The NES, but for slavs. (TCRF COMEDY!) Only Kinaman can properly explain this one (turn on CC). Has decent support in MAME, and its status as an NES clone means its "exclusives" can be played on NES emulators that support broken pirate carts. Dina Good Yes Hybrid clone of both the SG-1000 and ColecoVision. Sold by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade, allegedly with permission from Coleco themselves. The console's build quality leaves a lot to be desired, not to mention that games for the aforementioned platforms can be played on most ColecoVision emulators anyway. Family Driver/Video Driver None None Sega also had a go with the VHS-Based console market with the Family Driver from 1988 and unlike most of these type of consoles, this did not play Light-gun games but instead played driving games. Only three games were released for the system; it's unknown when Sega discontinued it. LJN Video Art None None A notorious "educational" console made by the notorious LJN released in 1985. It was meant as a paint program type system that was meant to compete against television rather than mainstream consoles at the time. It flopped hard. Commercial AVGN Review My Vision Good None Philips Videopac + G7400 Imperfect No-intro RDI Halcyon None None A terrifying machine based on HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring voice-recognition and AI learning. Its failure bankrupted RDI. There are currently no known emulators for the Halcyon, as mankind has yet to fully comprehend its awesome power. Super Cassette Vision Decent TOSEC/✓ 1984 successor to the original Cassette Vision. Much easier to emulate as the hardware is similar to some other obscure systems. The graphical quality is somewhere between the ColecoVision and NES. Was actually fairly successful in Japan until the Famicom came along and kicked its ass. Then this happened. It has a homebrew scene that is still alive with some cool stuff like a port of Super Mario Bros and was the first console with a Dragon Ball videogame. Soundic SD-290 None None Released by Soundic in 1983, the SD-290 was designed to undercut the competition but the lack of compelling games and dated hardware drove customers away from it. Only 11 of the 16 games planned for the system were released. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. Furthermore, it's important to note that Soundic sold SD-290 motherboards to various companies to rebrand them as their own consoles. Terebikko\Video Phone None None The Terebikko is a VHS-Based edutainment console released in Japan by Bandai in 1988 and in the US by Mattel in 1989, The Japanese version had less then 10 games made for it but most of them are based on high profile properties such as Super Mario, Sailor Moon, Doraemon and Dragon Ball Z, Meanwhile, Only 2 games are known to of been released for the US version, both were discontinued in 1994 and it's unknown how many units were sold. Video Challenger Preliminary None Released in 1987 by Select Merchandise and licensed to 4 companies in different regions, this VHS-Based console only had around 8 games released for it and like most systems of this type, it only played Light-gun games. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. Videosmarts None None Released around 1986 by the Connor Toy Corporation, the Videosmarts is VHS edutainment console that taught Preschool to Second Grade Subjects, It's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. View-Master Interactive Vision None None 1988 edutainment VHS console that used two audio tracks on each tape, the player choosing one of two options on the screen, to create interactivity. Also had short mini-game segments with ColecoVision-like graphics. Unlike the other VHS systems, the games were actually decent. No known emulators. VTech Socrates Preliminary Yes ✓ Old edutainment console released in 1988. It featured a robot-type character called Socrates and had wireless infrared controllers. The same company would later release the V.Smile and V.Flash systems many years later. Zemmix Series Good Yes Korean system that was simply an MSX/MSX 2, depending on the model, in console form. Mostly just existed as a way to play MSX games. Though there were a few games made specifically for it, they were playable on the MSX as well. Any MSX emulator should work for its games. Fourth generation[edit] Commodore CDTV Preliminary TOSEC // redump A console version of the Amiga 500. Can be emulated in WinUAE like other Amiga hardware. Konami Picno None None Released in Japan by Konami in 1992, the extremely rare Picno is an odd hybrid of a Video Game Console and a Drawing Tablet that used cartridges similar to HuCard's and Sega Pico. It's unknown how many units were sold, when it was discontinued or how many games were released. Software & sources lists. Krokha None None The Krokha (Кроха) is an unreleased Russian console by SKB Kontur (СКБ Контур). The console was only in development for a short time in 1990 before Kontur pulled the plug on the project. They made 200 units for internal testing and, after it was cancelled, the 200 units were given to the people who worked on the system. Furthermore, A former employee that worked on the Krokha back in the day has released Photos, Schematics and Rom Dumps for the system on his Website Memorex VIS Imperfect None A beautiful monster sold only at RadioShack in the early 90s. The software may be playable on Windows 3.x emulators, as the console's OS was an altered version of that. Philips CD-i Imperfect Yes ✓ Thanks to working with Nintendo to develop a CD add-on for the SNES, the CD-i is notorious for having egregiously terrible Mario and Zelda games, so much so that the Big N disowned their existence and considered it a blank space in their official history. Aggressively promoted and held on for multiple years with multiple different models (targeted at everything from gamers to pharmaceutical companies), but couldn't compete with mainstream consoles and computers of the time. Pioneer LaserActive Preliminary TOSEC Sega Pico Good TOSEC/No-intro Child's edutainment console released in 1993. Was actually fairly successful. Has good support in MAME. Super A'Can Preliminary No-intro ✓ An extremely rare Taiwan-only console released in 1995. Fifth generation[edit] 3DO Preliminary Redump 2017 Amiga CD32 Preliminary TOSEC // redump A console version of the Amiga 1200. Can be emulated in WinUAE like other Amiga hardware. Apple Bandai Pippin Preliminary Yes Apple's attempt at being relevant to games. It failed. Vintage review Currently, there is only preliminary MAME support, but some of its games may be playable on other Apple emulators. Arcadia Skeet Shoot None None Released in October of 1998 by Toymax (The makers of the Creepy Crawlers and My Pet Monster toys), this Projector-based console, that only played Light-gun games, sold 435,000 units in the first 18 months before being recalled after reports of projectors overheating, melting, smoking and in a few rare cases, causing burn injuries (Faulty cartridges were to blame). After about three revisions, the system was discontinued sometime between 2000 and 2001 with only 5 out of the 9 games advertised known to have been released. It's unknown how many units were sold once the console was relaunched after the recall. Capcom Power System Changer Good None A console version of the Capcom CPS arcade board. Compatible with SNES controllers. Casio Loopy Preliminary No-intro A Japan-only game console designed for girls focused on printing stickers. A Magical Shop add-on allowed for the printing of any screenshot, not just Loopy games. Drunken Printing Demonstration Ashens overview FM Towns Marty Preliminary Trurip An early fifth-generation console released by Fujitsu in 1993. It failed due to its astronomical price. Another version called the Car Marty was also released, designed to be a GPS for automobiles. Preliminary MAME support for both. Playdia None Yes A disc-based system released in Japan by Bandai in 1994. Notably, it had a wireless controller and all of its titles were interactive movies like Dragon's Lair. No known emulators. Video Buddy None None Released in November of 1999 by the Interactive Learning Group, this VHS-based console was designed for children aged 3 to 7 years old and had about 20 games released for it. A revision of the Video Buddy that used DVD's instead of VHS's was released in 2003 and while both versions were initially successful, a crowded "Children" console market led to its downfall. The other company that made the DVD-based console shut down in 2006. It's unknown how many units were sold. Sixth generation[edit] Buzztime Home Trivia System None None Released around 2004, the system is the result of a partnership between Cadaco Toys and NTN Buzztime; and, as the name implies, the console was designed around playing trivia with family and friends. It's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Nuon None Trurip Images? A hybrid DVD player/game console with enhanced movie-viewing tools, from a bunch of former Atari personnel. Only a few games were made for the system, as the cheaper PS2 slaughtered it. There was a closed-source emulator in production called Nuance, but its author died and he didn't release the source code himself. Though it became publicly available. V.Smile Imperfect Yes ✓ An educational game machine by VTech. It derived from Sunplus' 16-bit SPG-series CPU architecture, which had similar peers including most Jakks Pacific TV games and Vii. The XaviXPORT was similar but had its own custom XaviX CPUs. XaviXPORT Preliminary None A fitness based system, employing the usage of motion controls in an effort to get players off of the couch - beating Nintendo's Wii by more than 2 years! Each game cart came with a dedicated controller and an own CPU (not in the system, similar to Super FX chips in some SNES carts). The XaviXPORT was actually developed by eight of the engineers who worked on the original development of the NES. An upgraded version with a 16-bit "Super XaviX" CPU compared to the original 8-bit CPU came in 2005. Also of note is the fact that Jackie Chan partnered with SSD Company Limited in order to bring his likeness to the console, which resulted in two licensed games. David Haywood is particularly working on reverse-engineering the XaviX technology for MAME. Seventh generation[edit] Game Wave None Redump A failed attempt to steal sales from the upcoming Nintendo Wii, the Game Wave was an obscure console released in 2005 by ZAPiT Games that only had trivia games. It also had a VeggieTales family party game. Giga Pets Explorer TV Game System GoGo TV Video Vision None None Released in sometime between 2005 and 2006 by Manley, the GoGo is Another PS2 Eye-Toy turned into edutainment console and like the Ion, it flopped and has since fallen into obscurity, it's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Hasbro Ion None None Released in time for the 2005 Holiday season, the Ion is basically a PS2 Eye-Toy turned into edutainment console for preschoolers and at the time, the Ion was turning heads at toy fairs, hype was building and the console looking to be real hit for Hasbro but for whatever reason, the console flopped and disappeared into obscurity faster then the refunds could be made, it's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Mattel Hyperscan Preliminary Redump Something you would expect to see under a bargain bin at Wal-mart, the Mattel Hyperscan was a card/disc based system released in 2006 to appeal to some poor child's aunt at Christmas. It ran on a 32-bit Sunplus system-on-a-chip CPU, a successor to the 16-bit CPUs used to run consoles such as the V.Smile, many Jakks Pacific TV games and Vii. CGR Review. Interac TV None None Released by Fisher-Price in 2006. The Interac TV was designed to turn any DVD Player into an educational console. just sync the custom wireless controller to your DVD Player and put a game disk in. Unfortunately incompatibly issues resulted in most people been unable to sync the controller to their player and some even said that their DVD player couldn't even read the disks. it's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Smart Cycle None None Released in 2007 by Fisher-Price and not to be confused with their later phone\tablet controller of the same name. the Smart Cycle is a hybrid between an exercise bike and a edutainment console. it's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Story Reader Video + None None Release in 2006 by Publications International. The Video + turns the Story Reader electronic book into one of many educational consoles of the 2000s. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. Around 7 games were released for the system, Telestory Interactive Storybook System None None Release in 2006 by Jakks Pacific for kids aged 3 and up, The Telestory is yet another edutainment console from 2000s and all the games are exactly what the console name would suggest, it's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. Vii Preliminary Yes A rather poor excuse of a response to the Wii, made by JungleTac, KenSingTon, and a dozen or so manufacturers churning out shoddy variants of it. Emulators have recently been made for the platform, with several projects aiming to provide support for Sunplus' rather oddball architecture, such as MuchimeX for the original Xbox, and Unununium, the latter being the basis for a MESS core. The same goes for VTech's V.Smile, the XaviXPORT and most Jakks Pacific TV games including those Disney tie-in ones. Zeebo None None An obscure Brazilian console released in 2009. It was based on the BREW platform, and its games were delivered via a 3G mobile network. It was only sold in Brazil, Mexico, and China. Eighth generation[edit] Ouya None None Funtastic TV Adventures None None Released in 2015 by Wal-Mart under their Kid Connection brand, the Funtastic is an educational console made for preschoolers and the only games known to have been released for the system are the two pack-in games. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. My Clem Box None None Released in 2018 by Italian toy company Clementoni and sold exclusively in Italy, My Clem Box is an educational console with Wii-like motion controls. Because it's still being sold, it unknown how games will be made for it and when it well be discontinued. Info on how many units have been sold so far have not been released to the public. Smart TV Consoles None None Launched sometime in the early 2010s by Italian toy company Clementoni, Smart TV is series of educational consoles sold exclusively in Italy. The controllers of these console ranged from traditional to the gimmicky with some having motion and PS2 EyeToy-like controls. It's unknown how many games were released for these systems. Handhelds[edit] Bandai Digi Casse None No Originally released in Japan by Bandai in 1984, another short-lived console from the early 80s. Only had around 4 to 6 games released for it. The console was released in Europe by an unknown company and in Russia as the Elektronika NM 26, both sometime in the late 80s. Epoch Game Pocket Computer Good Yes Only 5 games exist for this handheld (Released in 1984). All can be found here. Grandstand Light Games None No Have you every played a poor Game & Watch clone and said to yourself "I Would Love to Play This On The Big Screen"? Then the Light Games from 1988 is for you. It has a built-in projector and less then 10 games released for it. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. Hartung Game Master Decent Yes (No-intro) A German Game Boy knockoff released in 1990. Also distributed in the UK as the Systema 2000 and under alternate names in other countries, including Super Game and Game Tronic. Demonstration Palmtex PVS / Super Micro None No Released in 1984, Super Micro was a handheld console similar to the Milton Bradley Microvision in design. Bad timing, a lack of advertising, and issues with its design and quality (the plastic body is vary fragile) resulted in failure. Palmtex sold less then 37,000 units and discontinued the console the same year it was released. Only three of the eight games announced were released. Romtec Colorvision None No Released in 1984, The Colorvision was another cheaply made console released during the Video Game Crash. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. Only 5 games were released for it. VTech 3D Gamate None No An extremely rare console released in 1983 by VTech, it's unknown how many units were sold and was likely discontinued shortly after released. While six games were announced, only 3 are known to have been released. VTech Variety None No Another extremely rare console released from VTech in 1983, like the 3D Gamate. It's unknown how many units were sold and was also likely discontinued shortly after released. Only six games are known to have been released for it. VTech ProScreen None No Yet another extremely rare console from VTech, The ProScreen was released in 1984 and only three games are known to have been released. Bandai Denshi Manga Juku None No Released in Japan by Bandai in 1995, the Denshi Manga Juku was a touchscreen-based console that was the predecessor to the WonderSwan. It was discontinued in 1996 and only four games were released for it (including of all things, an exclusive Rockman aka Mega Man game). Barcode Battler None No Released in Japan by Epoch in 1991 and internationally later the same year. The console was basically a digital trading card game, whereas the player used Barcodes to get new characters, enemies and power-ups, Barcode cards were available in packs and the player was even encouraged to use Barcodes found on everyday products around the house. The Barcode Battler was hugely popular in Japan but a major flop everywhere else. It's unknown how many units were sold or how many cards were officially released. Cybiko/Cybiko Xtreme Imperfect TOSEC The Cybiko is a Russian handheld computer introduced in the U.S. by David Yang's company Cybiko Inc. as a retail test market in New York on April 2000, and rolled out nationwide in May 2000. It is designed for teens, featuring its own two-way radio text messaging system. It had over 430 "official" freeware games and applications. Gamate Good Yes Another attempt to capture part of the Game Boy market, the Gamate was released in the early 90s by Bit Corporation. The magnitude of its failure makes it and its software obscenely rare today, with prices over 500 dollars for the handheld alone on eBay. It's so obscure that it wasn't until December 2014 when preliminary support for the handheld was added in MAME, and ROM dumps were made. In2it None No The Philips In2it is an unreleased touchscreen-based console that never matured past internal testing and media press kits. Unfortunately after the failure of the CD-I, the console was cancelled and only 10 out of the few hundred systems manufactured are known to still exist. Furthermore, 10 games are known to have been made for it. Koei PasoGo None No In 1996, Koei released a Game Boy competitor in Japan called the PasoGo, and for some reason Koei decided to market it as being designed specifically to play the traditional Asian board game, Go. The console flopped thanks to its high price tag of 39,800 Yen (about $600 when adjusted for inflation), the size of the device, and the fact that all six launch titles were slightly different versions of Go. It's unknown how many units were sold or when it was discontinued. MegaDuck/CougarBoy Good Yes Chinese knockoff Game Boy (Made and released in 1993 by a Hong Kong firm) that was branded with various bizarre names, despite each version being exactly the same. Used cartridges. ROMs are out there, surprisingly. Pixter None No Released in 2000 as Fisher-Price's first Video Game Console, the Pixter was one of many consoles from the 2000s sold in the toy aisle and marketed towards children; around 25 to 50 games were released for it before being discontinued in 2007. Tiger Game.com Imperfect No-intro // TOSEC Launched on August 1997. An infamous piece of shit, with quite possibly the worst screen on any handheld ever. Somehow still had a "port" of Resident Evil 2. CGR review. Notable milestones in industry: it was the first video game console to include a touchscreen and the first handheld console to include Internet connectivity. Watara Supervision Good No-intro // TOSEC An attempt at making a real competitor for the Game Boy/Color and introduced in 1992. Apple iPod None No In 2006, Apple introduced "iPod games" as there first step into the handheld console market, despite having third party companies like Square Enix, Hudson Soft and EA making games for the iPod, it wasn't the huge hit they hoped it would be, a mix of awkward click wheel controls, controversy over pricing and the lack of an iPod-specific SDK resulted in a lack of interest from developers and a quick decline in game sales, Apple stopped releasing iPod games in 2009 and removed them from the iTunes store in 2011, Around 50 games were released for the iPod. DigiBlast None No The DigiBlast is a Linux-based console from 2005 that was meant to compete with both the GameBoy Advance and the VideoNow series of portable video players, Unfortunately despite having a solid launch lineup, The system was a major flop and quickly became one of the worst selling consoles ever released, only selling about 100,000 units in its short lifespan. Fisher-Price iXL None No Released in 2010 and discontinued in 2012, The iXL is a Touchscreen-based console designed for kids 3 to 7 years of age, it's unknown how many units were sold or how many games were released for it. GameKing Preliminary Yes A rather bastardized attempt at making a Gameboy-esque handheld, manufactured and marketed by TimeTop (aka Guangzhou Daidaixing Tec. Electronics Co. Ltd.) in 2003. Strangely enough, this one's even more primitive than the Supervision, Gamate and Mega Duck consoles before it, as it uses a lower-resolution 64x32 screen, and that's despite companies such as Subor (i.e. that Chinese company who gained notoriety for developing an AMD-based gaming PC/console hybrid) releasing workalike clones of the Game Boy and, more recently, GBA clones. MAME support for it is preliminary at best. Gizmondo Preliminary Yes (No-intro) A disaster of a handheld, the Gizmondo was released in 2005 with a furious marketing campaign. It was ahead of its time in that it (was supposed to have) included built-in advertisements to make the console cheaper. LGR Review GP32 Preliminary Yes (No-intro) A Korean handheld, it was released on November 23, 2001, in South Korea only. It was the first handheld to use SD cards and had pretty good specs for the time, so everybody ended up just jailbreaking it and using it as an emulator/homebrew platform. The developers later went on to develop the more successful GP2X line, which was designed from the ground up for emulators. An emulator was made for the system in 2002 called "GeePee32" that is known to be able to emulate many commercial games for the system, though some lack sound. However, the project is inactive. It can be found here: [1] Giochi Preziosi My Life None No Released in Italy in 2007, My Life was marketed towards young girls five to thirteen years of age, A Simple life simulator serves as the built-in game and as the main UI. How many units sold, number of games were released and when it was discontinued is unknown. K-Magic None No Released in 2010 by K's Kids for the 0-6 years market, The K-Magic is an educational handheld console that used cartridges called "Magic Cards" and was overall designed to be as simple as possible. It was discontinued in 2018 with the release of the K-Magic 2. It's unknown how many games were made for it or how many units were sold. Leapster Preliminary Yes (No-intro) The Leapster Learning Game System (Released in late 2003) is an educational handheld game console aimed at 4 to 10-year-olds (preschool to fourth grade) and made by LeapFrog Enterprises. Its games teach the alphabet, phonics, basic mathematics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), art, and animal facts to players. It featured a touchscreen and games from various licenses from Thomas & Friends to Sonic X. Oddly enough it's successors, i.e. the Didj, Leapster Explorer, and LeapPad series of tablets which run on the Pollux and NXP3200 platforms along with a customized Linux distribution has a homebrew scene that even features some emulators. Nintendo Pokémon Mini Decent TOSEC A very downgraded Game Boy (But also the tiniest cart-based handheld device made by Nintendo). It was first released in NA and then Japan on late 2001. Only Pokemon related games were released, and its catalog of games is also very limited. It's also very rare nowadays. Decent support in MAME, though there are other choices to play these games on other emulators. Nokia N-Gage None Yes Nokia's attempt at making a cell phone/handheld system hybrid, before mobile gaming really took off. Although it was the most powerful handheld in its time and released in October 2003, it failed due to a high price, a terrible button layout, numerous design flaws, and its underdeveloped cell phone component. Had a redesign called the QD, but it was only slightly better. Most of its games were ports, either from the GBA or from the PS1 and Saturn. While it didn't have any standout titles, it still had a few odd original entries from big franchises such as Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey and SSX: Out of Bounds, and was the only system to have an English version of Xanadu Next (before the 2016 global re-release for Windows PCs). There's one emulator called N-GageCool, but it's dead payware that only runs Java games. Modern open source emulators are in the works. POP Station None No This infamous Game & Watch clone was originally released sometime between late 2004 and 2006 by an Unknown Chinese Manufacturer, the first few modals had a selection of four games and each system only had one built-in game, meaning you would need to buy four of them to get all the games available, later models used interchangeable cartridges. it's unknown if these later models are were made by the same manufacturer that made original systems or if theirs other companies making clones. It's unknown how many units have been sold so far. Tapwave Zodiac None Some A handheld released in 2003 that used an enhanced Palm OS. Ahead for its time, even receiving awards. However, the PSP and Nintendo DS killed it. LGR Review Teachermate Handheld Educational Computer None No Released in 2008 by the non-profit company, Teachermate, This educational handheld console was only sold to schools and taught kids in a Kindergarten to Second Grade level, It's unknown how many games were made for it, how many units sold or when it was discontinued. VideoNow XP None No Released in 2003 and underwent 5 total revisions. An often forgotten attempt by Hasbro and their subsidiary Tiger Electronics (of Game.com fame) to use the popularity of their VideoNow portable video players to enter the Video Game market. C2: Color & Card None No Released in 2015 in China by Baiyi Animation, The extremely rare, C2 was made to bank on the popularity of Roco Kingdom films but ultimately it was a flop. Only 6 games were made for it and was discontinued shortly after released. Clemstation 6.0 None No Released in 2018 by Clementoni, the Clemstation is an "multimedia educational console" only sold in Italy that appears to be on a running custom version of Android. Because it's still being sold, it unknown how games will be made for it and when it well be discontinued, info on how many units have been sold so far not been released to the public. Evercade None No Evercade is an upcoming cartridge based handheld that will be released on April 9th, 2020 . The console designed to emulate officially licensed retro games and games from Indie publishers / developers. Since the console has yet to be released, it unknown how games will be made for it, when it well be discontinued or how many units of this system will sell. Kids Pad None No Released in 2012 by LG. The Kids Pad was only sold in South Korea and featured an app store and support for cartridges. How many units sold, number of games were released and when it was discontinued is unknown. K-Magic 2 None No Released in 2018 by K's Kids for the 0-6 years market, The K-Magic 2 simplifies the original console by having everything already built-in and ready for parents and children to use, Because it's still being sold, when it well be discontinued and info on how many units have been sold so far not been released to the public. M&D Monon Color Preliminary No Like the C2, The Monon Color from 2014 also tried to bank on the popularity of Roco Kingdom films and was only slightly more successful than it; it's unknown how many games (At least 15) were released for it or when it was discontinued. Preliminary support for it was added in MAME 0.205 on December 2018. NEO Consoles None No Released in 2017.by Takara Tomy. The NEO Series are educational consoles only sold in Japan and appear to be using a custom version of Android. Because it's still being sold, it unknown how games will be made for it and when it well be discontinued, info on how many units have been sold so far not been released to the public. Playdate None No The Playdate is an upcoming handheld with a released date of sometime in 2020. The console has a monochrome screen similar to an e-paper display one would find on a Kindle. Game development is aimed mainly at indie studios. Since the console has yet to be released, it unknown how games will be made for it, when it well be discontinued or how many units of this system will sell. Retrieved from "http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=Strange_and_Forgotten_Console_emulators&oldid=32310" Third-generation video game consoles Fourth-generation video game consoles Fifth-generation video game consoles Sixth-generation video game consoles Seventh-generation video game consoles Eighth-generation video game consoles About Emulation General Wiki	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line100
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__label__wiki	0.692311	0.692311	Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites! Discover Community History Area Research Center Network Local Historical Societies Wisconsin History Tour Research Your Family History Family History Collections Genealogy Workshops Historic Homes & Properties Preserve Homes & Properties Tax Credits for Historic Building Restoration Visit Museums & Historic Sites Wisconsin Historical Museum Wade House Villa Louis Reed School Pendarvis Old World Wisconsin Madeline Island Museum H.H. Bennett Studio First Capitol Black Point Estate Teach Wisconsin History 4th-Grade Wisconsin History Society Store Events Store Home Wisconsin County Histories 970 History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people Previous 1076 of 1320 Next 970 HISTORY OP WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Avhich he developed and improved into one of the finest farms in the county. He was a man of intense energy, broad-minded and pro¬ gressive, and took an active interest in public affairs, serving as chair¬ man of the toAvn board, and for eighteen years served as school clerk. ToAvard the close of the Civil War he enlisted in the First Regiment, AVisconsin Cavalry, and entered the army and served until honorably discharged. He died at Oshkosh in 1903 at the age of seventy-three years and was buried in the Lebanon cemetery, his wife having died at Lebanon in 1889, aged fifty-seven. Their other surviving children are: Daniel W., a physician at Alihvaukee; Timothy L., also a physi¬ cian at Alilwaukee, and Alary, now (1908) sister superior in the parochial schools at Austin, Chicago. John receiA^ed a good English education in the district schools at home, then took a course of training in a business college, after which he was a student in the University of AATsconsin for two years, and later pursued his law studies in the law department of the Univer¬ sity of AVisconsin. From 1879 until 1884 he taught in country and village schools; then for one year was principal of the Weyauwega high school, after Avhich he passed his examination and was admitted to the bar of AA^isconsin and settled down to the general practice of his profession at Oshkosh. Air. Harrington conducted his practice alone for three years, then from 1890 to 1895 had associated with him Air. Walter W. Quartermass, his partner, now deceased, being six years district attorney. Air. Harrington is a careful student and an able lawyer, recog¬ nized as an authority on questions of taxation, of which he has made a special study, and in 1898 was appointed by the city council of Osh¬ kosh special tax commissioner, his duties involving the revaluation of all the taxable property of the city. In politics Mr. Harrington is a Democrat. He was nominated by his party for the office of dis¬ trict attorney in 1890, and in 1906 Avas its unsuccessful nominee for state senator. From 1899 to 1904 he, served as chairman of the county board, and since the year last named has served as a member of the state board of regents of normal schools under the appointment of Governor La Follette, and of this board he is a member of nu¬ merous committees. He is active in the local and state councils and affairs of his party. In religious faith Mr. Harrington is a Catholic. He is one of the charter members of the Candlelight Club, the leading men^s social and literary club of Oshkosh. On April 14, 1891, Mr. Harrington married Miss Anna C, daugh¬ ter of John and Mary Bourke, of Oshkosh. They have fiye children, Title History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people Title of work History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people Author Lawson, Publius V. (Publius Virgilius), 1853-1920 Description This 1908 history of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the county from the early years of European exploration and settlement. Topics covered include agriculture, educational institutions, Winnebago County residents in the Civil War and Spanish-American War, the legal and medical professions, civic and social organizations, businesses and industries, railroads, newspapers, schools, and churches. Histories of the cities and villages of Oshkosh, Neenah, and Menasha, as are biographical sketches of county residents. Place of Publication (Original) Chicago Publisher (Original) C.F. Cooper and Company Publication Date (Original) 1908 Format-Digital xml Rights We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Identifier-Digital Winn1908000 State Wisconsin; County Winnebago County; Decade 1630-1639; 1660-1669; 1670-1679; 1680-1689; 1710-1719; 1720-1729; 1730-1739; 1750-1759; 1760-1769; 1810-1819; 1820-1829; 1830-1839; 1840-1849; 1850-1859; 1860-1869; 1870-1879; 1880-1889; 1890-1899; 1900-1909; Subject Ho Chunk Indians; Fox Indians; Menominee Indians; Sauk Indians; Page Number 970 Format-Digital jpeg Identifier-Digital Winn19081076 Full Text 970 HISTORY OP WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Avhich he developed and improved into one of the finest farms in the county. He was a man of intense energy, broad-minded and pro¬ gressive, and took an active interest in public affairs, serving as chair¬ man of the toAvn board, and for eighteen years served as school clerk. ToAvard the close of the Civil War he enlisted in the First Regiment, AVisconsin Cavalry, and entered the army and served until honorably discharged. He died at Oshkosh in 1903 at the age of seventy-three years and was buried in the Lebanon cemetery, his wife having died at Lebanon in 1889, aged fifty-seven. Their other surviving children are: Daniel W., a physician at Alihvaukee; Timothy L., also a physi¬ cian at Alilwaukee, and Alary, now (1908) sister superior in the parochial schools at Austin, Chicago. John receiA^ed a good English education in the district schools at home, then took a course of training in a business college, after which he was a student in the University of AATsconsin for two years, and later pursued his law studies in the law department of the Univer¬ sity of AVisconsin. From 1879 until 1884 he taught in country and village schools; then for one year was principal of the Weyauwega high school, after Avhich he passed his examination and was admitted to the bar of AA^isconsin and settled down to the general practice of his profession at Oshkosh. Air. Harrington conducted his practice alone for three years, then from 1890 to 1895 had associated with him Air. Walter W. Quartermass, his partner, now deceased, being six years district attorney. Air. Harrington is a careful student and an able lawyer, recog¬ nized as an authority on questions of taxation, of which he has made a special study, and in 1898 was appointed by the city council of Osh¬ kosh special tax commissioner, his duties involving the revaluation of all the taxable property of the city. In politics Mr. Harrington is a Democrat. He was nominated by his party for the office of dis¬ trict attorney in 1890, and in 1906 Avas its unsuccessful nominee for state senator. From 1899 to 1904 he, served as chairman of the county board, and since the year last named has served as a member of the state board of regents of normal schools under the appointment of Governor La Follette, and of this board he is a member of nu¬ merous committees. He is active in the local and state councils and affairs of his party. In religious faith Mr. Harrington is a Catholic. He is one of the charter members of the Candlelight Club, the leading men^s social and literary club of Oshkosh. On April 14, 1891, Mr. Harrington married Miss Anna C, daugh¬ ter of John and Mary Bourke, of Oshkosh. They have fiye children, History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns,... Title Page. Volume I - [blank] - [Plate] List of Portraits. Volume I The History of Winnebago County Chapter I. Natural Phenomenon Chapter II. Primitive People Chapter III. The Winnebago Tribe Chapter IV. The Winnebago Chiefs Chapter V. The Coming of Nicolet Chapter VI. The Fox Tribe and the Battle of the French and Outagamis Chapter VII. The Menominee Tribe an Chief Oshkosh Chapter VIII. Colonel Robert Dickson Ice Bound Chapter IX. John Lawe's Thrilling Moonlight Plunge Through the Fox River Rapids Astride Chest Containing $9,000 in Silver Chapter X. When Winnebago County was Alive with Wild Animals Chapter XI. The Beauty of the Virgin Scenery of the County Described by Travelers, Just Before the Coming of the Pioneer Chapter XII. The Trading Posts Chapter XIII. Treaties Made with the Aboriginal Tribes, by which the Title to the Indian Lands Passed to the United States Chapter XIV. Building a County--Its Civic Administration, Courts, Schools, Buildings and Institutions Chapter XV. Recollections of William W. Wright, Styled the Father of Oshkosh, and His Wife, Styled the Mother of Oshkosh, of the Earliest Beginnings of Social, Civic and Religious Life in the County and the City of Oshkosh, Having Lived Through the Changes Chapter XVI. National and Legislative Representation Chapter XVII. Organization of Towns Chapter XVIII. The Steam and Sail Boats on the Lake and River in Earlier Days Chapter XIX. Origin and Meaning of Place Names of Lakes, Rivers and Localities Chapter XX. Population, Wealth and Products of Winnebago County Chapter XXI. Literature, Art, Music and the State in Winnebago County Chapter XXII. Township History Town of Algoma Town of Black Wolf Town of Clayton Town of Menasha Town of Neenah Town of Nekimi Town of Nepeuskun Town of Omro Village of Omro Town of Oshkosh Town of Poygan Town of Rushford Town of Utica Town of Vinland Town of Winchester Town of Winneconne Butte des Morts Hamlet The Village of Winneconne Town of Wolf River Bay Boom Chapter XXIII. City of Neenah Chapter XXIV. Founding the Mission of the Winnebago Rapids Chapter XXV. Sale of the Reservation of Winnebago Rapids to Harrison Reed--the Arrival of the Pioneers--the Village Named Neenah Chapter XXVI. The Coming of Governor James Duane Doty--the Loggery--a Character Sketch of the State Builder Chapter XXVII. Colonel Harvey Jones Buys the Village of Neenah Chapter XXVIII. Town of Neenah Organized Chapter XXIX. Pioneering in the Olden Days--Beginnings of the Social, Mercantile, Civic, School and Church Activity Chapter XXX. The Lock, the Canal and the Dam Chapter XXXI. When Neenah was Known as the ""Flour City."" Chapter XXXII. The Invention of the Roller Flour Mill Chapter XXXIII. Why Neenah is Called the Paper City Chapter XXXIV. Various Manufacturing, Mercantile and Public Enterprising in Business and Social Life--the Doctors and Lawyers Chapter XXXV. Bank, Bankers and Bank Buildings Chapter XXXVI. The Newspapers in Neenah Chapter XXXVII. The Growth of the Civic Organization of the City of Neenah, Traced from the Beginning, and the Public Improvements Chapter XXXVIII. The Log School House ""Not Worth a Red Cent""--the Pioneer Teacher at Six Dollars a Month, and the New Palace School Edifices, with their Normal Corps of Professors and Instructors Chapter XXXIX. The Gas and Electric Light Plants, Water Works, Population, Library, City Hall, Fire Companies and Parks in the City of Neenah, and the Samuel A. Cook Armory Chapter XL. The Church Society and Church Buildings in Neenah Chapter XLI. History of the City of Oshkosh Chapter XLII. Manufacturing in Oshkosh Chapter XLIII. Banks and Banking in the City of Oshkosh Chapter XLIV. Early Judicial History and Organization of the County Chapter XLV. Bench and Bar Chapter XLVI. The Schools of Oshkosh Chapter XLVII. The Church, the Manse, the Pastor in Oshkosh Chapter XLVIII. The City of Oshkosh and Winnebago County in the Civil and Spanish Wars Chapter XLIX. Steamboating in the Early Days on Lake Winnebago, the Fox and Wolf Rivers Chapter L. Complete Record of Yachting, Racing and Yacht Clubs on the Adjacent Lakes Chapter LI. Governor Coles Bashford of Oshkosh, and the Celebrated Contest Over Election Frauds Fifty Years Ago Chapter LII. City of Menasha Chapter LIII. The Pioneer in the Hamlet--the Mills of the Past--the Flush Days Along the River Title Page. Volume II - ii List of Portraits. Volume II - iii The History of Winnebago County (continued) Chapter LIV. The Extensive Manufacturing Industries of Menasha Chapter LXIX. The Medical Profession - 847a - 847b - 847c - 847d - 847e - 847f - 847h Chapter LV. The History of Factories and Mills that have Flourished in their Day and Gone Out Forever Chapter LVI. Civic Organization of Town, Village and City of Menasha Chapter LXXI. Press of Oshkosh - 1206a - 1206b - 1206c - 1206d - 1206e - 1206f Chapter LVII. The Iron Horse, and Iron Rail--the Coming of the Railroad Chapter LVIII. The Organization of Church Societies and the Building of Chruches in Menasha Chapter LIX. Menasha City Schools--Their Old and New School Houses, the Scholars of Long Ago, and Today--the Teacher Past and Present--Some Prominent Graduates Chapter LX. The Old Lighthouse and Its Beacon Light from a Great Iron Latern Chapter LXI. Banks, Bankers and Banking Wealth Chapter LXII. The United States Land Office; Its Officers; the Land Office Aristocracy, and the Jenny Linders Chapter LXIII. The Spirit of the Press Then and Now Chapter LXIV. The Lawyer and the Doctor Chapter LXV. Old Ben of Yorktown, a Famous Cannon Chapter LXVI. The Mails, the Post Office and the Postmaster Chapter LXVII. The Coming of the Germans Chapter LXVIII. Menasha and Neenah in the Civil and Spanish Wars Chapter LXIX. Biography	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line106
__label__wiki	0.521468	0.521468	CoraHarrington.com Cora Harrington Artist Cora Harrington: Profile Cora graduated with a First Class Honours in Art and Design from the Belfast College of Art, in 1970. While a student she won several awards including Student of the Year and 1st, 2nd and Highly Commended in a National Competition at the R.D.S. in Dublin. She was commissioned by British Enkalon to produce a large panel for their London headquarters. After living in Africa for three years, where she continued to produce collages and oil paintings, Cora returned to live in N.Ireland. Over the next twenty or so years part time work and raising a family prevented Cora from furthering her art career until the 1990s. Cora has received numerous private and public commissions, including several from Newry and Mourne Council, N.I. Fire Authority, and Royal Mail. She has often exhibited in the Laing National Art Competition, several times reaching the London Finals and has won First Prize in the Laing N.I. Region. Cora was also awarded the Perpetual Silver Medal by The Arts Society of Ulster for a portrait. Having had a successful career painting to commission, subjects such as animals, landscapes, townscapes, portraits etc, Cora’s aim now is to concentrate on and develop her more creative work. She is mainly concerned with how the imagination transforms memory and the way memory informs vision. A fragment of memory or a glimpse of something may be enough to inspire the creative process. She often develops these small beginnings into exciting finished pieces, using her personal response to the subject, rather than a factual representation. Her love of colour and pattern is evident in all her work Over the years Cora has become an accomplished painter in all media. Now she is using this knowledge in a more searching and experimental way to create works, which are gaining interest in the Irish Art world. Cora has paintings in public and private collections in Ireland, U.K, Canada. U.S.A and S. Africa. mail@coraharrington.com Link to Albums on Flickr flickr.com/photos/coraharrington See my latest work on Instagram @coraharringtonartist A price guide is on my contact page. coraharrington.com/price-guide Most of these images are available as high quality archival prints in small editions of 50. Unframed A3 £60 mounted £85 A2 £80 mounted £105 Each print numbered and signed by the artist. Postage for unframed prints rolled and packed in a tube, free within the UK £10 outside UK To order contact Cora mail@coraharrington.com All images © Cora Harrington	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line107
__label__wiki	0.753853	0.753853	The Journal of Agricultural Science (6) Animal Science (2) BSAP Occasional Publication (1) BSAS (6) Characteristics of boli formed by dairy cows upon ingestion of fresh ryegrass, lucerne or chicory E. M. K. Minnee, G. C. Waghorn, P. Gregorini, R. H. Bryant, D. F. Chapman Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 6 / June 2019 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2018, pp. 1188-1197 This study examined the comminution of fresh herbage, subsequent nutrient release, and the characteristics of swallowed boli from three physically and chemically contrasting forages during ingestive mastication by dairy cows. The extent and pattern of nutrient release will determine their availability to rumen microflora, and potentially influence their efficiency of use. The forages evaluated were perennial ryegrass (ryegrass, Lolium perenne L., cv Alto AR37), lucerne (Medicago sativa L., cv Torlesse) and chicory (Cichorium intybus L., cv Choice). Experimental design was a 3×3 cross-over with three forages and three consecutive 1-day measurement periods, conducted twice. Six non-lactating, pregnant, multiparous Holstein-Friesian×Jersey cows (Bos taurus) were used, with the first cross-over applied to three mature (10.1±0.61 years old; BW 631±64 kg) cows, and the second to three young (4.8±0.02 years; BW 505±19 kg) cows. Fresh cut forage was offered to the cows following partial rumen evacuation. Swallowed boli were collected directly at the cardia at the commencement, middle and end of the first feeding bout of the first meal of the day. Forage species did not affect the fresh weight of ingested boli (mean 169 g, P=0.605) but the proportion of saliva in boli varied between forage. Boli of chicory contained the greatest amount of herbage material and least amount of saliva, whereas ryegrass boli were the opposite. Boli fresh weight tended to increase as time in the meal progressed, but the age of the cow was not shown to affect any boli characteristics or nutrient release. Particle size reduction was affected by forage, with 31%, 38% and 35% of chicory, lucerne and ryegrass herbage reduced to <2 mm. There was little evidence of relationship between comminution and any physical or chemical characteristic of the forage, except in ryegrass where extent of comminution was moderately correlated with herbage strength. Proportional release of herbage soluble carbohydrate exceeded that of N during mastication. Differences in loss of N were moderately correlated with the amount of N in the herbage (R2=0.53) but herbage comminution was not strongly correlated with release of either N or carbohydrate. These findings illustrate the complex animal×forage interactions that occur during mastication, and that it is not possible to infer nutrient loss from herbage based on herbage characteristics as the driver for this differ between species. Supplementing lactating dairy cows fed high-quality pasture with black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) tannin W. M. Griffiths, C. E. F. Clark, D. A. Clark, G. C. Waghorn Journal: animal / Volume 7 / Issue 11 / November 2013 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2013, pp. 1789-1795 A reduction in urinary nitrogen (N) excretion from dairy cows fed pasture containing a high N concentration in the dry matter (DM) will have environmental benefits, because losses to soil water and air by leachate and nitrous oxides (N2O) will be reduced. Condensed tannins (CT) reduce digestion of N, and provision as a dietary additive could have nutritional benefits for production, but the amount required and the responses to different sources of CT on milk production have not been defined. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate effects of supplementation with CT extracted from black wattle (Acacia mearnsii De Wild.) on milk production and faecal N concentration by lactating dairy cows grazing a vegetative Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)-based pasture. In one experiment, CT was administered as a drench, twice daily, to 38 multiparous Holstein–Friesian cows assigned to four treatments; control (CONT, 0 g/day), low CT (LCT, 111 g/day), medium CT (MCT, 222 g/day) and high CT (HCT, 444 g/day), grazing as a single group. The CT supplementation affected milk yield (P < 0.001) with a trend of declining milk yield as CT concentration increased from about 0.6 to about 2.9% of dietary DM. Milk urea nitrogen (MUN) decreased at MCT and HCT levels of supplementation (P < 0.01) but milk fat, CP and lactose percentage were not affected by CT supplementation. The CT supplementation increased N concentration in faeces for LCT and MCT treatments (P < 0.05), suggesting partitioning of dietary N away from urine. When CT was pelleted with grain, in a second experiment and fed twice daily as a supplement at milking, it reduced the acceptability relative to pellets without CT, and tended to lower milk production from 25.4 to 24.5 kg/day, although the decline was not significant (P > 0.05). The diet of cows fed pellets with CT contained about 1.2% CT in the DM but neither milk constituents nor MUN were affected by CT-supplemented grain (P > 0.05). These findings demonstrate beneficial effects for production of low concentrations (c. 0.6% DM) of CT from black wattle when given to cows grazing pasture with an N concentration of 3.8%, and suggest a diversion of N from urine, but when CT exceeded about 1.4% of dietary DM, milk production was depressed. The value of supplementing a pasture diet for lactating dairy cows with black wattle tannin extract will depend on costs of supplementation, returns from milk production and liabilities associated with N losses to urine. Technical options for the mitigation of direct methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock: a review P. J. Gerber, A. N. Hristov, B. Henderson, H. Makkar, J. Oh, C. Lee, R. Meinen, F. Montes, T. Ott, J. Firkins, A. Rotz, C. Dell, A. T. Adesogan, W. Z. Yang, J. M. Tricarico, E. Kebreab, G. Waghorn, J. Dijkstra, S. Oosting Journal: animal / Volume 7 / Issue s2 / June 2013 Although livestock production accounts for a sizeable share of global greenhouse gas emissions, numerous technical options have been identified to mitigate these emissions. In this review, a subset of these options, which have proven to be effective, are discussed. These include measures to reduce CH4 emissions from enteric fermentation by ruminants, the largest single emission source from the global livestock sector, and for reducing CH4 and N2O emissions from manure. A unique feature of this review is the high level of attention given to interactions between mitigation options and productivity. Among the feed supplement options for lowering enteric emissions, dietary lipids, nitrates and ionophores are identified as the most effective. Forage quality, feed processing and precision feeding have the best prospects among the various available feed and feed management measures. With regard to manure, dietary measures that reduce the amount of N excreted (e.g. better matching of dietary protein to animal needs), shift N excretion from urine to faeces (e.g. tannin inclusion at low levels) and reduce the amount of fermentable organic matter excreted are recommended. Among the many ‘end-of-pipe’ measures available for manure management, approaches that capture and/or process CH4 emissions during storage (e.g. anaerobic digestion, biofiltration, composting), as well as subsurface injection of manure, are among the most encouraging options flagged in this section of the review. The importance of a multiple gas perspective is critical when assessing mitigation potentials, because most of the options reviewed show strong interactions among sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The paper reviews current knowledge on potential pollution swapping, whereby the reduction of one GHG or emission source leads to unintended increases in another. Evaluation of Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System predictions of milk production, intake and liveweight change of grazing dairy cows fed contrast silages A. V. CHAVES, I. M. BROOKES, G. C. WAGHORN, S. L. WOODWARD, J. L. BURKE Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 144 / Issue 1 / February 2006 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2006, pp. 85-91 Print publication: February 2006 The importance of mechanistic models for ration balancing with forages is indicated and physical limitations to intake emphasized, because these limit energy and nutrient supply to cows grazing forages, especially grass. Ration-balancing models using fresh or ensiled forages to complement pasture will need to accommodate intake limitations due to rumen fill, clearance, chewing or other criteria. The potential of the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS) model to predict milk production from diets based on pasture and forage supplements was tested using data from two experiments. Data were obtained from studies in which pasture was complemented with contrasting silages including maize, pasture, sulla, lotus and forage mixtures, comprising 0·30–0·40 of dry matter intake (DMI). Twelve diets were used in the evaluation. DMI, liveweight (LW), days in milk, and diet composition were determined during the trials and used as inputs in the model. Across all diets, a significant relationship existed between predicted and actual values for DMI (R2=0·58), milk yield (R2=0·59) and LW change (R2=0·51), but there were still large unexplained sources of variation. No significant mean bias was observed for any of the variables, but the slope of residual differences against predicted values was significantly different from zero for milk yield, LW change and for DMI (P<0·06). The results indicate a satisfactory prediction of milk production when cows are neither gaining nor losing weight, but that a systematic bias exists probably because of the failure of the CNCPS model to account for energy and nutrient partitioning. Methane emission by alpaca and sheep fed on lucerne hay or grazed on pastures of perennial ryegrass/white clover or birdsfoot trefoil C. S. PINARES-PATIÑO, M. J. ULYATT, G. C. WAGHORN, K. R. LASSEY, T. N. BARRY, C. W. HOLMES, D. E. JOHNSON Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 140 / Issue 2 / March 2003 Based on the knowledge that alpaca (Lama pacos) have a lower fractional outflow rate of feed particles (particulate FOR) from their forestomach than sheep (San Martin 1987), the current study measured methane (CH4) production and other digestion parameters in these species in three successive experiments (1, 2 and 3): Experiment 1, lucerne hay fed indoors; Experiment 2, grazed on perennial ryegrass/white clover pasture (PRG/WC); and Experiment 3, grazed on birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) pasture (Lotus). Six male alpaca and six castrated Romney sheep were simultaneously and successively fed on the forages either ad libitum or at generous herbage allowances (grazing). CH4 production (g/day) (using the sulphur hexafluoride tracer technique), voluntary feed intake (VFI), diet quality, and protozoa counts and volatile fatty acid concentrations in samples of forestomach contents were determined. In addition, feed digestibility, energy and nitrogen (N) balances and microbial N supply from the forestomach (using purine derivatives excretion) were measured in Experiment 1. Diets selected by alpaca were of lower quality than those selected by sheep, and the voluntary gross energy intakes (GEI, MJ) per kg of liveweight0·75 were consistently lower (P<0·001) for the alpaca than for the sheep (0·74 v. 1·36, 0·61 v. 1·32 and 0·77 v. 2·53 on lucerne hay, PRG/WC and Lotus, respectively). Alpaca and sheep did not differ (P>0·05) in their CH4 yields (% GEI) when fed on lucerne hay (5·1 v. 4·7), but alpaca had a higher CH4 yield when fed on PRG/WC (9·4 v. 7·5, P<0·05) and Lotus (6·4 v. 2·7, P<0·001). When grazing on Lotus, the sheep had very high protozoa counts in their forestomach contents, compared with those with the other forages and those in the alpaca. On lucerne hay and Lotus, but not on PRG/WC, the alpaca had higher (P<0·01) acetate/propionate ratio in their forestomach fluid than sheep. When fed on lucerne hay, alpaca and sheep did not differ (P>0·05) in diet N partition or microbial N yield, but alpaca had higher (P<0·05) neutral detergent fibre digestibility (0·478 v. 0·461) and lower (P<0·01) urinary energy losses (5·2 v. 5·8 % GEI) than sheep. It is suggested that differences between these species in forestomach particulate FOR might have been the underlying physiological mechanism responsible for the differences in CH4 yield, although the between-species differences in VFI and diet quality also had a major effect on it. The effect of condensed tannins in Lotus corniculatus upon reproductive efficiency and wool production in sheep during late summer and autumn B. R. MIN, W. C. McNABB, T. N. BARRY, P. D. KEMP, G. C. WAGHORN, M. F. McDONALD Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 132 / Issue 3 / May 1999 A grazing experiment, conducted for 55 days (from 4 March to 29 April) in the late summer/autumn of 1997, at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, compared the reproductive efficiency and wool growth of ewes grazing Lotus corniculatus (birdsfoot trefoil) or perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)/white clover (Trifolium repens) dominant pasture (pasture). Half the ewes grazing each forage were given daily oral polyethylene glycol (PEG: molecular weight 3500) supplementation to inactivate the condensed tannins (CT) in lotus. A rotational grazing system with 200 mixed age ewes (54·2±0·88 kg/ewe; 50 ewes/treatment) was used. The effect of forage species and PEG supplementation upon voluntary feed intake (VFI), concentration of plasma metabolites, reproductive efficiency, wool production and wool characteristics was measured during two synchronized oestrous cycles. The ewes were restricted to maintenance feeding for the first 12 days of each oestrous cycle and then increased to ad libitum for the 6 days prior to and including ovulation. Lotus contained 17 g total CT/kg dry matter (DM) in the diet selected. There were only trace amounts of total CT in pasture. In vitro organic matter digestibility (OMD) was higher for lotus (0·82 v. 0·74) than for pasture, whilst lotus contained less nitrogen (N; 37·8 v. 44·5 g/kg OM). Mean ovulation rates (OR) for CT-acting and PEG sheep grazing pasture and lotus were respectively 1·33 v. 1·35 and 1·78 v. 1·56, with corresponding lambing percentages being 1·36 v. 1·36 and 1·70 v. 1·42. Fecundity (number of corpora lutea/ewe ovulating) was greater for ewes grazing lotus than pasture (P<0·01), and tended to be greater for CT-acting than for PEG sheep grazing lotus (P=0·06). In unsupplemented sheep, ewes grazing lotus had increased plasma concentrations of branched chain amino acids (BCAA; 57%) and essential amino acids (EAA; 52%) compared to ewes grazing pasture. In ewes grazing pasture, PEG administration had no effect on plasma concentrations of urea and free amino acids, VFI, reproductive efficiency and wool production. However, in sheep grazing lotus, plasma concentrations of urea were significantly lower and concentrations of most amino acids were significantly higher for CT-acting than for PEG supplemented ewes (CT not acting); there was no difference in VFI between these two groups. Compared to ewes grazing pasture, ewes grazing lotus had similar VFI but produced more wool with longer staples and thicker fibre diameter, with there being no effect of PEG supplementation. It was concluded that feeding lotus increased the efficiency of both reproduction and wool production without an increase in VFI, and that a possible cause was the action of CT in increasing plasma EAA and especially BCAA concentration. Inocula differences affect in vitro gas production kinetics D. R. Mertens, P. J. Weimer, G. M. Waghorn Journal: BSAP Occasional Publication / Volume 22 / 1998 The kinetics of gas production during ruminal fermentation may provide valuable information about foods that can be used to formulate diets and model animal responses. However, measurement of digestion kinetics is affected by methodology and techniques must be established that provide accurate and precise estimates of kinetic parameters. Because gas production measurements provide the opportunity to estimate the digestion kinetics of both soluble and insoluble matter in foods, it would be desirable to use this technique on a wide variety of forages, grains, supplements, and by-product foods. Applying an in vitro technique to such a wide variety of substrates raises questions about the type of inoculum that should be used. The objective of our study was to evaluate the effects of donor animal and its diet on the measurement of gas production kinetics using both forage and concentrate substrates. Effect of condensed tannins in Lotus corniculatus upon the digestion of methionine and cysteine in the small intestine of sheep Y. Wang, G. C. Waghorn, W. C. McNabb, T. N. Barry, M. J. Hedley, I. D. Shelton Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 127 / Issue 3 / November 1996 An experiment was conducted at Palmerston North, New Zealand, to determine the effect of condensed tannins (CT) on the true and apparent digestion of methionine and cysteine in the small intestine (SI) of sheep fed fresh Lotus comkulatus. The lotus contained c. 30 g total CT/kg dry matter (DM) and was fed hourly to sheep in metabolism crates. Four sheep were prepared with rumen and abomasal cannulae which enabled the indigestible liquid phase marker, chromium ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (Cr-EDTA), to be infused into the rumen to estimate digesta flow. True digestibility of plant methionine and cysteine in the SI and their site of absorption in the SI were determined from 35S-labelled L. corniculatus homogenate continuously infused into the abomasum. After 9 h infusion of the 35S-labelled lotus homogenate, the sheep were slaughtered and digesta samples were taken at intervals along the small and large intestines. The effect of CT was determined by comparing two control sheep (CT-acting) with two sheep given a continuous intraruminal infusion of polyethylene glycol (PEG, MW 3500) to bind and inactivate the CT. The CT reduced the true digestibility of plant methionine (0·72 v. 0·88) and cysteine (0·65 v. 0·81) in the SI relative to sheep receiving PEG. Condensed tannins also appeared to alter the site of digestion of both [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine in the SI, and increased the flux of both amino acids in the mid and latter thirds of the SI. CT did not affect the apparent digestibility of total methionine (0·82 v. 0·84) in the SI but reduced the apparent digestibility of total cysteine from 0·77 to 0·66. In control sheep CT increased the abomasal flux (as a proportion of eaten) of total digesta methionine (0·88 v. 0·76) and total digesta cysteine (0·74 v. 0·62). The apparent absorption of total methionine (plant + microbial + endogenous) was increased by the action of CT (0·72 v. 0·63 g/g eaten) but was similar for total cysteine (0·49 v. 0·48 g/g eaten) in both groups. It was concluded that CT reduced the true digestibility of plant methionine and cysteine in the SI. However, it was calculated that the action of CT actually increased the total amounts (g/g eaten) of plant methionine and cysteine absorbed from the SI, due to its effect in increasing abomasal flux. Effect of protein and energy intake on digestion and nitrogen metabolism in wethers and on ovulation in ewes G. C. Waghorn, J. F. Smith, M. J. Ulyatt Journal: Animal Science / Volume 51 / Issue 2 / October 1990 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2010, pp. 291-300 Two experiments were conducted to investigate the basis for an increase in ovulation rate in ewes given improved nutrition prior to mating. Sixteen wether sheep were used in the first experiment in order to screen physiological and nutritional variables likely to be affected by protein and energy intake. They were given low protein (LP) and high protein (HP) diets (19·1 and 35·2 g nitrogen per kg dry matter (DM)) each at four levels of energy intake (range 7·67 to 27·06 MJ gross energy per day). Effects of treatment on digestibility and partition of digestion between the rumen and intestines were small but increased nitrogen intake increased both nitrogen retention and the concentration of some essential amino acids (EAA) in plasma. The dietary treatments imposed on the wethers had been given to 800 ewes previously in a separate trial designed to predict ovulatory response to dietary and energy intakes. When the variables measured in the wether sheep were compared with predicted ovulation for ewes given the same treatments, the strongest relationship was with plasma concentrations of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA; r = 0·95; P < 0·001). Correlations with other EAA were weaker (r = 0·61; P < 001) and were not significantly related to concentrations of non-essential amino acids (NEAA) in plasma (r = −0·21). Eighty ewes in experiment 2 were given an LP diet, blood samples were taken and ovulation rate determined by laparoscopy. One group of 20 ewes was maintained on the diet and another group of 20 was given an HP diet starting on day 7 of the oestrous cycle. Blood samples were taken 5 days later and numbers of ova determined during the next cycle. There were no changes in the number of ova present in ewes maintained on the LP diet, but a change to the HP diet increased ovulation rate from 1·47 to 1·89 eggs per ewe. Ewes which had single or multiple ova when given the LP diet (pre-treatment) had similar concentrations of amino acids in their blood, but those given the HP diet increased blood concentrations of BCAA by proportionately 0·58 and other EAA by 0·29 whilst NEAA were unaffected. Ewes which increased their ovulation rate when given the HP diet had a greater increase in blood BCAA concentration than those which did not increase their ovulation rate. Both the concentration in blood and the magnitude of increase in BCAA concentration appear to affect the number of eggs released. This concept is supported by evidence that BCAA are able to exert regulatory effects on mammalian protein metabolism under some circumstances. Effects of dietary protein and energy intakes on growth hormone, insulin, glucose tolerance and fatty acid synthesis in young wether sheep G. C. Waghorn, D. S. Flux, M. J. Ulyatt Journal: Animal Science / Volume 44 / Issue 1 / February 1987 A group of 16 Romney wether sheep fitted with rumen and abomasal cannulae and aged 11 to 12 months was allocated to either high or low crude protein (CP) pelleted diets (220 (HP) and 120 (LP) g CP per kg) to give four daily intakes of dry matter (356, 711, 1067 and 1422 g) within each diet, giving two sheep per treatment. Diets were given hourly for 40 days during which time growth rates, plasma concentrations of insulin (I) and growth hormone (GH) were determined, a glucose tolerance test was performed and relative rates of fatty acid (FA) synthesis were determined. Live-weight changes ranged from –46 to 215 g/day and wool growth ranged from 86 to 210 mg per 100 cm2 daily. Plasma GH concentrations were significantly higher (P < 0·001) in sheep given LP diets (21·2 (s.e. 4·2) μg/1) than in those given HP diets (10·1 (s.e. 1·8) μg/1) and negatively correlated with both energy (E) (r = –0·62; P < 0·01) and nitrogen (N) (r = –0·63; P < 0·01) intakes which proportionately accounted for 0·47 of the variance in plasma GH concentration (P < 0·01). Plasma I concentrations were higher (P < 0·05) in sheep given HP diets (2·77 (s.e. 0·34) μg/1) than in sheep given LP diets (1·86 (s.e. 0·23) μg/1). Intakes of E and N proportionately accounted for 0·38 of variance in I concentration which was primarily determined by N intake. After intravenous infusion of glucose (150 mg/min) for 30 min, significant differences in the rate at which plasma glucose and I concentrations declined to pre-infusion levels were evident with different daily intakes of the pelleted diets. Synthesis of FA in adipose tissue was on average 1·7 times more rapid in sheep given HP than in sheep given LP diets (P < 0·05) and increased approximately three-fold with increasing intake. Partial correlations showed differences in E and N intakes were able to account for 0·73 (P < 0·01) of the variance in FA synthesis rates, with N intake having a greater influence than E intake (partial correlations: r = 0·53; P < 0·05 and r = 0·35; P > 0·05 respectively). The effect of condensed tannins on the site of digestion of amino acids and other nutrients in sheep fed on Lotus corniculatus L G. C. Waghorn, M. J. Ulyatt, A. John, M. T. Fisher Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 57 / Issue 1 / January 1987 Print publication: January 1987 1. Sheep were used to evaluate the nutritional consequences of a low condensed-tannin concentration (22 g/kg dry matter (DM)) in lotus (Lotus corniculatus L.) (control group) compared with lotus given to sheep receiving intraruminal polyethylene glycol (PEG) infusion (PEG group). PEG selectively binds to tannins and prevents tannins from binding proteins. 2. DM intakes (1430 (SE 28) g/d) and digestibility of energy (663 (SE 4.5) kJ/MJ intake) were similar for both groups but the apparent digestion of nitrogen was lower in the control sheep (0.70) than in the PEG sheep (0.78; P < 0.001). 3. The proportion of N apparently digested before the abomasum (i.e. in the rumen) was lower (P < 0.05) in control sheep (0.12) than in PEG sheep (0.21; P < 0.05). Rumen ammonia concentrations were lower (P < 0.001) in control sheep than in PEG sheep. The proportion of neutral-detergent fibre (NDF) digested in the rumen was similar for both groups (0.48 (SE 0.012)) but less energy was digested in the rumen of the control (0.42) than of the PEG sheep (0.47; P < 0.05). 4. The flux of essential amino acids (EAA) through the abomasum of control sheep was 50% greater than that in PEG sheep; flux of non-essential amino acids (NEAA) was 14% higher in control than in PEG sheep. Apparent digestibility of EAA in the small intestine was similar for both treatments (0.67), but NEAA were less well digested in the control (0.55) than in the PEG sheep (0.69). 5. The presence of tannins in the control group increased net apparent absorption of threonine (57%), valine (89%), isoleucine (94%), leucine (30%), tyrosine (41%), phenylalanine (93%), histidine (90%) and lysine (59%), and reduced NEAA absorption by 10%, compared with PEG sheep. Feed comminution, particle composition and distribution between the four compartments of the stomach in sheep fed chaffed lucerne hay at two feeding frequencies and intake levels G. C. Waghorn, C. S. W. Reid, M. J. Ulyatt, A. John Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 106 / Issue 2 / April 1986 Print publication: April 1986 Chaffed lucerne hay was fed to wether sheep at two feeding frequencies (once a day (daily) and once an hour (hourly)) and at two levels of dry matter (D.M.) intake (700 (L) and 1020 (H) g/day). Sheep fed daily were slaughtered either prior to eating, immediately after eating ceased or 10 h after eating ceased to compare rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum pool sizes and particle size distributions within pools. Effects of level of intake, feeding frequency and time after feeding were confined mainly to the rumen which contained 77–91% of stomach D.M. Once-daily feeding resulted in a 2·6 fold variation in rumen D.M. pool size. Sheep fed hourly had a relatively small rumen and comparatively large reticulum D.M. pool. Diurnal changes in reticulo-rumen particle size pools are discussed in relation to the effectiveness of chewing. Particle size distribution in digesta was estimated by wet sieving. On average the proportion of D.M. retained on a sieve 1 mm or larger comprised 35, 28, 4 and 4% of D.M. in the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum, respectively, D.M. passing a 0·25 mm sieve comprised 40, 46, 57 and 61% of D.M. in the respective organs. The reticulum usually contained significantly less D.M. retained on a 4 mm sieve than the rumen, and reticulum D.M. percentage was usually 3–5 units lower than rumen D.M. percentage. Reticulum digesta composition is discussed in relation to the efflux of particulate D.M. to the omasum. Chemical composition of rumen particulate D.M. retained on sieves > 0·25 mm was comparatively unaffected by intake level and feeding frequency. Analyses of particle composition showed a rapid loss of non cell wall constituents after feeding and an increasing contribution of rumination toward particle size reduction. Effect of intake and feeding frequency on feeding behaviour and quantitative aspects of digestion in sheep fed chaffed lucerne hay M. J. Ulyatt, G. C. Waghorn, A. John, C. S. W. Reid, J. Monro Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 102 / Issue 3 / June 1984 Chaffed lucerne hay of 64% apparent organic matter (OM) digestibility was fed to wether sheep under four feeding regimens: two levels of dry matter (D.M.) intake (700 (L) and 1050 (H) g/day) and within each level two feeding frequencies (once a day (daily) and once an hour (hourly)). Three separate groups of sheep were used concurrently: a slaughter group was used to obtain feeding behaviour data and to measure pool sizes and obtain samples from the reticulo-rumen; a digestion group, in which each sheep was prepared with a rumen and a duodenal cannula, was used to measure duodenal digesta flow, rumen microbial growth and reticulo-rumen motility; a balance group was used to measure digestibility and nutrient balances. High D.M. intake increased reticulo-rumen pool sizes and flow rates but it did not affect apparent digestibilities or the proportions of OM, fibre, cellulose, hemicellulose, lipid and nitrogen digested in the stomach and intestines. Increased feeding frequency had a major effect on reticulo-rumen pool sizes but did not affect apparent digestibilities or partition of digestion of non-nitrogenous constituents. Daily feeding resulted in increased total-N flow to the duodenum; however, N retention was significantly greater with frequent feeding. It is suggested that this was due to a more efficient tissue utilization of N. The kinetics of digesta flow within the reticulo-rumen, expressed as fractional flow rates, were studied with data from sheep fed hourly. The fractional inflow, outflow and disappearance rates for OM, fibre, cellulose and hemicellulose did not change with an increase in intake because of an equivalent increase in reticulo-rumen volume. Increasing D.M. intake by 50% resulted in a 24% increase in water intake, a 19% increase in reticulo-rumen water volume, and a 49% increase in water outflow rate. The data suggest that the increased outflow of water was achieved by increasing the net flow of water across the mucosa into the reticulo-rumen, rather than by increasing salivation. There was no difference between treatments in the frequency of reticulo-rumen contractions. It was calculated that for each A sequence contraction, OM flow was 0·26 and 0·37 g and water flow was 4·38 and 0·36 g on L and H intakes respectively. A 50% increase in intake resulted in a 42% increase in OM passage per A sequence contraction. This increased passage with intake was not accompanied by an increase in reticulorumen contraction frequency.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line108
__label__wiki	0.96208	0.96208	Philippines (2012 onwards, inc OEF) Thread: Philippines (2012 onwards, inc OEF) davidbfpo Marawi the most significant terrorist event in SEAsia since An Australian commentary, which reminds us that: Some 12 weeks later, the fighting continues and the toll in death and destruction climbs inexorably, much to the dismay and embarrassment of the Philippine military. Link:https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ba...outheast-asia/ Last edited by davidbfpo; 08-25-2017 at 10:06 AM. Reason: 115,321v SWJ Blog ISIS Recruits Fighters for the Philippines Instead of Syria Entry Excerpt: Read the full post and make any comments at the SWJ Blog. This forum is a feed only and is closed to user comments. ISIS in Mindanao: A Threat to the U.S.? AdamG Hiding from the Dreaded Burrito Gang Originally Posted by davidbfpo An Australian commentary.. I don't see where the author has any experience outside of Academia. In any event, SWJ needs to look at Marawi as a MOUT case study. Why it took 5 months to end Marawi siege By: Allan Nawal - Correspondent / @inqmindanao Philippine Daily Inquirer / 07:02 AM October 22, 2017 MARAWI CITY — Soldiers lacked training and equipment for urban warfare which stretched the military campaign to rid the city of Islamic State (IS) followers to five months, according to a key ground commander here. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., deputy commander of the military’s Joint Task Group Ranao, said officers had to improvise in terms of deploying troopers, equipment and using tactics to defeat members of homegrown terror groups Abu Sayyaf and Maute, who had tried to establish an IS base in this predominantly Muslim city. The government had declared the liberation of the city from IS, although fighting continued to finish off what the military now refers to as “stragglers,” or remnants of Abu Sayyaf and Maute, still holed up in the city http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/939746/...#ixzz4wEfCzzch Philippine troops on Sunday were battling a final group of about 30 pro-Islamic State group militants who were surrounded in one building with all their hostages gone as a nearly five-month siege neared its end in southern Marawi city, a military official said. Army Col. Romeo Brawner said troops were aiming to end the crisis before midnight Sunday. He said the remaining gunmen, who include some Indonesian and Malaysian fighters, have the option of surrendering, or they can either be captured or killed. "Our government forces will try to do everything to finish the firefight today," Brawner said in a news conference in Marawi. He said the battle area centered in a two-story building near Lake Lanao where the firefight continued to rage at noon. "It's either they all get killed, because they're determined to die inside, or we capture them or they surrender," he said. A gradual withdrawal of military forces was underway with the easing of the fighting, which has left at least 1,131 people dead, including 919 militants and 165 soldiers and policemen. Troops continued to ask the gunmen, who are leaderless and running low on ammunition, to surrender by using loudspeakers, Brawner said. http://abcnews.go.com/International/...unmen-50641224 Last edited by AdamG; 10-22-2017 at 11:32 AM. A scrimmage in a Border Station A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg Piracy is a perennial problem in the waters around the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia known as the Sulu-Celebes Sea; with irregular Western media reports on kidnappings. This BBC report is an update, with a focus on multilateral action or inaction. Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39252503 Islamic State in the Philippines http://www.agathocledesyracuse.com/w...amic-State.jpg ISIS Threat in Philippines Spreads in Remote Battles Hat tip to WoTR for this US SF veteran's commentary on the situation, alongside some history. Link:https://warontherocks.com/2017/10/fo...ot-the-answer/ Filipino Troops Credit U.S. Intelligence, Training for Helping Them Beat ISIS in Mara Filipino Troops Credit U.S. Intelligence, Training for Helping Them Beat ISIS in Marawi Liberated Philippines city lies in ruins, and its people seethe https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...cid=spartandhp Beyond earshot of officials and soldiers, people wonder why the army was so quick to pummel their predominantly Muslim city. They are also suspicious of the role played by U.S. Special Forces. With Islamic State fighters losing ground in Iraq and Syria, men and money may shift to Southeast Asia, experts have said. They will find in the southern Philippines an angry and vulnerable population, institutions racked by war, and a government, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, that sees shooting as a way to solve social problems. In other words: prime recruiting grounds. In that sense, what happened in Marawi is not the success that Duterte claims but a lesson in the limits of fighting extremism with force alone. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the army and police to shoot him if he becomes a dictator or stays beyond his term. The firebrand leader made the solemn warning on Monday to eliminate speculation that he ordered loyalists in Congress to change the constitution. His critics have raised concerns about the possible introduction of a federal system which would let him stay in power beyond 2022 when his single term ends. 'If I overstay and wanted to become a dictator, shoot me, I am not joking,' Duterte told soldiers during an army base visit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz551MNH7Nn Twenty-seven sailors aboard the Philippines ship MV Kudos stopped 12 pirates trying to board the ship in the Basilan sea, by splashing the armed men with the concoction of hot water and oil. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-1...niques/9459238 MANILA (Reuters) - A U.N. special rapporteur, a former Philippine lawmaker and four former Catholic priests are among more than 600 alleged communist guerrillas the Philippines wants declared “terrorists”, according to a government petition filed in court. The justice ministry last month said it wanted a Manila court to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), “terrorist” bodies, but made no mention of individuals it would also target. The petition, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, suggests President Rodrigo Duterte is following through on his threats to destroy a movement he now regards as duplicitous. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-p...-idUSKCN1GK0DO Last edited by davidbfpo; 03-09-2018 at 07:51 PM. Reason: 136,956v Battle Of Marawi Intense Combat Compilation Of The Philippine Army Battling Terrorists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCeVVoKI5hE This seems to be a clearer and in places different version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5vELx3ie9I File this under 'extraordinarily bad ideas' Malacañang said it sees no problem with the idea of a Chinese firm with proven track record taking over the debt-saddled Hanjin Philippines after a former Navy official warned against the shipyard falling into "wrong hands." "Kung Chinese company naman na dati na nating ka-deal at wala namang problema eh di walang isyu. Kung hindi natin kilala eh di siyempre we have to vet para malaman natin," presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a news conference. Panelo also said talks about which company will take over Hanjin Philippines remains a speculation at this point. https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/mone...7XVtXCuzNfNltU Last edited by davidbfpo; 02-08-2019 at 09:30 PM. Reason: 164,793v today The Changing Actor Dynamics in the Philippines’ Moro conflict A rare UK report on the Philippines, albeit by an academic at Oxford University CCW. In summary: This blog article presents the latest actor dynamics in the Philippines' Moro conflict where two previously contentious separatist groups, namely MILF and MNLF, are now willing to cooperate. This is a momentum that should be carefully and timely seized by the Philippine government to bring some measure of peace to the country's troubled south. Link:https://conflictplatform.ox.ac.uk/ar...-moro-conflict 'They fooled us': the men who left Isis in the Philippines Worth a peek. Two ex-militants who joined ISIS @ Marawi. Link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/09/they-fooled-us-the-men-who-left-isis-in-the-philippines? Intensive fighting between ISIS and the Philippine army Via an Israeli website: On March 12, 2019, sources in the Philippines reported on two days of fighting between Philippine army forces and ISIS-affiliated operatives on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The Philippine government ordered its citizens to evacuate several villages. Nine ISIS operatives and one Filipino soldier were killed (benarnews.org, March 12, 2019). Later in the day four more people were reported dead, as well as an ISIS operative killed in an exchange of fire (Philippine News Agency, March 12, 2019). ISIS’s East Asia Province claimed responsibility for killing 10 Filipino soldiers and wounding 10 others (Shabakat Shumukh, March 12, 2019). Link:https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en...rch-7-13-2019/ Quick Navigation Asia-Pacific Top Sudan Watch (July 2012 onwards) By AdamG in forum Africa 2005 and 2012 Strategic Partnerships By jmm99 in forum OEF - Afghanistan Catch All OEF Philippines (till 2012) By SWJED in forum OEF - Philippines Iraq Isn't the Philippines coin, gwot, islam, phillipnes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line109
__label__wiki	0.672885	0.672885	Thursday, January 18, 2018 0 When are Oscar Nominations 2018 Announced? Date & Time Set – Oscars OscarsThe Oscars 2018 season is about to begin and the Oscars nominations 2018 date has been set. So when are the Oscar nominations announced? The 90th Academy Awards® nominations in all 24 Oscar® categories will be announced in a two-part, live presentation …2018 Oscars Best Director race: Which DGA Awards nominee is most likely to […] from WordPress http://ift.tt/2DlfISS Wednesday, January 17, 2018 0 Academy sticks with two-part Oscar nominations format – Screen International Screen International… animated short film, live action short film, sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects. 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__label__cc	0.712093	0.287907	User Articles Commish Picks: Week 6 FF Waiver Wire Report Statistician and researcher for NBC's Sunday Night Football. Trumpetbdw Desperation Time- There is a very good chance that a quick look at your waiver wire this week could prove to be relatively fruitless. The truly impactful pickups have already been made, and your league vultures have left behind nothing but table scraps. But just because the pickin’s are slim doesn’t mean that an injury or a bye should need to result in a 0 for your lineup. Below are a few players to keep in mind as you peruse your roster, and the wire this week. Who knows? Perhaps one or more could emerge as true difference-makers in week 6. Christian Ponder, QB (Min)- I profiled Christian Ponder as an add last week, and while he was added in many leagues this past week, he’s still only owned in roughly ¼ of all leagues. Ponder should not be your starter by any means, but he’s an excellent bye week filler Brandon Weeden, QB (Cle)- Who currently leads the NFL in pass attempts? The correct answer, to no one’s surprise, is Drew Brees. However, if you said Brandon Weeden because I purposefully included that question immediately after his name, well, you wouldn’t have been that far off. Weeden is currently 2nd in the league in pass attempts, and since his epically horrific week 1 performance, has averaged 292.5 yards passing with a total of 5 TDs and 5 INTs since. I like the fact that Cleveland is letting him sling it. In my opinion, that’s a much better way to develop a QB than to simply try to protect him with safe throws, and promote indecision, like Jacksonville has done with Blaine Gabbert. In deeper leagues, Weeden is a worth-while investment for your bench, with top 20 fantasy upside the rest of the way. Alex Green/James Starks/John Kuhn, RB (GB)- I don’t know who this Lis Franc chick is, but she’s starting to wreak havoc around the league. Ced Benson is the latest of this vixen’s victims, and while GB is saying 8 weeks, lisfranc has resulted in a lost season for Darren McFadden last season, and Santonio Holmes this season. That said, the above listed is the triumvirate remaining in GB. Of those, Alex Green has the most upside, while a returning Starks has the experience, and Kuhn is the TD vulture. I have the listed in order of preference, and I actually do like the idea of storing Green and hoping he sees the lion’s share of the workload. But at the present time, relying on any of the 3 as anything more than bench-fodder on your team is something I’d highly try to avoid. William Powell/LaRod Stephens-Howling/Alphonso Smith, RB (Ari)- Move along, there’s nothing to see here. With Wells, and now Williams out, this is the mess Arizona is currently left with. Stephens-Howling is a scat back, so he’s unlikely to see every down duty. Smith isn’t even good enough to be a JAGer. Powell is interesting, but is coming off a concussion. However, he did impress in the preseason, and is much more of a downhill runner than Williams was. While this appears to be a big mess, Beanie Wells did have 1000 yards last year as a similar-style back to Powell, meaning that at least there’s a bit of upside here. Plus, the Cards coaching staff has already stated that Powell will share carries this week with Stephens-Howling. I’m going to stand on a bit of a ledge with this one, and call William Powell our Commish Pick of the week. Chris Givens, WR (Stl)- With Danny Amendola out for the foreseeable future, Givens will be taking over in the St. Louis starting lineup opposite Brandon Gibson. Givens has some big play ability, and may be worth a flier, as I thought Sam Bradford looked relatively impressive last week against Arizona. Josh Gordon, WR (Cle)- With the essentially worthless Mohammad Massaquoi out last week for Cleveland, Gordon stepped into the starting lineup and provided a spark, with 2 catches and 2 TDs. But what I liked the most was the fact that Gordon saw 8 targets, while fellow “starting” WR Greg Little only saw 2 targets, and 0 catches. There’s an opportunity here for Gordon, and if he continues to get a chance, Weeden is throwing enough to make Gordon a worthwhile flier. Brandon Myers, TE (Oak)- Through the first 3 weeks of the season, Myers was averaging 5 catches and 65 yards per game. He was concussed in week 3 vs. Pittsburgh, but managed to play against Denver the next week. While he only had 1 catch, the fact that he was back on the field was a positive. Now, coming off a bye, Myers should be completely beyond his concussion issues, and makes for an intriguing option this week if you are one of the Jimmy Graham owners who decided against drafting a backup TE. TE- Heath Miller (Pit)/Scott Chandler (Buf)/Joel Dreessen (Den)- I’ve covered the first two previously, and both should be owned, but this is a reminder that if they’re still available, you should pick them up. As for Dreessen, much like the other two, he appears to be a preferred red zone target in Denver. If you’re truly looking for a flier, you could do worse than Dreessen, who seems like a decent bet to score most weeks, even if he provides otherwise little production. Tags: alex green, brandon myers, brandon weeden, chris givens, christian ponder, commish report, fantasy football, football pros, heath miller, james starks, joel dreessen, josh gordon, larod stephens-howling, scott chandler, waiver wire, william powell Trumpetbdw - 10-10-2012 06:28 PM Donald Brown is out 2-3 weeks after injuring his knee on the last play of the game against Green Bay. Vick Ballard is the new starter in Brown's absence, and will likely take on most of the workload. With games against the Jets, Browns, and Titans the next 3 weeks, Ballard makes for a very nice pickup. Plus, if he does well, it's not like Brown has lit the world on fire with his performance. There's a chance for some serious value here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line117
__label__wiki	0.636159	0.636159	More greenwashers needed to stop "Green Noise"??? Amazing - GreenWashing market faulting that the "green noise" they have created... is the cause of consumers to be confused and need "green influencers to drive their marketing message" New Study Finds Consumers Overwhelmed by Green Marketing, GreenWashing, OAKLAND, Calif. -- Marketers aiming to shift their audiences toward making greener purchasing decisions are coming up short for the vast majority of the population... a nationwide study found that "nearly half of all respondents were essentially unable to name one feature of a green home, and small portions of the remaining sample cited examples like solar power, CFL light bulbs, home recycling or Energy Star products." "Consumers seem to think green homes are an all-or-nothing proposition -- and because of the real and perceived costs, many are throwing their hands up and saying 'I just can’t do all of this'," said Shelton Group CEO Suzanne Shelton. One example Shelton offered was that 71 percent of responses to that aided question said solar power -- "one of the most expensive home upgrades for energy efficiency that can be made," Shelton said -- was a requirement of green living. ... most individuals are unclear as to how they can go green in realistic and achievable ways, "Newly eco-conscious consumers face a daunting and confusing set of choices, as well as complex issues that must be factored into any assessment of a product's sustainability," said David Zucker, the director of CauseWorks, Porter Novelli's sustainability division. "If marketers do not reach Greenfluencers , Greenwashers who have the interest and ability to influence the rest of us, their marketing messages may be lost in a sea of green noise." Seriously, read it here at greenbiz 110 mpg safe family car in 1984 The Citroën ECO 2000 was much more than just an exercise in styling. Developed during the period 1981 to 1984, it was used to research economical, low weight, low drag cars intended for the next millenium. Many of the lessons learned were applied to the forthcoming AX ECO 2000 was part of a 50% French State funded programme to build a car capable of achieving 2 litres per 100 km fuel consumption. SL 10 weighed 450kg and was powered by a three cylinder 750 cc engine developed from Fiat's Fire 1000 developing 35 bhp at 4 750 rpm. The first prototype (SA 103) empoyed a rear mounted twin cylinder engine but subsequent versions had the engine mounted at the front and front wheel drive. Read full here Labels: HybridHype Low Tech Magazine Nails problems with CO2 trading and storage... All high-tech carbon storage strategies described in this article are no solutions, they are just attempts to limit the problem. Let’s hope that the next appeal of the International Energy Association and of the Science Academies of the world (an awful lot of brains there) will contain a trace of innovative thinking. (Article Link) Short answer to: Why introduce yet another expensive, energy-intensive and risky technology if there are so many other and better ways to solve the energy crisis? If we chose to build a completely new infrastructure of pipelines comparable to that of the existing oil and gas industry, why not build something like an extensive underground tubular freight network instead? This would be a real solution, which would considerably lower transport energy use and CO2-emissions. Why not channel the huge amount of money needed for the development of CCS to countries with tropical rainforests, so that they have a very good reason to protect them fiercely? Stopping deforestation, especially in tropical forests, would contribute more to the fight against global warming than carbon capture technology could ever do. Tropical forests store enormous amounts of carbon and they are not prone to natural forest fires. "Halting deforestation in tropical forests would contribute more to the fight against global warming than capture technology could ever do." Long answer to the problem the Carbon Capture and Trading Scams below: Capturing CO2 from the smokestacks of power stations with the intention of storing it in underground reservoirs, oceans, rocks, consumer products, chemicals or fuels has gained a lot of credibility recently. Yet capturing, transporting and storing carbon dioxide raises energy consumption considerably and brings with it serious health and environmental problems. The benefits, on the other hand, are shadowed in doubt. "A 50 percent increase in energy consumption is the last thing that the world needs." Attractive idea The idea of carbon capture and storage (CCS) – first introduced in the 1970s - is attractive at first sight. Capturing CO2 from smokestacks has been a common practice for many years, for the purification of natural gas or at ammonia production facilities for instance. Injection and storage of carbon dioxide is happening already in the North Sea, in Algeria and in Texas. In these cases, CO2 is injected into oil and gas reservoirs in order to extract more fossil fuels than would otherwise be possible, a process called Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). For some of these applications, carbon dioxide is transported by pipeline or by ship. A complete CCS infrastructure has not been demonstrated yet (all CO2 used for enhanced oil recovery is commercially produced or originates from other sources than power plants, and present capture techniques do not capture CO2 for storage but emit the gas in the atmosphere). Yet, since all the individual parts exist, this does not seem to be an obstacle either. Energy penalty The problem at hand is that the process of capturing, transporting and storing carbon dioxide requires a vast amount of energy. If this energy were to be derived directly from fossil fuels the benefits of the CO2-savings by capture and storage will be offset by the very same energy intensive process. If the energy were to come from renewable sources the technology is rendered unnecessary as it would be much more efficient to generate electricity directly from the renewable source. "If fuel use of electricity generation rises by 50 percent, the same goes for air pollution from coal plants and for the ecological consequences of coal mining. Storing the CO2 does not solve that." Capturing CO2 from smokestacks is the most energy-intensive part of the process. According to the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), which devoted a comprehensive study on the technology 3 years ago, capturing technology (including compression for further transport and storage) raises the energy consumption of a coal plant by an average of 32 percent. A coal plant equipped with CO2-capture technology would thus need 32 percent more coal and other resources like water, chemicals and reagents to produce the same amount of electricity than the same power plant without this technology. Carbon capture technology forms a symbiosis with coal as a fuel (“clean coal”), since burning coal emits twice as much greenhouse gasses than burning gas. Capturing CO2 from a gas power plant requires less energy but is of not much use. Pipeline infrastructure This 32 percent does not include the energy needed to mine, process and transport the many thousands of tonnes of extra coal, and it does not include the energy needed for the construction of the capture, transportation, storing and monitoring infrastructure either. It is insufficient to simply place the smokestacks of a coal plant upside down as suitable underground reservoirs do not necessarily lie beneath the world's power stations. A carbon capture and storage infrastructure requires a transport infrastructure consisting of pipelines (and tankers) that rivals the existing oil and gas network. Manufacturing and installing these thousands of kilometres of stainless steel pipes will require a substantial amount of energy. Also, the transport by ship or pipeline itself requires energy, and so does the injection of the CO2 in underground reservoirs and the monitoring of the whole transport network (today’s pipelines are patrolled by plane every two weeks). Everything taken together, CCS will probably raise energy consumption by as much as 50 percent. There are losses during transport, too. According to the IPCC these are 1 to 2 percent per 1,000 kilometres of pipeline transport and 3 to 4 percent per 1,000 kilometres of ship transport (the ship's fuel use included). Carbon dioxide is also not the only harmful effect of power generation. Burning coal brings serious air pollution and produces waste, both of which will also rise by at least 30 percent. The same goes for the ecological damage of coal mining, which is devastating. Storing the CO2 can never prevent this. Turning CO2 in plastics However, even though the amount of chemicals and plastics we produce is enormous, as a carbon sink they are all but meaningless. The Myth - "If all polycarbonates and polyurethane would be produced by means of CO2 this would only store the emissions of 3 coal power plants." According to the IPCC, producing all polycarbonates and polyurethane by means of carbon dioxide would store 3.3 million tons of CO2 – comparable to the annual emissions of just 3 coal power plants. China is building one coal plant per week (in large part to produce cheap goods for us to buy) and there are more than 100 coal plants on the drawing board in the US. What makes this approach even more useless is that these consumer products and chemicals have a relatively short lifespan, from a few months for fertilizers to some decennia for plastic products. When the fertilizers are used, or when the DVD’s end up in the incinerator, the CO2 goes back into the atmosphere. Burning algae Using CO2 as a feedstock for algae and then turning it into biofuel - another idea that is hyped these days - faces the same problem. It only delays CO2-emissions for a very short time. The carbon dioxide is converted into fuel which is further burnt in a car engine. It is impossible to capture CO2 from car engines since the gas is too heavy (your car would gain serious weight while driving, and it would have to pull a trailer to store the large volume of carbon dioxide). "Turning CO2 into algae could be an interesting strategy if we bury the algae instead of burning them in our car engines. However, that’s not on anyone’s mind." One could argue that at least the CO2 is recycled and that we are using the by-product of electricity generation to make fuel – which means that we don’t have to dig up more fossil fuels to make gasoline. However, this argument does not take into account the fact that much energy (and water) is lost in the conversion process. Firstly, there is again the energy penalty of CO2 capture from the smokestacks, on average 30 percent. Next, you have to build a huge infrastructure to produce algae (since their energy efficiency is 100 times smaller than that of solar panels) and furthermore there is the energy that gets lost during the process of turning algae to fuel. If there is net energy gain in the end, it will be small. Turning CO2 into algae could be an interesting strategy to reduce CO2-emissions if we store the algae underground instead of burning them in our car engines (thus avoiding the energy-intensive process of converting them into fuel). However, that’s not on anyone’s mind. Atomic waste, meet your rival Carbon capture technology is expected to become more energy-efficient in the future. But that would make the whole scheme hardly more attractive. Storing carbon dioxide in underground reservoirs (the only realistic option) is risky, not unlike the storing of atomic waste. CO2 can escape. High concentrations of the gas are lethal to plants, animals and humans. Eventually the gas thins in the atmosphere but during escape concentrations can build up fast, especially since CO2 is denser than air. At concentrations above 2 percent in ambient air, carbon dioxide has a strong effect on respiration (the normal concentration in fresh air is 0.033 percent). At concentrations from 7 to 10 percent, it kills. "If CO2 escapes from storage reservoirs, the whole energy-intensive operation of capturing, transporting and storing it was all for nothing." Small impurities in the gas make it lethal at even lower concentrations. Similar amounts in the soil kill vegetation and make groundwater unsuitable for drinking or irrigation. And of course, if CO2 escapes from storage reservoirs, the whole operation of capturing, transporting and storing it was all for nothing. The result is a considerable rise in emissions, because of the energy penalty involved (the energy use of the whole process can go down, but it will never come close to zero). Real solutions, please Why not put into force a regulation that prohibits the construction of any more power plants that burn non-renewable energy sources? There is already an enormous energy capacity in the world, why don’t we chose to do it with the energy plants that we have? This would at last make energy efficiency useful (because progress in energy efficiency is now always again nullified by new and more energy hungry products and services). Still want more energy? Build a solar plant or plant a windmill. These are just 3 ideas that would be effective without the need to adapt our lifestyle (which is, of course, also the attraction of "clean coal"). They would not solve everything, but at least they would be very welcome steps into the right direction, the direction of a solution. Read full here by Kris De Decker Labels: GullibleWarming Hybrid Not Providing Expected ROI ABI Research asserts that operators need to carefully evaluate the costs and benefits of hybrids... With daily media coverage and marketing messages from vehicle manufacturers, it is easy to assume hybrids are the solution. The facts, however, suggest something else: that the return on investment can vary dramatically depending on factors such as the type of hybrid, cost of fuel, and the typical usage cycle. "...operators should beware of the hype to ensure that fuel economy improvements occur for their typical drive cycles," continues Alexander. "Drivers with the most to gain will be operating on a frequent stop-start cycle, and, depending on the existing powertrain, may benefit from a mild hybrid retrofit. "The main fuel economy benefit from hybrid technology comes from the capture and reuse of kinetic energy," says David Alexander, ABI Research principal analyst. "Two central forms of storage under development and available at present are hydraulic and electrical. Both require significant investment in additional systems, so realistic evaluations and estimations must be made as regards fuel savings in order to calculate the benefits." read more here $90 Million for Enhanced Geothermal Systems According to a recent study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a reasonable R&D investment in these technologies could create the opportunity to develop 100,000 megawatts of geothermal power in the United States by 2050, an amount equal to 20% of the current U.S. generating capacity. DOE issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) last week for the research, development, and demonstration of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), an advanced geothermal technology that drills deep wells into hot rocks, fractures them, and circulates a fluid through the fractures to extract heat. EGS technologies can be used to create new geothermal reservoirs or to stimulate existing geothermal reservoirs that are underperforming. The FOA offers up to $90 million over four years, of which $40 million will go toward research and development (R&D) projects for the technologies needed to commercialize EGS and $50 million will go toward demonstration projects that stimulate existing unproductive geothermal reservoirs. Applications are due by August 12. See the DOE press release and the FOA on Grants.gov. See the reports from DOE and MIT in the EGS technology section of DOE's Geothermal Technologies Program Web site. Alaska banking future on "real" free & clean energy ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In Alaska, a state rich in oil and gas, officials are seeking to stir interest in a different source of underground energy -- the geothermal heat simmering beneath the volcanoes and hot springs that dot the landscape that could power thousands of homes. The state Division of Oil and Gas is preparing a lease sale that would allow companies to explore the geothermal resources beneath Mount Spurr, a snowcapped 11,070-foot volcano along Cook Inlet that could potentially send power to thousands of homes 75 miles to the east in Anchorage. "The reasons Mount Spurr and Augustine are attractive is that they're sitting right here in the middle of the market, the biggest market in the state," he said. Past attempts at harnessing geothermal heat at Mount Spurr were cut short by poor economics of alternative energy projects, and no real development occurred at the volcano, Banks said. But it appears that the economic picture has changed, he said. "There seems to be enough interest this time that we'll see activity on site," he said. Read more by Yereth Rosen at REUTERS NEWS SERVICE WooHoo - California adopts consumer-product regulations curbing emissions New regulations curb climate changing, smog forming and toxic emissions SACRAMENTO: Today the Air Resources Board approved regulations limiting emissions of climate-changing chemicals from air canisters used to blow dust off equipment such as computer keyboards to cameras, the nation's first for consumer products. In addition to greenhouse gases, the board's decision will reduce smog forming emissions and toxic air contaminants. The regulation establishes specifications for consumer products that will annually reduce: * greenhouse gases by 200,000 metric tons; * smog-forming volatile organic compounds by 2,000 tons; and, * toxic air contaminants by over 70 tons. The greenhouse gas cuts will come from replacing the use of HFC-134a with HFC-152a in gas-duster canisters. HFC-134a is known to have a massive heat-trapping potentialand is rated 1,300 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. "We are getting a lot of bang for our buck on this regulation because these seemingly benign air canisters emit an especially potent greenhouse gas," said ARB Chairman Mary Nichols. "This measure also reduces ozone and other toxic air contaminants with a viable propellant alternative readily available so consumers shouldn't see much change in the effectiveness of these products." For more information on the consumer products regulation go to: www.arb.ca.gov Carbon scams to be monitored by scammer I now feel much better that a company that has driven and is fuelled by the "carbon scams and greenwashing" marketers now: "aims to end 'greenwash' by launching company standard".... Very comforting, I am sure this will end global warming as did "live earth" ;-( from: guardian ...the Carbon Trust. Backed by business groups and environmental campaigners, the new standard is intended to end "'greenwash'" and highlight firms that are genuine about their commitment to the environment. Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust, said the move was designed to end public mistrust of corporate climate change claims. Only businesses that can demonstrate a real reduction in carbon pollution from their operations are eligible. No offsetting of emissions by funding carbon reduction projects elsewhere is allowed. The standard covers only direct emissions from a company's fuel and electricity use, as well as from business travel such as flights. It does not cover the emissions caused by a firm's products, or supply chain. And companies with polluting manufacturing sites abroad would not have to count them if they sought accreditation, say, for a head office in London. WOW - that does sound "genuine", a genuine greenwash - Haase Dell hits server efficiency targets a year early Dell on Wednesday said its server power supplies have met an industry target of 92 percent efficiency. Its servers comply with the 80 Plus benchmark of making power supplies 92 percent efficient when a server is at 50 percent load, explained Albert Esser, Dell's vice president of power and infrastructure solutions. Esser said the server power supply Dell has developed is the first to comply with the 80 Plus Gold certification, making it 14 percent more efficient than existing equipment. That standard also meets the 2009 target set by IT industry consortium Climate Savers. What's perhaps most notable from Dell's announcement--part of a marketing barrage from IT vendors touting energy efficiency--is that it underscores the growing importance of industry standards. Industry experts have called for the equivalent of a miles-per-gallon rating for servers and other IT equipment so that buyers can compare products on efficiency. Read full VIA- cnet.com Logic of loss... "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." Quote- Buckminster Fuller Big Gav on Emissions Trading By Big Gav Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting Source: NIST Tech Beat, 6/24/08. These solid-state lights are powered by energy-efficient light emitting diodes and are among the first ones of a new generation expected to cut energy needed for lighting by 50 percent by 2027. Solid-state lighting is expected to be twice as energy efficient as fluorescent lamps and 10 times more efficient than incandescent lamps, although the current products are still at their early stages. Ohno chaired the task groups that developed these new standards. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with national standards organizations, have taken the lead in developing the first two standards for solid-state lighting in the United States. This new generation lighting technology uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of incandescent filaments or fluorescent tubes to produce illumination that cuts energy consumption significantly. Credit: NIST Mayors urge stop to bottled water use... The U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution Monday urging mayors to promote tap water and phase out bottled water purchases by their city governments. Read more via -elpasotimes Congress can drop gasoline to $2 a gallon by controlling market... When it starts to sound like a good idea to let "congress control financial markets" we have really had cheap gas too long... Via: Market Watch: & cryptogon.com The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday. Testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management said that the price of oil would quickly drop closer to its marginal cost of around $65 to $75 a barrel, about half the current $135. Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer & Co., Edward Krapels of Energy Security Analysis and Roger Diwan of PFC Energy Consultants agreed with Masters’ assessment at a hearing on proposed legislation to limit speculation in futures markets. “Speculation is the root of capitalism,” he said. “If the speculation is forced out of the U.S. exchanges, it’ll simply show up on other exchanges that are OTC like the ICE, or new exchanges will pop up to allow for the spec trades to continue functioning.” Ryan said he does see a reason for Congress to look at eliminating aspects such as allowing West Texas intermediate crude oil futures to trade on foreign markets and the “Enron loophole,” but “these exchanges are currently functioning as they are supposed to in a free marketplace.” The creation of a comprehensive U.S. energy policy that tackles issues of increasing domestic supply and reining in consumer demand via conservation should be Congress’ focus, Ryan said. “Instead we’re on bended knee begging the Saudis to put more oil on the market and talking about shutting down spec trades.” EPA verified 25 mpg SUV & 48 mpg non-hybrids Mercedes To Introduce Cleanest Diesel SUV In The U.S. Mercedes-Benz has announced it is ready to introduce the R, ML and GL 320 SUVs equipped with Mercedes’ BlueTEC technology in the U.S. The company says that the vehicles are the most economical full-size SUV in the U.S. - the GL 320, gets 25 mpg, the company says. Daimler is also introducing its “Blue Efficiency” initiative that aims to cut fuel use in passenger cars by up to 12 percent, starting with 20 models this year, Reuters reports. The company says the measures will include lowering roll resistance of tires, improving aerodynamics and increasing engine efficiency. Also EPA has verifies and tested an advanced "Venturi Fuel Delivery System" that increases vehicle mileage 20% overall. The Honda test vehicle got over 48 mpg: See full report here THE HYDROGEN HOAX... part 7 From Bob Park SHELL GAME: PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE HYDROGEN HOAX. Those who believe we will clean up our environment by using hydrogen as a fuel are not required to be familiar with the first law of thermodynamics, but the willingness of industry to play along is frightening. GM had a hydrogen car driving around Capitol Hill, and Shell had added a hydrogen pump at a nearby station. This week Honda announced the Clarity, a highly-subsidized hydrogen fuel-cell car and said Jamie Lee Curtis is buying one. She lives near one of the four hydrogen stations in California. Today a NY Times editorial was mildly skeptical. You can make cars that run on hydrogen, although they have big problems, but it won't fix the energy problem or clean up the environment. RUNNING ON WATER: JAPANESE COMPANY UNVEILS CAR. Sigh! Genepax uses a membrane to breaks the water down into hydrogen and oxygen, and then uses the hydrogen as fuel. A year ago there was a similar scam http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN07/wn081007.html . Sam Leach did it in 1971, when gas was only $1.31 corrected for inflation. He demonstrated his car, collected money from "investors," and then retired to an ocean-side villa in California. Occasionally seen in a chauffer-driven Rolls Royce that ran on gasoline, it was rumored that Leach had sold out to the oil barons. Read more on the H2Hoax here McCain & a short history on nuclear energy.... While nuclear energy has great potential to be clean, low cost, abundant power, it has not been in... How will McCain battle the safety, cost and waste issues that have put the U.S. nuclear energy program in the 30 billion hole? Or is this just added fluff to fend off short term energy and environmental answers our country desperately needs? Haase - While I would love to post this entire Wikipedia thread, it is lengthy and should be read in full at Wikipedia for those interested in tackling our three decade old economic energy debate. (i.e. senate, congress, pres. candidates etc..) as I am not sure they are qualified to discuss nuclear power... here is a brief history of nuclear energy for McCain's energy program: From Wikipedia History of waste cost over runs and safety issues... we need to resolve The United States produces the most nuclear energy, with nuclear power providing 19%[4] of the electricity it consumes, while France produces the highest percentage of its electrical energy from nuclear reactors—78% as of 2006.[5] In the European Union as a whole, nuclear energy provides 30% of the electricity.[6] In 1952, President Harry Truman made a "relatively pessimistic" assessment of nuclear power, and called for "aggressive research in the whole field of solar energy."[13] In 1954, the consensus of government and business at the time was that nuclear (fission) power might eventually become merely economically competitive with conventional power sources. Installed nuclear capacity initially rose relatively quickly, rising from less than 1 gigawatt (GW) in 1960 to 100 GW in the late 1970s, and 300 GW in the late 1980s. Since the late 1980s worldwide capacity has risen much more slowly, reaching 366 GW in 2005. Between around 1970 and 1990, more than 50 GW of capacity was under construction (peaking at over 150 GW in the late 70s and early 80s) — in 2005, around 25 GW of new capacity was planned. More than two-thirds of all nuclear plants ordered after January 1970 were eventually cancelled.[19] During the 1970s and 1980s rising economic costs[20] and falling fossil fuel prices made nuclear power plants then under construction less attractive. In the 1980s (U.S.) and 1990s (Europe), flat load growth and electricity liberalization also made the addition of large new baseload capacity unattractive. Brookings Institution suggests that new nuclear units have not been ordered in the U.S. because the Institution's research concludes they cost 15–30% more over their lifetime than conventional coal and natural gas fired plants.[24] For those with short term memory loss, I'll include a few previous posts in the last year on nuclear energy: Nuclear power will be economically obsolete in next decade Uranium Paradox: Reason To Favor Coal-Fired Electricity? Or Not? Future won't favor new nuclear plants Clinton goes nuke and so will Hillary United States could have Nuclear fuel Shortage in six years New Wave of Nuclear Plants Faces High Costs Wall Street Journal LA Times Anything But Nuclear 53 million gallons in danger of leaking nuclear waste $500 billion needed to build the country's next generation of nuclear power plants. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Oversight: Security of Our Nation's Nuclear Plants U.S. may import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste OBAMA's connection to nuclear energy "alarmist pressure" forces pursuit of the Nuke option... The Achilles Heel of Nuclear Power Nuclear power concerns cloud US emissions benefits Nuclear Power Can't Curb Global Warming - Report California - Goina, hafta, go nuke Question: Lets put the aside the simple arguments of: "billions in debt, rising cost of maintenance & safety components, subsides & trillions of pounds of radioactive waste"... What obstacles bother me? Water? I mean the Achilles heel of nuclear power in the context of climate change: water. Climate change means water shortages in many places and hotter water everywhere. nuclear power is the most water-hungry of all energy sources, with a single reactor consuming 35-65 million litres of water each day. Our nation is fighting a war on Water use and 150 nuclear energy plants use 600,000,000,000 gallons of fresh water PER DAY. As with most power plants, two-thirds of the energy produced by a nuclear power plant goes into waste heat (see Carnot cycle), and that heat is discharged into large bodies of water — cooling ponds, lakes, rivers, or oceans.[40] Droughts can pose a severe problem by causing the source of cooling water to run out.[41][42] Throwing away a finite source - Current light water reactors make relatively inefficient use (using only 3%) of nuclear fuel, fissioning only the very rare uranium-235 isotope. Main article: Depleted uranium Reliability - Of all 132 U.S. nuclear plants built (52 percent of the 253 originally ordered), 21 percent were prematurely and permanently closed due to reliability or cost problems, while another 27 percent have completely failed for a year or more at least once. Normally operating nuclear plants must shut down, on average, for 39 days every 17 months for refueling and maintenance.[56] As predicted in 2003 - CNG will be the winner Its Made From Corn, And You Run Your Car On It, But Its Not Ethanol “We are very excited about this breakthrough because it may lead to a flat and compact tank that would fit under the floor of a passenger car, similar to current gasoline tanks,” said Pfeifer. “Such a technology would make natural gas a widely attractive alternative fuel for everyone.” The National Science Foundation reports of a very interesting breakthrough. Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. This corncob “sponge” will allow for the storage of methane, a natural gas derived from rotting bio-waste. With this new technology comes the possibility of using waste methane from cow manure, food waste, heck even human waste to power your car. Read full writeup link here DOE Says Biofuels Have a Minor Impact on Food Costs? DOE - Cited a new report from New Energy Finance that concludes producing 7.2 billion gallons of biofuels are "only" responsible for a 17% increase in global food prices. Noting - "The increasing price of fossil fuels caused 35.2% of the increase in grain prices." The report concludes that population growth and fossil fuels prices placed the greatest pressure on grain prices, and that growth was not matched by increases in yields. Sources: Energy Finance press release (PDF 16 KB) See a summary of DOE testimony on the EERE Web site. Forest Service Consider Large-Scale Geothermal Leasing In an effort to encourage appropriate geothermal energy development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service have prepared a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for geothermal leasing in the West, including Alaska. The draft PEIS considers all public lands and national forests with geothermal resources to be available for leasing, with the exception of those lands that are withdrawn or administratively closed to geothermal leasing. That option includes 117 million acres of public lands and 75 million acres of national forests, while an alternative option would limit geothermal leasing for power plants to areas near transmission lines. By 2015, the lands could potentially host 110 new geothermal plants producing 5,500 megawatts of power, and by 2025, an additional 132 geothermal plants could produce another 6,600 megawatts of power. In addition, 270 communities could potentially draw on geothermal resources as a heating source. The draft PEIS was opened for public comment on June 13, and it will remain open until 90 days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publishes its notice in the Federal Register, an event expected to occur on June 20. The BLM will also hold public meetings in 13 cities throughout the region in July. Approval of the PEIS will allow the BLM to modify its land use plans and to issue decisions on geothermal lease applications that are now pending. It will also help the Forest Service decide when to approve leases in national forests, although the Forest Service will require a separate environmental review process to amend its land use plans. See the BLM press release and the BLM's Geothermal PEIS Web site. Stung by Soaring Transport Costs, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again The rising cost of shipping everything from industrial-pump parts to lawn-mower batteries to living-room sofas is forcing some manufacturers to bring production back to North America and freeze plans to send even more work overseas. The movement of factories to low-cost countries further and further away has been a bittersweet three-decade-long story for the U.S. economy, knocking workers out of good-paying manufacturing jobs even as it drove down the price of goods for consumers. But, after exploding over the past 10 years, that march has been slowing. The cost of shipping a standard, 40-foot container from Asia to the East Coast has already tripled since 2000 and will double again as oil prices head toward $200 a barrel, says Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC. He estimates transportation costs are now the equivalent of a 9 percent tariff on goods coming into U.S. ports, compared with the equivalent of only 3 percent in 2000. "In a world of triple-digit oil prices, distance costs money," Mr. Rubin wrote in a recent report. He figures that for every 10 percent increase in the distance of a trip, energy costs rise 4.5 percent. Transportation costs are just part of a larger wave of inflation sweeping global manufacturing, which has also been pounded by higher costs for basic materials, such as steel and resins. The cost of doing business in China in particular has grown steadily as workers there demand higher wages and the government enforces tougher environmental and other controls. China's currency has also appreciated against the dollar - though not as much as some critics contend it should - increasing the cost of its products in the U.S. "I believe a decent amount of production could come back into the States within five years, not everything," he says. "But it won't be because of transport costs - it'll be because other production costs have gone up and companies have realized they can have better control over their production when it's closer to home." For many manufacturers, though, oil prices that have hurtled past $130 a barrel have been the tipping point. "That's when it became a dominant part of the discussion," he says, adding that oil then was less than $100 a barrel. "So with oil now at $130, it's even more serious." Mr. Monser says Emerson's larger strategy is to regionalize manufacturing, producing as much as possible within the part of the world where its sold. While many manufacturers are re-evaluating production strategies, there are limits to how many jobs will flow back to the U.S. One problem is that much of the basic infrastructure needed to support many industries - such as suppliers who specialize in producing parts or repairing machines - has dwindled or disappeared. U.S. job losses in manufacturing have averaged 41,000 a month so far this year - nearly double the pace last year, with sectors such as autos and construction materials tied to the housing slump especially hard hit. In essence, every job added as a result of companies pulling work back home is being more than offset by others reeling from the domestic slump. And the heavier and bulkier goods are, the more sensitive they are to fuel costs. CIBC's Mr. Rubin predicts Mexico will be "the biggest winner of all" as increased transportation costs make China uncompetitive in an ever-growing list of businesses in North America. Even Mexico may be too far for some companies. Source: Wall Street Journal via libertypost URL Source: http://libertypost.org/ More gore hot air - Backs Obama "Hello, I am a democrat and I endorse this party"... We hear as Al Gore gives the nod to Obama. While this all sounds "kittens and mittens" on all the social media sites, there is a lot of logic and $$$$ behind Gores backing of Obama Let's be honest this is politics and big business for Mr. Gore and Obama. Al Gore Stated he would "do all he could to help Barack Obama win the White House" Obama's campaign. Really? Gore has over $300 million and until I see 1% of that go towards the very candidate Gore urges his supporters to contribute to.... his hot air is only adding to Gullible Warming ;-) Al Gore knows that we can power our nation without coal yet Obama's future is politically and finically powered by coal. Then why would Gore endorse and refer to Obama as JFK? Offsetting Coal power is the largest finical support Gore's "carbon trade" market is driven by. Nearly every contributor to Al Gores financial interests are democrats' And seriously, Did someone think Gore would endorse a republican? "Gore endorses Nader to save our planet." Now THAT would be a refreshing "change" with "vision". Really, tell me where Nader's clean and green future conflicts with the "ideals" that Gore personifies in films and speeches? How can our shameful bipartisanship make Ralph Nader look so good. While I have neither a like, dislike for Obama, Nader, McCain or Gore... I simply want them to make the "right choice" to save our future when the opportunities to do so surround them. And regardless of who the voters of our great nation elect, I will fully support this candidate by providing them with every constructive, concise and creative resource I have to help them save our future and the future of our planet. For three decades our candidates have told voters "we will have clean, reliable, U.S. based energy"... Well, let's start this October. Read more on REUTERS Midwest Floods Mount Food Prices QUINCY, Ill. - Hundreds of volunteers on the surging Mississippi River piled sandbags atop strained levees on Tuesday as the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years delivered a blow to the US economy and world food prices. Comparisons have been made to the major 1993 flooding that caused more than US$20 billion in damage and 48 deaths in the Midwest. This month's flooding has caused few deaths, with Iowa hardest hit. But the damage has yet to be toted up. Corn and soybean prices stayed near record levels as millions of acres of cropland have been lost or damaged in the world's largest grain exporter. Meat prices also soared, in line with the costs for feeding cattle, hogs and chickens. The problems add up to more food inflation for not just US consumers, but also dozens of countries that buy US grain. The United States exports 54 percent of the world's corn, 36 percent of soybeans and 23 percent of wheat. "We've faced some pressure this year, but there could be greater pressure next year on food inflation when protein prices start to increase," said Bill Lapp, a food industry consultant and former chief economist at Conagra Inc. "I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president," Bush said... It worked for OIL now lets try it with Coal Get ready for a REAL energy crisis... Investors NOTE - "buy coal stock now!" While people sound silly squabbling about $4-5 dollar gas... coal runs over 70% of our nations energy and this will be painful. As most of the world just embraced the market inflated price of OIL... now the market is eyeing COAL as the next price fixed "cash cow". Haase - Sounds like classic "hold outs for deregulation and price fixing" my gut feeling.... is that the market is "looking for more funding and deregulation" and raising the commodity price will force tax payers to do it. As one of Americas largest exports the coal markets are trying to "stimulate" their sector by fixing production rates and raising rates. From Bruce Nichols HOUSTON - US coal production has room to grow, but the US Energy Information Administration has cut projections of US output rather than raised them, and now foresees a total of 1.166 billion short tons by 2010, barely up from a record 1.163 billion in 2006. That is not enough to overcome what some coal officials see as a shortage of 25 million to 35 million tons this year in the 6-billion-ton world market and a shortfall of perhaps 70 million tons next year. "It's unlikely you'll see a lot of increased production in the very near term," said Todd Allen, spokesman for Foundation Coal Holdings Inc, one of the largest US coal producers. "Closing the gap with US coal would require spending billions of dollars to expand mines, rails and ports, investment difficult to recover if ...." "The weakness in this sector has often been the companies tend to overproduce when they get a sniff of good pricing, and they kill their golden goose," Scott said. US producers have painful memories of the boom-bust of 2006-07, when an output surge sent prices for Powder River Basin (PRB) coal from US$20 to less than US$10 a short ton and Central Appalachian coal from US$65 to less than US$40. It was the latest disappointment in 30 years of mostly declining prices. Read more at REUTERS COAL ... after 30 years of low returns, "can't wait and wants more profits" and is holding off on production and exploration until Environmental, safety are lowered and more subsidies are given Saving Massachusetts by flooding it The problem that preoccupies water expert is only the local version of a concern gripping the world. Far more troubling than the oil crisis, many believe, is the coming shortage of water. Around the globe, millions lack access to clean water, and climate change is expected to worsen droughts in dry zones. The dire predictions include parts of the American West, where precipitation and reservoirs have been drying up as the population has grown, setting off aggressive jockeying for water resources. ...water problems are already looming for dozens of other communities west of Boston. In a study of 32 towns around Interstate 495 - in one of the state's highest-growth areas, where most towns fend for themselves to find water - the Metro Area Planning Council found about a third are approaching the limit on the volume of ground water they can withdraw, a level set by the state, and another third are likely to approach their limits within 10 to 15 years. almost impossible to fathom project, could take 85 years and cost $50 billion to build. It would displace 50,000 people and drown all or part of a dozen towns, holding enough water to supply most of southern New England... Read more from Boston Globe G8 rich nations club says "plenty oil" G8 a non-reality based art of contradictions... "Oil producers insist there is no shortage of oil on global markets, blaming speculators and the weak US dollar. But analysts say they could still do more to take some of the speculative froth out of the market." Saying they have "no clear consensus or strategy on how to do it without causing more food and oil shortages" ... but, "let's tackle climate change and global warming by cutting emissions to halve by 2050!" Earth to G8, fix your food, fuel and energy crisis and you meet your emission targets (i.e. root cause solution) Read more VIA Vancouversun Concerned about CO2?, just buy a diesel... America wins! Nope. These U.S. models are only available in other countries... Toyota Prius vs. Jeep Patriot 2.0 CRD Toyota Prius: 39.9 mpg Jeep Patriot: 38.9 mpg Honda Civic vs. Ford Focus Econetic Honda Civic IMA: 40.2 mpg Ford Focus Econetic: 52.7 mpg [Source: Clean Green Cars] CARB make huge leap for protection After a decade of negotiating, it would be nice to see this regulation finally passed. If passed, rule would prevent thousands of premature deaths annually The California Air Resources Board has released a proposed regulation that would require ocean-going vessels within 24 nautical miles off California's coastline to use cleaner fuel in their main and auxiliary engines, and boilers. The measure to be considered by the Air Resources Board at its July 24 and 25 meeting would annually affect about 2,000 ocean-going vessels visiting California. The vessels would be required to use lower-sulfur marine distillates rather than the highly polluting heavy-fuel oil often called bunker fuel. "The gains made by this regulation will save lives all along the coast and provide significant health benefits for those living near heavily used California seaports." explained ARB Deputy Director, Michael Scheible. "We're requiring very large reductions that will greatly lessen air pollution from ships." For a copy of all the relevant regulatory documents go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2008/fuelogv08/fuelogv08.htm Read full at www.arb.ca.gov Also see SCAQMD - AIR QUALITY IMPACT INITIATIVES Quote - when procedures are not followed, people die... CalOSHA quote: "Here we are three years later, and we still have a gap between operators who don't know what the procedures are." Carolyn Merritt, former chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, about a recent audit that found safety problems in shutdown procedures at BP's Texas City refinery, which catastrophically exploded in March 2005 In HAZMAT when procedures are not followed, people die. VIA- Bloomberg New Chemical law has global impact Europe this month rolled out new restrictions on makers of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems, changes that are forcing U.S. industries to find new ways to produce a wide range of everyday products. Read more fro The Washington Post WasteCap Wisconsin News Free online directory targets state's construction waste - WasteCap Wisconsin launched the state's first online directory of reuse and recycling markets for Wisconsin's construction and demolition waste in April. The directory, named WasteCapDIRECT, is a free service for contractors to connect with haulers, processors and end markets for some of Wisconsin's most common construction and demolition waste materials. To read the full article, visit www.wastecapwi.org/golivedirect. To use WasteCapDIRECT, visit www.wastecapdirect.org Greening the Heartland 2008 - The premier annual conference on green building and sustainability in the Midwest will be held at America's Center in downtown St. Louis. The U.S. Green Building Council – St. Louis Regional Chapter will host this fifth annual event, which is geared toward people interested in greening their town, business, college campus or building. The conferencve will feature internationally renowned sustainability leaders in four content areas: corporate, community, education and government. WasteCap will host it's Construction Waste Management Training Program for Accreditation the day after the conference in St. Louis. For more information and to register for the conference and the training, visit www.greeningtheheartland.org/ Save the date! Third Annual WasteCap Wisconsin R3 Awards - Professionals and businesses working to reduce, reuse and recycle commercial debris will be honored at the third annual R3 Awards on October 9th at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. The highlight of the night will be the presentation of the Big Diverter award recognizing the construction and/or demolition project with the highest recycling rate. More details coming soon. To read about past R3 Awards, visit www.wastecapwi.org/r3 Changing the minds of Wisconsin contractors - Jenna Kunde is executive director of WasteCap Wisconsin, a nonprofit that provides waste reduction and recycling education to businesses. She said many contractors hesitate to implement recycling processes because they fear there could be additional costs and time attached to them. Kunde said she changes even the most stubborn minds, though, by showing contractors they can have a positive impact on the environment in a cost-saving way that has a minimal impact on construction schedules. To read the full article, visit www.wibuilder.com/wb-june-2008/foundation.html Get more WasteCap Wisconsin News Here YEP... Another GM 60 MPG Vehicle We Don't Have...Yet What's faster than standard Harley and Prius, seats four and get better fuel economy than both? GM won't tell you... In 2007 GM showed off its new Opel Corsa diesel for buyers wanting more economy, using the 1.7-litre CDTi with 125PS. As you'd expect from a car wearing the SRi badge, it offers impressive performance, accelerating from 0-60mph in 9.3 seconds, going on to a top speed of 121 mph and yet achieves an average of 58.9 mpg. GM even sells a "economy version" that exceeds 64 mpg !!! Available in 3-door and 5-door variants, the Corsa GSi gets sporty bodywork, an attractive set of 17" five-spoke wheels, and two-tone seats. It goes on sale in Europe this September. We'll have to wait for the next-gen Corsa to arrive, which will be sold here as a Saturn. Gallery: Opel Corsa GSi Read full at: autoblog.com Tracking plastic products breakdown in sewage The most widely used plasticizer is DEHP, or di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, and millions of tons are produced annually, says Jim Nicell, an environmental engineer at McGill University (Canada). When added to PVC, DEHP lubricates the brittle polymer, providing it with the well-known flexibility that makes it ideal for use in building materials, household furnishings, and medical devices such as intravenous tubes and bags. Because it is not chemically bound to the plastic polymer, fat-loving DEHP readily migrates out of products and is now ubiquitous in the environment, Nicell says. It has been found in human breast milk, blood, and urine as well as house dust, snow, and sewage sludge. The European Commission has classified DEHP as a priority organic pollutant and in 2006 proposed a water quality standard for DEHP of 1.3 micrograms per liter, Nicell adds. Denmark limits the concentration of DEHP in sludge used in agriculture to 50 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) dry weight. "Environmental fate studies tend to focus on the parent compound, but the unanswered question is, what does it turn into?" Nicell asks. Expecting that DEHP would eventually degrade into CO2 and water, Nicell and his colleagues at McGill were surprised to find that soil microorganisms break down DEHP into metabolites that exhibit acute toxicity in standard tests. Nicell's new study tracked for the first time the DEHP breakdown products in sewage sludge and found concentrations ranging from 1 to 228 mg/kg. "We don't have a handle on what is the long-term impact associated with exposure to minute concentrations, [when combined with] a whole bunch of other toxins or endocrine disrupters, on the health and reproductive health of organisms," Nicell says. However, a burgeoning body of work on human exposure to DEHP has sprung up during the past 8 years, notes Russ Hauser, an epidemiologist at Harvard University. Humans oxidize DEHP into a different suite of metabolites compared with those from soil microorganisms, starting with MEHP (mono-ethylhexyl phthalate) and followed by four additional oxidative metabolites. In an earlier study published in November 2006, Hauser and his colleagues measured the concentration of DEHP metabolites in urine samples collected from men at an infertility clinic and found a positive association of MEHP with DNA damage in sperm. "When we adjusted our statistical models for the oxidative metabolites, we found a strong and consistent signal for MEHP that would otherwise have been missed," Hauser says. Scientists have been able to establish DEHP and its breakdown products as antiandrogenic in rodents, according to Shanna Swan, an epidemiologist at the University of Rochester. Exposure to DEHP in utero puts a damper on testosterone production in fetal male rats, which leads to undescended testicles, penile deformations, and a shorter anogenital distance. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002 recommended that hospitals use alternatives to DEHP-containing plastics for vulnerable populations such as premature baby boys, mothers pregnant with male fetuses, and boys nearing puberty, says Ted Schettler, science director for the Science and Environmental Health Network, an advocacy organization. To date, FDA has resisted calls from a coalition that includes the American Medical Association (the top advocacy group for doctors) and leading hospitals to require manufacturers to label medical devices that contain DEHP. Read more From American Chemical Society Hard to imagine more self induced debt... Just as we have fended off debt in the U.S. driving our own inflation to historic levels.... there is a draft proposal to create a huge loophole to hold $2.25 to $2.60 per gallon for gas through 2020. Based on standard inflation and use elasticity the "price hold" could push a gasoline debt onto tax payers of over a BILLION dollars* a per day in the first year.... (Use 400 mil gallons per day in U.S.) Please urge our government to use "reality based" economics... at ucsaction.org "Actual costs have not hurt the U.S. economy only the fear of paying it has..." EHS PRO our future hero's... EHS PROS: YOUR FUTURE IS NOW - From ishn Futurist Jeremy Rifkin's keynote speech to the American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Expo, told EHS pros he foresees a global revolution that will force industry EHS professionals to solve fundamental, incremental and unpredictable problems... "99 percent of the sustainable development commercials you see on TV is spin, PR," SHORT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY "You folks are on the front lines, you know the real story. I feel for you," Rifkin told EHS pros. "You know what needs to be done, but you spend your time putting fires out after the fact. It must be incredibly frustrating," he said. "But you are not in your profession for the money. You have a sense of mission." Rifkin urged his audience to use that passion to help save the biosphere in the "very short window of opportunity" existing in the next 10-15 years. Four actions need to occur in that time frame, he said: A massive shift to distributed energies (wind, sun, water, geothermal) and away from centralized "elite energy" controlled by corporate hierarchies and governments. Reinventing building design and construction so in 20 years offices, factories, homes - all will collect, generate, store and distribute energy. Building structures in effect become their own power plants. Third, renewable sources of energy - hydro, solar cells, wind and geothermal - represent "intermittent energies." It's not always sunny or windy; water is not flowing when there's a drought. The challenge is to store this free energy once collected... The challenge: reducing the current high costs of harnessing renewable energy..., which Rifkin wrote will be achieved through technological breakthroughs and economies of scale. Fourth, communications of converging with the distributed energy revolution...to become the command and control mechanism for organizing the second industrial revolution. The future power grid based on renewable and freely shared energy will be opened up via new smarter grids...already being tested in cities such as Houston and Boulder, Colorado, said Rifkin. "Call it the Wikipedia model of how to store and share renewable energy." Where EHS professionals have a real role to play is in the construction of energy-generating buildings, said Rifkin. "Buildings are the solution to being able to go off the grid. Building can collect and distribute energy. This will be a building redesign revolution, with diagonal roofs, wind mills, solar panels" and the information technical to monitor consumption, save energy, and share it. TAKE THE SPIN OUT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT In the follow-up Q&A, Rifkin pointed to two other roles for EHS professionals. One, help make sustainable development a central part of a company's business plan. "They should bring you experts in to help model a sustainable development plan in the beginning," he said. Right now, "99 percent of the sustainable development commercials you see on TV is spin, PR," Rifkin said. "We're not as far along as those TV commercials suggest." DON'T SQUABBLE, EMPATHIZE Second, EHS pros, by the nature of their mission, tend to be empathetic. And they can use that to influence what Rifkin said is a necessary change in our cultural thinking. "Empathy gives us the glue to survive, to keep us together. We've got to extend our empathy worldwide. We can no longer squabble and squabble and squabble. We need a change in perspective. We need to be more mindful" of the big picture, he said. Labels: WI-EHS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line120
__label__cc	0.729264	0.270736	Stiverne vs. Wilder rematch prediction and preview Quitano @quitano Sat, Oct 07 2017 Deontay Wilder will make the sixth defense of his WBC world title in a rematch with Bermane Stiverne. The fight will take place November 4th, at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York. In thier first fight back in Jan 2015, Wilder, took the WBC belt from Stiverne by UD, scroes: Adalaide Byrd 118-109 \| Jerry Roth 119-108 \| Craig Metcalfe 120-107. Wilder has fought five times since then and to date its the only fight on Wilder's resume that has gone to the cards. With 38 fights Wilder has 37 knockouts. Bermane Stiverne has only fought once since the 2015 match against Deontay Wilder. His last fight was two years ago against Derric Rossy. He has two loses on his record, Demetrice King back in 2007 and Deontay Wilder. Stiverne blamed the loss on hydration issues. Bermane Stiverne is a fill in for Luis Ortiz who was due to challenge the WBC champion,Deontay Wilder but failed a drugs test. In thier first fight Wilder was a slight favorite across the board at (-150). This means his backers must wager $150 to win $100. While Stiverne was a (+160) underdog, meaning one can win $160 by wagering $100. Things have changed A LOT since then. Again Stiverne has not fought in two years. Its going to be interesting to see where the betting lines end up. I have a feeling they will not be so close this time around. This time the fight will not go the distance and my prediction is that Deontay Wilder ends the fight within the first 6 rounds. Tickets for the live event, which is promoted by DiBella Entertainment and TGB Promotions, are on sale now and can be purchased at ticketmaster.com, barclayscenter.com or by calling 800-745-3000. Tickets can also be purchased at the American Express Box Office at Barclays Center. Group discounts are available by calling 844-BKLYN-GP. Will air live on Showtime Boxing.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line122
__label__cc	0.640514	0.359486	Kamutjonga Inland Fisheries Institute (KIFI), Namibia Water quality management of trout production units in Peru Technology of germ cell transplantation in fish By aelgamal in Aquaculture, English, Gallery, Photos Photo credit: Samart Detsathit (Thailand) – Description: Samart Detsathit and Abdel Rahman El Gamal The photos were taken during a training program on the “Germ cell transplantation” that was conducted at Oizumi station, Japan. This technique has been developed by Japanese researchers led by Dr. Goro Yoshizaki at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. The technology could be briefed in the extraction of the primordial germ cells (called spermatogonia) from “masu salmon” (Oncorhynchus masou) and implant it into the hatchlings of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Depending on the gender of the receipt fish (rainbow trout), the germ cells develop to either fully functioning sperm or egg cells and hence trout broodstock turn into “surrogate parents” for the masu salmon. When the sperm and eggs of treated rainbow trout are combined in vitro fertilization, salmon hatchlings are produced. One of the photos shows the transplantation process into a trout hatchling which acts as recipient fish; another photo shows the transplantation needle that is prepared from a glass capillary and sharped to optimum size. This advanced technology has potential applications in aquaculture as well as in preserving endangered species. Germ cell transplantation, Japan, masu salmon, Oizumi station, Oncorhynchus masou, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Rainbow trout, spermatogonia, surrogate parents, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, utilization of the germ transplantation technology in fish aelgamal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line124
__label__wiki	0.70399	0.70399	All game reviews Puzzle/Logic \| Arcade/Action \| Hidden Object \| Simulation/Strategy Get headlines delivered to you Game Review 2017-03-18 Myths of the World: The Black Sun Collector's Edition Eipix Entertainment has just released another addition to the Myths of the World series. Myths of the World: The Black Sun Collector's Edition is a good hidden object puzzle adventure game to play if you are the fan of the genre or the series. Things quickly take a dark turn, and there isn't that much time to figure everything out and fix what can be fixed. The game's story is not bringing anything new to the table, though. But the same could be said about so many other hidden object puzzle adventure games these days. You are called in into your hometown to investigate the disappearance of the town's commander. Soon after you begin your investigation, your father gets turned into a stone by a strange creature. Looks like things quickly take a dark turn, and there isn't that much time to figure everything out and fix what can be fixed. The graphics and the audio of the game are great. The outdoor and indoor scenes are filled with different colors and shades. You are going to travel in Europe and get some other culture experience, like yodeling in the Alps. The music, sounds, and voice-overs are done very well. The game features four modes of difficulty: Animal Tracker, Beast Hunter, Monster Expert, and Adventure Seeker. Hints can be adjusted from 10-120 seconds, and skips - 10-400 seconds. You have a map and a strategy guide to help you proceed through the game. The hidden object scenes are very well thought through. You get a good variety of them. The same can be said about the puzzles. They also vary in their challenge levels. 13 hidden object scenes and 23 puzzles are available for replay. Potions are going to be part of the adventure again. You get a weird helper "hummer", that comes in handy throughout the game. You get to collect 39 lizards and earn 29 achievements. You get all kinds media extras, like concept art, videos, wallpaper, and a souvenir room. If you are a fan of the series, you are going to love. If you are looking for something genuinely innovative, not so much. digg it! \| del.icio.us See related tags: Adventure, Games for Windows, Hidden object, Hide and seek Rate this game: Current game rating: 5 3 in a row, Action, Adventure, Arcade, Board games, Brain teasers, Business simulators, Detective games, Games for kids, Games for Windows, Hidden object, Hide and seek, I-spy, Latest games, Logic games, Mac games, Match 3, Micro management, Mobile games, Mystery games, Puzzle, Seek and Find, Simulation, Strategy games, Time management Tell your friend about this game. Just type their e-mail and press Send button: Disagree with the game review or have anything else to say about the game? Feel free to post your comments below: Enter text from the image: Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst Delicious: Emily's Moms vs Dads Heroes of Hellas 4: Birth of Legend Cubis Kingdoms \| Contact us \| About us \| Privacy Policy \| © 2020 Gamemile.com - All Rights Reserved This is Myths of the World: The Black Sun review. Download this game here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line127
__label__cc	0.646913	0.353087	Gordian protocol Snippet #2 David's and Jacob Holo's newest alternate, cross history novel. by runsforcelery » Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:14 pm runsforcelery First Space Lord Okay, I wasn't going to do this, but here is a small additional snippet from The Gordian Protocol. I'm going to try really hard not to give into the temptation to hand out more of these, especially since Jacob and I still haven't done the copy edit with Baen, but still . . . . Castle Rock University, 2017 CE “You’re kidding me.” Benjamin Schröder sat back in his chair, shaking his head in disbelief. “You’re serious about this crap?!” “I’m very serious, Doctor Schröder,” the thin, sharp-faced man seated behind the large, polished desk informed him severely. Patrick O’Hearn, the History Department’s chairman, was a good twenty years older than Schröder, but he’d always struck the younger man as a spoiled brat who’d never quite grown up. Schröder knew he wasn’t the most tactful or “process oriented” of individuals, but O’Hearn possessed a unique ability to make him think longingly of utterly inappropriate physical responses to “micro-aggressions.” Of course, in O’Hearn’s universe, the clarity of his understanding — thoroughly validated by everyone else living inside his bubble — meant he was incapable of micro-aggressions. All he was doing was “speaking truth to power” . . . especially when he dragged in a junior member of his own department for “counseling.” Aside from his voice, which was actually a surprisingly pleasant baritone, the older man represented every single thing Schröder disliked about academia . . . except for the whiny students unalterably opposed to enduring the contamination of alternative viewpoints. The only reasons students like that bothered him less than O’Hearn — and he had to admit, they ran a very close second — was that he kept reminding himself of what his mother had taught him as a teenager: ignorance and even narrowmindedness can be fixed; stupid is forever. And willful stupidity like O’Hearn’s was especially galling. He suspected that the two of them would have cordially disliked one another under any imaginable circumstances; under the circumstances which actually applied, “dislike” was far too pale a verb. “What happened to my right to file a response?” he demanded now. “I’ve got ten days to respond even to a formal grievance, let alone an Administrative Review!” “Of course you do, Doctor.” O’Hearn emphasized the academic title with a certain spiteful courtesy. “And if you choose to exercise that right, no one would even consider denying it to you. That right is absolutely guaranteed under the Student Grievance Policy and Procedures. I simply thought — purely as a courtesy to a professional colleague, you understand — that it might be expedient to . . . advise you in this matter.” Schröder clenched his teeth and cautioned himself against dwelling any further on those politically incorrect but highly satisfactory responses to O’Hearn’s bright smile. The most satisfactory item on the menu would have included a direct kinesthetic rearrangement of the smile in question, which would hardly help his case at the moment. Some of the verbal responses which sprang to mind would have been almost equally unhelpful, however well-deserved and apropos they might have been. “Should I take it, then,” he said instead, after counting slowly to ten, “that Dean Thompson’s taken an official position on this?” “Oh, by no means! That would be highly inappropriate at this stage of the process.” O’Hearn shook his head, blue eyes gleaming with poorly disguised satisfaction behind the lenses of his wireframe glasses. “She would never attempt to intervene or pressure anyone at such an early stage of the grievance process. At the same time, of course, she has to be aware of remedial options and any . . . potential sanctions. And, as your department chair, I thought it best to ascertain from her on your behalf exactly what those options might be after Ms. Kikuchi-Bennett raised her concerns with me.” “How kind of you,” Schröder said, then bit his tongue mentally as O’Hearn’s eyes flickered with mingled anger and satisfaction. “You are a member of my department,” the chairman pointed out. He didn’t add the words “unfortunately” or “for the moment, at least,” Schröder observed. Or not out loud, anyway. “And I’m sure you’re aware of how seriously Castle Rock University takes any potential discrimination or harassment, especially by faculty.” “Oh, I’m well aware of that,” Schröder replied. “I’m still a little confused about exactly how I’m supposed to have discriminated against or harassed Ms. Kikuchi-Bennett, though.” “The creation of a hostile classroom environment is the very definition of harassment, Doctor,” O’Hearn said rather more frostily. “And attacking an undergraduate’s gender identity and political views in front of an entire class certainly creates exactly that sort of environment.” “I’m not aware of having attacked Ms. Kikuchi-Bennett’s gender identity — or political views — in any way.” “Sarcasm, ridicule, and denigration constitute ‘attacks’ in most people’s view, Doctor.” O’Hearn’s tone was positively icy now, but the satisfaction in his eyes was brighter. “No doubt they would . . . if I’d done any of them.” Schröder felt his own temper rising and stepped on it firmly. It wasn’t easy, and he felt the ghost of his father standing at his shoulder. The old man probably would have already ripped out O’Hearn’s tonsils and wrapped them around his neck for a bowtie. Not the best image for him to be dwelling upon at the moment. “I’m afraid three independent witnesses support Ms. Kikuchi-Bennett’s interpretation of your remarks, Doctor.” “And am I permitted to know who these three independent witnesses might be?” “I’m afraid that’s privileged information under the University’s privacy procedures. At this time, of course.” O’Hearn flashed another of those thin, smug, satisfied smiles. “If the process continues to the formal grievance stage, however, I’m sure you’ll receive copies of their statements.” “But not their identities?” “It’s the content of their statements, not their identities, that would be relevant,” O’Hearn pointed out, “and the University has a legal and moral responsibility to protect their privacy, if only to avoid any appearance of retaliation against them. I’m sure you can understand the Chancellor’s position on that point, Doctor. You would certainly be within your legal rights to seek that information if you should choose to appeal the Grievance Committee’s formal ruling in other venues. Of course, at that point the Legal Department would be legally and morally obligated to protect that information until such time as the courts directed its disclosure.” “Oh, of course.” Schröder wished O’Hearn’s attitude had surprised him. Given academia’s taste for witch hunts, though, the surprise would come from any other response. Besides, he had a pretty shrewd notion which of Kikuchi-Bennett’s friends had chosen to support the transgender student’s allegations. If he was right, the frightening thing was that at least two of them were undoubtedly completely sincere in their belief that he had, indeed, brutally and viciously assailed Kikuchi-Bennett in front of their entire class. Their hypersensitive, exquisitely quivering antennae would have left them with no other conclusion, especially after Kikuchi-Bennett “rebutted” his comments not by refuting — or even considering — his reasoning or his evidence, but by scorning them as “typical of the racist and homophobic patriarchy’s callous dismissal of any dissenting viewpoint.” In his experience, once those labels were deployed, any possibility of rational discourse had left the building. He thought — briefly, and not very seriously — about pointing out to O’Hearn that what he’d said was simply that women hadn’t acquired the franchise in the United States at the point of a gun, but by convincing the majority of men that in a just society interested in living up to the Declaration of Independence’s nobly espoused principles they should have had the franchise all along, just as African Americans should have had their freedom all along. The suffragettes' victory in the 19th Amendment had been achieved because their stance had been correct all along and their moral pressure had convinced enough male voters of that to support the amendment’s passage. Since the discussion had been about the evolution of legal and societal viewpoints in the United States, and about the fashion in which protest movements and organized political pressure groups had achieved change, it was difficult for him to see that as even misogynistic, far less racist, homophobic, or gender phobic. It was Kikuchi-Bennett who’d raised a hand, rejected his argument, and asserted that only someone speaking from the “privileged platform of the white male patriarchy” could possibly have made such a ludicrous assertion. As someone who was neither female nor black, his “patronizing dismissal of their struggle” both demeaned them and revealed his own “blinkered” inability to see the truth hidden in the “so-called history written by that same white male patriarchy,” and segued from there into the necessity for “free speech zones” where such “hate speech and shameless historical revisionism” as his — which was particularly offensive coming from someone speaking from a “privileged position of power” — would not be tolerated. Maybe I should have pointed out that my family probably knows a little more about that whole African American thing than most non-Black families, he thought. In fact, he’d considered doing just that, although not very hard. Claiming personal credit for the moral superiority of ancestors who’d been dead for a century or two was about as intellectually dishonest as an argument came. Besides, it would have been totally irrelevant to her. And certainly not germane to the course’s subject matter. Aware that Kikuchi-Bennett’s passion, however misguided he found it, was completely genuine, he’d dialed back his instinctive response. Apparently replying with the observation that “traditionally, college is where we’re supposed to challenge our own conceptions and preconceptions” had been . . . an insufficient dial-back. Personally, he would have preferred to demonstrate the illogic and inconsistency of Kikuchi-Bennett’s arguments in a reasoned debate from which both of them might have learned a little something, if only respect for opposing viewpoints. It would have been nice if, failing that, he’d at least been able to shut the tirade down in less than the fifteen minutes of the rest of his students’ time which had been squandered to absolutely no good purpose. And, oh, for the long-vanished days when he could have suggested that Kikuchi-Bennett was always free to depart his classroom and refuse to return to it ever again. I wonder how Mom would’ve dealt with this? he wondered, only half whimsically. In fact, he had a pretty good idea how Doctor Joséphine Schröder would have responded, especially here at her own alma mater. Of course, we probably shouldn’t call it an alma mater anymore, either. “Mother” is so sexist. Alma parente would probably be better . . . of course, that’s a masculine gendered noun, isn’t it? Damn, Latin is such a sexist language! Just like French, Spanish, and Italian. I guess we’ll have to find a new noun that’s neither. Fortunately for her, his mother had acquired tenure at Emory two years before Benjamin’s birth. The climate had been just a little different then, and by the time the rot had truly set in, it would have taken a very hardy individual to pick a fight with “Doctor Joe,” who was famous for her ability to vivisect faulty reasoning and absolute death on fabricated or cherry-picked “facts.” Besides, even the faculty members who’d most strongly disagreed with her politics — aside from a handful of much younger, recent additions — had admired and respected her too deeply to consider this sort of nonsense, and her own students had loved her. And the truth was that as infuriating as O’Hearn was, the man was about to do exactly what Benjamin wanted him to do. Under the circumstances, mentioning anything about rabbits, tar, or brier patches would probably send the man’s blood pressure through the roof, but really . . . . Last edited by runsforcelery on Fri Nov 30, 2018 12:44 am, edited 1 time in total. "Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead. Re: Gordian protocol Snippet #1 by fallsfromtrees » Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:55 pm fallsfromtrees Location: Mesa, Arizona Shouldn't this be snippet #2?</pedantic mode> The only problem with quotes on the internet is that you can't authenticate them -- Abraham Lincoln by DrakBibliophile » Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:48 am DrakBibliophile Location: East Central Illinois Like!!! Paul Howard (Alias Drak Bibliophile) Sometimes The Dragon Wins! [Polite Dragon Smile] by TFLYTSNBN » Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:49 pm TFLYTSNBN Any admiration for the morality of the American men who were persuaded to vote for women's sufferage should be tempered by an awareness of the tactics that were used to persuade them. The sudden decline in birth rates in they years prior to passage is proof that those "NO JUSTICE, NO PIECE" protest signs were no bluff. by Dilandu » Sun Dec 09, 2018 11:01 pm Dilandu TFLYTSNBN wrote: Any admiration for the morality of the American men who were persuaded to vote for women's sufferage should be tempered by an awareness of the tactics that were used to persuade them. The sudden decline in birth rates in they years prior to passage is proof that those "NO JUSTICE, NO PIECE" protest signs were no bluff. It would really amaze you, but the dropping birth rate is directly linked with the improving living conditions. - Who would won in battle between strawman Liberal-Democrat and strawman Conservative-Republican? - Scarecrow from Oz; he was strawman before it became political. P.S. - And he have Russian twin, to watch his back) by TFLYTSNBN » Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:44 am Dilandu wrote: You missunderstood the joke. The joke is in how the word is spelled "PIECE" rather than "PEACE". "PIECE" is an American slang referencing a woman's willingness to have sex. As you can see by the data, birth rates were steady prior to passage of the 19th Amendment and declined aftereards. https://www.prb.org/us-fertility/ Birth rates in the US generally increase during years of prosperity with the 1920s being an exception. by Jacob Holo » Wed Dec 12, 2018 9:49 am Jacob Holo There were two aspects of working on the collaboration with David I was nervous about and focused heavily on while writing my scenes: historical fidelity and character voice. I think the first is going to be obvious for people who know me. I have an extensive engineering background, so I'm very comfortable with the technical aspects of what we set out to achieve with The Gordian Protocol. However, my skillset simply can't compare with the depth and breadth of David Weber's knowledge of history. The second issue (character voice) is definitely relevant to this early scene, since David had a clear vision of how Benjamin Schröder should be portrayed. I think it's safe to say that some characters are more mine than David's and some are more David's than mine. Benjamin is very much a David character. Therefore, it was my responsibility to support his vision for the character in the scenes I wrote after he established the character in this a few scenes following it. This is easier said than done, especially in this case since Benjamin goes through some . . . difficult times, shall we say? . . . as the story progresses. My approach to addressing both these points was actually the same. In any scene where I wrote the first draft, I always strove to establish a strong foundation first and foremost (in terms of what is happening and how it ties into the underlying skeleton of the plot). That way, even if I didn't get the historical details quite right (<cough> wrong guns being used by Ukrainians in 1958 <cough>) or messed up the voice for one of the characters, I'm still handing a scene over to my senior partner that fundamentally works (I hope, anyway! ). That then makes his job easier when it comes to fine tuning certain details or adjusting a character's voice to his liking. by runsforcelery » Wed Dec 12, 2018 2:25 pm Jacob Holo wrote: There were two aspects of working on the collaboration with David I was nervous about and focused heavily on while writing my scenes: historical fidelity and character voice. I think the first is going to be obvious for people who know me. I have an extensive engineering background, so I'm very comfortable with the technical aspects of what we set out to achieve with The Gordian Protocol. However, my skillset simply can't compare with the depth and breadth of David Weber's knowledge of history. Well,I think it worked out fairly well! by Dilandu » Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:06 pm Jacob Holo wrote: (<cough> wrong guns being used by Ukrainians in 1958 <cough>) Exactly which Ukrainians, may I ask? You see, being Russian I'm a bit... sensitive about western authors, writing about pretty complicated question of Eastern European relations) No hard feelings, you probably feel the same about our writers trying to work with American history) by Jacob Holo » Wed Dec 12, 2018 4:24 pm Dilandu wrote: Exactly which Ukrainians, may I ask? These particular scenes take place quite a ways from the timeline's divergence point, so the geopolitical landscape is vastly different from the one in our history books. Other than that . . . I probably shouldn't say more. Though I will say there are about 20,000 words of alternate history notes that David wrote going from the divergence point to our modern era, and it's AWESOME stuff! Some of those notes are represented in the novel, but a lot of it is simply deep background material for the two of us. Regardless, I feel confident you'll enjoy the alternate take on events we present in The Gordian Protocol. Dilandu wrote: You see, being Russian I'm a bit... sensitive about western authors, writing about pretty complicated question of Eastern European relations) No hard feelings, you probably feel the same about our writers trying to work with American history) Totally understand where you're coming from. I've actually had similar experiences when watching anime. I've been a big fan of anime for quite a while, but by this point I've become fairly desensitized to unusual portrayals of Americans (both contemporary and historical) in Japanese entertainment. Return to The Gordian Protocol	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line135
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__label__wiki	0.920532	0.920532	Home » Is Turkey rattled by Russian-Kurdish deal? Is Turkey rattled by Russian-Kurdish deal? AUTHOR Fehim Taştekin TRANSLATOR Timur Göksel Turkey’s plans to expand its Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria and isolate Kurdish forces in the region appear to be backfiring. Turkey may feel its already-tenuous footing in Syria slipping now that Russian troops have arrived in Afrin, after making a pact with the Kurds. After Turkey liberated al-Bab from the Islamic State (IS), it turned toward Manbij, which is controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and its Syrian allies, only to encounter US flags northwest of the town and Russian and Syrian national flags to the southwest. Now a similar scenario is being played out in Afrin. On March 20, YPG spokesman Redur Halil announced Russia would deploy troops to the Cindires district of Afrin province. The statement was followed by photos of military vehicles flying the Russian flag. “The presence of Russian troops at Cindires is the outcome of an agreement reached between our forces and the Russian army," Halil said. "This agreement foresees partnership in combating terror and training of our fighters by the Russian army. We have direct contacts with Russia.” YPG sources told Al-Monitor the two sides met at Khmeimim air base near Latakia to discuss developing a joint operation against Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (previously Jabhat al-Nusra), which has made Idlib its central base. The Kurds initially insisted that the partnership should also oppose organizations such as Ahrar al-Sham, which Turkey supports. In the end, the sources said, both parties decided not to debate which organizations they will confront and agreed that Russia will set up a base in Afrin. The Kurds said they rejected Russia's request to have Syrian regime troops at the base and to fly the Syrian flag there. But the Russian Defense Ministry denied it plans to have a permanent military base there. The ministry said Russia has a site nearby that it uses to monitor cease-fire arrangements. Preparing for a possible war Zelal Ceger, an official with the Kurdish Movement for a Democratic Society in Afrin, said the Kurds sought an agreement with the Russians because of persistent attacks on Afrin by Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and armed groups that Turkey supports. A Russian military convoy went first, as planned, to Cindires, immediately south of Afrin near the western border with Turkey. Russia then decided the convoy would be better positioned in Kefir Ceni, which is about an hour northeast toward the northern Turkish border and some 9 miles from Azaz. “We have the Turkish state on one side and the gangs on the other," Ceger said. "We are resisting them by our own means. But they are setting up alliances against us. We have to do something about these. The Turkish state is threatening us every day and shelling Raco, Sharra and Shiigi. We are under pressure also from the direction of Tel Firat. Turkey is massing troops around Idlib and giving weapons to the gangs of Idlib." He added, “This war can escalate — hence our call on Russia for an alliance. There has to be coordination between Turkey and us. Russia will provide that coordination to prevent Turkish attacks against Afrin." Russian military experts have been coming to Afrin for the past two years. These visits started immediately after Turkey said it wouldn't allow the YPG to cross to the west of the Euphrates River, and the YPG started attacks from Afrin against Azaz. However, if the YPG sources are correct, this will be the first time the Russians have felt the need for a permanent base at Afrin. Why? A senior YPG commander speaking to Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity said, “According to an agreement between Turkey and Russia, Turkey was to hand over al-Bab to the Syrian army after capturing it from IS. But Turkey did not leave al-Bab. To the contrary, it is now building a second base on a dominating hill outside al-Bab. It had already built a base at Aktarin. When the Turks didn't pull out of al-Bab, Russia wanted to send them a new message. Russia’s rapprochement with the Kurds stems from the weakness of Turkish-Russian relations.” Will the rapprochement affect the partnership between the United States and the Kurds? The senior YPG commander replied, “No. We initiated contacts with Russia after openly speaking about it with the Americans. We told the Americans, ‘If you are not willing to cooperate with us at al-Bab and Afrin, then we will have to look for other connections.' They did not react. The Russian and American positions on Raqqa have become closer. This makes it easy for us to set up relations with both of them.” Raqqa, the so-called IS capital in Syria, is another sore spot with Turkey, which has made it clear it plans on being part of the operation to take control of the city. That scenario is looking more unlikely each day. After the United States and Russia reached an understanding on Manbij, the United States continued providing military assistance to the Syrian Democratic Forces, a YPG-dominated coalition. The United States has brought in armored vehicles, heavy weapons and helicopters for the Raqqa operation. The Kurds are now waiting for Apache assault helicopters. In the meantime, the Kurds firmly rejected a US proposal to include Syrian Kurdish peshmerga forces supported by Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq. Barzani cooperates with Turkey. YPG Kurds said of the proposal, “We see this as a conspiracy. It will mean war between the Kurds. We categorically reject it.” All these developments indicate that either the United States is being flexible or it is not in a position to impose conditions on the Kurds, who are aware that the US-Russia understanding could be a short-term one. Kurds can join Idlib operation The critical question now is what will happen at Idlib. The Syrian army has been clearing out IS forces from their last Aleppo stronghold. Thanks to an agreement between Turkey and Russia, Turkish-supported armed groups — which oppose the Syrian regime but were also fighting IS in Aleppo — were allowed to leave there with their weapons and families. Most of them settled in Idlib and Azaz. Now, Russia and Turkey disagree on what to do with these anti-Syrian (and therefore, anti-Russian) groups. Russia wants them disbanded. Turkey would like them to hold onto that area and join the pro-Turkish Free Syrian Army factions to fight the Kurds and keep them from establishing a continuous autonomous region near Turkey's border. If Russia and the Syrian army open a front against Idlib, clashes with the Turkish-backed groups could spill over to Afrin. Although the Kurds are focused on defending Afrin, they may be amenable to a joint operation with the Russians against threats from Idlib. This is what the YPG commander told Al-Monitor: “We could, of course, join operations against Idlib-based groups if we so wanted. Idlib is the key now. If Idlib is attacked, then Afrin will come under pressure. We are open to different alternatives.” According to this YPG commander, if Turkish-supported groups or the Turkish army directly move against Afrin, the Kurds have two options: “The first option is cooperation with Russians. This is ongoing. Russian deployment at Afrin is an open message to Turkey. Our second option is to give the green light to the Syrian army. Afrin is a Syrian town. The Syrian army can come there as stipulated by its territorial integrity. If we have to, we will look into this option.” In summary, Russia has deployed troops to Afrin for three reasons. First, it is sending a message to Turkey, via the Kurds, that it is unhappy about Turkey not leaving al-Bab. Second, Russia will not allow a TSK move against Afrin. Third, a northern Kurdish front is developing against groups like Jabhat Fatah al-Sham at Idlib. www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/turkey-syria-russian-troops-arrive-afrin.html news_articles \| by Dr. Radut	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line151
__label__cc	0.698799	0.301201	Areya Holder Since the start of her legal career, Areya Holder has focused on bankruptcy work for consumers and businesses in Texas. She established her private practice in 2003 after working for six years as an attorney for the Dallas Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Trustee. Texas, 1997 Dallas Bar Association National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys John C. Ford American Inn of Court. Appointed as a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, J.D., 1997 University of North Texas, B.A., 1993 Serving clients in Collin, Cook, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, Tarrant, and Red River counties, including the communities of Arlington, Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Dallas, Denton, DeSoto, Euless, Grand Prairie, Irving, Las Colinas, and Plano. – Chapter 7 Case Description: Home \| Firm Overview \| Attorney Profile \| Practice Areas \| Chapter 7 \| Chapter 11 \| Common Myths \| Contact Us Mortgage Modification Legislation Proposed Maintained by MC for The Law Office of Areya Holder © \| Sitemap	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line152
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__label__cc	0.715772	0.284228	China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (ccpit) 2009 Preface Cultural, educational and sports goods industry Download 8.13 Mb. bet 51/65 Sana 08.09.2017 Hajmi 8.13 Mb. 1 ... 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 ... 65 Huamao Group Taishan Sports Industry Group Guangzhou Pearl River Piano Group China First Pencil Co., Ltd In 1935, China Standard Home Product Pencil Co., Ltd, the first omnipotent pencil enterprise of China, was established in Shanghai. The enterprise got new vitality for the hard works of staff and workers especially after liberation and was renamed China No.1 Pencil Factory. After experiencing trails, hardships and flourishing over half of a century, China No.1 Pencil Factory was reformed into China First Pencil Co., Ltd, a joint-stock enterprise. Since then the company has become the first place of the same trade with the general advance of the excellent technology, high quality and wide varieties. At present, China First Pencil Co., Ltd produces and sales stationeries of such as graphite pencil, color pencil and adjustable pencil marking with the brands of "Chunghwa" or "Great Wall", "Glamor" pencil machinery, "Good Student" eraser and "Alice" series of cosmetic pencil. The products with brands of "Chunghwa" and "Great Wall" are the most representative brands of the light industry of our country, are the first choice of working and learning goods for consumers. In May 1992, with approval by The People's Government of Shanghai Municipality, China First Pencil Co., Ltd. was restructured into China First Pencil Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. of domestic and foreign investment, which started a new era for its blooming. During the past half century, China First Pencil Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. has experienced hardships and frustrations as well as struggle and success. The founders of the company make concerted efforts with all employees. They have made great achievements with wisdom and painstaking effort. China First Pencil Co., Ltd. will lighten China's pencil industry forever. Huamao Group was founded in June 1971 and located in Ningbo, a famous cultural city in the economic center in the south of Yantze River Delta. During over 30 years' development, Huamao Group stayed grounded in education and has developed a comprehensive industrial group. It mainly focuses on producing teaching aid, basic instrument, and popular science products, as well as running private school and education theory service, meanwhile concurrently engaged in international trade, real estate, financial investment. It owns 30 wholly-owned and holding subsidiaries including Huamao Group Stock Co., Ltd., Ningbo Huamao Culture And Education Co., Ltd., Ningbo Huamao Foreign Languages School, American Huayuan Stock Co., Ltd. and research centers. Huamao Group ranks first in the same grade for consecutive years in terms of business scale and overall economic results. It has won the honors of China Top 500 Industrial Enterprises, Top 10 Key Profitable Enterprises, Leading Enterprises of China Industrial Enterprises, Top 10 Competitive Cultural Products Manufacturers, The First of Top 10 Profitable Enterprises of Cultural Products Manufacturing Industry, Top 10 Effective Brands of China Private Education, AAA Enterprise of Quality, Service and Honor in China. During the past 30 years, Huamao Group gradually developed in three jumps cause from education product to education practice and education ideas. Huamao adheres the corporate spirit of "faith is essential to survival; brand is essential to development; education is essential to business". It insists on the mission of "base on educating, support education as an honor" and forms a style of "pioneering, innovation, refinement, practicality". Huamao education industry determined its strategic business. Huamao board of directors proposes a "3-3-1" development strategic goal: to set up 3 specials and create 3 projects. To make it more detailed, 3 specials refer to special corporate culture centered in "promoting economic benefit with social benefit", special industrial structure with education industry and business stimulating each other and special management system focusing on system over president; create the largest education product provider in China, create first rank Huamao Foreign Languages School in China and create an international education forum known at home and abroad. Huamao is aimed finally to build a brilliant Huamao of one hundred years' history. Taishan Sports Industry Group, founded in June 1978, has now developed into a great national corporation group with the core of Taishan Sports Industry Group Ltd. it is the largest sports facilities provider for Olympics in history. The group has more than 2300 employees at present. It covers an area of 336,000 m² and the registered capital is 160 million yuan, the real assets 500 million yuan, the intangible assets of Taishan brand up to 11.8 billion yuan. The main products of Taishan Sports include artificial turf, plastic racetrack, sports equipment, serials of special protection mat, roadside gym equipment, track and field equipment, wrestling mats, judo mats, taekwondo mats, trampoline, springboard, artistic gymnastic floor, boxing ring, free combat platform, weight lifting platform, barbell, Wushu field, species of sports balls and various of assistant training equipments. As a cooperator of International Gymnastics Federation and a member of both China Track and Field Committee and Chinese Athletic Equipment League, the group has already passed the ISO9001 Certification of Quality Management System, ISO14001 Certification of Environmental Quality System and the GB/T28001 Certification of Occupational Health and Safety Management System successively. Many special products have already passed the certification of International Gymnastics Federation, Field & Track Association, International Judo Federation, International Wushu Federation, International Football Federation, The International Federation, world Taekwondo Federation, China Track and Field Association and China Football Association. Taishan Sports Industry Group has been awarded the following titles as "China Famous Trademark", "China Top Brand" and "National Products Exemption from Quality Surveillance Inspection". The group is selected as Shandong Province Credible and Law-abiding Enterprise and it is an AAA Credit Unit whose line of credit reaches 300 million Yuan conferred by Agricultural Bank of China. It is the appointed manufacturer of Chinese Athletics Association, Chinese Football Association, Chinese Gymnastic Association, Chinese Skill Association, Chinese Wrestling Association, Chinese Boxing Association, Chinese Judo Association, Chinese Weighing Lifting Association, Chinese Taekwondo Association and Chinese Wushu Association. Artificial Turf and the new type martial art field which under the brand name of "Taishan" are both the single recommended and appointed products by Chinese Football Association and Chinese Wushu Association. As the manufacturer and supplier of excellent equipment, Taishan Sports industry group has already occupied more the 90% of China contest sports market. On the tenth national games of 2005, more than 92% of the equipments of athletics kinds were from Taishan group. Equipments and artificial turf under the brand of "Taishan" are exported to various nations and such as North and South America, EU, Russia, countries and regions in Southeast Asia and Africa. Cooperating with J&F Company in Holland, Taishan group became one of the suppliers for Athens Olympics in 2004 and Beijing Olympics in 2008. Guangzhou Pearl River Piano Group is leading enterprise of China’s instrument, the largest piano manufacturer in the world, the only high-tech enterprise with national-class technology center in China’s instrument industry, China’s Outstanding Enterprise in Quality Management, National Culture Export Key Enterprise, one of 16 International Competitive Chinese Enterprises Marching to World Top Brands, and one of provincial government-supported 13 key enterprises to become world famous brand. In January 2006, the "Milestone Award" was conferred on the group by the International Music Products Association, the first time ever such an honor had been granted to a non-American musical instrument maker since the association was founded 104 years ago.In December 2007, Pearl River Piano Group won the honorable title Advanced Unit in China’s Light Industry. Pearl River Piano Group has established a development course majored in piano, digital instrument and music education. At present, its annual output capacity reached 100.000 pianos. By early 2006, a total of one million pianos had been turned out by PRPG, which enabled it to be China's first piano builder with an output surpassing one million pianos. By adopting the operating strategy of science and technology first, brand-driven and globalization, PRPG is dedicated on technology, quality and sales innovation. In the same industry in China, Pearl River Piano Group firstly established national-class enterprise technology center, provincial key project technology research center and large wood processing base. It took the lead to promote ISO9000 Quality Management System, ISO4000 Environment Management System and ISO10012:2003 Measurement Management System. It initially set up complete marketing network at domestic and overseas instrument market. It moved the first step to the world high-grade piano market. It developed successfully and promoted professional high-grade self-made piano brand Pearl River Kayserburg. It has upgraded the product and industry structure consistantly and improved its international competitiveness. PRPG has so far more than 30 registered trademarks like Pearl River, Ritmüller, Hongmian and Xilinmen, of which Pearl River piano has been awarded the titles of Well-known Trademark in China, China Famous Brand Product, and Export Brand preferentially fostered by the Ministry of Commerce. Whereas, Ritmüller won the titles of Guangdong Famous Trademark, and Guangdong Famous Brand Product. Being listed as 2008-2009 national key new product, Pearl River Kayserburg high-grade piano brand has won priase from many piano masters such as Liu Shikun and Yin Chengzong. Pianos of the newly-developed Ritmüller Classic Series, Pearl River Master Series, Senior Series are highed regarded by consumers. The three brands of Pearl River, Ritmüller,and Kayserburg have taken up more than 20% of the domestic market share and marketed in more than 100 countries and regions all around the world and have led the country in terms of output, sales revenue, pre-tax profits, the rate of value-sustained and value-added (state-owned) assets and the contribution rate. Каталог: Category7 -> Asset Asset -> China Business Guide 中国商务指南 2009 （The Light Industry） Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: Ma'lumotlar bazasi mualliflik huquqi bilan himoyalangan ©hozir.org 2019 ma'muriyatiga murojaat qiling	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line155
__label__wiki	0.73481	0.73481	News from HPPSA About HPPSA About the Humana People to People Federation Health, HIV/AIDS & TB TCE Project Description TCE Gert Sibande TCE Mopani TCE Buffalo City Hope Project Description Hope Mopani Hope Bushbuckridge About the Child Aid Project Child Aid Bakenberg Child Aid Doornkop Child Aid Tubatse Child Aid Abaqulusi Education and Youths About Education and Youths Preschools of the Future Farmers Club Description Farmers’ Clubs Elliotdal HIV/AIDS & TB Humana Second Hand Farmers’ Clubs Contact HPPSA Main Office Contact the Projects How climate change actions are impacting on agricultural productivity in India Written 13/11/2017 This week diplomats, leaders and civil society are meeting in Bonn, Germany for another round of climate talks. India has already made its mark – with the country's chief negotiator, Ravi Shankar Prasad intervening on the first day when he remarked that if (rich) nations don't follow the decisions taken in the previous COPs, what confidence do developing countries have that the decisions taken in this COP23 would be honoured. India knows all too well the effects of changing climates and has been pegged as a frontline state in the fight against it. Climate change has heavily impacted numerous sectors such as agriculture, water resources, forestry, and energy. Whilst no one is immune to climate change, its repercussions hit the poor harder than anyone else. Humana People to People India has joined hands with rural famers in Rajasthan State to build sustainable communities. Initiatives include reducing dependencies on fossil fuels, supporting farmers and merchants and encouraging green practices through the promotion of cleaner environmentally friendly models. These all contribute to mitigating and adapting to the growing challenge of climate change. The idea is to empower the rural farmers into building coping mechanisms which assist to improve their rural livelihood thus protecting the environment in the process. Rajasthan is a drought prone state with large herds of cattle (about 10.13% of the country's livestock population). Humana People to People have worked with communities to set up biogas plants thereby ensuring that dung generated by the community's animals is made available for generation of biogas. Biogas plants also produce an organic fertilizer called slurry as a by-product. Slurry is a safe, nutrient-rich alternative to chemical fertilizers that can be applied to crops and trees. "Biogas for Enhanced Quality of Life" was a 3 year project which started in 2014 and phased out in 2016. It was implemented by Humana People to People India. The project benefitted 100 villages in Dausa district. Under the project 400 Biogas plants were constructed. From the Biogas plants families get access to clean energy used for cooking and lighting. The use of bio-slurry, the by-product of the fermentation process, is used as farm manure resulting in increased agricultural output. This process also reduces the expenditure on chemical fertilizers including pesticides and relieves the workloads of rural women in particular. An analysis of the impact of this project shows that improvements were not just made in agricultural output but that it had a positive influence at the family level. The following is an extract from the external evaluation of the Biogas for Enhanced Quality of Life Project, Dausa, Rajasthan, India: "Sugni Gurjar and Ratiram Gurjar, aged 45 and 52 respectively, are residents of Garhdoobi, Bandikui. The family has 7 adult members and 6 school going children. The family's primary fuel source prior to the biogas construction was fuelwood, which was later substituted almost entirely by biogas. The family has an active kitchen garden of around 0.5 ha, on which they grow vegetables such as eggplant, leafy vegetables, chilies, peas and other seasonal vegetables. The produce is entirely consumed by the members of the family. The family had started exclusively using biogas slurry in the vegetable garden, and this was the third harvest after the introduction of slurry. The family reported that the yield was higher than earlier when they used fertilizers and chemicals. In fact they saw significant improvement in the last harvest, perhaps due to the fact that it takes time for the nature of the soil to change in response to the manure application. The size of the vegetables has increased and they taste better now. The family also saw this superior produce as a prospective means of earning in the future by selling their produce, and now it plans to allocate more land to their vegetable garden." Humana People to People India has facilitated construction of 737 Biogas plants across the states of Rajasthan and Haryana, directly impacting more than 4 332 people over the last 6 years. An additional 200 Biogas plants are expected to be constructed in the third phase project ending in 2019. Latest News from HPPSA World Water Week is for “Water for Society – Including All” HIV AND CHANGE: ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN LIBERATE THEMSELVES FROM HIV AND AIDS THE EPIDEMIC Launching the Humana People to People Progress Report 2018 Humana People to People South Africa launched the Malaria Program under the Global Fund E8 initiative. Child Aid is a concept that aims at securing a safe, healthy and enriching environment for children. 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__label__cc	0.560784	0.439216	Peter D. Friday Brian D. Cox G. Christopher Apessos Jesse A. Drumm Joshua S. Licata Kevin S. Burger Paul G. Mayer Jr. Steven G. Petramale Richard L. Manilla Richard L. Manilla joined Friday & Cox in 2018 and concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice, and workers’ compensation. As a native of Western Pennsylvania, Rick grew up in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, with degrees in political science and history. He then attended Ohio Northern University – Pettit College of Law and graduated in 2014. Rick was an associate member and competitor of the Ohio Northern’s Moot Court team. In his third year, he served as an associate justice who coached the school’s team that competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. He received a CALI Award of Excellence in Complex Litigation and, upon graduating, earned a Pettit College of Law Civil Litigation Certificate. While in law school, Rick interned as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Gregory L. Frost of the Southern District Court of Ohio, US District Court in Columbus, Ohio. He was granted a temporary license to practice law by the Ohio Supreme Court and represented indigent clients in domestic relation matters at the Ohio Northern University Legal Clinic and also represented the Hardin County Department of Job and Family services by interning at the Hardin County Prosecutor’s Office in Kenton, Ohio. Once he obtained his license to practice law, Rick focused on representing injured plaintiffs within the Pittsburgh Area in cases involving defective products, construction site accidents, electrical wire injuries, and motor vehicle accidents. Rick resides in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh with his wife, Hannah, and their English bulldog, Vitola. He is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association. Pennsylvania, 2014 U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania, 2014 Ohio Northern University – Pettit College of Law, 2014 University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Degrees: B.A. – Political Science and B.A. – History Professional Associations and Memberships: Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member Allegheny Bar Association, Member Nursing home neglect lawsuit follows premature death Dangerous toys could lead to products liability lawsuits Construction workers’ accidents: Fatal fall claims 1 life Safety group seeks recall of Pacifica with alleged auto defects What to do about a workers’ compensation denial Friday & Cox, LLC Copyright © Friday & Cox LLC, All Rights Reserved Nursing home neglect deemed cause of businessman’s death Nursing home neglect claims may soon have to go to arbitration Friday & Cox LLC 1405 McFarland Road	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line158
__label__wiki	0.564052	0.564052	A New Way to Fight a Previously 'Inoperable' Pancreatic Cancer THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new treatment protocol for locally advanced pancreatic cancer can enable surgical removal of previously inoperable tumors and improve survival rates, according to a new study. "Locally advanced" pancreatic cancer is confined to the pancreas, but the tumor still involves major abdominal blood vessels and usually cannot be removed by surgery. It's one of the worst forms of an already deadly cancer, the Massachusetts General Hospital researchers explained. However, the results of their clinical trial could offer such patients new hope. The trial included 49 patients with previously untreated locally advanced pancreatic cancer who received a combination of intensive chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as well as the blood pressure drug losartan. Use of the combo therapy allowed 34 of the 49 participants to go on to have their tumors surgically removed, the team reported May 30 in JAMA Oncology. And in 30 (61%) of the patients, surgery ("resection") removed all evidence of cancer around the tumor. The treatment protocol also significantly improved survival rates, the research team said. As study co-lead author Dr. Janet Murphy explained, "around 40% of pancreatic cancer patients have either locally advanced or borderline resectable disease, with historically poor rates of successful surgery." She works in the hospital's hematology/oncology division. "To be able to successfully remove the primary tumor in 61% of patients sets a new benchmark and offers much hope," Murphy said in a hospital news release. "A key part of the success of our approach was our surgeons' willingness to attempt an operation even in patients who had the appearance of cancer at or near their blood vessels." She said that prior research had suggested that tumor spread (as evidenced on CT scans), and the ability of surgeons to remove the tumor after chemotherapy and radiation "are no longer clearly correlated." That could give surgeons the green light to proceed. "While we did not see total blood vessel clearance in 61% of patients, 61% achieved a complete removal of their cancer [anyway]," Murphy said. "Locally advanced pancreatic cancer has been generally considered an incurable disease, so these results mark a dramatic improvement with respect both to rates of conversion to surgical resectability and to long-term disease outcomes," study co-lead author Dr. Jennifer Wo said in the news release. She's from the hospital's department of radiation oncology. "Based on these results we have launched a new, multi-institutional clinical trial that will also include the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, since losartan treatment has also been shown to activate several immune system pathways," Wo said. One specialist not involved in the trial agreed that the approach could be a new option for these patients. "Of utmost importance, the results showed that they were able to successfully remove the primary tumor in 61% of patients, which definitely sets a new benchmark," said Dr. Wasif Saif. He's deputy physician-in-chief and medical director of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute in Lake Success, N.Y. The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more on pancreatic cancer. SOURCES: Wasif M. Saif, M.D., deputy physician-in-chief and medical director, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, Lake Success, N.Y.; Massachusetts General Hospital, news release, May 30, 2019 Cancer in Children: An Overview Cancer in Children: Managing Pain Breast Cancer: Introduction Alternative Therapy for Cancer Carcinoembryonic Antigen 10 Most Common Approaches to Complementary Cancer Therapy 1 in 4 Cancer Survivors Faces 'Financial Hardship' Due to Medical Costs 6 Tips for Life as a Cancer Survivor Gemcitabine injection Ifosfamide injection Cancer Warning Signs Quiz Nutrition and Cancer Quiz Aging Parents: Here's What I Would Do	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line164
__label__cc	0.7335	0.2665	GOTO is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 90 top speaker and 1300 attendees. The conference cover topics such as .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes About Aarhus About GOTO Workshop: Tweet"Continuous Delivery" Track: Agile Training / Time: Sunday 09:00 - 16:00 / Location: Room1 Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This tutorial sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours–sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base. In this tutorial we take the unique approach of moving from release back through testing to development practices, analyzing at each stage how to improve collaboration and increase feedback so as to make the delivery process as fast and efficient as possible. At the heart of the tutorial is a pattern called the deployment pipeline, which involves the creation of a living system that models your organization's value stream for delivering software. We spend the first half of the tutorial introducing this pattern, and discussing how to incrementally automate the build, test and deployment process, culminating in continuous deployment. In the second half of the tutorial, we introduce agile infrastructure, including the use of Puppet to automate the management of testing and production environments. We'll discuss automating data management, including migrations. Development practices that enable incremental development and delivery will be covered at length, including a discussion of why branching is inimical to continuous delivery, and how practices such as branch by abstraction and componentization provide superior alternatives that enable large and distributed teams to deliver incrementally. Jez Humble, TweetAuthor of "Continuous Delivery", Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks Biography: Jez Humble Jez Humble is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, and author of Continuous Delivery, published in Martin Fowler's Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010). He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot-com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies. Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London, and San Francisco. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices in the field of Agile delivery. He also serves as Product Manager for Go, ThoughtWorks Studios agile release management platform. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MMus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies,University of London. Twitter: @jezhumble Personal blog: http://jezhumble.net/ Github: http://github.com/jezhumble/javasysmon Book: Continuous Delivery (Addison Wesley, 2010) Company website: http://studios.thoughtworks.com Sam Newman, TweetTechnical Consultant at ThoughtWorks Biography: Sam Newman Sam Newman is a technical consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he has been for over five years. He has worked with a variety of companies in both delivery and enablement roles, but tends to prefer the more complex technical challenges over coaching roles. He has written articles of O'Reilly, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Principally a Java developer, he also spends lots of time with Scala, Python, Javascript, and build systems that hate him GOTO Newsletter WHAT IS GOTO Program Advisory Board GOTO Organizer info@gotocon.com sales@gotocon.com sponsor@gotocon.com press@gotocon.com GOTO AAR 2011 GOTO CPH 2011 GOTO AMS 2011 GOTO PRG 2011	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line167
__label__wiki	0.968147	0.968147	SLSA: B5478 Pastor August Ludwig Christian Kavel ca 1840 Photo courtesy of the State Library of South Australia The Prince George: three masted barque of 317 tons om (96 feet x 27 feet 7 inches x 5 feet 7 inches) built in 1828 at Newcastle upon Tyne owned by H. Wright departed Hamburg Sunday 8th Jul 1838 stopped at Plymouth 23-31 Jul 1838 arrived at Holdfast Bay, SA on Sunday 18th Nov 1838 and Port Adelaide 2-3 days later under the command of Frederick Bigger Chilcott departed for Surabaya 4 Dec 1838 The story of the voyage is recounted in David Schubert's Kavel's Prople [1]. Contents * Brief Description * Passenger List * Newspaper Reports * References * Links * Ship Index The list below is based largely on a list in David Schubert's Kavel's People (pp164-169) [1]. The following extract is also from that book. "189 Prussian emigrants left Hamburg on the Prince George. Three died before Plymouth and one child was born, so 18 arrived at Plymouth. There Pastor Kavel embarked and one child died-so 187 left Plymouth. Ten more people died on the voyage from Plymouth to SA and one child was born; thus 178 arrived in SA. There were 14 deaths altogether, half of them adults and half children." Henry Capper in Capper's South Australia (3rd edition ,1839) describes the passengers thus: "in addition to about 200 Germans of the labouring class there were four male and three female passengers of superior class. Among these were Charles Flaxman, his wife Jane, and their three sons Samuel, John, and Charles." CHILCOTT Frederick Bigger Ships Surgeon DRESCHER Dr Cabin Passengers FLAXMAN [1,6] Charles (31, b 25 Dec 1806) Jane (nee BELL) .....Samuel [5] .....John (b ca.1837) .....James Steerage Passengers BODATSCH [1,6] Anna Rosina, widow, casual farm worker (68, died at sea 28 Oct 1838) from Langmeil BOTHE [1,6] Christian, day-labourer (66, b 10 Dec 1771) from Klemzig Johann Georg, thresher-gardener (57) from Klemzig Eleonore nee KIEPKE (54) .....Johann Gottfried, agricultural labourer (29, b 16 Feb 1809) .....Anna Maria (23, b 10 Jun 1815) Johann Gottlob, thresher-gardener (33, b. Feb. 26, 1805, son of Christian BOTHE) from Klemzig Maria Elisabeth nee RAU (31, b 24 Jan 1807, daughter of Anna Maria RAU) .....Johanne Luise (12 , b 19 Sep 1825) EISEN [1,6] Johann Christian, thresher-gardener (63) .....Johann Samuel, agricultural labourer (25) .....Johanne Luise (22 , b 27 Feb.1816), .....Johanne Eleonore (20, b 21 Jun 1818) from Langmeil. FIEDLER [1,6] Johann Friedrich August, hunter, gamekeeper (42, b 21 Feb 1796) from Klemzig .....Johann Friedrich August Alexander (16, b 1 Feb 1822) .....Bertha Auguste Mathilde (13, b 5 Dec1824) .....Friedrich Eduard Julius (9, b 28 Oct 1828) Johanne Maria nee KOHLER, formerly widow TEUSLER (38, died Port Adelaide 5 Dec 1838) .....Johanne Luise (9) .....Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (5, b 12 Aug 1833) FIEDLER [1] Julius Fiedler, from Unruhstadt. FISCHER [1.6] Friedrich, nursery gardener (32, b 3 Oct 1805) from Klemzig Johanne Eleonore nee BOTHE (26, (b 23 May 1818) .....Friedrich Wilhelm (4, b 17 Nov 1833) .....Johanne Karoline (2) .....John George Fife (bom on ship 20 Jul 1838, died at sea 11 Aug 1838) GROCKE [1,6] Johann Gottlieb, day-labourer (27, b 28 Oct 1810) From Goltzen Dorothea nee SCHULZ (25, died at sea 30 Oct 1838) .....Johann Friedrich, (2, b 2 Oct 1835) .....Johann Christian (<1) HARTMANN [1,6] Johann Georg, gardener (45) from Salkau Johanne Luise nee PERSCHEL (37, b 14 Sept 1800) .....Johanne Karoline (10, b 24 Feb 1828) .....Johann Gottlob (6, b 13 Oct 1831). . HOENKE [1,6] Johann Christian, tailor (46) from Klemzig Anna Elisabeth nee SCHULZ (31) .....Johann Friedrich Ernst (10) .....Johann August (6). Johann Gottfried, thresher-gardener (32, b 6 Jun 1806, son of Maria LEDER) Maria Luise (or Elisabeth) (nee BOTHE) (33, b 5 Dec 1804) .....Johanne Luise (3, b 31 Aug 1834) Johann Gottlob, day-labourer (29) from Klemzig Anna Elisabeth (nee ZEUNERT) (30) Anna Elisabeth (29, b 10 Mar 1809, daughter of Maria LEDER) from Klemzig HOFFMANN [1,6] Johann Friedrich, thresher-gardener (62, died. at sea 30 Oct 1838) Johanne Maria nee KORBER (58) .....Johanne Luise (22, b 26 Dec 1816) Johann Gottfried, day-labourer (33, (b 19 Aug 1804) from Krummendorf Johanne Eleonore nee RINNERT (28, b 25 Jan 1810) .....Johann Friedrich (5) JAENSCH [1,6] Johann Christian Erdmann, servant and agricultural labourer (24, b. 2 Nov 1813) from Klemzig Johanne Eleonore Erdmuthe nee RAU 24 (b 6 Dec 1813 .....Johann Gottfried (2, b 27 Dec 1835, died on ship at Plymouth Sound July 1838) JANTKE [1,6] Johann Christian, mason (21, b 29 July 1817, son of Anna Dorothea WEIMANN) from Schönborn JANTKE [6] Johann Samuel, apprentice mason (18, b 18 April 1820, son of Anna Dorothea WEIMANN) from Schönborn KALLESKE [6] Johann Georg, merchant, miller (44, b 6 Jan 1794 Bratz) from Tirschtiegel Johanne Dorothea nee GEYER (44) .....Karl Heinrich Eduard, baker (19, b 10 Oct 1818) .....Christian (or Christine) (14) .....Karoline Florentine (11) .....Hermine Mathilde (7, b 16 May 1831) KAVEL [1,6] Albrecht Christian, tailor (71) from Berlin, then Klemzig Charlotte Sabine nee FILGRAF (70, b 25 Dec1767) .....August Ludwig Christian, pastor (39, b 3 Sept 1798) .....Johann Wilhelm Ferdinand, teacher (34) .....Maria Charlotte Sabine (31, b 2 Aug 1806) .....Johann Friedrieh Wilhelm, teacher .....Daniel Samuel, 26 KLUGE [1,6] Johann Christian, day-labourer (27) from Lang Heinersdorf. Dorothea nee STEIN (28) KOEKEJOY [1] Anna Elisabeth (foster daughter of Anna Rosina BODATSCH, died at sea 5 Sep 1838) KUCHEL [1,6] Johann Georg, night watchman, vine dresser (55) Anne Dorothea nee SEIFFERT (51) from Langmeil .....Johann Samuel, vine dresser (23, b 4 May 1815) .....Johann Friedrich, vine dresser (20, b 2 Jun 1818) .....Johann Gottlieb, agricultural labourer (17, b 26 May 1821) LANGE [1,6] Christian, thresher-gardener (43, b 30 Aug 1794 son of Gottfried LANGE) from Klemzig Anna Dorothea nee KURZWEG (44, b 1 Jul 1793) .....Maria Elisabeth (18, b 14 Oct 1819) .....Johann Friedrich (10, b 18 Dec 1827) .....Johann Christian (8, b 12 June 1830) LANGE [1] Gottfried, retired (68, died at sea) from Klemzig Anna Rosina nee RAU (73) died at sea LEDER [1] Maria Elizabeth, widow (nee Schulz, formerly widow HOENKE) (60, died at sea 26 Aug 1838) LIEBELT [1,6] Johann Christoph, cottager and shepherd (62) from Schonborn Anna Elisabeth nee STEINBORN (68) Johann Gottfried, tailor (40, son of Christoph LIEBELT) from Schonborn Anna Elisabeth nee POHLE (38) .....Johanne Luise (14, b 29 Mar 1824) .....Anna Dorothea (5, b 3 Mar 1833) .....Johann Gottfried (2, b 12 Aug 1835). MAHN [1] Johanne Luise (27, sister of Johanne Eleonore SCHLEIFKE) from Keltschen MIEGEL [6] Johann Georg, servant and agricultural labourer (41, b 13 Jul 1797) from Klemzig Maria Elisabeth (or Luise) nee ZERNACK (38, b 23 Apr 1800) .....Johanne Eleonore (14, b 22 May 1824) .....Johanne Luise (8, b 17 Dec 1829). PETRAS [1] Johann Gottlieb (or Gottfried), carter and wheelwright (37) from Klemzig Luise nee STELLMACHER (36, died at sea 29 Sep 1838) .....Caroline (or Johanne) Luise (18) .....Johanne (9) .....Wilhelm (9) .....August (2) PHILIPP [1,6] Andreas, small cottager (48).from Ostritz Maria nee KURZMANN (46) .....Johann Wilhelm, agricultural labourer (21) .....Anna Rosina (17, b 21 Apr 1821) .....Johanne Luise (11) .....Johanne Christiane (7, b 6 Apr 1831) POELCHEN [1,6] Christoph, day-labourer (36) from Goltzen. Maria Elisabeth nee POELCHEN (35) .....Luise (13) .....Johann Gottlieb (7) .....Johanne Eleonore (or Dorothea) (4) RAU [1,6] Anna Maria nee BITTROF, widow (54, b 18 Jun 1784, mother-in-law of Gottlob BOTHE) from Klemzig .....Johanne Eleonore (21, b 18 Aug 1816) RAU [1] Anna Rosina, day labourer (33, b 5 June 1805) from Klemzig. Christian, carpenter (64) probably from Klemzig. Christian, worker (33) from Klemzig Elisabeth SCHROCK 34 Johann Gottfried, tailor (45, b 30 Nov 1792) from Klemzig Christiane nee KURZMANN (38, b 31 Jan 1800) .....Johann Friedrich August (11, b 21 Dec 1826) SCHILLING [1] Johann Christian, small cottager and tailor (33, b 6 Feb 1805 brother of Gottfried SCHILLING) from Langmeil Johanne Rosina nee BOTHE (31, b 2 Aug 1806) .....Maria Elisabeth (8 mths) SCHILLING [1,6] Johann Gottfried, thresher-gardener (35, b 28 Nov 1802, brother of Christian SCHILLING) from Langmeil Anna Rosina nee LANGE (34, b 13 May 1804) .....Maria Elisabeth (15, b 23 Sep 1822) .....Johanne Luise (12, b 22 Jun 22 1826) .....Johann Gottfried (9, b 23 Apr 1828) .....Johanne Rosina (6, b 14 Sep 1831) .....Johann Gottlieb (4, b 5 Feb 1834) .....Johann Christian (1, b 23 Sept 1836) .....Johann Wilhelm (b 21 Sep 1838 at sea) SCHLIEFKE [1,6] Johann Gottlob, tailor (40, b 21 Aug 1797) from Keltschen Johanne Eleonore nee MAHN (37, b Jan 1801) SCHUBERT [1,6] Johann Christian, church gardener (40, b 8 May 1798) from Klemzig Johanne Christina nee STEINBACH (43) .....Luise (14, b 30 March 1824, died at sea 26 Sep 1838) .....Johann Gottfried (12, b 25 Sep 1825) .....Maria Elisabeth (10, b 2 Feb 1828) .....Johanne Eleonore (7, b 18 Jun 1831) SCHULZ [1] Anna Elisabeth nee SCHMIDT (47, widow) SCHMIDT [1] Anna Dorothea (18, b 26 April 1820, niece of Anna Elisabeth SCHULZ) from Schonbom SCHULZ [1,6] Georg Friedrich, thresher-gardener (53, b 2 April 1785) from Klemzig Anna Elisabeth nee WOIDT (56) .....Anna Dorothea (20, b 14 Jan 1818) .....Johann Samuel, agricultural labourer (18, b 14 Dec 1819) .....Johanne Luise (12, b 6 Jun 1826). . Johann Gottfried, small cottager and journeyman mason (51, b 7 March 1787) from Harthe .....Johanne Dorothea (19, b 23 May 1819, daughter of Anna Dorothea nee LOFFLER) Dorothea nee HAHN (40) .....Johann Gotthilf (13, b 29 Sep 1824) .....Johanne Eieonore (11, b 17 Nov 1826) .....Maria Elisabeth (9) .....Anna Elisabeth (or Dorothea) (2, died at sea on 24 Aug 1838) Johann Gottfried, servant, coachman, agricultural labourer (26, b 3 Feb 1812) from Klemzig Johanne Eleonore nee RAU or TEUBNER (24) .....Johann Friedrich (1, died at sea 26 Aug 1838) SCHUMANN [1,6] Christian, colonist and carpenter (53) from Klemzig Maria Elisabeth nee SCHUBERT (53) .....Johanne Auguste Eleonore (24) .....Johann Gottlob, carpenter (22, b 9 Sep 1915) SEELANDER [1,6] Gottfried, thresher-gardener and carpenter (49, b 17 Nov 1788) from Langmeil. Anna Rosina (or Rosina Dorothea) nee KONIG (49, b 17 May 1789) .....Anna Dorothea (25, b 17 Aug 1812) .....Johann Gottfried, carpenter (21, b 6 Dec 1816) .....Johanne Luise (12, b 24 Jan 1826) THIELE [1,6] Johann Christian, cottager and shoemaker (29, b 20 April 1809, son of Samuel) from Kay Johanne Dorothea nee KLENKE, previously widow ZEINERT (32) Samuel, small cottager (57) from Harthe Anna Rosina nee SCHULZ (51) .....Johann Friedrich, shoemaker (26, b 28 Feb 1812) .....Johann Wilhelm, tailor(19) .....Johann August (5, b 6 July 1833) WEIMANN [1,6] Christian, journeyman mason and cottager (42) from Schönborn Anna Dorothea nee SCHNEIDER, previously widow Jantke (49) .....Johann Gottlieb (14) .....Johanne Eleonore (10, b 21 April 1828) WILKSCH [1,6] Johann Georg, day-labourer, widower (57) from Lang Heinersdor£ .....Anna Dorothea (10, b 8 May 1828). WUNDKE [1,6] Johann Gottfried, day-labourer (32, b 2 Feb 1806) from Langmeil ZEINERT [1] Johanne Eleonore (14, b 2 Feb 1824, daughter of Johanne Dorothea THIELE) from Kay ZEINERT [1.6] Johann Christian (9, son of Johanne Dorothea THIELE) ZILM [1,6] Johann Gottlob, brickmaker (33) from Goltzen ZILM [1] Anna Dorothea (27) from Goltzen Newspaper Reports The Southern Australian (Adelaide, SA) Saturday 24th November, 1838 We have been gratified by a visit to the ship Prince George, just arrived from Hambro', with a large number of German emigrants. The vessel is in the highest order, and the emigrants have come out happy and contented, and express themselves fully satisfied with their kind treatment. Great praise is due the Captain and to Mr Flaxman (the supercargo) for their unremitting attention to the passengers on the voyage [1] Schubert, D. Kavel's People Lutheran Publishing House: Adelaide, 1985. [2] Bright, C.H. The Confidential Clerk Elizabeth H Bright: Adelaide, 1983. [3] Sexton, R.T. Shipping Arrivals and Departures South Australia 1627-1950 Gould Books: Ridgehaven, SA, 1990 (p 42). [4] Henry Capper Capper's South Australia 3rd edition, London, 1839. [5] Thomas J (ed.) South Australians 1836-1885South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society: Adelaide, 1990 [vol 1 p 263 (Flaxman), vol 2 p 740 (Schubert), p 742 (Schultz), p 744 (Schumann), p 799 (Kalleske)] [6] Statten, J (ed.) Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885 South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society: Adelaide, 1986. Eisen (First Familes 2001 - Pandora Archive) Kavel (Australian Dictionary of Biography) Kavel (Wikipedia) Kuchel (First Familes 2001 - Pandora Archive) Lange (David Hunter) Liebelt (First Familes 2001 - Pandora Archive) Phillip (First Familes 2001 - Pandora Archive) Philipp (First Familes 2001 - Pandora Archive) Schilling (First Familes 2001 - Pandora Archive) Passenger List (Di Cummings) Passenger List - Prince George, Hamburg to Adelaide, 1838 (TheShipsList)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line169
__label__cc	0.645529	0.354471	Team Size: 5 Role: Narrative Designer/Story Writer Two friends chasing after the secret of life, an unexpected journey full of adventure, mystery and friendship. Bubble Raiders was the biggest challenge I have encountered so far. As my first commercial Narrative adventure it was immediately completely outside of my comfort zone. The target audience of the game was females 30+. As someone who had written mostly drama and fantasy stories for an audience like myself this was immediately an amazing challenge. The game's story is conveyed to the player in a comic like manner. This meant the sentences had to be short and meaningful. Fortunately I was also in charge of directing the images meaning I had full creative freedom in what and how to show the story. Although the challenge was great, working on the project was refreshing and amazing. Having created a meaningful story around a bubble shooter is something I will be proud of for the rest of my life. My Responsibilities: Writing the story for season 1. Directing story images. Implementing story and animation through HTML. Story conveyance and placement in the game. At the start of any story I always brainstorm about the characters. The characters make the story and since some limitations were already given due to an existing story within the original version I had an easy start. Known limitations were: 2 characters. Both female. Friends of one another. The most important thing to me and the target audience was that it should be relatable. Any female playing the game should be able to identify with one of the two characters. The image shows some of my early thinking in the form of a brainstorm. Clicking on it will enlarge the image. Unfortunately it is in Dutch but it mostly boils down to this: Energetic and Athletic. Says what she thinks. Works well under pressure. A free spirit not afraid of change. Insecure/afraid of what others might think of her. stay-at-home type of woman. Caring and Smart. Think before you act. Calm and structural. Has performance anxiety. The very stereotypical nature of the characters was a good way to get started. The names were chosen so that they would be easy to pronounce in most languages. The characters evolved further over the course of the project. Art credit goes to Iskander Abspoel Evolving the story The first version of the project had only 2 story points. At the starts stating that the two woman found a map and wanted to search for the secret of life. At the end where they didn't find the secret of life and had to search further walking off into the sunset. The goal of the next version of the project was to make the story more meaningful and in a way an extrinsic motivator. This was done by creating more story points and a more in depth story. This was done by creating a reason for the two to go on this adventure and make the adventure more relatable. When playing through the story, the player should have the idea that they could be having this adventure with their best friend if they were brave enough. This is why we kept the story as close to reality as we could. This was hard as it was a game about shooting bubbles at other totem like bubbles. Art credit goes to Jacqueline Teley The research for this project was a little different than other ones. Besides the obvious research of Mayan culture, environments etc. I also had to do some personal research regarding the target audience. As stated before I had never written anything for someone even close to this audience. So I started to listen to audio books. Why audio books? Mostly because I could do this during other work, and because my research was completely fixated on dialogue it worked very well to hear someone speak out the words instead of just reading them. The most obvious and inspiring book was probably Eat Pray Love. It was amongst most of the top 10's of the target audience and had a lot of dialogue even if it was inner monologue a lot of the time. A lot of the ways that both characters speak are based on how Elizabeth talks in a funny almost sarcastic ways a lot of the times. It was a good way to keep myself from making it to "childish" but keeping the dialogue light. Implementing the story was done through HTML-5 in what we called a "story engine." Inside this engine I was able to animate pictures and assign children to pictures. For example; I could have a background image and assign 5 children to it which were text bubbles with text assigned to them. I could animate all of these in terms of position, size and angle. The engine used a tweening engine which gave me the opportunity to create some fancy and solid looking animations that emphasized the story. To keep it as clear and easy as possible for the player to understand the story I determined a specific ruleset. For example; Anna is always on the right side so all the text balloons that came from the right were always Anna's. A few other rules were: A maximum of 3 text bubbles per picture. A text bubble can't have more then 3 short or 2 long sentences. Every image starts at a 0.5 size and expands to 0.9. These were some of the rules to create a smooth and clear experience for the player. When I was comfortable with the animations within HTML-5 I started creating animations within the pictures themselves. Moving png's along a background or creating different poses for a character to give the story a more dynamic feel. Copyright 2016 Jan van Lamoen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line177
__label__wiki	0.768658	0.768658	Jennifer Ashe Actor/Producer/Mother of Teenagers SAG-AFTRA AEA “Ashe embodies the embittered visage of a formerly idealistic soul” “it is through her taut performance and connection to the others that this world starts to make sense” “Go ahead and try to find more subtle, understated yet powerful acting anywhere” “especially poignant was Jennifer Ashe as the Tattoo Mother and the chilling nature of her job” I’m so glad you found my webpage! What a great time to be an actor in Los Angeles! I’m a proud member of 2Cent’s Theatre Group, Theatre Unleashed and The Foundry Theatre Works. At 2Cents, I just finished InkFest 2017 where I performed Aura Lord of Dawgtown by Caroline Marshal directed by David Gersten and Aruba by Susan Goodell directed by David Ruben. I performed three plays in Act Out InkFest 2016 at The Hudson Backstage – The Post Office by Natalie Camunas, directed by Jeremy Aluma, It Leaches by Dana Leigh Lyman directed by Laura Stribling and Stringmates by Amanda Newman, directed by David Haverty. This is an all women play festival celebrating female playwrights all over the country. At Theatre Unleashed I had a blast with The 24 Hour Play Series which is (you got it) written, directed, and performed in a 24 hour period. It was a send up of Winona Rider in not only Stranger Things but also Beetlejuice. I danced in Sacred Fools’ Serial Killer Series, then in December, I was Claudia LaBelle the aging starlet in It’s A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play by Jim Martyka, directed by Jenn Scuderi Crafts. With the Foundry, last summer I produced and acted in Merri Beichler’s Occupation directed by David Robinson in the Hollywood Fringe Festival which won an Encore Award. And at Fringe 2015, I both produced and acted in two one acts The Whole Truth by Viki Boyle and Cornered by Andrea Goyan. I began my career as a dancer in New York and the love of performing naturally segued into acting. I enjoyed a decade of television and theater work before moving out to Los Angeles to start a family. Now they’re teenagers and are very happy to have me out of the house so much..	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line179
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__label__cc	0.560863	0.439137	Print Page Choose Style Mobile Normal Text Large Text Text Only High Contrast This site is no longer updated. We have left it here to provide background on our current research streams. Please visit our new website for further information on these. RESAS Programme High Nature Value Farming Published on 4 February 2013 in Ecosystems and biodiversity More traditional farming systems, those that have a large amount of moorland mixed with areas of grassland and woodland, still make up 30% of Europe’s agricultural land. Although they encourage biodiversity, these High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems are often economically unsound and so are in decline. Thanks to research by SRUC, and their partners, HNV systems are now a key priority in European legislation. All 27 members of the EU are required to monitor, support and maintain their existing HNV farming systems. Half of all species in Europe depend on agricultural habitats and these habitats were created by, and need to be maintained by, farming. However, agricultural intensification over the last 60 years has had a huge impact on the biodiversity of Europe’s farmland. Many previously common features, such as hedgerows, wetlands and semi-natural grasslands have been lost, and there now fewer varieties of animal and plant species. Halting our declining biodiversity is a huge challenge, reversing it an even bigger one. SRUC’s research has not only helped highlight the issues facing HNV farming systems and their wildlife across Europe but has also helped define the many and varied HNV systems which still exist and helped to estimate their extent and distribution. Our findings have also illustrated why it is essential to gain a detailed understanding of how each HNV system works and how it supports the wildlife so reliant on it. This deeper understanding is vital to ensure that HNV farming systems do not simply become ‘working fossils’ but rather remain flexible to change, allowing them to become economically viable. Thanks to research by SRUC, and their partners, HNV systems are now a key priority in European legislation. All 27 members of the EU are required to monitor, support and maintain their existing HNV farming systems. SRUC, working in collaboration with others, has produced research that has influenced policy across Europe. All 27 EU Member States are now required to ensure that the Sustainable Land Management element of their 2007-2013 Rural Development Programmes are targeted at “…biodiversity and preservation of high nature value farming and forestry systems, water and climate change”. As part of this prioritisation, the EU requires that all 27 Member States (and parts thereof) need to: Identify the extent and characteristics of the HNV farming systems occurring within their Member State/region. Identify what steps they are taking to support and maintain HNV farming, especially through Rural Development Programmes (RDPs). Monitor changes to the area of land covered by HNV farming systems (and the nature values associated with HNV farming) as part of their monitoring of RDPs. Already Romania and Bulgaria have assessed their HNV regions and put funding in place to support them. As the European Commission have confirmed that HNV farming will remain a key priority in 2014 – 2020, other Member States will need to do the same in the years to come. Log in or register to add comments Dr Davy McCracken - SRUC Re... Sustainable ecosystems home... High Nature Value Indicator... UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), World Wildlife Fund, European Forum on Nature Conservation & Pastoralism (EFNCP). Visit Dr Davy McCracken's SRUC Research Profile, http://www.sruc.ac.uk/dmccracken Dr Davy McCracken Davy.Mccracken@sruc.ac.uk Home \| News \| Research Briefings \| Success Stories \| Events \| Our Partners \| Contact Us	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line193
__label__cc	0.500045	0.499955	Collegia SGH Collegium of World Economy World Economy Research Institute New Forms of Innovation New Forms of Innovation and Their Impact on Competitiveness: Enterprise, Industry and Country Perspective Bachelor studies MBA studies Undergraduate Studies Office Graduate Studies Office Job & internship offers PhD Students’ Union SGH Alumni Club Business or Institutions SGH Corporate Partners Club Studying Practically programme Work & internships for students Collegium of Economic Analysis Collegium of Socio-Economics Collegium of Business Administration Collegium of Management and Finance You're here: Collegia SGH > English > Collegium of World Economy > structure > World Economy Research Institute > New Forms of Innovation Competitiveness Reports World Economy Research Institute’s Annual Conference on New Forms of Innovation and Their Impact on Competitiveness: Enterprise, Industry and Country Perspective Warsaw, June 29, 2015 The conference is organized under honorary patronage of the Polish Minister of Economy The World Economy Research Institute at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) is pleased to announce its Annual Conference on economics of competitiveness and innovation on New Forms of Innovation and Their Impact on Competitiveness: Enterprise, Industry and Country Perspective. The relationship between innovation and the competitiveness of enterprises, industries, and countries is an important topic for both, academic research and economic policy. However, over the past ten years we can observe a kind of a ‘paradigm shift’ in the way the innovation is interpreted. Nowadays, there is a broad awareness of the fact that innovation cannot be limited to the traditional set of product, process, organizational and marketing innovation implemented in enterprises. There are new forms of innovation as the traditional concept has been extended to innovation in the public sector, social aspects of the development and ecological innovations. In addition, the new paradigm of open innovation that appears as a result of collaborative efforts of different partners has emerged. Therefore, the question arises: How these new forms of innovation contribute to competitiveness? This Conference will thus focus on these new approaches to innovation initiating the discussion how they contribute to competitiveness at enterprise, regional and national levels. During the conference the latest edition of Poland: Competitiveness Report 2015 will be presented and its main findings will be discussed. Aims of the Conference The aims of the Conference are as follows: to discuss new approaches to innovations and their role in the process of building competitive advantage of countries, regions and enterprises; to share research results on innovation and competitiveness issues; to discuss the innovations in the public sector and their impact on competitiveness of countries and regions; to analyze the new paradigm of open innovation and compare how it is implemented in practice; to discuss implications of research findings for policy designing and to formulate recommendations for the Polish and EU innovation policy; to discuss the innovations in green technologies, and their role as tools for improved competitiveness; Selected papers, accepted for the conference, will be considered for publication in the “International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems”. It should be noted this journal have specific peer-reviews procedures and you need to follow the highest standards and thematic relevance, in order to pass peer-review. Professor Marzenna Anna Weresa, Director of the World Economy Research Institute, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Professor Marina Dabić Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia Professor Walter Leal Filho, Head of the Research and Transfer Centre „Applications of Life Sciences“ Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences, Germany Professor Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski, World Economy Research Institute, Warsaw School of Economics Professor Stelian Brad, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania AGENDA.pdf FURTHER INFORMATION: The conference is free of charge. Further details will be sent to the registered delegates. Registration of candidates Academy of Young Economist Children's University of Economics Preparatory courses in Economics University of Third Age COLLEGIA Promotion and Admissions Office Centre for Open Education Centre for Corporate Relations Project Support Office SGH Campus Chronicle Business & Institutions © SGH Warsaw School of Economics al. Niepodległości 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line194
__label__cc	0.74515	0.25485	Home / Lifestyle / Culture & Society / Over Half of S. Koreans Agree on Supporting N.K. Olympic Group’s Travel Expenses Over Half of S. Koreans Agree on Supporting N.K. Olympic Group’s Travel Expenses Posted on January 8, 2018 by Korea Bizwire in Culture & Society, Sports & Entertainment with 0 Comments More than half of South Koreans approve of helping cover the expenses that North Korea’s athletes and cheering squad would incur if they join the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea, a poll showed Monday. (Image: Yonhap) SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans approve of helping cover the expenses that North Korea’s athletes and cheering squad would incur if they join the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea, a poll showed Monday. The Realmeter survey, conducted Friday, said 54.4 percent of 505 respondents agreed with the government assisting with costs for the North Korean delegation’s sojourn during the PyeongChang Olympics, while 41.4 percent of them were negative. The sporting event is scheduled for Feb. 9-25. By ideological disposition, 71.5 percent of progressive pollees favored support, while 62 percent of the conservative ones were against it. By region, Gwangju and Jeolla provinces showed the highest approval rate with 67.7 percent, followed by Seoul (58 percent), Gyeonggi and Incheon (56.6 percent) and Busan and South Gyeongsang Province (55.3 percent). On the other hand, 54.2 percent of the pollees in Daejeon and Chungcheong provinces were negative over the aid, according to the survey. Respondents who support the ruling leftist Democratic Party showed a 78.8 percent approval rate, followed by those who support the progressive Justice Party and center-rightist Bareun Party with 68.1 percent 47.5 percent, respectively. The pollees who support the center-leftist People’s Party marked 44.4 percent, and only 19.4 percent of those who support the conservative Liberty Korea Party were affirmative. (Yonhap) North Korean cheering squad North Korean Olympics Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics Jay Park Performs at Made in America Music Festival as First Korean Artist Babel 250: Press Conference with Six Interpreters Rooftop Restaurant and Bar Craze Sweeps South Korea 94 Places to Go in Seoul to Enjoy Fall Foliage	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line195
__label__wiki	0.917936	0.917936	Movies, News, Photos, Gossip, Videos - Jollyhoo.com > Articles > A_Social > Ford car that Tweets! / Thu, Jul 22 2010 Ford car that Tweets! Online blogging is a trendy communication tool not just for tech-savvy humans. Now your car can also send messages on Twitter and have more followers than even singer Lady Gaga and US President Barack Obama. The car that can tweet is AJ, a future model of Ford Fiesta, which is a test bed for company engineers exploring the possibilities when an automobile is connected to the internet and all of its concomitant services. “It’s getting pretty dark; time to put the headlights on,” was a typical entry posted by AJ when a team of engineers drove the car to California for an exhibition in May, The New York Times reported. Followers also learned when AJ’s mood was “joyful” when “there’s no traffic, and it’s not raining and it’s enjoying a winding road”, said Joe Rork, an information technology architect with Ford. Rork recalled the journey during a presentation in Manhattan and explained how AJ was sending the messages on its own. The software behind AJ was an application called the “Auto”matic Blog. It tapped into the available data on the car, including telemetry information, like location, speed, acceleration and braking. It also gleaned information from windshield wipers, steering input and GPS data and correlated it with live information culled from the Web. AJ’s software could combine, say, real-time traffic notices about congestion with its current situation (stop-and-go braking) and weather forecasts (storms ahead) and then send a Twitter entry like, “Stuck in traffic; not looking forward to next 50 miles, either.” Apart from Twitter application, the engineers also ran the location-based Foursquare software, through which the car could automatically check the team in at restaurants and tourist spots along the way (and send pictures). The car is also being tested with a programme developed by University of Michigan students called Caravan Track, which allows a group of travellers to be automatically apprised of their friends’ locations and conditions along the way. Ford is already on track to add smartphone applications, including a Twitter feed, to its Sync-based cars later this year, the daily said. It has also announced that it will enable other phone applications to connect to its cars, allowing third-party software programmes to use a vehicle’s built-in controls, like buttons on the steering wheel, to control programmes, including music players running on connected Android phones. The tests with AJ were a natural extension of this strategy to see what’s possible when the car is connected and online all the time, according to Rork. Since mainly off-the-shelf hardware was used, including a high-speed cellular data connection, a WiFi router and a Dell computer running Windows 7 in the trunk, any car could be turned into a Twittermobile, Rork said.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line203
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It is more to create belief and confidence, because Barcelona are super-favourites in this game.“Against Hull it is more to raise the urgency level and convince everybody that it is a very difficult game.“Tomorrow everyone is convinced that we absolutely need to have, as a squad, total focus to have a chance and that is what I try to raise. Belief, confidence and let’s go for it.“Of course, there is no team – our world is not perfect and no team is perfect. But they are not far from it, Barca, I must say.“We have to use every moment in the game where we have the chance to score, and as I said after the Hull game, we had 70 per cent of the time the ball but we didn’t make a lot of it. Against Barcelona we will have the ball far less and we will have to make more of it.”Arsenal have suffered from poor results in the opening leg of knockout Champions League ties in recent years, last season losing 3-1 at home to Monaco before being eliminated on away goals following a 2-0 victory in the principality.And Wenger wants his squad to show they have learned from previous mistakes as he looks for the right balance to pull off a result on Tuesday.“It is a good opportunity to show we have learned because it is true we have given ourselves a difficult task after the first home leg and maybe after we have been a bit too keen to make the difference in the first game,” he added.“We need to find the right balance between being audacious because that is what you will need to be against Barcelona.“We need to be strong defensively as a unit and not put ourselves in front of a very difficult task in the second leg.” 1 read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories ktaaqTags 上海sh419论坛, 上海夜网论坛JY, 上海顶级会所, 云浮楼凤, 冰纯嘉士伯不准不开心, 南京夜上海餐饮集团老板, 无锡夜网, 江安县贵族宝贝儿童摄影, 温州品茶wx群, 爱上海OL, 爱上海VA, 现在年轻人的娱乐方式有哪些, 聊城桑拿, 萍乡夜网, 重生之军旅红妆Leave a comment ‘We’ve signed you to win the UCL’ – inside Real Madrid’s European obsession 3 3 Bale dreamed of playing for Madrid. At his 2013 unveiling, a photograph of Bale as a boy grinning in a Real shirt loomed large on club TV screens. We suggest that his father, seeing his son’s prodigious talent, bought a job-lot of replica kits for Europe’s top clubs and got him to pose in each – just in case such a photo was ever needed. The 26-year-old laughs in response.“No, I just loved watching Real Madrid when I was a young kid,” he says. “I loved the white kit, the players playing for them, the special football they played, the goals they scored… I remember when Steve McManaman came over, then David Beckham, then Michael Owen. I started watching more and more. Just seeing top British players playing alongside the likes of Brazilian Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Carlos was amazing.”Zidane, assistant coach to Carlo Ancelotti when Bale joined the club, is now Real manager. Does he ever get involved in training? “He did in my first season!” says Bale. “He dropped the shoulder on me a few times as well. I grew up watching him. Such a good player, he was.”MEET BART SIMPSONWatching a Champions League match at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is a unique experience. There are plenty of excited ‘day trippers’ at big Premier League clubs, but this is a different level. Excited visitors from France, Japan and China clamour outside the gargantuan 85,000-capacity stadium, posing for pictures with a man in a giant Bart Simpson costume plus Real Madrid kit (though we doubt he was endorsed by either club or cartoon). It feels more like Times Square on a Saturday night than the preamble to a football match. The stadium fills up late (well, this is Spain), but it is packed full when the match begins.Before Real score, however, the atmosphere is slightly unusual. Alert, but also pensive. A friendly voice sat beside us offers an explanation: “The fans are quiet; they have such high expectations. Whatever is normal at a football club, they expect three times as much. If the team score three, they want four. That’s why it takes a special player to play here.”Sport’s new amigo isn’t referring to talent – that’s a given. He taps the side of his head: “It’s the mental strength needed to play for these fans. Not everyone can do it. You need to have a mental resilience not to fall before these expectations.”Bale concurs. “Being here is like being under a microscope,” he says. “It’s a lot easier to go out in England. Here, the sole focus is football. They have whole newspapers dedicated to Real Madrid. But that’s just part of being a Real Madrid player – you get used to it.”Bale seems settled into life in the Spanish capital. Scoring match-winning goals in the finals of the Copa del Rey and Champions League (against rivals Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, no less) in your first season probably helps. Yet he felt the fierce gaze of media scrutiny last year.“I feel like I’ve grown up [since I arrived], especially since you’re not in your comfort zone any more,” he tells us. “You’re really thrown into the deep end – and I think maybe last year, I didn’t play so well in the second half of the season. In a way, I’m quite glad it happened, because it has made me a stronger person, a stronger player. You learn more from when things are not going well than if you were just a winner. I’ve really benefited from it.”Fitness niggles have disrupted Bale’s third season in Spain, but he has also looked in excellent form in the middle (scoring 11 goals in his past eight games, although he hasn’t played since January 17). Madrid will want him back fit for the Champions League crunch matches, not least because it represents perhaps their ultimate challenge of the modern era.GALACTICO TO CLASICOWhen the European Cup first came into existence 60 years ago this season, Real Madrid’s name was the first on the cup. Four years later, it was still the only name on the trophy. The galactico policy of signing the world’s best players that caught the eye of a young Bale didn’t begin in the late 1990s – it stretches back to the 1950s.Real Madrid built a team around their greatest player, Alfredo Di Stefano, but improved it each year. Raymond Kopa played superbly for French club Stade Reims against Real Madrid in the 1956 final. He was quickly convinced to switch sides. In 1958, after two years out of the game and at least two stone overweight, Hungary’s glorious galloping major Ferenc Puskas signed. He slimmed down (well, a bit) and shone. So it goes. Take the tour around the Bernabeu and, alongside the rich history of mementos, boots worn by great players and Ballon d’Or awards, two things stand out. One is a FIFA Club of the Century award, underlining Real’s status as the most successful club side of the 20th century. Then, at the end, 10 European Cup/ Champions League trophies stand proudly in a row inside a glass case filled with a constant whirl of gold and silver paper. A bit like the end of The Crystal Maze, but admittedly more impressive.Whisper it quietly around these parts, but the newest version of this trophy resides not in Madrid. It’s in Barcelona. With one win each from the past two Champions League finals, the rivalry between the two clubs stands tall above European football. It’s never been more fierce. But there must be figures at both clubs who realise it is terrific for business.In his book Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid, Sid Lowe covers why the labels attached to both clubs (Real as the establishment club, Barca the rebels) isn’t just a simplification but often plain wrong. However there’s one quote in the book, from former Real Madrid player and manager Jorge Valdano, that sums it all up: “If Barcelona didn’t exist, we’d have to invent them.”They are two clubs constantly trying to one-up one another, pushing each other to greater heights. It’s Barcelona who currently top the pile in La Liga. Now, however, they’re stepping on Real’s patch of Europe, with three Champions League titles in the past seven years. In 2016, they’re aiming to be the first club to retain the trophy since AC Milan in 1990.“My plan when I first started playing football was to try and reach the pinnacle – and Real Madrid is the pinnacle of football teams,” Bale tells us, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. And yet it’s now Barcelona looking to carve out a fresh piece of European history.The good news for Real is that stopping Barcelona is in their own hands. The two Spanish clubs – along with Bayern Munich – are favourites for this season’s Champions League. Wouldn’t it be just like Real to gatecrash Barca’s party? ‘La Undecima’ is Spanish for ‘The Eleventh’ – just in case you need to know.Gareth Bale is an ambassador for BT Sport: the new home of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League exclusively live – btsport.com This feature appears in the current edition of sport magazine. Download the free iPad app here, and follow on Twitter @sportmagukEurope has several big football clubs, but only one that judges itself on the highest altar of all. Don’t believe us? Consider England’s two most successful sides. Manchester United endured an agonising, 26-year wait without a domestic league title from 1966/67 to 1992/93. Liverpool fans look back to their previous league win in 1989/90 and wince. Their wait is growing.It’s natural that England’s big clubs gauge their success by this marker. Real Madrid judge themselves on a similar criteria. Yet their domain is all of Europe. This is a club that marks its success in relation to the continent’s biggest prize; that considers the European Cup (or Champions League) its benchmark. When the club won that trophy for the 10th time in 2014, it had been just 12 years since the their previous triumph. Most clubs would gladly settle for a Champions League win every 12 years. To those at Real Madrid, the wait felt like a lifetime.Gareth Bale offers a shy smile when Sport asks him how much pressure there was to win the fabled La Decima when he signed in 2013. “Massive,” is the word he settles on. “It literally felt like the reason they signed me. Whenever I spoke to the president here [Florentino Perez], he was always telling me: ‘We’ve signed you to win the 10th Champions League.’” Sport magazine spoke to Gareth Bale about his club’s Champions League obsession 3 read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories xoesfTags 2019上海楼凤微信群, 上海夜网IV, 上海夜网ZV, 上海夜网论坛VE, 上海楼凤YK, 上海约会必备, 上海群二维码, 临沧夜网, 九品毕业升级江苏唐人阁, 台州水一方, 广州品茶群, 木渎哪个场所有全套, 杭州品茶服务, 江安县贵族宝贝儿童摄影, 舟山夜网Leave a comment Pettitte declines option The 35-year-old left-hander went 15-9 with a 4.05 ERA for the Yankees this year, including 11-3 after the All-Star break. He was their most effective starter in the postseason, pitching 61/3 scoreless innings in Game 2 of New York’s first-round loss to Cleveland. Pettitte had until Wednesday to decide on his option, part of the contract he agreed to last December when he returned to the Yankees after three seasons with his hometown Houston Astros. That deal paid him a $16 million salary this year. “Obviously, we want Andy to stay with the Yanks and pitch for us in ’08. In fact, I’d say I need him to,” said Cashman, the team’s general manager. “He’s an important piece for us. … We’re hopeful that at some point that the marriage of the Pettittes and the Yankees can continue.” Padres secure Maddux Greg Maddux plans to pad his Hall of Fame credentials with the San Diego Padres next season, agreeing to a $10 million, one-year deal. Mad Dog has 347 wins, four Cy Young Awards and a World Series championship won in 1995 with the Atlanta Braves. He’ll turn 42 on April 14. “From my talks with Greg this year, he had as much fun this year as any other time in his career,” Padres manager Bud Black said. “It’s no surprise to us that he wants to continue. He loves to compete.” Maddux’s return as San Diego’s No. 3 starter appeared inevitable after he went 14-11 with a 4.14 ERA this year in his first season with the Padres, who fell one win short of their third straight playoff appearance. All that remained to be done was some dickering between the team and agent Scott Boras. Maddux had a player option for $8.75 million. Had he pitched 200 innings – he finished with 198 – the option price would have increased to $10 million. In addition, San Diego had a club option for $11 million. The pitcher made $10 million last season. Curt Schilling and the Boston Red Sox are making progress toward a contract that would allow him to remain with the World Series champions. While the sides have not yet reached an agreement, talks have gained momentum and it is possible an agreement could be reached within a few days, a person familiar with the talks said, speaking on condition of anonymity because a deal had not yet been struck. Schilling, Boston talking Around the leagues Indians: General Manager Mark Shapiro was selected major league executive of the year by The Sporting News. He received 13 of 47 votes from major league executives and was followed by Colorado GM Dan O’Dowd with 11. 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! From news services Andy Pettitte declined his $16 million option with the New York Yankees, still uncertain whether he wants to pitch next season. “I have spoken with Brian Cashman, who has reiterated what Hank Steinbrenner said about the Yankees wanting to give Andy all the time he needs to decide about next season,” Pettitte’s agent, Randy Hendricks, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press. “Accordingly, we are declining to exercise the option for 2008 and Andy will declare free agency in order to free up a roster spot for the Yankees. “If Andy decides to play, I am confident we can reach an agreement with the Yankees within 24 hours. The only options, as Andy has stated, are the Yankees or retirement. He appreciates the Yankees’ willingness to give him the time he feels he needs. I do not expect him to make a decision for quite some time.” read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories mcpwvTags 上海哪里外国姑娘多, 上海楼凤CI, 上海楼凤NL, 上海贵人传媒, 上海香草419地图, 南京沙舞最新攻略, 四方坪夜上海休闲, 夜上海419龙凤, 广州qm楼凤品茶, 杭州男人懂的地方, 梅州桑拿, 爱上海CV, 秦皇岛楼凤, 青岛市哪里有外国妞, 香草香草代金券Leave a comment More families seeking help handling debt NEW YORK – Consumers struggling to keep up with higher gas prices and other rising household expenses have been pulling out their credit cards more often – sometimes too often. Credit counselors report a sharp rise in the number of families seeking help, many of whom end up on belt-tightening budgets and debt management programs to pay down their balances. “People are using their credit cards because they don’t have enough money to make it day-to-day,” said Howard Dvorkin, president of the nonprofit Consolidated Credit Counseling Service in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “It’s driving the American consumer deeper and deeper into debt.” What happens, he says, is that “eventually they hit a wall – and then they call me.” Ciampi, who is 38 and single, said he had had a disagreement with an auto mechanic over what he believed was unauthorized work. The card company initially removed the disputed charge, but later added it back – pushing Ciampi’s balance over the limit. “If you’re 10 cents over the limit, they start adding penalties,” he complained. “There’s big business in those penalties, and it got me fed up.” So a couple of months ago, Ciampi cut up his credit cards, except for one he uses in emergencies, and agreed to a debt management program, or DMP. Through a DMP, a counseling agency often can get card companies to forgo or reduce penalty fees and cut interest rates. At the same time, the consumer agrees to monthly payments that the counseling agency collects and passes on to creditors. The fees for these programs average about $30 a month. Ciampi said he’s happy to be on a “cash only” budget and to be paying a single bill to eliminate his debt. David Jones, president of the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies, said the nonprofit counseling agencies in his group have seen a rise in the number of people seeking help, including the elderly. “We have retirees coming in with no income other than Social Security and $50,000 to $60,000 of unsecured debt that they can’t handle,” Jones said. Some consumers need just a bit of help creating a spending plan, and then can get a handle on their debts themselves, he said. Others may be able to borrow against their homes and reduce their card debt that way. Still others may need to speak to attorneys about filing for bankruptcy. Those who qualify for DMPs have a steady source of income – and are willing to cut up their cards and work over the next three to five years to become debt free. “It’s not just credit card debt,” he added. “Often people have debts to doctors, lawyers, dentists hospitals that need to be paid off, too.” Gail Cunningham, a spokeswoman for the NFCC, said some consumers weren’t sure when to seek counseling. Her suggestion is, the earlier the better. “If you’re afraid to answer the phone because it might be a bill collector, afraid to open the mail, getting into arguments over money at home, hiding your purchases … not sleeping well, you may need help,” she said. “It won’t hurt to see a credit counselor and get an independent, third-party take on where you are.” Cunningham estimated that about a third of the consumers that credit counselors see can, after a bit of counseling about budgeting and spending, better manage their credit cards. Another third, say people with a gambling problem or an abusive relationship, may be referred to another agency for help. The remaining third go into a debt management program. “The most important thing is a willingness to change, to stop charging and make a fresh start,” she said.160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREStriving toward a more perfect me: Doug McIntyre And they’re calling in increasing numbers. Susan C. Keating, president and chief executive of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, said the nonprofit counseling agencies in her organization dealt with a million consumers in 2005, 2.2 million in 2006 and are on their way toward seeing a record 2.8 million this year. Mortgage foreclosure problems as well as pre-bankruptcy counseling have swelled their ranks, Keating said. But credit card debt also continues to trip up consumers. The Federal Reserve reported Wednesday that outstanding credit card debt grew at an annual rate of 4.4 percent to $920.1 billion in September from $917 billion the month before. Frank Ciampi, a musician and stagehand who lives in Chicago, said he sought help from Consolidated Credit after credit card companies began imposing penalties on his accounts. read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories ecjyyTags 2019上海楼凤微信群, 上海0点之后去哪里玩, 上海夜网论坛LO, 上海楼凤ED, 上海的夜总会, 南京梧桐客栈, 南京油坊桥快餐女, 夜上海论坛MF, 宁波喝茶spa微信, 山南夜网, 常州快餐100加口150, 爱上海SE, 爱上海SX, 贵人传媒, 贵族天使衣服童装批发Leave a comment Four held in Target thefts NORWALK – A group of thieves pilfered merchandise from Target stores in four communities in a two-week period, authorities said Wednesday. Four suspects were in custody while others were still on the loose. The Targets hit were in Norwalk, Burbank, Pacoima and Woodland Hills. Saul Gonzalez, 42, Jesus Flores, 24, Carlos Beltran Lopez, 26, and Carlos Flores, 47, will have a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Dec. 10. Gonzalez lives in Los Angeles while the others are Bellflower residents. Deputies arrested the four men on Nov. 1. Prosecutors have charged the men with five counts each of second-degree commercial burglary. They pleaded not guilty to the charges, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Carlos Flores was being held at Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles, Lopez was at the Pitchess Detention Center North Facility in Castaic, and Jesus Flores and Gonzalez were at the North County Correctional Facility in Saugus. Their bail is $500,000 each. ruby.gonzales@sgvn.com (562) 698-0955, Ext. 3026 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREPettersson scores another winner, Canucks beat KingsThe men allegedly stole from the stores during the day, according to Detective Mark Christiansen of the sheriff’s Norwalk station. He said the men are believed-to have hit other stores as well. Authorities remained tight-lipped about the case and wouldn’t disclose details including the alleged thieves’ modus operandi, what items were taken and what happened to the stolen loot. Christiansen said the case is ongoing and that authorities are still looking for other associates and the person who fenced the stolen goods. He said they haven’t been able to confirm if the suspects were part of a theft ring. The alleged thieves hit two Target stores in Norwalk on Oct. 19. The other stores were hit Oct. 30 and Nov. 1. read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories xoesfTags 上海ktv素场规则, 上海zj, 上海免费官方wifi, 上海夜网论坛MN, 上海星辉国际出台价格, 上海楼凤LO, 东莞的俄罗斯转盘什么意思, 夜上海论坛UK, 宝山水磨会所, 广州qm之家广佛, 成都群娇荟kb, 枫桥苑小区, 百花丛论坛QW, 苏州品茶vx, 觅花论坛Leave a comment Driver heads for court date “We had no warning. No skid marks, no anything,” Beckham said. “The next thing I know, I was flying in the air like a fly getting hit by a fly swatter.”Atkins was driving erratically down Sheldon Street, under construction at the time with just one lane open, police said.Beckham’s and Diaz’s trucks were parked in a center lane, said Los Angeles police Officer Douglas Larkin, the investigating officer in the case.Ultimately, Atkins hit four vehicles before finally getting out of the stolen Lincoln, Larkin said.“According to witnesses, he looked over at the two bodies lying on the ground and fled the location,” said Larkin, recently honored for outstanding service for his work on the case.A preliminary hearing is set for Friday in San Fernando Superior Court to determine if there is enough evidence to send Atkins to trial.Meanwhile, those affected by the crash struggle to understand why it had to happen.Beckham, 59, lives on the same North Hollywood street as the Diaz family. He said he was at a storage facility in Sun Valley the morning of the crash when he got a call from Diaz inviting him to come over and work on a 1965 Plymouth Barracuda that Beckham was helping restore.Split-second decisions – such as deciding not to drive through the yellow light at Sheldon and Roscoe, then stalling after hitting the brakes – continue to haunt Beckham.“I think about it all the time,” Beckham said. “I’m standing here looking at his house right now. I see his kids all the time waiting for the ice cream truck. … Everybody says I’m so lucky I’m alive. I don’t feel lucky, I’ll tell you that.”A hardworking and devoted family man, Diaz earned enough money from his glass-installing job to buy a comfortable three-bedroom home for his wife and children.Monica Diaz, 37, said that since the day her husband was hit, life has gone from “day to night” for her and her six children.“It’s very difficult for me right now,” said Diaz, whose two youngest children, 22-month-old twins Aracely and Arely, will never know their father.The other children have displayed signs of emotional upheaval as they continue to deal with the loss of their dad, a man who took his role as father seriously.To this day, the children often grow fearful when their mom leaves the house, thinking that she, too, might not come home.Her oldest, 14-year-old Itzal, wants to have a traditional quincea?era ceremony, a coming-of-age celebration for a Latina girl’s 15th birthday. But Diaz, who has taken work with a security company, said it would cost a lot of money.Even if she could afford it, the coming-of-age ceremony for her daughter would be bittersweet, Diaz said.“Her father can’t dance with her,” Diaz said through her tears. “It’s the custom that she dances with her father.”Despite the heartache of losing their father, the children are doing their best to move forward, earning honors in school, motivated in part by their father’s wish that they excel academically, Diaz said.Itzal has been especially motivated to someday make sense of her family’s tragedy, Diaz said.“She wants to become a lawyer and help accident victims.”rick.coca@dailynews.com 818-713-3329See Related Story: Hit, run and get away – 50% do160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! NORTH HOLLYWOOD -On the morning of Nov. 11, 2005, Monica Diaz, a mother of four and six months’ pregnant with twins, watched as her husband grabbed a gas can out of the family’s garage on his way to help a friend whose truck had stalled a few blocks away.She wanted him to close the garage door before she left for a doctor’s appointment, but Rogaciano Diaz, 38, told her it wasn’t necessary.“Don’t worry about it,” he told his wife as he jumped into his pickup truck for the half-mile trip. “I’ll be back in five minutes.”Rogaciano never returned. About 11:25 a.m., while he poured gas into the tank of Stephen Beckham’s 1984 Chevrolet pickup truck on Sheldon Street just north of Roscoe Boulevard, the two men were struck by a hit-and-run driver in a stolen car and catapulted about 45 feet, police say.Beckham survived, but Diaz slipped into a coma and died a month later.Nearly two years after the tragedy, DNA evidence found at the scene of the crash led to the September arrest of Johnny Atkins, 31, of Panorama City, who has been charged with felony manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident.Atkins was driving a 2006 Lincoln LS sedan that had been stolen from a local dealership nine days earlier, police said.On that Veterans Day morning, Atkins hit Diaz’s truck, which slammed into Beckham’s, which quickly swung around and sent the two men flying, police said. read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories yrpxtTags 2019虹口区油压, 上海夜网论坛XX, 上海夜网论坛ZJ, 上海市浦东新区哪里鸡多, 上海顶级商务模特, 南京kb最新, 南京江浦300元好场子, 南京雄州站街, 夜上海论坛EE, 宁波会所论坛, 成都夜网, 爱上海BQ, 爱上海PV, 苏州新区梧桐树花园, 阿拉上海宁什么意思Leave a comment AT LAST! SLIEVE LEAGUE FINALLY PUT ON THE TOURISM MAP EUROPE’S highest sea cliffs at Slieve League are to be finally put on the tourist map – giving a boost to south west Donegal.For years the incredible 600-metre high cliffs were ignored by tourism bosses (and some would say the entire county.)Now Slieve League is to be included in an “end-of-the-world” road trip drive route taking in the Atlantic coastline and stretching to Co Cork. Tourism bosses are hoping the route will appeal to Americans and Europeans on a trip to rival California’s Pacific Coast Highway.It’s already being called the “Wild Atlantic Drive” – so let’s hope tourists are encouraged to drive the entire route or Donegal will miss out again!“We’ll be pitching this at people who want to come over and have an authentic experience and enjoy not only Irish landscapes, but also the company of Irish people,” said Alex Connolly from Tourism Ireland.“It will be for people who are looking for that rugged, authentic Irish experience, the Ireland that at one stage – before the discovery of America – was considered the end of the world, but still has that remoteness and beauty about it.” The proposed route hasn’t been finalised – and it’s not known if it tourists will be encouraged to start the trip in Donegal or Cork. (Our best bet says it will be Cork).The route could be ready and designated in time for the 2013 tourism season.© 2011 donegaldaily.com, all Rights ReservedThe copying, republication or redistribution of donegaldaily.com Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited by law.Follow us on www.twitter.com/donegaldaily Follow us on www.facebook.com/donegaldailySell anything on www.donegaldailyclassifieds.comAT LAST! SLIEVE LEAGUE FINALLY PUT ON THE TOURISM MAP was last modified: January 12th, 2012 by BrendaShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:bord faultydonegalsliabh liagSlieve Leaguetourists read more Posted on December 30, 2019 Categories xpukkTags ly论坛北京, 上海会所洋马外菜, 上海夜网GZ, 上海夜网KF, 上海楼凤MT, 上海楼凤UD, 南京桃源9号店是干什么, 夜上海论坛OO, 微信上门再付款安全不, 杭州特色服务在哪, 武汉新茶微信, 爱上海PB, 足浴技师总是会问你结婚了吗, 阿拉爱上海FL足浴, 香草社区论坛Leave a comment San Sebastian sends UST to second straight loss in Filoil Expansion Vegas Golden Knights advance to Stanley Cup Final Nabong gets biggest fine for GlobalPort-Rain or Shine melee Amer continues to repay coach’s faith with solid leadership in clutch Aguilar’s health key for Ginebra vs Fajardo, San Miguel in finals ahowa ddxsw dpgfx ecjyy etend etyvk hkadd jocec kccok ktaaq mcpwv mpaad mtmfn rsaws szfgn tajmg uzdxx vqdfo wdgyl xgliz xoesf xpukk ykslo yrpxt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line214
__label__wiki	0.545387	0.545387	Email link to Governor Mills Declares National Clean Energy Week in Maine Opinion: Put blame for failed leadership where it belongs – with the majority in the Maine House Maine Sunday Telegram - Sunday, May 20, 2018 The Portland Press Herald has singled out me and House Republicans as the reason the Legislature went home early and failed to do the right thing for the Maine people. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead of blaming me and a minority of Republicans, the Press Herald should be demanding that Speaker of the House Sara Gideon (D) and Senate President Mike Thibodeau (R) call the Legislature back into session and make sure legislators complete the work the people of Maine elected them to do. ~ Paul R. LePage (R), governor of Maine Maine Observer: Don’t let Portland’s season of surprise pass you by Over the years, thanks to the work of Portland city staff and residents, our Forest City is bedecked with a magnificent variety of trees. Several of them sport especially showy or fragrant flowers that are often missed by the many people who pass by every day. Check out the trees in your own daily viewshed wherever you are – and soon, before this annual season of surprise is over. ~ Kathy Mills of Yarmouth lived for 15 years in downtown Portland Letter: Farm Bill, as is, poses threat to endangered species The Endangered Species Act has faced dozens of legislative attacks in Congress recently, with the most recent one showing up in this year’s version of the Farm Bill. The latest proposal would allow pesticides to be approved without considering the harm they pose to endangered species, essentially making it legal to kill an endangered species with a pesticide. ~ Gail Presley, Rockland Letter: Don’t roll back emission standards Morning Sentinel - Sunday, May 20, 2018 Rolling back auto emission standards would double pollution nationwide by 2025 when compared to the safety standards now in effect. Worse, if the federal standard is lowered, Maine and more than a dozen other states which now have a better safety standard than the current federal standard would be forced to live under a dirtier federal standard. This is not acceptable. We cannot go backward, because adding more pollution to our one and only world is killing us and the planet. Why is this even being considered ~ Marla Bottesch, Norridgewock Two years after Madison paper mill closed, town faces uncertain future Morning Sentinel - Saturday, May 19, 2018 Madison is not alone in the loss of its paper mill, which at the time of closure in 2016 was the town’s largest taxpayer and one of its largest employers. The number of jobs in paper manufacturing, once a hallmark industry in Maine, has been cut by nearly half in the last decade. There’s no clear timeline for what recovery looks like after a paper mill closes, said Sarah Curran, looking at the future of the state’s forest economy. Curran works for the Maine Development Foundation and runs an initiative called For/Maine. Mike Croteau, a former union president at the Madison mill, said, “Life goes on, but it hasn’t been easy for some of us. People should understand that when these mills close, a lot of these guys end up having to get state assistance." Fly-fishing legend draws fans to Phillips Sun Journal - Saturday, May 19, 2018 Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby of Phillips was the state’s first registered Maine Guide. She was a journalist, an expert fly-fisher and hunter, and a conservationist. She grew up in Phillips, guided in Rangeley and is buried in Strong. The three-day celebration of Crosby began Friday at Fox Carleton Pond Sporting Camps with fly-casting lessons, panning for gold and western Maine history lessons. Many visitors walked the first part of the Fly Rod Crosby Trail, a 45-mile stretch along the Sandy River from Phillips to the Rangeley village of Oquossoc. Blog: Blackflies, the little blackflies… Bangor Daily News - Saturday, May 19, 2018 In Spring, a young angler’s fancy turns to stark dread, dread of small black blood-drinking insects arriving in clouds, swarms, battalions, and armies to drive him to the very brink of madness. As if fishing weren’t madness enough. Allow me to introduce a fly who needs no introduction to any Mainer who even occasionally ventures into the Great Outdoors: Simuliidae. ~ Nick Mills Column: Bidding a fond farewell to the "Boy" Scouts The Boy Scouts of America announced this week that the word “boy” would be stricken from the Boy Scouts of America starting in 2019, and next February girls will be allowed full scouting privileges. The Boy Scouts of America has been part of the American fabric for 108 years. At least, for history’s sake, they could have kept the name and still have permited girls to belong. If you are an old scout like me you just can’t help feeling some pangs of sadness about this historic alteration. ~ V. Paul Reynolds Obituary: Edward Kaelber, 94, founding president of COA Portland Press Herald - Saturday, May 19, 2018 Edward Kaelber, founding president of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor and founder of the Maine Community Foundation, died Thursday. He was 94. Mr. Kaelber became the college’s first president in 1970 and led the institution for 12 years. The college was founded in 1969 with a mission to use human ecology as a guiding, interdisciplinary approach to education. Whale watch recognized Mount Desert Islander - Saturday, May 19, 2018 The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, a Canadian-American regional partnership, has named the Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company the recipient of its annual Industry Award. The award is presented to recognize demonstrated innovation and leadership in efforts to improve the well-being of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and the communities that call it home. The council cited the company’s “leadership in ecotourism and educating the public about wildlife, fisheries, oceanography, and conservation of the Gulf of Maine.” They also praised the company’s “efforts to support conservation of fisheries and marine mammals through generous donations, collaborative research and environmental advocacy.” Gas leak repaired in South Portland rail yard South Portland firefighters found and repaired a gas leak in a railway car at Rigby Yard early Saturday morning. Firefighters traced the leak to railway car carrying propane and issued a hazardous designation for the area near the railway car, which was located on AmeriGas Propane property used for offloading rail cars onto trucks. An AmeriGas employee worked with the South Portland Fire Department’s hazardous materials response team to get into the top of the sealed car to tighten a leaking valve. Radiation from Cell Phones, Wifi Are Hurting the Birds and the Bees; 5G May Make It Worse Other - Saturday, May 19, 2018 Newsweek - Technology is quite literally destroying nature, with a new report further confirming that electromagnetic radiation from power lines and cell towers can disorientate birds and insects and destroy plant health. The paper warns that as nations switch to 5G this threat could increase. Rockland advocates say food sovereignty ordinance ‘makes sense’ With a unanimous vote earlier this week, the Rockland City Council approved the state’s 33rd food sovereignty ordinance, and became the first county seat to become food sovereign. In October Gov. Paul LePage signed into law an amended state food sovereignty bill that allows municipalities to regulate local food systems, including production, processing, consumption and direct producer-to-consumer exchanges, which were previously regulated at the state and federal level but excludes meat and poultry production and sales, which remain under state and federal control. With 3 weeks to go in season, Maine’s baby eel harvest tops $20M The value of landings so far in Maine’s 2018 baby eel fishing season have topped $20 million, the fishery’s highest annual value since the state adopted a statewide catch limit in 2014. Record prices this season of around $2,500 per pound for baby eels, also known as elvers, already have made the 2018 season the third-most valuable ever in Maine. According to Maine Department of Marine Resources, as of Wednesday evening fishermen had caught 8,416 pounds, or 87 percent of Maine’s annual catch limit of 9,688 pounds. New charity receiving Poland Spring aid lacks federal nonprofit status Despite not having yet acquired nonprofit status, a still-forming charity has a $150,000 commitment from Poland Spring as the retail water seller extends its influence in northern Penobscot County. The Northern Penobscot Activities Council announced the first of three $50,000 donations it will receive during the next three years from the retail water seller. Brian Souers, the council’s advisory group president, said Poland Spring and his group could really benefit their neighbors. Poland Spring is building a water-truck loading station on Route 2 in Lincoln for completion this summer and has declared the land of 13 lakes a possible site for a $50 million bottling plant that would also buy from the Lincoln Water District. Letter: Pruitt must go Donald Trump loved to say he’d “drain the swamp.” But when our president appointed Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, he was giving an alligator the choice of keeping a swamp as is, pouring more filth in, or working to turn it into a meadow. In wasting obscene amounts of taxpayer money, it’s clear that this swamp creature has no place leading one of the most important agencies in our federal government. His blatant disregard for public health is seen in his efforts to dismantle the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. It is time for Pruitt to resign. ~ Matthew Hubbell, Cape Elizabeth New Rules Proposed for Atlantic Herring Fishing in New England Other - Friday, May 18, 2018 Fishery managers are requesting public comment on several new potential rules for the industrial Atlantic herring fishery, which involves the East Coast’s largest fishing vessels. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports protecting coastal waters by prohibiting industrial midwater trawling within 50 miles of shore, which would be largely consistent with rules in place along the Maine coast for nine months of the year. Extending the zone along the rest of New England would protect multiple habitat areas used by a wide range of predators. Norway Library patrons hear about Maine, NH best hiking spots Turner Publishing - Friday, May 18, 2018 Author Greg Westrich spoke at Norway Memorial Library on Thursday, April 26,, and talked about his favorite hiking spots in Maine and New Hampshire, showed maps and pictures of these spots, and told hiking stories. He sold and signed copies of his books. Westrich is the author of several Maine hiking guides for outdoors and travel publisher Falcon, and has also written for numerous magazines, including Downeast. The program was sponsored by The Friends of Norway Memorial Library. Maine Democrats are still looking for someone who can beat Poliquin Bangor Daily News - Friday, May 18, 2018 The candidates for the Democratic nomination to run against U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin of Maine’s 2nd District trained their attacks on the Republican incumbent and largely avoided each other during their party’s state convention on Friday. The candidates played up their backgrounds — Lucas St. Clair’s work as frontman of his family’s effort to establish the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Jared Golden’s Marine service in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and Craig Olson’s status as an “average resident.” Down East - Friday, May 18, 2018 The son of teachers, Nathan Nicholls exhibited an anti-establishment streak early on. He dropped out of school, married at 18, and moved to Maine to cobble together a living as a blueberry harvester, wreath maker, and repairer of lawn mowers and motorcycles, for which he accumulated a mountain of scrap metal. Accused by the town of Waldoboro of operating an illegal junkyard, he welded metal bits into objects. Suddenly, he had not junk, but art. Respect for self-taught “art environment builders” like Nicholls has increased dramatically in the last decade; nevertheless, “The difficulty is in finding someone to steward it.” House defeats farm bill as conservatives revolt on immigration Associated Press - Friday, May 18, 2018 In an embarrassment for House Republican leaders, conservatives on Friday scuttled a bill that combines stricter work and job training requirements for food stamp recipients with a renewal of farm subsidies popular in Republican-leaning farm country. Hard-right conservatives upset over the party’s stalled immigration agenda opposed the measure, which failed by a 213-198 vote. Some 30 Republicans joined with every chamber Democrat in opposition. 'Stunning' report finds that one-third of Earth's protected areas are being destroyed by people USA Today - Friday, May 18, 2018 Turns out a large chunk of what should be the world's most protected areas are anything but. A new study reports that human activities — such as city sprawl, road construction and farming — are wreaking havoc on some 2.3 million square miles of protected land worldwide, an area about twice the size of Alaska. The study appeared Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science. New England scallop sales to help pay for projects studying turtles, fisheries The sale of scallops will help pay for projects designed to study subjects such as the impact of fishing on sea turtles and how to make the New England shellfish fishery more efficient. The New England Fishery Management Council announced awards to 15 such projects on Wednesday. Regulator orders CMP to make certain confidential information public The Maine Public Utilities Commission on Friday ordered Central Maine Power to provide a redacted version of a confidential file that the utility had tried to block. The file is part of CMP’s responses to the PUC’s questions in its probe on high electric bills and thousands of customer complaints. Judge dismisses Poland Spring lawsuit, but fight over groundwater claim likely to go on A federal court has dismissed a class action fraud lawsuit against the company behind Poland Spring on narrow legal grounds, but a lawyer says the case will continue. A judge in Connecticut dismissed the suit against Nestle Waters North America Inc. Thursday, but did not weigh in on its allegations that the bottles filled from sites around Maine actually contain common groundwater. The decision leaves the door open for the suit to proceed with revised claims. Current Archive Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 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__label__wiki	0.630338	0.630338	The World Of Ouzo Celebrating more than 120 years of history and tradition, Plomari Ouzo Distillery Isidoros Arvanitis invites you to “World of Ouzo”! An extraordinary guided tour that takes place in the Plomari Ouzo Distillery, in the midst of a magnificent olive grove near the picturesque village of Plomari, in Lesvos; the place where Isidoros Arvanitis first created Ouzo of Plomari in and where it is still produced to this day by Isidoros Arvanitis, a Greek family owned company. Visit the “World of Ouzo” and listen to the history of Greece's national drink, discover why Plomari is considered the homeland of Ouzo and follow the path of Isidoros Arvanitis in his quest for the ideal ingredients in order to create the perfect recipe.Witness a ritual distillation process that takes place in 18 small handmade copper alembics that produce Ouzo of Plomari in the traditional way, using the same secret recipe, by distillation 100%. Also, watch the bottling and packaging processes that are carried out with the very latest equipment and the greatest possible degree of automation in order to assure maximum safety and quality for the consumer. Touch and feel with your own hands the finest ingredients from the land of Lesvos, like anise from Lisvori, considered the best in the world and cultivated in the distillery’s own organic certified fields. Explore a great collection of museum artefacts and travel back in time. Smell the unique aroma, taste the fine flavour and discover the secrets of Ouzo of Plomari Isidoros Arvanitis through tasting sessions. A unique experience for all your senses awaits you in the “World of Ouzo”. Address: Plomari Isidoros Arvanitis Distillery, Kampos Plagias, Plomari 81200, LesvosTel: +30 2252031450, Email: grammateia@ouzoplomari.grSite:www.theworldofouzo.gr The Ecclesiastical Byzantine Museum of Mytilene The Ecclesiastical Byzantine Museum of Mytilene houses one of the most valuable collections of the Byzantine civilization and it is a significant cultural institution. The Municipal Art Gallery The Municipal Art Gallery is housed in an old three-floor building (it belonged to Halim Bey) and it is a typical sample of the local architecture. The Municipal Art Gallery of Mithymna (Molyvos) The Municipal Art Gallery of Mithymna was set up in August 1981. Artists and art collectors donated to the gallery 77 works of art. The New Archaeological Museum of Mytilene Very close to the old Archaeological Museum, in Kioski area, is located the new building of the museum. The erection of the new museum completed in 1995. The old Archaeological Museum of Mytilene In the old building of the Archaeological Museum of Mytilene, the visitors are presented with the history of Lesvos which dates from the last Neolithic Age to the late Roman period. Vranas Olive Press Museum Vranas Olive Press Museum is a stunning industrial building of unique architectural value which is located at Papados village, in the wider region of Gera. The Museum of Modern Art Eleftheriadis Tériade The Museum and Library are housed in the same building as the Theophilos Museum. Sixteen of its 20 rooms display the 29 books by the prominent art critic and publisher Eleftheriadis-Tériade, with illustrations by famous 20th century artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Villon, Leger, Matisse, and others. The Museum and Library are housed in the same building as the Theophilos Museum. Sixteen of its 20 rooms display the 29 books by the prominent art critic and publisher Eleftheriadis-Tériade...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line217
__label__cc	0.592723	0.407277	LiamScheff.com Collapse Watch About Liam Truth About Love Official Stories Astronomy Research Evolution Research The AIDS Investigation American Heretic The Oil Alarm The Avengers – Mind Control at the Movies September 26, 2012 Liam 2 Comments By Liam Scheff theintelhub.com “The Avengers” is out on video this week. Youtube is already full of clips, and you can own your very own digital disk for between twenty and forty or fifty dollars, depending on how many “branded” pieces of plastic you want to accompany your purchase. The film is directed by Joss Whedon, the creator of successful television series like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” and “Serenity.” I’ve often enjoyed the fascination his work shows with ancient religion, concepts of good and evil, angels and demons, and a sense of metaphysical fluidity regarding the world we think we live in. On the other hand, I’ve often hated his dialogue – shallow, quippy, something that annoying high school kids think is very clever before they say it. And those shows were very popular with those kids – and now, that same dialogue is featured in an incredibly (monetarily) successful movie about superheroes. The problem is, this isn’t a movie. I’m sure it’s the 20 or 30 years of increasingly spastic and anti-gravity, anti-physics, anti-human-limitation sensibility of video games on the minds of two or three generations that lets this green-screened wonder pass for a film. Oh, there are clever lines – as there are in some soap operas. Yes, the acting in the green-screened rooms is more or less okay. But, in sequence after sequence, characters, whether they be human, or superhuman, or demigod, are immune, impervious, and in all other ways neurologically non-reactive to all forms of – not just violence – but even gravity. Characters are punched so hard that they fly 30 to 150 feet; they’re thrown out of buildings, falling 70 stories, but they don’t act as actual people would; ie, blacking out, evacuating their bowels involuntarily, or having a heart attack. The ‘heroes,’ in downtown New York City, are confronted with a 2000 foot long metal flying dragon plane beast – the noise of which would have exploded the eardrums of everyone within a half mile. But, it didn’t. And spunky, chunky Scarlett Johansson, who plays a wee mortal in the film, is somehow also immune from even so much as a twisted ankle when being flung onto rooftops from video-game inspired manga vehicles (lucky girl, I pinch my knee and have to pause and rub it for a moment, when I work it too hard when I’m biking). But in this movie, nothing fazes anybody. “But, so what? It’s just a movie?” goes the response. Well, nothing that corporations spend 200 million dollars on is “just” anything. It’s a major conditioning force. It impacts the imaginations and worldviews of children. That’s not a “just.” That’s practically everything. The argument that this is a movie “for kids” also doesn’t wash well. The “Black Stallion” was a movie for kids, and it’s a gorgeous film. It’s shocking, it deals with issues of death and survival. It takes you places in your spirit – but, it’s not in 3D, and there are no lasers. “Sleeping Beauty,” too, was for kids – and it’s a beauty to watch, (despite the normal thematic problems with Disney films). “But, it’s a sci-fi film,” I hear you say, and we’ve got to “suspend disbelief.” But, that suspension of disbelief has got to be uniform. Not everyone in the movie is a god. But they all act as though they are. No one is capable of really being hurt. Oh, plenty of faceless “humans” die, but even though four of the five Avengers are human, they are all immune to the power of a visiting god, “Loki,” who is raining down his wrath for the purposes of, well… who knows? It’s irrelevant. It’s all an excuse to put more mecha-manga-bots in the air. Older sci-fi, by comparison, for having limited budgets to spend on special effects, is both artistically interesting and philosophically challenging – see “Logan’s Run” or “Soylent Green,” or the original “Planet of the Apes.” These movies shock the system – not with ADHD-inducing roller coaster antics, but with troubling questions of morality, sexuality and politics. Even the first “Superman” movie provided much more in the way of humanity, and loss. So, it’s not that superhero movies (which are actually places humanity goes to worship its native and inescapable polytheism) are bad; it’s that the greenscreen has destroyed cinema. And “Star Wars,” the movie that started the modern era of big-screen, big-budget space adventure, was about a farm boy, with no political affiliation, using the spirit voices he heard in his head, and what would have been essentially out-dated tech (in his world) to destroy the evil machine planet. Now, government-sponsored, nuclear-powered super-agents are our only hope. “The Avengers” continues the theme of the government-supersoldier-as-savior, that has been the center of the recent Batman (Dark Knight) films. We’re not supposed to think about it – but it is the corporate military, nameless, faceless, and with totalitarian authority and power – that is called to “save humanity.” But, from whom? From gleeful aliens or terrorists? I think we have more to worry about in the form of the corporate government itself. (What if “The Avengers” was about a group of individuals fighting the corporate bank mafia, and the jackals in the clandestine services, who warp the information coming to all of us, through ‘news’ channels which they own and operate?) If this sounds like an hysterical (or humorless) review, let me assure you that I love a good action movie. But good action movies are good, because the characters you follow are on a journey – call it “the hero’s journey,” which involves, always, loss and pain, before learning how to overcome an obstacle. But, when no one can be hurt, and video-game green screened technology solves every problem, there is no room for the doubt and pain, and choice, that lets a character learn how to become the ‘hero,’ and then gives us a glimpse of how we find the heroic part of ourselves (because that is precisely what stories are for). “The Avengers” isn’t a ‘movie.’ It’s not a ‘talkie.’ It is, however, a video game. A corporate-sponsored war game. A dizzying drug for the minds of fanboys worldwide. I guess it’s sort of clever for being that. Sort of. But, not really. Watch “Chinatown” for a summer blockbuster that demonstrates what happens to people when they get hurt, and pulls no punches. Or “The Godfather.” Or “The French Connection.” Or, “American Gangster.” It’s not that old movies were necessarily better – it’s that we’re feeding young people computer-assisted puke and calling it ‘great.’ And that’s not good for any of us, because it means that the programming is working. Liam Scheff is author of “Official Stories,” available on Amazon and Createspace, worldwide. Buy Official Stories Online, Ships Worldwide In the UK and Europe and US on Amazon Follow “Official Stories” on facebook Not a movie – a video game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ_0Bs85yBk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gu_ZaOa4tE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyZXJByvpLk 9-11, Comics, Movies, Star Wars, The Popular Culture Previous Article← Official Stories Promotional Posters Next ArticleFlu Vaccines Cause the Flu → good piece bro I found this little article about altering “science” to match reality, so maybe it explains a little of the superhero movie nonsense about nobody being affected by gravity, or anything else. http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/string-theory-and-variable-speed-of-light.html My favorite is when someone gets smacked at pretty high speed into a solid object, comes to an instant stop and they shrug it off. 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__label__wiki	0.628333	0.628333	Browsing: james tynion IV [Preview] Something is Killing the Children #2 Children are dying in the town of Archer’s Peak and the ones who survive bring back terrible stories. Find out what it is all about in this sneak peek of Something is Killing the Children #2 from BOOM! Studios. [First Look] Something is Killing the Children #2 BOOM! Studios has released an early look at Something is Killing the Children #2 from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Review 7.7 Lex Luthor is doing something he hasn’t ever done before. He’s winning. Your Major Spoilers review of Justice League #31 awaits! Something is Killing the Children #1 Review A simple game of Truth or Dare turns into something much, much darker. What happened to James and his friends in the Ravine that night? Find out in Something is Killing the Children #1…if you dare. BOOM! Studios launches its latest series from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Take the jump for a preview of this week’s Something is Killing the Children #1! BOOM! Studios has released an extended first look at the upcoming Something is Killing the Children #1 from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Something is Killing the Children in September BOOM! Studios has announced the coming release of Something is Killing the Children, which sound terrifying by itself, but when you add writer James Tynion IV and artist Wether Dell’Edera are behind the series, it suddenly becomes a must read book. DC’s Year Of The Villain #1 Review It’s about to break loose, and all the DCU’s worst villains are ready to capitalize! Your Major Spoilers review of DC’s Year Of The Villain #1 awaits! DC, IDW Publishing, and Nickelodeon team for Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III The 80th anniversary of Batman collides with the 35th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this May as DC Publishing and IDW Publishing today announced plans for BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III, a stunning six-issue conclusion to the smash-hit crossover trilogy. Mysteries of Love in Space #1 Review Space is a cold and lonely place, but even the harshest environments can hold secret love for those who seek it. Uncover the deep, hidden desires of the cruisers of the space lanes, and what makes their hearts go thump-thump-thump in MYSTERIES OF LOVE IN SPACE #1 from DC COMICS! Are the secrets of the past destined to doom the universe in the present? Find out in this exciting conclusion to Escape from Hawkworld! Dueling Review: Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour #1 This is it, the stunning conclusion to The Witching Hour storyline… so why is this a number one issue? Magic is broken and only Stephen and Matthew can pick up the pieces and make sense of Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour #1. [Preview] Backstagers Halloween Intermission #1 BOOM! Studios has released a sneak peek of this week’s Backstagers Halloween Intermission #1. Cursed Comics Cavalcade #1 Review It’s October, and that means falls has arrived, Halloween is coming, and the horror comics are preparing to hit the shelves. This year, DC Comics decides to get in on the act in a giant way, with an 80-page giant entitled Cursed Comics Cavalcade, which is out today. Let’s crack open this tome and see if it is worth summoning up in your pull box!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line222
__label__cc	0.621894	0.378106	Investors Assess Their Climate Risks Investors are being put on notice that some mutual funds and exchange traded funds labeled “sustainable,” “ecology,” “green” or “integrity” may actually have very high carbon footprints. Maximpact Guest Contributors Open exchange and cross‐sector collaboration is the key to strengthening the emerging impact and sustainability sectors. Therefore Maximpact is open to guest contributors wishing to submitted compelling, unique bylined articles, news pieces and interviews that they feel our readership would enjoy. Green Grow the Climate Awareness Bonds The European Investment Bank is the first issuer to link its individual green bonds to the projects they finance for the sake of transparency and accountability ahead of the Paris climate talks. Social Investors vs. Social Businesses: Who will win the struggle for the future of SRI investing? There’s been an important shift in the story we’re telling ourselves about social, responsible and impact (SRI) investing. A movement that began with an emphasis on social entrepreneurs and social businesses has become preoccupied with investors and the mechanisms of the marketplace. What caused this shift to happen? And is it necessarily a bad thing? Effective Two-Way Engagement: A New Gold Standard for SRI Investing At its most effective, communication is a two-way process. Developments in engagement practices between companies and social, responsible and impact (SRI) investors are showing us that this idea is now more applicable than ever. How corruption kills the promise of social enterprise—and drives extremist violence We’ve known for a long time that corruption hurts markets and strangles enterprise. A new book by social entrepreneur Sarah Chayes provides evidence that corruption is even worse, and more dangerous, than we thought. Monitoring for Social Enterprises: How to Protect Mission and Deliver Profit A growing body of sector research is shining light on the principles of how social enterprises can use outcome monitoring to strengthen mission and deliver a blended bottom line. Does the Social Investing Sector Need Activist Investors? Activist investors are turning the corporate world upside down with aggressive campaigns to change strategy and leadership. At the same time, they’re rewriting the rules of engagement between businesses and those who invest in them, contributing to a more combative climate in the boardroom and beyond. What will this mean for social businesses and the investors who back them? Reducing Risk and Improving Performance: Mainstream Sustainability Comes Into its Own A growing body of evidence shows that good sustainability practice reduces risk and improves company performance. What will that mean for the move to mainstream sustainability–and how will mainstreaming change the role of sustainability’s devoted early adopters? Taking an Integrative Approach to Impact Investment The G8 Working Group report Allocating for Impact has given our sector the tools to expand into the mainstream, argues Harald Walkate, Head of Responsible Investing for Aegon Asset Management. But it will take active outreach to the individual decision-makers within pension funds, insurance companies, asset management firms and sovereign wealth funds to bring the changes needed for impact to reach its full potential. Why corruption is a problem for impact investors—and what we can do about it Corruption is a problem for global business—and it’s twice the problem for impact investing because it strikes simultaneously at both of impact’s stated aims: profit and benefit. In this article we look at how corruption hurts the development of new kinds of social investing and show how the impact community can help fight the tide of dirty money and illegal dealing that’s slowing down our progress. Equity Crowdfunding: Giving Small Impact Investors Entry to the Marketplace—Finally! From the beginning, impact investing has been the realm of the large private investor, mainly foundations, high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Until now, there have been few opportunities for individual investors to get involved. Now that’s changing as equity crowdfunding grows in popularity, finally giving individual investors the chance to put their capital behind impact. Convincing Foundations to Take the Impact Investing Plunge Impact investing was invented with foundations in mind. But, while governments and mainstream investors are actively getting involved impact, foundations have been slower to wade in, constrained by risk aversion and, in some cases, a misunderstanding of fiduciary responsibilities.. What will it take to encourage these traditionally conservative investors to take the plunge and unleash a wave of capital for social and environmental good? Impact Investors: What Did You Do in the Healthcare Revolution? Healthcare is undergoing a global revolution. Demographic changes, including aging populations and rising levels of affluence in many countries, are altering health priorities for citizens and governments alike.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line225
__label__wiki	0.649384	0.649384	From Missouri Digital News: https://mdn.org MDN Menu MDN Home Journalist's Creed MDN Help MDN.ORG: Missouri Digital News MDN.ORG Mo. Digital News Missouri Digital News MDN.ORG: Mo. Digital News MDN.ORG: Missouri Digital News Lobbyist Money Help Missouri House Endorses New Economic Development Requirements Following Mamtek Failure By: Matt Evans State Capitol Bureau Links: HB 1865 The Missouri House gave initial approval to new requirements for economic development incentives following the failure of the artificial sweetener company Mamtek in Moberly. OutCue: SOC Play it Wrap: The Missouri House backed the bill that would require information sharing - one thing that the failed Mamtek deal lacked. The measure would require state and local officials to share information about any company seeking economic development incentives from the state or local government. It would also subject company executives to financial background checks. Bill sponsor Republican Representative Jay Barnes says it's time to make the process more transparent. Actuality: BARNES01.WAV Description: "I'm from Missouri. You've got to show me. It's time for this body to live up to that motto." The House must approve the bill one more time before sending it to the Senate. Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Matt Evans. Newsradio 1120 KMOX. The Missouri House gives first round approval to legislation aimed at preventing future failure of economic development projects. Wrap: The artificial sweetener plant Mamtek in the Central-Missouri town of Moberly promised hundreds of Missouri jobs, but shut down after creating less than a dozen. A bill aimed at preventing future failures like that would require information to be shared between state and local officials on companies applying for development incentives. Bill sponsor Republican Jay Barnes says it's time to hold companies accountable. Description: "If somebody wants millions in taxpayer benefits, they've got to be willing to take small, very small steps to prove to the state of Missouri that they're actually delivering on the promises they're making." Missouri Digital News is produced by Missouri Digital News, Inc. -- a non profit organization of current and former journalists.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line227
__label__cc	0.659412	0.340588	KAM supports Miami Winter Music Conference 17 February 2009 14.00 BST (Miami) - KAM, the DJ tools company who have been innovating DJ kit for over half a century are planning a busy start to the year, and will be showcasing all their latest products at some of the world’s leading professional music industry events. The Miami Winter Music Conference - now in it’s 23rd year - will take place from 25th – 29th March and Kam will be there in full force as an official event partner, powering the event. Additionally, Kam are also supplying equipment for the DJ Spin-off competition, hosted this year by DJ Shortee and Felix Sama (last years winners were Etronix and Lady Sha, with the latter being the first female to win the DJ Spin-off competition). DJ’s will battle it out for first place in two separate categories: beat matching & scratching, judged on everything from technical ability to audience interaction. On top of all of this, and never ones to be shy of a party or two, this year, Kam are teaming up with Map Dance and More House Records, to bring you the special We Love House event at Casanova Suites Hotel. What’s set to be another sensational and unforgettable party, the line-up features Pan-European and American wizards, including Mr Mike (Map Dance), Groove Junkies , (Morehouse) , DJ Roog (Hardsoul), DJ Meme (Brazil), Victor Simonelli (VJS inc), Miles Numan (Map Dance), Dario D'Attis (Map Dance), Toni Granello (Map Dance), Dan Tait (Space Ibiza). DJ’s at last years unforgettable Kam / Map Dance Party at the glamorous Astor Hotel included ATFC, Victor Simonelli, DJ Spen and The Groove Junkies. With all this activity Kam hope to make a strong and positive impression once again, and repeat the success of last years visit to the Miami WMC. The KAM tour continues with a special visit to Mexico, to help power and create sonic bliss at the We Love House Party at Coco Maya Beach Club, situated on the beautiful beaches of Playa Del Carmen, Mexico on Saturday 28th March, featuring guest sets from Mr Mike (Map Dance), Dario D'Attis (Map Dance) and Dan Tait (Space Ibiza). After the success of last years party, Mr Mike brings back his We Love House party to the beaches of Mexico, and KAM proudly sponsors this special, sizziling event. Kam, through working at Music Industry events, have now expanded their international distribution to Bosnia, Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Poland, Serbia & Montenegro and Slovenia. Capping off the busy start to the year, The KAM Team are due to attend the Frankfurt Messe and Prolight and Sound exhibitions in Germany from 1st – 4th April. Musikmesse is the leading international trade fair for music equipment and the live music industry where manufacturers, dealers, professionals and amateur musicians will gather to discover and experience the latest products. With a proven track record and a wealth of experience, Kam designs quality equipment that enables DJ’s to fulfil their creative potential and will showcase new and innovative products including; the Sound force, Profile, Vortex, Extreme and Sonik speaker ranges. On show will also be a host of other products, including the LED1300 Lightscreen production tool, DJ Turntables including the DDX4500 USB deck, CDJ and 19” CD Players, the KCDMP3180 iD3 rack mount player for MP3’s, studio Desks and workstation products.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line237
__label__wiki	0.617178	0.617178	Home \| Search \| Map \| Contribute www.monumentaustralia.org.au Bookmark site! Dear Monument Australia visitors, we are a self-funded, non-profit organisation, dedicated to recording monuments throughout Australia. Over time the costs of maintaining this website have risen substantially (in fact they are probably larger than those of many companies who exist for profit). In the past we have borne all the costs associated with maintaining the website but we are now having difficulties in paying the monthly expenses. If Monument Australia is useful to you, please make a donation to keep this historical and educational resource available. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Home » Themes » Conflict » World War One Welcome Home BannerPrint Page Photographs supplied by Chris McLaughlin A banner which includes a hand-written honour roll commemorates those who served in World War One. The banner was made in 1919 by Mrs C.M. Glen on behalf of the Walpeup Red Cross Society and the Walpeup Welcome Home Committee, and displayed in the Walpeup Railway Station to welcome soldiers from the district returning home. On their arrival, soldiers signed the banner. Following its discovery under the stage of the memorial hall in October 2003, the banner was professionally restored and framed through a grant from the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and unveiled on 23 April 2005 at a ceremony at the Memorial Hall that was attended by many descendants of those who had signed their names in 1919. Glen & Richardson Streets, Memorial Hall, Walpeup, 3507 Lat: -35.138127 Long: 142.023439 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. Monument Type: Monument Theme: Sub-Theme: Actual Event STart Date: Actual Event End Date: Approx. Monument Dedication Date: Front Inscription Staunch and True HEARTY WELCOME HOME WALPEUP DISTRICT For King and Country [ Names ] Source: MA Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au Contact Monument Australia © Monument Australia 2010 - 2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Designed by UBC Web Design	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line238
__label__wiki	0.885518	0.885518	The Jewish Music Series at Sonoma State is a presentation of the Department of Music and the Jewish Studies Program. Now in its fifth year, the series is widely acclaimed for its breadth, depth, and musical excellence as it poses the eternal question of “What makes music Jewish?” The concerts, a component of the “Survey of Jewish Music” class, run about 90 minutes in length, are Free and open to the public, $5 parking fee applies. For more information contact the Department of Music at 707-664-2324 or Jewish Studies Program Director Brian S. Wilson. Past Jewish Music Series performers Sharon Bernstein Scott Gerber Heather Lkein Jewlia Eisenberg Jeanette Lewicki Stephen Saxon Anthony Russell Sharon Goldman Roslyn Barak Richard Neil Kaplan Jeremiah Lockwood San Francisco Choral Artists Chamber Musicians The Bridge Players: Randy Weiss, violin; Michael Graham, cello; Marilyn Thompson, piano Kristie Janczyk, piano Roy Zajac, clarinet Daniel Nebel, horn Matthew Vincent, violin Jill Brindel, cello Jennifer Wilsey, percussion Noam Lemish, piano and Amos Hoffman, oud/guitar Brian S. Wilson, conductor Veretski Pass The Big Galut(e) Qadim Ensemble Frank London, Glenn Hartman & Jake Marmer Invisible Guy The gonifs Kugelplex Rebbe Soul Isle of Klezbos The logo of the Jewish Music Series combines musical notation with Hebrew letters in a modern representation of "L' Chayim!" (To Life!). Concept and graphic design by Jerry Wilson. Jewish Music Series Performance Schroeder Hall at the Green Music Center Sharon Bernstein - Yiddish Songs at an Exhibition. A multi-media performance of music and art Featuring Sharon Bernstein (voice, piano) in a unique multi-media performance set to paintings by self-taught Toronto artist Mayer Kirshenblatt. Mr. Kirshenblatt’s vibrant portraits and stories of his home town Apt (Poland) before the Holocaust inspire a rich blend of traditional song and contemporary sound. Projected images of the paintings connected with the songs and readings of Mr. Kirshenblatt’s memories complete this experience that recreates the sights and sounds of a Jewish Polish town. Inspired by and developed in collaboration with the book...View Event Details Tsvey Brider (Two Brothers) Tsvey Brider (Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin) is a Yiddish songwriting, arranging and performing duo formed in 2017 after winning the Concorso Internacional de Canciones en Idish (Der Idisher Idol) in Mexico City. They have gone on to be featured in Berlin's Radikale Jüdisches Kulturtage (Radical Jewish Culture Festival), tour across Poland and perform in culture and music festivals all over the United States and Europe. Inspired by the work of an international group of twentieth-century Jewish writers and poets, Tsvey Brider is a musical exploration of contemporary life in...View Event Details Days Of Awe: Veretski Pass with Shofar Professor Brian S. Wilson will begin this concert with a Shofar demonstration in celebration of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. In addition, violinist Cookie Segelstein will play the traditional Kol Nidre melody which is used to usher in Yom Kippur. Veretski Pass has been a leading ensemble of the Klezmer Revival for almost two decades, with a repertoire ranging from the deeply traditional to the avant-garde. This concert will highlight their improvisatory skills with a potpourri of Ottoman and Carpathian suites utilizing pieces from their field and archival work. Veretski...View Event Details Kitka & Hasmik Harutyunyan in Concert Gorani: Love Songs and Lullabies to Lost Homelands Hasmik Harutyunyan is an Armenian folk singer. She is the leading member of the S hoghaken Folk Ensemble and directs the Hayrik Muradyan Traditional Song and Dance Children's Ensemble. The music of the Shoghaken Ensemble is featured on the soundtrack of the film Ararat. Harutyunyan's Armenian Lullabies was recognized by the New York Times as an outstanding world music CD in 2004. With Shoghaken Folk Ensemble, she has performed in Armenia, France (including a 2006 performance at the Théâtre de la Ville in...View Event Details Sheldon Brown: The Golem live music with silent film The score for "The Golem: How He Came into the World" (1920) was written by Sheldon Brown, Alisa Rose, and Richard Marriott. The ensemble is a quintet of clarinet, violin, trombone (euphonium), contrabass, and piano. The score premiered at the Silent Movie Theater, Los Angeles on March 23, 2011 and was reprised for the Vallejo Silent Film Festival on May 4, 2018 at the Empress Theater, Vallejo. "...an enormous palette of musical influences from which Club Foot, via its founder and creative director Richard Marriott, draws inspiration. These...View Event Details	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line242
__label__cc	0.6846	0.3154	Arts & EntertainmentFeatureLifestyleLocal Home›Culture›Arts & Entertainment›Stitch Craft Blog – An Entrepreneurial Profile Stitch Craft Blog – An Entrepreneurial Profile Lynsey McLean turned her love of cross-stitch into a business – and it’s all thanks to Judge Judy We often find inspiration for our ideas from the most peculiar of sources. When a budding entrepreneur decides to dip their toes in the shallow end of the vast business ocean, they may feel compelled to go against the tide and navigate numerous exhaustive ideas for their start-up. Those plans will either bear fruit or wither on the vine, but sometimes – often without forecast – there comes that unexpected “Eureka!” moment. Isaac Newton is often said to have developed his concept of gravity after an apple fell from a garden tree. While on a delayed train between Manchester and London King’s Cross, a young JK Rowling began to dream of the Harry Potter universe. Alexander Fleming, known for his sloppiness in the laboratory, discovered penicillin from a humble, yet particularly filthy, petri dish. And Lynsey McLean, owner of Stitch Craft Blog, could never have anticipated that a sharp-tongued TV judge would lead her into a new hobby – let alone a business. “I started cross-stitching when I started watching Judge Judy,” she says. “After discovering her, I stumbled onto an online article that highlighted products for people that love Judy, and one of these was a DIY cross-stitch kit.” McLean decided to try it. She bought a cross-stitch magazine and spent a week making a tiny owl keyring. “It was a mess, and took me ages,” she says, “but learning myself was really empowering.” She subscribed to the magazine and attempted each weekly gift for the next few months. But her hobby didn’t start to transform into something more until she bought a book dedicated to cross-stitching. “I realised I was hooked, and started making gifts for friends and family,” she says. “Once I started making phrases for friends on random fabric quarters, I realised that I could start an Etsy shop with my newfound craft love.” McLean and I first met almost a decade ago, having studied together at Edinburgh Napier University. Sharing a similar narrative to a considerable proportion of young graduates, she was unable to find employment in a field that matched the degree she’d spent four years trying to earn. She launched Stitch Craft Blog in 2015, an online buying and selling community that specialises in hand-crafted and vintage products. “After my undergraduate degree, I worked for a few years, then went to do a Masters in Forensic Psychology,” she says. “I ended up not getting the full masters for several reasons – including a house fire), so right now I’m working full-time as an advocacy worker and I cross-stitch whenever I can around Lanarkshire.” Her rationale for launching Stitch Craft Blog stemmed from a love of the craft, rather than an innate desire to make money. To learn more about launching and operating a dedicated small business, I spoke with McLean about Stitch Craft Blog, social media’s impact on advertising, and finding the right balance between work and motherhood. The New Normal: What is it about your products that make them identifiable? Lynsey McLean: I like to think my products are unique, because I like to mix fabrics and colours that some people might not think go together initially, but look good in the finished product! I also try and do things that I don’t see other people doing. That’s not always possible, as sometimes you think of a great idea, see it’s already out there, but do it anyway. I hadn’t seen anyone doing the cross-stitch initial necklaces when I first started them, so that’s given me a sense of pride. TNN: Do you have a specific audience that buys your products? McLean: My target audience is probably female, 25-45, and someone who enjoys floral or vintage feel fabrics. And, above all else, appreciates the time handmade crafts take. For me, the ideal customer would be someone who provided feedback, even taking photos and tagging me in social media. TNN: How has social media impacted your ability to advertise your business? McLean: I try to update the social media accounts as much as possible. I enjoy Instagram the most, because I love editing the photos and looking through other people’s photos. I love that you can give a snap shot of your life and a peek “behind the scenes”. Since they changed the algorithm, it’s a bit more difficult to be found, so you need to make sure your posts are engaging. It’s tough for small businesses when all you see in your feed are huge companies and brands. I wish they would go back to chronological order. Keeping on top of social media is a huge task, so you really need to be on the ball. Having a smartphone is great, but your content needs to be interesting. Taking a photo of your lunch doesn’t really cut it anymore, and nobody wants to see 10 photos in a row of your cat or baby. You need to think outside the box now. TNN: What else do you do to help people find Stitch Craft Blog? McLean: Whenever I sell an item on Etsy, I pop a business card into the order. The only exception is my website – I designed it on , which is a great system for people like me who don’t have any web design skills. TNN: Since launching in 2015, you’ve become a mother. How has that impacted your cross-stitching? McLean: My shop has been on a little break recently, as me and my husband welcomed a baby boy, Harris, in February, and he has been running my life since then! I reopened the shop after taking just over 2 months break and got a sale that day, so that was great validation that I was missed. Motherhood has changed everything for me – from the time needed to stitch, to having the money to invest in materials and the freedom to try new things. I have had my shop on holiday and haven’t touched a needle in almost 3 months. My time for cross-stitching used to be allocated after work in the evening, whilst watching TV, during my lunch break at work, in the car if I organise my threads in advance, on the train to work, and any other spare minute! Now that there’s a baby in the mix, it will be hard fitting cross-stitch in, so 2017 will be a slower year for me. The profit with cross-stitch is really based on how much you value your time. TNN: How do you decide pricing in order to maximise profit? McLean: You can find a lot of different craft pricing calculators online and in books, but when it comes down to it, and you’re at a craft fair, people will either buy the product or not. I think everyone needs to decide for themselves what the right price is and this is a mix of customer feedback, calculations of time and products, and gut feeling. The most expensive resource I find is probably the boxes I present my work in, purely because I absorb the cost into the item and it really isn’t a necessity. It all goes to the look of the item though and what you want to convey to the customer. It also reduces the risk of damage in the post, so there are positives! TNN: Have you established relationships with any suppliers to help your costs? McLean: I get most of my material from Remnant Kings, and there’s an amazing website called Spoonflower that makes really interesting and different fabrics, but they tend to be quite a bit more expensive – so just for special pieces really. The only stockist I would say that I have an established business relationship with is a woman in Australia, who provides reliable, quality materials. Her name is Sonia and her business Dandeylene showcases her excellent content and work on social media! TNN: Did you have a specific strategy when you launched Stitch Craft Blog? McLean: I think my strategy has always been to do it because I enjoy it, and to be a part of the Etsy and crafting community in Glasgow. I also want to make a profit, but that’s not the sole reasoning for me. As I have a full-time job, I’m lucky that I don’t rely on it to pay my mortgage and bills. Maybe one day it will be my sole income, but I’m a long way off that. TNN: How do you fund the business? McLean: Solely from my wages from my full-time advocacy job. When I return after maternity leave, I will be on four days a week, plus we’ll have childcare, so business growth will be slightly smaller. I’m hoping with enough promotion and online presence that I can make enough profit to grow my product line. As cross-stitch is so hard to price, I tend to go with my own method, but for cards I research how much other handmade cards go for. It’s a very saturated market but I think the customised nature of my cards really pleases people, and I do see repeat custom, so the quality is obviously up to scratch. I did up my prices a touch last year and saw an immediate drop in sales, so sometimes it is trial and error. TNN: What are your thoughts for the future of Stitch Craft Blog? McLean: My main concern is coming up with my own designs. I’ve so many ideas, but it takes a long, long time to make a basic design. I hope I can get some of my ideas onto paper soon and get creating. I don’t think the market will ever be saturated with cross-stitch because it’s so time consuming, a lot of people don’t consider attempting it. Last year, I made some prints of my favourite cross-stitch pieces to establish whether it would be worth getting printed goods that can be recreated, and at a lower price point. My Christmas cards were well-received, so I need to make a timetable and get more printed for this year with new designs. Watch this space! You can find Lynsey’s business here, at Stitch Craft Blog TagsBusinessCraftcross-stitchingEtsyGlasgowhand-crafthobbyLifestyleLynsey McLeanProfileQ&AScotlandStitch Craft Blogvintage products Paul Gerard Paul Gerard is a deputy editor of The New Normal Magazine and a Scottish student, who originally hails from Ayrshire, but is now living in Glasgow. He has a BA in Social Sciences, an MLitt in Film & Television Studies. Due to a love affair with higher education, he is studying for a master’s in Digital Journalism. Other than a cumbersome ascension from armchair revolutionary to political activist, he enjoys watching and reviewing films and chasing the pipe dream of fronting a successful band. He can be reached by email here. 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__label__wiki	0.582774	0.582774	Wind & Solar Months after moratorium, the National Grid crisis is still looming National Grid first declared its moratorium on new hook-ups in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island this May, but the crossfire between the utility and New York State is still continuing as winter approaches. New York State officials have put pressure on National Grid to restore power or risk losing its license. Yet, families and businesses alike are worried as the moratorium continues and colder temperatures arrive. The most complicated piece of the National Grid puzzle is the Williams Pipeline project, which National Grid has stated is essential for future fuel supply. The state rejected a permit for the pipeline in May, and has directed National Grid to determine a non-pipeline solution to lift the moratorium by November 26th. National Grid CEO John Pettigrew, in a recent earnings call, said the utility is searching for non-pipeline solutions to its power supply conundrum. “We’re currently working through all the different engineering solutions that could be a non-pipeline solution. So, for example, as we’re looking at things like energy efficiency, demand side management, we’re looking at things like compressed natural gas, vaporization, increased capacity on our [liquefied natural gas] facilities … Ultimately, our objective is to be able to serve the customers.” © 2020 New York AREA, Inc. Website design by Query Creative.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line257
__label__cc	0.719584	0.280416	Occupy World Writes The Movement Continues – Globally Welcome to an Occupied World! About Occupy World Writes What We’re Saying Tag Archives: #GOPTaxScam Trump, Granting Lobbyist Demands, Quietly Handed Billions More in Tax Breaks to Huge Corporations: Report “Trump is the most corrupt president in history, and here’s the latest example of how that corruption helps giant corporations.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 12-30-2019 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and President Donald Trump at a Tax reform press briefing October 31, 2017. Screenshot: YouTube A “disturbing” New York Times story published Monday detailed how President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department, led by former Goldman Sachs banker Steve Mnuchin, has quietly weakened elements of the 2017 tax law in recent months to make it even friendlier to wealthy individuals and massive corporations. Lobbyists representing some of the largest corporations in the world, the Times reported, targeted two provisions in the original 2017 law designed to bring in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue from companies that had been dodging U.S. taxes by stashing profits overseas. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Economics, Government, Social Justice and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, BEAT, Capitalism, Comcast, Corruption, Department of the Treasury, Donald Trump, Economic Policy Institute, Economics, Elizabeth Warren, General Electric, GILT, IRS, Liberty Mutual, LyondellBasell, Nestle, News Corporation, offshoring, Organization for International Investment, Proctor and Gamble, social justice, Steven Mnunchin, tax avoidance, tax code on December 31, 2019 by MNgranny. Activists Who Confronted Mnuchin During UCLA Protest Now Facing Years in Jail “Mnuchin was bragging about killing sanctions and their politics of cruelty, but we’re charged with ‘disturbing the peace’ for speaking loudly during his event!” By Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 10-1-2019 The UCLA 5, a group of protesters who demonstrated at an appearance Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin gave at UCLA in 2018, are facing potential jail time for their non-violent action. (Photo: @MichelleXai/Twitter) Four non-violent campaigners said Tuesday that their First Amendment rights were violated last year by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who attempted to suppress video of the group’s peaceful demonstration against the Trump administration at an event at UCLA in 2018. Opening arguments in the trial began Friday and continued Tuesday morning at the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Demonstrations & Protests, Economics, Education, Government, Human Rights, Income Inequality, International Agreements, Peaceful resistance, Social Justice, Solidarity and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Chelsea Manning, Civil Rights, Corruption, economic sanctions, Economics, Equality, First Amendment, First Amendment Coalition, Freedom of Speech, Human rights, Income Inequality, International Agreements, Los Angeles County Superior Court, Michelle Xai, Protests, Refuse Fascism LA, Revolution Club, social justice, Solidarity, Steven Mnunchin, Tala Deloria, UCLA on October 2, 2019 by MNgranny. Bolstered by Trump Tax Scam, Number of US Corporations Paying ‘Not a Dime’ in Federal Taxes Doubled in 2018 “Corporations zeroing out their tax bills or paying single-digit federal tax rates mean a substantial loss in federal revenue. Calls to cut critical programs and services in the wake of these corporate tax cuts are absolutely connected.” By Eoin Higgins, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 4-11-2019 Steve Mnuchin, Mike Pence and Gary Cohn watching the Senate vote on the 2017 tax bill. Photo: White House A new analysis out Thursday shows that tax policy under the Trump administration is benefitting large corporations to such a degree that twice as many large companies will pay nothing in federal taxes for 2018 compared to previous years. The report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which comes less than a week before tax day in the United States on April 15, found that 60 companies—including Amazon, Netflix, Activision Blizzard, General Motors, and IBM—used “a diverse array of legal tax breaks” to bring their federal tax liability to zero. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Economics, Government, Income Inequality, Social Justice and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Activision Blizzard, Amazon, Capitalism, Center for Public Integrity, Chevron, Corruption, Delta Airlines, Economics, Eli Lilly, Elizabeth Warren, Gannett, General Motors, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Halliburton, IBM, Income Inequality, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Jetblue Airways, Matthew Gardner, Netflix, Principal Financial, Real Corporate Profits Tax bill, Salesforce.com, social justice, tax code, US Steel, Whirlpool on April 12, 2019 by ew. ‘Like Nominating Dr. Phil to Run CDC’: Alarm Bells as Trump Nominates Right-Wing Sycophant Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Concerned economic and political commentators decried Moore as “a famous idiot” who “has proved deeply impervious to facts.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 3-22-2019 President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate right-wing commentator Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve board. (Photo: CBN) Economists and progressive experts responded with exasperation and unease on Friday after President Donald Trump said he will nominate right-wing commentator Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve, the gatekeeper of the nation’s economy. “I will be nominating Mr. Moore for the Fed. You know who I’m talking about,” Trump told reporters while arriving in Florida for the weekend. “He’s going to be great on the Fed.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Banking & Lending Issues, Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Economics, Government and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Capitalism, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Chye-Ching Huang, Common Cause, Corruption, Donald Trump, Economics, Federal Reserve, Heritage Foundation, Jared Bernstein, Kansas, Koch brothers, Paul Krugman, Sam Brownback, Stephen Moore, taxes on March 23, 2019 by ew. New Legislation Aims to Avert Arctic Giveaway to ‘Corporate Polluters’ Sneaked Into GOP Tax Scam Announcement comes as scholars warn fossil fuel drilling in Arctic refuge “would contribute to the escalating crises of climate change and biological annihilation.” By Andrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 2-12-2019 A member of the Porcupine caribou herd, which conservation groups say would be horribly impacted if fossil fuel exploration and extraction takes place in ANWR’s coastal plain. New legislation sponsored by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) aims to make sure that doesn’t happen. (Photo: G MacRae/flickr/cc) Conservation groups are cheering the introduction on Monday of a measure to stop fossil fuel extraction in a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). “This bill calls a halt to the administration’s headlong rush to sell off this special wilderness to corporate polluters,” said John Bowman, senior director for federal affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “And it preserves the fundamental human rights of the Gwich’in people whom these lands have sustained for thousands of years, and who—among two-thirds of all Americans—oppose drilling in the Arctic Refuge.” The legislation is a renewed effort by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and would repeal a provision included in the GOP’s 2017 tax bill (pdf). Denounced as “a Big Oil polar payout,” the provision opens the refuge’s coastal plain to oil and gas exploration and drilling. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Climate Change & Environmental Issues, Corruption, Economics, Energy, Government, Human Rights, International Agreements, Water and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Atrocities, Big Oil, Bureau of Land Management, Capitalism, Climate Change, Corruption, Donald Trump, Economics, Energy, Environment, Environment America, Fossil fuels, Human rights, Indigenous populations, indigenous rights, International Agreements, Jared Huffman, National Audubon Society, Oil, Water on February 13, 2019 by MNgranny. A Year After ‘One of the Greatest Heists in US History,’ Survey Confirms Corporate Tax Cuts Didn’t Lead to Hiring and Raises for Workers “The GOP Tax Scam was always about making the wealthy and big corporations richer while leaving millions of working families behind.” By Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 1-28-2019 A poll released Monday confirmed that corporations’ financial windfall following the passage of the Republican tax plan in 2017 did not lead to corporate investment in jobs and raises. (Photo: @zacjanderson/Twitter) The release of a new survey on Monday confirmed that corporations used the $1.5 trillion giveaway in the Republicans’ 2017 tax plan for their shareholders and top executives—not their workers or reinvesting in their businesses. The National Association of Business Economics’ (NABE) quarterly poll found that 84 percent of companies were not ramping up spending in the form of hiring, raises, and other capital investments. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Economics, Government, Income Inequality, Social Justice, Women's Issues, Workers' Issues and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Americans for Tax Fairness, Capitalism, Corruption, Donald Trump, Economics, Gary Cohn, Income Inequality, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Paul Ryan, social justice, tax code, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, taxes, Women's Issues, workers' issues on January 29, 2019 by ew. With Nation Transfixed By Kavanaugh Monstrosity, House GOP Votes to Give Rich Another $3 Trillion in Tax Cuts “This is yet another shameful tax law that would swindle working families and siphon even more funding from the programs that help our communities thrive.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 9-28-2018 “In less than a year, House Republicans have handed out trillions of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations,” added Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. (Photo: Tax March) With the nation’s attention rightly transfixed by the Senate GOP’s monstrous efforts to ram through a Supreme Court nominee who has been credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault, House Republicans on Friday voted overwhelmingly to approve another $3 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans just weeks before the November midterms. “Today the GOP doubled down on last year’s giveaway to the donor class known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, said in a statement following the 220-191 vote. “Tax Cuts 2.0 gives nearly $3 trillion to the wealthiest Americans, and will become yet another excuse for Republicans to slash Medicare and Social Security.” This entry was posted in #MeToo, Austerity, Civil Rights, Corruption, Economics, Government, Health Care, Income Inequality, Supreme Court, Women's Issues, Workers' Issues and tagged #GOPTaxScam, #TaxScam2, Brett Kavanaugh, Capitalism, Conor Lamb, Corruption, Economics, Health Care, Human rights, Income Inequality, Jacky Rosen, Kyrsten Sinema, Medicaid, Medicare, Patriotic Millionaires, Richard Neal, social security, Supreme Court, Tax Policy Center, Women's Issues, workers' issues on September 29, 2018 by ew. Just Hours After Ordering Pay Cut for Millions of Public Workers, Trump Proposes $100 Billion Gift to Richest 1% “Trump wants to send another kiss to the rich—unilaterally, without any approval from Congress. He ignores the law, governs for the top one percent, and doesn’t give a hoot about the rest of us.” “Hours after cheating millions of middle class workers, Trump wants to send another kiss to the rich—unilaterally, without any approval from Congress,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) wrote on Twitter late Thursday. (Photo: Timothy Krause/cc/flickr) Hours after he launched yet another “direct attack” on workers by canceling a modest pay raise for around two million federal employees, President Donald Trump told Bloomberg on Thursday that he is considering a regressive and possibly illegal plan to use his executive power to hand the rich another $100 billion in tax cuts by indexing capital gains to inflation. “There are a lot of people that love it and some people that don’t,” Trump said of the plan, which would disproportionately reward the top 0.01 percent of Americans. “But I’m thinking about it very strongly.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Economics, Government, Income Inequality, Military, Social Justice, Veterans, Women's Issues, Workers' Issues and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Atrocities, Bernie Sanders, Bill Pascrell, Capitalism, Corruption, Donald Trump, Economics, Income Inequality, Military, Pentagon, social justice, Veterans, Wall Street, Women's Issues, workers' issues on September 1, 2018 by ew. Putting Common Good Over Billionaires and War Profiteers, House Progressives Introduce “People’s Budget” The Congressional Progressive Caucus’ plan “invests in our neglected infrastructure, ends the systematic inequality in our tax system by making corporations pay their fair share, and stops the rising cost of drugs.” “The People’s Budget embodies that new vision by investing in the interests of the people over the interests of the arms industry and the billionaire class,” Paul Kawika Martin, senior director for policy and political affairs at Peace Action, noted in a statement on Tuesday. (Photo: Congressional Progressive Caucus) Offering an ambitious alternative to the House GOP’s “morally bankrupt” 2019 budget proposal—which demands over $5 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and other life-saving programs—the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Tuesday unveiled a budget that calls for massive investments in infrastructure, healthcare, and education while proposing significant cuts to the completely “out-of-control” Pentagon budget. Titled The People‘s Budget: A Progressive Path Forward (pdf), the CPC’s plan also calls for a ban on “any expansion of U.S. combat troops in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and many other countries,” demanding an immediate end to “the policy of funding endless wars.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Austerity, Civil Rights, Climate Change & Environmental Issues, Economics, Education, Energy, Government, Health Care, Income Inequality, International Agreements, Military, Social Justice, Solidarity, War, Water, Women's Issues, Workers' Issues and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Afghanistan, Big Oil, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Human rights, Immigrant detention centers, Income Inequality, International Agreements, Iraq, Medicaid, military-industrial complex, People's Budget, Pramila Jayapal, prison-industrial complex, Public Citizen, social justice, social security, Solidarity, Syria, Women's Issues, workers' issues, Yemen on July 25, 2018 by ew. “Slap in the Face” to Poor Americans: House GOP Passes Farm Bill Attacking Nation’s Hungriest Families “This is just another attempt by Paul Ryan to pretend that the biggest problem with the federal deficit is lazy poor people, not the $1.5 trillion tax cut he and his colleagues just gave to the richest people in the country.” A grocery store in Missouri informs customers that food stamps are accepted. (Photo: Paul Sableman/Flickr/cc) With the Poor People’s Campaign protesting “policy violence against families and children” outside the Capitol Building, House Republicans on Thursday forced through a “shameful” and “cruel” Farm Bill that would deprive about 2 million Americans of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often called food stamps. “It’s a deliberate slap in the face to the millions of low-income Americans who rely on SNAP benefits to survive,” declared Morris Pearl, chair of Patriotic Millionaires. “We don’t want to live in a country where the government allows its citizens to starve, and neither should anyone else.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Agriculture, Austerity, Climate Change & Environmental Issues, Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Economics, Government, Health Care, Human Rights, Income Inequality, Social Justice, Women's Issues, Workers' Issues and tagged #GOPTaxScam, Atrocities, Capitalism, Corruption, Economics, Environment, Farm Bill, Food and Agriculture, food stamps, Friends of the Earth, Health Care, Human rights, Income Inequality, Jan Schakowsky, Patriotic Millionaires, Paul Ryan, SNAP, social justice, Union of Concerned Scientists, Women's Issues, workers' issues on June 23, 2018 by ew. ‘Let Her In’: Outrage Swirls After Six-Year-Old Girl With Downs Syndrome and Heart Condition Turned Away at US Border It’s 2020 and Florida’s Supreme Court Just Ruled in Favor of a Poll Tax Cheers as Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Allowing Localities to Refuse New Refugees US Clearing Anti-War Voices Off Social Media in Vast Censorship Operation US Government Lists Non-Violent ‘Valve Turner’ Climate Activists as Threat on Par With Murderous Neo-Nazis Abdul on Anti-BDS Laws Challenged as Unconstitutional After Speech Pathologist Loses Job at Texas School for Refusing to Sign Pro-Israel Pledge ew on Texas Study Shows How Defunding Planned Parenthood Actually Increased Abortion Rates Adriel Trott (subject of photograph) on Texas Study Shows How Defunding Planned Parenthood Actually Increased Abortion Rates Joseph Martinez on Search for Justice Heats Up As Attorneys Weigh Criminal Charges in Flint Crisis Paula Shoup on How To Buy The Senate Banking & Lending Issues Climate Change & Environmental Issues Corporate Personhood Demonstrations & Protests Kurds and Kurdistan National Security vs Police State Peaceful resistance Refugee Issues Unions and Organized Labor Workers' Issues	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line259
__label__wiki	0.634408	0.634408	Type your search and hit Enter Art as Science, Science as Art Aquaporins are having a moment. Never heard of them? They’re new to the science scene: the Nobel Prize was awarded in 2003 for the discovery of these microscopic water channels that help move H2O molecules neatly across a cell’s membrane. The Danish water treatment startup Aquaporin is not only putting these little proteins to work to clean the world’s water, but have commissioned Copenhagen-based art, curatorial and research collective Diakron to take over their huge open-plan factory, including the laboratory and office space, which they have made available to tour by appointment. Text by John Martin Tilley Photos by David Stjernholm, courtesy of Primer The current show, by artist Michala Paludan, Life Without, is an abstracted, collage contemplation of the nature of cyberspace, molecular biology, and work. The placement of the artwork among the offices and laboratories of the plant is a stroke of conceptual genius in and of itself — something akin to Michael Asher’s coy deconstructions of gallery spaces. Paludan plays into this with a sparkling dry wit: a life-size illusionist painting sucks the viewer into a hallway of processors; jumpsuits hanging on a white grid wall could easily be mistaken for workers’ hazmat gear; a glass table with an unsigned artist fellowship contract from Artist Placement Group blurs ideas of art and reality, information and image, object and intention. Workers in lab coats become apart of the spectacle as seen through windows and doors, adding harmonic synergy to the ultimate goal of the project: to allow cross-pollination between art and science. The best pieces depict an anonymous human form caught in various states of imagistic flux, be it amid the waves of information flowing through the very air we breathe, or the figure as metaphor for cell membrane. Art is like water: fundamental, and always trying to break through. The question becomes how best to let it in. 'Life Without' will be on view through June 3rd, 2018, at the Primer Space in Aquaporin, Nymøllevej. Collages by Susanne Ussing and Carsten Hoff Rock Center Holds VIGIL Jenny Holzer’s projections probe the pain of gun violence We Were Promised Flying Cars office sits down with Kareem Rahma to talk about his book of haikus. One-Two Punch Breaking down the walls at Magenta Plains. Fractured Bodies There are ballet dancers, but they’re not exactly dancing. There’s a song playing, but it’s coming from no direction in particular. And if you find yourself enshrouded in ethereal sound, meandering through a labyrinth of dismembered LED screens with statuesque performers receiving what looks like electric stimulation therapy—you’re exactly where you should be. Interview by Vivian Cheng Photos Courtesy of Jesper Just and Perrotin (Installation images from Jesper Just: Corporealités, 2020) The answer to your first question is this: you’re at the Perrotin Gallery in New York. But the better query here: what the hell is happening? It’s hard to say. Between the exhibition title and the intentions behind Danish artist Jesper Just’s “Corporealités,” there are so many intriguing complexities that office decided to let the renowned artist speak for himself regarding his latest installation at 130 Orchard Street. If you’re looking for an art exhibition more immersive and literally stimulating than, say, ZeroSpace, check out the exhibition on display until February 15, 2020. But before you go, dive into the artist’s own words below. Interpassivity is defined online as “a state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity.” What does interpassivity mean to you? Interpassivity is a term initially coined by Robert Pfaller and Zizek. It refers to human action and is based on outsourcing emotions and feelings—you could almost say it’s like having someone or something external experiencing specific feelings on your behalf, a type of delegation. It’s a state of passivity, especially emotional or cognitive, when there is the presence of and potential for interactivity. For me, interpassivity is a key concept in our day and age. I think less about what it means in a dictionary sense and more of what its implications are: why do we choose to delegate rather than participate? Why outsource experience or enjoyment? And beyond our own motivations to do so, what is the cultural or societal impetus at play? It especially comes into play with our current technology: as we use more elaborate, streamlined and efficient devices to multitask, it becomes increasingly ambiguous whether the technology is enhancing or supporting. At times, it seems as though it disconnects and disables us as often as it enables us through its intended means, and this produces an interesting effect on how we use and experience our bodies. Before we start talking about all the different parts of this project—there are so many—how long did it take you to create the whole thing from start to finish? While every work I create is autonomous, you could also view it as a continuum. Some parts are clearly transitions or departures in my practice; however, I started conceiving the specifics of this project about six months ago. You deconstruct and fracture various things in the making of the project. By doing so, you’re able to highlight various elements of your art. Can you speak to that a bit? As a point of departure, I knew I wanted to work with video in a spatial manner, using LED screens and fracturing them. This allows for the film to not only be presented in the space, but to undergo a fracturing that is simultaneous to the dismantling of the bodies on the screens. This dismantling is, in essence, a blurring, an attempt to expand the different kinds of categories of the body. Dancers’ bodies are hyper-able bodies, but here they are passive, yet micro-managed by a MIDI program. In that sense, the work also speaks to an erasure of borders between the able and the disabled body, which enters into conversation around cyborgs, disability studies, and queer theory. There are wires attached to the muscles of the bodies that appear on the screens. The wires are then fed the music, which causes contractions when a node is played. At the same time, there are electrical wires on the exhibition floor in the space creating another circuit in space that supplies the LED panels with the images of dancers’ bodies, filtered as detached parts. I’ve also been thinking of Bruno Latour a bit and when he said, “The distinction between objects and subjects is not primordial. It does not designate different domains in the world: it is rooted in the fracture of action.” What was it like to disassemble the LED panels? With the LED panels and tiles, it was necessary to hack the circuits and the system, because it is not designed for this type of fracturing. We essentially had to manufacture and create custom-made cables in order to get the desired effect and make the material more workable. What about Fauré’s Op.50 led to your decision to use it? Can you tell us about the very moment that you knew that you wanted to use it? Fauré’s Op. 50 is a sweeping Romantic composition that is both delicate and robust, highly emotional and very recognizable. It’s a style somewhat associated with ballet and could be used in daily classes during barre exercises. The initial composition included a choral portion whose lyrics were a poem on the helplessness of man. I was interested in pairing this layered music with very technical and pared-down visual elements, while still preserving a sense of lushness that is then deconstructed. The music is so emotional, but this affect then is transferred not into an emotional performance by the dancers, but instead manifests as controlled muscle contractions. In a way, it is similar to how a choreographer designates how they want a role or piece interpreted and performed, but here it is deconstructed. Fauré was persuasive to me, because his music is often described as a bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. In some ways, my project links forces of the present day, while recalling this sense of helplessness. Technology and the artificial co-exist with the organic. The human body, whether real in the flesh or embodied and fetishized through the screen, is something both natural and manipulated in our times; it is idealized and erased while still possessing agency and acceptance. The human body is also subject to impossible standards and bias. How was it working with August Rosenbaum to engineer Op. 50 and, again, take it apart it so that it had the effect you wanted it to possess? Working with August is always a pleasure, because he understands so much of what I want without a need for explicit communication for every detail. I find most of my successful collaborations are like that: there is an unspoken understanding and shared conceptualization of the project. That being said, it required a great deal of experimentation down to the finish line as we also had to program it with the electronic stimulation devices. It’s a bit like doing a synth patch, but obviously it’s not using typical channels, and it was a lot of trial and error. What was really interesting about working with August to deconstruct the music was that it was midi-programming. And when listening while testing and shooting, we only heard a fragment of the piece, certain notes, which were linked to the e-stim devices. It was not until day of install that we finally heard the piece coming back together, as a whole. Once you take one LED sculpture out of the circuit or system, certain notes will then be missing. So the fragmentation is not only visual, but also musical. It works together but also independently. How did you get involved with the American Ballet Theater for this project? I first collaborated with American Ballet Theatre for Interpassivities during its restaging at BAM. Initially, I had staged and premiered it in Copenhagen with dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet. The process to restage was very intimate and intensive, because even though we referenced the pre-existing choreography, it had to be adapted for a new space and new bodies. It was very collaborative and that forged strong bonds. When I conceived of this new project, I knew that there were some dancers with whom I wanted to work again, and I was eager to also find new dancers from the company to bring in. ABT is one the world’s foremost ballet companies—they’re utmost professionals at the top of the top. What was it like working with the dancers and directing them for an experience they might not have necessarily expected? Were they surprised? Again, I had previously collaborated with a few of the featured dancers during Interpassivities. I would imagine this process was familiar and perhaps even somewhat simpler for them, as we were not intensively searching for solutions with difficult partnering and a shifting set like we were with Interpassivities. For this piece, I wasn’t really directing or controlling—it was actually an erasure of that control and the role of the choreographer. I micromanaged their muscles through these devices, but had no control over how they would contract, or what it ultimately might look like. I could only arrange their body positions and camera angles, but the rest was somewhat up to chance. In this sense, the direction was entirely done by software. That being said, dancers are used to performing. With this project, they had to be filmed, which was a new experience for some of them. Shooting, especially with this level of detail, can be tedious and taxing in a different way. Also, each dancer needed the e-stim tested on them individually, as each individual requires a slightly different positioning and strength of electric output to produce the desired muscle contraction. Ballet dancers are some of the most highly trained and disciplined people on the planet, which made this process of experimentation and requirement for meticulous focus during shooting much easier than it would have with actors. Their bodies are their instruments and for most of them, a new challenge is readily accepted. The visuals for this piece rely on electric stimulation therapy, which is a therapeutic treatment that applies electrical stimulation in treating muscle spasms and pain. How did you decide to incorporate this into this project? I discovered e-stim therapy around the time that I began researching this idea of interpassivity, although I may have encountered it even earlier when researching for Servitudes as one of the films featured a type passive motion therapeutic device. I was not only curious regarding how it related to injury and the body, but how it created a very distinct rhythm or choreography. In this instance, who was the choreographer, and who was the performer? I realized it could create a scenario in which bodies functioned as a type of circuit, as though they were a machine, but a machine that only functions through a collaborative, yet passive, presence. Its power would not be felt by the participants, but only through the viewers who can realize it as a whole. I was instantly intrigued how this might implicate or possibly rearrange power structures and the potential of performance. The installation sounds like a maze of sorts. You have previously mentioned before that you decided to arrange the gallery space to force your viewers to think about ableism. Is there a particular reason that you decided to focus on that issue? Architecture and infrastructure are mainly constructed for the able-bodied. It’s one of the most invisible forms of discrimination. As I often first consider place and space, and I use architecture as a mediator, this silent but omnipresent condition is something that I feel is natural to draw attention to, but in a way that is discretely challenging rather than explanatory or pedantic. What do you want your viewers to take away after they visit? I would hope that this immersive experience somehow points back to their individual bodies and that the experience will sit with them physically after, not just cerebrally. Why Be You When You Can Be Me? office catches up with Petra Collins in the wake of her newly published series. Fond Illusions Dimensional diversity draws together this L.E.S. group exhibition. In the 6th with Nathalie Halgand office goes to Vienna. Signed... Gya How would you like to be remembered? Sparked through the sudden passing of her godmother, Gyasi Williams Kirtley was inspired to look within. In response to the growing superficiality of modern life, the Brooklyn photographer set out to document the legacies of those around her: friends, fams, and fans alike. Boasting a diverse roster of guests from Naomi Campbell to Steve Aoki, Gya composed a book much more than just a photo album. It exists as both memoir and mantras. Text by Mar Chan Photos by Gyasi Williams Kirtley The Legacy / Last Days Project is an accumulation of over 200 signed portraits, accompanied by her subjects’ interviews. Gyasi posed a very important question: how would you spend your last day alive? In its simplicity, the prompt explores individual values and the impact of legacy. The book will be available starting February 1. Pre-order it today, and receive a complimentary film roll, courtesy of Fujifilm. Molly Soda: The Living, Breathing Sim The artist turning virtual reality into real life reality. Slava Uncensored “If we give up this freedom to post uncensored content, we might as well give up the rest of our freedoms.” ‘Horse Day:’ exploring the black cowboy Looking at a misremembered piece of American history. Last Chance: Love, Sam “When I gave the paintbrush back to my grandfather at the age of 88, he began to draw and paint displaying a great sense of play and rhythm. He created until his last breath at the age of 94. I never forgot that," said Detroit-based artist Tyree Guyton, who found a mentor early in life in his grandfather, Sam Mackey. Both artists’ works are featured—for a few more days only—at Martos Gallery. Though the show is Guyton’s first New York solo exhibition, it draws on a huge body of work from the prolific artist, pulling older paintings as well as never before seen pieces. Even some of Guyton’s newer works are antiques; many of his paintings and pieces used for his famous Detroit work Heidelberg Project utilize found objects. Each trinket in Guyton’s collection gets a steady-handed treatment, from car hoods painted with his “Faces of God” series to a bright sculptural work made up of a striking assembly of doors. See Love, Sam at Martos Gallery until January 12. Text by Savannah Whitmer Photo Courtesy of Martos Gallery Bushwick Open Studios Studio visits with eight of Bushwick's coolest young artists. 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__label__wiki	0.631954	0.631954	Tvangsprotokollene Health care professionals are required to record every incident of coercive restraint every time a patient is tied down. The employee in charge is required to explain why restraints were needed and how long the patient had to be restrained. After a fighting for six months to get access to these logbooks through public information laws, VG digitized several thousand handwritten notes with the purpose of analysing the extent and use of coercion at psychiatric institutions in Norway. Several of Norway’s leading legal experts and law professors in the field of coercion in psychiatric health care reviewed the justifications and concluded that the material exposed extensive statutory violations, questionable justifications for why restraints were used and serious discrepancies in how psychiatric wards and hospitals put coercion into practice. VG also revealed how the State control agencies that are tasked with ensuring patient rights, failed to do their job. The origin of VG’s investigation was a story we published in March 2016 about a young woman who petitioned the court to release her from a psychiatric hospital so she could take her own life. VG’s journalists stayed in contact with the woman, learning that she had spent the majority of the last two years tied down in a bed at a psychiatric hospital in Oslo. By investigating the difficult ethical issues in her case, the journalists wanted to figure out just how unique her story was. How often are patients being tied down and for how long? VG contacted 102 institutions that are authorized to use coercion in April 2016. VG found that the hospitals failed to report about 1 out of 4 incidents of restraint. St Olav’s Hospital in Trondheim and the Møre og Romsdal Hospital Trust, among others, failed to report 80% of all incidents where belts were used to restrain patients. We learned that hospitals are required to keep handwritten notes for each incident of coercion. The procedure has not changed in 170 years. Information from patient journals are normally exempt from public disclosure, and many hospitals refused to hand the logbooks over, but VG fought for the right to review those records – and after three rounds of complaints with the national health authorities VG finally won; we were given copies of several thousand pages of information. We digitized the logbooks and devised an analytics tool where the information could be divided into graphics and diagrams that show the times of year, weeks and days on which patients were tied down. The final material contains the full coercion logs from 2015 for 14 psychiatric institutions, documenting 2538 incidents of coercion use against 996 patients. 640 incidents were considered unlawful or problematic by legal experts. Effectively two journalists for two months to do the digitization, with help from one data scientist and one editorial developer to structure the dataset, analysis and tools development. VG’s publications led to several national and regional investigations into how hospitals could reduce the use of coercion. All hospitals were ordered to review their previous coercion statistics and told to report accurate figures this time. There are plans to introduce a new registration system starting in 2017. The Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Minister of Health and legal experts said VG’s journalistic efforts brought great concern for the rights of the weakest patient groups in our society. The Minister of Health announced that he would like to reorganize the entire Control Commission system. There will be made modifications to their tasks in short term, and a full reorganization or shutdown in the longer term. The Chief County Medical Officer for Oslo and Akershus Counties initiated two regulatory investigations based on VG’s findings, and many families talk about bringing their cases to the courts after learning the rights of their family members may have been violated. 1. Getting the data While some institutions immediately understood the importance of being transparent about how they used physical coercion, some institutions systematically tried to undermine the release of the coercion logs and fought for several months to keep them secret. It took around half a year – and three complaints to the Ministry of Health – to establish that the logs should be made public under Norway’s freedom of information laws. 2. Manual work to digitize handwritten copies Hard-to-read copies of the handwritten logs made OCR or automated digitization out of the question. The logs (around 10,000 rows of data) were manually digitized, cleaned, tagged to make analysis and publication of the database possible. Go to case website See publisher See tool OpenRefine ← Helping readers to find their money – A search engine of lost stocks Partnerdrapene →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line266
__label__cc	0.680787	0.319213	In Production Lifestyle MXO Entertainment News Octavia Spencer And Queen Latifah Are Bringing the Rhinelander Affair To The Big Screen! October 23, 2018 admin 169 Views 0 Comments african american black history, african american lifestyle northeast ohio, african american women in black history, dana elaine owens aka queen latifah, elizabeth mumbet freeman, elizabeth mumbet freeman african american native berkshre massachusetts anti-slave activist, flavor unit productions, movie, movies, movies in production, octavia spencer, octavia spencer african american montgomery alabama native actress, Octavia Spencer and Queen Latifah are Bringing the Rhinelander Affair to the Big Screen, queen latifah african american native newark new jersey singer rapper model and actress, queen latifah born dana elaine owens, racial injustive, racism, william kinsloving author the rhineslander affair, william kinsolving american author, women in black history NaturallyMoi.com By Kathrina Tiangco Posted October 23rd 2018 The Rhinelander Affair by William Kinsolving features the 1925 controversial divorce trial in New York City. The legal drama involves a man from an upper-class family who married a bi-racial working-class woman. Producers Mark and Christine Holder are now bringing the story to the big screen. The project has Octavia Spencer and Queen Latifah on board. The story is about Leonard Rhinelander and Alice Jones. The couple fell in love with each other when Rhinelander was only 18 years old and Jones was 22 years old. Even though Rhinelander’s family tried to keep the two apart, they were able to secretly wed until the news hit the papers. For three years, the media kept covering the couple. Some raised that Jones might have gotten Rhinelander to marry her by not telling him she was bi-racial. Her mother was English while her father was an English-Indian taxi driver. The couple stood by each other’s side until the pressure both internally with their families and externally with the media started to crack their marriage. The couple ended up divorcing each other. At the court, an all-male and all-white jury stood before Jones. At some point in the trial, she even had to show parts of her body to prove the jury that she wasn’t a Negro. Lee Davis, a veteran defense lawyer knew that the case was unlike any other he’s defended. Jones eventually admitted that she was partly black while Davis insisted that her ex-husband knew this fact to some degree. Hence, if that was the case, there was no fraud. Currently, Spencer is starring and producing Apple’s first production, Are You Sleeping, which is a limited 10-episode series. At the same time, she is also on board the Madame CJ Walker project with LeBron James. The limited series is featured at Netflix. Spencer is also an executive producer of The Green Book which is set to be released in movie theaters on Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Latifa’s Flavor Unit production has been producing several shows on television and movies as well. She continues to produce shows such as From the Bottom Up, The Rap Game, and Let’s Stay Together. Both actresses have received nods from award-giving bodies specifically the Academy. Latifah received a supporting role nomination for Chicago while Spencer won an Oscar for her supporting role in The Help. Her movie Hidden Figures was also nominated and The Shape of Water won for best picture. ← Cordray Strongly Supports Minimum Wage Increase, DeWine Has Reservations! Movie Weekly Countdown Week Of October 19th 2018 → Tiffany Haddish’s Ex-Husband Denies Alleged Abuse And Sues Her! House Armed Services Chairman Denies $1 Billion Transfer For Trump Wall! Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line274
__label__cc	0.610884	0.389116	Home » Forums » Nanoha General Forum 15 replies [Last post] I recently re watched the second season A's. I got it in BD definition, it was about the time of year suitable to it (Christmas/New Year) and I never rewatched it entirely after the initial time. Also I now know a lot more about how the universe works and such, things I did not know back then. This all inspired some oppinions in me, that I wrote down and that I will now inflict on you. I was not able to find a thread dealing with the original A's season (not the Movie) so I created a new one, to serve for potential A's talk. Unfortunately the topics I will be talking about are a bit scattered. I have tried as best as I can to arrange them in a consistent order, but I'm still not satisfied. Also a lot of this is my opinion only, and I would like to hear your opinions too on these or different topics concerning A's. Oh well, without further ado: Cartridges and antagonists One of the things that As did really well that I must congratulate them on, is how they handled the introduction of new antagonists. Now when you introduce new antagonists you often want them to further escalate the situation and show how powerful/dangerous they are. And wat better way to do that than to outright beat the protagonists. The trouble with this approach is that this inevitably leads to expanding the power level of the fighters since now you need to justify the protagonists eventually beating them. Which as sequels mount can lead to ridiculous levels where we are told that the fighters fighting are able to destroy galaxies but yet they are simply fist fighting on the surface of one world like they always did since the first season. As bucked that trend by introducing new antagonists and made them a threat able to beat the protagonists by a) focus on a different fighting style that protagonists might not be familiar with (melee vs bombardment more common to Midchildan style (let's ignore the lore of StrikerS for now)) b) showing that they are quite capable of going toe to toe with the protagonists and even being able to surpass them in skill and most importantly c) the edge they in the end used to beat the protagonists was not some sort of writer mandated asspull that tries to justify instantly stronger power levels but they introduced an actual device (cartridge system) that allowed the antagonists to fight on another level AND they introduced the drawbacks of the device that explained why they can't do that all the time (cartridges being a limited resource that can only power like one attack). Frankly it's brilliant IMO. This also makes the idea that protagonists might be able to match the antagonists in like couple of days much easier to swallow since the only lead was technological, and that can be solved much more easily and be visibly shown not told that it's active. AND also really importantly it let the writers play even more with the idea that mage/device complex is like a fleshly robot, because they could use scenes of them loading cartridges with that nice k-chunk sound. Have I told you how brilliant it is? It's bloody brilliant. Now there are some problems with this. For one if mages with the cartridge equipped devices have such an advantage over devices with no such system equipped, why is no one using them? Well the explanation is not perfect given the advantages, but it was enough for me for them to point out that it’s an ancient system that modern engineering never got a real hang for, and given the problem it was neve widely adopted. Also considering RH is probably a pretty standard intelligent device available to civilians and Bardiche was probably made with what was available in the Garden of Time it’s quite normal for them not to have come with the system. It’s a thin explanation but it did work for me. More on the antagonists (The Twins) While the introduction of the Wolkenritter was done pretty masterfully, the same cannot be said of the “Twins”. Well I’m not being entirely fair. In retrospect the fact that it successfully fooled me, like it did the protagonists, into thinking this was ONE character doing all of the stuff, and the comment by Amy that porting so quickly between location was amazing/impossible, did work. It gave us impression of a new all-powerful behind the scenes foe and introduced a way to explain all this power, it’s not one guy but two. One nice detail I just noticed. When they are reviewing the actions of the mysterious new enemy they note how he can both do expert long and short range things, and they ask Lotte if this is something even she as an instructor could do. She answers that such long range attacks are quite impossible even for her. Basically she doesn’t lie, but she doesn’t say what the protagonist think she is saying. It’s Aria that confronted Nanoha and did the long range stuff. Lotte probably sneaked up on Fate. She cannot do the long ranged stuff, but she CAN do she melee part of the new enemy’s arsenal. On the other hand, even knowing the trick, now while rewatching, that all-powerfulness did not sit well with me. I mean in the first fight one of them like completely shrugs off one of Nanoha’s fully powered busters, while the other somehow sneaks up on Testarossa to melee range. And that is the definition of BS attack. I guess some of it could be explained if the Twins were something like Yunno, focusing solely on bindings and shields. That would explain the ability to shrug off Nanoha’s attack and use OP bindings. And Fate could have been a victim of focusing only on her opponent and not minding her surroundings. Still, despite knowing all of that they left a bad taste in my mouth since I don’t like such pointlessly overpowered opponents that appear perfect and unstoppable. It did not help them at all that they also largely acted as spoilsports who would swoop down each time protagonists might have won and spoiled their victory by being writer mandated Deus ex Machina out of nowhere. That coupled with the implication of their previous interaction with Chrono (ehhh really 7 arts, you went there?!?), and their actions in the finale, made me sad that they got off so lightly in the end. I really did not like those two. On the other hand, their entire subplot was not bad and added depth and gravity to the problem. The fact that noble individuals would stoop to such plots to resolve the problem of Book of Darkness showcased how desperate TSAB was becoming. Their actions also justify the final fight between the protagonists and the Reinforce. But more on that in the next section: The final act of the Twins In the end the twins help the Book absorb the Wolkenritter, which causes Hayate flip out from the sense of loss and sadness, which they then direct at the Nanoha and Fate explaining why would Reinforce want them dead. But the reason for all of this escaped me for a long time. I mean I get that they wanted to freeze Hayate together with the out of control security system. But why pointlessly cause anguish to a young girl who as soon as the book got all her pages was pretty much doomed I could not figure out. Why bring her to the roof anyway. But now I think I have an idea why. The problem they had was that for those handling the case, the master of the Book of Darkness was no longer this evil doing things for their own amusement and power, but a friend and not to mention the fact that they were starting to feel pretty empathic towards the Wolkenritter. For one the Wolkenritter had to go if they hoped to have any chance to freeze their master so absorbing them into the Book to fill additional pages killed two birds with one stone. But that alone would not have helped them with the next step of their plan. How to get Chrono and maybe even Nanoha and Fate too on the plan that the only course of action left remaining was to condemn an innocent girl to eternity encased in ice. They hoped that if the master of the book thought Nanoha and Fate were her enemies, and reinforce attacked them, they could spin the situation in such a way that Chrono would have to go with their plan or risk The Book of Darkness killing his new sister. They hoped that that plus his desire to avenge his father would be more than enough to offset his dislike of the method used and get him on board with the plan. On top of it all, now that I think about it, they probably helped stoke his ruthless streak, he had back in first season, during his training. Plus, without their plan the only remaining option would have been to blast Uminari with the Arc en Ciel and wait a decade for the Book to reform again. One thing that is still missing/I don’t get still, is what was their plan back when they first started plotting this? Sure they planned to do it all using Durandal, BUT as we have seen during the end fight, Durandal is not a silver bullet against the defensive program and it took an unbelievable collection of powerful mages going all out and unloading on the program to strip it of defenses and unearth its core. I doubt freezing any other form prior to that would have been enough to freeze it enough for the purposes of their plan. They do note that their window of opportunity was supposed to be around full activation of the defense program, but again it’s hard to see Durandal being that effective. Or maybe they were just planning on freezing The Book of Darkness (Reinforce), which would freeze Hayate too? Would the fact that it’s “master” is frozen and therefore the mana is no longer there put the system on hold too? But would Reinforce be even around, since the way she was talking during the battle, she was moments from being taken over by the defense system and that would have made her it’s pawn. It was Hayate assuming admin privileges and basically hacking the system that allowed them separate agency. So any thoughts? Did the fandom ever get to an agreement what was Graham’s tactical plan about dealing with the Book during its activated phase? Chrono’s relationship with the Twins No, just no 7 arts. What you are implying is not okay. It is not okay to imply that one of his teachers had a “physical” relationship with younger Chrono back when he was barely a teen. No. Just No. In fact, it’s a good thing I accidentally skipped and did NOT watch this episode back when I was first watching Nanoha. Magical Program Agent Shamal Shamal’s attempt at blending in and being inconspicuous will always make me smirk at how terrible she is at it. It will also always remind me of this [url=”https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-01-08”]webcomic[/url]. The final visitation That scene in the hospital where the protagonists finally learn about Hayate’s nature will forever be one of the best scenes in the series for me. The tension can be cut with a fucking chainsaw. The Resolution Couple of points about the final fight in the end. After Nanoha hits Book of Darkness with her ACS point blank shot, we see the Mage Prison collapsing. Wasn’t that the “barrier” that was also keeping all damage to the “half a dimension away”? If so, seeing how the pillars of flame are still visible in the background of Arisa and Suzuka’s scene just before the fight with the defense program, aren’t those pillars of flame also now visible to the normal? Is it another case (like the tree in the first season) where the normal are curiously uninterested in mass destruction happening in the middle of their city? Or is this like normal for Tokyo . Ahh, at the end of Episode 12 Amy mentions that she has dropped barriers around parts of the city that were not damaged, have been repaired. So it seems there were multiple barriers present, and Mage Prison was not a “barrier” but simply a spell restricting the gang from fleeing. Okay, Okay. Second point is another case of me thinking something was a fact and then seeing that I was wrong. I was convinced that it was Nanoha’s ACS charge and point blank attack that snapped Hayate out of her semi dream, and allowed her to start messing about with the controls of the Book from the inside. This is not correct. It’s Hayate herself who was able to wake herself because she felt something was not right/was wrong. Where Nanoha helped was to help her seize full control. The scene is delightful with Yunno going into serious mode delivering his instructions as if they are going to be something complicated, when in fact they boiled down to telling her to splash the Book with everything she has with full power. And the look on Nanoha’s face of utter delight that the instruction is something that she was going to do anyway, because seriously when has she NOT gone for full power full throttle solution. It’s also nice that it’s the trio that figures out the plan on how to deal with the out of control defense program. Another small potential snafu. During Episode 13 quite a bit happens, enough to fill multiple days, yet the later part of the episode implies that all of that happened between the fight which happened on Christmas eve and Christmas day when Nanoha came out to her parents and friends. But those are just nitpicks. Hayate and the change in the Ritters This is not exactly directly connected to the events in the Season, nor is there any strong evidence of it, but this is my head cannon about the reawakening of humanity in Wolkenritter. In the show they imply that it happened because Hayate was thawing them off by treating them as human beings for the first time in centuries. I on the other hand would like to note that that might not be exactly what happened. Sure Hayate was still instrumental, but what might have happened is that the Book of Darkness’s Wolkenritter system simply readjusted itself to a form that would be more in line with the wishes of its current master. It makes sense when you think about it. Their ultimate objective always is to make their master, happy, and if their master wants them to behave like her family, they will become her family to fulfill her wish. But this is head cannon and probably has no bearing to the what actually happened. Now that I have seen this season again I can appreciate how much they managed to cram into this. I mean there are so many different character subplots there. There is like continuation of the Fate’s new situation, and potential resolution of some of her issues. Further cementing that Fate was not really “befriended” via divine buster as we like to say. That opened up the solution space for her future for her, but it was her actions and actions of loads of other people around her that dragged her out of mud. Then we have Chrono’s background and hints what drives him as an Enforcer (some of which we got back in first season during his encounter with Prescia), and it all nicely ties back to the incident at hand. There is as I said the entire subplot of Graham’s desperate ruthless solution. There is of course the whole Hayate’s home situation and time devoted to fleshing out the Wolkenritter. Hell they even managed to involve the normal part of Nanoha’s life into healing Fate’s wounds. So they were able to cram quite a lot into 13 episodes, AND add several extended fight scenes. Judging by their performance ever since, this level of success must have been partially accidental. They accidentally struck the optimum amount of characters/new characters enabling them to fill time meaningfully with proper order of events to get the proper emotional response from the audience. It would have been all too easy to mess this up simply by rearranging scenes too or making small changes. If they held off on showing us the situation in the Yigami house or did not say to us that Linker Core draining did not destroy the Core, we could have easily soured on the Wolkenritter and that initial distaste would have been difficult to remove. They could have devoted more episodes to pointless school stuff and wasted too much time there, but they managed to restrain themselves and the school section simply served as a breather after the hammer blow (pun intended) of the intro. The futurism of the greater TSAB setting Seeing again the first time we see the TSAB central office, reminded me how much As pushed the idea that the setting is Sci-Fi powered by magic. Basically magitech. And that is a fun setting, especially since once you determine that it’s all powered by magic, it’s a lot easier to explain any piece of tech. You don’t have to violate the laws of physic and thermodynamics like a cheap ho…, ehhheehem. You simply state that ITS MAGIC! Add some rules and mostly stick to them, and they did that, and you can easily convince me that it’s a reasonable rule first setting that will not make my head ache every time they start talking stupid about how something works. I would have loved to have seen more of it, on the technical side. How they do space and planetary operations and such. We did get some of it in StrikerS, which tried to show the day to day stuff on the capitol of administered systems and it mated the Sci-Fi Magitech to the military SF, a combination I have never again seen anywhere and loved. But despite those attempts at world building of StrikerS, because of which I’ll always defend it, it also started the trend of downplaying the futurism aspect of the setting. Cranagan was not a large capital with like mile high skyscrapers and flying cars and shit you might expect of such Sci-Fi setting where FTL (or dimensional travel?) is possible. While I have some ideas on how to justify it, more on that if I ever do a StrikerS retrospective, it’s still feels a bit of a downgrade. And the series never recovered.* Oh well, I’m stuck with ViVid, so I better bear with it. And I really shouldn’t complain about it here. It’s still a shame though. Although if all those colored lights on the main TSAB station are windows, it seems they are having some sort of station wide DISCO/RAVE day/night that time.  * The last thing published Vivid: Strike even featured SUVs with visible GMC logo for some god damned reason. And in general apart from floating holographic screens you would be hard pressed to figure out on your own that this is a space expansion age society. And not to mention the shying away from mecha/techno aspects of magic and devices that has been happening ever since Vivid. Fuck that. The feel of combat One thing that struck me during the first battle in the season is how, now that I have watched the third season and the movies, “slow” and simple looking combat was compared to what I remembered. For one I remembered Nanoha v Vita fight being longer, but it’s actually like couple of blow exchanges before Nanoha pushes Vita over the edge. But come the episode 7 and we are back to the good stuff, with things like there not being a minimum safe distance when your opponent is Nanoha. Except this introduced the cockblocking pair. Now that I have watched the entire season, I see that I was right. The fights are a bit less then energetic than I like to remember. For me the combat will always be magical dogfights, but that was probably not possible given the limitations of their techniques at the time. Still it was fun during those times when the characters were allowed to go all out. Also now that I think about it, I think this season was a LOT more talky than fighty. Compared to Season one where Nanoha and Fate fought in pretty much every episode, this one focused more on characters and the story, and that was not to its detriment. Sansker A nice and very in depth analysis of A’s I should say. I am not going to answer point by point since it would take too long. But to add my two cents to the talk I would say A’s had the signs of the issues that would latter plague StrikerS: Too many characters, sub plots that didn’t went too far, long drawn out fights… but here they manage to valance things quite well. I do say, however, that the main flaw is Hayate herself. As nice as she looks with the others, The Aces of the Bureau and all, she is not up there with Nanoha and Fate. As much as the show sells you the idea that she becomes the third member of this group in all do reality I always feel her character just acted so out of touch with her age that it would have make more sense if she was older. I mean they try to sell me that a 9 years old kid is the “mother” of all the Wolkenritter and I just can’t take that stuff serious. My point would be that Hayate acted as an adult, not as a kid, and like that she never strike me as the proper focus for the show. I would have made Reinforce the protagonist rather than Hayate, let the emotional tragedy circle around her, and have Hayate be either older to keep her role as mother or younger and acting like an actual kid. The way they handle it in the end work, but it never sit well with me. I expected Vita to be the one who joined Nanoha and Fate the first time I saw this show. As far as subplots go the one with the twins is quite weak, since the moment I figure there were two mask men I was able to tell who they were. And the ending was, while good enough, always an issue both in the original run and in the movie. Is like they need to get to the battle and can’t work around why and how so they just go for it. But overall A’s remains the pick of the Nanoha franchise so far. Sansker wrote: I wouldn't say that it showed the signs of issues, and if it did those signs were minor, because as I said I think it mostly managed to give practically everyone that could contribute to the plot a time in limelight. But I would say that the amount of characters, character backgrounds and setups was right on the edge of what they were capable of pulling off. Maybe even a bit over the edge but they were lucky in how they set things up. I'll save my thoughts how that relates to StrikerS to when I do my before rewatching retrospective on StrikerS, which I will post on that StrikerS thread. Well, one of the key "things" of the entire franchise is kid looking and age characters acting like they are AT LEAST 10 years older. As such Hayate's adultness fit in. If I had to complain about her setup it would be to be incredulous that an infirm 9 year old would be permitted to live alone, but than again that is like a time honored trope of Anime I guess. But back to Hayate and the Story. Reinforce might work, but Hayate I at least think worked better because she was clearly a victim and completely innocent in this and therefore it was much easier to make the audience care about her, and consider Graham's plan to be bad if it involved freezing her rather than some book AI or something. As such an older Hayate might not have worked. And a cynical part of me thinks that an older Hayate would not appeal to, for 7Arts important, lolicon demographic. And as for the mother angle, I allways found it strange how she from time to time keeps refering to devices and such as children. I always thought that was an artifact of translation or something. But anyway her acting motherly towards them is an offshoot of her considering them her family, and acting with kindness towards them. Since she is clothing them, teaching them how to behave in public as to not draw attention and such, it's not strange that she considers herself their mom and them her children who tend to get in trouble. Thinking more, it might also be that she was indulging herself after being alone for practically her entire life and acting as something (mother, sister etc.) she never really trully hoped she could become due to her illness. As for her being a part of the trio, sure we do not really see how she fits in because frankly she is nothing more than a victim for 90% of this season. We see the start of their friendship, but nothing more than the start. The rest is never shown since we jump 10 years to StrikerS. But speaking more about Hayate and how she does and does not fit into the trio I'll reserve for when I'll speak about StrikerS. I'll just contain myself for now to things shown in A's. From that point of view, I guess they were trying to set her up as the smart one (she is a bookworm), the team mom, the overachiver and even more girly girl compared to the two battle maniacs of Fate and Nanoha. In case any situation would crop up the dynamic would be for it to cause Fate to open up one of her myriad of unresolved issues, Nanoha would simply get harder and harder endangering her life in an attempt to resolve the issue by facing it head on, while Hayate would then need to smack them a bit and refocus them properly. But we never really got anything of that so this is just IMO. I at least was not able to figure it out before the reveal. As far as I was concerned back then I thought those two were an artifact or something of the Book of Darkness which wanted to be completed at any cost. So for me it was a surprise. Now looking back I can see the good parts (about which I already wrote) but I still instinctively dislike their actions. But without them the Movie has a glaring hole where the reason for the fight with Reinforce is. On the other hand I did not really see much of an issue with the setup of the final fights in the TV version. Sure the defence program was a bit of a letdown in how it was taken down by basically nuking it with a buch of high level spells, but apart from that I did not notice any laring issues. So care to elaborate about your issues with the last couple of episodes? Despite me liking StrikerS quite a lot (yeah I know those are fighting words ;) ) A's was still MUCH better than both the other seasons. chaonengqibing Did you mention Nanoha A's Game? It are PlayStation Portable game Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces. How do you talk about this? I have not played those for couple of reasons. First reason: As far as I know that game is not available in English and I don't know Japanese. Second reason: I don't own an PSP. Still I am intrigued by it. The little snippets of the second one (the one dealing with Florian sisters) I have found on the youtube that are subtitled in English (2 vids) seem to show a proper Nanoha styled story that might be interesting. But as I said I simply have no way of experiencing it. Didn't you use the PSP emulator? I have already recorded a video uploaded to the Internet, but also Chinese. [url=]http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/U25003cgbTQ/[/url] I played with the Japanese original, but due to copyright relationship without recording. chaonengqibing wrote: Still not good for me since I don't know neither Chinese nor Japanese. Oh well some day somebody might translate the cut scenes into English. I think there was a series of scrips of the scenes translated in AnimeSuki. Somewhere inside the forums. I always like the storyline of the games. Overcrowded as they were, they really add a lot to everyone involve, specially Gears of Destiny I jut popped over there, and from a quicky glance one member did translate some of the routes in the first game. For the second there are synopsises done by Aaron008R. Trouble is all of that is scattered throughout two LOOONG threads and no one seems to have thought of gathering all of that in one place. Oh well I'll just have to do some thread searches. For anyone in future looking for translation of Gears of Destiny game the following is a synopsis of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's PSP game Gears of Destiny: Sequence 1 - https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3919060#post3919060 Sequence 2&3 - http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3919295&postcount=1191 Sequence 4 - http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3920592&postcount=1211 Sequence 8: Part 1 - http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3929451&postcount=1414 Sequence 10 - http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3933205&postcount=1524 Sequence 11: Part 1 - https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3938232#post3938232 Sequence X (epilogue) - https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=3944666#post3944666 And I quite liked things I saw. Would it have worked as a straight TV show? I don't know, it might have too many fight sequences for it's own good in it's drive to give everyone a time to shine. Also I nailed Kyrie's character even before I read this based on two translated videos of her. She really is a smug snake at times. I think the games would not work that well if made in to an anime. I mean they have too much content because their aim is to give the player stuff to do with each character. But the material is good enough that I would not mind seeing an attempt to make it in to an anime, if that were at all possible Yeah, that's my opinion too. For every fight they have at least two alternative pairings. You could merge some of the fights in case of bosses, so instead of one character fighting somebody get more of them in, but then again 7 Arcs SUCKS at team fights. Oh they'll have teams of people fighting but they ALLWAYS devolve into duels. Once you add in the downtime, and better believe you need downtime or the viewers are going to get burned out, this could easily baloon WAAYY over 12 episodes, for something that happens in the course couple or less days. Should I split off the talk about the games into another thread since it doesn't really concern A's the anime TV show? I have searched the forums using google and have only run into two tangentially related themes to the games. One is offering download links from 2010 and the other is http://nanofate.us/forum/natus-guide-psp-games where natus summarizes the plot. On the other hand I don't think it will be a too long a discussion, but I do want to show something too. You can use this or Natus' thread, probably the last option would be better, I can update the thread title there if you choose to do that. Okay, I'll go with Natus's one. TheWhiteDevil27 A's was amazing. It was where the Nanoha franchise really became it's own thing entirely. However, I feel like A's is a bit too overhyped and overrated by people compared to the rest of the Nanoha franchise though. It was emotional and all but I think StrikerS was a better show and just hooked me more overall.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line279
__label__cc	0.578489	0.421511	The Temple » The Heart Room » Analysis and Comparison of Temple Run Contestants Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10] 11 12 Author Topic: Analysis and Comparison of Temple Run Contestants (Read 5282 times) The Red Jaguars Re: Analysis and Comparison of Temple Run Contestants Veronica was definitely the worst out of the whole group. She was the one that took the longest in the Pit out of all those other girls. Taking over a minute was beyond pathetic. Kristen took a long time to climb also, but she still got the job done faster. And she didn't even have a platform to pull herself up onto like Veronica then. That is just beyond pathetic, like the whole "One-Eyed Jack" run is anyways. Kim and Tia were just lost causes like mentioned above. Kim didn't really struggle climbing the wall like the other girls did. Her problem even goes beyond stupidity than the other ones above. But she didn't struggle to climb the wall at all in her defense. I am not sure what Tia was trying to accomplish, and neither did she either. Finally, Dana and Lauren were just incompetent period. Dana screwed up because she took the wrong door in the Ledges and wasted her remaining time in the Pit while Lauren didn't even make it to the King's Storeroom with over a minute left. They were so pathetic. I know the layouts were hard and they didn't have enough time due to their clueless partners, but Katie from "Imperial Wizard" and Elisa also made it far in their layouts with little time. That is why I never compare Jennifer from "Madame Tussaud" with these two losers. PurpleParrot4Life I think the platform being there was the reason Veronica didn't make it up the wall the first time. The spacing of the holes in the wall in the Pit was not uniform along the whole face of the wall. The foothold below the door to the Center of the Rooms was lower than the one to the Observatory. Many contestants in Seasons 1 and 2 had more difficulty getting into the Center of the Rooms because of the way that foothold was spaced. Adding in the platform made getting up even more difficult because the contestant had to brace themselves against the wall and then maneuver themselves backward, up, and over the platform. Veronica nearly made it up on her first attempt; she just didn't get a good grip on the door to the Chamber of the Sacred Markers to then hoist her legs up and over the platform. And if you'll notice, there was only one other Season 3 contestant who even attempted to climb up that left wall in the same manner as Veronica's first attempt (and she was successful). Every other person either went around the platform on the left wall, up the back wall, or around the platform on the right wall. PurpleParrot319 Honestly, if Lissy (the successful contestant PP4L is referring to) can do it, anyone can. Veronica was just a bad player, there's no denying this. Chamber, followed by Ancient Warriors, then Storeroom = bad. All credit goes to The Viper/repiV ehT for making me this banner. Thank you so much! =) Proud fan of the Purple Parrots. Soh u herd i liek teh purpul parets? U herd rite! Favorite team: Purple Parrots Favorite episode: The Mussel-Shell Armor of Apanuugpak Favorite player: Gator from the same episode Favorite room: A tie between the Dark Forest and the Jesters' Court Yeah, Veronica was a horrible contestant, and not just for taking over a minute to climb the wall either. Her partner was equally as stupid as she was. Seriously, no other second runners beside Thomas tried pulling the books in the Crypt. And I know it was one of the first season 3 runs on the show. But look at the other runs that day (William the Conqueror/War Fan/Sir Gawain) and none of them are as pitiful as "Bifocal Monocle". In fact, I think Bifocal Monocle is the second worst run on the whole show after Golde Cricket Cage. Looking at the design for "The Thornwood Gavel of Judge Roy Bean", do you guys think it was a more probable chance of the Orange Iguanas winning if Mike went straight to the King's Storeroom from the Pit? The King's Storeroom route would've been much shorter since it was one less objective for Mike to complete and he still would've been taken out in the Room of the Secret Password. And when Kelli would enter, the King's Storeroom would've already been cleared for her and she wouldn't have wasted time there. I think this team would've won if they entered the King's Storeroom the start. Although they still would've won if Kelli wasn't so stupid. Quote from: The Red Jaguars on December 21, 2012, 03:04:37 PM I believe that Mike would have breezed through the King's Storeroom and would have left Kelli with even more time left on the clock to finish the lower floor. Mike entered the Tomb of the Headless Kings at 2:38 and reached the Room of the Ancient Warriors at 1:48, a total of 50 seconds. He could have completed the King's Storeroom much more quickly than those two rooms. Kelli additionally spent 32 seconds traversing through the King's Storeroom, which would have instead gone into completing the bottom floor of the temple. While it is not guaranteed, I believe that the "Thornwood Gavel" team could have achieved a victory if Mike had begun in the King's Storeroom. Conversely, I'm not sure if the team would have won had Kelli followed Mike's path through the Tomb of the Headless Kings, but I'm pretty certain that she would have at least grabbed the artifact. Out of all of the contestants who got caught in a dead-end during their temple runs, who do you think best overcame this obstacle? I would have to say that Vicky (Silver Saddle Horn of Hannibal) did a good job of staying oriented in the temple and trying to move forward. Her dead-end was a whopping three rooms long, as opposed to most runs with the dead-end being only one room. Even so, she kept a pretty good pace and even took a trek through the Holes of Python. By the time she got taken out of the temple, she cleared an impressive seven rooms and still left her partner with almost a minute on the clock. Eusinia (King Tut's Cobra Staff) briefly entered the "dead-end" Throne Room before returning back to the Heart Room and going across the top floor of the temple. I think that besides this minor wrong turn, the rest of her temple run performance was strong. She was quick and completed all of her objectives rather swiftly. Eusinia got taken out of the temple in her seventh room, but still left 1:30 on the clock, which was enough time for David to reach the artifact. « Last Edit: December 26, 2012, 12:10:53 PM by PurpleParrot4Life » I'd definitely say Eusinia from "King Tut's Cobra Staff." Even though she was so easily confused, she still left David plenty of time to at least reach the artifact. And yeah, the rest of her temple performance was pretty strong. She moved faster than David even. Given the circumstances that Katherine had to face in "The Golden Cup of Belshazzar", I have to say that Katherine did a good job retracing her steps from the Room of Harmonic Convergence. She moved fast through her whole tenure in the temple and she just had really bad luck with that layout. It was so brutal but she still made it to the Treasure Room with a little over a minute left. I am not sure if I consider the Throne Room a deadend room for Eusinia either. Since the Throne Room opened, it looked like an alternate path that she could take from the Cave. Even though she was not very bright, she did move very fast and got taken out in the Shrine with more than enough time to bring the artifact out. David was the opposite of Eusinia - he was slow but also smarter. Its funny how that worked out. I don't remember this happening in other runs where the temple runners were the opposite of each other. I am not sure if I consider the Throne Room a deadend room for Eusinia either. Since the Throne Room opened, it looked like an alternate path that she could take from the Cave. The door heading back to the Wheel Room opened, which suggests that they could have begun in the Cave of Sighs and gone along the bottom. But since the rock slab was still down and she could not progress that way (backwards), I'm calling it a dead-end. I would like to bump this thread so that we can discuss some of our opinions regarding the "3 Strikes Contestants by Season" Temple Games threads. Feel free to refer back to prior conversation, and by all means add more! I loved rereading through this thread just now because a lot of the discussion here has been reflected (but also a bit was contradictory) in our voting patterns in the Temple Games thread. How about we talk about the Robert the Bruce team? Some people feel that Christine and Jeremy were a lackluster and below average team in the temple, while others feel that the team did pretty well with their layout given. In my opinion, Christine and Jeremy were a pretty disappointing team. Christine moved at a slow pace and she didn't make it that far while traveling through 4 rooms. Jeremy was kind of slow also. He also should've noticed that half-pendant in the Pit too, but made no attempt to look for it. Plus, he kind of struggled in the Shrine and Ancient Warriors also. I don't think they were a terrible team, but they were kind of lackluster in my eyes. Even if they had a "Pytheas" type layout, they probably wouldn't have won. Christine entered 5 rooms before being removed from the temple. She could have saved time by avoiding the Ledges, but c'est la vie. She didn't struggle with any objectives; the only reason that the King's Storeroom took a bit longer was because the key was in the third pot and the last pedestal activated the door. Jeremy should have gone directly into the Crypt, but besides that followed up on Christine's path decently. I don't think he struggled too badly with his objectives, even though he was not the speediest contestant. I can forgive him passing up the half pendant because it was a bit off to the side of the door frame. Unlike most other episodes, all three guards were unavoidable, so it was imperative for Jeremy to get the half pendant in order to have a chance at victory. Overall, I find this run to be interesting in that the path forced the team up into the Crypt and all the way around the horn before returning on the bottom floor. The forced temple guard placement was also unusual. Even though the team lost, I like this episode for these unique features. I thought it was very unfair that the team was forced to encounter all 3 guards with that brutal layout. But I guess it was bound to happen since they were forced to enter every temple room already. They did the same thing in "Lost Taj Mahal Turban" where that Green Monkeys team was forced into all 3 guards too. Personally, I felt that one guard should at least be avoidable in 1.5 pendant runs. I don't really have a problem with the Robert the Bruce team either way. They were forgettable and nothing special, but they weren't as terrible as people make them out to be. Especially when people accuse Jeremy of being a cheater. It was only an honest mistake and he got caught either way and it didn't benefit him in the end. It did cost him a half-pendant though since he was leading his temple game before being forced to go back. They probably would've finished in the Jester's Court if they used up all their time. If they were given access to the Shrine-Dark Forest shortcut, they might've reached the Spider Web. What are everyone's thoughts on Jay and Nate? Both contestants were secondrunners of Tomb of the Headless Kings runs, and both were able to retrieve their respective artifacts, but neither succeeded in bringing them out of the temple. Jay outlasted Nate in the "Best Male Players" list and has gotten generally better feedback in all of the "Rate the..." threads. However, Jay only completed the Shrine, Dark Forest, and Jesters' Court. His run ended with him in the Tomb of the Headless Kings. Nate, on the other hand, had to complete the same rooms as well as the King's Storeroom and Ancient Warriors. Additionally, Nate was able to make it to the Pit. I understand that Janeen left Jay with less time than Lissy did for Nate, but Nate completed more tasks and got closer to a victory. With that being said, why does it seem that Jay is the more favored of the two contestants?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line284
__label__wiki	0.642913	0.642913	Watch Wisconsin: SEIU, teachers’ unions attempt state hijacking over cuts By Michelle Malkin • February 16, 2011 10:11 AM As Wisconsin goes, so go the nation’s bankrupt and near-bankrupt states. The SEIU has declared full-scale war on the Badger State over attempts to rein in bloated public union pay and benefits. This was the scene last night at the Capitol Rotunda as the Purple Army and its allies stormed in for a sleepover protest: GOP Gov. Scott Walker is walking the fiscal responsibility walk — and those who have lived high on the hog are squealing every step of the way from the trough: More than 10,000 union supporters flooded the State Capitol on Tuesday to voice their opposition of a bill that seeks to save money by stripping nearly all collective bargaining rights from the majority of public workers. Under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal, almost every public employee would have to contribute 5.8 percent toward their pensions, and state workers would pay 12.6 percent of their health insurance premiums. The bill received a legislative hearing on Tuesday amid criticism from public employees across the state, including the Green Bay area. The Republican governor has put the legislation at the center of a budget repair bill that aims to save the state $30 million in the current budget and an additional $300 million over the next two years. But opponents of the plan say Walker has taken an extreme stance on union negotiations and is pushing an agenda aimed at breaking up organized labor. Buses of about 80 public employees left De Pere early Tuesday to join dissenters in Madison who wondered why the governor sought to erase negotiating powers from unions in addition to forcing contributions. Yesterday, teachers’ unions called for a statewide sick-in. For the children? SCREW THE CHILDREN: Madison public schools are closed Wednesday because too many teachers are taking the day off to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to limit union bargaining. Superintendent Dan Nerad says teachers who are taking a sick day will be asked to show proof of a medical reason. Nerad said that after more than 40 percent of teachers called in sick the decision was made to cancel classes because administrators were concerned about a safe and secure school environment. Madison Teachers Inc. executive director John Matthews tells the State Journal the union was contacting members and urging them to attend a rally Wednesday at the Capitol in opposition to Walker’s collective bargaining proposal. Matthews says it’s the first coordinated absence by Madison school employees in 16 years. Milwaukee Public Schools sent an e-mail to teachers warning them not to be absent without prior approval. Kiddie human shields become kiddie sacrificial lambs. This should be a firing offense. With near-double digit unemployment, schools should have no trouble replacing striking teachers with qualified people who would appreciate those jobs. A Wisconsite blogger says fire them: Last week, I supported Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plan to impose modest benefit concessions on all public workers to avoid laying off thousands of them. I have changed my mind; he should get rid of as many of them as possible. No, seriously – the fewer the better. The public employees’ protests over the past few days have convinced me that we do not need to compensate our public sector employees reasonably; we need to keep as many of them as possible as far away as possible from doing anything that is remotely important. When the keynote speaker at a UWM rally on the importance of a union education sounds like a Valley Girl with Tourette’s Syndrome, I don’t want any of them teaching our kids – not at any price. If you have not seen the YouTube of that speech, I urge you to do so, just so you get a full appreciation for what your tax dollars are buying in the way of state-funded union education. For all I know, she has an IQ with a comma in it, but her 14-plus years of union education have made her dumber than a box of hair. The only purpose of education is to prepare children to succeed as productive adult citizens. Dropping F-bombs and rambling in incoherent thumb-language does not make you productive; it makes you a worthless parasite that will not survive a day on your own. Elsewhere, SEIU itself is forcing many low-wage union members to share the sacrifice to preserve the SEIU 1199 health fund. Skidmore College employees represented by the Local 200United union are expecting to see a dent in their paychecks starting in March. The union notified members in a letter this week that 4.15 percent of their gross earnings will be deducted from their paychecks beginning March 11 to cover the cost of the health plan provided through the 1199 SEIU Greater New York Benefit Fund. Local 200United includes about 150 Skidmore College employees who work in dining services and the college post office, and as stable hands, groundskeepers and custodians. Members were told in January that their health insurance contributions were increasing to include co-payments for doctor’s visits and prescription drugs, as well as a fee of up to $60 to include a spouse on the plan. Union representative Ian Putnick said in the letter to members that the increases will average $25 a week for most employees. But Joyce Tighe, a housekeeper who’s worked at the college for 20 years, is expecting to pay at least $240 more per month for health insurance for herself and her husband, John, who doesn’t work and receives Social Security checks. Tighe estimated that some newer employees who have dependents could be charged as much as $400 more a month. That’s in addition to about $43 in monthly dues Local200 United members pay. All non-teaching employees are forced to join the union and are locked into a single health plan. Tighe indicated that she could have pursued another health plan when the contract was up last year, but felt confident continuing with SEIU because a union representative told all the members not to expect any significant rate increases going into 2011. Putnick, the union representative, did not return messages left Tuesday. Making the situation more complicated is the requirement that all non-teaching employees such as housekeepers and custodians are required to belong to a union. And while Skidmore College has three health care plans available to non-unionized employees, the chances that Local200 United members could quit and switch to the college’s plan to save money are slim to none. The only way for members to opt into the college’s health care plan is if the union decided as a whole to decertify, said Barbara Beck, associate vice president for finance and administration and director of human resources. “The college is not happy with the decision (to increase employee health insurance contributions), but it’s not our decision,” Beck said. “It’s a substantial contribution with very little warning. Fun fact reminder: 1199 SEIU Greater New York Benefit Fund is one of the many unions who received an Obamacare Waiver for Favors. But don’t look for a Purple Army protest there anytime soon… Posted in: SEIU,Unions,Wisconsin AFL-CIO head’s statement about Scott Walker running for prez: ‘Ooooh I hates that varmint!’ July 13, 2015 01:28 PM by Doug Powers Yosemite Scam not a fan Fast food workers, Hillary Clinton wants to be your Norma Rae! 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__label__wiki	0.72313	0.72313	OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 19 > Issue 17 > Page 16223 James Leger, Editor-in-Chief Magnetic imaging by x-ray holography using extended references Thomas A. Duckworth, Feodor Ogrin, Sarnjeet S. Dhesi, Sean Langridge, Amy Whiteside, Thomas Moore, Guillaume Beutier, and Gerrit van der Laan Thomas A. Duckworth,1,* Feodor Ogrin,1 Sarnjeet S. Dhesi,2 Sean Langridge,3 Amy Whiteside,4 Thomas Moore,4 Guillaume Beutier,5 and Gerrit van der Laan2 1School of Physics and Engineering, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK 2Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK 3ISIS, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK 4School of Physics and Astronomy, E. C. Stoner Laboratory, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK 5SIMaP Grenoble-INP, CNRS, UJF, BP 75, 38402 Saint Martin D’Hères, France *Corresponding author: tad203@ex.ac.uk T Duckworth F Ogrin S Dhesi S Langridge A Whiteside G Beutier G van der Laan pp. 16223-16228 •https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.016223 Thomas A. Duckworth, Feodor Ogrin, Sarnjeet S. Dhesi, Sean Langridge, Amy Whiteside, Thomas Moore, Guillaume Beutier, and Gerrit van der Laan, "Magnetic imaging by x-ray holography using extended references," Opt. Express 19, 16223-16228 (2011) Soft x rays X ray imaging X ray microscopy Digital holography (090.1995) Soft x-rays (260.6048) Thin films, other properties (310.6870) X-ray imaging (340.7440) Original Manuscript: June 7, 2011 Revised Manuscript: July 25, 2011 Manuscript Accepted: July 27, 2011 We demonstrate magnetic lensless imaging by Fourier transform holography using extended references. 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Click here to see a list of articles that cite this paper Fig. 1 (Color online) (a) Schematic of the sample design cross section. (b) Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of the object aperture and the reference slit viewed from the side of the Au mask (scale bar = 1 μm). (c) Polar MOKE hysteresis loop of the Co/Pt multilayer. (d) Typical MFM image showing the maze domain structure that forms in a [Co(5Å)/Pt(10Å)] ×30 multilayer at remanence (scale bar = 300 nm). Download Full Size \| PPT Slide \| PDF Fig. 2 (Color online) (a) The object and reference slit are illuminated by the coherent x-ray beam. (b) The hologram formed by the interference of the scattered x-rays from the object and reference slit is recorded on the CCD camera in the far field. (c) A linear differential filter, defined by the derivative of the slit direction, is multiplied by the hologram before performing a Fourier transform to retrieve the reconstructed image. Fig. 3 (Color online) (a) Difference between the images taken with the two opposite x-ray helicities after applying a differential filter (only the central 1000×1000 pixels are shown. Scale bar = 20 μm−1). (b) Fourier transform of (a), showing the real part of the image. The crosscorrelations between the reference slit edges and the object, and their twin images can be seen (only the central 410×410 pixels are shown. Scale bar = 1.5 μm). (c) Magnified view of one of the crosscorrelations from (b); the thin lines across the domains indicate the location where the profile scans in (d) were taken. (d) The horizontal line scan (orange square symbols) corresponds to the resolution along the slit direction. The intensity profile across the domain vertically (blue triangle symbols) corresponds to the resolution across the width of the slit. The data is fitted (red lines) using a hyperbolic tangent and the resolved width of the domain wall is obtained as w ≈ 30±10 nm in both directions. 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__label__cc	0.673218	0.326782	Loonies Insanity from Sahaja Yogis Online Msg 2385 on the sriadishakti forum: --- In shriadishakti@yahoogroups.com, "adishakti_org <adishakti_org@y...>" <adishakti_org@y...> wrote: Just over a week ago at the recent 2002 Christmas Puja nearly 7500 Sahaja Yogis gathered at Ganapatipule, India. Shri Mataji began with these words: "Merry Christmas to you all ….... According to Sahaja Yoga Christ is settled on your Agnya Chakra." i do not know how many SYs believe that Shri Jesus Christ is actually within all humans at the Agnya Chakra. The reason i am saying so is because it is very difficult to grasp the inner reality of a spiritual being actually living within the Agnya Chakra of each and every human being. When i joined Sahaja Yoga in 1994 it was difficult for the members of my collective to actually believe that Shri Mataji exits within them and witnesses all their actions on a 24/7 basis. ........... or that the Savior is right now meditating at our Agnya Chakras. i will now give evidence that Shri Mataji is telling the Truth when She says that "Christ is settled on your Agnya Chakra." ( i hope SYs understand that my intention is to prove that Shri Mataji is the Adi Shakti and not to advertise my family, as some have accuse me of doing so.) Back in 1994 Kash gave Self-Realization to a new seeker, Gurmit Singh. After that, while still standing behind Gurmit, he closed his eyes momentarily. What he saw with his spiritual eyes was stunning — all the Dieities were seen sitting on every chakra of Gurmit's subtle body! It was the divine vision of the Third Eye! Kash was shown the spiritual body of a human being for the very first and only time. He observed that there were more than 20 Deities, each about an inch in size, sitting on various chakras inside Gurmit. All these Spiritual Beings were in a squatting position and in deep meditation. He positively recognized Shri Ganesha above the anus (Mooladhara), Shri Vishnu and Shri Lakshmi at the navel (Nabhi), Shri Krishna and Shri Radha at the throat (Vishuddhi) and Shri Jesus behind and between both eyes (Agnya). Right on the limbic area of the head (Sahasrara) was the SPIRIT of the Living GOD, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, also squatting and meditating. But was without HER Eternal Throne. Bhupinder, Gurmit, and the father looked at each other and then at Kash, unable to believe or comprehend what they just heard from this child of thirteen. Note: It has to be clearly understood that at this time Kash was new to spiritualism and had no knowledge of the subtle human body. The family members did not even know how to recite the great mantra of the Great Adi Shakti, let alone know the various chakras, their locations inside humans, and the presiding Deity. Yet Kash precisely located the positions of the Immortal Beings, matching them exactly to what Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi had told humankind since She opened the Sahasrara on May 5, 1970. This simple fact proved that his spiritual vision was flawless, and the Truth absolute. The remaining Universal Beings could not be identified because Kash was still new to spiritualism and did not know their names or features. Put simply, although he saw all the Immortal Ones meditating on all the various chakras in Gurmit's body — Shri Buddha, Muhammad, Mahavira, Lao-tze, Moses, Abraham, Nanak, Confucius and so on — he could not identify any of them. (It is just like meeting a group of strangers and trying to ascertain their identity. The only way to do so would be a formal introduction, i.e., previous knowledge.) This inability was compounded not only by their small size and multitude — which made observation and memorization difficult — but also because of the brief period that this Divine vision was granted to him. It has to be accepted that all the Dieties are sitting in every human being exactly at the energy points Shri Adhiparasakthi Shri Nirmala Devi has proclaimed. Since Kash has positively identified the positions of the above Deities then it is only logical that the other Divine Beings also exist at precisely at the chakras revealed by the Great Divine Mother. Those who want to understand this profound Truth have to thoroughly understand the immensity of this spiritual Reality that "inside each of us are primal gods and goddesses." (Deepak Chopra) This Knowledge is priceless for all seekers of Truth. It is also the mysterious, subtle Reality vaguely mentioned in the Bible and Qur'an, but explicitly expounded in eastern scriptures. Again we have to mention that there was just no way Kash could have identified these Universal Beings — absolutely no way! In the first place how did he know that the Immortal Beings are within the body? No one in the family even knew of this Truth, a fact that took a long time to fathom. Then, how was it possible for him to know exactly where they were sitting? He could have said that Shri Jesus was seen on the Vishuddhi chakra, Shri Lakshmi/Vishnu at the Agnya, and so on. But he did not. He told exactly what he saw and those Divine Beings he identified corresponded exactly to that revealed by the Great Universal Mind. And we must also bear in mind that two non-family members, Gurmit and Bhupinder, witnessed and heard what Kash told them. (Anyone may question them to confirm these facts.) The Revelations and Divine Drama of the Great MahaDevi is based on Reality and not subject to contradiction, denial or destruction! Based on this extraordinary mystical experience the following Truths are announced to all seekers of the Ultimate Reality: Shri Ganesha is meditating in the Muladhara chakra. Shri Lakshmi and Vishnu is meditating in the Nabhi chakra . Shri Radha and Krishna is meditating in the Vishuddhi chakra . Shri Jesus Christ is meditating in the Agnya chakra . Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi is meditating in the Sahasrara . "The seventh is the Mahdi or 'Imam of Resurrection', who does not bring a new sharí'ah but reveals the inner meaning of all revelations and prepares the coming of the new cycle. Moreover, the historical cycles alter between that of epiphany and occultation, between a period when the truth is revealed and one in which it is hidden, this alteration continuing until the end of the great cycle. At this moment comes the 'Great Resurrection' (qiyämat al-qiyämah) upon which man and his celestial prototype are re- instated in their original condition. Thus through the prophets and imams the purpose of creation is fulfilled and man regains the state that he lost through his own negligence'. (Seyyed Hossein Nasar, Ideals and Realities of Islam) These concepts of the Reappearance of Imam Mahdi are extremely clear, constructive and inspiring. They have many features in common with the Christian and Hebrew traditions such as: (a) a period of life in darkness and negligence when the Truth is hidden; (b) an end to this period and the Advent of the Second Coming; (c) the Day of Judgement and the Great Day of Resurrection; (d) the beginning of a new cycle when humankind lives according to its celestial purpose. Obviously in his Reappearance Imam Mahdi will guide all faithful people on their journey to the higher worlds. In the Islamic tradition the Prophet Muhammad himself gave the most exciting and inspiring example of the ascent to the highest Divine world. In his journey in the realm of form (i.e. the physical universe), he moved from the Haram mosque to that of Kufah and then to the al-Aqsa Mosque, while in the realm of inner meaning (i.e. the spiritual universe) he ascended to the seven heavens, the Throne and the footstool. In fact, in the realm of the inner meaning, the pilgrimage to Mecca (i.e. the journey in the realm of form) becomes an ascent to higher states of consciousness aiming towards the highest one – entry into the 'Garden of the Essence'. This mystical journey could explain why the 12th Imam, Imam Mahdi, who has to come again is considered as the axis mundi, the invisible ruler of the universe who guides in the spiritual path all devotees. The Second Coming Integral Mission offers pilgrimages to sacred places on Earth which at the same time are celestial pilgrimages, i.e. metaphysical journeys in the higher realms. When we are undergoing these celestial pilgrimages, we enter in contact mystically with Imam Mahdi who prepares us for the mystery of ... Reappearance, the Day of Judgement and Resurrection." www.secondcomingmission.com/ [ Home ] [ Up ]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line316
__label__wiki	0.500095	0.500095	Johnny Curtis Memorial JNQ & WYHS 2020-01-18 • U14 Freestyle Mass Start Sprint Qualifier Start List U12 Finals U16F Finals U16M Finals U18F/U20F Finals U18M/U20M Finals Mass Start Freestyle Start List All Categories Women Men U14 23 Landon WYATT 1 1 00:09:20.0 27 Lucas WILMOT 2 2 00:09:23.0 28 Milo PAGE 3 3 00:09:26.0 36 Noe KEMPER 4 4 00:09:32.0 25 Jacob COLLINS 5 5 00:09:51.0 22 Nate STREUBEL 6 6 00:09:53.0 53 Molly MAYBACH 7 1 00:09:54.0 24 Cole BOTHNER 8 7 00:09:56.0 29 Lucas FASSIO 9 8 00:09:59.0 52 Hanna KLUCK 10 2 00:10:12.0 56 Eden KEENEY 11 3 00:10:17.0 35 Ryan GALYEN 12 9 00:10:20.0 54 Natalie NICHOLAS 13 4 00:10:21.0 41 Will BERRY 14 10 00:10:26.0 55 Ally WHEELER 15 5 00:10:26.0 320 Emily CAMPBELL 16 6 00:10:27.0 37 Aldo MCWETHY 17 11 00:10:29.0 39 Andrew CROUCH 18 12 00:10:36.0 68 Maeve INGELFINGER 19 7 00:10:39.0 69 Lena PODUSKA 20 8 00:10:45.0 34 Will PUTNAM 21 13 00:10:51.0 38 Toby KLASNER 21 13 00:10:50.0 67 Taya MCCLENNEN 23 9 00:10:52.0 61 Hailey STINES 24 10 00:10:54.0 62 Riven MOORE 25 11 00:11:03.0 57 Necia NICHOLAS 26 12 00:11:12.0 40 Ethan CAMPBELL 27 15 00:11:18.0 32 Ivan JENSEN 28 16 00:11:19.0 58 Reeve ALEXANDER 29 13 00:11:25.0 66 Tori LINGER 30 14 00:11:48.0 71 Abby MURPHY 31 15 00:11:55.0 43 Jack ELLIOTT 32 17 00:12:26.0 31 Issac SCHMIDT 33 18 00:12:31.0 45 Benjamin BRADFORD 34 19 00:12:33.0 70 Kaya KANDOLIN 35 16 00:12:36.0 63 Isabel WARNER 36 17 00:12:48.0 42 Rife MAXWELL 37 20 00:12:59.0 44 Joren NIELSON 38 21 00:13:01.0 75 Elizabeth WHITING 39 18 00:13:01.0 59 Daisha JACOBY 40 19 00:13:14.0 Name: Johnny Curtis Memorial JNQ & WYHS U18-U20 Classic Sprint Qualifier View Results U16 Classic Sprint Qualifier View Results U18-U20 Freestyle Mass Start View Results U16 Freestyle Mass Start View Results Novice Preview Athletes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line319
__label__wiki	0.959303	0.959303	21st Century Fox Seen Nearing European Pay TV Deal The proceeds could help Fox finance a sweetened bid for Time Warner as Rupert Murdoch travels from Australia to New York, tweeting that he has to make "difficult decisions." LONDON – Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is nearing a deal to combine its European pay TV operations under the leadership of Britain's BSkyB. The entertainment conglomerate and BSkyB, in which it holds a 39 percent stake, earlier this year said that they have discussed a sale by Fox of its fully owned Sky Italia unit and its 57 percent stake in Sky Deutschland to BSkyB. The transaction could create a combined Sky Europe. With BSkyB reporting its full fiscal year earnings on Friday, UBS analyst Polo Tang said the company "could potentially unveil its plans for Sky Europe" then. "Since the recent conclusion of the Serie A [soccer] rights auction in Italy, we have been expecting an imminent announcement," he explained. "We think the market may have underestimated the upside from a deal - increased scale/cost synergies/revenue synergies." Bloomberg News on Monday also reported that a deal could be reached in the next two weeks, citing people familiar with the situation. The assets that Fox would hand over to BSkyB could be valued at about $13.5 billion in a deal, according to past estimates. The proceeds from the possible deal could help Fox finance a possibly sweetened bid for Time Warner after news last week that the entertainment conglomerate led by CEO Jeff Bewkes recently rejected a $80 billion offer. Credit Suisse has suggested that Fox could also consider selling its 39 percent BSkyB stake, worth about $9.6 billion, to raise more cash for a Time Warner bid. Murdoch over the weekend signaled on Twitter that he faces some big decisions after spending time in Australia. While he didn't mention the decisions on Sky Europe and whether to improve the Time Warner bid, he tweeted: "Now back to NY and real work with difficult decisions." The Hollywood Reporter by Georg Szalai 2:53 AM PST 07/21/2014 WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BODY WHEN YOU GET EBOLA? PERIHELION, APHELION & MILANKOVITCH CYCLE ZOE SALDANA POSES NUDE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH U.K. 'Star Wars: Episode VII': Mark Hamill on 'Fantasti... ROSETTA - THE DUCK FACE Carmen Electra Photoshoot for 2014 Calendar at Boo... How Youtube Stars Can Actually Make a Living 21st Century Fox Seen Nearing European Pay TV Deal... “THE VIXENS” – Tired of only male heroes? Look no... A new look at the Apollo 11 landing site (Video) SURFER AND SHARK ATTACK SURVIVOR BETHANY HAMILTON ... VIKING INVASION! Gary Oldman, Keri Russell and Jason Clarke on mind... Keira Knightley Underwater Photoshoot for Fresh2o This Is How We Roll featuring Halle Berry (video) EXTANT: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HALLE BERRY'S SCI-FI... Wayuu Taya Foundation with Founder Patricia Velásq... Jennifer Lawrence’s Crazed Lip-Sync Will Blow You ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line323
__label__cc	0.537459	0.462541	Vampire Academy Review Directed by: Mark Waters Written by: Daniel Waters Cast: Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne The Premise: Two Teenage girls have their hands full with crushes, bullying, and picking a major. All the while fighting Vampires; how will they survive High School? When first we meet Rose and Lissa they are being driven back to the rurals of America where the school for Mortal Vampires and their Guardians learn their maths and sciences, as well as self defence and Vampire killing. The school is for mortal Vampires called Moroi and outside the school walls are the nasty immortal Vampires known as Strigoi. Having played hooky for a year they have much schooling to catch up on, and the usual clique they belonged to is now run by another, more sinister classmate, Mia. After a series of pranks that reach a crescendo with a dead fox hanging above Lissa’s door, and warnings written on her wall with blood, Rose and Lissa are all but sure that Mia is behind them. Meanwhile, their old teacher Ms. Karp has gone missing with no one saying mum about the reasons of her disappearance. Word is that the Strigoi are becoming more bold in their attacks, and with the school dance coming up, Rose and Lissa work to solve the pranking mystery, and the secrets the school is keeping. Vampire Academy is kind of like a pretty good first date: It starts with a lot of clumsy talking but by the end you’ve gotten to second base. When looking back at the film you find yourself unable to recall the moment that it switched from total dreck to delight but you are glad you stuck it out. It’s is based on the first book of a young adult series and young adult is firmly where the film lands. It does not claim to want to bring in any other age bracket, yet once you get passed that line between bad exposition to fun action film you will be pleasantly surprised you are happy you came. The script truly feels split in two. The beginning of the film is dreadfully clunky with so much exposition and back story meant to bring you up to speed that you feel more like you are in a recap episode of a TV series. And that is what the film felt like: A pilot for a series. And this reviewer wonders if that is what it is more suited for. But we have seen this show before, Rose played by Zoey Deutch (Beautiful Creatures) rattles off machine-gun dialogue that wants so badly to be written by Joss Whedon. She’s Rory Gilmore meets the wry sense of humour of Buffy but without the strength of character that Whedon brings. Which isn’t to say you don’t warm to her. At that aforementioned script shift she truly does become the ultimate heroin, finally snapping out those one liners like any action star of Eighties’ buddy cop films. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the TV series, has been off the air for eleven years now (Wow! 11) so most of the viewers of this film won’t have seen the series that started it all. This will be their generations’ Buffy and years from now, when they finally watch Buffy (if they do), they will wonder what all the fuss was about because they won’t have recognized that this movie would not exist had Buffy come first. Although, this is a sad fact, it is not a reason to hate on Vampire Academy. It truly does what it wanted to do: Entertain. Although that rough first half will test the patience of many a jaded viewer over the age of 20 it is the second half that wins you over. The fun is contagious and you will catch yourself laughing out loud at a well executed and dare I say it, enjoyable film. Of course, in a post Harry Potter world one cannot read any novel or watch any film that introduces a school for magical beings without a critical eye. The bar was set, and set high, with Rowling’s story and this film does little to hide that it cribbed all its notes from that series. The school, in it’s almost castle like expanse with open areas akin to Hogwarts and family shields and classes in magical studies, we roam the all too familiar grounds of St. Vladimir’s Academy. One wonders, though if Director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) made a very conscious decision to simply put the comparison right in your face instead of hiding it; just get it out of the way so they can get to the rest of the story. Perhaps I am giving him too much credit. Perhaps. As always, when basing a movie off a book, you have the potential of losing some of the fiddly bits; the side characters, the in-between plot points that get in the way of the true objective our our hapless heroes. If a film is written correctly, though, if you are unaware that these other story lines exist you may not miss them. Unfortunately, when the story takes a pause to have a supposed minor character Mason, played by Cameron Monaghan (Shameless) explain the most of the mystery to Rose and Lissa you cant help but feel cheated out of a good detective story. You know that that story point was all a red herring but being that it takes up 70% of the film to not give the viewer the satisfaction of solving it with him is a fail. Granted, you will have guessed it correctly at the first prank. When you first see Gabriel Byrne (Point of No Return) you wonder if he is slumming it, and the more keen observing will start to piece his place in the story quite quickly, but his performance adds a sense of weight to the film that a PG-13 film cribbing from Buffy and Harry needs. That perhaps there is more going on here than the sloppy writing the first half would suggest. He might have phoned in most of his scenes but, a bad day for Byrne is still a great day for most other actors. Perhaps the actor who steals almost every scene she is in is Sarah Hyland (Modern Family). Her embodiment of the hapless bespectacled rube with spectacular affectation of a mouth breather she sheds Haley Dunphy and reveals a wonderful actor who has a long career ahead of her. The Denouement For a story that is aimed directly at 14-year-old girls it does its job. That’s all. But, when those 14-year-old girls grow older and get some well written-films under their beltm they won’t be coming back to this film for literature but, for the fun they had. Like a favorite film from your youth that you throw on because it reminds you of a simpler time, not because you just gotta see that cheesy car chase or hear that classic line you and your friends pull out considerably more than you realize. Such classics as “Like a Porcupine in a Hot tub.” will travel the rank and file of every high school across the Americas, as well as the fifty other zingers that this reviewer enjoyed, even when I saw them coming. And, because this is a film for teenagers, one cannot fault it too hard for failing at times; much like the Twilight films hyperbolically show the angst-ridden life of dating in high school all too well, this film revels in that genre and tries ever so much to rise above the mire of all the rest of the films in this genus. No, you won’t take your thirty-something friends to this film but if you end up having to watch it with your younger siblings you will find yourself (at first against your will) enjoying it as well. Batman vs. Superman Shooting Batmobile Footage in San Francisco Fantastic Four Screen Testing Underway Daniel February 9, 2014 at 10:39 pm While I did, at times, enjoy the movie I think you’re giving it entirely too much credit. I laughed, but at no point did I think it was “good” or think it was something that would be remembered fondly. Ariana February 11, 2014 at 1:01 pm This movie was a disaster, an entertaining disaster.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line328
__label__cc	0.745196	0.254804	On the origin of high quality white light emission from a hybrid organic / inorganic light emitting diode using azide functionalized polyfluorene Huyal I.O. Koldemir, U. Ozel, T. Demir, Hilmi Volkan Tuncel, D. Journal of Materials Chemistry High quality white light generation with high colour rendering index (CRI) was achieved by integrating a cross-linkable azide functionalized polyfluorene derivative, namely poly[(9,9-dihexylfluorene)-co-alt-(9,9-bis(6-azidohexyl) fluorene)] (PFA), as a down-converting fluorescent material on the inorganic n-UV InGaN/GaN LED platform. For comparison, two other polyfluorene based polymers, namely poly[(9,9-dihexylfluorene)-co-alt-(9,9-bis(6-bromohexyl) fluorene)] (PFB) and poly[9,9-dihexyl-9H-fluorene] (PF), were tested for white light generation. While PFA and PF both led to white light generation, PFB fell out of the white region on the chromaticity diagram. Compared to PFA, both of the control groups (PF and PFB) exhibited much lower CRI. To gain a better insight into the mechanisms playing a key role for the generation of such high quality white light in PFA, all of these polymers were further subjected to a series of experiments such as controlled exposure to heat at 220 °C for 2 h under Ar and in air. The polymers PFA and PFB, which include cross-linkable groups, produced broad emission spectra in the region of 430-650 nm upon annealing in the absence of oxygen under Ar atmosphere while almost no change was observed in the emission spectrum of PF without any cross-linkable groups. PFA undergoes cross-linking through the decomposition of azide leading to reactive nitrene species, whereas in PFB cross-linking probably occurs via debromination. This result clearly proved that the broadening can not be attributed only to photo or thermal oxidation, but it is also due to cross-linking. PFA was also exposed to n-UV light from the InGaN/GaN LED to investigate its photostability. In these experiments, the spectral changes in absorbance and emission properties and thermal transitions of these polymers were monitored by FT-IR, UV-Vis and fluorescent spectrometry, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). These experiments indicated that PFA provides high quality white light opportunely via cross-linking and remains stable once cross-linking is formed in a solid film. http://doi.org/10.1039/b802910e Department of Chemistry 558 Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology 1609 Nanotechnology Research Center 898	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line330
__label__wiki	0.719105	0.719105	<< precariat Alex Foti 04/2005 MAYDAY MAYDAY: euro flex workers, time to get a move on! __Synopsis of previous conflict episodes__ Since 2001, a network of Italian, French and Catalan media hacktivists, rank-and-file unions, self-run and squatted youth centers, critical mass bikers, radical networks, student groups, labor collectives, immigrants' associations, assorted communists, greens, anarchists, gays and feminists have given life to the MayDay Parade taking place in the afternoon of 1 May in the center of Milan, Italy. Milan MayDay has steadily grown in participation and meaning from 5,000 people in 2001 to 50,000 people in 2003. MayDay 2004 mobilizations of precari@s in Milano and Barcelona saw 100,000 demonstrators parading for organizing and social rights as a way out of generalized precarity. MayDay has proved to be a horizontal method of cross-networking the Genoa movement with the radical sections of unionism - thereby enabling an alliance between two generations of conflict based on subvertising, picketing, organizing and the proliferation of multiple methods of action. MayDay has also triggered multifarious urban actions and labor conflicts in the Milano metropolitan area and, soon after, across the rest of Italy - mobilizing young temps, partimers, freelance and contract workers, researchers and teachers, service and knowledge workers. Many of the deepening transeuropean networks - cross-pollinated at the Florence and Paris Social Forums - have effectively begun to assess the existing political scenarios and realise the possibilities for the radical organization of young precaires on a eurowide scale. There is now a widespread impression across these networks that two decades of precarity have brought a new, and possibly disruptive, sociopolitical identity into being - an identity based on the young/female/foreign-born workers laboring in the service, retail, media and knowledge industries. These are the people agitating and striking for their rights in all of the European metropolises. Let's see what it's all about! __PRECARITY: a generalized condition searching for a radical transeuropean subject__ For two decades, neoliberalism has first and foremost been a system of labor precarization and deunionization at all levels of urban and suburban living. This process has created a precarious existence deprived of basic social rights for the majority of working women, youth and migrants. At the core of this process of neoliberal accumulation lies flexible and contingent labor by casualized workers employed in crucial reproductive and distribution services and in the knowledge, culture, and media industries that provide the raw material on which the system functions: information. We, active temps of Italy, call ourselves PRECOG because we embody the precariat working in retail and service industries and the cognitariat of media and education industries. We are the producers of neoliberal wealth, we are the creators of knowledge, style and culture enclosed and appropriated by monopoly power. Many in the syndicalist CreW that organize pickets, promote MayDay and edit ChainWorkers.org have this strange profile of having a union past and a present working in Milano's media industry. Living in a country where commercial TV brought a dumb tycoon to near-total power, we well understand the persuasive power of pop culture and advertising techniques. Our intent has been to advertise a new brand of labor activism and revolt (i.e. subvertise) by using language and graphics geared to people who have no prior political experience other than the wear and toil of their bodies and minds in the giant outlets and office blocks. We aim to achieve this through the constant reporting of labor conflicts and corporate misdeeds in malls, franchises, megastores, and call centers around the world. We also comment on developments in labor legislation and look at aspects of media activism and popular culture related to commercial and service spaces. We, in the syndicalist CreW, were surprised to find a huge and receptive audience. And no wonder. There are 30 million partimers in the new EU. These people - and the countless temp, contract, contingent, intermittent, black-economy and migrant workers that escape these figures - are the multitudes toiling in the vast postindustrial economy of the European continent. They will be excluded from most kinds of public welfare and social security, and hence unable to make plans for the future - subject as they are to that raw existential instability that bespeaks of falling through the net because of mishap, disease, madness, obsolescence and old age. The danger of social exclusion hangs in balance over our heads as a sword of Damocles. We are those precarious people. We are the women of Europe in a feminized workforce and economy that nevertheless reserves to xx people more discriminatory pay and roles than to domineering xy people. We are the consumerized younger generation left out of the political and social design of a gerontocratic and technocratic Europe. We are the first-generation Europeans coming from the five continents and, most crucially, the seven seas. We are the middle-aged being laid off from once secure jobs in industry and services. We are the people that don't have (and mostly don't want) long-term jobs, and so are deprived of basic social rights such as maternity or sick leave or the luxury of paid holidays. We are hirable on demand, available on call, exploitable at will, and firable at whim. We are the precariat. The precariat is the sum of all the people with non-standard job forms that have the social standard around which collective life increasingly revolves. It is a condition of generalized social precarity and singularized job precariousness. It is the exclusion of a whole generation - and soon, an entire society - from social rights bearing guarantees of collective self-defense. These rights must have either a continental or eurowide coverage - or else they won't come into being at all. __Precarity in Europe__ Numerical and phenomenological evidence show that Italy, Spain, and France commonly share large numbers of young employees stuck in dead-end jobs with precarious contracts. Italy alone has 7 million flex workers - not counting the (probable) three million workers paid under-the-counter within the grey economy. In a trend that follows the most developed regions of each European country, Lombardy, Milanos region, uses 1.5 million of the total number of precari. This precarization has already had far-reaching social consequences across the continent. Family formation, for example, has significantly decreased all over Europe. In familist and Catholic Italy and Spain, fertility has sunk below demographic renewal to reach the lowest birth rates in the history of humankind - thank God for all those migrant families making up for the difference! The precarization of work has turned Mediterranean lovers of large families into one-child, Chinese-like nuclear families or (increasingly) childless couples and singles. Single households are the dream families of the legions of consumer advertisers and corporate marketers: the more lonely you are, the more you need to buy. Precarious jobs are the major cause behind substandard and poverty wages. The number of working poor has grown in Europe just as it has in America. In 2000, approximately one quarter of workers were paid below average wages in the pre-enlargement EU - with the highest peaks in free-market prophet England and free-market convert Ireland. Women, and especially foreign-born residents, disproportionately bear the brunt of poverty-trap jobs. One third of European women are paid poverty wages. This figure rises to a staggering one half for the foreign-born workers of France and Belgium - countries where strong xenophobic movements give economic migrants an additional measure of grief. For all it's talk about �galit�, republican France actually does a comparatively lousy job in economically integrating its foreign-born communities. Whilst flex work is actually a core element of the contemporary economy, flex workers themselves are still considered peripheral in the public mind and consequently lack any real rights or entitlements. Flex workers tend to concentrate in the knowledge and service industries. The growth of these industries has long been associated with both the shift to postindustrialism as a general mode of production and the shift from fordism to postfordism in manufacturing and logistics. What was taylorized is now walmartized. The stable class structure underlying keynesian industrialism - with its secure working classes and its loyal middle classes - is now replaced by the darwinist pecking order dictated by neoliberal informationalism where multitudes of precarized workers employed in cognitive sectors produce value to be siphoned off to the world's financial marketplaces. The precariat is to postindustrialism as the proletariat was to industrialism: the non-pacified social subject. __From the subject to organization: toward a transeuropean biosyndicate of the precariat?__ We are either precaires or cognitaires and we all need to work to make ends meet. We are forced to kneel and bow to hypocrisy, abuse and bullying on the job because we are eminently blackmailable and expendable. In the back of our minds we all know that missing the next paycheck can trigger a sequence of nasty and all too familiar consequences: bills unpaid, basic services suspended, no money for the rent, social retreat, sentimental tensions, sense of anguish as the world seems to create a black hole around you, possibility of eviction, probability of depression, risk of isolation looming, the dark specter of one's own homelessness starkly and painfully in sight. But how do we best organize and federate? In 1905, American wobblies were able to assemble a new industrial union, both anarchist and socialist in its orientation, that organized unskilled workers from all ethnic and racial backgrounds. What would be the equivalent of industrial unionism a century later, when socialism is a dying ideology and anarchism little more than existential rebellion? There are no easy answers. But it is clear that the social networks laid out for EuroMayDay now have to transform from events to processes. The times are ripe for constituting a veritable biosyndicate of all temps and partimers across Europe - from Helsinki to Rome, and Lisbon to Athens. By biosyndicate we mean that reticular and direct-action based labor organization built around the communicative practices and conflictual behaviors of the multitudes of flexworkers it inspires and is inspired by. The San Precario phenomenon in Italy is an interesting case in point. We proclaimed the birth of the patron saint of all flex workers on bissextile 29 February 2004 as we picketed a newly-opened super�market with a mock procession and surreal prayers to protest the generalization of Sunday work. Within weeks, apparitions of the Saint started multiplying and proliferating across Italian cities. On MayDay this year, a fine statue of the uniformed saint - built and painted by Milanese theater temps - opened the giant parade in Milano. The statue represented a chainworker on his knees in prayer before a luscious altar with his head circled by a tasteful neon halo. Two days later, the biggest Italian daily newspaper began using the term "San Precario" to refer to the radical unions and insurgent flex workers of Italy. The message was clear: San Precario had successfully become an icon of nationwide conflict. Since achieving popular iconic status, the saints' miracles and holy deeds have multiplied everywhere: Bologna, Roma, Torino, Ancona, Genova, Napoli, Bari, Trento, and many other smaller cities. Building on the iconic success of San Precario, the Italian wing of the MayDay network is currently building a counter-franchise - the Saint Precarious Chain - to give active and timely solidarity to groups of flex workers on strike and provide legal assistance to precari across Italy who need it. The idea is to build social self-representation through metropolitan activism by federating autonomist collectives and local unions around the social organization of the precariat. As the Berlusconi star finally fades, we are pushing the entire official left for an abrupt change in social policy to ensure existential security for 7 million precarie and precari - and letting everybody know that it is far better to be on the good side of San Precario than to incur his wrath. 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__label__cc	0.596298	0.403702	Associate Professor Venerina Johnston Stream Leader, Psychosocial Rehab RECOVER Injury Research Centre v.johnston@uq.edu.au Dr Venerina Johnston is a researcher and Associate Professor in Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland. She has qualifications in physiotherapy, occupational health and safety and work disability prevention. Her research interests are in the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal problems and the prevention of work disability following a compensable injury. Venerina has a rich background in occupational rehabilitation and injury management from the perspective of the insurer, provider and employer. Primary prevention of musculoskeleletal injuries in the workplace There is a debate over the source of neck pain in office workers. This debate is focused on two main areas (1) what is the source of pain and (2) can asymptomatic and symptomatic workers be differentiated on any physical measures? This research project is focused on understanding the source of pain to help target interventions for the prevention of neck pain in office workers. Prevention of neck problems in office workers Various interventions have been trialled to address painful neck disorders in office workers. As the workplace is becoming the arena for many health initiatives, my research is exploring interventions which can be implemented at the workplace and the impact on presenteeism and absenteeism of these interventions. We are currently testing the impact of an exercise plus ergonomic intervention to impact productivity and neck pain in office workers in Brisbane. Please contact me if your organisation is interested in participating. Upskilling supervisors to facilitate a return to work after a musculoskeletal and mental disorder It is recognised that line supervisors play a pivotal role in the return-to-work process. However, the specific knowledge, skills and behaviours necessary for supervisors to assist workers return to work after a compensable injury or illness have not been identified in the Australian setting. This project identified the needs of supervisors who are required to support staff returning to work after a mental health disorder or musculoskeletal injury. The results have provided the evidence base for the development of a training program specific to the Australian culture and compensation environment. A training program is currently undergoing pilot testing. The long-term benefits of such a training program will be the prevention of work disability and a reduction in the duration and costs associated with compensable injuries. Please contact me if your organisation is interested in participating or if you would like to undertake a PhD to complete this project. Self-managing return to work following a compensbile musculoskeletal injury This study explores whether adding self-management training to vocational rehabilitation had an impact on work readiness, health efficacy and pain. We developed and tested a new model for the occupational rehabilitation of workers with chronic compensated musculoskeletal disorders by adding self-management training to the usual care. Self-management programs have been shown to be effective for chronic conditions in particular diabetes, heart disease, asthma and arthritis, but is new in the field of work disability. This project was funded by an Australian Research Council linkage grant. Diploma in Workplace Disability Prevention, Université de Sherbrooke Graduate Certificate in Management, University of Southern Queensland Bachelor of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland Journal Article: Functional and employment outcomes following road traffic crashes in Queensland, Australia: protocol for a prospective cohort study Gane, Elise M., Smits, Esther J., Brakenridge, Charlotte L., Gangathimmaiah, Vinay, Jagnoor, Jagnoor, Cameron, Ian D. and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Functional and employment outcomes following road traffic crashes in Queensland, Australia: protocol for a prospective cohort study. Journal of Transport and Health, 15 . doi:10.1016/j.jth.2019.100678 Journal Article: Identifying risk of poor physical and mental health recovery following a road traffic crash: an industry-specific screening tool Smits, Esther, Brakenridge, Charlotte, Gane, Elise, Warren, Jacelle, Heron-Delaney, Michelle, Kenardy, Justin and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Identifying risk of poor physical and mental health recovery following a road traffic crash: an industry-specific screening tool. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 132 105280. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2019.105280 Journal Article: Neck/shoulder problems and visual disturbances among surgeons: a scoping review Alhusuny, Ameer, Cook, Margaret, Khalil, Akram, Xie, Yanfei and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Neck/shoulder problems and visual disturbances among surgeons: a scoping review. Journal of Surgical Research, . doi:10.1016/j.jss.2019.09.064 Identifying optimal sit-stand recommendations for the workforce (2019–2020) Office Ergonomics Research Committee Funding Improving the management of driving behaviour in people with chronic pain: perspective of people with chronic pain and health professionals (2019–2020) RACV Safety Research Fund A workplace-based exercise intervention to prevent and reduce the economic and personal burden of non-specific neck pain in the office personnel Ageing productively: Development and evaluation of an intervention to protect and restore work ability in older office workers. A combination workplace intervention for neck pain to reduce the economic burden of health-related productivity loss among office workers: An employer's perspective. Identifying barriers for return to work after a road traffic crash Promoting successful return to work for workers with musculoskeletal absences through supervisor training Line supervisors are important in the return to work of injured workers. Based on identified competencies required by supervisors to better support workers returning to work after an injury, a training program will be developed and implemented in high risk industries. It is believed that this training will impact supervisor’s knowledge, confidence and behaviours related to return to work and have downstream impact on the number and duration of workers compensation injuries. Musculoskeletal health in the workplace Johnston, Venerina, Straker, Leon and Mackey, Martin (2015). Musculoskeletal health in the workplace. In Gwendolen Jull, Ann Moore, Deborah Falla, Jeremy Lewis, Chris McCarthy and Michele Sterling (Ed.), Grieve's modern musculoskeletal physiotherapy 4th ed. (pp. 379-387) Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Elsevier. Pain in the elderly Souvlis, T. and Johnston, V. (2004). Pain in the elderly. In Jennifer C. Nitz and Susan R. Hourigan (Ed.), Physiotherapy Practice in Residential Aged Care (pp. 307-331) Edinburgh: Butterworth Heinemann. doi:10.1016/B978-0-7506-8772-0.50018-X Functional and employment outcomes following road traffic crashes in Queensland, Australia: protocol for a prospective cohort study Identifying risk of poor physical and mental health recovery following a road traffic crash: an industry-specific screening tool Neck/shoulder problems and visual disturbances among surgeons: a scoping review Impact of interventions on work-related outcomes for individuals with musculoskeletal injuries after road traffic crash: a systematic review protocol Brakenridge, Charlotte L., Gane, Elise M., Smits, Esther J., Andrews, Nicole E. and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Impact of interventions on work-related outcomes for individuals with musculoskeletal injuries after road traffic crash: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 8 1: 247. doi:10.1186/s13643-019-1178-2 Computer vision symptoms in people with and without neck pain Teo, Caleb, Giffard, Phoebe, Johnston, Venerina and Treleaven, Julia (2019) Computer vision symptoms in people with and without neck pain. Applied Ergonomics, 80 50-56. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2019.04.010 Quantifying cervical and axioscapular muscle stiffness using shear wave elastography Xie, Yanfei, Thomas, Lucy, Hug, François, Johnston, Venerina and Coombes, Brooke K. (2019) Quantifying cervical and axioscapular muscle stiffness using shear wave elastography. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 48 94-102. doi:10.1016/j.jelekin.2019.06.009 Organizational types in relation to exposure at work and sickness - a repeated cross-sectional study within public dentistry Rolander, B., Lindmark, U., Johnston, V., Wagman, P. and Wahlin, C. (2019) Organizational types in relation to exposure at work and sickness - a repeated cross-sectional study within public dentistry. Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, . doi:10.1080/00016357.2019.1659411 Workplace-based exercise intervention improves work ability in office workers: A cluster randomised controlled trial Ting, Joshua Zheng Rui, Chen, Xiaoqi and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Workplace-based exercise intervention improves work ability in office workers: A cluster randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 15: . doi:10.3390/ijerph16152633 The influence of using a footstool during a prolonged standing task on low back pain in office workers Smith, Michelle D., Kwan, Chun Shing Johnson, Zhang, Sally, Wheeler, Jason, Sewell, Tennille and Johnston, Venerina (2019) The influence of using a footstool during a prolonged standing task on low back pain in office workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 8: . doi:10.3390/ijerph16081405 Feasibility and impact of sit-stand workstations with and without exercise in office workers at risk of low back pain: a pilot comparative effectiveness trial Johnston, Venerina, Gane, Elise M., Brown, Wendy, Vicenzino, Bill, Healy, Genevieve N., Gilson, Nicholas and Smith, Michelle D. (2019) Feasibility and impact of sit-stand workstations with and without exercise in office workers at risk of low back pain: a pilot comparative effectiveness trial. Applied Ergonomics, 76 82-89. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2018.12.006 Promoting the Use of Self-management Strategies for People With Persistent Musculoskeletal Disorders: The Role of Physical Therapists Hutting, Nathan, Johnston, Venerina, Staal, J. Bart and Heerkens, Yvonne F. (2019) Promoting the Use of Self-management Strategies for People With Persistent Musculoskeletal Disorders: The Role of Physical Therapists. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 49 4: 212-215. doi:10.2519/jospt.2019.0605 Are Measures of Postural Behavior Using Motion Sensors in Seated Office Workers Reliable? Jun, Deokhoon, Johnston, Venerina, McPhail, Steven M. and O’Leary, Shaun (2019) Are Measures of Postural Behavior Using Motion Sensors in Seated Office Workers Reliable?. Human Factors, . doi:10.1177/0018720818821273 Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Latack Coping Scale in the general working population in Korea Jun, Deokhoon, Kim, Jun-Mo, O'Leary, Shaun and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Latack Coping Scale in the general working population in Korea. Work, 63 3: 325-334. doi:10.3233/WOR-192938 Health-care providers' perspectives on factors influencing return-to-work after surgery for nontraumatic conditions of the upper extremity Peters, Susan E., Coppieters, Michel W., Ross, Mark and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Health-care providers' perspectives on factors influencing return-to-work after surgery for nontraumatic conditions of the upper extremity. Journal of Hand Therapy, . doi:10.1016/j.jht.2018.09.011 Job strain and psychological distress in office workers: The role of coping Jun, Deokhoon, O'Leary, Shaun, McPhail, Steven M. and Johnston, Venerina (2019) Job strain and psychological distress in office workers: The role of coping. Work - A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, 64 1: 55-65. doi:10.3233/PWOR-192968 The impact of musculoskeletal injuries sustained in road traffic crashes on work-related outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review Gane, Elise M., Brakenridge, Charlotte L., Smits, Esther J. and Johnston, Venerina (2018) The impact of musculoskeletal injuries sustained in road traffic crashes on work-related outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 7 1: 202. doi:10.1186/s13643-018-0869-4 Evaluating Short-Term Musculoskeletal Pain Changes in Desk-Based Workers Receiving a Workplace Sitting-Reduction Intervention Brakenridge, Charlotte, Chong, Yee Ying, Winkler, Elisabeth A.H., Hadgraft, Nyssa T., Fjeldsoe, Brianna S., Johnston, Venerina, Straker, Leon, Healy, Genevieve N. and Clark, Bronwyn K. (2018) Evaluating Short-Term Musculoskeletal Pain Changes in Desk-Based Workers Receiving a Workplace Sitting-Reduction Intervention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 9: 1975. doi:10.3390/ijerph15091975 The impact of workplace ergonomics and neck-specific exercise versus ergonomics and health promotion interventions on office worker productivity: a cluster-randomized trial Pereira, Michelle, Comans, Tracy, Sjøgaard, Gisela, Straker, Leon, Melloh, Markus, O'Leary, Shaun, Chen, Xiaoqi and Johnston, Venerina (2018) The impact of workplace ergonomics and neck-specific exercise versus ergonomics and health promotion interventions on office worker productivity: a cluster-randomized trial. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, . doi:10.5271/sjweh.3760 Factors associated with work ability following exercise interventions for people with chronic whiplash-associated disorders: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial Lo, Hiu Kwan, Johnston, Venerina, Landen Ludvigsson, Maria, Peterson, Gunnel, Overmeer, Thomas and Peolsson, Anneli (2018) Factors associated with work ability following exercise interventions for people with chronic whiplash-associated disorders: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 50 9: 828-836. doi:10.2340/16501977-2374 Modifiable individual and work-related factors associated with neck pain in 740 office workers: a cross-sectional study Chen, Xiaoqi, O'Leary, Shaun and Johnston, Venerina (2018) Modifiable individual and work-related factors associated with neck pain in 740 office workers: a cross-sectional study. Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy, 22 4: 318-327. doi:10.1016/j.bjpt.2018.03.003 Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) in the Korean working population Jun, Deokhoon, Johnston, Venerina, Kim, Jun-Mo and O'Leary, Shaun (2018) Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) in the Korean working population. Work (Reading, Mass.), 59 1: 93-102. doi:10.3233/WOR-172661 Stakeholders identify similar barriers but different strategies to facilitate return-to-work: A vignette of a worker with an upper extremity condition Peters, Susan E., Truong, Anthony P. and Johnston, Venerina (2018) Stakeholders identify similar barriers but different strategies to facilitate return-to-work: A vignette of a worker with an upper extremity condition. Work , 59 3: 401-412. doi:10.3233/WOR-182692 Workplace-Based Interventions for Neck Pain in Office Workers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Chen, Xiaoqi, Coombes, Brooke K, Sjøgaard, Gisela, Jun, Deokhoon, O'Leary, Shaun and Johnston, Venerina (2018) Workplace-Based Interventions for Neck Pain in Office Workers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Physical therapy, 98 1: 40-62. doi:10.1093/ptj/pzx101 Reliability and Validity of an Acromion Marker Cluster for Recording Scapula Posture at End Range Clavicle Protraction, Retraction, Elevation, and Depression Bet-Or, Yaheli, van den Hoorn, Wolbert, Johnston, Venerina and O'Leary, Shaun (2017) Reliability and Validity of an Acromion Marker Cluster for Recording Scapula Posture at End Range Clavicle Protraction, Retraction, Elevation, and Depression. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 33 5: 379-383. doi:10.1123/jab.2017-0058 Lifestyle and work-related factors associated with the health of Australian long distance commute and residential miners: A cross-sectional study Otto, Bronwen, Ryan, Frazer, Khan, Asaduzzaman and Johnston, Venerina (2017) Lifestyle and work-related factors associated with the health of Australian long distance commute and residential miners: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 33 2: 217-232. Training therapists to perform pre-employment functional assessments: a telerehabilitation approach Cotton, Zoe, Russell, Trevor, Johnston, Venerina and Legge, Jennifer (2017) Training therapists to perform pre-employment functional assessments: a telerehabilitation approach. Work, 57 4: 475-482. doi:10.3233/wor-172578 An investigation of self-reported health-related productivity loss in office workers and associations with individual and work-related factors using an employer's perspective Pereira, Michelle Jessica, Johnston, Venerina, Straker, Leon Melville, Sjogaard, Gisela, Melloh, Markus, O'Leary, Shaun Patrick and Comans, Tracy Anne (2017) An investigation of self-reported health-related productivity loss in office workers and associations with individual and work-related factors using an employer's perspective. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 59 7: e138-e144. doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000001043 Physical risk factors for developing non-specific neck pain in office workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis Jun, Deokhoon, Zoe, Michaleff , Johnston, Venerina and O'Leary, Shaun (2017) Physical risk factors for developing non-specific neck pain in office workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 90 5: 373-410. doi:10.1007/s00420-017-1205-3 Experts' perspective on a definition for delayed return-to-work after surgery for nontraumatic upper extremity disorders: recommendations and implications Peters, Susan E., Coppieters, Michel W., Ross, Mark and Johnston, Venerina (2017) Experts' perspective on a definition for delayed return-to-work after surgery for nontraumatic upper extremity disorders: recommendations and implications. Journal of Hand Therapy, 31 3: 315-321. doi:10.1016/j.jht.2017.02.009 The effect of a workplace-based early intervention program on work-related musculoskeletal compensation outcomes at a poultry meat processing plant Donovan, Michael, Khan, Asaduzzaman and Johnston, Venerina (2017) The effect of a workplace-based early intervention program on work-related musculoskeletal compensation outcomes at a poultry meat processing plant. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 27 1: 24-34. doi:10.1007/s10926-016-9628-3 Centre of gravity: relevance of behaviour and location in bipedal stance in older adults Boughen, Jill, Nitz, Jennifer and Johnston, Venerina (2017) Centre of gravity: relevance of behaviour and location in bipedal stance in older adults. Physical Therapy Reviews, 22 3-4: 186-196. doi:10.1080/10833196.2017.1283831 Expert consensus on facilitators and barriers to return-to-work following surgery for non-traumatic upper extremity conditions: a Delphi study Peters, S. E., Johnston, V., Ross, M. and Coppieters, M. W. (2017) Expert consensus on facilitators and barriers to return-to-work following surgery for non-traumatic upper extremity conditions: a Delphi study. Journal of Hand Surgery: European Volume, 42 2: 127-136. doi:10.1177/1753193416669263 Investigating construct validity of an organisational policies and practices instrument in an Australian poultry meat processing plant Donovan, Michael, Johnston, Venerina and Khan, Asaduzzaman (2017) Investigating construct validity of an organisational policies and practices instrument in an Australian poultry meat processing plant. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 33 3: . Methods and tools used by healthcare professionals to identify barriers to return-to-work for workers with upper extremity conditions in Australia Peters, Susan E. and Johnston, Venerina (2016) Methods and tools used by healthcare professionals to identify barriers to return-to-work for workers with upper extremity conditions in Australia. Hand Therapy, 22 1: 26-34. doi:10.1177/1758998316665058 Perspectives from employers, insurers, lawyers and healthcare providers on factors that influence workers' return-to-work following surgery for non-traumatic upper extremity conditions Peters, Susan E., Coppierters, Michel W., Ross, Mark and Johnston, Venerina (2016) Perspectives from employers, insurers, lawyers and healthcare providers on factors that influence workers' return-to-work following surgery for non-traumatic upper extremity conditions. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 27 3: 1-16. doi:10.1007/s10926-016-9662-1 Prognostic factors for return-to-work following surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome: a systematic review Peters, Susan, Johnston, Venerina, Hines, Sonia, Ross, Mark and Coppieters, Michel (2016) Prognostic factors for return-to-work following surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome: a systematic review. JBI database of systematic reviews and implementation reports, 14 9: 135-216. doi:10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003099 Consequences and management of neck pain by female office workers: results of a survey and clinical assessment Johnston, Venerina (2016) Consequences and management of neck pain by female office workers: results of a survey and clinical assessment. Archives of Physiotherapy, 6 8. doi:10.1186/s40945-016-0023-3 Changes in division of labour and tasks within public dentistry: relationship to employees work demands, health and work ability Rolander, Bo, Wåhlin,Charlotte, Johnston, Venerina, Wagman, Petra and Lindmark, Ulrika (2016) Changes in division of labour and tasks within public dentistry: relationship to employees work demands, health and work ability. Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 74 6: 471-479. doi:10.1080/00016357.2016.1203023 Inter-rater reliability of an observation-based ergonomics assessment checklist for office workers Pereira, Michelle Jessica, Straker, Leon Melville, Comans, Tracy Anne and Johnston, Venerina (2016) Inter-rater reliability of an observation-based ergonomics assessment checklist for office workers. Ergonomics, 59 12: 1606-1612. doi:10.1080/00140139.2016.1157215 Rehabilitation following carpal tunnel release (Review) Peters, Susan, Page, Matthew J., Coppieters, Michel W., Ross, Mark and Johnston, Venerina (2016) Rehabilitation following carpal tunnel release (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016 2: . doi:10.1002/14651858.CD004158.pub3 Self-reported load carriage injuries of military soldiers Orr, Robin Marc, Coyle, Julia, Johnston, Venerina and Pope, Rodney (2016) Self-reported load carriage injuries of military soldiers. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 24 2: 189-197. doi:10.1080/17457300.2015.1132731 Enhancing direct access and authority for work capacity certificates to physiotherapists Johnston, Venerina and Beales, Darren (2016) Enhancing direct access and authority for work capacity certificates to physiotherapists. Manual Therapy, 25 100-103. doi:10.1016/j.math.2016.04.007 Factors associated with work ability in patients undergoing surgery for cervical radiculopathy Ng, Eunice, Johnston, Venerina, Wibault, Johanna, Löfgren, Hakan, Dedering, Asa, Öberg, Birgitta, Zsigmond, Peter and Peolsson, Anneli (2015) Factors associated with work ability in patients undergoing surgery for cervical radiculopathy. Spine, 40 16: 1270-1276. doi:10.1097/BRS.0000000000001010 Factors associated with work ability in patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorder grade II-III: a cross-sectional analysis Agnew, Louise, Johnston, Venerina, Ludvigsson, Maria Landén, Peterson, Gunnel, Overmeer, Thomas, Johansson, Gun and Peolsson, Anneli (2015) Factors associated with work ability in patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorder grade II-III: a cross-sectional analysis. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 47 6: 546-551. doi:10.2340/16501977-1960 Implementing a self-management intervention for people with a chronic compensable musculoskeletal injury in a workers compensation context: a process evaluation Sheppard, Dianne M., Gargett, Susan, MacKenzie, Alison, Jull, Gwendolen, Johnston, Venerina, Strong, Jennifer, Battersby, Malcolm and Ellis, Niki (2015) Implementing a self-management intervention for people with a chronic compensable musculoskeletal injury in a workers compensation context: a process evaluation. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 25 2: 412-422. doi:10.1007/s10926-014-9551-4 Reported load carriage injuries of the Australian Army soldier Orr, Robin M., Johnston, Venerina, Coyle, Julia and Pope, Rodney (2015) Reported load carriage injuries of the Australian Army soldier. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 25 2: 316-322. doi:10.1007/s10926-014-9540-7 The impact of onsite workplace health-enhancing physical activity interventions on worker productivity: a systematic review Pereira, Michelle Jessica, Coombes, Brooke Kaye, Comans, Tracy Anne and Johnston, Venerina (2015) The impact of onsite workplace health-enhancing physical activity interventions on worker productivity: a systematic review. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 72 6: 401-412. doi:10.1136/oemed-2014-102678 A vertical mouse and ergonomic mouse pads alter wrist position but do not reduce carpal tunnel pressure in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome Schmid, Annina B., Kubler, Paul A., Johnston, Venerina and Coppieters, Michel W. (2015) A vertical mouse and ergonomic mouse pads alter wrist position but do not reduce carpal tunnel pressure in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. Applied Ergonomics, 47 151-156. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2014.08.020 Supervisor competencies for supporting return to work: a mixed-methods study Johnston, Venerina, Way, Kirsten, Long, Maryann H., Wyatt, Mary, Gibson, Libby and Shaw, William S. (2015) Supervisor competencies for supporting return to work: a mixed-methods study. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 25 1: 3-17. doi:10.1007/s10926-014-9511-z Taping across the upper trapezius muscle reduces activity during a standardized typing task - an assessor-blinded randomized cross-over study Takasaki, Hiroshi, Delbridge, Blane Michael and Johnston, Venerina (2015) Taping across the upper trapezius muscle reduces activity during a standardized typing task - an assessor-blinded randomized cross-over study. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 25 1: 115-120. doi:10.1016/j.jelekin.2014.10.004 Occupational loads carried by Australian soldiers on military operations Orr, Robin Marc, Pope, Rodney, Coyle, Julia and Johnston, Venerina (2015) Occupational loads carried by Australian soldiers on military operations. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 31 1: . A workplace exercise versus health promotion intervention to prevent and reduce the economic and personal burden of non-specific neck pain in office personnel: protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial Johnston, V., O'Leary, S., Comans, T., Straker, L., Melloh, M., Khan, A. and Sjogaard, G. (2014) A workplace exercise versus health promotion intervention to prevent and reduce the economic and personal burden of non-specific neck pain in office personnel: protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Journal of Physiotherapy, 60 4: 223-223. doi:10.1016/j.jphys.2014.08.007 A description of neck motor performance, neck pain, fatigue, and mental effort while driving in a sample with chronic whiplash-associated disorders Takasaki, Hiroshi, Treleaven, Julia, Johnston, Venerina, Van Den Hoorn, Wolbert, Rakotonirainy, Andry and Jull, Gwendolen (2014) A description of neck motor performance, neck pain, fatigue, and mental effort while driving in a sample with chronic whiplash-associated disorders. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93 8: 665-674. doi:10.1097/PHM.0000000000000087 Evaluation of document location during computer use in terms of neck muscle activity and neck movement Goostrey, Sonya, Treleaven, Julia and Johnston, Venerina (2014) Evaluation of document location during computer use in terms of neck muscle activity and neck movement. Applied Ergonomics, 45 3: 767-772. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2013.10.007 An argument for a universal definition and method of recording falls Nitz, Jennifer C. and Johnston, Venerina (2014) An argument for a universal definition and method of recording falls. Physical Therapy Reviews, 19 2: 131-135. doi:10.1179/1743288X13Y.0000000107 A new method of interpreting the centre of gravity location using the modified Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction on Balance: a reliability study Boughen, Jill, Dunn, Kylie, Nitz, Jennifer, Johnston, Venerina and Khan, Asad (2013) A new method of interpreting the centre of gravity location using the modified Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction on Balance: a reliability study. Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal, 31 2: 64-68. doi:10.1016/j.hkpj.2013.04.002 Using technology to enhance physical therapy students’ problem-solving skills around safe patient handling Johnston, Venerina, Nitz, Jennifer C., Isles, Rosemary, Chipchase, Lucy and Gustafsson, Louise (2013) Using technology to enhance physical therapy students’ problem-solving skills around safe patient handling. Physical Therapy Reviews, 18 6: 407-415. doi:10.1179/1743288X12Y.0000000061 Assessment of driving-related performance in chronic whiplash using an advanced driving simulator Hiroshi, Takasaki, Julia, Treleaven, Venerina, Johnston, Rakotonirainy, Andry, Haines, Andrew and Gwendolen, Jull (2013) Assessment of driving-related performance in chronic whiplash using an advanced driving simulator. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 60 5-14. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2013.07.033 Interpreting systematic reviews: Looking beyond the all too familiar conclusion Peters, Susan E., Johnston, Venerina and Coppieters, Michel W. (2013) Interpreting systematic reviews: Looking beyond the all too familiar conclusion. Journal of Hand Therapy, In Press, Accepted Manuscript 1: 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.jht.2013.10.005 Helping workers help themselves: empowering physiotherapy clients to manage musculoskeletal problems at work Johnston, Venerina and Shaw, William S. (2013) Helping workers help themselves: empowering physiotherapy clients to manage musculoskeletal problems at work. Physical Therapy Reviews, 18 5: 373-378. doi:10.1179/1743288X13Y.0000000087 Occupational health physical therapy Johnston, Venerina (2013) Occupational health physical therapy. Physical Therapy Reviews, 18 5: 313-315. doi:10.1179/1083319613Z.000000000132 Soldier occupational load carriage: a narrative review of associated injuries Orr, Robin Marc, Pope, Rodney, Johnston, Venerina and Coyle, Julia (2013) Soldier occupational load carriage: a narrative review of associated injuries. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 21 4: 388-396. doi:10.1080/17457300.2013.833944 Enhancing the vocational outcomes of people with chronic disabilities caused by a musculoskeletal condition: development and evaluation of content of self-management training modules Johnston, V., Strong, J., Gargett, S., Jull, G. and Ellis, N. (2013) Enhancing the vocational outcomes of people with chronic disabilities caused by a musculoskeletal condition: development and evaluation of content of self-management training modules. Work, Pre-Press 3: 1-14. doi:10.3233/WOR-131722 Neck Pain Driving Index: appropriateness of the rating scale and unidimensionality of the strategic, tactical, and operational levels Takasaki, Hiroshi, Johnston, Venerina, Treleaven, Julia and Jull, Gwendolen (2013) Neck Pain Driving Index: appropriateness of the rating scale and unidimensionality of the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Archives of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, 94 9: 1842-1846. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2013.02.017 Contributions of physical and cognitive impairments to self-reported driving difficulty in chronic whiplash-associated disorders Takasaki, Hiroshi, Treleaven, Julia, Johnston, Venerina and Jull, Gwendolen (2013) Contributions of physical and cognitive impairments to self-reported driving difficulty in chronic whiplash-associated disorders. Spine, 38 18: 1554-1560. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e31829adb54 Applying principles of self-management to facilitate workers to return to or remain at work with a chronic musculoskeletal condition Johnston, Venerina, Jull, Gwendolen, Sheppard, Dianne M. and Ellis, Niki (2013) Applying principles of self-management to facilitate workers to return to or remain at work with a chronic musculoskeletal condition. Manual Therapy, 18 4: 274-280. doi:10.1016/j.math.2013.04.001 The prevalence of work-related neck, shoulder and upper back musculo-skeletal disorders among midwives, nurses and physicians: a systematic review Long, Maryann, Bogossian, Fiona and Johnston, Venerina (2013) The prevalence of work-related neck, shoulder and upper back musculo-skeletal disorders among midwives, nurses and physicians: a systematic review. Workplace Health and Safety, 61 5: 223-229. doi:10.3928/21650799-20130426-38 Helping women but hurting ourselves? Neck and upper back musculoskeletal symptoms in a cohort of Australian Midwives Long, Maryann H., Johnston, Venerina and Bogossian, Fiona (2013) Helping women but hurting ourselves? Neck and upper back musculoskeletal symptoms in a cohort of Australian Midwives. Midwifery, 29 4: 359-367. doi:10.1016/j.midw.2012.02.003 Functional consequences of work-related spinal musculoskeletal symptoms in a cohort of Australian midwives Long, Maryann H., Bogossian, Fiona E. and Johnston, Venerina (2013) Functional consequences of work-related spinal musculoskeletal symptoms in a cohort of Australian midwives. Women Birth, 26 1: e50-e58. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2012.09.005 Targeted education on the topic of professional boundaries does not change student physiotherapists' opinions or their responses to a series of ethical scenarios Cooper, Ian, Delany, Clare, Dwyer, Genevieve, Godbold, Rosemary, Johnston, Venerina, Shirley, Debra and Jenkins, Susan (2013) Targeted education on the topic of professional boundaries does not change student physiotherapists' opinions or their responses to a series of ethical scenarios. Physical Therapy Reviews, 18 1: 431-438. doi:10.1179/1743288X13Y.0000000071 Midwives' experiences of work-related shoulder musculoskeletal problems Long, Maryann H., Bogossian, Fiona E. and Johnston, Venerina (2013) Midwives' experiences of work-related shoulder musculoskeletal problems. International Journal of Childbirth, 3 1: 52-64. doi:10.1891/2156-5287.3.1.52 Soldier self-reported reductions in task performance associated with operational load carriage Orr, Robin M., Pope, Rodney, Johnston, Venerina and Coyle, Julia (2013) Soldier self-reported reductions in task performance associated with operational load carriage. Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, 21 3: 39-46. Experiences and perspectives of physical therapists managing patients covered by workers' compensation in Queensland, Australia Johnston, Venerina, Nielsen, Mandy, Corbiere, Marc and Franche, Renee-Louise (2012) Experiences and perspectives of physical therapists managing patients covered by workers' compensation in Queensland, Australia. Physical Therapy, 92 10: 1306-1315. doi:10.2522/ptj.20110194 Minimum repetitions for stable measures of visual dependency using the dot version of the computer-based Rod-Frame test Takasaki, Hiroshi, Treleaven, Julia, Johnston, Venerina and Jull, Gwendolen (2012) Minimum repetitions for stable measures of visual dependency using the dot version of the computer-based Rod-Frame test. Manual Therapy, 17 5: 466-469. doi:10.1016/j.math.2012.02.013 The Neck Pain Driving Index (NPDI) for chronic whiplash-associated disorders: development, reliability, and validity assessment Takasaki, Hiroshi, Johnston, Venerina, Treleaven, Julia M. and Jull, Gwendolen A. (2012) The Neck Pain Driving Index (NPDI) for chronic whiplash-associated disorders: development, reliability, and validity assessment. Spine Journal, 12 10: 912-+. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2012.09.053 Validity and reliability of the perceived deficit questionnaire to assess cognitive symptoms in people with chronic whiplash-associated disorders Takasaki, Hiroshi, Chien, Chi-Wen, Johnston, Venerina, Treleaven, Julia and Jull, Gwendolen (2012) Validity and reliability of the perceived deficit questionnaire to assess cognitive symptoms in people with chronic whiplash-associated disorders. Archives of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, 93 10: 1774-1781. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2012.05.013 Self-rated confidence versus examined competency of safe patient handling from a physiotherapy student perspective Nitz, Jennifer C. and Johnston, Venerina (2012) Self-rated confidence versus examined competency of safe patient handling from a physiotherapy student perspective. American Journal of Safe Patient Handling and Movement, 2 3: 72-78. Altered trapezius muscle behavior in individuals with neck pain and clinical signs of scapular dysfunction Zakharova-Luneva, Evgeniya, Jull, Gwendolen, Johnston, Venerina and O'Leary, Shaun (2012) Altered trapezius muscle behavior in individuals with neck pain and clinical signs of scapular dysfunction. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 35 5: 346-353. doi:10.1016/j.jmpt.2012.04.011 Work-related upper quadrant musculoskeletal disorders in midwives, nurses and physicians: A systematic review of risk factors and functional consequences Long, Maryann H., Johnston, Venerina and Bogossian, Fiona (2012) Work-related upper quadrant musculoskeletal disorders in midwives, nurses and physicians: A systematic review of risk factors and functional consequences. Applied Ergonomics, 43 3: 455-467. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2011.07.002 Continuing professional development: The missing link Chipchase, Lucy S., Johnston, Venerina and Long, Philip D. (2012) Continuing professional development: The missing link. Manual Therapy, 17 1: 89-91. doi:10.1016/j.math.2011.09.004 Load carriage and the female soldier Orr, Robin M., Johnston,Venerina, Colye, Julia and Pope, Rodney (2011) Load carriage and the female soldier. Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, 19 3: 31-38. Addressing occupational factors in the management of low back pain: Implications for physical therapist practice. Shaw, W.S., Main, C. J. and Johnston, V. (2011) Addressing occupational factors in the management of low back pain: Implications for physical therapist practice.. Physical Therapy, 91 5: 777-789. doi:10.2522/ptj.20100263 Driving with a chronic whiplash associated disorder: a review of patients' perspectives Takasaki, H, Johnston, V, Treleaven, J, Pereira, M and Jull, G (2011) Driving with a chronic whiplash associated disorder: a review of patients' perspectives. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92 1: 106-110. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2010.10.008 Load carriage and its force impact Orr, Robin, Pope, Rodney, Johnston, Vnerina and Coyle, Julia (2011) Load carriage and its force impact. Australian Defence Force Journal, 2011 185: 52-63. Prognostic factors for return to work following Carpal Tunnel Release: Systematic Review Peters, Susan, Johnston, Venerina, Hines, Sonia, Ross, Mark and Coppieters, Michel (2011) Prognostic factors for return to work following Carpal Tunnel Release: Systematic Review. JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, 9 64: s169-s184. doi:10.11124/jbisrir-2011-340 The effect of a scapular postural correction strategy on trapezius activity in patients with neck pain Wegner, Sally, Jull, G, O'Leary, Shaun and Johnston, Venerina (2010) The effect of a scapular postural correction strategy on trapezius activity in patients with neck pain. Manual Therapy, 15 6: 562-566. doi:10.1016/j.math.2010.06.006 Load carriage: Minimising soldier injuries through physical conditioning - A narrative review Orr, Robin M., Pope, Rodney, Johnston, Venerina and Coyle, Julia (2010) Load carriage: Minimising soldier injuries through physical conditioning - A narrative review. Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, 18 3: 31-38. Does self-management for return to work increase the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation for chronic compensated musculoskeletal disorders? - Protocol for a randomised controlled trial Ellis, Niki, Johnston, Venerina, Gargett, Susan, MacKenzie, Alison, Strong, Jennifer, Battersby, Malcolm, McLeod, Rebecca, Adam, Keith and Jull, Gwendolen (2010) Does self-management for return to work increase the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation for chronic compensated musculoskeletal disorders? - Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 11 115. doi:10.1186/1471-2474-11-115 Interactive effects from self-reported physical and psychosocial factors in the workplace on neck pain and disability in female office workers Johnston, V., Jull, G., Souvlis, T. and Jimmieson, N. L. (2010) Interactive effects from self-reported physical and psychosocial factors in the workplace on neck pain and disability in female office workers. Ergonomics, 53 4: 502-513. doi:10.1080/00140130903490692 Contribution of individual, workplace, psychosocial and physiological factors to neck pain in female office workers Johnston, V., Jimmieson, N. L., Jull, G. and Souvlis, T. (2009) Contribution of individual, workplace, psychosocial and physiological factors to neck pain in female office workers. European Journal of Pain, 13 9: 985-991. doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2008.11.014 Orebro musculoskeletal pain screening questionnaire Johnston, V. (2009) Orebro musculoskeletal pain screening questionnaire. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, 55 2: 141-141. doi:10.1016/S0004-9514(09)70049-2 Associations between individual and workplace risk factors for self-reported neck pain and disability among female office workers Johnston, V., Souvlis, T., Jimmieson, N. and Jull, G. (2008) Associations between individual and workplace risk factors for self-reported neck pain and disability among female office workers. Applied Ergonomics, 39 2: 171-182. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2007.05.011 Alterations in cervical muscle activity in functional and stressful tasks in female office workers with neck pain Johnston, V, Jull, G., Darnell, R., Jimmieson, N. L. and Souvlis, T. (2008) Alterations in cervical muscle activity in functional and stressful tasks in female office workers with neck pain. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 103 3: 253-264. doi:10.1007/s00421-008-0696-8 Neck movement and muscle activity characteristics in female office workers with neck pain Johnston, V., Jull, G., Souvlis, T. and Jimmieson, N. (2008) Neck movement and muscle activity characteristics in female office workers with neck pain. Spine, 33 5: 555-563. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181657d0d Quantitative sensory measures distinguish office workers with varying levels of neck pain and disability Johnston, V., Jimmieson, N., Jull, G. and Souvlis, T. (2008) Quantitative sensory measures distinguish office workers with varying levels of neck pain and disability. Pain, 137 2: 257-265. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2007.08.037 Interaction of psychosocial risk factors explain increased neck problems among female office workers Johnston, Venerina, Jimmieson, Nerina L., Souvlis, Tina and Jull, Gwendolen (2007) Interaction of psychosocial risk factors explain increased neck problems among female office workers. Pain, 129 3: 311-320. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2006.10.017 Biological pathways between occupational stress and work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the neck and upper extremity Johnston, V. (2007) Biological pathways between occupational stress and work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the neck and upper extremity. Physical Therapy Reviews, 12 4: 335-345. doi:10.1179/108331907X175023 A cross-sectional study of work-related and lifestyle factors associated with the health of Australian long distance commute and residential miners Ryan, F., Otto, B., Khan, A. and Johnston, V. (2017). A cross-sectional study of work-related and lifestyle factors associated with the health of Australian long distance commute and residential miners. In: World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, (25-26). July 2017. doi:10.1080/21679169.2017.1381324 Is our work as midwives hurting us? Prevalence and risk factors for work related upper quadrant musculoskeletal disorders in midwives Long, Maryann, Johnston, Venerina and Bogossian, Fiona E. (2011). Is our work as midwives hurting us? Prevalence and risk factors for work related upper quadrant musculoskeletal disorders in midwives. In: 29th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives, Durban, South Africa, (). 19-23 June 2011. Load carriage: Minimising soldier injuries through physical conditioning – A narrative review Orr, R. M., Pope, R., Johnston, V. and Coyle, J. (2010). Load carriage: Minimising soldier injuries through physical conditioning – A narrative review. In: PREMUS 2010 book of abstracts. Seventh International Scientific Conference on Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (PREMUS 2010), Angers, France, (401-401). 29 August - 2 September 2010. MUSCLE REST PATTERNS IN THE UPPER TRAPEZIUS AND SPLENIUS MUSCLES DURING TWO COMPUTER BASED TASKS IN EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PAIN Wong, T. L., Johnston, V. and Souvlis, T. (2010). MUSCLE REST PATTERNS IN THE UPPER TRAPEZIUS AND SPLENIUS MUSCLES DURING TWO COMPUTER BASED TASKS IN EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PAIN. In: PREMUS 2010 book of abstracts. Seventh International Conference on Prevention of Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Angers, France, (). 29th Aug – 2nd Sept, 2010. Work-Related Neck Pain in Female Office Workers: A Psychosocial and Physiological Profile Johnston, Venerina (2007). Work-Related Neck Pain in Female Office Workers: A Psychosocial and Physiological Profile PhD Thesis, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland. The knowledge, skills and behaviours required by supervisors to facilitate a return to work after a mental disorder or musculoskeletal injury (2012–2013) Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research Development Grants Does Self Management Increase The Effectiveness Of Vocational Rehabilitation For Chronic Compensated Disorders? (2009–2012) ARC Linkage Projects Can Return to work for compensable patients be predicted in the clinical setting? A pilot trial State of the art wireless electromyography system for clinical research (2008) NHMRC Equipment Grant Work Related Neck Pain: An investigation of the relationship between sensory, motor and psychosocial features in the female office worker (2005–2006) Physiotherapy Research Foundation Dr Shaun O'Leary Professor Michele Sterling Dr Tammy Aplin Development and validation of a simple screening tool to be used by case managers to identify those at risk of non-recovery after a road traffic crash Dr Elise Gane The importance of sit-stand workstations to facilitate a change in sedentary behaviour and impact musculoskeletal discomfort in sedentary office workers. Associate Professor Genevieve Healy Dr Ana Goode Addressing work-related musculoskeletal disorders -- experience from a poultry meat processing plant Associate Professor Asad Khan Characterization of muscle, sensory, and psychosocial features of idiopathic neck pain among sonographers Dr Lucy Thomas Neck/Shoulder and Vision Problems in Surgeons Performing Minimally Invasive Surgeries Dr Margaret Cook The use of standing work stations in relation to low back pain and other musculoskeletal conditions in office workers Dr Michelle Smith Organisational and individual factors influencing participation in workplace-based health promotion initiatives Return to safe driving after upper limb surgery Associate Professor Simon Smith Associate Professor Tracy Comans Impact of a workplace-based ergonomic and exercise intervention for the reduction of neck pain and disability in office workers Refining scapulothoracic kinematic measurement and characterising scapulothoracic resting posture in those with and without chronic non-specific neck pain. Emeritus Professor Gwendolen Jull The development of a novel method of recording centre of gravity location in bipedal stance in healthy adults. Factors influencing return-to-work following upper extremity surgery Driving Difficulty and Performance in People with Chronic Whiplash (2013) Doctor Philosophy — Joint Principal Advisor Dr Julia Treleaven Soldier Load Carriage: A Risk Managment Approach 'She goes home all aches and pains': an investigation of neck, shoulder, and upper back musculoskeletal symptoms in Australian midwives Associate Professor Fiona Bogossian A longitudinal study of risk factors for non-specific neck pain in office workers For Media assistance please contact The Office of Marketing and Communications, (07) 3365 1120 ResearcherID: A-6789-2010 Dr Melinda Martin-Khan Centre for Health Services Research Emeritus Professor Graham Martin Royal Brisbane Clinical Unit Associate Professor Leigh Tooth Human Movement and Sports Science	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line333
__label__wiki	0.647995	0.647995	Fuel Heart by Carissa Johnson, one of my first CJ favorites. Tonight, Carissa Johnson & The Cure-Alls return to the Rock & Roll Rumble stage. As reigning Rumble champions, they will pass the crown to whomever the worthy new keepers will be. These two post-Rumble years have seen the band – and Carissa as a solo artist – tour with little stopping throughout the country. I met Carissa at the 2016 Rumble. Or maybe it was at a Cherie Currie show I did at Brighton Music Hall. I’ll have to find that photo. I was impressed by her style and musical taste (we’ve had conversations about Joan Jett, Mia Zapata, and The Gits) It was real. Not a manufactured aesthetic or a rock look. Plus, they covered Dead Boys “Sonic Reducer” during their Rumble set. Come on. What I came to realize was that I didn’t know a lot about Carissa’s earliest day making music. So I asked. Anngelle: Give me some background. Tell me out how you got your start. When did you first start playing music regularly? Carissa: I started playing out around Boston when I was 15 in a band called Left Hand Blue. We played for about five years then split to go our own directions. I started making my first solo record For Now in 2015 shortly after the split at The Den in North Reading with Doug Batchelder. I didn’t have a band and I wasn’t in the right headspace to start a new one so I did it all myself in the studio and hired friends to play drums on the songs. I did a release at T.T. the Bears on my 21st birthday and shortly after that my band consisted of Tanya Venom of Flight of Fire on guitar and Boston area comedian Alan Richardson on drums. After some line-up shifts during the recording process of Only Roses (2016), Nick Hall took over on drums and Steph Curran took over on guitar. The band has been the trio now dubbed The Cure-Alls (Curran & Hall) for three years this August. We released our album Talk Talk Talk in early 2018 and have toured the U.S. extensively in promotion of that record. A: What are the bands and artists that drew you to rock when you were younger? C: When I was younger my dad would always play music in the car and at home on his stereo. I remember hearing bands like XTC, The Neighborhoods, and Presidents of the United States of America and couldn’t get their songs out of my head. I was drawn to bands like the Beatles and more poppy stuff when I was younger though, then when I was in high school I really felt more connected to what the punk bands were singing about and quickly became obsessed with New York punk bands like Blondie, Talking Heads, and The Ramones, as well as bands like Cheap Trick, the Runaways T.Rex, Billy Idol, and Adam Ant. LISTEN TO TALK TALK TALK A: Your interest in 70s and 80s music is great, how’d you get into it? C: When I was playing in my first band I felt like a total outcast in high school and was just somewhat friends with everyone but didn’t have any best friends besides my two bandmates. Music just kinda got me through everything, and there was this sort of freedom in what the bands were wearing and what they were saying that felt like something I was a part of. I feel like I really found myself through lyrics from bands like The Smiths and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. The songs just seemed to have more meaning to me than anything that was being played on the radio. A: As a nearly-constant touring artist, what has been the welcome experiences on the road? C: Touring has been so incredible, being able to go literally all over the map of the U.S. and meet such a wide range of folks and witness so many different scenes and places. I can’t believe the states I’ve fallen in love with that I never expected to, like Wyoming and South Dakota. As incredible as it has been, it’s had its share of challenges too, but it’s such a nice surprise when strangers who don’t know me at all offer a place to stay, food to eat, or support for just being on the road. Whenever a venue offers dinner or a place to stay it’s always a nice relief, and whenever bands or artists who are on the bills do a great job promoting and get everyone to stay for the entire show, it’s always really fun. Good weather is also always a blessing. Pick 5 with Carissa Johnson & The Cure-Alls! 1] Band member dynamics are fun, right? Introduce us to your band, share nicknames and bad habits. Carissa: Nickname: Any of the misspellings that happen often. My favorite that was written on a show bill once: Clarisa Johns. Bad Habit: Forgetting the set order every show and mixing it up on the band. Steph: Nickname: Stevie Kicks. Bad Habit: Kicking things, including Carissa on stage. Nick: Nickname: Nikki Stixx. Bad Habit: Being too hard to find by the time we have to get on stage. Usually on the roof. One time in LA Steph had to jump in the car to go find him. He didn’t know how far he traveled! 2] What are three records you have played so much you have replaced them in your collection? Carissa: Sahara Hotnights: Kiss & Tell. I’ve literally bought it 5 times. Steph: Dark Side of the Moon Nick: ATeens – Teen Spirit 3] Genres are mind-numbing. Make one up for your band. Trashglam 4] What song do you wish you wrote and why? Carissa: The Story by Brandi Carlile, I think it’s one of the best songs ever written and I feel it in my heart every time I hear it. I’m glad Brandi wrote it though, but woulda been cool to call that one mine! Steph: Precious Things by Tori Amos. It’s probably one of the best piano riffs I’ve ever heard…I’d never get sick of playing it. Nick: Anything by the ATeens. So good. 5] Who among the band is the one you can call in an emergency? You’d definitely have to call Carissa in an emergency because Steph never answers her phone and Nick’s was recently stolen. Carissa Johnson & the Cure-Alls return to the Rumble stage tonight as the special guests, along side Corner Soul, PowerSlut, Set Fire. Music at 9pm. Tickets at ONCESomerville.com/RUMBLE Anngelle Wood Tags: boston emissions, carissa johnson, carissa johnson and the cure-alls, dead boys, finals friday, joan jett, mia zapata, punk rock, rock and roll rumble, rumble, talk talk talk, the gits, the rumble rocknrollrumble Nine nights \|\| The World Series of Boston Rock \|\| Presented by @BostonEmissions \| Sponsors, inquiries: Anngelle@RockandRollRumble.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line343
__label__wiki	0.765029	0.765029	SportsReporters The Games People Play For Pay/An Insider's View of The National Sportscape Mandel’s Musings A Little NHL Cool Sports Videos About Scott Mandel Manning, In Possibly His Last Start for Giants, Beats Dolphins, 36-20 1 month ago sportsreporters Eli Manning heard the ovation from Giants fans one more time in what was possibly the last start of his Giants career Manning threw for two touchdowns against the Dolphins by Scott Mandel EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning threw two touchdowns in what might have been his final home start for the Giants and New York snapped a franchise record-tying nine-game losing streak with a 36-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. Saquon Barkley ran for 112 yards and scored two walk-in touchdowns and New York’s much-maligned defense added a safety as the Giants (3-11) handed the Dolphins (3-11) their second loss in as many weeks at MetLife Stadium. The 38-year old Manning with game ball in post-game locker room Watch Eli Manning run off the field to tremendous ovation from Giants fans: https://www.giants.com/video/eli-manning-receives-standing-ovation-as-he-celebrates-win-with-teammates-and-fa Manning, who lost his starting job to Daniel Jones in Week 3 and got it back last week when the rookie sprained an ankle, threw a 51-yard scoring pass to Golden Tate in the second quarter and a go-ahead 5-yarder to Darius Slayton on the opening series of the second half. The 38-year-old also threw three interceptions, two of which set up by field goals by Dolphins kicker Jason Sanders. With 1:50 left in the game, Manning (20 of 28 for 283 yards) was taken out by coach Pat Shurmur and replaced by Alex Tanney, drawing his second standing ovation from those left in the crowd. He walked to the sideline and was congratulated by teammates while the crowd chanted “Eli Manning.” He even smiled. Ryan Fitzpatrick, whose game slipped after taking a big hit on a third-quarter scramble, threw two touchdowns to DaVante Parker, the second one with the game out of reach. Buck Allen added a late 1-yard TD run in the Giants’ biggest offensive output of the season. This was a game between teams with among the worst records in the league and Manning’s start gave it some meaning, especially for the locals who had seen him run the team since the middle of the 2004 season. With his contract set to expire after this season, the Giants made sure his name was announced when the offense took the field for the second series of the game and he got a standing ovation. Some fans in the stands held up signs: “Thank You, Eli” one read. Manning trots off the field with a minute remaining in the game to huge ovation Manning stole the show in the second half, leading the Giants to three touchdowns on their first five possessions. His pass to Slayton wiped out a 10-7 deficit and Barkley, who had not run for 100 yards in the previous seven games, added TD runs of 1 and 10 yards. The Dolphins took a 10-7 halftime lead on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Fitzpatrick to Parker and a 24-yard field goal by Sanders. Manning and Tate combined on a 51-yard catch and run to tie the game 7-all just 62 seconds after the Parker catch. Previous Giants Fans Hope Eli Manning’s Swan Song This Monday Night Isn’t a Disastrous Game for Immobile QB Next Hey Giants Fans, the Future of your 3-11 Team Isn’t as Bad as You Think Matt Rhule, Born and Raised New Yorker, Cancels Giants Interview to Take Carolina HC Job Giants Fire Shurmur, Retain Gettleman. Can Belichick be in the Mix? Mandel’s Musings: Knicks “Interim” Coach, Mike Miller Has Similar Qualities to Another Interim Hire – Red Holzman Hey Giants Fans, the Future of your 3-11 Team Isn’t as Bad as You Think sportsreporters on Mets Lose to Braves As Alonso Ties Franchise Homer Record istripper crack on Syndergaard Throws Gem, Sending Mets to 6-1 win over Rockies sportsreporters on SportsReporters’ NBA 2019 Mock Draft – Smile Knicks Fans Vintage House restaurant on Horse Race: SportsReporters will occasionally chip in with opinions about the only horse race that matters in this country – The Political Horse Race boutique shop design decoration on Horse Race: SportsReporters will occasionally chip in with opinions about the only horse race that matters in this country – The Political Horse Race High School/College Videos Mandel's Musings NCAA Pro Athletes Political Horse Race 2 weeks ago sportsreporters http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line348
__label__wiki	0.871117	0.871117	RSS \| Newsletters Close Receive Film Events & Features! Daily News & Features from America’s Film & Media Frontier. Published by the San Francisco Film Society COURTESY SFFS Halcyon days: Chick Strand's Loose Ends plays in the Canyon Cinema/SF Cinematheque program at YBCA during the Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival. Remembering Chick Strand Max Goldberg October 23, 2009 This past July 11, filmmaker, teacher and lifelong Californian Chick Strand died at the age of 78. She was, without question, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema. Strand is best known as one of the improbable few who helped instigate Canyon Cinema in the early 1960s, the Bay Area organization that has since nurtured several generations of avant-garde filmmakers. She began at Canyon as an enthusiast and community organizer, but by decade’s end was making her own work—films which, in the best experimental tradition, stretched the cinematic medium to realize a dynamic, idiosyncratic understanding of the phenomenal world. It’s only fitting that Cinematheque and Canyon would stage a tribute to Strand’s work (After Day Comes Night & After That, Day Comes Again: A Tribute to Chick Strand, in San Francisco Cinematheque’s program in SFFS Cinema by the Bay playing at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 23 and and Cinematic Tribute: Films of Chick Strand at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center on October 24); both are direct descendants of the grassroots screenings she helped run nearly 50 years ago. Born in 1931 a fourth-generation Californian, Strand studied anthropology at UC Berkeley before somersaulting into Canyon Cinema via her friendship with filmmaker Bruce Baillie. The organization was itinerant in its early years, floating between backyards, anarchist cafes, schools and community centers. As experimental cinema wasn’t yet an established niche, Canyon took a homebrew approach, mixing lyrical, artisan works with community newsreels and old Hollywood serials. Strand dressed in costume to work the door, Baillie raffled off grape pies: It was Berkeley. If the whole era now seems bathed in the halcyon glow of simpler times, there was also a lot of hard work. In a letter written in 1980, Strand reminisced, "Money for rentals coming from our food money—how I know the feel of all the buildings along Telegraph Avenue and Grant Street—when late at night we would staple up our posters on every empty space." Canyon didn’t merely survive; it thrived. It’s mind-boggling to think Canyon could pull off three weekly screenings without a fixed address or institutional support. Space was a chronic problem ("We were constantly looking for places that would let us show the films—but there was always some reason it couldn’t be done—some law—or the films suspect"), and, according to Strand, they were sure the supply of experimental films would dry up within a few months. Faced with a situation in which nothing was a given, the original Canyon cohort responded idealistically. They established a communal workstation in Ernest ("Chick," confusingly) Callenbach’s basement and, crucially, printed their own news. Canyon became indispensable. As the seeds of Strand’s work began to take root in a better organized avant-garde, she relinquished her supporting role to become a full-fledged filmmaker. Baillie taught her to use a Bolex in the early ’60s, but Strand’s muse carried her south to study at UCLA’s Ethnographic Film Program. That she enrolled as a 34 year-old mother of two—in 1965, no less—tells us something of her audacity. Indeed, though she would later bristle at being called a feminist filmmaker, her work often focuses on tenacity as a common thread of female experience, especially so in her remarkable interview film, Soft Fiction (1979). According to local scholar/programmer Irina Leimbacher’s 1998 article about Strand in Wide Angle, the filmmaker’s collagist process entailed harvesting material over the course of many years and trips and then completing several films over an intensive summer of editing. This working method likely gives the films their loose, associative quality—but if Strand’s style was intuitive, as she often claimed, it certainly wasn’t without its own cohesive preoccupations (how to incorporate multiple perspectives, for example) and formal ingenuities (her non-synchronous soundtracks, in particular, generate shifting plates of meaning). When Strand asserted that she didn’t think of her films analytically, she was at least in part declaring independence from the New York avant-garde scene. Speaking to Gunvor Nelson, she broke things down coastally: "[The East Coast filmmakers] seem to be interested in art movements and philosophies that can be stated verbally, using film as an extension of these philosophies as seen in painting, etc. And West Coast films can be discussed more on an emotional level." If this article seems a little sketchy as criticism, it’s because it’s being written from the perspective of curiosity rather than expertise. Though I knew Strand’s name from the various Canyon histories, I was only introduced to her films four months ago, when Leimbacher included three in her Witness, Monuments, Ruins program for the Flaherty Seminar. Leimbacher told us Strand was ill and that her work had never been featured in the seminar’s long history (it edges out Canyon by six years). By way of further explanation, she wrote me, "Strand’s role in bringing an experimental and sensual aesthetic to nonfiction work is not adequately known by the documentary film community, and by including her work I hope to encourage further engagement with her films." Reflecting more generally about Strand’s unique form, Leimbacher goes on, "Strand’s gaze never objectifies, never romanticizes, and never fixes meaning. Rather, her fluid and mobile camera style and her juxtaposition of conflicting points of view on the sound track create a complex and shifting space where human dignity and grace take precedence over any easy or pat value judgments." The seminar’s tradition of "non-preconception"—which, in practice, means walking into the screening room without knowing what you’ll see—served Strand’s immersive style well. At an event like the Flaherty, the fledgling critic is practically duty-bound to bang his head against the wall to come up with some insight encapsulating the contemporary moment—and then you see something from the archive which so clearly establishes its own terrain, like Strand’s films, and you realize how little any of these pronouncements matter when the work is this strong. Her patterned slippages between memory and storytelling, fiction and documentary, and figure and abstraction cultivate the same fertile terrain as younger filmmakers like Apichatpong Weerasethakul—one could make a fascinating comparison between Soft Fiction and his Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)—but in Strand one senses a filmmaker working outside tradition. For many, these screening will be an opportunity to celebrate a teacher, colleague and friend; and for the rest of us, her remarkable work is reason enough. Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice. Essential SF: Susan Gerhard Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here. Essential SF: Karen Larsen Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist. Joshua Moore, on Location Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’ Essential SF: Canyon Cinema For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene. Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week. 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__label__wiki	0.805887	0.805887	Eye on Iran: Iran's New President Sees All Paths for Nuclear Talks Leading to Washington For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. AP: "Hasan Rouhani knew there was an element of risk. Just a week before Iran's election gatekeepers announced the presidential ballot, Rouhani said one-on-one talks with Washington are the only way for breakthroughs in the nuclear standoff, given that the United States - as he put it - is the world's 'sheriff.' Such a public portrayal of America's importance and the need to make overtures to it undoubtedly rattled a few among Iran's ruling clerics, who decide which candidates are cleared to run. Yet they allowed Rouhani to enter the race, and to the surprise of many, he surged to a runaway victory. Rouhani's repeated emphasis on direct outreach to Washington may now have a chance for real traction among the ultimate decision-makers in Iran - the ruling clerics and the powerful Revolutionary Guard... 'The bottom line is that Rouhani's views are not a wholesale change from the ruling system's. They are pretty much the same on all the central points on what Iran wants,' said Mohammad Ali Shabani, a British-based Middle East expert concentrating on Iranian affairs. 'The issue is over tactics and how to get there.'" http://t.uani.com/14sFngc CNBC: "Wall Street banks are being investigated for transactions that violated sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, Sudan and other countries with ties to terrorism, New York state's chief financial regulator disclosed Tuesday. 'When you see that banks are systematically stripping information from wire transfers to hide the fact that they're doing business with terrorist nations, it makes your blood boil,' said Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the state's Department of Financial Services, the new agency that regulates financial services and products. Lawsky told CNBC's 'Power Lunch' that it's 'surprising' how many banks violate sanctions, adding that his agency is investigating a 'line-up of other banks.' He did not specify the number of inquiries, however, or which banks are being looked at... Last week, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ agreed to pay New York $250 million for deleting information from $100 billion in wire transfers with Iran and other nations on the U.S. sanctions list." http://t.uani.com/12plWSE RFE/RL: "In an unusual move, Iran's minister for communications and information technology, Mohammad Hassan Nami, has acknowledged that the country restricted the speed of the Internet in the days leading up to the June 14 presidential election. 'The reduction of the Internet speed, which some called disturbances, was the result of security measures taken to preserve calm in the country during the election period,' Nami was quoted as saying in a June 25 interview with the Tasnim news agency. It's not clear why the North Korean-educated Nami decided to publicly admit efforts to slow the Internet, a move widely seen as part of Tehran's attempts to disrupt the free flow of information. Iran has a record of slowing down the Internet and increasing online censorship at sensitive times, but officials rarely acknowledge such efforts. Nami said Iran's efforts were aimed at preventing 'foreigners trying to disrupt the election process' from crossing into the country's cyberspace." http://t.uani.com/11HSbRI BusinessTech (South Africa): "The Democratic Alliance has raised further questions relating to MTN's operations in Iran, which have come under immense scrutiny since initial claims of bribery were brought against the mobile operator by Turkcell in early 2012. In July 2012, South Africa suspended Yusuf Saloojee, its former ambassador to Tehran, pending an investigation into his ties to MTN. Saloojee was named in a Turkcell suit against MTN for allegedly taking a $200,000 bribe from the SA mobile operator to help it win an operating license in Iran. However, in October 2012, the DA determined that that the ambassador was back at in post, while an investigation into acts of bribery was still in progress." http://t.uani.com/10UOl97 Al-Monitor: "For the first time since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran is offering production-sharing contracts (PSCs) for investment in its upstream energy field, which involves exploration and production stage of the hydrocarbons industry. The contracts, which allow oil companies to more quickly recoup their investment expenses than the buy-back arrangements Iran had previously favored, could help the Islamic Republic attract desperately needed new cash and expertise and alleviate the impact of draconian sanctions and competition from its neighbor, Iraq. The National Iranian Oil Co. has offered such a contract to an Indian consortium of three companies: ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. and Oil India Ltd. This contract is for developing the offshore Farzad B gas field in the Farsi block in the Persian Gulf. Negotiations over developing the Farzad B gas field had been in process with the Indian consortium since early 2009." http://t.uani.com/14x7nQf Reuters: "Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Wednesday urged Qatar's new Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to revise his country's policy of backing Syrian rebel groups. 'Hopefully Sheikh Tamim will contemplate the Syrian issue and regarding past policies, he will make a serious revision so we will be able to ... join hands and tackle the Syrian crisis,' Salehi told a news conference in Tehran, broadcast by Press TV." http://t.uani.com/11HKJ96 Bloomberg: "When Hassan Rohani won Iran's presidential election this month, he garnered more votes than when his predecessor swept to power eight years before. He also gained a larger list of things to fix. Rohani, 64, a lawyer, cleric and former diplomat, inherits an economy that under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was defined by falling oil exports because of international sanctions, accelerating inflation, a currency collapse and enduring unemployment. He's also confronted by a political scene marked by squabbling over how to drag Iran out of the mire amid pressure from the U.S. and European Union over its nuclear program, which Israel has vowed to curb by any means. 'This Iran is going to be much harder to manage,' said Cliff Kupchan, director for the Middle East at New York-based political risk consultants Eurasia Group. 'Rohani has much more of a mandate than Ahmadinejad had, while the country is in a lot more trouble today than it was in 2005." http://t.uani.com/11HQJyM FP: "A paragraph from the Ph.D. thesis abstract reportedly written by Iranian President-elect Hassan Rowhani at a Scottish university in the 1990s includes a paragraph that appears to be largely lifted from a book by a prominent Islamic legal scholar... The Farsi-language website, Khodnevis.org, run by the Washington, D.C.-based Iranian dissident blogger Nikahang Kowsar, posted an article today noting that a paragraph in the Ph.D. thesis appears to be lifted from a book by Mohamed Hashim Kamali, an prominent Afghan-born Islamic legal scholar who is now the founding chairman and CEO of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies in Malaysia." http://t.uani.com/149QfRr Dennis Ross in NYT: "The election of Hassan Rowhani as Iran's new president has created a sense that there are new possibilities of progress on the nuclear issue; we need to respond, but warily. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, allowed Mr. Rowhani to win the election recognizing that he had run against current Iranian policies that have isolated the country and invited economically disastrous sanctions... None of this means there will be a nuclear deal. Even if he were given the power to negotiate, Mr. Rowhani would have to produce a deal the supreme leader would accept. So it is far too early to consider backing off sanctions as a gesture to Mr. Rowhani. We should, instead, keep in mind that the outside world's pressure on Iran to change course on its nuclear program may well have produced his election. So it would be foolish to think that lifting the pressure now would improve the chances that he would be allowed to offer us what we need: an agreement, or credible Iranian steps toward one, under which Iran would comply with its international obligations on the nuclear issue. Our bottom line here is that Iran must be prepared to change its program so that it does not have a breakout capability to develop nuclear weapons. The real question for ourselves is whether we should change our approach to diplomacy with Iran, now that a new Iranian president has advertised his desires to end Iran's isolation and the sanctions imposed on it, and to repair the "wound" that he has said exists between the United States and the Islamic Republic. Until now, we have taken an incremental, confidence-building approach within multilateral negotiations with Iran, but they have probably already run their course. Indeed, while our side (the United States, China, Russia, Germany, Britain and France) negotiated with Iran on and off for the last several years with no results, the Iranians were dramatically expanding the numbers of centrifuges they had installed to enrich uranium. They now have roughly 17,000 and have succeeded in upgrading to a new generation of far more efficient centrifuges. Those developments have shrunk the time we have available to ensure that the Iranians cannot break out and present the world with the fait accompli of a nuclear weapons capability. So we may have time for diplomacy, but not a lot. We should move now to presenting an endgame proposal - one that focuses on the outcome that we, the United States, can accept on the nuclear issue. And we should do so even if our negotiating partners - particularly the Russians - aren't prepared to accept such a move, since the clock is ticking. We should give Mr. Rowhani a chance to produce, but the calendar cannot be open-ended. Diplomacy often boils down to two simple elements: taking away excuses for inaction and providing explanations for a deal that could be struck. On the first point, the Iranians say they don't know what we will accept in the end. The answer should be that we can accept Iran's having civil nuclear power but with restrictions that would make the steps to producing nuclear weapons difficult, as well as quickly detectable. Our offer should be credible internationally; if Iran was not prepared to agree to it, the Iranians would be exposed for not being ready to accept what they say they want. Indeed, if we make a credible proposal that would permit the Iranians to have civil nuclear power with restrictions, it would allow them to save face for themselves: they could say the proposal was what they had always sought and that their rights had been recognized." http://t.uani.com/15FmgPk WSJ Editorial Board: "When Tony Blair's government established the U.K. Supreme Court in 2005, we worried that this new institution would become a vehicle for judicial activism. But who would have suspected it would start conducting its own foreign policy? Last week the nine-member court struck down financial sanctions imposed in 2009 against Mellat Bank of Iran. Until earlier that year, Mellat was wholly owned by the Iranian state, which still retains a 20% direct stake. The U.S. Treasury added Mellat to its sanctions list in 2007 and has long maintained that the bank is a financial conduit for nuclear-weapons programs. Mellat denies the charges. The U.K. Supremes, however, held that cutting Mellat Bank off from access to the British financial system was 'irrational' and 'disproportionate.' Irrational because Iran's ayatollahs could use other banks, including other Iranian banks, to meet their financing needs; and disproportionate because the U.K. Treasury hadn't proved to the court that Mellat was complicit in financing nuclear proliferation. In its opinion, the Court cites two main examples of Mellat's involvement with Iran's nuclear program but waves them off on grounds that the bank says it ended those relationships years ago. It also held a closed-door hearing to examine evidence that the U.K. government didn't want revealed to the public or the defendant, but the Court concluded that this secret evidence added nothing important to the case. The Court's majority opinion includes all the expected niceties about not conducting foreign policy from the bench, before proceeding to do exactly that." http://t.uani.com/11HPdwv Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. 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__label__cc	0.635716	0.364284	Virtual Projects (Random LTSpice Files) VLF/Whistler Amplifier Here's a simple circuit for connecting to a vertical whip or long wire antenna for receiving audio frequency signals (see http://www.techlib.com/electronics/VLFwhistle.htm). The antenna plus cable should exhibit about 330 pF of capacitance to ground so add shunt capacitance as needed. This circuit is intended for setups where the antenna is connected via a fairly long piece of coaxial cable. The notch frequency may be adjusted slightly by adjusting the 535 pF capacitor so that should consist of a fixed value, perhaps 470 pF and a variable trimmer, say 0 to 100 pF. Adjust the trimmer for the deepest null of the line frequency. The 5 megohm could also be adjusted in a similar manner with the theoretical value being near 9.8 megohm for 60 Hz. The FET may be any of a number of types suitable for microphone amplifiers; I also like the J201. the 5k and 5 volt power source represent the circuitry on a typical soundcard. Just connect the drain of the FET to the tip and ring. The main problem with this approach is that there's no isolation between the receive ground and the usually-noisy computer ground. For those with unlimited funds, there are fiber optic USB extenders that will break the connection but a USB preamplifier would be needed at the antenna end. A more economical approach would be to replace the FET with a ground-sensing FET op-amp (the CA3140 is still sold) and use the output of the op-amp to drive an audio "interstage" transformer. The circuit would then run on batteries or a small power adapter. OK, this has moved on from being virtual: I made this for a friend and it's every bit as flat as the Spice plot. This needs to replace most of my other front-ends! Here's an op-amp version. The op amp can be any number of FET input types, especially JFET types which have fairly rugged input stages. Note the unusual feedback to the bottom of the twin-T filter. That voltage bootstraps the bottom of the T, reducing the loading effect of the 4.9 megohm resistor. The 4.9 meghom resistor could be a 4.7 meghom in series with a 150k and a 100k pot and the 527 pF capacitor could be a 470 pF in parallel with a 47 pF and a 20 pF trimmer. Those variables would allow the notch to be fine-tuned, if desired. The 27 mH chokes are molded types - nothing special. This circuit is best for longer cable setups. Note the 500 pF at the input; that represents a fairly long coaxial cable to the antenna. Such a long cable significantly attenuates the signal but the RLC filter is much lower noise (about 25 nV/root-Hz) than the typical 1 megohm resistor (about 125 nV/root-Hz) often used at the front-end of such receivers. The result is that the atmospheric noise is well above the electronics noise for reasonably good op-amps by about the same amount as traditional receivers with direct connection to the antenna but with that 1 megohm in series. Note the nice, flat response out to 100 kHz followed by a steep drop thanks to the RLC filter. RC filters are adequate and eliminate the need for the inductors (see the next schematic). Here's a transistor version for direct connection to a short antenna as with a portable receiver. (Add about 39 pF to ground across a 1 meter antenna to get close to 50 pF.) Notice that the source of the JFET drives the bottom of the twin-T notch filter, increasing its Q and reducing the loading caused by the filter. This circuit also uses unusually high reactances in the notch filter to help reduce the loading. The 11 megohm and 240 pF may be a combination of parts as described above for fine-tuning the notch or the notch can be fine-tuned one time with fixed components. This circuit is quite low noise and will work well with just about any antenna setup. The roll-off of the AM band isn't as steep as with the RLC filters above but the attenuation should be sufficient. The 15 and 10 pF caps may be increased for a lower frequency corner. The output may be taken at the 6.8k and a buffer is recommended here. The voltage is about 9 volts on the drain and that can be used to drive a simple emitter-follower. Very Low Noise Amplifier This file is a bipolar transistor low noise amplifier intended for low impedance sources. Note the very ordinary parts. Ordinary bipolar transistors like the 2N2222 or 2N4401 exhibit suprisingly low voltage noise, typically below 0.7 nV down to low audio frequency. There is significant noise current but for low impedance sources below about 1k ohm, that current noise doesn't contribute much to the total. The amp probably exhibits about 1 nV input-referred noise. The circuit has an input resistance of about 22k ohms and an input capacitance of around 100 pF, both determined by increasing the 100 ohm input resistor to find the 3 dB point. That 100 ohm resistor isn't part of the amplifier and represents the typical impedance of the signal source. The 1.1k resistor is selected to get exactly 40 dB gain. Removing the feedback resistor will result in about 65 dB gain with a roll-off just over 100 kHz. Current consumption is about 7 mA with a 9 volt supply and the output swing is about 4 volts, p-p. Remember to always put a cap across the power supply - it isn't necessary in Spice but it is in the real world. For this circuit, I'd use a few hundred ufd. The circuit is useful for amplifying the noise from a low-Z source like a power source or regulator (to measure the supply's noise output), diode mixer producing a baseband signal (after a low-pass filter that removes the sum frequency), dynamic microphone or speaker-as-microphone, low-resistance transducer, etc. Use metal-film resistors for best noise performance. Crystal Earphone Blaster This file is an experimental audio amplifier that will drive a crystal earphone with lots of voltage while consuming only about 500 uA. Crystal earphones exhibit a high impedance to audio and a high voltage is needed to make them really loud. The bias scheme is from a National Semiconductor application note from many years back. I think it was for the LM394. The bias is similar to connecting a resistor from the collector to base, but the second transistor acts like an emitter-follower for that collector voltage. The scheme thereby also biases the second stage with that emitter being about a half a volt above the first transistor's collector. In addition, that emitter voltage is bypassed by the 10 uF so there is little AC feedback which would reduce the gain and input impedance. The gain is set by a negative-feedback voltage divider (the 270 ohm and 68k) and by the step-up ratio of the transformer. The 270 ohm may be increased (up to about 10k) to lower the gain from 1000 to as little as 35. The resistor may be lowered for more gain, but the input impedance will begin to fall. Thanks to the feedback, the input impedance is high, about 500k. (Increase the 1000 ohm generator resistance to 500k and the gain will drop in half. That 1000 ohm is not needed in actual use.) The transformer is a 6:1 audio type with an 84 Hy primary and 2.33 Hy secondary. Note: the primary connects to the earphone. Other types will work, including lower turns ratios. Right-click on one of the inductors and you will see that I also included the measured DC resistance of the windings. Stepping up the voltage with a transformer saves battery current and drives the earphone with more voltage. Notice that the swing is over 12 volts p-p below. With the values shown this is a very low noise amplifier, probably below 4 nV/root-Hz. An input potentiometer could be added as a volume control, perhaps a 200k pot from signal to ground with the wiper going to the input capacitor. The transistors are not critical so feel free to try other small-signal types. TL592B/ LM733 Update: Here's a better version where I changed some of the transistors to get a more realistic frequency response This one uses a single gain resistor and doesn't have the tuned circuit input. I naively copied the schematic of a TL592 right out of the data book and selected some appropriate values. It seems to work pretty well when compared to working circuits! This particular file simulates 60 kHz coming from a short antenna into a simple tuned circuit. The parts in the box may be deleted and replaced with other external circuits. The gain resistor is split in two at the emitters, but that can be done in any number of ways - feel free to make changes. For example, you could remove the short between the two collectors and connect a single gain resistor between the emitters. I was interested in the possibility of injecting a current here to make an active mixer (a different project altogether). Here's a homemade model for the LM6325 buffer with a few guesses for values. There's a source voltage and a capacitor-coupled 50 ohm load included. It seems quite similar to the actual part. Antenna Unit for SID Receiver This file is a preliminary idea for a SID antenna unit that will cover the useful SID frequency band between a few kHz and about 100 kHz. The input impedance is high so a short antenna will be sufficient and the overall gain is inverting which helps with stability. If it turns out to need more gain, the 680 ohm resistor may be lowered and a little more gain can be had from this relatively slow op-amp. The JFET could be a J309 or possibly a lower current J201. I biased the JFET to have several volts from drain to source and to have about V/2 or a little more on the drain. Replace the 15 pF with a .01 uF or something above 100 pF. The 15 pF simulates the antenna, a meter-long whip. LM386 Spice model (LTSpice) Here's an LM386 LTSpice model that seems to work exactly like the real thing. I've added a few odd current sources to more accurately simulate the real part. Transistors were chosen to give a quite similar frequency response. (If you don't have these transistors switch to 2N2222 and 2N2907. Drag the .asc file into LTSpice to change the transistors or make other mods then save. Restarting LTSpice is sometimes necessary to see changes.) The zipped folder contains this schematic, a symbol and simple instructions for installing both. Your new part will appear in the AutoGenerated component folder. I've also included a typical audio amplifier circuit to try.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line372
__label__wiki	0.685169	0.685169	Patent Cronyism Posted in America, Europe, Law, Microsoft, Patents at 8:52 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: False representation of European and international interests by Microsoft and a US ambassador IT IS bad enough that patent lawyers hijacked the patent system which was intended to serve scientists; many politicians have a professional background in law and they too are not helping as the interests they serve are tied to their mates whom they possibly went to college with. In the near future we’ll try to gather the evidence we already have and present examples. In the mean time, FFII complains that “Barroso harms the dignity of his office” because Microsoft is hosting the Government Leadership Forum: As the President of Microsoft International I had the honour of hosting the Government Leadership Forum (GLF) in London. An event that unites government leaders from across Europe as well as from the EU institutions. GLF always provides a dynamic, and at times challenging debate, and this year was no exception. Is Microsoft managing Europe now? Techrights must have missed the memo. This screws up European policies and documents like EIFv2, as we’ll cover in the next post. The FFII adds: “Are they afraid of the end for Irish tax dumping?” For those who don’t, Microsoft has arranged it such that Ireland will serve as its tax haven in Europe. That’s another example of laws being written by corporations, for corporations. How absurd and outrageous it must be now that Ireland’s economy is collapsing. A lot of this nonsense actually comes from across the Atlantic and “US Ambassador To The UN” claims that “Protecting Patents & Copyrights More Important Than Development”, suggests TechDirt. Here is the analogous article about the US ambassador. It says: Despite the gains in patenting in capitals, “this group in Geneva seems hell-bent on shortening these patents and creating more exceptions.” She suggested these countries may be motivated by an attempt to boost the market for their domestic generic drug industries. International intellectual property laws come with built-in exceptions and limitations to the monopolies and exclusivity the rights grant. But King said that “if you create too many exceptions to a rule, you may as well not have the rule.” Europe is besieged by US partisanship which subverts copyright and patent laws in Europe (Wikileaks/Cablegate has fortunately just derailed the subversion of Spain’s copyright law). We mean not to offend US citizens but rather to help them see the rogue element which they ought to get rid of, also for their own sake. Watch this disturbing news from TechDirt, which opines that gene patents too can be legitimised in the US following this thing: Yet, as we worried, last year the appeals court (CAFC), as it has done so often, sided with the patent holders. This summer, when the Supreme Court decided Bilski, one thing it asked CAFC to do was reconsider the Prometheus case. It’s now done so, and nothing much has changed. Once again, CAFC has said that basic diagnostic tests may be patentable. Many also think (probably correctly) that this is a good indication that CAFC will also reverse a lower court ruling in the Myriad Genetics case, concerning whether or not genes are patentable. If diagnostic tests are patentable, why not genes? Of course, all this really means is that sooner or later the Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in again, and hopefully it won’t punt the issue like it did in Bilski. This is cheered by patent lawyers, but what about all those who are not just taxing the entire system? The patent system was not originally designed to just provide jobs to more lawyers. Something is terribly distorted here. █ Permalink Leave Your Comment Send this to a friend Peter and Emil Add Microsoft Slant to Ars Technica (and Note on Imposters in General) Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 8:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: When reporting becomes cheerleading and coverage about Microsoft merely promotion of one’s own business interests AS we pointed out dozens of times before, despite Ars Technica being an excellent site in general, two authors who are dedicated to covering Microsoft over there are doing a poor job and one can argue that there is no reason to have an area/section designated just to Microsoft in any such news site. Is the site about technology or about brands? That’s a key question which Digg.com had to face some years ago when it added a “Microsoft” section/category and annoyed many users by doing so. A few days ago we explained that Microsoft had planted patent traps inside Firefox (Spanish translation), but watch how the Microsoft spinners of Ars Technica (Peter in this case) spin it: Microsoft is “being too nice to competition in effort for interoperability” “They have vested interests that they try to hide, albeit poorly.”Oh, really? Now that’s one heck of a quote to demonstrate delusion. It’s also an attempt to spin something negative (patent-shoving) as a positive (cooperation). That’s the same line of reasoning used by Microsoft Florian to confuse people. As always, be very careful of Microsoft spinners. They have vested interests that they try to hide, albeit poorly. One example of this is Alex Brown, whose business profits from the Microsoft relationship. We mentioned him some days ago for his threats against me (after I had leaked OOXML) and he occasionally tries to hide his bias using posts like this one about search neutrality. He is trying to show he’s not in Microsoft’s pocket by pointing out the obvious — a bias which people showed repeatedly as Microsoft has been doing this for years. Curious now, I enter into “free office download” into Google and again get the OpenOffice.org Site. Performing this with Bing I’m given a page for Microsoft® Office™ downloads and add-ins. One must not be fooled. Brown is a big promoter of Microsoft® Office™ and he made a career for himself selling this crack to British public institutions. █ ARM Noise Amplified While Channel Stuffing Allows Microsoft to Give Fake Phone Numbers to the Press Posted in Hardware, Microsoft at 7:57 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: Microsoft moves to ARM-flavoured hype and potentially distracts from the terrible news about its epic failure in the mobile space Seven seven seven seven. Branding is all that's left at Microsoft and the same old tactics are being used on ARM chips, which are the latest thing to be excessively hyped up in the corporate press. The matter of fact is, Vista 7 is no success story, it’s possibly a marketing success story. Even Microsoft boosters like Preston Gralla are discouraged enough to admit that ARM won’t save Windows. This whole strategy is doomed to fail because not much is compiled for ARM in the form of .EXE files. Third-party applications are the major selling point of Windows, so what good will ARM be in such a proprietary (strictly precompiled and thus binary-only) universe? The situation is abysmal for Microsoft and accompanying products like Vista Phony 7 [sic] merely continue a tradition of Microsoft failures in mobile. It sure seems like Microsoft tries to bury this bit of news. Based on this announcement from Microsoft, despite it being Christmas shopping season with a lot of marketing (half a billion dollars allocated to Vista Phony 7 [sic] advertising), only pathetic quantities/unit numbers of phones were shipped to stores (not customers). Be careful of the numbers’ meaning; As Microsoft spinner Bott reluctantly admits, when Microsoft says 1.5 million phones it does not talk about real sales. Pogson puts it like this in reference to the Microsoft boosters from ZDNet: UPDATE Mary-Jo and Ed Bott report that M$ claims 1.5million WP7 phones have been sold. It may be that the channel partners have swallowed the bait… No word on activations by consumers. One reader of ours mailed us what he called “Latest Windows Phone 7 news” and it’s this bunch of statistics showing that Vista Phony 7 [sic] is nowhere to be seen and not gaining, either. Over the past three weeks, for every one Windows Phone 7 impression we see, there are 110 Android impressions and 172 iPhone impressions. That number is remaining relatively stable, with very little significant market share growth in WP7. ZIff Davis gives “10 Reasons Why … Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Shipments Fail to Impress”, summarising it as follows: Microsoft mobile device partners shipped 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 units to carriers during the first six weeks of its availability, according to Microsoft officials. Microsoft is not sharing these numbers out of pride. It just needed to say something before the end of the year. The employees had loose lips, so people already knew that sale numbers sucked. Well, they realised they couldn’t hide it forever, just hype it. Now we have something concrete to play with, but all we know is the number of phones collecting dust on shop shelves or warehouses. It’s not easy to estimate just how many people actually bought Windows phones. All we know is that Microsoft fails in the mobile market and it will try using patents instead, as means of extracting money from phones that are winning, notably those with Linux as their underlying platform. █ Permalink A Single Comment Send this to a friend Novell’s Last Moments of Public Humiliation Posted in Site News at 7:12 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Original image from Wikimedia Summary: Novell’s inexcusable servitude to Microsoft is going public and resentment ensues NOVELL is a dead company and maybe it’s something to write an entire book about (more on that in IRC logs). Basically, a lot of people begin to realise that Novell never cared so much about software freedom (the more gullible folks fell for PR). Rui Seabra, for example, writes that “Microsoft paid Novell to fake support for OOXML, aswellas to promote it (not neutral, as claimed)” (Rui links to Groklaw’s latest on the subject [1, 2]). Robert Pogson, a GNU/Linux advocate, titles the whole thing “Novell’s Shame” and claims: Novell agreed to work for M$ to appear to be making OpenOffice.org work better with OOXML when in reality they were making it work better with a subset of Office 2010. They did things like “skip over” unrecognized content. How’s that for improving interoperability? It’s a sweet deal to allow M$ to claim they were interoperable while they were not. The words of Hawn are not enough to keep people optimistic about OpenSUSE and Jason from The Source writes in response: My favorite bit: the “intention to establish a SUSE business unit on par with the existing Attachmate and NetIQ business units”. And since we all know how the existing Attachmate and NetIQ business units have lit the Linux world on fire with innovation and contribution, this can only be a fantastic development. There is not much activity in the OpenSUSE universe these days, but there are exceptions [1, 2]. What will be left of Novell inside AttachMSFT [sic] is probably proprietary software, only a subset of which will stay maintained. Novell serves as a cautionary tale to anyone who considers partnering with Microsoft. █ Microsoft Genuine Crack Posted in Microsoft, Office Suites at 6:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: “Genuine Advantage” getting the kick explained by bloggers The title is ambiguous as it may refer either to cracking one’s registration process or the spreading of crack, the banned drug. Actually, the title can be either one of these things. As we explained earlier, Microsoft’s “Genuine Advantage” withdrawal is sign that dead products from the giant take their toll and expand to basic territories. Some products that are close to Office are among the casualties. Matt Hartley explains why stepping away from “Genuine Advantage” makes sense for Microsoft: It was fun while it lasted. According to at least one report, Microsoft has shut down Office Genuine Advantage (OGA). And I hate to say it, but no one is going to be missing this any time soon. I’m sorry, but there was absolutely NO advantage with Genuine Advantage. It was a horrid thing to subject paying customers to and it is long overdue for a toilet based funeral in my opinion. Glad to see Microsoft stepped up to put it out of our misery. OpenBytes goes further by tackling this conundrum with a memorable quote: As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. Source: Bill Gates There have been numerous articles around the net that Microsoft has killed off OGA (or in Microsoft’s words “retired”). Microsoft “retiring” OGA should, for once, be a good news story from Redmond. Or should it? There is no doubt to me in the obvious surge of popularity for FOSS or even proprietary alternatives to Microsoft products. Its been said that the two main cash-cows Microsoft has remaining (in lieu of its patent portfolio and a predicted more aggressive patent attack) are Office and Windows. We see products like OpenOffice taking users away from that cash cow, LibreOffice, AbiWord, Google Docs are but a few that are taking a bite out of Microsoft’s cash pie. Could the OGA retirement be an attempt to achieve that which Bill Gates envisioned those years ago, where it appears Microsoft was quite happy for people to pirate their products in order for this “addiction” to take place? Afterall, why should the majority of users spend money on Microsoft Office, when there are free alternatives? The challenge now is ensuring that Bill Gates is pushed away from school children (which he is taking over using the Gates Foundation) so that they don’t get “addicted” (Gates’ word) to Microsoft Office and other forms of lock-in. █ The Open Invention Network Upsets Microsoft, Grows Bigger Posted in GNU/Linux, KDE, Microsoft, OIN, Patents at 6:42 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: KDE joins OIN (Open Invention Network), the defensive patent pool which seems to be a concerning development to foes of GNU/Linux THE OIN is on a roll. Some days ago the ‘umbrella’ organisation of LibreOffice joined the OIN following several others who sought defence from the patents Novell tactlessly gave to Microsoft et al [1, 2]. The H is yet another publication which covered it following Glyn Moody’s claims that the OIN is “in the spotlight” amidst interesting new developments. We could not be happier seeing that Microsoft Florian loathes the OIN because it means that OIN is indeed harming Microsoft’s agenda. OIN is mostly the creation of IBM (Rosenthal roots) and whilst IBM is not against software patents, they would have prevailed in the US even without IBM’s involvement, so IBM’s engagement in defence of Free software using patents is a nice addition to its high-profile sponsorship of the FSF, which praises OIN on occasions (Microsoft Florian mocks the FSF, just as he mocks anything that’s a threat to Microsoft because it cannot embrace and extend it). The latest addition to OIN is KDE, which had the news announced here, discussed in some places like this LWN discussion thread, and then covered here: Open Invention Network (OIN), the company formed to enable and protect Linux, today extended its community with the signing of KDE as a licensee. By becoming a licensee, KDE has joined the growing list of organizations that recognize the importance of leveraging the Open Invention Network to further spur open source innovation. The ‘smell test’ for institutions that claim to be supporting software freedom often ought to be Microsoft’s reaction, applied in reverse. Later on we’ll show that EIFv2 is bad news, based on Microsoft’s reactionary statement. █ Links 22/12/2010: Red Hat Net Income Up 59 Percent, Linux 2.6.37 RC 7, Nautilus 3.0 Posted in News Roundup at 5:29 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Haxor hacks AirPlay to run on XBMC Linux rig We have seen plenty of hacks for AirPlay that extend the service and allow it to operate on things that Apple never really intended. Last month AirPlay was hacked to run on all iDevices for sending video. Linux rules the Clouds Today, December 20th, Ubuntu is running 4,840 instances on EC2, followed by CentOS, with 1,250, Fedora with 313; Oracle with 80; and Red Hat with a mere 73 instances. That’s a grand total of 1,716 for the Red Hat family, which means that Ubuntu is doing more than twice as well as all the Red Hat variants put together. Amazon EC2 Cloud Benchmarks As said in the introduction, benchmarks from other Linux distributions / AMIs will be forthcoming in the new year along with results from other, more powerful EC2 compute instances. We also invite your feedback on other cloud computing benchmarks you would like to see. How the New York Times covered the election with Amazon The Times maintains an interactive news department to serve website readers with graphs, charts and other enhanced content. Over time, the department has built up a cloud software stack to serve these projects, Koski said. Typically, the department’s projects are written using the Ruby on Rails framework, with the data stored on a MySQL database running on Amazon’s RDB (Relational Database Service). The Web apps themselves are run on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Red Hat delivers solid third quarter results Red Hat on Tuesday delivered strong third quarter results as it continued to ride along with the server and data center upgrade cycle. The company reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $26 million, or 13 cents a share, on revenue of $235.6 million, up 21 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 20 cents a share. Wall Street was looking for earnings of 20 cents a share on revenue of $227.3 million. Red Hat 3Q Earnings Match Street Estimates Linux software developer Red Hat Inc. said Tuesday that its third-quarter net income rose 59 percent thanks to demand for virtual computer systems and so-called cloud computing services, in which applications and data are housed on distant servers. Red Hat profit rises on ‘strong’ demand Business software maker Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) reported higher quarterly profit, echoing optimism about the technology spending climate shown by bigger industry companies last week. Audiocasts/Shows Free as in Freedom: Episode 0×05: Inducing Fryers Bradley and Karen welcome special co-presenter and guest, Aaron Williamson, to discuss the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA Supreme Court case. Kernel Space Linux 2.6.37-rc7 PhotoFilmStrip 1.4.0 (Stable) Released With A New User Interface, Customizable Aspect Ratio, More PhotoFilmStrip 1.4.0 was released yesterday, bringing (some of these features were already available in the unstable version like you can read in our PhotoFilmStrip review) a new user interface, customizable aspect ratio (16:9, 4:3 und 3:2), copy and paste for motion positions, Flash-Video renderer, a new transition (roll), better audio support, keyboard shortcuts and more. Lost laptop locater app ‘Prey’ hits version 0.5 No-one goes out of their way to lose their laptop let alone have it stolen. Usually in these situations there is a slim chance of getting you laptop back – providing it has your address scrawled on the back like a label in the back of a 5th graders’ coat. Muon Suite 1.1 Beta 2 The second beta of the Muon Package Management Suite (as well as its supporting library LibQApt) version 1.1 is now available. The focus of this release is to fix bugs found during the testing of the first beta, as well as UI tweaks to the new Muon Software Center. Packages for K/Ubuntu 10.10 are available from the QApt PPA. (Of interest are the muon and muon-installer packages) Packrat Apps: GCStar Does It Your Way, Tellico Does It Pretty, Kabikaboo Does It Clean GCstar Collections Manager stores details on each item and can be tailored for additional information such as location or to whom you lent it. It lets you search and filter your collection by many criteria. Tellico specializes in tracking eclectic collections such as your books, videos, music, liquor inventory and anything else. It comes loaded with many default templates for cataloging books, bibliographies, videos, music, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, comic books and more. Kabikaboo is a simple tree-branch note organizer. At first blush, including it with the other two picks this week might seem to be a stretch. Designed initially as an aid in tracking notes for writing things like novels, it is a tree-based note pad. This makes it ideal to plan a book or any other complex project involving structured notes or organized outlines. Instructionals/Technical MySQL Backup and Restore CentOS 5.3: Encrypted Block Devices Streaming Video from iPad and iPhone to Linux How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 14 Desktop (Kernel 2.6.35) Easily Upload Images To Facebook Using Nautilus Facebook Uploader How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 10.10 (Kernel 2.6.35) 20 Popular Command-Line Tips for Linux cd – change directory Linux tips Bobby Digital: In 5.1 Surround The Autostart folders in KDE/Linux 6 Expect Script Command Line Argument Examples Up and Running with KVM Ubuntu Style: Part Two A simple user primer for init How to install Gnome in Slackware 13.x Working with bezier curves and nodes in Inkscape Windows 7 and the Linux desktop (PART 2) The emacs 30 Day Challenge: A glimpse of BBDB, The Insidious Big Brother Database and gnus Quick and simple web log grepper in Perl Enhancing the colors of your photos Bazaar Overlay news The Official Ubuntu Book, 4e: Welcome to the Command Line Popular sandbox game Minecraft hits beta release Linux Gamers will Buy For the next three days you can donate any amount you wish and receive each of the following DRM free, cross platform games: * Braid * Cortex Command * Machinarium * Osmos * Revenge of the Titans The cost of buying each of these games separately would be around 85$. Your Humble Bundle just doubled Christmas is approaching and the crazy sales are starting. How can a humble bundle stay relevant? Well, I heard you guys liked bundles so I decided to put a bundle in your bundle. All six Humble Indie Bundle #1 games are now included on your download page. K Desktop Environment/KDE SC) My New Laptop Review Ok, it’s been over three weeks since when I got my windows-free laptop. During this time, I’ve ran KUbuntu 10.10 with KDE 4.5.? for about a week, then I moved to KDE trunk as usual and now it’s time to share my two cents (and personal random thoughts and rants) about this laptop GNOME Desktop Nautilus 3.0 Last week, Cosimo Cecchi, Nautilus hacker extraordinaire, sent a message to the Nautilus list setting out a plan for 3.0. Before I get onto that, I want to give a shout out to Cosimo. He’s a total hero when it comes to Nautilus: not only does he take care of a much of the (substantial) maintenance work that is required, but he also takes UX really seriously and has been working hard to get the Nautilus UI into better shape. The next release is already going to be really nice thanks to his efforts. Thanks for your hard work, Cosimo! Passport is not acceptable ID? Review: Slackware 13.1 Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution, and it brings with it, alongside its famous rock-solid stability, a couple of quirks and anachronisms. For example, it is one of the few distributions that provides no form of dependency management; users need to install all dependent packages manually. A Tinkerers Top 5 Distributions of 2010 The Unity project, not to confuse with the desktop environment, has had their first full release in July 2010 and have recently updated with a second point release. On Distro Watch Wait Listing If you have been exploring the world of Linux for any amount of time then odds are you have come across the website Distro Watch at some point or another. Top 10 Linux distributions Puppy Linux is the smallest release on this list. Openwall Linux 3.0 brings new features Marking nearly 10 years of Openwall GNU//Linux, the Openwall Project developers have released version 3.0 of Openwall. Openwall GNU//Linux, also known as Owl for short, is a small, security-enhanced distribution of Linux aimed at servers, appliances and virtual appliances. PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandrake/Mandriva Family Mandriva Wallpaper Contest Winners Chosen Mandriva was holding a contest for desktop background wallpapers to include in its next release, Mandriva 2010.2. This morning the winners were announced. Red Hat Family Red Hat (RHT) volatility flat; shares near record 10-year high into EPS and cash flow outlook Potential Red Hat (RHT) Trade Has 6.68% Downside Protection Red Hat notches 21 percent revenue growth for third quarter Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) stayed on pace Tuesday in its march toward becoming a $1 billion a year revenue producer, reporting third-quarter revenues of $235.6 million. Should SMBs Consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6? The question is whether RHEL6 is the right answer for your business. The cheapest subscriptions from Red Hat cost $349 a year for “self-support,” and about $800 a year for a “standard” server subscription with Web-only support and a two-day response window. The prices go up from there, and if you want a premium support package for a heftier machine (4-sockets, or CPUs) with unlimited virtual machines, it’s going to set your business back nearly $4,000. Note that this is Red Hat’s SMB pricing, its regular pricing is a bit higher for the higher-end products — but oddly its low-end pricing is the same. RHEL 6 is built, and priced, for big shops There’s always a sense of finally when a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is released. We always know what’s coming in the new OS, and generally we know when it’ll be available, but we’re still working with rapidly aging packages on the previous version and drumming our fingers for the next release. Red Hat revenues up 21 per cent Revenues rose at an impressive rate for open source experts Red Hat in the last three months. The company reported its third quarter results today, showing revenues of $235.6 million (£152.4 million), up by 21 per cent from the same period last year. Red Hat vs. Windows for server share: The battle just heating up [Note: they only measure revenue] Debian Family Canonical/Ubuntu Ubuntu Font added to Google Font Directory The Ubuntu font family has been added to the Google Font Directory, allowing web developers the world over to use the font on their site. Ubuntu Font Now Available on Google Font Directory The Ubuntu Font Now Available For Any Website Through Google Font Directory Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web Guest Post: Laura MacPhee on the Canonical Contributor Agreement I’ve been finding it difficult to balance my work on the GNOME and Ubuntu documentation recently. Apart from the usual lack of time, the increasingly divergent directions of the two projects have seemed difficult to reconcile in the help we provide. Ubuntu has always customised GNOME, but with the recent announcement that Ubuntu 11.04 will default to Unity rather than the new GNOME shell, I think we may have lost a great deal of the practical documentation compatibility between the two. This is a shame, because the differences between shells are really only superficial. Unfortunately, details matter in user help. Project Unity L10N We all know about Unity, the project that is changing the way we interact with our computer by bringing a consistent user experience and a solid, elegant design for desktop and netbook users. We want to make sure Unity is for everyone, and one of the key aspects to make it possible is that it is available in everyone’s language. Intelligent boot splash greeter Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an ‘ambient boot splash’ proposal we featured at the end of October. Linux Mint 10 Review First off, my apologies for such a late showing of this review. I always take notes as I test a new distro and I was going to write this review using my handy-dandy Android app, so I took my little paper and stuck it in a pocket..somewhere. I finally located it today, which is the reason for my tardiness. Now that my groveling is complete, awayyyy we go! Flavours and Variants Pinguy OS – Probably the Best Ubuntu Derivative I have Ever Used! Pinguy OS is undoubtedly the best Ubuntu derivative I have used and I won’t mind rating it even above Linux Mint. I would prefer a much lighter version of Pinguy OS though. So, next time when a wannabe Linux user comes to me asking for a good Linux desktop that just works, Pinguy OS will be my first choice. It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness “Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!” proclaims Engadget. “This is only possible because Android’s security is crap and it’s exploited easily to gain root priviledges [sic]” adds a commenter. You’ll have to excuse me if I strongly disagree. The Nexus S, like the Nexus One before it, is designed to allow enthusiasts to install custom operating systems. Allowing your own boot image on a pure Nexus S is as simple as running fastboot oem unlock. It should be no surprise that modifying the operating system can give you root access to your phone. Hopefully that’s just the beginning of the changes you might make. Last Minute Deals on Sprint Android Smartphones Still haven’t found that last minute gadget goodie? Stuff a stocking with one of Sprint’s Android smartphones. From AndroidTapp.com’s top 2010 smartphone pick HTC EVO 4G to Sprint ID packing Samsung Transform, we’ve listed last minute holiday deals. Google: carriers should give Android users freedom to unlock bootloader In a statement on the official Android developer blog, Google security engineer Nick Kralevich highlighted the relative openness of Google’s new Nexus S smartphone, confirming that it provides a simple and easy way to unlock the bootloader for the purpose of installing third-party firmware—much like its predecessor, the Nexus One. Kno ships educational tablets EDUCATION HARDWARE MAKER Kno has started shipping its single-screen and dual-screen 14.1-inch touchscreen Linux-based tablets. Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010 The CENATIC Foundation, in keeping with its objective of raising awareness about open source technologies, regularly releases research reports that study the different aspects of open source software. 2010: The Year in Free and Open Source Software Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, suggested to me that Oracle has still to develop a coherent free software policy, but the decisions made by individual corporate units have caused shockwaves throughout FOSS in the last year — everything from a campaign to prevent Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL by Monty Widenius to the forking of LibreOffice from OpenOffice.org (see below). Such reactions leave little doubt that the community lacks confidence in Oracle as a steward for its FOSS acquisitions. 2010 LLVM Developers’ Meeting Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Codendi, OpenERP, SpagoBI Open Source Business Intelligence Intro – This webinar illustrates the state of the art of Open Source BI and provides an overview of the main solutions available for DWH and BI suites. Mozilla to unload Firefox 4 spit and polish beta Firefox is due to release an eighth Firefox 4 beta. Not to be confused with a fourth Firefox 8 beta. The latest test version of Firefox 4 – due for an official debut next year – was scheduled to go live on Tuesday. Mozilla hasn’t added any new tools, but according to the release notes, the open sourcers have polished a few things, including the browser’s Sync service, which synchronizes bookmarks, history, and other setting across multiple devices; its WebGL 3D rendering tech; and its add-ons manager. ‘Do Not Track’ Coming to Firefox 4 Hard on the heels of Microsoft’s decision to offer “do not track” functionality in its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser comes word that Mozilla is planning a similar move for its Firefox 4. Revised Mozilla Public License — Beta 1 In March of this year we kicked up a process to update the Mozilla Public License. We recently released the first beta of the MPL 2.0 and we believe that this beta is now feature complete, meaning that it addresses all major known issues. Of course if there are policy changes that come up and need to be made we will address them. We’ve kept both OSI and the FSF appraised of our efforts. We’ll be submitting the final versions for approval, and we believe that the MPL 2.0 meets all requirements for approval of these organizations. Google open sources ‘$5m’ in Java Eclipse tools Google will open source two of the Java Eclipse coding tools it acquired with its purchase of Java-obsessed outfit Instantiations. Less than five months after paying an undisclosed sum for Instantiations, Mountain View has announced that it will donate the source code and IP for Instantiations’ WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler tools to the open source community via the Eclipse Foundation. According to Google, the code and IP is worth more than $5m. Google launches open source YouTube channel Google has launched an official YouTube channel for its Open Source Programs Office (OSPO). According to Google Open Source Team member Ellen Ko, the new channel is aimed at organizing videos related to Google and other open source projects in a single place. Facebook: Why our ‘next-gen’ comms ditched MySQL The winner was HBase, the open source distributed database modeled after Google’s proprietary BigTable platform. Facebook was already using MySQL for message storage, the open source Cassandra platform for inbox search, and the proprietary Haystack platform for storing photos. But in the company’s mind, HBase was better equipped to handle a new-age messaging system that would seek to seamlessly juggle email, chat, and SMS as well as traditional on-site Facebook messages. Draft MariaDB trademark policy For the curious: the MariaDB project has posted a draft trademark policy. They try hard to cover all the bases. Proposal for MariaDB trademark policy We wanted to make something that should work well, both for open source and commercial usage (and yes, I know that in some cases these are one and the same), which is not very common with many other trademark policies. My belief is that by having a very liberal trademark policy we will create a bigger ecosystem around MariaDB which will help all of us. gbuild: Meet the new boss (Same as the old boss) Checking that nothing (or almost nothing) needs to be rebuild is faster. On a sample system (Notebook with Core2Duo, 2 GHz) on Windows XP (anti virus software installed), rechecking that nothing needs to be done for module sw takes 7 sec with a warm cache. On the same machine build.pl/dmake took 210 sec with the same “full” header dependencies. Drupal 7 to be released on January 5th (with one ginormous party) Drupal 7 has been a multi-year effort on behalf of over 1,000 contributors. Since February 2008, we’ve manged to make enormous improvements; it is a true metamorphosis for designers, developers, and administrators. The last months we’ve seen Drupal 7 getting steadily closer to its release and critical issues dealt with one by one. Release management is not always easy, and I’ve always based my decisions part on data, and part on my “gut”. Both are indicating that it is time to release Drupal 7. It is important to all of us in the Drupal community. Drupal 7, the cocoon and the butterfly I feel the same way about Drupal 7. Seeing Drupal 7 getting steadily closer to its release, is like watching a cocoon grow into a butterfly: the inevitable results are going to be spectacular. Release management and fixing bugs is hard work, the work of a determined caterpillar. However, I think Drupal 7 will be quite a metamorphosis relative to Drupal 6. Not only will it look different, it will function differently — making users and developers feel like Drupal spouted wings. Allegations of OpenBSD Backdoors May be True, Updated In further developments, de Raadt said yesterday that Angelos had worked on the cypto stack in question for four years when accepting a contract at NETSEC. Angelos “wrote the crypto layer that permits our ipsec stack to hand-off requests to the drivers that Jason worked on. That crypto layer ontained the half-assed insecure idea of half-IV that the US govt was pushing at that time. Soon after his contract was over this was ripped out.” de Raadt further said, “I believe that NETSEC was probably contracted to write backdoors as alleged. If those were written, I don’t believe they made it into our tree. They might have been deployed as their own product. If such NETSEC projects exists, I don’t know if Jason, Angelos or others knew or participated in such NETSEC projects.” Audits and overall basic cleanup of code continues. FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC Free Software, Free Society It feels like every day this past year, we woke to news of an assault on our freedoms engineered through software: companies pilfering from our free software commons, device manufacturers remotely deleting ebooks behind readers’ backs, Big Media hatching new schemes for digital restrictions and spying, and governments around the world conspiring to expand and coordinate their digital subjugation of citizens. The word “community” gets bandied about, but in these times, it really is important that we build professional and social solidarity around a core set of ideals. It’s critical that we hang together, both to advance our positive ideas for a better world and to stop those trying to turn software against its users. From its beginnings, free software has been about community. Project Releases OpenDJ 2.4.0 Release Notes OpenDJ is a new LDAPv3 compliant directory service, developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available and secure store for the identities managed by enterprises. Its easy installation process, combined with the power of the Java platform makes of OpenDJ the simplest and fastest directory server to deploy and manage. Croatia signed the eCall Memorandum of Understanding Openness/Sharing Welcoming Cathy Casserly as the new CEO of Creative Commons As we come to the end of this year’s fundraising campaign, I asked the organizers to let me write you to tell you about an extraordinary birthday present that Creative Commons received on its 8th birthday last Thursday. You probably know that for the past two years, Creative Commons has been incredibly fortunate to have the pro bono leadership of our CEO, Joi Ito. Joi is a successful internet investor. He has been at the birth of companies such as Moveable Type, Technorati and Twitter. For the past 7 years, he’s also been a key leader on our board. But by far his most important contribution began two years ago when my own commitments made it necessary for me to step down as CEO. With the organization in a pinch, he volunteered to take the lead, again, as a volunteer. Everyone recognized at the time that this sort of sacrifice could only be temporary. Yet from the time he stepped up, my biggest fear was that when he could no longer make this sacrifice, we would have no one comparable to tap. Last Thursday, I was proven wrong. An open plea to video content providers So what does that have to do with video delivery? For starters, we’re seeing a similar reluctance to give consumers easy access to shows. What’s worse is that the video industry is even more ripe for monetization than the record industry of 1999. Media convergence devices and software such as Boxee (Linux-based), GoogleTV (also Linux-based), and others are attempting to bring together all video content on the web in one device. Christmas Carols From The London Sewers India thinks Western software technology is ‘bugged’ INDIA IS STILL PLANNING to develop its own proprietary operating system (OS) rather than use “bugged” Western systems. “Second part is software. Most of us use commercial software available in the country. We have got Windows and some use Linux. These software packages are likely to be bugged.” Now Yahoo Says Delicious Will Live On…Somewhere Else Yahoo! just posted a statement on the official blog of Delicious, the popular social bookmarking service it was reported yesterday to be in the process of closing down. The blog is hard to reach due to traffic, so we’ve posted the full text below. Bloomberg Plans a Data Service on the Business of Government Bloomberg Government as D.C.’s Daily Racing Form Bloomberg’s operation, Bloomberg Government, which will have 150 journalists and analysts on staff by the end of 2011 and a complete staff of 300, will charge $5,700 per user. The Bloomberg Government unit joins a Bloomberg News bureau of 175 journalists. Politico Pro intends to charge on a sliding scale, the New York Times reports—”$1,495 to $2,500 a year for the first topic and $1,000 for each subsequent topic.” The Times was silent on whether the Politico Pro subscription would include a sluice box, pan, and dry washer. Meanwhile, one of the granddaddies of high-price policy journalism, Atlantic Media’s National Journal, has used buyouts to dismantle and rebuild itself into a Web and print harvester of free and premium Beltway news across its brands—NationalJournal.com, National Journal Daily, National Journal, National Journal Hotline, and more. Meanwhile, CQ Roll Call, owned by the Economist people, keeps on keeping on with its own lucrative Chinese menu of data services and publications for observers of official Washington. Spintronic memory gets a breakthrough An international group of researchers has figured out how to encode information within the spin of an electron, a technique that may one day lead to smaller, faster memory for computers. Security advisories for Tuesday Keeping an email address secret won’t hide it from spambots But I’ve had a published email address for more than a decade. It’s pretty much the only email address I use (more on this later), and yes, I get a lot of spam there. But I’m not convinced that keeping an email address secret is anything but a fool’s errand. The main reason to keep one’s email address secret is to hide from the spambots – those nefarious snafflers of unguarded email addresses that act as input for all the unsolicited email that unscrupulous huxters and scammers firehose over our inboxes. Defence/Police/Aggression Police officer charged with Adam Nobody assault A Toronto police constable accused of assaulting G20 protester Adam Nobody has become the first and only officer charged in connection with allegations of excessive force at the June summit. Officer charged by SIU in Adam Nobody G20 case The Special Investigations Unit has issued an announcement that “Constable Babak Andalib-Goortani has this morning been charged with assault with a weapon” in connection with the arrest of protester Adam Nobody during the G20. SIU charges Toronto police officer with assault during G20 The G20 protester whose violent arrest was caught on video and caused controversy when no officers were initially held responsible said he’s glad a police officer has been charged. But protester Adam Nobody and his lawyers called on Toronto’s police chief on Tuesday to help identify other officers who were involved in the case. Toronto police Const. Babak Andalib-Goortani was charged Tuesday with assault with a weapon in the takedown of Nobody at the Ontario legislature during the June summit. Police officer charged in G20 beating US Pressured Italy to Influence Judiciary The CIA rendition of cleric Abu Omar in 2003 turned into a headache for Washington when a Milan court indicted the agents involved. Secret dispatches now show how the US threatened the Italian government in an attempt to influence the case. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was apparently happy to help. Recording the Police This is all important. Being able to record the police is one of the best ways to ensure that the police are held accountable for their actions. Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty. Forced openness in government — open government laws, Freedom of Information Act filings, the recording of police officers and other government officials, WikiLeaks — reduces the power imbalance between government and the people, and increases liberty. Feds want reporting for high-powered rifle sales Moving to crack down on gun smugglers, the federal agency that monitors weapons sales is asking the White House for emergency authority to require that dealers near the Mexican border report multiple purchases of high powered rifles. The NYT spills key military secrets on its front page Cablegate Lessons from WikiLeaks: decentralize, decentralize, decentralize Whether or not Wikileaks turns out to be a watershed in politics, there’s another question of more immediate interest to the open source world: can the latter learn a key lesson from the measures taken against the Wikileaks operation? Sweden’s case against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange In an interview with CNET, attorney Claes Borgström said, “I’m getting e-mails where people ask me how much the U.S. administration pays me to pursue this case.” He denies any connection, emphasizing that his clients are two ordinary Swedish women who have no motive to interfere with WikiLeaks document-sharing activities, which have increasingly irked the U.S. government. “In fact, both my clients are supporters of WikiLeaks,” he said. Julian Assange sees himself as “A martyr without dying” Speaking from the mansion in south east England that he is forced to stay at under the terms of his bail (or “Hi-tech house arrest”, as he described it in the interview), Assange discussed what WikiLeaks had achieved and how he sees himself. It appears he views himself as a martyr and is still perfectly happy with himself and the actions he’s taken following his recent jail time. Speak Out Against the Inhumane Imprisonment of Bradley Manning! Please take action TODAY to speak out against the intolerable conditions of Brad’s imprisonment. A press release we sent out today detailing some of those conditions and pointing to other reporting on the topic follows. Daniel Domscheit-Berg Denies Rumor of Assange-Israeli Deals WIKILEAKS NEWS & VIEWS for Tuesday, the Day 24 Blog 2:25 Hypocrisy Alert: Sarah Palin in new op-ed for USA Today hits Iran by citing cables leaked by man she has attacked strongly — Julian Assange. Goes on and on about it in key opening paragraph. Two weeks ago she wrote on Facebook that he should be hunted down like Osame bin Laden, adding: “He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.” Today: Hey, Julian, baby, thanks for the cables on Iran! Flanagan again Am I the only one angry that the current administration of the University of Calgary doesn’t think Tom Flanagan has done anything wrong? In case you missed it, Tom Flanagan, formerly a mentor/adviser to our sitting Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, currently a Political Science professor at the University of Calgary, broke the law while on the CBC news program “Power and Politics with Evan Solomon” when he “counsel[ed] other persons to commit offences.” The indictable offence he advocated was the assassination of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Tom Flanagan was a chief of staff and policy adviser for the Prime Minister of Canada. WikiLeaks critic Sarah Palin now citing leaked cables The Nation’s Greg Mitchell, who’s been blogging obsessively on WikiLeaks, points out that Sarah Palin is now citing revelations from the leaked cache of State Dept. cables just weeks after condemning Julian Assange. Assange: “Already… we have changed governance” [Updated] Later, in response to a question of whether he sees himself as a “messianic” figure, Assange replies with what’s sure to become a widely quoted line: “Everyone would like to be a messianic figure without dying.” Wikileaks ACTA cables and US secrecy demands The Guardian has posted two Wikileaks cables that focus on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The first is from Italy in November 2008. It provides a useful reminder that the U.S. at one time hoped to conclude the ACTA negotiations by the end of 2008 (and the George Bush term). Doug Casey on Wikileaks Doug: The whole idea of Wikileaks is terrific. They’ve become one of the most important watchdog organizations on the planet, helping to expose a lot of government action for what it really is. WikiLeaks continues to fund itself via tech startup Flattr Article 13 and PFC Bradley Manning Military courts have consistently asserted Article 13 protection broadly to protect servicemembers awaiting trial. Illegal pretrial punishment can take many forms. The most common examples are unreasonable or harassing restraint that creates an appearance that the servicemember is guilty and onerous pretrial confinement conditions. Article 13 provides that pretrial confinement should not be “more rigorous than the circumstances require to insure” the servicemember’s presence at court. “Conditions that are sufficiently egregious may give rise to a permissive inference that an accused is being punished. . . .” United States v. King, 61 M.J. 225, 227-28 (C.A.A.F. 2005); see also United States v. Crawford, 62 M.J. 411 (C.A.A.F. 2006). Arbitrary or purposeless conditions also can be considered to raise an inference of punishment. King, 61 M.J. at 227-28 (citing United States v. James, 28 M.J. 214, 216 (C.M.A. 1989)). A defense motion for Article 13 credit is generally made before pleas are entered. As such, the first time this issue can be raised is once the case is referred to a court-martial. The issue of whether there is a violation of Article 13 is litigated in a pretrial motion hearing. At this hearing, the defense may call witness and the accused may testify concerning the nature of the pretrial confinement conditions. The defense carries the burden by a preponderance of the evidence to show a violation of Article 13. Assange’s rape charges (grabbing the third rail) On Twitter I see random messages making broad statements about men re the rape charges against Julian Assange. I think we’re going into dangerous territory, and there’s a good chance we’re being manipulated, and before it goes too far, I want to try to moderate it, and talk about what we know and what we don’t know. Permanent link to this item in the archive. 1. As far as I know there aren’t any charges against Julian Assange, in Sweden or elsewhere. Permanent link to this item in the archive. 2. What I’ve read in the Guardian about the charges sound to me like he might not be a very nice person. But where I come from, that is not a crime — nor is it in Sweden, which seems like a fair country. Permanent link to this item in the archive. 3. Rape is awful. But I think it’s almost as awful to falsely accuse someone of rape, because that’s going to radically change an innocent person’s life, for the worse. And it’s so easy to do, it’s one person’s word against another’s. Permanent link to this item in the archive. Wikileaks: All 250,000 cables reported leaked in Norway According to a report today in Norway’s top business publication, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has managed to get a hold of the entire “Cablegate” database of some 250,000 diplomatic cables—Wikileaks has not granted any news organization this access, and has instead been providing access to relatively small batches, one at a time (what the Herald Sun calls “drip-feeding”). How did Aftonbladet get access? They won’t say, and Wikileaks won’t either, but one guess could involve the database being stored on a server within Norway. We Open Governments: WikiLeaks for Beginners (Part 1 of 3) Love him or hate him, Julian Assange has become the (rather handsome, if a bit pasty) face of the global movement for government and corporate transparency. Through WikiLeaks, Assange has, arguably, helped release more classified information than the rest of the entire world press combined. Assange says this reveals the “perilous state of the rest of the media” and rightly asks how a team as small as his could accomplish such a feat in just four years of existence. WikiLeaks has hit all the bases – the media, governments, and corporations are all scrambling to address the consequences of the leaks. Beyond the damage control and the dirty tricks, a radical and fundamental shift in the balance of power is underway. Let’s just say that folks aren’t calling Assange an anarchist for nothing. But what is the rationale behind WikiLeaks, its methods, its goals? Don’t expect an answer from the media. The reasons behind the project have long been overlooked by the mainstream press, captivated as it is with its own sensationalistic ‘hit pieces’ on Assange month after month and its alarmist or just plain misguided attempts to explain how and why WikiLeaks presumes to “open governments” as only it can. Environment/Energy/Wildlife That snow outside is what global warming looks like The weather we get in UK winters, for example, is strongly linked to the contrasting pressure between the Icelandic low and the Azores high. When there’s a big pressure difference the winds come in from the south-west, bringing mild damp weather from the Atlantic. When there’s a smaller gradient, air is often able to flow down from the Arctic. High pressure in the icy north last winter, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, blocked the usual pattern and “allowed cold air from the Arctic to penetrate all the way into Europe, eastern China, and Washington DC”. Nasa reports that the same thing is happening this winter. This Bonus Season on Wall Street, Many See Zeros Bonus season is fast approaching on Wall Street, but this year the talk does not center just on multimillion-dollar paydays. It’s about a new club that no one wants to join: the Zeros. Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch Accused Under RICO Perrenial warrior against naked short selling and Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne has amended a previously filed lawsuit against Goldma Sachs and Merrill Lynch to include charges under New Jersey RICO laws. The original lawsuit, filed in the California superior court in San Francisco, alleged that Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch unit engaged in a “massive, illegal stock market manipulation scheme” that involved so-called naked short-selling. Why Is CNBC Trying So Hard to Defend Insider Trading? I have an opinion about CNBC. I believe this network comes to the aid of Goldman Sachs, other major Wall Street firms, and the insider trading syndicate. I believe that this company has an interest in luring retail investors into the investment trap that is the stock market. This is purely my opinion, but there are some tell tale signs that my opinion may be true. No one is accusing CNBC of taking money from Goldman Sachs. No one is accusing Jim Cramer, or CNBC editor John Carney (formerly of Clusterstock), or Erin Burnett of taking money from the TBTF banksters or anyone else directly. PR/Murdoch EC OKs News Corp’s Sky Bid, Saying People Don’t Want Bundled Media Anyway The European Commission’s antitrust investigators say competition would not be weakened if News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) buys the 60.9 percent of UK satcaster and telco BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) it doesn’t already own (case notes). What Vince Cable said about Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB Vince Cable to stay on as Business Secretary Business Secretary Vince Cable will stay in cabinet despite “declaring war” on Rupert Murdoch, says Downing Street. But he will be stripped of his powers to rule on Mr Murdoch’s bid to take control of BSkyB, which will be handed to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Downing Street said David Cameron believed Mr Cable’s comments about Mr Murdoch were “totally unacceptable and inappropriate”. Fox News Chyron Identifies Elie Wiesel As “Holocaust Winner” Venezuela: Who Dominates the Media? As can be seen from the table, as of September 2010, Venezuelan state TV channels had just a 5.4 percent audience share. Of the other 94.6 percent of the audience, 61.4 percent were watching privately owned television channels, and 33.1 percent were watching paid TV. Vince Cable: I have declared war on Rupert Murdoch Vince Cable’s career was hanging in the balance today after it was revealed that the business secretary told two undercover reporters he had “declared war” on Rupert Murdoch and said: “I think we are going to win.” His Labour shadow, John Denham, said the business secretary’s comments, which referred to his intervention on public interest grounds in News Corporation’s bid for full control of BSkyB, should raise “grave doubts” for the prime minister, David Cameron, over Cable’s integrity and judgment. Censorship/Privacy/Civil Rights Queen set to outlaw ID cards today The bill abolishing the National Identity Scheme is expected to gain royal assent later today. The Home Office said that it expected the identity documents bill would be passed into law on 21 December. As a result, existing ID cards will be invalid for use in a month’s time. Home office minister Damian Green said the bill’s passing will also allow work to begin on the secure destruction of the National Identity Register. “Photographs, fingerprints and personal information that were submitted as part of the application process for an ID card will be destroyed within two months,” he wrote in an article for Guardian.co.uk. Japanese woman sues Google for displaying images of underwear A Japanese woman is suing Google for displaying images of underwear hanging on her washing line on its Street View function. Bite-Size Privacy and Anonymity # Privacy is the lifecycle of secrets once you have chosen to share them. Anonymity is where an act is publicly known but the actor is not. # Privacy is the duty to respect the data that has been disclosed to you. Anonymity is the right not to disclose the data in the first place. The smartphone that spies, and other surprises The use of mobile management tools can help, as they can disable cameras and so forth on several popular devices. The catch is that the devices have to be actually managed — a person who brings in a personal device and never accesses the corporate network won’t ever get managed by IT’s mobile management tool. Plus, even for managed devices, the tools today aren’t sophisticated enough to, say, disallow use of the camera within the employer facilities but allow it elsewhere, to prevent only problematic photo-taking. 2010 Trend Watch Update: Location Privacy Looks like we hit the nail on the head with this one. As we recounted just last month in the post “Location, Location, Location”, location privacy was a huge issue this year both in the courts and in Congress. It’s also been a big focus of our work here at EFF, where we brought home two major court victories that strengthened your rights against location tracking by the government, whether through your cell phone or a GPS device attached to your car. European Blog Action against Censorship in Hungary On January 1st, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the EU Council. On the same day, a controversial new law will come into force that even the OSCE’s media freedom representative has openly criticised – arguing in a recent report that “regulating online media is not only technologically impossible but it exerts a chilling, self-censoring effect on free expression.” Internet/Net Neutrality/DRM Why is international data roaming so expensive? How high are international data roaming rates? I have direct evidence from two providers: an Italian provider TIM charges about $10 per megabyte; a U.S. provider T-mobile charges $15 per megabyte. The typical business user uses receives about 15 megabytes per day of email. My smartphone uses about four times this. By way of contrast, you can buy a SIM from Vodafone UK with 30 megabytes of data for about $30. Wifi at the airport or a hotel runs about $10-$60 per day. Over-the-air prices charged to local customers is much lower: TIM charges $25 per month for 5 gigabytes of data, of which probably about 2 gigs is actually used, so the effective rate is about $0.0125 per megabyte. T-mobile in the US charges a similar amount for similar service., Estonian shops started selling e-books Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality — Tuesday Betrayal Assured Late Monday, a majority of the FCC’s commissioners indicated that they’re going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule. According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrow’s FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet. Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free I have always loved humor and laughter. As a young engineer I got an impulse to start a Dial-a-Joke in the San Jose/San Francisco area. I was aware of such humor services in other countries, such as Australia. This idea came from my belief in laughter. I could scarcely believe that I was the first person to create such a simple service in my region. Why was I the first? This was 1972 and it was illegal in the U.S. to use your own telephone. It was illegal in the U.S. to use your own answering machine. Hence it also virtually impossible to buy or own such devices. We had a monopoly phone system in our country then. FCC: We didn’t impose stricter net neutrality regulations on wireless because Android is open Now, we obviously love Android, and there’s no doubt that Google’s OS has been part of some wonderfully furious competition in the mobile space recently. But we’re not sure any of that has anything to do with net neutrality — it doesn’t matter how open your OS is when you’re stuck with a filtered and throttled connection, and it’s a pretty huge stretch to think Android’s openness (however you want to define it) has anything to do with network access itself. Today will define the Internet THE IRONICALLY TITLED LAND OF THE FREE today will decide if people and companies with money should have better and faster access to the worldwide web. Giant Internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast and Verizon want to offer better access to corporations that can afford to pay for it. Standing in their way is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has the power to issue regulations to protect net neutrality. Like we mentioned yesterday, unfortunately for the US the FCC has been keen to listen attentively to corporate interests, and draft regulations written by FCC chairman Julius Genachowski suggest that the telecoms and ISPs will win almost all they wanted. Intellectual Monopolies Rise of the fashion trolls A funny thing happens as a Congressional session comes to a close. Priorities, whether political or policy, rocket to the surface. It becomes a war of attrition, of who can keep things ‘out of sight, out of mind’ before people get tired and want to go home. But, there are always numerous pieces of legislation that don’t get much love either way. The problem is, although they technically “go away” for now, the ideas behind them aren’t dead. One we could easily miss is this year’s “Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Act.” Its focus? Bringing copyrights to fashion design. This legislation (S.3728) has been around in some form or another since 2006. Now, I never thought I would be writing about fashion and government on opensource.com, or anywhere else, but here we are. Planet Money brought this whole issue to my attention in a short, but worthwhile piece. Clearly, clothing and accessories, however utilitarian or avant garde, aren’t software. But, their design is still a creative endeavor, and likewise one that borrows heavily from previous works. Govt asks businesses for views on intellectual property The Government has asked businesses how it can help them to make more use of intellectual property (IP) assets. It has also published details of the review it will hold into IP growth. It said that it wanted to focus particularly on the use of IP by small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and what it could do to help them to derive greater benefit from creative or inventive work. The Intellectual Property Office, part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has published the call for evidence to support its review into IP growth. My Blackberry Is Not Working! – The One Ronnie, Preview – BBC One Credit: TinyOgg Links 22/12/2010: Kno is Out, Tiny Core Linux 3.4 is Released Posted in News Roundup at 3:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz The Kno Starts Shipping Tomorrow The monster 14.1″ screens set it apart from every other tablet on the market, and the customized Ubuntu OS makes it potentially more versatile as well. ARM makes its attack on the server market official ARM Holdings has officially acknowledged its plans to take on Intel in the server market. However, CEO Warren East is quoted as adding that ARM licensees won’t begin to erode Intel’s market share until 2014. Graphics Stack Oh Hey, X.Org 7.6 Is Finally Released For Christmas! The past few days I’ve been wondering whether or not X.Org 7.6 would make it out in 2010 or not. After all, this X.Org katamari update was supposed to be here in August after X.Org 7.5 was released in October of 2009 and the 7.6 release was delayed to November. The release of X.Org 7.6 didn’t come in November, but there was one release candidate but not much information since. This afternoon, however, Alan Coopersmith has announced the final release. OMG! 5! – Five ‘lightweight’ music players Everyone loves lightweight music players. Well, maybe they don’t but here are 5 less well-known and/or up-and-coming entries well worth checking out anyway. Two Open Source Software Alternatives to Cron A few weeks ago, we looked at using Corntab to make it easier to create entries for cron. What if you want to avoid cron altogether? You can, thanks to several cron alternatives. 18 Applications You Need to Install and Experience After Installing Ubuntu We have already featured a post dedicated to things you should do after installing Ubuntu, now lets take a look at the applications/softwares to install after installing Ubuntu. Please bear in mind that this is a post meant for newbie Ubuntu users primarily. New Idea About Chat Program Clementine 0.6 Gets Lots of New Features – Review and Installation in Ubuntu Clementine gains more and more popularity with its port to KDE4 based upon the Amarok 1.4 player, and the latest version bundles a fair amount of new features. In case you didn’t try it yet, Clementine is a free, cross-platform music player available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Before proceeding let me say that this is a really, really improved release which shows a good amount of work has be put into it. I liked the installation support offered by Clementine. The official website contains builds for various Linux distributions, including Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu Maverick and Lucid and Fedora. Opera 11 Review Opera 11 offers 30 percent enhanced Web performance Script of the Week: Monitor Disk Space My Ubuntu Webcam Setup Setting Up Remote Graphical Desktops on Linux How To Send Desktop Notifications on Ubuntu Using notify-send How to install Nvidia drivers in Fedora 13 and 14 How many processes each user is running in Linux WINE tips: How to associate IrfanView with an image file type Gmail Video chat In Mandriva Installing and configuring net-SNMP package on RHEL How to remove elements from your photos without using the clone tool Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 14 Scribus: Managing Colors Osmos Review Osmos released this year from developers, Hemisphere Games. It’s a puzzle game, based on physics, and set in the ambient world of Osmos. The world is very elegant and space-like. Introducing K16 and the Future of KDE Where will KDE be in five years? To answer this question, we plan to bring together visionaries, strategists, planners, out-of-the-box-thinkers, realists, dreamers, doers, creators, leaders, coders from the KDE community and everybody else who is interested in discussing the future of KDE and picturing what it will be. Ailurus – the Gnome pimp Tweaking your desktop into a semblance of beauty and style has always been the ultimate goal of any self-proclaimed geek, be they Windows users or Linuxoids. However, in general, Windows people had it easier; they just downloaded this or that tweaking program and had their desktop transition from a beast into a beauty within seconds. Linux users always had it much harder, especially Gnome people. KDE shows pretty much any setting there is, but Gnome hides them. Either you’re handy with gconf on the command line or you use gconf-editor, which feels somewhat like a registry editor, but it was never really trivial. Well, now you have Ailurus. Ailurus is definitely a welcome addition in the arsenal of average users who do not fancy taming their system via the command line. It offers convenience and ease of use, with a relatively high degree of safety. However, as always, you need to be careful when changing the behavior of programs and system utilities, lest they bite your hiny, and hard. If you’re looking for improving your Gnome desktop in a simple, quick way, without too much fuss, if you’re looking for extra comfort and new programs, then Ailurus seems like the program you want. That would be all, ladies and gentlefolks! Tiny Core Linux 3.4 arrives Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has released version 3.4 of Tiny Core Linux. Based on the 2.6.33.3 Linux kernel, Tiny Core Linux 3.4 features a variety of updates, including additional options in the mount tool (mnttool). Red Hat and Eucalyptus forge partnership Ubuntu Myopia Continues Among Users Notice a pattern yet? For some reason that seems to escape most people, Ubuntu “owns” the Linux headlines with very few exceptions. Obviously Chrome OS and Android are in the top news headlines as well, however generally it’s Ubuntu that shows up as most popular in open source news these days. Review: ZaReason Strata Pro 15 Laptop So, will I buy one (well, the 13″ version) for myself? My daily computing life is spent between my super powerful desktop and my little netbook. My desktop is used for work, virtualized installs, major image manipulation with inkscape and photo editing with the gimp. My netbook works well as a “sit on the couch and IRC + internet + email + minimal hacking” machine, which is much of what I do in my off-work hours. That said, I do have a hole in my computing world which influenced borrowing this laptop in the first place – nothing to really show off Ubuntu on for customers or at Ubuntu events, nothing to burn CDs on at events, and I have to admit that it would be nice to have a second machine with virtualized hardware so my development machines were more portable. We’ll see where my needs and budget lead me. Unity Bitesize Progress Report for 20 December Make your Android power efficient in any situation (for free!) Sub-notebooks Jolicloud: Cloud enabled and not just for netbooks There’s a Linux distribution for every occasion and the main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI for netbooks and similar devices. I’m going to take a look at a preview release of the forthcoming 1.1 version. Under the hood, it’s based on the Ubuntu long term service release (10.04), and the front end is handled by a combination of the Chromium web browser and a full screen user interface that eschews overlapping windows. Netbooks are the obvious target of this distribution, and by default, it’s setup as a browser for website and cloud based applications. However, it’s easy to expand, and I think this could be a distribution with a lot of uses. It’s possible to add applications, and it can also be installed on any hardware that standard Ubuntu can including desktop PCs. Even better, as well as focussing on convenience, it’s easy to use, meaning that it might be a good platform for people who aren’t very good at using computers. Cloud Livin’ – A JoliCloud Chrome Experiment A review off the cuff? It feels more distraction free than normal. Since the browser is the heart of the OS, I’m only focused on my tabs and nothing else. No dock, no start button, no nagging updates, no clutter on the screen. It’s actually refreshing. AirPlay running on XBMC Linux box AirPlay. It’s not just for Apple products anymore. The video you see on the next page shows an XBMC install on a Ubuntu Linux box running an AirPlay client service. As with the AirPlayer solution I wrote for the Mac, the XBMC application advertises on Bonjour and can be played to directly from the built-in iOS video menus. Linux shows name dates, ask for papers O’Reilly has opened up a call for participation for its Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2011, to be held on July 25-29 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation’s Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) announced that its Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) will be held April 11-13 in San Francisco. Firefox Backs Up the “Do Not Track” Feature Day by day, concern about internet related privacy is growing. We’re all aware of it, which is why; a lot of companies are moving around to let people bear a better experience in the online world. In this context, Mozilla has made promises to let people cloak their internet activities on the basis of their new feature: Do Not Track. Mozilla CEO: ‘Do Not Track’ Option Will Be In Firefox 4 When Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz called for better online privacy protection earlier this month, he acknowledged that browser companies have an important role to play, especially in order to implement a “Do Not Track” browser setting. “We’ll give them some time,” said Leibowitz. “But we’d like to see them work a lot faster.” Stallman’s Cloudburst: Prudence or Paranoia? On the other hand: “It is not easy to tell if RMS is putting on a show or if he really believes his own words,” suggested amicus_curious. “The Google cloud and Chrome OS have little to fear from Stallman’s disdain.” Then again: “He’s absolutely right,” wrote blossiekins among more than 100 comments on The Guardian. “‘Cloud’ computing … encourages people to be lazy and uninformed about their data and what happens to it. “Google isn’t a big cuddly bunny that wants to look after all your data for you cos it’s nice; it wants to look after your data for you because it gives them more metrics,” blossiekins added. “And as the piece spells out, the risks of that are quite chilling.” FreeBSD 8.2-BETA1 Released The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has released FreeBSD 8.2 Beta 1 and 7.4 Beta 1of its popular free UNIX derivative. The first betas will be followed by two release candidates. The final versions of FreeBSD 7.4 and FreeBSD 8.2 are scheduled for the 24th of January. Pidgin 2.7.8 fixes MSN bugs Last minute open giving ideas Whether or not you’re among the throngs hurriedly trying to get everything wrapped before the end of the week, it’s a good time to consider some end-of-the-year giving. So why not send some money towards open projects? The Importance of Being Tested When I began work on Upstart, one of the earliest decisions I made was to make sure the code was very-well covered by a comprehensive test suite. I’d been working with Robert Collins a lot in the previous couple of years and he is very much an advocate of practices such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile Development; especially the discipline of Test Driven Development. 5 Biggest Tech Winners for 2010 By name, they are ARM Holdings (130.58% growth), Salesforce (127.47%), VMware (113.98%), Informatica (86.9%) and Red Hat (71.95%). Stephen Harper treats Canadians like imbeciles What Canadians are now demanding is a leader that inspires hope and optimism. Who challenges us to bridge divides. Who believes that leadership at home and abroad can appeal to our aspirations, not stokes our fears. Who brings us together to accomplish great things. Who will strive to achieve the true promise and potential we know in our hearts is Canada’s destiny. Do-Not-Call List Undermined By Loopholes in the Law CRTC announces that Bell Canada has paid a $1.3 million penalty for violating the National Do Not Call List Rules Team prototypes instant genome test Scientists from Imperial College London have prototyped a tool that they say could ultimately sequence a person’s genome in minutes, at a fraction of the cost of current techniques. Five tips for keeping your Ubuntu desktop safe Student fees protests: who started the violence? Protesters and student groups, on the other hand, insisted the policing had been heavy-handed and disproportionate, arguing that the kettling for hours of thousands of people within a freezing Parliament Square was certain to cause frustration that would boil into anger. New Orleans police officers convicted over Katrina killing A former New Orleans police officer has been convicted of fatally shooting a man in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and another officer was convicted of burning the man’s body in a case that exposed one of the ugliest chapters in the police department’s troubled history. Israel faces tougher line from EU after former heads call for Palestinian state Twenty-six European grandees have urged the EU to adopt a tougher stance towards Israel including taking “concrete measures” and exacting “consequences” over continued settlement building on occupied land, which they say is illegal under international law. 50 municipal rabbis: Don’t rent flats to Arabs The statement quotes a variety of halachic passages referring to the issue and notes that in some cases persons renting apartments to non-Jews could be ostracized. Rummy’s Ruminations As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don’t know We don’t know. —Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing Watch How WikiLeaks’ Mirrors Spread Around the World [Google Earth] When WikiLeaks began its release of more than 250,00 classified diplomatic cables late last month, its domain name – wikileaks.org – was the first thing to go. In the week that followed, however, a slew of mirror sites popped up, and Harvard-based developer Laurence Muller gave us a look at the global effort to keep WikiLeaks standing. Muller took the list of WikiLeaks mirrors, determined their locations, and plotted the points on Google Earth. Apple attacks WikiLeaks, yanks iPhone app from app store Only a few days after its release, the unofficial WikiLeaks iPhone application has been removed from Apple’s App Store. For $1.99, the app offered access to documents on the WikiLeaks website and the @wikileaks twitter feed. When clicking on the app’s link, the app store returns with the message, “Your request could not be completed. The item you requested is not available in the US store.” Details for the WikiLeaks app can still be seen in Google’s cache. Tech Crunch noted that while the secrets website and founder Julian Assange are controversial, the app didn’t seem to violate Apple’s terms of service (TOS). Developer Igor Barinov confirmed that the app had been removed from the store. WikiLeaks cables: China ‘fed up’ with Burma’s footdragging on reforms WikiLeaks cables: You ask, we search French presidential hopeful, Ségolène Royal, told US diplomats French arrogance was partly to blame for Paris’s lost bid to host the 2012 Olympic games. The games were awarded to London after a closely contested vote that saw both Tony Blair then French president Jacques Chirac fly to Singapore in July 2005 to make their case to delegates. A confidential cable dated 17 February 2006 from the US ambassador to Paris concerning a recent meeting with Royal said she had suggested, he wrote, a need “to find France’s place in the world” with the French government showing less arrogance in how it speaks to the world. The latter factor, she suggested, had played a role in the defeat of France’s 2012 Olympics candidacy, he wrote. The Implications of Charging Assange for Conspiracy to Leak [Updated] I’m not so sure this path avoids awkward questions. Charging Assange as a conspirator to Manning’s leak might distinguish the Times in the wikileaks case. But it would not distinguish the Times and scores of other media outlets in the many cases in which reporters successfully solicit and arrange to receive classified information and documents directly from government officials. Prosecution of Assange on this theory would therefore raise awkward questions about why DOJ does not bring charges against the American media for soliciting classified information on a regular basis. It would be a fateful step for traditional press freedoms in the United States. Indeed, unless I am missing something, it seems that a successful prosecution of Assange for conspiracy to leak would have broader and more corrosive implications for press freedoms than a successful prosecution under the ambiguity-riddled Espionage Act. In any event, I do not see how going the “conspiracy to leak” route is a press-protecting move. House Judiciary chairman: WikiLeaks did not commit a crime There was an interesting development in the WikiLeaks saga on Thursday. You probably didn’t hear about it over the weekend because the fawning corporate media was too busy comparing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The chairman of the House judiciary committee, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) stuck up for WikiLeaks on Thursday according to The Raw Story. Conyers made the argument that the controversial and unpopular actions of the whistleblower website are protected under free speech. Reporter, Greg Palast describes BP abuses in Azerbaijan What I didn’t know was that WikiLeaks was about to release a State Department memo which referred to a small piece of this BP game. Rather than go to Azerbaijan to check the facts, the Wiki newspapers called BP in London for comment. Czech version of Wikileaks will turn to The Pirate Bay for help It appears that the Czech Pirate Party’s attempt to set up its own Wikileaks site isn’t going as smoothly as the group hoped. The CPP (Ceska piratska strana) announced the inauguration of its “PirateLeaks” information service earlier this month, to be officially launched on Tuesday. But now the organization says that there will be some delays due to security issues. Cancún summit: Rich countries accused over £30bn climate aid promise A fresh fault line opened up at the Cancún climate summit today after rich countries were accused of failing to deliver on their promise of $30 billion in aid to countries that will experience the worst ravages of climate change. Seeing Redd in Cancún Cancún climate change conference: Russia will not renew Kyoto protocol Cancún climate change summit: How Africa’s voice has been hijacked Why the rich are meaner than the poor PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying NAB still using misinformation to defeat low-power radio expansion The National Association of Broadcasters has never been a friend to low-power community radio. Back in 2000, when the FCC first created the service, the NAB did everything it could to try and keep it from becoming a reality. While the broadcast lobby failed to stop it outright, the NAB did succeed in getting Congress to significantly curtail LPFM with a last-minute attachment to an omnibus budget bill passed in December of that year. One of the weapons the NAB used was a bogus CD that purported to demonstrate harmful interference caused by low-power stations, that was later disproved by an independent report ordered by Congress. North Bergen Internet shock jock Hal Turner sentenced to 33 months in prison At his trials the government confirmed that Turner did work for and with federal agencies, but that he went too far with his hate-filled remarks. Anti-porn plan threatens sites like WikiLeaks Supporters of the open internet have reacted angrily to Government plans to block pornography on the web, claiming it is the first step towards online censorship. Taken to its extreme, they warn that it could lead to sites like WikiLeaks being blocked for political reasons. Hungarian parliament passes controversial law to oversee media Lawmakers in Hungary have given a controversial new body powers to oversee public news production and levy high fines on private media that break rules on political reporting. The Hungarian parliament passed the law establishing the National Media and Communications Authority (NMHH) on Monday evening, according to the Hungarian national news agency MTI. Viviane Reding takes on US over data privacy rights in anti-terror campaign The EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has confronted Washington over data protection rights in the fight against terror, accusing the US of being interested only in accessing European citizens’ bank records and flight schedules but not in protecting their rights while doing so. Venezuela tightens Internet regulation Venezuela’s parliament approved tighter regulation of the Internet on Monday in the latest of a package of laws to entrench President Hugo Chavez’s socialist “revolution” before a new Assembly is sworn-in next month. Vint Cerf, US Congresswoman Oppose Net Regulation Net Neutrality as Diplomacy Citizens and their digital packets deserve much the same treatment as they traverse the global Internet. Just as states expect to conduct their official business on foreign soil without interference, so citizens should be able to lead digitally mediated—and increasingly distributed—lives without fear that their links to their online selves can be arbitrarily abridged or surveilled by their Internet Service Providers or any other party. Just as the sanctity of the embassy and la valise diplomatique is vital to the practice of international diplomacy, the ability of our personal bits to travel about the net unhindered is central to the lives we increasingly live online. US Ambassador To The UN: Protecting Patents & Copyrights More Important Than Development The US’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Betty E. King, recently gave a press conference in Geneva to talk about a variety of issues. What caught our attention, not surprisingly, was the discussion on intellectual property issues, which seemed to raise a lot more questions than it answered. Towards the end of her talk, she basically complained about WIPO, and how various developing countries are hijacking WIPO to focus on “development,” at the expense of things like patents and copyright. She says that she, and the US government, are pro development, but not if it comes at the expense of patents and copyrights. Sorting Through The Spin: The Liberals and the iTax The issue of Liberal support for an “iTax” hit a fever pitch this week with competing releases – the Liberals stating they are against it and the Conservatives releasing a radio ad that says the Liberals support such reforms. That led some to ask for evidence to sort out the competing claims. This post is an attempt to do that. “Anything you can do, we can do better?” Ireland joins the copyright review queue It’s not just the Brits who have decided to reassess their IP rules in the not-quite-so-new-any-more internet age: the Irish are doing it too. In “Firms hampered by failure to keep law up to date with internet age”, eminent scholar and lawyer TJ McIntyre argues in the Irish Times that much of the Irish law governing the internet is archaic, restrictive and hampers growth, which explains why the Taoiseach (Irish for ‘prime minister’ or, the Kat understands, an old Erse term for ‘man who graciously accepts the credit when things work out but gets first choice at blaming someone else when things don’t’) has announced his support for a review of European and Irish copyright law, stating [and does this sound familiar, anyone?] “it is time to review our copyright legislation, and examine the balance between the rights holder and the consumer, to ensure that our innovative companies operating in the digital environment are not disadvantaged against competitors”. Ok Go Explains There Are Lots Of Ways To Make Money If You Can Get Fans Over the last few years, we’ve covered many of the moves by the band Ok Go — to build up a fanbase often with the help of amazingly viral videos, ditch their major record label (EMI), and explore new business model opportunities. In the last few days, two different members of Ok Go explained a bit more of the band’s thinking in two separate places, and both are worth reading. Cultural Heritage rights in the age of digital copyright On December, 10th the COMMUNIA WG3 gathered in Istanbul for the final workshop, with the aim of producing a set of recommendations about cultural heritage and the public domain. I am not a lawyer, so I took a chance to learn about the marked differences between access rights and property rights. More than that, it became soon clear that Cultural Heritage rights (CHR) only exist in certain EU member states (e.g. Italy, Greece) while in others there are no such rights. 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__label__wiki	0.930929	0.930929	Tehelka Exclusive Tehelka-tv Tehelka Poetry The Music Project Sukhpal Khaira’s controversial remark backing ‘Referendum 2020’ lands AAP in soup Opposition leader in Punjab assembly, Sukhpal Singh Khaira landed himself and Aap Aadmi Party in a soup by backing the controversial demand for `Punjab Referendum 2020’, considered as secessionist move of the radicals for the creation of Khalistan which haunted the nation in 1984 and in later years, writes Rajendra Khatry Rajendra Khatry Khaira attacked both Capt Amarinder Singh and Parkash Singh Badal for backing secessionist demands in the past The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been trying to wriggle out of an embarrassing situation it faced due to the controversial remark by its leader, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, for backing the controversial demand for ‘Punjab Referendum 2020’. As the political atmosphere got charged up in Punjab after the remark, Khaira retracted his statement the very next day, saying he was misunderstood for what he had said. Khaira said he did not support the idea of Khalistan. Explaining his statement, he said there is a need to ponder why such demands were being raised again in Punjab. He explained that perhaps this was so because of the result of certain consistent policy of bias against Punjab and Punjabis over issues like water distribution, no punishment to the culprits of the anti-Sikh riots in 1994 etc. Khaira even attacked both Capt Amarinder Singh of the Congress and Parkash Singh Badal of the Shiromani Akali Dal for backing secessionist demands in the past. He wondered why such a hue and cry was being raised now when in the past no one had condemned Capt Amarinder and Badal on their objectionable demands. Sensing adverse reaction to Khaira’s statement, AAP tried its damage control measures to defuse the crisis. AAP refused to buy Khaira’s casual denial of the real intent of his remarks on the referendum. Incensed over Khaira’s remarks, AAP leadership pulled him up and he was summoned to Delhi. According to sources, the party expressed its anguish over his remarks on such a sensitive issue. Khaira’s statement lent credence to people’s perception that AAP supports groups with dubious demands. AAP party in-charge of Punjab affairs Manish Sisodia demanded a written explanation from Sukhpal Khaira with regard to the Referendum 2020. Displaying his apparent displeasure, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal even refused to meet him during his visit to Delhi. Later Khaira issued a statement that he did not support the demand for Referendum 2020. AAP leadership has not forgotten how the party suffered in the Punjab state assembly polls last year when Kejriwal had stayed in the house of an alleged Khalistani supporter. SAD, Congress and the BJP had raised heckles over the issue during the election campaign and maligned AAP, claiming that it had the backing and the support of the Khalistani elements and was trying to win the poll on the basis of that. Perception counts a lot in the eyes of the public. AAP’s denial before the Punjab assembly last year that it had any connection with the Khalistani elements had failed to convince Punjab voters who had then overwhelmingly voted in favour of the Congress and AAP could manage to win just 20 assembly seat to be relegated to the position of the main opposition party in the state. AAP finds itself in a similar situation now. Khaira’s statement has the potential to damage AAP’s reputation in Punjab. Not just the opposition parties, but AAP itself immediately distanced itself from his statement. AAP Punjab’s co-president Dr Balbir Singh declared that the party does not support any Referendum 2020. He said AAP stands for unity and integrity of India. Angered with Khaira’s statement, Balbir Singh said the AAP party high command was planning to take action against Sukhpal Singh Khaira. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which has ruled Punjab over a number of years, too expressed resentment over AAP leaders utterances on Referendum 2020. A statement issued by SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema said the party was surprised by the fact that even elected over representatives were now talking about Referendum 2020 which attempts to divide the country. “This is an attempt on the integrity and sovereignty of India,’’ said Cheema. Khaira reportedly was accused of making such a statement to attract NRI support for the AAP and especially overseas funds for the party. No wonder many office bearers and volunteers of AAP’s foreign wings in countries like Canada, US and Europe backed Khaira after his remark. The overseas units demanded action against co-convener of Punjab unit, Dr Balbir Singh, who had attacked and criticised Khaira for his statement. Khaira even found support from the Overseas Wings of AAP. A letter was issued by the Overseas Wings of AAP that said it was sad that party’s own leaders were attacking him instead of supporting the issue raised by him. Talking to Tehelka, political analyst from Punjab,Dr Manjit Singh, said it was wrong on the part of Khaira to talk of any bias or discrimination against the Sikh community which he had cited as instance why demands for the referendum 2020 were being raised now in Punjab. “Punjab is a Sikh state on the basis of its majority popularity. Sikhs have been ruling the state all these years. Where is the question of discrimination against Sikhs in Punjab or any other part of the country? Punjab was party to all the previous water accords in the state. It is true that Punjab has to share 8 MAF water to Rajasthan and .02 MAF to Haryana. But water is no single state’s property. It has to be shared. There is no discrimination in this. Sikhs are not persecuted or prosecuted in any part of the country. The demand for a referendum, therefore, does not make any sense at all. Without the rest of the country’s resources, how will Punjab survive if it is created as a separate country,’’ said Professor Manjit Singh. But as the controversy started to subside, AAP’s suspended MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi raked up the issue again. Gandhi reportedly issued a statement in support of Referendum 2020. Talking to Tehelka, Dr Gandhi clarified that he is not supporting Punjab Referendum 2020. He said he is only supporting the right of the people to express their political, religious, economic views freely in a democratic country like India. If they do so there should not be any persecution or prosecution. Dr Gandhi said when people often declare India will be a Hindu Rashtra in a few years time no one criticizes them. “Why should Dalits, minorities including Sikhs be questioned if they raise their issues and demands peacefully? Why should they face sedition charges? What is wrong in the expression of their views? Why should government gag their voices? I also support democracy. It is the democratic right of every citizen to express themselves and I stand by that,’’ he said. Gandhi also uploaded a video on his Facebook account saying everyone in the country has a right to express his or her views through democratic means. The government, in turn, should not gag such voices, the video showed him declaring. AAP so far has not taken any note of the statement of its suspended MP. Punjab Referendum 2020 Sukhpal Singh Khaira Previous articleEnd of sit-in at LG’s office brings temporary relief Next articleIncidents of bigotry tarnish Lucknow’s Ganga–Jamni fabric Intoxicating city with Drugs Why no talks on domestic violence? 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__label__wiki	0.829372	0.829372	The New Dawn The days don't dawn happy for conservative pundit George Will (once of ABC News, now working for Fox and writing articles) (Washington Post) George Will writes: ...Many South Carolina evangelicals, like those in Iowa, showed, shall we say, Christian forgiveness toward Trump, who boasts of his sexual athleticism, embraces torture and promises to kill terrorists’ families. Or perhaps these remarkable evangelicals think his myriad conversions-of-convenience (his serial adjustments of his “convictions” in time for this campaign) constitute being “born again.” This is an interesting interpretation of John 3:7. As the Republican Party contemplates putting forward this florid face, the Democratic Party, clinging to Hillary Clinton like a shipwrecked sailor clinging to a spar, celebrates her Nevada achievement. ‘Twas a famous victory. Trailing clouds of seediness sufficient already to have convinced 56 percent of Americans that she is neither honest nor trustworthy, Clinton won only 53 percent against an opponent who says that, after seven years of a Democratic presidency, America is a fetid swamp of rising inequality and multiplying injustices. Criticizing Bernie Sanders for criticizing Obama, Clinton promises continuity with an administration that (according to a Gallup poll this month) has convinced 71 percent of likely general election voters that America is on the wrong track... Fredd writes: ...The closest thing the establishment GOP has in the race now with any shot at the GOP nod is Marco Rubio. Recall, however, that only 5 short years ago, Marco Rubio won his senate seat DESPITE the establishment poobahs such as Karl Rove and his superpac backing the RINO Charlie Crist, Rubio's primary opponent, over someone they considered of distasteful Tea Party ilk such as Rubio... But George Will, who used to excoriate Rubio did not disparage him even though he has roots in the Tea Party, because he's the old GOP's last hope. Don't get me wrong, Rubio isn't an establishment candidate the way that the now defunct Jeb! was. However the (old) Grand Old Party hopes that with enough money and left owing enough favors, Rubio can be bent into a mainstream machine politician. They may be right. Ted Cruz has shown himself to be a very dirty campaigner, and for that reason more than any other, he will not get my vote unless it's between Ted and John Kerry/Joe Biden (post Hillary general election). Cruz didn't have to dip so low so soon, but he chose to. George Will, repellent and angry, is bitter at seeing that country club Republican class fade into antiquity. Watching Jeb! crumble must have been as agonizing as supporting Rubio for president must be.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line378
__label__wiki	0.95387	0.95387	The numbers don’t jibe EDITORIAL 03/23/2011 The numbers don’t jibe One of the reasons survey outfits’ results are not quite taken seriously, and are many times disbelieved, is that certain claimed perceptions just don’t jibe. Pulse Asia’s recent poll findings show that the trust and approval rating of Noynoy Aquino on a nationwide basis slid by a substantial five points, and by 12 percent in the National Capital Region (NCR). Overall, however, Noynoy still obtained a high 75 percent from 80 percent in October by way of trust ratings, while he fell from 79 percent in October to 74 percent in performance or approval rating. The biggest Noynoy suffered was a 12 percent drop coming from the NCR, from 78 percent last October to 66 percent in March. The Pulse Asia poll noted that public perception on six issues confronting the Aquino administration was not favorable as reflected in the latest survey. Public confidence fell on his administration’s performance on six key issues, including the equal enforcement of the law, creating more jobs and controlling the population growth, which showed huge declines from October last year..... MORE Tarnishing the presidency FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/23/2011 Tarnishing the presidency Incredible but true. We have a president who not only blatantly dips his entire hand into congressional moves, specifically the impeachment of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, but even goes public by lauding the congressmen who early yesterday morning, voted resoundingly to impeach her as “our heroes of today.” His statement was followed up his mouthpiece, Edwin Lacierda, who said: “By doing so, the House has put an end to the long era of impunity that tarnished our institutions and made a mockery of the bedrock principle of accountability enshrined in our Constitution. This is the glory of democracy: where the law applies to all, where scrutiny exempts no one, and where accountability is for our institutions to exact.” The problem with these pharisees in Malacañang is that even as they mouth all these “noble” statements of the principle of accountability, of the glory of democracy, of the law being applied to all, of transparency, of scrutiny exempting no one, is that they exempt themselves from all these..... MORE Tsunami disruption spreads deep into Japan focus 03/23/2011 Tsunami disruption spreads deep into Japan MORIOKA — Ten days after Japan’s tsunami disaster, towns far from the impact zone are still experiencing shortages that have thrown the neat, ordered lives of local residents completely out of gear. Gas station queues stretching for several kilometers, long waits at supermarkets, empty store shelves and shuttered businesses have become a part of the landscape in post-tsunami Japan. At the foot of the Mount Iwate volcano, the people of Morioka city — almost 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the devastated coast — are still trying to adjust to the sudden absence of many things they had simply taken for granted. At a gas station on the outskirts of the city, motorists waited hours on end before finally reaching the gas pump, clutching a 2,000 yen ($25, 17 euros) daily rationing coupon in their hands. The coupon is barely enough to buy a third of a tank on an average-sized city car..... MORE That Pulse Asia survey C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/23/2011 That Pulse Asia survey If you believe in surveys, the latest Pulse Asia “Ulat ng Bayan” survey issued for the quarter ending March 2011 says that despite the many challenges coming his way, a solid majority of respondents continue to have trust in P-Noy (75 percent) and appreciate what he has been doing thus far (74 percent). With 1,200 adult respondents polled from Feb. 24 to March 6, the survey showed that P-Noy’s approval rating was positive across geographical areas ranging from 66 percent in Metro Manila to 83 percent in the Visayas with only a 4 to 9 percent disapproval. On the other hand, his approval rating for socio-economic classes ranged from 69 percent in Classes ABC to 80 percent in Class E while his disapproval rating was between 5 to 8 percent. Pulse Asia also noted that almost one in five respondents (18 percent) remained undecided about P-Noy’s performance with the indecision most notable in Metro Manila (26 percent) and least in the Visayas (13 percent) with Mindanao registering 15 percent. Across income classes, the level of public ambivalence about his performance ranged from 26 percent in Classes ABC to 14 percent in Class E..... MORE US says goal is to get Kadhafi to step down focus 03/23/2011 US says goal is to get Kadhafi to step down SANTIAGO — The United States Monday sent mixed messages about its objectives in Libya, as President Barack Obama said Moamer Kadhafi must go, but vowed US forces would stick to a narrower UN mandate. “Our military action is in support of an international mandate from the Security Council that specifically focuses on the humanitarian threat posed by Colonel Kadhafi to his people,” Obama told a press conference in Chile. The missile and air strikes launched at the weekend were “in support of UN Security Resolution 1973, that specifically talks about humanitarian efforts, and we are going to make sure that we stick to that mandate,” he added. But Obama stressed it was “US policy that Kadhafi needs to go” accusing the veteran leader who has ruled the north African country for more than four decades of murdering civilians as he tries to quell an opposition uprising..... MORE Dazed and confused HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/23/2011 And just about anything else. Except to tell the truth. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada must have known all along there ain’t anything substantial he could get from Erlinda Ligot and his brother Edgardo Yambao. And much less, or none at all, from Jacinto Ligot, the former military comptroller who probably would know than what Angelo Reyes had brought to his grave. But while Estrada could not be forgiving, although he seemed passive at times for the duration of the Senate inquiry on the anomalous AFP transactions, his hands are shackled by a system that governs us all, including those who have done the country wrong. Yet they could be forgetful, especially when pressed about the missing AFP millions, or the ownership of several properties a soldier’s salary could not afford. The Ligots are not even quibbling. Less talk, less mistakes..... MORE Contemptible SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/23/2011 First it was Jose Pidal (who, in the course of investigation, was finally revealed to be then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s brother-in-law, Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, brother of then first gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo). Then it was former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-joc” Bolante, who went through the same Q&A portion for the Fertilizer Fund Scam. One after the other, they popularized the now-infamous line, “I invoke my right to privacy.” It appears that they had the same lawyer, Antonio Zulueta, who is now counseling another controversial couple. The “Ligots” — who, for purposes of this column, shall be comprised of retired former military comptroller Jacinto Ligot, his wife Erlinda and brother-in-law Edgardo Yambao — are also invoking their right to privacy and against self-incrimination, faced as they are now with a barrage of questions at the Senate inquiry for alleged military corruption. Listening to them can make you want to throw things..... MORE Noy offered extra P20-M pork for yes vote—solons By Charlie V. Manalo 03/23/2011 DOUBTS RAISED OVER NUMBER OF YES VOTES ON MERCI IMPEACH Noy offered extra P20-M pork for yes vote—solons Personal calls from President Aquino to congressmen, allegedly offering the sweetener of an additional P20 million in congressional pork barrel in exchange for a yes vote, were all part of the presidential push to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez “resoundingly.” These measures appeared to have done the trick, with an almost full House attendance, said to be comparable only to the congressional attendance during a President’s State of the Nation Address (Sona). The additonal P20-million pork pledged is said to be taken from the budget savings which form part of the pork barrel funds of Aquino, congressional sources told the Tribune yesterday. But the numbers in the plenary impeachment votes also didn’t add up, with some congressmen now questioning the accuracy of the vote count..... MORE Senate ready for trial, debates on rules By Angie M. Rosales 03/23/2011 Senate ready for trial, debates on rules As senators await the formal transmittal of the articles of impeachment against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, debates on the rules that will government their trial proceedings kicked off yesterday. Its adoption is seen to take place today, before Congress goes on a Lenten break or just in time when they resume sessions on May 9, simultaneous with its convening as an impeachment trial body to take up the Gutierrez case. Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III yesterday proposed that a “gag order” of sorts be observed by his colleagues while trial proceedings are ongoing, which means that no interview with any member of the media or entity will be granted by any of the senator-judges. Sotto’s proposal does not spare even the members of the prosecution panel, the person impeached as well as their respective counsels and witnesses..... MORE DFA asks Libya to allow return of 4 Kadhafi maids 03/23/2011 DFA asks Libya to allow return of 4 Kadhafi maids The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) had asked Libya to let four Filipino women working as maids for a relative of leader Moamer Kadhafi to leave for home amid Western-led air strikes. The four last week rang their relatives back home to help get the government to negotiate their release from work contracts, DFA director for migrant workers affairs Enrico Fos said. The DFA has sought assistance from Libya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to let the four maids identified as Diana Rivera, Racquel Dadang, Mary Ann Ducus and Zenaida Labugen to be evacuated along with other Filipinos. They work for Al Sahal Shariff, who is said to be Kadhafi’s nephew. “The relatives called the DFA to alert it of their wish to leave, but their employer told them their help was needed at this time,” Fos told a news conference..... MORE RP named laundering center for drug money By Michaela P. del Callar 03/23/2011 RP named laundering center for drug money The Philippines was among countries that the United States cited as the global centers for the laundering of money coming from international narcotics trafficking in a recent report. In its 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the US State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs placed the Philippines in the “Jurisdictions of Primary Concern,” a roll of coun-tries said to be engaged in heavy narco-money laundering activities. “The complex nature of money laundering transactions today makes it difficult in many cases to distinguish the proceeds of narcotics trafficking from the proceeds of other serious crime,” the State Department said. However, it noted that financial institutions engaged in transactions that involve significant amounts of proceeds from other serious crimes, like the Philippines, “are vulnerable to narcotics-related money laundering.”.... MORE Pinay, daughter among tsunami dead 03/23/2011 Pinay, daughter among tsunami dead A Filipina and her 12-year-old daughter were among the thousands of people who perished in the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis that devastated Northeastern Japan on March 11, Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday. The Fukushima Iwaki Central Police Headquarters informed the Philippine Honorary Consulate in Morioka that the remains of Grace Agnes Oprecio-Hiruta, 45, and daughter Maria were identified by her husband, Masahiro Hiruta. Police said the cause of their death is tsunami-related. According to the DFA, the search and rescue team discovered the body of Mrs. Hiruta inside the vicinity of the house of a certain Mr. Suzuki on March 19 in Iwaki City, Fukushima..... MORE Brother of Maguindanao governor implicated in prosecutor’s ambush By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/23/2011 Brother of Maguindanao governor implicated in prosecutor’s ambush Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has ordered preliminary investigations into charges against a brother of Maguindanao Gov. Esmail “Toto” Mangudadatu who was implicated in the ambush of Maguindanao Provincial Prosecutor Akilali Balt last week. A panel of investigating fiscals was formed by De Lima, composed of Assistant State Prosecutor Vimar Barcellano and Prosecution lawyers Gerard Gaerlan and Mark Roland Estepa to determine probable cause in the complaint filed by Balt’s daughter Aminah. The complaint alleged that Mayor Ibrahim Mangudadatu of Buluan was behind the attack. Balt was on his way home aboard service vehicle with his driver Dandan Balt Datu Dakula when two men riding a motorcycle appeared on their side in a red light and suddenly opened fire at them. He sustained gunshot wounds in his lower right ear, lower right neck and right forearm and was still in comatose as of yesterday afternoon..... MORE Binay tells Makati building owners to follow strictly building code By Pat C. Santos 03/23/2011 Binay tells Makati building owners to follow strictly building code As part of the preparation for earthquakes and other eventualities, Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr. has asked building owners, particularly at the Central Business District, to follow strictly the building code and have occupants ready and familiarized themselves with all the emergency instructions in any eventuality. This was the call made by young Binay when interviewed yesterday during the awarding of some 50 building owners in Makati who had complied with the 2011 fire safety compliance. The mayor said they are making the necessary arrangements for preparedness and they are canceling a day to conduct earthquake drills and lectures but they were burdened by the preparation in the aftermath of the Japan experience. But late last night Binay said they were working and making their own assessment to determine what would be the effect of an earthquake in Makati City..... MORE DoJ summons Ligots for P428-M tax evasion By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/23/2011 DoJ summons Ligots for P428-M tax evasion Embattled former military comptroller Lt. Gen. Jacinto Ligot and his wife Erlinda who are facing a Senate inquiry into their alleged illegal wealth have been summoned to appear before the Department of Justice for the preliminary investigation into the P428-million tax evasion charges against them. The Ligots were directed to appear before prosecutors on April 6 and April 13 by Assistant State Prosecutor Stewart Mariano who sent separate summonses to Ligot and his wife. The case stemmed from the tax evasion charges filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue for eight counts of non-payment of tax and five counts of non-filing of income tax returns (ITRs) for taxable years 2001 to 2004. According to the BIR, Ligot failed to file his ITR in 2001 while his wife likewise ignored filing her ITRs in 2001 to 2004. They also failed to declare their income in 2001 worth P41,854,181.57; P103,601,281.22 in 2002; P165,367,784.39 in 2003, and P184,995,700.14 in 2004..... MORE Tarnishing the presidency FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Ol... Tsunami disruption spreads deep into Japan focus ... That Pulse Asia survey C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonatha... US says goal is to get Kadhafi to step down focus ... Dazed and confused HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/23/20... Contemptible SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/23/2011... Noy offered extra P20-M pork for yes vote—solons B... Senate ready for trial, debates on rules By Angie ... DFA asks Libya to allow return of 4 Kadhafi maids ... RP named laundering center for drug money By Micha... Brother of Maguindanao governor implicated in pros... Binay tells Makati building owners to follow stric... DoJ summons Ligots for P428-M tax evasion By Benja...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line381
__label__cc	0.690951	0.309049	No harmony expected EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06/14/2012 No harmony expected One can’t be too sure if the incumbent Supreme Court (SC) justices will be taking well the appointment by Noynoy of a chief justice who is an outsider, especially any of those who have so far been nominated as candidates for the top judicial post. While acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio claims that appointing anyone, following tradition or not, is a presidential prerogative and that he would respect the decision of the President in his appointment, there’s still a hallow ring to that statement. Carpio is at this time suffering from a negative public perception arising from his active involvement in getting Chief Justice Renato Corona ousted from his position. Carpio is also seen as being overly ambitious and is an ally of Noynoy, which is probably the reason Carpio, the most senior member in the SC, appears to be going out of his way to change that negative image he has earned, by pretending not to be salivating for the top post when it is evident that he wants it — and had wanted it even as early as 2010, which is why he and his cousin, now Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, came up with that act of rejecting their nomination as candidates of the SC, using as reason that they believe it should be the incoming President — Noynoy — who should be the appointing power, and not Gloria Arroyo..... MORE Aquino slammed for kowtowing to US plan to project... All in good time FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 0... No harmony expected EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06... No-fly zone on the horizon in Syria? NATO tries to shift its blame for Syrian bloodshed... TPP secrets: Obama covertly granting more power to... Groups to launch Save Bondoc Peninsula Movement fo... Danger: Privatization of public utilities VIEWPOIN... High court okays P1.8-B PCOS buy By Benjamin B. Pu... US military to help RP monitor coastal waters 06/... 7 dead, 88 still missing in ferry sinking, floods ... Noy dismisses oust-Aquino move By Fernan J. Angele... Heed the people’s clamor, address the country’s co... US senator supports inquiry into Pacquiao fight 0... Judge resets to June 20 and 22 hearings on Abalos ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line382
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Two American journalists pardoned and released during visit of Former President Bill Clinton in North Korea (Updated) This is breaking news.... SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean media say leader Kim Jong Il has pardoned two American journalists and ordered their release during the visit of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton met Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the first day of a surprise mission to Pyongyang to negotiate the release of two Americans, holding "exhaustive" talks on a wide range of topics, state-run media said. Clinton "courteously" conveyed a verbal message from President Barack Obama, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a report from Pyongyang. Kim expressed his thanks, and engaged Clinton in a "wide-ranging exchange of views on matters of common concern," the report said. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, however, denied Clinton went with a message from Obama. "That's not true," he told reporters. read more here.... North Korea on Tuesday released two jailed American journalists after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the highest-level U.S. contact with North Korea since Clinton was president nearly a decade ago. North Korea's KCNA news agency said North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had issued a special pardon to the two journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling of U.S. media outlet Current TV, which was co-founded by Clinton's vice president Al Gore. Clinton was the highest-level American to visit North Korea since his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, went there in 2000. He was greeted warmly on his arrival and had what North Korea's KCNA news agency described as an "exhaustive conversation" over dinner with ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his top aides. read more here.... Statement (via email) from President Clinton's office: "President Clinton has safely left North Korea with Laura Ling and Euna Lee. They are en route to Los Angeles where Laura and Euna will be reunited with their families." Labels: bill clinton, north korea bill clinton\|north korea\|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line387
__label__wiki	0.530408	0.530408	Lamia Child Quest 80 07/30/13(Tue)16:35 No.26333358 Lamia Child Quest 80 EchoGarrote 07/30/13(Tue)16:35 No.26333358 07/30/13(Tue)16:35 No.26333367 EchoGarrote 07/30/13(Tue)16:35 No.26333367 The war between the former Citadel Kingdoms and the Phoenix Empire is in full swing. The arrival of the orcs has turned it into a near stalemate. The Empire is attacking on three fronts, and also seems unusually interested in the Citadel Dome, setting up a small encampment right by it. There's been a snag though, and of course it appears that it's thanks to the Empire's spymaster, the person known as Kingfisher. He and his operatives managed to kidnap Princess Mumei, Barney Pits, and Ambrose Trapp. Mumei and Barney were obvious grabs. Mumei has political significance, and she was finishing designs on her personal flying machine. Barney is the one who helped create the blackpowder rifles that have been crucial to your side's success in the war. Paladin Julian and Jesse-May Prosper fear that it's only going to be a matter of time before the technological advantage that you have is evened out, which would be catastrophic for your side. Prototypes have already been seen, and mass production wont be far behind. Why they took Ambrose is a bit of a mystery. You and the Dawnchasers have suspicions that it's because Ambrose knows something that they want. It's probably not directly related to the war, but that doesn't ease your minds in the slightest. Either way, you need to rescue your people. Jesse-May came up with a few plans on how to sneak inside, but you passed on them, either being impractical or neglecting the fact that you have 13 feet of highly noticeable snake tail below your waist. So you decided to come up with a new plan. One that, in typical Dawnchaser fashion, is completely crazed and more than a little suicidal. You're going to fly. More specifically, you're going to make Wagon fly. Mage says it'll take a day or two to put together the apparatus he needs to make it work. Anonymous 07/30/13(Tue)16:38 No.26333415 Good. Gives us time to shed. We already did that... via striptease. File: 1375216938329.jpg-(88 KB, 1152x870, rare_example.jpg) speaking of which, I think we probably didn't show anything TOO much off. Mostly because I personally think Ssen works sort of like this, snake-waist wise. It only takes a shirt to cover up, and it prevents illogical snakebutts. Also welcome back echo, hope you did well in your fight against the coyote menace >just in time We were discussing vacation last thread. Before we do anything else, let's write the two little ones a letter on how we are doing and that we plan to go hunting with them. We really should have more communication with them besides visits. Plus we should word it such that the Kingfisher thinks we're exchanging secret messages. You know a scene I'm really hoping happens? A "meanwhile, the phoenix empire" scene like we used to get back during the spygames, except at the end wagon falls right through the tent and dawnchasers are on the scene we'll teach the little ones all about bird hunting to start Yeah. We should mention that, but other more "codey" stuff like "I write this in the light of a purple sun." (translation: I'm in purple sands, which is a lie) Depending on what theory about lamias you subscribe to, you wouldn't be able to find snake pussy without a textbook diagram. oh, and I forgot to mention: Tricia hasn't said a SINGLE WORD since she was told about our "adventures" last night. She might need someone to snap her out of her embarrassment hell. let's not make it TOO codey. Enough to through off the empire spies, but I still want it to be understandable by the little ones. No, I actually think we should make it too easy. The Kingfisher knows we have learned of the letter-coding method and us trying it out for ourselves way too obviously will mark us as amateurs. However, because it's all just lies and our true plans won't involve purple sands or anything else we put in there, Kingfisher will plan against plans that don't even exist, leaving him wide open. He knows that we know, but he doesn't know that we're insane enough to put meaningless phrases in our messages just to fool him. I don't even think we should bother with codes. We're a paladin and all that. Plus I'm tried of sneaky shit Fine then. He knows that we know that he knows, but he doesn't know that we know that we don't know how to do proper coding. I'd be down with hand-sign for Tactical Lamia Action. Dicefag 07/30/13(Tue)17:02 No.26333743 Yay, Lamiaquest. I bet if we sent an ordinary letter that's just about the two girls going bird hunting and fishing with us he'll think it's actually an assassination order against a general and a naval officer. Or maybe not. We should just send the letter to see how they're doing and ask them to write back. No dragonfly means we need other options. precisely. We send a completely ordinary letter. What if we sent twelve completely ordinary letters, but using excessively flowery prose. And then at the bottom of every letter, in big writing, put "THIS IS NOT A SECRET MESSAGE" Oh man, another session I'll miss. At least it's fun to catch up in the archives. Not the biggest fan of spy games so far, but it's still good. Now we're thinking with the Lamia brain. Crazy enough to work >KINGFISHER DON'T READ THIS THIS ISN'T FOR YOU And it turns out, it isn't. We should really write letters to Isen, The little ones and granny, River's crossing, and TALLOW you know, that guy who is sitting in the blue mushroom smoke massage spa? He would -really- like to know the dramatae are dead don't worry, we're doing what a paladin is SUPPOSED to do with spy games this time. Dropping in on them and ruining their plans. Literally. I thought it was illegal for any Phoenix Empire citizen to fly except for the emperor himself? As Mage works, you discover that your role as a Paladin has new duties. Primarily keeping this army from destroying itself before it can destroy the Empire's. Every Paladin has a roll. Avery keeps people endlessly occupied and distracted with construction. Balles keeps people moving from front to front and handling logistics. Toll 'motivates' the fresher recruits, mostly by swearing at them and 'nearly missing' them when she gets really irritated. Kincaid...well you still haven't met the elf, but from the sounds of the explosions, you guess that he's good for morale. Julian's job is to be the scariest motherfucker there can be. And as for you...you have the unenviable job of being piece maker. There's no end to the cross-species issues. The minotaurs get touchy when people get near their camps, the elves get into arguments with humans who were still pissed off about the First Wood coup, Mer insanity is an endless explanation of misunderstandings especially with the exactingly logical harpies, and then there's the orcs. His Light have mercy, there's the orcs. After settling the last argument, which for once just ended in bruises, you head back to your own camp. You hear Mage and Sophie talking as they work on the apparatus. Sophie's Spell-shooter uniform is actually quite...dramatic. A half cloak, over a full cloak, gloves, and a wide brimmed hat with a stiff flat top. She also has a set of green glass spectacles on her eyes. Her colors are dark greens and browns and she's had a growth spurt from the last time you saw her. She looks good, and if that rune covered rifle on her back, and pistol at her side, are any indications, exceptionally lethal. You idly wonder if she was always going to be like this, or there mere fact that she's got romantic feelings for Mage causes His Light or the Universe as a whole to conspire to make her more powerful. "Soph," Mage says. "I need a right HEKA resonance gem of a lower variance than 6 thaumic pulse." "I've got a 3 or a 3-Variant." She says. "3-Variant." They continue to magic babble for a bit. Then Sophie pauses and grabs Mage's hand. "Mage, can we talk?" "Soph, how many times do we have to do this thing. I don't...It's just...We're both young...I like your hat." He says. "It's not about that." She says. "Mage, I'm worried about you...all of you. You guys aren't...if this works..." "Soph, just spit it out." Mage says. "People are starting to worship you. All of you." She says. You hear a snap as Mage slips on something. "WHAT?!" oh god we got the worst possible role File: 1375219049669.jpg-(496 KB, 1000x1000, 1354170555874.jpg) >Then there's the orcs. okay I said we got the worst role before but NOW we really got the worst role Redaeth Redaeth 07/30/13(Tue)17:19 No.26334047 I thought we were cursed more then worshipped. Though it kinda makes sense. The only things that can kill a God is other Gods. facepalm hard This just keeps getting better! Stop idling wondering about sophie's level of power in relation to mage's swag. Start listening in on this "us getting worshipped" issue. Since that's the kind of thing I don't really think is appropriate. I mean, that's like worshiping a priest instead of the god he tells you is backing him. Better they worship us than whatever abominations dwell in the heavens. >The Snake becomes the Light And dragon brain sets in It never really set out. But we don't want to be worshiped. If anything should be blamed for our success it's the light's providence. no dragon brain, remember how much we didn't want to be king? because it's a lot of work? that goes TRIPLE for not wanting to be god! We will line up some patsy to do the job for us. Like the light. Giggle from the tent-door, to indicate your presence. Then motion for her to continue. The Light is Ssen's answer to being worshipped. Mage invents time travel, Ssen goes back and begins the Light Cult. A couple aeons later Ssen palms the responsibility of god hood on the manifested spirit that comes with all that belief. I would 100% prefer if we never even touched on time travel. Creative solution, though we have no evidence for or against it ever having happened. Also, we wouldn't even need to come back forward in time. We could just pull a Bender and wait it out in a basement somewhere. Giggle? More like a hissing chortle. yes. Hissing chortle it is. >wait it out in a basement I have a tower in mind That sounds like a really good way to go totally insane. Moreso, I mean. not if we hibernate mostly. I hate time travel, so I agree with this Yes. No causing our own existence unless somebody tries to prevent our existence, thereby forcing us to cause it. I believe the general consensus is to lurk and/or hissgiggle while waiting for them to continue talking. Ah my favorite type of paradox. You face palm and wait a little. "Seven ages, for seven ages people worshipped the Light, and...nothing happened. People had lives of work and toil and death, Citadel had the good life, and the Lightbringers came and died. Then you and Her came...and in a year everything's changed. And now we live in a world of chaos and change and people are making new lives, new fortunes, new species, and well...the land is all but unrecognizable now. Now we have the orcs talking about how you helped them kill a God." She shrugs. "We prayed to His Light, and we receive nothing. People are turning to the Dawnchasers now. They pray to you, and you change the world." You hear a rhythmic thudding noise. Mage is banging his head against Wagon. "Please, PLEASE tell me you aren't one of them." He says. Sophie chuckles. "Mage, honey, if you were a God who had the power to change anything you wished I think you'd first cha-" "Okay, okay, OKAY!" Mage says. So... ideas on what to do with the Dawnchaser cult? "Lea is going to throw a fit. " "I might just join her." "Lea is going to hate this." So two things: 1. They are probably talking about Mage's manhood. 2. We're gonna trade for some more orc booze after this. "See, this is why I think we need one of them there disambiguation books. A good majority of that was done on accident, and citadel faked being the light for ages. Besides, the light sends intermediaries to answer prayers. That's one of its main selling points- it won't usually interfere with you directly. go tell them to stop being so silly. If you have time to be a cult, you CERTAINLY have time to go make some wicker baskets, or chop some wood, or invent vaccines, or whatever your job is you crazy peasants. Oh god. Ssen is literally Lucifer, now. We shine so brightly that people turn away from god and bow before us. >"Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: 'Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home." >intermediaries I don't think we have any business saying how the Light works. It might cause a schism. ffffffuck I didn't notice that Ssen: Be the satan. Mostly on accident. >"Only a truly humble god would ask us to stop worshipping them!" >"ALL HAIL THE SERPENT!" Stop all this nonsense! Stop this instant! I swear to the light I will get balles in here and he will fine all of you so bad your heads will spin File: 1375220534989.jpg-(21 KB, 400x300, 6a00d8341bf68b53ef0134862(...).jpg) >"Wait, what are you doing?" >"Averting my eyes, oh Lord." So, when is the Light going to cast us into the pit? Given how hard we're mantling fucking Lucifer Morningstar, it's only a matter of time. File: 1375220591726.jpg-(1.57 MB, 2945x2338, Nuclear_artillery_test_Gr(...).jpg) Oh man, i had a dream about this the other night. We made it to the site near the citadel dome and it was (unsurprisingly) a trap. Except it wasn't the usual kind of trap we encounter. They fired on our position with artillery. The shell was made up of a brillite brought from PE lands for them to pierce the dome much as we wanted to. well Lucifer was cast down for the sin of pride... but we aren't exactly trying to take Light's place. is it so much to ask to just want a simple headmaster-ish position with most of our responsibilities dumped on our assistant? Not a king or god or something. But we do have rather a lot of pride. Dragon brain makes sure of that much. yeah, but it's countered in large part by sloth. That, and the way /tg/ has run Ssen. Really? You'd think that being proactive enough to go out and bitchslap two separate gods would be enough to show that we don't really have much sloth. > mfw not even the Light saw this coming. We are active... we just don't have that much ambition. All we really want is to be a Paladin and maybe teach in the future. >it turns out the Light did see this coming >HIS is too Citadel corrupted to suit the Light's needs >the Light is trying to get Ssen to use Lea to bring the true faith back to the people >Lea is being groomed to become the next HIS and the ENTIRE WAY we have been fantasizing about retiring, a day off, or anything like that. Our long term goals are almost entirely centered around making it so we can go take a nap for a few years without anything exploding. We don't shout "for the light" enough apparently. But if we were as lazy as you imply, we wouldn't have just been fantasizing, we'd have literally said "Don't wanna" and stayed in bed when the north came-a-calling. "Look, I bleed, I can't be a god!" "SHE NURTURES THE VERY SOUL WITH HER OWN LIFE'S BLOOD! TRULY SHE IS A WORTHY GOD!" Also? Ssen is immortal. So yeah. Good luck convincing people she isn't a god. there's a difference between having a lot of sloth and giving in to the sloth. Look, seriously, my blood is poison, I'm not doing any kind of nurturing here. That ground is probably toxic now. Also, I worship the light! Come on! It's not hard! >finally have children "HER AVATAR JUST GAVE BIRTH TO A NEW REINCARNATION OF HER AS HER OLD BODY WAS NO LONGER SUITABLE" Go get lea, then join mage in banging your heads against the wagon "Lea is going to hate this." You say. "She's going to throw a fit, and I might join her." The other two start slightly as you enter the camp. "Hey Ssen." Mage says, going back to work. "Lady Paladin Patrick." Sophie says with a little bow. "Umm, did you hear our conversation?" "This is why I think we need one of them there disambiguation books. A good majority of that was done on accident, and Citadel faked being the Light for ages. "Besides, the Light sends intermediaries to answer prayers. That's one of its main selling points- it won't usually interfere with you directly." Sophie shifts her shoulders. "I suppose. But people wa-" "No." You say. "You tell those people to stop that nonsense. This instant, or I swear to His Light, that I will get Balles and he will fine every last one of them so harshly that their heads will spin." Sophie shrugs. "I'm not the one who's about to make a wagon fly." "Anyway, talk of deification aside," Mage says. "We should be able to fly by tomorrow night. Lea and I are going to paint Wagon." Crisis of faith time! More in other peoples faith and our ability to lead them to it than in or own faith in the Light. SEEK LEA'S GUIDANCE ASAP! >>it turns out the Light did see this coming >>HIS is too Citadel corrupted to suit the Light's needs >>the Light is trying to get Ssen to use Lea to bring the true faith back to the people >>Lea is being groomed to become the next HIS ...yep. >We don't shout "for the light" enough apparently. Oooh, how about red? I heard it makes things go faster! >paint the wagon "Oh, can you paint some wings on there? Me and Tricia have this wing joke going on, she's gonna hate it, it'll be great." "Stripes or flames?" File: 1375221604720.gif-(1.19 MB, 280x166, Zeus orders you to DEAL W(...).gif) "And lo, the soil of this wicked land was too impure for our god's holy blood to heal, and was smote for the sins of its' base inhabitants!" >Meanwhile, in The Light >"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" File: 1375221614166.jpg-(62 KB, 742x599, Hells_Angels,_Flying_Tige(...).jpg) Needs teeth. Doesn't it literally have wings? Isn't the Light just a set of teachings, in the end? Does it really require worship to be the Light? As long as the people who think we're a god follow the teachings, things should be fine, right? The people have some pretty valid points and they're likely going to end up worshiping us no matter what we do. At the very least we should make it clear that we're subordinate to the Light. Better a Messiah than a subversive false god, right? Dragon Brain pls go But Ssen specifically as the messiah would invite war with HIS's little city state. It'd be better if Lea was the messiah. She's the best suited for arguing theology. But claiming to be the Messiah is hubristic, when we don't HAVE a direct-phoneline to the Light. Also, remember Proto-Christianity? It started out all flowers and crucifixion, but then they started having Crusades and Philosociding the Gnostics, and wiping out Byzantium.... "Oh man, so you're going to give is great gouts of fire along the side? Ssen forgets this is a sneaking mission. I think our stance should be: Look. Guys. I hardly have any idea what I'm doing. I work for the light, and do as best as I can. I have no idea if I'm doing right. "Lo, our Lord chooses not to share her glorious divine plan with us! Truly, we are unworthy! BEGIN THE SELF-FLAGELLATION!" >As long as the people who think we're a god follow the teachings, things should be fine, right? Lets not go there. Idol worship lies that way. In the most simplistic form we are a tool. You need wood and nails to build an House and a hammer to put them together. We're a hammer. A hammer can also be used to break things. We do that too. In Ssen's mind, we will have giant mechanical glinting wings flapping on either side of the wagon while blaring rockets pull us forward and we streak across the sky in a blaze of glory I am looking forward to the profound dissapointment when we just sort of lazily drift in a balloon. I'm not saying go out and be like "I am a physical representation of your god," I'm saying let the people reach their own conclusions as long as they still follow the Light. Maybe they call us a Saint, maybe they call us a Messiah, just don't have them call us a god. But that just paints you as the unwilling and humble messiah and stops nothing. If we point to Lea and say "She's the one who's helping the Light grant me so many miracles," then it takes the burden off us and onto someone who can actually argue in religious terms. >let people reach their own conclusion That's what they've been doing. No stop stop all this self-flagellation, nobody likes that. Except for lea I guess. Okay, only continue the self flagellation if you like that kind of thing and are doing it properly, but otherwise don't. AND THERE'S NO GREAT PLAN I KEEP TELLING YOU But we're immortal, we can just tell them they're doing it wrong from time to time "Oh, can you paint some wings on there? Me and Tricia have this wing joke going on, she's gonna hate it, it'll be great." You say. Mage chuckles. "You know, she DID...never mind." "Yeah, umm...Lady Patrick..." Sophie blushes. "While the Spell-Shooters fully support...I mean Ulric is...but...I..." "When you and Tricia babble, could you two not SING about it." Mage says. "That's what she's talking about, and why the Paladins are being very polite to the pair of you." "Did you hear about this?!" A voice says. You turn and see Lea and Tricia coming up to you. Tricia is holding a large bundle of flowers, plants, and decorated sticks. Lea looks pissed. "This is...you can't...Ghaaaa!" She punches Wagon in the side. She sighs. "Hello Sophie, I like your hat." Peace will be PLEASED about this But likewise, a tool does not care if people praise it rather than it's creator or the craftsman who uses it. In the end, whether they are worshipping us or the Light, it is still the teachings of the Light that they are following. I'm not saying we should be happy about it, I'm just saying that we shouldn't be unhappy about it either. Ahhhh, they'd bugger it up anyway. "Our lord truly has no great plan... SHE'S JUST IMPROVISING IT ALL! TRULY A FEAT WORTHY OF OUR GOD!" "I've heard about some things, but nothing to do with...flowers? Tricia, do I have to compete with some suitors?" >self-flagellation I though Lea was dom, not sub? >Hello Sophie, I like your hat That must be a very nice hat It IS a nice hat. I wonder when I get Granny to teach me magic I can get one of my own. And yes I heard. I don't want to be a god! "I just heard myself. Also Tricia's hat is better." Pretty sure she's just a straight masochist. second claiming it's a nice hat. Because it's a very nice hat. Ssen is secretly jealous because she has to wear a circlet. "I'm afraid you've lost me." Making people explain embarrassing things when you have absolutely no sense of shame is always fun. "So what you're saying is that my aunt and uncle didn't see nothing, like you guys said, but instead saw EVERYTHING?" go back to panicking. Are we throwing the fit about people worshiping us? Can I join? If anyone should be blamed for our success it's the Light's Providence. "It is a very nice hat. And if you're referring to us being worshiped, yeah. Admiration and respect are nice, but being worshiped... that's not gonna fly." "Unlike Wagon, apparently." "Cultists gonna cult. Pretty sure telling them that I'm not god is just going to make them think I'm a very humble god. I say give 'em the teachings to follow and then ignore 'em." "So what you're saying is that my aunt and uncle didn't see nothing, like you guys said, but instead saw EVERYTHING?" You whisper to Mage. "More like HEARD." He says. You groan and turn to Lea. "It is a very nice hat. And if you're referring to us being worshiped, yeah, I just found out myself. Admiration and respect are nice, but being worshiped... that's not gonna fly. Also, I've heard about some things, but nothing to do with...flowers? "Tricia, do I have to compete with some suitors?" You ask. "This was an offering." Tricia says. "WE thought it was just a nice gift, and then...well...be glad I was there to drag Lea away." "I still say they need some sense beaten into them." Lea grumbles. "You know they'd just take it as some rite or blessing or some foolishness." Tricia says. "Hey guys." Peri/Mari says. "Hey Sophie, nice hat." Mari says. "Anyway, I was trying to plot our flight path, and I actually think that we'd be safer if we swung over the Citadel Dome and...what's with the Offering Root?" She gestures to Tricia's bundle. "People are worshiping us now." "we're gods now" And the problem is they aren't going to stop just because we say so. "Oh, we're getting offerings now. Care to join me, lea, and mage in banging our heads on wagon?" >people realize we're lesbian "THE GOD-SERPENT HAS DECLARED HETEROSEXUALITY A SIN" >humanity goes extinct in one generation the thing is we aren't even HARD LESBIANS I mean, we were attracted to robin. And we've had MANY a stray thought about hot naga bods. We just can't find any. it seems we're more bi in a lesbian realtionship. Aye, we're more sorta "Anything We Like." Though probably not to the extent of good ole King Issun Shagsalot. "Long story short, people are worshiping us now. We'll deal with it after we get back from risking our necks AGAIN. I don't want any of us going in unfocused." >we tell them that "THE GOD-SERPENT DEMANDS A HAREM OF ATTRACTIVE MALES OF ALL SPECIES " tell me if I'm being annoying He's struck me as pretty damn hetero its more like anything that's biologically female Wonder if he would like Nikolai before she changed herself up Please. He just hasn't met anyone sexy enough. I mean, let's list off the male characters we've met: Julian, Trisch's Dad, The Dramatae, The Three Malcontents of Citadel, Balles, Kingfisher, and The Old One. Not a whole lot of choice there. If we want to live a long life, then yes. We're basically stuck in lesbians. Though we're certainly not straight. "People are worshiping us, we're Gods now. And the problem is they aren't going to stop just because we say so." You say. "Oh." Peri says. "Okay." "Okay? OKAY?!" Lea says. "This is a travesty! We're violating one of the core principles of The Teachings, and drawing people away from His Light." "Then steer them back." Peri says. "Say that we're His servants or avatars or whatever sounds good. Then say that we want people to worship His Light, and that will please us." "This isn't just another elven con!" Lea snaps. "This is important." just a little, mostly because it's eating up precious postcount. I love the discussion, I hate the threads dying early and rushing echo. You forgot mage. lets not forget at one point he was pretty enough for artists to make a girl "We apparently have a cult now. Killing gods for a living makes people think you're powerful enough to be worthy of their devotion. Who knew? Dragon likes the attention, but at the same time I know this is wrong and we need to find a way to get the message across." File: 1375223830497.png-(505 KB, 696x826, Monday for Mage.png) Oh, and Mage, winner of the "Predatory Female's Target of the Year Award." I think we might want to talk to granny about this one "Worst part is I don't want to just tell people to worship the light, I want to convince them to. Very slight, but important, difference. Maybe I'll just start yelling 'for the light' when I'm about to do something crazy. That might fix everything." "Lea, I agree with you entirely. Peri, trying to steer them back is a good plan." "But we're about to go fly a magical Wagon to rescue our friends from an enemy army that may be trying to somehow use Citadel against us. And I'd really rather we think about ways to not get killed right now." Oh come on there's plenty more. Avery. Tallow. Glass assassins. The male comedic relief of the glass assassins. The butcher. That carpenter. I could go on. "Lea, I agree with you entirely. Peri, trying to steer them back is a good plan." You say. "But, I don't want to just tell people to worship the light, I want to convince them to. Very slight, but important, difference. Maybe I'll just start yelling 'for the light' when I'm about to do something crazy." "So, you'll be saying that every other hour, then?" Mage says. "OW!" He rubs his shoulder where Lea punched him. "But we're about to go fly a magical Wagon to rescue our friends from an enemy army that may be trying to somehow use Citadel against us. And I'd really rather we think about ways to not get killed right now." You say. "Right." Mage says. "Well, might as well do a test run." He hands Sophie a rope. "Don't let go." She nods. "Okay, everyone into Wagon, I need to calibrate the weight." He says. "So this will get us into the air?" Peri asks as you all climb in. "Well, hopefully right now, just about five feet or so, maybe less." Mage says. "Or it could just blow up, or shoot us up in the sky so far and so fast that we'll all instantly suffocate, and then freeze solid, right before before we crash back to the ground. Although I'm not sure on the sequence of that." "Mage," Tricia says. "Talk less sometimes." "Alright, alright. Here we go." He closes his eyes and twists a knob on the apparatus. Roll 1d20 i wouldn't be surprised, snakes are a species that has men posing as women alot to fuck the mating female. ultima333 ultima333 07/30/13(Tue)18:46 No.26335997 ROLL OF JUSTICE ROLLAN At least two of those were Malcontents, the Assassins are all dead. I don't even remember who Tallow was. Also, the Orc Chief counts, but none of our Orc friends count because they got nuked. "You know, I was certain we'd be fine until just MOMENTS ago, mage." Based anon Oh yeah, and Echo, I just jumped in, and this is going FANTASTICALLY. This is hilarious. God tier Quest Master: Echo. Tallow was the old druggy guy who used to help our dad. Hung out in the blue-smoke taverns. oh, so they don't count if they died at some point? A shame. Also tallow is the OTHER surviving member of our dad's group. Sitting in bronze peak. We used nonlethal on most of the Assassins "Wait wait wait why do WE have to be on here can't we just put some weights of approximately our size on here and-" Be cut off by flying into the air yeah, the assassins are totally alive. Balles was going to put them to work doing... something. We never found out what. And they are going to spread the story of how a snow-colored snake lady jumped them, too. Snow colored? But white coloration is a sign of Corruption! we were in camo at the time. It made us black and white like the snowy mountains. "You know, I was certain we'd be fine until just MOMENTS ago, mage." You say. Wagon jolts shifts, bucks slightly, and lifts up off the ground. "By His Light..." Sophie says. Then she breaks into a giant smile. "It worked!" "Okay, okay." Mage says. "Lowering...and we're good!" Wagon touches down. "So," A new voice says. "It works." You look up and you see a bald elf enter the camp. He's got a mantle and circlet on, and is dressed in light chain mail. You all get out of Wagon. The elf walks towards you and gives you a little bow. "Lady Paladin Ssen Patrick, the Paladin Serpent. I am Lord Magus Kincaid, the Paladin Arcane." He looks at Sophie and Mage and smiles at them. "And you two must be Mage and Sophia...the two most loathed magic users in the kingdoms." He says with a smile. "Ah, I've been meaning to meet you! I hear you make the most wonderful explosions. And not much else. Oh, and these two are loathed? Do tell, it's news to me." Return a little bow, because I assume that's how these things go. Spider 07/30/13(Tue)19:04 No.26336417 "Loathed?" You're just jealous. "If you're here to see us off, you're early." It probably has to do with fucking up easy citadel magic for everyone else. That or gun magic. Probably. He shouldn't talk about Mage or Sophia so disparagingly, though. It's not they're fault they aren't corrupted. raise an eyebrow "Loathed? Why is it my brother and Sophie are so?" flick tongue in annoyance Tisgut ;_;7 guys guys I don't even know if that stuff is public knowledge yet It SORT of is, but we haven't published a book on it yet. "Ah, I've been meaning to meet you! I hear you make the most wonderful explosions. And not much else." You say. "Now, why are my brother and Sophie loathed? What did they do to you?" "Nothing." Kincaid says. "Personally, I think you two are doing quite well. Just that I've been getting a bunch of letters and other contacts from some of the old guard. They go on and on about your dangerous ways and blasphemous practices blah blah blah." He shrugs. "They're not wrong, you UFK mages are one mistake away from sinking half the continent into the sea, but I doubt you're stupid enough to not realize that." He shrugs. "It's just tradition vs. innovation. Same story I've seen for years. Though this is the first time that innovation hasn't had a mysterious accident that blew up in their faces." He inspects the anti-grav device. "Think we could make another one of these? Set it to a wide area and crank up the power? I'd love to be able to toss people into space." Hey, where's thread 79? did I miss it? "You'd be the Paladin I haven't been introduced to yet. Speaking of magic users, would you mind if I asked where you draw your abilities from? Many seemed to lose much of their abilities once Citadel's corruption withdrew into the city itself. You seem no worse for wear." "I prefer non-lethal whenever I can. Using the system in reverse seems like a great idea. Soldiers can't fight if they're pinned to the ground." "Oh, you wizards and your terrifying weaponizations of utilitarian spells. Always warms my heart to hear such enthusiasm. Mage please tell me that he can't toss people into space with this." Think for a while "Then tell me what space is, in fact." it... seems to have dissapeared from sup/tg/. So have this. http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/26272289/#26272289 >space "I like you." We may not know the nuts and bolts of magical theory, but please don't assume that means we're completely scientifically illiterate. Also, even if we had no concept of space, it bears no relevance to the situation at hand. Flying battleships anyone? I think Mage just made a new friend. Mage really needs male friends ans Isen isn't that good of a male friend and Tisgut is dadoots. But we have never heard of space. We've heard of a luminous aether, but not space. "Could we apply it to the Leviathan? Maybe go ahead and crash it into Citadel?" but we're pretty much village bumpkins. Tricia too. We don't have the advantage of city-livin' all the other party members had. Yes yes yes yes. I like this. As long as we don't squish them, this is a good idea. A GREAT way to counter the enemy's flying stuff. We do know advanced math thanks to weird brain shit. Who knows what else we know about You don't know what we might or might not know. And we were raised by a Paladin, who was presumably not a bumpkin. "Oh, you wizards and your terrifying weaponization of utilitarian spells. Always warms my heart to hear such enthusiasm. "Mage please tell me that he can't toss people into space with this." You ask. "Well..." He says. "You know, I prefer non-lethal whenever I can. Using the system in reverse seems like a great idea. Soldiers can't fight if they're pinned to the ground." You say. Kincaid shrugs. "I prefer to ensure that the people attacking you never come back to try again." "A good way to counter the Empire's fliers." You say. "True." He nods and looks at the apparatus. "HEKA resonance with Leyline draw? How to you compensate for the..." He goes off into a magic babble conversation with Mage and Sophie. "So," Peri asks as she leads you away from the Mages who are talking shop. "Say that we can get Wagon up and over and not get shot down, or anything like that. So we land in the Empire's camp...then what? We are going in blind, and the moment they see you Ssen, they're going to sound the alarm. No chance we can pretend to be anything other than what we are." "I'm hoping we land in the Kingfisher's tend. Should be able to wrap him and take him hostage." "Honestly I had planned to ask the first person I saw in a forceful and yet polite tone where my neighbors are. Then I'd go and find them, free them, get in the wagon and leave. Perhaps after telling kingfisher he is very rude." Don't forget the snake and seven birds song. "Do we really have to land IN the camp? Landing just outside, then moving fast and quiet sounded like a better plan." "I mean, we're allowed to do subtlety once in a while, right?" Taffer 07/30/13(Tue)19:35 No.26337130 " That's the idea. We are going in so hard, so fast that they won't have any idea what they are going to do. We'll use their surprise against them. Of course, we do have our firebombs from the orcs and you do have that single bullet for a bigger boom if we need it." "Find Kingfisher, tell him to cut his shit out, and then go get our friends. And then do... something, I guess? I figured we'd burn that bridge when we came to it." "Then I'd go and find them, free them, get in the wagon and leave. Perhaps after telling Kingfisher he is very rude." "So we go in and attack them as hard and as fast as we can, maybe even take Kingfisher hostage, grab our people, and bolt?" Peri says. "We'll also be using orc firebombs, and maybe Mari's last bullet. I was also kind of hoping to land Wagon on Kingfisher's tent." You say, nodding. "I also have a poem." "Great." Mari says. "Well, sounds about as good as our usual plans." "Well, if we get a chance at subtlety, we'll take it." You say. "But mostly the plan is to burn the bridges when we get to it." "And by bridges you mean tents." Peri sighs. "Alright, so...you want to get ready for the raid, go see this cult of ours, or do anything else before the raid?" Let's go see our cult. "I WANT... to have some more orc mead and take a nap. Let's go tell those cultists to knock out their garbage first though. And I should probably write to stone hall, I had planned to be back with souvenirs for the little ones by now." "Everything looks ready, might as well check up on the cultists. I'm unsure if i should be preparing some black or not." >"And by bridges you mean tents." Peri sighs. "Open to any suggestions for a better plan." First part is a no. Second part wit the cultists is a maybe. Third part is a definitely. Preparing doses of venom should also be a priority. we don't really need to "prepare" our venom so much. Well, if we can manufacture poison gas bombs it would be great. Since there's a bunch of trenches, let's go full World War One and drop chlorine gas all over the Phoenix Empire soldiers. You do realize that dropping poison gas bombs in a HOSTAGE RESCUE mission is an insanely bad idea, right? The Russians learned that the hard way. Yeah, well vomiting some black onto a few arrows might not be out of order. I think we still need to debate the ethics of using poison gas bombs in quantity. It's difficult to control, and kills indiscriminately. Not exactly the most "Paladin-appropriate" tool at our disposal. I was thinking we drop the gas bombs near the front lines rather than the camp, so we get a clear way to leave, clear of living Phoenix empire soldiers. Are there any more of those rifles left? I'm guessing they're musket equivalents, but it'll still give us an edge. For use on non-hostage rescue missions, sure. Maybe we can draft the other Lamia in order to make the process more expedient, plus some chemists to figure out how to make the gas last longer. Speaking of World Wars, I'm getting the impression that especially with firearms being a thing, our spear might have fallen behind the times. I wonder if we could have it re-forged into a gun barrel? Or at least have one designed with similar materials? Well, we could get a musket, attach a bayonet to it, and call it a day. Gunlance. "Open to any suggestions for a better plan." You say. "That's not our style." Peri says. "Our way is to make any workable plan and just adjust as things go. Planning is for insufferable twits and Gods, and look what we do to them." "Alright, so let's see if we can knock some of that cultist garbage out of people's heads." You say. "Also, I should write to Stone Hall. I had planned to be back with souvenirs for the little ones by now." You say. "The little brats adore you." Peri says. "Bring them painted rocks and they'll take them." You shoot Peri a look, but she's unrepentant. You arrive at the 'Shrine of Dawn.' It's not as bad as you thought it could be. A painting of you, one that's fairly accurate and in proper armor, and smaller ones of the others. They're candles, incense, a few coins, and other mild offerings. There's people sitting by the shrine and praying to it, silently. "So," Peri whispers. "How many years before you think they're sacrificing people to us?" "Not funny." Mari says. >barrel breaks open >cylinder is behind the hinge This is the most retarded weapon I've seen all week. You do realize that one of the main reasons nobody uses airborne chemical agents any more is because their spread really freaking hard to control? One change in the wind direction and and suddenly that shit is on top of you, or maybe there's no wind and it just settles there, basically trapping you. "it isn't funny, you got to start with animals first." Or we could use a slender Arquebus as the spear-shaft and mount Beacon's metallic point like a bayonet. It'd be damn hard to balance, but it could be made to work. "Even if it was funny, don't joke about it, they might hear you and start doing it." "Hey you, uh people. Can you cut it out with all of this? It's kind of wierding me out." "If I can help it, Never." "Alright, Which among you is the mastermind behind this?" Go ask around the cultists and get him to stop this shit. Too forceful. Let's be respectful for now and break it to them slow. Find the guy in charge, have a talk about how this really goes against the teachings of the light. It's flattering, but seriously misguided. Tell that to the "KILL GOD!" idiots fagging the place up. "You know, this isn't quite as bad as I thought. Still doesn't set a good precedent, but at least it's not totally out of control yet." "So, really? This isn't going to work, people. If you want to pray FOR us, that's fine. But please remember to believe in the Ideal, not the Idol." But we SHOULD kill gods! But only the bad ones... The Fifth, Citadel, the Dark Man, the Dark Peaks guy, and possibly that Phoenix Empire fear-based version of Citadel. We DO kill gods... But only the bad ones. we have yet to kill a single god factually, and they're more land spirits than gods. We should really label things more accurately "If I can help it, Never." You say. "And it isn't funny, you got to start with animals first. Even if it was funny, don't joke about it, they might hear you and start doing it." You slither out into the clearing and clear your throat. "Alright, which among you is the mastermind behind this?" There's a flurry of activity, some gasps and murmurings, exited exclamations and a few people dropping to their knees before you. A girl with (badly) dyed red hair comes before you and drops to her hands and knees. "I am...I am the speaker of your truths and Teachings." "Okay," You say. "Can you cut it out with all of this? It's kind of wierding me out." She gasps and looks up at you. "Have...have we displeased you? Do you wish us to do more?" "Ask about tithes!" Peri whispers. "Shut UP!" Mari snaps and puts a hand over their mouths. "speaking as a devout following of the light, no. No I do not want you to do more." If anyone is to blame for my successes it's the Light's Providence. Worship that! "Oh get up girl, there's no need for all this. I'm no divine incarnate or... I honestly have no idea what you're claiming I am over here, but I'm probably not it. Heck, I'm a worshiper of the light even. Basically what I'm saying is if you want me to do something, you're infinitely better off making a suggestion box than praying to me. For starters, I can actually read a suggestion box, I don't have some magical spying device for prayers." "I want you to stop worshiping me! All of you! I am not a god!" "I am just a humble servant of the light. What I wish is not important. What's important is that you follow the teaching of the light." "Feel free to pray FOR us, but kindly don't pray TO us. Because we can't magically hear prayers. We're just people doing the best we can." "If you really want to make me proud, follow that example. Do the best you can. Respect the rights of others. And most of all, judge others by their deeds, not their beliefs. I'm asking this of you not as a God or whatever, but as a Paladin." "Do you understand?" >peri and Meri fighting This must look so creepy to everyone who isn't part of our little group. Also, lets remember to archive this thread. The last one wasn't archived. nah. Don't tell them directly to follow the light, just leave it open. Just, you know, I follow the light, I don't see why you would give up the light in such a way. "Speaking as a devout following of the light, no. No I do not want you to do more." You say. "I want you to stop worshiping me! All of you! I am not a god!" The girl bows again. "You are so humb-ah!" She shouts as you pull her to her feet. "Oh get up girl, there's no need for all this. I'm no divine incarnate or...I honestly have no idea what you're claiming I am, but I'm not it. "I'm a worshiper of His Light. If anyone is to blame for my successes it's His Light's Providence. What I wish is not important. What's important is that you follow the Teachings of His Light. "Basically what I'm saying is if you want me to do something, you're infinitely better off making a suggestion box than praying to me. For starters, I can actually read a suggestion box, I don't have some magical spying device for prayers." You say. "Oh...yes...please forgive us." She says. "We only wished to please you and bless you so that your changes to our world would continue to be blessing upon us." "Lea's 'His Light as a lottery' peeve again." Mari says. "Feel free to pray FOR us, but kindly don't pray TO us. Because, again, we can't magically hear prayers. We're just people doing the best we can. "If you really want to make me proud, follow that example. Do the best you can. Respect the rights of others. And most of all, judge others by their deeds, not their beliefs. I'm asking this of you not as a God or whatever, but as a Paladin. "Do you understand?" You ask. The girl nods. "Do...do you want us to take down your shrine?" "I don't want you to take down the shrine, I just don't want it to be my shrine." "No i don't. I don't want a shrine or anything like it." "Do whatever you want. But yeah, please take down this Shrine. And keep this in mind, It doesn't take a god to change the world. " "I'd much appreciate that. Sorry for bursting your bubble, but I am certainly no deity. If I was, there wouldn't be such thing as snow. Oh, and that's a great picture you have there. I've seen a few pictures of myself, and this one is one of the more accurate. They always give us all these huge... never mind, it's not important. Oh, and I wasn't joking about a suggestion box or something. I really don't have time to go out and talk to people and find out what problems there are, maybe send me a letter or something if things are dire somewhere. Never know when the next cannibal plague or ghost explosion will happen. How can we make it up to these guys? They're clearly good at heart and we don't want them to be demoralized. we could... offer rides on the snaketrain. Once this whole war thing is cleared out, I'd suggest recruiting a few into the Clear. "Oh cheer up you lot, it's not the end of the world. Take it as a show of exactly what a mortal can do if they put their minds to it. " "Do whatever you want. But yeah, please take down this Shrine, or at least make it NOT dedicated to me or my friends. I don't want anything like that. Although that's a great picture you have there. I've seen a few pictures of myself, and this one is one of the more accurate. They always give us all these huge... never mind, it's not important. "And keep this in mind, It doesn't take a god to change the world." You say. "Oh, and I wasn't joking about a suggestion box or something. I really don't have time to go out and talk to people and find out what problems there are, maybe send me a letter or something if things are dire somewhere. Never know when the next cannibal plague or ghost explosion will happen." You leave once you watch the cultists take the shrine apart. You sigh and give them a smile. "Young, foolish, kids." Peri says. "Well, what do you think the odds are that we'll have to do this again over the years?" Your ears pick up the girl saying something to her 'flock.' "And remember, we are not to build shrines to the Serpent of Dawn, but rather keep her and her Light as shrines within our heart! She wishes our spirits to shine by our deeds, not rituals or pictures with candles. Blessed be the Lady of Dawn and the Light that she brings!" Thisssss Ehhhhh. we should just... make leaflets. They will state plainly: "I am not a god. Please stop saying that I am a god. It is very embarrassing and my friends laugh at me for it." "Lea, if I told you to solve this problem, how many of them exactly would you have to punch? Just out of curiosity." "Oi! I can still hear ya! Cut that shit out!" that's hilarious and we should probably do it. maybe less swearing, mostly because I don't want to seem angry with these people, since they'll take it the wrong way. "Wrong way around! The Light brings me!" Honestly? This works. They're following the teachings, that's all that matters. "Oi! I can still hear ya! Cut that shit out!" You snap. "Ugh. I should make notices. 'I am not a god. Please stop saying that I am a god. It is very embarrassing and my friends laugh at me for it.' Something like that." "I still say it'd be a good way to get money for the Arma and Schola orders." Peri says. "And I still say you keep thinking that and I'll make you regret it." Mari says You get back to camp. Kincaid has left, and Mage and Sophie are chatting about Magic Babble over the fire. Tricia and Lea look up at the pair of you. "We just checked out our worshippers." Peri says. "It's like six or seven dumb kids with some candles." Tricia lets out a sigh of relief. Lea still shakes her head. "They start out like that. I trust you told them to stop that foolishness?" "Yeah, Ssen gave them a talking to, but...eh..." Mari shrugs. "Think they heard what they wanted to hear, took down the shrine though." "Lea, if I told you to solve this problem, how many of them exactly would you have to punch? Just out of curiosity." You ask. "If it's just six or seven? Then I suppose six or seven." Lea says. "Maybe their parents too, for being such poor examples." "I'm not sure you can beat the Faith out of a person that easily, if it was The Light and his Teachings never would've spread the way they did. At any rate, I've got some letter to write, what time is Wagon taking off?" "You know, maybe save it for later. I'd rather not have our maiden flight prefaced by the beating of dumb kids. speaking of, have we discussed the flightplan yet? Straight line towards their camp, shooting anyone who bothers us? Or something fancy?" "Wait, if she died her hair in homage to me, does that mean SHE knows MY hair is died? Oh no I thought nobody could tell" seconding this I think our hair has recovered "I'm not sure you can beat the Faith out of a person that easily, if it was The Light and his Teachings never would've spread the way they did. At any rate, I've got some letter to write, what time is Wagon taking off?" You ask. "We can actually take off later tonight, if you don't care for the paint job being super neat." Mage says. "Paladin Kincaid helped fine tune a few of the bugs." Sophie shakes her head. "Can't believe you're actually doing this. Anyway, my shooters and I can draw fire with a raid while you're doing that. Get the Empire looking in a different direction." "Alright, have we discussed the flightplan yet? Straight line towards their camp, shooting anyone who bothers us? Or something fancy?" You ask. "That's my department." Mari says. She goes to her tent and gets a map and spreads it out on the ground. "We can try the straight shot plan, which is quick, but if we're spotted, we're going to be VERY unhappy, or we could try this route." She draws another plan. "This is a bit longer, and it goes over the Citadel Dome, like I said, but if we're spotted, we'll be out of range for the majority of the arrows, but if the magic fail or they get a lucky shot, we'll fall on top of the Dome, which I assume is a very bad thing." "Unquestionably." Tricia says. Eh, lets go over the dome, maybe we can spot why they are so interested in it. ....Fuck it, best we're gonna get. >land on top of the citadel dome "Can't we go... ALONG the dome? Does it have to be over it?" Sigh exasperatedly when yes, it has to be over it "Well, I guess we have no choice. If we fly straight there, those wacky cultists will see it and get all kinds of ideas. I suppose that means we'll take mari's route." Let's strap Paladin Kincaid to the front of Wagon and have him rain annihilation down across the Phoenix Army. Also, we should remember: WRITE DOWN THE DESIGNS TO THE FLYING WAGON. This is important, in case we all get captured. After these messages, we'll be right back. Write them down, leave them at camp. We cannot allow this shit to fall into Imperial hands. >which I assume is a very bad thing "We've encountered worse things. Which is all sorts of horrible if you think about its, so lets not." ...Actually, considering our comrades inability to keep an eye on the incredibly deadly traitor assassin spy-master in their midst and protect three of the most important people in our nation simultaneously, maybe we should give the plans to the Orcs instead. We already gave the orcs magical nukes... and now you want to give them flying things to bomb our cities with. DON'T GO OVER THE DOME. We still have Evil Bitch-sword remember? It'll just bullshit its' weigh into the engine compartment, in a GROSS violation of narrative causality, and cheat the airship into crashing. Seconding the paladin Kincaid thing. Cus it would be funny The Orcs already would have figured out Magical Nuclear Physics sooner or later. We just gave them a little push. Hmmmm... Speaking of magical nukes, do the Orcs have any of those lying around? It would sure help the war effort if we deployed on on top of their HQ. Think of the blow to morale if their entire command staff was vaporized simultaneously in a catastrophic mile wide fireball. And then, a week later when they think it was a fluke, we deploy ANOTHER ONE! They'll be off this continent in no time, I promise you that! no thinking about nuking the place until AFTER we rescue the captives I'm sure Kingfisher would be disappointed for our lack of tact. Cmon, if we dropped it far enough away there's at least a 45% chance of survival, provided there's minimal Fallout. Just use the link Echo supplied and look at the top of the page. File: 1375234014619.gif-(77 KB, 435x292, Ssen expresses disapprova(...).gif) As a sidenote, we ought to tie Soma to the bomb we use to open the dome up whenever we get around to it. >Strap Paladin Kincaid to the front DOOOOO EEEET Or do this >>26339035 Let's go over the dome. lets not nuke them just yet Can we at least put the Magi-Nukes on Stand-by? I think we can all agree Phoenician dominance is a fate worse than dealing with the aftermath of a continent wide nuclear holocaust. Come on, it's not very paladin-like to nuke all our problems. If we can get the PE to leave on their own at minimum cost of lives, then we should. Most definitely. Nuking a city which has been reduced to a miles-wide shrine to an eldritch god of slavery and mutilation is one thing, but nuking a nation as a means of taking the easy way out is another entirely. File: 1375234893926.jpg-(79 KB, 740x593, shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg) Alternatively, it encourages the troops to fight harder. If we have to drop a magical nuke on them, we need to hit their mainland preferably after we've taken care of most of their military. It'll doubtlessly end the conflict and establish the UFK as the dominant power of the world. But a world-wide hegemony is what some other alignment would want. Paladins are for keeping the peace. I would really much prefer an equal partners outcome than UFK STRONK outcome. It keeps the peace perfectly. Phoenix Empire gets spooked into submission and everyone else is basically told "don't be a dick or we'll come kick the shit out of you" >"don't be a dick or we'll come kick the shit out of you" More like, "don't be a dick or we'll come kick the shit out of you. So make sure if you don't want to end up like PE, you band together to fell the tyrant we've become." This is a matter for later, though. We can hamstring the PE right now if we take Kingfisher. While we're waiting: It was a cool afternoon when I met her, and the faint breeze smelled like after-rain and pines and lavender. It gave me a knot in my throat, and an electric tingle not dissimilar to what I had felt as I had huddled against the heavy downpour and lightning during the storm that had just passed. The mountains and hills still echoed with thunder. The lavender in the field swayed gently, blown about by the wind. The stones had all the dust washed off them, and shone smooth in the sun as it fell through a gap in the clouds. Her hair was wet, and I could see even at a distance there were drops glistening on her skin. They scattered the sunlight that passed through them in a display that would make some of the more zealous followers of the Light think they had seen a saint. Her head turned slowly. Her eyes narrowed. She knew I was there. I am preparing to not like this with the extreme disapproval of a father polishing his shotgun when being introduced to his daughter's boyfriend. what is this sorcery inb4 she brushed a lock of wheat-hued hair behin her ear, parted her velvety lips and called to me, "YO DICKBREATH! THE FUCK YOU WANT!?" "The fuck are you staring at, dipshit?" Paladin Toll snapped at me. The air was so crisp that her voice carried effortlessly across the field between us, her words acting as a verbal slap across the face. "Sorry, ma'am," I muttered. "Fuck off back to the city, wanker," she called in reply. "You've got a Light-damned job to do, remember?" Truly, a goddess among mortals. Nah. I think we can just nuke the everloving hell out of their Continental Bases and scrap 20 years of military build-up in a spectacular military failure the world has never seen before, causing massive internal strife all over the Phoenix Empire as the Emperor loses favor and various warlords slaughter one another. I was close. Fatherl with a shotgun dissaproval: Rescinded. I chuckled. notbad.jpg The smell of the city hung heavy in the hot, midmorning air. The smell of fish, of ocean brine, of the earth still clinging to vegetables. The sounds of merchants and inventors touting their wares, and the cries of gulls, and the distant sound of waves on the shore. Such was life in Stone Hall... and the vibrancy of life here was beautiful. And through it all, she passed. She was ancient and hardened, and had hid long beneath the streets of the city like a precious gem, only recently brought to the surface. Her fluid movements left the cobbles brushed clear of dust after her passing, as the great serpentine coils of her body propelled her forward. When I caught sight of her eyes, I was vaguely reminded again of how old she was. No human eyes could give you that sense of timelessness. Her tongue flicked gently at the air as her head turned and those eyes fell heavily upon me. Oh god this is gonna be funny inb4 lamia brain derail. "Do you smell cabbage?" The Archivist 07/30/13(Tue)22:27 No.26340415 yea it was, just search lamia daughter quest tag, for some reason its at the very top of the listings instead of with the other ones from july. "Don't you have work to be doing, fool?" Scheherazade asked with a frown. Her body coiled slightly behind her as she paused to address me. "Yes, ma'am," I admitted. "Well, get to it," she replied, just a hint of impatience creeping into her voice as she began to slither past me. As she did, the little ones followed her and made faces at me. I can't do fun things anymore. the story of ONE MAN with ONE JOB and NO ROMANCE "Can't we go... ALONG the dome? Does it have to be over it?" You ask. "We can, but it's the slowest route." Mari says. "If we're spotted taking the other two ways, we can get to the campsite quickly. But if we're spotted going that way, then by the time we get to a site were we'll be able to land, then the hostages will have been moved...or worse." She shrugs. "Still, if we're able to keep things silent, then it is an option." oh lord do more File: 1375237873376.png-(84 KB, 175x230, oh god dammit.png) Wait a goddamn minute. Is this Isen's POV? Right, over the dome it is then. "Silent you say? Why don't we use Mage's stalking spell and paint the bottom of the craft the color of the sky? You know; sneaky-like." "Guess we have no choice then, over the dome it is." "Over it is then. Can't give away our surprise." I don't really favor going over Citadel. If things go wrong, being on top of Citadel isn't where I want to be. Echo's back, storytime is over for now. DO THIS. Only people with magic-vision wouldbe able to spot us if we're as high up as I think we're going to be. Thirding "Silent you say? Why don't we use Mage's stalking spell and paint the bottom of the craft the color of the sky? You know; sneaky-like." You say. "We can paint it easy." Mage says. "But I'm going to be using my power to keep us moving. I can't do the stalking spell at the same time. Sorry." "How are you moving us?" Lea asks. "Same method we did on the Kassat. Big ass sheet." Mage says pointing to a large bundle with ropes. []Not Told [x] Fuckin' Toll'd I think we should go the straight shot way. If we're spotted, then time to drop bombs on them and their mom. File: 1375238237995.jpg-(148 KB, 800x1200, MAKEITSTOP.jpg) Never again shall I google snake balloon. ALL I WANTED WAS A SILLY TEAM ROCKET-ESQUE IMAGE, LIGHT-DAMN IT! ... dear god it looks awful "All right. All right. Over the Dome it is. They try to shoot us down, try to crash land on the biggest light damned tent." If our altitude is greater than 200 feet, as long as we paint the sail and body blue, it'll be damned hard to spot us. I say we take a direct route. second'd [x] Over it is then. Knowing Kingfisher, that's where his body double will be. He'll be in one of the many identical smaller tents. A different one each night. Ah, but that's what he expects you to think. "Well, seems like a solid plan with nothing that could possibly go wrong and no way to jynx it." "Anything else, or are we free for the night?" Well as long as his men don't know the difference between him and his double, he'll work great as a hostage. Even if the real one shows up we can just accuse him of clever, clever subterfuge. "Having your doubles claim to be you when I clearly have you hostage. Just the sort underhanded treachery I'd expect of you Kingfisher!" >"It hurts to live." >"With every breath, I scream." >"My every dream is thumbtacks, the sweet, swift 'pop' of mercy." I'm sorry I digressed. Let's end this. "All right. All right. Looks like we have little choice, over the Dome it is and try not to give away our surprise. They try to shoot us down, try to crash land on the biggest light damned tent." The rest nod. "We've got about six hours or so before it's dark enough, and Sophie's squad starts their raid." Mage says. "I'll need to rest up." "Sounds like a good idea." Peri/Ari say. "A little meditation never hurt anyone." Lea says. Tricia just pecks you on the cheek and heads off to your tent. You yawn and slither off after her. You're more tired than you think, you just curl up and go to sleep. "You must be getting so tired of this crap." A voice says. "I'm sorry about this." You're in the Blank Space again. Also there's that figure that always seems to be on the verge of shadow. "You know, I dislike the name Twilight, too pretentious." He sighs. "Actually, I'd like to not have a name...well...it's a bit more complicated than that, but I suppose you have to call me something...Dusk isn't too bad, is it?" He chuckles. "Eh, lets go with that, even though my name isn't Dusk. Oh and I'm not His Light...at least I don't THINK I am...I hope I'm not. If I was, I'm not now...eh...whatever. Anyway, you're doing great Ssen, I just wanted to let you have some time to yourself without Soma peeking over your mental 'shoulder' so to speak." I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM. Beacon? "You don't know if your The Light or not? Did you lose your memory or something?" "I don't really need a name for you. Most of the other voices in my head are anonymous, you know." "Oh, another one. You know, I hadn't been contacted by one of you guys in quite a while, other than that snowman thing. So, what're you after? Other than, I don't know, pre-empting any interruptions the others would have done with your own." "Why is it always my head? This whole deal is getting old." "You have no idea, "Dusk"." "If you can answer me one thing, though? Why exactly does everyone seem to want to get inside my head?" "I appreciate the the help. That bloody sword makes me so damned nervous. Its like that one stupid story about the possessed doll that just won't stay thrown out." Yeah. Are we some kind of spiritual coffee shop? >inb4 His Light is the eternal sunshine of a spotless lamia brain. Well, we're Poison/Fighting so we would naturally weak to Psychic. .... I need to stat Ssen for pokemon now. but we're poison/dragon type, taffer! "Soma. Goddamned Peace won;t leave me alone even after I kill the bitch. Any way to destroy the blasted thing?" This man has a point. Ssen: Poison/Dragon Mage: Psychic/Fire Tricia: Bug/Normal Peri/Mari: Fighting/Ghost Lea: Fighting Still weak to psychic "I appreciate the the help. That bloody sword makes me so damned nervous. Its like that one stupid story about the possessed doll that just won't stay thrown out." You say. "Oooh, I hate that one." Dusk says. "If you can answer me one thing, though? Why exactly does everyone seem to want to get inside my head?" You ask. "Cause it's easier than a human's." Dusk says. "Lamia brains are simpler to control, well...WERE easier, give it a few generations and some more education and you'll have something resembling mental privacy." "So, you don't know if your The Light or not? Did you lose your memory or something?" You ask. Dusk shrugs. "Maybe. I remember being here and that's it." "So, what're you after? Other than, I don't know, pre-empting any interruptions the others would have done with your own." You ask. "I want to stop those assholes. All of them. Citadel, the 'Fifth', the Divinity of Flesh, the Phoenix...or at least that demon bird that roosted in the colony." Dusk sighs. "They're assholes, and think that just because they have power then that gives them the right to play with you guys as toys." He shrugs. "They try to control the living, but you folks have so many thoughts and desires and so on that it shrieks in their heads constantly. So they try to shut you all up, anything to keep you from being...you." Dusk shrugs. "And they ignore what they should be doing...hang on...let me show you." Dusk waves his hand and the Blank Space fills with people. They're not doing anything, just standing there. He waves his hand again and they vanish. "This place is filled with dead souls. The others should be spending their time HERE, helping THEM...but they rather 'Play God' than BE a God. "I try to help them. Talk to them. Listen to them tell their stories. Then send them Onwards. That's what I think a God should do, help people with what comes after Living. Living is meant to be managed by the living." Dusk frowns. "That was a lot more profound in my head." Next ask him if he has anything to do with the humanizing thing or knows anyone who is responsible for it. I want this worry to die. "Marvelous, I don't think we'll come in much conflict then. Just make sure you're not actually, I don't know, eating the souls into bricks or something." So they are ... stuck? In the darkness? Until a 'god' leads them to whereever? Where do you send them too? "... so you're like purgatory, then?" "So, have you seen a trio of Elves through here, or have any souls escaped Citadel at all?" their souls are still in Citadel sadly. "That seems a lot more admirable, if I am honest. I was beginning to think that all the gods were just straight up jackasses." Spreadsheet Warrior !SKv7drUhgs 07/30/13(Tue)23:18 No.26341526 File: 1375240687064.gif-(1.64 MB, 624x352, THESUNISSHININGBRIGHT.gif) Crazy theory time...Dusk is a god that we just created. He seems like a textbook example of what we want out of a deity. He has no memory of being anywhere but inside our head, and he wants exactly what we want. Also, Dusk/Dawn. Though that one is probably intentional. One can only hope that is the case. >Citadel falls >power vacuum >through willpower alone we create a God >those cultists were right "I hope you won't take it personally if I assume that you're just more conniving, power-hungry filth like the fifth turned out to be. I have nothing which suggests I ought to trust you, after all. If you are what you claim to be though, then we'll have no problem continuing as is. I very much would like to return the world to the hands of its residents as well. No Gods, No landlords." Or, Dusk is the last vestige of the way things should be and were before the Divinity of Flesh (which we should talk to Nakai about at some point) and the others started doing their own thing. Our brain could be something like a "life raft". Oh god, I think the Light might actually be in our head somewhere. "I think I'll get along with you better than the others, Dusk." Guys. Remember when the Fifth totally seemed to be on our side? Please don't be stupid. >implying Dusk doesn't have an ulterior motive Nobody's this cut and dry. There has to be a catch. He could be the best of all possible land spirits, but he can't be this good. "You know, you seem alarmingly decent, and your story of how this mess started seems to jive with what I've suspected." "So, let's assume you're telling the truth, and the other gods weren't always as evil as they are now. The answer is to trap them here somehow? Purge them from the earth without destroying them so they'll go back to doing their jobs?" Someone else who doesn't roll over and derp for every disembodied voice in our heads that claims to be nice to puppies and shit. Here's what we do. We keep going. All the land spirits kept thinking we'd fit into their little plan. We've beaten them by taking those plans and turning them on themselves. And if we keep it up we should be okay. {x] Don't take this personally, but you seem too good to be true, and so probably are. I mean, I wouldn't argue that he's safe at all, but he's not nearly as irrational as the others, and his interests seem outwardly to coincide with ours as far as diminishing the powers of the others on the physical world goes. So let's be polite and listen to the cosmic afterlife man for a bit before rushing to judge him, yeah? "So they are...stuck? In the darkness? Until a 'god' leads them to whereever?" You ask. "No, just these people." Dusk says. "Some need some help, or want to confess things to me. They I just point towards the light." He gestures to the light above you from the unknown source. "And they move on." "Where do you send them to?" You ask. "Not sure. They always act like I'm doing them a solid though. So, I hope I'm not screwing up." "Marvelous, I don't think we'll come in much conflict then. Just make sure you're not actually, I don't know, eating the souls into bricks or something." You say. "Yeah, no. That's just sick." He says. "Besides, it's just as chattery for me as the others in the living world. I prefer the quiet here, and there's work to be done." "About this humanizing thing, was that you, or anyone else?" You ask. "It wasn't me." Dusk says. "And it existed before I 'was' from what I can tell. So, maybe it was done by something that came before me, or maybe it wasn't. Sorry I can't be more helpful." "So, have you seen a trio of Elves through here, or have any souls escaped Citadel at all?" You ask. Dusk shakes his head. "Sorry. All the souls Citadel has are still trapped." "Well, I hope you won't take it personally if I assume that you're just more conniving, power-hungry filth like the Fifth turned out to be. I have nothing which suggests I ought to trust you, after all. If you are what you claim to be though, then we'll have no problem continuing as is. I very much would like to return the world to the hands of its residents as well. No Gods, No landlords." You say. "No offense taken at all." Dusk says. "I'm in agreement. The living world's a mess anyway, you can have it. I have work enough here." "Okay, good. I was beginning to think that all the gods were just straight up jackasses." You say. "Trust me." Dusk says. "They are. It's the same thing over and over. They just desperately don't want to see what they have die or decay." "For someone of my profession, that's a very disheartening thing to hear, Mister Dusk." "Sounds kind of like someone I know." "Anyway, so you're fine sending these souls along? What is it exactly that YOU have, if not them?" "So, let's assume you're telling the truth, and the other gods weren't always as evil as they are now. The answer is to trap them here somehow? Purge them from the earth without destroying them so they'll go back to doing their jobs?" You say. "That's what I'm aiming for." Dusk says. "The living world is for the living. Dealing with what comes after is what Gods are for. Anyway, it's a pretty simple plan...which is actually more of YOUR idea than mine. I'm just nudging it along on my side...wow that came off as more sinister than I'd like it to be. "Anyway, the crux of the plan is to get them SO pissed off and beat up that they do a very stupid, but dangerous, thing, and then you give them a giant smack down, and then they either Truly Die, or they retreat up here and I'll close the doors behind them and they'll lack the power to re-open them, and then MAYBE they'd do their damn jobs." What stupid and dangerous thing? "At any rate, I hope I don't actually have to meet you for real any time soon. Well then, do I get to wake up now? Or is there some rush of prophetic/symbolic glimpses into my waking world? Do I have time enough to slip in a delicious rabbit and warm rock dream before I go where eagles dare tomorrow?" "So we identify and piss off every God in the world at once, avoid their wrath, and then redirect it back at them? Then you kick them upstairs? Is that the plan? Because the 'identify every God' part sounds hard. The other parts sound like just another day." File: 1375241847195.jpg-(150 KB, 1000x2200, Shinigami_sama_by_Ch_Thin(...).jpg) Dusk sounds like a kind version of the Grim Reaper. Like Terry Pratchet's, or maybe Shinigami, from Soul Eater. He's a bit foppish. The question is how dangerous he can be when threatened. Oh, thought that was the end of our little chat. save this for then in that case. Seconding. Annoy the Dawnchasers. yeah, come on, I need some good dreams here "That sounds entirely too reasonable. If I find out there's some catch or double-cross we'll have words." "But if it comes down to you dropping by or the bird, the bastard, and the boil again... I GUESS I could put up with another chat some time." "Now get outta my head, there are people trying to sleep." Remember when we used to have dreams of us running through a grassy field as if we were a wild lamia? Yeah, I miss those dreams. They were nice dreams. I hope they weren't citadel dreams. Once or twice we dreamed about being a human woman, knowing what it's like to live in a world built for our species' mode of ambulation. I wonder how we felt about that. And we woke up with our jaw unhinged and a pillow stuck in our mouth? They were "Fifth" dreams, probably, considering that wild is his gig. More likely a deeply unsettled and slightly slobbery Tricia. I imagine we don't speak of that anymore. And then of course there was that "dream" where Tricia was a lamia. Whatever happened to that mace? Confiscated by Paladin Balles. He's doing his damnedest to keep the Cups from getting their creepy mitts on it..or is that the Staffs? We need to steal that back. For... research purposes... But seriously, we need that back. Just to see what effects it might have on our companions. No, I'm not joking. We need to know our weaknesses to prepare for getting a full blast of Citadel. "Pissing off God, I do that in my sleep. I mean that literally. Assholes keep invading my dreams." Maybe we could request some good dreams from this guy. "That sounds entirely too reasonable. If I find out there's some catch or double-cross we'll have words. "But if it comes down to you dropping by or the bird, the bastard, and the boil again... I GUESS I could put up with another chat some time. "Now get outta my head, there are people trying to sleep." You say. "Fair enough." Dusk says. "Sorry about this, I promise that we wont have any more chats, unless it's 'you're going to die' important. Anyway, I pulled you here just for the purposes of having good sleep. Soma's going to try and give you bad dreams, and crap and I thought that we could just skip that bullshit, because NO ONE has time for that crap and those two idiots are SO unimaginative." Dusk says. "Anyway, I have work to do. Please dreams, Lady Paladin." Dreams of warmth and sun. Of lying in a swamp of warm mud, and hunting, colors that have no name and then someone gently squeezing your shoulder. "Time to get up, Snake." Tricia says. You yawn, feeling rested as the shreds of dreams wick away from your mind. Everyone is dressed and suited up, and you all push Wagon into position, not wanting Lightmare to be spotted. "So...any words before our latest insanity, fearless leader?" Peri says. "praise the light" >Dusk gives us good dreams Praise be unto the light, and may we not die. "For the light! Hah, you thought I would forget about that, didn't you. Crank the thing, mage." >warm swamp mud Shit, we hardly ever get to go in swamps any more. Or forests. Lousy job. Making us be in the stupid city. "I dunno. I can only humbly request that the Light shine on this latest, absurd, ill advised misadventure." "I met a new god called "Dusk". He was kind of cool, I guess. But now Soma's going to give me nightmares from now on... so yeah." "Other than that, just remember the Gospel of the Snake: don't die." Taffer 07/31/13(Wed)00:05 No.26342504 "In doing this, remember that one of the people we rescue today is the Princess Mumei who was crippled and caged by her own people. She came here and in time was freed by the efforts of many. Now she is caged by her people again and we seek to undo this injustice. They wish to clip her wings but, we believe, NO, WE KNOW, that she will fly freely in the Light. In the Light's name. Amen." "You know, it's not so accurate to claim I'm fearless. There's all sorts of things I'm scared of." "May we not die." File: 1375243778045.png-(245 KB, 484x351, YOU LITTLE SHIT.png) "What's the worst that could happen?" Just had an entertaining thought: >smear grease on Soma's handle >next villain who summons Soma watches it slide out of their hand EchoGarrote 07/31/13(Wed)00:10 No.26342571 "Praise be unto His Light, we do this for him, and may we not die." You say. "Well said." Lea says. You all pile into Wagon. "Okay, crank the thing, Mage." Let's give everybody a big snake-hug before we go. It's been too long since we did something like that. >nat 1 Satan guide my dice. "Remember kids, don't try this at HOOOOOOOOOOOO-" The Archivist 07/31/13(Wed)00:12 No.26342606 I guess you could say we're off to a... rolling start. all of these 19s ever since we got back to the UFK are staggering >I GOT A FOUR! >HAIL SATAN! Wagon takes off and you soar up...and up...and up...and up....and then stop. Tricia pokes her head over the side and then instantly pulls it back and hides in the bottom of the wagon, breathing into her hat. "We are...very...very...far...up." She slowly says. Slowly and very carefully, Mage unlashes the 'sail' and points his staff at it. You thank His Light that there's very little wind tonight. Also the fact that everyone is very stall and that you have a big enough body to serve as a very VERY stable ballast. "Okay, now...for a gentle breeze." I can't decide if it would be better for Ssen to be afraid of heights or for her to laugh madly while dangling dangerously far out of the wagon about how "I'M FLYING! FLYIIING!" We are soo gonna die. "Don't think about it." I think a manic grin is good enough. "I can see my house from here! No I can literally see my house from here." "You know, I bet if I started wriggling around, this whole thing would start rocking like the tiniest of boats" A strong but controllable wind starts up and you all let out soft gasps as Wagon moves. "Heh...we're doing it...we're actually doing it!" Mari says. "Land, Sea, Air, Ice, Sand, Citadel, no terrain can stop the mighty Wagon of the Dawnchasers." "I think I can see the fires of Stone Hall from here." Lea says. Tricia just groans and shoves her hat over her head. You silently glide over the Citadel Dome. It's changed a little. It looks less made up of Everything and now is a smooth perfect white pearl on the ground. You can almost hear the faint sounds of the music and the delicious smells that you first experienced when you arrived back when everything was 'perfect.' You hear the cracks and explosions of the spell-shooters. They put on a quite impressive show of lights. There's a lot of shouting and sounds of people moving towards them. Now all you have to hope is that no one looks up and sees the wagon and sail. You've painted both black with 'stars' on them and your path over the dome is pretty out of the way...so there's a rather good chance...you hope. Roll 1d20+2 Rolled 17 + 2 Rolled 7 + 2 Don't fail us now, dice... "Oh boy. Here we go." "You know, I still think it would've been better with crazy wings of fire painted on the side" >You can almost hear the faint sounds of the music and the delicious smells that you first experienced when you arrived back when everything was 'perfect.' Paradise confirmed. Get that mace. We need to prepare for everyone's best dream come true. "Waiit, you think Mumei will be mad at us for flying before her?" Nah, she'll be mad at Wagon. Wagon's the one that's doing the flying. shit we have discovered the flaw in our plan It's only flying from a certain point of view. From another point of view, we just did the opposite of falling and are right now sinking very slowly. "Wait, you think Mumei will be mad at us for flying before her?" You ask. "Ssh." Peri says. "You never know what can tip a person off!" She whispers. "Never again." Tricia moans. You poke her a bit with your tail and she latches on to you for dear life. After a long quiet, tense moment, Mari taps Mage on the shoulder. "We're here! Stop." Mage lets the wind die down and sags with relief, wiping his forehead. "Okay, now what?" "Well, that's up to Ssen, are we going with the 'smash into Kingfisher's tent' plan, or the 'quietly set down on the outskirts of the camp' plan?" Merc Command !3QUDPTn2Js Merc Command !3QUDPTn2Js 07/31/13(Wed)00:37 No.26342989 We're not flying! We're falling, WITH STYLE! Speaking of which, flying, snakes, and noble speech are all no bueno for most PE folks, right? How would you feel if the Antichrist and her merry band of horrors fell on your house in a flying Wagon? And then she started spouting poetry about hunting you and everyone you know down like animals? Quietly set down on the outskirts. No need to kick a hornet's nest down. Put wagon down, establish a perimeter, then go identify where the captives are being held, and skedaddle. We are doing that poem, right? >smash into Kingfisher's tent' plan THE DAWNCHASER CODEX CALLS THIS STRATEGY "WAGON REHN!" "Wait, you mean stealth is actually an option still? Let's set down gently then. We'll make noise on the way out anyhow." Quiet. I like Quiet. After all, if they never know we're here we get away cleaner. SOME STAY DRY WHILE OTHERS FEEL THE PAIN Hell fucking yeah. I didn't go through the trouble for nothing. You know, unless nobody else wants to do it. "Any signs of alarm? If not, lets do this subtly, this is a rescue mission, if we do our job right, they'll never know we're here. If we do it wrong, they will learn to fear the skies." This but replace "skies" with "heavens." More dramatic and divine sounding. As much as I would love to go fucking COMMANNNDDDDOOOOOO!!!!! we still have the element of surprise so we go down quiet. Just popping in to mention that if we go down quiet, we all have to pretend we rolled up here in wagon. Not flew. So many sentries get a good reaming. So if Sideways is here, what do? Kidnap her again for old times' sake? Redaeth 07/31/13(Wed)00:46 No.26343159 Of course! We can also try and snag her boss too. Though my hopes aren't high since he's probably boss level himself. If we see her and there's an opportunity, yes. A quick bite of black and we just drag her off. and then ransom her back for a promise she never works this continent again, and we get to watch her do a funny little dance. >Sideways wakes up groggily >wipes sleep out of her eyes >smells something cooking >suddenly, THE SLITHERING NIGHTMARE >AND SHE'S SPEAKING ONLY IN PUNS No, I like Sideways and want her to work for us one day. "Wait, you mean stealth is actually an option still? Let's set down gently then. This is a rescue mission, if we do our job right, they'll never know we're here. If we do it wrong, they will learn to fear the Heavens. We'll probably make noise on the way out anyhow." You say. "Okay," Peri lets out a little sigh of relief. "Set her down Mage." Mage carefully starts to twist the dial on the Apparatus. Shhh, no tears, only puns now. Well, our payment isn't the material kind, it's our captives' dignity. SNeaky sneaky Set 'er down! Remember, any landing we walk off is a good landing. Ssen will never have a good landing the trick is to make sure that they don't realize were actually ransoming them back for the morale damage. that's actually valuable enough to be mollifying I'm surprised the dice are being so nice to us. Even with the old system we would have had almost all successes. we are about to roll 1s aren't we? Just because you mentioned it. Citadel 07/31/13(Wed)00:53 No.26343312 Patience. The trick is patience. All landings are automatically bad ones when you are a lamia Aren't these technically travel rolls? ..I mean, not that there's much to run into up here. A particularly ornery flock of geese maybe. It's a sneaking mission. The dice fuck us over all the time because we're a stealth class that's acting like a straight up fighter. With a TUNK-BUMP you set Wagon on the ground. Tricia is the first out of the Wagon and all but hugs and kisses the ground. Peri gets out and motions for you all to wait as she heads out and then comes back. "They're having a meal." She says. "Our people, and the Phoenix Brass. One of those 'civilized hostage' kind of thing. There's heavy guard. I don't see Kingfisher, Sideways, or anyone who might be a Kingfisher Spy." "They're responding to the raid?" Lea suggests. "No way." Tricia says. "They're smarter than that. Something else is happening." "Either way, you sure it's Barney, Ambrose, and Mumei?" Mage asks. "Yeah. Mumei's translating for the other two and they all look miserable, and Mumei has a few bandages on her face." Peri says. "Arms too. I know burn marks when I see them." She chuckles. "They started to torture Mumei and the boys comply or else they hurt her some more. Gallant...but a little stupid." yeah, seriously. ALL our feats are in sneaking, hunting humans, sneaking up ON humans, and napping for weeks. Paladins are NOT a STEALTH CLASS. Look at "Craters" Kincaid. He makes things die in fiery mystical explosions of arcane horror. But Lamias are. Is this a race/job conflict of some sort? Aww, they made us dinner! Part of me really wants to see what the reaction would be if we just walked in like we were invited and asked for a plate. We need to wait. Either they're ready for us and just waiting for us to attack or we risk interrupting them in a moment when they could kill the hostages at any time. Let's do this the vidya game way. Rev up that black and start taking out lone guards. They might notice the intrusion and respond in a way that has the prisoners sent back to their cells. We were originally a ranger. "Rude. Lea? How many hostages do you think we can take back with us?" "How heavy a guard? I'm tempted to crash in this instant and nab 'em. Or we could try drawing some of the guard away, but I don't know what would bring a loyal guard to abandon his current orders." We're supposed to be a light in the darkness, right? Is there any way we could extinguish their torches, then go all batman on their shit? >get mage to extinguish their torches with a heavy wind >start singing How about the Paladin Serpant crashing through tents and spraying Black and Clear venom all over the camp? Then spit a nice White Loogie on the way out. Make them understand what happens when you tread into the nest of the death that slithers. "How heavy a guard? I'm tempted to crash in this instant and nab 'em. Or we could try drawing some of the guard away, but I don't know what would bring a loyal guard to abandon his current orders." You ask. "Three Phoenix Empire high ups, each have a sword. Four heavily armed, heavily armored, Raptor Guards. They've got a couple of swords on them, and they're runed. One or two of them may have magical talent." Peri says. "How many hostages do you think we can take back with us?" You ask. "Four, max." Mage says. "Any more and we're not having QUITE so smooth a ride." The best of both worlds.. Too bad we're the only ones who can see in the Dark though. "Is that taking into account such shenanigans as tying them to the top or bottom of the wagon? All of a sudden, I find myself in a foul, foul mood." I am extremely tempted to just... slither in there and sit down for the meal. With orders for our team to kill the lights the moment shit starts going down. "Do you think there's anything you guys working together could do about the lights in there? If there's only nine guards, and it's dark, I think I could do something about it right quick. Or I could get our friends out. Depends on what happens in there." Let's do a two pronged assault. First: mage throws a big fireball as a distraction from one direction and Tricia throws a swarm of bees at them >everyone stands up to face Mage and Tricia and maybe chase them Second: Lea, MeriPeri, and Ssen take out as many distracted guards as possible Third step: take out stragglers Fourth: book it. No need for a higher up hostage. Let's just be polite today. However, we should make it clear that we could have taken a hostage. Nah, a higher up hostage makes the demand of a barrel of rice wine in exchange for them even more insulting. Plus, that's somebody who has taste to judge our song! I think our song is best saved for the soldiers sent after us. The gang keeps the VIPs moving and we stalk the soldiers in a pitch black forest, singing the whole time. you. I like you. "Do you think there's anything you guys working together could do about the lights in there? If there's only nine guards, and it's dark, I think I could do something about it right quick. Or I could get our friends out. Depends on what happens in there." You say. "What kind of lighting was it?" Mage asks. "Torches, and brasiers." Mari says. "I can't put OUT the lights...but what if I make them even MORE...light...umm oh damn, that sounded so much cooler in my head." Mage swears. "Anyway, I can make the fires flare up or explode. Will that help?" He asks. So, what's our plan? I said here how willing I was to just go in there, and cut the lights as soon as they pull a GUARDS. We could get our guys out easily then. Has the number of prongs been decided yet, or are you still arguing it out? Okay, flares are the distraction and we each take out at least one man in the split second they are looking at the flare. a sound plan. We flare up, and then get rid of all the guards closest to the hostages. Then we will be in a protective ring around our friends for the combat. I second. >combat Oh fuck that. We run and keep running before anyone knows what the fuck is going on. Then we >>26343878 Can Mage try to put some/all guards to sleep.. File: 1375248685555.jpg-(53 KB, 350x462, Hoop-Snake-2.jpg) "I'd much prefer cover of darkness. Singing vaguely sinister lullaby style songs don't really gel with...I mean yes. Yes of course that will work. Everybody pick a guard. Gonna have to save that song for some other occasion." "Alright, we set the flames off and then we jump in, grab our people and try to take off." You say. "Sounds like a plan." "Sounds like a Dawnchaser Plan." Lea says. You follow Peri as she leads you up to the long tent. You can see flames and shadows through the canvas. Peri slowly sinks her blade into the canvas and holds it there. At the signal, she's going to rip it open and you can charge in. Mage takes a deep breath and focuses. come on mage, this is loud and flare-y. You can DO loud and flare-y! Do your thing, Mage! File: 1375248932250.jpg-(106 KB, 800x600, 482169-lightning-warrior-(...).jpg) So we have pyrotechnics to our entrance? BEHOLD! I AM THE SERPENT THAT EATS THE CAGE AND FREES THE BIRDS! ITS HAPPENING! Well, there goes that. Only first three are counted. I blame you Redaeth. Right, d20 rules. Forgot about those. Name gave it away too. Its entirely possible this guy is vote spoofing. There is a way to make spaces not appear in some browsers. Sorry for the shitty roll, but I am not "vote spoofing". What's with the lowercase A then? It's just unnecessary. What happened to #79? There's a burst of light from Mage's staff and you hear shouts of alarm as you see the light building up and a very LOUD popping sound. Peri rips open the tent and pulls open the gap. "Go! Go!" You slither inside. Mumei, Ambrose, and Barney are in there, sitting around one end of a table, three important looking Phoenix Empire people are sitting around the other end. There are four men in heavy, strange looking armor that resembles a collection of roofing tiles made out of gold, or gold plated at least, laid on top of each other. They also have very strange looking helmets that look like metal curtains draped around their heads, and with ornate birds carved into them. Roll 2d8 Rolled 5, 2 = 7 File: 1375249800856.jpg-(165 KB, 600x600, Ssen gives great advice.jpg) QuickQuick !3.Sw6C7CYU QuickQuick !3.Sw6C7CYU 07/31/13(Wed)01:50 No.26344545 All right, gotta go quick like quickquick. I don't know what I'm rolling for. I really hope that distraction did something. Either way, we have to grab mumei and ambrose and get moving. Barney is the only one among them that can move fast on his own, and can be instructed to run with us. I sense something very bad behind those masks. Whatever it is, as long as it has skin and bones and needs to breathe it's not nearly bad enough. You're eating dinner when SUDDENLY SNAKE LADY 2spooky I'm not sure what's behind there, but it won't be good. There's just two little snags to the plan. You can't really fault Peri for not spotting it for the quick peep she must have done through one of the windflaps in the tent wall. Thus she didn't see that your friends are in leg shackles with weights. You have five seconds to work before the flash-bang wears off. Change of plans! We guard them while mage uses his welding-cut to get through the chains. The same one he used on the compass. Start by clawing up the three higher-ups across from them at the table. If we're lucky, we can cleave the three of them with black in one action. File: 1375250646872.jpg-(35 KB, 315x367, BOOM BOOM CRASH.jpg) BOOM CRASH That's all it takes for Ssen to break into your house with the intent to free your captives and kill you. Why don't you follow the Light? HA! Like the extra weight of a few shackles mean anything to the snake train. All right, lets move fast and start hitting every body with some Black Venom. Start with the unarmored higherups. A hostage situation to rescue hostages, I like it. I like it a lot. if it counts as ambush(ie full dose of black for surprise) then black claw as many of the heavy armored warriors as we can. I'd knock them out. We still want hostages, and I smell a double-cross. I suspect there may have been a switch. Fangs out Claws out Get some black going. Quick-quick and try and incapacitate as many guards as we can. We don't want to kill anyone if necessary. Besides a daring night raid of the Serpent will really take its toll on enemy morale. Yeah, it has to be more complicated than this. You got mud on yo' face. You big disgrace. we ARE knocking them out. With the black. not our friends though. because they are our friends. Okay, so you streak towards one of the nobles, you claws out, along with your fangs, Black dripping from both. "What in the Myriad Darkness?" You hear Barney shout. "Was this the plan?" "I don't know!" Ambrose says. "Princess?" "I don't know, they didn't tell me much!" Mumei says. There's a noble in red with a crane sewn into his clothes. A noble in blue with another crane. And a noble in black with an owl. Which one are you going for? You can try to jab two, or go jab-jab-bite on all three, but those will require rolls. You can get one and a full dose of Black automatically. We're on page 10 btw. Time to think of making a new thread. All 3 because fuck it I am a gambler, so I say jab-jab-bite. yeah, it's still kind of early for the snake quest and we're just going into a combat. Jab jab bite. Wolverine style. We are here to save our friends. Hostages are a secondary concern. We don't need them. badly. {Hello, my name is Ssen, please sleep tight and do not struggle} >was this in the plan? >I don't know, they didn't tell me much! Who. What. I am worried. I am getting worry. Roll 1d20. The "they didn't tell me much!" line has me weirded out. Two jabs, but also ask the prisoners what the hell's up. "Who..told you..what?" Rollan also dialogue here's hoping we do well I'm weirded the hell out too. After we KO these guys, we'll ask. So much for the dice Ssen: Get distracted by pressing curiosity about who mumei has been talking to I really hope they haven't had their souls fucked by the PE's new device like I fear And here... we... go... Also, archive and new thread. wait this counts as a successful roll... They were using those flight rolls to lull us into a false sense of security. Still, 13's better than single digits. ... what "device"? in one of the "meanwhile in PE" cutscenes, a noble presented to the emperor his plan which involved an ALREADY TESTED spell/device which could alter the souls of people, changing their opinions and feelings on matters permanently. We don't know about it in-character. ... fuck. If they've done this, there will be death. There will be a LOT of death. If that's the case well then fuck all. And Puns. Thousands of them. In Phoenician. No puns. Dicking around with souls gets you a silent murder spree. Then again, we have Beacon. If that doesn't work, we find whoever knows what WILL work and make them undo it. Alright, you managed to get your fangs into the red crane, and scratch the blue crane. The black owl in his flailing about in the flash managed to get lucky and dodge out of the way, also, you aren't sure if blue crane got a full dose of black or not. I need to take a break and draw out how this mess is going to work. Plus set up battle stats. We'll return after these messages, most likely in a new thread. okeydokey, I'll go take a break too. See you in like, 20 minutes I estimate. You're too good to us, Echo. oh, I already can tell you what would work. Fucking their souls AGAIN. The guy said pretty plainly that you could alter their souls freely. So, you know, if we want to use the device ourselves to put our friends souls back how we think they "should" be, we're free to. You know, our friends we don't spend more than a week or two every few months even being in the same city as. >that device gets used on us >the process is described, in metaphor, as a 1984-like sequence where we desperately try to rebel against our tyrannical alternate self >attempt to use device on lamia >accidentally modulate leviathan side first >dragon-rage fueled rampages You know, those nobles were probably having a PERFECTLY OKAY day. Having a nice dinner. Talking to some interesting foreigners, sure they're prisoners but they're interesting Things were going well. I kind of have a difficult time believing that Echo would give us a situation that we had no chance to prevent. I have a tougher time believing he'd give us something we couldn't fix. I'm less thinking about "what echo would do" and more about "what those phoenix bastards would do" I think we literally flipped their table And then Satan busts in and bites Jerry. What the fuck, Satan? this is why you ALWAYS REMEMBER to say grace. I hope not, we wanted that food. We're definitely not inviting her again. but you didn't invite her, steve I didn't, I thought you did. If they had already mindfucked them, wouldn't they have more fliers? I mean, it struck me that something hadn't gone as well as you'd expect. And if they did, I'd call that worth a favor. I didn't invite 'em, it's never my job to send the invitations! WELL IT WAS YOUR TURN YOU KNOW WHAT? WE'RE NOT INVITING YOU NEXT TIME EITHER. This is the first time any of our friends are seeing us actually fight. Civilians were hiding when our caravan got attacked. I hope it doesn't affect our relationship. Honestly as long as Ssen doesn't start biting people with the White or putting on puppet shows with black venom'd victims, I don't think it would effect much at all. >Ssen saves their lives >"Oh, you were so violent with your paralyzing poison" yeah, I'm probably worried over nothing. Unless they've had their souls raped. Which their initial reaction seems to suggest. that's the opposite of reassuring The real risk is that we're committing a major faux pas and you aren't supposed to rescue hostages in Phoenix culture. Not really. Their initial reaction, in my interpretation, hinted that they knew rescue was coming. Doesn't Kingfisher do it all the time? How? How would they be expecting us? What plan was WHO not telling Mumei about? Everything about their reaction is wrong.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line390
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__label__cc	0.644711	0.355289	Oh...Nothing Place: Arby's Lunch: Steakhouse sub, potato cakes, Dr. Pepper The steakhouse sub isn't all that great. It's on a ciabatta roll (that bread that reminds you of an English muffin). It doesn't have all that much roast beef, and the sauce is a little weird. Give me a large beef n' cheddar any day. If Chester could talk, he would agree. He loves the beef n' cheddar. Of course, the large beef n' cheddar sandwich costs more than this whole combo meal. Another new thing they have is "prime-cut chicken tenders". Huh? They supposedly come from the "prime cut of the chicken breast". Okay. I'll say this about Arby's...They throw a lot of LTO's against the wall in hopes something will stick. They always have. Another hot day, but not so bad on the humidity side so it's actually nice. When I arrived here, I noticed they had outside patio seating. I thought to myself, "I'm going to sit outside". I thought that while I ordered, I thought that while I waited for my food. You know what? I didn't sit outside. The last of my shows ended their seasons last night, and there's four-to-seven hockey games left. Guess it's movies and video games going forward. Or getting out more. Riiiight. Fast Food Ribs Lunch: BK 'fire-grilled' Ribs, onion rings, Dr. Pepper The heat is here. The humidity is here. It's hot. Stupid sucky sweaty hot. I need to move to the desert. Or back to the Northwest. Or invent time travel and pass summer up completely. Fast-forward straight to football season and caramel apple milkshakes. Over the past couple of years, BK has been moving away from their traditional conveyor rack flame broiler to something called a "batch broiler", which is said to reduce energy consumption by 90 percent and allow smaller batches of burgers to be cooked faster, allowing for a fresher tasting product. It also had an unintended side effect...Customers said the burgers tasted better. "More like they used to". (My opinion on that...they've gone from tasting charbroiled to intensely charbroiled. Unnaturally charbroiled.) BK showed off the batch broiler at some recent convention or event or something by cooking all sorts of odd stuff in one, making the point that they would be able to expand menu offerings. They didn't waste time doing so...Some BK's last week started offering a rib meal. This isn't the pressed pork boneless McDonald's McRib (whose popularity continues to baffle me). It's six (or eight if you move up) bone-in ribs, sold in a combo for what has been reported as high as $7.99 in some markets. The local BK's are corporate-owned, so I figured they'd have them here. They did...starting at $5.99. The eight-piece was $6.99. So while literally everybody else in the building was ordering off the value menu, I tried the ribs. These are not "I went to Tony Roma's and ordered a half rack of baby back ribs" ribs. They're individual pieces about three inches long and aren't covered with sauce (they come with two dipping packets of barbecue sauce of such a quality that the main ingredient...even before water...is high fructose corn syrup). They remind you more of wings wrapped around a bone. They're a finger food to be sure. You can probably eat them while driving without making a mess as long as you're not dipping. Taste? Ever tried KFC's grilled chicken? That's what I immediately thought of. It's an intense flavor that doesn't come off as natural. In fact, this would make more sense on KFC's menu than Burger King's. I'm guessing they probably have a really heavy sodium content, but I don't know that for sure (I couldn't find them on BK's website). I don't see them becoming a cult favorite. I don't blame BK for trying this, though. They need SOMETHING to get people to move up from the value menu. Place: Hardee's Lunch: 1/3 lb grilled cheese bacon Thickburger, bacon cheddar fries, Dr. Pepper I wonder why they didn't toast the bottom bun. Wonder if that's normal, or if they just screwed up. Whatever. Excellent otherwise. Apparently we're FINALLY getting a local HD newscast today starting officially with WHO's 13 News at Five, but secretly soft-launching with the 13 News at Noon. You're terribly excited, I can tell. KCCI, much like their reporting, will continue to be fuzzy. My favorite newscast will continue to be KWCH Wichita's because they've been in HD for awhile already and they have a dog on the weather staff. Ever feel like it's impossible to get ahead...that no matter how much or how little money you have, time and space converge to make sure you have just enough of a crisis at all times to have some expenditure that will keep you from getting over that bump? As if your budget was part of the delicate balance of nature? suddenly hears Activia theme song in head Well, nature called. For the cats, specifically. My litter box needed to be replaced last week. You're thinking "Litter box? You can buy those for less than five bucks!" Yes. Normal litter boxes. I'm replacing a Litter Maid. And the solution I've found to replace it costs more than the monthly rent of five of my past apartments. When I first relocated to the Townhouse of Solitude, I discovered something that had gone unnoticed at the old place...Everything was covered in litter dust. Everything. Regardless of where in the house it was. And everything smelled like cat litter, an odor I'd apparently mistakened for "old house". Chester confirmed the litter problem when he trotted across my new black appliances, leaving behind litter dust footprints that had previously gone undetected somehow. So I started looking at dust-free litters and settled on some stuff called "the worlds best cat litter" or some such nonsense. And the dust problem went away. But the litter didn't control odor as well and the cats didn't like the feel of it. So I got the self-cleaning box known as the "Litter Maid" to try and keep the smell down and keep the overall box cleaner for the cats. That cat litter ultimately didn't stick around (the cats and I swear by Dr. Elsey's "Precious Cat" 99 percent dust-free clumping litter now), but the Litter Maid did. The Litter Maid has a big electronic comb that senses when a cat has done its thing and combs the litter box, moving the waste to a covered collector tray at the end of the box. In theory, this should result in an always-clean litter box, reducing odor and making cleanup easier. In theory. It has its flaws. First off, it's noisy in a loud high-pitched way. Second, they cost $100-$150 dollars. Third, the collector trays are not designed to be re-used and replacements are absurdly expensive. (But an Amazon reseller came up with a neat gadget that lets you use plastic grocery bags instead. It's awesome.) Fourth, stuff sometimes sticks to the bottom and to the rake, so the box isn't 100 percent clean. Fifth, clean litter would also end up in the collector tray (shoved in front of waste, I suppose). Then there's my cats, who for some reason insisted on only using ONE side of the box. They do their thing, then cover it with the litter from the other side. So after a day or two, the box is half completely empty, and has a half row of groomed litter. The collector tray is also half empty and half full as a result, with everything spilling over the full side onto the carpet. Litter doesn't just spill there...the cats throw it, track it in their paws, and who knows what else. This required the use of the Litter Maid accessory they don't tell you about...the Shop Vac. In fact, I was able to fill the box several times with litter I'd vacuumed up. The Litter Maid doesn't have a terribly long lifespan, either. Most online reviews claim 1-2 years before the motor dies or starts doing weird things. That's how long mine lasted before it just kept combing and combing and combing over again because it didn't think it was finishing a cycle (when it was). So I started looking into replacements. I wasn't going back to the traditional litter box...the Litter Maid DID pretty much eliminate litter box odor, and significantly reduced scooping maintenance. I wanted something quieter, cleaner, and with a bigger collector setup that would take longer to fill than the Litter Maid (which, tops, was two days). Enter the Litter Robot. The Litter Robot is a big globe on a base. Cats enter the globe, do their thing in a surprisingly small amount of space, and seven minutes later, the entire globe rotates like a cement mixer, clearing the litter of waste and depositing it into a drawer in the base (lined with any plastic bag you can find that will fit, which unfortunately does not include plastic grocery bags). The entire process also completely removes the unused litter from its sitting position and mixes the entire batch, returning it evenly dispersed in its proper place so it's like it's fresh every time a cat enters. So I ordered one. It showed up a couple of days later in a box nearly as big as my garbage can. I removed the dying Litter Maid, discovered a few pounds of litter that had escaped and was hiding under the Litter Maid, broke out the Shop Vac, cleaned, and set up the Robot. It's a little wider than Litter Maid Mega Elite, but about half as long, so I even gained some floorspace. I was immediately sorry...that I hadn't set up the camcorder to catch the cats' reaction. The cats were horrified. They circled it. They observed it from afar. They saw it cycle. Chester stuck his head in, but wouldn't enter. Maggie wouldn't even approach it. They 'held it' for a good fifteen hours. Finally, Chester tried it out and immediately was fine with it. Maggie, who considers Chester her own personal guinea pig, decided it must be okay and followed suit. I noticed this morning that Chester is working out the correlation between the cycling process and the waste disappearing...he did his thing, stood by and waited for the cycling process, then peeked his head in and dug around looking for it. He either thinks it's an amazing magic trick, or he's starting to figure out what's going on. Quieter? WAY quieter. Cleaner? WAY cleaner. There's almost NO litter on the carpet near the unit since I set it up. Less litter waste? WAY less. The collector tray had nothing but waste clumps in it when I cleaned it (negative aspect: BOY did it smell!) Odor? NONE (unless the drawer is open, obviously). Capacity? I cleaned it for the first time after four full days...and I could have gone longer. This thing is ingenious. More expensive? WAY more. $349. You could buy two or three Litter Maids. You could buy a hundred cheap litter boxes. But you know what? It's worth every penny. At least if it lasts. We'll see. Place: Steak & Shake Lunch: Portabello mushroom-Swiss (lettuce pickles, onions, mayo), cheese fries, bowl of chili, Coke It's getting harder and harder to defend Steak & Shake. The chili today is lukewarm at best, there's barely any cheese on the fries, and the burger is super soggy. And they apparently now offer a Grape Kool-Aid milkshake. WHAT??? Have you seen all the hoopla about Facebook the past couple of weeks? Mainly relating to privacy. Yeah, not good. Because of the hoopla, I took a look at my privacy settings and discovered that my profile, which was set to only be shown to people I've designated as "friends", was suddenly wide open for anyone to see. Me: pretty angry. This has gotten enough press that even Congress has taken notice. People are now warning that you should either drop Facebook completely, or modify your information so that nothing is there you wouldn't want seen publicly. Which I'd pretty much done anyway, since some of my Facebook friends are just fans of this blog or my website or longtime internet friends I haven't actually met. Short of actual pictures, there's nothing more private there that you wouldn't have read here. The one change I've made is that I set up a Facebook-specific e-mail address. I do that with most of my online accounts (even my personal website) so that I know specifically where the SPAM and what not comes from. I should have done that with Facebook in the first place. Facebook IS a great tool. I love the steady stream of "news" from friends and media outlets I subscribe to. It's like a really customized AP wire feed. Plus, it's a great way to keep in touch with relatives. Several family members have just recently set up accounts. If it weren't for Facebook, most of them would be people I wouldn't hear from for years at a time. So even if the updates they're posting are about the color of their socks, I appreciate seeing them and just knowing they're out there. (Plus...let's face it...I dig random stuff like that.) And I don't mind Facebook using information to help target advertising to me based on my likes. They should be able to make money, and I have in fact purchased things based on this structure. But having my 'likes' out in the wide open for any random person anywhere in the world to see...particularly when I specifically set my settings NOT to...is ridiculous. That stunt immediately made them a liability to every user they have. They shouldn't even need to show my "likes" to advertisers. They should be able to sell advertisers their advertising and do the targeting internally. It's not that hard. Not that big a deal. The sad part is, they don't seem to think anything they've done is wrong. So what's the solution? - There's already suggestions that somebody should create an open-source competitor to Facebook. Let the millions abandon Facebook and run to the new service. You know who should jump on this? Google. Googlebook. Or maybe Google could BUY Facebook. Google's doing everything else right (this very blog is hosted through a Google-owned interface), why not social media? - Deactivate your account. Not so easy. Apparently, it doesn't really deactivate, so delete your pictures, unfriend your friends, and unlike your likes. Apparently, if you don't, it all stays up anyway. - Deal with it and make sure nothing in your Facebook profile shouldn't be public knowledge. (Yes, that'd me my route.) Sad, because everyone abandoning Facebook seems to be the only way to get the message to their management that they screwed up. They really don't seem to care. Skanky Place: smashburger Lunch: Mushroom-Swiss, chili, Dr. Pepper In case there was any doubt, smashburger's mushroom-Swiss has officially displaced Arctic Circle's mushroom-Swiss as my favorite. Though I'd still take either one any day. It was dark as night outside until about 10 this morning. The wind is blowing, and the rain has been steadily falling at a heavy pace since I got out of bed. Maybe it'll help the taste of the tap water. It's been pretty skanky lately. (Is 'skanky' even a word?...checks Merriam-Webster...Yep, it is. Is 'yep' a word? Yep. What about 'dickweed'? Don't push your luck) Years ago, our city water system was contaminated in a flood and we all had to use/drink bottled water for a month. So Wife #1 and I got a couple of cases of water, which turned out to be an unintended revelation. "WOW! I'm actually enjoying drinking this!" Because the stuff coming through our old pipes was just dreadful. We joined the bottled water generation. After she passed away and I moved, I found the tap water at my new place was great. So no more need for the bottled stuff. Until recently. At first, I thought it was my ice that was the problem because I'd put some fish in the freezer and, even though I stored it in sealed freezer bags, the whole freezer smelled like fish. So I tossed the fish, tossed the (allegedly) offending ice, cleaned, and put in an Arm & Hammer box. No more odors in the freezer. But the water still tastes skanky. So I'm back to bottled water for now. We usually have a period in the Spring where they put chlorine in the water, and you can taste that, but that hasn't happened yet. Maybe that's the problem. I made Kool-Aid (grape...yay) and the odor is actually so strong you could detect it in THAT too. But the weird thing that made me think more about this is that the office water cooler this morning seems to ALSO be suffering from this skankiness, albeit to a much lesser degree. I suppose this is bottled locally after going through their special filtering, but...weird. Maybe it's all in my head. I've considered getting a soft water system. Kinetico is allegedly right up my alley, but they're ridiculously expensive...several THOUSAND dollars. A case of bottled water is under $5 at Costco and lasts me a couple of weeks. Think I'll stick with the bottles for now and wait for things to get better. Pinball! Place: Jason's Deli Lunch: Pastrami melt, Texas chili, Dr Pepper I keep meaning to summarize the hybrid car deal from the weekend...My rental Altima hybrid got 37 mpg or better (I don't know if the tank was COMPLETELY full when I picked it up, and I completely filled it) on the 2.5 gallons of gas I used over my roughly 40 hours in Vegas. Pretty impressive for a V6. A lot of that is due to stop-and-go and slow moving traffic. I figure my four-cylinder Rogue would have been lucky to get 20-25 in the same scenario. In most situations, where you're driving longer stretches in town at 35-45 and on the highway more, the results wouldn't be nearly as good. I've also since found out the hybrid Altima is only sold in like a half dozen states for some dumb reason. No wonder I hadn't heard of it before. Oh...and driving around in a car with no audible motor sound? CREEPY. Also, apparently to accommodate expansion, renting a car no longer happens at McCarran. It used to be you'd go to your favorite rental car company's booth near the baggage carousels, finalize your rental, and get bussed out to wherever their car lot was. Now you board a common rental car shuttle bus that goes out to a whole new facility about three miles south of the airport property (even south of 215). Enter what looks like a mall food court but with rental car companies instead of corn dogs and rent your car. The cars are all right there. They like to stress to you that, from the garage, it's just "three right turns to the strip". It's true. I followed this advice and found myself at the bottom of Las Vegas Blvd. I went up past the famous sign, past the Luxor, Excalibur, and Tropicana hotels, and headed east on Tropicana Ave. I drove a few miles into the increasingly poor and abandoned area of town until I hit an area with a lot of empty space where buildings used to be...in some cases foundations still exist...until I saw the non-descript cement block on the left, its windows and glass doors mirrored like an adult book store, with nothing but a vinyl banner up top proclaiming the business inside...the "Pinball Hall of Fame". The building was bare bones. One big room, save for maybe a makeshift unmarked bathroom in one corner. White walls and a cement floor. None of the overhead lights were turned on. There was a hodgepodge of change machines up front that supposedly were lifted off a casino's trash dock. There were some quarter candy machines. And there were pinball machines. Over a hundred of them. Working. Playable. From every era of pinball. I'm in heaven. It's not a 'hall of fame' at all, per se. It's an arcade, plain and simple, that focuses on pinball. The man behind the machines is Tim Arnold, a lifelong pinball fan and a former Michigan arcade operator. Arnold and his wife invested successfully and sold his arcades in 1990 and 'retired', moving to Las Vegas, his massive collection of machines eventually following. As he restored machines to play condition, he started having fun night parties at his home (where he has something like 1,000 old pinball machines waiting to be restored) to benefit local charities. Eventually, a building fund was started, and eventually, the Pinball Hall of Fame arcade opened to the public. This 10,000 square-foot location is actually their second building. I'm pretty sure Arnold is the guy with the thick glasses you see in the back of the building tinkering with machines in the dark, but I didn't ask. Pinball is a dying art form. There's only one company still making new machines (Stern Pinball), and most of their machines are modern licenses of major franchises like Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, and even CSI. Yes, all three of those are here. CSI is a very odd machine, with the actors speaking their lines very matter of factly ("Skull...multiball."). Still, there isn't a whole lot of market for these...Stern claims half of their sales are to private collectors. I rarely see any operating anymore, save for an occasional modern model in a movie theater arcade. The Hall of Fame has lots of everything, really. Old Gottlieb machines from the 70's with their mechanical scoreboards and bells. Early solid state machines like Bally's Eight Ball Deluxe. Franchise pins like Star Trek, Star Wars, Kiss, and even an Elton John "Captain Fantastic" machine. The legendary but rare Williams 'Pinball 2000'-design "Revenge from Mars". (See the documentary 'Tilt' for more information. I'd never heard of it until @michaelkreagan hooked me up, because he's awesome that way.) Some I was hoping to see weren't here, like Centaur and Spirit of 76, but the Pinbot and Addams Family machines more than made up for that. There's also a few classic video games scattered about, including a Donkey Kong, Centipede, Tron, and a rare working Dragon's Lair. I spent a good chunk of time here over two days and spent a total of just $16 in quarters playing the machines. The patrons I saw in the building were largely guys who likely were in their prime in the eighties, but a few couples would show up, and parents with kids too. It's completely awesome, and it's all for charity. Arnold donates any profits to the local Salvation Army. The Pinball Hall of Fame is at 1610 E Tropicana. They CLAIM the building is right across from the Liberace Museum, but it's not...it's down the street across from an empty lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. The Liberace Museum, by the way, looks like it's housed in a re-purposed motel. Like an old TraveLodge. Or a really massive old strip mall. Place: HuHot Mongolian Grill Lunch: A plate of sea scallops with mushrooms, two ladles Samurai Teriyaki sauce, two ladles Feed the Horses Hoisin sauce, and three ladles Hot Chili Oil; a plate of chicken with Chinese noodles and mushrooms with three ladles of Samurai Teriyaki sauce, three ladles of Feed the Horses Hoisin sauce, two ladles of Burn your Village Barbecue sauce, and two ladles of Hot Chili oil; Coke I am BEAT. Three and a half hours on a (padded) steel chair in the Palms concert hall last night, got back to the motel at 12:30, got up at 5:30, a couple of hours at the airport, and roughly three hours in a cramped seat on an MD-80. I need to start planning my flights so I'm either on a better more spacious airline, or plan my flights with stopovers so I get breaks in between. I just don't handle that 'three hours cramped in economy' crap well at all. Oh well. I should be done flying until August. Actually, I need to remember that I'm not really much into sitting at live events for extended periods of time either anymore. Even if I am in the front row and have unlimited leg room. Conan was good. Not great, not spectacular, but good. Pretty sure that was all he was looking to achieve. The highlight of the show was LaBamba (the trombonist in Conan's band) singing a number before Conan came out. That guy is a talent and a half. I'll probably write about the Pinball Hall of Fame and maybe other shenanigans later in the week, but the cats are totally demanding my attention right now, and it's hard to type when Chester's in my face. Place: In-N-Out Burger Lunch: Double-Double (regular onions, no tomato), fries (well done), Dr Pepper There's an older woman...Korean, I'm guessing...sitting at the table next to me with a girl I'm assuming is her daughter. She leans over and says "Sweetheart, you no have no more hair on your head." Me: "Yes. I got rid of it several years ago." "You no need shampoo." At the counter, Jerry from Dollar Rental Car is ordering. "I don't want no onions, see?" Smiling Counter Girl complies and finishes order. "Yeah, but I don't want no onions!" This guy is clearly a former mobster in the witness protection program. Welcome to In-N-Out on Maryland St, the only In-N-Out I've been to where you can walk in after 11am on a Saturday and not have to wait in line and there's plenty of available seating. It's on the east edge of the UNLV campus, yet it's also basically in the ghetto. The Von's down the street is so locked down that you have to get an employee to unlock the general merchandise section and they have to babysit you while you shop. This is the In-N-Out the strip employees go to. They know better than to deal with the insanity that is the In-N-Out on Dean Martin Dr. I dropped into Vegas to catch Conan O'Brien's live tour at the Palms tonight. Yes, I'm just that awesome. How do YOU stand to benefit from this awesomeness? If nothing else, I will have probably built enough fodder for at least three blog posts. YOU REAP THE BENEFITS. My rental car this time around is a Nissan Altima hybrid...my first experience with one. (Hybrid, that is. AND Altima, I guess.) The good news is I have much less to whine about with this car over the stripped-down Mazda I drove over my birthday weekend because the Altima has the same Intelli-Key feature my Rogue does. So I don't get confused about having to use the keys. I know it sounds stupid and petty, but that was REALLY annoying. The hybrid has been an interesting experience with some quirks of its own. Hybrid vehicles have both electric and gas motors that switch back and forth between gas mode and "EV mode" when appropriate to accomplish the goal of saving gas. It's a little weird when you get in and push the start button and no engine turns on. The instrument cluster lights up and a green "Ready" indicator is your clue that you can drive. The engine will continue to not fire up if you don't hit the gas. So if you put the transmission in reverse and let it propel under its own motion, there's still no engine. Put it in drive and let it coast, still no engine. I can pretty well start the car and get to the lower level of my motel's parking garage without the gas engine. Once you punch the gas and accelerate to cruising speed, the engine fires up and you take off. Modes alternate depending on the situation...if you're stopped at an intersection, let off the gas while cruising or stopping, or only need slight propulsion, the gas engine shuts off and your dash indicates you're in "EV mode". The same display also has one of those live "miles per gallon" meters that shows what mileage you're getting. When accelerating with the gas engine, it's usually below 20. When cruising, it can be anywhere from the mid-30's to closer to 60 (where it defaults when in EV mode). Our competitive nature makes this meter a game...we suddenly want to be the best gas saver in the world. We pay FAR too much attention to it and drive slower as a result, much to the shagrin of nearby motorists, who get really annoyed with your 'old lady'-like slow driving quirks. At least until the novelty wears off, because by the end of the night last night, I was driving it pretty much the way I do my own. There's two oddities to get used to while driving...There's a slight bumping feel when the car switches modes (particularly on takeoff), and there's new noises to get used to...particularly the brakes. Hybrids use regenerative brakes, meaning when you hit the brake, the friction creates electricity, which the car uses to help recharge the battery. These brakes have a high-pitched whine. Not terribly annoying...you get used to it...but it's there. It's interesting, though. I like the idea of being 'off' when 'on' isn't necessary. But for my driving habits (spent mostly on long stretches of open highway at constant cruising speed), I'm not sure there's a practical cost benefit. And those batteries aren't exactly cheap to replace. But it's great for tooling around in the stop-and-go traffic of Vegas. The electric trip odometer indicates I've done about 50 miles on the battery. I haven't even used a quarter of a tank of gas. Oh...the Altima is a really nice car, by the way. I spent the morning at Aria at the new City Center, which pretty much blew my patience for the strip. I'm not a big fan of the strip or gambling or mass crowds of people or buildings that are mazes designed to trap you in so you'll gamble. I tend to get agitated and even a little confused, then I just wear down. Aria may well be the pinnacle of confusion. It's nuts. It's decor is beautiful, though. But I still prefer Wynn/Encore. I'm staying east of the strip on Paradise at a non-casino hotel. The hotel's pool is on the roof (24th floor) and has a great view of the strip to the southwest. It's a great place to hang out in the evening. Plus, the location is a straight shot south to the airport. After lunch, it's off to the Pinball Hall of Fame. But I'll explain that in a future post.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line395

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