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__label__cc	0.735174	0.264826	BFMS Website The Website of the British False Memory Society Management of BFMS What is False Memory? Landmark Libel Trial Join BFMS October 7, 2019 \| Operation Midland Report – Severe Criticisms of the Met Police October 3, 2019 \| Home Secretary Asks Police Watchdog to Investigate Met Police Over VIP Investigation September 6, 2019 \| All Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice September 2019 July 29, 2019 \| Carl Beech Conviction – Media Discussion July 21, 2019 \| Why Your Memories Can’t Be Trusted Remembering Trauma TOPICS:Harvard UniversityHarvard University PressRemembering TraumaRichard McNallyThe New York Review of BooksThe Times Literary SupplementThe Washington Post Posted By: admin December 14, 2015 By Richard McNally. Publisher: Harvard University Press. Date: 2003. Remembering Trauma by Richard McNally Anyone interested in understanding how trauma is remembered must read this book. Remembering Trauma is essential for its field – a work that must become standard reading if that field is to be purged of needless confusion and fortified against future errors of the same general kind. In his own laboratory’s studies of people who report recovering previously repressed memories of trauma, Richard McNally concludes that traumatic experiences are indeed unforgettable. Although some survivors of trauma can avoid thinking about their experiences for long periods of time, a failure to think about trauma is not the same as an inability to remember it. In fact, the evidence for repressed memories of trauma – or even for repression at all – is surprisingly weak. “Every now and then a book appears that can be instantly recognized as essential for its field—a work that must become standard reading if that field is to be purged of needless confusion and fortified against future errors of the same general kind. Such a book is Remembering Trauma, by the Harvard psychology professor Richard J. McNally.”—Frederick Crews, The New York Review of Books “Richard McNally calls this theory of amnesia ‘psychiatric folklore.’ As a therapist and a professor of psychology at Harvard, he has spent years studying the effects of trauma on people’s mental processes—including memory. He is on top of the research and has done some of it himself. The investigational literature is vast, and Remembering Trauma covers virtually all of it… Elegant and impassioned. [This book] makes a supposedly complex topic simple. Or at least simple enough to make readers wonder about the ready acceptance of a notion that goes against common sense and experience.”—Debbie Nathan, The Washington Post “McNally…is both a clinician who studies anxiety disorders and one of the leading scientific investigators in the field of trauma and memory. Remembering Trauma is an exhaustive review of the scientific research and clinical evidence pertaining to trauma and memory, including what is known about dreams and nightmares, flashbacks, repression, dissociation, amnesia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.”—Carol Tavris, The Times Literary Supplement An Amazon reviewer has noted: People remember horrific experiences all too well. There is little, if any, compelling evidence for the repression (inability to recall) of traumatic memories. Trauma survivors, compared to others, do not have a superior ability to banish upsetting memories from awareness; “The notion that the mind protects itself by repressing or dissociating memories of trauma, rendering them inaccessible to awareness, is a piece of psychiatric folklore devoid of convincing empirical support” (p. 275). Some people do not think about disturbing events for long periods of time, but that does not mean that they were ever unable to recall the events. There is no reason to postulate a special mechanism of repression or dissociation to explain why people may not think about disturbing experiences for long periods of time – a failure to think about something does not entail an inability to recall it. Contrary to the view voiced by some clinicians, there is no compelling evidence that repeated episodes of abuse lead to impaired recollection (repression or dissociation) of abuse. In fact, repetition strengthens memory for abuse, although the person may not be able to recall every specific instance of abuse. Contrary to advocates of the concept of “recovered memories”, there is evidence that many or perhaps all recovered memories are false memories of horrific trauma. Recovered memory therapies – involving suggestion and leading questions that the patient has been abused, along with guided imagery and hypnosis – can induce false memories. In turn, these memories can induce PTSD or other forms of psychiatric disturbance. To find out more please visit the Amazon of Harvard University Press websites: Amazon listing for Remembering Trauma Harvard University Press listing for Remembering Trauma Be the first to comment on "Remembering Trauma" Donate to BFMS When Buying From Amazon Operation Midland Report – Severe Criticisms of the Met Police Home Secretary Asks Police Watchdog to Investigate Met Police Over VIP Investigation All Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice September 2019 Carl Beech Conviction – Media Discussion Why Your Memories Can’t Be Trusted Police Investigations Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12784
__label__wiki	0.553798	0.553798	Search Results for Tag: Internet Watch and win with DW and Indovision Deutsche Welle is bringing its new show Shift to Asia and accompanying it with a “watch and win” contest being run in cooperation with Indovision. Shift – Living in the Digital Age is a TV magazine that showcases the latest in Internet news – showing what’s fun and exciting in the digital world. DW is working with Indovision on a contest that lets viewers in Indonesia watch and win. All they need to do is tune in to Shift in August and submit a contest entry online at www.indovision.tv. All contest entries will have a chance to win a third generation iPad and premium DW merchandise. Shift is being broadcast on DW’s English language channel via satellite and is included in the lineups of more than 950 partners in Asia. Find out more at www.dw.com/english/shift contest, digital culture, Indonesia, Indovision, Internet, online, Shift, television DW brings you in-depth Internet coverage Have you tuned in to Shift yet? DW’s show covering the digital world is quickly becoming a hit. It’s a weekly TV magazine showcasing the latest Internet news – examing issues and their impact on political and business life, and society in general, while illustrating the creative spirit forging the digital world. You can also use the DW Media Center to catch up on past episodes or go to the Facebook fan page for direct contact to the show’s producers. digital lifestyle, digital media, digital society, DW, Facebook, Internet, magazine, media center, online, Shift, TV Talking policy in Yaroslavi DW’s Ingo Mannteufel recently took part at this year’s Global Policy Forum in Yaroslavi, Russia. The head of DW’s Russian Service spoke about the role of the Internet in conflict situations and also moderated a panel about “Global Security in Local Conflicts”. The Forum took place from September 7-8 and focused on “The Modern State in the Age of Social Diversity”. Politicians and experts from around the world participated in the conference, which welcomed Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and the President of Turkey Abdullah Gül as keynote speakers. Mannteufel spoke about “Global Media 2.0 – Role of the Internet for Global Security and Local Conflicts”, especially addressing the challenges facing the global media in the Internet era. DW Russian, Global Policy Forum, Internet, new media, online, Yaroslav Winners announced for The BOBs DW today announced the winners of the 2011 Deutsche Welle Blog Awards – The BOBs. An international jury of blog and media experts awarded honors in six multilingual categories. The awards will be presented as part of the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum on June 20, 2011 in Bonn, Germany. Best Blog went to "A Tunisian Girl", a blog written by Lina Ben Mhenni, a 27-year-old assistant professor at the University of Tunis. She has blogged about repression and censorship in her country since 2007 – long before a popular uprising unseated former president Ben Ali. During the protests in December 2010 and January 2011 she traveled to places including Sidi Bouzid and Kasrine to document the repression and killings occurring there. She now keeps a careful watch on political developments in the new Tunisia. (). A list of all the User Prize winners can be seen here. DW will also be hosting a panel discussion with jury members from The BOBs later today (April 12) in Bonn. Winners will receive their prizes at the Global Media Forum in Bonn on June 20, 2011. awards, blogs, Internet, media, new media, online, social media, the bobs Germany DW Transtel Brazil Africa blogging Europe social media Latin America euromaxx DW News Facebook radio Global Ideas Russia television TV DW education News India GLOBAL 3000 new media DW-AKADEMIE Afghanistan Indonesia Arab World Learning by Ear Nigeria online environment Egypt Market roundup Pakistan documentary Ghana DW-TV Mexico bonn Global Media Forum DW Arabia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12795
__label__wiki	0.857506	0.857506	Popular Nigeria Info OAP Matse Uwatse Nnoli Sacked From Nigeria FM. Popular On Air Personality Matse Uwaste has been sacked by her bosses at Nigeria Info, Though the company has not put up an official announcement, my sources have not denied the story either. Apparently she had some issues with her bosses which made them give her the boot. Its shocking to note because she is close to the Moussalli family and used to date a distant relative of theirs and was even thought to be engaged to him. She has always had running issues with all her colleagues, they don't like her and see her as a snitch and are quite weary of her. She known to be quiet brash and arrogant. Her sack isnt a surprise to her colleagues. A handful of her colleagues are hoping she gets called back. I pray she gets called back because she good at what she does. If this does not turn out to be true remember there's no smoke without fire. Photo Shown Of Woman Pointing A Gun At A Baby's Head Sparks Outage On Facebook. The photograph shows a young woman smiling as she points what looks like a pistol directly between the eyes of a child aged around two years old. There are few details about when or where it was taken, but it seems to have appeared originally on an Argentinian Facebook page around a month ago, suggesting the people in it are Latin American. The image sparked panic when it was posted on blogs which campaign against domestic abuse. No Longer Victims shared the photo, saying: 'If there is anybody that can help us to find this child, please please do so. The blog later added: 'A baby can be traumatised like anybody that is a victim of abuse - and this is a form of abuse.' Facebook users have reacted with outrage to the image, with some calling it 'downright evil'. It is not known whether the gun shown in the picture is in fact real, or whether it is a capgun or a prop weapon. However, many people have suggested that even if it is some sort of replica, it is nonetheless irresponsible to expose such a young child to gun violence. Daily Mail. President Jonathan Honour Blessing Okagbare. President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday honoured Olympic and world Athletics Championship medalist, Blessing Okagbare for her performance at the recently concluded 2013 World Athletic Championship in Moscow. Okagbare won the silver medal in the long jump and also placed third in the Women’s 200m race in the Athletics Championship. She is also the African record holder in 100m race. While commending the athlete’s performance during a brief ceremony held at the Council Chamber of Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Wednesday, President Jonathan asked Nigerian youths, especially females to emulate Okagbare. President Jonathan also promised that his administration will no longer treat issues related to sports and sportsmen with levity. The President announced cash gift of N3 million for Okagbare who was accompanied to the occasion by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, her home state. The President also announced cash gift of N3.5m for her coach. On her part, Okagbare said there is no magic to sports and that with continuous support, she will continue to win laurels for the country. Weldone Blessing. FFK Reacts To Obasanjo's Statement On Atiku. I Needed Atiku Though He's Corrupt - Obasanjo. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has yet again opened up over the estranged relationship between him and his former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying that despite the fact that the latter was corrupt during their regime, he (Obasanjo) had to take him along for his second term in office in 2007 due to expediency. “At that time, politically, I needed to carry him (Atiku) along but then to put him in check,” said Obasanjo. Obasanjo, who said that he was unaware of Atiku’s activities until law enforcement agencies in America alerted his government, however, confessed that he could not in good conscience ask that his deputy be investigated then. He, however, said he could not ignore the calls by the Americans to investigate the ex-vice president, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did then. Mom Punishes Daughter For Twerking. Ice Prince Replies Rukus Diss Song, Listen To Song Here. Rukus and Ice Prince Seems everyone wants to have the last word concerning the notjustok.com list of top 10 rappers in Nigeria. Now Ice Prince and Rukus were at it. See Ice Prince tweets: China Threatens Tough Punishment For Online Rumor Spreading. China is in the middle of yet another crackdown on what it terms "online rumors", as the government tries to rein in social media, increasingly used by Chinese people to discuss politics, despite stringent censorship. According to a judicial interpretation issued by China's top court and prosecutor, people will be charged with defamation if online rumors they create are visited by 5,000 internet users or reposted more than 500 times. That could lead to three years in jail, state media reported, citing the judicial document. That is the standard sentence for defamation. SLU...................ssh Party Loading. You Snooze You Loose. Just A Little Something To Lighten Up Your Day. I wonder if this is real or Photoshop. Gold And Co London Refute The Story Concerning 53 Gold Iphones For Nigerian Goverment. Remember this morning there was a STORY about Federal Goverment ordering 53 gold iphones to celebrate our independence well someone on twitter didnt like it and addressed the company directly and this is what they had to say. Read from top to bottom. Avator Actress Ties The Knot. Zoe Saldana is officially off the market! The Blood Ties actress and beau Marco Perego secretly tied the knot in London in June, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm. "It was super small but very romantic and beautiful," a source reveals to Us of the ceremony, which was attended by just a few close friends and relatives. US Weekly. Breaking News - President Jonathan Sacks 8 Ministers From His Cabinet. President Goodluck Jonathan has reshuffled his cabinet, dropping nine ministers. The ministers affected are Ruqayat Rufai (Education); Zainab Kunchi (Power, [state]); Buka Tijani (Agriculture [state]), Shamsudeen Usman (National Planning; Ita Okon (Science and Technology); Olugbenga Ashiru (Foreign Affairs); Ama Pepple (Lands) and Hadiza Mailafia (Environment). Nigerians had long expected President Jonathan to rejig his lackluster cabinet which has largely failed to deliver services to the Nigerian people. According to the president, the exercise was to ensure enhanced performance, transparency and accountability in governance, adding that it is not a witch-hunting exercise. “I want to assure every one of you who has taken part in the exercise that this is not a witch-hunt targeted at anybody,” the president said in his remarks after the signing ceremony. Premium Times. Jail Inmate In Venezuela Shaves Wife's Head In Front Of Everyone For Che... Prisoner's wife was caught cheating and she went to visit him in jail.. to her surprise her husband knew she was cheating and shaved her head in front of everyone. MTN Songstar TVC featuring Saka and Don Jazzy May D Ft. Oskido - Get Down [Official Video] Am happy for May D despite all hes been through he's still doing his thing. Shame to bad people "you know yourselves." snigger Big Brother The Chase Made 7Billion From The Show. Incredible information has been published in this week’s Encomium Magazine. Many people may not realize it, but the organizers of Big Brother Africa (BBA) TV reality show made a record sum of money from the finished season. The BBA is one of the most watched television reality shows and this year’s own was successful by all ratings. It kicked off on Sunday, May 26, 2013, and ended on Sunday, August 25, 2013, when the winner of the show has been announced. A brief breakdown structure is given below: L'il Kim Stages A Comeback In Raunchy Outfit. The 39-year old was making what amounted to a comeback performance at The Box nightclub as she prepares for the release of new mixtape Hardcore 2K13: Back 2 Da Streets – her first fresh material in eight-years. Wearing a cropped leather and suede jacket with very tight fitting leather hot-pants adorned with chains, Kim inevitably caught the eye as she worked her way through a lively set at the event, where she was appearing as a special guest. Another Picture after the cut. Ewwww look at all the work shes done on her face she looks oriental. Dont people know when to stop. Too much botox and plastic surgery. Would You Rock Rihanna's Style? Rihanna made a bold statement on Tuesday night at the launch of her new fashion collection in London. The global superstar dressed her lips in blue lipstick to go with a sexy androgynous look complete with a black and white fur varsity jacket, see-through shirt and skinny metallic jeans. And thanks to the party celebrating her new autumn/winter collection for River Island, 23 Killed As Speeding Vehicle Crashes Into Collapsed Bridge. No fewer than 23 persons were feared killed in multiple crashes, when their vehicles plunged into a collapsed bridge at Yar’randa village in Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The first crash involved a bus conveying 24 passengers which plunged into the bridge few minutes after its collapse on Monday night. According to the witness, the bridge collapsed at about 9.30p.m. due to heavy downpour and moments after the bus with registration number XA 328 KZR, conveying passengers from Kano to Katsina, fell into the bridge. The villagers said efforts made to alert the bus driver was to no avail as he was on high speed. Tunisia Deports 98 Nigerians For Immigration Offences. At least 98 Nigerians were early yesterday deported from Tunisia for immigration offences. The deportees were brought into the country through the Murtala Mohammed International airport, MMIA, Lagos at about 12.32am. Among the deportees were two infants of five months and 14 months old, 12 teenagers, 13 young women and 61 young men. Seventy-seven of the deportees were from Edo State, eight from Delta State, three from Imo and Lagos States while Kano and Plateau States had two and one returnees respectively. The deportees were earlier expected into the country at 3:05pm on Monday, but their arrival was delayed till the early hours of yesterday. Speaking on the deportation of the Nigerians, the South-West Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mr. Iyiola Akande, said the repatriation was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, with the support of the Tunisian government. The returnees were received by various agencies such as the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, which checked their identities to ascertain their nationalities, the National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, the police and other stakeholders. Tunisia fah, i remember when we were d giants of Africa and other Africans jostled to come to Nigeria now we are been deported, i watched a video of dead bodies all over the Sahara Desert of Africans trying to cross to Europe but died due to Starvation, they said handful of them were Nigerian. Its sad to see how our beautiful country has become but i believe we can still claim our place in the world. Its well with Nigeria God bless Nigeria. National Mirror. Annie Idibia Heads To Nana Kings Show. All roads leads to Inspiration FM, please tune into Nana King's #thegirlPowerShow. Dont miss it. Love your shirt Annie. Sinzu Responds To Godwons Diss With Exit Strategy - THE Net NG. Following rapper Godwon‘s diss at Sinzu, the California-based rapper has responded with a new song ‘Exit strategy’ calling out Godwon and even going as far as namedropping his baby mama and three kids. Notjustok.com eti dah wahala oh, who send una now eh(you have started something)Why! This rap though is harsh , Sinzu didnt have to call out his baby mama sha. That was below the belt. The Net NG. Notjustok.com eti dah wahala si leh (you have created a problem.) why nah? Sinzu went too far though calling out his baby mama , that was below the belt sha. Seems we havent heard the last of this LIST. President Jonathan To Host Blessing Okagbare Today. Blessing Okagbare. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, will host the new queen of track and field, Blessing Okagbare today at the Aso Rock Villa. A statement signed by Olukayode Thomas, Head of Communication Media Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) said the Presidential reception for Okagbare will be held during the council’s meeting. Okagbare did Nigeria proud at the just concluded Moscow 2013 IAAF World Championship where she won two medals, a silver in the long jump and bronze in the 200m. She also made the final of the 100m. President of the AFN, Evangelist Solomon Ogba, thanked President Jonathan for the honour and thanked the Minister of Sports for always bringing Mr. President’s attention to achievements of track and field. ‘’ The athletics family is grateful to President Jonathan. This is the third time he is hosting us. The President hosted us when we won the African Youth Championships, he hosted the Sydney 2000 team whose silver medal was upgraded to gold and now, he is hosting Okagbare. We are more than grateful”. Blessing has made us proud i pray she gets some kind of endorsement deal. What The Heck? Borno State governor Kashim Shettima (centre) with Borno indigenes sponsored through a funding partnership between the state government and the Nigeria Maritime Academy, Oron, for four-year international degree courses on maritime under the Sea Farers Dev Please is she cold or that is her way of dressing, i thought in the academy you are not allowed any extra attire except your uniform........if you ask me she looks ODD. Bizarre Photoshoot Of Kim Kardashian Modeling For Karl Largerfield 8 Months Pregnant. Kim Kardashian raised a few eyebrows when she posed pregnant for a high fashion shoot, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld, in which her face was smeared with jam. Now, a newly released video from the CR Fashion Book shoot reveals what went on behind-the-scenes, including a cameo from the photographer himself, who chats to Kim's mom Kris on set. The clip, which is set to dramatic, eerie opera music, shows the strange things the 32-year-old star, who was eight months pregnant at the time, went through to achieve the high-fashion shots. Reports Say Khloe Lamar Odom Hired Private Eye To Follow Lamar Odom. The Couple. The marriage between Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian is spiraling even more out of control. In the early morning hours of Monday, the basketball star was spotted aimlessly roaming the dark streets of downtown LA after midnight, stopping at one point to buy a banana, then later taking photos with fans and then meeting friends. He didn't settle in at his bachelor apartment until 6:30 am. Then later that day he was spotted saying 'Life is good' as he exited Teru Sushi in Studio City. On Tuesday reports surfaced from RadarOnline that Mrs. Odom has been spying on the former Clipper for one year to gather evidence she can use against him in case she heads into a divorce. Lagos State Police Command Victoria Island Ranks Top In Africa. DPO Adegoke Fayoade. The Victoria Island police station, Lagos State police command has emerged the top police station and regional winner of the Police Station Visitors Week(PSVW) 2012 in Africa.An award ceremony was held to honour the station on Tuesday, at the HS Continental Blue Ribbon hotel in Lagos, where the District Police Officer (DPO) of the Victoria Island, Adegoke Fayoade, was presented with the award. Abeg which Police station is it the Bar Beach one or is there another one am missing , please help me out! Telegraph Nigeria. Nigeria Orders 53 Gold phones To Celebrate Nigeria's Independence From Britain. A Bristol-born businessman based in Dubai is bracing himself for a flood of orders for iPhones clad not in the gold-effect finish of the new iPhone 5S, but the real stuff. Amjad Ali supplies royal families, governments, and minted customers across Russia, China and the Middle East with gold-plated devices that cost up to £50,000. The 42-year-old entrepreneur, who grew up in Glasgow, has pre-ordered hundreds of new iPhones. His team at Gold and Co. will set to work the day after launch before delivering the devices to luxury retailers. “We strip the units down and then plate them in copper, nickel and then pure gold,” he told the Independent. Yvonne Nelson Shows Off Her Bikini Body. If the beach is her 2nd love whats her 1st...........any ideas anyone. Former Play Bunny Holly Madison Weds. Pasquale Rotella and Holly Madison. Fairytale ending! Holly Madison married Pasquale Rotella at the Disneyland on Tuesday, Sept. 10, a rep for the former Playboy model confirms to Us Weekly. "Entertainer/model/producer Holly Madison exchanged vows with CEO and founder of Insomniac Events Pasquale Rotella on Tuesday, September 10th, at 10:40 p.m.," the rep tells Us. "Their 6-month-old daughter Rainbow was the surprise guest of honor. The wedding was held inside Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif. This is the first marriage for both." Am happy For her instead of wasting all her virtues in that old man. HWL. Olu Of Warri Retains Of Ogiame Title. After four days of protest over his decision to renounce the title Ogiame,Read HERE the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwase II, has bowed to the wishes of his subjects. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Itsekiri monarch on Tuesday succumbed to his subjects’ demand not to renounce the title when tension heightened around his palace. Atuwase II had allegedly planned to relinquish the traditional title of Ogiame for a yet to be disclosed title, but the decision did not go down well with the Itsekiri people. Bianca Ojukwu Dated Femi Fani Kayode - Kemi Olunloyo. Why Bianca is lying about her relationship with Femi Fani Kayode (FFK) during her late teens is perplexing. In the early 80′s there were a group of now affluent Nigerians that flocked together as teens in London, Oxford, Cambridge in the UK and even Wales. Madam Governor Kemi Olunloyo Calls Eniola Badmus Fat. This lady is called Eniola Badmus and a Nollywood star. She needs to seriously STOP eating and LOSE weight. Her weight will end up giving her HBP, diabetes and many other problems. Looking at her, her BMI is out of control. Girl start the work outs! YOU ARE FAT!!! Nollywood Veteran Kate Henshaw Shows Us Her Workout Wednesday. How Insensitive, Controversial Golf Ad Sparks Outrage. Controversial Advert. A Wisconsin golf course owner has said he received death threats after he advertised nine holes of golf for $9.11 to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Tumbledown Trails Golf Course near Madison advertised the special in the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper on Monday, saying it was intended to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The discount, which also included 18 holes for $19.11, was valid for the anniversary on Wednesday only. News of the offer spread on social media and the golf course's Facebook page was overrun with negative comments. Course owner and general manager Marc Watts said he received death threats and threats to burn down the family-operated public golf course. An apology posted by Mr Watts on Facebook said: "We would first like to apologise to everyone that we have upset or feels we have disrespected in anyway. By no means did we mean to do this."Mr Watts said he began running the promotion two years ago, and until now it had been warmly received. Abit insensitive i say. SKY NEWS. Remember The Victims And Families Of 9/11. . I know exactly where I was when I first heard the news that a (small) plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. That small plane quickly turned into a passenger jet. Quickly followed by another one. I had just come back for summer holiday straight from uni, and was wondering what all the commotion was about on TV, all the major news channels were showing the world trade centre live. The world stopped turning and looked on in amazement. Do You Like Mercy Aigbe Gentry's Green Eyes? She thinks they are sexy, i agree with her. How Insensitive, Controversial Golf Ad Sparks Outr... Nollywood Veteran Kate Henshaw Shows Us Her Workou... Madam Governor Kemi Olunloyo Calls Eniola Badmus F... Bianca Ojukwu Dated Femi Fani Kayode - Kemi Olunlo... Nigeria Orders 53 Gold phones To Celebrate Nigeria... Lagos State Police Command Victoria Island Ranks T... Reports Say Khloe Lamar Odom Hired Private Eye To ... Bizarre Photoshoot Of Kim Kardashian Modeling For ... 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__label__cc	0.50964	0.49036	13th August - Geology of the Mournes Down where the Dykes Swarm Leader: David Kirk This study began at Glassdrumman and proceeded northward to Bloody Bridge. The short section of shoreline at Glassdrumman opens a window on the beginnings of the violent tectonic events that tore a continent apart and eventually created the Mourne Mountains. Walking north from the access lane we found a shore consisting of almost vertical Silurian shales (usually known as greywackes). They were formed on a deep sea floor which was compressed, folded and turned on end more than 400 million years ago in the collision between two wandering crustal plates. We then come to a dramatic outcrop of pink granite rocks, beautifully water-sculpted, emerging from the sand in a cluster of sensually curved shapes and distinctly varied in its textures, from very fine to patterned with large crystals—some up to 25 mm across---of quartz and feldspar. This is a porphyritic micro-granite and it forms the floor of the core of a 16m thick “ring” that cuts through the shales and encircles the Mourne granites and which marks the beginning some 60mil years ago of the tectonic turbulence that led to their huge granite masses, and the Atlantic Ocean, being created. The ring - not continuous because of later earth movements - can be traced in small exposures at various places round the mountains, but none show the structures as clearly as here. Following a lengthy period of stretching and fracturing of the crust, as pressure split the continental mass, and which is evidenced by the hundreds of dykes around the Mournes, upward pressure of the magma chamber forced the kilometres of rock above to rise, causing a circular fracture which spread upwards and outwards. Molten rock, first basalt and then successive pulses of granitic magma forced their way up through it at enormous pressure, melting and remelting and mixing with each other to create what we now see at Glassdrumman. The result is an inverted cone, with its point of origin an estimated 5 km below the present surface. At the time it was emplaced there were probably at least another 3 km of granite above the present surface---including the deposits of later periods---Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. The Bloody Bridge River The bed of the river displays the structural details of the greywackes and granites. Here we were mainly interested in the junction of the two rock types. This junction is to be found 600m upriver from the bridge and displays the changes in the greywacke shales when they were in contact with the hot magma as it surged upwards 56 million years ago. The shales have been baked by the heat making them hard and splintery. The granite itself is different as it cooled more quickly at this point against the cold shales making its crystals smaller than in the main body of this rock. Coastal Dyke Swarms Between Newcastle and Annalong there are some 130 dykes along the 10 miles of coast. This demonstrates the level of violent tectonic disturbance in this area. In fact it has been calculated that the aggregate thickness of all the dykes represents a stretching of the earth’s crust by 2.5%. Their minerals show a greater variety than other dyke swarms, producing basalts, andesites and granites. Some of the dykes are multiple (different intrusions of the same magma) and composite (intrusions of different magmas through the same vent). Some dykes are harder than the host rock so they stand proud and sometimes they are softer and are eroded away leaving dramatic gullies, eg. at Maggie’s Leap. Glacial Deposition Finally, parallel to the coast are extensive deposits of glacial till and moranic material. These are moulded at several points into raised beaches. They are products of changes in sea level. Immediately after the retreat of the ice, sea levels were higher in relation to land surfaces and with little or no vegetation cover, wave action rapidly eroded this unconsolidated material left behind by the ice sheets. Gradually freed of its ice burden the land rose - isostatic lowering of sea-level - until land and sea were in their present relative positions. The BNFC is indebted to David Kirk for compiling and conducting this interesting field study. Many thanks David. James Rutherford (Geological Sectional Secretary) Sharp junction of basalt and granite Water sculpted granite Cross section through Glassdrumman composite sheet (Paul Lyle) Granite meets greywacke A basalt dyke thrusts up through the weaker Silurian shales Here the dyke is softer than the shales.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12799
__label__wiki	0.962613	0.962613	James Franco Joins Lars Von Trier In the Real On-Screen Sex Game From the Vault: Parker Posey Interviews Anna Kendrick Johnny Depp Signs Up for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5,’ Duh Is Mariah Carey Already Beefing With Nicki Over ‘American Idol’? The Cast of ‘Breaking Bad’ All Appeared on ‘Seinfeld’ Thoughts on the Life and Death of Tony Scott Nicki Minaj Reportedly Joins ‘American Idol’ as Judge Ken Watanabe to Star in Japanese Remake of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ 50 Cent on Robert De Niro, A$AP Rocky, and How to Get a Retweet Director Tony Scott Commits Suicide, Hollywood Reacts Shia LaBeouf Is Terrified to Have Sex on Camera for Lars Von Trier Death by Heartbreak: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud Discuss ‘Chicken with Plums’ The Strange Ethics of Craig Zobel’s ‘Compliance’ Toronto International Film Festival 2012: Our Most Anticipated Films Michael J. Fox Has a New Sitcom in the Works August 22, 2012 2:47 pm By Matthew Richardson It would be nice to get a couple of weeks where there wasn’t a James Franco-related news item that didn’t seem too compelling to ignore, but that will probably never happen until someone freezes the actor in carbonite, and Boba Fett and I aren’t speaking. All of the big news about unsimulated sex in movies so far this year has centered around Lars Von Trier’s two-parter The Nymphomaniac, but Von Trier’s not the only guy in town with a camera and two folks willing to do the hustle; remember James Franco’s “Homo sex art film” we told you about? Well, apparently that features real live non-simulated sex. Inspired by the 1980s gay serial killer flick Cruising, which starred Al Pacino, the film tries to recreate 40 minutes from the earlier film that were destroyed after editing. Director Travis Matthews said to Indiewire of Franco, ”There’s the people who know him for his blockbusters, but there’s a different population that knows his gallery shows and that he makes semi-esoteric gay content.” Yeah, that doesn’t sound at all like a quote that would feature in a mockumentary about a fictional actor. The film is set to debut in a gallery show Sept. 12.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12805
__label__wiki	0.789037	0.789037	Startup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive has spent the first nine years of its existence in stealth mode working to design vehicles around what it believes are future trends in mobility, such as electrification, subscription-based ownership, and autonomy. This week the company is finally revealing what it’s been up to, dropping the curtains on its first two products, an all-electric pickup truck and SUV, at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Rivian has garnered interest over the years for quietly securing some of the building blocks of mass production, including raising nearly $500 million in capital and purchasing a 2.6-million-square-foot manufacturing facility in Illinois that once produced 200,000 cars a year for Mitsubishi. Now Rivian says it will begin shipping its vehicles to customers in 2020. The abrupt transition from stealth mode to large vehicle supplier is all part of the plan for Rivian founder and CEO R.J. Scaringe SM ’07 PhD ’09. Scaringe didn’t want to hype up the company until he could show something off that customers could actually drive in a reasonable amount of time. “It would’ve been easy to make statements early on and show sketches,” Scaringe says. “But we wanted to get all the pieces aligned: To build out a robust team with robust processes, get capital in place, line up key suppliers, acquire a large-scale production facility, and align it with our products. All that is done now. It’s been blood, sweat, and tears for a period of years to get in a position where we’re very comfortable showing our products.” Designing a vehicle from the ground up has taken time, but the process has allowed Rivian to create some novel vehicles with intriguing performance specifications. The company describes its first two products, named the R1T and R1S, as high-end adventure vehicles that can be driven on- or off-road. “They’re designed to be comfortable to use and invite you to get dirty,” Scaringe says. “When I say truck or SUV, you’re thinking inefficient and not particularly sophisticated. But we’ve used technology to make the traditional weaknesses of these vehicles strengths.” Users purchasing trucks or SUVs have traditionally had to make compromises in areas like acceleration, control, and gas mileage in return for more space and towing capacity. Rivian uses an innovative design and powertrain to change that. A high-tech transportation solution Both the R1T and R1S will come with a hardware suite including cameras and sensors, which gives them self-driving capabilities on highways. The vehicles have a unique quad-motor setup that allows the electronic control unit to send 147 kilowatts of power to each wheel. The fastest versions of the vehicles go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in three seconds and 0 to 100 miles per hour in less than seven seconds. Scaringe says the products’ ride and handling feel more like a sports sedan than a truck or SUV. He also says the vehicles can “go off-road better than any vehicle on the planet today” thanks to high ground clearance and wheel articulation that’s helped by a suspension system that adjusts to the environment, stiffening on the road and immediately loosening off the road. Rivian’s battery configuration has been referred to as “skateboard architecture” because the battery pack stretches across the floor of the vehicle. The packs come in different sizes, the largest of which gives the vehicles over 400 miles in range. Rivian assembles its own battery packs, using proprietary cooling systems to achieve energy efficiency that Scaringe claims is better than anything on the EV market today. “We’re doing all of the electronics, control systems, and battery packaging in-house,” Scaringe says. “And the digital architecture of the vehicle is a complete clean-sheet approach. So we’ve done the hardware design, the software design, the full stack development. It gives us complete control over how we move data around the vehicle and synchronize it with our cloud platform. We have a real-time sense of the health of all of our assets in the field.” The high-tech platform comes inside two spacious vehicles that are designed to be stylish and functional. Both models include a 330-liter front trunk and a long compartment under the rear seats that Scaringe says is perfect for objects like surfboards, skis, and golf bags. Rivian is listing the R1S at $65,000 and the R1T at $61,500 after federal tax rebates. The company is planning to release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps change the future Scaringe studied mechanical engineering for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, where he was a member of the automotive research team. He worked with some of the biggest car companies in the world in that role, and realized how difficult it would be for them to reorient around the big changes in transportation that he believed were coming. Immediately after earning his PhD in 2009, in a year when General Motors and Chrysler would declare for bankruptcy, Scaringe founded Rivian. At a time when many people were wondering if America’s biggest car companies would make it another day, Scaringe set out to start a company that would lead the market decades into the future. “In 2020, we’d love to have you use one of our vehicles. But in 2035, when you’re thinking about those trips to the beach or hiking, we want you to immediately think about using a Rivian,” Scaringe says. “The brand position we set up in 2020 lays the foundation for us.” Scaringe knew fulfilling his vision would be difficult, but he believes his time at MIT helped him persevere in the face of the major challenges that come with starting something as complex and capital-intensive as a automotive company. “MIT draws together some of the smartest minds in the world to study and work on deeply challenging problems,” Scaringe says. “That environment helps demonstrate that even the most challenging problems can be solved through the application of time and effort. … The foundation around solving complex and difficult problems is precisely what has enabled Rivian to this point.” Now that Rivian’s first vehicles have been revealed, Scaringe hopes the company can move beyond thinking about these trends and start accelerating their arrival. “It comes back to these big fundamental shifts in how we think of mobility,” Scaringe says. “The change in how we power our vehicles; how the vehicles are controlled and operated, going from human operation to machine operation; and because of those changes, the significant changes to how we think about the business model. 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__label__cc	0.526377	0.473623	#InteriorDesignTrend2018 Dolcevita. Made in Italy in a vintage chic key. Art Deco, British colonial influences, modern interpretations of the Baroque style. Caroti’s contemporary design unearths the past in all its glorious events, translating them into elegant products with touch of nostalgia, highlighting their Italian roots in terms of both the style and quality of the primary materials and finishes. Let’s take a look at the Macro Trends for 2018 together, explained to us by Victoria Redshaw, director of Scarlet Opus, one of the most renowned and respected trend forecasting agencies in the interior design field, based in London. METAL. “Copper has been incredibly popular for more than five years, but has reached its peak; brass is now the metal of the day,” states the trend setter. “We’re predicting a gradual return to chrome-plated metals starting next year.” DARK WOOD. Earthy tones and dark woods will also make a comeback, explains Scarlet Opus, “From blonde forests and Scandinavian looks, which have been very popular over the last few years, we’ll move towards warmer, more intense tones, dark browns and even black.” LUXURY OF THE LAND. As our lives become increasingly chaotic and dependent on technology, our desire to reconnect with nature and return to simpler ways of life is reflected in the design and style of our homes. “Organic materials and traditional workmanship continue to lead the way,” Redshaw assures us. Inspired by these trending styles, Caroti has designed a series of home settings with an eclectic style, where wood and metal meet in sophisticated plays on texture. The most indicative example is the home office with Dolcevita desk in a Black Mahogany finish and a modular bookshelf with glass diamond doors, featuring a leather upholstered top. The diamond theme on the bookshelf doors is made from steel with a powder finish in a gun barrel colour. The Dolcevita desk with 3 drawers is available with a leather top (see photo) or upholstered in other leather colours, or alternatively with a solid wood top. The leather armchair with tufted padding is height adjustable and equipped with wheels. Visit our internal showroom and discover these and a range of other home office solutions by Caroti. Our style consultants are at your service for personalised, custom-made designs. Boy’s bedroom with loft Design trends and furnishing 2016 #1 – industrial chic Open space kitchen. The family community zone. Salone del Mobile Milan 2016 – Nautical style as you’ve never seen it The breath of the wood Christmas decorations with intense and elegant style	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12812
__label__cc	0.659037	0.340963	Conor McGregor Secures UFC Comeback Title in 40 Seconds The Irish welterweight bad boy injured American favorite Donald Cerrone with a punch in the first 20 seconds and sent him to the mat for good just 40 seconds into the fight. Hoverboarding Dentist Found Guilty of ‘Unlawful Dental Acts’ DOWN IN THE MOUTH An Alaskan dentist was found guilty of 46 counts of reckless endangerment and Medicaid fraud. 36 Lions to be Relocated After Attacking Humans and Cattle MAN VS. BEAST Tanzania has made an unusual decision to move Serengeti lions from their native habitat because of increasing threats to humans. HHS Prevented From Contradicting Trump in Posts on Mental Health: Report Summer Eldemire Daily Beast Contributor Updated Aug. 21, 2019 4:45PM ET / Published Aug. 21, 2019 1:45PM ET Federal health officials were barred from posting anything on social media about mental health and violence without prior approval after President Trump said that mental illness was to blame for the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, according to The Washington Post. On Aug. 5, a Health and Human Services directive told communication staffers to seek approval for social-media posts related to mental health, violence, and mass shootings. According to Post, three agency employees said some government mental-health experts felt censored. After the two shootings that killed 31 people, Trump said, “Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger. Not the gun.” Research has shown that although mental illness can be a factor in mass shootings, it is rarely a predictor. More common predictors are access to firearms, strong sense of resentment, desire for notoriety, obsession with other shooters, a history of domestic violence, and narcissism. Read it at Washington Post	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12822
__label__wiki	0.779987	0.779987	Meet the Original Ebenezer Scrooge Long before he wrote ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Charles Dickens indulged his fondness for ghost stories by conjuring spirits who tormented a grumbling, drunken gravedigger. Updated Dec. 24, 2018 5:07AM ET / Published Dec. 23, 2018 11:15PM ET Getty/The Daily Beast The term “Dickensian” always connotes a kind of plumminess. There is richness in this prose, and richness in the depth of the characters. Even the villains and sad sacks who fund their own misery have a way of doing your soul good. Of course, we all look to Ebenezer Scrooge at this time of year. That premier skinflint made his debut in 1843, having been conceived in the mind of Charles Dickens while he walked upwards of twenty miles into the Victorian night of his London, the principle seat of his art and a character unto itself in his fiction. But what you might not know is that nearly a decade before, Dickens had drafted a proto-Scrooge, another character also visited by representatives from the land of spirits who took exception to his wastrel attitude regarding Christmas. This character was a sexton—meaning, for those who haven’t watched enough old horror films, that he dug the graves at the local church—and he came to life in The Pickwick Papers, Dickens’ first novel, published in 1836. First novels can be wonderful things, and the best possess an abundance of one of art’s great qualities: energy. There is so much energy in The Pickwick Papers, even though it’s evident that Dickens is figuring out a lot of things as he goes along: plot lines peter out, characters flit into what’s tantamount to a collage narrative and offer up some insight and then are never heard from again. Basically, the members of the Pickwick Club tell each other ripping yarns. Some are true, some maybe not so true, but that’s their specialty, their main reason for hanging out together. Dickens was writing at a great pace, trying to keep with the demands of serial publication, and one abettor to his cause was his love of ghost stories. He loved terror tales ever since his nursemaid, Mary Weller (to whom we owe a great deal, it turns out), indulged the boy by trying to frighten him out of his wits with her ghost stories. The members of the Pickwick Club tell each other several, but the one that paid out later is one you see anthologized sometimes as “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton.” Right from the title, this is funny; we steal objects, usually. In novels, and fright stories, those are things like a bejeweled dagger, secret papers of the king, a blazing ruby. But a person? Neat. It is Christmas Eve, and Gabriel Grub, in what will become the Dickensian tradition of having the names of characters mirror their core components, is going to work at the church graveyard. He is “a morose and lonely man, who consorted with nobody but himself,” but he does love making holes to stick bodies in the earth; and while he might not consort with you, he’ll pop you in the face or box your ears, as he does to a young lad who has the misfortune of careening too fast around a snowy corner and running smack into the sexton, who also has a bottle of spirits jammed into his back pocket. Because, as you likely know, if you’re digging holes in the earth to hasten the process of turning flesh to soil-matter on Christmas Eve, it’s best to get drunk while doing so. (For modern purposes, let’s just say that this is the kind of guy who would be jacked to the gills on Fireball.) Grub laughs as he enters the graveyard over having frightened the boy, puts his rump on the flat headstone that is his favorite to have a drink upon, and starts laughing some more over the joke he makes about a coffin being a Christmas box indeed. Christmas boxes were hot items at the time, despite being, you know, just a gaudy box. He hears sounds and thinks it’s the echoes of footfalls, hopes it’s the echoes of footfalls, going so far as to say, aloud, “It’s the echoes.” To which a voice answers, “It was not.” As if to pull up a bar stool, a goblin has taken a seat on the tombstone next to the one upon which Grub sits while draining his potent potables. The goblin has boots that curl at the toes, a dangling cloak, a collar made of enormous peaks, a broad-brimmed sugar loaf hat festooned with a single feather. He is a dandy of the underworld, but a fun dandy. The goblin asks Grub what he’s doing there and what he’s drinking. Grub freaks out, thinking that the goblin might be policing the bootleg liquor trade from which he acquired his spirits, but he says it’s Hollands, a gin precursor. By this point, a mini-army of other goblins has arrived to see this Christmas Eve scene. They also have a last minute Christmas wish. “I’m afraid my friends want you, Gabriel,” remarks the Goblin, as he thrusts his tongue into his cheek, something he does repeatedly, extending the parameters of his head, which terrifies Gabriel. Turns out they’ve been watching this guy, Jacob Marley-style! And they don’t like what they’ve seen! The goblins enjoy communicating in the style of singers at a Baptist church gone way, way wrong. Very call and response. Lead goblin says one thing, the others boom out their agreement in a series of bad juju mimetics. “Who drinks Hollands alone, and in a churchyard, on such a night as this?” said the goblin. “Gabriel Grub! Gabriel Grub!’ exclaimed the wild voices again. Grub says he thinks he’ll take his leave, the goblins laugh, and then proceed to leap about the headstones, surmounting them, doing somersaults off of them, with one champion surmounter in particular—clearly the big goblin recruit for this sport—wowing Grub, who is then whisked away, under the earth, passing the very holes he had dug. “If you read 'A Christmas Carol' this year, note the depth of its voice. There is more voice in 'A Christmas Carol' than there is in 'Ulysses.'” Up to this point, the goblins have been frightening but ingratiating wits. Once beneath the earth, they become more vicious. The Hollands is dispensed with, and liquid fire from a goblet is poured down Grub’s throat, after which the goblins take turns kicking him, with the chief-leaper-of-headstones, who is especially pliable, delivering the most contusing blows. There’s this little hell cloud that floats around Goblin Land, and the king of the goblins—a nastier, smaller version of the Ghost of Christmas Present, turns this cloud into a kind of viewfinder, showing Grub heartrending scenes—an aged couple at their last Christmas, but still deep in love—precisely to illustrate how much he sucks. The ideas that would reach full-flowering in 1843 are there, in the manner of tiny acorns. What isn’t there is the richness of style. If you read A Christmas Carol this year, note the depth of its voice. There is more voice in A Christmas Carol than there is in Ulysses. That is why, when you notice a film version playing on the TV as you walk by, you can complete the line that some actor has started. But there is energy in this idea, and, besides, it need not be fully-fermented for the purposes of The Pickwick Papers, a robust book that is a collection of potent and piquant asides. From the margins is built the center. Perhaps it goes thusly with all of us, to some degree, as we navigate adulthood? As it is, Grub is restored to his graveyard, “an altered man.” He doesn’t run down to the poulter’s to buy a farm-fed goose. Nope—he steals away in the night. He’s seen enough of this place. He cannot return to this churchyard to work. I very much like what happens next. We don’t know, exactly, what has become of Gabriel Grub. Just that he has gone away. His spade and bottle are found on the grounds, and it is brilliantly, if somewhat inaccurately, deduced that he was forever whisked away by goblins. Or else on the back of a fiery chestnut horse with one eye. There’s some debate. But then he turns up back in the town, ten years later, “a ragged, contented, rheumatic old man.” The town people think he’s rheumatic because he downed the Hollands and then fell asleep on a cold tombstone one lonely Christmas Eve. There is a concluding joke about not being in your cups while alone on that night, but what matters is what happened offstage. Grub lived a life, we seem encouraged to believe, that was one of quiet happiness, quiet dignity. He didn’t need to save a family and its little crippled boy. He only needed to find his own way, his own path, one which led out of one town, and on towards a citadel of basic human decency. As far as Christmas homecomings go, it’s not splashy, but the goblins were always the hail fellows of this story, and Gabriel Grub the sire. Of many things—of Ebenezer Scrooge, of well-needed reminders.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12823
__label__wiki	0.816348	0.816348	Obama: Weiner Is a ‘Distraction’ Updated Apr. 24, 2017 3:28PM ET / Published Jun. 13, 2011 12:28PM ET David Karp / AP Photo The White House stopped short of demanding Representative Anthony Weiner’s resignation, Monday but spokesman Jay Carney made it clear they wish the scandal would go away. "The president feels, we feel at the White House, this is a distraction," Carney said when asked about Weiner. "Obviously, as Congressman Weiner has said himself, his behavior was inappropriate, his dishonesty was inappropriate, but the president is focused on his job.” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats have urged the representative to step down, but Weiner instead asked for a leave of absence and promised to seek treatment. Read it at Reuters	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12824
__label__wiki	0.572303	0.572303	Frank Theatres Cinebowl & Grille 10125 Highway 17 Bypass, 11 screens Previously operated by: Frank Theatres, Litchfield Theatres, Regal Cinemas Previous Names: Inlet Square Theatres, Inlet Square 12, Inlet Square 11 Cinemas Myrtle Cinemas Deerfield Cinemas Cinemark 14 Pottery Mall Cinemas 6 Apr 7, 2012 — Frank Theatres announces five locations in first deal with D-BOX Technologies Sep 24, 2010 — Frank Theatres and Entertainment Centers coming to Murrells Inlet, SC in 2011 Opened in the mid-1990’s by Litchfield Theatres with seven screens, it was later expanded to twelve and taken over by Regal. It was closed by Regal when renovations to the Inlet Square Mall stalled at the beginning of 2010. It was reopened as an eleven screen theatre by Frank Theatres after extensive renovations in the fall of 2010. It was closed in May 2016. Contributed by Christopher Walczak Recent comments (view all 4 comments) Ret. AKC (NAC) CCC Bob Jensen, Manteno, Illinois on August 24, 2010 at 7:37 am Opened with 7 screens. 5 screens added in 2001. Can anyone help find it on the map? bobc007 on September 24, 2010 at 9:10 am Actually, it was originally opened by Litchfield Theatres as a 7 screener. Regal bought it later with the rest of the Litchfield chain. Malin_Archia on January 21, 2012 at 5:48 pm I have family in Myrtle Beach, SC and we always drove to Murrells Inlet to catch a movie at the Inlet Square 12. In the summer, the theatre was packed full. In the off season, it wasn’t unusual to be the only one in a screening. I remember when they expanded and added on the additional 5 screens. This was a great mall and a great theatre back in it’s day. The Frank Theatre Chain has opened up one of the coolest theatres I’ve ever been to in it’s place. In addition to the multiplex, there is a bowling alley, arcade, restaurant and bar that you have to walk through to get to the ticket counter. Reasonably priced as well. Hope it makes it :–) Viper652 on March 8, 2017 at 11:29 am It closed in May 2016	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12841
__label__wiki	0.530084	0.530084	newfoundland. registry of co-operative societies (2) arsene, louis (1) peyton family (1) image/tiff application/pdf (23) image/jpeg application/pdf (13) canadian newspapers -- newfoundland and labrador -- st. john's -- 20th century (21) canadian newspapers -- newfoundland and labrador -- st. john's -- 19th century (7) canadian newspapers -- newfoundland and labrador -- corner brook (3) cooperative societies -- newfoundland and labrador (2) salisbury plain (england) -- postcards -- 20th century (2) -- saint pierre and miquelon (1) aids to navigation -- newfound (1) bishop feild college (st. john's, n.l.) -- periodicals (1) cork folk festival (1) All fields: (8.52 Year book and almanac of Newfoundland, 1903 Newfoundland and Labrador--Registers; Newfoundland and Labrador--Directories; Moon--Phases; Government agencies--Newfoundland and Labrador; Beacons; Postal rates; Postal service; School boards; Law; Distances--Tables; Tariff; Banks and banking;... The Newfoundland Almanac contains much detailed information, including: a calendar; nautical intelligence for the year; information relating to public offices, institutions, banks, etc. of the country; and a directory of all towns, villages, and... 09.04.001: "Pond Farm Salisbury Plain" Salisbury Plain (England)--Postcards--20th century Pond Farm Salisbury Plain, printed on front, addressed to [?] Cook, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Pte. John Andrews, Salisbury Plain, England, November 5, 1914: b&w; 8.8 x 13.9 cm, Swindon, [England]: Tomkins and Barrett [before November 5, 1914] Newfoundland Customs Returns 1916-1917 Newfoundland and Labrador--Commerce--20th century; Tariff--Newfoundland and Labrador--20th century Reports of the customs returns for Newfoundland. Some volumes are indexed, and some may contain additional financial information. Journal of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland 1918 (7th Session) Newfoundland and Labrador--Politics and government--1855-1934 The journal of the Newfoundland House of Assembly. James Ryan Diary 1908 James Ryan Limited (Bonavista).;Merchants--Newfoundland and Labrador--Bonavista.;Diaries.; Diary, 1908; Ryan, James, 1842-1917.;Ryan, Nicolas, 1860-1936. The James Ryan Diaries (1874-1919) were written at the James Ryan Ltd. Bonavista office by the proprietor and staff, especially Nicholas Ryan, the younger brother of James. Many of the entries concern shipping and fish intelligence, but there are... Mercantile Navy List, 1933 p. 0127-0305 Merchant marine--Great Britain--20th century; Ship registers--Great Britain--20th century; Shipping--Great Britain--Directories--20th century The official registry of merchant vessels operating under the British flag. The Newfoundland Quarterly, volume 070, no. 3 (January 1974) Newfoundland and Labrador--Periodicals The Newfoundland Quarterly, volume 70, no. 3 (January 1974) The Evening Telegram began publication in St. John's on 3 April 1879 and remains in print today under the title The Telegram. It was published daily except Sunday through to 1958, the frequency changing thereafter. -- The total collection has been... Journal of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland 1866 (1st Session) Annual Report of Co-operative Societies in Newfoundland 1948 Cooperative societies--Newfoundland and Labrador The Annual Report of Co-operative Societies in Newfoundland was issued from 1940-1964.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12842
__label__cc	0.729735	0.270265	College Tribune Independent UCD News USI referendum postponed salve serif;”>A referendum on whether UCD students should stay under the wing of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), sick which was expected to take place in November, healing has been postponed. UCD Students’ Union President, Rachel Breslin, brought a motion to Council to hold the referendum on the same date as the sabbatical elections citing cost as the reason for this consideration. The minimum cost for holding a stand-alone referendum campaign is €5,000 but Breslin estimates that this referendum will cost roughly €8,000. Council declined this motion and it is now expected that the referendum will be held at the beginning of semester 2. At the beginning of the college term Breslin hoped that the referendum would be held in November, however circumstances have changed, “we’ve committed to the national campaign [Gilmore 250 campaign] to such an extent that I think that it would take away from that so much that it would have huge harm on the national campaign and that is a bigger objective right now,” Breslin explained. The motion was brought to Council so that the class representatives could discuss the option of holding it in conjunction with the SU sabbatical elections according to Breslin. The outcome of the vote was that it could be held “in the second week of the second semester because of all the national campaigning that is going on and to give it its own stand alone referendum.” Affiliation with the USI costs UCDSU in excess of €100,000 per annum and this affiliation will be brought under scrutiny by UCD students when the referendum is held. As of yet it is unclear who will be running the respective yes and no campaigns. By Peter Hamilton Tagged:#USIaffiliationcollege tribunepostponedreferendumUCD Previous PostFormer Poet Laureate receives James Joyce Award Next PostBlunders and lies Sarries Face Uphill Battle for Redemption A Dream Too Big? Scottish Rugby’s Meandering Efforts Towards Innovation Food Review: Sprezzatura Grantham St, Dublin 8 Dublin Collective Performs Short Plays Festival The Ramifications of RTÉ’S 2019 Financial Crisis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12843
__label__cc	0.650607	0.349393	Availability Distribution News Notes Overview Pricing Products Accessories and Options Mounts Mount Control Systems Telescopes CONTROL OF ASTRO-PHYSICS GTO SYSTEMS: Repeatable precision, highly accurate "Go-To" control via Keypad, Computer or Smart Phone Above: there are many choices available for controlling your GTO mount (147,874 bytes). Click on above image to see larger version of the image (1,980,881 bytes). Your Astro-Physics GTO telescope mount is not only a precision-made tracking and positioning platform, but it is provided with a remarkable servo motor control system that combined with the precise mechanics endow the mount with superb performance, unrivaled reliability, and versatility. Contrary to popular assumption, the brains of the mount are built into the GTO Control Box (GTOCPx), not in the Keypad or external computer program. Simply think of your Keypad or an optional computer as an input device. As the above chart illustrates, there are many options available for controlling your mount whether you are out for a night of observing your favorite objects without a PC (your Keypad serving as your hand-held computer), conducting a public star party (imagine using an iPad to "WOW" the kids), or remote imaging where software including "APCC" will allow you to control your mount remotely from the comfort of your home. Computer Control: All functions of the GTO servo drive can be commanded from an optional laptop or desktop computer. Astro-Physics now has a wholly-owned and fully-supported ASCOM V2 driver for all of our GTO mounts; this is the recommended 'language' so to speak for GTO mount control with a personal computer. Refer to additional information regarding the V2 driver below. The GTOCPx control box provides two nine nine-pin Serial RS-232 inputs on the panel so that you can connect up to two separate serial interfaces: Above: Astro-Physics Control Panel installed atop a GTO Mount, and at right the GTOCPU2 arrangement (24,645 and 35,940 bytes) This allows Microsoft Windows, Apple MacIntosh, and other computer users as well as those without ASCOM compatible programs to have more than a single connection to the mount. For example, you might wish to connect PulseGuide (described below) and an ASCOM-compliant client at the same time with your Windows computer. On the Mac side, you might wish to connect both Astro-Planner and Equinox (both described below) for an observing or imaging session. Please note that Astro-Physics cannot fully support Mac programs at this time, 2011, but we at Company Seven are keeping our ears up for developments. Since 1996 computer manufacturers have gradually moved away from providing the original nine pin Serial connector on their new computers in favor of the much faster USB (Universal Serial Bus); in order to connect the GTOCP1, GTOCP2, or GTOCP3 to a USB port one must employ an optional adapter. Serial-to-USB connectivity has been made possible by the availability of Serial-to-USB adapting devices to our product line including the 'Keyspan' brand that is among those that have been proved to be compatible. USB normally limits the distance from one device to another to fifteen (15) feet or less. However, there are USB range extenders for customers who need longer cable runs to connect their computer to the GTOCPx panel. The approved devices include those USB Range Extenders made by Icron some that depending on the model can provide connectivity out to 328 feet/100 meters! Please contact Company Seven or review the information section updated by the factory regarding connectivity products to determine which one will work best for your set-up. GTO Keypad Operation: The GTO Keypad provided with each new GTO mount is the user interface for local control of the mount. This is a hand-holdable computer that stores the instruction set of all of the features menus, local control functions and databases of celestial objects that you would routinely need to tour the universe night after night. The red lit vacuum-fluorescent display can operate across a wide temperature range from a low of down to -40 degrees F and C (they are the same in this instance), allowing the most hardy observers to use the keypad on cold winter nights; though we recommend you contact us for advice about operating the mechanics of the mount at temperatures below -20F. The Keypad of the GTO incorporates a replaceable long-life lithium 'button' battery. The earlier Keypads (up to Serial # 1565GTO) were provided with the CR1632 slip in battery, while later Keypads employ a CR2430 battery with a soldered pigtail that can be ordered from us or adapted by anyone with simple soldering skills. The battery keeps the Keypad's volatile settings from being forgotten. Company Seven recommends replacing the battery every few years or so however, we have some older discontinued Astro-Physics mounts on display in our showroom with the Keypad working just fine for years longer than the recommended battery replacement interval. As new firmware versions are released in the future, you can upgrade the Keypad directly from any Windows personal computer, or from a MacIntosh running Windows, by downloading the updating applications and instructions from the appropriate section of the factory website - free of charge! Then connect your computer to the upper of the two Serial Ports on the GTOCPx and upgrade the firmware. It is also possible to reload the database stored in the GTOCPx should the replaceable battery within the Keypad become depleted. The Keypad included with each GTO mount can be set within the menu settings to control any one of the GTO mounts, and is compatible with all versions of the GTO Control Box: GTOCP1, GTOCP2, GTOCP3. PulseGuide Software: PulseGuide is a stand-alone Microsoft Windows (98, ME, 2000, NT4, XP, Vista and Windows 7) compatible software utility that provides complete remote control of the Astro-Physics Mach1GTO, 900GTO, 1200GTO, 3600GTO, and even the older discontinued 400GTO and 600EGTO mounts. PulseGuide is written by Ray Gralak of Sirius-Imaging, he makes this available free of charge to owners of any Astro-Physics GTO mount. Many, many thanks to Ray for this powerful program. The PulseGuide software derives its name from its most distinctive feature, pulse guiding, which can improve unguided tracking. Specifically, it can help correct tracking errors caused by polar misalignment and atmospheric refraction. You can also train PulseGuide to track objects moving relative to the stars, such as asteroids, comets, and the moon. In addition to pulse guiding, PulseGuide also has many useful utility features. With just a few exceptions, it supports the entire serial Astro-Physics command protocol allowing full control of your mount through your PC. For more information or for further news about developments and enhancements refer to the factory web site and to Ray Gralak's web site http://www.pulseguide.com. PulseGuide is compatible with all versions of the GTO Mounts Control Box modules: GTOCP1, GTOCP2, GTOCP3 Astro-Physics ASCOM V2 Driver: What Is Ascom?: Most popular third-party planetarium software, CCD imaging and automated guiding control software, and observatory control software take advantage of the universal applicability protocol known as ASCOM. The ASCOM Initiative was pioneered by a loosely-knit group of astronomy software developers and some astronomy device manufacturers who sought to develop a more universal, vendor-independent, plug-and-play control language. ASCOM is a many-to-many language independent architecture, supported by most astronomy devices that connect to a Microsoft Windows computer. Drivers for the Windows based PC's are available to allow communication with most types of astronomy devices (e.g., Motorized Focusers, Observatory Domes, Telescope Mounts); these employ the Windows OS native component object feature (COM). Virtually all development languages, scripting languages, and scriptable tools allow use of Windows COM objects natively without adapter libraries. How ASCOM differs from traditional astronomy instrument control architectures, the downloads, and other information are available at the ASCOM.org website. Astro-Physics now offers a company-supported ASCOM V2 driver. This driver provides full mount control for all of the Astro-Physics GTO mounts and acts as a hub allowing multiple client applications to connect through a single serial port without the need for POTH. It has been developed with remote operation in mind and its functions were designed to be highly robust. The driver features a very user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI). Please see this link for more information and to find links to the ASCOM platform and the Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM driver. The ASCOM V2 Driver is compatible with all versions of the GTO Control Box: GTOCP1, GTOCP2, GTOCP3. Astro-Physics Command Center (APCC) Software: Ray Gralak, the author of PulseGuide, is currently developing the Astro-Physics Command Center (APCC), which will incorporate all the features of PulseGuide and add many more advanced functions to the control system of your mount. Through the application of virtual serial ports, APCC will act as a hub for a number of other applications that can all communicate with the mount through a single COM port. As of this writing, in late May 2011, APCC is in the second beta testing phase. We anticipate that it will be available later in the Fall of 2011. Virtual serial ports to connect multiple applications Customizable meridian limits that work in conjunction with an improved meridian delay feature Customizable horizon limits Highly sophisticated pointing model and variable tracking rate for both axes 3-D modeling of your telescope's position showing the orientation of the scope and mount for remote users Complete mount control including terminal interface APCC can only be used with the GTOCP3 control box since it takes advantage of advanced features available only in the CP3: Planetarium, Imaging, and Observatory control software from other vendors Other Third Party Control Software: There are a number of planetarium programs that can be used to control the Astro-Physics GTO Servo System. In addition, some software designed primarily for camera control and/or observatory control and planning also have limited ability to control your mount. Many of these use the ASCOM interface and will take advantage of the new ASCOM V2 driver mentioned above. Any software that can use the AP V2 ASCOM driver will have extensive mount control capabilities because of the driver's "virtual keypad" features. Other programs employ native drivers that the software designers wrote from our publicly available command set. The list that follows is certainly not exhausive, but contains software with which we have at least a little familiarity. TheSky and Bisque Observatory Software Suite families of products from Software Bisque. These include TheSky 6 Professional Edition (Windows), The Sky X (Windows and Mac versions), TPoint (Windows and Mac versions), CCDSoft - jointly developed with SBIG (Windows), Orchestrate and other components in the Bisque Observatory Software Suite. The Bisque brothers have written their own native Astro-Physics drivers so that their Windows programs can also use the ASCOM interface. However, Astro-Physics recommends that you use the ASCOM interface for more complete and fail-safe control. Starry Night Pro Plus by Simulation Curriculum Corp. (Windows version with ASCOM support and Mac version with native driver) Earth Centered Universe (ECU) v3.1 or later from Nova Astronomics (Windows). As of Feb. 2010, the latest version was v.5.0. Versions including 4.0 and later have full client support for ASCOM telescope drivers including the Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM driver. SkyMap Pro (Windows) by Chris Marriot. Native drivers for the Astro-Physics GTO system have been included since v.7. Starting with V.10, ASCOM support was added as well. Equinox from Microprojects Astronomy Software - Darryl Robertson (Mac) Voyager from Carina Software (Windows and Mac). This product does not use the ASCOM interface. SkySafari for Mac OS X by Southern Stars - This software is offered through the Mac App Store in three versions. They do not use the ASCOM interface. ACP Observatory Control Software by DC-3 Dreams - Robert B. Denny (Windows). ACP uses the ASCOM interface. Since all observing and automation accomplished through the web browser, you can use your mobile smart device to access the controls for your mount. MaximDL from Diffraction Limited (Windows). Imaging software that uses the ASCOM interface. CCDWare Product Suite from CCDWare (Windows). The suite includes CCDNavigator, PEMPro, CCDInspector, CCDAutoPilot Professional and CCDStackImaging software. They all use the ASCOM interface. These products can also be purchased individually. Any software that is ASCOM compliant. Be sure that you update to the most current ASCOM V2 driver, this is supported by Astro-Physics. Resources for Apple MacIntosh Users: In addition to the Mac software mentioned above, check out The Mac in Astronomy, a resource hosted by our customer (right here in Maryland) David E. Illig at primordial-light.com/macastronomer.html. There is also the Midwest Astro-Imaging Conference & Mac Astronomy Workshop website .mwaic.com Mobile Smart Devices: We have entered a new age of smart devices that offer amazing functionality at our fingertips without the need for a computer. The offerings include: SkyFi Wireless Telescope Controller and SkyWire from Southern Stars. SkyFi is Southern Stars' patent-pending WiFi-to-Serial adapter that is designed for wireless telescope control. If you have a computer-controlled GoTo telescope then SkyFi can use the WiFi capabilities of your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to point your telescope (via your mount) to any object overhead in the sky. SkyWire can connect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch directly to your mount via wired connection. It has an Apple device plug on one end and an RS232 plug on the other. In 2010, Southern Stars' SkyFi and SkySafari (discussed below) were Macworld Expo 2010 Best of Show winners (both products were marketed by Carina Software at the time of the award). Check this link to see Tim Benedictus demonstrate these products at the Macworld Expo. SkySafari for iOS from Southern Stars As of this writing, SkySafari 3 is available in three different versions, two of them offering telescope control. All of these versions are available as iTunes Apps and require use of the SkyFi Wireless Telescope Controller or SkyWire, as described above. The GoTo mount control functions provided by this application are quite basic and most suited to visual astronomy. However, the graphical interface of your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone offers some exciting possibilities to engage kids (young and old) at public star parties, as well as provide an enjoyable, informative evening for amateur astronomers on observing nights. Also, if the weather is cloudy, you can browse through the extensive databases to learn a great deal about the sky and plan your next session. This product is also being offered in a version for the Mac OS X for direct computer control. Please visit the Southern Stars website for the most updated information on SkySafari, SkyFi and SkyWire or contact our showroom for information and ordering. Write Your Own Computer Program: The Astro-Physics GTO protocol for the GTOCP3 Control Box is freely available to those who would like to write their own computer program for controlling the mount. Please contact Astro-Physics for further information. Please note, however, that with our substantial investment in both the Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM driver and in APCC, we cannot also provide free technical support to anyone who wants to try their hand at mount control software. We strongly encourage all customers to use the available software options when practical. 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__label__wiki	0.76199	0.76199	Home>New Videos>Mac Miller Videos> Mac Miller & Cee-Lo Green Perform “We” On “The Divine Feminine” Concert Special Mac Miller & Cee-Lo Green Perform “We” On “The Divine Feminine” Concert Special Subscribe to HNHH TV Watch Mac Miller & Cee-Lo Green perform their collab "We". In support of his newly-released album The Divine Feminine (which debuted No. 2 on the Billboard charts), Mac Miller recently taped a special concert for DirecTV’s AUDIENCE Network. Set to officially air this weekend, the Pittsburgh native decides to give fans a taste of what’s to come by sharing a clip of his performance of “We” featuring special guest Cee-Lo Green. Check it out above and look for the full concert to air this Friday, September 30 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. If you’ve been sleeping these past two weeks, you can stream The Divine Feminine right here on HNHH, or show your support on iTunes. Mac Miller Cee-Lo Green live performance We the divine feminine special concert Vic Mensa Debuts New Song "Stoner" Live In Seattle Meek Mill Teases New Music Off "DreamChasers 4"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12846
__label__cc	0.556721	0.443279	Casa Osa Cerro Osa, Costa Rica OBRA Architects Design Principals Pablo Castro Shin Kook Kang Atsushi Koizumi, Patricia Bohrer, David Karlin, Doreen Lam, Jennifer Lee, Edina Nathania Robert Silman Associates Brad Shenko 98 hectares (242 acres) 375 sm (4,000 sf) For the last two years the Buildings of the Week on the U.S. platforms of World-Architects looked at one building in each state over the course of fifty weeks. For 2015 we are going a different route and looking at buildings overseas designed by architects based in the United States (occasionally we will present the inverse, buildings in USA designed by architects from overseas). The first installment in this feature is a vacation house in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula designed by New York's OBRA Architects. The pleasant climate led the architects to craft a composition of open-air rooms and walkways underneath a complex roof form. OBRA Architects answered a few questions about the project. View of courtyard and stepped ramp to living room OBRA Architects was recommended to our client by a friend of his who attended a lecture we gave at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This is a vacation retreat for an American doctor and family on the Osa Peninsula, the realization of a client’s lifelong fascination with wilderness and desire for life in proximity of exuberant nature. Located on 98 hectares of virgin rainforest with views east to Golfo Dulce and west to the Pacific, the house occupies a small hill, formerly a mango farm, avoiding the need to destroy trees. Moving down the hill, different wings orient themselves rotating in plan as they descend, privileging with their discrete axes of symmetry multiple points of fugue to structure views of the forest around with silent invisible geometries. Two walled gardens defined by low walls provide transition between “interior” and exterior, outdoor zones safe to use in evenings when snakes freely roam about. Entry with view to kitchen The arrangement proposes a controlled but unstable tension between house as object and space of the forest as site. Rather than freestanding element surrounded by leftover land, or boundary-like architectural arrangement encircling courtyards, it gives neither primacy to object nor space. The house retains integrity of a single architectural volume seen from outside, as the pavilions overlap in depth, flattening perception of spaces in-between, yet as one enters, vistas of forest and sky between pavilions make it hard to discern if surrounded by one structure or many. View through snake-free courtyards With its remote location and tight budget, the house was designed to achieve the following 5 main points: 1. Desire for a measured, respectful proximity to the forest 2. Definition of spaces for warm climate year-round, protection from sun in summer, from rainstorms in winter 3. Utilizing topography to closely approach corners of the forest, to generate psychological house map with intuitions of Up, Down, Gulf-Side, Ocean-Side, etc. 4. Open architectural plan encircling and framing landscape, allowing winged wildlife to traverse throughout 5. Method of construction flexible enough to create complex roof forms suggested by demands of the plan, the hill and topography, yet simple enough to be built by local labor in remote location. View to living room Were there any significant challenges that arose during the project? If so, how did you respond to them? The most difficult challenge for the project was the design, detailing and construction of the triangulated sections of roof suspended over the ramps and stairs connecting the different sections of the house. The project was to be constructed with the help of locally based workers and the proposed geometry, although not particularly complex, was unfamiliar to their experience. Furthermore, due to the remote location of the site, the building crew would have to camp on location during the construction of the house and have with them all the materials and tools necessary for the successful construction of the project. Frequent, or even sporadic trips to the hardware store were impractical given that the nearest one was located an eight-hour-drive from the site. Pacific Ocean beyond Two different structural solutions were designed to solve this problem, one contemplating a steel tube structure connected through a series of pre-fabricated steel hubs we called “spiders” and an array of adjustable brackets that, shaped like rings around the tubes, were capable of rotating around them until finding a point in the geometry that would allow them to connect beams and rafters. This system proved impractical since the “spiders” became a too dense point of material concentration where making the necessary connections was difficult. The second and final structural system proposed the creation of composite beams for every member. Each beam was formed by two back-to-back steel “C” profiles sized according to their span and connected to each other by steel plate brackets that gave them the desired configuration and that had the advantage that could be bent to the right geometry on the site. All the joists were then fastened to the profile’s flanges. View toward Golfo Dulce How did you approach designing for Cerro Osa/Costa Rica and how would you describe the process of working on the project there? Three different factors contributed to the final form adopted by the building: 1. Located in an isolated corner of the world, on top of a hill and surrounded by dense forest, we felt the house needed to have some of the variety of choice of personal location that is more typical of urban environments. In other words, the world created by a compact building in the landscape is typically reduced to one of two possibilities, either inside or outside. One of the reasons for the organization of the house in five discreet elements is a desire to use these in the definition of exterior spaces that, lying between them, can contribute to the creation of a more varied range of possible personal locations in relationship to the house and its setting, not only inside or outside but also something like inside-inside, inside-outside, outside-inside and outside-outside. Detail view of roof 2. On a piece of virgin forest measuring 89 hectares, the hill where the house sits, an area of approximately 90,000 square feet, is the only spot that has seen human occupation in the past and is thus the logical place to site the house from an ecological point of view. During the design process the memory of Frank Lloyd Wright advising architects never to place a house on top of a hill — perhaps because he thought it would mean a disrespect to nature, the source of all authority in the world — was accompanied by the realization that he also refrained from suggesting exactly where, down the side of the hill should the house be located. Instead of guessing and getting it wrong, we thought that it would not be a bad idea to stretch the house, so to speak, along the entire side of the hill to cover all possible options. 3. We were attracted by a plan arrangement that replicates exactly the cinematographic tradition of alternating action shots that move forward the narrative of a film with quiet shots that act as meditative moments of relief in an ongoing film sequence. In the house, this is embodied in alternating between function-specific spaces such as living room, kitchen, etc. and the ramped or stepped links connecting them. We like to think that this gives the functional spaces as spaces of action, where the very configuration and equipment of the rooms compel one to go on with life and do with others the normal things that “one does.” On the other hand, the roofed ramps and stairs are spaces in which we might be compelled to slow down, to consider one’s life with a moment of reflection, realization of a sudden presence of doubt or encounter with a recurring indecision. Study model of roof structure How would you describe the architecture of Cerro Osa/Costa Rica and how does the building relate to it? The desert and the jungle (as in this case) oppose the city as places characterized by an absence or scarcity of social, civic and cultural tradition. Architecture is one of those manifestations that, being a byproduct of dense human occupation, is rather scarce in this remote and wild place. In the void created by this lack of architectural tradition, buildings tend to assume forms that are largely dictated by the weather and other natural conditions. Our project relates to those building habits, as most buildings in the Osa Peninsula, by making very little use of windows, since temperatures year-round are pleasant enough not to have to enclose the space other than for insect protection. Other distinctive elements in local construction that are also present in our project are wide roof overhangs that protect the spaces from rain and excessive sun exposure and a consistent 30 cm step that separates the house from the surrounding landscape in order to prevent unpleasant visits from the many varieties of deadly poisonous snakes inhabiting these forests. Roof structure details Sections and elevations Articoli relazionati Altri lavori Progetto in primo piano Moneo Brock Parish Church in Pueblo Serena © Jorge Taboada Annuncio commerciale Piattaforme nazionali Segui World-Architects	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12848
__label__cc	0.636949	0.363051	The Trail of Tears Bagehi on Jan 15, 2015 Unpleasant move ops have been a recurring event in Eve since early in the game. The ones that stand out, having taken hours upon hours, are likewise a repeat occurrence. This past weekend, Pandemic Legion completed one of the first large scale move ops in the post-Phoebe Eve and I had the pleasure of being part of it. It was exhausting. Jump fatigue has been incredibly effective at limiting mobility, making the Eve cluster the massive place it was before the runaway prevalence of capital ships. It gave me plenty of time to reflect back on past move ops and how they have evolved over the years. I’ve heard people speak about the horrors of transporting materiel in the early days of Eve. My experience during that time period was running smack into the learning cliff a few times, further complicated by CTDs, before rage quitting. So, I’ll fast forward to my first experience with relocating as a group in Eve. From the campfire-esque stories shared over alcohol at Fanfest, it is a pretty good example of moving ops of that time. I was part of a low sec pirate group who decided to try our hand at living in and camping a null sec entry system. It was a two day affair, and we ended up losing our Thanatos to The Arrow Project (pre-Morsus Mihi) while onlining our POS. That was my first experience and it was a devastatingly painful one. Carriers were a pretty rare thing at the time, having only recently been released, so it wasn’t used for hauling anything but the tower out. Iterons by the scores moved POS modules, fuel, ammo, etc. When the carrier became tackled, we “rushed” back to low sec in our haulers to switch to combat ships, flew back by gate, and attempt to save the Thanny. The move op had been going on for hours by that point. The fight over the carrier lasted at least an hour. The time commitment to accomplish things in Eve was significantly longer then than it is today. Flash forward two years to the next major relocation I remember. It was during the Second Great War. Haargoth had just pressed the button and a massive train of carriers and dreads were moving across the south towards Delve. POSes were slightly broken at the time, so the convoys were repeatedly halted to save random capital ships that were suddenly and unexpectedly attacked by alliance/blue POSes. It was a multi-hour long nightmare fraught with unexpected roadblocks, but also a far sight easier than it had once been. The sheer number of carriers moving ships and equipment to the front was a dramatic shift from move ops during previous years. It was the beginning of 2009 and the suitcase carrier was becoming a phenomenon, however, other broken mechanics were still a constraint. The following years saw capital ships became increasingly prevalent. Power projection increased, as did the number and capabilities of super capitals, coalitions rose and fell. Suitcase move ops became a near perfect science for some groups, while others struggled. 2012 saw yet another op, commonly referred to as the Trail of Tears, where CFC forces moved from the north to the south, over a period of many hours. It was a trail of tears primarily due to stupidity and drunkenness. However, their constraints were primarily their own, not based in game mechanics. Other groups were making a habit of moving across fairly wide swaths of space in under an hour of time. Much to the delight of CCP Greyscale, no doubt, this recent move op has shown that there is now a significant risk to move operations. Black Legion slowed Pandemic Legion’s move to a crawl by harrying the fleet the entire 19 gate distance. Significant levels of metagaming were also used to create stragglers that could be pounced upon and killed. What would have taken 30 minutes at most in the past, stretched for four hours and cost half a dozen capitals and much patience. So, assuming you aren’t in one of the Legions and haven’t had the pleasure/misfortune of a post-Phobe op, the suitcase carrier isn’t dead. It is significantly neutered, but it remains the best way to relocate your assets. Mission successful, CCP Greyscale. You jerk. Tags: Bagehi, nullsec, phoebe Bagehi Bagehi is a lazy vet, which is similar to a bitter vet, but without the vitriol.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12852
__label__wiki	0.508445	0.508445	Introit for Palm Sunday Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Palm Sunday March- the Month of St Joseph A glorious image on which to end the month. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Month of St Joseph, St Joseph Feast of St Amos Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, Prophecy Of Amos Chapter 9: [11] In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old. [12] That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things. [13] Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled. [14] And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel: and they shall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens, and eat the fruits of them. And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: March Feastday, St Amos RORATE CÆLI: The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops The Vienna Chronicles: another priest thrown under the bus: The Cardinal is afraid to take a moral stand, and the priest becomes the scapegoat. Cathcon, from bitter experience, would not have expected anything else from the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna. Clicking on the label will show why! Also the Cardinal let the Diocesan Museum display a work of art showing the Last Supper as a homosexual orgy. One can only wonder why. Caution- content is vivid. And liturgical nonsense at a Mass celebrated by the Cardinal. And the Wild West Mass permitted by the Cardinal. Once Catholic Austria- where the Chief Shepherd scatters the flock. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Cardinal Schönborn, findfightfollow, vienna Take a tour of the nightmare church where altar is split in two Herzlich Willkommen beim Rundgang in der Heilig-Geist Kirche One is apparently the Bread Altar and the other is the Word Altar. In Catholic theology, they are not equivalent because it is the Sacrifice of the Mass that matters and where Christ is really present. Hat tip to www.kreuz.net Links From ChrisG 1 comment: Labels: kreuz.net, Modern church architecture, modernism Georg Ratzinger- new book in English on his brother. All the numerous Cathcon posts on Catholic Church Conservation: Georg Ratzinger- not least among them, Pope's Brother slams Cardinal Danneels. I don't think it is a speculation too far to say that the previous Pope was informed by the then Cardinal Ratzinger, about the sewer of immorality and cover-up which was being presided over by Cardinal Danneels in Belgium, which led to the appointment of Cardinal Joos, seminary friend of Pope John Paul II, who although a humble parish priest, was also a leading canon lawyer and head of the Diocesan tribunal in Ghent. I think the intention was that he was going to take a leading role in clearing up the scandal when it broke, but by the time it broke he was already dead. Cardinal Danneels was much beloved in Belgium before the scandal broke, and preferred by the people to Cardinal Joos as can be seen from the second link. They do not think that now. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: belgium, cardinal danneels, Cardinal Joos, Georg Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI Flashback 2011-Muslims in France demand the use of churches. On the 11th March, the Banlieues Respect Collective (Suburbs Respect Collective- the titles of member organisations have been anglicized) issued the following press release, which is still on the internet. This is the link- in jpg form. Just found the declaration in my paper files- Cathcon apologises for being late with this particular piece of news! To provide empty churches in France for Friday prayers for Muslims. At the initiative of the National Federation of the Paris Mosque , the Council of Muslim Democrats of France and the Suburbs Respect Collective, religious leaders, politicians of various political organizations in the suburbs, gathered together on Thursday March 10 2011 the at the Paris Mosque to determine the actions to be implemented to terminate the debate on secularism and Islam. The Suburbs Respect Collective believes that whenever there is a debate of this nature, it leads to legislation to stigmatize Muslims. During the debate as it is actually taking place, the Suburbs Respect Collective can only bring its recommendations and take action. In a spirit of interfaith solidarity, spokesman of the Collective Suburbs Respect, Hassan BEN M'BAREK, asks the management structures within the Church in France to make available empty churches for Friday prayers to avoid Muslims having to pray in the street and be held hostage to politics. (Cathcon- This was a reaction to a move to ban public prayer in France). The members of the association, Suburbs Respect Collective present at the meeting of Thursday, March 10, 2011 at the Paris Mosque: M.Rachid NEKKAZ Association President "Allez France" Club President M.Karim CHERID "Le Vivier" Association BEN M.Hassan M'BAREK Association President "Citizenship and Democracy" Association President Mohamed CHANAÏ "The Light" Association President Mr. Omar DJELLOULI "Opening" Association President Ahmed Mamash "NUMED" M.Mustapha MANSOURI President "Hub" Association Mr. President Abdula ELGATOU "Focus 2000" Association M.Abderahim AÏT Association President-OMAR "Listen Dialogue Council" M.Youcef Megdoud Association President "Business & Neighborhoods" M.Mounir Arrai Association President "Land and Peace" Association President Mr. Farid KHALDI "DIA 21" M.Mustapha BENLAFKIH Vice President "Solidarity Assistance Dialogue" M.Hamid MANSOURI Vice President 'Citizenship Integration in Argenteuil " M.Said ZAMOUN Association President "Citizens Mediation" Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: church closings, France, Islam, Muslim Saturday- Dedicated to Our Lady History of the devotion to Our Lady's Saturday by Dom Louis Gougaud. (In haste, will do some small corrections later) WHY WAS SATURDAY DEDICATED TO OUR LADY? LITURGISTS, theologians, poets, and pious narrators of the Middle Ages, offer us an abundant choice of suitable reasons to justify, according to them, the dedication of Saturday to Our Lady.1 Durandus, Bishop of Mende (+1296), gives five reasons, and his text has been piously received by a number of authors after his time, more particularly by the compiler of the Sarum Missal, who saw fit to place in it a kind of explanatory introduction to the votive Masses of Our Lady.2 The first reason for honouring Our Lady on Saturdays—and in the eyes of the authors of the Middle Ages it is the chief reason—is that the Mother of God clearly showed by a miracle her preference for this day of the week. In a church in Constantinople there was a particularly beautiful statue of Our Lady, in front of which hung a curtain that was removed every Friday through no human agency, leaving the statue visible until after Vespers on Saturday. At that moment the statue resumed its covering in a miraculous manner, and remained hidden from view until the following Friday. By this wonder Mary intended to show in a clear manner to Christian people that she wished Saturday to be held in special honour. This narrative of the miracle was reproduced many times in the Middle Ages.3 The second reason is that Our Lady was the only person to keep her faith in our Lord during Holy Saturday, or more exactly from the time of the death on the Cross of her divine Son until his Resurrection. This idea has been expressed in a few verses of a French poem of the fourteenth century, of which the following lines, which bear directly on our subject, are quoted: Cinq festes a en Fan la benoite roine Con celebre son nom, et elle en est bien digne: Elle est gloire des justes, de pecheurs medecine, Tres bon la fait servir de cuer qui s'i encline. On fait de Ii memoire par tout les samedis, Sachiez que sans reson n'est jl mie establis: Le ben[e]oite Virge l'a mout bien deservi, Si vous dirons comment; or entende"s ami. Diex dist a ses apotres ainz qu'en crois fust penez: "Vous toute nuit ensemble avec moy veillere's," Ainz Ie demain matin fu son dit averez, Quar trestous s'en fuirent ainz qu'il en fust mene"s. Le vrai cuer de sa mere onques ne le lessa, Ainz tres le vendredi que Jhesu tre'spassa Jusques au jour de Pasques que il resuscita La foy de sainte Eglise toute seule garda. C'est une des raisons qui est auques prouvee, Par quoy le samedi est ainsi honnouree: De tous ceus qui ont foy en doit estie loee, Quant par li fu la foy en samedi gardee.4 Long before the time of the writer of this poem and before the time of Durandus of Mende himself, Caesarius of Heisterbach had already said that afterthe Passion, Mary was " the one pillar of the Catholic Faith."5 The same idea is found in some manuscripts of the Vitis mystica with the following remark: " This is the reason why the whole Church has adopted the very suitable custom of dedicating each Saturday of the year to the honour and glory of this Virgin."6 But this reason was not acceptable to the Blessed Cardinal Bellarmine, because the Gospel narrative (St John xix and xx) makes it clear that before the Resurrection of our Lord, Mary Magdalen was filled with the deep ardour of charity, and, as charity cannot exist without faith, it should not be said that the faith of Holy Church (la foi de sainte Jfcglise) found its only shelter in the heart of Mary.7 Moreover, he adds, if Mary was the only believer, one would be compelled to admit that the whole Church had ceased to believe in Jesus Christ, for one believer is not sufficient to constitute the Church, which is a society. More than one theologian will object to this second argument of Bellarmine, for the Church, accurately speaking, did not come into existence before the Resurrection. Christ had only completed the remote preparation of the constitution of the Church, for the definite act of constitution, the giving of the power to the Apostles, only took place after the Resurrection.8 The third reason advanced by Durandus, and, before him, by John Beleth, in the twelfth century,9 is that Saturday gives access to Sunday (introitus ad dominicam diem) and may be considered, as it were, the door of entrance. And as Sunday is figurative of the Kingdom of Heaven, it followed that Mary, the Gate of heaven, should receive particularly on the seventh day the homage of the faithful. It was fitting also that the solemn honour paid to Mary should be followed by that paid to her Son—such is the fourth reason advanced by early writers for this Saturday celebration in her honour. A less subtle and more consistent thought is to be found in a sequence which was sung from the thirteenth century onwards: Dum transis ad gaudiosum Diem, relinquens poenosum, Dies est haec media; Haec de poenis nos educit Mediatrix, et adducit Ad superna gaudia.10 And the same hymnographer has also put into poetry in the following verse the idea which forms the fifth and last reason brought forward by Durandus: Hodierna lux diei Dies fuit requiei Plasmatoris omnium; Sic quievit in Maria Dum ipsius in hac via Virgo fit hospitium. St Peter Damian, one of those who aided most the spread of Mariology in the eleventh century, expresses the same thought in the following manner: " Sabbath signifies rest, for one reads that God himself rested on that day. Is it not then fitting that the same day should be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, in whom the divine Wisdom chose its abode, and rested as on a couch of holiness ?"n The reasons for which the seventh day of the week has been dedicated to Our Lady being now known, let us see what practices were made use of, both in private devotion and in the liturgy, to honour the Blessed Queen of Heaven on that day. The celebration of a votive Mass of Our Lady is the most ancient manifestation of the worship inspired by sabbatical piety. The small collection of weekly Masses left by Alcuin (f 804) contains two votive Masses of Our Lady for Saturday.12 The most firmly established and the most widespread of the votive Masses were that of the Cross for Friday and that of the Blessed "Virgin for Saturday. For this latter day, the Concordia regular is, a monument of the English Benedictine reform of the last half of the tenth century, also commends the Mass de Beata.n However, at the end of the eleventh century, the use was not yet universal. Bernold of Constance, who wrote later than A.D. 1085, said that votive Masses were still celebrated " rather through devotion than in virtue of an order from the ecclesiastical authorities."14 From the tenth century onwards an office of the Cross and of the Blessed Virgin was said on Fridays and Saturdays respectively at the monastery of Einsiedeln, when no other office prevented their celebration.15 There is no earlier documentary evidence of the existence of the Saturday office of Our Lady. When did it evolve from a sporadic devotion into a real liturgical celebration ? A claim is advanced that Odo, Bishop of Toul (1051-1069), after having rebuilt the collegiate church of St Gengoult in that town, ordered, in 1065, that the office de Beata and a Mass of Our Lady should be said in the church every Saturday.16 If this information is well founded, it should be emphasized on account of its early date. On the other hand, it is said that Pope Urban II prescribed at the Council of Clermont (1095) the recitation of this office, in order that the Queen of Heaven should give her blessing to the undertaking of the first Crusade, but the official acts of the council have not been preserved, and the records at our disposal are lacking in precision.17 Be that as it may, the Saturday office had definitely come into use before the middle of the thirteenth century and even in the twelfth,18 and, according to Caesarius of Heisterbach, the origin of this addition to the liturgy was to be found in the miracle of Constantinople.19 The same author mentions yet more observances by which the faithful used to delight in honouring Our Lady each week. In various regions in the West, fasting or abstinence were practised on Saturday from the earliest times. In the Middle Ages, these mortifications, which, in their origin, as will be shown later,20 were not intended to honour Our Lady, received this new meaning.21 Furthermore, some people abstained from work on Saturday or for part of the day for a similar reason. One of the miracles of Our Lady of Chartres (thirteenth century) has for its title: Dyune fame a cut il mesavint pour ce qu'elfila un samedi a seir.22 A traveller who had an especial devotion to the Blessed Virgin used to break his journey in her honour on Saturday after the hour of None.23 Jean Mielot, the secretary of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, recounts, in his Miracles de Nostre Dame, the story of a dissolute woman who refrained from committing sin on Saturday in honour of Our Lady, and she offered her, on that day, a candle which she procured with her meagre earnings, " so much so that in the end she died and her soul was delivered from the devils by the Virgin Mary."24 Characteristic examples like this abound. Those which we have cited will suffice to show the extent of the popular devotion in the Middle Ages to Our Lady on Saturday. The belief in the " Sabbatine privilege " encouraged by the Carmelites from the fifteenth century onwards aided greatly in the spread of the custom of dedicating Saturday to the praise and reverence of Mary. See Augustin Wickmans, Sabbatismus marianus in quo origo, utilitas et modus colendi hebdomadatim sabbatum in honorem sanctissimae Deiparae explicantur, Antverpiae, 1628; same author, Brabantia mariana tripartita, Antverpiae, 1632, ch. ix; G. Colvenerius, Liturgia Mariana, included in the Summa aurea de laudibus B.V.M., by J. J. Bourasse (Migne's Coll.), Parisiis, 1866, III, ch. vii-ix. Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum, Venetiis, 1609, fol. 60; Missale ad usum insignis etpraeclarae Ecclesiae Sarum,ed. F. H. Dickinson, Burntisland, 1861-1883, col. 759- 760. Ward, Catal. of Romances in the British Museum, II 616; Caesarius of Heisterbach, Expositiuncula in sequentiam Ave praeclara tnaris Stella," ed. A. E. Schoenbach, in Sitzungsgerichte of the Vienna Acad., 1908, pp. 6-7; Franz Pfeiffer, Marienlegenden, Dichtungen des 13. Jahrhunderts, Wien, 1863, pp. 89-93. Cf. Mussafia, Studien zu den mittel-alterlichen Marienlegenden, pp. 113, 944, 949, 950, 951, etc. According to the twelfth-century text analyzed by Ward, the miracle took place in a church called '' Lucerna.'' In Gautier of Coinci, who wrote c. 1220, it is a question of " une chapele bele et noble de ma Dame sainte Marie, dedenz Constantinnoble [qui] Luzerne scurnom est nomme'e " (Les Miracles de Notre-Dame par Gautier de Coinci, ed. Poquet, Paris, 1867, fol, 671). In the German legend of the twelfth century edited by F. Pfeiffer, the church is called " Frauen-miinster." Ed. A. Langfors, Notice du Ms.fr. 12483 de la Biblio-theque nationale (Notices et Extraits des Mss. de la B.N., XXXIX, Part ii, Paris, 1917, pp. 541-542). Caesarius, loc. cit. Vitis mystica,2 (St Bonaventure, Opera, Quaracchi edit., VIII 161). L. 3, De Ecclesia militante, cap. 17, quoted by Benedict XIV, Defestis B.M.V., p. 317. Cf. L. Billot, Tractatus de Ecclesia Christi, Romae, 1903, pp. 79-85. John Beleth, Rationale, 51 (P.L., CCII 57-58). Seq. Jubilemus in hac die (UI. Chevalier, Repertorium hymnologicum, No. 9813). Ed. Blume and Bannister, Liturgiche Prosen, 1914, pp. 430-432. " Opusc. 33 (P.L., CXLV 565-566). Alcuin, Liber Sacramentorum (P.L., CI 454-455). Cf. Dom Cabrol, art. Alcuin {Diet. d'Arch. chrdt. et de Lit., 1079-1080); Ad. Franz, Die Messe im deutschen Mittelalter, Freiburg i. Br., 1902, p. 136 ff. P.L., CXXXVII 483. Micrologus, 60 (P.L., CLI 1020). Cf. St Peter Damian, op. cit., col. 564. Ed. Odilo Ringholz, in Studien und Mittheilungen aus dem Benedictiner und dem Cistercienser Orden, VII, 1886, p. 285. Cf. Ed. Bishop, Liturgica historica, Oxford, 1918, pp. 225-226; P. Lejay, Les Accroissements de I'Office quotidian {Revue du Clergdfrangais, XL, 1904, pp. 129-130). " Obsecramus ergo ut omni sabbato commemoratio sanctae Dei genitricis Mariae ibidem cum omni integritate nocturni et diurni cursus ad ipsius altare a nobis con-secrato celebretur " (Benoit Picard, Histoire eeddsiastique et politique de la Ville et du Diocese de Toul, Toul, 1707 {Preuves, LXXVI). Mansi, Concilia, XX 821. Yet the Chronicle of Geoffrey, prior of Vigeois, is not devoid of interest on this particular point. Referring to the Council of Clermont, this document has: " Statutum est ut horae B. Virginis quotidie dicantur officiumque ejus diebus Sabbati fiat. Ex quo mos in quibusdam Ecclesiis inolevit facere novem lectiones cum novem responsoriis et aliis necessariis, nisi in quadragesima vel nisi adsit festum duplex." (Ed. Philippe Labbe, Nova bibliotheca manuscripta, Parisiis, 1675, II 292). Vita B. Stephani abbatis Obaziensis, I 7, 22, ed. Baluze, Miscellanea, IV 80, 95; Geoffrey of Vigeois, loc. cit. Caesarius, loc. cit. Cf. Ward, op. cit., II 638. See below, Part II, ch. i, Fasting in Ireland. Cf. A. Wilmart, A propos des Jours sans Liturgie (La Vie et les Arts liturgiques, 7e annee, ig2i,pp. 217-218); T. E. Bridgett, Our Lady's Dowry, London, 1890, p. 244; A. Villien, A History of the Commandments of the Church, St. Louis, 1915, p. 287 ff. Caesarius, Die Fragmente der Libri VIII Miraculorum, ed. A. Meister, III 68, p. 191; J. Klapper, Erzdhlungen des Mittelalters, Breslau, 1914, pp. 285-286; Alex. Masseron, Les " Examples " d'un ermite siennois, Paris, 1924, p. 233. Le Livre des Miracles de N.-D. de Chartres ecrit par Jehan Le Marchant, ed. Duplessis, 1855, No. 25 ; Miracles de N.-D. de Ch., ed. Ant. Thomas (Bibliotheque de VEcole des Charles,XLII, 1882, pp. 531-536); M. Langlois, Les Manuscrits des Miracles de N.-D. de Ch. {Revue Mabillon, II, 1906, p. 67). See another story in Robert de Brunne, Handlynge Synne, ed. Furnivall, London, 1901, V 877 ff. Miracles de la Bse V. Marie d'apres un Ms. du XIlie Siecle de la Bibl. de VendSme, ed. H. Isnard, Orleans, 1888, pp.132-133. Miracles de N.-D., ed. G. F. Warner, Westminster, Roxburghe Club, 1885, p. 43. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Opus Dei, Our Lady, Oxford, Paris, Saturday devotion, St Peter Fined for hate speech on the internet Geldstrafe nach Hasstiraden im Internet \| rbb Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg The operator of an internet forum has pay to pay a fine of 300 euros for hate speech against Jews on his site. The Berlin District Court convicted the 21-year-old Muslim of aiding and abetting incitement of the populace. He had admitted that there were other popular anti-Jewish slogans on his website. In an article on the Islam Forum website the killing of Jews had been called for. Another user had paid respect to the British Bishop Richard Williamson who is regarded as a Holocaust denier. The accused baker's assistant distanced himself from the content. These statements did not correspond to his religion, he told the juvenile court judge. At that time he was not aware of his responsibility for the content of his website. He had not bothered. In a separate criminal proceeding, the uncle of the defendant was charged. The 44-year-old was responsible for the Islamic Forum. The site was taken down after dawn raids in 2009. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Bishop Williamson, Germany, Holocaust, Islam, Muslim German bishops declare war D: Bischöfe gegen „kreuz.net“: The German Bishops' Conference has announced it will fight with vigour "kreuz.net", the internet portal. The German Office for Constitutional Protection has classified the site as anti-constitutional. As the spokesman of the Bishops' Conference, Matthias Kopp, says in an interview with Cologne Cathedral Radio: "This site has nothing to do with the Catholic Church. Here the concept of Catholic is abused, people are abused, bishops are insulted . This latently anti-Semitic website has no right to exist in my eyes! If now the Office for Constitutional Protection is concerned with it and a few other legal means are being sought, this is a good development. The aim must be that this site will be removed as soon as possible from the net." The Federal Office for Constitutional Protection rated "kreuz.net" as partly anti-semitic and anti-Muslim. President Heinz Fromm announced in a letter published on Thursday that the site will continue to be "monitored even more intensely." According to Fromm, kreuz.net was distinguished "by homophobic, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic statements", which partly showed an "extremely aggressive style." Some contributions go beyond the basic right of freedom of expression, potentially providing evidence for work against the fundamental order of a free democracy and exceeding "the bounds of criminality." (Cathcon - To Volker Becker, a Green member of the German Parliament- in response to a letter from Herr Becker. On his website "Good, that the Office for Constitutional Protection knows about kreuz.net . The filth of this page from the sympathizers of the SSPX is an insult to every faithful Catholic. The fact that a board member of the so-called citizens' movement PRO Cologne (an anti-mosque building movement in Cologne- who have written a furious rebuttal) has written on kreuz.net which is anti-Semitic hate site shows that PRO is not about being pro-Israel, but has as a programme baiting of minorities. Whether it is a question of hatred of Islam, anti-Semitism or homophobia - PRO Cologne disguises itself, but if you get the scrape away the paint the brown colour (Germans call Nazis browns after the Brown Shirts of Hitler) of the NPD (the contemporary far-right grouping) come to the fore." - The Greens and traditionalist Catholics clash in almost every European country- the suspicion being that this is the way that they deal with their own propensities to intolerance by accusing others of it.) "Kreuz.net" claims in its publisher's imprint, to be run by Catholics, who are in high office in the service of the Church. It is also stated that information provided anonymously will be accepted and that, as a matter of honour, the anonymity of informants will be protected. Matthias Kopp said: "The anonymity shows the cowardice of the publisher that drains their reading matter down onto the site. I hope and expect that no employees in church service support this site, or will even supply it with information. If this were true but that would be a monstrosity, because what "kreuz.net" is doing here has nothing to do with the Catholic Church. They say, "News from the Catholic Church." We have the problem that the term "catholic" is not treated with respect here and the term "catholic" abused." The Office for Constitutional Protection want to monitor the website intensively, but this is necessarily limited, because the server this page is registered abroad. Does the Catholic Church have any other ways to intervene in the matter? "We are working on options. I do not want not to comment in more detail. One simply has to examine where the server is located, which is probably a fake. It is obvious where most page views of "kreuz.net" come from - that's not in fact abroad, nor big cities but very specific places in Germany - and perhaps you can learn more about the location of the actual operator." Cathcon- prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Church expected the state to promote the Catholic Faith in each nation to the exclusion of other creeds. The actions of the Catholic Bishops seem to be rather inconsistent with the Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom. And irony of ironies, the Radio Vatican newsletter reports the Church's support for freedom in Cuba immediately above this article. kreuz.net have also written a vigorous response. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Germany, Islam, kreuz.net, Muslim, SSPX Rome excommunicates four bishops in Ukraine- Constantinople deposes two bishops in America Original French article Four bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church excommunicated More in Spanish here- detailing some extraordinary career paths Former monks of the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat who appointed themselves bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 2008 have been excommunicated for disobedience They appointed themselves bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 2008. After trying to be recognized by the Ukrainian state as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church, four former monks of the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat, a Ukrainian, Slovak and two Czechs have been excommunicated. Their relations with the Vatican deteriorated four years ago, when, in a letter to Benedict XVI, these "bishops", very critical of the Vatican authorities, denounced "a general drift of the Church." Their grievances? The "heretical views" taught by the faculties of theology, "syncretism with pagan religions," the "presence in the episcopacy and priesthood of homosexuals and pedophiles," especially within the Greek Catholic Church. History of the reform of the Basilian Order Convinced of all this, the four religious, founded "the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Orthodox Church" in 2009, targetting the ulra-Orthodox faithful, disappointed by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as cited by Infocatho.be and Apic agency. Before the excommunication, the Vatican had tried to negotiate, hoping to convince them to stop "deceiving the faithful, which has happened in many cases." Rome encouraged them to "repentance" and "return (…) to full communion with the Catholic Church . " But nothing helped. Trying to register with the state of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Ukrainian Greek-Catholic was the error too far. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith accuse them of slandering "the representatives of the Holy See and the local church" and the sin of disobedience. By their conduct, the four former religious "continue to challenge ecclesiastical authority, undermining not only morally and spiritually the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, but also the Apostolic See and the entire Catholic Church " . The Tribunal of the primatial archiepiscopal see of the Ukrainian Church found them guilty of "unlawful usurpation of office, sedition and hatred against certain hierarchs and incitement to disobey." The Roman Excommunication For background, the Code of Canons of Oriental Churches Not least among them Canon 1058 - The Roman Pontiff is judged by no one The group seems to have started the mutual anathemas with this excommunication in 2011 by Father Elias, who styles himself Patriarch. A reminder of the mutual anathemas between Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarch in 1054, when Cardinal Humbert deposited the Bull of Excommunication on the High Altar of Hagia Sophia. They were lifted in 1965 bringing this protest from the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. The text of the lifting of the anathemas here from the Autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church. And in other news...... Ecumenical Patriarchate: two deposed bishops According Orthodoxie.com , who quote a statement issued yesterday by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, two bishops living in the United States, the Metropolitan Bishop, Paisios of Tyana and his auxiliary, Bishop Vincent of Apamea have been deposed: "The reasons given were: appropriation of funds of the Church, immoral conduct and insubordination towards the Holy Synod. The two former hierarchs are now just monks. " Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: ecumenism, Orthodox, Russia, Ukraine, Uniate Priest sought money for abuser's legal team Victim rights advocates are blasting the pastor of a Boston Catholic church for placing a blurb in a Sunday bulletin asking for donations to support a parish priest suspended last year over child sex abuse allegations. “It is callous and risky and hurtful to publicly raise funds using church resources for an accused child molester,” said David Clohessy, head of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. “If anything, there should be a plea placed in the parish bulletin asking for anyone who may have seen or suspected or suffered his crimes to call police and get help.” Read more here Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: sexual abuse Fridays- dedicated to the Passion of Christ Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Friday devotion At the cross her station keeping, Mary stood in sorrow weeping When her Son was crucified. While she waited in her anguish, Seeing Christ in torment languish, Bitter sorrow pierced her heart. With what pain and desolation, With what noble resignation, Mary watched her dying Son. Ever-patient in her yearning Though her tear-filled eyes were burning, Mary gazed upon her Son. Who, that sorrow contemplating, On that passion meditating, Would not share the Virgin's grief? Christ she saw, for our salvation, Scourged with cruel acclamation, Bruised and beaten by the rod. Christ she saw with life-blood failing, All her anguish unavailing, Saw him breathe his very last. Mary, fount of love's devotion, Let me share with true emotion All the sorrow you endured. Virgin, ever interceding, Hear me in my fervent pleading: Fire me with your love of Christ. Mother, may this prayer be granted: That Christ's love may be implanted In the depths of my poor soul. At the cross, your sorrow sharing, All your grief and torment bearing, Let me stand and mourn with you. Fairest maid of all creation, Queen of hope and consolation, Let me feel your grief sublime. Virgin, in your love befriend me, At the Judgment Day defend me. Help me by your constant prayer. Saviour, when my life shall leave me, Through your mother's prayers receive me With the fruits of victory. Virgin of all virgins blest! Listen to my fond request: Let me share your grief divine Let me, to my latest breath, In my body bear the death Of your dying Son divine. Wounded with His every wound, Steep my soul till it has swooned In His very Blood away. Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, Lest in flames I burn and die, \ In His awe-full judgment day. While my body here decays May my soul your goodness praise, Safe in heaven eternally. Amen Alleluia. . Stabat Mater dolorósa Juxta Crucem lacrimósa, Dum pendébat Filius. Cujus ánimam geméntem, Contristátam et doléntem, Pertransivit gladius. O quam tristis et afflicta Fuit illa benedicta Mater Unigéniti! Quae maerébat, et dolébat, Pia Mater, dum vidébat Nati poenas inclyti. Quis est homo, qui non fleret, Matrem Christi si vidéret In tanto supplicio? Quis non posset contristári, Christi Matrem contemplári Doléntem cum Filio? Pro peccátis suae gentis Vidit Jesum in torméntis, Et flagéllis súbditum. Vidit suum dulcem natum Moriéndo desolátum, Dum emisit spíritum. Eja mater, fons amóris, Me sentíre vim dolóris Fac, ut tecum lúgeam. Fac, ut árdeat cor meum In amándo Christum Deum, Ut sibi compláceam. Sancta Mater, istud agas Crucifixi fige plagas Cordi meo válide. Tui nati vulneráti, Tam dignáti pro me pati, Poenas mecum dívide. Fac me tecum pie flere, Crucifixo condolére, Donec ego víxero. Juxta Crucem tecum stare, Et me tibi sociáre In planctu desídero. Virgo vírginum praeclára, Mihi jam non sis amára: Fac me tecum plángere. Fac, ut portem Christi mortem, Passiónis fac consórtem, Et plagas recólere. Fac me plagis vulnerári, Fac me Cruce inebriári, Et cruó re Fílii. Flammis ne urar succénsus, Per te, Virgo, sim defénsus In die judícii. Christe, cum sit hinc exíre Da per Matrem me veníre Ad palmam victóriae. Quando corpus moriétur, Fac, ut ánimae donétur Paradísi glória. Amen. Allelúja. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Our Lady of Sorrows Pedophile holds youth Mass in diocese of German Bishops' spokesman on child abuse issues Bistum bekommt Problem mit pädophilen Priestern nicht in den Griff - volksfreund.de: Diocese fails to get problem with pedophile priests under control Stephan Ackermann, the Bishop of Trier and representative of the Catholic Church for dealing with abuse, is again under fire. Pedophile priests are not allowed under the rules of the Church to work with minors. But this happened recently at a church in Ackermann's diocese. Many parents are outraged about this incident which only took place one and a half weeks ago in a North Saarland parish: of all people a Trier diocesan priest who was convicted seventeen years ago of dozens of sexual assaults on girls and then given a two-year suspended sentence said the Mass at which this year's First Communicants of the parish were presented. There was after the event, "a lot of unrest among the population" the mayor of the parish where the Mass was held told this newspaper. Previously, in fact, the Bishop of Trier, Stephan Ackermann had at least seven pedophile priests working in his diocese. There are conditions, such that the men should not be used in children's and youth work. But this is, in practice, almost impossible to check, says the pastoral leader of the Catholic Youth Organization KSJ, Jutta Lehnert (Cathcon- she is responsible for youth programmes such as “God is my co-pilot”- a doctrinally misleading statement if ever there was one). One can come to a sensible conclusion: "Priests who have been convicted should no longer be in the care of souls." This demand was also supported by the victims' organizations and by the Saarbrücken Initiative, founded by church employees and volunteers. In the parish in Saarland on Tuesday evening, there was an emergency meeting of the Parish Council and pastoral care team. "There was controversy, but the meeting stuck to facts," participants said afterwards. The priest involved was not present. The Bishop's spokesman, Stephan Kronenburg confirmed the incident to a television channel. He expressed understanding that especially parents of First Communicants would find the presence of the priest to be problematic. "The responses show that we have to ask the question of whether and how someone can continue to be credible as a priest, if he has become an abuser," said Kronenburg (Cathcon- that is a question that does not take long to answer- it is “no, he cannot, under any circumstances). Links From ChrisG No comments: Thursdays- dedicated to the Honour of the Blessed Sacrament Visits To the Blessed Sacrament By this devotional practice, which is of comparatively modern development, the presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Eucharist is regarded in the same light and honoured with the same ceremonial observance as would be paid to a sovereign who favoured any place in his dominions by taking up his abode there. The conception is that in the tabernacle Jesus Christ, as it were, holds His court, and is prepared to grant audience to all who draw near to Him, though other prefer to regard Him as a prisoner bound to this earth and to existence in a confined space, by the fetters of His love for mankind. In this latter case the visits paid to the Blessed Sacrament assumed the special character of a work of mercy intended to console the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the indifference and ingratitude shown Him by the majority of Christians, for whose sake He remains in the sacramental species. It must be plain that this devotional exercise of "visiting" the Blessed Sacrament is essentially dependent upon the practice of ceremonial reservation. As has already been pointed out in this latter article, the attempts formerly made to demonstrate the existence of a custom in the early Church of showing special and external veneration to the Sacred Species when reserved for the sick break down upon closer investigation. To this day in the Greek Church no practice of genuflecting to the Blessed Sacrament is known and in fact it may be said that, though it is treated respectfully, as the Book of the Gospels or the sacred vessels would be treated respectfully, still no cultus is shown it outside of the Liturgy. During the first ten or twelve centuries after Christ the attitude of the Western Church seems to have been very similar. We may conjecture that the faithful concentrated their attention upon the two main purposes for which the Blessed Eucharist was instituted, viz. to be offered in sacrifice and to become the food of the soul in Holy Communion. It was only by degrees that men awoke to the lawfulness of honouring the abiding presence of Christ outside of the sacred mysteries, much as we may conceive that if a monarch chose to dress in mufti and to lay aside all marks of rank, people might doubt of showing him demonstrations of respect which he seemed purposely to exclude. In any case the fact is certain that we meet with no clear examples of a desire to honour the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament reserved upon the altar before the twelfth century. Perhaps one of the earliest indications of a new feeling in this regard is revealed in a direction given to the anchoresses in the "Ancren Riwle": "When ye are quite dressed...think upon God's Flesh and on His Blood which is over the high altar and fall on your knees towards it with this salutation "Hail thou author of or Creation, etc.". So again, in one of his letters St. Thomas of Canterbury writes: "If you do not harken to me who have been wont to pray for you in an abundance of tears and with groanings not a few before the Majesty of the Body of Christ" (Materials, Rolls Series, V, 27). This example, perhaps, is not quite certain but we know from instances in the Holy Grail romances, that the idea of praying before the Blessed Sacrament was growing familiar about this period, i.e. the end of the twelfth century. The English mystic Richard Rolle of Hampole, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, explicitly exhorts Christians to visit the church in preference to praying in their own houses, for he says "In the church is most devotion to pray, for there is God upon the altar to hear those that pray to Him and to grant them what they ask and what is best for them" ("Works", ed. Horstman, I, 145). But in the course of the same century the practice of visiting the Blessed Sacrament became fairly common, as we see particularly in the case of Blessed Henry Suso and Blessed Mary de Malliaco (A.D. 1331-1414), who, we are told, "on solemn feasts kept vigil before the most holy Sacrament". It was often at this period joined with an intense desire of looking upon the Blessed Sacrament exposed, a most striking example of which will be found in the "Septiliilium" of Blessed Dorothea, a holy recluse of Pomerania who died in 1394. But the practice of compiling volumes of devotions for visits to the Blessed Sacrament, one of the best known of which is the "Visits" of St. Alphonsus Ligouri, was of still later date. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Canterbury, Thursday devotion Feast of Saints Gladys and Gwynllyw Princess Gwladys was the eldest - and best attested - daughter of the saintly Irish immigrant, King Brychan of Brycheiniog (Wales). With her countless brothers and sisters, she was raised at the Royal & Christian Court at Garthmadrun (Talgarth), where she grew into a beautiful young woman. Before long she came to the notice of some of the most eligible bachelors around, particularly Brycheiniog's menacing neighbour, King Gwynllyw Farfog (the Bearded) of Gwynllwg. Gwynllyw sent envoys to King Brychan requesting the hand of his daughter in marriage, but the holy man sent them away. Gwynllyw was a rough pagan warrior king, quite unsuitable for his delicate offspring. The King of Gwynllwg, however, was not so easily put off and decided he would take his prize by force. With three hundred men to help him, he made a daring raid on Brycheiniog and made off with Princess Gwladys. More of the lives here Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: March Feastday, St Gladys, St Gwynllyw QUAMQUAM PLURIES ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and other Ordinaries, in Peace and Union with Holy See. Although We have already many times ordered special prayers to be offered up in the whole world, that the interests of Catholicism might be insistently recommended to God, none will deem it matter for surprise that We consider the present moment an opportune one for again inculcating the same duty. During periods of stress and trial - chiefly when every lawlessness of act seems permitted to the powers of darkness - it has been the custom in the Church to plead with special fervour and perseverance to God, her author and protector, by recourse to the intercession of the saints - and chiefly of the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God - whose patronage has ever been the most efficacious. The fruit of these pious prayers and of the confidence reposed in the Divine goodness, has always, sooner or later, been made apparent. Now, Venerable Brethren, you know the times in which we live; they are scarcely less deplorable for the Christian religion than the worst days, which in time past were most full of misery to the Church. We see faith, the root of all the Christian virtues, lessening in many souls; we see charity growing cold; the young generation daily growing in depravity of morals and views; the Church of Jesus Christ attacked on every side by open force or by craft; a relentless war waged against the Sovereign Pontiff; and the very foundations of religion undermined with a boldness which waxes daily in intensity. These things are, indeed, so much a matter of notoriety that it is needless for Us to expatiate on the depths to which society has sunk in these days, or on the designs which now agitate the minds of men. In circumstances so unhappy and troublous, human remedies are insufficient, and it becomes necessary, as a sole resource, to beg for assistance from the Divine power. 2. This is the reason why We have considered it necessary to turn to the Christian people and urge them to implore, with increased zeal and constancy, the aid of Almighty God. At this proximity of the month of October, which We have already consecrated to the Virgin Mary, under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary, We earnestly exhort the faithful to perform the exercises of this month with, if possible, even more piety and constancy than heretofore. We know that there is sure help in the maternal goodness of the Virgin, and We are very certain that We shall never vainly place Our trust in her. If, on innumerable occasions, she has displayed her power in aid of the Christian world, why should We doubt that she will now renew the assistance of her power and favour, if humble and constant prayers are offered up on all sides to her? Nay, We rather believe that her intervention will be the more marvellous as she has permitted Us to pray to her, for so long a time, with special appeals. But We entertain another object, which, according to your wont, Venerable Brethren, you will advance with fervour. That God may be more favourable to Our prayers, and that He may come with bounty and promptitude to the aid of His Church, We judge it of deep utility for the Christian people, continually to invoke with great piety and trust, together with the Virgin-Mother of God, her chaste Spouse, the Blessed Joseph; and We regard it as most certain that this will be most pleasing to the Virgin herself. On the subject of this devotion, of which We speak publicly for the first time to-day, We know without doubt that not only is the people inclined to it, but that it is already established, and is advancing to full growth. We have seen the devotion to St. Joseph, which in past times the Roman Pontiffs have developed and gradually increased, grow into greater proportions in Our time, particularly after Pius IX., of happy memory, Our predecessor, proclaimed, yielding to the request of a large number of bishops, this holy patriarch the patron of the Catholic Church. And as, moreover, it is of high importance that the devotion to St. Joseph should engraft itself upon the daily pious practices of Catholics, We desire that the Christian people should be urged to it above all by Our words and authority. 3. The special motives for which St. Joseph has been proclaimed Patron of the Church, and from which the Church looks for singular benefit from his patronage and protection, are that Joseph was the spouse of Mary and that he was reputed the Father of Jesus Christ. From these sources have sprung his dignity, his holiness, his glory. In truth, the dignity of the Mother of God is so lofty that naught created can rank above it. But as Joseph has been united to the Blessed Virgin by the ties of marriage, it may not be doubted that he approached nearer than any to the eminent dignity by which the Mother of God surpasses so nobly all created natures. For marriage is the most intimate of all unions which from its essence imparts a community of gifts between those that by it are joined together. Thus in giving Joseph the Blessed Virgin as spouse, God appointed him to be not only her life's companion, the witness of her maidenhood, the protector of her honour, but also, by virtue of the conjugal tie, a participator in her sublime dignity. And Joseph shines among all mankind by the most august dignity, since by divine will, he was the guardian of the Son of God and reputed as His father among men. Hence it came about that the Word of God was humbly subject to Joseph, that He obeyed him, and that He rendered to him all those offices that children are bound to render to their parents. From this two-fold dignity flowed the obligation which nature lays upon the head of families, so that Joseph became the guardian, the administrator, and the legal defender of the divine house whose chief he was. And during the whole course of his life he fulfilled those charges and those duties. He set himself to protect with a mighty love and a daily solicitude his spouse and the Divine Infant; regularly by his work he earned what was necessary for the one and the other for nourishment and clothing; he guarded from death the Child threatened by a monarch's jealousy, and found for Him a refuge; in the miseries of the journey and in the bitternesses of exile he was ever the companion, the assistance, and the upholder of the Virgin and of Jesus. Now the divine house which Joseph ruled with the authority of a father, contained within its limits the scarce-born Church. From the same fact that the most holy Virgin is the mother of Jesus Christ is she the mother of all Christians whom she bore on Mount Calvary amid the supreme throes of the Redemption; Jesus Christ is, in a manner, the first-born of Christians, who by the adoption and Redemption are his brothers. And for such reasons the Blessed Patriarch looks upon the multitude of Christians who make up the Church as confided specially to his trust - this limitless family spread over the earth, over which, because he is the spouse of Mary and the Father of Jesus Christ he holds, as it were, a paternal authority. It is, then, natural and worthy that as the Blessed Joseph ministered to all the needs of the family at Nazareth and girt it about with his protection, he should now cover with the cloak of his heavenly patronage and defend the Church of Jesus Christ. 4. You well understand, Venerable Brethren, that these considerations are confirmed by the ,opinion held by a large number of the Fathers, to which the sacred liturgy gives its sanction, that the Joseph of ancient times, son of the patriarch Jacob, was the type of St. Joseph, and the former by his glory prefigured the greatness of the future guardian of the Holy Family. And in truth, beyond the fact that the same name - a point the significance of which has never been denied - was given to each, you well know the points of likeness that exist between them; namely, that the first Joseph won the favour and especial goodwill of his master, and that through Joseph's administration his household came to prosperity and wealth; that (still more important) he presided over the kingdom with great power, and, in a time when the harvests failed, he provided for all the needs of the Egyptians with so much wisdom that the King decreed to him the title "Saviour of the world." Thus it is that We may prefigure the new in the old patriarch. And as the first caused the prosperity of his master's domestic interests and at the same time rendered great services to the whole kingdom, so the second, destined to be the guardian of the Christian religion, should be regarded as the protector and defender of the Church, which is truly the house of the Lord and the kingdom of God on earth. These are the reasons why men of every rank and country should fly to the trust and guard of the blessed Joseph. Fathers of families find in Joseph the best personification of paternal solicitude and vigilance; spouses a perfect example of love, of peace, and of conjugal fidelity; virgins at the same time find in him the model and protector of virginal integrity. The noble of birth will earn of Joseph how to guard their dignity even in misfortune; the rich will understand, by his lessons, what are the goods most to be desired and won at the price of their labour. As to workmen, artisans, and persons of lesser degree, their recourse to Joseph is a special right, and his example is for their particular imitation. For Joseph, of royal blood, united by marriage to the greatest and holiest of women, reputed the father of the Son of God, passed his life in labour, and won by the toil of the artisan the needful support of his family. It is, then, true that the condition of the lowly has nothing shameful in it, and the work of the labourer is not only not dishonouring, but can, if virtue be joined to it, be singularly ennobled. Joseph, content with his slight possessions, bore the trials consequent on a fortune so slender, with greatness of soul, in imitation of his Son, who having put on the form of a slave, being the Lord of life, subjected himself of his own free-will to the spoliation and loss of everything. 5. Through these considerations, the poor and those who live by the labour of their hands should be of good heart and learn to be just. If they win the right of emerging from poverty and obtaining a better rank by lawful means, reason and justice uphold them in changing the order established, in the first instance, for them by the Providence of God. But recourse to force and struggles by seditious paths to obtain such ends are madnesses which only aggravate the evil which they aim to suppress. Let the poor, then, if they would be wise, trust not to the promises of seditious men, but rather to the example and patronage of the Blessed Joseph, and to the maternal charity of the Church, which each day takes an increasing compassion on their lot. 6. This is the reason why - trusting much to your zeal and episcopal authority, Venerable Brethren, and not doubting that the good and pious faithful will run beyond the mere letter of the law - We prescribe that during the whole month of October, at the recitation of the Rosary, for which We have already legislated, a prayer to St. Joseph be added, the formula of which will be sent with this letter, and that this custom should be repeated every year. To those who recite this prayer, We grant for each time an indulgence of seven years and seven Lents. It is a salutary practice and very praiseworthy, already established in some countries, to consecrate the month of March to the honour of the holy Patriarch by daily exercises of piety. Where this custom cannot be easily established, it is as least desirable, that before the feast-day, in the principal church of each parish, a triduo of prayer be celebrated. In those lands where the 19th of March - the Feast of St. Joseph - is not a Festival of Obligation, We exhort the faithful to sanctify it as far as possible by private pious practices, in honour of their heavenly patron, as though it were a day of Obligation. 7. And in token of heavenly favours, and in witness of Our good-will, We grant most lovingly in the Lord, to you, Venerable Brethren, to your clergy and to your people, the Apostolic blessing. Given from the Vatican, August 15th, 1889, the 11th year of Our Pontificate Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Our Lady, St Joseph Feast of St. John of Capistrano "After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II was rallying his resources in order to subjugate the Kingdom of Hungary. His immediate objective was the border fort (Hungarian végvár) of the town of Belgrade (in old Hungarian Nándorfehérvár). John Hunyadi, a nobleman and warlord of Vlach lineage, who fought many battles against the Ottomans in the previous two decades, expected just such an attack…."more here!: Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: March Feastday, St John Capistrano Tuesdays - dedicated to the honour of the Holy Apostles Simon is as much to say as obedient, or being in heaviness. And he had a double name; he was said Simon Zelotes, and Simon Cananean of Cana a street that is in Galilee, there whereas our Lord converted the water into wine. And Zelotes is as much to say as Cananean. This holy man had in him obedience of the commandments by execution, heaviness by pity of torment, and had love of souls by firm ardour of love. Judas is as much to say as confessing or glorious; or Judas is as much to say as giving joy. For he had confession of faith, glory of reign, and glory of the everlasting joy. This Judas was called by many names. He was said Judas James, for he was brother to James the Less, and he was called Thaddeus, which is as much to say as taking a prince; or Thadee is said of Thadea, that is a vesture, and of Deus, that is God, for he was vesture royal of God by ornament of virtues, by which he took Christ the prince. He is said also in the History Ecclesiastic, Lebbæus, which is as much to say as heart, or worshipper of heart. Or he is said Lebbæus of lebes, that is a vessel of heart by great hardiness, or a worshipper of heart by purity, a vessel by plenitude of grace, for he deserved to be a vessel of virtues and a caldron of grace. And Abdias, bishop of Babylon, by the apostles ordained, wrote their passion and legend in Greek, and Tropæus the disciple of Abdias translated it out of Greek into Latin. And he was named Africanus. From the Golden Legend. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: St Simon Zelotes, Tuesday devotion Rehabilitation of Bishop Walter Mixa kreuz.net – Bischof Walter Mixa in Päpstlichen Rat berufen: Bishop Walter Mixa appointed to Pontifical Council The former bishop of Augsburg can now fly around a bit by air, breathe Roman air and feel more important than before in meaningless meetings. Today, Pope Benedict XVI nominated Bishop Walter Mixa who was expelled in July 2010 from Augsburg Diocese to be a member of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. This was announced by the Vatican press office. The Council was first established in 1985 by Pope John Paul II as part of the inflation of the curial apparatus. It serves as the coordinating body for pastoral care of sick people in the world's 120,000 Catholic health care institutions. Once a year, it organizes a meeting at the Vatican. Bishop Mixa will be in the future one of forty members who advise the President of the Council, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski and his employees. His main task is to travel for meetings of the Council in Rome. At the same time as Bishop Mixa, the Pope has nominated Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of Durban in South Africa to the Council. The Diocese of Eichstätt said in a press release that Mons. Mixa is still living in Kaisheim, a village of 4300 souls and works in pastoral care. In future, he will work as a companion for the sick on pilgrimages to Lourdes. How Bishop Mixa became part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Many more reports from his controversial ecclesiastical career. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Augsberg, Bishop Mixa, Pope Benedict XVI ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH Prayer to St Joseph by Pope St Pius X Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: March Feastday, St Joseph Mondays- dedicated to the Holy Angels Prayer When Unable to Assist at Daily Mass: Go, my Angel Guardian dear, To church for me, -----the Mass to hear. Go, kneel devoutly at my place And treasure for me every grace. At the Offertory time Please offer me to God Divine. All I have and all I am, Present it with the Precious Lamb. Adore for me the great Oblation. Pray for all I hold most dear Be they far or be they near. Rmember too, my own dear dead For whom Christ's Precious Blood was shed. And at Communion bring to me Christ's Flesh and Blood, my food to be. To give me strength and holy grace A pledge to see Him face to face And when the Holy Mass is done Then with His blessing, come back home." Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: angels, Monday devotion The Vatican has no business giving a platform to her enemies. Controversial Vatican stem cell conference canceled :: Catholic News Agency (CNA): A controversial scientific conference which featured pro-embryonic stem cell researchers and was sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life has been canceled, just one month before it was set to take place. Cathcon- it is the logical consequence of openness to the world if what was proclaimed at the Council is pushed to extremes. Feast of Saint Alfwold CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Alfwold: Bishop of Sherborne, in Dorsetshire; d. 1058. Alfwold, or Ælfwold, is a rather obscure English saint of whom we know little beside the few details preserved by William of Malmesbury (Gest. Pont., Bk. II, § 83). Alfwold had been a monk of Winchester, and was consecrated Bishop of Sherborne in 1045, succeeding his own brother Brightwy. He gave great edification by the frugality of his way of life, which was in marked contrast to the riotous banquetings which the example of the Danish monarchs had rendered popular at that epoch. He was very devout to St. Swithun, his old patron of Winchester, and also to St. Cuthbert, to whose shrine at Durham he made a pilgrimage. He died while singing the antiphon of St. Cuthbert. He was, strictly speaking, the last Bishop of Sherborne, for after his death the see of Sherborne was united to that of Ramsbury. Cathcon- so not the first see to be the victim of ecclesiastical rationalisation. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: March Feastday, St Alfwold More liturgical comedy from Austria Vessels unworthy of the Mass Today, pots and pans, tomorrow the world. Computorised sermoniser during Laptop Mass Outlining the strategy for world domination at a Mass in Linz. Liturgical abuse, the latest addition to the list of things that the Austrians feel that they have to push to greater extreme than the neighbouring Germans. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: linz, liturgical abuse Church in Kuwait healthier than the European Church Although their liturgical practice is just as excruciating. Congregants tend to be from India or the Philippines. Most are treated with utter contempt by many of the nationals. Links From ChrisG No comments: Labels: Kuwait The Site of the Tyburn Tree Have resumed work on my other blog, which can be accessed here English - Scottish - Welsh - Irish Martyrs. There will be one post for each day of the year, so it will act as a devotional as well as an informative blog. The site where so many met their fate and their glory. Feast of St Dismas, the Good Thief and Patron of Penitents from the Golden Legend: The passion of our Lord was bitter for the sorrow that he suffered in derisions despitous and of many filths fructuous. The sorrow was cause of five things. The first, because it was shameful, for the place of the Mount of Calvary, whereas malefactors and criminal persons were put to execution, and he was there put to death right foul. The cross was the torment of thieves, and if the cross was then of shame and of villainy, she is now of glory and of honour. Wherefore saith S. Austin: Crux latronum qui erat supplicium, etc. The cross which was the justice of thieves is now become the sign of glory in the foreheads or fronts of emperors. And if he had such honour at his torment, what did he to his servant for the shameful fellowships that he did to him? For he was set with malefactors, but the one of them was converted, which was called Dismas, like as it said in the gospel of Nicodemus. And he was on the right side of our Lord, and that other on the left side was damned, which was called Gesmas. So that one then he gave the realm of heaven, and to that other hell. Whereof saith S. Ambrose: Auctor pietatis in cruce, etc. He saith the author of pity hanging on the cross divided offices of pity in secular errands; that is to say, the persecution to the apostles, peace to his disciples, his body to the Jews, his spirit to the Father, to the Virgin the messages of the wedding of the sovereign spouse, to the thief paradise, to sinners hell, and to christian penitent he commanded the cross. Source : St. Theodore the Studite's Sermon on the Annunciation Brethren and fathers, the Annunciation is here and it is the first of the Feasts of the Lord, and we should not simply celebrate as most do, but with understanding and with reverence for the mystery. What is the mystery? That the Son of God becomes son of man, using the holy Virgin as the means, dwelling in her and from her fashioning for Himself a temple and becoming perfect man. Why so? "That he might ransom those under the law," as it is written, "and that we might receive sonship" [Gal. 4:5]; that we may no longer be slaves, but free; no longer subject to the passions, but free of passions; no longer friends of the world, but friends of God; no longer walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. "Those who walk according to the flesh, think the things of the flesh; those who walk according to the spirit, the things of the spirit; for the thought of the flesh is death; but the thought of the spirit, life and peace. And so the thought of the flesh is hostile to God, for it is not subject to the law of God. Indeed it cannot be. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God" [Rom. 8:5-8]. In brief this is the power of the mystery, and this is why we should celebrate spiritually and behave spiritually, with holiness and justice, with love, with gentleness, with peace, "with forbearance, with goodness, with the Holy Spirit" [2 Cor. 6:6], so that as far as we ourselves are concerned we do not render the dispensation of our Lord Jesus Christ empty and ineffectual. Not only that, but we should both pray and grieve for the world. Why so? Because the Son of God came to save the world, and the world rejects Him. Tribes and languages reject Him; the barbarian nations reject Him, those who have had his holy name invoked upon them reject Him, some through abandoning the faith, others through their evil lives. What should He have done and did not do? Being God He became man, "He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, the death of the cross" [Phil. 2,8.]; he gave us His body to eat and His blood to drink; He allowed us to call him Father, Brother, Head, Teacher, Bridegroom, Fellow-heir and all the other titles which there is no time to mention now. And still He is rejected, and still He bears it. "For," He says, "I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world" [John 12:47]. What then is there to say, brethren? That the genuine disciples are grieved by the rejections of their fellow-disciples, thus showing love both for the teacher and for the disciples. So too, genuine servants suffer in the same way from the desertions of their fellow-servants. This is why the great Apostle orders that "we should offer supplications, prayers, entreaties, thanksgivings on behalf of all mankind, for kings and for all in high positions" [1 Tim. 2:1-2]; and elsewhere he says this on the subject, "I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have a great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart; for I have prayed that I might be anathema to Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh" [Rom. 9:1-3]. You see the power of love? You see the height of friendship? Moses shows it too when he says to God, "If you will forgive them their sin, forgive; if not, wipe me out of the book which you have written" [Exodus 32:32]. So we too, as genuine and not counterfeit disciples, should not only look to what concerns ourselves, but we should grieve and pray for our brothers and for the whole world; for by so doing what is pleasing to the Lord we shall become inheritors of eternal life, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be the glory and the might with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen. Please don't appeal bishop! Cleveland bishop to mull parish reopenings while celebrations go ahead \| National Catholic Reporter: A week after news broke about their content, the decrees from the Vatican's Congregation of the Clergy regarding appeals by 13 shuttered Cleveland parishes have arrived at the diocese and Bishop Richard G. Lennon has received them. In a brief statement released Wednesday through the diocesan website, Lennon acknowledged receiving the decrees from the congregation and said he will now begin reviewing their rulings with his advisers. Lennon has 60 days to determine if he wishes to appeal the congregation's decision to overrule his closing of 13 churches and suppressing their parishes. The appeal process would go through the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's Supreme Court. Regardless of what Lennon decides to do, those sided with the parishes want Lennon to reopen their churches immediately, in accordance with the decrees Austrian church nears schism Kapellari fears clerical split - General News - Austrian Times Online News - English Newspaper: An end to the feud between the Austrian Church’s leaders and a "disobedient" group of preachers seems out of reach. Graz Diocese Bishop Egon Kapellari warned from a splitting of the country’s Catholic Church if the Preachers’ Initiative failed to stop its activities. Kapellari appealed on the association of parish priests – which was established by former Caritas Austria head Helmut Schüller last year – to "slow down." Cathcon- surely that should "Stop! Now! Before it is too late!" Schüller’s movement wants the Vatican to scrap the celibate too help stop the decline of the number of young men interested in becoming priests. The Preachers Initiative also said priests should be allowed to give Holy Communion to people who married a second time at registry offices after getting divorced following church weddings. The group, which officially declared itself disobedient, furthermore called on the Conference of Austrian Bishops to act more independently from the Vatican. It said there should be no barriers to women interested in holding sermons. Good news from Cleveland Diocese Lawyer: Vatican overrules 13 Cleveland closings \| CNSNews.com: " The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 parishes by the Cleveland Diocese, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday. The move represents a rare instance in which Rome has reversed a U.S. bishop on the shutdown of churches. The Vatican office known as the Congregation for the Clergy ruled last week that Bishop Richard Lennon failed to follow church law and procedure in the closings three years ago, attorney Peter Borre told The Associated Press." RORATE CÆLI: The crisis of the Church is a crisis ... Take a tour of the nightmare church where altar is... Georg Ratzinger- new book in English on his brothe... Flashback 2011-Muslims in France demand the use of... Rome excommunicates four bishops in Ukraine- Const... Pedophile holds youth Mass in diocese of German Bi... Thursdays- dedicated to the Honour of the Blessed ... Tuesdays - dedicated to the honour of the Holy Apo... The Vatican has no business giving a platform to h... Church in Kuwait healthier than the European Churc... Feast of St Dismas, the Good Thief and Patron of P...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12859
__label__wiki	0.551622	0.551622	Category Archives: Writing FUNdamentals Protagonist, Antagonist and just plain gonist. 1 Reply. Click to add yours. Castiel (Supernatural) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Before I get started, I want to warn those who might not have watched Supernatural, this post is basically one big long spoiler. As a writer I find Castiel‘s character fascinating and exceedingly complicated. I know some people disagree, I have only to scroll through the 100s of tweets I got earlier this month for confirmation of this. They feel he has no place in the narrative and should be removed as a character. What they are refusing to see is actually taking away a huge chunk of the narrative. It would be like reading The Hunger Games and ignoring Peeta, or watching Iron Man and ignoring Pepper, or playing Devil May Cry and ignoring Virgil. His character is integral to the plot and has been since 4:1. The wiki has a nice explanation of what a protagonist is, but I would like to expound on it a little bit more. So first who is the protagonist? Well it could be one person or several people depending on the story and plot. Supernatural started with two main characters; Sam and Dean. Sam was the clear protagonist because he was the one with the most to lose, his girlfriend, budding career, et cetera. Dean was a catalyst, almost a foil for Sam to react against. Dean was already set in his way. The pilot episode showed Sam as the clear protagonist by taking away all he held dear and forcing him into a life he did not want. The audience was meant to sympathize and identify with him where Dean was more the mentor role. He was Gandalf to Sam’s Frodo, the one who showed up and once again altered his world. Sam was the more emotionally accessible of the two which also helped the audience to relate. During the second season their roles became more interchangeable, they each took turns being the protagonist and this helped to develop their characters. By season three there wasn’t as much characterization happening because the two main characters were no longer the protagonists. They no longer fit the definition. This left the writers scrambling to come up with season arc that would still have some sort of meaning. The stakes had to be raised and one of the brothers had to be reinstated as the protagonist. The opening of the Hell Gate put the world in danger but neither of the brothers had anything to lose at this point, Dean had already sold his soul. Sam was resurrected, John was dead and Bobby was doing what he’d done for years. Dean and Sam were main characters but not the protagonists at this point. By this point the episodic guests have more to lose than either of the main characters and are more emotionally accessible. Its not until the last few episodes of season 3 that Dean emerges as the protagonist. His time is running out and they are beginning to realize that there is nothing they can do to stop him from being taken to Hell as Ruby warned them. He has the most to lose at this point with Sam working to prevent it. Season three ends with Dean in Hell and Sam allied with Ruby. Seems like the end of the story at this point and it very nearly was, until someone came up with the idea to introduce a brand new set of characters. Thus, a whole new dynamic was set up. Season four opened with a huge shocker. After months of being dead and suffering in hell Dean is resurrected in the most bizarre way. At least bizarre to him and his brother. They and Bobby are at a complete loss as to how Dean is now alive. After a horrible seance where a dear friend is maimed for life trying to get the information all they have is a name. Castiel. Now things start to get interesting. We still have no clear protagonist except maybe Dean who has his newly restored life/body, or it could be Sam who has his brother back but has been sleeping with Ruby. Sam has the potential to not just lose his brother, but lose his brother’s respect. This still doesn’t make either of them the clear protagonist. Remember the protagonist is the one with the most to lose in the given scenario, the one the audience is expected to connect with emotionally. They are the one who must go through the most change for the sake of the plot. Yet Dean and Sam have changed already. Dean is alive, albeit changed from his time in hell. Sam managed to find a way to continue hunting without Dean, though it involves demon blood. So where is the plot arc and the protagonist for this storyline? I’m getting to that, keep your panties on, or take them off, I don’t care. Season four episode one and we are introduced to Castiel. An honest to goodness angel. Of the lord. This is when Dean’s emotional arc is revealed. He lacks faith and doesn’t feel he deserved to be saved due to what he did while in hell. This can be seen as him being tapped as the protagonist, but he has a more reactionary than proactive role. Sam on the other hand is desperate to hide his addiction, this also makes him reactionary instead of proactive. The only proactive person is the angel and we quickly learn that he’s not any ordinary hammer of god. This angel has doubts. He is certain about his role in Dean’s life, but uncertain about the larger picture. For the rest of the season, he will be the protagonist as he has the most to lose. Castiel remains the protagonist through the end of the season. He has the most to lose, his family, his position in heaven, even his status as an angel and his very life are risked to save Dean and Sam. Unfortunately, we only see him through Dean and Sam’s eyes so a lot of his character development and narrative must be inferred from their interactions. Sam and Dean for their parts are pawns of both Heaven and Hell. Sam is used by Ruby to open Lucifer‘s cage which is where we end Season 4. Season 5 opens with Sam and Dean mysteriously saved from meeting Lucifer face to face. Sam decides he wants nothing more to do with the hunting life and leaves Dean to continue on his own. Dean and Castiel will now be the two main protagonists. They are proactive trying to find a way to stop Lucifer and the Apocalypse. Sam does eventually rejoin Dean while Castiel leaves to try and find God. This is when the roles switch to some extent. Sam and Dean are finally back to being proactive protagonists. Cas is still a protagonist of his own story arc which is subordinate to and mirrors Sam and Dean’s overall arc. In the next few seasons his character did create a catch-22 for the writers since he was so powerful and the only way to go was down, so they had to keep coming up with ways to strip him of his powers. Next time I will discuss seasons 6-8 and how the roles of the various characters changed. Supernatural Season 4 – Best of the Best Season (dawningcreates.com) This entry was posted in Characters, Fandoms, Supernatural, Uncategorized, Writing FUNdamentals and tagged Castiel, Characters of Supernatural, Dean Winchester, Lucifer, Ruby, Sam, Sam Winchester, Supernatural on July 1, 2013 by Davonne Burns. This week I was treated to a massive dose of sanity threatening emotional issues. Some were happening in real life, the rest happened in two of my favorite fandoms. I won’t bore you with my real life issues that involve being pregnant and having to move. However, I was rather surprised by the strength of my reaction to two different story plots. It led me to wonder what causes us readers to become so emotionally invested in characters that we weep over them as though they were real. The first thing I realized was that each story line was excellently crafted, the characters expertly fleshed out and realistic. The fact that both subplots that emotionally devastated me were romantic ones is nothing short of ironic. I am not a romantic person. Ask anyone who knows me personally. Typical romances bore me to tears. So how did these characters manage to drag me into the narrative and hold me there over months? Lets look at them. First I will discuss Green Lantern: The Animated Series since that was the first blow to hit last Saturday when the final episode aired. Just the fact it was cancelled after one season was harsh enough. Then I had to deal with the tragedy that was affectionately referred to by fans as Razaya. Razer and Aya Over the course of the season we watched Razor grow and change and fall in love with the ship’s AI, Aya. Both characters started out seemingly one dimensional but very quickly we were treated to various aspects of their personalities. Razor grew from being the angry Red Lantern to a multidimensional, complex and conflicted individual. Aya quickly went from the ship’s navigation computer to a full fledged member of the team. Both made misjudgments said things that were taken wrong and just generally where adorable together. All you have to do is search Tumblr for the tag #Razaya to see how much the fans loved this pairing. There was a lot to love about it. It was realistically portrayed and organically developed over the length of the series. Even the creators were surprised at how loved the two became. So how did they achieve it? More on that in a moment. Now on to the second source of my woe. As many of you know, I am a huge Transformers fan and have been reading the current IDW Publishing series Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. The past Wednesday the newest issue, #15, was released. I had been dreading this issue. Mostly because I knew the happy times were over and things were going to get bad. People were going to die. And they did. Horribly in some cases and horribly tragic in others. (If you have not read the series, please go do so as from here on there will be major spoilers. You can find the entire run on Comixology.) One pairing I’ve spoken about before, Chromedome and Rewind pretty much took center stage this issue. Mostly due to Chromdome’s involvement in the accidental release of the unstoppable and extremely deadly Overlord. In a scant thirty minutes the entire crew of the Lost Light is subjected to his murderous rampage. He is only slowed when Rhodimus utters a trip phrase that Chromedome had implanted in his subconscious. Fortress Maximus, having been released from the brig by Rung, drags Overlord back to the temporal prison he’d escaped from. It is at this time that Chromedome decides that having the Phase Sixer anywhere near them, even in a prison cell, is too close and goes to jettison the cell. Except a sword is preventing the mechanism from closing. Rewind, Chromedome’s life partner, sacrifices himself to get the doors closed and ends up trapped in the cell, floating in space with Overlord. The phrase that will come back to haunt Chromedome forever. It’s at this point that Chromedome realizes that Overlord is going to kill Rewind in the slowest and most painful way possible and does the only thing he can think of to spare his lover any more pain. This panel still makes me tear up. These two had a very long history together, had been by each other’s sides when they faced death, fought together, with each other and generally behaved like any other loving married couple. The writer, James Roberts, skillfully wove their relationship into the narrative while developing their personalities and backstory. Forever and Always In both of these cases the writers took great pains to make sure the characters were realistic and relatable None of the characters are human. Yet we the reader/viewer find ways to identify with them. Maybe it’s Razor’s rage and inability to control it or Aya’s need to be accepted as her own person. Or it could be Chromedome’s desire to be useful. Or even Rewind’s desperation to keep Chromedome safe and healthy when his line of work is so dangerous and mentally detrimental. It could be all or none of these things. Either way, most of us have faced something similar at some time in our life and it is by tapping into this that the writers help us to understand and sympathize with the characters. They created people, not just characters. Each of them had their own motivations, goals, dreams and flaws. They each acted and reacted according to what happened around them, just as we all do. They had emotional, sometimes visceral reactions that ended up leading them to make wrong and in two cases, deadly choices. We as writers must always strive to give our reader as much emotional input as possible in our stories. It would be a disservice to our readers to do other wise. We owe it to them to help them not just empathize, but sympathize with our characters. Too laugh and cry along with them. In doing so we build not just an artificial world, but a reader who is capable of much greater sympathy out in the real world. Interview: Giancarlo Volpe discusses ‘Green Lantern: The Animated Series’ (comicvine.com) Transformers, Sex and Why Science Fiction is Socially Relevant (sorrows-fall.com) Watch A Clip From ‘Green Lantern: The Animated Series” Final Episode (geek-news.mtv.com) This entry was posted in Books, Characters, Transformers, Writing FUNdamentals and tagged Chromedome, Comixology, Emotion, Fortress Maximus, IDW Publishing, Lost Light, More Than Meets the Eye, Overlord, Red Lantern, Transformers on March 25, 2013 by Davonne Burns. Beginnings Always End Something Or why character backstory is vital to your story. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” In preparation for NaNoWriMo, I read numerous blogs about plot and structure and how to do both. What I’ve not seen many writers mention is the need for well thought out characters. Plot is after all character driven. Without meaningful characters there will be no plot. So how do you go about creating a character that is compelling? My advice; start at the beginning. No wait, let me explain. Start with where you see your character now. Their beginning in your story. Now go back. What lead them up to this point? What decisions did they make? What people influenced them? What outside actions took their toll? How does their upbringing influence their current thinking and actions? That’s a lot to think about. Maybe you aren’t sure how your character’s history has influenced them, or maybe you aren’t convinced it matters. Let’s explore a couple of examples to see how this could work. (A note before we continue: writing a character’s backstory is for your information, when writing the actual story you want to keep as much of it as possible hidden from the reader, only revealing what is absolutely necessary. We’ll discuss why later in the post.) Once Upon a Time . . . There was a young gladiator. He risked his life for the amusement of others on a regular basis. He trained, he grew and became mighty, fearless and feared. His ambitions did not stop at the arena walls. He wanted to foment change, to start a revolution. There was a young scholar. He read, cataloged and reported on the goings on of the empire. He learned and within him grew a sense of what is just, what is right and respect for the sanctity of life. He dreamed of a world without corruption, without oppression of the weak and less fortunate. And one day they met. “From the greatest love comes the most vicious hate.” This meeting took place quietly, no grand fanfare, no one really took much notice till later when events started to happen and the revolution was well under way. They fought for the same ideals yet their methods were as different as night and day. Understandably the gladiator turned to force, using his great charisma to sway the masses to his side, and using his sword when words failed. The scholar knowing little to nothing of fighting opened the debate with their ruling council, using his intellect and many years of study to try and persuade them. The gladiator was impatient and took matters into his own hands much to the horror of the scholar. Their friendship shattered as the council bestowed the scholar with the most important title their civilization had to offer. The gladiator, frustrated and feeling impotent now turned his attention from overthrowing the caste system to destroying his onetime friend. In their current iteration we rarely hear anything about how these two met or why. We only know that they were once friends and are now bitter enemies. Yet their back story is critical to where they are now. Some of you may recognize the characters I’m speaking of here. I have not named them because I want the focus to be on their back story, not on who they are. In my novel Sorrow’s Fall little is said of my protagonist’s upbringing outside of a few comments on his training and a random memory or two that is relevant to what is currently happening. He does not dwell on it, yet is shapes his actions, defines him. Without his past he would be a radically different person. There are many times when a character seems to just appear out of a fog with no back history or explanation of why or how they came to where they are. Sometimes the reader is willing to put aside this in favor of learning about the character. Wolverine comes to mind. He himself did not know his past and it haunted him. His lack of a past drove him forward, dictated his actions and even his friendships and alliances. He was unwilling to trust anyone. Then there are characters who we are introduced to just as they reach a defining moment in their lives. Peter Parker/Spider Man for example. In each of these examples, the writer knows exactly where these characters are coming from. Or should. Knowing where your character has been makes determining where they are going much easier. Why is that so? We are the sum of our experiences. Your character should be too. This might take some in depth research and hard soul searching. But, that is what writing is about, finding those hidden truths about ourselves that others can relate to, those hidden gems are what make outstanding characters. Happily Ever After . . . So even though pretty much 98% of your character’s back story won’t end up in your actual prose, it is still a huge part of the story. Without it the characters have nowhere to go and no drive to get there. Lets look back at my first example of the gladiator and the scholar. Without their past they would have no reason to fight each other now. There would be no sense of betrayal on either side. No one but the two of them truly know the depth of their emotion over what happened, except their writer. You should know these types of details about your character as well. Knowing when to use them in your story is a different beast altogether. The Battle is Joined If you would like more help with creating a character check out these helpful books: This entry was posted in Characters, Writing FUNdamentals and tagged back story, characters, creating back story, writing on December 23, 2012 by Davonne Burns. Kill Me Softly This is how I remember first meeting Boba Fett. He was mysterious, dangerous and didn’t back down from one of the meanest villains in any genre. It was love at first sight. Then came the prequels. The utter horror and dismay on my part as one of my all time favorite characters was reduced to a mere clone has stuck with me for years now. I used to collect anything and everything Fett. No longer. His image and his very essence had been tainted. By the man who created him. And why? To satisfy fans. I’m a fan and I did not ask for this travesty. Yet over and over I see characters get slaughtered by their own writers. The comic book industry is rife with examples. (Deadpool being one of the foremost, more on that in a few.) Literature doesn’t escape it either. I recently finished the Hunger Games series. I was severely disappointed by how Katniss changed over the three books. She went from being a total badass to basically reinstating the very regime she’d fought to take down. How is that character progression? Is it meant to be an ironic statement by the author? Then there is the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I loved the first book. Anita was a total kick ass woman who knew who she was and who she didn’t want to be. I was appalled and disgusted by the end of the series. Anita was no longer kick ass and amazing, she was a whore. She had gone from untouchable to just another bimbo sleeping with vampires. Is it no wonder I rarely read books with a female protagonist? So what happened? Fans. Fans happened. Fans are awesome. I wish I had fans. But just like the electric kind they can be refreshing or they can blow shit all over the place. Letting your character get caught by fans reduces them to a bloody splatter on the wall, unrecognizable as the person you brought into existence. I’m a fan myself. I’m a huge fan of certain series and characters as you’ve probably noticed. I’m also a writer. (Another fact that I hope hasn’t escaped your notice.) As a writer watching another writer as they let fans dictate how a character evolves puzzles me. I’m all for fan input, commentary, discussion and whathaveyou, but when it starts to affect how I view my own character it’s time to step back. I know my characters more intimately than I probably know myself. Does that mean I need to let you, my dear, dear reader know all those facts? No. Does that mean I don’t listen when people remark on certain attributes of my characters? No. Does that mean I write to please my readers? No. I write to please myself. If you like it awesome, great, fantastic we’ve got something in common. If not, no big. So why do some writers get caught up in trying to please fans? Maybe they are afraid of what people will say if they don’t. Maybe they think that appealing to the lowest common denominator will gain them more sales. Which, while sometimes true, I think betrays the core reason for writing. Writers write to entertain, to educate and illuminate. Few single works do all three. Some can barely manage one. It is my firm belief that writers have a duty to their story and their characters first, readers second. If the story and characters are sound, well crafted and compelling the readers will come. Being consistent when writing a character is paramount. And that point brings me to Deadpool. Sure there are other comic book characters who have been rewritten by various writers. Each writer for a run has their own take on the character and the universe. A lot like fanfiction really. Look at Batman or Spider-Man. Though they essentially stay the same type of character, their core personalities don’t change. Deadpool aka Wade Wilson has no such luck. In his first appearance nothing is known about him, his actions and his verbage speak for themselves. We didn’t need to know his background at that point. We got it. He was a killer who enjoyed his job very much and also loved to talk. He was quite menacing and very obviously a bad guy. Deadpool’s first appearance in New Mutants #98 published Feb 1991. After his first appearance he cropped up a few months later in X-Force #1 but only as a character profile. Slowly but surely he built a fandom and starting getting more appearances. Finally in 1993 he got to be a headliner in his own one-shot series Deadpool: The Circle Chase. That series ended and he was back to making short appearances until 1997 when he got his own title. This started off the Joe Kelly era of Deadpool which is considered by most fans to be the definitive version of the character. Then we come down to 2008 and a new writer by the name of Daniel Way. He’d worked on Wolverine: Origins and Ghost Rider, he’s legit. So why has his take on Deadpool has seen the most virulent derision from the loyal fans who have followed Deadpool from the early 90’s? Deadpool began as a wise cracking mercenary who shot first and never thought to ask questions and acted as if the fourth wall was merely a suggestion. By the end of the Secret Invasion arc things are very clearly leaning in a different direction. Then came Dark Reign and Monkey Business. The wise cracking is still there but the wise is slipping. Instead of real humor there are inane refrences to (then) current entertainment news/gossip. And Deadpool has lost a whole bucket full of IQ points. He seems to have traded in his quirky talent for being painfully obvious yet obscure for being painfully dimwitted and trite. He’s still mouthy, but instead of being funny it comes across more as though a fourteen year old sat in his room dreaming up one liners and who then creates situations in which to use them. The progression of Wade as a character has stalled. There is no internal conflict that was present in the earlier series and all the external conflict feels contrived. There is a fixation on being a ‘hero,’ but no real motive for this fixation other than wanting to be liked and this isn’t even explored or exploited as well as it could be. He tries to join the X-Men, of course that fails miserably, he’s not a ‘true’ mutant. So he tries to follow Spider-Man around to learn how to be a hero. He’s been a hero, multiple times in earlier incarnations, albeit never acknowledged by the Mavel Universe as one. Current issues are episodic and have more of a sitcom feel to them with little or no character development. Sure some issues are funny, most are juvenile and not suited to the more mature audience that Deadpool has garnered over the years. While I am not a Way-nah-sayer, I do find his run to have been more puerile and much less fun than anticipated. My main issue with him as the writer of Deadpool is that while he did introduce some interesting elements they were not used to their full advantage. He chose flash over bang. It looks like something happened but when the smoke clears, its just that. Smoke. Nothing really happened. So what can we take from this example? When writing a character, any character you have to fully understand where they come from and their motivations. Once the action really gets going it can be easy to lose those motivations. That’s why it helps to step back every now and then and look objectively at what you’ve written. Is it really working? Is your character staying true to themselves or are you dictating things to make the story work? Author intrusion is going to be noticed by the reader and even those fans who have been begging for something to happen will know that you faked it. Don’t be afraid to write your character as they truly are and definitely don’t listen to fans who blow shit. Yes, my boy. You are good. This entry was posted in Books, Characters, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing FUNdamentals and tagged Anita Blake, Boba Fett, characters, Dark Reign, Deadpool, Hunger Games, Laurell K Hamilton, Marvel Comics, writing on August 17, 2012 by Davonne Burns. Top 20 Ways to … Top 20 Ways to Generate Plot Ideas 1. The What-if Game 2. Titles 3. The List 4. Issues 5. See It 6. Hear It 7. Character First 8. Stealing From the Best 9. Flipping a Genre 10. Predict a Trend 11. Noodling the Newspaper 12. Research 13. “What I Really Want to Write About is . . .” 14. Obsession 15. Opening Lines 16. Write a Prologue 17. The Mind Map 18. Socko Ending 19. Occupations 20. Desperation Thought this list might come in handy when brainstorming. Will be handing it out at the panels I host ^^	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12867
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__label__wiki	0.686128	0.686128	In 1946, I opened my first factory in Kakaako, an island slipper sandal that has been loved by many years as a family business. It is still a 25,000 square foot factory in Pearl City, Oahu, more than 100 kinds of men’s and women’s footwear are hand-cut by skilled craftsmen from cutting, trimming, winding, sewing, gluing and pressing Every one is carefully made. 1 Island slippers stick to “real thing” 2 Announcing a new collection commemorating the 70th anniversary of foundation 3 About island slippers Island slippers stick to “real thing” Mr. Carpenter, an island slippers owner who remembers the word “I do not wear a cowboy hat if it is not a cowboy” who had been going cattle with a lasso in California’s ranch is still remembering every day at Pearl City’s factory , He says that he realizes the importance of being “real” as he says. “The roots of things and people have a deep relationship with their nature, where we are from, the sandals and business we make is reflecting Hawaii and its lifestyle.We can make it here all over the world That is why we stick to not “real”. ” Mr. Matt of Carpenter’s son and Mr. Tasha of his wife and others are succeeding in the island slippers in recent years and pioneered new sales routes such as New Zealand, Australia, Dubai, J. Crew, Rix, Salvage Republic, Huckberry , Collaboration with brands and companies such as FLUX magazine also developed. Mr. Matt of the island slipper owner and his wife Tasha Currently, two stores including Royal Hawaiian Center store are in operation in Hawaii. “At the retail shop, we can introduce a new style pilotly and predict the sales.We always manage the full life cycle of the product from the manufacturing of slippers until reaching the customer’s feet, We are making efforts to make sandals and improve quality, “Mr. Tasha said. Mr. Carpenter said, “There is demand all over the world for” real things. “Sandals of island slippers that are carefully handcrafted with high quality materials, the affection for our” Ohana ” It is put in. ” Announcing a new collection commemorating the 70th anniversary of foundation In the island slippers, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary, a new “Flora + Fauna” collection is announced. In the same collection, we used slippers for men (cum unisex) that printed flowers and butterfly’s original designs on Italian leather, students made of glass beads with flowers, leaves, bees and other motifs and studs made of Swarovski crystals There are ladies’ sandals, etc., all elegant and gorgeous impression. Island Slipper, Phone: (808) 923-2222, Location: Royal Hawaiian Center A, 2nd Floor, Opening Hours: 10: 00 am – 10: 00 pm Open all year round、WEB：www.islandslipper.com About island slippers From the founding of the year in 1946, the philosophy of “resort sandal makers done in Hawaii from design to manufacture” is still unchanged, all products are made in Hawaii. Its history is a sandal company that has been factoryized and developed by Mr. Edward Motoka, a son who made a prototype of sandals, Japanese who Migongi Takiaki (Moto Naga / Takizo) who moved to Hawaii. In 1986, Mr. Motonaga took over to John Carpenter (current president), and the brand of “Island slipper” grew big as a global sandal maker. Hawaii’s traditional print fabrics and carefully selected leather materials from the mainland of the United States are used and handmade by skilled skilled craftsmen at their own factory in Pearl City. Excellent comfort and quality, customer service island · slippers are a long-established sandals brand in Hawaii with many fans around the world who are active in various scenes from beach and resort casual to wedding. First landing in Hawaii, Japanese large chain “Mitsuwa Marketplace” opened in Waikiki Mitsuwa Market Place of a Japanese chain store opened at the international market place. Banan opened for the first time in Waikiki, a popular healthy sweet shop in Hawaii Banan providing a healthy sweetness that is very popular in Hawaii opened for the first time in a long-awaited Waikiki.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12873
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In 2014 DFID support will benefit some 6.3 million children in school in Pakistan.<br></p><p> </p> Biography information for Baroness Berridge To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the appropriateness of the use of the terms "love" and "darling" in a care home; and whether they have given advice to the Care Quality Commission and local authorities on such matters. Lord Greaves <p>The Department has made no such assessment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care. All providers of regulated activities must register with CQC and comply with Regulations and a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>One of these fundamental standards relates to treating users of services with dignity and respect. The CQC issues guidance to providers on how they should meet the fundamental standards. 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The Countess of Mar <p>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a condition that occurs naturally in the age group eligible for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has completed a United Kingdom epidemiological study which found no evidence to suggest that HPV vaccine may increase the risk of developing CFS. The results of this study were published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>This finding is further supported by the results of a recent population-based study in Norway, which similarly found no evidence of a causal association between HPV vaccine and CFS. Copies of HPV vaccination and risk of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: A nationwide register-based study from Norway and Bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine and the risk of fatigue syndromes in girls in the UK are attached.</p> Biography information for The Countess of Mar # Counting has been applied to this query. 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__label__wiki	0.509808	0.509808	MILITARISTIC QUAKERS! The tricks that Leftist psychologists get up to in a desperate attempt to defend their totally inadequate understanding of the world are normally pretty laughable but some are more laughable than others. My latest academic upload (see here or here) takes as its starting point an article by one William Eckhardt that must be a favourite candidate for the most laughable piece of “research” ever published in an academic journal. Eckhardt wrote an article that purported to be a study of militarism. So who did Eckhardt interview for his study of militarism -- Army personnel? Former Nazis? Far-Rightists? Believers in Imperialism? Vietnam “Hawks”? Guerillas? Spanish Falangists? He interviewed none of those. He interviewed a group of 46 QUAKERS! And it goes downhill from there. I did my best to be polite about it at the time but it was not easy. It would actually have made more sense to do a study of pacifism using a sample of generals from the Oberkommando der Werhrmacht. Military men do at least normally have a healthy understanding of the horrors of war. As bad is most likely to be driven out by better, I proceeded to do a study of my own which DID include Army personnel. I defined militarism as a liking for the Army and surveyed an intake of conscripts into the Australian army. I found that militarists were more racially tolerant than others (contrary to Eckhardt), that militarists were better adjusted than others (contrary to Eckhardt) and that people who wanted more equality in society were less well-adjusted than others (contrary to Eckhardt). There was a slight tendency for conservatives also to be better adjusted and for conservatives to approve of the Army. If psychology were a science, my study would have been pretty fatal to the old Marxist theory that conservatives are maladjusted “authoritarians” but no psychologist to my knowledge took the slightest bit of notice of my findings. The Marxist theory is believed to this day. I knew that the smokers would strike back after my recent mention that they are more likely to be wackos. Here is one comment: "I do recall some study made the news a while ago, although I cannot now find them on the web, that tobacco actually alleviated symptoms of schizophrenia. As well, I once had a tenant who told me that he chain-smoked for that very reason (for whatever that is worth). Still it is not unreasonable to suggest that maybe schizophrenics smoke because they are schizophrenic (and it alleviates symptoms)rather than to suggest that smoking is a symptom, or even a cause. After all, do we not all die after a life-long addiction to dioxide? And an excess of oxygen can also cause cellular damage." Jeff Jacoby too has now come out slugging at the way most of the media have misrepresented the recent report on Iraqi WMDs. Maybe Australia’s ABC (public broadcaster) has learnt a tiny bit from the recent debacle at its British equivalent (the BBC). It has just admitted that ONE of its programs was biased about the Iraq war. Very big of them! The finding of bias was by “an independent panel” which was “appointed by the ABC board” (!). Margaret Snyder compares American "liberalism" with Communism and Fascism and concludes: "So it is that liberalism has taken away the self-respect of whole classes of people. It has done so by the same elitist mentality that characterized the two vilest socialisms of the twentieth century. Most people who consider themselves liberals consider their motives to be pure, and I don't doubt that they are. But by their attitudes and policies, they encourage dependency on the state and ultimately do much more harm than good." This is from 8 months back but a sensible column in the Guardian is a bit of a rarity so I can't help quoting it. Nick Cohen notes how the Left cheerfully allied itself with the Islamic fundamentalists to oppose the Iraq invasion and comments: "The absence of principle is matched only by the absence of intelligence. What is the Left offering Iraq? It has no strategy other than the continuation of a brutal status quo. It can't support the Iraqi democrats because they say Saddam can only be overthrown by violence. It can't support the Iraqi Kurds because they agree. It has been reduced to allying with religious bigots". But who ever said the Left had principles? Leftists often claim St. Francis of Assisi as one of their own -- because of his vow of poverty. That vow was solely for religious reasons however and it was in fact the disciples of St. Francis who first put together what we now recognize as the theory of capitalism and free markets! Admiral Carey puts the boot into the U.S. Iraq skeptics: "Yet it certainly appears to me that we have men and women dying in Iraq and Afghanistan right now that in some instances are facing this danger because these enemy actions are being inadvertently encouraged by public statements made by some of their fellow citizens." Arafat was trained and for many years bankrolled by the KGB. It's an article of faith among Leftists that FDR rescued America from the great Depression. If you look at some of his absurd policies, however, it is clear that he PROLONGED it rather than cured it. Previous depressions where the government did nothing ended much sooner. Research shows 'negative' political campaign advertising works better than positive adverts. This research seems to reinforce the findings of the public choice school of economists who argue that people have more incentive to make a reasoned choice in the private marketplace than under traditional democratic political rules, thus markets more closely resemble 'ideal democracies' than do modern states. Speaking of Schwarzenegger’s victory, Henninger notes: “23% of blacks voted Republican, as did 41% of Hispanics. That this should happen once under any circumstances is extraordinary” and argues that it shows a Rightwards shift in American politics generally. LE FROGS ENCORE In response to my recent post about French attitudes, a reader emailed me a few of his own experiences with these delightful people: "In the early 90's I worked for a French Investment Bank in New York which was supposed to be the "most International" of all the French banks. This meant that we local hires had first hand dealings with the archetypal French upper crust snob. It was very amusing watching these guys at work. They all wore the same clothes, had the same mannerisms and were usually not very good at their jobs because they all seemed to practice "the cover your ass" outlook towards work. Because they were French expats they were not on the same compensation as the locals which bothered them no end. It was difficult for them to understand how they could be paid less ( they didn't work very hard) despite the fact that their jobs were " guaranteed for life. Locals could be fired at a moment's notice in New York. Political intrigue was their most important daily workhabit. Honestly, most of them reminded me of Inspector Clouseau as they frequently argued points that made no sense. I once discussed the reasons for the high French unemployment rate with a high level executive who was visiting. He told me that most influential French did not think there was such a high unemployment ( at the time the rate was 10%) rate in France for which he gave the following account: Of the 3 million unemployed in France 1 million were in the latter part of their working life (middle aged) who would not be able to ever find a job but were well looked after by the state. One million were Arabs or North Africans who were considered sh.t who would never be offered a job by French companies. The last one million were French youth and it was this group which was the most worrying. He said that the true French unemployment rate were the 1 million youth and that was not a really high number anyway. This is how these people thought and that's why France will change only when there is a revolution. The hatred they have for the US could be easily seen at the time -- though then manifested in another way. At the time they thought the Americans were simply a country full of stupid people and of lesser social ranking than the French.” In response to my recent note about Ronald Reagan’s unforgettable speech at the time of the “Challenger” disaster Four Right Wing Wackos kindly sent me a link to the transcript of the speech. It still moves me to tears. And to have seen that good and dignified man himself giving it..... In the wacky world of Leftist intellectuals, conservatives are simply defenders of the status quo. So by that criterion, it looks like Reagan was NOT a conservative. He said: "'Status quo,' you know, that is Latin for 'the mess we're in.'" But if the Gipper was not a conservative, who would be? The Leftist smear that Reagan was just an actor and a puppet with no ideas of his own is refuted eloquently in the book of Reagan’s own handwritten notes reviewed briefly here Ann Coulter responds to the Leftist accusations about her “Lies” and shows who the real deceivers are. In another one of his gargantuan posts, Captain Clueless spells out his view of why Leftists often seem hypocritical and self-contradictory. I would summarize it much more simply by saying that Leftists have no real principles so will say anything that they think sounds good at the time in the hope that doing so will get them power or influence. As a man who voted for Al Gore, however, the good Captain is trying to make it sound better than that. At least he now realizes that Leftists have no respect for democracy. Good stuff! The American Anglican Council has in effect called for a schism with the Episcopal Church over the un-Biblical doctrines of the Episcopal leadership (homsexual bishops etc). A schism could get a lot of genuine Christians among the church membership out from under the influence of their atheist bishops. Watcher of Weasels has an interesting feature: They put up lists of recommended posts from other blogs. Seeing I have made the list, I respect their judgement! Australian blogger, Personal Independence Day has a BIG post about immigration and xenophobia. He shows that, despite Australia’s tough treatment of illegal immigrants, Australians are no-more anti-immigrant than people from most other countries and that Australian attitudes have become MORE anti-immigrant since the big postwar immigration influx began. Chris Brand's is still posting up a storm at the moment so I have transferred some more of his recent posts here for convenience. He has an interesting comment about how many self-made millionaires are dyslectic. China Hand is back in Australia on vacation and outraged at the cost of dentistry here. But the fillings he got in China fell out! He is now looking for a middle way. The Wicked one has come out in favour of the Vatican’s stance on condoms! My latest academic upload again points to the generally unscientific culture that prevails in academic psychology. See here or here. FROM ACADEME I have posted another extract from an academic journal article here. It shows that there is such a thing as a religious personality. I wonder where I fit into that? I was very evangelical in my teens and still love religious music (particularly Bach) but I have been an atheist since I was 19. No doubt someone will say that conservatism is now my religion but I think I am a conservative precisely because I am skeptical. I need evidence before I accept things -- unlike Leftists who seem to regard evidence as an inconvenience. I think Leftism is the religious end of the political spectrum -- though people of other religions do of course have political views too. The anarcho-capitalist extreme of libertarianism can be pretty religious at times too in my judgment. There is a blog called Marginal Revolution run by a couple of economists which has some excellent posts. Their comment on the current panic about loss of jobs in American manufacturing (under the Oct 4th heading "Manufacturing Fallacies") has this pointed conclusion: "Job destruction" is a vital aspect of progress. If we had not destroyed millions of farm jobs most of us would still be working in agriculture today." And their Oct. 6th post under the apt heading "Doomsday Scenarios collide" is a great comment on the nutty extrapolations that the Greenies go in for. One of the bloggers concerned has also written an excellent survey of the socialist roots of antisemitism The flippant Chris Lawrence does a bit of straight shooting about the widespread ignorance of statistics among "social scientists": "Frankly, a lot of the stats you see in top-flight journals are flaming crap _ among the sins: misspecified models, attempts to make inferences that aren't supported by the actual econometric model, acceptance of key hypotheses based on marginally significant p values, use of absurdly small samples, failure to engage in any post-estimation diagnostics." To that I would add treating your source of data as a sort of black-box -- without looking at what is in the box. There is a powerful expose here of the rampant Stalinism still common among the current crop of American historians. Now that the Soviets are long gone, American historians are still defending them -- and teaching their students that Communist spys were the good guys and America evil. I hope nobody reading this is paying for their kid to study history at a major American university! Tobacco smoking has now been found to correlate with schizotypal and borderline personality traits Not good! Most jailbirds smoke. Tobacco is the currency in jail. There also appears to be a (negative) relationship between smoking and intelligence. Note that we are talking only about a correlation here, however. It does not mean that ALL smokers are fruitcakes. Reference: Kolliakou, A. & Joseph, S. (2000) "Further evidence that tobacco smoking correlates with schizotypal and borderline personality traits". Personality and Individual Differences, 29 (1), 191-194. My own latest academic upload is of technical interest only but it is part of my refutation of the still-common Leftist claim that conservatives have "authoritarian" personalities. (They don't -- but they are not as hostile to existing authorities as Leftists are). See here or here. How nice that all the last-minute Leftist lies about Schwarzenegger failed utterly in their object. As everybody knows, the last Hollywood actor to become Governor of California was Ronald Reagan so let us hope for great things from Arnold too. Murray Soupcoff has another blast at the rich and righteous -- under the headline: "Lifestyles of the rich and hypocritical" Left-leaning magazine "The Atlantic" has a surprisingly sensible article on poverty: "Since the mid-1990s, almost everyone has accepted that welfare should be linked to work. Only the most reactionary of liberals want to go back to providing cash as a substitute for employment. The new consensus is a good thing, because it matches a new reality. No feasible amount of cash assistance could solve America's poverty problem, even in principle. The problem has changed. It has become more behavioral than economic." A good comment here about how most of the media have misrepresented the recent official report about Iraqi WMDs. One of the most basic principles of natural justice is that we are not responsible for the deeds of other people. Under U.S. "environmental" law that principle no longer exists. You can be jailed for something someone else did while you were home in bed. I'm not kidding! Greenies really are haters of people and their hate is now law in many ways. Atheist though I am, I rather liked the Pope's recent address to the Archbishop of Canterbury. He comes across as a great Christian pastor and his veiled warning about the Anglican attitude to homosexuality ("new and serious difficulties have arisen on the path to unity") was no less than his duty as guardian of church traditions and teachings. Amusing that Leftists now want to censor sexy advertisements -- on “feminist” grounds of course. All women are equal too, it seems, so attractive women should be hidden away as much as possible, apparently. I have just transferred some more of Chris Brand's recent posts here for convenience. He notes some of the brain physiology that correlates with IQ and has a big post on the call for voluntary eugenics in Denmark. Carnival of the Vanities is up again. RACE-RELATED: A comment from a reader on the recent affirmative action parody at Southern Methodist University where blacks were offered cheaper cookies: "It doesn't surprise me that SMU shut down that bake sale. I've visited the campus there many times; sitting in on lectures and talking to some of the PoliSci faculty. I almost went there for my degree simply because it is such a prominent school, but realized after the first semester that I wasn't learning anything - I was being indoctrinated. Views from the "right" are NOT tolerated; students expressing conservative viewpoints are openly ridiculed in the classroom by instructors and then pointedly ignored." Sowell says: "The most dramatic rise of blacks out of poverty occurred before the civil rights movement of the 1960s. That's right -- before. But politicians, activists and the intelligentsia have spread so much propaganda that many Americans, black and white, are unaware of the facts" He also points out that he and many other blacks got their university degrees long BEFORE Affirmative action. Mike Tremoglie reminds us of an excellent story: "Liberals like to call conservatives racist, sexist and homophobic. What is unusual is for the media to note that liberals often do not abide by their own rules. During Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's confirmation hearings, GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch asked her if a company located in a mostly minority area would be considered guilty of discrimination if it did not employ the same percentage of minorities as were in the general population. Ginsburg replied that it would be. Hatch then informed Ginsburg that her staff was mostly white, although she was an employer in the mostly black city of Washington, D.C. Ginsburg exemplifies liberal hypocrisy. The rules are meant for others, not them. It is perfectly fine for a white liberal judge to allege that a small-business owner is discriminating. But the judge can do the same thing without thinking twice." Writing in a widely-read academic journal, Wickett, Vernon & Lee (2000) show that cranial capacity (how big your brain is) is a strong predictor of 'g' (general intelligence) and Rushton & Ankney (2000) also show that cranial capacity is lower among blacks. Cranial capacity is not the whole story, of course. As Burns, Nettelbeck & Cooper (2000) and many others show, the speed of the brain's electrical response to stimulation is a major physical factor behind IQ. LE FROGS Two points in a recent George Will article that I agree with: Pakistan may now be the most dangerous breeding-ground for Islamic terrorists; and French nationalists (whom Will dubiously describes as “Fascists”) are just as anti-American as the French Left, though for different reasons. Chirac is after all a Rightist in French terms. The world-dominance of Anglo-Saxon culture really burns up ALL the French. The French socialist government passed a law in 1998 reducing everybody’s working hours to 35 hours per week -- but everybody still had to get the same pay as when they worked 40 hours per week, of course! With the usual socialist logic, that was supposed to reduce unemployment. As any economist could have told them, it increased unemployment. France now has an unemployment rate 50% higher than the USA. And the French think that they are so much wiser than Americans!! They are now trying to do a U-turn on the policy. What Fun! A new study by psychiatrist Robert Spitzer (who helped to have homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses in 1973) says that homosexual gay men and women can be transformed into heterosexuals through psychotherapy. The report is that, of 200 homosexuals and lesbians given the treatment, 78 per cent of males and 95 per cent of females reported a change in their sexuality. Huffing and puffing from the Left now underway! I liked this headline: “Priest defrocked for gay wedding” Jeff Jacoby has some good answers to the current attacks on Rush Limbaugh. The U.S. State Dept. continues to defy belief. As the WSJ points out, it has links to famous American speeches on its site -- including speeches by Jimmy peanut and Mrs Clinton but nothing by the Gipper! I personally remember being deeply moved by the speech I saw President Reagan give on TV immediately after the U.S. first lost a space shuttle and remember thinking how lucky America was to have such a wonderful President at that time who knew how to help heal the wound of such a tragic event. I will never forget that speech. I mentioned yesterday the body of research by psychologist Alain Van Hiel which purported to show conservatives to be maladjusted in various ways. I was quite kind in my comments about him because I think he has been naive rather than dishonest. If you want to see how easy it is to completely wipe the floor with Leftist psychologists, however, have a look at this demolition of an article written by a psychologist from the People’s Republic of Berkeley. It has been reproduced by several other people on their websites so they too obviously think it is a pretty effective put-down. I have not been able to contact Jim Lindgren, Prof. of Law at Northwestern University, for ages. Last I heard a few months ago he was off for a fortnight’s vacation in Switzerland. Does anybody know if he is languishing in a Swiss dungeon or something? My latest academic upload shows that the type of conservatism most psychologists connect with racism is in fact uncorrelated with racism when fairly measured. See here or here. VAN HIEL’S PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSERVATISM For over 50 years now the Holy Grail of academic political psychologists has been to find evidence of psychological inadequacy among conservatives. It has been a fool’s errand. All the supposed “proofs” collapse once they are subjected to critical examination (See Ray, 1983, 1988, 1990, 2003a & b; Ray & Najman, 1987). But the effort goes on. The person leading the charge at the moment is someone I mentioned yesterday -- the Belgian psychologist Alain Van Hiel. He is pouring out articles on the subject at a great rate at the moment. Van Hiel is a bit different from his predecessors, however. Most psychologists simply hand out a bunch of questionnaires to their own students to gather “proof” of their theories. This is so laughable as to show that there is no sincere quest for the truth there. All they are really doing is saying that they KNOW what the truth is and any “evidence” at all will do to demonstrate the correctness of their ideas. Van Hiel, however, does real research. He goes out into the highways and byways for his surveys in addition to surveying his students. So I credit Van Hiel as a sincere seeker after truth. He is however greatly handicapped by what has gone before him. He does not appear to be a psychometrician so rather than design his own scales (sets of questions), he constantly uses scales devised by his un-serious predecessors. This means that all his hard work has essentially gone for naught. His data is only as good as the scales he uses and those scales are pretty laughable. I have dissected two of the scales concerned in recent days (The Kruglanski “Need for closure” scale and the Sidanius “Social dominance Orientation” scale) so you only have to scroll down this page to see what a nonsense are the sort of scales that the unfortunate Van Hiel has to rely on. I have written a full academic critique of four of Van Hiel’s recent articles here (or here) for those who want to pursue the topic in greater depth. For his own sake, I hope Van Hiel turns to more fruitful outlets for his energies in the future. Incidentally, most of the scales devised by Left-leaning political psychologists (see e.g. Ray, 1983 & 1990) are so poorly conceived that they end up showing negligible correlation with vote in the general population -- i.e. supposedly “Rightist” statements are just as often agreed to by people who vote for Leftist political parties as by people who vote for Rightist political parties. How embarrassing! The scales that I devise however, generally work very well -- providing correlations of up to .56 with vote (Ray & Wilson, 1976; Ray, 1984a &b). In other words, the results show that I DO know what the factors are that influence political stance in the general population, whereas the Leftist psychologists do not. Ray, J.J. (1983). Half of all authoritarians are Left-wing: A reply to Eysenck and Stone. Political Psychology, 4, 139-144. Ray, J.J. (1984a) Combining demographic and attitude variables to predict vote. Journal of Social Psychology, 122, 145-146. Ray, J.J. (1984b) Attitude to abortion, attitude to life and conservatism in Australia. Sociology & Social Research 68, 236-246. Ray, J.J. (1988) Cognitive style as a predictor of authoritarianism, conservatism and racism: A fantasy in many movements. Political Psychology 9, 303-308. Ray, J.J. (1990) Book Review: Enemies of freedom by R. Altemeyer. Australian Journal of Psychology, 42, 87-111. Ray, J.J. (2003a) Academic fakers. FrontPage Magazine, 27 August. Ray, J.J. (2003b) Social dominance orientation: Theory or artifact? Ray, J.J. & Najman, J.M. (1987) Neoconservatism, mental health and attitude to death. Personality & Individual Differences, 8, 277-279. Ray, J.J. & Wilson, R.S. (1976) Social conservatism in Australia. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology 12(3), 255-257. More Leftist "compassion": "Riot police in Rome used batons and teargas to beat back hundreds of anti-globalization protesters at a demonstration on Saturday during a meeting of European Union leaders. Scores of police charged the demonstrators after being hit by stones and bottles as they tried to maintain security at the EU conference where leaders met to discuss the bloc's proposed new constitution. Several demonstrators and two policemen were injured. One elderly man was taken away in an ambulance with a deep gash to his head and blood pouring down his face. Police said they had detained 13 protesters." Being extremely pro-Indian, I am delighted to see that U.S.-Indian co-operation is forging ahead so rapidly under GWB: "India and the US are set to sign a pathbreaking new agreement on cooperation in high-technology, space launch equipment, civilian nuclear energy and missile defence over the next couple of weeks." Surprise, Surprise! "The plight of many Afghan women has barely improved in the two years since the ouster of the Taliban regime, with forced marriages, rapes and domestic violence still occurring frequently, Amnesty International said." I guess Afghanistan must be Islamic! About flaming time! "The State Department said Syria "must cease harboring terrorists and make a clean break from those responsible for planning and directing terrorist action from Syrian soil." The Wicked one is pretty cynical about obesity. My latest academic upload here (or here) is an attempt to explain some basic psychometric concepts simply. Not for the general reader. THE KRUGLANSKI FOLLIES: IS A BABY THE IDEAL PERSON? One of the authors of the notorious "Berkeley study" of conservative psychology called "Political conservatism as motivated social cognition" was a confused soul (officially called a “Distinguished University Professor”) named Arie Kruglanski. He has for a long time been pushing the line that conservatives have a need for a simplistic view of the world. He calls it "Need for Closure" and says that such needs are a sign of psychological maladjustment or weakness. Many other psychologists agree with him (e.g. Kossowska & Van Hiel, 2003). So let us look at the set of statements that Kruglanski (Kruglanski, Webster & Klem, 1993) uses to detect good or bad mental health. For copyright reasons I cannot reproduce them all but a few excerpts tell the story well enough. Here are some of the allegedly "unhealthy" statements: I find that a well ordered life with regular hours suits my temperament. I feel uncomfortable when I don't understand the reason why an event occurred in my life. I don't like to go into a situation without knowing what I can expect from it. When I am confused about an important issue, I feel very upset. I usually make important decisions quickly and confidently I don't like to be with people who are capable of unexpected actions. I dislike it when a person's statement could mean many different things I'd rather know bad news than stay in a state of uncertainty. I would call all of the above statements expressions of normal, healthy, adult attitudes myself. So let's look at what Kruglanski thinks is particularly healthy: When I go shopping, I have difficulty deciding exactly what it is that I want. I tend to put off making important decisions until the last possible moment I would describe myself as indecisive. My personal space is usually messy and disorganized I tend to struggle with most decisions So being a messy, indecisive and disorganized ditherer is healthy! Clearly, capable confident, can-do people are what Kruglanski dislikes and babyish, helpless people are his ideal. I suppose the more babyish we are the easier it is for others to push us around and make our decisions for us -- and Leftists like that. There is another critique pointing out that Kruglanski does not know what he is doing in Neuberg et al. (1997) and my demolition of the Jost et al (2003) study is here. One point I might also mention here is that Jost, Kruglanski & Co were much enamoured of Glenn Wilson’s 1973 book, The psychology of conservatism. I actually wrote chapter 2 of that book so I know a bit about it. The theory Glenn put forward at that time was that conservatives have a greater fear of uncertainty than Leftists. So one would think that conservatives would be more fearful overall. There is a lot of uncertainty in this world. The EVIDENCE is, however, that conservatives are no more fearful than anybody else. Kruglanski & Co would no doubt argue that the lack of overall fearfulness among conservatives is because conservatives have adopted successful strategies to deal with their fears but isn’t it odd that there is NO SIGN of such greater fear except via the sort of hokum I have pilloried above? Finally, for a bit of humour, I might mention some findings of that very hard-working Belgian psychologist Alain Van Hiel. He recently joined with a Polish colleague to test the Kruglanski scale in both Belgium and Poland (Kossowsk & Van Hiel, 2003). He found that “Need for closure” was RIGHTIST in one country and LEFTIST in the other! As Robert Burns said: “The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley!” I can’t help it: I’ve got to mention another amusing Van Hiel finding (Van Hiel, Kossowska & Mervielde, 2000). Because he is such a hard worker, Van Hiel went the trouble of testing out a Kruglanski-type theory on a group of people who were actually interested in politics. He used a scale of “Openness to ideas” and expected that Rightists would be less open to ideas but it turned out that it was the LEFTISTS who were closed-minded! Embarrassing! Jost, J.T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A.W., & Sulloway, F.J. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), 339-375. Kossowska, M. & Van Hiel, A. (2003) The Relationship Between Need for Closure and Conservative Beliefs in Western and Eastern Europe. Political Psychology 24 (3) 501. Kruglanski, A.W., Webster, D.M., & Klem, A. (1993). Motivated resistance and openness in the presence or absence of prior information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 23-35 Neuberg, S.L., West, S.G., Judice, T.N., & Thompson, M.M. (1997). On dimensionality, discriminant validity, and the role of psychometric analyses in personality theory and measurement: Reply to Kruglanski et al.'s (1997) defense of the Need for Closure Scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1017-1029. Van Hiel, A., Kossowska, M. & Mervielde, I. (2000) The relationship between Openness to Experience and political ideology. Personality and Individual Differences 28 (4), 741-751 There is an article here which traces the lack of happiness in modern society to a set of generally Leftist values that have become prevalent nowadays: "Radical individualism is familiar in contemporary values. "Do your own thing", "Seek you own bliss", "Challenge authority", "If it feels good, do it", "Shun conformity", "Don't force your values on others", "Assert your personal rights", "Protect your privacy", "Cut taxes and raise executive pay" (personal income takes priority over the common good), "To love others, first love yourself", "Listen to your own heart", "Prefer solo spirituality to communal religion", "Be self-sufficient", "Expect others likewise to believe in themselves and to make it on their own_": such slogans define the heart of social individualism" The authors present a lot of evidence that we are now less happy than we used to be but I myself suspect that a lot of it is just a matter of higher expectations these days. You can live in Bangladesh and be as happy as a clam if your expectations are low. It does appear that conservatives are happier, though. I have just transferred some more of Chris Brand's recent posts here for convenience. He says that minorities are now OVER-represented on British TV. The Wicked one says that poverty in the Western world is mostly mythical. For my latest academic upload, I have made my recent critical observations on social dominance orientation into a short article. See here or here. MORE ON "SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION" I posted yesterday a swingeing critique of the Social Dominance Orientation theory that is at present being used in academic psychology to discredit conservatives. The joint author and principal protagonist of the theory (a generally pleasant guy whom I happen to know) has replied to my critique. I have posted his reply here. It seems to amount to a large climbdown. He does not answer my point that he is not measuring personality at all and he does not answer my point that the relationship between racism and scores on his scale is artifactual (built-in). He has now reduced his claim to saying that he is just finding out whether different allegedly conservative beliefs do go together. If that is what he is doing, he is doing a remarkably poor job of it. I showed 30 years ago that conservative beliefs in economic and social areas are very poorly correlated yet he COMBINES beliefs from these two areas in his scale! He is not only assuming what he has to prove but his assumption is demonstrably wrong! A bit breathtaking! And his claim that the theory is independent of the means used to test it is pretty desperate too. Psychologists normally rely on "operational" definitions -- i.e. they define the concept they use BY the means they use to measure it. Incidentally, I HAVE measured social dominance by way of a personality scale and have several times found that it is unrelated to overall Left/Right orientation. See here and here LEFTISTS AS CHRONIC LIARS Further to the "October surprise" --- last-minute allegations about Schwarzenegger's "abuses" of women -- this story by Susan Salisbury was posted on conservativenet: “After my own personal experience with the Democratic slander machine, I don't believe anything they say a week before such an important election. My personal experience? Years ago I worked as a special assistant to an EEOC commissioner at the same time that Clarence Thomas was the Chairman. Several years later, when he was nominated for the Supreme court I got a call from a liberal former acquaintance claiming that she had been told by a mutual friend that I had been harassed by Thomas but was too ashamed to admit it. I corrected her immediately, telling her I didn't particularly like him, but he had never been anything but proper and appropriate with me. The strongest obscenity I ever heard him utter was a very rare "damn". He was always polite. The liberal acquaintance persisted. If only I would tell the press he molested me, she explained, I could change history. I could save the women of this country from having to seek back alley abortions -- This attempt to persuade me to tell lies about Clarence Thomas in order to achieve a political goal went on until, tired of denying false suggestions, I finally said to her, Carla, I am a Republican now, I am not going to lie for the Democrats. When Carla knew me earlier, I was a liberal democrat, perhaps the reason that I was targeted for this call. On reflection, I doubt that I was the only woman who worked with Thomas to receive such a call. I wonder how many women who worked with Arnold have been getting calls in the last four weeks.” I liked this headline: Arnold knocks Arianna off her broomstick Miranda Devine on Lomborg: "Of course, common sense is Lomborg's failing. It is precisely because he cites statistics, writes logically and avoids ideological fervour that he has been attacked and pilloried by eco-fundamentalists and fellow travellers around the world. He scares them." Now THERE'S a judge we could use: "An Indian High Court judge has banned weekday public meetings and rallies in Calcutta after he was delayed by one. Judge Amitava Lala was two hours late for work after his car was caught up in a traffic jam caused by a political meeting. He issued the order, asking police to ensure no such rallies are held in the city of 12 million people between 8am and 8pm." This US Army blogger from Iraq has some good comments about Australians: "The Aussies are here...in bigger numbers than the rest...and they are some of my favorites .... their weapons are straight out of the future... a big difference from the M-16 which hasn't really changed much looks-wise in the last 30 years...one of the coolest features about the Aussie weapon is the clear magazine... you can see exactly how much ammo you have left..." I have just transferred some more of Chris Brand's recent posts here for convenience. His post about the suicide that is convulsing U.K. politics at the moment mentions something nobody else wants to believe but I think he has hit the nail on the head. In my latest academic upload here (or here) I look at conservatism on social issues and what it correlates with. Leftists never tire of claiming that conservatism is the outcome of an unhappy childhood but whenever the matter is directly examined, it generally turns out that conservatives had happier childhoods. A related finding to that in this survey was that there was a SLIGHT tendency for Leftism to be associated with dissatisfaction with one's family. I also showed that conservatives tended to practice what they preach: They are more cautious and risk-averse in their personal lives as well as being more cautious in their social attitudes. Another interesting finding was that upwardly mobile people tended to be slightly more radical on social issues -- in other words, people who have been doing well for themselves tend to reject cautious attitudes -- "Limousine liberals"? An amusing finding from the study was that, despite their alleged passion for “equality”, Leftists were as personally ambitious as anybody else. The simplistic Leftist notion that conservatism is just “rejection of change” was also thoroughly undermined by the results of the study. MILITARISTIC QUAKERS! The tricks that Leftist p... ELSEWHERE I knew that the smokers would strike ... LE FROGS ENCORE In response to my recent post a... THE GIPPER In response to my recent note about ... ELSEWHERE Ann Coulter responds to the Leftist a... FROM ACADEME I have posted another extract from... ELSEWHERE How nice that all the last-minute Lef... RACE-RELATED: A comment from a reader on the re... LE FROGS Two points in a recent George Will art... ELSEWHERE What Fun! A new study by psychiatrist... VAN HIEL’S PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSERVATISM For over ... ELSEWHERE More Leftist "compassion": "Riot poli... THE KRUGLANSKI FOLLIES: IS A BABY THE IDEAL PERSO... ELSEWHERE There is an article here which traces... MORE ON "SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION" I posted... LEFTISTS AS CHRONIC LIARS Further to the "Octob... 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__label__wiki	0.770121	0.770121	Please Exclude Me From Your ‘Flip Flops Are Fashion’ Narrative Getty ImagesDesign by Alina Petrichyn Alina Petrichyn From the iconic whale tail Degrassi episode to Cisco’s classic anthem, thongs have long reigned supreme in fashion and pop culture. So what better way to end the summer than with an all out thong-a-thon? This long weekend, ELLE celebrates the best, the worst and the most memorable thongs—on the red carpet, on the beach, and beyond. It started at Copenhagen Fashion Week in early August. The city has become an increasingly buzzy fashion hub, with brands like Ganni, Cecelie Bahnsen and Saks Potts, gaining name recognition far beyond Scandinavia and Insta-fame among fashion’s influencer set. So when those same influencers were street style snapped at Copenhagen Fashion Week in…plain old plastic flip flops, ELLE.com’s fashion team told me they were “a thing.” Getty ImagesChristian Vierig “Just watch,” ELLE’s style director Nikki Ogunnaike told me, “everyone’s gonna wear them. It’s already happening.” Of course, this is all part of a trend. A lot of utilitarian and not particularly aesthetically pleasing or “cool” footwear is being revived and re-annointed by the fashion set. There were Crocs (fur-lined at Christopher Kane, platform at Balenciaga), Birkenstocks (first, mink-lined, at Céline, and then…everywhere), chunky dad sneakers at Balenciaga and Vuitton, and now the humble flip flop is runway ready. The shoe you wear to the beach. The shoe you showered in in college because those showers were disgusting. Now, influencers at Copenhagen Street Style mark one kind of endorsement. But Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are the ne plus ultra arbiters of chic. And in a recent article in WSJ. announcing the launch of The Row’s men’s line, the twin designers were photographed and styled in, yup, flip flops. “This is definitely a case of fashion taking a utilitarian shoe and making it ‘cool,’ in the same way that it co-opted Tevas, Birkenstocks, and Crocs,” says Eliza Brooke, senior reporter at Racked. “I think the transformation here hinges on fashion regarding flip flops as lowbrow, since they’re mainstream, often cheap, and very casual. But then when Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen wear flip flops with head-to-toe The Row, they suddenly look very minimalist and chic! (This is one of fashion’s annoying and often problematic tendencies.) It’s also entirely likely that fashion people are focusing on flip flops because we’re all in a big moment of ’00s nostalgia.” And look, cool stylish people will always have the ability to make anything look cool and stylish. Two of ELLE.com’s coolest and most stylish, Justine Carreon and Chloe Hall, say that they plan to start wearing them. But I’m not on board. And it’s not because I don’t think flip flops are particularly chic (even though I don’t think they are particularly chic!). It’s because I have a unique insight into how disgusting flip flops are. Your flip flops are full of potentially deadly bacteria and poop! In my cub reporter days at the New York Daily News I set out for a weekend in the city wearing a brand new pair of flip flops and then sent them into a lab to be tested for bacteria. They came back with nearly 14,000 strains of bacteria including staph. You know that film that adheres to your feet after kicking up dirt all day in flip flops? Yeah. It’s full of potentially deadly bacteria and poop! Those drawn to the allure of another aughts trend revival will do it anyway. The French style blogger who goes by the handle @adenorah is wearing them with self-awareness. “Sorry about the shoes,” she writes on an #ootd post wearing leopard print pants, a button down blouse, and simple black flip flops. Says ELLE’s on Chloe Hall, “They’re disgusting but I’m definitely going to wear them because it’s chic.” And hey, you can’t beat the comfort. My first makeup tutorial this year😱 HAIRCUT TUTORIAL: CURLY TOP MID FADE CREATING A HAIRLINE DIY Testing a Polygel Nail Kit from Amazon Prime – Makartt Polygel Kit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12895
__label__cc	0.69872	0.30128	The author of the comment that discriminates the Polish minority under the curators supervision Freedom of speech is guaranteed in the law of every democratic country as well as in international legal documents. However, it does not mean that they should be overused or used inconsiderately – offending or hurting people. The European Foundation of Human Rights campaign against abusive comments on the Internet has turned out to be a big success and led to another won case. On the internet site www.lrytas.lt, under the article dated December 10, 2012, a citizen of Lithuania R.P. under the nickname “Neo25”, published a derogatory comment on the Polish minority group. The comment called for and encouraged strife between the two nations: „Kas leido lenkams daryti tvarką svetimoje šalyje? Jau patys nežino kur eiti ir ką veikti. Vyti juos kuo tolyn, tegul keliauja į Lenkija ir ten draudžia ką nori. Čia ne jų žemė ir jų nosiai dėti draudimus. Kiek leisime jiems taip elgtis?“ (translation.: “Who let the Poles rule in a foreign country? They don’t know where to go and what to do any more. Expel them, let them go back to Poland where they can forbid whatever they want. It’s not their land and they’re in no position to forbid anything. How long are we going to allow for this?) Having read the comment, the EFHR turned to the District of Kaunas Prosecutor’s Office (Raseinių rajono apylinkės teismas), which looked at the case. The author of the commentary is an engineer from Raseiniai. He made a plea of guilty and admitted that he regrets what he had done. The prosecutor’s verdict was a year under the curator’s supervision, by which the violator was also given time to reflect on his behavior. It is to highlight that even though he was not given an indemnity. Thus, if he commits another crime during this period, he will be prosecuted for both. It is already the 20th won case among the 400 filed by the EFHR within this year’s campaign aimed to end the feeling of impunity among all those who do not respect people’s dignity. By filling cases of unlawful commentaries on the internet to the investigatory authorities, the EFHR want to draw an attention of public institutions, responsible for the execution of the law, to the importance and danger of such cases. The state cannot sit back and tolerate the wave of hatred on, which has been rising gradually. The EFHR is currently one of the most active NGOs in Lithuania dealing with cases of commentaries that breach the law. The effectiveness of this work has been appreciated by prosecutors: www.efhr.eu/download/media_www/neapykanta-kurstantys-komentatoriu-2012.12.28.pdf. The Foundation would like to thank for all information about the unlawful comments on the internet that has been and is sent to us. Such a success would not be possible without your help. Thus, we hope for further collaboration. Vilnius City District Court Allows for Original Spelling of Malgorzata Regional Court Dismisses Appeal in Hate Crime Case While the politicians are debating, the courts are working – one more „W“ in a marriage record Court: Existing legal regulation is not sufficient to guarantee the rights of individuals Is the slogan “Lithuania for Lithuanians” – a hate crime? First court decision in klaipeda: letter „w“ is allowable	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12901
__label__cc	0.708244	0.291756	2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Race Thread [ 441 posts ] Go to page Previous 1 ... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Next Post subject: Re: 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Race Thread Exediron wrote: JN23 wrote: Was Norris unlucky with safety car timing or was his pace poor (or both I guess)? How did he end up multiple places behind Sainz after starting 10 places ahead? His side of the garage got the strategy wrong. He (like Bottas) committed to a one-stop on the Hard early on, but was forced to abandon it after it became clear the tyre was too slow. Sainz made the idea one-stop strategy work, and did indeed benefit from the safety cars bunching the field twice. P-F1 Mod wrote: I'm not defending the SC decisions, but it seems that as soon as a tractor is needed on track, the SC is deployed. Probably a change in protocol to prevent a repeat of Bianchi. That would be a sensible approach if it weren't for the fact that as soon as a safety car is called they bring the tractor on to the track before the cars are lined up. Effectively under VSC conditions. In this case the car was cleared before anyone actually caught the safety car. Not for the first time this season either. I'm happy for Sainz but if the rules explicitly state that the DRS shall not be used during yellows, then it's a clear cut penalty IMO. I think their reasoning for not handing one was that he slowed down even though he used DRS... F1 Racer Very good point. The final 90% of the SC phase where the cars are at their safest, the issue is usually sorted out by then. During the first 10% of the SC phase it is pretty much a VSC phase, only the VSC has the advantage of being more race neutralising and can also end quicker and go straight back into the racing phase at the drop of a hat. There really is no reason to use the SC much at all, maybe in monsoon conditions to control the pace, or if there is some kind of track blockage or heavy debris on the circuit. Whenever a standard mechanical DNF happens this should easily be coverable with a VSC at most. I really hate that a random car retiring due to a blown engine has the capability of completely transforming the race in this way at any point. This definitely did not use to be the case and current F1 goes overkill on using the safety car. Rather than using the safety car as a last resort, it seems that the attitude by race control whenever any sort of minor incident happens is ''can we get away with introducing the safety car here to help liven things up?''. It's tantamount to Bernie's ridiculous 'sprinklers' idea, only being utilised in a more stealthy way under the guise of 'safety'. It contrives the race in just the same manner however. That’s an excellent point and completely true. A VSC was ample for that scenario, tractors and dangerous but it was off line and out of the line of fire. No need for it. There is 0% chance a car could hit that tractor when under the VSC. If it was wet I would say yes use the SC but not in the dry. Mercedes strategy for Hamilton was fine by me, they made all the right calls for attempting to win and not concerned with anything else. They told Hamilton to do the opposite to Verstappen which was his only chance to win the race. If they both pit then Verstappen wins. The final Hamilton pit stop was again worth a roll of the dice, if he had got Albon at that point or earlier into turn 4 he probably had a 30-40% chance of getting Verstappen at the win with just under 2 laps to close 1 second. Hamilton also played his part by doing a poor SC restart, note what Verstappen did is how you do a restart at Brazil with these super draggy, high slipstream cars. You need to drive all the way to the line and then go for it, especially if on lesser tyres. The slipstream is too strong. Mercedes strategy for Bottas on the other hand was terrible. Greenman wrote: Re. Vettel/LeClerc this was just Vettel channelling his inner Schumaker - only when Schumaker did it he launched his teammate's car into the air and was undamaged himself - and, of course, he got away without a penalty. You can at least get his name right, even if it is to channel your inner McEnroe... da4an1qu1 Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 12:09 pm Asphalt_World wrote: The speed advantage Seb had over Charles along that straight, if he'd have kept it straight for another half a second or so, he'd have cleared Charles cleanly and not needed to move across at all. Charles was positioned too well. I'm sure Seb could see that, was anxious, and was trying to reclaim the room be needed for the next corner. I like Seb a lot... But the evidence is too strong that he is poor in wheel to wheel battles... Or at least not as good as when he won his championships (conceding that he was adept enough to win four championships). Last edited by da4an1qu1 on Mon Nov 18, 2019 12:51 pm, edited 1 time in total. Do you have the details on this? Is there at replay somewhere showing what transpired? EDIT: I see it now: https://youtu.be/38vHg53W6R0 I assume in this instance that the yellow zones had already been deployed well before he activated DRS. It would seem most likely. Given that, yes I agree, Sainz should have been penalised according to the rules Vettel should have been penalised as well. I agree with the other poster that it isn't right that Hamilton has some penalty points, and Vettel doesn't. I also have to say... F1 really has made a rod for its own back with the blue flag rules.... I don't like the race at the front being disrupted by the back-markers, but because of the rules, it also makes no sense for lapped cars to be filed in with the train of cars behind the safety car. As it would be chaotic waving blue flags at cars racing in close quarters, at the restarts. Which leads us to the worst aspect of F1, demonstrated today. We lose two or more laps under the SC to allow cars to unlap themselves and catch up to the back of the pack. I absolutely despise this. The cost is so high, I seriously would rather that lapped cars are not required to yield at all. And Brazil is quite interesting in this respect, because Ocon showed last year how absurd the blue flag rule can be. Had he passed Verstappen, if Verstappen could stay in his tow, exactly when do they decide to put up blue flags for Ocon. F1_Ernie wrote: pokerman wrote: I've just got in and read all the posts to see if they tally with my views of the race, I managed to watch the race on a phone but with no sound so there might be certain things I'm not aware of. First point of interest is why the SC for Bottas' car, and that seems a unanimous opinion, I even question if it needed a VSC, a local yellow would have sufficed, I'm sorry but all I see here is it allowing Ferrari back into the race. Second point is yet again the woeful strategy from Mercedes in regards to Hamilton, the first stop was good but I have to say with the benefit of minutes to work it out, when the suspect SC gets called and a decision has to be made in seconds rather than minutes then Vowles can't make a decision. Hamilton could have made a free pit stop on to fresh tyres but having to think quick yet again Vowles gets stuck in the headlights. For Red Bull it was the immediate obvious thing to do, they probably thought it would be the obvious play by Mercedes? This then left Hamilton vulnerable to all the cars behind him on fresher, softer tyres which then also seemed to trigger the pit stop after the second late SC to make amends for the earlier error, a crazy thing to do with only 5 laps to go and losing Hamilton 2 positions on the track. I understand that was Hamilton's call but damage had already been done with Hamilton making an unwise call perhaps because he can't 100% trust Vowles? The third point is the collision between Vettel and Leclerc, I instantly called it as being Vettel's fault but now it's a rule that if you crash your teammate out then it doesn't matter? For comparison I instantly called the 5 second penalty on Hamilton for hitting and spinning Albon and that seemingly was administered within minutes, not the hours it took to penalise Leclerc for basically crashing Verstappen out of a race. Yet again I'm unimpressed by Masi's decisions, an uncalled for SC, penalty points on Hamilton's license whilst Vettel gets nothing. I think Hamilton pushed for the undercut at the first stop, there was the issue with the battery what got Hamilton angry then at the final stop Mercedes believed Hamilton would lose just 1 place when he actually lost 2. Red bulls pitstops are also excellent. https://www.racefans.net/2019/11/17/ham ... des-admit/ I was at a disadvantage watching the race on a phone with no sound whilst having dinner out with family, so the first stop I can't even give credit to Vowles whilst the last stop was actually the team's idea and not Hamilton's, they are in for a heap of pain next year if Red Bull give Verstappen a WDC capable car. Yeah I've recently become aware of that and now understand the decision but still the car and tractor were out of harms way and could have been covered safely with a VSC in my opinion, but you like you say they were probably covering themselves legally, we need cranes not tractors. sandman1347 wrote: Yeah I considered that too but I wonder why they didn't just leave the car there rather than disrupting the race the way they did. The car was safely out of harms way. Yeah I was going to say that myself but forgot. The "out of harm's way" argument seems to no longer exist in F1. I can see the logic from a safety angle, but it causes these messes. Of course, if they left a car at the side of the road and someone managed to hit it, there'd be uproar. I would venture that were it was parked made it almost impossible to hit in the natural cause of an accident. da4an1qu1 wrote: That's not the reason they let the cars unlap themselves. If the cars can't unlap then you end up with a situation where the race is split in half by the race leader. The leader could have just lapped the guy in 8th with the guy in 7th just ahead and then the safety car gets called out. 7th and 8th go from being 2 seconds apart to a lap apart. With the amount of safety cars we have now that would just mess with the race too much. We should really just not be using the safety car to be honest. Especially if we are actually recovering the cars before it has even properly taken effect. SlipstreamF1 wrote: How ironic how the real racing didn't begin until after the championship was decided. Every man for himself. Even Lewis who really had nothing to prove other than to prove that he's fastest of the pack. I would've preferred Lewis take things easy and coast to finish. There was no need for him to get into the thicke of things For me SC car racing is not real racing. Flash2k11 wrote: Really not happy with the way the stewarding is going this year. I don't think i'm the only one who thinks the stewards had half an eye on Vettel's ever increasing penalty point count (which now doesn't decrease until the middle of next year) when deciding no further action. Driving into someone like that is surely the textbook definition of an avoidable incident? The SC call was pretty bogus too, Bottas' car was fine where it was. Then we have the blind eye turned to driving like the move Leclerc pulled on Norris at the start of the race. If that kind of chop is now deemed acceptable conduct then it wont be long before we have another car getting launched into the air via tangled wheels. They gave Verstappen an inch in Austra and now a lot of them are taking the whole mile with this kind of driving. Yeah I was going to venture this as well, Vettel is on 7 points which run out next June, penalising him would have put him perilously close to serving a 1 race ban because what are the odds of Vettel not doing anything else worthy of penalty again in the meantime unless again the stewards have need to turn a blind eye to it in fear of Vettel being banned for 1 race. It would not be chaotic at all. Safety car periods throughout the 90's and 00's did not have lapped cars unlapping themselves and there was no issue during safety car restarts with blue flags or anything like that. I think it is ludicrous that lapped cars are asked to move out of the way under the SC, but it helps with the general theme of 'contrivance' for the SC period as a whole. The powers that be want an SC restart to have the top guys all nose-to-tail in the hopes of crashes and position changes at the front. It's bad enough that lead cars lose all of their lead that they had built up, but at least during the 90's and 00's the back markers physically being in the way used to give the leader a bit of a buffer on the restart. So that renders the reasoning as being totally mute. This is far from the first time. There is only two possible explanations at this stage. 1. Michael Masi is an idiot. 2. The safety car is not being used in good faith. Maybe he should have gone full English and called him Shoemaker? Better still just use the VSC. Thanks for the video, now it's even more clear. Yeah Hamilton, Vettel and Sainz should all have been penalized in a perfect world (and I wouldn't mind having seen Kimi on the podium as a result ) That would be a cobbler wouldn't it? You have the same opinion of Masi as me then. F1 Racer wrote: True but then perhaps totally confusing? Or Shoemacher? So many possibilities! If Leclerc's car had been pushed further left or Vettel spun, we'd have seen a Ferrari hit the Mercedes... So the FIA has apparently explained the need for the SC. Bottas was trying to get the steering wheel back and failed, so he bailed as not to stay on the track for too long. The marshals managed to do it eventually, but the car wouldn't go to neutral so they couldn't take it out of the track without a crane. Crane=SC these days, hence the SC session. Nothing sinister it seems Yeah, but there's no reason why crane can't equal VSC, particularly in the dry, so there is still no excuse for the SC, therefore it is still sinister when there are other solutions available. If the comeback is that their hands were tied due to their policies that they have created, then it is the policies that are at fault, meaning the situation is still unnecessary. Don't shoot the messenger! I agree, it feels a bit of a stretch, but I think that Masi was just ticking boxes here, the policies are at fault. Can't blame him for following the policy though No one is saying that the mistake occurred yesterday. The mistake occurred whenever the policies were made that allowed them to chuck in easy SC periods like this. The key takeaway is that incompetent 'mistakes' are still being made that interfere with purity. Then why are the cars being recovered before they line up behind the safety car effectively under VSC conditions anyway? And wouldn't it be Masi's policy? I agree and policies should be reviewed every so often They are recovered ASAP and SC takes some time to bunch up, so I'm not sure what you mean there. I am not sure if Masi wrote this policy or not. Not sure who is responsible for writing the policies either I think that is his point though. If the SC is presumably required for 'really unsafe situations' say, then if that is true, work needs to be delayed by the marshalls in addressing the 'really unsafe situations' until all cars are close up being the safety car. This is because for the first 10%-20% of an SC period the race effectively functions as a VSC period anyhow, so marshalls need to be disciplined and wait until the final 80% of the SC period before moving stricken cars etc. It just shows that really it is all BS and the likely underlying motivation is to decrease purity/increase fake entertainment. Further evidence to back this up is their reluctance to add a pit stop time levy on cars pitting under the SC or VSC to prevent unfair time advantages to be gained by having cheap pit stops and taking advantage of a safety procedure in an unsporting way. That and allowing lapped cars to get out of the way so that everyone is nose-to-tail for position, again says to me that these are all sneaky attempts to decrease purity/increase fake entertainment. And yes, I know the sport will never be 100% pure, but that doesn't mean that it should facilitate unnecessary actions that decrease purity even more than needs be. It still sickens me that it is seen as a legitimate 'tactic' to try and run long and take advantage of a potential safety procedure to win a race through the use of a cheap pitstop, it is tantamount to cheating and is unsporting, but it's currently viewed as a 'tactical masterstroke' in the F1 community when you pull it off. Asphalt_World I've read some interesting stuff on this forum before, but the attempt to call the Ferrari crash a racing incident, and in one case where it seems Charles is to blame, is simply beyond staggering! Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. [Lord Acton] My own Google Earth Motor Sport file. http://www.mediafire.com/?jzm1ieatytv Follow me @asphalt_world Racers do use pit stops to pull off great wins all the time, just look at Singapore 2008!!!! Look, I'd take safety over purity any day and this is not something that should be debated. Now if a SC or VSC are in order, that is a different matter altogether and personally I lean on the VSC solution. But the implication that they used it to help Ferrari in this race as suggested somewhere is just absurd to me. Of course, and like someone else mentioned before, why didn't the Sky pundits have the balls to ask Binotto what he thought CL had done wrong etc. It would have been good journalism because Binotto would have struggled to answer and not been able to present a convincing case against CL. It just goes to show that all the interviews around the race weekend are just boring cliched PR drivel and none of it really means anything, they are all just being politically correct. The team radio stuff is real and can be trusted, but very few of the interviews can, they are just boring spiel most of the time. He was asked but as any decent boss should do, Binotto said he wasn't going to give an answer on TV straight after the race. He has chosen to watch more replays with the drivers and team before discussing it in-house. To do otherwise would have been completely stupid. Us fans may like a bit of controversy to be discussed, but his job is not to do that. That's my point. The cars are effectively under VSC conditions until the catch the safety car. In this case (and others this season) the stranded car was cleared before the drivers still in the race had caught the safety car. Therefore Bottas was cleared under the same conditions as he would have been under the VSC yet we had a full on safety car. Basically if recovery can start before the cars are actually under full safety car conditions surely that proves it was unnecessary. As it's the same man that gives the order for the safety car and the OK for the recovery vehicle to go onto the circuit then surely it should raise a lot more questions than are currently being asked about the integrity of those decisions? 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__label__wiki	0.862366	0.862366	Board index Matchday Forum FCUM MEMBERS AFC Telford v FCUM. Sat 14th October 2017 (FA Cup 4RQ). A forum for posting matchday information only, for both home and away games. Opposition supporters are welcome to post - no registration necessary for them. Guy Mansfield Joined: Wed 05 Oct, 2011 4:20 pm Post by Guy Mansfield » Wed 04 Oct, 2017 12:02 am AFC Telford United will host FC United of Manchester at home in the Fourth Qualifying Round of the Emirates FA Cup. The fixture will be played at the New Bucks Head on Saturday 14th October 3pm KO. Admission Prices are £10 Adults, £6 concessions, £3 students & U16s £1. Should a replay be required the fixture will be played at Broadhurst Park on Tuesday 17th October 7.45pm KO http://www.telfordunited.com/News.aspx?ID=1365 Paul Hinson Re: AFC Telford v FCUM. Sat 14th October 2017 (FA Cup 4RQ). Post by Paul Hinson » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:45 pm On Saturday 14th October ko 3pm, FC United travel to AFC Telford in the 4th and final qualifying round of the FA Cup - Admission is pay on the gate £10 Adults, £6 Concessions, £3 16-19 yr olds, £1 for u/12s. Saturday 14th October kick-off 3pm Emirates FA CUP 4th Qualifying Round AFC Telford United v FC United of Manchester New Bucks Head Stadium Watling Street Wellington Telford TF1 2TU £10 Adults £6 Concessions (over 60) £3 for 16 to 19 year olds £1 under 16s There will be segregation in place for this match. FC United supporters will need to access via cash turnstiles I & J in the Frank Nagington Stand which provides covered terraced accommodation for 1,200 fans. Seating is also available for away fans in block A of the West Stand Disabled fans will enter through the Assisted Entrance gate (next to the Club Shop) and will pay the Concession Rate, with their carer admitted free of charge. Telford have a designated Carer’s Champion, who will be on hand for fans with disability that require any assistance. Organisers of unofficial supporters transport should contact AFC Telford United on 01952 640064 to register details of their coach to obtain free coach parking. Coaches to Telford FC United are running two official supporters coaches to Saturday’s match. One will depart from Chorlton Street, and the other will depart from Braodhurst Park, Moston, picking up at TGI’s in Prestwich. Prices are £18 adults, £9 children. To book, please call the office on 0161 769 2005 or via the website at http://www.fc-utd.co.uk/awaytickets.php The New Bucks Head is situated to the northwest of Telford in the Wellington area, and is easily accessible by road and rail. The stadium is well signposted from Junction 6 of the M54 (Wellington/Telford West). Wellington(Shropshire) Train Station is approximately 20 minutes’ walk from the ground. Also Bus number 44, runs every 10mins from Telford Town Centre Parking facilities comprise 290 spaces at the stadium (entrance via Haybridge Road) and some 500 at Telford College of Arts and Technology, which is situated on the opposite side of Haybridge Road. There is surveillance by stewards and CCTV. The fee is £3 per car. Bars and Food Refreshments are served on the concourses behind the Frank Nagington Stand where there are bars providing a range of hot and cold drinks and snacks. The concourses also have separate licensed bars for alcoholic drinks. There are three pubs within 5 minutes walking distance of the ground: The Swan, The Cock and the Railway Inn. Potential Replay Should Saturday’s match end in a draw, the replay will take place on Wednesday 18th October ko 7.45pm at Broadhurst Park. Our midweek fixtures are usually played on a Tuesday, but due to Man City playing at home next Tuesday, we cannot stage the match on that date, so the match will take place on Wednesday instead. Live FCUM match updates at: http://liveteamstats.com/ The Bucks lost all of their first 5 home League games in 2017-18, conceding 17 goals, but have won the last 4 at home in League and Cup. Connor McCarthy scored the winner for the Bucks in the last meeting in October 2016. In Telford’s last fixture against Boston United Centre back Shane Sutton scored for both sides in the first half. Midfielder Henry Cowans is the son of former Aston Villa League and European Cup winner Gordon Cowans. Left back Ryan Wilson is the son of former Chelsea and Northern Ireland striker Kevin Wilson. Telford manager Rob Edwards made 8 Premier league appearances for Aston Villa and won 15 caps for Wales between 2003-06. FCUM have lost both previous visits to the New Bucks Head and have finished with 10 men each time, losing Sam Madeley in Feb 2016 and Dale Johnson in October 2016. FCUM have not played anyone more than the Bucks (5 times) without a win. The Reds have played 4 times in the Fourth Qualifying Round, winning twice (2010,2015) and losing twice (2009,2012). Return to “Matchday Forum” Matchday Forum	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12915
__label__cc	0.741385	0.258615	Flavored milk update June 16, 2011 Mrs Q 24 Comments This just in: the Los Angeles Unified School District voted on Tuesday to ban flavored milk. I welcome this initiative because I don’t think schools should be in the business of giving kids sugary milk every day. Chef Ann has called chocolate milk “soda in drag.” There’s a lot of added sugar in flavored milk as well as high fructose corn syrup and, in the case of many strawberry milks, they also contain artificial food dyes (Red #40). Let’s jack kids up on sugar and then teach them to read! Yee-haw! But seriously, some nutritionists worry that if kids stop drinking milk they miss out on key nutrients including calcium and vitamin D. Well, I do think that some kids are turned off by white milk. I’ve blogged about the taste of my school’s plain white milk as stale and papery before. Not exactly pleasant. Spoonfed discovered that 66% of school milk sales are coming from the sale of flavored milks. And the potential loss of those sales could be devastating financially for school districts who are strapped for cash and the dairy industry, which I read is suffering from lower milk sales (though I can’t find a supporting link right now). Andy Bellatti has blogged about other sources of calcium and vitamin D including leafy, dark greens. I know that a lot of people struggle to get their kids to eat greens at home — how can school districts get kids to chow down on foods that are new and unfamiliar? Am I lucky that I have a kid that is a great eater? Good question. Luck is a part of it. Also I think I exposed him to tons of foods during a “critical period” (that coincided with me eating school food for a year and then changing my life from the bottom up). What about school kids who have been eating processed food for a few years in a row? Well, I believe they have to grow there own greens to really be invested in their consumption. But school gardens are a totally different issue. It doesn’t help that large, veritable news organizations often get their reporting wrong. Hey, I screw things up but I’m a part-time blogger; I’m not a reporter with the AP. Ed Bruske found out that the AP cited a recent “study” that was two years old and ultimately funded by the dairy industry. Who’s in the hen house? Again, Chef Ann said it well, “We don’t have a calcium crisis in our country, we have an obesity crisis.” But maybe we need to call it a nutrition crisis and not stamp the “obesity” buzzword on anything health-related. Many students of all different shapes and sizes are lactose-intolerant and could meet their calcium needs through fortified OJ, a non-dairy based milk (soy, almond, rice, coconut, etc), or leafy greens. Overall, I’m encouraged by what’s happening in LA. California does seem to be in the lead in food “trends.” I’m hoping this one catches on. Hey, I’m not against the occasionally chocolate milk made at home (we’ve even bought chocolate almond milk maybe twice this year — it’s great in fruit and veggie smoothies for a blast of sweet), but I just don’t think that schools need to be doling it out every day. Previous PostBreakfast in the classroom: example nineNext PostLunch Literature Book Club #fastfoodlover 24 thoughts on “Flavored milk update” Jennah says: I bought a chocolate milk every day for lunch as a kid (strawberry was never offered and sounds gross, anyway). I've never liked drinking regular milk except for occasionally with breakfast. Instead of cutting it out altogether, why don't they just try to make it healthier? Surely they can use less sugar and no dyes and still have it taste good. Because I have a feeling that the kids who were buying chocolate milk are going to start drinking soda or really sugary juices instead, and not water or regular milk. And maybe I'm wrong, but I think sugary milk is better than sugary soda. I think you're lucky to have a kid that is a great eater. I, too, exposed both of my kids to tons of foods during 'critical' periods. That they ate happily. Then as they grew, they stopped. And stopped some more. And stopped further. And as it happened, the best nutrition my kids got was between ages 0 and 2. Now, they're 10 and 6 and eat only boring, bland, mostly protein-less food and I tear my hair out about it. And have no control over it anymore, hard as I try to. So, if my kids want chocolate milk every day? HOORAY! There are vitamins in that milk. And some protein too. And they're still not allowed to drink soda or juice-cocktails. I remember chocolate milk being something we had occasionally in school. It was like a treat when we had it. I don't recall ever not drinking my regular milk on the other days… but I also don't know that we had any other options to pick from. As long as they take steps to improve the taste of unflavored milk, either by changing the packaging or better storage, I think it's a great move! If they don't make unflavored milk a palatable option, I agree with Jennah – kids may very well turn to other sugar-loaded drinks instead. Cherish says: I avoided milk period in elementary school, opting by high school for canned juices. I constantly argued with teachers that the milk was making me feel sick or would give me a stomachache, but they dismissed me as a whiny, picky eater. We learned partway through my high school career that I'm lactose intolerant. Forcing milk into me–even though it gave me protein and nutrients–just made me feel miserable. As a result, I think we also should be lobbying for juices to be offered to our kids that are more nutrients than dyed sugar water. Whether it be from allergies or lactose intolerance, the kids who can't drink milk need options that are healthy for them, too. Perhaps it would be wise to simultaneously ax sugary milks and implement better juices. Then, those children who snub the white milk for whatever reason still have a healthy alternative to go to. Dana Woldow says: I am neither for nor against chocolate milk; I am, however, for honesty in discussions related to school food. I am critical of the dairy industry for some of their unsupported claims about milk, but likewise I am critical of those who apparently feel that it is okay to make unsupported claims about chocolate milk. Soda and chocolate milk are in no way similar when it comes to added sugar (which I think we all agree is the type of sugar under discussion, not the sugar which occurs naturally in milk, accounting for more than half of the g of total sugar in most chocolate milk.) The typical nonfat plain milk served in schools has 14 g sugar, not 12; this is because dairies add additional nonfat milk solids to skim milk to give it a more palatable “mouth feel” – which is to say, it is more appealing, and customers, including kids, are more likely to drink it, if the milk feels richer in the mouth than would be the case without the added milk solids. Skim milk without added milk solids also has a kind of bluish color which is not appealing. I think it is splitting hairs to count those two grams in the additional milk solids as “added sugar”. The chocolate milk served in LAUSD (and increasingly in the fall you will see it in other schools too) has just the additional 6 grams of added sugar, which bring the total g to 20 in 8 oz. Those 6g equate to .75g per ounce. Coke, on the other hand, has 3.25g added sugar per ounce, more than 4 times as much as the LAUSD chocolate milk. Really, is it honest to say that soda, with 4 times the added sugar of chocolate milk, is the same as chocolate milk? The fact that the dairy industry may be stretching the truth does not make it okay for the other side to do likewise. School food advocates should not lower themselves to using the worst tricks of Big Food. I think that this initiative is a step in the right direction, but I think that there are more important issuses in school lunch than the milk. What about those PB&J "sandwiches" you got last year…or the "chicken" nuggets that look almost identical to tatar tots? Those foods likely have more sugar, dyes, and additives than a carton of chocolate milk (I'm assuming, of course, since I do not have access to the ingredients list). And from a nutrition student's perspective, I would just like to add that, while leafy greens DO contain calcium, that calcium is not as easily absorbed by your body as the calcium found in milk. I think that is one of the biggest concerns when nutritionists sight calcium requirements as a reason for keeping flavored milk in. Does that make it right? Not necessarily. . .but it is something that we should be taking into consideration. I LOVE the idea of fortified juices! It would be a great alternative to flavored milk! While I understand your points, if this had happened to me just a few years ago when I was in high school you would have found me drinking soda, juice, or sweet tea everyday instead of regular milk. I can't stand the taste so if there were no flavors, I just simply wouldn't have purchased milk at all. That's the bad part of this. its funny, i've read lots of other articles in fitness genres, and they all have said that chocolate milk is a good source of vitamins, minerals, etc – in FITNESS articles!!! i think it is kind of ridiculous to think that something like chocolate milk could be a major contributor to something like childhood obesity. NPR did a really great segment on this topic. also, have you seen this article? http://www.icanhasinternets.com/2011/05/who-eats-better-students-or-prisoners/ Morenita Lokita says: I love chocolate but in grade school, I hated the chocolate milk they offered! It was too thick and didn't satisfy my chocolate cravings. My elementary school (in CA) only offered juices to kids who were lactose-intolerant. And in order for you to get the juice, you had to have your parent prove it. If they wouldn't, then you were stuck with the milk. why is water not offered? it's naturally sugar-free… One Blonde Girl says: I hated drinking regular milk growing up and would only drink flavored milk (although I would still have regular in my cereal). To this day, at 31, I still refuse to drink regular milk because I can't stand the taste. If I'm going to drink milk, it better be chocolate or I'm not having any of it. I have never in my entire life, despite my daily chocolate milk consumption, had a problem with being obese or overweight. I would argue, as was the case with me, that even with the additional sugar consumption, drinking flavored milk is more beneficial than not drinking any at all. Our county just brought chocolate milk back to school lunches after some revamping. The students were thrilled. Prior to the return of the chocolate milk, I witnessed very few students drinking regular milk with their lunches. In fact, they tended to drink sugary sports drinks and "juices". Now I see them drinking chocolate milk. I highly doubt chocolate milk is the source of the childhood obesity epidemic. I would say a more likely cause would be the giant bags of chips and candy that I see students bringing into school and consuming alongside their school lunches. School lunch reform can only do so much. Schools can serve healthful, nutritionally valuable meals, and students will still be obese. Ultimately, I strongly believe the responsibility falls to the parents, not the schools, to reign in childhood obesity. Like most posters, I simply didn't drink plain milk. Still don't, it's nasty. Add to that the fact that school milk is either sort-of warm or frozen, and it gets worse….. Not to be the harbinger of doom, but a lot of kids are great eaters as babies and young toddlers, and then slowly but surely, they start rejecting all their favorites until you have nothing left to feed them. My daughter loved everything until she was about 3 or 4, then hated everything until she was 8, at which point she suddenly started expanding her repertoire again. (I nearly passed out the day she asked if she could try some of my scrambled eggs at a restaurant. Why yes, you can!!) As to chocolate milk, I know we had it in the cafeteria when I was in elementary school in the 70s, because my winter coat got ruined one year when someone spilled chocolate milk into the faux fur hood. I tend to agree with the poster who said it's more likely to be chips and candy that are making kids obese – those are definitely more available than they were 30 years ago, when a candy bar was a once-a-week treat (if that). In the school I was at last year (it was a PreK program) the students were only give white milk in the morning for breakfast. The school believed it was healthier and since, for a preschooler, all of the hard work occurs in the morning, it gave them more vitamins and energy to get through the day. For lunch, they were given the choice between white or chocolate milk. I'd say the children were split in half of who liked what milk. But sure, chocolate milk has more sugar but it still has a good amount of vitamin D to help the kids bones. I know for sure the students at that school were only drinking pop and sugary juice. lauren_015 says: In my elementary school, we were only offered chocolate milk once a week, on Fridays. I loved this. It felt special, but we were still able to learn to drink the icky white stuff. 🙂 Now, I drink neither. As soon as I got out of my mother's roof, I switched to water. clairebear says: Agreeing with Vanessa. When my now 10 year old was eating broccoli as a toddler, I bragged to my parents. Mom's reply was, "you ate it too, until you went to school and learned it was gross" Peer pressure starts early, and I believe you have already mentioned that your son likes when his lunch matches the other kids' Andrew @ Eating Rules says: Preface: I'm completely in favor of reducing/removing chocolate milk in schools. It's interesting you mentioned "fortified" orange juice. I've been thinking about fruit juices a lot recently, since the USDA considers a glass of fruit juice to be a serving of fruit. I think that's total bunk. A glass of orange juice is basically a glass of sugar and vitamin C (which we can get easily elsewhere). I'm generally not a fan of fortification, because nutrition science is always evolving, and we don't know what we don't know. But what we do know is that fresh, whole foods are almost universally better for us than foods that have had nutrients removed and then had some of them put back. I'm not a parent, but if I had kids, I'd rather they drank chocolate milk than orange juice. Better yet, my kids — most of the time, at least — would be drinking regular milk and actual oranges. The LA Times posted a good Editorial today about Chocolate Milk vs. OJ: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-milk-20110617,0,1598233.story When I was in elementary school back in the 80's, our beverage choices were plain milk, chocolate milk, orange juice, and apple juice. I always got plain milk or sometimes apple juice. It wasn't that I didn't like chocolate milk, but it didn't seem to go with lunch. I thought of it more like a dessert. I mean, chocolate with pizza? Ew. It also didn't quench thirst, probably because of the sugar. The plain milk was only a little better though. Even as a kid, I wondered why we couldn't just have a glass of water. We had water fountains, but I remember being really thirsty in school a lot and wishing I could just have a tall glass of cold water instead of just a sip from the water fountain. When I brought lunch from home, I had a thermos of homemade iced tea. My mom always kept a pitcher in the fridge. It had caffiene and added sugar, but not as much as a coke, and it was refreshing. Why CAN'T kids drink water? DRINKING is primarily to rehydrate yourself, food is where you get your calories and nutrients. Ok, ok, I know some people don't like water. I was never one of those people, but at least have water as an option for the water-drinkers out there. I hate that milk is revered so much in our American society!! Chocolate, strawberry, plain – none of them are magic liquid entities that magically make kids healthy/healthier. The USA is one of the top consumers, per person, of milk in the whole world. The US also has one of the highest rates of osteoporosis. Low milk consuming societies generally have low rates of osteorporosis. The milk-calcium-bone density myth has been created and perpetuated by the intense lobbying of the dairy industry throughout the lifetimes of most adults living today. For those that wonder, yes I consume dairy – but in the form of cheese, not drinking it. So I am not radically stating that dairy should be strictly avoided (though sometimes I wonder…). Just saying that I don't think it's the magic food that Americans often believe it is and I am always annoyed it gets such a prominent posistion in our society (it's own circle, even, on MyPlate). In closing, drink water 🙂 @Marie – the June lunch menu for our school had a cartoon cow with the caption "Don't be a cowch potato this summer – get 60 minutes of exercise every day for good health, and don't forget your milk!" I agree with Andrew @ Eating Rules. Oranges and other fruits are for eating, not drinking. Most nutrients are in the part of the fruit that's removed to make juice. As a result, fruit juice is refined fruit and as such, is calorie dense while providing little in the way of nutrients. I also think kids need to be provided easy access to water at lunchtime. I have the impression that most are not and I think that's weird and not a good thing. Emily (or other professional nutritionist reading this), isn't the calcium in leafy greens highly absorbable if the greens are cooked? Lots of people have commented here that chocolate milk at school doesn't cause obesity. So true, but that's a myopic view of the issue. It's the added sugar in chocolate milk (2 or 3 times a day in many cases) PLUS the added sugar in cereal, bread, biscuits, buns, crackers, cookies, muffins, pancakes and French toast, powdered eggs and liquid eggs, breakfast sausage, flavored yogurt, applesauce, canned fruit, tomato sauce on pizza and pasta, mayonnaise, ketchup, barbecue sauce, salsa and taco sauce, salad dressings (including ranch) and dipping sauces, teriyaki sauce, tater tots and French fries (in the coatings added for oven frying), chicken nuggets and chicken fingers (it's in the breading), veggie burgers, baked beans, hot dogs and cold cuts, chili, sloppy joe filling, coatings on flavored chips, and on and on and on. On top of all that added sugar, most of the items containing flour contain refined white flour that is converted to sugar by the body so quickly that eating it is similar to eating sugar. In combination, a diet rich in these so-called child-friendly foods contributes significantly to obesity. Even for children who aren't overweight, we're setting them up for becoming obese as adults. Two-thirds of adults in this country are overweight with half of those being obese and those numbers are on the rise. Where does it end? Removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias is one of many changes needed to improve school food and I applaud the LAUSD, among others, for having the good sense and guts to do it. @Kim–you're absolutely right that the calcium (and other great nutrients) are more easily absorbed when the greens are cooked. After re-reading my post, I realize that I didn't really make myself clear…I was refering to raw greens. I apologize for the confusion/misinformation. Now the question becomes: how do we get kids to eat these awesome veggies? Most kids I know are completely turned off by anything green! Just something to consider. Emily, thanks for clarifying and no apology needed! I hear you about kids not liking greens. Heck, most adults I know don't like them. But some schools have had success in getting kids to eat greens, usually mixed with other foods. I think it's worth the effort. Aren't beans, or at least some types of beans, also rich in calcium?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12916
__label__wiki	0.966124	0.966124	Yours For Mine Dear Children By Sheena Lyonnais Virginia's Yours For Mine have managed to find the perfect balance between post-hardcore, progressive rock and emo. What first comes to mind would be similarities to From Autumn to Ashes but the additions of brass and talking dubs on tracks like "Absence In Elegance" steer them more in their own direction. The album boasts badass bass and rhythm lines with a nice variety of melodic styles, but it is the calibre of the instrumental talent that stands out. Songs such as "The Angry End" and "What Happened to Us" are strong in lyrics, melody and construction. Being recorded by Caleb Keiter (Death Cab for Cutie) and mastered by Kim Rosen (Franz Ferdinand) has definitely helped this debut too. The title track and "The Instrumental" shine light on the fact that Yours For Mine are very much a religious band. Unlike many Christian records though, this album doesn't preach, making it appeal to a much larger audience. It's a strong debut and a great record whether you pray to the God of Christianity or the God of rock. (Blood and Ink) More Yours For Mine View Today's Trending Tickets 'Mindhunter' on Indefinite Hiatus BC's Titans of Rock Reveals Initial Lineup with Our Lady Peace, Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings Hank Azaria Will No Longer Voice Apu Gene Simmons Is Launching a Rock Music Festival in Canada The Wiggles' Greg Page Suffers Heart Attack Onstage Behold Insane Clown Posse's "Frothy Whoop Dub" Clown Craft Beer Here Are 8 Real-Life Assassins Who Were Nearly as Dangerous as John Wick Broken Social Scene Release 'Live at Third Man Records' Finn Wolfhard's New Band the Aubreys Share Debut Song Sandi Toksvig Quits the 'Great British Bake Off'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12917
__label__wiki	0.842962	0.842962	Skateboarder Birthplace Connecticut Zodiac sign Gemini Brian Anderson (Skateboarder) was born on June 12, 1976(age 43) in Connecticut under Gemini zodiac. Brian Anderson ranking is 58177 ! Please boost for higher rank to be on top of Trending birthdays. Let's discover Brian Anderson's profile in detail such as: Date of Birth, Birth Place, Current Age, Hight, Nationality, Education, School, College, Star sign, Parents, Siblings, Family members, Personal life, Childhood, Early life, Awards and Achievements, Known for, Interesting facts, Networth, House owned, Cars owned, Brand Ambassador for, List of Owned Business. Explore more details about Brian Anderson on Wikipedia. Read trending tweets about Brian Anderson on Twitter. Find professional information about Brian Anderson on Linkedin below. Professional skateboarder who won the World Cup of Skateboarding title in Germany in 1999. He was named Thrasher Magazine's Skater of the Year that same year. He turned professional in 1998 while skating for Toy Machine. He had a decade-long partnership with Girl Skateboards before leaving to found his own company, 3D Skateboards. He has a sister. He and David Gonzalez have both been named Skater of the Year by Thrasher Magazine. Brian Anderson's Social Profiles Follow Brian Anderson on Twitter Connect Brian Anderson on LinkedIn See all questions and discussions related with Brian Anderson on Quora. Follow Brian Anderson on Facebook Read full biography of Brian Anderson on Wikipedia Brian Anderson Popularity Born on June 12 Born in Connecticut More June 12 Birthdays More Gemini Born In Connecticut	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12918
__label__wiki	0.723924	0.723924	GlassView \| Video Advertising Reimagined GUEST: Why 2017 is the Year of 360 Video When it comes to video marketing, 360 video is making its mark in 2017. Looking back, in 2015 YouTube launched what seemed to be a half-step between traditional video and Virtual Reality. The introduction, 360-degree video, let viewers see into the frame. If the video filmed a concert, then viewers could turn the camera to see the sky or look at people in the audience and then pan back to the stage. Later that year, Facebook introduced its own version of 360. CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed it a “step towards even more immersive experiences.” In the intervening two years or so, 360 hasn’t set the world on fire. In 2017 though, that is changing. Snapchat’s recent backing of 360 has given the technology a second wind. Advertisers who dismissed 360 as a gimmick should give it another look because 360 offers better engagement than standard video ads and is a gateway for VR, which is on its way to going mainstream. 360 Video Success Stories Though 360 hasn’t been huge yet, there have been encouraging use cases. Thisteaser video for Clash of Clans 360 for instance, went viral in late 2015, netting over 59 million views at this writing. Another 360 video for Clash of Clans: Hog Rider 360° has gotten over 49 million. Elsewhere, travel companies and tourism boards have experimented with 360, as the format seems a natural vehicle for showing off a locale. Car companies have also tried 360. BMW used the format for a video featuring model Gigi Hadid that got attention last year. Mercedes-Benz has also used it to show what it’s like to drive an E-Class around Lisbon. In the entertainment field, Walt Disney’s Jungle Book, Warner Bros.’ Kong: Skull Island and others have used 360 to spice up their trailers. However, many have echoed the complaint that 360 isn’t as immersive as VR, and it’s too much of a bother for casual viewers. A Majority Advertisers & Publishers Expect 360 Video To Be a Top Revenue Driver in 2017 (AOL Study) With digital video quickly becoming a popular option for both creatives and consumers, it becomes increasingly…thevideoink.com A New Approach to 360 Videos That’s changing. While Facebook and Google laid the groundwork for 360, in mid-2016, Snapchat began supporting 360 as well. Snapchat’s approach has been a bit different. Not only are the videos only 10 seconds long, but viewers can move them forward as well as sideways and backward. More recently, Netflix and Chick -fil-A have experimented with the format. OmniVirt, which helps advertisers provide 360 experiences on Snapchat, claims that the ads provide better click-throughs and higher engagement than standard video. Universal Pictures told Digiday that it saw twice the engagement on a 360 video for Fifty Shades Darker than it has for non-360 Snapchat ads. Snapchat’s exploration of 360 video will continue; TechCrunch notes that the company has looked into creating and marketing a 360 camera. Snap Spectacles, Snapchat’s head-mounted video camera, also seems like a logical way to provide more 360 video to the format. The key point to consider is that mobile video is evolving. With its use of filters, Snapchat has mainstreamed Augmented Reality for social video. While full-on VR is a few years away for most consumers, 360 is a good middle step, sort of VR-lite. Snapchat is well positioned to mainstream 360 as well. With Snapchat’s backing, marketers have cause to reassess 360, which offers better overall engagement — when viewers opt to tune in. In its own analysis of a Columbia Sportswear campaign, Google found that the view-through rate on 360 was less than for standard ads, indicating that “viewers aren’t always in the mood to interact with 360 video.” However, 360 ads also provided a higher click-through rate, which showed that when consumers were in the mood to watch a 360 video, they spent more time with that video. Now that 360 is available in all the major video formats, advertisers should look at 360 as an opportunity for creative experimentation. Few advertisers have thought to gamify the experience, for example. What if a brand offered prizes for viewers who found hidden clues or Easter eggs (in-jokes and references planted in the background) to encourage engagement? Live 360 video has also been out for year or so, but few advertisers have done much with it, despite continued interest in live video. Advertisers who have dismissed 360 should take another look. With VR still in its infancy, advertisers should look at 360 as test bed for what will likely become a dominant medium in the next decade. Bio: Peter Dakich is vice president of business development at video advertising platform GlassView. GlassView EffectTM In stream web Out stream web Out stream mobile © 2017 Glassview Media \| Advertisers Terms & Conditions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12929
__label__cc	0.669374	0.330626	Global Asia Blog Discover GAB What is GAB? International Relations 2 (2015-16) Community Based Tourism (2015-16) IPaDs MP4 (2013-14) towards a peaceful syria Author mzwsweli Date November 6, 2019 This is the 8th year since the beginning of Syrian war, which started when citizens protested for reforms of Assad policies and the release of political prisoners. The government responded with a barrel of a gun, since then the civil war has escalated and become more complex with various international actors (with different interest) getting involved. Millions of people have died, displaced and homeless and the number is still growing. It is on those grounds that we embark on a Peace plan for Syria, a peace that will advance the interest and will of people. Let us critically examine the peace mechanisms that we believe can bring sustainable peace in the Arab Republic of Syria. We hold the view that Syria can reduce violence and achieve sustainable peace. In this paper we will explain the Adana Agreement, Syrian Constitution Committee, 10-point memorandum, Kofi Annan six-point plan, as major tools that can be utilised to achieve sustainable peace for the people of Syria. Adana Agreement Before we display the importance of this mechanism, it will be significant for us to outline brief history of this agreement, subsequently to that then show its effect in utilising it towards peaceful Syria. After many years of a border conflict, Turkey and Syria signed an agreement in the Turkish city of Adana in 1998 that calmed tension that brought the two nations to the edge of war. Historians demonstrate that the bitter relations between these states emerge after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1 about the border between Syria (which was part of empire and Turkey its successor. The Adana agreement was a product of joint efforts by Egypt and Iran and satisfied Turkish demands that Syria must abolish its continuous support for PKK and categorise such as “terrorist” organisation, which led to Damascus banishing Abdullah Ocalan from Syria. Furthermore, the agreement also stated that each country will abandon the military exercises that might jeopardise one of the country. The agreement has been in force up until the outbreak of 2011 war, when Ankara steadfastly called for Assad to step-down, which resulted to the breakdown of diplomatic relations. However, the recent developments with the help of Moscow has resuscitated the relations between the Damascus and Ankara, as Turkey agreed that any rapprochement should be based on the Adana agreement. In their 10-point plan memorandum, clause 4, they have cemented the importance of recognising the sovereignty and integrity of Syria, which means that the Turkey government which did not acknowledge Assad regime since the outbreak of war will now respect it and negotiate it when needed for a political solution. This is important as it might lead us to the negotiating table between these governments and pave the way to peace. Part of the agreement was that Russia will facilitate the process, we on the other hand argue that in order for this agreement to be legitimate the UN secretary General must be the neutral chief facilitator for this process as Moscow might be biased as they have interest. Our fear is the disagreement that might arise due to Russia who might dictate the terms and conditions on their favourable side. THE CURRENT ISSUE OF SAFE-ZONE source: international maps (2019) It will be in the interest of peace and humanity for Syria and Ankara to agree on the safe zone to accommodate the refugees and to avoid the conflict, permit the Kurdish to move southwards. However as much as it can be impossible, but as historians and humanitarian’s students we would like the officials to discuss the issue of giving Kurdish semi-autonomous regional land. These millions people after the collapse of Ottoman empire, they were promised an autonomous state towards the end of world war one, however Turkey rejected that Treaty of Sevres. We argue that there will be wisdom in revisiting that discussion, to avoid another conflict in the future. Syrian Constitution Committee This is another mechanism that can be utilised in solving Syrian War, which has come as a result of long negotiations of two years. This committee will be launched in few weeks’ time in Geneva, which will constitute 150 members from government, civil society and opposition parties. The responsibility of this committee will rewrite the Syrian constitution, which is critical for the purpose of peace. We hold the view that this is the ingredient towards our objectives, as rewriting constitution might bring the reforms that the masses were calling for which started the protest in the first place. In addition, we argue that the representation should be balanced in all parties, 50 from governments, 50 from civil society as well as 50 from opposition parties, in order to avoid complaints from opposition not recognising this committee and its decisions. Furthermore, we also urge the relevant officials in their oppositions to select as widely as possible, even those small minority, marginalised groups to be accommodated. History has taught us that a peace accord that is not inclusive is likely to receive mixed emotions which might cause another outbreak of war, as we have seen in South Sudan peace deal, where violence continued in regions where rebel groups were not part of peace deal. Moreover, we also worried about the issue of Idlib province which is currently under the control of rebel forces, and Assad seeks to take over that area military. It then becomes imperative for officials to deliberate this matter before Assad attacks the area and causing another bloodshed Furthermore, we assert that this committee will be a turning point, as UN Secretary General Guterres has emphasised that this ‘Syrian-owned and Syrian-led’ constitutional committee will be facilitated by the United Nations in Geneva and he also thanked Russia, Iran (Assad allies) and Turkey (Syrian opposition allies) for their efforts. We are however cautious about the status of Kurdish as well as ISIL group as some participants in this committee categorized them as terrorist group, we are therefore call upon the committee to deliberate on this issue and find amicable solutions for all parties. We are hoping the Committee next month will be fruitful for the aspiration will of the Syrian people and end the killings of innocent people. Kofi Annan six-point peace plan We also call for the hybrid approach of this nature to be supported where the UN envoy will work hand in hand with Arab League in ensuring that there is no continuation of troop movements in the region that might cause another war. Arab region is a fragile region, and therefore we urge for the UN-Arab joint efforts in supervising cessation of armed violence. Also ensure fast delivery of humanitarian assistance, the release of detained people United Nation General Secretary states firmly that no military action will solve Syrian War, it is only through an inclusive political dialogue that we can end this longest worst humanitarian crisis and create sustainable peace in Syria as well as in the Arab region. All of the above-mentioned intervention are an attempt in addressing the bloody war, and we argue that the implementers must be cautious of its weaknesses or constraints and must capitalise on the strengths of each plan to counter the weaknesses. We urge the relevant officials to address our fears as not to repeat the failure of Sudan peace agreement (which failed to account to all parties) and avoid the re-occurrence of the conflict. With this, we will be able to progress towards a peaceful Syria. More importantly to comprehend is that, the officials can combine all the above mentioned mechanism or select the strongest points from each plan in solving the Syrian war. Our hope is that those who care can turn our plan into a present reality. We have tried the rest in the past, let us now try the best. Time is now. Come let us save humanity. References https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/full-text-turkey-russia-agreement-northeast-syria-191022180033274.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/erdogan-putin-meet-truce-northeast-syria-set-ex Posted in IPaDs MP3 (2013-14) International Relations 1 (2016-2017) IPaDs M3 2014 Debate Findings Canadians don’t believe in the Syrian war Trump ignores the important aspect of sustainable urbanisation Theory and praxis – A story of disconnect in India Who won the Syrian war? How should Germany deal with its IS-returnees? Are women empowered and seen as equal to men in France? 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__label__cc	0.54006	0.45994	Board index Ironhide GamesIron Marines Speculation and Wishlist Thread A new Sci-Fi adventure! Mechas included. by Big Bad Bug » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:26 pm (First thread in the new subforum! ) Here's where we can post speculation in terms of story and gameplay for Iron Marines. There's not much yet, but hopefully that will soon change. Heroes! Mr. T, as I will call him for short, is an anagram of Agustin, Father of Dragons and one of the earliest members of Ironhide. This hero seems much stronger compared to the enemies he faces. Perhaps he was given huge stat damage numbers just to test if he could do the things Ironhide wanted him to do, and will be rebalanced to a more reasonable state afterward. Perhaps this is already his final state, and the enemies are just significant weaker compared to heroes. We see that he has a shield. This could be a recharging shield that protects a certain amount of damage, similar to Arivan's rocks. Alternatively, it could be a skill that gives him super defence, or blocks specific damage types. It could also block some damage types as a passive. Either way, it definitely looks unique to him and not like a spell or item used on him that can apply to other units. As a "casual" RTS made by the developers of Kingdom Rush, I suspect that there will be some Tower Defence relation in this game. This is a tenuous assumption, since the team is so much larger and won't have full influence from the guys handling KR, but games of this genre tend to have defensive methods anyways, as that's part of the core gameplay. Offensive towers could be included amongst normal unit-training buildings, and I bet those would be excellent, especially if they took inspiration from KR. There are different and variated troop types, for instance the blue people seem to have some snipers. I hope this means we have troops that fall into pre-designated categories, with set ranges and speeds each work best at. Because of a presumed lack of melee what I remember from being pretty good at Rome (1) Total War won't help me, but I still love those good ol' hammer and anvil days. There are buildings to use. I would assume that these are made in the usual RTS way of specific units to act as builders, however I actually think I would also like the Edain Mod's building technique. It is presumable that there will be multiple buildings, one or possibly more for resources, several for training different units, and perhaps one or more to upgrade troops and buildings. A defensive tower of some kind will probably exist also. Turrets confirmed. AOE confirmed. Enemies grant numbers in the hundreds, making me assume that if it is a resource, then it comes in large quantities like this to avoid decimals or just look better. If merely a score,it could also be for those reasons. They fall quickly, meaning that there is a large gap in the power of some things in the game. Turrets could be very strong, and some enemies could be very weak. Maybe it's one of the two or both, or maybe a third option, like altered stats for testing. From this picture below, I presume that the close-up art will be as intricate and refined as always, but even more than before. Also, unique and original science-fiction guns could play big roles for special units, most likely heroes. Based on the blue dotted line, movement of units is executed by tapping the desired troop and directing it to a location by tapping the ground. Dragging seemed to occur as well, so that hopefully plays a role in specifying movement types, such as tapping to move and dragging to patrol. Objectives regarding reactivation of energy from a still-unknown source called the COMSAT (communications satellite) and likely more types of missions exist, with layers, as shown in "2/3." I loathe that hero portrait for its blandness, but further confirmation of heroes is assuredly a positive thing. Based on the below image, we get to see th most of the environment, which is a very snowy mountainous region with holes in the firing and has brown, grotesque blobs, likely to be alien egg sacs or some time of infection. A possible final boss or ultimate hero? Sounds: Sound effects as well as music are crucial to building atmosphere. Compare Origins to the first 2 KR's to see how much music can make a difference. Factions. See JB's post. I really want factions as well, preferably with drastically unique play styles. BFME2's factions are well-balanced (for the most part), but they're all so similar. Only heroes and spells really separate them from each other, and even then, some heroes are quite similar to each other as well as spells overlapping. Have armies that are focused on certain tactics but still have a little bit of everything else, to keep long games interesting and varied. Multiplayer. If I can interact with other players in matches, either against or with them, the game will have infinite play time as well as infinite fun. Spells. Besides strategy, some tactical bonuses would also help tremendously to keep combat varied. Spell trees, or at least multiple options from the start in any other form would be the best for an RTS. One faction could even have a heavy focus on spells compared to others as a defining trait, which would be amazing. Detailed Micro. Pretty much Kevin's suggestion. Options to change the amount of hostility that units have towards enemies, their goals in a mission (defend a unit/structure/area, attack, etc.), and set multiple movements at once. It might make for quite a full menu when a unit is selected, but fullness means options, which strategy games need to be interesting. Detailed Maps. See Kevin's suggestion. Large maps, or at least on the verge of big, aren't always best, but some should be present. Small maps with narrow spaces can also be fun to take advantage of, especially when they limit unit types and army sizes. Environmental additions, neutral/always hostile units guarding treasure, and neutral buildings for capture (possibly guarded by neutral units) to add bonuses should not only be present, but also optional. Customizable Matches. Being able to set up a Skirmish match is a must. Starting resources, unit availability, hero availability, spell usage, neutral enemies, neutral buildings, and whatever else you can think of. Make as many things optional for the most variety, player adaptability, and replay value. Skins. This is a stretch, but if I could unlock different skins or other visual, non-gameplay bonuses by using a certain unit effectively multiple times, I might love this game more than the KR series. Better skins should take more to earn, but still be within reason. Even if I do play this game enough to kill 1,000 units with a hero, I would like to kill at least 300 of them with a brand new skin. Target-Locking: Force units to shoot at a specific unit and not waste abilities/resources. Patrolling: Make units move between any amount of selected spots until ordered otherwise. Unit Upgrades: Self-explanatory. The game needs this because customisation of one's army should be as in-depth as possible, adding more strategic possibilities and length to games. Plus, it gives more things to spend Etherium on. Unit Abilities: Beyond just heroes, units should have special powers that they can use. Not all need one, but there should still be plenty of units who do have powers. They should all have cooldowns, as well as a low Etherium cost to use. Unit/Enemy Suggestions: Burrower - A swiftly-traveling unit that moves underground, hidden from damage. It would be moderately easy to destroy once above ground, but able to deal heavy damage specifically to enemy structures. Manifold Raider - A slowly moving unit that, when destroyed, breaks into a few smaller but faster units. The damage of the larger one would be moderate, while the damage of the smaller ones would be less so. Reconstitutor - A non-damaging unit that would scavenge for destroyed ally and enemy units, turning their scrap back into resources. It would be relatively easy to destroy it. Shadow Stalker - A unit that can become invisible when out of combat. While weak in terms of armor, it would be able to deal relatively heavy damage in sneak attacks. Gargantuan - A massive, slowly moving unit that would act as a heavy front line to soak damage from incoming enemy attacks. The unit would either deal minimal damage or no damage at all to compensate for its great defensive prowess. Lync - A weak, low-cost unit that deals little damage to enemies. However, when combined (or "linked") with others of its kind, its power grows exponentially and each can deal significantly more damage. Saboteur- A very fast unit with average health and average damage. It has a skill that can disable enemy skills in a large AoE. (This would have a lengthy cooldown.) It gains a massive stat boost when battling mechas and/or attacking structures. It would be moderately expensive. Smart-bomb- A low cost, low health, & fast speed unit. It naturally homes in on the largest nearby group of enemies & then explodes for high damage with a good-sized AoE. Bomber unit- an aircraft/mecha that drops a bomb dealing massive area damage. Balanced by slow-movement, weak armor and several resources to build. Earth Piercer- A slow, heavy mecha with a very high cost, average life but high armor. It has no main guns, but an extremely powerful ability that can take some time to recharge. It launches 2 rockets, one per arm, that deal incredibly heavy damage, instantly killing most units and small structures in a large AOE. The explosions leave a wide hole in the ground that prevent the movement of infantry, but the holes disappear eventually. Deathbringer- A Melee infantry unit with high speed, given by rocket shoes or a rocket pack. He wields dual blades made of concentrated Etherium that can slice through the thickest metal or energy shield. He deals high damage to units but is easily killed by ranged attacks. Warden- A slow-moving mecha with dual turrets that can lock down in a location, gaining increased firing speed, damage, and armor. It takes significant time to alternate between each mode. Alternatively, it must stay locked down once it does so, but gains an even more powerful stat boost compared to the 1st concept. Etherium Guardian- A flat platform, surrounded by metal shields on all sides, and moving on tank wheels. In the middle of the platform is a large spire, conducting power. Infantry units around it gain energy shields that recharge after not being attacked for awhile. Sentry- A flying unit, in the form of a small, light mecha with an infinite jet pack. It has a slow attack compared to machine guns, but not that slow, perhaps a mere bullet per second. The bolts would be of pure blue energy, exploding for a small AOE and dealing bonus damage to enemy machinery, be it structures, mechas, or vehicles of some other kind. It is quick, powerful, expensive, and vulnerable to damage. Arcane Omniscient- An expensive infantry unit that sees an alternative use for Etherium: to find a greater life, a greater world. They cast devastating spells that can deal massive damage to a large army or instantly wipe out a single, elite enemy unit. Expensive and frail, they are glass cannons. Purifier- The ultimate mecha, it has average speed and good damage, with extremely high defense. One of the most costly units in the game, it is a statistical monstrosity, either for late game assaults on a heavily guarded base or rushed out to be micro-ed to victory as it slaughters weaker units on its own. To be updated. Last edited by Big Bad Bug on Thu Jan 14, 2016 1:27 am, edited 12 times in total. Re: Speculation Thread by Juice Box » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:25 pm What I'm really hoping for is multiple factions--around four, 'cause that's always the most funnestest. But yeah. If this is an RTS, then it should have lots of factions. And not just that--they need to be distinct, too, but still heavily balanced. I need to be able to tell within a glance of a single unit or a single ability that, hey, this thing belongs to this specific faction, which has this specific playstyle, etc. Like, you guys know StarCraft II right? Think the balance between Zerg, Protoss and Terran: Terran for defense and the ability to adapt to any situation, Protoss for sheer power, and Zerg for not giving a fruit because your numbers are endless and your troops can evolve. Even though you've got these different factions, you can still immediately tell when a specific unit or a specific ability belongs to a certain race because they were designed so well. And you'll still want to try out all three factions because even though they're extremely different, they're still really well-balanced against each other. I really want to see that in this game. Oh, and an Alric/Eridan easter egg. This is a requirement. Every game in the world is somehow amplified whenever either Eridan or Alric is in it. So there. Juice Box Re: Speculation and Wishlist Thread by kevin32 » Wed Nov 25, 2015 2:44 pm Speculation: During a routine cargo transport out in space, a fat drunk cargo tech listening to 23rd-century country rock discovered unidentified life forms on a nearby planet. The United Federation of Solar Systems sent a small team of scientists to greet the life forms. They never returned or were heard from. Concerned, the UFSS sent a small security team to locate the scientists. Upon arrival, the security team came upon a glowing substance now labeled Etherium, which is capable of developing energy and resources with greater efficiency and durability than industry standards. This is the latest static-filled transmission between Admiral JuiceBox of the UFSS and the security team. Admiral: "Captain, what is the status of the situation." Captain: "Well ma'am, we haven't found the scienti....ZZSSSSS...there appears to be....ZZSSS...sort of factory...SSZZZZ...things are being manufactured." Admiral: "What are they building!?" The admiral listened in dread to the last transmission from the security team: Captain: "....ZZZSSS....odies!...SSSSSZZZZZZ...Human...CCZZZZZ...odies...ZZZZSSS" With no response from the security team, the UFSS has sent an elite military group known as the Iron Marines to find any personnel and to discover what happened on the planet. • The option to switch from manual to automatic. RTS implies lots of manual control and micro-managing. This is fun especially in the beginning when your army is small. But when you have a large number of units across the map, micro-managing everything can be a headache, so an automated process for common actions would be Greaaaat. For example, sometimes I want units to use their special skills automatically, or for a repair unit to automatically go around and repair units in its range instead of pointing him to each individual unit. As your army gets larger, you can choose between micro-managing and macro-managing. • A detailed map of your resources. Most RTS games have a general map where you can see your units and where the enemy is. I think it would be convenient to have a more detailed map about your units and their stats, especially when you have a large army with lots of buildings and can't remember where everything is. Here are some ideas for the map: > Overview of units. Basically tells you how many units and buildings you have, and their locations color-coded on the map. But you can break it down further to view only the troops, or tanks, or fuel buildings, or repair units, etc. > Damage indicator. Displays whether any units are low on health and where. > Threat indicator. Displays whether any units are being attack and where (though this should probably be on the general map). • A map for strategic planning. Especially for setting waypoints and rules of engagement. If I have a large number of units and wanted to ambush a nearby enemy camp, I have to select a group of units, move them towards the camp, then select another group and move them towards the camp, and so on multiple times. I would like a map option where I can set the direction and actions of all groups ahead of time and then when I'm ready, with one click all units can move out and execute their orders at the same time. This also helps when you want to move a large number of units to a new camping location. • A cease-fire option. Units tend to fire as soon as the enemy is within range, revealing themselves. Sometimes I want to bypass and flank the enemy without them noticing. And sometimes I want units to retreat before getting killed. A cease-fire option would help with this. • Target-locking. Forces units to target a specific enemy at all costs, because nothing is worse than seeing your mecha using all its resources on a small enemy soldier, when you want it to shoot other mechas or buildings. • Target-priority. A convenient, flexible version of "Target-locking". Instead of manually pointing your units to a single target, units will automatically shoot certain enemies based on importance. Options are: > Any enemy in range (default) > Armored (mechas, vehicles, tanks) > Aircraft > Buildings > Bosses So if your mecha has its priority set to "Armored", then it will initially shoot any foot soldiers in range, but as soon a tank comes in range, your mecha will ignore the foot soldiers and shoot the tank. After the tank is destroyed or is out of range, your mecha will automatically switch back to shooting any enemy in range. There could also be an option where units reserve their special skills for only priority targets, and use normal fire-power on other enemies. • Bomber unit. an aircraft/mecha that drops a bomb dealing massive area damage. Balanced by slow-movement, weak armor and several resources to build. • Long soundtrack with dynamic scoring: Songs are at least 5 minutes long and have a dynamic score, meaning when no battle is occurring (such as during the build phase), the music is generally "quiet" with few instruments playing. But when you attack or being attacked, the music "picks up" and additional instruments and drums begin playing. So the music matches the action that's happening on screen. Here's an example of how this is used (not my video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geFpTqvaIJQ • Flexible save options: Since this is a "casual" RTS, I would like to suggest the option of saving the game at any time, and even have multiple save points for the same stage. For example, I'm always going to want to save after I've built a base of operations with a decent amount of buildings and troops, and I'm always going to want to save just before assaulting an enemy camp. If the assault fails, I can go back to the first save and expand the base with more troops/vehicles. • Challenge Modes for each campaign stage: > Everything unlocked for earlier stages. After beating the game you can go back to the earlier stages and use all units and upgrades. > Restricted Units challenge. Similar to KR Iron Challenge, you can't use certain troops, mechas, buildings, etc in the mission. > No Etherium challenge. The map has no etherium that can be mined, but you start off with the just enough to build a small army, so you must carefully choose your units and then destroy the opponent. > No Units Lost challenge. See if you can destroy all enemy units without any of your units being destroyed. Endless modes: (I think there are some kinks that need to be worked out, but this is the general idea) > Standard: Your base is surrounded on three sides by mountainous terrain, like a cul-de-sac. The only way in or out is a large pathway that leads to the enemy base. The enemy starts with more buildings and troops than you, and they are already sending troops to your base. You have only a few minutes to build before the first troops arrive. There is an etherium mining location in your base that contains nearly infinite etherium, but you must still mine and utilize it. The enemy's objective is to destroy all your units, and your mission is to survive for as long as possible. Every 5 minutes you earn a saved checkpoint. (An alternative to a cul-de-sac is having your base in a central location without any mountainous terrain and having the enemy approach from all directions.) > Tower Defense: Similar to Standard but in this mode there is a specific building in your base that the enemy is trying to reach and destroy. While some enemies will target units in range, most enemies will go straight for the building at all costs. The building cannot be repaired when damaged so your mission is to defend it for as long as possible. > Tower Offense: Similar to Tower Defense except you're on the offensive. You must send out troops and destroy a specific tower at the enemy base. The enemy will not come to your base but will remain at their base to defend. But you better hurry, as the game progresses the enemy will continue building bigger and stronger defenses. Will be updating this post as ideas come up. Last edited by kevin32 on Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:43 am, edited 36 times in total. Location: In Machu Picchu, communing with the gods of tower defense. by Big Bad Bug » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:05 pm I updated the OP based on these suggestions, and a little bit of my own ideas. by Juice Box » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:10 pm Dude wrote: • Setting waypoints and rules of engagement. If I have a large number of units and wanted to ambush a nearby enemy camp, I have to select a group of units, move them towards the camp, then select another group and move them towards the camp, and so on multiple times. I would like a map option where I can control the direction and actions of all groups ahead of time and then when I'm ready, with one click all units can move out and execute their orders at the same time. This also helps when you want to move a large number of units to a new camping location. ^^THISTHISTHIS. Especially if you're a heavy planner like me. I don't know about you guys, but I go to extreme efforts to make sure my units don't die in strategy games. Like, losing even one unit isn't acceptable. So on missions where you go on the offense, I spend wayyyy to much time scouting the enemy, then formulating proper strategies to effectively eliminate those enemies with minimal damages on my side. And on defensive missions, I get scouts to enemy factions' expected pathways, put way too many defenses on choke points, and prepare for every possibility. The problem with this is that sometimes your plans still don't go as expected, because of all that heavy micromanaging you have to do be supergood at. This problem will no doubt be amplified further on a mobile device. Micromanaging is even harder with your fingers than your mouse. It would be nice if there was an option where we could "pause" the game and issue commands to units while it's paused. A feature like that would be absolutely great, and would set Iron Marines leagues beyond most strategy games, in my opinion. Can this be stickied? I'm curious to see what ideas the community can come up with. by The_TaTs » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:31 pm kevin32 wrote: Can this be stickied? I'm curious to see what ideas the community can come up with. The_TaTs Juice Box wrote: It would be nice if there was an option where we could "pause" the game and issue commands to units while it's paused. I agree. The computer opponent has an advantage because it knows where everything is and can calculate the best strategy within seconds. Pausing gives the player the opportunity to think and plan in minutes, what it takes the computer to do in seconds. Since there's no multiplayer, I suppose that a pause would work, but that takes out the "Real Time" in RTS. I would prefer if the RT was preserved in this game, encouraging reflexive and mental speed to win. I would like the map to be easy to navigate, such as clicking/tapping on a small map in the corner, causing it to expand so that the player can click on locations to move the screen there instantly. From there, they can select units and order them to attack or whatever else they would like to do, and quickly move to the next group on the map as many times as necessary. Being on a touchscreen, this should be even easier than on the computer. Last edited by Big Bad Bug on Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:21 pm, edited 1 time in total. by Anorak » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:29 pm I would prefer no pause. The game would be to easy that way. Without it it is more challenging and require better reactions and planning skills. Location: OASIS by Ninja » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:53 pm Yeah, a pause option would definitely detract from the difficulty and strategy of the by Pencil » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:00 pm YES! Keep speculating! Fuel my ominous laughter in reference of my knowledge of whats to come! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Also say goodbye to the gooby faced avatar, I just need to paint the new avatar and Pencil's gonna be a fully functional dev on the forums! (Tats got back from his quest to New Zealand and got the orange from Delebru, which now blesses my uninteresting yet practical username!) Ironhide Developer Location: Ahm an Arteest It's really fun to see all the things you are coming up with. Keep them coming! by The Kingmaker » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:45 pm From the image I take two things: 1: There are different and variated troop types, for instance the blue people seem to have some snipers. I hope this means we have troops that fall into pre-designated categories, with set ranges and speeds each work best at. Because of a presumed lack of melee what I remember from being pretty good at Rome (1) Total War won't help me, but I still love those good ol' hammer and anvil days. 2: There are buildings to use. I would assume that these are made in the usual RTS way of specific units to act as builders, however I actually think I would also like the Edain Mod's building technique. It is presumable that there will be multiple buildings, one or possibly more for resources, several for training different units, and perhaps one or more to upgrade troops and buildings. A defensive tower of some kind will probably exist also. Many, many possibilities by Oof_Shunt » Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:40 pm I change my mind; I actually don't want to choose a faction; I just want to dive in and squish bugs and get etherium and go; uhhhm yea. Oof_Shunt Oof_Shunt wrote: I change my mind; I actually don't want to choose a faction; I just want to dive in and squish bugs and get etherium and go; uhhhm yea. Why? Faction choosing makes the game more interactive and fun. I agree !!!!! Yea I change my mind I actually do want faction choosing by kevin32 » Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:24 am Target-locking. Forces units to target a specific enemy at all costs, because nothing is worse than seeing your mecha using all its resources on a small enemy soldier, when you want it to shoot other mechas or buildings. Last edited by kevin32 on Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:27 am, edited 1 time in total. by Ninja » Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:27 am kevin32 wrote: Target-locking. Nothing is worse than seeing your mecha using all its resources on a small enemy soldier, when you want it to shoot other mechas or buildings. Target-locking forces units to target a specific enemy. ^YES. That is easily the best idea here. by Big Bad Bug » Thu Nov 26, 2015 3:46 am I added Target Locking and Patrolling to the Wishlist. Return to Iron Marines	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12933
__label__wiki	0.621578	0.621578	You are here: Home / Articles of the Bound / Protesters in Kiev – ‘Hang the Commie!’ Protesters in Kiev – ‘Hang the Commie!’ December 9, 2013, 9:36 am by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton 3 Comments NoisyRoom.net Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times< Madness, mayhem and commies… Need I say more? Oh, but you know I will as this is where I believe we are heading. The Ukrainian people, cheering loudly, pulled down their Lenin statue and took a hammer to it that Thor would have been proud of. Good times: KIEV, Ukraine — Public protests thundered into a full-throttle civil uprising in Ukraine on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of protesters answered President Viktor F. Yanukovich’s dismissiveness with their biggest rally so far, demanding that he and his government resign. At the height of the unrest on Sunday night, a seething crowd toppled and smashed a statue of Lenin, the most prominent monument to the Communist leader in Kiev. The act was heavy with symbolism, underscoring the protesters’ rage at Russia over its role in the events that first prompted the protests: Mr. Yanukovich’s abrupt refusal to sign sweeping political and free-trade agreements with the European Union. After an electrifying assembly in Independence Square in the center of Kiev, the main focus of the protests, the huge crowd surged across the capital, erecting barriers to block the streets around the presidential headquarters and pitching huge tents in strategic intersections. They were not challenged by the police, who have largely disengaged since their bloody crackdown on a group of protesters on Nov. 30 sharply increased outrage at the government. How many Ukrainians does it take to take down a Lenin monument, you might ask? Well, about 500 or so. The toppling took place in Bessarabia Square in Kiev. The protestors then sang the national anthem of Kiev and chanted (my personal favorite), “Hang the Commie!” The protestors attempted this uprising last weekend, but the police beat them back. However, the Ukrainians seem to have a spine and the will to go after the communists — they know what communism leads to all too well. This weekend, the police didn’t even show. Probably because there were too many protesters and they valued their lives. The Communist Party there didn’t like this at all and complained heavily about these ruffians. They even stationed people to protect the statue. But in true cowardly style, the commies ran when the droves of Ukrainians showed up. After all, it’s not worth them dying for. The rambunctious protestors took turns jumping on and beating Lenin as he lay on the ground closer to Hell where he rightfully belongs. Others chanted: “Glory to Ukraine!” According to CBS News, several hundred thousand Ukrainians flooded the central square in the capital on Sunday, denouncing President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to turn away from Europe and align the former Soviet republic with Russia. They didn’t just poke the Russian bear, they swatted it. You know what I find interesting? When this hit Drudge yesterday, I went to the articles, being the hunter that I am, and saw the phrase reported there: “Hang the Commie!” But today, the phrase has been removed, scrubbed, censored from reporting by US media – the New York Times, Yahoo! News and the Financial Times. Gee… wonder why? Could they be afraid of that happening here? Just sayin’. If you wanted more evidence that your news is being manipulated, here it is. So I went out and found it at the AFP, which is below: Now the UN is sticking their nose in where it doesn’t belong once again. Although surreptitiously on the side of the protesters, their goal is money and things are never what they seem when it comes to Russia and their satellite countries. The people know their country is on the verge of economic collapse and are demanding free trade with Europe in an effort to save them. It won’t, but it might delay the inevitable for a short time. Yanukovich is pondering a state of emergency and may still send in the jackbooted thugs. There were reports on Sunday that the security services were preparing to bring charges of treason against three opposition leaders in Parliament, who have been at the forefront of the demonstrations leading the protesters in their dissent. One of the leaders, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, called for mass civil disobedience if Mr. Yanukovich tried to impose martial law. Just what do you think would happen here if the same was tried, hmmm? Yanukovich has decided not to sign the accords aligning the Ukraine with Europe and free trade. This is what started the whole revolt. He promised for over a year to sign them, but never did. Typical Marxist tactic: promise, delay, excuse, repeat… to buy time. Yanukovich fears Russia and Putin, which is sane, but craven in the extreme. Wonder how long till Russia gets tired of this and sends in troops? What I do worry about is this whole mess is reminiscent of the Orange Revolution which Soros was behind. I wouldn’t put it past the old spider this time – chaos in the name of freedom and more wealth and power for the elitists. But on the other side you have the commies, so it is lose, lose unless there is freedom for the people such as our Constitution guarantees. Unlikely, since America does not even enjoy those freedoms anymore. More on the protests: Kiev (AFP) – Pro-EU Ukrainian demonstrators on Monday kept up their protest against President Viktor Yanukovych after symbolically toppling the statue of the Soviet Union’s founder Vladimir Lenin during a gigantic rally in central Kiev. Hundreds of protestors braved early morning sub-freezing temperatures to maintain the open-ended demonstration on Independence Square in Kiev while others staffed barricades thrown up the day earlier around key government buildings. “It is impossible now to make a step backwards,” said protestor Volodymyr Kiblyk from the central town of Znamenka who has been at the Kiev protests for two weeks. Hundreds of thousands had on Sunday filled Independence Square to bursting point to denounce Yanukovych’s rejection of an EU pact under Kremlin pressure, in the biggest protests since the 2004 Orange Revolution. In a hugely symbolic denouement to the rally, dozens of masked protesters, some brandishing flags of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party, tore down a 3.4 metre (11 feet) high statue of Lenin after putting a rope noose round his neck. They then hacked away with axes at the remnants of the monument lying flat on the ground. Parts of the statue including one of its hands were afterwards triumphantly brandished at the main demonstration on Independence Square. Yanukovych didn’t just stall on the treaty, he betrayed it. He made a closed doors, secret deal with Putin. Hands were shook on a strategic partnership treaty with Putin, who wants the Ukraine to join a Moscow-led Customs Union. Putin bribed Yanukovych with cheaper gas and billions of dollars in aid (that the people will never see of course), to get his way. There are so many ways to spell treason. Now comes the Ukranian Security Services: The Ukrainian security services have launched a criminal investigation into “activities aimed at overthrowing the government” as hundreds of thousands of pro-EU protesters gathered on Sunday in Kiev in response to calls for a “million-man march”. The move by Ukraine’s security apparatus, the SBU, came as the largest crowds yet in the 18 days of protests urged Kiev to sign EU integration agreements rather than strengthen ties with Russia. Led by a mix of activists and opposition politicians, the protesters called for snap presidential and parliamentary elections and surrounded government buildings chanting: “Resign, resign, resign. Out with the bandits. Ukraine is Europe.” As darkness fell, demonstrators pulled down and decapitated the city’s landmark statue of Lenin and attacked it with hammers – a gesture representing a clear rejection of Russian influence over the country. “Yanukovich is next,” said one of those helping to topple the statue. The SBU, said it was investigating several opposition leaders on suspicion of conspiring to seize power as political allies of President Yanukovich repeated accusations that the demonstrators were plotting a coup. Meanwhile, it would seem Yanukovich is hiding. He has not been seen and is rumored to be acting like none of this is happening and that it will just go away. Sure it will. On the verge of economic Armageddon, the IMF is riding to the rescue, but their bailout is not welcome: Figures released on Friday revealed that central bank reserves fell more than expected in November, down to nearly two months of import coverage. This has complicated the government’s attempts to stop what appears to be the imminent devaluation of the hryvna, the domestic currency. Foreign currency reserves declined by almost 9 per cent, down $2bn to some $18.8bn, owing to currency interventions last month, the National Bank of Ukraine revealed. Speaking on state television on Saturday, first deputy prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov said his government needed at least $10bn in loans to cover near-term balance-of-payment needs. With rating agencies downgrading Ukraine’s sovereign rating and talk by the US Federal Reserve of “tapering”, or reducing its quantitative easing programme, analysts said borrowing on the eurobond market has become too expensive for Kiev. The International Monetary Fund has expressed its willingness to bail out Kiev but local authorities have balked at its loan conditions. In an interview with a local newspaper published this weekend, the IMF’s local representative denied Kiev’s claims that it was demanding sharp rises in energy prices for the poorest as a condition for a loan. Instead, the IMF wanted incremental increases of up to 40 per cent for wealthier Ukrainians, allowing subsidies for the poor to be sustained while also reducing the budget deficit. While all this is playing out, the US’ schizophrenic foreign policy is shoving the Arab states into the waiting arms of Russia. It’s that wonderful ‘flexibility’ that Obama was whispering to the Russians in action. All of this chaos and realignment is by design and you can look for Marxists and global bankers pulling the strings behind all of it. Listen to the people in Kiev: “I am convinced that after these events, dictatorship will never survive in our country,” world boxing champion and top opposition leader Vitali Klitschko told reporters. “People will not tolerate when they are beaten, when their mouths are shut, when their principles and values are ignored.” As the Ukrainian protesters boldly tell “Yanukovich, you are next!” astride the spot where the Lenin monument fell, America should take note. You are looking at our not so distant future with our Marxist leadership at the helm. Americans will not stand for this dictatorship much longer I fear and this country will experience violence as never seen before… well, at least not since the last revolution or the Civil War. Whether it be the Ukrainians or Americans, none of us want to live under communist rule. Filed Under: Articles of the Bound, In the Searchlights, Solutions, A War - Win It, Banksters, Barack Obama, Collectivist Philosophies, Creating Class & Conflict, George Soros, Global Governance, How We Got Here, Investigations, Marxist Spotting, Marxofascist Strategy, Neo-Marxism Planned Mayhem Tagged With: activism, authoritarianism, Barack Hussein Obama II, communisty organizations, Democrat, George Soros, global Marxist-fascist movement, history, Marxism, Marxstream media, Military, Russia, terrorism, U.S. Constitution, video TheRealTruth says Despite the best efforts of Lazar Kaganovich and his Tribe, the Ukraine is still a white Christian nation. This is why South Africa, which was destroyed by Joe Slovo and his Tribe, has completely collapsed and the Tribe left nothing but Detroit in its place. We need to stop pretending that people don’t matter and everything we are can fit into a maxim. December 10, 2013, 2:39 am at 2:39 am Ma’am, your posts are not welcome in Gulag Bound. Truth is not welcome. It’s best to completely and utterly ignore the past and pretend that everything just “happened” and no people were involved. It’s even better to pretend that people don’t matter. If I have no ancestors, then I have no heredity. If I have no heredity, then I have no property. If I have no property, then the Marxist revolution is complete. Gratz on living in the Gulag you pretend to fight.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12936
__label__cc	0.573864	0.426136	Home News Local entrepreneur gets Action COACH franchise for business re-education Local entrepreneur gets Action COACH franchise for business re-education A LOCAL entrepreneur has introduced to Guyana the work of Action COACH, said to be the world’s number one business coaching firm which he says is ideally suited for owners of small and medium- size businesses who want to dramatically improve the viability and profitability of their enterprises. The entrepreneur is Vishnu Doerga, Senior Vice-President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce who in 2011 was given the Chamber’s Young Business Executive Award for Demonstrated Vision and tangible Business Success. Doerga has filled roles as President of the Upper Corentyne Chamber, as a member of the Private Sector Commission and the Association of Regional Chambers of Commerce. Action COACH, founded in Australia, is said to be the world’s number one business and executive coaching firm with close to a 1000 offices in 50+ countries including Trinidad, Jamaica and Suriname and other countries in the Caribbean. The Action COACH specialises in coaching small to medium size business as well as executive teams and group coaching. Its vision is: “World abundance through business re-education”. Doerga who has the local franchise revealed that Action COACH is different from regular business consultancies and training institutions since the COACH will do more than merely investigate, offer advice and then leave the client on his or her own. BUSINESS RE-EDUCATION Business re-education Action COACH Vishnu Doerga “It’s all about business re-education. We aim at eliminating stagnation or failure in any business.” He said that once requested, the coaching process begins with a free health check of the business. “Once we determine what its needs are we workout with the owner/manager an annual plan or a suitable plan which we break down into a weekly format with all the activities that are required for success.” “Action COACH will after this be there with the client, like a true coach, helping every step of the way – guiding, supporting and motivating the client to achieve his or her goals up to the requested period of assistance.” All of this, he added, with complete confidentiality. He stressed: “Action COACH guarantees clients a “business re-education” that shows them how business really works and how to successfully grow their company…as well as how to apply their new knowledge to any business situation.” Doerga, who is a trained mechanical engineer and holds an MBA degree, told Chronicle last week that he had stumbled upon the work of Action COACH in 2009 while looking for strategies to run his personal business enterprise more effectively. He found the soundness of the business development systems elaborated by Action COACH to be impressive to the extent that he utilised those principles in the development of his enterprise. “The Action COACH strategies worked for me,” he said adding that he eventually took the additional step of applying for and receiving training from Action COACH to become a coach in Guyana. He recently received the franchise and said last week: “The journey to a growing, thriving business is simple but not always easy. Now, I’m in a fantastic position to help other entrepreneurs and small business owners identify, address and overcome the challenges to achieving their business goals and vision.” Action COACH, he said, is a team of committed, positive and successful people who are always striving to be balanced, integral and honest. He added: “We work within a “14 Points of Culture” to make sure that everyone who touches, or is touched by the ActionCOACH team, will benefit greatly and in some way move closer to becoming the person they want to be or achieve the goals they want to achieve. Doerga held a ‘6 steps to a Better Business Seminar’ and launched Action COACH Guyana on May 20 in the Boardroom of the Guyana Cricket Club. He said that the response to the initiative has been enthusiastic. The COACH will utilise the internet and other means of telecommunications with businesses who have signed on for assistance. Doerga said too that he is encouraging other qualified and skilled professionals to become coaches to cater for the growth in demand of the services. Doerga is based at 120 Parade Street Kingston and can be contacted by interested small and medium-size business owners via telephone numbers: 223-5583 or 621-8975, or by email:vishnudoerga@actioncoach.com. By Clifford Stanley Previous articleTwo cars eerily dive into trench –at North Road corner Next articleSeveral more litterbugs prosecuted in anti-litter campaign Bibi Anderson of Fazia’s Collection fined $100,000 Zahir Hack of Success fined $50,000	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12937
__label__cc	0.508129	0.491871	Page 4 Newsletter 103, Winter 2013 � Hampshire Mills Group Romancing the (Mill) Stone Once upon a time on the shores of Ashlett Creek, way, way down in the deepest New Forest of Hampshire, a tired old tide mill ceased her arduous work of providing flour for the bread to feed countless mouths, both on shore and at sea. Her bones were laid bare after machinery was removed to house 4 score of labouring men who were constructing a massive development to refine a new type of power, and the mill lost her heart as the millstones were spirited away and her use was simply as a shell. Ninety years on and now hosting a club house where travellers, especially sailors, could once again find food and shelter, new generations of men and women desired to make known the history and chequered life of Ashlett Tide Mill. Here is the moving story which once fell on stony ground and how one part of Ashlett�s downtrodden heart was found in a garden pathway, just half a mile away up the hill towards Fawley. The garden�s owner, Mr. Dana Mungapen, was delighted for the millstone to be returned, as he said, �to its rightful place, the mill.� And he welcomed the plucky gang of five who arrived to carry out the task. Tim Woodcock, a professional photographer who lives in the top part of Ashlett Mill, was there to record the team�s progress on camera and here he relates the day�s events: The club chairman and I had earlier examined the stone, set into a concrete path, and found that due to the effects of weather over the last ninety years or so, the stone was not actually bonded to the concrete. We went back to it and (on a very rainy Friday morning) we gently eased it away from the concrete and when we were satisfied that it was completely free arranged for it to be moved. It took five people to get the stone lifted and then it was carefully rolled out of the garden by hand. (Here they are in shots 2,3 & 5 Maggie & John White, Phill Crossland, Jack Rushmer, Paul Rushmer � studiously minding their toes!-Ed) We were very fortunate that Go Plant Equipment Hire supplied the truck with a crane to transport it to the mill, very generously free of charge and out of hours! Thought to be Derbyshire Peak stone, it is currently in storage awaiting advice on its conservation, and verification of type, before being put on display in the foyer. Bottom row photos: Dana Mungapen bids adieu to the millstone then John White steadies it as it is gradually winched back to the mill building. Many thanks to Tim for allowing us to reproduce his photographs and supplying the details. Let�s hope that the other millstone will be reunited with the mill too. � Ed. All photographs �Tim Woodcock Take a Peek at Peak Stones in the Peak District The Ashlett Tide Mill�s stones may have come from the Peak District in Derbyshire and here, from an article by Professor Alan McEwen on the internet, is a little about them. The Millstone Grit quarry is also known as a �Delph Hole� and is located at Burbage Edge. Alan and his wife Christine visited it on a very hot summer�s day in 2012. He records their first sighting thus: �Looking down over a virtual moonscape of Ice-Age boulders � erratics � among the thousands of gigantic and small gritstone boulders, we could discern here and there a number of gritstone enigmas: beautifully worked millstones, some of which were lying flat, partially covered with grass and heather with others peeping out from earthen banks, with one or two resting up against the towering rock walls of the Edges. �We were amazed and excited too, for we had purposely driven over 100 miles from our home in North Yorkshire to seek out and photograph these enigmatic millstone curiosities, produced by Victorian stone- masons. To our astonishment we soon discovered large numbers of these millstones lying abandoned all around us.� Sheila. Read the full report of the McEwen�s trip here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12938
__label__wiki	0.805031	0.805031	Log in E-edition Advertise Contact us NIXON-SMILEY Nixon-Smiley back in the playoffs with 29-14 victory The Nixon-Smiley Mustangs are back in the playoffs after their 29-14 victory over Dilley on Friday. The Mustangs bounce back from an 0-10 season last year. José Torres Chris Brown (9) jumps up and bats down a ball in Nixon-Smiley's 29-14 victory on Friday. Quarterback Xavier Arias jukes a Dilly defender in Nixon-Smiley's 29-14 victory. Posted Friday, November 8, 2019 11:20 pm By José Torres NIXON — The Nixon-Smiley Mustangs (4-6, 2-3) are in the playoffs for the first time since 2016 and just one year after a winless season. The Mustangs overcame a slow start to overwhelm Dilley (0-10, 0-5) in the second half, winning the game 29-14 to move to 2-3 in District 15-3ADII and clinch fourth place. “We were excited, that’s been our goal since day one,” Mustangs head coach Pablo Ybarra said of the win. “We knew that we had the team to get to the playoffs this year. It was just a matter of getting over that hurdle. We knew that if we stayed on the same path with the same goals and worked really hard and got after it, we were going to get to the playoffs. We’re excited, it makes it even sweeter because you go from 0-10 to getting into the playoffs. It’s a real sweet feeling. We’re going to see how it goes from there.” After a 7-6 first half, the Mustangs offense came alive in the second half, with a quick three-play, 53-yard touchdown drive that ended with a 17-yard Mario Ponce touchdown. Ponce scored two more times, once from one yard out and another from 73-yards out to get the Mustangs to 29 points. “It’s a big game, our kids don’t know how to win certain games and this was a playoff atmosphere,” Ybarra said of the sluggish first half. “It was an experience they hadn’t seen before. Now they’ve experienced it and they understand the experience and know how to deal with that experience.” “We came out a little flat,” he added. “I think we took [Dilley] for granted and we thought just because they were 0-9 they were just going to roll over and die for us. They came out and I tip my hat to them for doing a good job and coming out and taking it to us.” But even then, the Mustangs allowed just one offensive touchdown, a first-quarter score that came after Dilley recovered a fumble. “We played with some excitement that second half,” Ybarra said of his defense. “We got some good turnovers, we had some key plays [with our] defensive linemen, had some good sacks. We played well.” Midway through the fourth quarter, up 29-6, the Mustangs defense forced another turnover, and Xavier Arias jumped on it to recover. But after the play was called dead, players on both teams began to shove each other, which led to Arias’ ejection. Freshman backup quarterback Bradyn Martinez took over, which then led to back-to-back mishandled snaps, ending with a 50-yard fumble return for a touchdown for the Dilley Wolves. Penalties began raining down on the Mustangs, but the team was able to hold off a potential Dilley comeback. “We’ve been playing well the last couple of weeks,” Ybarra said. “We just hope that momentum carries on and see what happens. In the playoffs, anything can happen.” Due to Arias’ ejection, the junior quarterback will have to sit out the first half of the game against the London Pirates out of Corpus Christi. As of posting this story, playoff details have not been announced between Nixon-Smiley and London. Mustangs split games in home tournament Lady Apaches knock off Nixon-Smiley in intra-county matchup Second-half gaffes prevent Nixon-Smiley upset Lady Mustangs make playoffs for the first time since 2009 Who has the best chance of winning the Super Bowl this year? A. Kansas City Chiefs B. Tennessee Titans C. San Francisco 49ers D. Green Bay Packers Gonzales County declared Second Amendment sanctuary Filing window open for May local elections City moves to upgrade JB Wells Nixon looking to add speed bumps near school Check your voter status Property tax deadline approaching News and notes from public meetings Jan. 9-14 East Avenue names new interim principal It’s a girl: Gonzales Healthcare Systems welcomes first baby of 2020 The Inquirer seeks 2020 primary candidate profiles The Gonzales Inquirer 622 St. Paul, Gonzales, TX 78629 gonzalesinquirer.com © Copyright 2020 The Gonzales Inquirer \| Terms of Use / Privacy Policy \| Cancellation / Refund Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12940
__label__wiki	0.597519	0.597519	'Your Dossier Is Fat With The Blood Of Kittens' Apparently Sergeant Shlock and my dog have something in common. He's a great dog, really. It's just that he's a country dog, and there's just no explaining to him the difference between squirrels and cats. Everybody's happy when you catch the squirrel! By Grim on Saturday, September 13, 2014 3 comments "Can't tame woild rabbit" ...says the girl's father in Watership Down...explaining why she can't keep Hazel (whom she's rescued from her cat), so that he ends up being released at a critical point in the story. Adams put a lot of trouble into researching rabbits for his story, and now I see evidence of why he was right. According to this story, the genetic code of domestic rabbits (who've been living with humans for 1400 years or so) is different from their wild cousins' in about a hundred places...some of those important for development of behavior. "Selection during domestication might have focused on tameness and lack of fear," says Pat Heslop-Harrison of the University of Leicester in the UK. "As a farmer, you neither want the animal to hurt you, nor for the animal to die from stress." Keeping lookout and fleeing from potential predators uses up lots of an animal's energy, which humans would rather see turned into meat. Because rabbits were only domesticated relatively recently, the new sequences are not all present in all domestic rabbits. As a result, Andersson says escaped domestic rabbits could revert to wild-like forms over just a few generations - assuming they survived in the wild. It's unsurprising when you know about the famous Russian fur fox experiment...which took under 50 years to breed the wild foxes into something far more doglike (down to the floppy ears the breeders weren't expecting...they were just looking for tameness). The wiki on domestication gives estimated dates for various creatures that live with us...at least some of that based on genetic evidence. By Joseph W. on Saturday, September 13, 2014 10 comments Aye or Die! By Grim on Saturday, September 13, 2014 19 comments We gotcher veto, right here Nothing says "You're on the unpopular side of an issue" like a legislative veto override. By Texan99 on Saturday, September 13, 2014 2 comments How to reduce federal spending Michelle Obama came up with it, and it's brilliant: impose unpopular regulations on the programs funded with the federal spending until the public rejects their products or services, to the point where it becomes more cost-effective for the programs to decline the federal subsidies. Bonus: less regulation. Here's another effective response to dumb, intrusive regulations. The Bank Street Brewhouse in New Albany, Indiana, wanted to serve only beer to customers, and to encourage them to complete their meals by patronizing nearby street-food vendors. Indiana liquor laws, however, permit a business to maintain a retail liquor license only if it operates a restaurant on the premises, defined as the ability to serve hot sandwiches, hot soup, coffee with milk, and soft drinks in a sanitary manner. Thus was born the "Bank Street Brewhouse Indiana Statutory Compliance Restaurant Menu": Our Famous Hotdog Sandwich Microwaved to perfection, including both weenie and bun, sans condiments. Chef Campbell's Soup of the Day Served in a bowl. Your choice of whichever can is on top of the stack. Caffeinated only. Available black, or black. With or without water. Sprecher Craft Soft Drinks Different flavors . . . market pricing. H/t AEI. The prisoner's lament King Richard I of England (the Lion-Hearted) composed this song at the end of the 12th century, while imprisoned by the Duke of Austria during the Third Crusade. He wrote it in his first language, an Old French dialect, with another version in a related Romance dialect that still maintains a precarious existence in Provençe and the Catalan areas of Spain. Richard's enemies claimed he didn't even know English, but he probably did, though it's true that he exhibited almost no attachment to the country that revered him, preferring instead to live in France. No prisoner can tell his tale well without expressing his pain, But to console himself he can write a song. I've many friends, but all their gifts are poor; They'd be ashamed to know how for two winters I've been held for ransom. My men-at-arms and barons know full well: The English, Normans, Poitevins, Gascons. I would not abandon the poorest companion in prison, And I don't say this merely to reproach, but still, I am a prisoner. Richard did finally win his release, through the help of his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, despite the connivances to the contrary by his brother John and King Phillip II of France, the son (by a later wife) of Eleanor's ex-husband Louis VII. Friday Night AMV Learning to fly. I was a pilot once, I wish I'd had one of these. At least I can still enjoy listening to Tom. By Eric on Friday, September 12, 2014 7 comments Fun with Venn From AEI: By Texan99 on Friday, September 12, 2014 3 comments Over the last hour my internet (wifi) connection got wonkier than usual, and we noticed that we kept losing the satellite TV as we tried to watch the news over lunch. It may an effect of the second and more powerful wave of this week's predicted solar storm, which apparently arrived at midday today. Building a self Steven Pinker, via Maggie's Farm, on "What's Wrong with Harvard": I submit that if “building a self” is the goal of a university education, you’re going to be reading anguished articles about how the universities are failing at it for a long, long time. I think we can be more specific. It seems to me that educated people should know something about the 13-billion-year prehistory of our species and the basic laws governing the physical and living world, including our bodies and brains. They should grasp the timeline of human history from the dawn of agriculture to the present. They should be exposed to the diversity of human cultures, and the major systems of belief and value with which they have made sense of their lives. They should know about the formative events in human history, including the blunders we can hope not to repeat. They should understand the principles behind democratic governance and the rule of law. They should know how to appreciate works of fiction and art as sources of aesthetic pleasure and as impetuses to reflect on the human condition. On top of this knowledge, a liberal education should make certain habits of rationality second nature. Educated people should be able to express complex ideas in clear writing and speech. They should appreciate that objective knowledge is a precious commodity, and know how to distinguish vetted fact from superstition, rumor, and unexamined conventional wisdom. They should know how to reason logically and statistically, avoiding the fallacies and biases to which the untutored human mind is vulnerable. They should think causally rather than magically, and know what it takes to distinguish causation from correlation and coincidence. They should be acutely aware of human fallibility, most notably their own, and appreciate that people who disagree with them are not stupid or evil. Accordingly, they should appreciate the value of trying to change minds by persuasion rather than intimidation or demagoguery. I believe (and believe I can persuade you) that the more deeply a society cultivates this knowledge and mindset, the more it will flourish. The conviction that they are teachable gets me out of bed in the morning. Laying the foundations in just four years is a formidable challenge. If on top of all this, students want to build a self, they can do it on their own time. By Texan99 on Friday, September 12, 2014 15 comments That's when it happened. Someone said, "I can't believe it will be nine years this week since 9/11". And one by one we began to remember where we were, what we were doing, how it felt. It was this generation's "Where were you when they shot JFK?" moment and for a brief shining moment the shared memory pulled us back from the brink and made us one again. But like everything that seems impossibly perfect, that moment wasn't meant to last. In retrospect, 9/11 divides my life more clearly and cleanly than when I married or when my child was born. Before, I was committed to a life that was organized around the pursuit of knowledge. After, I was a man of war. I remember the day well, unlike the other momentous days: the hours spent watching the towers fall I recall far better than the hours in the delivery room, helping with a difficult birth. Though it was a dry wedding due to it being Sunday in rural Georgia, I barely remember my wedding day at all. I don't object. I have the sense that I was sent, to live in this hour and place for a reason I'm not given to wholly understand. So be it. Sounds like we are going to war again, against a foe not so very terrible. I think we can take them. The hard part won't be defeating them, or breaking their armies; the armies of the region are fragile, structurally, when on defense. The hard part will be not beating them until we've developed something better, and organic to the region, to step in and take our enemy's place. Because it's organic, we can't make it happen faster than it naturally happens. That means we can't win this war by pushing too fast. We can break and destroy the enemy as fast as we wish, but we must be patient, to let the enemy develop its own opposition so we can nurture it. This is war as gardening. Why doesn't that bother me? Shouldn't we rush to destroy the enemy and restore peace as fast as possible, especially given the brutality of the foe? Perhaps it is because this is what works, and -- finally -- I believe that the rules of the world are not our fault. Things are as they are not because I wish it that way, but because that's how it is. We play the game that was put in front of us. Could we refuse? Should we? Those are harder questions, really at the juncture of why someone might elect to be a Christian and not a Hindu or -- more radically -- a Buddhist. You have that choice. It is important to think about what is entailed in making that decision. I am going to Jerusalem in December. The old tradition held that it is the center of the world. Perhaps it is the place for clarity. By Grim on Friday, September 12, 2014 12 comments Enid & Geraint By custom and tradition of the Hall, today there are no posts except this poem. Once strong, from solid Camelot he came Glory with him, Geraint, Whose sword tamed the wild. Fabled the fortune he won, Fame, and a wife. The beasts he battled With horn and lance; Stood farms where fens lay. When bandits returned To old beast-holds Geraint gave them the same. And then long peace, Purchased by the manful blade. Light delights filled it, Tournaments softened, tempered By ladies; in peace lingers the dream of safety. They dreamed together. Darkness Gathered on the old wood, Wild things troubled the edges, Then crept closer. The whispers of weakness Are echoed with evil. At last even Enid Whose eyes are as dusk Looked on her Lord And weighed him wanting. Her gaze gored him: He dressed in red-rust mail. And put her on palfrey To ride before or beside And they went to the wilds, Which were no longer So far. Ill-used, His sword hung beside. By the long wood, where Once he laid pastures, The knight halted, horsed, Gazing on the grim trees. He opened his helm Beholding a bandit realm. Enid cried at the charge Of a criminal clad in mail! The Lord turned his horse, Set his untended shield: There lacked time, there Lacked thought for more. Villanous lance licked the Ancient shield. It split, Broke, that badge of the knight! The spearhead searched Old, rust-red mail. Geraint awoke. Master and black mount Rediscovered their rich love, And armor, though old Though red with thick rust, Broke the felon blade. The spear to-brast, shattered. And now Enid sees In Geraint's cold eyes What shivers her to the spine. And now his hand Draws the ill-used sword: Ill-used, but well-forged. And the shock from the spear-break Rang from bandit-towers Rattled the wood, and the world! Men dwelt there in wonder. Who had heard that tone? They did not remember that sound. His best spear broken On old, rusted mail, The felon sought his forest. Enid's dusk eyes sense The strength of old steel: Geraint grips his reins. And he winds his old horn, And he spurs his proud horse, And the wood to his wrath trembles. And every bird From the wild forest flies, But the Ravens. By Grim on Thursday, September 11, 2014 2 comments Civilization v. Celebrity Foul language warning, though nothing you won't expect if you know who Mike Tyson is. I have never seen a celebrity called out like that before. Not just any celebrity, either, but a former heavyweight champion of the world who is a demonstrated violent felon. This host has some guts. By Grim on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 5 comments More Richard Thompson A version of a Child ballad, King Henry V's Conquest of France, making a little fast and loose with history: A version of another Child ballad, the ubiquitous "Cruel Mother" ballad; this one fills out most of each verse with "Edinburgh; Stirling for aye; the Bonnie St. Johnstone lies fair upon Tay": By Texan99 on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 0 comments Super-Henge Dragging earth-penetrating radar around Stonehenge has some interesting results. More on Trash Skip ahead a few minutes, and you can hear an Oxford scholar talking about a hundred-year old find of trash that includes, among other things, lost sayings attributed to Jesus in the early period. In a hundred years of work, they've gotten through a very small percentage of the trash. Old copies of the Iliad, tempting fragments... The author's top three finds: #3: A copy of the Book of Revelations' passage with the Number of the Beast, the earliest known copy we have... which gives a different number. #2: A non-Homeric version of the story of the Iliad in which the Greeks lose the Trojan war. #1: Turns out one document that they found in the trash mounds over, and over, and over, and over... well, let's call it a "romance novel." The Ebola epidemic, as expected, is getting worse: about 3,600 infected and 2,000 dead so far. More ominous is the even more complete breakdown of a medical system that could only have been described a rudimentary even before 79 healthcare workers died of the disease. Hysterical rage is setting in: “A US federal air marshal has been quarantined after being attacked by a man with a syringe, suspected to be containing an Ebola-spreading substance, at the Lagos international airport,” read a report out of Nigeria in the International Business Times on Tuesday. By Texan99 on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 4 comments Today's outrage in education A young piano prodigy's parents would prefer to leave her in public school in Washington, D.C., but then she'd have to give up the piano competitions she keeps traveling to--while maintaining stellar grades--in order to avoid exposing her parents to truancy charges. So now she's home schooling, a solution that suits no one involved. Retirement and satisfaction Statistics about Americans' retirement planning have a tendency to be a bit alarming. This AEI article by Andrew Biggs and Sylvester Schieber takes an interesting approach, which is to examine the effect of children on retirement savings. Apparently there was some recent scare-mongering about a discrepancy between the savings of families with children and those without. Biggs and Schieber note that families with children spend a lot while the kids are at home or in college, then cut way back. They don't drop their standard of living, though, so much as keep consuming what they always did, not counting what the kids consumed. Parents save, therefore, not to permit themselves to adopt the standard of living common among childless people with equal income, but to preserve roughly the same standard of living they were used to, which of course makes sense. The childless Texan99 household always adopted a standard of living significantly below that of my colleagues, even those with children. Apparently they weren't as fanatically focused on retirement as I was; many of them seemed terrified of the idea of retirement, to be truthful. In any case, if we get along in our working years at about the level we'd like to preserve in our retirement years, we'll be able to save a lot more than most people think is ordinarily prudent for whatever income we have. It's not about the income, anyway, it's about getting used to whatever standard of living the income permits. People are remarkably flexible that way. The big thing is to be uninterested in how other people live; even if their incomes are comparable, their circumstances often are not, depending on how large a family they choose to raise and how prudent they are about emergencies and the future. 1,000 years of pop music Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing, cuccu. Here, summer is on its way out, finally, and we're looking forward to the first day we can open the windows with about the same enthusiasm that our forbears in England looked forward to the warm season. "Sing it loud, Cuckoo." That word lhude, according to the linguistic podcasts I'm enjoying this week, is related to the one found in Ludwig and Ludovicus (a/k/a Louis, or Clovis), and in that context means not so much "loud" as "famous." All those names mean "famous leader," but were transformed from a title to a proper name, much as though we started to name kids "Boss." These linguistic lectures adopt a leisurely pace. I came in at around lecture 28, by which point the topic had advanced only to 5th-century Roman Britain, when the locals were still speaking some form of Celtic or Latin, and Old English was merely a glimmer in the eye of some European shore-hugging Anglo-Saxon-Jute-Frisian types between modern-day Denmark and Holland who were beginning to feel pressure to relocate somewhere across the water. Now I think I'll go back and start with Lecture One. "Sumer Is Icumen In" is not Old English. Though it's one of the oldest preserved pieces of English music, it dates from the 13th century, post-Norman Conquest, and therefore features Middle English. If there's already a French influence in there, though, I can't see it; I'll have to await that lecture in the series. Maybe it was a traditional song and therefore something of a linguistic throwback. Ezra Pound parodied the song in a winter version: "Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my ham." In his Grand Oratorio "The Seasonings," P.D.Q. Bach rendered it as "Summer is a cumin seed." YouTube has the whole Richard Thompson concert, which looks worth a try. I may spend all of today listening to things and hardly getting anything read at all. Update: Oh, yeah! This is long, but well worth listening to, if only for the verison of "Oops, I Did It Again," madrigal style. By Texan99 on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 10 comments What Are The Chances? Racketeering charges? Perhaps there is some strange computer virus that selectively trashes records inconvenient to incumbents, like the “glitch” that erased part of Nixon’s tapes. How else to explain the fact that this is the fourth announcement of an ever-expanding computer calamity connected to Lois Lerner to emerge from the IRS? First it was just Lerner’s computer that was affected, then those of her closest co-conspirators, then “no more than twenty” computers, and now an ever larger batch of burned out workstations. Even more interesting, the IRS has apparently not yet shared this newest tidbit with Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the distinguished and courageous jurist presiding over Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Here was Remy singing about it when it was just seven hard drives... By Grim on Tuesday, September 09, 2014 7 comments How They Count Time in The Mountains of North Carolina Two minutes, forty seconds. By Grim on Monday, September 08, 2014 1 comments Not All of Us I won't be looking up any such stolen naked images, and I don't expect any of you to do it either. By Grim on Monday, September 08, 2014 16 comments A Spirited Woman I've slapped a boyfriend across the face, hard, and more than once, and shoved and struck too. Now, you might say these were extraordinary circumstances, or that because I'm a fairly small woman striking a much larger man it's not so bad, but the fact remains that if the tables were turned, such behavior would be considered appalling. When I sounded out some friends, several of them admitted to lashing out physically at a boyfriend, and while no one was exactly pleased with themselves over it, it also didn't seem like the Big Deal it obviously would be were a boyfriend doing the same thing. I can't speak for others, but in some ways, I feel like violence was encouraged in me; people always found my temper, with its foot-stomping, drink-tossing, vase-smashing theatrics, to be hilarious, largely because I am so small and because it comes out so rarely. Like my grandmother, I was "a spitfire," my grandpa always said approvingly. As a result, I didn't work to curb it as I should have, probably feeling in some way that it even denoted "spunk" or something, and doubtless there was some half-baked, unacknowledged idea of "lady's prerogative" at work, a double-standard I'd consciously have mocked. Your grandpa was right. Sometimes the only way to get a man to listen to you is to knock him upside the head. That's true for other men, too: once in a while, a man just needs a good knock on his door. The double-standard is wise and proper, though, because if he knocks you back he could kill you. Separate but what? If anyone was hoping that the WaPo editorial page would get more respectable with the advent of Jeff Bezos, this article is bound to prove a disappointment. Andre Perry argues that it is an important function of the public schools, at least on a par with the task of educating children, to provide jobs to disadvantaged teachers. Thus, movements to limit teacher tenure are a stab in the heart of black professionals. This argument has always seemed implicit in the attitudes of many progressives, but I believe this is the first time I've seen it made openly. By Texan99 on Monday, September 08, 2014 4 comments Via AEI: Lending and spending with burning ire The people cannot control the government Ex-Im! Fall apart! The center must not hold; Set anarchy loose upon the world The blood-dimmed tide be loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence be drowned; Are full of cronyist intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely de-authorization is at hand. Kartoffelsalat! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of Irish sand; A plate with potatoes, red onion and chive, Bacon bits and warm vegetable broth, Prepared in Germany, while all about it Wind shadows of shameless export subsidies. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of scarcity Will come to haunt my people in a faraway land, As yam and tater, taxpayer-financed, Slouch toward Munich, never to return. A Reliable Alternative Energy Source “A good number to remember is that three tons of waste contains as much energy as one ton of fuel oil… so there is a lot of energy in waste,” Göran Skoglund, spokesperson for Öresundskraft, one of the country’s leading energy companies, explains in the short video below. That means that the two million tons of waste incinerated each year produces around 670,000 tons worth of fuel oil energy. Sweden even helps to clean up other countries in the EU by importing their trash and burning it. Thanks again, Lord Keynes Japan struggles with the stubborn refusal of its citizens to agree with the approved economic theories: The world's third-largest economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter, according to updated government figures Monday. The initial estimate released earlier this month said the economy contracted 6.8 percent. Business investment fell more than twice as much as first estimated. The economy's contraction was expected after Japan increased its sales tax from 5 percent to 8 percent on April 1. Surveys show the public opposes a further tax increase, though increases are needed to counter ballooning public debt, which now is more than twice the size of the economy. The revised data Monday show business investment fell more than twice as much as estimated before, or 5.1 percent, while private residential spending sank 10.4 percent in annual terms. "Theoretically, there should be no impact from the consumption tax increase on corporate spending or long-term corporate planning, but a large number of Japanese corporations seemed to see a large impact from the hike on final demand," said Junko Nishioka, an economist at RBS Japan Securities in Tokyo. Can fish think? Another post from the consistently interesting Phenomena site (the source of Not Exactly Rocket Science weekly updates), about fish send signals to eels about tunnels where prey may be hiding and can be flushed out, to the mutual advantage of the fish and the eels. It's charmingly entitled "When Your Prey's in a Hole and You Don't Have a Pole, Use a Moray." The judicious mind Phenomenon blogger Virginia Hughes, facing jury duty, has done some research into the role of stress in making us excessively judgmental. She concludes that a prospective juror would do well to embrace relaxation techniques, which seems sensible. It also occurs to me, however, that if we want people to judge us with calmness and temperance, we would do well not to put them under stress. Many of civilization's proudest achievements are the ways we signal to strangers that we are not necessarily an immediate threat. Grid parity That's the PC term for comparing the cost of conventional electrical power and PV (that's the PC term for what we troglodytes call solar power). A new study cited at Greenbuilders claims that a handful of states, including Texas, my Texas, already have reached grid parity, with more on the way. The calculation includes heavy federal subsidies set to expire in 2016. Casa Texan99 is interested in solar, notwithstanding our climate skeptic character flaws, because we enjoy independence and because there are more reasons to favor renewable energy sources than mixed-up anxieties about carbon poisoning. That is, I don't consider CO2 a toxin, but that doesn't mean mining and burning fossil fuels produce no unpleasant effects of any kind. On the whole, I believe they produce benefits far outweighing the costs, but I'd move to solar power for my home in a heartbeat if I thought it made economic sense. As my husband points out, though, this study, like most, glosses over durability and the time it takes to recoup upfront capital costs. From what he hears the solar panels are getting cheaper, but they aren't lasting the advertised 20 years, either. In some states, the upfront capital investment is addressed by leasing arrangements, but a few states, like Florida and South Carolina, have outlawed these. In South Carolina, for instance, public utilities so far have succeeded in arguing that a company that installs solar panels on a homeowner's roof and then charges them for the power produced is a utility that must jump through all the usual monopolistic hoops. This Grist article points out that our society can be unpredictable about which emerging industries get the red carpet treatment, in ways that don't necessarily line up with our usual assumptions about libertarian trends: It’s been interesting to watch this play out in light of the Wild West atmosphere that so often surrounds technological breakthroughs. I’ve been reading American Odyssey, Robert Conot’s history of Detroit, and I’m continually surprised at how easy cars had it in the first few decades of their creation. They killed people left and right, but it was was years before “drivers’ licenses,” “insurance,” or “parking tickets” came on the scene. Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft were able to muscle into long-established monopolies and get comfortable before facing any major pushback, and the first major online retailer, Amazon, was able to go nearly two decades without charging the sales taxes that brick and mortar stores had to. It’s not that this kind of preferential treatment for new technology is fair. And to be sure, solar has gotten some breaks over the years as well, particularly at the federal level. Solar may have widespread appeal to everyone from hippies to libertarians. Yet it’s still having to fight to claw its way into a surprising number of markets, while other industries get to zoom ahead. I wouldn't want to minimize the headaches the "distributed power" causes for electric utility companies. I've been involved in a dozen or more power utility bankruptcies, and the administrative nightmares caused by allowing people to force utilities to run their meters backwards when their co-gen power was being produced were always a big part of the intractable disputes. But it does seem as though we make it unnecessarily difficult for people to generate some of their own power. I was pleased to see that South Carolina appears to have taken some steps recently to reduce the barriers to solar leasing. It's the 30th anniversary right now. For a week or so, you can see it in theaters. I took the family today. I hadn't seen it in ages. It's a surprisingly good movie. Almost everything that happens on screen is beautifully wrapped up in building out the plot and its universe. Well worth a few minutes, if you happen to have some time in the next little while. By Grim on Sunday, September 07, 2014 9 comments Some promising news: "This year, 2014, we saw the largest single-year growth in enrollment in programs in the history of school choice," he says. The fastest-growing state is Indiana, which is expected to award 30,000 scholarships this year, up from 590 in 2010. "And the momentum's not going to stop." By Texan99 on Sunday, September 07, 2014 3 comments "Freedom!" I had nearly forgotten that the Scots are about to vote on independence. I know nothing about the problems they face today, of course; my head is entirely full of claptrap from Braveheart and songs of the Jacobite rebellion and movie versions of Mary, Queen of Scots (the Glenda Jackson/Vanessa Redgrave production is terrific, by the way). I had a vague notion that romantic old ideals of freedom and independence were bursting forth, so it was disappointing to read this analysis from Andrew Stuttaford at HotAir: The problem with an independent Scotland is not that the economics are dodgy (although they are), but it is that that is in the grip of an authoritarian leftist political class, a grasping, thuggish vulture class that should be wished on no people. There is also the little matter of the EU. If an independent Scotland wished to join the EU (the membership it “enjoys” through membership of the UK would probably not survive) its (enthusiastically europhile) leaders would have to commit to joining the single currency as soon as Scotland satisfied the necessary tests. They deny that, but the EU’s rules are clear. The euro would ruin what’s left of the Scottish economy and make a mockery of “independence.” The polls are actually looking as though the vote might go for independence. "My son, the . . . ." I've been listening to a series of lectures about the history of 20th-century science, which has now reached the career of Niels Bohr. The lecturer claimed that Bohr was the only person ever to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Olympic Gold Medal. Alas, the wonderful factoid is not quite true. His brother Harald was on a team that took a silver medal in soccer, and apparently Niels sometimes played with the same team, but not in the Olympics. Still, it suggests an impressive well-roundedness. If nothing else, you have to imagine that Mrs. Bohr had plenty of tidbits to drop into conversations with her friends about what her sons were up to these days. It turns out that Nobel laureates who won other prestigious prizes generally have received Nobel Peace Prizes or literary prizes rather than straight science prizes. George Bernard Shaw, for instance, had to find room on his mantel for a Nobel Prize in literature as well as an Oscar (1938, Pygmalion, best adapted screenplay). Philip Noel-Baker, a British diplomat, won both the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize and a 1920 Olympic silver medal in track. Charles Gates Dawes, who was vice-president to Calvin Coolidge, won a 1925 Nobel Peace Prize after writing a tune in 1912 that ultimately was recorded as a number-one pop hit in the U.S., "It’s All In The Game.” George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics after winning $1 million on TV's "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader," but that's not cross-training, strictly speaking. How They Count Time in The Mountains of North Caro...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12943
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__label__wiki	0.742179	0.742179	上海419论坛,上海龙凤419,爱上海 – Powered by Rose Kolton! All posts in lsqvaoqaz Written by: admin Posted on: January 19, 2020 UAAP Starting 5: Week 6 Category: lsqvaoqaz It’s the second round and the Final Four picture is starting to form.Ateneo and La Salle are well ahead of the competition sitting at No.1 and No.2, respectively. Adamson University and Far Eastern University are in a tight race for No. 3 while National University and University of the Philippines duke it out for No.4.ADVERTISEMENT Margot Robbie talks about filming ‘Bombshell’s’ disturbing sexual harassment scene Although coming off a 90-77 loss, Gaye produced marvelous numbers against the Red Warriors finishing with 20 points, 13 rebounds, and four blocks.Ibrahim Ouattara (UP Fighting Maroons)Ibrahim Ouattara. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netOuttara is another promising big man.The Fighting Maroons split their two games this week and Outtara showed respectable consistency in the two matches.Outtara quietly averaged nine points, 11.5 boards, and 2.5 blocks to help UP to a 4-5 record. What if? Paras plays with idea of teaming up with Clarkson at Gilas Coco’s house rules on ‘Probinsyano’ set Jo Koy: My brain always wants to think funny OSG plea to revoke ABS-CBN franchise ‘a duplicitous move’ – Lacson MOST READ Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard PLAY LIST 02:14Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard02:56NCRPO pledges to donate P3.5 million to victims of Taal eruption00:56Heavy rain brings some relief in Australia02:37Calm moments allow Taal folks some respite03:23Negosyo sa Tagaytay City, bagsak sa pag-aalboroto ng Bulkang Taal01:13Christian Standhardinger wins PBA Best Player award University of the East can still gun for a surprise entrance while University of Santo Tomas is one loss away falling out of contention.Well, here are the seven players responsible for those scenarios:FEATURED STORIESSPORTSRedemption is sweet for Ginebra, Scottie ThompsonSPORTSMayweather beats Pacquiao, Canelo for ‘Fighter of the Decade’SPORTSFederer blasts lack of communication on Australian Open smogCenter: Ben Mbala (De La Salle Green Archers)Ben Mbala. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netReigning MVP Ben Mbala produced a lackluster performance by his standardsin Week 5. LATEST STORIES Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. Thirdy Ravena. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netAteneo played just one game this week and Thirdy Ravena shone the brightest among the Blue Eagles.In Ateneo’s 71-59 beating of Adamson University, Ravena was the lone Blue Eagle to finish in double figures with 15 points to go along with nine rebounds.Forward: Mark Olayon (UE Red Warriors)Mark Olayon. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netOh how University of the East become sudden Final Four contenders. The Red Warriors tacked on two straight wins and in honor of those couple of victories, there are two UE representatives on this list. First is lanky forward Mark Olayon.Olayon led UE in its 90-77 stunner of NU that saw the Red Warriors improve to 2-6 and he did that by stuffing the stat sheets. The versatile forward put up 17 points, six rebounds, and eight assists against the Bulldogs.Guard: Ricci Rivero (De La Salle Green Archers) Ricci Rivero. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netRicci Rivero reminded everyone this week that there is more to La Salle than just Mbala. Judy Ann’s 1st project for 2020 is giving her a ‘stomachache’ Jake says relationship with Shaina ‘goes beyond physical attraction’ The high-octane Green Archer, though, reminded the public that they better get used to him as the league’s most dominating force putting a commanding display in Week 6.Mbala led La Salle to a 2-0 week averaging 22.5 points and 16.5 rebound.He also showed his perimeter defense in their 85-62 victory over University of the Philippines as he hounded Paul Desiderio for the full 94 feet of the parquet floor.Mbala, after watching Desiderio torch La Salle for 30 points in UP’2 98-87 first round win, limited the UP skipper to just seven points on 2-of-13 shooting.Forward: Thirdy Ravena (Ateneo Blue Eagles)ADVERTISEMENT Rivero showed he can become another focal point in the Green Archers’ offense and be a terror on defense when he put up 20 points, four assists, and five steals in their 75-73 squeaker over FEU.He then closed out the week with another 20-point game against the Fighting Maroons. Guard: Mark Maloles (UE Red Warriors)Mark Maloles. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netUE has another Red Warrior on this list, and it’s another Mark. Mark Maloles helped Olayon play closer for the Red Warriors in their win over NU when he put up 13 points, five in the fourth, and six assists.The reserve point guard also took over the responsibilities of Philip Manalang as the latter struggled with foul trouble against the Bulldogs.Honorable mentions:Issa Gaye (NU Bulldogs)Issa Gaye. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netMbala has established himself as the best center this UAAP season and the label of “second-best” is a virtual toss up.Issa Gaye is one of those big men who are gunning to claim possession of the second place in the podium. It’s too early to present Duterte’s ‘legacy’ – Lacson Jake says relationship with Shaina ‘goes beyond physical attraction’ Kiss-and-tell matinee idol’s conquests: True stories or tall tales? View comments For the complete collegiate sports coverage including scores, schedules and stories, visit Inquirer Varsity. read more Teen slapped with robbery charge A 17-year-old was on Monday afternoon in tears as he denied stealing a cellphone in the Stabroek Market area when he made an appearance before Magistrate Judy Latchman.Shamrock King, a plumber of Lot 684 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, denied that on January 12, 2018, while being in the company of others and being armed with a knife, he robbed Ajay Kumar Chowdai of one cell phone valued $15,000, property of Joshna Kamla.The plumber employed at a popular fishing company told the court that he committed no such act and claimed that he was a “hardworking youth who does work to take care of my family”.However, Police Prosecutor Dellon Sullivan said that King, who was a known offender, attacked the Virtual Complainant (VC) and held a knife to his neck before making off with the phone.Police on patrol at the time were alerted and the defendant was captured with the phone on his person.As such, Magistrate Latchman remanded King to prison until January 29, 2018 when he would make his next court appearance. read more “Forests not property of loggers” – GFC …as loggers raise concerns over stumpage value, poor roadsFollowing a presentation on the revised National Forest Policy Statement and Forest Plan, loggers raised concerns over the proposed introduction of stumpage fees and the poor infrastructure used to access concessions in the forest.One logger called on the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to ensure that better infrastructure is afforded before the introduction of additional fees can be considered. The logger explained that if the new fee is introduced, it would cause loggers to become engaged in illegal practices, since the industry is already suffering.Stumpage is the price paid for the right to harvest timber from a given land base. Historically, the price was determined on a basis of the number of trees harvested, or “per stump”.However, the GFC Commissioner has explained that the GFC had been engaged in consultations for over two years (2015 and 2016), and the decision has been made.“Additionally, the forest laws require new charges to be instituted, but, as usual, the Forestry Commission does it through a very consultative and participatory process. We don’t just wake up one morning and say, ‘We are going to institute stumpage value’,” he said.“We had extensive consultations one after the other in Kwakwani. The initial position of the GFC was to charge $8 per cubic metre per standing tree, and based on the consultation, we have reduced it to $5,” Singh added.He further stated that the GFC is about to restart the consultation process on stumpage value and other issues affecting the users of the forest.“A lot of forest in Guyana has been issued out. Some (may have been) used beneficially and some are not being used beneficially, and that is the reason why stumpage value is a fair charge,” he defended.Stakeholders at the presentation“The forests of Guyana are not the property of loggers; they are the patrimony of Guyana, and monies must be earned from these forest resources to fit into the social programmes of the Government. We have an obligation to ensure that whatever forest we give out, we receive a fair share of the earnings,” Singh noted.Meanwhile, Ricky Ramsaroop, President of the Forest Products Association (FPA), has said he is scheduled at the next meeting to make a presentation about the current stumpage value to the GFC’s Board of Directors, on which he sits.“We (the FPA) have (to) hold a meeting to discuss internally our position on stumpage value that we had before… When I look back at the current stumpage value, there are certain benefits we want to achieve. I think we have to look at that. So if we have to look at stumpage value, then there are certain values we want to derive benefits (from),” he noted.He added that there are provisions in the 2018 Budget for the rehabilitation of the infrastructure, particularly the road network.The revised National Forest Policy Statement and Forest Plan was presented to the stakeholders on Friday. It addresses the issues arising from the economic, ecological, social, and governance standpoints. The principles that guide the policy include balanced decision-making, inter-generational equity, local benefit, and the protection of the natural capital base.The revised policy and plan reflects the moving away from utilizing forests for just wood, and is as a cornerstone of the country’s national patrimony.PhotoGfc1- Gfc2- read more Written by: admin Posted on: December 30, 2019 Dad goes shopping Men and shopping don’t always mix. But for fearless fathers with a knack for browsing, the holidays present an opportunity to get the gift-buying done while spending some quality time with the kids. Randy Tat is a highly committed flea-market shopper. He’s been making the rounds for years, finding gifts at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, Long Beach Antique Market and Fairfax High School Trading Post. When Tat had children, he strollered them along to the marts, and they’ve grown up hunting for unique bargains with Dad. “I’m obsessed with the deal,” said Tat, an artist who runs a production company and does interior design on the side. “I’m obsessed with shopping. Every time we pass a market, my kids are like, `No Daddy, don’t stop.”‘ AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREPettersson scores another winner, Canucks beat Kings Yet, years of tagging along with Dad have taught the kids how to spot a deal. “He gives me $5, and I buy toys,” said Ella, 9, who was shopping with her father at the biweekly flea market at Venice High School. After sifting through some gaudy vintage jewelry, she spotted some glass spheres engraved with Elvis and Disney characters. Then she hit up her Dad for a glazed doughnut and hot chocolate from the food vendor. Something old, something new Tat, who lives in L.A.’s Fairfax District, is always on the lookout for articles to create artistic pieces or enhance his home d cor. But his shopping addiction also means that he picks up Christmas and Hanukkah presents all year round, avoiding the stress of last-minute shopping. “I have a 2-year-old nephew I started buying vintage puppets for when he was born,” Tat said. “Now he has 50.” For adults, he combines used stuff with new. “I find great deals on vintage antiques at flea markets, and then there’s the whole Marshalls-TJ Maxx-Ross racket. So if were buying gifts for family, I might have a great vintage collectible piece combined with a set of candle holders that are new.” This year, he plans to give his brother some vintage posters. His sister-in-law loves vintage jewelry, and he’s already found a great charm bracelet for her. For nieces, nephews, and his own kids, he buys vintage curios, wind up toys and circus posters. “My boss has everything. I found her this great ’60s necklace and she loved it. I think I spent $25 on it.” Man on a mission Mothers still account for 85 percent of all household spending, says BSM Media, which focuses on marketing to moms. But men can still be great shoppers, especially given their ability to hone in on a target. Todd Feldman, father of a 3-month-old son, took over the holiday shopping this year at his wife’s suggestion. The real estate developer went online and quickly amassed outfits for a gaggle of young nieces and nephews. “Buying clothing, you don’t have to think as much,” said Feldman, who hit a Web site operated by a client of his wife’s public relations agency. Feldman said he may branch out and go to LillianVernon.com to buy personalized gifts for adults, like a welcome plaque engraved with the family name. The fewer stops he has to make, he said, the better. Guys are much more specific and goal-oriented in their shopping strategy, said Jonathan Baker, owner of Skin Spa in Encino. He said he shops for only one thing: clothing for his baby daughter. “I take some of it away from my wife so I can participate,” he said. “For me, I have a goal, and if I see something I buy.” Even Randy Tat, who loves to shop, says fathers and mothers have different styles. For instance, he always thinks about what he’s looking for before starting his tour of flea-market booths, while his wife looks at everything. “I have my strategy. I have a path and I’m quick,” he says. “She may be tagging behind me, and she’ll find something I’ve already walked by.” barbara.correa@dailynews.com 818-713-3662160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! GAA NEWS: JOY FOR BUNCRANA U16 HURLERS AS THEY CAPTURE LEAGUE AND CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLE GAA NEWS: Buncrana u16 hurlers secured the League and Championship double after a very convincing win over St Eunans from Letterkenny, on Thursday last.The game was played in ideal conditions in Hiberian park Burt, nerves seemed to get the better of the Scarvey boys with the Cathedral town side getting the first score of the match and in fact in the first 10 mins looked like that they were going to cause a threat. But up Stepped captain Dylan Duffy to raise the white flag with no less than 6 points from play and frees in the first half, but it was the potency in front of goal of Niall o Doherty that will have pleased management most in the first half, having lining out at left half forward Niall moved in after 10 mins to edge of the square, the first of his goals was scrambled over the line after a fine pass from Gabhan Kelly who then had to leave the field with a serious knee injury.Nialls second goal was a different story a fierce strike to the top right hand corner from a very narrow angle, this set the tempo for the rest of the game Ben Doherty and Pj mc Carron started to dominate midfield, at the back Fiachra mac Lochlainn was solid throughout and in the Centre half back position Paul Tourish was his stylish best with high fielding and long accurate pucks were the building block of many attacks, further points from Ben and Dylan and Niall with a point and his hatrick goal, sent Buncrana in at half time 3:9 to 0:3 with all st Eunans points coming from Ryan Hilferty. The game was now over as a contest and from the throw in of the second half Buncrana added with ease to the scoreline,early scores from Paul,PJ, Dylan and Oisin Grant who was his usual industrious self chipping in with some fine scores from play, the defence were seldom troubled but any attacks were sniffed out.Jason Campbell dealt with ease any Black and Amber attacks, Oisin Hegarty, Mathew Wilson, John Vaughan and Oisin (roe) Doherty were excellent throughout and can be pleased with there efforts,holding Eunans scoreless in the second half, the aforementioned Paul and Fiachra were relentless all through the game and gave an exhibition of how hurling should be played.from midfield, Paul also scored a point from a sideline cut from the 40 yard’s out.simply sublime. Up front they were all on fire Niall,Ben,Pj Oisin and Dylan were ably supported by the hard working Darren Connolly, Jack Callaghan and Mark Craig. Final Score 4:24 to 0:3As the match went on the subs got a chance to shine none more so than the young guns of Cathal og Wilson and Liam o Doherty and Finn mc Laughlin, with Cathal og getting himself a fine goal and a point in the process.Team and scorers.Jason Campbell,Mathew Wilson,Fiachra mac Lochlainn,Oisin Hegarty,John Vaughan,Pjmc Carron (0:1),Oisin (roe) Doherty,Paul Tourish (0:4), Ben Doherty (0:4) Oisin Grant(0:3),Niall O Doherty(3:3) Darren Connolly,Dylan Duffy (0:8) ,Gabhan Kelly,Jack Callaghan.subs Mark Craig,Cathal og Wilson(1:1),Liam O Doherty,Finn mc Laughlin,Ryan Hegarty,Arran Craig.A player to mention who missed the match through injury was Arran Craig who was having the hurling year of his life with some great performances to date, he missed the game because of a back injury he received playing club football on Monday.This team proved in the course of the year to date to be just to strong for all the teams at this age group in Donegal and can also hold there own with County Derry teams were they also sit joint top of their league, they get on as a group and this is evident in the way they try and get younger players in the team on the ball as much as possible, they are easy managed and are a credit to all, in the starting 15 on the night 13 represented their county this year ,5 were selected to play for Ulster, we will regroup and try and build on this, most of the older players will be involved with Tom Clare and the rest of the Minor hurling squad that will take the field in the Ulster minor hurling club championship later in the year.The management would also like to wish Gabhan Kelly a speedy recovery form injury.GAA NEWS: JOY FOR BUNCRANA U16 HURLERS AS THEY CAPTURE LEAGUE AND CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLE was last modified: September 30th, 2015 by Mark ForkerShare 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:GAASport read more Moors to play on in wake of tragedy Her wake is tonight, which nearly forced the cancellation of the game. “We almost forfeited, because it’s such a devastating thing. For most of the kids, it’s the first time they’ve had to deal with a close friend that has died,” said Ruedaflores, who found himself in the hospital on Tuesday night after fainting during practice earlier that afternoon. Alhambra High School’s football players voted to play tonight’s football game at Temple City High School following the death of classmate Jazmine Jimenez, who was killed late Sunday in an automobile accident. The 15-year-old was the captain of Song, a dance and cheer team at the school, and was one of the most popular students according to Moors coach Gil Ruedaflores. “Last week was a good opportunity for us to get back on the field after a long year of soul-searching and wondering how good we could be,” Mooney said. “I’m a firm believer than you can control only certain things, like preparation, and things like that. Sometimes the ball just bounces funny. “But if we’re going to be the type of team that competes for league championships, and keeps up with the Monrovias and La Canadas, then we need to learn how to win against good teams.” The Moors are just that. Senior quarterback Jacob Proctor was steady in last week’s 20-14 victory over Glendale, completing 12 of 17 passes for 159 yards. Running backs Jason Campos and Anthony Brown combined for more than 100 yards rushing, and perhaps their biggest threat, Zion Babb, has yet to take off. Alhambra’s victory was more one-sided that it appeared because the Moors raced out to a 20-0 halftime, then cruised to the finish. “They possess a lot of firepower,” Mooney said of the Moors. “Proctor and Babb are a heck of a one-two punch, and their running backs are shifty, and get the job done. It’s going to take a huge effort on our part to slow them down.” — Fred J. Robledo can be reached at (626) 962-8811, Ext. 4485, or by e-mail at fred.robledo@sgvn.com. 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 MOREThe top 10 theme park moments of 2019 “I’m fine,” Ruedaflores said. “What her (Jimenez) family is going through, and our students are going through is extremely difficult to digest. But rather than forfeit, our players decided to dedicate the game to her.” With grieving counselors at the school, and an assembly this morning on campus to honor Jimenez, Ruedaflores has no idea what state of mind his players will be in come game time at 7 p.m. “This isn’t about football tonight, it’s about healing,” Ruedaflores said. “Hopefully this will be a step back to normalcy for them.” The Rams (0-1), on the other hand, are hoping to pick themselves up after a tough 21-17 loss to heavily favored Arroyo last week. After starting 0-5 and finishing 4-7 last year, Rams coach Mike Mooney isn’t interested in any moral victories. read more Friel welcomes €10M outdoor recreation fund to get Downings-Carrigart greenway off the ground A NEW greenway from Carrigart to Downings could benefit from a multi-million euro fund announced by Rural Development Minister Michael Ring, a local Fine Gael candidate has said.Eimer Friel, who is standing in the Milford Electoral Area, has welcomed an ongoing consultation project by Donegal County Council.“So many brilliant projects in Co Donegal have benefitted from the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme since it was introduced in 2016,” said Friel. “I know Donegal County Council are carrying out a consultation and planning process for a proposed greenway/cycleway from Carrigart to Downings and I would urge everyone to engage so that the council application for funding is ready on time.“It is estimated the cycleway would cost around €300,000 and it would be of enormous benefit to the area, linking the two areas, allowing cyclists to enjoy and explore the wonderful Atlantic Drive. It will be a huge draw for tourists and a wonderful amenity for local people all-year-round.”Ms Friel added: “In January the Fine Gael-led Government invested €343,660 to support the development of great local outdoor projects with the Great Arch Trail at Pollet, Fanad Head getting funding of €136,200; the Glenties Alter Trail being supported with €30,400; and investment of €177,060 on the Creeslough to Falcarragh stretch of the Letterkenny to Burtonport Greenway.“I want to thank Donegal County Council officials who work so hard to bring a new imaginative use for outdoor recreation. I would urge them to have all the planning conditions in place so that Carrigart to Downings cycleway/greenway can benefit from this latest round of funding.”Minister Ring said: “Recreational tourism continues to be a significant growth area, and the natural resources available to us here in Ireland offer great potential to avail of the economic benefits that this type of tourism can bring to rural areas. Over 600 projects throughout the country have been supported by the Scheme since I introduced it in 2016. “Increasing Activity Tourism is a key pillar of the Government’s Action Plan for Rural Development, and the type of facilities which will be funded through the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme will include greenways, blueways, walking trails and other recreation infrastructure which will showcase the stunning scenery and wonderful places that Ireland has to offer.“The amenities funded through this scheme will enhance the quality of life for people who live in, or close to, the supported projects. It will also create better experiences for visitors to rural areas, enhance the tourism offering and support sustainable economic development in rural areas.”Friel welcomes €10M outdoor recreation fund to get Downings-Carrigart greenway off the ground was last modified: March 29th, 2019 by John2Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Tags:CarrigartCouncil candidatecyclewayDowningsEimer FrielgreenwayMilfordNa Dunaibh read more South Africa is the fourth-best country in the world – Conde Nast Traveler Readers of the prestigious Conde Nast Traveler magazine have rated South Africa as the fourth-best country to visit – ahead of traditional tourist favourites such as France, Spain, Thailand and Morocco.The iconic Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg. (Image: South African Tourism)Brand South Africa reporterIn the 2016 edition of the annual Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards list of the top 20 best countries in the world, Greece came out tops, followed by Italy, the USA, and then South Africa. France was in fifth position, with the rest of the top 10 rounded out by Spain (6), India (7), Australia (8), Thailand (9) and Mexico (10).“The Readers’ Travel Awards celebrates the best of the best in travel, as voted for by people who love travel,” Conde Nast said in announcing the list in late August.“In our Readers’ Travel Awards you told us you really can’t get enough of Greece, which continues to capture your imagination with crowd-pleasing scores across the board. You think Italy produces the best food. The USA has the finest places to stay and South Africa is fantastic when it comes to value for money.”Rhodes Fruit Farm in picturesque Stellenbosch. (Image: South African Tourism)The ranking is good news for South Africa’s tourism industry – and the country’s economy. The National Development Plan, a blueprint for increasing employment and reducing poverty and inequality in. South Africa by 2030, identifies tourism as a key driver of inclusive economic growthAccording to the NDP, South Africa’s competitiveness in the global tourism industry is driven by our world-renowned natural beauty, well-managed national parks, developed domestic airline network, and excellent hotel capacity andpersonal services.“A far cry from the sea, surf and whistling sand dunes of South Africa’s Eastern Cape coastline, the bare beauty and tranquil atmosphere of the Great Karoo provides a rustic atmosphere that is perfect for a relaxing break in the sun.” – Conde Nast Traveler (Image: South African Tourism)“The tourism industry and the creative economy sector are labour intensive and stimulate the growth of small businesses,” the NDP says. “They can develop other spin-offs, such as foreign direct investment.”“Visitors can slow down and experience the rhythm, sounds and cycles of the bush.” – Conde Nast Traveler. Elephants at a watering hole in the Addo Elephant Park. (Image: South African Tourism)In its listing of South Africa’s top attractions, Conde Nast Traveler focused on Cape Town, Franschhoek, Johannesburg, the Kruger National Park, Londolozi private game reserve, Plettenberg Bay, the Garden Route and the Great Karoo.Here’s the full top-20 list of the 2016 Conde Nast best countries in the world:1. Greece2. Italy3. USA4. South Africa5. France6. Spain7. India8. Australia9. Thailand10. Mexico11. New Zealand12. Portugal13. Canada14. Argentina15. Sri Lanka16. Morocco17. Indonesia18. Ireland19. Japan20. VietnamSouth African pantsula dancers in Gauteng. (Image: South African Tourism)Would you like to use this article in your publication or on your website? See Using Brand South Africa material. read more Extension to Scrapie Comment Period Share Facebook Twitter Google + LinkedIn Pinterest The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service extended the comment period for the proposed rule to amend the regulations of the National Scrapie Eradication Program through Dec. 9. The comment period for the draft revised scrapie program standards is also extended through Dec. 9.APHIS welcomes all comments on the proposed rule. The proposed rule is available at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2007-0127. Comments can also be submitted and reviewed through this link.Industry is encouraged to offer comments to this proposed rule. The American Sheep Industry Association’s detailed comments are available for review at www.sheepusa.org/IssuesPrograms_AnimalHealth_Scrapie. Written by: admin Posted on: November 19, 2019 Harbhajan Singh pushes Zaheer Khan for India’s bowling coach Veteran Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has tipped former left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan for the role of the national team’s fast bowling coach.Taking to micro blogging website Twitter, Harbhajan wrote that Zaheer was the “best option” to take over the reins of the Indian national team in the capacity of the bowling coach.”@ImZaheer would be the best option for indian fast bowling coach in my opinion..Great mind #Greatfella,” he tweeted.@ImZaheer would be the best option for indian fast bowling coach in my opinion..Great mind #Greatfella- Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 23, 2017 Harbhajan and Zaheer, who were team-mates in the national side for many years, were recently seen in action in the recently-concluded Indian Premier League (IPL).While Zaheer was the captain of Delhi Daredevils, Harbhajan was a part of the title-winning Mumbai Indians (MI) squad.Zaheer, who retired from international and first class cricket in 2015, had earlier hinted that he could continue to contribute to the game through coaching.The 38-year-old has appeared in a total of 92 Tests, 200 ODIs, 17 T20Is for India. 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__label__cc	0.555638	0.444362	Jackanapes After reading about Randolph Caldecott I decided we should try to find some of the books he illustrated. The university library near us had an original copy of the book Jackanapes by Juliana Horatia Ewing with Caldecott’s illustrations. After reading the term Jackanapes was a reference to an upstart “new money” and also to a monkey on a leash I thought the book might be a comedy of sorts. Instead the story tells of a hero, Jackanapes. It starts with his birth to a young woman who ran off with a soldier to Gretna Green and then lost her husband in the battle of Waterloo and continues on through a few important incidents of his childhood and into his adulthood. The crisis in the story takes place when Jackanapes is on the battlefield and, taking time to rescue a much less capable friend, Tony Johnson. The friend knows that Jackanapes life is more valuable than his and that rescuing him is slowing down his friend’s chances of escaping, so he tries to urge Jackanapes to continue without him but Jackanapes refuses. Jackanapes takes a bullet in the lungs and dies back at the camp with his major beside him. His last concerns are for his horse and for Tony. “Major! I wish I could get you to appreciate Johnson.” “This is not an easy moment, Jackanapes.” “Let me tell you, sir – he never will – that if he could have driven me from him, he would be lying yonder at this moment, and I should be safe and sound.” The Major laid his hand over his mouth, as if to keep back a wish he would have been ashamed to utter. “I’ve known old Tony from a child. He’s a fool on impulse, a good man and a gentleman in principle. And he acts on principle, which it’s not every – some water, please! Thank you sir. It’s very hot, and yet one’s feet get uncomfortably cold. Oh, thank you, thank you. He’s no fire-eater, but he has a trained conscience and a tender heart, and he’ll do his duty when a braver and more selfish man might fail you. He but wants encouragement; and when I’m gone – “ The last of the book deals with others responses. Only the Cobbler dissented, but that was his way. He said he saw nothing but foolhardiness and vainglory. They might both have been killed, as easy as not, and then where would ye have been? A man’s life was a man’s life, and one life was as good as another. No one would catch him throwing his away. And, for that matter, Mrs. Johnson could spare a child a great deal better than Miss Jessamine. Nor did Miss Jessamine see her loss form the Cobbler’s point of view. On the contrary, Mrs. Johnson said she never to her dying day should forget how, when she went to condole her, the old lady came forward with gentlewomanly self-control, and kissed her, and thanked God that her dear nephew’s effort had been blessed with success, and that this sad war had made no gap in her friend’s large and happy home circle. “But she’s a noble, unselfish woman,” sobbed Mrs. Johnson, “and she taught Jackanapes to be the same, and that’s how it is that my Tony has been spared to me. And it must be sheer goodness in Miss Jessamine, for what can she know of a mother’s feelings? And I’m sure most people seem to think that if you’ve a large family you don’t know one from another any more than they do, and that a lot of children are like store-apples, if one’s taken it won’t be missed.” What do I make of the book? It has something of the notion of inherited goodness that underlies the racism of Tarzan – a notion that the nobility are in some ways inherently better, more gentle, strong-charactered and selfless. The book is also an apology for the army. At the beginning it talked of the villagers having a prejudice against the military but then after Jackanapes grandfather lives there a length of time they change: One effect of the conquest which the General had gained over the affections of the village, was a considerable abatement of the popular prejudice against “the military.” It makes me curious about the attitudes towards the military during the 19th century. I remember reading that when Florence Nightingale tried to provide teachers for soldiers recovering from injuries she was told that she was spoiling “the brutes.” I know she succeeded in changing people’s views so soldiers were viewed less harshly. But I don’t know enough to really know how they were viewed. The whole evaluation of Jackanapes sacrifice challenges a utilitarian or calculating view of the world. The “better” person was sacrificed for a “lesser” person but that is seen as fine and good, as the end describes explicitly: A sorrowful story, and ending badly? Nay, Jackanapes, for the End is not yet. A life wasted that might have been useful? Men who have died for men, in all ages, forgive the thought! There is a heritage of heroic example and noble obligation, not reckoned in the Wealth of Nations, but essential to a nation’s life; the contempt of which, in any people, may, not slowly, mean even its commercial fall. Very sweet are the uses of prosperity, the harvests of peace and progress, the fostering sunshine of health and happiness, and length of days in the land. But there be things – oh, sons of what has deserved the name of Great Britain, forget it not! – “the good of” which and “the use of” which are beyond all calculations of worldly goods and earthly uses : things such as Love and Honour, and the Soul of Man, which cannot be bought with a price, and which do not die with death. And they who would fain live happily EVER after, should not leave these things out of the lessons of their lives. I discussed this with my kids partly through discussion of the Star Trek Voyageur episode “Critical Care” during which the holographic doctor has been stolen and finds himself working in a hospital where medication and care is administered according to their “TC score” or perceived value to society. And of course while we’re on the topic, we could discuss the notion of paid employment and that people speak as though a person’s wages (the means by which they access resources) are a legitimate measure of the person’s perceived value to society. But all of this goes beyond Juliana Horatia Ewing’s Jackanapes, of course, though her mention of “the Wealth of Nations” suggests she is not unaware of the economic implications of her criticism of calculations of value. Still her focus is on the idea of the heroic, and not on the idea of justice. The heroic leads Jackanapes and the aunt who raised him to reject notions of utility and calculations, but it does not require them to part with their wealth (only his life!). The other Star Trek connection in this book is of course the idea that the main character dies, rather than just a “red shirt.” My children argued this is a betrayal! How can it be! In our imaginary worlds we hold that social status does count, and that our connection to a character should protect them. One cute aspect of the book is that parts of it are told from the perspective of the Grey Goose that lived upon the green. For example, chapter two starts with this charming vignette: The Grey Goose remembered quite well the year that Jackanapes began to walk, for it was the year that the speckled hen for the first time in all her motherly life got out of patience when she was sitting. She had been rather proud of the eggs – they were unusually large – but she never felt quite comfortable on them; and whether it was because she used to get cramp, and go off the nest, or because the season was bad, or what, she never could tell, but every egg was addled but one, and the one that did hatch gave her more trouble than any chick she had ever reared. It was a fine, downy, bright yellow little thing, but it had a monstrously big nose and feet, and such an ungainly walk as she knew no other instance of in her well-bred and high-stepping family. And as to behavior, it was not that it was either quarrelsome or moping, but simply unlike the rest. When the other chicks hopped and cheeped on the Green about their mother’s feet, this solitary yellow brat went waddling off on its own responsibility, and do or cluck what the speckled hen would, it went to play in the pond. great children’s books for exploring the 19th Century The Highway Rat: A delightful picture book introduction to the Highwayman. Melanie Bluelake’s Dream learning about Marie Curie and radioactivity 19th centuryStar Trek Reasons to NOT Support Operation Christmas Child Nonstandard units of measurement in children’s books. a waiting room movie – the gift of imagination	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12948
__label__cc	0.734019	0.265981	Fire has long since been revered in history as a primordial element, for its power, warmth, domestic mundane uses and its magical uses. However it also has a visionary aspect. In all forms of religion, spirituality and faith, we see the use of fire in the hearth, as a bonfire, a guiding light, candlelight, for cleansing, cooking, brewing, etc. With fire being one of the four most called on elements (five if you count Aether/Spirit), as a symbol it is consistently used in ritual, meditation, visualization, psychic or divination work. Hekate is (among other deities) known as Phosphoros meaning “light-bringer” or “lightbearer.” Hekate’s affiliation with Helios, Greek God of the Sun can be found in ‘The Homeric Hymn II To Demeter [19]-[74], the story of Persephone‘ 32. This link would incorporate Hekate’s association with fire for the use of fire for lighting Her Twin Torches as part of her her role as Psychopomp guiding souls to the gates of the Underworld/Hades. With this She can also enter into the Underworld and return out again, withstanding the fiery depths of Hades with its/his ‘fire-flaming’ river the Phlegethon. In the Chaldean Oracles, fire in relation to Hekate is in the form of lightning, more precisely the Lightning Womb:“The Oracle says that a certain divinity sends forth thunderbolts and also a womb to receive those thunder/lightning bolts; the womb belongs to Hekate” 33. Again in ‘The Epiphany of Hekate‘, fire is distinctly associated with her appearance and the word “lightning” in The Chaldean Oracles and in relation to Hekate, simply means, Heavenly Fire. 32 Evelyn White, H.G. trans. 1914. The Theogony of Hesiod. From: Hare, J.B. 1999. Internet Sacred Text Archive. Available from: http://www.sacred texts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm Accessed: 2 July 2010 33 Johnston, S. I. 1990. Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate’s Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature. USA: Scholar Press, pg 50. The Symbols of the Goddess Hekate Flower of Fire Garland (or Wreath) Herald’s Wand Moon (New Moon) Mullet (Fish) Sandals (Bronze or Gold) Torch & Twin Torches	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12955
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__label__cc	0.722162	0.277838	Home/Science + Tech/What is Biodiesel? Science + Tech What is Biodiesel? Sheldon Armstrong May 31, 2013 As concerns about global warming and a potential oil shortage grow, alternative fuels are starting to gain more attention. Electricity, ethanol, and other alternative fuels are being explored as potential options for powering cars without petroleum-based products. One perennially popular alternative fuel is biodiesel. Biodiesel is a type of fuel that functions in a way similar to diesel. Conventional diesel is used to fuel large vehicles like tractor-trailer trucks because it contains more energy per gallon than gasoline. It is also used to fuel some cars, particularly older models. Like gasoline, it is refined from petroleum oil. Biodiesel is refined from vegetable and waste oils instead of petroleum. One common source of the oil that is turned into biodiesel is the restaurant industry; old fryer oil can be filtered and used to fuel vehicles instead of merely being discarded. Oil of all types requires refinement and processing before it is usable as fuel. Biodiesel is cleaner-burning than petroleum-based diesel. Because biodiesel can be made with vegetable oil, it can also be much closer to carbon-neutral than petroleum-based diesel. Growing plants absorb carbon dioxide in order to create the next generation of biodiesel while the current generation is being burned. Some have commented that biodiesel exhaust even smells like fast food. How Biodiesel is Made When biodiesel is made, the oils and fats that are used are first separated into component parts. The fat is separated from the glycerin, and the methyl esters go along with the glycerin. The methyl esters are the functional part of the oil and the main component of the final fuel. The separated glycerin in a valuable ingredient in other consumer products, such as soap. How Well Does Biodiesel Work? Biodiesel is refined to certain octane standards, just like petroleum-based diesel. Like petroleum-based diesel, biodiesel contains more energy per gallon than gasoline. Fuel consumption and torque of a vehicle fueled with biodiesel is similar to that of a vehicle fueled with petroleum-based diesel. Performance in cold weather can be a problem for both biodiesel and conventional diesel. Conventional diesel is usually treated with compounds that improve performance for use during cold weather. The recommended blend for cold-weather use is B20 with number 2 diesel treated for cold weather use. Current Use of Biodiesel Biodiesel is available in all 50 states of the U.S. and is a common component of commercial fuel. It is usually mixed with petroleum-based diesel and labeled as to the exact biodiesel content. For example, B5 is 5 percent biodiesel and 95 percent petroleum-based diesel. This mix is acceptable in most diesel vehicles, while higher mixes are sometimes contraindicated. In 2009, the U.S. used 316 million gallons of biodiesel; the country’s estimated current ability to produce biodiesel is approximately 2.69 billion gallons or more per year. One major reason that it is not more widely used is the incompatibility of certain products, such as fuel hoses, in vehicles that could otherwise be fueled with biodiesel. Modern diesel cars made after 1993 can be run on biodiesel. However, most manufacturers recommend against the use of high-biodiesel blends. Biodiesel is known to accumulate in the engine lubricant, and it is not known what effects this might have on the functionality of the lubricant. Vehicles made prior to 1993 can be susceptible to the degradation of engine parts by biodiesel. This may also be a problem when high-biodiesel blends are used in modern cars. This article was written by Sheldon Armstrong, a techie who keeps up with the latest in technology and blogs about them online. In addition, he loves science! He writes this on behalf of Fryer to Fuel, your number one source for WVO Centrifuges, Biodiesel Processors, and WVO Filtration Units. Check out their website at http://www.fryertofuel.com/ for more information on their great products! biodiesel green tech Sheldon Armstrong Sheldon Armstrong is a regular contributor for INFOtainment News. He loves writing about technology and keeping up with the latest gadgets on the market. In addition, he contributes articles covering a wide range of topics together with his friends who appear as guest writers every now and then. Stress & Eating: 7 Foods That Can Help You Relax Why Every Company Should Have a Blog to Improve SEO Microsoft Office 365 – Office in the Cloud Beats By Dr. Dre Beatbox Available Exclusively From AT&T 4 Apps to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions Alive What’s Going On at Super Bowl XLV Media Day? James Hicks says: What is Biodiesel? – See more here: http://t.co/xUOI5UGCPz http://t.co/GQ9vn2lPcj Pingback: Young Stewards of the Environment \| Petchary's Blog Embed Video Into Your Tweets With Vine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12962
__label__wiki	0.63536	0.63536	Tonight's game Still getting back into the swing of posting the lineup before the game. Doesn’t do much good at this point, but it is: Pierre, Martin, Nomar, Kent, Gonzalez, Kemp, Betemit, Martinez, Wolf Russell’s already 2-for-2, which is good to see. I guess I don’t need to point out that equaled yesterday’s hit total in the first four batters today. Also, I talked to Russell today and he’s going to have you guys recommend song ideas for when he comes up to hit, so be on the lookout for that on the site. Strangely, one of my side jobs has become the liaison between the players and the Dodger Stadium DJ, so I was asking around today to see what songs guys want. Can’t say I thought this was what I’d be doing when I was growing up… One final thought on the one guy who seems to like posting ridiculous things in the comments section. If you keep replying to him, he’ll keep doing it. If you ignore him, he will go away just like he did last year. gonzalez is the definition of a defensive liability. no bat no defense nothing to offer us, move over gonzo. By graffitigenius@hotmail.com on April 3, 2007 6:16 pm - Reply if vin of all people is already complaining about our outfield defense, its time for a change! Our GM needs to own up to his mistakes. By jspelk2@uic.edu on April 3, 2007 6:22 pm - Reply Why did we get Gonzalez again?? We have some arm issues in the outfield. By kirkgibby1@yahoo.com on April 3, 2007 6:23 pm - Reply **** Billingsley looked great…remind me why he isn’t in the rotation? This Ethier/Kemp platoon is pathetic. Someone needs to tell grady that Andre his over .300 against lefties last year. Of course stats and common sense don’t mean much to grady. By max_power_05@yahoo.com on April 3, 2007 7:25 pm - Reply Andre HIT* geez…maybe i should start writting for Rotoworld…they have pretty much said everything i have “Just like Monday, Luis Gonzalez went hitless and had a misplay in the outfield on Tuesday, Meanwhile, Andre Ethier was on the bench in favor of Matt Kemp. Ethier was a better hitter than Gonzalez last year, especially against lefties, and there’s an even bigger difference between the two on defense. For instance, Ethier can run the ball back to the infield faster than Gonzalez can throw it. If one of the two has to sit against lefties — and one does as long as Matt Kemp is on the roster — it’s Gonzalez who should be benched.” “Russell Martin went 3-for-5 with a homer and a double in Tuesday’s loss to the Brewers. Martin, who is batting second with Rafael Furcal sidelined, drove in the Dodgers’ first run, scored the second and did both for the third in the 4-3 loss. There’s a better chance of Tommy Lasorda winning the New York Marathon this year, but the Dodgers would benefit from leaving Martin in the second spot after Furcal returns and batting Juan Pierre eighth.” THIS SEASON IS GOING TO BE A DISASTER IF PIERRE ISN’T DROPPED TO THE 8TH SPOT. WE ALL BETTER PRAY THAT FURCAL GETS BETTER… FAST. …AND THAT THE LINEUP WILL LOOK MORE LIKE THIS PRETTY SOON: Garciaparra Betemit Ethier By rgonza13@csulb.edu on April 3, 2007 8:31 pm - Reply My Thought on Tonights Game: Things i liked: Russel Martin- other than the hitting stats he just calls a great game. 3-2 curveball to Fielder in 5th is one example of that. Randy Wolf looked good other than the damned hr. Kemp almost taking turnbow deep on the first pitch of the inning. The Bullpen. Things i didnt like (other than the loss): Louis gonzalez, for a second night, looked very shaky in left field and at the plate. I was really hoping he was going to come in and be like Mueller was last year before he got hurt. He still might, but i thought he was going to step up right away and silence all of the critics– many of whom use this sight as their soapbox. Andre not playing. I get why Grady isnt going to bench gonzales after a week, but i really hope he does if after 3-4 weeks he is still playing badly. At this point, after two games, I’d rather have Kemp starting if for nothing more than his defense (which isnt saying much). Kemp and Ethier both have legit arms. Max power has been awfully pesimistic, but he’s right about the Kemp/Ethier platoon being pathetic. I’ll just say again that this is a long season. Grady will not hesistate to make moves, nor will Ned– neither of them did last year, and that being said, i really dont understand all criticism being directed their way. By ewk216@nyu.edu on April 3, 2007 8:32 pm - Reply They way Pierre played this spring i thought he could have a chance to bat second but he still only had 1 walk this whole spring. Pierre needs to be more patient. As for Gonzo…so far it’s been like watching an old race horse trying to run with young studs. Gonzo will be a nice addition in the clubhouse but on the field he’s a liability. i’d really like to see this lineup…for now at least I just dont think we can win with this lineup. There’s no pop in this lineup. I love Gonzo to death but his time has passed. They are converting singles into doubles because we dont have strong arms in the outfield. We need Andruw Jones!!! By eialamo@hotmail.com on April 3, 2007 9:13 pm - Reply having no pop in the lineup is not the problem– besides, two HR in two games. that a good lineup max. I don’t mind ramon playing SS for the time being.. Luis Gonzalez is horrible. It’s a good thing he’s such a great “character” guy to help withstand this slump. rolls eyes This team is going to die a slow, painful death riding this current philosophy of playing washed up vets over the youngsters. Meanwhile, James Loney – a future gold glover and batting champ – gets to spend the forseeable future teeing off on crappy pitching he’s already destroyed. Smart move!!! By momoracci@yahoo.com on April 3, 2007 9:45 pm - Reply ewk216, i don’t mind ramon playing short either but they decided to carry valdez just beacuse he was out of options. If they are gonna carry him use him. If not call up Loney who deserves that spot. To borrow a phrase from kssparkuhl – CALENDAR CHECK. 160 games left to be played. If you guys nitpick and whine about every lineup that is put up there every game, this blog is going to get old really fast. I for one don’t care to read half the posts on here today…so many people judging this team and this season by TWO GAMES. If you know anything about baseball, you know that’s in idiotic idea. Hey, I’ll do the same thing. Judging by these two games, Kent and Martin are on pace to hit 81 HRs each! That’s about as likely to happen as each of your naysaying doomsday predictions. Do us all a favor – save your complaints for one meaningful post once per week rather than clogging the blog up with 5 after each game the Dodgers lose. Stop hating the team. Or keep hating the team, and shut up. By puppyhead01@hotmail.com on April 3, 2007 9:58 pm - Reply yeah calendar check…even though it early in the year these games DO count. If we would have won opening day last year we would have won the division. ill be sure to make a Calendar check in september if we lose the division by one game. By max_power_05@yahoo.com on April 3, 2007 10:08 pm - Reply No wonder he’s having such a bad time in Left Field. Check out: Gonzo’s view from left field! According to Tony Jackson, this is the view Luis Gonzalez had from left field in Miller Park yesterday, when he lost that fly ball in the windows. http://www.sky-decks.com/misc/Gonzo.jpg Evidently this is the normal type of view for Gonzo and probably why he’s having such a hard time playing the position right now. By kssparkuhl@msn.com on April 3, 2007 10:25 pm - Reply The games you win in April are the ones you don’t have to worry about in September, to borrow the cliche. But it’s quite true. The New York Mets got to rest all their players in September, and a lot of that was getting off to a good start and playing consistently well. That’s all that’s necessary. Also, as the point was made yesterday, had we won one more game, we would have won the division, but too much time was wasted in a discovery period. I root for this team, but I’m not going to shrug off poor play. My attitude is that if the team plays as well as they can and still loses, I can accept that. But if the team loses because of particularly poor play, especially when it is poor play that reflects laziness (like shouldn’t Luis Gonzalez have practiced catching some flies in left during BP?), something should be said. It’s true, the numbers don’t mean a whole lot with such a small sample, but observation can still say plenty after two games. By patriotacts425@comcast.net on April 3, 2007 10:28 pm - Reply More things to remember, besides that it’s game 2 of 162: The Brewers are a very good team; they should compete for the NL Central title this year. The Brewers are an even better team at home. That said, I do hope, IF things continue, that the team would consider at least platooning Gonzo with Kemp and Ethier and Clark more often. It’s already really obvious to me that LG is looking his age (again, it is early and all). And lastly, this note from http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6634638 10. Dodgers — 1B/OF James Loney Simply put, Loney, who absolutely raked this spring, figures to give the Dodgers more than Luis Gonzalez, who’s waist-deep in his decline phase. It’s a classic case of favoring the likeable veteran over the young talent. It’s also a mistake in this instance. Keep your chins up everyone, have a little faith in the team and the manager. Don’t shrug off their poor play but don’t expect it to be that way for the season. By underdog8@gmail.com on April 3, 2007 10:35 pm - Reply But here’s the good points of the game. Juan Pierre walked. Martin was a triple shy of the cycle. Matt Kemp hammered the ball twice to the deepest part of the park, and would have had two homers in Dodger Stadium. Broxton struck out the side. Billingsley pitched an inning on 11 pitches. Capuano was forced out after the 5th because of the way the team worked the count. Underdog, you’re right, the Brewers are a better team than they’re given credit for. And the NL Central is such a pathetic division, I think that they could pull it off, especially if Chris Carpenter keeps having elbow problems. And it is also fair to point out that Jim Tracy and the Pittsburgh Pirates are 2-0, so the standings don’t mean a whole lot right now. Lets not forget all the great adjustments Little and Ned made last season that got us into the playoffs. Let them evaluate things for what they are after for a minute. I would guess it would be wise for Loney to hold off on getting settled in Vegas and the best players in the outfield will get the time they deserve. Little showed us his willingness to make this happen last year, which is how we got to know these young guys so well in the first place. I think Martin is an all-star in the making and someday he will be batting third or fourth. Last note, I don’t think we’ve even seen our best pitcher this year. The order of this rotation is deceptive and probably pretty smart. Before we knock the rotation, lets give Schmidt a chance to earn his bank and see which Penny show up this year. By jmgonz05@hotmail.com on April 4, 2007 1:23 am - Reply martin should use a song by the band refused called “new noise”. or maybe les savy fav’s “who rocks the party”. By mrvishal@gmail.com on April 4, 2007 4:55 am - Reply This is why I was not happy when they resigned Grittle. Why is he playing a 40 year old outfielder when he has 2 young ones? Baseball is a young mans game and you don’t see any 40 year old players on the Brewers. Also Grittle still does not know when to pull a pitcher. For Martin’s song , how about I’m your captain by Grand Funk? By fliegel@ptd.net on April 4, 2007 7:09 am - Reply One of the last two players to avoid the turk this spring, power hitting Matt Kemp will be sharing time with Andre Ethier in right field. This unfortunate turn of events limits the value of both of these young prospects to NL-only leagues. If the Dodgers are going to play the kids wouldn’t it be better in the long run for fading stars such as Luis Gonzalez to lose playing time instead. By darryl on April 4, 2007 7:25 am - Reply What? Nobody liked my “Gonzo’s View from Left Field” photo link from above? : ) By kssparkuhl@msn.com on April 4, 2007 8:01 am - Reply I think the players should concentrate more on batting and playing the game than what song should announce their appearance. GO DODGERS: (not rock stars). By kday01@charter.net on April 4, 2007 8:56 am - Reply O please… Josh, what kind of music does he like? Give us some direction… By ewk216@nyu.edu on April 4, 2007 9:15 am - Reply Someone on Dodger Thoughts had a nice suggestion of having a saxophone riff from Martin’s dad be a nice intro. Dunno how energetic that would be but still a nice idea. I picture either Russell coming out to The Shins or Green Day for some reason. By underdog8@gmail.com on April 4, 2007 10:28 am - Reply Or Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy (not that he is Crazy but it’s a cool song.) The CALENDAR CHECK comments are justified. That said, Colletti and Grady can’t and shouldn’t get off that easy. Many of the problems we have seen the first 2 games were very foreseeable. It was no secret Pierre and Gonzo would be defensive liabilities. It was no secret that Pierre is a weak hitter that makes a ton of out (many of them in critical situation). It was no secret that the addition of those two to the outfield would block Kemp, Ethier, and Loney (see proposed lineup below) because its hard to justify dropping Pierre in the lineup and/or benching Gonzo when they are making the kind of money Ned handed them. In other words, part of the reason people are complaining so vigorously is because many of them predicted this would happen. If management is really interested in fielding a team that gives us the best chance to win rather than simply save face over the moves that were made during the off-season, our line-up should look like this: 1) Raffy (when he gets back) 2) Martin 3) Nomar (LF) 4) Kent 5) Loney (1B) 6) Betemit 7) Kemp (CF) 8) Ethier (RF) Note: You might say benching Pierre is outlandish…to which I respond…Is it any more outlandish then the decision to sign him? Better to admit mistakes and move on rather than stubbornly “stay the course.” And our staff: Billingsley (Boy he’s looking great!) Tomko (7th inning) Broxton (8th-until Siato loses his spot) Siato (closer – see above) I’d love for someone to explain to me how our projected lineup (when Raffy Returns) could be any better than what I outlined above. I fully acknowledge that these changes won’t come overnight. Let’s just hope they happen before its too late. By dodgerdude17@yahoo.com on April 4, 2007 10:54 am - Reply It is early, but I agree if Gonzo looks like this at the end of April, something needs to be done. I am a little concerned that Kemp is going up there only looking for homers. I like the pop, but a deep fly ball is still an out. I would like to see some solid doubles and singles. By kevblewis@sbcglobal.net on April 4, 2007 10:59 am - Reply sparkuhl, I liked the picture you linked to. Pretty hard to play the outfield in that park – let’s not project an entire season of bad performance based on these 2 games. Has anyone looked at Gonzo’s numbers from last year? They’re not great, but they’re not bad, either. His OPS was a few clicks shy of .800, and he had 53 doubles. Why wouldn’t you want a guy like that batting 5th/6th? We haven’t seen Loney play a good outfield yet, so he’s just as much of a defensive liability there. Now Kemp, if he heats up, should win that spot. He had two blasts last night to the deepest parts of the park that might have been HRs elsewhere. But let’s remember that Kemp has to WIN that spot – he’s not being given it, with good reason after the inconsistency he showed last season. Gonzo is a ONE YEAR DEAL and is a benchable player if he doesn’t produce. Let’s not panic yet…lots of reason to be optimistic this season. By puppyhead01@hotmail.com on April 4, 2007 11:10 am - Reply Puppyhead said: “To borrow a phrase from kssparkuhl – Yeah, well these games count the same as the next 160. I’m not sure why people think April games don’t count for as much in the standings as games in August but that seems to be the case. My biggest pet peeve is when fans, coaches, or players say “It’s only mid-April” or “It’s only mid-May” as if there is ever a good time to not be worried about poor play. The thing is, we already know what Gonzales is going to do (or not do). We have prior evidence (2006 season, 2007 spring training) to back it up and whether it is 2 games or 20 games, we know it – he’s done for. Same with Pierre – we know he’ll lead the league in outs if given the at bats at the top of the lineup. Same with the lack of power in this lineup. These are all things we know* yet some of us hope it does not all come to fruition. By livnlegend1@yahoo.com on April 4, 2007 11:25 am - Reply http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/04/SPG8DP2B4N1.DTL Giants fans are already so bitter, I love it. By drj884@yaho.com on April 4, 2007 11:44 am - Reply The first two games of the season matter a whole lot. Plus, we should always win 2 of 3 from the Brewers (even if they do win the weak NL Central). And like it’s been said, if we had won opening day last year, we would have won the division outright. But also, if we had lost only 12 of 14 after the All-Star Break, rather than 13, we would have won the division. So there are a lot of times in the season when winning and losing matters. But panicking two games into the season does not make sense. Gonzo’s problems are clear–that’s going to have to be fixed one way or another. Pierre has a weak arm, but he covers more ground than anyone else, so there are always trade-offs. I’m not happy that we lost the first two, but if Kemp’s drive in the Top of the 6th had gone three feet to the left, three feet to the right, or three feet back, we take a 4-1 lead, and score our fifth run on Pierre’s force-out, and who knows what happens from there on out, and no one is complaining. So it’s not that these games don’t count. Every game counts. But it’s too soon to really know how we stand. Gonzo has gone two games without a hit. If he gets three hits today, he’s hitting .300. If at this point next week he is still slumping, we have problems. If it’s May and he’s slumping, I think Kemp becomes the starter. Anyone remember the second-biggest free agent signing of the 1987-88 off-season? Mike Davis was signed from the A’s to play right field (Marshall would play first). He had hit .265 and slugged 22 home runs the year before. He was the 7th highest paid player on the team when the season began–ahead of Steve Sax, Jay Howell, Mike Marshall, John Shelby, and even future Hall of Famer Don Sutton. By the middle of the season he was riding the pine. By the end of the year, he became the answer to a trivia question (who was on second base when Kirk Gibson hit his home run?). Gonzo may end up being the left-fielder that sparks us to a pennant. Or, he may be the big signing that we never use. But that decision won’t be based on two games. By leekfink@yahoo.com on April 4, 2007 11:44 am - Reply Dodgerdude, I couldn’t agree more, that line-up is the one we should have (except, I know this will make some people gag on their cereal, I still could see an argument for Pierre staying in there – with Kemp platooning with him and the other corner guys. My problem is having both JP and Gonzo in there together. Pierre at least will make some things happen, and can track balls down there – even if his noodle arm makes me nervous. But the two of them starting at the same time is an experiment that will hopefully end sooner rather than later.) Otherwise I totally agree. One way Gonzo could make me happier with him is if he had a better series against the hated Giants, but I’m worried he’s gonna make Bonds look like a 25 year old by comparison out there. And at least Bonds can still hit. Sigh. Another thing to remember: That was LA’s record to start the season two years ago. Their final record? 20 games under .500. Every game matters but two losses can be very quickly evened out. LuGos defense isn’t great, but its probably not as bad as it looked the last few games either. Going into the series there was already a lot of talk about how tough it is to pick up the ball in Mil, looked like Pierre and Kemp had a little trouble on a few fly balls also. Its been ugly, but lets give it a few weeks and see how the team looks…. I think Kemp looks better this year (hate the stupid divot in the Mil center field now). Go Schmidt. That’s Odd. By drj884@yaho.com on April 4, 2007 12:11 pm - Reply I think Martin should use Hatbreed’s “I Will Be Heard”. I was saving that for my song once I made it to the majors…but thats not looking like its going to happen. “Now is the time for me to rise to my feet Wipe the spit from my face Wipe these tears from my eyes” “I’ve got to take my life back One chance to make it right” I’m surprised nobody uses this song already, it is perfect. The music will definitely get anybody pumped. You can hear the song here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=24343433 By vish138@hotmail.com on April 4, 2007 12:32 pm - Reply Let’s hope we get one win under our belt today. By bluebleeder88@yahoo.com on April 4, 2007 12:53 pm - Reply May I know the quantity you require? How’s everything? He is only about five feet high.It’s time for us to say ��No�� to AmericaThe sweater is of good quality.How ever you may work hard, the boss will not be fully satisfied.How ever you may work hard, the boss will not be fully satisfied.The stars are too far away.So I just take what I want.Since I’m here, I’d like to try a typical dish of this country. By customramsjerseyspro.blogspot.com/ on November 30, 2012 7:23 am - Reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12963
__label__cc	0.64269	0.35731	The Luciferian Leer I used to joke half-heartedly about Saudi Arabia being correct in not allowing women to drive. I dreamt of a womanless driving experience. But I sometimes actually do think that giving women (especially young women) the vote was a mistake. Because they seem to have the wrong attitude to everything. Take the latest output from that treacherous treasonous slimeball Alan Shatter - the 'Irish' Minister for Population Replacement, who in his latest act of treachery announced another 4,000 Irish citizenship awards, to a scurvy collection of Africans, Pakistanis and assorted mad-eyed Muslims. That's 52,000 since he took over two years ago! There he was, Luciferian leer on his disgusting swarthy features, surrounded by the mob of illiterate parasites, third world bottom feeders who know nothing but corrupt totalitarian rule and who now make up 'the New Irish', that fatuous neologism coined by delusional and quite possibly mentally unbalanced mediocrities in the churches and media establishments. But back to my young women. Why? Because, on reading the comments on these developments in the Irish media it's perfectly clear that they - almost exclusively - see fatuous moralistic posturings, along the lines of 'there's only one race....the human race' (GRRRRRRRR...) as one of the few meaningful things in their otherwise superficial vacuous lives. May they live to become directly acquainted with someone from one of those rich cultures they admire so much, say from Africa or Pakistan, while alone some night on a dark stretch of road. But I end this sombre post on a bright note. You see, as with so many other MSM outlets (a point I frequently refer to) the attitude expressed in the comments to Shatter's latest initiative have undergone a major shift (despite the silly young women). They are now heavily, at a ratio of at least 2:1, against Shatter's programme. This is a big change from even a year ago. Some have even referred to this reprobate's diametrically opposed views on immigration when it comes to Israel and the country he ostensibly serves. Sadly these were quickly taken down by our moral guardians. But plenty remain, and the following should provide you with some badly needed cheer. "But one thing is for certain. Since Shatter came to power he has systematically opened the floodgates to low skilled immigration to Ireland Shatter is chief among those who I wouldn’t have any faith in in regards to his intentions for Irish society." "52, 000 new citizens in a two year period. For such a small country, that is a huge amount. Is such a policy rational and sane when we are losing 1, 000 natives to emigration each week?" "I rang the cso [Central Statistics Office] last year to find out what portion of the population were foreign to this nation and what percentage of new born children were they having. The answer I got was 11% of the population were foreign and the were producing 25% of all the new born’s here! You won’t see that information published anywhere." "The dismantling of the state begins. We send our best abroad, and welcome the worst." "Who gave Alan Shatter the right to do this? So we have 427,00 people unemployed! 100,00 Irish people leaving a year! Yet he in the first 3 months of 2013 alone he issues 26,000 working visa’s to foreign nationals. And last year “naturalised” 50,000 people? Alan Shatter is selling us out" And Jews wonder why they've been turfed out of every country they ever lived in............ at 00:21 237 comments: Labels: Immigration, Ireland, israel, Shatter Watch Calling on President Obama to launch a cruise missile attack on Syria, Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, told Fox "News" that Congress would not be consulted on the move and that lawmakers would have to “assent” to it at a later date. Not even a token nod towards the Constitution these days once the War Party decides to play. And yes, Rep. Engel is Jewish, I hardly needed to check it out but I did anyway. After all, what else is the American military for if not to attack Israel's enemies? Meanwhile, if you want to know what's behind the Syrian 'rebellion' and the requirement for a chemical weapons casus belli, check this from Wikileaks. Needless to say the talking head on Faux never raised such awkward issues to the two psychopaths on the show. God, I hope there's a day of reckoning for criminals such as these, who casually plot the destruction of whole countries and hundreds of thousands of lives before retiring to their country clubs for aperitifs. Psychopaths indeed. Labels: israel, USA Is this a metaphor? What we see here is standard fare wherever you get blacks: Pimps, prostitution, swagger, bravado, violence. And White people trying to clean up the mess blacks create. What's different here though is that the White man in question responds to the thug's aggression with lethal force. Textbook one-blow knockout. I have yet to see a one-on-one situation whereby the black defeats the White. Maybe that's because blacks never attack us one-to-one. Could this be metaphorical by exemplifying a new attitude from Whites faced with black aggression? Instead of turning the other cheek are we starting to grow a pair? I'd love to think so. Anyway, pour yourself a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy. Then roll it again. at 22:52 91 comments: See, not all Indians are liars I have long believed feminism to be the most destructive of all the depradations the Frankfurt Schools and its larvae have inflicted on Western society. If you think about it you'll recognise that it strikes a deadly blow at the very fundamentals of our culture in a way that cultural relativity, racial equality, AA or any of its other sick excrescences could have done. It undermines marriage, emasculates the White male, deprecates having children, corrupts and misdirects the thrust of education.....in fact there's hardly a Western or Christian institution it doesn't undermine. Anyway, here are the observations of a second generation American woman of Indian (dot) heritage. So wise. I'm a woman of Asian descent, and I tend to be critical of my own kind. But for many years, I couldn't help notice some stark negative realities about white women, specifically, American white women. I won't elaborate much, I'll just state some observations by point, and let you ponder them in your mind. * White women tend to pass up nice guys for scumbags who treat them like garbage. * White women don't appreciate all of the nice things going on in their lives (good job, good health, God, good parents, a nice boyfriend, a nice neighborhood, a nice gift,etc..... * White guys are very sweet and attractive, yet so many naive white women are pursuing dumb black scumbags who are diseased, ugly, abusive, and will either dump them or trap them in a life of misery. * White women can't enjoy the nice, simple things of life. Even an Asian or Hispanic woman can sit down and enjoy a nice cup of tea and a little friendly conversation. White women are too bitchy and naive to do this, they must always complain about some stupid little thing..... as if they come from a perfect world. * White women are so duped by the media and culture: If the media says that some particular thing is fashionable (low riders, interracial dating, pole-dancing--- which is a whore's activity, dissing less "fashionable" individuals), they will follow it like senseless lemmings! * White women vote for politicians and laws that give leeway to violent criminals (Who happen to love to prey on..... you guessed it, white women). * White women are soooo consumed about attaining a career, that they neglect finding a nice guy to settle down with, and of course.... having nice children with. * I've noticed that all around the country, there are countless attractive young and middle-aged white women living all alone, or maybe with a pet.... just miserable and lonely..... I guess they buy the old feminist lie that they need to "find themselves," or "never settle" for just a nice guy..... and the old canard that they just don't need a man. Just for your information, almost all of those feminist leaders who spout that crap all have nice husbands. * White women put way too many "demands" and or criteria for finding the "perfect man." There are no perfect men or women (You've been watching too many TV shows, movies, and magazines!). ALL people are imperfect, and the ones who seem perfect actually hide some hideous secrets. So, if you find a guy who's pretty cute, and nice, and seems decent and likable.... take him! Don't wait for the "alpha male", which is a big load of crap.... remember, we're not living in a hunter-gatherer world anymore.... and most nice guys are strong and mature.... and wil l stand up for you, and make your life wonderful. And by the way, I'm very happily married to a very cute white guy who programs computers, and fixes his own car! Asian guys are as nice too! Just avoid blacks, and those so called "bad boys", they don't have balls when you need them to stand up for you. And to all my white sisters out there, wake up! Don't follow the stupid media! Don't ruin your life by hooking up with a black, a scumbag, or by shriveling up as an old maid.... you'll get older a lot faster than you think you will! If you listen to your professors and feminists.... you'll just be miserable! USE GOOD SENSE!!! A telling omission Over at American Renaissance they have a post entitled Those Who Must Not Be Named. It's about black on white crime and the fact that the offenders are never identified as black by the MSM and law enforcement. No argument with that. But about a week ago I posted a comment to the effect that there's another 'tribe' that cannot be named, one which has had a far more profound impact on the whole problem. I never identified the tribe. Nonetheless the comment never saw the light of day. I can understand how Amren does not want to 'name the Jew' for obvious reasons. I wonder though will it make any difference to Jewish attitudes towards that site? Confidence? Or fear? The propaganda for destroying the White race becomes increasingly grotesque and surreal by the day. My question, does this represent 'their' belief that they've won and it's just a matter of putting the last nails in the coffin? Or are they getting desperate as more and more people appear to awaken? The latest advert from the Halifax Building Society is so divorced from reality that it makes Lord Of The Rings seem prosaic. It borders on self-parody. Here we have a (to me) villainous-looking black man who 'works hard all day as a teacher' (sic) who then devotes his spare time to voluntarily coaching and minding school kids, who ruefully laughs off being deliberately hit on the head by the ball, and who finally, after a long long day teaching and looking after mainly white kids, arrives home to be greeted by his smiling and pregnant White wife/sperm bucket. Now as anyone who has experience them knows, blacks don't like working very much, especially 'working hard', are most unlikely to work as teachers, and certainly would never volunteer for unpaid additional duties. He'd have been more likely to be rifling through the kids' pockets in the changing room while a White teacher did the unpaid coaching. And had he deliberately been dissed by having the ball kicked at him, well the offending kid would probably have been lacerated by knife on the spot. As for the pregnant White woman...........enough said. So which is it? Confidence or fear? Labels: Britain, Race The transition of Paul Theroux I've always been a fan of Paul Theroux's travel writings. Not that I always agreed with him or his take on things, rather that, the greatest gift of a writer, he was interesting. Just finished his latest work (and possibly his last) entitled The Last Train To Zona Verde. which encompasses a journey from Cape Town to Angola. If you're a reader of his works you'll know that initially, based mainly on his seven years as a teacher in Malawi, he pretty much subscribed to the obligatory trope of The Noble Savage. Interesting to watch how he's changed over the years, as reality continued to sink in. After the latest journey he drops all pretence and opens up big-time on what Africa really represents. He blazes away at 'the futureless, dystopian, world-gone-wrong Mad Max Africa of child soldiers, street gangs, reeking slums, ubiquitous refuse heaps, utter despair, misplaced belief, new-age cargo cults and bungled rescue attempts from Westerners.' And that's mild in comparison with some of the other stuff he comes out with! And he's not afraid to lay the blame squarely where it lies. With Africans themselves. Having said that he can't totally shake off his White Guilt Syndrome and nods in the direction of the problem being due to 'corrupt, grasping and undemocratic Leaders for Life'. But of course, and I'm sure deep down he knows this, any African will be like this should he gain power. The 'poor victim' in the slums will become a 'corrupt, grasping and undemocratic Leaders for Life' were he to be magically given the appropriate powers. Sadly, this piece of simple wisdom has yet to penetrate the Western mind, with the result that untold billions will continue to be wasted in filling the coffers of African kleptomaniacs. Labels: Africa, Race, South Africa Good Lord.........bad lord Those who seek and succeed in obtaining top administrative positions in sport are very like their counterparts in politics: The worst kinds of people, attracted by the power, perks and prestige but with little real interest in bettering the sport itself. Selfish egotists almost without exception. Which raises an interesting point about the surreal state sport has got itself into over 'race'. Vast sums of money are allocated to 'anti-racist' advertising while draconian penalties are imposed for even the most minor of transgressions..... transgressions which twenty years ago would have been perceived as the normal give and take of the sports arena. These developments have been counter-productive, at least from my perspective in that they confirmed to me the existence of The Plan, that there really is a centralised power directing initiatives such as these. Because the kind of people who run sporting organisations would require threats and/or inducements to divert their own resources to such a nebulous concept. Which brings me to Lord Ouseley, the vociferous Chairman of Kick It Out, the quango that seeks out unsanctified race-related thought in football. Well, Herman George Ouseley, Baron Ouseley of the British House of Lords, to give him his full title. With a monicker like that I assumed he was the scion of an ancient and noble lineage, dating back to the Magna Carta or such. Boy was I wrong there. In fact he's of West-Indian descent (e.g. descendant of slaves) who managed, wait for it, to get a Diploma in Administration from Catford College. Wow! Not exactly a PhD in Physics from Cambridge, is it? But you see, as I continually point out, if you're black, can read and write and haven't killed anyone (ok, this drastically reduces the pick), well, the world's your oyster. This must have quickly dawned on Herman George because following a stint working in some local government clerical position, brandishing his worthless 'qualifications' from an unknown 'college' he headed for the lush pastures of the Equality Industry. And the rest is history, with his ending up ennobled in the House Of Lords. He's got his snout deep in the Equality Trough, trousers generous fees and expenses from the numerous (White-funded) bodies in which he 'serves', and has of late branched out as 'a self-employed management consultant undertaking reviews of organisations' performance and assignments in pursuit of equality and diversity outcomes.' In other words a down-market version of the 'Rev'unds' Jesse and Al with a lucrative gig shaking down the productive (i.e. White) sectors of society. Some Jewish texts describe us as goyim (cattle). Be honest, are they not correct? How could any non-bovine people allow themselves to be tricked into what we're doing today? Handing over prestigious positions, power, wealth - and our children - to useless parasites, destroying our societies in the process. Goyim indeed. Labels: Immigration, Race Change be a'comin' Despite my disappointment at readers' comments on the Detroit bankruptcy, everywhere else I see, in ever clearer focus, the disparity between MSM editorial/reporting bilge and readers' reactions. Here's a great one from the NYT. Was rated easily the most popular comment. 'I am disgusted. The Russians, THE RUSSIANS, are on the right side of all four issues, and we look like evil. In Syria, we are backing al Qaeda, and the whole machine of the same Sunni fanatics we were fighting in Iraq. With Snowden, we are exposed in crimes against a vast number of friends and allies and our own people, exposed in lies we told and still tell (some under oath), and we are begging people to believe we won't torture or kill him while many for good reason don't believe us. We broke the ABM Treaty, and we are messing with nuclear arms deterrence and safety from nuclear war. We made a deal with the Russians not to expand into Eastern Europe if they dissolved the Warsaw Pact, and we broke the promises and did exactly that, and with ABM's too. We are the ones who won't talk to the reformist new guy to settle what we say it a huge crisis, even as we say the basis of the crisis is not true, that the Iranians do not have a nuclear weapons program, and the one guy we demonized is going. We look like what we used to think of our enemies. This is sick.' Folks, this is GOOD. People ARE waking up, even if they're only dimly aware what they are waking up to. But is it too late? The demographic picture is disastrous, for example. And how will the Real Governments in western 'democracies' strike back? Britain's (sic) most wanted tax dodgers I see that HM Revenue and Customs have issued a list, complete with photos, of the 20 most wanted tax offenders. Now we all know the untold benefits that Britain gets from diversity and mass immigration. Why PM Cameron never misses an opportunity to remind us. I was astounded therefore to see that of the twenty specimens not one, not a single one, was British. They were from the usual Turd World hell holes and two were from Ireland. Well done lads, you make us all sooooooo proud. It seems most were given bail, allowed keep their passports, and, lo and behold, they skipped the country. Another resounding triumph for the British legal system. One disappointing aspect of the report related to the comments, almost none of which referred to the astounding fact that all of 'Britain's' most wanted tax cheats are non British. Hopefully this reflects the activities of zealous moderators rather than the actual views of the readers. Labels: Britain, Immigration Surprising and disappointing I've remarked on several occasions on the gratifying dichotomy between editorial content and comments on MSM outlets - the former represented by standard PC orthodoxies, the latter with the unvarnished truths. Whether this arose from an awakening of the readers or a loosening of Thought Police controls I don't know, but the result has been heartening. But this seems to have failed with regard to Detroit's bankruptcy. Here I expected the commentariat to focus in, laser like, on the core problem - the population is 90% black. But no. Everything else has blamed, Democrats, liberals, progressives, unions, outsourcing....you name it, but the race factor is conspicuous by its absence. This even in the most 'honest' of forums Surprising and disappointing. Labels: Race, USA A new Game Of Thrones (and bones) What a sight to see, and what a symbol for the new Rainbow Nation as Madiba's 'family' squabble like rancid vultures over the soon to be carcass. Digging up and transplanting bodies in the dead of night, invoking witch doctors' curses on other family members, court cases, fist fights. Who'd have thunk that Winnie ('Necklace') Mandela's whelps would turn out so greedy? My own favourite was when one of the vultures called for the family's dirty linen not to be aired in public. And then 'Mandla went on to say his brother Mbuso had "impregnated my wife". He also said his two other brothers were born out of wedlock.' Pure Gerry Springer If they wanted a few moments respite they could have emptied a large bag of shiny washers in front of the squabbling hominids and let them go at one another. Is this a black thing? I remember the family of the 'Reverend' MLK charging $500,000 for the MLK memorial committee to use his words. Sheer class. But meantime the once First World South Africa descends closer and closer to being the Zimbabwe of the South. Labels: Race, South Africa On 'naming the Jew' I know Nastiest Uncle infuriates a lot of people on this blog. But he frequently does come up with an interesting perspective. The one I have in mind now hits on a very important 'operational' concept, and it's this. Essentially, even if we accept that Jews are the masterminds behind our immigration woes it's counterproductive to emphasise it.....for the reason that it results in instantaneous banishment from 'respectable' society. And as a consequence the more immediate objective of stopping mass black and Muslim immigration gets lost in the storm. This objective being more immediate in that demographics are destiny and these people are breeding like rabbits. To illustrate the ramifications let's look at Tommy Robinson and the EDL. They attract much opprobrium and derision from WN blogs due to their being under strong Zionist influence and for having black and Sikh members. All valid criticisms. But look at it this way. They are getting a lot of publicity which has the immediate effect of putting pressure on Muslims and immigration policy in general. That's good. And their treatment by the police and mass media has resulted in a widespread backlash from a public wider than their core supporters. Their narrow focus (Muslims) and the presence of blacks, Jews and Sikhs enables the mass media to report on in a much less negative way than they'd do for the BNP, for example. All of this is good and opens up another dimension. It causes the public to question the broad 'respectable consensus' on a whole range of related issues. It builds distrust of government, the media, academia, think tanks and other arbiters of prevailing orthodoxies. This is vital because our biggest impediment is lethargic acceptance of the status quo among Western populations even as the demographic time bomb ticks towards detonation. Once you start questioning the prescribed narrative the whole Potemkin village comes tumbling down. I know, because that's what happened to me and to many of this blog's readers. Some months back I said this about Alex Jones who is loathed in most WN forums as a Jewish disinformation agent. "So on balance is he doing us harm? No, I don’t believe that he is harming us at all. In fact, I think that he gets people thinking about things that the mainstream media simply refuses to deal with. He’s reached and awakened an audience that dwarfs anything the rest of us can reach. He’s brought many previously hidden issues to the attention of millions of people who otherwise would have been slumped before their TVs, comatose before the mind-rot beamed out at them. Look, time and again he talks about “the elite”, “the global elites”, “globalists”, “international bankers”, “global conspiracy”, “the NWO” and the like. He says that every path leads to the House of Rothschild. Now I ask you, how much more explicit do you expect him to be? It doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to establish a connection here. With enemies like Jones, who needs friends? I think he’s great, the National Enquirer for White Nationalists!" The same can be said for many other WN sites and commentators who carefully avoid 'naming the Jew'. For instance, can anyone seriously claim that our cause would have been better off without American Renaissance? Yet such sources come under frenetic attack from the purists. Once a whiff of pro-Jewish sentiment is encountered they, like Father Ted, they get added to the Enemies List. So my conclusion is this: Ask whether the parties concerned are helping or hindering our cause, not whether we agree 100% with them. We can occasionally and politely point out that such parties are missing the eminence grise behind the curtain, and suggest their readers look a bit beyond the existing focus. But do not wage all out war. God knows we're small enough in number as it is. Labels: Jewish influence, Media bias	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12967
__label__wiki	0.838696	0.838696	Breaker (x) › Margolina, T.M. (x) › Foster (x) › Gordon (x) › Greig (x) › Entanglements of marine mammals and seabirds in central California and the north-west coast of the United States 2001-2005, Entanglement records for seabirds and marine mammals were investigated for the period 2001-2005. The entanglement records were extracted from databases maintained by seven organizations operating along the west coast of the United States of America. Their programmes included beach monitoring surveys, rescue and rehabilitation and regional pinniped censuses. Records of 454 entanglements were documented in live animals and in carcasses for 31 bird species and nine marine mammal species. The most frequently entangled species were Common Murres, Western Gulls and California sea lions. The entanglement materials identified were primarily fishing related. Entanglements were recorded every year suggesting that although the incidence level differs annually, entanglement is a persistent problem. It is recommended that each programme records details in standardized categories to determine entanglement material sources. Numbers of entanglements observed during these surveys are likely to be a conservative view of the actual entanglement rate taking place at sea. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):9, Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, CODEN: MPNBA, , Moore, Lyday, Roletto, Litle, Parrish, Nevins, Harvey, Mortenson, Greig, Piazza, Hermance, Lee, Adams, Allen, Kell Surveillance for zoonotic and selected pathogens in harbor seals phoca vitulina from central California The infection status of harbor seals Phoca vitulina in central California, USA, was evaluated through broad surveillance for pathogens in stranded and wild-caught animals from 2001 to 2008, with most samples collected in 2007 and 2008. Stranded animals from Mendocino County to San Luis Obispo County were sampled at a rehabilitation facility: The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC, n = 175); wild-caught animals were sampled at 2 locations: San Francisco Bay (SF, n = 78) and Tomales Bay (TB, n = 97), that differed in degree of urbanization. Low prevalences of Salmonella, Campylobacter, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium were detected, in the feces of stranded and wild-caught seals. Clostridium perfringens and Escherichia coli were more prevalent in the feces of stranded (58% [78 out of 135] and 76% [102 out of 135]) than wild-caught (42% [45 out of 106] and 66% [68 out of 106]) seals, whereas Vibrio spp. were 16 times more likely to be cultured from the feces of seals from SF than TB or TMMC (p < 0.005). Brucella DNA was detected in 3.4% of dead stranded harbor seeds (2 out of 58). Type A influenza was isolated from feces of 1 out of 96 wild-caught seals. Exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, Sarcocystis neurona, and type A influenza was only detected in the wild-caught harbor seals (post-weaning age classes), whereas antibody titers to Leptospira spp. were detected in stranded and wild-caught seals. No stranded (n = 109) or wild-caught (n = 217) harbor seals had antibodies to phocine distemper virus, although a single low titer to canine distemper virus was detected. These results highlight the role of harbor seals as sentinel species for zoonotic and terrestrial pathogens in the marine environment., Harbor Seals Greig, Gulland, Smith, Conrad, Field, Fleetwood, Harvey, Ip, Jang, Packham, Wheeler, Hall Survival probabilities and movements of harbor seals in central California Article in Press, Harbor seal numbers and population trajectories differ by location in central California. Within San Francisco Bay (SFB) counts have been relatively stable since the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act, but in coastal areas like Tomales Bay (TB), counts increased before stabilizing in the 1990s. Emigration, poor survival, and environmental effects have been hypothesized as contributors to differences between trajectories; however, basic demographic data were not available to evaluate these hypotheses. We monitored 32 radio-tagged adult females (SFB n = 17, TB n = 15) for 20 mo (2011-2013), and estimated survival, resight, and movement probabilities using mark-resight analyses and multistate mark-resight models. Annual survival probability for both sites was 0.90 (95% CI = 0.18-0.99). Six seals were observed moving between locations resulting in an estimated probability of 0.042 (95% CI = 0.023-0.076) per month equal movement between sites. Resight probability was less in SFB relative to TB, likely due to differential haul-out access, area surveyed, visibility, and resight effort. Because of wide confidence intervals and low precision of these first estimates of adult female harbor seal survival in California, this demographic must be further examined to dismiss its contribution to differing population trajectories. Using aerial survey data, we estimated 950 harbor seals in SFB (95% CI = 715-1,184) confirming numbers are still stable. Manugian, Greig, Lee, Becker, Allen, Lowry, Harvey Contaminant loads and hematological correlates in the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) of San Francisco Bay, California, An expanding body of research indicates that exposure to contaminants may impact marine mammal health, thus possibly contributing to population declines. The harbor seal population of the San Francisco Bay (SFB), California, has suffered habitat loss and degradation, including decades of environmental contamination. To explore the possibility of contaminant-induced health alterations in this population, blood levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were quantified in free-ranging seals; relationships between contaminant exposure and several key hematological parameters were examined; and PCB levels in the present study were compared with levels determined in SFB seals a decade earlier. PCB residues in harbor seal blood decreased during the past decade, but remained at levels great enough that adverse reproductive and immunological effects might be expected. Main results included a positive association between leukocyte counts and PBDEs, PCBs, and DDE in seals, and an inverse relationship between red blood cell count and PBDEs. Although not necessarily pathologic, these responses may serve as sentinel indications of contaminant-induced alterations in harbor seals of SFB, which, in individuals with relatively high contaminant burdens, might include increased rates of infection and anemia. Copyright© Taylor & Francis Inc., Cited By (since 1996):22 Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, CODEN: JTEHD, , Neale, Gulland, Schmelzer, Harvey, Berg, Allen, Greig, Grigg, Tjeerdema Dynamics of vibrio with virulence genes detected in Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) off California: Implications for marine mammal health Given their coastal site fidelity and opportunistic foraging behavior, harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) may serve as sentinels for coastal ecosystem health. Seals using urbanized coastal habitat can acquire enteric bacteria, including Vibrio that may affect their health. To understand Vibrio dynamics in seals, demographic and environmental factors were tested for predicting potentially virulent Vibrio in free-ranging and stranded Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) off California. Vibrio prevalence did not vary with season and was greater in free-ranging seals (29 %, n = 319) compared with stranded seals (17 %, n = 189). Of the factors tested, location, turbidity, and/or salinity best predicted Vibrio prevalence in free-ranging seals. The relationship of environmental factors with Vibrio prevalence differed by location and may be related to oceanographic or terrestrial contributions to water quality. Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio alginolyticus, and Vibrio cholerae were observed in seals, with V. cholerae found almost exclusively in stranded pups and yearlings. Additionally, virulence genes (trh and tdh) were detected in V. parahaemolyticus isolates. Vibrio cholerae isolates lacked targeted virulence genes, but were hemolytic. Three out of four stranded pups with V. parahaemolyticus (trh+ and/or tdh+) died in rehabilitation, but the role of Vibrio in causing mortality is unclear, and Vibrio expression of virulence genes should be investigated. Considering that humans share the environment and food resources with seals, potentially virulent Vibrio observed in seals also may be of concern to human health. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York., Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles Harbor Seals, CODEN: MCBEB Hughes, Greig, Miller, Byrne, Gulland, Harvey Domoic acid exposure and associated clinical signs and histopathology in Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii), Domoic acid (DA) is a potent neurotoxin that has caused strandings and mortality of seabirds and marine mammals off the California coast. Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) are an abundant, nearshore species in California; however, DA exposure and toxicosis have not been documented for harbor seals in this region. To investigate DA exposure in harbor seals, samples were collected from free-ranging and stranded seals off California to assess exposure, clinical signs of toxicosis, and brain lesions in harbor seals exposed to DA. Domoic acid was detected in 65% (17/26) of urine samples collected from apparently healthy free-ranging seals, with concentrations of 0.4-11.7. ng/ml. Domoic acid also was detected in feces (2.4-2887. ng/g), stomach contents (1.4. ng/g; stranded only), milk (2.2. ng/ml; stranded only), amniotic fluid (9.7. ng/ml; free-ranging only), fetal meconium (14.6-39.8. ng/g), and fetal urine (2.0-10.2. ng/ml). Clinical signs indicative of DA toxicosis were observed in two live-stranded seals, and included disorientation, seizures, and uncoordinated movements. Histopathology revealed the presence of brain lesions consistent with DA toxicosis in two live-stranded seals, and one free-ranging seal that died during capture. Results indicated that harbor seals were exposed to DA, exhibited clinical signs and histological lesions associated with DA exposure, and that pups were exposed to DA in utero and during lactation via milk. Future investigation is required to determine the magnitude of impact that DA has on the health and mortality of harbor seals. © 2013 Elsevier B.V., Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, CODEN: HAALD, , McHuron, Greig, Colegrove, Fleetwood, Spraker, Gulland, Harvey, Lefebvre, Frame Geography and stage of development affect persistent organic pollutants in stranded and wild-caught harbor seal pups from central California, Persistent organic pollutants have been associated with disease susceptibility and decreased immunity in marine mammals. Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), chlordanes (CHLDs), and hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) were evaluated in terms of stage of development and likely exposure routes (in utero, suckling, fasting) in the blubber of 202 stranded and wild-caught, primarily young of the year (n = 177), harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the central California coast. This is the first report of HCH concentrations in the blubber of California seals. Lipid normalized concentrations ranged from 200 to 330,000. ng/g for sum PCBs, 320-1,500,000. ng/g for sum DDTs, 23-63,000. ng/g for sum PBDEs, 29-29,000. ng/g for sum CHLDs, and 2-780. ng/g for sum HCHs. The highest concentrations were observed in harbor seal pups that suckled in the wild and then lost mass during the post-weaning fast. Among the pups sampled in the wild and those released from rehabilitation, there were no differences in mass, blubber depth, or percent lipid although contaminant concentrations were significantly higher in the pups which nursed in the wild. When geographic differences were evaluated in a subset of newborn animals collected near their birth locations, the ratio of sum DDTs to sum PCBs was significantly greater in samples from an area with agricultural inputs (Monterey), than one with industrial inputs (San Francisco Bay). A principal components analysis distinguished between seals from San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay based on specific PCB and PBDE congeners and DDT metabolites. These data illustrate the important influence of life stage, nutritional status, and location on blubber contaminant levels, and thus the need to consider these factors when interpreting single sample measurements in marine mammals. © 2011 Elsevier B.V., Cited By (since 1996):6, CODEN: STEVA, , Greig, Ylitalo, Wheeler, Boyd, Gulland, Yanagida, Harvey, Hall Gulland (5) + - Fleetwood (2) + - Hall (2) + - Lee (2) + - Wheeler (2) + - Adams (1) + - Becker (1) + - Berg (1) + - Boyd (1) + - Byrne (1) + - Colegrove (1) + - Conrad (1) + - Field (1) + - Frame (1) + - Grigg (1) + - Hermance (1) + - Hughes (1) + - Periodical (1) + -	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12968
__label__wiki	0.54021	0.54021	Sree Narayana Guru Jalolsavam,Kannetti. Nārāyana Guru was born in August 20, 1856, in the village of Chempazhanthi near Thiruvananthapuram, the son of Madan Asan, a farmer, and Kutti Amma. The boy was dotingly called Nānu. Madan was also a teacher ("Asān") who was learned in Sanskrit and proficient in Astrology and Ayurveda.He had three sisters. As a boy, Nānu would listen to his father with keen interest when he narrated stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the simple folks of his village. Nānu was initiated into the traditional formal education Ezhuthinirithal by Chempazhanthi Pillai, a local schoolmaster and a village officer. Besides schooling, young Nānu continued to be educated at home, under the guidance of both his father and uncle Krishnan Vaidyan who was a reputed Ayurvedic physician and a Sanskrit scholar, where he was taught the basics of the Tamil and Sanskrit languages and traditional subjects such as Siddharūpam, Bālaprobhodhanam and Amarakośam.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12972
__label__cc	0.735682	0.264318	DVDs & CDs » DVD Sets » Training Police (S&R) Tracking Dogs - 3 DVD Set Training Police (S&R) Tracking Dogs - 3 DVD Set* Training Police (S&R) Tracking Dogs - 3 DVD Set #DVD0003046* $140.00 $125.00 ($125.00 + $0.00) 3 DVDs Total Save $15.00 by purchasing as a set Produced by Leerburg with the RCMP in Canada Immediate streaming access when purchased with Leerburg account This DVD set includes 3 DVDs that focus on Police K9 and Search & Rescue topics. Training Police (S&R) Tracking Dogs DVD Urban & Suburban Tracking DVD Track Laying for Police Service Dogs DVD Ed Frawley produced the three DVDs in this set with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the RCMP National Police Dog School at Innisfail, Alberta Canada. The school has been in existence since 1935. The 20 week RCMP K9 handler course produces the best police tracking dog’s in the world. The majority of American police tracking dogs are mistakenly trained in foot-step tracking. This is the style of tracking used in dog sports like Schutzhund or IPO. This is a very slow method of tracking. It’s also a fundamentally wrong for police service work. The RCMP train their dogs to trail. In trailing, the dog learns to follow a track at a dead run. The system focuses on teaching dogs to find a lost track, both at the start of the track and at the corners of the track. In Canada Civilian Search and Rescue Dog, teams must to be certified by a RCMP dog handler before the civilian can be used in actual real life search mission. There are three levels of tracking by the RCMP. Civilian S&R teams must pass the first level of tracking. This is a 5 km track with 2 road crossing and a back track. Just as the majority of police service dogs are mistakenly trained in foot-step tracking, the majority of American S&R groups make the mistake of training their dogs to air scent before they learn how to track. The problem is once a dog has been taught to air scent it is almost impossible to teach that dog to put its nose down on the ground and follow a track. This does not happen in Canada, which is why the Canadian find so many more victims than American S&R groups. Our first DVD covers the training involved in the RCMP level one tracking certification. The Second DVD covers Urban and Suburban (level 2 or level 3) tracking. Our third DVD deals with training people to become track layers. The ability to train a police tracking dog becomes infinitely easier if the person laying the training track knows and understands what they can do to help the dog when they lay the training track. There is so much more than simply going out and walking 5 km and then waiting for the dog to find them. That is the goal of our third DVD in this set. Based on 1 review(1) This video training series is outstanding. It's easy to get disciplined that "one way is the only way" but the RCMP program is a good realistic step by step program that teaches K9's to follow human scent. I was running trailing dogs for 10 years when I was first shown this series some years ago. My first thought was "where has this been? This teaches all I believe plus!!!" There is nothing better in learning what dogs do on trail than watching handler after handler working dogs doing it right and wrong and learning from the examples. It is a outstanding visual learning process. Little wonder that all the modern NFL players all grew up playing football video games. By the times players today enter the NFL they have seen more visual action than retired Hall of Fame Players saw in their entire life. Watching a video one can visually see methods done right over and over again providing visual resignation and awareness of what trailing is all about in a real time situation. Check it out. I don't think you will be disappointed. Some people try to make trailing dogs some mystical event. Done right it is practical and realistic. Terry C. 25 year SAR DOG Trainer and Handler. Mark Keating Decoy - 3 DVD Set DVD0124005	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12987
__label__wiki	0.803374	0.803374	HomeJoinContactsResourcesEventsIssuesCampaignsEmail ListsForumAbout Human Rights from the Bottom Up Conference Starting Date: 04-02-2004 Ending Date: 04-03-2004 http://depts.washington.edu/class/conference.html As part of its ongoing efforts to further the study of human rights at the University of Washington and to promote scholarly inquiry in the interdisciplinary law and society tradition, the Comparative Law and Society Studies Center plans to sponsor a human rights speaker series beginning spring 2003 and culminating during spring, 2004, with an international conference on the series theme, Human Rights �From the Bottom Up�. Recent years have seen burgeoning interest in human rights on US university campuses and a growth in the scholarly literature relating to human rights themes. At the same time, however, existing approaches to the subject are often dominated by a �top-down� political/institutional approach which explores human rights issues through analyses of the functioning, or lack thereof, of elite-centered legal and political institutions in various contexts. This abundant literature has advanced our understanding of many human rights quandaries, and indeed has been very influential in policy circles, helping to lend support for international initiatives aimed at furthering the rule of law. However, some scholars have begun to point to the need for a more contextualized, �bottom up� understanding of human rights from the perspective of the individuals and communities in whom rights are vested � and particularly of those in marginalized communities, whose rights are most frequently violated. As the leading center for law and society studies in the U.S. with a significant commitment to comparative/international research, featuring the only cluster of human rights scholars within in an interdisciplinary law and society program, CLASS considers itself uniquely poised to address these issues. Our scholarship poses such questions as: What are the sources of violence that infuse culture in specific settings, such as in post-colonial societies? How are rights and justice imagined by victims, rather than defined by exogenous political and legal elites? How important are factors of trust and legitimacy, and how can these be constructed in societies with high levels of violence or ethnic exclusion? What is the working relationship between international human rights groups and indigenous populations, and how much does this matter struggles for change? How are global human rights directives absorbed and reconfigured in specific and localized communities? These are just some of the types of questions concerning human rights, emphasizing culture and agency �on the ground,� that we consider. Research and discussion of these important issues may shed light on what remains a puzzling question after the work of so many top-down theorists: how do we understand disjunctions between the formal adoption of liberal democratic legal norms and the widespread continued violation of individuals� most basic rights? Are so many splendid Constitutions dead-letter promises? Sponsored by: The Comparative Law and Society Studies (CLASS) Center, Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, and the Bartley Dobb Endowment for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Geographical Scope: Regional Log In to edit this entry Suggest a Change to this Entry [Home] [Join] [Contacts] [Resources] [Events] [Issues] [Campaigns] [Email Lists] [Forum] [About] [Site Map 1 2 ] [Links] [Blog] Find Radio Stations Find TV Stations	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12993
__label__cc	0.533875	0.466125	Jack Barnosky Lens, Prism, Palimpsest I am thinking of the first three sentences that begin Samuel R. Delany’s secret literary masterpiece, Dhalgren: “to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to give him a name. The in-dark answered with the wind.” I remember being jolted that a novel would begin like this, as if in mid-sentence. It was inexplicable and seductive, and proved irresistible to this reader. I became obsessed with Dhalgren and finished it, all 800 pages, in a few blistering days. What a strange sensation it was to inhabit the imaginary city of Bellona – a vague disaster zone sprinkled with unexpected pockets of enchanted garden, dissonance commingled with bursts of beauty – a place populated by drifters and hustlers, madmen and savants, lovers and poets, a city where something had gone ambiguously wrong, and a world where the usual laws of physics perhaps no longer applied. Strangely cut off and isolated, Bellona is in this world but strangely not of the world as we typically know it. Is it that time is running backwards? Or sideways? Or have time and history become circular, a palimpsest that gets continually, but incompletely, erased and then written over? Lived, witnessed and recorded, then scraped away and re-inscribed? If asked, I would be hard pressed to describe Dhalgren’s plot. I’m not even sure there is one. The narrative seems designed to sabotage the usual expectations, to dare, challenge, almost taunt the reader into taking a narrative leap into the unknown. It is a story that dismisses familiar formulas and is stingy in relinquishing even a fraction of its mysteries, a literary outlier that is demanding and defiantly unresolved. It is also brilliant, beautiful, alluring, addictive, thrilling and transformative. The poems are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build some careful analog that completed the seeing. ― Samuel Delany These thoughts come to mind because the first time I saw Jack Barnosky’s work, it felt like an imaginary leap into a world reminiscent of Dhalgren. And I remember a similar excitement at being transported by an artistic voice – in this instance a vision, and a way of seeing and inscribing – that seemed intent on ignoring what had come before and starting over, starting from scratch. It takes a particular type of creative courage to set up camp on the far outskirts of the expected. I remember feeling like the first man, amazed that this world exists, wondering if the sun will rise again, asking if it will rain again, if the river will continue to run. Barnosky’s world – his images – runs opposite to how photography usually operates. It is a medium that typically points toward clarity and explication. Photographs generally seek to show, reveal, explain. It most often speaks through singular instances, isolated flashes. Barnosky builds meaning differently, through an intricate, complex, prolonged vocabulary. In these tableaus there are no quick glances, simple explanations, or easy answers. His work traffics in longer moments, gestures with more duration. His images contain whole stories, complete histories. They are ambiguous allegories, long and langorous poems. Barnosky isn’t making visual sentences or even paragraphs, he is building a landscape, an imaginary metropolis, an entire world. We tend to think of photographs as exclusively tied to the visible world, the waking world. But Barnosky’s lens takes on the refractive power of a prism. Rather than focusing, it fractures light, opening up unseen worlds. He transports us to alternate landscapes, into the dreams of others, towards some secret dark side. The literal and the concrete have been replaced by symbol and metaphor; an interior language, a tribal mythology, a collective unconscious. Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn’t destroyed yet. ― Richard Powers This mythology, while constructed primarily as a landscape, is also populated by people, and it is the images that feel more closely aligned with portraiture that reveal the work’s generosity, humanity, and hope. The presence of these figures, with their open and direct gazes, engenders a faith that even in our dessicated modern landscape, there are irrepressible traces of human worth and warmth, that we live in the midst of the heroic, in a world inhabited by angelic anonymous souls. This imagined world is heavily atmospheric. It is hazy, often semi-abandoned, all contour and swirling mists, defined by muted colors that nevertheless convey a potent smell and feel. Surface and texture become a language. Information as texture. Texture as information. Cypher. Totem. Meaning smudges. Fully engaging these images requires that we step beyond their photographic origins as concrete, literal documents. Just as present in the work are the traces of what has been altered or manipulated, obscured or excised. These marks, these gestures of omission and erasure leave behind a tension that shades our reading, giving the narratives their mythic resonance. This calculus of both addition and subtraction fuels questions about permanence and temporality, what can be seen and presented, what can be completely removed or covered over, and what refuses to yield, what persists. The images point to the deep, and often invisible, history that always lies just beneath the surface of appearances. Barnosky achieves this through his reliance on the act of accumulation. His images, like skin, are built up from multiple layers and are alive with a visceral thickness. Do you run away or toward? ― Richard Powers In Dhalgren, the main protagonist – Kidd – keeps a poetry journal which provides one of the main anchor points for the narrative. As the story progresses, text mysteriously appears and disappears from the journal pages. Kidd erases portions, writes over old entries, repeats and re-locates refrains, erases more, repeats again. The idea of the palimpsest as a metaphor for the true nature of creation and the construction of meaning was a compelling revelation when I first read Delany’s novel. Jack Barnosky has allowed me to revisit those ideas through a wholly different visual language, and in important respects has made them entirely new. Barnosky has created an aesthetic that is rich in sensuality and surface. While most photographs purport to function as windows, making their surface as transparent as possible, Barnosky’s work dismantles the photographic transparent window, relishing the physicality (even in the virtual realm) usually absent from the photographic surface, reminding us that what we are seeing is, after all, an artifact, a construction, a mark. A gesture. One that is deeply subjective, unique, imperfect, human. images: © copyright 2019 Jack Barnosky. No use without permission. Contact: jackbarnosky@gmail.com words: © copyright 2019 Joseph Squier. No use without permission. Contact: joseph.squier@gmail.com The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don’t know, or already know and should take seriously. — Emmet Gowin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line12996
__label__wiki	0.909564	0.909564	Linda Carman (54) missing at sea, her son who is a person of interest in his Grandfather's murder, was found alive on a raft Thread: Linda Carman (54) missing at sea, her son who is a person of interest in his Grandfather's murder, was found alive on a raft raisedbywolves It was aliens I went back and forth over whether to put this in missing persons or under news/current events. I doubt they will ever find Linda, but since she is missing I will put it under the missing persons area for now. Pretty sure he killed his mom. Odd case. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nathan-c...-linda-carman/ Man rescued at sea explains what happened to missing mom A man who was rescued after spending a week at sea in a life raft was debriefed by the Coast Guard Tuesday in Boston after the search for his mother was called off. Authorities also searched his home for clues. Nathan Carman, 22, arrived safely at a Coast Guard base in Boston Tuesday morning, though his mother, Linda Carman, 54, has not been found and is presumed dead. Outside his Vernon, Vermont, home, Carman told reporters on Wednesday that he?s been through ?a huge amount? emotionally, and he thanked the public for its ?concern and prayers.? Exactly what happened to Linda Carman is not yet clear. CBS Boston reports a search warrant was executed Monday night at Nathan Carman?s Vernon, Vermont, home. Officers seized a modem, a Garman SIM card and a letter written by Nathan. Nathan and his mother disappeared September 18 after leaving Point Judith, Rhode Island on a fishing boat named the Chicken Pox. A week later, the Coast Guard suspended their search for the pair. After he was questioned Tuesday, Nathan left the Coast Guard base with his father. The Carman family has had hard times. In 2013, Linda Carman?s father was found shot to death in his Windsor, Connecticut home. That crime remains unsolved. According to CBS Hartford affiliate WFSB, Nathan Carman was ?a primary person of interest? in the murder of his grandfather. Nathan has Asperger?s syndrome, a higher-functioning form of autism. Five years ago, he disappeared from his home, upset over the death of his horse, and was found days later in Virginia. A police affidavit issued to obtain the search warrant of the Vermont home ?indicates that Linda and Nathan had different intentions as to the final destination of the fishing trip.? Linda, it states, thought they were going 20 miles off shore. Nathan, according to people he spoke with before he left, had other plans to take them roughly 100 miles out. ?I thought he said the canyons which are off Block Island,? said Mike Iozzi who struck up a casual conversation with Nathan hours before he left the dock. ?I didn?t see him with fishing poles,? Iozzi told CBS Boston. ?I didn?t even see him with food.? The affidavit also stated that Nathan?s boat was in need of mechanical repair. On Sunday, Nathan was found drifting in an inflatable raft by the Chinese freighter Orient Lucky, about 100 nautical miles south of Martha?s Vineyard. There was no mayday call and no radio transmission of any kind from the fishing boat, according to the Coast Guard. On Tuesday, the Coast Guard released audio of their conversation with Nathan after he was rescued by the freighter. ?Mom and I, two people, myself and my mom were fishing on Block Canyon,? Nathan said. ?There was a funny noise in the engine compartment, I looked and saw a lot of water.? ?I had my mom bring in the reel, I brought the safety stuff forward,? Nathan said. ?I was bringing one of the safety bags forward and the boat stopped out under my feet. When I saw the life raft, I did not see my Mom. Have you found her?? Coast Guard Search and Rescue Controller Richard Arsenault responded, ?No, we haven?t been able to find her yet.? Nathan told Arsenault that after he got to the life raft, he began whistling and calling and did not see his mom. Linda Carman had told her close friend that she and her son would take the boat out toward Block Island for an overnight fishing trip. ?I?m hoping for lots of answers,? said Sharon Hartstein, a family friend. ?I want to know if there?s still hope for Linda, I want to know where they were, and what happened.? The Coast Guard does not believe that Linda Carman could still be alive, so the search for her was terminated. Nathan survived with food and water in the raft, and was in good condition. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicole Groll said there are some lingering questions after an exhaustive search that failed to locate Nathan. ?He said his boat sunk off Block Canyon, and we scoured 62,000 nautical miles of sea,? she said. ?He was found in the search area, his boat went down in the search area. Why didn?t he see us? Why didn?t we see him?? ?We want to know what we can do to make our search efforts better, so, god forbid there?s another person we?re searching for, we can do the very best we can to make sure that they?re found and brought home safely,? she added. I screwed up the commas in the header. Oh well. I wanted to add this too. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/28...r-killing.html Nathan Carman, the young man rescued in the Atlantic Ocean after floating on a life raft for a week, had been a suspect in the 2013 killing of his grandfather, deepening the mystery surrounding his ordeal and the apparent death of his mother at sea, the Hartford Courant reported Wednesday. According to a search warrant for Carman's apartment obtained by the newspaper, Carman was the last person known to see his maternal grandfather, John Chakalos, alive on Dec. 20, 2013, when he had dinner with him at his home in Windsor. The 87-year-old Chakalos, a real estate developer, was found dead the next morning. He had been shot three times. The Courant reported Tuesday that Windsor police submitted an arrest warrant for Carman to a prosecutor, but it was returned unsigned with a request for more information. Carman was not charged. A will shows John Chakalos left an estate worth more than $42 million to his four adult daughters. Carman told The Associated Press on Wednesday he had nothing to do with the death of his grandfather and didn't harm his mother. TupeloHoney Here's the grandpa's thread: http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthrea...=1#post3706030 Originally Posted by Not your business I will out think the fucking pants off of you and you would thank me for helping you out of them. bermstalker So...each daughter got a little over 10 mill a piece. Now mom's dead, so the son will get her portion? Yeah, it's not suspicious at all. His boat was absolutely shit. http://www.courant.com/news/connecti...927-story.html Last edited by bermstalker; 09-29-2016 at 01:43 AM. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...G8J/story.html As probe begins, boat sinking survivor defends vessel’s safety The 22-year-old man who survived a week at sea after a boating tragedy that led to his mother’s presumed death said Wednesday that he believed his vessel was seaworthy and that a multistate criminal investigation into the fishing trip had compounded his grief. oh boo hoo Authorities said Carman ventured some 80 miles farther out to sea than his mother, Linda, had expected. They are investigating whether Carman had made repairs to his 31-foot vessel that potentially made it unsafe. At the Rhode Island marina where Carman set sail, a boater told authorities Carman had taken the unusual step of removing the boat’s trim tabs, which keep the vessel from listing. The records also allege that as a child Carman held another child hostage with a knife and that after his grandfather’s slaying some of his relatives were so fearful of him that they “hired armed private security to protect them in their homes.” Carman said Wednesday he had nothing to do with his grandfather’s slaying and “it doesn’t feel good to be bringing up everything that I went through with the loss of my grandfather now at the same time that I’m trying to come to terms with the fact that my mom is really gone.” Even tho I really think Nathan is responsible for both deaths- grandpa and mom- a boatmaster said what Nathan did is not really considered dangerous. It's unusual tho. Here's a link that explains everything going on with this case. It seems Nathan's decline started over the death of his horse. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...qJI/story.html But Connors, who was involved in the initial search for the Carmans, said he does not believe the boat repairs Nathan Carman is said to have made would cause an immediate safety issue. Investigators were told Carman removed trim tabs from his boat, records show. Trim tabs help with fuel efficiency and keep a boat from listing. Removing them is unusual, but not inherently dangerous, said Gloucester Harbormaster Thomas Ciarametaro. Ciarametaro said trim tabs are bolted on, so a boat owner would want to make sure the holes were filled securely to prevent leaks. Carman filled the holes on his boat with a “marine-type adhesive,” according to court records. Ciarametaro said such substances are strong and reliable, but that he would use additional material to shore up his vessel. puzzld Nathan Carman?s plan for a memorial service to honor his mother Linda Carman, who was lost at sea while on a fishing trip with him last month, has angered other families members still waiting for authorities to finish their investigation. Nathan Carman, 22, has been calling friends of his grandparents, John and Rita Chakalos, in New Hampshire and family friends in West Hartford to invite them to a memorial service scheduled for Wednesday. Details of the service are unclear but his attorney, Hubert Santos, confirmed this weekend that the 22-year-old is planning a memorial service at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hartford. ?Nathan has not given up hope for his mother?s rescue. However, he also understands the difficult realities of the situation and that the Coast Guard stopped search-and-rescue operations last month,? Santos said. ?He believes that now is an appropriate time to begin the mourning process, and asks that the public and press respect his privacy during this trying time.? But Nathan Carman apparently didn?t check with any of Linda Carman?s three sisters about the memorial, or invite them. The family has gotten calls from friends informing them that Nathan has called them about the memorial service. The friends have been asking the sisters if they are participating. The sisters have hired the Boston law firm of Holland & Knight to represent them. Their attorney, Dan Small, issued a statement making it clear that the three sisters have nothing to do with the planned memorial, and indicating that they prefer to wait until police finish investigating the circumstances of the ill-fated fishing trip. ?Linda?s friends and family want to make clear that they are not involved in this event,? Small said. ?They believe that it is premature and inappropriate to stage this kind of an event when there is an ongoing investigation into Linda?s disappearance.? Nathan Carman and his mother, Linda Carman, 54, of Middletown, were reported missing Sept. 18 while on a fishing trip. They left from South Kingstown, R.I., the day before in Nathan Carman?s 31-foot aluminum boat, The Chicken Pox. His mother is presumed dead. Police from at least four states have been investigating the circumstances surrounding the boat?s sinking. They have obtained search warrants for Nathan Carman?s vehicle, cellphone and Vermont home. In those documents, they indicate they are investigating whether to charge him with ?operating (a boat) so as to endanger, resulting in death.? Nathan Carman told Coast Guard officials that he and his mother were fishing in Block Canyon, south of Martha?s Vineyard, when he heard a funny noise coming from the engine and water rushing on the boat. Carman said he turned to grab an emergency bag and by then, the boat was sinking. He swam to a raft that had automatically inflated and said he called out for his mother but didn?t see her. He floated in the raft for eight days before a freighter called the Orient Lucky picked him up about 100 miles from Martha?s Vineyard. He spent two days on the freighter before he was turned over to the Coast Guard. Carman wrote the ship?s captain, Hengdong Zhao, a thank you note in which he described what his mother meant to him: ?If my mom is lost, which I fear is likely, I will have no one on Earth who will welcome me sincerely into their home,? he wrote. A potential rift between Nathan Carman and his relatives started when his grandfather, John Chakalos, was killed in December of 2013. Windsor police tried to obtain an arrest warrant to charge Nathan Carman with the murder but were unsuccessful. As with his mother, Nathan Carman is believed to have been the last person to see his grandfather alive when he had dinner with him the night before his body was found by one of his daughters. Chakalos was shot three times in the head. Nathan Carman has denied any involvement in his grandfather?s death, saying the two were extremely close. ?He loved me very dearly,? Carman said of Chakalos. ?I was like a son to him; he was like a father to me.? Chakalos? probate estate, filed in New Hampshire, shows that he had assets of $44 million. A judge recently accepted a final total of about $21 million to be distributed among his daughters, the four sisters. A judge has not approved the final distribution of the estate. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man...ers/ar-AAjjbHV lol at Nestle being some vicious smiter, she's the nicest person on this site besides probably puzzld. Or at least the last person to resort to smiting. Originally Posted by nestlequikie Why on earth would I smite you when I can ban you? How f'ing tacky. I bet it won't be long before he has her declared dead. “A funeral or memorial service in Catholic Church indicates that a body and death certificate is available in a case,” said Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Hartford, Maria Zone. In the case of Linda Carman, presumed lost at sea, no such documentation is available, therefore neither service can be held, said Zone. http://www.wfsb.com/story/33455877/n...r-linda-carman leapfreak Who the hell names a boat The Chicken Pox?? Isn't there a mandatory wait period (several years) to declare missing people dead? If they make him wait for the money I bet he looses his shit. The family of a 23-year-old man who was found after seven days missing at sea is trying to prevent him from inheriting millions following his wealthy grandfather’s homicide. Attorneys for the aunts of Nathan Carman filed a petition Monday that alleges he killed his grandfather “out of malice and greed” and asks the court to block the sizeable inheritance he now stands to gain. The petition, which lists the three sisters of Nathan’s mother, Linda Carman, as petitioners, is known as a “slayer action,” which seeks to prohibit a person from receiving an inheritance from someone they killed. The filing points the finger at Nathan for his grandfather’s killing, asking the court to “declare that the murderer was Nathan Carman.” Rescued boater Nathan Carman says he 'wasn't responsible' for mom's death Reporter's notebook: What it was like to interview rescued boater Nathan Carman John Chakalos, an 87-year-old real estate mogul who owned a number of nursing homes across New England, was found shot to death in his Windsor, Connecticut, home in 2013. Nathan is the last known person to see his grandfather alive. Nathan was also the last person to see his mother before she disappeared at sea last year. Nathan and Linda Carman were first reported missing Sept. 18, 2016, after they failed to return from a fishing trip off the Rhode Island coast in his boat named “Chicken Pox.” Nathan was rescued a week later from a life raft more than 100 nautical miles from Martha’s Vineyard. Linda has never been found. Nathan claims the boat sank after rapidly taking on water and that he never saw his mother as he entered the life raft, which was enclosed and stocked with food and water. The lawsuit is the first time the Chakalos sisters have publicly accused their nephew in the killing. Nathan has never been charged in either his grandfather’s homicide or his mother’s disappearance, though police have called him the prime suspect in the former case. In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Linzie Janis, Nathan denied any involvement in his grandfather’s death, saying “he was like a father to me.” Nathan also claimed he did nothing to intentionally sink the boat with his mother on board. However, an investigation by an insurance company blamed Nathan for the incident, claiming he took “intentional” actions that caused the boat to sink. The lawsuit asks for Nathan’s inheritance to be placed into a trust that would be controlled by his aunts. However, the action is about justice rather than money, according to their attorney. “The surviving sisters cannot stand idle while their father's killer, and perhaps their sister's killer also, profits from his actions,” said Dan Small in a statement. Should they win the case, Small says the sisters plan to use the money to pay for expenses related to the investigations into the death of their father and disappearance of their sister, with the rest going to charity. Attorneys for Nathan Carman did not respond to a request for comment. http://abcnews.go.com/US/rescued-boa...ry?id=48680150 God this guys is such an evil douche. Nathan Carman — the Vermont man who is a suspect in his grandfather’s killing and whose mother disappeared at sea under mysterious circumstances — now stands accused of enlarging four holes in the doomed boat that sank with him and his mom on board, according to court documents. “In removing his boat’s trim tabs hours before departing on its final voyage, Carman not only failed to properly seal four thru-hull holes he thereby opened at the transom’s waterline ... but two recent depositions establish Carman enlarged those four holes,” wrote David J. Farrell Jr., an attorney for the company that insured Carman’s boat. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/loc..._disappearance There's a lot more information at that link. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/bus...191646469.html Documents to remain sealed in lawsuit over mystery deaths A New Hampshire judge has ruled that several documents can remain sealed in a lawsuit that aims to prevent a Vermont man from inheriting money from the millionaire grandfather the family says he killed. The order was issued Friday in connection with a July lawsuit accusing Nathan Carman of being responsible for the 2013 death of John Chakalos. The family argued unsealing certain documents would impede the investigation into Nathan Carmen. They also allege Carman killed his mother, Linda Carman. Nathan Carman has denied any wrongdoing. He's never been charged. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/29...ssing-gun.html An insurance company has asked a federal judge to force a man to discuss what happened to a missing gun that matches the caliber of the gun used to kill his millionaire grandfather. In a separate case, the insurance company is seeking to avoid payment on an $85,000 policy for a boat Carman was on when he and his mother went missing at sea in 2016. His mother, Linda Carman, is presumed dead. He was found on a life raft seven days after his boat sank off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts island near Cape Cod. The motion includes documents from the U.S. Coast Guard related to the search for Nathan and Linda Carman after his boat, the Chicken Pox, was reported missing on Sept. 16, 2016. A family member told the Coast Guard she believed Nathan Carman killed his grandfather and stood to inherit his mother's share of an estate valued at up to $40 million, including a $5 million home. Linda Carman's three sisters, Nathan Carman's aunts, have sued in New Hampshire to try to block him from collecting the inheritance. https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/08...n-connecticut/ A federal judge has rejected the inclusion of alleged evidence relating to the killing of Nathan Carman’s grandfather as Carman and insurance companies go to trial this week over a $85,000 claim on a sunken boat. National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. and the Boat Owners Association of the United States will argue they don’t owe Carman a claim over the 31-foot boat, which sank in September 2016, because “the loss of his boat was caused by incomplete, improper, and faulty repairs” made by Carman the day before the boat sank near Rhode Island, according to court filings. Carman’s mother, Linda Carman, who went on the fishing trip with Nathan on Sept. 17, 2016, was never seen again after the sinking and is presumed dead. Nathan Carman is the sole heir of Linda Carman, the fourth daughter of John Chakalos. She was owed a share of Chakalos’ estate, after Chakalos was killed in 2013. A New Hampshire probate judge in May dismissed a “slayer petition” by sisters Valerie Santilli, Elaine Chakalos and Charlene Gallagher who tried to block Nathan Carman from getting his mother’s share of Chakalos’ multimillion-dollar estate. The sisters sought to have Nathan Carman declared Chakalos’ murderer, alleging in court filings he fatally shot the 87-year-old real estate tycoon in his Windsor, Conn., home in December 2013 “out of malice and greed.” Nathan Carman’s family also believes he was responsible for Linda Carman’s death. New Hampshire Judge David King tossed the lawsuit, ruling that Chakalos lived in Connecticut, even though he had a New Hampshire driver’s license and was registered to vote there. The insurance companies allege Carman made “unsatisfactory” repairs to the boat before its final trip, according to investigators’ opinions, and allege Nathan Carman neither radioed for help nor activated an emergency signal when the boat sank. https://www.wcvb.com/article/judge-r...king/29686182# A Vermont man at the center of an inheritance dispute contributed to the 2016 sinking of the boat from which his mother was lost at sea, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a written decision in favor of an insurance company that had refused to pay an $85,000 claim to Nathan Carman for the loss of his 31-foot fishing boat, The Chicken Pox. The vessel sank during a fishing trip in 2016, leaving Carmen's mother, Linda Carman, missing and presumed dead. Carman has denied doing anything to intentionally make the boat unseaworthy. He told the Coast Guard that when the boat filled quickly with water, he swam to the life raft and called for his mother but never saw her again. The judge found, among other things, that shortly before the fishing trip, Carman, of Vernon, Vermont, made improper repairs to the boat. Witnesses testified that he removed two stabilizing trim tabs from the stern, near the vessel's waterline, leaving holes that he tried to seal with an epoxy stick. "The removal of the trim tabs and the faulty repairs rendered the boat unseaworthy and in poor condition," the judge wrote. "Having four holes in the back of a boat lends itself to taking water on. It is more likely than not that this improper repair at least indirectly caused water to fill up the bilge, causing the boat to sink." https://www.wmur.com/article/man-who...pute/30119418# A Vermont man found responsible by a judge for making faulty repairs that contributed to the sinking of his boat, resulting in his mother being lost at sea, is asking for a new trial. U.S. District Judge John McConnell last month ruled in favor of an insurance company that had refused to pay an $85,000 claim to Nathan Carman for the loss of his 31-foot fishing boat in September 2016. The Providence Journal reports that Carman in a filing Monday argued that many of McConnell's findings were not supported by the evidence presented at the non-jury trial. The vessel sank during a fishing trip in 2016, leaving Carman's mother, Linda Carman, of Middletown, Connecticut, missing and presumed dead. Nathan Carman denied doing anything to intentionally make the boat unseaworthy. 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__label__wiki	0.788343	0.788343	Accueil Business Singapore becomes largest repair activities hub for Thales worldwide Singapore becomes largest repair activities hub for Thales worldwide Thales’s newly expanded facility in Changi consolidates all avionics production and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) activities under one roof for better synergies and process optimisation, reinforcing its local industrial footprint and building capacity for the future. Thales started its commercial avionics operations in Singapore over forty years ago and now produces key systems for the Airbus A320, A350 and Boeing 787 fleets. Singapore houses one of our three avionics repair sites for the Group, with the other two located in Chatellerault, France and Piscataway, USA. In the past year, Thales in Singapore has grown its repair volume by over 30%. In addition to repair operations, Thales is also providing a Customer Support Centre (CSC) for Diehl’s Singaporean subsidiary, set up in November last year to better serve its regional customers. The CSC has been operational since 1st January 2017 at the expanded Thales facility in Changi North Rise. More than 40,000 pieces of equipment per year The widened scope of the extended partnership increases Thales’ repair volume in Singapore to an estimated 40,000 pieces of equipment per year, making Singapore the Group’s largest centre for avionics maintenance and repair services worldwide. The aerospace industry in Singapore has seen robust growth over the last two decades, and Singapore is home to one of the most advanced MRO clusters in the world. Singapore accounts for a quarter of the region’s MRO output and Thales worked closely with the Singapore Economic Development Board in bringing the project to fruition. This expanded facility underscores the importance of Singapore as a regional hub for the Group, as it aims to grow local capabilities and establish a strong regional base to serve customers in the Asia-Pacific region. «The expanded Thales facility is testament to Singapore’s continued strength as an aerospace hub for Asia Pacific and an excellent example of how we can partner OEMs to facilitate their regional expansion. Companies can tap on Singapore’s connectivity, pro-business environment and pool of skilled talent, to be closer to their customers and harness the growth of the regional aviation market”, said Mr. Lim Kok Kiang, Assistant Managing Director, Singapore Economic Development Board. About Thales in Singapore Thales has been in Singapore since 1973 and is today involved in the four main business areas of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Transportation. Employing over 600 people, Thales has built industrial capabilities in avionics production and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) to support regional airlines from Singapore. In Avionics, the Singapore MRO site employs over 120 people, and has strong capabilities in repair for avionics, electrical systems and In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) equipment on a wide range of aircraft types. #aerospace #Avionics #defence #security #Singapore #technology #thales #transportation Innovation Sep 24. 2019 Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and Thales to establish a Joint Aviation Innovation Research Lab The S$30 million lab will play a key role in developing advanced Air Traffic Management capabilities. Expert viewpoint Jul 22. 2019 Channel News Asia reports on Thales drone detection systems and smart transport projects Channel News Asia recently interviewed Thales's International Development SEVP Pascale Sourisse about how Thales is deploying drone detection systems to...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13032
__label__wiki	0.847682	0.847682	Home Entertainment Won’t leave Bollywood until I make a film with SRK: Kashyap Won’t leave Bollywood until I make a film with SRK: Kashyap Mumbai: On the surface, Anurag Kashyap and Shah Rukh Khan may belong to different cinematic universes but the filmmaker vows not to leave Bollywood until he works with the superstar. In his career of more than two decades, Kashyap several times came close to working with Shah Rukh, who also happens to be his Delhi University senior. In a group interview, Kashyap said the 52-year-old actor was keen to work with him in “No Smoking”, a film which eventually went to John Abraham. “He wanted to do ‘No Smoking’ and he was very upset when I went away from him. I also went to him with ‘Allwyn Kalicharan.’ I wanted to do that with him and a big superstar from Hollywood. Everything was almost done but then again (it didn’t happen). “But we will work together. I won’t go anywhere without making a film with Shah Rukh Khan… I will write a film that will lure him. He should be attracted to it, he should be dying do the film,” he said. Calling his relationship with SRK “strange”, the director said he is in awe of the actor. “He is my senior from university, he has been there like a big brother helping me. He is super successful. When he loves you, he approaches things like, in my struggling years, (he used to tell me), ‘if you do what I tell you to do, your problems will disappear’. But I didn’t want him to make my life,” he said. Kashyap, who over the years has earned the image of a rebel in Bollywood, said he can fight with anyone but Shah Rukh. “He is the only guy I can never speak upto. I can fight with the world but not him. If he scolds me, I’ll sit in a corner and cry. He is someone I have this love for. I love him to death,” he said. The director revealed SRK often pokes fun at him, bullies him but he is charming as well. The 45-year-old filmmaker was speaking on the sidelines of ‘India and the world – The Changing Narrative’ film festival conceptualised by writer Anuraadha Tewari, held at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, here. Kashyap, who is a regular at various Indian and international film festivals, said movie fests “saved” him. “Film festivals showed me a way how to make low budget films. In the sense, while I’m making a film which doesn’t have a lot of pedigreed star cast, the interest in the project is created by film festivals. If my films works there, it’ll help me create awareness here. Previous articleRoy record inspires England to victory vs Australia Next articleSri Lanka would come back strongly, feels Kaluwitharana Robert Downey Jr responds to Iron Man cameo rumours in ‘Black Widow’ Rajinikanth bets on fair journalism for nation’s good ‘Kick 2’ will happen in December 2021: Sajid Nadiadwala Rafael Nadal pulls out of ATP Finals after David Goffin defeat Citizenship Bill in line with India’s centuries old ethos of assimilation:... Venkaiah Naidu files his nomination for vice president Need institutional arbitration system to get investment: CJI	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13034
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__label__wiki	0.869918	0.869918	Top Pop Musics موسیقی و ترانه ایرانی - موسیقی پاپ Jamshid Sheibani Mohammad Noori Fereidoon Farokhzad Hayede Homeyra Siavash Ghomeishi Mahasti Shahram Shabpare Sattar Dariush Fereidon Forooghi Googoosh Moein Faramarz Aslani Maziar Nooshafarin Shohreh Leila Foroohar Kuros Shadmehr Aghili songlyricssinger Top Pop Singers شیرین جان هایده آخ کشکم ترکی امید پریا 3 ابی بزن بارون معین منت شورانگیز دل خوش باور شهره مهر سکوت شورانگیز علی ای همای رحمت هایده غریبستان معین اومدی شهره دلم خواست گوگوش You have not added song to favorites جمشید شیبانی فریدون فرخزاد مهستی شهرام رامش نوشافرین نلی کورس In ancient Persia musicians held socially respectable positions. We know that the Elamites and the Achemenians certainly made use of musicians but we do not know what that music was like. During the Parthian era, troubadours or Gosans were highly sought after as entertainers. There are theories in Academia that perhaps the early Dari Poets of Eastern Iran like Roudaki were in fact Gosans. The history of musical performance in Sassanid Iran is however better documented than earlier periods. This is specially more evident in the context of Zoroastrian ritual By the time of Xusro Parviz the Sassanid royal court was the host of prominent musicians such as Ramtin, Bamshad, Nakisa, Azad, Sarkash, and Barbad. Among these survived names, Barbad is remembered in much documents and has been named as remarkably high skilled. He has been credited to have given an organisation of musical system consisting of seven "Royal modes" named Xosrovani, thirty derivated modes named lahn, and 360 melodies named dastan. These numbers are in accordance with Sassanid's calendar of number of days in a week, month, and year. The theories these modal system were based on are not known, however the writers of later period have left a list of these modes and melodies. These names include some of epic forms such as kin-e Iraj (lit. the Vengeance of Iraj), kin-e siavash (lit. the Vengeance of Siavash), and Taxt-e Ardashir (lit. the Throne of Ardashir) and some connected with the glories of Sassanid royal court such as Bagh-e shirin (lit the garden of Shirin), Bagh-e Shahryar (lit. the Sovereign's Garden), and haft Ganj (lit. the seven threasures). There are also some of a descriptive nature like roshan cheragh (lit. bright lights). In general the period of Xosroparvis reign is regarded as an "golden age of Iranian music" and himself is shown in a large relief at Taq-e Bostan among his musicians and himself holding bow and arrows and while standing in a boat amidst a group of harpists. The relief depicts two boats and the whole picture shows these boats at "two successive moments within the same panel". Barbad may have invented the lute and the musical tradition that was to transform into the Maqam tradition and eventually the Dastgah music. The persian music has thousands of years of history, as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world cultures,which was located in southwestern Iran. There is a distinction between the science of Music, or Musicology, which, as a branch of mathematics has always been held in high regards in Persia/Iran; as opposed to Music performance, (Tarab, Navakhteh, Tasneef, Taraneh or more recently Muzik), which has had an uneasy and often acrimonious relationship with the religious authorities and, in times of religious revival, with society as a whole. Even after Islam Persian Musicians did not disappear: Zaryab is often credited with being the greatest influence over Andalusian and Spanish music. Farabi and Avicenna were not only musical theorist but adept at the lute and the Ney respectively. Traditional Hierarchies of Authenticity and Value The position of a particular work of music often depends on the music genre and its relationship to music theory. The academic Authentic Persian Music (Musiq-i-Asil) is strongly based on the theories of sonic aesthetics as expounded by the likes of Farabi and Shirazi in the early centuries of Islam. It also preserves melodic formula that are often attributed to the musicians of the Persian imperial court of Khosroe Parviz in the Sassanid Period. Dastgah is the music of those who have a greater share of, or affect to be in possession of, refined taste and high culture and as such, in spite of its present popularity, has always been the preserve of the elite. However, the influence of Dastgah can not be underestimated as it is seen as the reservoir of authenticity that other forms of musical genres derive melodic and performance ideas and inspiration. Other genres of respectable music were not as soundly based in abstract theory, but from a utilitarian point of view were useful. To this group belongs the martial music of Persia (Musiqi Razmi), whose roots go back to the Parthian era, as attested by Roman sources. This form of music has now been almost completely replaced by European forms ever since the modernization of the armed forces. This type of music with large drums, brass and reed instruments was used not only at war but also in official and solemn occasions. The Naqareh Khaneh or the house of drum, the chief exponent of this type of music survived into the Qajar Period but by this time much of the expertise, fostered during the Safavid era, had disappeared. The only trace of this form of music in a much simplified form is the music of the Zurkhaneh, the traditional martial arts of Iran, where the exercises of champions (Pahlavan, literally Parthians) is regulated by a drummer / vocalist known as the Murshid. 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__label__wiki	0.567652	0.567652	Main » Classes » Druid Neutral good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, or neutral evil. d8. The druid’s class skills are Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Fly (Dex), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (geography) (Int), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Perception (Wis), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Survival (Wis), and Swim (Str). Base Attack Bonus Fort Save Ref Save Will Save 1st +0 +2 +0 +2 Nature bond, nature sense, orisons, wild empathy 3 1 — — — — — — — — 2nd +1 +3 +0 +3 Woodland stride 4 2 — — — — — — — — 3rd +2 +3 +1 +3 Trackless step 4 2 1 — — — — — — — 4th +3 +4 +1 +4 Resist nature's lure, wild shape (1/day) 4 3 2 — — — — — — — 5th +3 +4 +1 +4 4 3 2 1 — — — — — — 6th +4 +5 +2 +5 Wild shape (2/day) 4 3 3 2 — — — — — — 7th +5 +5 +2 +5 4 4 3 2 1 — — — — — 8th +6/+1 +6 +2 +6 Wild shape (3/day) 4 4 3 3 2 — — — — — 9th +6/+1 +6 +3 +6 Venom immunity 4 4 4 3 2 1 — — — — 10th +7/+2 +7 +3 +7 Wild shape (4/day) 4 4 4 3 3 2 — — — — 11th +8/+3 +7 +3 +7 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 — — — 12th +9/+4 +8 +4 +8 Wild shape (5/day) 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 — — — 13th +9/+4 +8 +4 +8 A thousand faces 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 — — 14th +10/+5 +9 +4 +9 Wild shape (6/day) 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 — — 15th +11/+6/+1 +9 +5 +9 Timeless body 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 — 16th +12/+7/+2 +10 +5 +10 Wild shape (7/day) 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 — 17th +12/+7/+2 +10 +5 +10 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 1 18th +13/+8/+3 +11 +6 +11 Wild shape (8/day) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 20th +15/+10/+5 +12 +6 +12 Wild shape (at will) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 All of the following are class features of the druid. Druids are proficient with the following weapons: club, dagger, dart, quarterstaff, scimitar, scythe, sickle, shortspear, sling, and spear. They are also proficient with all natural attacks (claw, bite, and so forth) of any form they assume with wild shape (see below). Druids are proficient with light and medium armor but are prohibited from wearing metal armor; thus, they may wear only padded, leather, or hide armor. A druid may also wear wooden armor that has been altered by the ironwood spell so that it functions as though it were steel. See the ironwood spell description. Druids are proficient with shields (except tower shields) but must use only wooden ones. A druid who wears prohibited armor or carries a prohibited shield is unable to cast druid spells or use any of her supernatural or spell-like class abilities while doing so and for 24 hours thereafter. A druid casts divine spells, which are drawn from the druid spell list. Her alignment may restrict her from casting certain spells opposed to her moral or ethical beliefs; see Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells. A druid must choose and prepare her spells in advance. To prepare or cast a spell, the druid must have a Wisdom score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a druid’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the druid’s Wisdom modifier. Like other spellcasters, a druid can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table 4–6. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Wisdom score. She does not have access to any domain spells or granted powers, as a cleric does. A druid prepares and casts spells the way a cleric does, though she cannot lose a prepared spell to cast a cure spell in its place (but see Spontaneous Casting). A druid may prepare and cast any spell on the druid spell list, provided that she can cast spells of that level, but she must choose which spells to prepare during her daily meditation. Spontaneous Casting A druid can channel stored spell energy into summoning spells that she hasn’t prepared ahead of time. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to cast any summon nature’s ally spell of the same level or lower. Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells A druid can’t cast spells of an alignment opposed to her own or her deity’s (if she has one). Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaos, evil, good, and law descriptors in their spell descriptions. Orisons (Sp) Druids can prepare a number of orisons, or 0-level spells, each day. They can cast these spells at will as a spell-like ability. The number of orisons a druid can prepare each day is noted in Table 4–6 under spells per day. Orisons are treated like any other spell cast by the druid in terms of duration and other variables based on level. Orisons cannot be channeled through spontaneous casting. Bonus Languages A druid’s bonus language options include Sylvan, the language of woodland creatures. This choice is in addition to the bonus languages available to the character because of her race. A druid also knows Druidic, a secret language known only to druids, which she learns upon becoming a 1st-level druid. Druidic is a free language for a druid; that is, she knows it in addition to her regular allotment of languages and it doesn’t take up a language slot. Druids are forbidden to teach this language to nondruids. Druidic has its own alphabet. Nature Bond (Ex) At 1st level, a druid forms a bond with nature. This bond can take one of two forms. The first is a close tie to the natural world, granting the druid one of the following cleric domains: air, animal, earth, fire, plant, water, or weather. When determining the powers and bonus spells granted by this domain, the druid’s effective cleric level is equal to his druid level. The second option is to form a close bond with an animal companion. A druid may begin play with an animal companion selected from the following list: badger, camel, dire rat, dog, riding dog, eagle, hawk, horse (light or heavy), owl, pony, snake (Small or Medium viper), or wolf. If the campaign takes place wholly or partly in an aquatic environment, the following creatures are also available: porpoise, Medium shark, and squid. This animal is a loyal companion that accompanies the druid on her adventures as appropriate for its kind. A 1st-level druid’s companion is completely typical for its kind except as noted. As a druid advances in level, the animal’s power increases as shown on the Animal Companion Advancement table. If a druid releases her companion from service, she may gain a new one by performing a ceremony requiring 24 uninterrupted hours of prayer. This ceremony can also replace an animal companion that has perished. A druid of 4th level or higher may select from alternative lists of animals (see below). Should she select an animal companion from one of these alternative lists, the creature gains abilities as if the character’s druid level were lower than it actually is. Subtract the value indicated in the appropriate list header from the character’s druid level and compare the result with the druid level entry on the table to determine the animal companion’s powers. If this adjustment would reduce the druid’s effective level to 0 or lower, she can’t have that animal as a companion. Nature Sense (Ex) A druid gains a +2 bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks. Wild Empathy (Ex) A druid can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check made to improve the attitude of a person. The druid rolls 1d20 and adds her druid level and her Charisma modifier to determine the wild empathy check result. The typical domestic animal has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are usually unfriendly. To use wild empathy, the druid and the animal must be able to study each other, which means that they must be within 30 feet of one another under normal conditions. Generally, influencing an animal in this way takes 1 minute but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time. A druid can also use this ability to influence a magical beast with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2, but she takes a –4 penalty on the check. Woodland Stride (Ex) Starting at 2nd level, a druid may move through any sort of undergrowth (such as natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment. Thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion, however, still affect her. Trackless Step (Ex) Starting at 3rd level, a druid leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. She may choose to leave a trail if so desired. Resist Nature’s Lure (Ex) Starting at 4th level, a druid gains a +4 bonus on saving throws against the spell-like and supernatural abilities of fey. This bonus also applies to spells and effects that target plants, such as blight, entangle, spike growth, and warp wood. Wild Shape (Su) At 4th level, a druid gains the ability to turn herself into any Small or Medium animal and back again once per day. Her options for new forms include all creatures with the animal type. This ability functions like the beast shape I spell, except as noted here. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until she changes back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action and doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity. The form chosen must be that of an animal the druid is familiar with. A druid loses her ability to speak while in animal form because she is limited to the sounds that a normal, untrained animal can make, but she can communicate normally with other animals of the same general grouping as her new form. (The normal sound a wild parrot makes is a squawk, so changing to this form does not permit speech.) A druid can use this ability an additional time per day at 6th level and every two levels thereafter, for a total of eight times at 18th level. At 20th level, a druid can use wild shape at will. As a druid gains in levels, this ability allows the druid to take on the form of larger and smaller animals, elementals, and plants. Each form expends one daily usage of this ability, regardless of the form taken. At 6th level, a druid can use wild shape to change into a Large or Tiny animal or a Small elemental. When taking the form of an animal, a druid’s wild shape now functions as beast shape II. When taking the form of an elemental, the druid’s wild shape functions as elemental body I. At 8th level, a druid can use wild shape to change into a Huge or Diminutive animal, a Medium elemental, or a Small or Medium plant creature. When taking the form of animals, a druid’s wild shape now functions as beast shape III. When taking the form of an elemental, the druid’s wild shape now functions as elemental body II. When taking the form of a plant creature, the druid’s wild shape functions as plant shape I. At 10th level, a druid can use wild shape to change into a Large elemental or a Large plant creature. When taking the form of an elemental, the druid’s wild shape now functions as elemental body III. When taking the form of a plant, the druid’s wild shape now functions as plant shape II. At 12th level, a druid can use wild shape to change into a Huge elemental or a Huge plant creature. When taking the form of an elemental, the druid’s wild shape now functions as elemental body IV. When taking the form of a plant, the druid’s wild shape now functions as plant shape III. Venom Immunity (Ex) At 9th level, a druid gains immunity to all poisons. A Thousand Faces (Su) At 13th level, a druid gains the ability to change her appearance at will, as if using the alter self spell, but only while in her normal form. Timeless Body (Ex) After attaining 15th level, a druid no longer takes ability score penalties for aging and cannot be magically aged. Any penalties she may have already incurred, however, remain in place. Bonuses still accrue, and the druid still dies of old age when her time is up. Ex-Druids A druid who ceases to revere nature, changes to a prohibited alignment, or teaches the Druidic language to a nondruid loses all spells and druid abilities (including her animal companion, but not including weapon, armor, and shield proficiencies). She cannot thereafter gain levels as a druid until she atones (see the atonement spell description). Animal Companions A druid’s animal companion is superior to a normal animal of its kind and has several special powers, as described below. Table: Animal Companion Advancement Str/Dex Adj. Bonus Tricks 1st–2nd +0 +0 +0 1 Link, share spells 3rd–5th +2 +2 +1 2 Evasion 6th–8th +4 +4 +2 3 Devotion 9th–11th +6 +6 +3 4 Multiattack 12th–14th +8 +8 +4 5 15th–17th +10 +10 +5 6 Improved evasion 18th–20th +12 +12 +6 7 Animal Companion Basics Use the base statistics for a creature of the companion’s kind, but make the following changes, as noted under Animal Companion Advancement. The character’s druid level. The druid’s class levels stack with levels of any other classes that are entitled to an animal companion for the purpose of determining the companion’s abilities and the alternative lists available to the character. Extra eight-sided (d8) Hit Dice, each of which gains a Constitution modifier, as normal. Remember that extra Hit Dice improve the animal companion’s base attack and base save bonuses. An animal companion’s base attack bonus is the same as that of a druid of a level equal to the animal’s HD. An animal companion has good Fortitude and Reflex saves (treat it as a character whose level equals the animal’s HD). An animal companion gains additional skill points and feats for bonus HD as normal for advancing a monster’s Hit Dice. The number noted here is an improvement to the animal companion’s existing natural armor bonus. Add this value to the animal companion’s Strength and Dexterity scores. The value given in this column is the total number of “bonus” tricks that the animal knows in addition to any that the druid might choose to teach it (see the Handle Animal skill). These bonus tricks don’t require any training time or Handle Animal checks, and they don’t count against the normal limit of tricks known by the animal. The druid selects these bonus tricks, and once selected, they can’t be changed. Link (Ex) A druid can handle her animal companion as a free action, or push it as a move action, even if she doesn’t have any ranks in the Handle Animal skill. The druid gains a +4 circumstance bonus on all wild empathy checks and Handle Animal checks made regarding an animal companion. Share Spells (Ex) The druid may cast a spell with a target of “You” on her animal companion (as a touch range spell) instead of on herself. A druid may cast spells on her animal companion even if the spells normally do not affect creatures of the companion’s type (animal). Evasion (Ex) If an animal companion is subjected to an attack that normally allows a Ref lex saving throw for half damage, it takes no damage if it makes a successful saving throw. Devotion (Ex) An animal companion gains a +4 morale bonus on Will saves against enchantment spells and effects. Multiattack An animal companion gains Multiattack as a bonus feat if it has three or more natural attacks and does not already have that feat. If it does not have the requisite three or more natural attacks, the animal companion instead gains a second attack with its primary natural weapon, albeit at a –5 penalty. When subjected to an attack that normally allows a Ref lex saving throw for half damage, an animal companion takes no damage if it makes a successful saving throw and only half damage if the saving throw fails. Alternative Animal Companions A druid of sufficiently high level can select her animal companion from the Alternative Animal Companion lists, applying the indicated adjustment to the druid’s level (in parentheses) for purposes of determining the companion’s characteristics and special abilities. Table: Alternative Animal Companions 4th Level or Higher (Level –3) Ape (animal) Bear, black (animal) Bison (animal) Boar (animal) Cheetah (animal) Crocodile1 (animal) Dire badger Dire bat Dire weasel Leopard (animal) Lizard, monitor (animal) Shark, Large1 (animal) Snake, constrictor (animal) Snake, Large viper (animal) Wolverine (animal) Bear, brown (animal) Dire wolverine Crocodile, giant1 (animal) Deinonychus (dinosaur) Dire ape Dire boar Elasmosaurus1 (dinosaur) Lion (animal) Rhinoceros (animal) Snake, Huge viper (animal) Tiger (animal) 10th Level or Higher (Level –9) Bear, polar (animal) Dire lion Megaraptor (dinosaur) Shark, Huge1 (animal) Snake, giant constrictor (animal) Whale, orca1 (animal) 13th Level or Higher (Level –12) Dire bear Elephant (animal) Octopus, giant1 (animal) Dire shark1 Dire tiger Squid, giant1 (animal) Triceratops (dinosaur) Tyrannosaurus (dinosaur) 1 Available only in an aquatic environment. Alternate Animal Companion rules are presented in here. aagis Marvel Revolution MUCK	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13043
__label__cc	0.563666	0.436334	PPTI.INFO More than 100,000 ePub and PDF files are stored on our servers. All of them are free to download and use! ppti.info Personal Growth Vatsyayan Ka Kamsutra In Hindi Pdf VATSYAYAN KA KAMSUTRA IN HINDI PDF However, Kama sutra synonym is creative sexual positions. Now you can also read Kaamvasna book in Hindi. However only one – fifth part of. the `Vatsyayana Kama Sutra', or Aphorisms on. Kama The work was translated into Hindi years ago, and in this the author's name was written Kama Sutra. sahitya chintan ebook library helps you to read Kamasutra In Hindi ebooks in hindi. eSahitya Library also कामसूत्र. Author: Vatsyayana. Author: MAYME WENDEROTH Country: Kuwait Distribution: Free* [*Regsitration Required] Uploaded by: KLARA literature, and which is called the `Vatsyayana Kama The work was translated into Hindi years Kama Shastra, or doctrines of love, and the words Koka. Download The Kama Sutra free in PDF & EPUB format. Download Vatsyayana's The Kama Sutra for your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile. The Kamasutra - how frequently we hear this notion. was written in Sanskrit by the philosopher and scientist of ancient India Vatsyayana Mallanaga. However. It is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behaviour in Sanskrit literature. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. Contrary to western popular perception, the Kama Sutra is not exclusively a sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life. The majority of the book, notes Jacob Levy, is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, how and when it is good or bad. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra Sanskrit: John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE. In the preface of Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana cites the work of previous authors based on which he compiled his own Kama Sutra. He states that the seven parts of his work were an abridgment of longer works by Dattaka first part , Suvarnanabha second part , Ghotakamukha third part , Gonardiya fourth part , Gonikaputra fifth part , Charayana sixth part , and Kuchumara seventh part. Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra has verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organised into seven parts. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Ipsum euismod his at. Eu putent habemus voluptua sit, sit cu rationibus scripserit, modus voluptaria ex per. Aeque dicam consulatu eu his, probatus neglegentur disputationi sit et. Ei nec ludus epicuri petentium, vis appetere maluisset ad. Et hinc exerci utinam cum. Sonet saperet nominavi est at, vel eu sumo tritani. Cum ex minim legere. Te eam iisque deseruisse, ipsum euismod his at. You might also like: RAS STUDY MATERIAL IN HINDI PDF The author of the 'Light of Love' No. The work contains four hundred verses, and gives only a short account of the doctrines of love, dealing more with other matters. Kamasutra Vatsyayana.pdf 2137321497 This treatise is, however, very short, containing only one hundred and twenty-five verses. The author of the 'Sprout of Love' No. It appears from the last verse of the manuscript that he was a resident of the province of Tirhoot, the son of a Brahman named Ganeshwar, who was also a poet. The work, written in Sanscrit, gives the descriptions of different classes of men and women, their classes being made out from their age, description, conduct, etc. The Kamasutra. What is it? It contains three chapters, and its date is not known, and cannot be ascertained. He is supposed to have been a relation or connection of the house of Lodi, which reigned in Hindostan from A. The work would, therefore, have been written in the fifteenth or sixteenth century. It contains ten chapters, and has been translated into English, but only six copies were printed for private circulation. This is supposed to be the latest of the Sanscrit works on the subject, and the ideas in it 4 were evidently taken from previous writings of the same nature. The contents of these works are in themselves a literary curiosity. There are to be found both in Sanscrit poetry and in the Sanscrit drama a certain amount of poetical sentiment and romance, which have, in every country and in every language, thrown an immortal halo round the subject. Kama Sutra Books But here it is treated in a plain, simple, matter of fact sort of way. Men and women are divided into classes and divisions in the same way that Buffon and other writers on natural history have classified and divided the animal world. As Venus was represented by the Greeks to stand forth as the type of the beauty of woman, so the Hindoos describe the Padmini or Lotus woman as the type of most perfect feminine excellence, as follows: She in whom the following signs and symptoms appear is called a Padmini. Her face is pleasing as the full moon; her body, well clothed with flesh, is soft as the Shiras or mustard flower, her skin is fine, tender and fair as the yellow lotus, never dark coloured. Her eyes are bright and beautiful as the orbs of the fawn, well cut, and with reddish corners. Her bosom is hard, full and high; she has a good neck; her nose is straight and lovely, and three folds or wrinkles cross her middle--about the umbilical region. Her yoni resembles the opening lotus bud, and her love seed Kama salila is perfumed like the lily that has newly burst. She walks with swan-like gait, and her voice is low and musical as the note of the Kokila bird, she delights in white raiments, in fine jewels, and in rich dresses. She eats little, sleeps lightly, and being as respectful and religious as she is clever and courteous, she is ever anxious to worship the gods, and to enjoy the conversation of Brahmans. Such, then, is the Padmini or Lotus woman. Detailed descriptions then follow of the Chitrini or Art woman; the Shankhini or Conch woman, and the Hastini or Elephant woman, their days of enjoyment, their various seats of passion, the manner in which they should be manipulated and treated in sexual intercourse, along with the 5 characteristics of the men and women of the various countries in Hindostan. The details are so numerous, and the subjects so seriously dealt with, and at such length, that neither time nor space will permit of their being given here. One work in the English language is somewhat similar to these works of the Hindoos. It is called 'Kalogynomia: or the Laws of Female Beauty,' being the elementary principles of that science, by T. Bell, M. It treats of Beauty, of Love, of Sexual Intercourse, of the Laws regulating that Intercourse, of Monogamy and Polygamy, of Prostitution, of Infidelity, ending with a catalogue raisonnee of the defects of female beauty. Other works in English also enter into great details of private and domestic life. Waters, What does sex mean. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. At the close of the work this is what he writes about himself: A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma virtue or religious merit , his Artha worldly wealth and his Kama pleasure or sensual gratification , and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma virtue or religious merit , his Artha worldly wealth and his Kama pleasure or sensual gratification , and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. After a perusal of the Hindoo work, and of the English books above mentioned, the reader will understand the subject, at all events from a materialistic, realistic and practical point of view. The Panchasakya, or the five arrows. Such, then, is the Padmini or Lotus woman. FRANCISCA from Washington I do love exploring ePub and PDF books restfully. 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__label__wiki	0.63076	0.63076	Buy Early Access The Predestination Combat Beta is now live! September 19, 2013 Brain and Nerd, Game Design, Graphics, Screenshots, Ships, Video The Predestination Combat Beta is now live. If you’re signed up to beta test the game, check your Kickstarter mail or email for a message from us with a link to download the game. If you’re supposed to be in the beta and haven’t received the link by the morning of Friday 20th, please email combatbeta@brainandnerd.com or message us on Kickstarter and we’ll sort it out. We would appreciate it if you would refrain from sharing the combat beta or download link publicly as the game is not ready for the general public and is still using mostly placeholder 3D models and sounds. For those of you who aren’t in the beta, check out the video below of us playing through it and let us know what you think! Read More Tagged 3d, 4x, beta, beta-test, devblog, development, game, game design, game development, game-design, gaming, graphics, indie, indie game dev, indie game development, master-of-orion, moo2, predestination, sci-fi, screenshot, space, tactical-combat The first Predestination beta stage is on its way! September 10, 2013 Brain and Nerd, Game Design, Graphics, Screenshots I know that many of you are looking forward to getting your hands on the first playable versions of Predestination, and I’m just dropping a quick note to say that the first beta is on its way! As we’ve previously discussed, our plan is to release the Predestination beta in stages to get more focused feedback on each area of the game before we combine it all together into the final beta. The plan is to release three individual stages covering the three main areas of the game, and then to combine them into one final beta stage: Stage 1: Tactical Fleet Combat Stage 2: Planetary Colonisation Stage 3: Galaxy Gameplay Stage 4: Final beta with all three combined. This will then undergo regular gameplay iteration and feedback cycles until it’s release quality. We initially set a target of the end of August or start of September for deploying the fleet combat beta. The bad news is that this has been slightly delayed as we think it needs a bit more work before collecting feedback. The good news is that it should be released later this week and it’ll come with an in-game tutorial and four test scenarios. If you’re one of our beta tester backers, you’ll be sent the link via Kickstarter or email. We’ll also be doing our usual development roundup on Kickstarter at the same time the beta goes out. Read More Tagged 4x, beta, development, game, game development, game-design, gaming, graphics, indie, indie game dev, indie game development, master-of-orion, moo2, predestination, sci-fi, screenshot, space, tactical-combat Tag Tangle 3d 4x alpha art beta brain and nerd colonisation combat concept art devblog development diplomacy early access galaxy game game-design game design game development gameplay gaming graphics indie indie game indie game dev indie game development kickstarter map master-of-orion micromanagement moo2 planet planets predestination predestination game race races sci-fi screenshot screenshots ship-designer ships space steam tactical-combat video Predestination is developed by Brain and Nerd Ltd. "Predestination" and "Brain and Nerd" are registered trademarks of Brain and Nerd Ltd. We would be nowhere without the advice and support of our staff, volunteers, Kickstarter backers, customers, beta testers, NI Screen, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, DANI, and many wonderful figureheads in the Northern Ireland game community who gave us opportunities to shine when we had nothing, such as Matt Johnston, Angie McKeown, Glenn Davidson, and Andrew Bolster. Thank you, guys!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13047
__label__wiki	0.544443	0.544443	The Dust Bowl By Liz W Page history last edited by elizabeth.watson@... 8 years, 3 months ago Essential question #2 http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html - http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZz7mwvmm7A- Who was in the dust bowl? There were a lot of people in the dust bowl and one of them was Franklin Roosevelt. He took office when the country was in one of its desperate times so he decided to take quick steps to declare a four day bank holiday. During that time congress came up with a emergency banking in 1933. Which balanced the banking industry and restored peoples faith in the bank systems by putting the federal government behind it.(About The Dust Bowl) The Federal Surplus Relief Corporation did a diverted agricultural values to relief organizations because young pigs were being slaughtered and most of the meat was being wasted. So, the people went to the FSRC and that's when apples, beans canned beef, and pork products where distributed through local channels. The the federal government formed a drought relief system to help relief activities. They brought in cattle that were designated in emergency areas for $14 to $20 a head. if there was remaining cattle the would be given to the FSRC. And be would be distributed all across the nation (About The Dust Bowl) On April 27, Congress declared soil erosion "a national menace" to establish the Soil Conversation Service in the department of agriculture. Hugh H. Bennet the SCS made a consecration program that retained topsoil and prevented damage to the land.(About the Dust Bowl) (Bill Ganzel) In February 1936 Los Angelos police Chief James E. Davis sends 125 policemen on the borders of Arizona and Oregon to keep out "undisirables" out. and then the American Civil Liberties sues the city.(About the Dust Bowl) http://stupidsenators.com http://linncounty.org Why is the topic significant or important to understanding the great depression? The topic is important to understanding the great depression because it was a very big part of our history .It is a very big part in our history because taught us how to farm right how to make our economy better then what it was. It also made our government stronger by looking at our economy problems. The economy problems we had were; money issues, and how many people went unemployed. The Dust Bowl also made the depression go longer because the food was not growing. Ganzel, Bill. "The Dust Bowl of the 1930s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2003. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. <http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html>. "About The Dust Bowl." Welcome to English « Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm>. "1930's Great Depression and Dust Bowl in Photos - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 15 Dec. 2009. Web. 04 Oct. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZz7mwvmm7A>. To find out what the dust bowl was,why did the dust bowl happen, who cares about the dust bowl:The Dust Bowl by Hawah Kallon when and how: Dust Bowl by Aubreana where and essential question number 1: The Dust Bowl By Chelsea	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13048
__label__wiki	0.705945	0.705945	Green space sell-off: The video Kim Cattrall salutes Prof Y Chucklebutty ditty to 171,000 followers You are here: Liverpool Confidential › Culture. Exclusive: Why this Special One is just part of the furniture Mystery surrounds pillar of Liverpool life on 150th birthday Published on January 23rd 2013. IT is distinctive, it is unique - and to some enthusiasts it's a national treasure. This letter box has seen two world wars, has survived the Blitz and has been the custodion of millions of precious letters in its hardworking lifetime. It is the only remaining, still-working "Liverpool Special". It stands in the city’s Albert Dock – and this month marks its 150th birthday. A Liverpool Special is a rarity and stands out even beside other relatively rare Victorian pillar boxes. Liverpool Special Pillar Box: Pic by Larry Sidorczuk Only seven were ever made. A couple are preserved in museums. But this unsung hero of Liverpool life, down at the Atlantic Pavillion, is the single Liverpool Special to endured the turmoil of the last one and a half centuries in full working order. Yet it is still something of a mystery. Where in Liverpool?Now, to mark the anniversary – and in pursuit of its mission to map and measure Britain’s red breasted beauties – The Letter Box Study Group (for it is they) wants to gather stats and stories about the Liverpool Specials: the wheres, whens, whys and whos. Andrew Young, LBSG chairman, said: “We know a fair amount about the Liverpool Specials but I am sure there is much more to record. For instance, though we know that the first Liverpool Special was erected in January 1863, we do not know the precise date. I do hope we can find that out.” The group is after historically significant material – pictures, letters, voice recordings, videos – from any and all ages for its archive. Other contributions – "civic, romantic, artistic or wacky-tastic" it says – will be eligible for inclusion in a mini-exhibition which, if enough material is forthcoming – will take place in the autumn. There are those who get very excited about letterboxes. Lime Street Special, date unknown In Jean Farrugia’s 1969 survey of letter boxes – a book with foreword written by labour stalwart Tony Benn no less – Liverpool Specials were listed as gracing the junctions of Sheil Road and Huntley Road; Breck Road and Everton Road; and Church Road and Edge Lane. Farrugia also says that the first of seven Liverpool Specials was erected at St George’s Hall. But there are gaps in the records. Today’s sole surviving Albert Dock box is – probably – the one relocated from Sheil Road in 1987, they say, when the riverside area was redeveloped. Can you identify the locations of the other three Liverpool Specials? Do you have photographs or stories? The origins of the Liverpool Special design can be traced back to the actions of an un-named postmaster. Farrugia writes that the city’s mid-Victorian Postmaster, was: “dissatisfied”. He argued that boxes designed for the nation as a whole were “not adequate to cope with the heavy postings experienced in Liverpool where (unlike London) the posting of newspapers as well as letters was permitted.” The Albert Dock Liverpool Special on Sheil Road in 1984Farrugia quotes the Liverpool Postmaster complaining that when the doors of new-fangled letter boxes were opened “it invariably attracts a large crowd to the Pillar to the great inconvenience of the collector.” She writes: “Numerous reports were also received from the public, and the Liverpool Constabulary, about boxes being filled to overflowing.” “Eventually,” Farrugia reports, “early in 1862, after a long battle with London, he was allowed to prepare his own design for a box which would meet all local requirements.” It was, for example, the first type of box to have a wire basket inside to collect the mail. Young says: “I am intrigued by the fact that Liverpool allowed newspapers to be posted in the boxes, when that was not permitted in London. Why was that? I do hope this review leads us to this, and many other answers to hanging questions regarding letter box heritage in the north west of England.” Are there other bits of information about North West post boxes that should be preserved for “post-erity” by the Letter Box Study Group? Email media@lbsg.org and keep them posted. Restored to its true colours at Albert Dock TO the untrained eye, the Liverpool Special is similar to many of Britain’s other 116,000 letter boxes. On closer inspection, it can be seen that it wears a chunkily cast crown on top of its ‘head’ that sets it apart from the 350 other relatively easily recognisable styles of UK letter box. Arthur Reeder, owner-curator of the Isle Of Wight Postal Museum. said: “These boxes were based on the large first standard pillar boxes with a couple of notable additions. The most notable being the large crown on the top. They also sported the legend Post Office within some finely decorated bands. Where and when in Liverpool?"There were differences in that the original – I think – had slightly different bands.” Mr Reeder, one of the country’s leading letter box experts, said: “Three survive as far as I know, and one is still in use. The crown was not cast with the cap but was bolted on.” Box 1049678, a PB1005/2, (to give the Albert Dock Liverpool Special its official LSBG classification numbers) was cast by the Cochrane & Co foundry of Dudley. Angie Sammons shared this on Facebook on January 24th 2013. AnonymousJanuary 28th 2013. See the Echo have lifted this today. 2 Responses: Reply To This... Nogsy lidJanuary 28th 2013. Wouldn't know. Never read it camboJanuary 28th 2013. Nor me Mary Maker Pathetic....What were you lot doing "in" on New Years Eve. 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__label__cc	0.746646	0.253354	Interview: Supersphere Rocks the World of Live Streaming By user 9 months ago Supersphere, an immersive technology and content company, is rocking the world of live streaming (http://superspherevr.com/live-vr/). According to Lucas Wilson, founder and executive producer, “We’re in the business of immersive storytelling that helps clients deliver groundbreaking experiences of any scale, on any platform. We thrive on the challenges of this exciting medium, and right now, we’re seeing big demand for live streaming for such events as music concerts, e-sports, corporate and product-announcements – you name it.” What makes Supersphere a standout in live streaming? Wilson: There are several factors that contribute to our success. Our team is fully dedicated to delivering high-impact live-streaming immersive (VR/AR/XR) content to audiences. Clients don’t need to worry about whether the shoot is 360°, 180°, 4K, or HD. We do the heavy lifting with our live-streaming technology and workflow, which includes the best software and hardware, so that clients are only limited by their imagination. We have also designed and built cutting-edge 12G glass-to-glass flypacks that are fully optimized for live immersive streaming. Each flypack is standard equipped with several Z CAM K1 Pro stereoscopic 180° cameras and Z CAM S1 Pro 360° cameras, and it’s also customizable to any camera as productions demand. And we have a novel approach to multi-geometry (mesh/rectilinear/equirectangular) requirements. Our flypacks can handle live 360°, 180°, 4K, or HD production and seamlessly mix and match all geometries. This gives our clients unlimited freedom to be creative and imaginative in developing their content and venues. To accomplish this, our go-to software is Assimilate’s SCRATCH VR; we include it in all the flypacks for our live streaming workflow. SCRATCH VR is the only tool on the market that has the necessary combination of what we and our customers need – real-time geometry conversion, extensive color grading and camera painting features, highly efficient workflow, and incredible speed/performance for live streaming. No other tool does this. Tell us more about your approach to the geometry needed for live streaming. Wilson: With geometry independence, we’re offering a new model for live streaming. The broadcast world is long used to resolutions and frame rates easily mixing and matching. Our technology allows geometry to also be freely mixed and matched: Equirectangular 360º and 180º, Mesh, Fisheye, Rectilinear, Monoscopic, Stereoscopic, HD and 4K pan and scan from within a 360º image, 4K windows placed within 360º or 180º. And not only cameras. Add real-time Unity environments to a video stream and position video images within the environment. The flypack also includes built-in video distribution network (VDN) encoding and delivery for live streaming to any platform or custom player. Supersphere flypack What are some of your latest live-streaming productions? Wilson: Recently, the Supersphere team worked with Butch Walker (www.butchwalker.com), the legendary singer, songwriter, and record producer, to live stream the 2018 Talpanga Concert for Pancreatic Cancer on November 3 & 4 to Butch Walker’s Facebook page. The concert was held at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, CA. The event is an Autumn Leaves Project (https://www.autumnleavesproject.org/ ), which Walker founded in honor of his father who succumbed to pancreatic cancer, and who holds the belief that no one should ever face this diagnosis alone. This project is an example of how SCRATCH VR is a real workhorse for us in real-time geometry conversion, camera control and painting cameras. We use SCRATCH VR constantly during our shows, but it especially shines in a situation like this — an outdoor show that starts in daylight and ends in darkness. Our team is continually tweaking color and camera settings as the light changes to ensure we are always streaming the best image possible. 2018 Talpanga Concert for Pancreatic Cancer Another recent project was the live streaming of the keynotes and the e-sports events at the Oculus OC5 annual virtual reality developer conference held in San Jose, CA. Oculus partnered with Supersphere to produce the VR live streams via Oculus Venues app, a social VR app, so that users were able to interact with each other. The content was streamed exclusively to the Oculus Venues app. SCRATCH VR’s flexibility allowed us to explore different creation paradigms, inserting other images from different geometries as picture-in-picture, or similar, and gave us the ability to consistently up our production game and explore new options. Image courtesy of Oculus What other projects do you have in the works? Wilson: Some of our recent music projects include work with Thievery Corporation, bands Spafford, Lettuce, and Ghost Note with our friends at Nugs.Net, as well as two days of immersive production at the Rolling Loud festival in Los Angeles. For all the typical privacy reasons, many of our upcoming projects are under wraps. However, watch for our VR project tied to the horror classic “Night of the Living Dead,” coming in a multi-platform, multi-format immersive experience next year. For this project, we are working closely with the late director George Romero’s production company, Image Ten. It’s literally a thrill to be working on a film of this caliber…a cultural touchstone. Previous LowePost and Assimilate Raise the Bar in Online Education, Launching On-line SCRATCH Training Channel Next Great Video Requires Talent and Lots of Fast, Reliable Storage	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13057
__label__wiki	0.896209	0.896209	Please enable JavaScript to view this page properly. English \| Български Where am I? > Home > Classification > Lazulite Quick navigation selector Lazulite Class: Phosphates, arsenates, vanadates Group: Lazulite Disseminated in metamorphic quartzites, schists and quartz veins; in the border zones of complex granite pegmatites (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Faceted specimens are very rare. Lazulite — specimen 0066, photo © NMNHS Original description: ‘Lazulit’ Klaproth, M. H., 1795. Prüfung eines smalteblauen Fossils, von Vorau — Beiträge zur Chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper 1: 197—202 [view in ‘Library’]. Type locality: Freßnitzgraben, Krieglach, Fischbacher Alpen, Styria, Austria. Type material: Natural History Museum, London, England, 83304 (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Etymology: from the Arabic word meaning ‘heaven’, for its colour. Distribution: Austria: Salzburg, near Werfen, Färbergraben and Höllgraben; Brazil: Minas Gerais; Madagascar; Pakistan: fine crystals from the Chilas area, near Nanga Parbat Peak; USA: California, Mono Co., White Mountains, at the Champion mine (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). (Mg,Fe2+)Al2(PO4)2(OH)2 Essential elements: hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), magnesium (Mg), aluminium (Al), phosphorus (P), iron (Fe). Crystal data Crystallography: monoclinic — prismatic. Crystal habit: as crystals, stubby to acute dipyramidal, to 15 cm, or tabular on {111} or {101}, with several other forms noted; granular, massive. Twinning: common on {100} with composition plane {001}, occasionally producing lamellar or polysynthetic groups; rare on {223}; by reflection on {221} with composition plane {331}; several other twin laws reported (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Cleavage: poor to good on {110}; indistinct on {101} (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Fracture: uneven to splintery (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Tenacity: brittle (Arem, 1987: 123). Hardness: 5.5—6 (Arem, 1987: 123). Density: 3.04—3.17 g/cm3 (Lazzarelli, 2012). Luminescence: none (Arem, 1987: 123). Colour: azure-blue, sky-blue, bluish white, yellow-green, blue-green, rarely green (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Diaphaneity: transparent to translucent; may be nearly opaque (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Lustre: vitreous (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Refractive index: 1.604—1.646 — anisotropic [biaxial (-)] (Lazzarelli, 2012). Birefringence: 0.031—0.036. Dispersion: 0.014 (low). Pleochroism: strong; X = colourless; Y = blue; Z = darker blue (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Material from ‘Repository’ 1 specimen: 0066 — 0.08 ct, Pakistan. → Gallery view Gemmology — gemstones Front page \| Introduction \| Classification \| Repository \| Library © 2020 National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (NMNHS) Use of this website assumes acceptance of our terms of use. For contacts: . None of the specimens illustrated in this site is on display in the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13060
__label__cc	0.633123	0.366877	Histroy Top > Science Hyper-Kamiokande The Hyper-Kamiokande project aims to address the mysteries of the origin and evolution of the Universe’s matter as well as to confront theories of elementary particle unification. To realize these goals it will combine a high intensity neutrino beam from J-PARC with a new detector based upon precision neutrino experimental techniques developed in Japan and built to be approximately 10 times larger than Super-Kamiokande. An international Hyper-Kamiokande proto-collaboration has been formed to carry out the experiment which consists of about 300 researchers from 15 countries. The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research of the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization KEK have signed a MoU affirming cooperation in the Hyper-K project to review and develop the program. The proto-collaboration has succeeded in developing new 50-cm PMTs with double single-photon-sensitivity and has re-optimised the detector configuration. The new detector design successfully reduces the total project cost while preserving compelling and strong physics cases. Hyper-K is built as a tank with 187 kiloton fiducial volume with about 40,000 50-cm PMTs giving 40% photo cathode coverage. The Hyper-K and J-PARC neutrino beam measurement of neutrino oscillation is more likely to provide a 5-sigma discovery of CP violation than any other existing experiment. Hyper-K will also be the world leader for nucleon decays. The sensitivity to the partial lifetime of protons for the decay modes of p→e+π0 is expected to exceed 1035 years. This is the only known, realistic detector option capable of reaching such a sensitivity for the p→e+π0 mode. Finally, the astrophysical neutrino program involves precision measurement of solar neutrinos and their matter effects, high-statistical supernova burst and supernova relic neutrinos. Schematic view of Hyper-Kamiokande Hyper-Kamiokande website Next-generation Neutrino Science Organization Higashi-Mozumi 456, Kamioka-cho, Hida-city Gifu 506-1205, Japan Kamioka Office：0578-85-9620 Kashiwa Office：04-7136-3102	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13061
__label__wiki	0.783043	0.783043	Resident Magazine ANNIE WERSCHING – A STAR ON THE RISE By Hillary Latos \| Photographer Djeneba Aduayom - djeneba-aduayom.com ANNIE WERSCHING – A STAR… ShareTweetSharePinShareSend on Runaways, Annie Wersching is a star on the rise. Here Resident Magazine speaks to this talented and spirited actress about what it was like to play Kiefer Sutherland’s love interest on 24, her current projects, and how she balances a successful career and a family life in Hollywood. This March be sure to catch Annie in the second season premiere of Timeless on NBC. RM: What are some of your current projects? We just finished the Marvel series Runaways which is airing now, we are seven episodes in out of ten. I’m currently working on season 2 of NBC’s TV show Timeless and then more time traveling after the holidays. Runaways is a reimagining of what we are used to seeing in Marvel’s shows. It has a younger audience with a young kid drama but still retains the superhero action of Marvel with a great dynamic between the children and parents, so it’s fun to be starring in a new version of a Marvel show. I play Leslie Dean who dresses all in white and is head of a really powerful church in Los Angeles, a little like Scientology but different. She’s got a lot going on with her daughter Carolina but she’s also the leader of Pride and now she’s trying to balance Jonah and Frank in her life with Frank finding out about her relationship with Jonah. She’s also the only one who can hold the group together so she has to work on a few relationships within Pride, but she’s very good at that. Timeless is exciting because we got cancelled and then 3 days later we got picked up again. My character Emma is more involved than last year but is definitely a bad guy. I’m excited to see her character fleshed out and to see it finally air. Emma Whitmore is a very mysterious character, and I’m as much in the dark until the scripts come out. I have heard that she is going to have a back story episode to see a little more about her past before they found her in the 1800s so we will get to go back to that time period she made an appearance from in season 1. She thinks things are supposed to be done a certain way and she does not approve of Lucy being in the picture and doesn’t trust her. She’s stirring up trouble. RM: How did you get started in your career? AW: I originally started in theater in grade school and middle school and then went to college for musical theater. I toured with a musical theater group and I was supposed to go to New York but I auditioned for a part in Los Angeles, and then didn’t make it to New York. I was doing extra work, catering, bartending and doing ‘the actor in LA circuit’ that everyone has done. But I got an agent while starring in a couple of shows at the Pasadena Playhouse and slowly worked my way up in the TV world as a guest star, then co star, and started getting more recurring roles. Once I was able to play a woman instead of a girl things clicked for me and I was able to carry myself better. 24 was a big deal for me to land and also General Hospital. You are also a competitive Irish dancer, what was that experience like? I grew up doing it. A close friend of the family from Galway got me started. It later became a part of life and I traveled all over competing, and I also played the Irish tin whistle. I competed from ages 5 to 17. When I go home to St. Louis and try to do it again with the girls I grew up with, after two minutes we are panting. It takes a lot of stamina but it was wonderful and a great thing to be involved with growing up. Back then I was known as the only girl on stage who smiled. It definitely gave me a stage presence as I began to break into the theater world. Would you want to get back into dance performance? I’ve had a few people who asked me to participate in Dancing with the Stars. Any role that would get me back into singing, dancing or musical theater would be heaven. How do you balance family and work life as a Hollywood actor? I’m a Midwesterner and have a good relationship with my mom and am pretty well grounded to begin with. So I had a good background to balance the Hollywood mom and relationship world. It’s not easy, but, I’m surrounded by really good friends. My kids are my priority and as much as I can I try to work in Los Angeles. Runaways has a large cast with 16 characters. But the fact that it shoots in Los Angeles trumps everything when you have a 4 and a 6 year old. It’s about making the choices that are the best for your family as a whole and not looking back. How does your husband feel about your romance scenes, especially from 24? He’s just like, “I’m going to get my turn soon, right? And I get to make out with a girl on a show, right?” He has a good head on his shoulders and makes jokes about it. Obviously we have a lot of trust. It’s definitely strange but it’s not at all what you think it is. The process of filming a scene like that is just the worst. There are a lot of people and all of a sudden you have to be romantically linked with a person you’ve been working with for a year and a friend of yours, it’s just strange. What has been the strangest troll experience you’ve ever had on social media? The strangest comments came from shows where I was connected with male actors who have so many women out there who are convinced they are their husbands. One fan wrote ‘Keep your hands off of him Renee, he’s mine’ (referring to Keifer Sutherland). Even on the Vampire Diaries there were some intense fans for Ian Sommerhalder, granted I played their mother but had abandoned them, and I received some really angry messages. I also played a serial killer character on Castle who was obsessed with Detective Beckett and fans wrote to me ‘Don’t you touch her!’ Sometimes these fans just confuse reality with the character. It just shows what a great actress you are. AW: Right, there we go! Have there been any characters that you played who were close to your own personality? I feel that every character I play I put a bit of yourself in there that identifies with certain aspects. I like to pretend and believe I am a badass so there’s that aspect in my characters such as in Renee and Emma. But I’m probably closer to the mom characters I play. Which has been your favorite character to play? I played Renee Walker the longest so I feel like I know her the best. I liked the character I played on Castle, she was a psychopath but was really fun to play and would’ve been nice to learn more about her. I’m such a kid when it comes to things like the Vampire Diaries it was fun to see how they shoot the vampire tricks and fast motion. It was also fun to learn all of the weapon training for 24. So I loved all of them. It must be fun to play a time traveler. Yes I love it. The latest episoide I’m filming I travel to 1955, and my character is a bit of a bad ass. She’s still in jeans and cool shoes. I got to go to 1920s Paris last season which was amazing. My character in the opening premiere is from WW1. And I’ve played in the 1880s Western period, but also the present day. How do you describe your personal style? I’m a terrible girl. I have a little bohemian vibe mixed with rock ‘n roll. I love wearing jeans, a tank top, and cowboy boots. It’s super fun to dress up. When I choose dresses for a Hollywood event,choose dresses with a twist on Old Hollywood glamorous vibe. What are some of your favorite go to places in Los Angeles? Times have changed. When my husband and I first started dating we used to go out in a different way than we go out now. We would go to an amazing dinner and wine bar. I like Perch, this spot in downtown L.A. that has a rooftop and serves amazing food. Our night usually starts at a restaurant and turns into a super fun experience. I also love Moonshadows in Malibu and love going to places I’ve never been before and having a new experience. 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__label__cc	0.611536	0.388464	Organizing Framework Revision as of 03:10, 9 January 2009 by RacolOsite (Talk \| contribs) movie ondemand http external cephalic version video movies with kids in mind stacy keibler lap dance video page iso buster crack link john pinette video clips pro ana pictures thinspiration link nm real estate license porn pregnant sex movie indian movie theaters houston save online video excerpts from: Stenstrom, D. M., & Iyer, R. (2009). An organizing framework for psychological research. Manuscript in preparation. 1 A jigsaw puzzle analogy 2 A framework for psychological research 2.1 Figure 1 3 How is this framework helpful? 4 Benefits to those who conduct research 5 A framework for personality and social psychology A jigsaw puzzle analogy Psychological research measures and/or manipulates situational and person-related variables. Given the precise manner in which research must accurately assess the particular constructs of interest while simultaneously avoiding related constructs that may serve as unwanted potential confounds, an almost infinite set of variations results amongst the multitude of situations and individual differences composing the human experience. In this sense, psychological research can be seen as a discovery process to identify the unique set of circumstances under which the predicted relationships emerge or fail to emerge (see McGuireÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs contextualist approach; McGuire, 1983). A useful way to understand and describe psychological research, therefore, is by using a jigsaw puzzle analogy. Each individual research study can be conceptualized as turning over a jigsaw puzzle piece. Each researcher is standing on a particular section of the puzzle, and every time data is collected, the puzzle piece is turned over to reveal the description of that particular context. If the research is not disseminated, the puzzle piece is effectively turned back down. If the research is published, the introduction to the manuscript attempts to fit that individual piece within the larger framework. Qualitative and quantitative synthesis, such as literature reviews and meta-analyses, seek to ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂfitÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ different puzzle pieces together to encapsulate and describe a section of the jigsaw puzzle. Similar to the mechanisms of assembling an actual jigsaw puzzle, psychologists try to assemble coherent groupings of similar pieces into stand-alone complexes, which form the basis for contemporary theories, topic areas, and disciplines within psychology. A framework for psychological research The question, therefore, is what is the picture underneath the jigsaw puzzle? The ultimate purpose of research is to perceive the picture underneath the puzzle and understand, explain, and predict human nature. Many psychology books and textbooks are devoted to describing the current state of psychological research and the accumulating answer to that question. Below, I describe a more concise depiction that also serves as a research tool for integrating psychological research. In psychology, what is the most fundamental way to explain the underlying processes and mechanisms that influence human nature? The literature on ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPerson x SituationÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ interactions emphasizes how human nature is best conceptualized as the result of an interaction between aspects of the person and aspects of the situation (see Funder, 2001, 2005; Mischel, 2004; Shoda, 2004). A logical extension of the theorizing behind the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPerson x SituationÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ interaction is to articulate the components composing both situational and person-related variables. For example, what are the most basic components of the Person? The definition of psychology is the science of behavior and the mind, with the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂmindÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ referred to in one textbook as ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂan individualÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts, motives, emotional feelings and other subjective experiencesÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ (see Peter GrayÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs Introduction to Psychology textbook, page 3). In the most basic sense, psychology is the study of peopleÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs affect, behavior, and cognitions from a psychological and/or physiological perspective. As depicted in Figure 1, these basic units can be roughly organized into a framework of the Person (see also Figure 3 below for another way to articulate the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ side of the framework more closely suited to Personality and Social Psychology). What are the most basic ways to categorize Situations? Considering the central role of situations in determining human nature, there is a surprising lack of research behind the basic components or taxonomic structure of situations (see Yang, Read & Miller, 2006). From a theoretical perspective, the principal distinction I see within the literature is between the social environment (e.g., presence of others) and the physical environment (e.g., environmental psychology). Social Psychology, in fact, is rooted in the premise that social factors are a principle determinant of an individualÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. A further rudimentary distinction within the Social psychology is the presence of individuals or groups. Figure 1 only depicts the first few levels of the framework, but each of the basic units within both the Person and Situation can be subdivided even further into increasingly more specific and restricted classifications, such as in the Situation side of the framework where applied settings like Occupational and School psychology are more narrow contexts within the larger overall taxonomic structure. How is this framework helpful? How is this framework helpful? I describe below a few key benefits generated by the framework to both the lay person and psychological researchers. For example, in the first few chapters of textbooks for a Psychology course, there is customarily a definition of psychology, an introductory explanation of the field, descriptions of the various disciplines and sub-disciplines within psychology, and discussions of the relationship of psychology to related fields such as sociology and anthropology. The framework is a useful visual explanatory tool to illustrate these same concepts, to show the central topics in psychology, and to show the interrelationships amongst the various disciplines within psychology. As a brief illustration: (a) Cognitive psychology is represented as the study of the mind and mental processes within the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂcognitiveÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ component of the framework, (b) Social psychology can be seen as the branch of psychology concerned with assessing thoughts, feelings and behaviors (from the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ side) within all the situations falling under the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂsocialÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ component of the situation side of the framework, (c) Social Cognition can be seen as Cognitive psychology (from the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ side) as applied to ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂsocialÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ situations, (d) Clinical psychology investigates the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ side components when those thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are non-normal, abnormal, or dysfunctional, and etc. The framework can even help explain the connections between basic and applied branches of psychology because applied disciplines like Forensic psychology, Occupational psychology, and School psychology are investigations of the mind (from the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ side) as applied to specific situations, such as the legal field, business environment, and school settings, respectively. All disciplines and sub-disciplines within psychology fall within the framework. In the same way, the framework is also an explanatory tool to illustrate the connections between psychology and related fields like sociology and anthropology because all three fields investigate the same components in the Person side and Situation side of the framework, but Anthropology focuses on the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ at the individual ethnographic level, Psychology focuses on the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ at the aggregate individual and group level, and Sociology focuses on the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ at the group or societal level. Imagine a textbook which uses the framework as an organizing principle to display and discuss the major subject areas in psychology. The first chapter would explain the emergent literature on Person x Situation interactions, and how psychological and physiological processes within the individual are activated by, and interact with, situations to influence human behavior. Each subsequent chapter is then devoted to a separate component of the diagram, with the conclusion of each chapter tying the material within that chapter to the larger framework. There would also be discussions of the interrelationships amongst the various components represented in the framework. Within the chapter on Affect, for example, would be a discussion of how stimuli (situations, such as a car driving towards you) can activate affective states (fear, surprise), accompanying neurochemical activity (e.g., Cognitive component of the framework) physiological arousal (e.g., pounding heart, faster breathing, etc), and behavioral responses (e.g., nonverbal and automatic facial expression of fear, movement away from the car, etc). By creating a common structure throughout the textbook, the framework is a useful learning tool to provide integration between topics within psychology. In this sense, the framework can be seen as organizing principle similar to ChemistryÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs Periodic Table of Elements that creates an identifiable symbolic embodiment or ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂbrandingÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ of psychology that highlights the basic topics in psychology. Benefits to those who conduct research How is this framework helpful to psychological researchers? I describe below the benefits of the fully articulated framework, but itÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs important to point out that simply filling in an uncompleted diagram can assist researchers. Figure 1 is by no means complete and only represents how I would organize the content. As each researcher, or the field as a whole, starts to fill in the diagram, you are forced to ask yourself tough questions about what concepts and subject areas are the most fundamental and have the farthest reaching impact. As each new subject area is added to the diagram, you are also forced to ask yourself questions about the relationship between those variables, similar to the jigsaw puzzle analogy in which turning over puzzle pieces is followed by decisions about how to fit the pieces together. For example, where would attitudes and stereotyping fall within the framework? Plus, the logical next step in this process is to articulate the structure within each topic area as the taxonomic structure is broken down into successively more finely grained distinctions. As an illustration, Figure 2 shows some of the possible components of the Intergroup situation, so the question is what are the important topics in the intergroup literature, and how do these variable interrelate? A central topic within the Intergroup component, for example, is the nature of the identification or attachment with your ingroup. With the recent finding by Lickel et al (2000) about four distinct types of groups (e.g., intimacy, task, social categories, loose associations), we can now ask whether other group-based variables such as social identification differ depending up the type of group under investigation (Stenstrom & Curtis, 2006). Social identity with a social category (such as gender or ethnicity) may be conceptually and operationally distinct from identification with a task group (such as coworkers) or intimacy group (such as family and friends). In other words, revealed from this process of filling in the diagram are those fundamental questions we have yet to explore. In this sense, the framework is a road map for researchers to travel that highlights important topics, new relationships, and unanswered research questions. Where do ideas come from? Where do your research ideas come from? Philosophers like John Locke and Henri Poincare say that new ideas are an association or combination between two or more simpler ideas. So we combine simpler parts into the formation of a new complex whole. Every time you add something new to the diagram, you can ask yourself how it relates to everything else in the diagram, and thus research ideas are borne as the new combination of two or more topics. For example, a basic question under the Cognitions component is ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂWhat occurs when two thoughts are incompatible?ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ, which is explained by cognitive dissonance theory and the literature on coherence. What if we ask the same question about the Affective component -- ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂWhat happens when two emotions are incompatible, such as the mixture of emotions following separation or divorce? Do the same principles apply? As new questions are asked and answered, the full articulation of the framework will contain the full combination of all concepts. In this sense, the framework reduces idea generation to a more objective discovery process. To be clear, I am not suggesting that the framework provides theoretical synthesis to the field. Rather, the framework is a way to integrate psychological research because every research study involves some component from the person side and/or situation side of the framework, and thus every research study can be located within the fully articulated framework. The diagram is a common structure for researchers in all disciplines which allows unification, not at the theoretical level, but at the level of research projects. A framework for personality and social psychology The framework can similarly provide a type of unification for the fields of Personality and Social Psychology. Another way to depict the framework, for example, is by using established meta-theories of Personality psychology as the articulated components of the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂPersonÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ, and viewing human output -- Affect, Behavior, and Cognition -- as the joint product of personality theory and situational constraints (see Figure 3). This new framework more closely resembles the original conceptualization of Person x Situation interactions as jointly producing the ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂvariations in the thoughts, feelings, and actions that occur across contexts and over timeÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ (Mischel, 2004). Another unique change to Figure 3 is the list of moderating variables on the right-hand side of the framework. Common concepts and variables underlie our research projects and are applicable across different situational contexts. Status differences, for example, can be found in interpersonal contexts, intergroup contexts, applied contexts like the legal field, business settings, and so forth. Given the commonality and prevalence of these same variables, our field would greatly benefit from a comprehensive listing of potential moderators, and analysis of the circumstances under which the variables do or do not apply, and why. At a more macro level, it is the natural evolution of any field to start creating an organizing framework for the voluminous amount of material continuously streaming in book chapters, journals articles, and conference proceedings. Anyone who has searched through PsycINFO or attended a conference can attest to the unrelenting array of jigsaw puzzle pieces being turned over by our ever-expanding discipline. Imagine the overwhelming density in 30 years or 50 years from now. The theme behind person x situation interactions arose from Kurt Lewin, who has been called the father of social psychology, and this next iteration of the person x situation theme may be helpful to the future of our field as well. 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__label__cc	0.724776	0.275224	Tsuen Wan Government Offices Man Fung yi Art @ Government Buildings – “Weaving Intimacy “ Artist Man Fung yi On Display November 3, 2011 - November 30, 2015 Materials Brass Location Tsuen Wan Government Offices The project has commissioned three renowned local artists, Man Fung-yi, Leung Chi-wo and Justin Wong Chiu-tat, to design and install works of art in three selected government buildings – the Tsuen Wan Government Offices in the New Territories, the Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices in Kowloon and Revenue Tower in Wanchai on Hong Kong Island. The project also aims to be a seedbed for future art administrators and creators of public art, and it has invited tertiary students from various university departments with an interest in art to join an eight-month Mentorship Programme. Participating Students: – Mai Yee Yan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Chow Pui Yee (Hong Kong Shue Yan University) – Lam Wai Ying (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – Chung Hiu Sum (The University of Hong Kong) The word “intimacy” comes from the Latin word “interiority”, which refers to inner feelings of trust and harmony. These feelings are not just built between lovers or family members. Using it as the significant theme of our work of art, I invite senior citizens from Tsuen Wan to take part in the project, in which their memories related to a pair of shoes will form the starting point. Senior citizens from Tsuen Wan are living histories. Each one of them bears a unique combination of local history, family saga and autobiography. However, these valuable assets can easily be buried in a fast-paced society like Hong Kong. I want to immortalise their treasured memories in our work of art. Presenter Home Affairs Bureau of The Government of the Hong Kong Organiser Leisure and Cultural Services Department Art Promotion Office Artistic Collaborators Hong Kong Arts Centre , Public Art Hong Kong Supporter Government Property Agency	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13078
__label__cc	0.676855	0.323145	Homelands Sr. 2420 Homelands Dr., Mississauga, ON L5K1H2 What you need to know about the 2019 elementary Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum The Ministry of Education’s revised Elementary Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum was introduced on Aug. 21, 2019. The Peel District School Board is implementing the curriculum in alignment with our Equity and Inclusive Education Policy #54, the Ministry of Education’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy, and our obligation to honour human rights that are protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code. The Peel board remains committed to ensuring all students feel safe and valued. Being caring, cooperative, honest, inclusive, respectful and responsible are all part of the board’s core values that are encouraged in Peel classrooms daily. This includes students learning about creed, ethnic origin, race, different kinds of families, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or any of the other human rights protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code. What will students learn about human development and sexual health? Fears and concerns based on myths circulate in communities about what is and isn’t taught. The best place to seek clarification and reassurance is from the school. To help families feel comfortable with what students will learn, we encourage parents/guardians to start with their child’s teacher. Teachers can provide copies of the lesson plans developed by board Curriculum staff that outline how the curriculum will be taught. The Peel board has also produced an HPE overview document that provides a breakdown of what students will learn in each grade about human development and sexual health. Concerns about the curriculum itself can be shared directly with the Ministry of Education. Human Development and Sexual Health Education taught in the Spring Peel staff will teach the Human Development and Sexual Health Education component of the HPE curriculum to elementary students in the Spring. By then, educators have developed strong relationships with students and have a clear understanding of their maturity levels. This helps ensure that we teach the curriculum in a developmentally and age-appropriate manner. Notice of lessons and exemption requests for elementary school families In accordance with Ministry Policy/Program Memorandum No. 162, all Peel elementary schools will send letters to families of students in grades 1 to8 at least 20 school days before human development and sexual health lessons take place. If schools need to move the date of a scheduled lesson due to unforeseen circumstances, families will be given notice of the changes as soon as reasonably possible. While parents may choose to exempt their child from human development and sexual health lessons, the Peel board strongly hopes that they do not. We want all students to be part of discussions that build respect and understanding, and that help all students feel safe, valued and respected. These lessons, led by qualified educators, in safe learning environments, continue to build the skills and understanding that our students need to engage with the diversity that exists in their schools and communities with comfort, confidence and competence. Parents/guardians can choose to have their child exempted from these lessons on an annual basis by submitting a completed exemption form for each child no more than five schools days prior to scheduled lesson. A copy of the form can be downloaded on the Peel board website and will be included with the advanced notice letter from your child’s school. This exemption must be requested by parents/guardians every school year. It’s important to note the advanced notice and exemption processes described above apply exclusively to the human development and sexual health lessons of the elementary HPE curriculum. Outside of these specific lessons, schools cannot and will not provide advanced notice for any references to or conversations about sexual health–related concepts that happen among teachers, school staff, or other students. Classroom discussions and school activities that build a climate of inclusion and safety, including discussions about different kinds of families or any of the other human rights protected under the Ontario Human Rights Code, will continue to take place throughout the school year. Notice of lessons and exemption requests for secondary school families As there were no changes to the HPE curriculum for secondary students, Peel secondary schools will continue to provide notice to families of students in grades 9-12 two weeks prior to human development and sexual health lessons. As always, families can choose to keep their teen at home for parts of the curriculum, or can choose to request an exemption through the board’s long-standing Religious Accommodation operating procedure. Again, the Peel board hopes all students will be part of discussions that build respect and understanding, that help all students feel safe, valued and respected. These lessons, led by qualified educators, in safe learning environments, continue to build the skills and understanding that our students need to engage with the diversity that exists in their schools and communities with comfort, confidence and competence. HPE Resources Revised 2019 Elementary HPE curriculum (Ministry of Education) Secondary HPE curriculum (Ministry of Education) What you need to know about the revised 2019 elementary HPE curriculum Grade by grade breakdown of what students will learn in each grade about Human Development and Sexual Health Exemption letters - Human Development Sexual Health lessons Grades 1 to 8	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13083
__label__cc	0.652826	0.347174	(→‎Saturday, August 4, 2018) : Set up for play (North Exhibit Floor) : Announcements : Announcements (North Exhibit Floor) : Rounds 5–7 (North Exhibit Floor)<br>Youth Rounds 4–6 (North Exhibit Floor) INFO ON THIS PAGE IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. The 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship will take place on August 4–8, 2018 at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, 153 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202. This webpage will be updated regularly as additional details became available. 2.2 Collins Division 3.8 Buffalo Airport Shuttle 5 Local Club Meetings 5.1 Wednesday: Toronto, ON 5.2 Thursday: Buffalo, NY 5.3 Thursday: Mississauga, ON 6.1 Friday, August 3, 2018 6.2 Saturday, August 4, 2018 6.3 Sunday, August 5, 2018 6.4 Monday, August 6, 2018 6.5 Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6.6 Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11 Format 13.1 Thursday, August 2 13.2 Friday, August 3 13.2.1 Clean and Pack 13.3 Unassigned Volunteers For continuously updated results from our event once it gets underway, please visit the LIVE COVERAGE section. Online registration will be available late January. A list of registered players will available on this website and on cross-tables.com. The rest of this section describes in detail the various terms and conditions of registration, most of which are also discussed on the registration form. If you meet these criteria and prefer to play using the international Collins (CSW) lexicon, you may do so. If at least 20 players register in each of the two planned CSW divisions, players will compete separately in an open division and in one for players whose qualifying NASPA CSW rating (or equivalent as determined by the organizing committee) is less than 1400. The qualifying NASPA CSW rating is the highest tournament rating attained at the end of a NASPA CSW-rated tournament which finished during the period July 26, 2017 to July 26, 2018. (If you had a NASPA CSW rating prior to this period, but did not play during the period, your qualifying rating is that unchanged rating.) The CSW divisions will be NASPA and WESPA rated. If not, then the TWL division(s), numbered 1–4, in which you may play depend on your rating as follows. If you do not have a NASPA rating, you must play in Division 1, the open division. If you do have a NASPA rating, then your division eligibility is based on a Qualification Rating (QR), which consists of the highest tournament rating attained at the end of any NASPA TWL-rated tournament (or segment of a split-rated tournament) which finished during the period July 26, 2017 to July 26, 2018. (If you have a rating, but do not play during this period, your QR is your unchanged current rating.) If your QR is 1800 or higher, you must play in Division 1. If it is in the range 1400–1799, you must play in Division 1 or 2. If it is in the range 1000–1399, you must play in Division 1, 2 or 3. If it is below 1000, you may play in any of the four divisions. Player division assignments will be reviewed after July 26, 2018 to ensure that everyone is registered in the correct division. If the division in which you registered is not one in which your QR permits you to play, we will move you up to the lowest permissible division. Collins Division Again this year, there will be at least one separate division of players using the Collins lexicon at the North American Scrabble Championship. Provided that at least 20 players register for each division, two Collins divisions will be offered. Your division eligibility is based on your Collins Qualifying Rating (CQR), which is determined in one of three ways, depending on your rating status. If you have a NASPA Collins rating, then your CQR consists of the highest tournament rating attained at the end of any NASPA Collins-rated tournament (or segment of a split-rated tournament) which finished during the period July 26, 2017 to July 26, 2018. If you have a NASPA Collins rating, but do not play during this period, your CQR is your unchanged current rating. If you do not have a NASPA Collins rating but do have a NASPA TWL rating, your CQR is your TWL QR as described in the previous section. If you do not have any NASPA rating but do have a WESPA rating, your CQR is the most current WESPA rating available for you as of July 26, 2018. If you do not have any NASPA or WESPA rating but do have a foreign national rating, you will be assigned an equivalent CQR by the organizing committee. If you do not have any sort of rating at all, you must first obtain one at a regular tournament before competing in the Championship. If your CQR is 1400 or higher, you must play in Division 1. If it is 1399 or below, you may play in Division 1 or 2. If fewer than 20 players register in either division, the two divisions will be combined into a single Collins division. The Collins division will be run using NASPA rules, except that the Collins lexicon will be used and the challenge penalty will be 5 points per word. The Collins division will be NASPA and WESPA rated. Youths, defined as those whose 18th birthday is after August 8, 2018, may pay $100 to play in any division. The above fees will be increased by $50 after May 31, 2018. For example, a player signing up on June 1, 2018 would pay $250. Players accepted after the close of registration on July 26, 2018 must pay a $75 late penalty. For example, a youth signing up on July 30, 2018 would pay $175. Acceptance of registrants after July 26, 2018 is not guaranteed, and will generally only be permitted if it does not cause a division to be uneven. Players not staying at the host hotel for the duration of the event must also pay a commuter/facility fee of $20 per day ($100 maximum). The commuter fee does not apply to those local to the Buffalo area. Verification of status as a hotel guest will be performed at registration/check-in and throughout the event. Players staying at the host hotel for only part of the event must pay the full commuter fee, and may then apply for a refund of $20 per day stayed at the host hotel (to a maximum of $100) after the conclusion of the event, by providing the Championship Committee with hotel confirmation number and dates of stay. Fees payable are computed based on when (Central Time) funds are received in full. If you are not paying right away online at the moment when you register, please be sure to allow enough time for your mailed payment to reach us. After registration closes on July 26, 2018, if your division change would increase the number of players who may potentially have to have byes (if you would make two divisions odd, or would make a larger division odd), you will be waitlisted until this is not the case. A $25 fee will be charged to accommodate the division change. If your rating rises above the limit for the division in which you registered, you will automatically be moved to the lowest division for which you qualify at no charge. If you paid your tournament fees by credit card, any credit owing to you will be issued to your card; otherwise, we will mail a check to your membership address as shown in your member profile. No refunds will be issued after the refund deadlines described below. If you decide you need to cancel your registration, we will refund your entry fee (and commuter fee, if applicable), if you so request by 11:59 p.m. Central Time on July 26, 2018. By registering for the NASC, you agree to abide by the NASPA Tournament Rules and Code of Conduct, and agree to comply with the 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship Terms and Conditions. In particular, some games at this tournament, probably the highest Division 1 board without a Gibsonized player, will be annotated live. If you refuse to play a designated game with annotation, you will forfeit it, and may at the director’s discretion be assigned a spread penalty of −200 points. A Minor Release and Consent Form will be required for all players under age 18 as of August 3, 2018, and may be downloaded and submitted in advance, or executed by a parent or guardian at registration. See also our Google Map. For information about airline discounts, please consult the player bulletin. The official event hotel is the Hyatt Regency Buffalo at 2 Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14202 (phone: 716-856-1234). Players registering through our group link are eligible for our special rate of $139/night (single or double occupancy; plus tax) at the event hotel; those who live outside of the Buffalo area and do not either book a room at the host hotel or book a room within our group block at one of the other hotels listed below, will pay a $100 facility fee to contribute the cost of the venue space. Complimentary in-room wireless internet is included in our group rate. Hotel bookings at our group rate are subject to availability within our group rate block of rooms, and must be booked before July 21, 2018. The Hyatt is immediately adjacent to the Convention Center, and is connected to it by an indoor walkway, with elevators available for players with mobility issues. The Hyatt Regency offers valet parking at standard hotel rates (currently $23/day). Hotel guests may also make use of the self parking lots in the vicinity of the hotel. There are a number of self parking lots available to both hotel guests and commuters to the tournament. For a map of available lots, click here. Daily parking rates at self parking lots vary. Based on the best available information, rates begin at $4 per day. To search for parking rates, visit BestParking.com and perform an address search using "153 Franklin Street" for the address. Buffalo offers hundreds of restaurant options, with something to suit every taste. Explore the area's eateries at the Food and Dining Guide provided by www.visitbuffaloniagara.com. The Buffalo Bisons minor league baseball team has home games vs. Gwinnett on August 7, 8 and 9. Visit Buffalo Niagara shows the many things to do around town. Shakespeare in Delaware Park The Erie County Fair runs August 9-20. The Spirit of Buffalo Templeton Landing offers Buffalo Brew Wednesdays, from 6-10 p.m. Sample local brewers, and enjoy local specials. The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival runs August 1-5. The VIP Brewery Tour is offered on Thursdays at the Hotel Lafayette. Helium Comedy Club Old Falls Street features classic rock and dance bands on Friday nights from 7-10 p.m. If you need a roommate and would like a listing here, please contact the Championship Committee and specify your requirements: male, female or either, smoking or nonsmoking, etc. We will put a listing in this section. If you already have a room, please include in your email what nights your room is reserved. You can list your email address or phone number. Several people successfully found roommates for the NASC this way. If you need a ride/rider to or from the tournament, and would like a listing here, please contact the Championship Committee and specify your requirements. You can list your email address or phone number. The nearest international airports to the tournament site are as follows. Note that airports with IATA codes beginning with Y are on the Canadian side of the international border, and that travel time does not include highly variable border-crossing delays. BUF Buffalo Niagara 00:15 10 mi IAG Niagara Falls 00:25 20 mi ROC Greater Rochester 01:10 70 mi YHM John C. Munro Hamilton 01:15 120 km YYZ Toronto Pearson 01:30 150 km YKF Region of Waterloo 01:50 170 km YTZ Billy Bishop Toronto City 02:00 160 km Buffalo Airport Shuttle To play in the first round on Saturday morning, you must check in between 10:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. on Friday, August 3, 2018, at the NASC registration desk in the Convention Center lobby outside the playing area. You may ask a friend to check in for you by proxy, if you cannot check in in person. If possible, please email us at nsc@scrabbleplayers.org to notify us in advance of proxy arrangements. If you check in by proxy, but do not show up to play, then neither you nor your proxy will be permitted to check in by proxy at future events. If you do not check in before the desk closes at 7:00 P.M., you may join the championship in progress as soon as it is convenient for the pairings staff to add you back in; this may not take place before Sunday morning. No refund will be issued to latecomers. Players arriving early may wish to play warmup games at local clubs Wednesday: Toronto, ON The Toronto SCRABBLE Club meets regularly at 4169 Bathurst Street, south of Sheppard Avenue West. See the club website for more information and directions; out-of-town visitors play for free. Thursday: Buffalo, NY The Buffalo SCRABBLE Club (No.456) meets on Thursday evenings. Thursday: Mississauga, ON The Mississauga SCRABBLE Club meets on Thursday evenings at 7:30 P.M. This schedule for the 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship may be modified to add new events, or possibly to change room locations. Also, until about a month before the event, it should be considered an early draft, with only the times for registration and the main event to be set in stone. Once the event begins, please check this schedule for changes at the beginning of each day. For those arriving early in the region, see also the preceding section on local club meetings. Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center at 153 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202. 10:00 A.M.–7:00 P.M. Registration (Lobby) After hours room open (Room 106AD) Early bird tournament, restricted to NASC Staff and other NASPA directors (Room 106BC) Committee meeting for Division Leaders, Division Assistants, Auxiliary Staff (Boardroom) Opening Reception (Ballroom) Youth Registration (Lobby) Set up for play (North Exhibit Floor) Announcements; Group Photos - School SCRABBLE/Youth Players (North Exhibit Floor) Youth Rounds 1–3 (North Exhibit Floor) Rounds 1–4 (North Exhibit Floor) Canadian Committee, Technology Committee and (as yet unnamed committee) lunch meetings (Room 109) Announcements (North Exhibit Floor) Advisory Board Dinner Meeting (TBA) Trivia Contest (Room 106BC) Group Photos - Past NASC Champions/Division Winners (North Exhibit Floor) Rounds 8–11 (North Exhibit Floor) Club/Director Committee and Rules Committee lunch meetings (Room 109) World Youth Events Information Session (Boardroom) Rounds 12–14 (North Exhibit Floor) Youth Rounds 10–12 (North Exhibit Floor) 6:30 P.M.–7:00 P.M. (may be earlier depending on when last games end) Youth Prize Ceremony (106BC) Evening Musicale (Room 106BC) Group Photo - NASC Staff (North Exhibit Floor) Group Photo - New Yorkers (North Exhibit Floor) Tournament Committee and International Committee lunch meetings (Room 109) Town Hall meeting (Room 106BC) Group Photo - International Players (North Exhibit Floor) Dictionary Committee lunch meeting (Room 109) Director meeting (Room 106BC) Prize Ceremony (Room 106BC) Tear Down (North Exhibit Floor) Bob and Andi Schoenman, creators of Protiles, honor Rose Kreiswirth's memory. Rose was an expert Scrabble® player for over 30 years and cherished the game for its educational values. An accomplished player, Rose was as well known for her sense of fairness and her congeniality as she was for her competitiveness. The Rose Award will be awarded each year at the National SCRABBLE Championship to a female player who, in the opinion of the judges, best exemplifies the fierce competitiveness and compassion that we remember Rose for. Thank you, Bob and Andi Schoenman! Full details about cash prizes, and anticipated merchandise prizes, will be posted on the prize table once they are available. The NASC will be paired using tsh along the lines of past events, including Gibsonization on spread. After an initial phase of fixed pairings based on pre-event ratings, the top contenders are paired with each other, and everyone else is paired Swiss. These two groups, contenders and noncontenders, are paired with minimal repeats. For example, if there is no way to pair the contenders without at least one repeat, then they will be paired with one repeat. The maximum number of contenders is 12 in Rounds 1-28, 8 in Round 29, 4 in Round 30 and 2 in Round 31. The contenders are further divided into a subgroup of leaders and non-leaders, if this can be done without increasing the number of required repeats while maintaining at least four players among the leaders. Leaders are paired by repeatedly having the top unpaired player play the lowest-ranked player that can catch up to them. Non-leaders are paired Swiss. Activity Directors Division 1: Collins: Division 2/CSW: Division 3/4: Internet reporter Internet photographer 12:30 P.M.-3:00 P.M. Clean and Pack We need about 15 Clean and Pack volunteers to help collect and box NASPA tournament supplies to be shipped back to the storage facility after the awards ceremony on Wed., August 8, 2018. Unassigned Volunteers Following is a list of those who have volunteered, but do not yet have a specific assignment:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13085
__label__cc	0.577538	0.422462	From The Pirate's Mouth To those of you who had wanted our government and our navy to go in with guns blazing as what the French did in their rescue of their yatchs, then this interview with one of the Kingpin's of the Somalian pirates would serve to illuminate what holds in wait if we had just done that to rescue our two larger tankers, whether it was successul or otherwise. At least consider the fact that our merchantmen still has to move in such waters after the inicident, and our government cannot afford to provide convoy escorts forever that would be especially needed if we had gone in like what some had wanted to. The possiblities of reprisal would have required at least that. Read on and try to understand that. The Evil Solution Young and desperate, Somali pirates aren't afraid to commit heinous acts of destruction, says one of their leaders. Rod Nordland Newsweek Web Exclusive Somali pirates last September captured a Ukrainian cargo ship, the MV Faina, loaded to the gunnels with heavy weaponry, including 33 Russian-designed T-72 battle tanks. Since then, American and Russian naval vessels have been shadowing the ship at its anchorage off the fishing village of Hindawao, 300 miles north of Mogadishu. This month there were reports that the ship's owners had agreed on ransom terms, but the Faina and its crew are still being held. NEWSWEEK's Rod Nordland interviewed Shamun Indhabur, who is thought to be the leader of the pirates who took the Faina, and the Sirius Star, a Saudi supertanker with $100 million worth of oil aboard. The interview was conducted by satellite telephone to the bridge of the Faina, through Somali translator Abukar al-Badri. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: What is your background, and how did you capture the MV Faina? Shamun Indhabur: I was a fisherman before I turned to piracy, a crewmember of a small fishing boat. We used to capture lobsters and sharks. When we hijacked MV Faina it was early morning 24 September 2008, in Somali waters. We took it after 60 minutes of fighting between the crewmembers and our gunmen and eventually the captain decided to surrender after we fired some rockets to warn them that we were close to destroying the ship if they didn't surrender. The captain tried to escape, but he didn't succeed. He had a pistol and he refused to surrender until we were close to killing him. When we intercepted the ship and saw the shipment [of arms], then we thought it was going to Somalia and belonged to the Ethiopians [whose army is supporting the transitional government in Somalia], but the captain told us that it was going to South Africa. Then later we saw that it was going to southern Sudan, after we forced the captain to show us the manifests. What's the situation on board the Faina now? The middlemen tried to steal some of the money we agreed on [estimated at more than $3 million]. And now we can't trust them. They're trying to take the money, and we are the criminals. We can't accept that. How are your ransoms paid? We get the money two ways. A boat takes the money from Djibouti, then a helicopter takes the money from the boat, then it drops the money in waterproof cartons on assigned [small] boats. Then we collect it, check if it is false or not, then we release the ship. The other way we get the money is a boat from Mombasa. Isn't it dangerous for middlemen to be carrying so much money into a lawless place like Somalia?I've heard some of them have been killed doing it, is that true? The pirates are different groups. Those in Puntland may have problems with the middlemen and sometimes kill them. Why has there been such an increase Somali piracy? In Somalia all the young men are desperate. There is wide unemployment in the country, there are no sources of income. One of the only sources we have had is fishing, and the superpowers and Asian countries sidelined us in our own sea. So at first we started out just to counter illegal fishing, but international forces started to protect them. Now the European Union is sending an additional naval force. Are you worried about the increased naval presence? We know the EU and NATO forces are coming, but that is not the solution. The solution is to restore peace in Somalia so that we can have a better life and more job opportunities. I can tell you that sending forces will not stop us going into piracy. They can arrest us if they find us out at sea, they've arrested our friends several times, but that will never deter us from this business. The only thing that can stop piracy is a strong government in Somalia. The most friendly forces in Somali waters are the U.S. forces. They arrest us and release us, because they know we are not going to hurt them. But the French and the Indians treat us badly and sometimes they don't know what they're doing. The Indians sunk that Thai boat [a fishing vessel reportedly taken over by pirates this month] and said it was pirates, but I tell you there was not a single pirate on that boat. Are you worried about another attack ashore, such as the one the French conducted, now that the U.N. has approved such attacks? The French forces made two attacks. They arrested our friends, but French nationals will pay for that. If we get a ship with French nationals, we will punish the crew and they will pay double ransom. We're not worried about another attack [against pirates on land], because now we are on very high alert and they will never succeed with another raid. You justify piracy against all shipping even though your only complaint was against foreign fishing boats operating in your waters. Does that really make sense? I justify it as a dirty business encouraged by the foreign forces that were escorting illegal fishing boats and toxic waste dumpers. And if they are escorting fishing boats, they can't escort all commercial shipping, and if we are forced to avoid fishing our waters, then those [commercial] ships are all our fish. How do you justify attacking pleasure yachts hundreds of miles offshore, or cruise liners, or even any vessel so far from Somalia? Luxury yachts are what we are looking for, because what we need is money, and if we get a luxury yacht, we make a fortune. Some ships have started putting armed guards on their vessels. Others have used weapons such as sonic guns, which use beams of loud noise to deter pirates. Does any of that worry you? It will not protect them. We also have rocket-propelled grenades and we can destroy them. For those with the sonic guns, we hijacked some of them even after they fired the sonic guns. Truly speaking, when we go to sea we are drunk, and we are like hungry wolves running after meat. We don't even know what we are doing until we have boarded. Some of the leaders of the Islamists now fighting the Somali government have criticized pirates for giving the country a bad name, and for attacking Muslim-owned ships like the Sirius Star. The Islamists have a memorandum of understanding with us. What they are saying to the media is not their real position. They just want to send a message to their Arab friends who sometimes fund them. What if the Islamists come back to power? The Islamists are not homogenous groups, they are heterogeneous. I can guess they'll never come back to power as in 2006, but they can fight one another and create a huge mess. If they did take power, they must restore law and order and create job opportunities for us. If they don't, then piracy will never stop. How are the Somalipirates organized? Do you all coordinate your actions? The pirates belong to different groups, but we have umbrella groups. There are two main groups, one in Puntland and the other in south and central Somalia, which is my group. I am a member of the seven top committee members in south and central. We are a group of men with norms and terms, and we respect them. The pirates holding the Sirius Star have threatened to dump its oil if their demands are not met. Is that a serious threat, and do they realize how much damage that could do not only to Somalia but other countries as well? Those holding the Sirius Star and the MV Faina I'm aboard now, we are the same group. And we know the risk of spilling the oil shipment. But when evil is the only solution, you do evil. That is why we are doing piracy. I know it is evil, but it is a solution. URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/175980 Posted by mumuchi at 10:32 AM So Who Owns The Ouessant Actually? 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__label__cc	0.713211	0.286789	Sporadic » 2009 » June Giants 6, Ports 5, Fat guys 0! This last weekend there was a baseball inspired roadtrip to lovely Stockton. Stockton, for those not in the know, is a industrial central valley town just east of San Francisco. It’s a little like Bakersfield. Stockton has to its credit a Single A baseball team called “The Ports”* which are part of the Oakland A’s minor league system. Scott, Barbara, The Joffes and Cowey and I all headed over to Stockton for a game between the Ports and the San Jose Giants. Since this was a baseball themed roadtrip, we started our adventure at the Appleby’s in Livermore where we basked in the 5 x 6 foot ego wall for the Giant’s storied new left hander, Randy Johnson. Randy hails from Livermore*, and therefore is celebrated by the local restaurants, in absence of actual local restaurants…Appleby’s. On the wall in the Appleby’s were a glove which had been screwed into place, a couple articles about when he was with the Mariners (1989-1998) and a shirt from the local high school baseball team, which presumably was worn by him. We ordered the appetizer sampler* and some burgers, which was later roundly regretted by all. Undaunted by rumbly guts, we proceeded to the Residence Inn in Stockton, a Joffe recommendation, which was a delight. We had a sweet suite with two bedrooms and a pull out couch for only $180. The hotel was pretty nice as hotels go and served as a great home base for our trip to the game. When we left to come to Stockton, I think all of us expected standard central valley weather, i.e. 95 degrees with -30% humidity. What we got instead was a day at ATT&T Park junior with high 50’s low 60’s and a nasty wind in from the west. Tammy was betting any takers that the fog would make it to Stockton that night. However, despite chilly conditions we had a lovely time. There’s a certain magic to single A ball, where the game is only marginally interesting so the stadium does something wacky in between each inning which is hosted by Ryan Seacreast wanna be “Zack”. The things I remember brought to us by “The Zack Attack”: Asparagus race, Ports Trivia to children, some type of Bungee event that involved a lot of falling down, Fat guys Dancing***, small children running in a giant uniforms, strike out/ home run food or beer benefits, and of course all of this was punctuated by the magic of single A baseball. Single A: where the play you think is a lock is only a slim chance i.e. four guys converge on a ball and it drops between them, second base throwing to third on a fielder’s choice between 1st and home, and so much more. Oh it was delight and sometime later this summer if I get my way, we’ll repeat in the heat…although Scott wants to go to Modesto. If Bakersfield had a year round river (it does not). Actually Bakersfield’s lack of year round river means that for 8 months out of the year there’s a sandy stretch of ground that has bridges over it and on the bridges are posted signs which say “No swimming or diving”, as if one might dive into the sand. Because Stockton has a year round river (the San Joaquin) which flows into the San Francisco bay, it’s actually possible to navigate all the way from the Pacific Ocean to Sacramento via a complete marine route. Thusly, “The Port City of Stockton”, despite the fact that it basically looks like every high desert town in the central valley. Livermore: smaller Bakersfield, no river. * So storied and celebrated is Randy, a 300+ game and multiple Cy Young award winner that when we told our server why we had come she exalted Mr. Johnson to his worthy status by saying “Who?”. To which we responded by pointing to the wall at the restaurant where she worked *boneless buffalo wings (?), fried cheese, some kind of spinach goo, fried cheese sticks and a bacon(?) quesadilla **** Actually just one fat guy, the fat guy closet to us pussed out and was replaced by Alex the drunken 20 year old whose abilities were outshone by his enthusiasm and possibly drunkeness. Give your post a friendly name, like Pete Sean and Anneke are getting married tomorrow (holy crap!)* Anneke sent out a invite to the Apres-vow and she used a Q & A style that amused me, so I will use the same style to explain the following nothing: Q. Why does the bathroom at your office smell like onion rings and popcorn? A. Good question. I know it’s totally gross, because not on does the bathroom smell like, well, a bathroom, it also smells like food. It’s very confusing to a number of deep evolutionary concepts from within our lizard brain. So as near as I can tell, the reason is that the bathrooms share the same exhaust/ ventilation system with the food court on the first floor. I can only hope that the ventilation only goes 1 way. Q. What’s wrong with the Penguins? A. There are a lot of differing opinions on this one. The most commonly held belief is that Marc Andre Fluery needs to make some key saves and basically bring his game to a better place. Hopefully this will happen as the series moves back to Pittsburgh, since as we’re continually reminded, only 1 team in the past 32 games has ever gotten out of a 2 game hole. Q. What’s the matter with Kemp? A. He’s a bum Q. What’s with all the sports stuff? A. You know, I haven’t the faintest. I guess I’m just feeling particularly sporty today with Hockey finals on and such. Q. Mayo or Miracle whip? A. I’d say they both have their place. I like Miracle Whip on egg and tuna salad but for a turkey sandwich mayo with a touch of Dijon is the way to go. Q. What’s the deal with the free bacon? A. Apparently there was some kind of special Microsoft Advertising function on the 7th floor and we were not informed. By the time anyone let us know, there wasn’t anything left but a few mangy croissants and a huge pile of bacon. Not being one to look a gift pig in the mouth, I grabbed a bunch of Bacon. It’s nice, it means that my sandwich which I brought for lunch went from being a standard turkey sandwich to a club. Q. How can croissant be ‘mangy’? A. You kinda have to see these croissants. They were sitting out, cut in half, since like 7:30 AM by the time I caught wind of their existence around 11:30, by that time they had seen far better days. Q. Why less footnotes? Well, basically the Q & A format means that you don’t need as many simply by design of the idiom. Since all the responses are quick, there’s not really much need for an aside** Which I think means that we are all adults now, thinking back on my longest running friends in the city that I still speak with which as far as I can tell is just really comedy related we have now 4 marriages, 1 real divorce, 1 fake divorce, 1 kid and 2 property ownerships. Crazy huh? I’ve been to like 50 40th birthday parties in the last year. We’re old. Nirvana and Mudhoney are now ‘Classic rock’. (Pearl Jam always was classic rock – even when it was new) * Which is the whole reason why the foot notes came into existence. I just didn’t like including huge parenthetical statements in the center of the main narrative. I thought the public was better served by having the parenthetical stuff thrown in at the bottom and it sometimes work well for comic effect. You are currently browsing the Sporadic blog archives for June, 2009.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13093
__label__wiki	0.604977	0.604977	Rock Prosopography 102 a lengthy footnote to 'Rock Prosopography 101 blog' THE GUESS WHO FAMILY TREE THE RAVE-ONS (195? - 1959) 1) Allan Peter Stanley Kowbel (aka Chad Allan) vocals, rhythm guitar 2) Johnny Glowa guitar 3) Gordon Murison guitar 4) Ron Allardyce drums ALLAN AND THE SILVERTONES #1 (1959) 1) Chad Allan 2) Johnny Glowa 3) Ralph Lavalley guitar or bass ALLA AND THE SILVERTONES #2 (1959 - 1959 or 1960) / THE SILVERTONES #1 (1959 or 1960) 3) Brian 'Ducky' Donald drums 4) Carol Barnes vocals 5) Bob Ashley piano, organ,tambourine 6) Michael James 'Jim' Kale bass, vocals THE SILVERTONES #2 (1959 or 1960 - 1961) 2) Brian Donald 3) Carol Barnes 4) Bob Ashley 5) Jim Kale 6) Larry Wah guitar THE SILVERTONES #3 (1961 - 1962) 4) Carol West vocals 5) Randolph Charles 'Randy' Bachman lead guitar, vocals, harmonica 6) Garry Dennis Peterson drums, sax CHAD ALLAN AND THE REFLECTIONS (1962 - 1964) / CHAD ALLAN AND THE ORIGINAL REFLECTIONS (1964) / CHAD ALLAN AND THE EXPRESSIONS (1964 - 1965) / THE GUESS WHO #1 (1965 - DEC 1965) 4) Randy Bachman 5) Garry Peterson THE GUESS WHO #2 (DEC 1965 - 1966) 5) Burton Lome Cummings vocals, keyboards THE GUESS WHO #3 (1966) 4) Burton Cummings 5) Bruce Decker guitar THE GUESS WHO #4 (1966 - JUL 1970) THE GUESS WHO #5 (JUL 1970 - 1972) 4) Kurt Winter guitar 5) Gregory 'Greg' Leskiw guitar 4) Kurt Winter 5) Donald C. 'Donnie' McDougall guitar THE GUESS WHO #7 (1972 - 1974) 4) Donnie McDougall 5) Bill Wallace bass 3) Bill Wallace 4) Domenic Michael Antonio 'Dom' Troiano guitar 4) Vance Masters drums THE GUESS WHO #10 (1979 - NOV 1980) 3) Vance Masters 4) Dave Inglis guitar THE GUESS WHO #11 (1983 - ca. NOV 1983) THE GUESS WHO #12 (1990 - 1997) 3) Dale Russell guitar 4) Leonard 'Lewsh' Shaw vocals, keyboards, sax, flute 5) Terry Hatty vocals, guitar THE GUESS WHO #13 (1997 - AUG 7, 1999) 3) Leonard Shaw 4) Dale Russell 5) Carl Dixon vocals. guitar THE GUESS WHO #14 (AUG 8, 1999 - 2004) THE GUESS WHO #15 (2004 - PRESENT) 4) Derek Sharp lead vocals, guitar 5) Laurie MacKenzie vocals, guitar Posted by Bruno Ceriotti at 5:35 AM No comments: Labels Chad Alla and The Reflections, Chad Allan and The Expressions, Domenic Troiano, Randy Bachman, The Guess Who TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK FAMILY TREE - SHOWS LIST THE JAZZ MASTERS (1964 - 1965) 1) Donald George 'Donnie' Brewer vocals, drums 2) Bob 'Bobby' Caldwell vocals, organ, bells 3) Herman 'Herm' Jackson vocals, bass 4) Al Pippins vocals, guitar TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK #1 (1965 - DEC 2?, 1965) 1) Donnie Brewer 2) Bobby Caldwell 3) Herm Jackson 4) Curt Johnson vocals, guitar 5) Richard Terrance Knapp (aka Terry Knight) lead vocals, piano, maracas, harmonica, tamburine, harpsicord circa August 1965: 'Teen Town', Channel 9 TV Show, CKLW-TV Studios, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The show was hosted by famous deejay Robin Seymour. The show was broadcasted not only in Canada but in Detroit (Michigan), Ohio and New York too. October 30, 1965: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with The Newbeats, Gene Dushon, The Three Degrees (broadcast date) November 26, 1965: Cobo Arena, 301 Civic Center Drive, Detroit, MI with The Rolling Stones December 10, 1965: Cobo Arena, 301 Civic Center Drive, Detroit, MI with The Dave Clark Five, MC-5, The Underdogs December 12, 1965: IMA Auditorium, Flint, MI with The Yardbirds, Beau Brummels, The Strangeloves, The Jones Boys TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK #2 (DEC 2?, 1965 - JUL 1966) 3) Curt Johnson 4) Terry Knight 5) Mark Frederick Farner vocals, bass December 2?, 1965 - 1966: Riviera Terrace, Flint, MI The band played there as house band. March 5, 1966: Mother's, 223 East Ann Street, Ann Arbor, MI with MC-5, The Bossmen, The McCoys, Deon Jackson, The Rationals, The Underdogs, The Four Of Us, Bobby Rigg and The Cheveles, The New Colony Six April 5, 1966: Mother's, 223 East Ann Street, Ann Arbor, MI April 16, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Julius LaRosa, Peter and Gordon, The Platters, Shadows of Knight, The Stairsteps, The Vogues (broadcast date) April 23, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with The Changing Times, The Critters, Dean Jackson, Peter & Gordon, Teddy and the Pandas, and Berry Young (broadcast date) May 28, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Vic Dana, The Miracles, The Royalettes (broadcast date) June 1966: Sugar Shack, Chillicothe, OH June 3, 1966: Mother's, Ann Arbor, MI July 2, 1966: 'Where The Action Is', ABC TV Show, unknown venue, Minneapolis, MN The band was filmed for ABC-TV show 'Where The Action Is' while performing somewhere in Minneapolis. Their performance was broadcasted on September 23. July 15, 1966: Mother's, 223 East Ann Street, Ann Arbor, MI with The Chosen Few TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK #3 (aka #1) (JUL 1966 - JAN 1967) July 21-23, 1966: La Cave, 10165 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH July 23, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with The Bossmen, Bobby Hebb, Tommy James, Dionne Warwick (broadcast date) August 23, 1966: The Hideout #2, Clawson, MI with Bob Seger and The Last Heard September 27, 1966: La Cave, 10165 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH October 1, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Lesley Gore, J.J. Jackson, Keith, The Mugwumps, The Quadrangle, The Rationals, Shadows of Knight, and Jean-Paul Vignon (broadcast date) October 2, 1966: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI with ? and The Mysterians, The Capreez, The Left Banke, Jimmy Ruffin, The Rationals, Richard and The Young Lions, Ronnie & Robyn, Bob Seger and The Last Heard, The Shadows Of Knight, Del Shannon, The Temptations, The Vogues "ALSAC Charity Campaign - WKNR "Thank You!" Concert" October 8, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Gene Pitney, The Good Times, The Blues Project, The Bossmen, The Hollies, Bob Seeger (broadcast date) October 1966: 'Where The Action Is', ABC-TV Show, unknown venue, Sherman Oaks, CA This is a recording date, the show was broadcasted on December 15. November 5, 1966: Hippodrome, Cleveland, OH with The Happenings, The McCoys, The GTO's, Kicks Inc., The Rationals "WIXY 1260 Super Show" November 19, 1966: Fifth Dimension, Ann Arbor, MI November 24-26, 1966: La Cave, Cleveland, OH Fall 1966: various gigs on Los Angeles's area with 'The Dick Clark Caravan Tour' December 3, 1966: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with The Arbors, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, The Rebounds, Freddy Scott, The Vogues, Jackie Wilson (broadcast date) December 4, 1966: Action House, Island Park, NY with The Fugs, Velvet Underground, Nico, Andy Warhol, Mothers of Invention, The Vangrats, The Left Banke, Brian Hyland, Lenny Welch, The Shangri-Las, The Ronettes, The Godz, The Seventh Sons "Freak-Out '66" Terry Knight and The Pack was advertised but maybe they don't played. unknown date, 1966: The Agora Club, Cleveland, OH unknown date, 1966: The Mentor Hullabaloo, Cleveland,OH unknown date, 1966: The Chagrin Armory, Cleveland, OH unknown date, 1966: unknown venue, Chicago, IL unknown date, 1966: unknown venue, New Yor City, NY TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK #4 (JAN 1967 - MAR 1967) 5) Mark Farner vocals, guitar January 26-28, 1967: La Cave, Cleveland, OH February 11, 1967: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Johnny Nash (co-host), The Four Seasons, Gary and the Hornets, The Jive Five, The Magnificent Men, Nick Palmer, The Temptations, The Toys, The Unluv'd (broadcast date) March 4, 1967: The Fifth Dimension, 216 West Huron Street, Ann Arbor, MI with The Talismen, The Rainy Days March 10-11, 1967: Action City, Brooklyn, New York City, NY with Freddy Cannon (11) March 18, 1967: 'Clay Cole's Diskotek', WPIX Channel 11, unknown television studio, New York City, NY with The Temptations, The Critters, Frankie Randell (broadcast date) THE FABULOUS PACK #1 (MAR 1967 - SEPT 1967) 3) Mark Farner lead vocals, rhythm guitar 5) Curt Johnson vocals, lead guitar April 23, 1967: Memorial Auditorium, Canton, OH with The Beach Boys, Jim and Jean, The Buckinghams, The Chylds April 24, 1967: Civic Theater, Akron, OH with The Beach Boys, Jim and Jean, The Buckinghams May 27, 1967: Silverbell Hideout, Ckarkston, MI July 22, 1967: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with The Blues Magoos, Pat Cooper, The Bill Doggett Band, The Left Banke, The Mauds, The Rationals, Lou Rawls, The Symon Grace, The Tuesdays Blues (broadcast date) August 26, 1967: 'Clay Cole's Diskotek', WPIX Channel 11, unknown television studio, New York City, NY with The Animals, Len Barry, The Cyrcle, The Glories (broadcast date) September 2, 1967: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Bobbie Gentry, Ray Charles, The Happenings, The Next Five, The Triumphs (broadcast date) THE FABULOUS PACK #2 (aka THE PACK #1) (SEPT 1967 - OCT 1967) 3) Mark Farner 5) Al Shane vocals, keyboards September 16, 1967: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with Odds & Ends, Ashmollyan Quintet The band was billed as 'The Pack' on the poster. October 6-7, 1967: La Cave, Cleveland, OH The band was billed as 'The Pack' on the club handbill. October 15, 1967: Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI with Scot Richard Case, Rationals, Thyme, Booker T and The MG's, Bob Seger, Detroit Vibrations, The 6-Pack, The Quinns, Day Breaks, Eddie Floyd, Pepper and the Shaker, Clara Thomas, Jerry Jay, Solo Sideyde "The ALSAC Show" THE FABULOUS PACK #3 (aka THE PACK #2) (OCT 1967 - FEB 1968) 4) Al Shane 5) Kenny Rich vocals, lead guitar December 29, 1967: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with John Lee Hooker, Apostles January 6, 1968: Club Limberlost, 130 Army Road at Rochester Road, Leonard, MI with SRC The band was billed as 'The Fabulous Pack' on the poster. THE FABULOUS PACK #4 (FEB 1968 - MAR ?, 1968) / THE PACK #3 (MAR ?, 1968 - MAY 1968) 5) Craig Frost vocals, keyboards March 9, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with Canned Heat, Blood, Sweat and Tears, The Blues Project, The American Breed, Bubble Gum Machine, Georgie Fame, The Four Freshmen, The Four Sonics, Bobby Goldsboro, Mortimer's Three Boys, The Racket Squad, The Short Kuts, The GTOs, Debbie Taylor, The Union Gap (broadcasting date) The Pack played 'Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire'. April 27, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS-TV Show, Cleveland, OH with The Delfonics, The Four Tops, Gene & Debbie, Human Beinz, The Irish Rovers, Peggy March, The Platters, The Temptations, Kim Weston (broadcasting date) The band played 'Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire'. THE PACK #4 (MAY 1968 - FEB 1969) 2) Mark Farner lead vocals, guitar 3) Craig Frost 4) Rod Lester bass June 1968: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, MI October 19, 1968: Crazy Horse Club, Kalamazoo, MI October 31, 1968: Grande Cleveland, Cleveland, OH unknown date, 1968: The Beachcomber, Geneva, OH (unconfirmed) January 4, 1969: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with The Amboy Dukes, Dick Rabbit Posted by Bruno Ceriotti at 4:53 AM 2 comments: Labels Craig Frost, Mark Farner, Terry Knight and The Pack, The Fabulous Pack, The Pack THE AMBOY DUKES FAMILY TREE - SHOWS LIST This story is the work of Bruno Ceriotti. Help in putting this together has been provided by Ted Nugent, K.J. Knight, Rob Grange, Danny Gore, Richard Brown, Greg Vick, Chazz Avery, Bill Ten Eyck, Bill Farmer, Steve Vear, Detroit Pete, Ivano Sortino, Rick Carr, Randy M. Foley, Alan Webber, Ron Clore, Charles Wagner, Serge Bellerose, Carlton Vose, Cyn, Ray, Rob Branigin, Kim Fox, Edward Dranginis, David Eckler, Ken McLatchie, Steve Hughey, The Concert Database, Ron Domilici, Roger Wilson, Western Herald, The Detroit News, Billboard, Cbrillow, Greg Bonaventura, Joe Kremp, Splatt Gallery, Ann Arbor Sun, Fifth Estate, and Colin Hill, to whom I'm most grateful. THE ROYAL HIGH BOYS #1 (1960 - 1962) 1) Theodore Anthony 'Ted' Nugent lead guitar 2) Tom Noel drums THE ROYAL HIGH BOYS #2 (1962) 1) Ted Nugent 2) Tom Noel 3) John Finley rhythm guitar THE LOURDS #1 (1962 - 1964 or 1965) 1) Ted Nugent lead guitar 4) Pete Primm bass 5) John Brake (aka John Drake) vocals THE LOURDS #2 (1964 or 1965 (eight weeks only)) 2) John Finley 3) Pete Primm 4) John Drake 5) Jim Butler drums 1964 or 1965: Benedectine High School, Detroit, MI 1964 or 1965: The Walled Lake Casino, 1903 Novi Road, near 13 Mile Road, Walled Lake, MI with Billy Lee and The Rivieras THE LOURDS #3 (aka #1) (1964 or 1965 - SPRING 1965) unknown date, 1965: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI with The Supremes, Beau Brummels THE AMBOY DUKES #1 (SPRING 1965 - 1966) 1) Ted Nugent lead guitar, vocals, percussion 2) Bob Lehnert vocals 3) Gary Hicks rhythm guitar 4) Dick Treat bass 5) Gale Uptadale drums June 18-19, 1965: (back room) Nino's Pizza Hall, 2175 Cornell Road, Chicago, IL "Keg Party!" October 9, 1965: Gymnasium, Lake Park High School, Roselle, Chicago, IL "Homecoming Dance" unknown date, 1965-1966: The Cellar, Arlington Heights, Chicago, IL March 25-26, 1966: The Bat-Cave, 6684 North Oliphant, 1/2 block south of N.W. Highway, near Park Ridge, Chicago, IL "Opening" THE AMBOY DUKES #2 (1966 - 1967) 2) Gary Hicks 3) Dick Treat 4) Gale Uptadale 5) John Drake vocals July 16, 1967: The Chatterbox, Southfield Road, Allen Park, MI with The Scot Richard Case, Robin Seymour (MC) "afternoon show" THE AMBOY DUKES #3 (1967 - APR 1968) 3) Steve Farmer vocals, rhythm guitar 4) Dave Palmer drums 5) Rick Lober (aka Nervous Ned) keyboards 6) Bill 'Mom' White bass September 22-23, 1967: Northland Mummp, inside a converted quonset hut outside the Northland Shpping Center, just north of 8 Mile Road, between Northwestern Hwy. & Greenfield Road, Southfield, MI with Frut Of The Loom (22), Jagged Edge (23) October 27, 1967: Northland Mummp, inside a converted quonset hut outside the Northland Shpping Center, just north of 8 Mile Road, between Northwestern Hwy. & Greenfield Road, Southfield, MI with Bob Seger and The Last Herd, The Jagged Edge, The Southbound Freeway "Big Halloween Party" The band was mis-pelled as 'An-boy Dukes' on the gig ad. November 3, 1967: The Hullabaloo, Clarkston, MI November 22, 1967: Southfield High School, Southfield, MI with The Who, Unrelated Segments December 2-3, 1967: The Fifth Dimension, 216 W. Huron, Ann Arbor, MI with The Mothers Of Invention, The Magic Veil Light Show December 9, 1967: The Fifth Dimension, 216 W. Huron, Ann Arbor, MI with The Lost Generation December 21, 1967: The Crow's Nest East, St. Clair Shores, MI "Opening Night!" December 29-30, 1967: The Crow's Nest East, St. Clair Shores, MI with MC5, Up unknown date, 1968: unknown venue, St. Louis, MO January 13, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS Channel 5, WUAB-TV Studios, Cleveland, OH with The 5th Dimension, Bobby Goldsboro, Jay and the Techniques, The Outsiders, The Last World, The Lemon Pipers, The Roman Numerals, The Silver Caboose, Betty Webb (broadcast date) January 19, 1968: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with Scot Richard Case, Apple Pie Motherhood The Amboy Dukes was scheduled for the day 20 too, but was finally replaced by The Psychedelic Stooges. January 19-21, 1968: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI with Bob Seger System, The Talismen, SRC, "Annual Autorama" February 9, 1968: Discount Records, East Lansing, MI "In Store" February 9, 1968: Mickey's Hideaway, East Lansing, MI February 24, 1968: Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH with Vanilla Fudge (cancelled), The Frightened Trees, Soap February 24, 1968: Silverbell Hideout, Auburn Hills, MI with Geyda March 15, 1968: Daniel's Den, Saginaw, MI with The Gross National Product March 30, 1968: 12th Floor Auditorium, J.L. Hudson Building (aka Hudson's) (Department Store and Addition), 1206 Woodward Avenue, downtown Detroit, Wayne County, MI with The Scot Richard Case, The Rationals, plus WKNR DJs: Scott Regen, J. Michael Wilson, Bob Harper "Action Age Seventeen" April 5-6, 1968: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA with The Tangerine Zoo THE AMBOY DUKES #4 (APR 1968 - SEPT 1968) 3) Steve Farmer 4) Dave Palmer 5) Andy Solomon vocals, sax, keyboards 6) Greg Arama bass April 26-28, 1968: Electric Factory, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA with Grateful Dead, Edison Electric Band, The Amazing Beymont Summer 1968: Thee Image, Miami, FL with NRBQ, Fantasy July 4, 1968: Pottawatamie beach, Saugatuck, MI with The Flock, The Rationals, The Thyme, MC5, The Up, The Früt of the Loom, The Finer Things, Girls Inc., The Tikis "Saugatuck Pop Festival" (The Amboy Dukes did not play due to rain) July 16, 1968: The Boogie (formerly Old Roseville Hullabaloo), Common Road, one block west of Groesbeck Highway, Roseville, MI with Frut Of The Loom July 24, 1968: Mother's, Romeo, MI with Frut Of The Loom July 27, 1968: Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL with Tiny Tim, H.M. Royals, and others July 29, 1968: parking lot, Oakland Mall, Troy, Detroit, MI with Bob Seger System, Third Power, Savage Grace, The Rationals "free open concert" August 2, 1968: Geauga Lake Amusement Park, Bainbridge Township, Geauga County, OH with The Box Tops, Gene Pitney, Jay and The Techniques, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Peppermint Trolley Company "2nd Annual WIXY Appreciation Day" August 6, 1968: The Jaguar, St. Charles, IL with Aorta August 17, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS Channel 5, WUAB-TV Studios, Cleveland, OH with Blue Cheer, Hank Ballard, Jerry Butler, Eternity's Children, The Flavor, The New Colony Six, The Ohio Express, The Sunshine Company (broadcast date) August 17, 1968: Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA with Vanilla Fudge, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Soft Machine, Eire Apparent THE AMBOY DUKES #5 (SEPT 1968 - ca. MAY 1969) 4) Andy Solomon 5) Greg Arama 6) Russell Edward Davidson (aka Rusty Day) vocals, harmonica, percussion September 13-14, 1968: Fillmore East, New York City, NY with Blood, Sweat and Tears, Chambers Brothers September 14, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS Channel 5, WUAB-TV Studios, Cleveland, OH with The Bellboys, The Grass Roots, The Mauds, The 1910 Fruit Gum Company, The Grass Roots, The Cherry People, and The Graduates, The Magnificent Men, The Tokens (broadcast date) September 20-22, 1968: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with McKenna Mendleson Mainline (20), MC-5 (21), Up (21), Rodney Knight (22), The Psychedelic Stooges (22) September 27-28, 1968: Electric Factory, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA with James Cotton Blues Band, Elizabeth October 12, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS Channel 5, WUAB-TV Studios, Cleveland, OH with Marvin Gaye, Jay and the Techniques, Lemon Pipers, Paul Peterson, The Sunshine Company, The Blues Magoos, Little Eva, The Main Attraction, The McCoys, The Tokens, Brenton Wood (broadcast date) November 1?, 1968: unknown club, Detroit, MI Their future drummer K.J. Knight was in the audience that night. November 15, 1968: The Hideout #3, Clawson, MI with The Underground Wall November 16, 1968: The Silverbell Hideout, Auburn Hills, MI with Target, The Royal Coachmen December 1, 1968: Rock Pile, Toronto, BC, Canada with Rockshow Of The Yeomen December 7, 1968: Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA with Vanilla Fudge, Lights by Electric Collage December 14, 1968: 'Upbeat', WEWS Channel 5, WUAB-TV Studios, Cleveland, OH with The American Breed, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Johnny Taylor, Joe Tex and His Band, Adam Wade, Al Caiola, The Sweet Inspirations (broadcast date) December 14, 1968: Thee Image, Miami, FL December 20-21, 1968: Kinetic Playground, 4812 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL with New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, Charlie Musselwhite January 3-4, 1969: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with Up (3), The Pack (4), Dick Rabbit (4) January 10, 1969: The Crow's Nest West, Dearborn, MI January 11, 1969: The Crow's Nest East, St. Clair Shores, MI with Ashenperpol January 25, 1969: Village Pub, Birmingham, MI with Phenomenon Early 1969 (?): Auditorium, Adrian High School, Adrian, MI with SRC February 7, 1969: The Hideout #3, Clawson, MI with Teegarden & Van Winkle February 28, 1969: The Crow's Nest West, Dearborn, MI with The Attack March 8, 1969: Fillmore East, New York City, NY with Vanilla Fudge, Sirocco, Lights by Pablo March 16, 1969: The Crow's Nest East, St. Clair Shores, MI March 22, 1969: The Silverbell Hideout, Clarkston, MI with Underground Wall, Wind March 28, 1969: The Crow's Nest West, Dearborn, MI with The Tryle March 29, 1969: The Crow's Nest East, St. Clair Shores, MI with Target March 30, 1969: Ann Arbor Armory, Ann Arbor, MI with SRC, Commander Cody, Terry Tate Blues Band, The Up, plus five others "Benefit Trust Busters' Ball" April 4, 1969: The Hideout #3, Clawson, MI with The 3rd Power April 5, 1969: The Silverbell Hideout, Clarkston, MI with Savage Grace, Poor Richard's Almanac April 7, 1969: Stage B, Olympia Stadium, 5920 Grand River Avenue at McGraw Street, Detroit, MI with SRC, Frijid Pink, Unreleated Segments, Bob Seger System, Plain Brown Wrapper, Frost, Wilson Mower Pursuit, Ted Lucas, Red White & Blues Band, Third Power, H.P. and The Grass Roots Movement, UP, Savage Grace, Frut Of The Loom, Castle, Train, MC-5, Sweetwater "Detroit Pop Festival" April 8, 1969: Civic Auditorium (aka Welsh Auditorium), Grand Rapids, MI with Sweetwater, Castle, Frijid Pink, Frost, Frut Of The Loom, H.P. & The Grass Route Movement, Mandala, MC5, Plain Brown Wrapper, The Rationals, The Red, White & Blues Band, The Bob Seger System, SRC, The Third Power, The Train, The Unreleated Segments, The Up, Wilson Mower Pursuit "Grand Rapids Pop Festival" April 9, 1969: Saginaw Auditorium, Saginaw, MI with MC5, SRC, Sweetwater (canceled), The Bob Seger System, The Rationals, The Frost, Frijid Pink "Saginaw Pop Festival" April 12, 1969: Crazy Horse, 5845 South 12th Street (Old Colony Farm Road), Kalamazoo, MI "Dance Concert" April 18, 1969: The Crow's Nest East, St. Clair Shores, MI with The Maxx April 19, 1969: Hullabaloo Club, Toledo, OH April 20, 1969: Grandmothers, East Lansing, MI May 2, 1969: The Crow's Nest West, Dearborn, MI with Owen Love May 10, 1969: Auditorium, Denby High School, Denby, MI with Frut Of The Loom May 17, 1969: Ballroom, Edgewater Amusement Park, Edgewater, MI with Frost, The Ratinals, Frut Of The Loom May 18, 1969: West Park, Ann Arbor, MI with Up, Kraak, Candle, MC-5, The Stooges, Soul Remains, Diane Di Prima "Free Music Revival" (free outdoor concert) May 24, 1969: The Cellar, Arlington Heights, Chicago, IL with Cosmic Messengers May 31, 1969: Michigan State Fairgrounds, Detroit, MI "First Annual Rock n' Roll Revival Festival" THE AMBOY DUKES #6 (ca. MAY 1969 - JAN ?, 1970) June 1, 1969: Grandmother's, Lansing, MI with Octopuss June 4-11, 1969: Ungano's, New York City, NY with John Braden June 13-14, 1969: Action House, 50 Broadway, Island Park, Long Island, NY with Man June 17, 1969: The Firehouse, Toledo, OH June 21, 1969: The Silverbell (Hideout), Bald Mountain Road, Clarkston, MI with SRC June 27-28, 1969: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Buddy Miles Express, Rush July 4, 1969: Pottawatamie Beach, Saugatuck, MI with SRC, Procol Harum, MC5, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Rotary Connection "2nd Annual Saugatuck Pop Festival" July 8, 1969: Rainy Daze, Chesterfield, MO July 15, 1969: Georgian Terrace Hotel, Atlanta, GA with Sweet Younguns, Lights by Electric Collage Light Show July 25, 1969: Kenwick-on-the-Lake, Brights Grove, ON, Canada July 2?, 1969: Delta Community College, University Center, MI with MC5, The Bob Seger System, The Rationals, SRC, The Stooges, The Third Power, Wilson Mower Pursuit, The Up "Delta Pops Festival" August 2, 1969: The Silverbell Hideout, Clarkston, MI with The Sunday Funnies August 11, 1969: Garden City Park, Garden City, MI "Muscular Dystrophy Benefit" August 15, 1969: Kenwick-on-the-Lake, Brights Grove, ON, Canada with MC5, The Pleasure Seekers, Mitch Ryder, Motherlode, Stooges, Rationals, Fruit of the Loom, Frigid Pink, The Tea, Whiskey Howl, Big Al’s Band, Scarborough Fair, Sound Spectrum, Jackie Graham Society August 16, 1969: Wampler's Lake Pavilion, Walter J. Hayes State Park, Irish Hills, MI with The Sunday Funnies August 17, 1969: Milan Speedway, Milan, MI with The Stooges, Savage Grace, The Up, MC5, Lyman Woodard Trio, The Gold Brothers, Wilson Mower Pursuit, Kraack, The Tate Blues Band "Michigan Music Supports The John Sinclair Defense Fund - Festival of Life" (cancelled) August 17, 1969: Detroit Public Library front steps, Detroit, MI with Brownsville Station, Third Power, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels "WABX-FM Free Concert" August 19, 1969: The Carrawee Ballroom, Flat Rock, MI with The Dutch Elm August 22, 1969: Midland Fairgrounds, Midland, MI with Red White & Blues Band, Plain Brown Wrapper, Unrelated Segments, The Ones, Frijid Pink, Third Power, All The Lonely People, Rationals, plus The Ultra Light Show "Mid-Michigan Pop Festival and Rock Concert" August 23, 1969: Aquinas High School, Southgate, MI September 14, 1969: Toledo Raceway Park, Toledo, OH with Pleasure Seekers (cancelled), MC5, SRC, The Turtles, Alice Cooper, The Ohio Power, Frost, Rationals, Savage Grace (cancelled), Rush, Frut, Life "Toledo Pop Festival" September 26, 1969: Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI with The Third Power October 4, 1969: Lake Lansing Amusement Park, Lake Lansing, Haslett, Ingham County, MI with SRC, Jim Schwall, Woolies, Savage Grace, Sunay Funnies, Brownsville Station, Plain Brown Wrapper "Lake Lansing Pop & Blues Festival" October 5, 1969: Sherwood Forest, Davison, MI with Bhang, Bob Seger System, The Stooges, Third Power "WTAC Pop Festival" October 10, 1969: The Grande-Riviera, 9222 Grand River Avenue at Joy Road, Detroit, MI with SRC, Alice Cooper, Lights by Sonavision "Grand Opening" (cancelled) October 12, 1969: The Grande-Riviera, 9222 Grand River Avenue at Joy Road, Detroit, MI with The Who, All The Lonely People, Lights by Sonavision October 18, 1969: The Branch, Wyandotte, MI October 24, 1969: Daniel's Den, Saginaw, MI October 25, 1969: The Silverbell Hideout, Clarkston, MI with The Third Power October 31, 1969: Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI with Arthur Brown (cancelled), Dr. Tim Leary (cancelled), MC5 (cancelled), Bonzo Dog Band (cancelled), Coven (set censored), Pink Floyd (cancelled), Peter Hurkos (Mystic), Ralph Adams (Modern Houdini) (canceled), Plum Wine, Kim Fowley (cancelled), Alice Cooper (cancelled), Sky (cancdlled), Pluto, Ted Lucas, Frijid Pink, Früt, Satan (Himself) (cancelled), Teegarden & Van Winkle, Bob Seger (cancelled), All The Lonely People (cancelled), Pleasure Seekers (cancelled), Sweetwater (appeared although they weren't billed), SRC, Savage Grace (set aborted), The Frost (appeared but weren't permitted to play), The Stooges, Jerry Lubin (MC) "Black Magic & Rock n' Roll Festival (aka A Black Arts Festival)" The Amboy Dukes appeared although they weren't permitted to play! November 1, 1969: The Grande-Riviera, 9222 Grand River Avenue at Joy Road, Detroit, MI with SRC, Alice Cooper, Richmond, Dr. Tim Leary backed by Orange Crush, Coven, Lights by Sonavision November 5, 1969: Rainy Daze, 14100 Olive Street, Chesterfield, MO November 11, 1969: Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI with MC5, SRC, Parliaments with the Funkedelic, Frost, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Stooges, Savage Grace, Rationals, Third Power, Wilson Mower Pursuit, Frijid Pink, All The Lonely People, Oliver Twist, The Day and Night Dealers Blues Band, lights by The Magic Veil LIght Show "Day Of Peace" The show was canceled as a result of the riots occured in this same venue during the rock n' roll festival of the previous October 31. December 6, 1969: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, MI with New Hope December 27 or 28 or 29, 1969: Miami-Hollywood Speedway, Pembroke Pines, FL with Santana, Crow, Smith, Vanilla Fudge, Grateful Dead, Butterfield Blues Band, B.B. King, Hugh Masakela, Tony Joe White, Biff Rose, Canned Heat, Turtles, Motherlode, The Band, Johnny Winter, Cold Blood, Sweetwater "Miami Rock Festival - Last Rock Festival of the 60's" Late 1969: Cobra Club, Highway 43, Hastings, MI unknown date, 1969: Highland Lakes Campus, Oakland Community College, 7350 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford Township, MI with The US, The Frost, MC5, Plain Brown Wrapper and maybe a few other bands also THE AMBOY DUKES #7 (JAN ?, 1970 - 1970) 4) Kenneth Jay Mills (aka K.J. Knight) vocals, drums January ?, 1970: unknown high school, Detroit, MI The Amboy Dukes #7 first gig. January 9-10, 1970: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, MI January 22, 1970: Electric Theatre, Toledo, OH January 23-24, 1970: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Cold Blood, Steve Brooker The band was billes as 'Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes'. January 25, 1970: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with SRC, Third Power, Brownsville Station, Frut, Frijid Pink (cancelled), Sun, Sunday Funnies, Ed Sanders (cancelled), speakers: Skip Taube and Genie Plamondon "Free John Sinclair and All Political Prisoners" January 30-31, 1970: Ludlow Garage, 346 Ludlow Avenue, Cincinnati, OH with Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen February 1, 1970: 'The Show, TV Show with Dr. James Kavanaugh, John Borger, Donal Leace, Bob Walsh (host) (broadcast date) February 14, 1970: Daniel's Den, Saginaw, MI February 20, 1970: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Frost, Brownsville Station The band was billed as 'Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes'. February 21, 1970: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI February 22, 1970: Electric Circus, New York City, NY with Rhinoceros, Catfish, Holy Modal Rounders, Sweet Stavins Chain, Chelsea Beige, Smubbs, David Peel & The Lower East Side, Rabbi Feinberg, Dr. Stanley Krippner, Kno 3, Eddie Arrow "Right-A-Wrong! A Benefit for the Legalization of Marijuana" February 27, 1970: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, MI with The Sunday Funnies February 28, 1970: The Silverbell Hideout, Clarkston, MI March 7, 1970: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO with Country Joe and The Fish, Steam, Rotary Connection, Chuck Berry, Blues Magoos, Stooges, Frijid Pink, Frost, Pleasure Seekers/Cradle, Touch, Merge, Pax, Aardvark, Spur, Jay Barry, Alvin Pivil, Stop, San Francisco Light Show "1st St. Louis Pop Festival" March 20, 1970: Met Sports Center, Bloomington, MN with The Stooges, SRC, Litter, Brownsville Station, Canned Heat, Grand Funk Railroad, Buddy Miles, Sweetwater (canceled), Rotary Connection (canceled) "The Met Center Rock Festival (aka 1st Met Pop Festival)" March 26, 1970: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, OH with Joe Cocker, Mountain, Savoy Brown, MC5, Frijid Pink, Pleasure Seekers, The Stooges, Brownsville Station, Cradle, Bitter Blood, Balderdash, Glass Wall, Whalefeathers, East Orange Express, Westfauster, San Francisco Light Show "Cincinnati Pop Festival" March 28, 1970: Mount Holly, Holly, MI with Sonny Hugg April 1970 (approximate date): Central Bucks High School West, 375 West Court Street, Doylestown, PA April 10-11, 1970: Old Fillmore, San Francisco, CA with Flamin' Groovies, Hot Tuna, Heavy Weather April 13-16, 1970: Ungano's, New York City, NY April 25, 1970: Pirate's World, Sheridan Street, Dania, FL April 2? or May ?, 1970: unknown venue, West Palm Beach, FL (two-days shows) May 1, 1970: Southfield High Gymnasium, Southfield High School, Southfield, MI with Red White and Blues Band, Virgin Dawn, All The Lonely People, Plain Brain Wrapper, Blues Train, 3rd Power "Pop Festival" May 9, 1970: The Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada with Grand Funk Railroad May 19-20, 1970: Beavers, Chicago, IL May 20, 1970: Agora Ballroom, Columbus, OH with Glass Harp May 30, 1970: Dave Lewis's Farm, Heyworth, IL with Country Joe and The Fish, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Devil's Kitchen, B.B. King, Canned Heat, REO Speedwagon, Joe Kelly Blues Band, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends and many others "Kickapoo Creek Outdoor Rock Concert - Incident at Kickapoo Creek" May or June 1970: The Big Steele Ballroom, 635 South Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI May 30 - June 1, 1970: Thunderbird Beach, 20 miles north-west of Baton Rouge, LA with Youngbloods, MC5, It's A Beautiful Day, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bob Seger System, Brownsville Station, Buckinghams, Ides Of March, Mason Proffit, Alice Cooper "The Festival Of Man and Earth" THE AMBOY DUKES #8 (1970 - JAN 2?, 1971) / TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #1 (1970 - JAN 2?, 1971) 3) K.J. Knight 4) Rob Ruzga bass June 12-13, 1970: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL with Country Joe and The Fish, Shocking Blue, Pacific Gas & Electric, Ambergris June 20, 1970: Gilligan's, Buffalo, NY June 24, 1970: Sherwood Forest, Davison, MI with Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, MC-5, Rationals, Brownsville Station, Frijid Pink, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Dream Delight "Wild Wednesday - 12 groups in 12 hours - Twin Concert Stages" (outdoor show) June 27, 1970: 200-acre site north of County Truck MM at the Portaghe-Waupaca county line, part of the property being in the town of Iola and part in the town of New Hope, Portage County, WI with Buffy Sainte-Marie, Spirit (canceled), Crow, Brownsville Station, Mason Profitt, and more "People's Fair" July 14, 1970: St. Petersburg Armory, St. Petersburg, FL July 24-25, 1970: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL with Sweet Stavin' Chain, Poco, Spirit (cancelled) July 24, 1970: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL with Sha Na Na, Commander Cody and The New Lost Planet Airmen, Bob Rudnick (M.C.), plus film "Monterey Pop" July 24-26, 1970: unknown venue, North Coventry Township, Chester County, PA with Eric Burdon & War, Stooges, Zephyr, Illusion, Catfish, Dragonwyck, Steeplechase, High Treason, Boomerang, Orpheus, Mitch Ryder, Cactus, Bloodrock, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger System, and others "The New Coast Music Festival" July 31 and August 1, 1970: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Toe Fat, Rationals, Lights by Magic Veil Light Show The band was billed as 'Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes'. The shows were recorded and later released on their album: 'Survival Of The Fittest' (1971). August ?, 1970: unknown venue, Montreal, QC, Canada August 8, 1970 Schenectady Aerodrome, Schenectady, NY August 9, 1970: unknown venue, Atlantic City, NJ "2nd Annual Atlantic City Pop Festival" August 10, 1970: Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City, UT with Golden Caulfield (filled in for Alice Cooper), Brownsville Station August 12, 1970: Central State Fairgrounds, 800 San Francisco Street, Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota with Cradle, Crow, Alice Cooper, Frantic, Whitewing "Central States Rock Festival" August 14, 1970: Boston College Stadium, Boston, MA August 15, 1970: unknown venue, Commack, NY "Commack Pop Festival" August 16, 1970: unknown venue, Houston, TX "Houston Pop Festival" August 28-30, 1970: Big Country Ranch Resort, West Finley Township, Washington County, PA with SRC, Alice Cooper, Manitoba Hugger, Fuse, Tayles, Stooges, Bob Seger, MC5, Siegel-Schwall, 3rd Power, Brownsville Station, Tongue & Django "Spoon River Rock Festival" (canceled) August 30, 1970: Band Shell, West Park, Ann Arbor, MI with The Third Power "Ann Arbor Free Concert Series" September 5-7, 1970: unknown venue, Highway 95 between Elgin and Bastrop, TX with MC5, Stooges, Ike & Tina Turner, James Cotton Blues Band, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chambers Brothers, Alice Cooper, Rare Earth, Eric Burdon & War, Smith, Bloodrock, Savoy Brown, Carolyn Hester, The Third Power, John Mayall, Freddie King, Flying Burrito Brothers, Jimmy Driftwood, Rotary Connection, Brownsville Station "1st Annual Central Texas Music Festival" September 11, 1970: Palladium, Birmingham, MI with All The Lonely People, Shakey Jake September 16-20, 1970: Whisky A' Go Go, Los Angeles, CA with Second Coming (canceled) September 18-19, 1970: Action House, Long Island, NY with Savoy Brown (18) September 20, 1970: Windosr Arena, Windsor, Ontario, Canada with SRC, Savage Grace, Iggy & The Stooges, Brownsville Station, Blues Train "Super Session" October 10, 1970: State Theater, Toledo, OH with Blue Grass, Lothar Stuff October 31, 1970: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmngham, MI with Everlon Nevermore, John Drake's Shakedown November 13, 1970 (year is approximate): McMorran Arena, Port Huron, MI with Ormandy, Julia The band was billed as 'Amboy Dukes Featuring Ted Nugent' on the flyer November 22, 1970: Of Our Own, Houston, TX with Denim & Lorien November 22, 1970: Frut Palace, Mount Clemens, MI December 25-26, 1970: Pirate's World, Sheridan Street, Dania, FL with Fantasy December 27, 1970: unknown venue, Jacksonville, FL December 29, 1970: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA with MC5, Bob Seger System "Detroit I" December 31, 1970: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with MC-5 (with guest Bob Seger), SRC, Cradle, Jam Band, MC Dave Miller "New Years Eve" January 10, 1971: Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with The Maxx January 15-16, 1971: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Ry Cooder January 22, 1971: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI with Frut, Woodstock Band "19th Annual Autorama - Rockarama" TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #2 (JAN 2?, 1971 - MAY 1971) 3) Rob Ruzga 4) Dave Gilbert vocals January 30, 1971: unknown venue, St. Louis, MO February 19, 1971: Toledo State Theatre, Toledo, OH with Virgin Dawn, Mass February 26, 1971: CEGEP de Rosemont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada February 27, 1971: Cégep de Sainte-Foy, Québec City, QC, Canada with Dionysos March 5, 1971: KRNT Rsdio Theatre, Des Moines, IA with River Jenny, Mason Proffit March 6, 1971: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, MI with Dada, The Tea March 7, 1971: Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with Ormandy March 12, 1971: Public Theater, East Dayton, OH (cancelled?) March 12, 1971: Oelman Auditorium, Wright State University, Dayton, OH The show was recorded by my buddy Richard Brown who was in the audience that night and now he posted some songs on youtube, check it out!. March 31, 1971: unknown venue, Pittsburgh, PA with Brownsville Station April 1, 1971: Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, 30 Courtland Street SE, Atlanta, GA with Brownsville Station, Alice Cooper "Detroit II" April 2-3, 1971: Pirate's World, Sheridan Street, Dania, FL with Brownsville Station (cancelled?) April ?, 1971: unknown venue, Baton Rouge, LO with Brownsville Station April ?, 1971: unknown venue, Birmingham, AL with Brownsville Station April ?, 1971: unknown venue, Tampa, FL with Brownsville Station April ?, 1971: unknown venue, Jackson, MS with Brownsville Station April ?, 1971: unknown venue, Memphis, TN with Brownsville Station April ?, 1971: unknown venue, Little Rock, AR with Brownsville Station April 8, 1971: Gym, Crestwood High School, Dearborn Heights, MI with Virgin Dawn April 11, 1971: unknown venue, Orlando, FL with Bronwsville Station April 21, 1971: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA with Brownsville Station The bands were both originally scheduled for April 21-25 but supposedly they actually played only the first day. April 30, 1971: St. Louis Arena at the Annex, St. Louis, MO with Alice Cooper, Brownsville Station, Mike Quatro Jam Band May 1, 1971: The Birmingham Palladium, Birmingham, MI with Heresy, Silver Hawk May 2, 1971: Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with Virgin Dawn May 4, 1971: unknown venue, St. Louis, MO May 6, 1971: Town Hall, New York, NY May 7, 1971: unknown venue, Roanoke, VA May 8, 1971: unknown venue, Atlanta, GA May 9, 1971: unknown venue, Weston Salem, NC TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #3 (MAY 1971 - AUG 1971) 2) Bill White 3) Dave Gilbert 4) Keith Johnstone drums May 14, 1971: unknown venue, Pittsburgh, PA May 15, 1971: unknown venue, Springfield, IL (cancelled) May 15, 1971: Gilligans, Buffalo, NY May 16, 1971: Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, OH with Alice Cooper, Brownsville Station May 20, 1971: unknown venue, Eau Claire, WI "festival" May 21, 1971: Packard Music Hall, Warren, OH with Catfish May 22, 1971: unknown venue, Orlando, FL May 29 or 30, 1971: Greer's Farm, southwest of Archer Road, Gainesville, FL with Lobo, Buoys, New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, Dion, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Paxton, Oliver, Free Agency, Mother's Milk, Mudcrutch, Tom Paxton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Game, Hogtown Creek "Dusserah Music Festival" June 11, 1971: unknown venue, unknown city, OH June 11-20, 1971: Exhibition Hall, Alabama State Fairgrounds, Birmingham, AL with Alice Cooper, Mountain, Earth Wind & Fire, Gary Pucket and The Union Gap, and many more "Teen Scene '71 - Rock Fair" June 18, 1971: Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH with Alice Cooper, Brownsville Station June 21, 1971: Fries Auditorium, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI with Mutzie June 23, 1971: Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with SRC, Brownsville Station, Bob Seger, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Ormandy, Universe, The Maxx, The Rumor, The Whiz Kids, and more "Wild Wednesday '71 - The Michigan Monster" (outdoor show) June 25, 1971: Cypress Pointe Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish (near McCrea), LO with Stoneground, Bloodrock "The Celebration Of Life Festival" July 4, 1971: Michigan State Fairgrounds, Detroit, MI with Black Sabbath, The Siegel-Schwall Band, Savage Grace, Alex Taylor, Brownsville Station "outdoor rock festival" July 16-18, 1971: Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI with SRC, Bob Seger, Mutzie, Teagarden & Van Winkle, Sunday Funnies, Silverhawk, Catfish, Frut, Jam Band "1st Annual Summerama Rod & Custom Show (aka Summerama '71)' July 17, 1971: Wampler's Lake Pavilion, Walter J. Hayes State Park, Highway 12, Irish Hills, Lenawee County, MI with Cookie, The Rumor July 23-24, 1971: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Blue Scepter (formerly SRC), Glass Harp, The Frut July 28, 1971: The Factory, St. Charles Theater, St. Louis, MO with The Mike Quatro Jam Band August 3, 1971: Union Ballroom, University of Michigan campus, 503 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, MI with Up, Otis, Brownsville Station "Free John Now! - A Benefit for John Sinclair" August 7, 1971: The Park, New Baltimore, OH with MC5, Brownsville Station, Bob Seger, Bob Catfish Hodge, Teegarden & Van Winkle, and others "Rock Show" Supposedly Bill White, Dave Glbert and Keith Johnstone's last gig with The Amboy Dukes. TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #4 (AUG 1971 - JAN 1972) 2) Rob Grange vocals, bass, percussion 3) Joe Vitale drums 4) John 'Johnny' Angelos lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, acoustic guitar August 22, 1971: Lucas County Recreation Center, 1800 Key Street, Maumee, OH with Alice Cooper, Brownsville Station, Bob Seger, teegarden & Van Winkle, Chuck Berry, LAW, Bob Catfish Hodge "Lake Milton Festival" August 25, 1971: The Dome, Virginia Beach, VA with James Gang September 3, 1971: The Park, North Baltimore, OH with Parliament Funkadelic, Sweet Tain September 11, 1971: in a tent, Université Laval, 2325 Rue de l'Université, Québec City, QC, Canada with Salt September 17, 1971: Vanity Stadium, Detroit, MI October 17, 1971: Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA with Chuck Berry, Sunday Funnies November 26 or 27, 1971: Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX (The Amboy Dukes cancelled and an unknown local duo filled in for them) December 11, 1971: Centennial Secondary School, Windsor, Ontario, Canada with SRC, The Whiz Kids December 17-18, 1971: Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI with Dr. John, Flower Traveling Band (canceled) December 18, 1971: Cinderella Ballroom, Detroit, MI with Dr. John December 21, 1971: Loew's Theatre, Providence, RI with MC5, Mitch Ryder, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Bob Seger System "Detroit I" December 25, 1971: Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa, FL December 29, 1971: Gadsden Convention Hall, Gadsden, AL "Holiday Rock Spectacular" unknown date, 1971: Highland Lakes Campus, Oakland Community College, 7350 Cooley Lake Road, Waterford Township, MI with Claudia Schmidt TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #5 (JAN 1972 - JUN ?, 1972) 3) Rob Grange 4) Johnny Angelos January 22, 1972: Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI with Brownsville Station "Annual Autorama" February 27, 1972: The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL March 5, 1972: Lincoln Park Theatre, Lincoln Park, MI March 17, 1972: Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with Hydramoss April 29, 1972: Parkway Field, Louisville, KY with MC-5, Freddie King, Mitch Ryder May 6, 1972: Warehouse, New Orleans, LO May 11, 1972: Turner Hall, 926 Hampshire, Quincy, IL with Ilmo Smokehouse May 20, 1972: Luther Williams Baseball Park, Central City Park Fairgrounds, Macon, GA with Brownsville Station, Eric Quincy Tate May 29, 1972: 1000 Acres Park, Fremont, IN with Bob Seger & Julia, Teegarden & Van Winkle with Bruce, Frijid Pink, Catfish "1000 Acres Pop Festival" TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #6 (JUN ?, 1972 - OCT 1972) 4) Danny Gore lead vocals, rhythm guitar June 7, 1972: Stamford High School, Stamford, CT with Brownsville Station "Benefit for multiple sclerosis research" (two shows, 7:30pm and 10:00pm) Supposedly Danny Gore's debut gig with the band. unknown date, 1972: 'unknown title', TV Show, St. Louis, MO unknown date, 1972: The Hollywood Sportatorium, Fort Lauderdale, FL with Ramatam unknown date, 1972: unknown venue, Evanston, IL "outdoor music festival" August 2, 1972: Sherwood Forest, Northeast corner of Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with The Dogs, Guardian Angel, Ides of March, Raspberries, Sunday Funnies, The Wollies, Salamander, Limousine, Sonaura, and others "The Big One" August 18, 1972: Twin Lakes Ballroom, Twin Lakes, WI with Crank August 21, 1972: Southland Dragways, Houma, LA with Paper Steamboat "Rock Concert Under the Stars" September 2, 1972: Hollywood Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, FL with Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show, Eric Quincy Tate Group, Ramatam September 3, 1972: Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, FL with Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show, Eric Quincy Tate Group September 3, 1972: Bull Island, White County, IN with Foghat, Rory Gallagher, Brownsville Station "Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival" September 4, 1972: Lake Odessa Fairgrounds, I-96 west of Lansing, Lake Odessa exit, Lansing, MI with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Phlorescent Leech & Eddie, Bob Seger, Catfish, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Guardian Angel, Chip Stevens, and more "Crest One Rock & Roll" September 17, 1972: Wisconsin International Raceway, Kaukauna, WI with Big Brother and The Holding Company (or Commander Cody), Brownsville Station, Bo Diddley, Luther Allison, Bang, TRUC, Eden Stone, and more "Wisconsin International Fall Festival" September 24, 1972: Lakeside at Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with Frijid Pink, SRC, Teegarden & Van Winkle, Limousine, Ricebird, Reggie Roberts & Hot Ice, Smack Dab, Rumor, and others "Super Sunday 72 (outdoor show)" September 30, 1972: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI with MC5, The Mutants "Re-Opening of the Grande" October 12, 1972: Fort Homer W. Hesterly Armory, Tampa, FL with John Lee Hooker, White Witch TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #7 (OCT 1972 - EARLY 1974) 1) Ted Nugent (aka The Reverend Atrocious Theodocious, aka Theo) 3) Vic Mastrianni vocals, drums 4) Andy Jesowski vocals (he played only as sessionmen on their album 'Call Of The Wind' in 1973) 5) Gabriel 'Gabe' Magno organ Hammond B-3, piano, synthesizer, flute (he played with the band as guest for only a few gigs possibly in 1974, and also as sessionmen on their album 'Call Of The Wind' in 1973) October 29, 1972: Sherwood Forest, Davison, MI November 13-15, 1972: The Headrest, Atlanta, GA with Blackfoot November 21-23, 1972: Hurlbut Ranch, Dripping Springs, TX with Freddie King, Bob Seger System, Brownsville Station, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (cancelled), Mitch Ryder, Trapeze, Foghat, Bo Diddley, Moody Blues (cancelled), Teegarden And Van Winkle, Mike Quatro Jam Band, Circus, Bo Diddley, B.B. King "A Concert At Gatlin Creek" November 22, 1972: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO with Ten Years After, REO Speedwagon, Wild Turkey December 1, 1972: Asheville City Auditorium, Asheville, NC with The Bob Seger System, The Michael Quatro Jam Band December 7, 1972: Florida Gymnasium, University of Florida campus, Gainesville, FL with Cactus, Ramatam December 17, 1972: Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH with Brownsville Station, Detroit featuring Rusty Day (formerly with Cactus) "WTTO Radio Presents Rock & Roll" December 29, 1972: Sherwood Forest, Richfield Road M15, Davison, MI with Smack Dab December 30, 1972: Lincoln Park Theatre, Lincoln Park, MI January 20, 1973: Rome City Auditorium, Rome, GA with Brownsville Station February 18, 1973: Downtown National Guard Armory, Jackonsville, FL with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Running Easy March 17, 1973: The Music Hall, Kansas City, MO with REO Speedwagon, Tumble, Brownsville Station April 13, 1973: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL with Hookfoot, Armadilla, plus the movie "Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground" April 21, 1973: Hemmens Auditorium, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin, IL with Sea Daddy April 25, 1973: Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI June 1973 (?): UAW Fellowship Hall, 625 Plaza Drive, Fostoria, OH July 2, 1973: El Mocambo Club, Toronto, ON, Canada July 23, 1973: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL with Leslie West's Wild West Show, Heartsfield July 29, 1973: Fairyland Park, Kansas City, MO with REO Speedwagon, Dr. Hook, Joe Walsh, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Chesmann Square "Carney Rock" Summer 1973: Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS with Bob Seger, Captain Beyond August 1, 1973: Sherwood Forest, Davison, MI with Bob Seger, The Siegal-Schwall Band, Catfish with Bob Hodge, Justice Miles, Scott, Skin Deep, Nash, and others "The 3rd One - Wild Wednesday" unknown date, 1973: Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH November 21, 1973: Miller Gymnasium, Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI with The Whiz Kids December 13-14, 1973: Mother's Music Emporium, Nashville, TN TED NUGENT AND THE AMBOY DUKES #8 (EARLY 1974 - SUMMER 1974) 3) Vic Mastrianni 4) Derek St. Holmes rhythm guitar, vocals Early 1974: cafeteria, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL January 28, 1974: The Coliseum Theatre, Cleveland, OH February 15, 1974: Decatur Armory, Decatur, IL with Cactus March 17, 1974: Miller Gymnasium, Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI with Cactus "Battle of the Guitars" April 5, 1974: Michigan Palace, Detroit, MI with Cactus, Wayne Kramer "Battle of the Guitars" April 6, 1974: Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH with Wayne Kramer, The New Cactus Band April 8, 1974: The Brewery, Lansing, MI April 18-20, 1974: Richards, 931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA A soundboard recording of the April 19 show exist. April 21, 1974: Civic Center, Hammond, IN with The Bob Seger System, Wayne Kramer (cancelled), The New Cactus Featuring Mike Pinera April 28, 1974: Warner Theatre Music Hall, Washington DC with ZZ Top June 7, 1974: Indianapolis Convention Center, Indianapolis, IN with Cactus, Wayne Kramer "100% Boogie - Guitar Battle of the Century" June 8, 1974: Rockford Boylan High School, Rockford, IL with Cactus, Wayne Kramer "Guitar Battle Of The Century!" June 1974: Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University campus, Youngstown, OH July 19-21, 1974: Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, MO with Cactus, Joe Walsh and Barnstorm, The Eagles, The Souther Hillman Furay Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker Band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, America, REO Speedwagon, Charlie Daniels Band, Jefferson Starship, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Bill Quakerman, Fresh Start, Babe Ruth, Locomotiv GT, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Puzzle, Triphammer, Elvin Bishop & Leo Kottke "Ozark Music Festival" August 14, 1974: The Brewery, Lansing, MI November 3, 1974: Tomorrow Club, Youngstown, OH with RMA The band was still advertised as 'Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes' but at that time they had already changed their name to the 'Ted Nugent Band' (also with a different line-up). November 23, 1974: Toledo Sports Arena, Toledo, OH with Cactus, Bob Catfish Hodge December 16-21, 1974: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada The band was still advertised as 'Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes' but at that time they had already change their name to the 'Ted Nugent Band' (also with a different line-up). December 26-28, 1974: Richards, 931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA (cancelled) January 22, 1975: He & She, Milwaukee, WI February 5-8, 1975: Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom, Atlanta, GA with Sailcat (filled in for Honk) March 31, 1975: Metro Ice Arena, Lansing, MI with Aerosmith, Rush The band was still advertised as 'The Amboy Dukes' but at that time they had already change their name to the 'Ted Nugent Band' (also with a different line-up). April 8, 1975: Finch Fieldhouse, Mount Pleasant, MI with Aerosmith The band (who filled in for Baker-Gurvitz Army) was still advertised as 'Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes' but at that time they had already change their name to the 'Ted Nugent Band' (also with a different line-up). April 13, 1975: Welsh Auditorium, Grand Rapids, MI with Status Quo, Blue Oyster Cult May 10, 1975: Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL with B.T.O. Roadcrew May 14, 1975: Texas Theatre, San Antonio, TX with Montrose June 18-21, 1975: Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom, Atlanta, GA with Strongbow (filled in for Les Variations, and Luther Allison) September 15, 1975: Chances Are, Ann Arbor, MI with Mojo Boogie Band October 31, 1975: Electric Ballroom, Dallas, TX with Gary Wright THE AMBOY DUKES #9 (APR 17, 2009) 6) Rick Lober April 17, 2009: The Fillmore, 2115 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI "Detroit Music Awards" Posted by Bruno Ceriotti at 6:16 AM 51 comments: Labels Ted Nugent, The Amboy Dukes, The Lourds Bruno Ceriotti rock historian Support my blog. Please consider donating any amount to help me continue this work. Thanks!! TERRY KNIGHT AND THE PACK FAMILY TREE - SHOWS LIST... 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__label__wiki	0.781376	0.781376	TERRIER-WORK Doubt thyself. Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself. Doubt all. Doubt even if thou doubtest all. It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake! The horn of the Doubt-Goat be exalted! Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss of Mind, until thou unearth the fox THAT. On, hounds! Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bring THAT to bay! Then, wind the Mort! —Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies The largest Sabbat coven in Manhattan is based at Sarnath, the nightclub built in the remains of St. Sebastian, a former church on the Upper West Side. Nominally led by Malachi Voordebrax, his position as Archbishop of New York occupies most of his time, so the quotidian affairs of the coven are managed by his ductus, a Gangrel antitribu named Spiral. Much the same way that mortal Manhattan perceives itself above the “bridge & tunnel” crowds of the outer boroughs, the Sarnath Coven treats itself as “first among equals.” This naturally generates some friction with the outlying packs, all of which experience greater existential threats from the surrounding Kindred. It’s not that Malachi ignores the problems of the outer boroughs—he’s actually a supportive leader, and goes to great lengths to ensure that Sabbat resources flow to where they are most needed. The tension is more cultural than political, and many of the other packs view the Sarnath Coven as overbearing and arrogant, overly confident of their glittering position, and prone to a certain amount of decadence. This view is shared by Cardinal Lilitu, who makes no attempts to hide her contempt for Malachi’s “feckless posturing.” Selected members of the coven include: Malachi Voordebrax Archbishop of New York/Bishop of Manhattan—Tzimisce A dissipated Landsknecht Embraced during the Battle of Pavia, Malachi is a Tzimisce monk who cultivates the mannerisms of a contemporary wizard, complete with a theatrically mysterious demeanor, an irritable aloofness, and the tendency to make cryptic pronouncements. Sardonic but strangely charming, pale but handsome, Malachi is over six feet tall, and has a shock of bright red hair that falls over twinkling green eyes. He favors black Versace suits, opera capes and slouch hats, and occasionally carries an actual staff sized somewhere between a cane and an alpine walking stick. The pièce de résistance is Malachi’s left hand—a failed experiment in Vicissitude has permanently transformed his hand into a raven-like talon. Although he covers this deformity with a black leather glove in public, the Archbishop is not above employing it for the odd dramatic flourish. While Malachi’s peers sometimes dismiss his “sinister Wotan look” as a ridiculous façade, younger Cainites often take delight in his appearance: “Now, that’s what a Sabbat Elder should look like!” For all his conceits and affectations, the Archbishop exhibits a shrewd grasp of internecine politics. Malachi is not above making deals with the Camarilla aligned against St. James, and is believed to have a sub-rosa role in the Manhattan Cabal. Some in the Latrocinium see his willingness to “cooperate with the enemy” as a sign of potential disloyalty, a concern not assuaged by rumors that the Archbishop has been secretly meeting with Sabbat representatives from Montreal and Mexico City. Nevertheless, Malachi remains an effective leader, and the Sabbat thrives in Manhattan because of his bold tactics and talent for Realpolitik. Ductus of the Sarnath Coven/Manager of Sarnath—Gangrel Spiral is the rare Gangrel who enjoys the hustle and bustle of city life. Energetic and wiry, her muscular frame seems like a coiled spring ready for action, and her Lupine blood grants a distinctively feral cast to her striking features. Wild in battle and abandoned in pleasure, when the situation demands a clear mind, Spiral becomes instantly cool and collected. She is famous for her razor-sharp wit, which she uses to maintain coven discipline even more than the promise of her equally-sharp claws. A runaway Mormon from Arizona, Spiral is intensely devoted to Malachi, who rescued her from a pack of California Gangrel in 1957. Although he couldn’t prevent her Embrace, he adopted her into the Sabbat, and she’s rewarded the coven with unwavering loyalty ever since. A former home economics teacher and self-taught accountant, Spiral’s business acumen and pragmatic approach to management are vital to the success of the club, and she’s the only Cainite able to stand up against Malachi when he falls into one of his “black moods.” Spiral makes her haven below the Catacombs, where she sleeps curled among a trio of female neonates—her lovers, as well as her progeny. These Gangrel sister-wives are the only Cainites who know Spiral’s real name, and they would give their lives to protect their alpha. Pope Mickey II Nuncio—Malkavian Ordered by Cardinal Lilitu to appoint a nuncio for his Sarnath coven, Malachi spitefully selected this deranged vicar, a Malkavian who watches over the spiritual well-being of the coven from a strait-jacket chained to the wall. Jörg Sander Sexton/Assistant Manager of Sarnath—Lasombra The progeny of Don Carriego Casares, Jörg Sander is a handsome Lasombra neonate from a family of German bankers, chemical engineers, and opera impresarios. He is new to the Gotham Sabbat, and is serving a twelve-year apprenticeship at Sarnath, after which he’ll be released to found his own club in Buenos Aires. Suave and diplomatic, Herr Sander is the public face of Sarnath, and is responsible for media relations and P.R. events such as wining and dining celebrity VIPs and throwing parties for trendy fashionistas. Sander is also in charge of tending the complex web of illicit connections which keeps Sarnath untroubled, including doling out bribes and special favors to the police, contributing campaign donations to the correct politicians, ensuring the organized crime syndicates remain happy, offering generous kickbacks to the local Catholic diocese, making secret payoffs to protest groups, and of course, dispensing hush-money when things need to be covered up. Although most of these issues could be solved by the strategic use of Domination, both Malachi and Don Carriego Casares agree that the time-honored system of human corruption is often the best way of dealing with the mortal world. Konstantin Stravescu Templar—Tzimisce A Paladin of the Black Hand, Konstantin is an severe Old World Tzimisce who serves Malachi with a strange mix of loyalty and hatred. Clad in black leather and surveying his world through a pair of darkened lenses, Konstantin has the ability to move through a packed crowd as if he were a ghost; and his ability to instantly materialize at a source of trouble is both reassuring and unsettling. He may be found prowling Sarnath on nights that Malachi is expecting the kind of trouble that might be over the head of traditional security. Konstantin knows eight languages, but generally refuses to speak anything but antiquated Romanian. Because of his humorless and tightly-wound personality, Konstantin is the target of numerous rumors: He is the progeny of Azra Ingeloquin and the Sire of Zathael. He is having an affair with Adrienne Tabor, a Camarilla Toreador. He was originally tasked with assassinating Malachi, but failure bound him to his target for life. He is actually one of Radu’s progeny in disguise. To his credit, Konstantin greets such talk with a stony impassivity. The only time he spoke on his own behalf was when Venus and Orchid claimed that Konstantin used to be a regular at the Lamia Club. He replied in perfect English, “I am many things, Madame, but I am neither a rapist nor a whore.” It nearly caused his True Death at the hands of Malachi, but Venus stayed the hand of her former lover, suggesting only, “He should have seen you in Africa, darling…” Sarnath Personnel The following members of the Sarnath Coven help operate the nightclub, and have few political responsibilities extending beyond the grounds of St. Sebastian. Gimli Watts Head of Security—Brujah A short, stocky biker from Allentown, Jimmy Watts acquired his dwarven nickname during his days as a roadie for Blue Öyster Cult, and was Embraced by a Brujah groupie at the climax of a Rainbow concert—the Ronnie James Dio years, of course. In charge of security at Sarnath, Gimli trains his staff of bouncers and Nightgaunts with the understanding that he is not just policing a popular nightclub, but protecting a crucial Sabbat haven. Not big fan of dancing, drugs, goth music, or clubbers in general, on most nights Gimli may be found in his office, playing chess with various luminaries and dispensing advice to his staff. He’s rarely seen in anything besides jeans, a denim jacket, and a vintage concert shirt; favorites being Nazareth, U.F.O., and Uriah Heep. A former member of the Crow Magnum MC, Watts departed the Bronx Coven over “creative differences”—i.e., “I’ve had enough of this Satanic bullshit.” Ruth Addams Asylum Manager/Music Director—Human The Asylum’s resident goth queen, Ruth is a Sarnath institution despite her unusual status—Ruth Addams is a regular human mortal. Even as one of the “kine,” Ruth is kept abreast of major Sabbat activities, but she consistently declines Malachi’s offers for Cainite blood. Most of her undead coworkers find this puzzling, and cruelly point out that Ruth is getting older, picking up weight as she enters her late thirties and developing wrinkles that her beloved make-up cannot disguise. Why on earth would she refuse Malachi’s gift…? Sarnath’s musical director since 1984, Ruth has a vast and nuanced knowledge of all musical forms relating to goth, punk, and industrial. Her ability to procure obscure pop-cultural artifacts and rare LPs is unparalleled, and her talent to make tricky bookings is the stuff of industry legend—“Bauhaus? No problem, I can schedule them in after the private Tappi Tíkarrass reunion. But first, we need to clear up that visa problem for Hawkwind.” Despite her obsession with goth culture, Ruth rarely comes across as morose or flaky; in fact she’s a rather cheerful woman with an active social life. She is currently in a long-term ménage-à-trois with a classical cellist and her husband, but her efforts to keep them insulated from her supernatural life have become increasingly strained. A fairly well-known writer of weird fiction, the cellist’s husband is researching a novel about vampires, and has begun visiting Sarnath for “inspiration.” Mozan Yoshi Sanctum Manager—Lasombra A serene and vaguely androgynous Lasombra, Mozan Yoshi is a Japanese ancilla who manages the Sanctum. An intriguing creature with a colorful history, Yoshi began life as the bastard of an unnamed officer in the Imperial Navy. Reportedly connected to the League of Blood, Yoshi’s father committed suicide after the May 15 Incident, having first made generous arrangements to provide for his illicit son. Trained as a high-end Sushi chef in Tokyo, Yoshi was Embraced by a Syrian Nazi during the fire-bombing of Dresden, passed his fledgling days studying the art of torture in a Napa Valley monastery, and spent the sixties working as a black market chemist in Hong Kong. He relocated to New York in 1974, where he opened a Lower East Side club called Shiria Kiku, a “marinaderie” where Cainites could bring humans to flavor them with a mixture of innovative narcotics. After the club was burned down—originally believed to be a Camarilla attack, but later discovered to be the work of mortal arsonists—Malachi installed him in the newly-established Sanctum, where he began developing his infamous Black Light Coffees. Yoshi is currently training a pair of assistants who will eventually replace him, after which he’s been promised a position serving Cardinal Lilitu as her personal torturer. Mozan Yoshi commands the respect of every Cainite in the club, and his word carries as much practical weight as Spiral’s. In fact, in manners touching the Sanctum, he will often oppose Malachi himself if he disagrees with a policy decision. Mortal patrons, however, find him cold and off-putting. Yoshi views humans as little more than exotic glassware designed to contain his experiments; the more transparent and unbreakable the better. Dieter Zeit Technical Director—Toreador A Toreador antitribu whose experience in stagecraft dates to the Victorian era, Dieter Zeit is Sarnath’s technical director, and is in charge of the club’s lighting and special effects. A genius in the medium of light, Dieter pursues his muse with the devotion of a worshipper and the fetishistic precision of an addict. Whether lacerating the dancefloor with a fifty-kilowatt kaleidoscope, summoning Rothko-esque castles of ambiance in the shimmering air, or spotting a cabaret singer with just enough delicacy to conceal her imperfections, but hint seductively at her bruises, God’s first words were enough for Dieter. In 1922, Dieter founded “Lichquanta,” a private company devoted to stagecraft. After being driven from Berlin by the rise of the Brownshirts, Dieter traveled to New York, where he rebranded his company as “Zeitgeist” and avoided Kindred allegiances, whether to sect, clan, or coterie. During his time as an Independent, Dieter worked with dozens of human designers, from the glory days of Broadway to the rise of stadium rock in the eighties. In 1987, Dieter discovered one of Sally de Angelou’s fledglings feeding from his human client, an engineer working on the new Pink Floyd show. Not only had she killed the man, she was in the process of stealing Dieter’s designs for an upcoming neon light exhibition at Gallery Desmodius. Flying into a rare frenzy, Dieter killed the young Toreador and drank her blood. It was his first taste of diablerie, and he discovered that he liked it. Although Duncan Capelthwaite ruled that Dieter’s actions were justified, he found himself despised by de Angelou’s coterie, and it didn’t take long for her to poison the Camarilla waters. Dieter sought advice from his friend Veronica Tryst, and she convinced him to join the Sabbat. When Spiral offered him a position at Sarnath, Dieter accepted under the conditions that she triple the lighting budget, provide Dieter with an office and two assistants, and purchase stock in Zeitgeist. Malachi readily agreed to these terms, adding a million dollar signing bonus as well. Dieter secretly enjoys the stereotype Americans have of Germans, and plays his role to the hilt. Clad in black turtlenecks with his sandy hair cropped close, he speaks in his best Berliner Schnauzer and relishes making unsolicited critiques—“Your so-called avant-garde fiction is rubbish! Only Beckett knows what pain is, only Beckett stabs you in the heart again and again; that is art, not this, this—shit!” Dieter is equipped with the latest technological gadgets, and sports an expensive pair of polarized Zeiss-Ikon glasses that change their opacity at the tap of a finger. Needless to say, the staff teases Dieter with frequent Sprockets impressions, but he is afforded a great deal of respect, and he’s nearly worshiped by his ghoul assistants, DJ Blitzen and Firefly. During periods when Dieter is off consulting with his company, his assistants are free to experiment on their own, with Firefly preferring technologically-sophisticated Vari-Lite arrangements and DJ Blitzen strobing the dancefloor in stark contrasts of light and dark. Although Dieter has resigned himself to his new role as Toreador antitribu, he remains aloof from many of the Sabbat’s beliefs. He finds the sect’s embrace of evil distasteful, their treatment of humans deplorable, and dismisses their fixation on magick as “bourgeois nonsense.” Nevertheless, Dieter admits that diablerie has its attractions, and he is at his most creative after the Rites of Vaulderie. While the resulting Vinculum is strong enough to keep Dieter’s sense of humanity in check, he refuses to engage in wild hunts, and has more than once intervened to spare a human’s life. Malachi allows him these indulgences, despite—or possibly because of—Lilith’s disapproval. Elizabeth Auzenne Activity Director—Gangrel A Gangrel antitribu, Elizabeth Auzenne is one of Spiral’s wives, and serves Sarnath as planner for their occasional burlesque nights, cabaret shows, and fetish parties. A buxom Creole from Texas, Betty occasionally takes the stage as Bouncing Betty Boop, a burlesque dancer with a WWII shtick. Warm and pleasant, Betty jokes that she’s more “were-panther” than Gangrel, and her feline mannerisms have earned her the additional nickname of Creole Kitty. She maintains professional connections with the Byzantium Coven, but she finds them a humorless lot who’ve “sucked the fun out of sex by turning desire into religion.” Betty is also appalled by Byzantium’s darker activities, and actively lobbies for the Latrocinium to shut down or disavow Siddim. DJ Leng Head DJ—Pander A quiet Cainite of obscure Asian origin, DJ Leng is a Pander who seems blissfully unconcerned about Sabbat politics—all he cares about his making music. Performing in his trademark saffron robes and “Bokrug” frog-mask, Leng cultivates an aura of laconic mystery, rarely speaking except to deliver the occasional dry witticism that keeps the club amused for months. Indeed, no one even knows his real name. One look at his—Chinese? Tibetan? Nepalese?—features, and Malachi flippantly named him after Lovecraft’s alien plateau. Of all Sarnath’s resident DJs, Leng mixes the hardest beats, shredding the Nave as he gazes placidly over the writhing bodies. Having become famous among New York’s Live PA scene, he’s recently been invited to perform at clubs in Chicago and LA. Whether or not Leng remains anchored to Sarnath seems a question of time—and money. Mistress Dis Astra House DJ—Lasombra Ghoul A tall Slovenian woman with neon orange hair, Mistress Dis Astra is a Lasombra ghoul and the second most popular house DJ. Although her specialties are techno, house, and occasional spirited mixes from the eighties, lately she’s been delving into more ambient forms, and has recently formed a trip hop band called Astral Chord. She runs Rubyfruit Jungle, the Asylum’s monthly lesbian party. House DJ—Brujah Idi Amin is an Brujah Anarch who DJs at Sarnath, the Tunnel, and Webster Hall. An imposing figure, Amin stands six-foot-three and dresses head-to-toe in military gear. He wears pale contact lenses that glow ice-blue under ultraviolent light, and sports numerous tattoos, piercings, and body modifications, including African tribal scars on his face. Despite his fearsome appearance, Idi Amin—real name Dexter Stevens—is a peaceful fellow who follows a “live and let live” creed. In fact, he collects stamps. His musical tastes run to hip hop, jungle, and occasional forays into R&B, and he usually spins in the Madhouse. Lately, Amin’s been lobbying Spiral to let him host a hip hop party tentatively named “Black Sabbat.” Her reluctance to move the club “in that direction” has engendered some feelings of racial animosity, and Dexter has begun expressing his curiosity about life outside the “Lilith-white” covens of Manhattan. Easter & Esbat Sarnath Hosts—Malkavian One of the stranger couples on the Manhattan scene, Easter is a drag queen fashion model and Esbat is a drag king DJ, both are Malkavian neonates, and both are madly in love. Unfazed by Kindred politics and global Jyhads, they breeze away each night in campy bliss, feeding blithely from oblivious club kids, willing blood dolls, or eager lovers enticed to their bedroom behind an Amsterdam Avenue sex shop. They seem possessed by an irrepressible urge to party, and their ecstasy consumption would melt the spines of mere mortals. Old regulars at Jackie 60, Sperm, and Click & Drag, a few years back Spiral asked them to host a similar party at Sarnath, and Tuesday night’s “Puss & Boots” is the happy result. Generally well-liked by the staff, there is still something unholy about their search for constant sensation, and a fragile emptiness may be glimpsed in the depths of their manic, drug-addled eyes. Ion Mall Corbin Head Bartender—Gangrel Ghoul Ion Mall Corbin is an expatriated Ravnos thrall, now given over to Spiral and transformed into a Gangrel ghoul. With his piercing eyes, flowing locks, and sexy Romanian accent, Corbin is an oasis of calm in the frenzied atmosphere of the club, presiding over his staff with paternal care as he deflects the advances of besotted patrons. More than just a pretty face, Corbin is also a master of numerous illicit activities, including pickpocketing, forgery, and information brokering. It is understood that he will be made into a Cainite one day, but he is awaiting apprenticeship with a Ravnos—no offense to Spiral, but Corbin has little desire to be Embraced as a Gangrel. The characters described in this document were first uploaded to New York By Night in July 1995, but were extensively revised during the July 2018 update. Though I now find it hard to believe, I once enjoyed clubbing, and frequented many goth and industrial nights in New York and Philadelphia. Many of the descriptions of Sarnath and its personnel were pulled from my own experiences, which is why it seems so very 1990s! Jörg Sanders was actually an early contributor to the original New York By Night, so I turned him into a vampire. Ruth Addams is based on a real-world friend; or possibly my imaginary girlfriend in the eighties. The banner image uses an illustration from Jason B. Thompson’s “The Doom That Came to Sarnath.” He is a wonderful artist, and you should check out his amazing Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath! I bought a copy at NecronomiCon 2017, and it remains one of my favorite adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft. I imagine DJ Leng’s Bokrug mask looks a lot like that froggy critter in the lower right. He’d really get the party hopping! 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__label__cc	0.616485	0.383515	Family Practice Makes Perfect John Held, Jr. — July 2, 2015 Antonio Prieto and Eunice Prieto working at the California College of Arts and Crafts, 1947 / unidentified photographer. Antonio Prieto papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Prieto Family Show: A Growing Tradition of Artistry Fouladi Projects 1803 Market Street, San Francisco 94103 My father’s professional practice was dentistry, which didn’t do much to prepare me for a career in the arts. So, I am inherently envious of those artists sprung from the loins of practiced professionals, able to articulate the pros and cons of an unpractical path to his or her descendent. In the case of the Prieto family, both father and mother passed down their artistic heritage to four offspring. Antonio and Eunice met in the 1940s while students at Alfred University, the premier institution of ceramic instruction in the country. They went on to teach at Mills College, where Antonio assumed the position of Chair of the Art Department, until his untimely death in 1967. A third generation has emerged to continue the family preoccupation with craft, be it ceramic, glass, wood, stone, printmaking or literary. Installation view, Paco Prieto in The Prieto Family Show: A Growing Tradition of Artistry at Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, June 12th – July 10th, 2015. Standout works are by the patriarch of the family, whose vessels are highly sought after and can be found in important ceramic collections throughout the country. All four sons are well represented in the exhibition: Esteban by blown glass, Mark by ceramics, Peter by welded works, and youngest son Paco by wood and metal constructions. All contribute high caliber works. This is a family exhibition, and each is determined to put his best foot forward. Esteban Prieto. Hand blown glass, 5.75 inches tall. Nori Obata is the wife of eldest Prieto son, Esteban. She works in porcelain. She too hails from a distinguished Bay Area artistic heritage. Her grandfather is Chiura Obata, a professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley, who was one of the finest landscape painters this area has ever seen. Her platters are revelatory—simple, meditative, a glowing cobalt blue slashed by geometric patterning—which either begs for a rare culinary reward or to be simply left to be admired. Nori Obata. Porcelain. The third generation, Thea and Laurel, daughters of Peter Prieto, continue the family tradition of creativity by pursuing paths in creative writing and printmaking. Thea contributes a written tribute to the family. Included in her Family Dialogues is the following passage, which illustrates the thin veneer the Prieto family teeters on between art and life. “So then, what we’re all saying is, our family’s art tradition centers around craft. But really it starts when there’s a bunch of Prietos under one roof like when everyone goes to grandma’s for Thanksgiving dinner, or in June when everyone meets up for the Prieto show.” Do yourself a favor and check out the exhibition. It is full of tradition, family, love and art…rare attributes in the cultural community, where individuality is often its own isolated reward. Mark Prieto, Torn Bowl Blue. Stoneware, 12 x 12 inches. Tags: Alfred Universityart and lifebay areaCalifornia College of the ArtsCeramicsGlassMills ColelgeporcelainsculptureThe Prieto FamilyTradition Next post Tiger Tiger at Salon 94 Bowery, New York Previous post International Pop at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis About the Author John Held, Jr. John Held, Jr. has been a staff writer with SFAQ since 2011. He has contributed over fifty feature articles and reviews, interviewing such notable Bay Area artists as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, painter Robert Bechtle and dancer Anna Halprin. His most recent book is, Small Scale Subversion: Mail Art and Artistamps, available from Amazon. His essay, After Gutai: Shozo Shimamoto’s Networking Art, was recently published in the catalog for the exhibition, Shozo Shimamoto: Avant-Garde Shock, at the Karazawa New Art Museum, Karazawa, Japan, June-August 2016. Winter Lectures, San Francisco and East Bay Miguel Ángel Cárdenas and Without a Body at Andrea Ros Nicole Kaack Lena Daly: Night Bell Santi Vernetti	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13107
__label__wiki	0.570547	0.570547	Determine what EPP really is, what it is used for and why it’s crucial for your domain names. Transferring a domain from one company to another commonly entails the use of a unique authorization code, which different companies refer to as an EPP key, a domain name password or an Auth-Info code. This code can be used as a security mechanism against unsanctioned transfer attempts with all generic and with most country-code extensions. It can be obtained only by the owner of the specific domain and is issued by the present domain name registrar company. It must be given to the new registrar company because the transfer procedure cannot be started without it. The code is case-sensitive and normally comprises of numbers and special characters, so as to impede unauthenticated individuals from guessing it. Some domain registrars even change the codes of domains registered through them periodically for even greater safety. EPP Transfer Protection in Shared Website Hosting You can obtain the EPP transfer authentication code for any domain name that you have registered through us with just several clicks from the exact same Hepsia Control Panel that you will use to manage your shared website hosting account. Once you go to the Registered Domains section, you will see all your domain names conveniently listed in alphabetical order. In case some TLD extension supports transfers between domain name registrars with an EPP transfer code, you will see an EPP button to the right of the given domain name. If you click on that button, the code will be emailed to the email associated with the Registrant contact for the given domain. If needed, you can edit the contact information, including the email, without needing to leave this Control Panel section, in case the current email address isn’t valid anymore. EPP Transfer Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting If you want to transfer any domain that’s registered under a semi-dedicated server account to another registrar, you can obtain its EPP transfer authorization code with several mouse clicks from the Hepsia Control Panel. All registered domain names are listed in a separate section of the Control Panel. Quick-access controls will permit you to use separate functions. To obtain the transfer code, you only need to click the EPP logo, which will be next to any domain name whose extension supports transfers with an authorization code. Our system will email the code to the domain owner’s email, which is presently listed in the domain name’s WHOIS record. If needed, you can modify this email address from the exact same Control Panel section before requesting the transfer code. The update will take effect instantaneously, so you will not have to wait for the new email address to be shown on WHOIS web sites.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13115
__label__wiki	0.691843	0.691843	Entertain me! Stolen Coat Tell us your opinion! Stolen Coat Jazz Band It started late in the autumn of 2010, at a cold night and in the middle of a sales conference, a group of workmates decided to take the plunge and go on stage to perform a catchy song as part of a friendly contest in front of 2000 people. Sadly, not only did they not win the contest, but the piano player’s coat was stolen during the night. Another unknown thief in the world had pilfered and another band was born!. Six people, Anja, Jan, Michelle, Natasha, Saverio and Tamas, decided to gather every week after work to play jazz and leave the stress of the day behind. Everybody brought different experiences, ideas and passions to form an eclectic gathering that went beyond countries and cultural differences: Anja, with her stylish piano skills, Jan with his groovy bass lines, Michelle and Natasha with their passionate singing, Saverio with his jazzy flute up and down the “blue notes”, Tamas, with his clean and hearty guitar (and drums and piano as well). Sessions were fun, they became a space to press the pause button on work and to press play on music instead. The repertoire grew and when the cd idea was brought on the table, it still looked like a very tough challenge. However, there you are, a compilation of jazz and pop-rock songs recorded in the last 2 and half years! The demo pieces are the straight recordings of those sessions, where laughter and joy were the main components, while the more professional ones are Tamas’ indestructible commitment to chase, record and put everything together. Hope the music will put a smile on your face, enjoy! Choose a number to listen our songs! Recording session: September 2012 Saverio Zuppani: flute Tamas Illes: guitar & keys Jan Rous: bass Frederich Alesh: piano Michele Scala: drums 'Chicken' was Jan's song, he pitched the idea of playing/recording this funky song on several occassions during our time in Dublin. This song features two guests musicians: Michele on drums and Frederich on piano. With this line up, we only played this song twice, the second one was the actual recording. It is also interesting how we got Michele to do the drumming for us. In fact, we didn't... He just walked outside the rehearsal room, heard the song, came in, set down at the drums and jammed along with us. Recording session: January 2013 Natasha Sachs: vocals Anja Kuncic: piano Andrea Clausen: trumpet 'At Last' is a signature song of Natasha Sachs that shows the beauty of her sweet, silvery voice to a full extent. I remember a special feeling slowly coming over us after the last take was over. "We have managed to capture something special here" we all thought and she just stood there smiling happily. This special moment craved for a special instrument in the songs and so we posted an ad for looking for a trumpet player. And luckily, Andrea came along. Recordings took place between November 2010 and December 2012 Michelle Beirne: vocals Adam Engelhardt: vocals Tamas Illes: piano + keys Kieran Doyle: saxophone 'Make you feel my love' took 2 years to come together. Tamas had this crazy idea of creating a version which is not like Adele's and is different from Bob Dylan's original as well. The idea of re-writing the song as a duet came to him early on, still, we had about 5 different versions of the song before we settled with the final one embracing a saxophone solo in the middle. Recordings took place between July 2011 - February 2013 Tamas Illes: piano + drums Jan Rous: double-bass 'The Girl from Ipanema' was one of the first songs we recorded together as a jazz band, along with Autum leaves. The first recording session took place at the back of Earth Cafe with Tamas on the piano. This is clearly Tamas' song, his own arrangement and he also tries his best on the drums that were added almost a year later to the mix. We auditioned 5 ladies for vocals, recorded with 3 of them. Natasha was the last to apply, but her version was the only one we eventually kept. Her vocal overdubbing took place at a crazy hour of 8:30 a.m. on a Friday morning and still ... she nailed this song amazingly. Mambo Influenciadio Recording session: November, 2012 Anja Kuncic: piano Saverio Zuppani: flute Tamas Illes: guitar + drums&percussion 'Mambo Influenciado' is Chucho Valdes' song with a tasteful Cuban rhythm that is pretty hard to follow unless you were brought up in Cuba. We started practicing this based on Saverio's request and well...this is Stolen Coat's best attempt at rendering this iconic song. It is important to highlight that Saverio needed only one take for his flute solo part, still he delivered an amazingly complex and fast melody. His performance is nicely accompanied by Anja's classy piano playing and Jan's fretless bass groove. Recordings took place between December 2012 - February 2013 Summertime is Michelle's iconic song, something she introduced during the very fist rehearsals already. Her beautiful, warm and tender voice fills all the space during the minimalistic guitar-voice only intro. Tamas' arrangement later gradually changes into slow swing, only to be followed by a crazy upbeat finishing, featuring Saverio's dual solo improvisation. Summertime is one of the few songs on the CD that required numerous takes to get the rhythm changes right. Recording session: December, 2012 Tamas Illes: guitar Tamas' minimalistic arrangement of this well-known Christmas melody was recorded for the 2010 holiday season. Michelle explores the highs and lows of her vocal range in this Christmas classic that she made her own through a number of small deviations from the core of the original melody. Gentle, narrow vibratos and long, sustained notes build up the song on the warm, jazz guitar backing. I Got Rhythm - demo Recording session: 2011 The 'Lost & Found' CD contains a number of live recordings from our rehearsal sessions. While these are far from quality recordings, we still really love them as they capture the time and atmosphere of our get togethers that took place every Monday evening. I Got Rhythm was recorded during one of the first rehearsal sessions with Natasha. At Last - demo This 7 minute, extended version of 'At Last' showcases heartbreaking vocals, both piano and flute solos and Tamas messing around on some drums. The Preacher - demo This very early stage demo never made it to a full band piece unfortunately. Saverio introduced this song to Tamas who in return wrote a bridge part to the original melody and doubled the speed for the last third of the song. This resulted in a flute solo finishing up the song at close to 180bpm speed. Was this any challenge to Saverio? See it for yourself.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13116
__label__wiki	0.813426	0.813426	My Day In Court... By Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie Copyright 1985, 1986 by Gregory S. Swann. All Rights Reserved. Direct inquiries to CIS I.D. 75115,1341. My Day In Court... By Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie Wouldn't you know it?: I got hauled into Reality Court. Literally hauled. A giant slob of a cop showed up at my door and dragged me to 101 Centre Street. I was tempted to resist, but he called me some unpleasant things and threatened to 'put the cuffs' on me, so I thought better of it. As fashion accesories go, cops are eye-catching, but not appealing. Being dragged through the streets of New York by a burly, blue-suited thug =will= get you noticed, but you're not likely to enjoy the attention. So I was happy when he finally dposited me in Courtroom 101, Reality Court. But the indignities were far from over. In Civics class, we are told that in the United States one is presumed innocent until proved guilty. Evidently, court clerks and bailiffs are exempt from Civics, for they treated everyone in Room 101 as if they were already guilty, even the companions-of-the-accused, who were not required to be there at all. "Take off that hat!", "Close that newspaper!", "QUIET!!". And nearly constant gun-belt adjustments, just so no one misses the point. I tried to ignore it all. I mean, I felt outraged by the whole thing, but it was clear to me that outrage would not change anything. So, instead of being angry, I got interested in watching the proceedings. Do you know about Reality Court? It's the latest thing, so you may not have heard about it. It's a new Court the City established to provide a means of litigating against nature. You see, it was discovered that most of what people call 'injustice' is not anyone's fault, but simply the way things are. For instance, the first case I saw was a young man suing Reality for breaking his leg. He and his friends had gotten drunk one Friday night. On a 'double-dare', he had tried to walk, tight-rope-style, along a wall. He fell and broke his leg. His lawyer claimed that Reality was unjust in breaking his leg, costing him several weeks of work plus medical expenses. The judge agreed, fining Reality for the young man's costs, plus punitive damages. In another case, a young woman sued Reality for getting her pregnant. She claimed it was unfair of Reality to cause this to happen, and that it should be made to pay for the child's room, board, and expenses. An open-and-shut case: the judge awarded her the damages sought and chastised nature for being so cruel and unfair. In a third case, a professional golfer sued Reality for taking the edge off his swing. He averred that it was not his fault, but that it had cost him much of his annual income. The judge awarded him his settlement and demanded that Reality return him to the height of his powers. Then my case was called: A bailiff cried, "Case of Willie For Sale versus Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie!" Willie For Sale? I =knew= I was going to get in trouble for that... There was a lot of legal folderol, but what it boiled down to was this: Willie For Sale was suing me for impersonating himself. =Me=! His creator! How's that for gratitude? A chunky clerk with short hair and a long gun swore me in. She said: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" "I don't believe in god..." "Oh," she said. "Then you'll have to take the affirmation: do you affirm that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?" "I always tell the truth." "Answer 'yes' or 'no'." I said: "Yes or no." "'Yes' =or= 'no'!" "Yes =or= no," I said. She gave me a =very= cross look. She looked as if she were about to strike me. The judge said, "Let the record show the witness has agreed to tell the truth." He looked bored. Wille For Sale's lawyer, a greasy man I once saw at a protest march, began to drill me. "Is it true," he demanded, "that you once purchased two cases of empty soda cans?" "Well, yes," I said, "but--" The bailiff said: "'Yes' or 'no'?" "Yes or no," I responded dutifully. "Is it also true," the Shyster continued, "that you threatened to put tatoos on the knuckles of one of our finest citizens?" "Yes, but, you see, he was trying to steal--" "'Yes' or 'no'?," the bailiff insisted. "And is it also true," the Shyster went on, "that you have formed a group with yourself as the sole member?!" "Yes," I said, "but you don't understand the circumstan--" "'Yes' or 'no'!" "Yes or no." Frankly, I was mystified. The Shyster was speaking to the judge: "Having established that the witness has lost his grip on Reality, we demand that the Court find in favor of the plaintiff." "...?" I said: "Now wait just a darn minute!" The bailiff said: "QUIET!" "I will =not= be quiet! Not in my own story, dammit!" The judge said, "You will either contain yourself, or I will find you in Contempt of Court." I said, "That would be appropriate... I =am= in contempt of this court." "Well!!," said the Shyster. "QUIET!," hollered the bailiff. The judge said, "Young man, you're in a bad hole as it is. Don't dig it any deeper." "=I'm= in a bad hole??" "You're charged with a very serious offense," said the Shyster. "Yeah!," said Willie For Sale. "Throw the book at him!" I couldn't stop myself: I burst out laughing. The judge was stern. "Crimes against Reality are nothing to laugh at, young man!" "You are not real." The judge was aghast. He gasped, "WHAT!!" I turned to Wille For Sale, fixing him with my sternest glare. "=You= are not real." "Willie help me!," Willie For Sale said. I chuckled. "'Praise Willie'?" "Praise Willie!," Willie For Sale intoned. "'Spread the =Word= about Willie'?," I asked. "Amen!!" I said: "I wrote that." "WHAT!!" They all said that; Willie For Sale, the judge, the Shyster. "I wrote that," I said. "I =am= Willie." "Blasphemy!," shouted Willie For Sale. "QUIET!!" "I am Willie. The Willie that Willie For Sale sells. Author of all the Willie stories. Creator of Manny Kant and the Yuppie Burglar and the One Person PAC. Creator of Reality Court, for that matter..." "Blasphemy!," Willie For Sale sputtered. "I will =not= permit him to sit there and take the name of Our Lord in vain!" Deep breath. "Do you want proof? All right... Willie For Sale, your true name is Eugene Huntswald." Willie For Sale gasped. "You changed it in 1955, when you started your ministry." I turned to the judge. "Your wife has a drinking problem. She's been in detox twice, and you fear you'll have to put her away for good." The judge gave me a resentful stare. I looked to the Shyster. "You're wearing that underwear for the second day, so drive carefully." The Shyster's face turned beet red. "Praise Willie!," Willie For Sale intoned. "We implore the One True Merciful God!" "What?," I said. "I am not god." "Willie is God!," Willie For Sale insisted. Deep breath. "I am not god... Greg might be god, but I'm not sure." "Greg," said the judge. "Who is Greg? Young man, I've read the whole Book, and there is no Greg in it." "Greg is not in the Book." "WHAT!!" The Shyster said: "Everything that is Real is in the Book. That's a law of nature." "Greg is outside of the Book. Willie--," I point at my chest, "--is inside the Book. And I created all of you. But Greg created =me=." Willie For Sale looked confused. "Then this Greg is God...?" I sighed. "...it gets complicated. Greg says there is no god, but I'm not sure he has a good reason for saying so... Anyway, it's enough to say that Greg is Real and the Book is Real. But nothing inside the Book is Real." "Oh," said Willie For Sale. "But wouldn't that imply more than two dimensions," the Shyster posed. "It is a scientifically proved fact that there cannot be more than two dimensions." "Greg has three dimensions." Gasp! "He says every Real thing has three dimensions, including the Book." Gasp!! "Mac says there are four dimensions!" "Identify this Mac," the judge demanded. "He's someone Greg knows..." "Is =he= Real, too?" "...I don't know... I guess he must be. Wait, though; it gets worse. Ellen said she read somewhere that there might be seven=teen= dimensions." The judge asked, "And this Ellen, is =she= also Real." "Almost certainly. At least, Greg spends a lot of his time thinking about her..." "...," said the judge and the Shyster. In unison. "Spare me, Dear Willie," said Willie For Sale. I guess I'm not much of a god, but Willie For Sale isn't much of a supplicant. I did my best to look the part: "You are spared, my son." "Praise Willie!" "Praise Greg," I corrected. "He's the one who got the book printed." "Do you mean," asked Willie For Sale, "that we are now guaran=teed= life e=ter=nal?" "We will never =die=? We will never grow =old=?" "=Glory= to Willie!," Willie For Sale shouted. "Glory to Greg," I corrected. "Whatever..." "...?," said the Shyster. "Did I miss something?" "Is is," I replied. "Is Not is not." "Hunh?" The Shyster was scratching his head. "One equals One. Zero equals Zero. Zero does not equal One. Every moment you spend attempting to =prove= that Zero equals One is a moment wasted." The judge said: "...what are you driving at...?" "That the nature of life is such that only =correct= notions, those that recognize that Zero can never be the same as One, can result in any sort of benefit. All others are null, except where they are harmful." The Shyster's face was defiant. "I have the right to think whatever I want!" "Yes, of course," I replied. "But you have no right to escape the consequences of error..." "What a thing to say!" The Shyster turned to the judge. "Make him stop!" "What!!," thundered Willie For Sale. "Would you muzzle the One True God!?!" "QUIET!" The judge said: "The witness will restrain himself to the subject at hand..." "Which is...?" I shot a hard stare to the Shyster. To Willie For Sale. "Do you negatively exponentiated Zeroes =still= claim you have the right to try me in a court of my own creation?" "Well...," hedged the Shyster, "it =is= without a precedent..." "I withdraw my charges!," spouted Willie For Sale. The judge looked disgusted with both of them. He said, "Case dismissed." "Praise Willie!!," shouted Willie For Sale. I said: "Get it straight, bozo. Praise Greg, not Willie. Greg is a One. Willie is Greg's Zero." "...whatever." The Shyster and the judge both looked confused. Willie For Sale undertook to explain to them as I walked out of Reality Court, again a free man. That is, as free as we Zeroes get, which is a lot, considering. You Ones don't know how good you have it. I guess that means you won't have it for =Willie!= _-_ # # # @ @ # {# ( ) #} \| #"# \| ##^##	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13119
__label__wiki	0.879619	0.879619	The SOAS Spirit The official Independent student newspaper for SOAS University of London. Established in 1935 and published monthly during term. Check out all the latest SOAS news, opinions and updates here. Sport & Societies Director to leave SOAS for Oxford with bittersweet legacy Will Durrant, BA History SOAS Director Valerie Amos will step down next summer to take the top spot at University College Oxford. Back in London, the search for SOAS’ next Director has already begun. Baroness Valerie Amos will leave SOAS at the end of this academic year after nearly five years at the School. In her new role at University College Oxford (Univ), she will become Oxford’s first ever black College Head. Amos began her role at SOAS in September 2015, becoming the first black woman to lead a university in the United Kingdom. Despite the significance of her joining SOAS, the Baroness’ directorship has come under scrutiny by students and union staff on several occasions. Just months after her appointment, the then-Students’ Union co-president Hannah Slydel told The SOAS Spirit that the School’s ‘Refugees Welcome’ campaign amounted to ‘empty words and an opportunity for good PR.’ This is because, in 2004, Amos voted against a House of Lords motion to ‘support the welfare of child detainees’ in the wake of several high-profile reports of mistreatment of refugee families by the Blair government. In a 2016 Guardian interview, Amos was praised for being a ‘doer’ rather than a publicist. But the paper noted that whilst Amos was sceptical of the controversial Prevent anti-extremism programme, she was not ready to voice her criticism of the scheme. In the same interview, Amos refused to endorse nor condemn the famous Rhodes Must Fall campaign in Oxford. Amos’ deflection of the campaign was seen by some students in London as her stepping back from a debate not just about a statue, but about ‘race, … gender and how people are represented in academia.’ Amos once led this debate, making the case in 1984 that white civil rights movements have historically thrived on the stereotyping and degradation of black communities and workforces. Only last year, Amos led a School-wide staffing reform under the ‘One Professional Services’ (OPS) banner for which she faced further backlash. Unions at the School threatened strike action over compulsory redundancies for non-academic staff across SOAS. After planning to cut a quarter of the School’s library staff, Amos was criticised again by unions for threatening the library’s near-unique National Research status in the UK. Last year, the Spirit revealed that Amos presided over an unprecedented £7.1 million gap in the School’s budget, and that at previous spending levels SOAS had only eighteen months to survive. But despite the protests which Amos has faced over her tenure in Bloomsbury, many are keen to highlight that her legacy at SOAS could be a positive one. The Baroness made waves in the world of British academia, becoming the first black woman to lead a UK university. As the School’s director, Amos took the conversation around decolonising higher education to a national level, to the press and the government. The starting point to confronting European colonial pasts, she recommended, is to make universities less hostile to black academics, who are grossly underrepresented in academia; around 1% of UK professors are black. And whilst it took several years of campaigning from workers’ rights groups across SOAS, Amos finally brought staff in-house in August 2018. There have been some concerning blips in the meantime, but the bulk of the work was completed under Amos’ directorship. The Paul Webley Wing in Senate House was also opened under Amos in 2016. On her departure from SOAS, the Baroness said: ‘I am proud to be Director of SOAS, a university which provides a distinctive academic environment for staff and students. Global is in our DNA and SOAS occupies a special space in the world of higher education. We challenge, we question and we strive to remain true to our values. In the year ahead, I and the senior team will continue to focus on implementing the reforms which will help SOAS continue to thrive.’ SOAS’ Chair of Trustees, Marie Staunton told students and staff that Amos would be greatly missed, whilst Professor Peter Jezzard, Vice-Master at Univ, said: ‘The Governing Body is excited that Baroness Amos agreed to accept our invitation to take on the role [of Master] from next summer, and we very much look forward to welcoming her to the College and to working with her in the future. She brings a wealth and diversity of experience to the role, including a deep knowledge of the higher education sector, and will help us continue Univ’s outstanding reputation for excellence, access and innovation in Oxford.’ Crisis SOAS, a student activist collective, were less complementary. ‘Valerie’s five-year tenure has been a disaster,’ they said as part of a written statement criticising staffing uncertainties, cuts to courses, and outsourcing. They did, however, acknowledge that ‘this was not all Valerie’s fault,’ praising several important union ‘victories’ over the past five years. Categories: Featured Articles, SOAS / No Responses / by SOAS Spirit 12th November 2019 Post Author: SOAS Spirit Turf War: Student Occupation ahead of UoL Drilling By Will Durrant, BA History Students occupied the Fourth Quadrant last Thursday in response to news that University of London (UoL)... News, SOAS Read More Humans of SOAS: Notes Edition In conversation with Thandeka Mfinyongo This series seeks to highlight the talent and stories of women musicians of colour at SOAS.... Featured Articles, Features, HUMANS OF SOAS ... , Read More Bridging the Gap: a student collective working towards academic equality By Ludovica Longo, Politics and Geography 3rd year Are you a student from a Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background at SOAS? Do... Students show solidarity with trans* community at Trans Day of Remembrance vigil By Josh Mock, BA Arabic and Persian Students showed solidarity with the Transgender community on 20 November at a vigil on the... General Election 2019: Bella Sankey completes a trio of ex-SOAS candidates By Ryan Prosser, BA Chinese (Modern and Classical) Three SOAS alumni are battling for seats in the General Election on 12 December. The... 2019 SOAS Spirit Podcast The Evolution of Boxing: From Anthony Joshua to KSI Fighting the Stigma Against Women Football Unsung Heroes: The Amazing Achievements of Paralympic Athletes Mental health in and beyond the MENA region: moving forward. Vegetarian Turkish Menemen Muslim Women Have Had Enough Nigeria disqualified from the Oscars Bold Afro-Futurism Front and Centre at Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s Vibrant Solo Show Twitter Feed: @soasspirit Tweets by soasspirit your independent student newspaper.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13121
__label__wiki	0.839436	0.839436	Landmarks & Historic Districts Board I. Landmarks & Historic Districts (See ST Code 330-320) The Landmarks and Historic Districts Board conducts surveys and makes recommendations to the Town Board for designation of properties as Town Landmarks and/or Historic Districts. After a public hearing and with the written consent of the property owner, The Town Board designates landmarks and historic districts based on the following criteria. (See ST Code 330-320 and 321 for entire section): The Town Board may designate an individual property as a landmark or a group of properties as a historic district if it: Possesses special character or historic or aesthetic interest of value as part of the cultural, political, economic or social history of the locality, region, state or nation Is identified with historic personages Embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style Is the work of a designer whose work has significantly influenced an age Because of a unique location or singular physical characteristic, represents an established and familiar visual feature of the neighborhood Historic Site Designation Application Form (PDF) and Owners Endorsement Form (PDF) Tax Exemptions: (See ST Code 298-34 and 298-35) Landmarks or properties located within a Historic District may be exempt from taxation. See explanation, schedule, and requirements at (See ST Code 298-34 and 298-35). II. Certificate of Appropriateness (See ST Code 330-322 through 330-324) A Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) is needed to carry out any exterior alteration, restoration, reconstruction, demolition, new construction or moving of a landmark or a property within an historic district. A person may not make any material change in the appearance of such a property, its light fixtures, signs, sidewalks, fences, steps, paving or other exterior elements visible from a public street or alley, without first obtaining a COA from the Board. No building permit will be issued for proposed work until a COA has first been issued by the Landmarks and Historic Districts Board. The COA is needed in addition to any building permit or other approval required by the Code of the Town of Southampton. Procedure for COA Application: (See ST Code 330-324) Prior to the commencement of any work requiring a COA, an application must be filed with the Department of Land Management. This will then be reviewed by the Board. Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) Application Form (PDF) Also Refer to: Hardship Criteria and Application Procedure (See ST Code 330-325 and 326) Maintenance and Repair Required (See ST Code 330-327) Enforcement (See ST Code 330-328) Penalties for Offenses (See ST Code 330-329) Appeals (See ST Code 330-330) III. Hamlet Heritage Resource Areas (See ST Code 330-331) The Board conducts surveys of significant historic, architectural, and cultural resources and recommends the designation of Hamlet Heritage Resource Areas. Heritage resources are man-made objects at least 50 years old that are connected to human activity. These resources could be any buildings used to house human or animal activities, i.e., homes, sheds, garages, mills, barns, agricultural buildings, offices, schools, churches, commercial and public-use buildings. They could be structures such as bridges, canals, roads, docks, fences, monuments and sculptures. They could also be burying grounds, trails, archaeological and commemorative or historic sites. These resources, when grouped together, help convey the special heritage of an area. Hamlet Heritage Resource Area is an honorary title bestowed in recognition of the special character of a neighborhood, hamlet or area. It honors the properties and the community that has cherished its historic heritage. Properties selected as hamlet heritage resources retain the same current Town rights, uses, and regulations. Properties selected as part of Hamlet Heritage Resource Areas are not designated thereby as Town landmarks or Town historic districts. The Hamlet Heritage Resource selection is for honorary purposes only. Procedure and Criteria for Selection as Hamlet Heritage Resource Area (See ST Code 330-332) IV. Demolition and Construction Applications for Structures Built Before 1941 The Board also reviews demolition and construction permit applications for structures built before 1941 and also structures that are recognized historic resources. These applications should be submitted by the first Tuesday of the month through the Town Building Department where the application forms are available. The applicant should submit: Assessor/Tax Records Construction Documentation: including photographs showing all four sides of the building proposed for demolition plus any other structure on the property; a current property survey showing the improvements of the property, and architectural elevations of the proposed structures Any other supporting documentation 116 Hampton Road Janet Johnson - Secretary Email Janet Johnson Historic Division Historic Resources Map Historic Resources Survey 2020 Landmarks Maintenance Award Applications Due December 31 Owners of eligible historic properties are urged to apply for a 2020 Landmarks Maintenance Program Award. This will be the 7th year of the program managed by the Landmarks & Historic Districts Board. The deadline for applications is Tues, Dec. 31, 2019. Read on... Designation Information Historical Studies & Reports Landmarks & Historic Districts Vision for Historic Resources	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13123
__label__wiki	0.719532	0.719532	Promo Watch Trade Buzz Prediction Buzz Exclusive Cartoons Super Cinema Bollywood Trade Magazine Tid Bits VARUN SHARMA Super Cinema Saturday, 7 September 2019, 19:03 VARUN SHARMA2019-09-07T19:03:53+05:30 Interviews Interview By: ANKITA R. KANABAR There’s been this void perhaps in Hindi cinema when it comes to a great comic actor for a while now, after we’ve had some iconic actors in that space earlier. But here’s Varun Sharma, who now seems to fill in that void and how! It’s been commendable on his part to shine in all the films he’s been a part of and make a mark for himself so soon! His next is the recently released ‘Chhichhore’ which is getting some great response from all over. We catch up with the ‘Fukrey’ actor to talk about this film and more… The feedback for ‘Chhichhore’ has been so good, but what did you think of the film when you read it? I was obviously very excited. As an actor, I’m a huge admirer of Nitesh sir’s body of work – whether it’s ‘Chillar Party’ or ‘Bhootnath Returns’ or ‘Dangal’. And to add to that, this film is being back by Sajid Nadiadwala sir. For any actor, it is a dream to be in this film. On top of that, the script is so relatable and nice that immediately we jumped into it and started the process. There’s a beautiful message in the film. For me, it’s one of the most soulful films told in the most entertaining manner. It will make you laugh, cry, introspect and make you feel a lot of things. When I saw the film for the first time, my family saw it for the first time – we realised that it’s one of those films which stays with you for a very long time. So what is it that you had to work on, for your character? For me, one of the things which came easier to understand was that I’ve myself studied in the boarding school. I’ve lived that life and so I could add those nuances. The most interesting thing was to play the middle age of your own self. This is the first time I’m playing a 45 year old and I saw myself looking like that. Your body, your thinking changes with age. There’s a maturity which comes in. For me, to go into that and live that for those many days that we were shooting – that was the most fun part! Nitesh Tiwari has such a varied body of work and his style of film-making. So, what was his brief to you and how was it getting into his mould? His process is beautiful. It’s the calmest process I have been a part of. We used to read a lot before we went on floor. We used to discuss so much and just have fun while doing that. We did that for two months and then when I went on the sets, I wasn’t Varun. I went on the sets only as Sexa. Then when we had to go into the middle-age part, we just didn’t jump. He gave us two-three months to prepare for it and go into that thinking. The process and prep was so strong and everything done in the film is with so much honesty that it reflects on-screen. You’ve got ‘Chhichhore’ for the audience, after something as unique as a ‘Khandani Shafakhana’ which got its own share of appreciation. How has that been? It’s beautiful. As actors, we get to live so many different lives in one life so for us to shuffle between one character to another – the journey is beautiful. For me also, Bhooshit was a beautiful character, I got to learn a lot from it. Sexa again was such a unique character from which I learnt as well. Every character is very personal and close to me as an actor. How confident have you got, over the years, after working with the great actors and directors you’ve worked with? Experience teaches you so much. I was 23 when I started with my career and now it’s been about six years. I’ve evolved as a person and I choose to believe, I’ve become wiser. But I hope the kid in me doesn’t go away. The innocence in me doesn’t fade. I want to enjoy it as much as I can. Do you think it’s this innocence which has connected with people ever since ‘Fukrey’ and made you strike that relatability with the audience? I feel blessed and happy that there is this connect with the audience. The amount of acceptance and love I’ve got, makes me feel grateful. Now that they’ve accepted me beautifully, it’s my responsibility to keep them happy on a larger scale with every film. The notch keeps getting higher so the pressure is obviously there. So, I hope I keep living up to it. You’ve done theatre earlier and a lot of serious roles perhaps, as opposed to your comic actor image now. I believe, you might, want to get back to the former now! I never thought I could make anyone smile or laugh. But I think, destiny had that for me with ‘Fukrey’. That genre became the front runner for me. I’ve enjoyed the process all these years. And of course, I want to do something that’s different. That’s why you want to be an actor. Tell us about your line-up of upcoming films. So there’s ‘Chhichhore’ which has just released and then I’m shooting for ‘Roohi-Afza’ produced by Dinesh Vijan and Mrigdeep Singh Lamba. It has me alongside Rajkummar Rao and Jahnvi Kapoor, directed by Hardik Mehta. http://supercinema.co.in/varun-sharma-5/http://supercinema.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/VARUN-SHARMA.jpghttp://supercinema.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/VARUN-SHARMA-150x150.jpg 2019-09-07T19:03:53+05:30 Super CinemaInterviewsSuper CinemaSuper Cinemasupercinema@gmail.comAdministratorSuper Cinema « RAAJ SHAANDILYAA MUSICAL CHAIRS » Box-Office Forecast Week: 28TH DECEMBER 2019 2010S – THE ROUND UP! [ditty_news_ticker id="129"] BEST OF THE DECADE THE DECADE AWARDS! BEST OF THE DECADE TOP 15 HIGHEST GROSSING ACTORS BEST OF THE DECADE TOP 15 HIGHEST GROSSING ACTRESSES Super News Recent Posts on Facebook Some top notch recommendations for you for over the weekend. 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__label__wiki	0.792287	0.792287	GERMAN CIVILIANS PARTICIPATED IN MURDERING JEWS TOWARDS THE END OF THE WAR……. Holocaust Holocaust Survivors National Socialism By KGSaccess_time9 years agochat_bubble_outline6 There is no need for the Tundra Tabloids to say anything here, the text and pictures speak for themselves. Sheer inhumanity and horror of it all. KGS Revealed: How even German civilians took part in killing concentration camp survivors Allan Hall Daily Mail: The horrifying story is detailed in ‘The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide,’ by Daniel Blatman A new book about the closing days of World War II chronicles how German civilians murdered many concentration camp survivors as they moved through their towns and villages on infamous ‘death marches’ back into the shrinking Reich. The violence shows how even with their nation in ruins, the Allies advancing on all fronts and the war hopeless, ordinary people were so indoctrinated with Nazi hate they were prepared to kill defenceless people in cold blood. ‘The Death Marches: The Final Phase Of Nazi Genocide,’ by Daniel Blatman, is the first book to research what drove these civilians to acts of savage murder. Some 500,000 prisoners from the concentration camp gulag both within and without Germany were on the move in the first months of 1945. As the Allies advanced, the shocking fate of approximately half of them became all too apparent. Blatman says that in the town of Gardelegen, a town in east-central Germany, U.S. soldiers found hundreds of charred and mangled bodies in a barn in mid-April 1945. ‘They were the bodies of prisoners from various camps who had been forced inside,’ says the Israeli whose book is published this week and goes on sale in Germany. ‘It was later discovered that people had volunteered to guard the prisoners, including ordinary civilians, some of them armed with hunting rifles, who mutated into prison guards of their own volition. Blatman says youths shouted at the prisoners ‘We’re going hunting, to shoot down the zebras!’ (a reference to the striped uniforms). Concentration camp prisoners march through a village while on a death march from Dachau in April 1945. The photo was taken through the upstairs window of a private home along the death march route ‘Men from the Volkssturm militia, police officers, soldiers from a paratrooper division barracked nearby, guards and civilians helped drive the doomed prisoners into the barn,’ adds the historian. ‘Then they locked the doors, lit gasoline-soaked straw on the ground and tossed hand grenades into the building. Anyone who attempted to escape the inferno ran into a hail of bullets. ‘Some 25 prisoners survived, while about 1,000 died.’ Colonel George P. Lynch, of the 102nd U.S. Infantry Division said afterwards of these attacks: ‘Some will say that the Nazis were responsible for this crime. ‘Others will point to the Gestapo. The responsibility rests with neither. It is the responsibility of the entire German people.’ A similar attack happened in the town of Celle not far from the concentration camp of Belsen where prisoners were ‘killed like animals’ in a forest according to a British military report. Some 300 died in the massacre which took place in April 1945 with a 17-year-old Hitler Youth leader accounting for 20 alone. Blatman, of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said; ‘The more the war approached its end, and the more obvious the prisoners’ presence in the midst of the German population became, the more regularly German civilians participated.’ Photos of Auschwitz prisoners at the Imperial War Museum. According to a new book, German youths killed concentration camp survivors on ‘death marches’ which they referred to as ‘zebra hunting’, a reference to the striped uniforms worn by inmates In Palmnicken near the former East Prussian city of Königsberg some 3,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp were herded by civilians on to beach of the frozen Baltic Sea to be mowed down by SS soldiers. Along the country roads of a huge swathe of Germany can be found the little memorials to terrible acts where people were killed in ones and twos and sometimes tens and hundreds. Blatman believes tens of thousands of ‘ordinary Germans’ became killers despite no documentary evidence whatsoever that any of the SS or Nazi party hierarchy had ever ordered them to behave in such a fashion. Blatman says that the mentality of the prisoners’ sadistic guards – that they were defending their homeland from ‘subhumans’ – somehow resonated with the civilian population as they saw this ‘enemy’ passing by their homes. ‘A decade of indoctrination, a genocidal mentality that had systematically dehumanized the Jews and the Slavs, led to the collectivehunt,’ he said. Previous Post Previous Post FINNISH POLITICAL PARTY MUUTOS 2011 SPONSORS CRUSHING THE BALLS OF MUHAMMAD HEAVY METAL EVENT……. Next Post Next Post IRANIAN EMBASSY IN CANADA TRIES TO GET SCREENING OF FILM CRITICAL OF IRAN CANCELLED……. By Mark Jan 18, 2011 As you like, but it reminds me of Kenneth Clark in his Civilisation series where he says near the beginning of episode 6: “How German it is, and what a nuisance for the rest of the world!” //www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCmzgJkrets at 3:20 By person of the book Jan 18, 2011 “There is no need for the Tundra Tabloids to say anything here” You’re right, I simply don’t know what to say. There are not enough words to describe this kind of evilness. By TPM Jan 19, 2011 Germany and its wartime ally Finland must be made to PAY! By KGS Jan 19, 2011 TPM, you speak in ignorance. Finland was not an ally but a co-belligerent with national socialist Germany. They were never politically aligned with each other, as were the Italians. By Mel Sherwood Jan 19, 2011 But Helen Thomas said the Israelis should all go back there! After a few years living under their new muslim overlords the Europeans will wish they could trade them for having the Jews back.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13146
__label__wiki	0.532287	0.532287	Richard Yates: re-writing postwar American culture McGinley, Rory Mackay (2016) Richard Yates: re-writing postwar American culture. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. This thesis explores the fiction of American author Richard Yates to propose that his work provides an insistent questioning and alternative vision of postwar American culture. Such an approach is informed by a revisionist account of four distinct yet interconnected areas of postwar culture: the role of the non-heroic soldier stepping in and out of World War II; suburbanisation and fashioning of anti-suburban performance; demarcation of gender roles and unraveling of sexual conservatism in the 1950s; consideration of what constituted the normative within postwar discourse and representations of mental illness in Yates’ work. These four spheres of interest form the backbone to this study in its combined aim of reclaiming Yates’ fiction in line with a more progressive historical framework while shaping a new critical appreciation of his fiction. Such analysis will be primed by an opening discussion that illustrates how Yates’ fiction has frequently been ensconced in a limited interpretative lens: an approach, that I argue, has kept Yates on the periphery of the canon and ultimately resulted in the neglect of an author who provided a rich, progressive and historically significant dialogue of postwar American life. This PhD arrives at a point when Yatesian scholarship is finally gaining momentum after the cumulative impact of a comprehensive biography, a faithful film adaptation of his seminal text Revolutionary Road (1961), plus the recent re-issue of his catalogue of work. An assessment as to why he remained on the margins of success for the duration of his career is therefore of pressing interest in light of this recent critical and commercial recognition. Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, postwar American fiction, postwar literature, American realism. E History America > E11 America (General) E History America > E151 United States (General) P Language and Literature > PE English P Language and Literature > PS American literature College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > English Literature Gair, Dr. Christoper Mr Rory McGinley	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13151
__label__cc	0.72862	0.27138	Tag: administrative leave Homeland Security Allows Nearly 100 Employees to Collect Pay without Working Nearly 100 Homeland Security employees are collecting pay while not working, the Washington Post reports. Auditors made the discovery and expressed concerns about the go-to strategy of placing employees accused of misconduct on administrative leave. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, is unhappy and wants to know why so many employees are paid without being required to work. “DHS also failed to explain why such extended amounts of time were needed to conduct investigations into security issues, misconduct, or fitness for duty,” Grassley wrote in a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. Posted: October 22nd, 2015 under News Story. Tags: administrative leave, Charles Grassley, Homeland Security, pay, work Florida Police Officers Claims He Was Disciplined for Speaking to FBI A Boynton Beach police officer who was placed on administrative leave after speaking to FBI agents is suing the Florida city. The Miami Herald reports that Sgt. Leif Broberg, a 24-year-veteran of the department, alleges the department threatened to fire him for launching complaints about members of the force trying to conceal video of an arrest. Broberg said his leave amounts to punishment for talking to FBI agents about a video that he says depicts officers beating a suspect after a high-speed chase. Broberg has contended that high-ranking members of the department wanted to discard the video. Illinois Man Admits Fraud, Assaulting Secret Service Agents Michigan College Students Targeted by Fake FBI Scam Homeland Security Wants to Revive Terrorism Alert System DEA Cracks Down on Narcotic Painkillers After Surge in Use Secret Service Vague on Security Efforts for 2016 GOP convention Posted: October 15th, 2015 under News Story. Tags: administrative leave, Boynton Beach, FBI, Florida, local police Outspoken Black Nationalist Remains Homeland Security Employee Despite Racist Rants The Homeland Security employee who is an outspoken black nationalist who preached about the “unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race” is still on the payroll, The Blaze reports. Ayo Kimathi was called out in August by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. “(I)n order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our christian hearts can possibly count,” the website read. Kimathi was suspended but still is an employee of Homeland Security. “Mr. Kimathi was placed on administrative leave on August 23. ICE does not condone any type of hateful rhetoric or advocacy of violence of any kind against anyone,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy press secretary Gillian Christensen said in an email to The Blaze. Posted: November 20th, 2013 under News Story. Tags: administrative leave, Ayo Kimathi, black nationalist, Homeland Security, ICE, race war, southern poverty law center Secret Service Agent Suspended for Reckless Driving in North Carolina, after Citizen Posts Tape to YouTube Photo from video Shoshanna Utchenik A U.S. Secret Service agent is in trouble, but this time there are no fast women… only fast cars. An agent was put on administrative leave after a private citizen posted video on YouTube showing him driving recklessly on the North Carolina interstate. The Charlotte Observer reports that the agent was on duty when his Dodge Charger was caught on tape, weaving across lanes on I-77 and seeming to play a dangerous game of “tag” with a van, even flashing a blue light to pretend to pull over the van before speeding away. The videographer can be heard on the tape saying “He’s going 80 mph in a 55 zone — with no lights on,” before the Dodge Charger sped from I-77 to I-485, and later on a two-lane road going even faster. Russ Nelson, special agent in charge of the Secret Service in Charlotte, said the agency is investigating the incident. Posted: May 31st, 2012 under News Story. Tags: administrative leave, Secret Service agent, speeding, Youtube	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13156
__label__wiki	0.64203	0.64203	ArchiveThe Last PostReview: Pompeii, LAReview: Wild Surmise, I am the WindSo, that was a blastMelbourne Festival: Dance TerritoriesMelbourne Festival: Before Your Very Eyes, The House of DreamingMelbourne Festival: An Enemy of the PeopleMelbourne Festival: The Minotaur TrilogyMelbourne Festival: An Act of Now, Weather, DESH ~ theatre notes About TN Essays and interviews Witness: A new performance criticism website from Alison Croggon and Robert Reid. Online now. Search Theatre Notes ajcroggon at gmail dot com Dear Readers As some of you will already know, I've decided to close down Theatre Notes. It's a decision that's been staring m... Review: That Face Polly Stenham's That Face - famously written when she was 19 - is most often compared to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? - not lea... East: Elegy for the East End and its Energetic Waste by Steven Berkoff, directed by John Bolton, lighting by Toby Bolton. With Andre Jewso... Review: Queen Lear For the first thirty seconds I thought we were in for something special in Queen Lear . Robyn Nevin in the titular role, regally costumed in... Review: Jet of Blood Jet of Blood , adapted from Antonin Artaud, directed by Olivia Allen. Designed by Adam Gardnir, lighting by Luke Hails, sound by Hayley Forw... Interview: Franz Xaver Kroetz On Saturday evening, Hoy Polloy Theatre is presenting what is, unbelievably, the Australian premiere of Franz Xaver Kroetz's 1978 play, ... The Skriker by Caryl Churchill, directed and designed by Brian Lipson. Lighting by James Shuter, audio visual by Qiao Li, visual effects Ni... Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Julian Meyrick. Designed by Stephen Curtis, lighting by Matt Scott, composer Max Lyandvert. With... Review: The City/Bare Witness I'm loath to say this, for several reasons, but nevertheless: sometimes you have to point out the obvious. (In Ms TN's case, pointin... Phaedra's Love Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane, directed by Julie Waddington, design Julie Waddington and Luke Hails, sound by Nicholas Albanis. With B... Theatre Notes will remain here as an archive. The blog is fully searchable using the search box to the right, and there are browsable lists of all reviews since 2004 and of notable interviews and essays. Update, February 2013: After receiving an offer I couldn't refuse, I am now Performance Critic At Large (they said it) for ABC Arts Online. I'll be writing monthly reviews/essays throughout the year, which is pretty much perfect and is also, frankly, mega-cool. You can find my ABC Arts critical pieces here. And my poetry reviews and columns for Overland Journal are archived here. Posted by Alison Croggon at 1:04 pm Full post DiggIt! \| Del.icio.us As some of you will already know, I've decided to close down Theatre Notes. It's a decision that's been staring me in the face for a while now, and it's fair to say that I've been in furious denial for months. Having to finish up here makes me more sad than I can say. Making TN has been more rewarding than I ever imagined when I idly thought, back in 2004, that it might be an interesting idea to begin a theatre review blog. It's been my privilege and joy to chronicle the theatre I've seen over the past eight years, and to bear witness to what I am quite sure will be seen as one of the richest periods of Australia's theatre history. The reason is simple: I can't sustain the work of serious theatre criticism and also be a writer, without regularly slamming into the walls of exhaustion that have bedevilled me this year (and not only this year). It's a lamentable fact that writing doesn't get easier: it gets harder, as each new work demands that you reach further. I suspect the same is true of reviewing. I have always hated repeating myself, and aside from the works I'm already writing, the various projects I have in mind demand and deserve my proper attention. Despite all my flailing attempts to avoid it, I find that I have to make a choice: and it has to be for my own work. This hit me with particular force a month or so ago, when, wondering why I was (again) so deeply tired, I tallied up my wordcount for this year. In 2012 I have written, at a conservative estimate, around 180,000 words. Of those, about 120,000, or two-thirds, are words of criticism, the vast majority of it for TN. The rest are accounted for by a short novel I finished in June, another novel which I have now half completed, and two libretti. Numbers are crude and, in matters of creative output, often misleading: but staring at those figures (and also at the notebook in which I record my progress with my novels), I couldn't any more deny to myself that this blog interferes with my work. I've attempted to battle TN down to something sane, but I can't: TN is the kind of blog it is because of the hours it takes to make it. To turn it into a TN-lite would defeat its purpose more thoroughly than actually ceasing to do it. In the past few weeks I have gone over this decision again and again, and I always reach the same conclusion. It's painful but it's also right. Some people have suggested that perhaps I could find a way for TN to make money. But it's never been about the money: I've been able to afford to do it because of the income I made from my books. The resources that are most scarce are time and creative energy. A disbelieving colleague whom I told a couple of weeks ago said, Nah, you'll miss it too much. And I will. I really will. I'll miss the shows, I'll miss the challenge of thinking and writing about performance, I'll miss the whole damn thing. I've long thought the Melbourne theatre community, in its generosity and robust vitality, its argumentativeness and its curiosity, is something special. It's a huge and precious part of my life, and will no doubt continue to be so. However, if I'm part of it, I will be mostly be on the other side of the fence. I can't imagine that I'll cease criticism altogether, as that part of me continues restless; but it will be an art I pursue as a secondary practice. And, yes, I've learned through experience never to say never. But this is it for TN. Eight years is a nice, sacred number. If you turn it sideways, it means infinity: and it's true to say that this period of my life has been infinitely rich. I want to thank the theatre companies, here and interstate, who have supported TN over the years, and here I especially want to thank Michael Kantor and Stephen Armstrong at the Malthouse Theatre, who in the early days of blogging were miles ahead of the rest of the world, in actively encouraging the debate that happened here and in other theatre blogs around Melbourne. Thanks too to the many institutions who supported TN over the years, especially the Perth and Melbourne Festivals. My heart broke when I had to refuse a visit to the next Perth Festival in February, and yes, that was when I understood that I was serious. I must thank my family for routinely standing me up at the theatre doors and for patiently and sweetly supporting their obsessive mother and wife; my colleagues, both bloggers and print critics, and the countless TN commenters for the many stimulating and fascinating arguments; and most of all, the hundreds of artists who have given me so much delight and inspiration over so many years. And lastly, I want to thank you, the reader. There have been a lot of you: the total for unique visits to TN now stands at 1,250,050. That works out as an average of about 17,000 visits (or 23,000 page loads) a month over the past two years. Not bad for a determinedly local, specialist blog. Your interest made it all possible. Over the next few weeks I'll do some housekeeping, to make TN more useful as an archive and resource. Several people have suggested that I should put together a book of reviews and essays, and when I have caught my breath, I will think about doing so. (Publishers are welcome to flood me with offers.) In the meantime, dear friends, again thank you. I'll see you on the other side. With my love Posted by Alison Croggon at 12:27 pm Full post 60 comments DiggIt! \| Del.icio.us Review: Pompeii, LA Warning: here be spoilers From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reality for its own sake, the fetishism of the lost object: no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denial and of its own ritual extermination: the hyperreal.... Symbolic Exchange and Death, Jean Baudrillard America is burning. In Declan Greene's new play, Pompeii, LA, there is no reality except death. Everything that exists is simulation: LA is the imaginary city whose representation has become so much more real than the city itself that it has devoured its original referent. The City of Los Angeles evaporates in the toxic dream-machinery of Hollywood: all that remains are the volatilised hallucinations of corporate capital, in love with its own terrors, which it stages again and again on the dreaming screens of the American Empire. Earthquake, volcanic eruption, environmental desertification, murder, accident, psychic breakdown, economic disaster, the annihilation of meaning. What are you so afraid of? David Harrison, in Pompeii, LA. Photo: Pia Johnson Pompeii, LA is Greene's most ambitious work yet. Here are obsessions familiar from his earlier work - the apocalypse of the individual in Moth, the B-grade Hollywood camp of Little Mercy, the self-consuming fetishes of 21st century trash culture of A Black Joy. Green's discontinuous text is rendered through the spectacle of Matthew Lutton's direction to create a work of theatre that compellingly expresses, through a glass darkly, the present cultural moment. In the opening sequences, reality shifts from scene to scene, even from sentence to sentence, generating an increasing sense of vertigo as it becomes clear that there is no original "reality" from which these scenes depend, no ground on which this narrative can stand. The scenes are all "back stage", at first posing as the banal realities behind the fantasies of Hollywood: Judy Garland (Belinda McClory) in her dressing room with her make-up artist (Anna Samson); a cast rehearsing a scene from a disaster movie, in which one of the stars (Luke Ryan) storms out. Yet these scenes quickly lose their moorings: the make-up artist tells us a story about returning home to her murdered boyfriend (is it real or a story from television?); an older actor who has "paid his dues" (Greg Stone) enacts an uneasily hilarious monologue about love with a horrific subtext of paedophilia, which ends with him grotesquely kissing a television. Actors change costumes in front of us to become other characters, reality retreats into an infinitely receding hall of mirrors. Each moment is serially revealed as fantasy, leaving the audience nowhere to rest. The only thread linking these scenes is a constant iteration of dread: What are you so afraid of? Posted by Alison Croggon at 4:05 pm Full post 0 comments DiggIt! \| Del.icio.us Review: Wild Surmise, I am the Wind Last week I saw two adventures in theatrical poetry. Malthouse Theatre literally brought poetry into the theatre with Jane Montgomery Griffiths's and Marion Potts' theatricalisation of Dorothy Porter's poem-novel, Wild Surmise. Meanwhile, in the Collingwood Underground Carpark, young independent director Sapidah Kian gave us the Australian premiere of I Am The Wind, a recent work by one of the most poetic theatre writers alive, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Jane Montgomery Griffith in Wild Surmise. Photo: Pia Johnson As a result, I've been brooding about theatrical poetic for days. I've been wondering about writing and form and poetry and plays and everything. So first, a stumbling attempt to describe what I mean when I talk about poetic in the theatre. Theatre is an inherently poetic medium. An actor on a stage is not only herself, she is also like herself: she is herself and not herself, a breathing physical presence who is also translated into a metaphor. This doubleness, a simultaneous alienation and immediacy that operates in both the audience and the performer, is the tension that drives theatrical poetic. Shakespeare exploits this double knowledge when he has Edgar lead the blind Gloucester to the edge of an imaginary cliff in Lear, knowing his audience will be as moved by the exposed pretence - there is no cliff, only a bare stage - as much as by Gloucester's inward transformation. In this famous scene, Shakespeare exposes the mechanics of theatrical imagination as brutally as any writer of the post-modern stage: he foregrounds the consciousness of a reality created entirely by language, designed to be enacted; and at the same time, through exposing the tricks of the stage itself, he questions the very provenance of that language. Likewise, Beckett, surely among the most stringent poets of the stage, never lost sight of theatre's metaphorical engine, the stark image of humanity that is an actor on a stage in front of an audience. Every line of Beckett's works as simultaneous critique and exposure of these theatrical and ontological realities. These realities are represented, the process through which art alienates a thing from itself so it becomes like itself, and at the same time are enacted in the present moment as an immediate reality. (HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!) So, that was a blast Despite Melbourne's uncertain spring, Ms TN had a most excellent adventure at the 2012 Melbourne Festival, Brett Sheehy's last before he takes up the reins as AD of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Sheehy opted to go out with a bang: general agreement dubbed this his best festival so far. An important part of this success was the Festival Hub by Princes Bridge, which provided the social heart an event like this needs: a multicoloured purpose-built three-storey structure with a cheap bar, food and entertainment, it was packed out every time I went. If you check out the archives for October, you'll see why I enjoyed myself. Part of the festival experience is missing the show that everyone else declares The Thing, and there was a bit of that. But even so, I saw work that, that like The Rabble's Orlando, inspired passionate response, or addressed profound contemporary anxiety, like Schaubühne Berlin's An Enemy of the People, or prompted intense debate, such as with Chunky Move's An Act of Now. The program was various and exciting, reaching into Melbourne's independent performance scene: Dancehouse's fascinating minimalist season, Dance Territories and Arena Theatre's gorgeous fantasy house for children jostled against international works like Williams Forsythe's far from minimalist I Don't Believe in Outer Space, to create a sense of depth as well as breadth. I wasn't so enamoured of the contemporary opera, The Minotaur Trilogy and After Life; but, as always, not everyone agreed with me. It's been a while since I've had such interesting and demanding discussions about performance, which is a tribute to the program: it generated an energy and engagement that I associate with the most successful festivals. Thanks to all of those who came along for the ride on TN, or who buttonholed me offline for arguments over a bevvie or three. It's been a blast. For me, October was a holiday, albeit a rather exhausting one: I let everything else drop and was just a Crrritic for three weeks. I'm still a bit beat, truth be told (but in a good way). Now I'm back at my desk, in novel mode: the current novel is perhaps half written, and I would dearly love to finish it by the end of the year. That means at least another 40,000 words. So it's back to my (so far spectacularly unsuccessful) balancing act. Even so, I'll be aiming to post a review a week here, if the mind/body/spirit complex co-operates. Onward! Posted by Alison Croggon at 10:40 am Full post 0 comments DiggIt! \| Del.icio.us Melbourne Festival: Dance Territories Melbourne Festival Diary #10 After three weeks of full-on performance, Dance Teritories was a refreshing return to the basics: a stage, a performer, an audience. Dance Territories presented four works over two double bills, curated from both local and international artists. Program 1 was Perrine Valli's Ma Cabane au Canada & Série and Sandra Parker's Transit. For my last night out for the festival, I saw Program 2, which consisted of Swiss artist Cindy Van Acker's Fractie and Australian dancer Matthew Day's Thousands. Rigorous, austere, riveting, these are performances which mercilessly expose the human body. Cindy Van Acker's Fractie: Dance Territories Introducing this program, Dancehouse artistic director Angela Conquet invokes the precept "less is more", quoting the modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. For all its modernist roots, it's clear that this is work that has a contemporary urgency, turning its back on the spectacle and consumerist excess that circumscribes so much of contemporary experience. This has a pragmatic aspect that reaches into the political: Matthew Day speaks of minimalism as a sustainable practice, as a reminder of how little one needs to make a performance. "Simplicity is not only an aesthetic value," says Conquet. "It is a moral perception." Minimalist aesthetic creates work that, while it can't escape representation, is nevertheless a direct challenge to its assumptions. What happens when everything is stripped back? Sometimes, as with the work of Jérôme Bel or Samuel Beckett, an inexplicable joyousness. Sometimes, as with Lucinda Childs' and Philip Glass's Dance, an irresistible, even violent, possession by the present moment. In the performances of Van Acker and Day, we're invited into a direct, unmediated contemplation of the human body, here exposed to physical stresses that at times seem unbearable, but which, through their intensity and focus, become utterly compelling. Melbourne Festival: Before Your Very Eyes, The House of Dreaming Melbourne Festival Diary #9 We're heading towards the end of the festival, which closes on Saturday, and Ms TN is feeling, truth be told, rather ragged. On the one hand, devoting myself to a single activity rather than the several which usually occupy me is something of a holiday (although the copyedit for the US edition of Black Spring is sitting on my desk, looking reproachful and reminding me of other duties). On the other, this has been a consuming festival which has generated a lot of intense conversation, both offline over post-show drinks and kitchen tables, and online, as you will see if you look at the comments beneath An Enemy of the People and An Act of Now. This passionate engagement is the quality I most associate with a successful festival, and the 2012 Melbourne Festival has had it in spades. Before Your Very Eyes: Gob Squad/CAMPO My Regrets of This Week are missing Young Jean Lee's We're Gonna Die and Merlyn Quaife performing Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, of which I hear good things: but let's face it, you can't be everywhere. Or anywhere, sometimes. This week I dipped my toe into another strong strand of this year's festival: the presence of children. With Gob Squad and CAMPO's Before Your Very Eyes, seven young people created theatre for adults. In Arena Theatre's The House of Dreaming (as well as Polyglot's How High The Sky, which I didn't see) theatre was made by adults for children. That taking theatre for children seriously is crucial to the artform ought to go without saying; but it's been a point often lost in our mainstream programming, which has lagged seriously behind Europe in its focus on young people. This, as Age critic Cameron Woodhead observes, is now changing. Back in 2008, when CAMPO were called Victoria, they brought a beautiful show to Melbourne, That Night Follows Day. Directed by Forced Entertainment's Tim Etchells, this was the second part of a trilogy in which Victoria/CAMPO collaborated with different artists to create shows in which children performed for adults. Before Your Very Eyes is the third part, a collaboration this time with the German/English collective Gob Squad. Developed over three years, Before Your Very Eyes takes advantage of how rapidly children change as they get older: there's a radical developmental difference, for example, between seven and 10, or 14 and 17. The long development permitted the company to enact encounters between older and younger selves, which betrays the meticulous level of planning that underlies this show. Melbourne Festival: An Enemy of the People I woke the morning after seeing the Schaubühne Berlin's production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People seething with a burning, undirected anger. I don't know what I had been dreaming: but I think this play named something accurately enough to blow those embers - of disillusion, impotence, political alienation, whatever - into a white heat. Some flame in me leapt up: yes, I thought, that's how it is. It's just like that. Stefan Stern as Dr Stockmann in An Enemy of the People, Schaubühne Berlin Is An Enemy of the People a revolutionary production? No: but it's about a certain kind of revolution that has always emerged from the intellectual bourgeoisie. Does it draw any conclusions, offer any program for the redress of the ills that the play analyses? No. Will it make its audiences rush to the barricades? I doubt it: it's only a play, after all, not a manifesto. But it is political in a very interesting way that profoundly implicates and exhilarates its audience. If political theatre is, as Brecht believed, about illuminating a situation so that it is possible to reflect fruitfully upon our place in it, then this is certainly political theatre. The only Thomas Ostermeier production I've seen is his 2005 version of Hedda Gabler, which was performed at last year's Melbourne Festival. I found it disappointing, for several reasons: perhaps the major disappointment was its deliberate affectlessness, which amounted almost to cynicism. As I said at the time, "Ibsen's play becomes a scathing miniature, a portrait of an emotionally numbed, intellectually trivial bourgeoisie... Hedda and the gang are symbols merely, flattened-out representations of the conscious heartlessness of the middle classes, absorbed in their trivial pursuits as they turn their faces from the blood on the walls." What bothered me was that there was nothing at stake. Here again Ostermeier is concerned with the middle classes - as Jana Perkovic observes, in her must-read response to the Berlin production, he is quintessentially a director of and for the middle classes. But this production cuts much deeper than easy caricacture. It revitalises naturalism, pulling on its original power to implicate its audience in self-recognition. In Hedda Gabler, this for me came close to avant garde David Williamson: in An Enemy of the People, the implication of the audience in the reality on stage was a whole lot more complex and direct. Ostermeier has a cast of exceptional actors, whose detailed performances generate a complex texture of argument: no character, not even the smooth, swift-talking politician, is simply reducible to symbolic moral significance. There is much to say about the production, which is beautifully realised in many ways: but here I want to concentrate on the ideas that animate it. Posted by Alison Croggon at 2:05 pm Full post 22 comments DiggIt! \| Del.icio.us Melbourne Festival: The Minotaur Trilogy Festival Diary #7 Chamber Made Opera's innovative series of Living Room Operas - small-scale opera performances commissioned as site-specific works and performed in private houses - has produced some of the more interesting work I've seen over the past few years. Works such as Daniel Schlusser's Ophelia Doesn't Live Here Any More and Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey's beautifully judged Dwelling Structure opened out and questioned domestic space in fascinating and sometimes disturbing ways; Another Lament, a collaboration with Rawcus, successfully made the difficult transition from domestic space to theatre when it transferred to the Malthouse earlier this year. The Minotaur Trilogy: Chamber Made Opera But relocating a site-specific performance is a tricky and delicate business which materially changes the nature of the work. The Minotaur Trilogy, which premiered as a tripartite work as part of the Melbourne Festival, demonstrates how problematic this can be. I saw the first part of David Young and Margaret Cameron's trilogy, Island, back in 2011, in the living room of a St Kilda Road apartment. Parts two and three, The Labyrinth and The Boats, are extensions of the original idea, here shown together for the first time. The Minotaur Trilogy is in three parts of 49 minutes each, punctuated by 20 minute intervals, to make a work that lasts for three hours altogether. This makes it, among other things, a durational work: the audience is asked to spend time with the six performers, and further, to be aware of that time. Durational theatre can be deeply rewarding, but in this case for me it simply became an exercise in impatience. Repetition that plays off variations on minimal themes can pay off in two ways: it can deepen and enrich - perhaps the classic example of this is Bach's Goldberg Variations - or it can deaden and impoverish. Here, sadly, I just felt deadened. The Melbourne Recital Centre's Salon, an intimate, wood-panelled performance space with near-perfect acoustics, is a very different proposition to a living room. It's a much larger space, for a start, and it mercilessly exposes everything: music, performance, design, choreography. In a living room, with the performers less than three feet away, the domestic context gave Part 1, Island, a playful, improvised quality that infused the performances with a certain humility: the found nature of the props and costumes - hats made from pencil cases and handbags, worn bits of driftwood - was foregrounded, and the sense of discovering ritual and myth within the ordinary and everyday was palpable. Performed in the round, with a new distance not only between the performers but between the performers and the audience, these qualities melted away, leaving in their wake an uncomfortable sense of archness. Melbourne Festival: An Act of Now, Weather, DESH Even off the plan, the strongest aspect of the 2012 Melbourne Festival was always the dance. It's a feeling borne out in the performances I've seen: William Forsythe's I Don't Believe in Outer Space was the first knockout, and these three works - Chunky Move's An Act of Now, Akram Khan's DESH and Lucy Guerin Inc's Weather - further demonstrate the vitality, reach and power of contemporary dance. An Act of Now, Chunky Move. Photo: Jeff Busby I've been dithering for several days about how to write about them. Dance, and especially dance of this calibre, often has that effect: you can't hide behind words, even if words are present in the performance, because what matters is movement, gesture, living bodies in space, the performance itself. Critical response becomes, even more than usual, an impossible act of translation, an attempt to interpret the wordless body into written language. Maybe part of this stuttering is overload: when you think of the complexities - the sheer volumes of sensual and intellectual information, the emotional intensities - that attend a really interesting performance, it's ridiculous to think you can even begin to understand it in a few hours. Sometimes covering a festival feels like trying to process War & Peace five times a week. Which is to say, one is always face to face with one's own failure. I'm no closer to a solution, perhaps because there isn't one: but reviews are beginning to bank up, whingeing is not to the purpose and I'd had better square my jaw, akimbo my elbows and get on with it. Either that, or stop going to festivals and begin a Slow Art movement. I don't know how you young people do it. An Act of Now is Anouk van Dijk's first work as the new artistic director of Chunky Move, and she has certainly arrived with a flourish. I've only seen one other work of van Dijk's: an extraordinary collaboration with the contemporary German playwright Falk Richter, Trust, at the 2011 Perth Festival. At the time, I was struck by the strangely oneiric effect of her choreography: her rhythms and movement often seem counter-intuitive, gracefulness turning back on itself to create complex, often violent, forms of collapse and reformation. As I was watching Trust, something in the movement of the dancers seemed to creep deep into my subconscious and inhabit it, in unsettling ways that felt akin, if not quite the same as, an experience of lucid dreaming. The same thing happened in An Act of Now, a completely different kind of work, which made me think that it wasn't simply an accident of my subjectivity.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13166
__label__wiki	0.57483	0.57483	Player Analysis Part 3 – The Defensive Midfielder… …Or Hunting the Mythical Beast An interesting, mysterious creature the defensive midfielder. It’s existence is known to us. Sightings are reported with some regularity. But acceptance and knowledge are two very different things. For what do we really know about the DMC apart from the fact that it tends to make it’s home somewhere in between the defensive and midfield lines? Ultimately our vein attempts to catergorize and catalogue the defensive midfielder are scuppered by the sheer range of intraspecies variation. Some appear to be very comfortable in their own half and rarely enter enemy territory, others are more aggressive. Some run head long into their prey whilst others are more cautious, cunning, they bide their time and strike when success is guaranteed. And some seem to be at the heart of all action, controlling the pack, whilst others, well, you’d barely know they were there. A mysterious creature indeed, the defensive midfielder. (My Pulitzer Nomination for Creative Writing can be e-mailed via the contact link at the bottom of the page) Nevertheless, our pursuit for the next generation of world beaters must carry on regardless, and so we’ll use some accepted categories of defensive midfielder to realise our noble goals. We’ll discuss and define these categories along the way but before we do it’s worth giving some justification/explanation for the finalised list of players. Entering into this exercise relatively ignorant of the intricacies incumbent to the DMC role I simply scrabbled through the data looking for players classified as DMC and picking out the ones with promising numbers. Foolish, foolish methodologies. The outcome, as can be seen in the final tables is the inclusion of players that are not strictly DMC’s – statistic sites characterise them with the DMC tag but they really aren’t. Unfortunately, removing such players from the list is a surprisingly tricky activity and so in there tghey will remain. I’ll probably recycle them when it comes to looking at Central Midfielders but they won’t be mentioned much more in this piece. And so I have picked out the four players that are most promising in the defensive midfield position. Here’s the Player Analysis model, click on the DMC tab to see the results. If you haven’t used the Tableau Framework before, take a look at my first piece on Full Backs ( here ) for explanation (but it’s pretty easy to get the hang of, just click around a bit). The Stopper – Saul Niguez The first type of defensive midfielder is perhaps the easiest to understand. The stopper, or the destroyer – if you want to get all dramatic about it, is put on a football pitch with the soul purpose of breaking up attacks. He will have pace, strength and good tackling abilities. Arial ability is a plus but other technical skills are only a bonus. My choice for this position would the Spanish U21 international Saul Niguez. The 19 year old Atletico Madrid player spent last season on loan at Rayo Vallecano where he impressed enough people to have reportedly caught they eye of Everton, Liverpool and Manchester United scouts. No wonder when you can do stuff like this: Statistically speaking Niguez looks like a stopper; in terms of attacking and passing stats he commonly finds himself at the lower end of the spectrum, but when it comes to defence he excels. He blitzed all competition in terms of his contribution to his teams per game defensive actions: On average, he was responsible for 17% of Vallecano’s defensive actions per game. His nearest competition was Felipe Gutierrez (12.9%) and Niguez was only just behind the average contribution of the centrebacks studied last week (17.9%). It should come as no surprise then, that the young Spaniard also dwarfed the competition for per game Defensive Contributions: This is interesting considering Vallecano were one of the most possession oriented teams in La Liga (commonly enjoying 59.5% of the ball), suggesting the opportunities for contributing defensively were less frequent than for some of the other players on the list. There is a small cause for concern with regards to his tackle success %; At 37% success, Niguez finds himself near the bottom of the table for tackle success but it can be argued that his seemingly superior ability to intercept and his obvious work rate make up for it. Plus, at only 19, there is still time for improvement. Market Value: £6.6 Mil The Carrier – Ruben Pardo What is a Carrier? Think Yaya Toure, Fernandino or, to a lesser extent, Modric. These are deep lying midfielders that have the ability to make late runs or carry the ball at there feet and disrupt the opposition’s shape. This is the kind of box to box midfielder that has defensive duties but also has permission to relinquish them in favour of joining the attack. There were a couple of candidates in the list that could be defined as a Carrier but the one who shone the most was Real Sociedad’s Ruben Pardo: 2013 was Ruben Pardo’s break out year. Having played his way into the Sociedad first team, he is now a staple of their midfield. And long may he remain because his stats are pretty impressive. Where to begin… …lets go for passing. Of the 6 players in the list who played the majority of their games last season in a DMC role, Pardo made the highest number of short passes per game (36) and was the most accurate passer (85.5%): And of the same group of players, he attempted the second largest number of Long Balls per game (7) and was the second most accurate with them (70%): For passing overall, Pardo was the 5th highest Passes pG contributor in the entire list and the highest of the stricly DMC players: He made the most of all this passing too. His Chances Created per Game rate of 1.3 was the joint third highest rate in the list (he was equal to Paul Pogba). But more impressively, he was the only player in the entire list that had a positive European z-score for Assists per game: This means that Pardo’s Assist per Game rate was 1 standard deviation better than the average rate of the 50 top midfielders (all midfielders – not just DMCs!!) in the top 6 European leagues. Pretty impressive, but that is only my second favourite thing about young Ruben Pardo. My favourite thing is the fact that it’s damn near impossible to get the ball off the slippery bugger. The graph below plots how many times each player turns the ball over in a game against the number of times they get dispossessed: As you can see, he only gets dispossessed once every other game and hell has to freeze before he turns the ball over. It should come as no surprise then that he was the only player n the list to turn the ball over at a slower rate than the top 50 midfielders: For those who are starting to get envious of this young man’s impressive skills and shiny dark hair, it may please you to know that Ruben Pardo is not without his flaws. Defensively speaking he isn’t the most active. In fact, out of all the players he made the fewest defensive actions per game and with the second lowest tackle success rate (36%) he is not the best tackler. But, then again, nor is Yaya Toure… Market Value: £8.8m The Regista – Johannes Geis This is perhaps the kind of Defensive Midfielder that gets the most recognition thanks to, in part, the recent work by players like Andrea Pirlo. In defining the Regista I can do no better than Ogo Sylla in his piece ( here ) that provided my education in classifying defensive midfielders: The regista is an Italian football term that means ‘deep-lying playmaker’. He is a highly technical defensive midfielder, unlike the destroyer, whose primary attributes are offensive one, i.e. Luka Modric. Unlike the defensive midfielder however, the holding midfielder has the luxury and willingness to roam a little farther up the pitch. This of course sounds contradictory to the function of the position, where protecting the defense is the first priority. But the regista is capable of fulfilling this function too, albeit not through physicality and athleticism like the destroyer. As his role’s type might imply, the regista mainly ‘holds’ his position in front of the defense and opportunistically makes key interceptions to cut out opposition threats. For this prestigious role, I picked out Mainz 05’s 20 year old starlet Johannes Geis. The problem is, though, I am not convinced that Regista is the correct title for him, there seems to be too much to his game to give him that label: It’s a pretty little video compilation, that’s for sure, but it doesn’t really tell us much about who, or what, Johannes Geis is (in footballing existential parlance). The problem is, I don’t know if I can do much better. I’ll try… From the clips we can see he, like Pirlo, can pull the fancy pass out of his pocket at the drop of a hat, and the stats tend to agree – he attempted more Long Balls and Crosses per game: Although he wasn’t particularly successful with the Long Balls, his Cross Success Rate was the second highest: All these technical passes paid dividends. He created a hell of a lot more chances than the rest of the players on the list… …and so, unsurprisingly, had a European z-score of 1.3 standard deviations better than the average of the 50 best chance creating midfielders in Europe: His overall pass success wasn’t great (75%), but only Pardo and Baselli gave the ball away less than Geis: All this would amount to a very desirable Regista. Problem is, though, there’s more. For one thing, he is clearly willing to bomb on and get a shot off. The graph below plots Shots on Target against Shot per Game: We can see that Geis wasn’t as accurate as Ruben Pardo, but he got into shooting positions a lot more frequently. So is there a hint of Carrier in Geis, a Registarrier, if you will? If so it would be a fair assumption that perhaps, like Carriers, Geis’s defensive numbers are detrimentally affected. No such luck. Geis made on average 10% of Mainz’s per game defensive actions – this is the fifth highest percentage in the list and 6.4% better than Pardo. The only sensible conclusion we can therefore reach is that Geis can be in more than one place at once, as the graph below plotting per game Attacking Contributions against per Game Defensive Contributions seems to show: If Johannes Geis isn’t imbued with some form of latent teleportational ability then he is an extremely hard working young footballer who is capable of drawing from a extensive set of tools in many areas of the pitch. This is why it would be hard to give him the label of Regista. That is not to say he couldn’t perform the role, or that such a tag is below him, or that he is some new breed of footballer. Perhaps it’s best to say that Johannes Geis is an extremely special talent that is, for now, unlable-able. Market Value: 7.04m The Volante – Daniele Besalli Sometimes, when you do something right, people won’t know you’ve done anything at all. If a phrase could some up the role of the Volante that, my friends is it. I’ve saved this one till last as it’s perhaps my favourite role in football. It’s still relatively understated and glossed over role, but behind the veil of the game, it can be the Volante (a Brazilian footballing term that loosely translates to steering-wheel) that makes all the difference. The Volante is the team’s metronome. He does nothing spectacular but at the same time can be the most important player on the pitch – he protects his defence and is first point of reference for moving play forward from the back. My choice for this position is Atalanta’s young star Daniele Baselli: (not much video content on the lad out there) Interestingly, Baselli has recently been touted as a possible future replacement for Pirlo but, judging by the stats, I don’t think he is going to be a Regista – his attacking contributions are relatively low and his passing style seems to be based around the short game (the average Atalanta pass length last season was 19m, Baselli’s was 17m), and what agood short game he plays. Of the five strictly DMC players in the list, Baselli played the second highest number of short passes per game and had the highest pass success rate: Defensively speaking, he wasn’t the most active – with one of the lowest defensive contribution numbers – but his tackle success rate (50%) was third highest: Finally, one of the key abilities of a Volante is ball retention – after winning possession in your own final third, there is always a risk of succumbing to residual pressure from an advanced forward line, so a cool head who can play the ball out of congested areas is a useful weapon. Baselli could very well fit the bill here as, like Ruben Pardo, the young Italian is particularly hard to dispossess: Looking at the overall model I think that Baselli tends to be overshadowed by others in most areas. But I think, in that respect, the model acts as a form of allegorical microcosm for the wider world of football – where players with individual aspects of brilliance in their game garner more attention than those who a more well-rounded. Players like Baselli aren’t always in the spotlight, they don’t commonly make defence splitting passes, perform crunching tackles or score awe-inspiring goals (the above free kick video accepted). They are readers of the game who act when called upon or otherwise go diligently about their off-ball duties. The 22 year old probably won’t mature into a Pirlo, or a Toure but he could become a Carrick, or a De Rossi. Next time, The Wide Men… Man Utd Player Analysis Real Madrid Transfer Market	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13167
__label__cc	0.735076	0.264924	Voter Fraud Facts Stats, Facts, and Myths on Voter Fraud in the US Voter Fraud Basics Types of Voter Fraud Voter Supression Voter Intimidation Voter Fraud 2012 Voter Fraud Statistics Voter Fraud Myths Voter Fraud By Group ACORN Voter Fraud Republican Voter Fraud Republican Voter Fraud in Florida Republican Voter Fraud in North Carolina Voter ID Laws Voter ID Facts States with Voter ID Laws Alabama Voter ID Law Florida Voter ID Law Georgia Voter ID Law Indiana Voter ID Law Kansas Voter ID Law Mississippi Voter ID Law Ohio Voter ID Law Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Rhode Island Voter ID Law South Carolina Voter ID Law Tennessee Voter ID Law Texas Voter ID Law Virginia Voter ID Law Wisconsin Voter ID Law News and Opinion on Voter Fraud Voting Rights Act of 1965 Rent-a-Voter: Election Fraud Legal in Texas Voting in Alabama Just Got Harder Electronic Voter Fraud: Cause for Concern? Guilty Verdict in Alabama Voter Fraud Case. What Happened? Voter-ID Affects Less Than 1% of Fraud President Obama Speaks on Voting Rights Act of 1965 Texas Voter ID Law Struck Down Arizona Gerrymandering Case, Supreme Court Sides with Voters Woodlands Voter Fraud Conviction Overturned South Dakota Voter Fraud Case: Overkill Conviction Election Official Voter Fraud – Philadelphia Online Voter Registration Available in 20 States British Expats Not Receiving Ballots Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Against Alabama Redistricting Mandatory Voting Opinions Democracy Restoration Act Mandatory Voting What is VoterFraudFacts.com? Voter News and Opinion Voting Basics Voting Laws Featured Fact Between 2000 and 2010 there were 649 million votes cast in general elections and 13 cases of in-person voter impersonation. The official reason given for passing Voter ID laws is to prevent in-person voter fraud. That doesn't sound right to us either, that is why we created VoterFraudFacts.com. On Tuesday June 1st, Annette Bosworth’s trial commenced in a South Dakota voter fraud case. On Wednesday June 2nd, she was convicted of six counts of filing a false document and six counts of perjury. Okay, that sounds pretty bad right? It is. These are all felony charges. She faces 24 years in prison, $48,000 in fines, and could lose her license to practice medicine. Okay, that sounds really bad! So what exactly did Annette do? The Facts About the South Dakota Voter Fraud Case Annette Bosworth is a mother, wife, physician, and was born in South Dakota. In 2013 she became interested in running for U.S. Senate for the Republican Party in South Dakota. To be on the ballet in South Dakota, you must meet a long list of requirements and collect petition signatures from supporters. So she placed the petition on the front desk at her clinic. Then disaster struck in the Philippines and Annette traveled with a Christian medical relief team to provide assistance, leaving the petition on the clinic desk to collect petitions. When she returned, six more signatures had been added to the petition (all six are from real live eligible voters). Once she had collected all the signatures she needed, she turned in the documents. She also alleges that a campaign employee had advised her that the requirement that to witness all the signatures was not something that was taken seriously in South Dakota. This was clearly bad advice. These facts were never in dispute. Annette is guilty of fraud and during the course of this case has never denied that she did not personally witness those six signatures. Why didn’t she just plead guilty? Probably because she was being charge with 12 felony charges. All the evidence seems to indicate that this was an honest mistake on Annette’s part. Unfortunately, Jury’s are not asked to judge if the charges are too significant for the offense and they are not expected to weigh the penalties of conviction against the crime. They are simply expected to decide if someone committed the crime they are charged with. After more than three hours of deliberation, and given the facts, the Jury had no real option other than to find her guilty. Attorney General Marty Jackley believes that, “the jury has sent a message that our elections in South Dakota are sacred and that the election process is important,” a sentiment that is supported by most. Elections are, in a way, sacred and the election process is obviously important. But, in this case, does the punishment fit the crime? Annette and her attorney plan to appeal the conviction, and depending on the outcome, she will then have to await sentencing. She faces a felony record, up to 24 years in prison, up to $48,000 in fines, and could lose her license to practice medicine. It is unlikely that a Judge would impose jail time given that this is a non-violent crime, but she could still lose her medical license which threatens the well being of her entire family. Tendency Towards Passivity or Overkill: Voter Fraud Talking Points Voting is an essential element in democracy and, thus, preventing and prosecuting voter fraud is fundamentally important. Over the last few years, Voter Fraud political talking points has been pervasive in US media. The right shouts, “Voter fraud is destroying our democracy!” and the left replies, “Voter fraud is not real.” The truth is that voter fraud is real and it is important to prevent. The truth is that we must protect the elections process. However, it is also true that serious acts of voter fraud are not common and they are not destroying our democracy (at least not right now). What may be threatening our democracy: the inability of our elected officials to have rational dialogue about important issues and work together to solve problems. Annette Bosworth’s case offers a good metaphorical mirror to the overall voter fraud debate. The crime is real and the actions taken to address the crime are overkill. Erin Georgen I am a graphic designer, small business owner, writer, artist, and parent... among a million other things. Finding ways to be more involved in things that are important to me is something I strive for, both personally and professionally. This is why I became involved with voterfraudfacts.com. The preventing voter fraud and improving voter access are both extremely important issues that effect all Americans. Even if you chose not to participate in the election process, you are still depending on a fair and balanced process to be accessible for the more civic minded within your community. 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__label__cc	0.652571	0.347429	Category Champions Grocery – Food Grocery – Non Food Big Night In Halloween & Bonfire Night OTC & Winter Remedies Meet The Marketer Who’s Who in Wholesaling Media Pack / Features List / About Wholesale Manager – The news magazine for the UK wholesale and cash & carry industry DECEMBER DIGITAL EDITION – Prepare the way for changes NOVEMBER DIGITAL EDITION – Food industry is thriving OCTOBER DIGITAL EDITION – Tech’s here but talent’s vital SEPTEMBER DIGITAL EDITION – Lord of the wholesalers Food & Drink Logistics Report 2019 AllDrinksGrocery – FoodGrocery – Non FoodProduct NewsThe Warehouse Pernod Ricard UK welcomes the new decade by inviting communities to… WKD to Launch ‘Dark Fruit’ Variant Strongbow Launches Its First Ultra Low Alcohol Variant – Strongbow Dark… Walkers Max Announces Biggest Ever Campaign & Three Bold New Launches Home Special Reports Mintel Report – Sugar confectionery Over the last few years, the market for sugar confectionery, chewing gum and mints has experienced mixed fortunes, with some sectors benefiting from innovation (ie chewing gum), while the wider market has seen a more sluggish performance. Sales of sugar confectionery and gum are increasingly being influenced by the healthier lifestyles that are slowly being adopted by British adults and children. Consequently, consumption of many sugar and gum lines is stable at best, and at worst is seeing a decline in retail sales. While interest in premium and, more recently, higher-quality, ie natural, products have helped boost sales, the sector is faced with a series of challenges that will require radical thinking if they are to be overcome. The market for sugar confectionery and gum has seen sales growth of an estimated 7% between 2004-09, which is equivalent to an 11% decrease when inflation is removed. This is despite manufacturers re-focusing their activities to stimulate interest from consumers. Innovation has been a crucial area, and was instrumental in revitalising the fortunes of the chewing gum market in 2007. Elsewhere, in segments such as gums and jellies, the rollout of new products and flavours has proved equally successful. Overall, however, the market has not performed as strongly as competitors such as chocolate confectionery or ‘healthier’ snacks such as cereal bars. Health concerns remain an important factor, with a growing number of consumers trying to eat more healthily. While this is leading to strong sales for rival products, such as cereal bars, it is also helping to stimulate innovation within sugar confectionery. Sugar-free confectionery products have made steady progress in the market, and there has been a growth in the use of natural flavourings and removal of artificial ingredients. In terms of distribution, convenience is at the heart of many sugar confectionery and gum purchases, with the importance of the grocery multiples assuring their prominence as the main channel. These outlets command some 44% of all sales. The impulse nature of the product is also significant, benefiting outlets such as petrol station forecourts, which command a further 13% of sales. Mintel’s exclusive research illustrates how the love affair between consumers and sugar confectionery and gum may be in decline. Even amongst children (aged 7-10) heavy consumption is dropping back. Despite this, confectionery remains popular with a wide swathe of the adult population, with particular age groups showing peaks in their preference for particular products, for example, women and under-45s for sweets, under-25s for gum and over-64s for mints. There is a close association between travelling/driving and eating sweets – some six in ten adults eat sweets on a journey, which could provide more opportunities for impulse purchasing before an outing. Watching TV or attending the cinema or a sports game are also occasions when people like to eat sweets, also highlighting potential for sharing packs – more than two fifths of adults like to share sweets with friends or family. However, when it comes to chewing gum and mints, oral hygiene is much more to the fore. Freshening breath is the primary benefit or reason to use (for seven in ten adults), followed by cleansing the palate or cleaning teeth. Looking to the future, growth to 2014 is forecast to be less strong than in the past for the sugar confectionery sector. Meanwhile, innovation in chewing gum which helped to rejuvenate what was a stagnant market in 2007, is expected to grow most strongly up to 2014. Mints are in serious decline as they have an older user base that is giving up sweets as they pay more attention to their health. TracKing – the power of one source! It pays to do your homework in and around the loading bay Culina and SHS Group announce joint venture in Ireland Welcome to this issue, where there is much food for thought to deal with seismic changes to come, which if ignored poses threats to... Pernod Ricard UK welcomes the new decade by inviting communities to... Strongbow Launches Its First Ultra Low Alcohol Variant – Strongbow Dark... Right up Your Street: Urban Eat Spices up Its Portfolio SWA marks 80th anniversary with focus on sustainability and training Pukka Unveils New Packaging to Help Retailers Unlock Full Potential for... Monster Energy given tropical twist with two new launches Wholesale Manager is a monthly magazine which is distributed to senior buyers, directors, managers and other decision makers within the UK wholesale and cash and carry industry. These individuals represent all the major companies in the UK wholesale sector. © 2020 Wholesale Manager. All rights reserved. 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__label__cc	0.747545	0.252455	Washington Mnemonic .: Home :. SEGA - Alien: Isolation Chris Roberts - Star Citizen Performance Designed Products Razer "Nabu" SmartBand Bethesda's 'BattleCry' Photos and videos may not be reposted or broadcast without the expressed written permission or license from Washington Mnemonic, and must attribute washington-mnemonic.com as the source. Validate XHTML 1.0 Strict and Css 12 June 2014 \| Written by Maxxum One year since the debutante of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at E3 2013, it was the developers' time for the spotlight as new releases were highlighted, and upcoming titles teased for the gaming community. It's expected that the marketing agencies for each developer will try to out perform themselves at each E3, but this year their efforts were more inventive than I've seen in previous years. Wargming.net, whose advertising campaign is visible above the din of almost every booth at every event at which I've seen them present, was the 800lb booth gorilla with Twitch live streaming, around-the-clock giveaways, a Matrix-style photobooth, unique free swag, air conditioned & sound-proofed interview rooms, and of course a tank crushing a car: One could almost forget that E3 takes place in Los Angeles because so much time is spent by attendees in the Staples Center, the area immediately surrounding the complex, or their hotel. Despite available public transportation, there's no incentive to leave the area to see the rest of the city at night if it means being too tired the next day to work, or stand in line for swag. That's one of the ugly sides of E3. Speak to regular attendees and they'll you that gratuitous marketing is the other side. It's true for the most part; beyond the celebration of gaming the goal of exhibitors is to make money. As adults we know that Santa isn't real; I try to look at E3 the same way I looked at Christmas as a child before I realized that mall elves are little people who make minimum wage and don't actually know the way to the North Pole. It helps if you have the right camera angles to add perspective: It's not difficult to find people at E3 who still feel that gaming can add beautiful color to the lines our imaginations draw. After a little conversation (often with the person standing next to you in a swag line) the shields come down, and you can find the smiles that are prevented by professionalism whether they be by exhibitors, attendees, or presenters. A note about the last category, Patrick McIntyre, who was one of the co-hosts for the Wargaming.net booth, gave me the Wargaming.net lapel pin off his shirt because I collect them and I asked where he got it. This wasn't part of the show, there was no grandstanding ... just a simple "here you go" before closing. It was an unexpected and sincere action, and a part of why I don't see E3 as only a marketing cavalcade. This year I came early and stayed late so I could see more of Los Angeles than I usually do (9 days vs 3). Ally pushed me into seeing the Griffith Observatory, a location I was hesitant to visit because it has to do with space and reminds me of something that I may never get to see (e.g. the rest of galaxy from the inside of a spaceship), but after spending an hour on the grounds I had to admit that we get good views down here as well: End of line. Photos by Maxxum Copyright © 2012 washington-mnemonic.com. Design by kty studio-plume.org.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13183
__label__wiki	0.873156	0.873156	The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Etranges Libellule \| Oct 21, 2008 (US) Images(10) Developer: Etranges Libellule Publisher: Vivendi Games Genre: Platform In the final chapter of the trilogy, players find Sypro teaming up with an unlikely ally - Cynder, his former enemy, to face his most challenging mission to date. As the Dark Master's evil envelopes the world like a plague, Spyro must fulfill his destiny and unlock the true power of the purple dragon within him to stop the Dark Master in his tracks. The game introduces two never before seen elements into the Spyro universe: Spyro can now fly at any time and players can drop-in/drop-out with the new cooperative feature. The co-op feature allows players to have the option of completing the game as either Spyro or Cynder, giving them more freedom to explore Spyro’s world in completely new ways. Tags: the legend of spyro,dawn of the dragon romo7816 8 years ago 950 of 1000 Abrakadeadguy theblindchicken boagrios123 xX Siimon17 Xx Browse All "The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon" Leaderboards Browse All The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Screenshots The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Achievements (50) Complete the game with at least 90% of the time in 2 Players Mode Launch 20 Fury attacks Unattainable Dodge all Golem attacks in Chamber of Retribution Protect all the Cheetah's houses in the village Dragon Assassin Kill Malefor without dying once View All Achievements for The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (50) Other games developed by Etranges Libellule (2) Asterix's first foray into high-definition comes in the form of the Xbox360 version of Asterix at the Olympic Games, the game of the live-action movie, itself..... Grab your axe and jump off stage as you become an unlikely rock hero, fighting to save the planet from a zombie onslaught. .. View All Games Developed by Etranges Libellule (3) Other games published by Vivendi Games (4) You aren't a soldier. You are a weapon. A paramilitary force infiltrates a multi billion dollar aerospace compound taking hostages, but issuing no demands. The government responds by sending in its best special operations teams, only to have them obliterated. Live footage of the massacre is cut short by an unexpected wave of destruction that leaves.. Enter a world of dragons, destiny and epic adventure to fulfill the dragon-rider legacy. The major motion picture from 20th Century Fox in theatres everywhere December 2006. Features: Live the Adventure. Experience the authentic Eragon universe in the official game of the 20th Century Fox Film. Fulfill your destiny as a Rid.. Scarface: The World is Yours The Scarface video game will create a gameplay environment that authentically recreates the historical time period of the film, touching on politics, news items and events of the day. Players will travel through the steamy, often violent streets of Miami, the irie islands of the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and various other locales and will interact .. Zombie Wranglers Be very, very quiet ... we're wrangling Zombies! Save the city of Potters Field from an infestation of zany zombies in the quirky and comical Zombie Wranglers. Armed with a trustworthy Wrangler-Pack and your own unique special abilities, play as one of the four gallant apprentice Wranglers and rescue your neighborhood before it's too late... View All Games Published by Vivendi Games (5) Etranges Libellule - Oct 21, 2008 (US) - Nov 5, 2008 Played: 59 \| Wishlists: 1 Page Views: 53,712 What do you think of Kinect? I think it's better than the other two methods. I like the Wii's system better. I think the PS3's new system will be better. I hate motion control in general.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13189
__label__wiki	0.900495	0.900495	Skip to Content Skip to Extras Monday to Friday from 6:05pm on ABC Local Radio and 5:00pm on Radio National. Listen to Tuesday's program PM covers a broad spectrum of issues relevant to all sections of Australia's geographically and culturally diverse community. Search AM The full story... Political donations data rekindles call for reform Lexi Metherell reported this story on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 18:18:00 Listen to MP3 of this story ( minutes) Alternate WMA version \| MP3 download MARK COLVIN: The latest political donations figures from the Electoral Commission have rekindled debate about cash and influence in government and opposition. The figures have laid bare the money that vested interests have funnelled to parties and politically-driven campaigns. They show that the ALP and the Liberal and National parties raked in more than $200 million in donations in the last financial year. The data have renewed calls for reform. Lexi Metherell reports. LEXI METHERELL: The Independent MP Rob Oakeshott says the Electoral Commission's data gives voters a reason to be cynical about Australia's democracy. ROB OAKESHOTT: Many I think are questioning whether the real contest in Australia is ALP versus LNP, or really just what we are seeing is a contest of $90 million versus $113 million. LEXI METHERELL: Each year political donors must declare to the Electoral Commission donations over a certain amount. Last financial year the threshold was $11,500. Groups which fund political campaigns must also make declarations and last financial year big tobacco spent big money fighting plain packaging laws. The figures show British American Tobacco, Philip Morris and Imperial Tobacco spent almost $14 million individually and through the lobby group The Alliance of Australian Retailers. And BAT (British American Tobacco) and Philip Morris also gave state and federal Liberal and National parties nearly $264,000. The Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has reiterated her call for Labor's rivals to stop accepting tobacco donations. (excerpt from ABC local radio) NICOLA ROXON: I think people are very uncomfortable at what big wealthy companies can afford to do in our political system. LEXI METHERELL: The Opposition MP Andrew Robb has told ABC Radio's Rafael Epstein the donations don't influence the Liberal Party. ANDREW ROBB: Plain packaging, despite all the money they spent, it went through and it went through with our support. RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Despite the money the tobacco company spent you mean? ANDREW ROBB: Yes. LEXI METHERELL: The campaign against the mining tax was winding down last financial year compared to the previous 12 months. Still, the AEC's data shows the Minerals Council and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies spent a total of just over $6 million on their campaigns. Clubs and hotels also pulled out the cheque books, after the Independent MP Andrew Wilkie struck a now-defunct pokies deal to help Labor form government. Clubs New South Wales has disclosed it spent around $1 million last financial year on campaigns and more than $400,000 on donations. The New South Wales division of the Australian Hotels Association told the commission it gave nearly $860,000 in donations, mainly to the Liberal and National parties. MP Rob Oakeshott is concerned about vested interests' influence on public policy. ROB OAKESHOTT: We desperately need political donation reform in Australia. It's been promised and it must be delivered. In particular - apologies to Donald Rumsfeld - you know the unknown known of exactly what this sort of money has achieved. We know it will make a difference on the major party's political platforms but they are reticent to say where. And that is the frustration, that we see such large amounts of money going into these political parties - a quarter of a billion dollars in just one year - yet they all put their hands in the air, say they're clean hands and say this sort of money is not making a difference. Come on. LEXI METHERELL: According to the figures, the Greens received the biggest donation from any one person last financial year. The founder of the website wotif.com, Graeme Wood, gave almost $1.5 million to the party. But Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon still says electoral reform is needed. LEE RHIANNON: We need to bring in these bans on political donations from corporations and other organisations. That would impact on us and other political parties. What differentiates the Greens from the other parties is that we have been a consistent voice for reforms, whereas Labor and the Coalition at the federal level have turned their back on this issue. 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__label__cc	0.702079	0.297921	Ahmed Al-Shukaili Photography Landscape - Monochrome Portraits & People Special Theme Glistens With Grey Nikon D600 : A rival ? or a companion? Nikon recently has announced the Nikon D600, the first full-frame in the mid-range level targeting enthusiasts photographers seeking a full frame (35 mm equivalent) camera. With the 24 MP resolution and based on the D7000 technology, it's hard to tell whether this camera is a rival to it's older sister the D800 or a companion that goes along with it. I have been a Nikon user for almost 5 years, and it seems like that the digital camera world took a giant leap since then. Cameras became more advanced and expanding the photographer's capabilities and meeting the requirements of all levels of photographers from beginners to professionals. Recently, whenever someone wants to enter the photography world and asks me about what camera to start with, I simply say, close your eyes and pick one according to your budget, and you'll never go wrong. Saying that, if a question came from someone asking to enter the full-frame arena, then I will definitely tell them to go to the D600. Want a full frame Nikon? Why should you choose the Nikon D600 over the D800 ? 24 MP should be more than enough for you (I have been in the Nikon D700 with the 12 MP and I print up to A0 and think it's doing great). If you shoot alot , then the 36 MP resolution in the Nikon D800 will be a hassle for you and you better get ready for a multi-terrabyte storage solution. Lighter and easier to carry around. (Although most full-frame pro lenses are heavy and bulky) Approx $1000 cheaper than the D800, which you can invest in a new lens. Why should you choose the Nikon D800 over the D600? If megapixel matters a lot to you, then 36 MP will really make a difference when you make large prints. More robust and well built camera body, the D800 body is fully made of mag-alloy which makes it more tolerant to abuse and harsh use. While the D600's body contains mag-alloy on top and back only. HDR and exposure fusion fanatic? Then you'll definitely find the 7 shots more advantageous and will help you get better resolution on high-contrast scenes (especially if you love nature and you like to shoot directly facing the sun) To sum up, I believe the new member in Nikon's family really adds value and it will open the door for more photographers to enter the full-frame arena. And you can always go and compare the cameras in www.dpreview.com as you'll find all what you need to make the decision yourself. Current Galleries * Landscape * Monochrome Landscape * Portraits * Special Theme Ahmed Al-Shukaili I am a serious amateur photographer based in Oman. Mainly shooting landscape and portraits. A member of the FIAP (International Federation for Photography Art) recently been certified as an Artist FIAP member. Participated in several local and international exhibitions and competitions. My career is in information management , mainly in the Oil & Gas industry. 36 Mega Pixel Ahmed Shukaili Exposure Fusion Lens Review Phogorapher Photography World Photokina2014 Shukaili All Rights Reserved for Ahmed Al-Shukaili 2015	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13201
__label__cc	0.504117	0.495883	Paul Griffin Paul Griffin began his art practice in the wilds of Northern British Columbia. While working a logger he happened upon a large log building under construction in the backwoods of Hazelton. B.C.. In his first 20 years of life he had never applied himself to construction or in anyway thought himself as a carpenter yet the way that the forty foot logs fit together in a seamless undulation of golden wood captivated him for some reason. Under the spell of this aesthetic moment he dedicated himself to learning the craft of log home building for the next eight years. At the heart of this movement into construction and architecture was a core belief that everyday labour and work could be art; that the manual work of a carpenter framing a house or the labour of a man who sells and piles cordwood should be shaped into an important artistic expression. After deciding to uproot his young family and moving to Sackville to attend Mount Allison University for a Bachelor of Fine Arts he continually endeavored to bring the everyday into rarefied field of Fine Art. Gravitating to the practice of Photography and Sculpture he strove to explore and even reify everyday objects and building materials. While completing his Masters of Fine Arts at University of Guelph he began to fuse the practice of photography and sculpture creating combines and amalgams that spoke to the unarticulated creative tension that exists between objects we use everyday and the hidden thoughts and/or emotions that attach themselves to those objects. Moving into larger installation work involving woodpiles placed in public locations he created a large body of work that effectively unified his desire for an art that speaks directly to the viewer; for work that highlighted the uncommon beauty of everyday objects. While working at Mount Allison University Griffin has continued his art practice moving into an exploration of more complex hybridized sculptures utilizing elements that we take for granted and placing them in a new light that imbues them with meaning, relevance and maybe even beauty. Sarcophagus for an Elm. I have often seen the spray marking that brands the Elm tree something that is diseased; something that most be destroyed to safeguarrd the rest of the urban flora. Yet I have always been intrigued by the latent nobility and aesthetic appeal of these dead Elms that stand like silent sentinels throughout our city streets. The latest fad has been to truncate the trunks and carve historical figures for posterity but I hoped to bring more attention to the formal beauty and poetry of the tree itself. The American Elms which seems the most affected by the blight are particularly comely in form; the branches are almost wavelike, curving out of a massive trunk. By creating a covering of small roofing nails that form a sarcophagus or ritualized coffin of sorts I wish to draw the viewer’s attention to the beauty and nobility of the fallen Elm. Hopefully causing to viewer to pause and reflect on how time and Nature has shaped this tree and how the Elm has enriched our lives over its lifespan.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line13206

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